Colemak is limited by being stuck with Qwerty conventions.
Dvorak considers the transitions between left and right hand, as well as the row and finger for each symbol.
Sticking the most recent book from Gutenberg ("The King of the Mountains") through a script which counts hand transitions, I get this: Qwerty: 159876 transitions Colemak: 170978 transitions Dvorak: 199143 transitions
10MB of Linux kernel source (my Perl script is too slow for more...) Qwerty: 4081041 transitions Colemak: 4412425 transitions Dvorak: 4776202 transitions
I tried Dvorak first when ditching QWERTY as well and ran into the same issue. Having to use only my pinky for ls -l was not acceptable.
Presumably you have "ls -l" aliased to "ll". I additionally aliased it to "hh", which makes it very easy to type in Dvorak.
alias "hh=ls -l"
alias "lrt=ls -lrt"
For that single thing it's not worth switching to the sub-optimal Colemak.
Unless you're a programmer, in which case you are using braces, brackets and periods all the time. Also, those special characters reduce the utility of dvorak, as well, because they weren't taken into consideration.
Remap them if you wish, but I think the importance of doing so for a programmer is overstated. The symbols above the numbers don't change between Dvorak and Qwerty, and the others are in better places in Dvorak. The annoying ones are []{}, which take the place of -_=+, but I type the latter (and/?) more often, especially considering I don't type only code, but email, comments, documentation, Slashdot posts, etc.
See http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=0VqZDhqX for a couple of Java projects and a Perl one. {} and () are overstated, due to generated Java getters and setters. } is often input automatically by my editor. I hardly type > as the editor completes XML/HTML elements.
(My British keyboard, like all non-European and most non-US keyboards, contains an extra key. This is usually used for accents or extra letters, like Å or ß. Since English doesn't need these, the extra two symbols are for £ (fine) and , which I probably type about once a year. Though writing if (test) would be neat. I type €, , or — more often).
The most helpful thing is not to look at the keyboard at all, since you end up moving your hands out of the way and losing the flow.
Print out a copy of the keyboard layout and fold it into a tent shape; put below your monitor. (I learned Dvorak and touchtyping this way, it didn't take very long to get A-Z. It took longer to get 0-9 and the symbols, but they're not so important anyway. Regardless of all the comments about 'programmer' layouts, I type far more normal English than code -- emails, Slashdot, documentation, comments, test cases -- and thought it was worth keeping compatibility with most computers by using standard Dvorak.)
First, I strongly suggest sticking to QWERTY. You'll find yourself typing on large numbers of other people's keyboards over your career - switching all over the place is hard enough when its something little like someone else's pipe sign being in a silly place.
And I strongly recommend against that.
Well over 99.9% of what I type is on a keyboard I control (my own computer, or a computer at work under my login). Using Dvorak over 99.9% of the time is well worth the lack of practise I have using Qwerty.
Shell users complain about ls (etc) on Dvorak. I have some aliases: alias 'h=ls' alias 'hh=ls -l' alias 'ha=ls -a' alias 'hq=ls -q' alias 'hr=ls -R' alias 'lrt=ls -lrt' alias 'hrs=ls -lrS' (I also have no problem hitting Ctrl-C, X, V or Z, although they aren't all in a line. Essentially, I don't see the point of Colemak.)
In the UK, the standard rating for a circuit breaker for sockets is 30A (at 230V). Usually there's one for all the sockets in the kitchen (but not the cooker/oven), then one for each floor. A fault takes out the whole floor, but it's pretty difficult to exceed 30A.
Lighting circuits are 5A, and I've tripped one of those (faulty fitting), but I can't remember the last time I tripped a 30A breaker.
(Actually, I can, sort of: at university I helped cook a meal for 100 students. The building was brand new. We used a handicapped-adapted kitchen, which had two cookers, one at a lower level, and another adjacent kitchen. We had 12 hobs on maximum (~15kW max?), plus four electric steamers (2.5kW?). That's 76A... It tripped the breaker for the side of that floor, which I'm guessing was a standard 60A or 100A. Luckily, the caretaker had stayed around to have a free meal, so he reset it immediately.)
Sorry, there no such thing as "excelling" at compression "especially" with Opera Turbo. The browser has zero control over compression, it can request plain old gzip compression from the server, and the server may or may not oblige. That's all that's available without a dedicated server. Opera Turbo is a system where the browser basically hijacks you connection and routes it over an Opera-controlled server.
