I'd never enter a physical store with the intention of selecting my torrents, just like I'd never buy physical media, that's just weird, man.
I would otoh use an android app that listens to the song playing in the club, identifies it, and pirates the mp3. I currently type the author & song into the notepad and pirate the song later.
How is that any different?
(FYI, after identifying a song the Shazam app provides a button to "Buy the MP3 on Amazon".)
And a quick walk around the school after it had shut wouldn't have let them discover this without the need for expensive analysis!?
Someone did this at work, and left a mini chocolate bar on the keyboard of everyone who'd shut down their computer:-)
Sometimes all these things need is the staff being told it's encouraged (or required) to switch things off; not just computers, but printers, the coffee machine and the lights.
My house was burglarized twice. I don't live in a very good neighborhood.
Burglars often return a second time, to steal all the new stuff you[r insurance company] just paid for.
(When my house was burgled I was only about 10 years old, but I remember the police telling my dad this. He fitted locks onto the windows and extra bolts onto the doors. A month later a neighbour walked round while we were out and startled someone trying to break in.)
Good thing I live in EU.... and its my right to have uncensored internet
It is? DNS is filtered for child porn websites in at least the UK (for some major ISPs) and Finland (IIRC).
(In the UK last time I checked, by doing a DNS query on a blocked hostname, my small ISP returned the IP but my parents' large ISP gave a 'no such domain' message.)
(At work, "Access to lapsiporno.info has been blocked as 'Adult / Sexually explicit'". Shouldn't that be 'Child / Sexually explicit'... though I'm not going to ask them to change it;-)
[Europe...] a shoulder bag is required to carry around the 10lbs worth of coins everyone has.
If you're used to the money it's very easy. The £ has the same denomination of coins as the €, and I have £1.13 in my pocket -- £1, 10p, 2p, 1p. You just need to hand over some coins to increase the amount of change you need to a rounder figure, e.g. hand over £5.50 when the bill is £4.45.
I sometimes read the reports from railway accidents in the UK -- there's often interesting science (physics, metallurgy, etc) involved in establishing what happened, why, and how to prevent it happening again.
The reports always give many causes. For example, this one (where a bridge over a river partially collapsed) had these causes: - The bridge was undermined by the water in the river (immediate cause) - An obstruction in the river channelled the flow towards the east abutment - The railway company was not aware of the obstruction - Staff inspecting the track were not aware that they must check for obstructions in rivers crossed by railway bridges - There was no way for members of the public to report the obstruction - The bridge (from 1858) had shallow foundations -...lots more
Without investigation we won't know what happened in this case, but if the man died by impacting the steering wheel (etc) then not wearing a seatbelt is likely to be a causal factor. If he was already dead then it obviously isn't.
You're a damned fool in making assumptions. There's nothing out there so far (else post links) that indicates that seat belts (or their lack) played any role in the outcome. Shut up.
You've made four comments saying pretty much the same thing. Maybe you should close the window and do something else, there's no point getting stressed over a Slashdot comment (or four).
Also, if you don't wear a seatbelt I strongly suggest you reconsider that decision. At the very least, you must wear one when sitting in the back, as that will prevent you from crushing the person in the front seat in a collision.
They could lay out the escalators so that you have matching up or down side by side by stacking them 4 wide. [...]
They could, and if they were an office building they probably would.
I can't think of a single shopping centre in Europe (mostly Britain) that I've been in that doesn't do this. Clearly the architects have different theories on behaviour. Almost always it's a tiny turn (1-2 metres) to get from the top of one escalator to the bottom of the next, but the down escalators (or, often, stairs) might be on the other side of the shop.
> host www.facebook.com www.facebook.com has address 69.63.189.11 www.facebook.com has IPv6 address 2620:0:1c18:0:face:b00c:0:2
> host www.yahoo.com www.yahoo.com is an alias for fpfd.wa1.b.yahoo.com. fpfd.wa1.b.yahoo.com has address 69.147.125.65 fpfd.wa1.b.yahoo.com has address 67.195.160.76 fpfd.wa1.b.yahoo.com has IPv6 address 2a00:1288:f006:1fe::3000 fpfd.wa1.b.yahoo.com has IPv6 address 2a00:1288:f006:1fe::3001 fpfd.wa1.b.yahoo.com has IPv6 address 2a00:1288:f00e:1fe::3000 fpfd.wa1.b.yahoo.com has IPv6 address 2a00:1288:f00e:1fe::3001
I think the bare domain does a redirect to the www. anyway.
