Look at, say, York. I'm not familiar with it, but I see Boroughbridge Road, Shipton Road, Wigginton Road, Huntingdon Road, etc. All routes leading out of York to the respective place (Boroughbridge, etc). (Historically, anyway.)
In that context I don't really understand your question.
I once worked with an Arab guy who grew up in the USA who went back to Bahrain for a year during high school. He went to an exclusive public school, and when his British educated teacher had him stand to read Shakespeare, after the teacher heard a few lines the teacher ordered him to sit down, saying, "your accent is offensive to my ears."
Some American accents really do irritate some British people.
It's one particular American accent. The closest I can find on Youtube is this girl. The annoying bit is that the last word of every phrase is drawn out. "Hey everybody----, it's Winifred------, [can't understand] make this video for her-----, [...] I thought it was like perfect----, 'cause, she was like----,...".
That teacher sounds awful though. I would never ask someone to stop talking because of their accent (unless I can't understand). That's as bad as throwing someone out of class for having the wrong colour skin or something.
The irony is that while North American and British English have diverged over the centuries, the accent in North America has changed far less, and thus remains closer to how Elizabethan English would have been spoken.
People from the North of England are supposedly more difficult for Americans to understand, yet their accent is closer to American. Cheryl Cole apparently had trouble on some TV show.
It looks like it was a "side event" at a conference. See here.
I can't find any extra information on the ICRC website, can anyone else? Otherwise, it's most likely that the Daily Mail fabricated the rest of the story. Most of the article is speculation, except for a copy+paste from the website I linked to.
America is far too religious and practises male genital mutilation...
India isn't the best democracy, and I didn't suggest that. I took exception to the GGP's disparaging remarks. It still is a democracy, and this proposal (law?) is being openly debated.
Small Internet user base? Little country? Are we still discussing India?
There are more Indians online than British people. India is 6th. CIA world factbook (and that's from 2009, I wouldn't be surprised if India is now ahead of Germany. Most Germans who want to be online are; that's not the case for India.)
Let's have some respect for the world's largest democracy, please.
I'm using Opera on Linux. I've upgraded to 11.60 for you, and it's running the test now.... it took 180s (faster than before), and about 500MB was freed when I closed the tab. I'm not doing anything special, so unless there's a difference between Windows and Linux I have no idea what it could be.
"Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q9400 @ 2.66GHz" if anyone cares.
Go ahead, turn previews on. It's not goatse, it's just a javascript/DHTML benchmark.
I've not upgraded yet, (aptitude will sort it out at midnight) but it didn't crash Opera 11.52. It drew a fractal in Javascript. It was about 25% slower than Chromium, and took a similar amount of RAM -- over 500MB. If your PC appears to crash perhaps it doesn't have enough RAM and is swapping?
Firefox had done 25% of it by the time I gave up waiting.
Congrats to the bank to have picked it up. It's not the $45000 'raising a red flag' either. Once they rang me for confirmation because I sent a donation to a German software foundation - it was only $20.
They have lots of ways the red flag is raised.
I forgot to get cash one weekend, and there isn't a convenient cash point between home and work. I bought lunch at work, for about £1.80, on a credit card, three days in a row. Then I paid the local council over the phone for some evening classes for a year in advance -- £240. That was blocked.
I've told them I travel frequently within Europe. These transactions aren't blocked, but apparently it helps if I pay for the transport with the same card.
There's a free number to call to inform the bank if I'm leaving the country, so I used that before travelling to the USA (which is as dodgy as Thailand -- due to not having PIN verification on in-store credit card transactions).
I would think the smart card authentication devices like this are quite cheap. The debit card already needs the chip (to authenticate transactions in shops in the UK, and many other countries), and the reader probably doesn't do much.
If someone is keeping it in their wallet it would be easier than you might think, you can read cards without physically swiping them through a traditional card reader, especially the not so common no-swipe enabled cards.
It's a piece of cardboard with numbers printed on it. Good luck reading that without removing it from the wallet.
Last time I ported a number between UK carriers I was sent several text messages to each phone.
It used to be that you couldn't start the process until you'd received a letter with a code (PAC - Porting Authorisation Code), but they were happy to tell me the code over the phone.
(But anyway, my bank uses the encryption key stored on my debit card to authorise similar transactions.)
I'm only 25! I'll probably get one or two birthday cards next year, maybe one postcard, possibly one personal letter, at most one wedding/funeral invite. But that's more than "1 in 13 years", which I thought was very unusual.
Last week my flatmate, who is 21, received a handwritten letter from his girlfriend, who is away for a month. He'd spent half the day playing games and chatting to her on Skype, but he seemed to appreciate that she'd taken the time to write it.