So the first part of your comment was irrelevant, except to note in passing that Opera has always had good HTTP compression support, and other features to speed up page loading (e.g. not loading images, or loading them selectively).
It's hardly hijacking if they they tell you what they're doing, and you have to click a button to enable it: When Opera Turbo is enabled, webpages are compressed via Opera's servers so that they use much less data than the originals. This means that there is less to download, so you can see your webpages more quickly.
Enabling Opera Turbo is as simple as clicking the Opera Turbo icon at the bottom-left of the Opera browser window. When you are on a fast connection again and Opera Turbo is not needed, the Opera browser will automatically disable it. http://www.opera.com/browser/turbo/
Wake up refreshed from a good night's sleep; Prepare a nice breakfast consisting of lean high quality protein (3 egg omelet with a bunch of onions, peppers, tomatoes, olives, spinach, mushrooms, and a bit of diced ham, cooked with MINIMAL oil), and a nice chunk of cantaloupe or a bowl of berries (blueberries, strawberries, raspberries), and a big glass of cold water, plus some coffee or tea.
Thanks -- it was much quicker to prepare than I expected (I was on time for work!)
(2-egg omelette, half an onion, half a pepper, two brown mushrooms, olive oil; one large orange; water.)
On the bright side, home servers don't draw a lot of power depending on the hardware. My entire rack draws about 1250W under normal load.
I consider that a huge amount of power. The base draw for my home (like now, when it's empty) is about 40W; less if I bother to unplug laptop chargers and a few other things (which I don't).
What do you need such a powerful server for, at home?
I'm part-way through migrating my server from an old (1.4GHz Athlon) desktop to an embedded ARM system, to reduce the power usage. At (100W * 1 year) * £0.14GBP/kWh (£120), it makes sense to buy something efficient.
I have a Raspberry Pi (for something else), which draws so little power my watt-meter (measuring the whole house's consumption) isn't accurate enough to measure it. It's almost good enough to be a web, file and SSH server, but doesn't have enough RAM. I'm going to buy something similar, but with at least 1GiB of RAM and a SATA port.
(The server isn't at my house, so isn't included in that 40W. It's at my mum's house, to provide off-site backups for both of us. Her base draw is about 300W, as she refuses to replace an old freezer and blames about 280W of that on the server.)
Well, so much for open-source W3C-compliant browsers.
The linked BBC email says:
Previous discussions on the W3C mailing list have looked at if the CDM itself should be defined or mandated to be open-source. We do not believe this would be helpful, primarily because it is difficult to see how an open-source CDM would have any hope of staying secure for any length of time at all. However, we would evaluate any open-source solution that did come along fairly against our criteria, and hope that adoption of a standard like the Encrypted Media Proposal will increase the amount of vendors offering CDM modules from the number of plug-in vendors that exist today as there would be a lower cost of entry. This may enable an open-source solution that we have not yet conceived to come to market.
That suggests a fundamental misunderstanding of encryption.
On another point, the BBC mentions the revenue from selling DVD and audio recordings -- the profit from this is £182M. That compares to £3606M of income from license payers, at £145.50 each, thus about 25M licenses are sold. If every licence-payer paid an extra £7 we wouldn't need to protect that content. (Have I calculated that correctly?)
(Other broadcasters with different funding models might still want this system.)
Though, at least 80% of those didn't get more than one refill.
I must really be in the minority when I visit the US. I buy one 'soda', and far from having a refill, I tend to leave half of it behind. . .
(20fl oz ~= 600mL; a standard can is 330mL and I feel that's a bit much. If I'm given a can and the waiter pours some of it into a glass, I often forget to pour out the rest.)
Wake up refreshed from a good night's sleep; Prepare a nice breakfast consisting of lean high quality protein (3 egg omelet with a bunch of onions, peppers, tomatoes, olives, spinach, mushrooms, and a bit of diced ham, cooked with MINIMAL oil), and a nice chunk of cantaloupe or a bowl of berries (blueberries, strawberries, raspberries), and a big glass of cold water, plus some coffee or tea.
And you give me a tempting breakfast idea the day after i buy a kilogram of the highest-quality oats because they were on sale at the supermarket?!
I've changed my typical breakfast several times (cereal until I went to university, muesli while there, bread+butter+cheese until I realised that was about 3-4g of salt to start the day, and most recently porridge).