Anyone know of any product lines (of any kind) designed specifically for durability?
Anything at all that's designed for durability?
Anything where replacing it is more expensive or inconvenient than paying for something engineered to last as long as possible, especially anything where safety is critical. Parts of power grids, railway tracks/stations/vehicles, things on large buildings, satellites, parts of continuously-run factories, bridges/tunnels,...
I changed my mind and registered for the Oyster data November 2009 "feed", they surely didn't verify my details as I was immediately given a confirmation (it's late evening).
It's a CSV file, with 2.6M lines, but doing anything with it will have to wait until next month.
For the NYC subway, you pay at point of entry, and you walk through a turnstile on exit.
Is the fare the same, regardless of the length of the trip? Wikipedia suggests it is.
In the largest European cities I've visited it's not, but I live in London so I'll describe that.
In London there are 9 concentric fare zones (1 to 9, with 1 being the central zone, and few tourists venturing further than Zone 2. Property is often advertised as "5 minutes from a zone 3 station" etc). [PDF map]
The fare depends on which zones you travel through, and the time of day (peak/off-peak). e.g.: (from this ridiculous table) zone 9 to zone 1 is £6.00 or £3.50 (peak, off-peak) zone 9 to zone 3 is £3.50 or £1.40 (peak, off-peak) zone 2 to zone 1 is £2.50 or £1.90 (peak, off-peak)
Hence, if you use the electronic ticket (Oyster card) it needs to know what zone you start in, what zone you ended in, and whether you went through a more central zone (from zone 3 in the east to zone 3 in the west, through the centre, costs more than taking an orbital route avoiding the centre). The Oyster card must be used to open the ticket barrier at the start and the end of the journey. (Paper tickets must too -- they have the zones they are valid in encoded in a magnetic strip)
Anyway, my point was that in London the transport network has the origin and destination data for the majority of tube or suburban train trips. It must be interesting to mine this -- you could see the effect of delays, how people respond to a planned closure, how many people don't make it home on Friday night, who goes to a political protest...
There is some sample data here but I don't want to register at the moment.
The Serious Organised Crime Agency (Soca), which coordinated the voluntary industry move, said there is ''no credible legitimate use'' for the note in Britain.
Presumably this just means the criminals will go to Ireland or some other Eurozone country, where there are legitimate uses for a €500 note. If you can smuggle that quantity of cash into the UK it won't be difficult to take it to France or Ireland -- there are no customs checks, just security (explosive/etc) checks if relevant to the means of transport (i.e. take the ferry, or your own plane/yacht).
ah geez. it's like being back in school. my best mate's password was "123".
Ah, the memories. (The school's admin password was "access".)
When I was 12 I found out from an older student that the admin password was "changeme". I used it to increase my disc quota.
I then gave the password to a younger student, who changed it. IIRC he had a letter sent to his parents, but I was merely banned from using school computers at lunchtime "until the end of the year", which was about 2 weeks. I think talking to people outside for two weeks probably did me good.
But if you find the words amusing I think you'll have more fun with "Assistant Government Whip", or "Lords Chief Whip". This is what happens when you're country has had a parliament for approaching 800 years. You have a Secretary of the Treasury, we have a Chancellor of the Exchequer:-)
Maybe you have a two hour flight. On an 18-hour flight there's only so much you can read, sleep, and watch before you start to get antsy. I'd surely welcome internet on those flights.
You're supposed to at least read the summary, but I understand it's a lot of effort to get to the last sentence:
Aircell says that 20 percent of passengers on equipped cross-country flights use its service, but it's mum about numbers on shorter segments."
I'd use the service if cost no more than EU data roaming service costs, e.g. £0.10 to send an email is fine. But if it costs that much I wouldn't do much else.
In some places (here in the UK) landlines can be so cheap when purchased with DSL/TV/etc that its worth having, e.g. to receive international calls, call premium numbers, etc.