So far this year, I sent a birthday card to my mum (while on holiday in Austria -- I thought it'd be interesting to receive a card in German, she apparently didn't...), one to my grandma, one to my dad.
I sent postcards from six places (other countries, while on holiday). According to my mum, it makes my grandma very happy to receive these. Maybe she'd like an email with a photo, or an MMS, I'm not sure. I prefer the postcard: I feel less connected, which is good as I don't want to end up giving Facebook-status-like updates to relatives.
The Open University is a distance-learning university in the UK. They used to broadcast material (not just lectures) overnight on BBC 2, but it seems they stopped this a few years ago. Shame.
Some of it might be here, or else that might be the new "general audience" stuff.
The OU website says "Virtual microscopes, interactive laboratories and online collaborations have taken the place of home experiment kits sent through the post, while late night TV programmes have been replaced by DVDs and online videos".
So far the only answer to these problems has been BitTorrent.
Or official catch-up services, like the BBC's iPlayer. When I used to have a TV (with signal) in the house, and I was more aware of what I was missing, I used it fairly often to watch things at my convenience, on my choice of device. (Having realised no one in the house watched live TV, we stopped paying for the license and disconnected the aerial. So, I'm no longer aware of what I'm missing, and look at what's available on iPlayer etc. I look occasionally, but don't seem to miss out on much.)
Has anyone implemented the patent (software patent, yuk) I had the "idea" for, when I was working one summer for an electronics company? The TV/box to record things that you might be interested in, based on what you've previously watched, and what other people watch? One more step from "other people who viewed XYZ also watched". But that's just a temporary measure until bandwidth is great enough to just store everything centrally anyway.
It looked interesting, but I lost interest when I saw the salary
No offence, but why not just piss off and work in the City inventing ever more esoteric and unauditable financial instruments, if you're so fucking clever and money-oriented?
With an attitude like that, we'd probably get along pretty well:).
My comment is too brief. I live (and want to continue to live) in inner London. That's more important than the salary. But GCHQ's £24k is still low, especially as the changes to pensions are going to affect net pay (~£500 less, I think) and pay increases are currently on hold in the public sector.
I already work for the government, earning £27k (I think), only in science rather than spying/hacking/security. Comparable jobs pay a lot more, but mine helps interesting and useful science.
I have to pick up new credit and debit cards at the closest bank office by myself. I can not imagine how bad it would be if they sent the new card with the new PIN through mail. I guess the mailing of a new card would work if the new PIN was sent by secure electronic means, not with the card itself.
In the UK: if no new PIN is required (e.g. the card expired or broke) there's no problem. The card won't work until it's activated, which requires going through the authentication of internet (or telephone) banking.
If a new PIN is required it's usually sent a few days earlier in a tamper-evident envelope on tamper-evident paper.
You may have to collect it from the bank if they decide your address isn't secure (e.g. student residence, hotel, previous problem), or you ask.
The government contacts me through e-mail. They have created e-mail accounts for every citizen in the form of socialsecuritynumber@thenameofthecountry.tld, and I forwarded it to my gmail account.
Which country? You're posting anonymously, what have you possibly got to hide;-) Estonia? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estonian_ID_card It's a nice system, but most countries don't have something like this yet. Until they do, there are more uses for letters.
Sorry I was unclear, SSH on the ipad is required from time to time. There are many SSH clients available for the ipad, but few good ones
OK, probably similar to Android.
Something like MeeGo would have been great, it's a shame Nokia have dropped it. I've only once seen a Nokia phone running it, and it was hardly the time for thorough investigation (an art student in a nightclub handed me the phone and asked me to photograph him with the band, then showed off his art). It looked like a decent, small-screen touch-input interface, running efficient applications -- just like iOS or Android. But it could run OpenOffice, if required, and a couple of taps showed that behind the scenes was a Debian-based OS. I bet you could run MySQL and Apache on it. (Yep, someone has.)
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Look at, say, York. I'm not familiar with it, but I see Boroughbridge Road, Shipton Road, Wigginton Road, Huntingdon Road, etc. All routes leading out of York to the respective place (Boroughbridge, etc). (Historically, anyway.)
In that context I don't really understand your question.
I once worked with an Arab guy who grew up in the USA who went back to Bahrain for a year during high school. He went to an exclusive public school, and when his British educated teacher had him stand to read Shakespeare, after the teacher heard a few lines the teacher ordered him to sit down, saying, "your accent is offensive to my ears."
Some American accents really do irritate some British people.