I could start eating your breakfast (minus the tea/coffee), but I think I should try and get more variety. I'll try it anyway:-)
I have yet to see a full system hault brcause of it though.
Last time I discussed it, Linux would kill a heuristically-chosen process (the "OOM Killer", it will avoid killing a process owned by root, balanced by killing something using lots of RAM and maybe CPU, I can't remember). Windows will crash.
Both behaviours are acceptable. Arguably, the Linux one is worse in some cases -- it might leave the system in an unnoticed but inconsistent state.
Except these days malware is used more for profit (e.g. botnet construction) than random mayhem, and to do that you need to keep the host you just pwned alive.
Perhaps put it in as a failure mode if the bot can't contact its server. That might dissuade the police from disabling the command server.
Timezones happen to have a very nice numeric UTC representation.
Not entirely.
"I'm in UTC+0. Let's set up a recurring meeting at 10:00 once a month." -- probably not exactly what is meant.
"I'm in Europe/London. Let's set up..." So the meeting is at 10:00 +0000 on any day between the last Sunday in October and the last Sunday in March, but 10:00 +0100 (09:00 +0000) for the rest of the year (standard European summer time boundaries).
"I'm in Africa/Accra" would make the meeting 10:00 +0000 all year round.
Morocco seems to follow the European boundaries, and there are no other non-European countries using +0000 and +0100, but its possible to have countries that use the same timezone for part of the year, the same shift during the summer, but different days for the switch.
Last week I had trouble understanding some of the accents in Django, and I've met two people (black teenagers) in America that I've been unable to understand. I'm simply not used to hearing those accents, and it takes time to adjust.
Last year I went to Edinburgh with a German guy, who speaks perfect English and has lived here for 5 years. I checked in to the hotel first. Then I translated the receptionist's English for him, which he found very embarrassing.
My turn came on the way back, when I couldn't understand something the train driver said as he walked past me on the platform. Since British accents differ by both region and social class I don't often meet 'working' people from Scotland in London, and those accents give me the most trouble -- worse than most European/Asian accents.
What I don't understand is why the date and time formatting controls are a subset of the language controls, or why the time zone is listed as region/city rather than by the time zone name. My time zone is Eastern Standard Time, not America/NewYork. What do any of these settings have to do with language?
1) Because they vary according to the language. How else would you assign a default? Now is "20:15, 8. Februar 2013" in German and "20:15, 8th February 2013" to me. But to you it's probably "8:15pm, February 8, 2013". Even for a case without words the format varies: "8.2.2013", "8/2/2013" or "2/8/2013".
2) Is that North American Eastern Standard Time, or Australian Eastern Standard Time? And cities are used since countries change more often than major cities.
Valentine's day is next week and my sex slave would love the book of gimps!
The section on masks is on page 119.
And the Cage Transform is explained in the advanced user appendix. Beginners should stick to crops, and everyone should be familiar with the Healing Tool before starting.
I turned Nepomuk on on Monday, as I thought I'd give it another chance. I tried some tweaks to the setting, and by lunchtime today everything seemed to be working quite well.
I'd never used the semantic search thing, but was very impressed with the speed. Unfortunately, I don't often misplace files, and when I do 'locate' is usually sufficient.
Too bad people have to show ID to get a damn SIM. Bunch of goddamn saps, letting the government run all over 'em like that.
I wonder when they introduced that rule? I bought a SIM in Germany, from a budget supermarket, in about 2009. It asked for an address when I activated it, and wouldn't take my British address, so I just gave the address of the hotel.
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Colemak is limited by being stuck with Qwerty conventions.
Dvorak considers the transitions between left and right hand, as well as the row and finger for each symbol.
Sticking the most recent book from Gutenberg ("The King of the Mountains") through a script which counts hand transitions, I get this:
Qwerty: 159876 transitions
Colemak: 170978 transitions
Dvorak: 199143 transitions
10MB of Linux kernel source (my Perl script is too slow for more...)
Qwerty: 4081041 transitions
Colemak: 4412425 transitions
Dvorak: 4776202 transitions
(See the scan with the inverted characters here: http://infohost.nmt.edu/~shipman/ergo/parkinson.html -- I wrote a script to do this: https://gist.github.com/anonymous/4966987 )
I tried Dvorak first when ditching QWERTY as well and ran into the same issue. Having to use only my pinky for ls -l was not acceptable.