First off, fair call by you to post a correction to your original post.
But perhaps a further correction: you note the private/ independent school you went to had fees of $15K. However, I would think it's very unlikely that the school income was solely based on students fees, so the likelihood is that your education may have cost more than $15K.
My old school (the accounts were easy to find online at opencharities.org) received over £10M directly from fees and £80k from donations, but "gave" £375k worth of education to poorer students. 0.8% of their income came from investments.
My dad teaches at a private school, and he says they don't have much money in reserve -- just enough for unplanned essential expenditure, like a recession causing lots of parents to lose income (the children may get a discount in this case, so they can stay).
Both these schools are at the cheaper end though, probably the famous schools charging several times more have more to spare, and richer alumni.
Except that we never address the real issue, culture, because to do so would get labeled "racist" ten seconds after it is mentioned. [...] The only thing that will fix this situation is for people to realize that the Ghetto/Bario/Urban "culture" is one of ignorance and failure and to not tolerate it at all.
That culture isn't necessarily related to race. In the UK there are plenty of areas where the underachieving children are white-British. From this article,
White British students make up more than three-quarters of low achievers in English schools and do worse than children from other ethnic groups with similar economic backgrounds, research revealed today.
Boys outnumber girls as low achievers at school by three to two, the study by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation found.
Nearly half of those who leave education with no or limited qualifications are white British males, and white students are more likely than other ethnic groups to do persistently badly at school, the study said.
(Rather than urban culture, in the UK it might be related to a lack of aspiration, or laziness, or just not knowing why education is important... the state will pay enough to live on, and in some places three generations of people have never worked. However, there is still a national culture which prefers celebrity to intelligence. I was teased at a private school for consistently being in the top 5 in the class, until I was about 16. Saying "oh, I'm no good at numbers!" is more acceptable among many people than being able to do basic arithmetic.).
It looks like Tesco were prevented from importing goods from outside the EU, but weren't prevented from sourcing the jeans from within the EU (but not the UK) for a lower price, then selling them in the UK.
This Wikipedia article has some possible reasons why this might be reasonable for some goods, like different safety standards for a car... hmmm.
Data show that having children decreases happiness.
Since when were scientists ever concerned about happiness. If they were, they wouldn't be in such an often-unrewarded (financially, emotionally, etc.) profession
There is much more to life than money. Many scientists I know (and I work with lots) feel they're doing something positive for the world, and the high-paying alternative jobs are bad for society. We're paid less, but I have a practically zero-stress job, 30+8 days paid leave per year, flexible hours (where if I accumulate more than 8 hours I'm required to take a day off),...
People in my year from university who work at banks and hedge funds have to get to work for 6:30, stay until 22:30, worry about work all the time, get the legal minimum of leave (20+8), and 1.5-2× as much money. I get a phone calls every month or so from recruiters (people from uni have my contact details, and would get a big bonus if someone they referred was recruited) but I'm not interested.
Only one of the most famous English football players in the world. He's got a fucking OBE, for christ's sake.
I hate to break this to you, but that makes him about as famous to the rest of the world as the guy with the funny voice who sells beer in the left field bleachers at Wrigley Field.
I hate football, but I can't deny he's well-known internationally for his football. He's one of the best-known players for one of the world's most well known teams, you can find Manchester United fans all over the world.
In 2010, Forbes magazine ranked Manchester United second only to the New York Yankees in its list of the ten most valuable sports team brands, valuing the Manchester United brand at $285 million
(I've heard of the New York Yankees. I couldn't tell you whether they play baseball or American football, but I've heard of them, and I hate sport.)
Children (and sometimes adults) in foreign countries have asked me about "Man U", once they find out that I'm English; normally before asking if I've met the queen.
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I'd never enter a physical store with the intention of selecting my torrents, just like I'd never buy physical media, that's just weird, man.
I would otoh use an android app that listens to the song playing in the club, identifies it, and pirates the mp3. I currently type the author & song into the notepad and pirate the song later.
How is that any different?
(FYI, after identifying a song the Shazam app provides a button to "Buy the MP3 on Amazon".)
And a quick walk around the school after it had shut wouldn't have let them discover this without the need for expensive analysis!?