It's one particular American accent. The closest I can find on Youtube is this girl. The annoying bit is that the last word of every phrase is drawn out. "Hey everybody----, it's Winifred------, [can't understand] make this video for her-----, [...] I thought it was like perfect----, 'cause, she was like----, ...".
That teacher sounds awful though. I would never ask someone to stop talking because of their accent (unless I can't understand). That's as bad as throwing someone out of class for having the wrong colour skin or something.
The irony is that while North American and British English have diverged over the centuries, the accent in North America has changed far less, and thus remains closer to how Elizabethan English would have been spoken.
People from the North of England are supposedly more difficult for Americans to understand, yet their accent is closer to American. Cheryl Cole apparently had trouble on some TV show.
It looks like it was a "side event" at a conference. See here.
I can't find any extra information on the ICRC website, can anyone else? Otherwise, it's most likely that the Daily Mail fabricated the rest of the story. Most of the article is speculation, except for a copy+paste from the website I linked to.
America is far too religious and practises male genital mutilation...
India isn't the best democracy, and I didn't suggest that. I took exception to the GGP's disparaging remarks. It still is a democracy, and this proposal (law?) is being openly debated.
Small Internet user base? Little country? Are we still discussing India?
There are more Indians online than British people. India is 6th. CIA world factbook (and that's from 2009, I wouldn't be surprised if India is now ahead of Germany. Most Germans who want to be online are; that's not the case for India.)
Let's have some respect for the world's largest democracy, please.
Oh, whoops. I completely overlooked half the subject line, sorry.
I'm using Opera on Linux. I've upgraded to 11.60 for you, and it's running the test now. ... it took 180s (faster than before), and about 500MB was freed when I closed the tab. I'm not doing anything special, so unless there's a difference between Windows and Linux I have no idea what it could be.
"Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q9400 @ 2.66GHz" if anyone cares.
http://tinyurl.com/7yyknry
Go ahead, turn previews on. It's not goatse, it's just a javascript/DHTML benchmark.
I've not upgraded yet, (aptitude will sort it out at midnight) but it didn't crash Opera 11.52. It drew a fractal in Javascript. It was about 25% slower than Chromium, and took a similar amount of RAM -- over 500MB. If your PC appears to crash perhaps it doesn't have enough RAM and is swapping?
Firefox had done 25% of it by the time I gave up waiting.
Since it wasn't a hyperlink, just plain text, those of us using Opera selected it, right clicked, and clicked "Go to Web address".
You can always choose not to offer your downloads through download.com.
Can you? Even if it's under a copyleft license, or in the public domain?
Congrats to the bank to have picked it up. It's not the $45000 'raising a red flag' either. Once they rang me for confirmation because I sent a donation to a German software foundation - it was only $20.
They have lots of ways the red flag is raised.
I forgot to get cash one weekend, and there isn't a convenient cash point between home and work. I bought lunch at work, for about £1.80, on a credit card, three days in a row. Then I paid the local council over the phone for some evening classes for a year in advance -- £240. That was blocked.
I've told them I travel frequently within Europe. These transactions aren't blocked, but apparently it helps if I pay for the transport with the same card.
There's a free number to call to inform the bank if I'm leaving the country, so I used that before travelling to the USA (which is as dodgy as Thailand -- due to not having PIN verification on in-store credit card transactions).
I would think the smart card authentication devices like this are quite cheap. The debit card already needs the chip (to authenticate transactions in shops in the UK, and many other countries), and the reader probably doesn't do much.
If someone is keeping it in their wallet it would be easier than you might think, you can read cards without physically swiping them through a traditional card reader, especially the not so common no-swipe enabled cards.
It's a piece of cardboard with numbers printed on it. Good luck reading that without removing it from the wallet.
Last time I ported a number between UK carriers I was sent several text messages to each phone.
It used to be that you couldn't start the process until you'd received a letter with a code (PAC - Porting Authorisation Code), but they were happy to tell me the code over the phone.
(But anyway, my bank uses the encryption key stored on my debit card to authorise similar transactions.)
I'm only 25! I'll probably get one or two birthday cards next year, maybe one postcard, possibly one personal letter, at most one wedding/funeral invite. But that's more than "1 in 13 years", which I thought was very unusual.
Last week my flatmate, who is 21, received a handwritten letter from his girlfriend, who is away for a month. He'd spent half the day playing games and chatting to her on Skype, but he seemed to appreciate that she'd taken the time to write it.
So far this year, I sent a birthday card to my mum (while on holiday in Austria -- I thought it'd be interesting to receive a card in German, she apparently didn't...), one to my grandma, one to my dad.