Presumably you have "ls -l" aliased to "ll". I additionally aliased it to "hh", which makes it very easy to type in Dvorak.
alias "hh=ls -l"
alias "lrt=ls -lrt"
For that single thing it's not worth switching to the sub-optimal Colemak.
Unless you're a programmer, in which case you are using braces, brackets and periods all the time. Also, those special characters reduce the utility of dvorak, as well, because they weren't taken into consideration.
Remap them if you wish, but I think the importance of doing so for a programmer is overstated. The symbols above the numbers don't change between Dvorak and Qwerty, and the others are in better places in Dvorak. The annoying ones are []{}, which take the place of -_=+, but I type the latter (and /?) more often, especially considering I don't type only code, but email, comments, documentation, Slashdot posts, etc.
See http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=0VqZDhqX for a couple of Java projects and a Perl one. {} and () are overstated, due to generated Java getters and setters. } is often input automatically by my editor. I hardly type > as the editor completes XML/HTML elements.
(My British keyboard, like all non-European and most non-US keyboards, contains an extra key. This is usually used for accents or extra letters, like Å or ß. Since English doesn't need these, the extra two symbols are for £ (fine) and , which I probably type about once a year. Though writing if (test) would be neat. I type €, , or — more often).
The most helpful thing is not to look at the keyboard at all, since you end up moving your hands out of the way and losing the flow.
Print out a copy of the keyboard layout and fold it into a tent shape; put below your monitor. (I learned Dvorak and touchtyping this way, it didn't take very long to get A-Z. It took longer to get 0-9 and the symbols, but they're not so important anyway. Regardless of all the comments about 'programmer' layouts, I type far more normal English than code -- emails, Slashdot, documentation, comments, test cases -- and thought it was worth keeping compatibility with most computers by using standard Dvorak.)
First, I strongly suggest sticking to QWERTY. You'll find yourself typing on large numbers of other people's keyboards over your career - switching all over the place is hard enough when its something little like someone else's pipe sign being in a silly place.
And I strongly recommend against that.
Well over 99.9% of what I type is on a keyboard I control (my own computer, or a computer at work under my login). Using Dvorak over 99.9% of the time is well worth the lack of practise I have using Qwerty.
Shell users complain about ls (etc) on Dvorak. I have some aliases:
alias 'h=ls'
alias 'hh=ls -l'
alias 'ha=ls -a'
alias 'hq=ls -q'
alias 'hr=ls -R'
alias 'lrt=ls -lrt'
alias 'hrs=ls -lrS'
(I also have no problem hitting Ctrl-C, X, V or Z, although they aren't all in a line. Essentially, I don't see the point of Colemak.)
Is that a common problem?
In the UK, the standard rating for a circuit breaker for sockets is 30A (at 230V). Usually there's one for all the sockets in the kitchen (but not the cooker/oven), then one for each floor. A fault takes out the whole floor, but it's pretty difficult to exceed 30A.
Lighting circuits are 5A, and I've tripped one of those (faulty fitting), but I can't remember the last time I tripped a 30A breaker.
(Actually, I can, sort of: at university I helped cook a meal for 100 students. The building was brand new. We used a handicapped-adapted kitchen, which had two cookers, one at a lower level, and another adjacent kitchen. We had 12 hobs on maximum (~15kW max?), plus four electric steamers (2.5kW?). That's 76A... It tripped the breaker for the side of that floor, which I'm guessing was a standard 60A or 100A. Luckily, the caretaker had stayed around to have a free meal, so he reset it immediately.)
Sorry, there no such thing as "excelling" at compression "especially" with Opera Turbo. The browser has zero control over compression, it can request plain old gzip compression from the server, and the server may or may not oblige. That's all that's available without a dedicated server. Opera Turbo is a system where the browser basically hijacks you connection and routes it over an Opera-controlled server.
So the first part of your comment was irrelevant, except to note in passing that Opera has always had good HTTP compression support, and other features to speed up page loading (e.g. not loading images, or loading them selectively).
It's hardly hijacking if they they tell you what they're doing, and you have to click a button to enable it:
When Opera Turbo is enabled, webpages are compressed via Opera's servers so that they use much less data than the originals. This means that there is less to download, so you can see your webpages more quickly.