Someone did this at work, and left a mini chocolate bar on the keyboard of everyone who'd shut down their computer :-)
Sometimes all these things need is the staff being told it's encouraged (or required) to switch things off; not just computers, but printers, the coffee machine and the lights.
My house was burglarized twice. I don't live in a very good neighborhood.
Burglars often return a second time, to steal all the new stuff you[r insurance company] just paid for.
(When my house was burgled I was only about 10 years old, but I remember the police telling my dad this. He fitted locks onto the windows and extra bolts onto the doors. A month later a neighbour walked round while we were out and startled someone trying to break in.)
Good thing I live in EU .... and its my right to have uncensored internet
It is? DNS is filtered for child porn websites in at least the UK (for some major ISPs) and Finland (IIRC).
(In the UK last time I checked, by doing a DNS query on a blocked hostname, my small ISP returned the IP but my parents' large ISP gave a 'no such domain' message.)
For Finland, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lapsiporno.info
(At work, "Access to lapsiporno.info has been blocked as 'Adult / Sexually explicit'". Shouldn't that be 'Child / Sexually explicit' ... though I'm not going to ask them to change it;-)
[Europe...] a shoulder bag is required to carry around the 10lbs worth of coins everyone has.
If you're used to the money it's very easy. The £ has the same denomination of coins as the €, and I have £1.13 in my pocket -- £1, 10p, 2p, 1p. You just need to hand over some coins to increase the amount of change you need to a rounder figure, e.g. hand over £5.50 when the bill is £4.45.
I sometimes read the reports from railway accidents in the UK -- there's often interesting science (physics, metallurgy, etc) involved in establishing what happened, why, and how to prevent it happening again.
The reports always give many causes. For example, this one (where a bridge over a river partially collapsed) had these causes: ...lots more
- The bridge was undermined by the water in the river (immediate cause)
- An obstruction in the river channelled the flow towards the east abutment
- The railway company was not aware of the obstruction
- Staff inspecting the track were not aware that they must check for obstructions in rivers crossed by railway bridges
- There was no way for members of the public to report the obstruction
- The bridge (from 1858) had shallow foundations
-
Without investigation we won't know what happened in this case, but if the man died by impacting the steering wheel (etc) then not wearing a seatbelt is likely to be a causal factor. If he was already dead then it obviously isn't.
You're a damned fool in making assumptions. There's nothing out there so far (else post links) that indicates that seat belts (or their lack) played any role in the outcome. Shut up.
You've made four comments saying pretty much the same thing. Maybe you should close the window and do something else, there's no point getting stressed over a Slashdot comment (or four).
Also, if you don't wear a seatbelt I strongly suggest you reconsider that decision. At the very least, you must wear one when sitting in the back, as that will prevent you from crushing the person in the front seat in a collision.
They could lay out the escalators so that you have matching up or down side by side by stacking them 4 wide. [...]
They could, and if they were an office building they probably would.
I can't think of a single shopping centre in Europe (mostly Britain) that I've been in that doesn't do this. Clearly the architects have different theories on behaviour. Almost always it's a tiny turn (1-2 metres) to get from the top of one escalator to the bottom of the next, but the down escalators (or, often, stairs) might be on the other side of the shop.
Try:
> host www.facebook.com
www.facebook.com has address 69.63.189.11
www.facebook.com has IPv6 address 2620:0:1c18:0:face:b00c:0:2
> host www.yahoo.com
www.yahoo.com is an alias for fpfd.wa1.b.yahoo.com.
fpfd.wa1.b.yahoo.com has address 69.147.125.65
fpfd.wa1.b.yahoo.com has address 67.195.160.76
fpfd.wa1.b.yahoo.com has IPv6 address 2a00:1288:f006:1fe::3000
fpfd.wa1.b.yahoo.com has IPv6 address 2a00:1288:f006:1fe::3001
fpfd.wa1.b.yahoo.com has IPv6 address 2a00:1288:f00e:1fe::3000
fpfd.wa1.b.yahoo.com has IPv6 address 2a00:1288:f00e:1fe::3001
I think the bare domain does a redirect to the www. anyway.
Anyone know of any product lines (of any kind) designed specifically for durability?