I sent postcards from six places (other countries, while on holiday). According to my mum, it makes my grandma very happy to receive these. Maybe she'd like an email with a photo, or an MMS, I'm not sure. I prefer the postcard: I feel less connected, which is good as I don't want to end up giving Facebook-status-like updates to relatives.
Other than cost, what possible advantage is there to a septic system?
(In this country, only very rural places have septic systems, but living in the middle of nowhere is appealing to some rich people.)
Yes, it's called a TiVo. They've been doing this since the beginning of the 3rd Millennium.
Yep, I've looked it up. TiVo Suggestions. Is it any good?
That's one more bullshit software patent then (if the patent went through -- I didn't write it, I went back to university).
Very early this decade, my friend's dad had a "DivX player", which played most AVI files acquired at the time.
I think my current DVD player, which I know will do a slideshow of JPEG files on a USB stick, will play some types of video file.
The Open University is a distance-learning university in the UK. They used to broadcast material (not just lectures) overnight on BBC 2, but it seems they stopped this a few years ago. Shame.
Some of it might be here, or else that might be the new "general audience" stuff.
The OU website says "Virtual microscopes, interactive laboratories and online collaborations have taken the place of home experiment kits sent through the post, while late night TV programmes have been replaced by DVDs and online videos".
So far the only answer to these problems has been BitTorrent.
Or official catch-up services, like the BBC's iPlayer. When I used to have a TV (with signal) in the house, and I was more aware of what I was missing, I used it fairly often to watch things at my convenience, on my choice of device. (Having realised no one in the house watched live TV, we stopped paying for the license and disconnected the aerial. So, I'm no longer aware of what I'm missing, and look at what's available on iPlayer etc. I look occasionally, but don't seem to miss out on much.)
Has anyone implemented the patent (software patent, yuk) I had the "idea" for, when I was working one summer for an electronics company? The TV/box to record things that you might be interested in, based on what you've previously watched, and what other people watch? One more step from "other people who viewed XYZ also watched". But that's just a temporary measure until bandwidth is great enough to just store everything centrally anyway.
You didn't read the comments, which would have been the obvious and polite thing to do before accusing me of trolling. *shrug*
None of the errors pointed out by xaxa actually exist. You got trolled.
They did when I posted, they have been corrected.
The author has posted in the comments admitting this.
Thanks for assuming I'm trolling, but I have better things to do with my time.
It looked interesting, but I lost interest when I saw the salary
No offence, but why not just piss off and work in the City inventing ever more esoteric and unauditable financial instruments, if you're so fucking clever and money-oriented?
With an attitude like that, we'd probably get along pretty well :).
My comment is too brief. I live (and want to continue to live) in inner London. That's more important than the salary. But GCHQ's £24k is still low, especially as the changes to pensions are going to affect net pay (~£500 less, I think) and pay increases are currently on hold in the public sector.
I already work for the government, earning £27k (I think), only in science rather than spying/hacking/security. Comparable jobs pay a lot more, but mine helps interesting and useful science.
I have to pick up new credit and debit cards at the closest bank office by myself. I can not imagine how bad it would be if they sent the new card with the new PIN through mail. I guess the mailing of a new card would work if the new PIN was sent by secure electronic means, not with the card itself.
In the UK: if no new PIN is required (e.g. the card expired or broke) there's no problem. The card won't work until it's activated, which requires going through the authentication of internet (or telephone) banking.
If a new PIN is required it's usually sent a few days earlier in a tamper-evident envelope on tamper-evident paper.
You may have to collect it from the bank if they decide your address isn't secure (e.g. student residence, hotel, previous problem), or you ask.
The government contacts me through e-mail. They have created e-mail accounts for every citizen in the form of socialsecuritynumber@thenameofthecountry.tld, and I forwarded it to my gmail account.
Which country? You're posting anonymously, what have you possibly got to hide ;-)
Estonia? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estonian_ID_card It's a nice system, but most countries don't have something like this yet. Until they do, there are more uses for letters.
Sorry I was unclear, SSH on the ipad is required from time to time. There are many SSH clients available for the ipad, but few good ones
OK, probably similar to Android.
Something like MeeGo would have been great, it's a shame Nokia have dropped it. I've only once seen a Nokia phone running it, and it was hardly the time for thorough investigation (an art student in a nightclub handed me the phone and asked me to photograph him with the band, then showed off his art). It looked like a decent, small-screen touch-input interface, running efficient applications -- just like iOS or Android. But it could run OpenOffice, if required, and a couple of taps showed that behind the scenes was a Debian-based OS. I bet you could run MySQL and Apache on it. (Yep, someone has.)