Enabling Opera Turbo is as simple as clicking the Opera Turbo icon at the bottom-left of the Opera browser window. When you are on a fast connection again and Opera Turbo is not needed, the Opera browser will automatically disable it.
http://www.opera.com/browser/turbo/
Wake up refreshed from a good night's sleep; Prepare a nice breakfast consisting of lean high quality protein (3 egg omelet with a bunch of onions, peppers, tomatoes, olives, spinach, mushrooms, and a bit of diced ham, cooked with MINIMAL oil), and a nice chunk of cantaloupe or a bowl of berries (blueberries, strawberries, raspberries), and a big glass of cold water, plus some coffee or tea.
Thanks -- it was much quicker to prepare than I expected (I was on time for work!)
(2-egg omelette, half an onion, half a pepper, two brown mushrooms, olive oil; one large orange; water.)
I'd previously seen that, and also the Cubieboard.
I think the SATA probably isn't worth the slower CPU and 1GB less RAM than the Odroid-U2.
On the bright side, home servers don't draw a lot of power depending on the hardware. My entire rack draws about 1250W under normal load.
I consider that a huge amount of power. The base draw for my home (like now, when it's empty) is about 40W; less if I bother to unplug laptop chargers and a few other things (which I don't).
What do you need such a powerful server for, at home?
I'm part-way through migrating my server from an old (1.4GHz Athlon) desktop to an embedded ARM system, to reduce the power usage. At (100W * 1 year) * £0.14GBP/kWh (£120), it makes sense to buy something efficient.
I have a Raspberry Pi (for something else), which draws so little power my watt-meter (measuring the whole house's consumption) isn't accurate enough to measure it. It's almost good enough to be a web, file and SSH server, but doesn't have enough RAM. I'm going to buy something similar, but with at least 1GiB of RAM and a SATA port.
(The server isn't at my house, so isn't included in that 40W. It's at my mum's house, to provide off-site backups for both of us. Her base draw is about 300W, as she refuses to replace an old freezer and blames about 280W of that on the server.)
That suggests a fundamental misunderstanding of encryption.
Yes, it suggests my fundamental misunderstanding of the obvious.
The point is to prevent the owner of the computer from accessing the data, so it probably is incompatible with Free Software.
http://www.w3.org/community/pua/wiki/Digital_Rights_Management#DRM_is_against_open_source_software
Well, so much for open-source W3C-compliant browsers.
The linked BBC email says:
Previous discussions on the W3C mailing list have looked at if the CDM itself should be defined or mandated to be open-source. We do not believe this would be helpful, primarily because it is difficult to see how an open-source CDM would have any hope of staying secure for any length of time at all. However, we would evaluate any open-source solution that did come along fairly against our criteria, and hope that adoption of a standard like the Encrypted Media Proposal will increase the amount of vendors offering CDM modules from the number of plug-in vendors that exist today as there would be a lower cost of entry. This may enable an open-source solution that we have not yet conceived to come to market.
That suggests a fundamental misunderstanding of encryption.
On another point, the BBC mentions the revenue from selling DVD and audio recordings -- the profit from this is £182M. That compares to £3606M of income from license payers, at £145.50 each, thus about 25M licenses are sold. If every licence-payer paid an extra £7 we wouldn't need to protect that content. (Have I calculated that correctly?)
(Other broadcasters with different funding models might still want this system.)
Though, at least 80% of those didn't get more than one refill.
I must really be in the minority when I visit the US. I buy one 'soda', and far from having a refill, I tend to leave half of it behind. . .
(20fl oz ~= 600mL; a standard can is 330mL and I feel that's a bit much. If I'm given a can and the waiter pours some of it into a glass, I often forget to pour out the rest.)
Here's an even better idea:
Wake up refreshed from a good night's sleep; Prepare a nice breakfast consisting of lean high quality protein (3 egg omelet with a bunch of onions, peppers, tomatoes, olives, spinach, mushrooms, and a bit of diced ham, cooked with MINIMAL oil), and a nice chunk of cantaloupe or a bowl of berries (blueberries, strawberries, raspberries), and a big glass of cold water, plus some coffee or tea.
And you give me a tempting breakfast idea the day after i buy a kilogram of the highest-quality oats because they were on sale at the supermarket?!
I've changed my typical breakfast several times (cereal until I went to university, muesli while there, bread+butter+cheese until I realised that was about 3-4g of salt to start the day, and most recently porridge).
I could start eating your breakfast (minus the tea/coffee), but I think I should try and get more variety. I'll try it anyway :-)
I have yet to see a full system hault brcause of it though.
Last time I discussed it, Linux would kill a heuristically-chosen process (the "OOM Killer", it will avoid killing a process owned by root, balanced by killing something using lots of RAM and maybe CPU, I can't remember). Windows will crash.
Both behaviours are acceptable. Arguably, the Linux one is worse in some cases -- it might leave the system in an unnoticed but inconsistent state.
Except these days malware is used more for profit (e.g. botnet construction) than random mayhem, and to do that you need to keep the host you just pwned alive.
Perhaps put it in as a failure mode if the bot can't contact its server. That might dissuade the police from disabling the command server.
Timezones happen to have a very nice numeric UTC representation.
Not entirely.
"I'm in UTC+0. Let's set up a recurring meeting at 10:00 once a month." -- probably not exactly what is meant.
"I'm in Europe/London. Let's set up ..."
So the meeting is at 10:00 +0000 on any day between the last Sunday in October and the last Sunday in March, but 10:00 +0100 (09:00 +0000) for the rest of the year (standard European summer time boundaries).
"I'm in Africa/Accra" would make the meeting 10:00 +0000 all year round.
Morocco seems to follow the European boundaries, and there are no other non-European countries using +0000 and +0100, but its possible to have countries that use the same timezone for part of the year, the same shift during the summer, but different days for the switch.
Last week I had trouble understanding some of the accents in Django, and I've met two people (black teenagers) in America that I've been unable to understand. I'm simply not used to hearing those accents, and it takes time to adjust.
Last year I went to Edinburgh with a German guy, who speaks perfect English and has lived here for 5 years. I checked in to the hotel first. Then I translated the receptionist's English for him, which he found very embarrassing.
My turn came on the way back, when I couldn't understand something the train driver said as he walked past me on the platform. Since British accents differ by both region and social class I don't often meet 'working' people from Scotland in London, and those accents give me the most trouble -- worse than most European/Asian accents.
What I don't understand is why the date and time formatting controls are a subset of the language controls, or why the time zone is listed as region/city rather than by the time zone name. My time zone is Eastern Standard Time, not America/NewYork. What do any of these settings have to do with language?
1) Because they vary according to the language. How else would you assign a default? Now is "20:15, 8. Februar 2013" in German and "20:15, 8th February 2013" to me. But to you it's probably "8:15pm, February 8, 2013". Even for a case without words the format varies: "8.2.2013", "8/2/2013" or "2/8/2013".
2) Is that North American Eastern Standard Time, or Australian Eastern Standard Time? And cities are used since countries change more often than major cities.
Valentine's day is next week and my sex slave would love the book of gimps!
The section on masks is on page 119.
And the Cage Transform is explained in the advanced user appendix. Beginners should stick to crops, and everyone should be familiar with the Healing Tool before starting.
Unconventionally, the safe work is "control-zed".
The Google Authenticator thing is open source etc -- you can add it to PAM (on Linux), so you can authenticate for SSH or sudo.
I followed this a while ago, and didn't have any problems: http://www.howtogeek.com/121650/how-to-secure-ssh-with-google-authenticators-two-factor-authentication/ (although I haven't kept using it, it was just an experiment).
There were some notes on making the implementation more secure, but I can't find the bookmark.
I turned Nepomuk on on Monday, as I thought I'd give it another chance. I tried some tweaks to the setting, and by lunchtime today everything seemed to be working quite well.
I'd never used the semantic search thing, but was very impressed with the speed. Unfortunately, I don't often misplace files, and when I do 'locate' is usually sufficient.
Aldi-Talk, eh? An address is the same as an "ID" as everyone is listed in a central database.
Except no-one verified the address, so nothing would have prevented me from putting in a completely false address.
Too bad people have to show ID to get a damn SIM. Bunch of goddamn saps, letting the government run all over 'em like that.
I wonder when they introduced that rule? I bought a SIM in Germany, from a budget supermarket, in about 2009. It asked for an address when I activated it, and wouldn't take my British address, so I just gave the address of the hotel.
Although they tend to be owned by the church, using them doesn't usually come with any religious strings attached.
well, a meeting to discuss latest early hominid findings might not go that great, i suppose ;)
The Church of England (which owns most of these buildings) wouldn't care about that.