Anything at all that's designed for durability?
Anything where replacing it is more expensive or inconvenient than paying for something engineered to last as long as possible, especially anything where safety is critical. Parts of power grids, railway tracks/stations/vehicles, things on large buildings, satellites, parts of continuously-run factories, bridges/tunnels, ...
I changed my mind and registered for the Oyster data November 2009 "feed", they surely didn't verify my details as I was immediately given a confirmation (it's late evening).
It's a CSV file, with 2.6M lines, but doing anything with it will have to wait until next month.
For the NYC subway, you pay at point of entry, and you walk through a turnstile on exit.
Is the fare the same, regardless of the length of the trip? Wikipedia suggests it is.
In the largest European cities I've visited it's not, but I live in London so I'll describe that.
In London there are 9 concentric fare zones (1 to 9, with 1 being the central zone, and few tourists venturing further than Zone 2. Property is often advertised as "5 minutes from a zone 3 station" etc). [PDF map]
The fare depends on which zones you travel through, and the time of day (peak/off-peak). e.g.: (from this ridiculous table)
zone 9 to zone 1 is £6.00 or £3.50 (peak, off-peak)
zone 9 to zone 3 is £3.50 or £1.40 (peak, off-peak)
zone 2 to zone 1 is £2.50 or £1.90 (peak, off-peak)
Hence, if you use the electronic ticket (Oyster card) it needs to know what zone you start in, what zone you ended in, and whether you went through a more central zone (from zone 3 in the east to zone 3 in the west, through the centre, costs more than taking an orbital route avoiding the centre). The Oyster card must be used to open the ticket barrier at the start and the end of the journey. (Paper tickets must too -- they have the zones they are valid in encoded in a magnetic strip)
Anyway, my point was that in London the transport network has the origin and destination data for the majority of tube or suburban train trips. It must be interesting to mine this -- you could see the effect of delays, how people respond to a planned closure, how many people don't make it home on Friday night, who goes to a political protest...
There is some sample data here but I don't want to register at the moment.
(€500 = US$730)
I think the Brits are right on this. Who wants a $730 note? Just doesn't add up....
A $100 bill in 1960 was worth about what a €500 note is worth now, due to inflation.
http://www.westegg.com/inflation/
Dealers sell drugs to users using local currency, Senators pass a law to outlaw the $100 bill.
€500 notes withdrawn over organised crime fears
The Serious Organised Crime Agency (Soca), which coordinated the voluntary industry move, said there is ''no credible legitimate use'' for the note in Britain.
Presumably this just means the criminals will go to Ireland or some other Eurozone country, where there are legitimate uses for a €500 note. If you can smuggle that quantity of cash into the UK it won't be difficult to take it to France or Ireland -- there are no customs checks, just security (explosive/etc) checks if relevant to the means of transport (i.e. take the ferry, or your own plane/yacht).
(€500 = US$730)
ah geez. it's like being back in school. my best mate's password was "123".
Ah, the memories. (The school's admin password was "access".)
When I was 12 I found out from an older student that the admin password was "changeme". I used it to increase my disc quota.
I then gave the password to a younger student, who changed it. IIRC he had a letter sent to his parents, but I was merely banned from using school computers at lunchtime "until the end of the year", which was about 2 weeks. I think talking to people outside for two weeks probably did me good.
They have a Minister of Intellectual Property? Does he work in the same building as the Ministry of Silly Walks?
Wait, this is for real?
Here's the list of ministers.
But if you find the words amusing I think you'll have more fun with "Assistant Government Whip", or "Lords Chief Whip". This is what happens when you're country has had a parliament for approaching 800 years. You have a Secretary of the Treasury, we have a Chancellor of the Exchequer :-)
Maybe you have a two hour flight. On an 18-hour flight there's only so much you can read, sleep, and watch before you start to get antsy. I'd surely welcome internet on those flights.
You're supposed to at least read the summary, but I understand it's a lot of effort to get to the last sentence:
Aircell says that 20 percent of passengers on equipped cross-country flights use its service, but it's mum about numbers on shorter segments."
I'd use the service if cost no more than EU data roaming service costs, e.g. £0.10 to send an email is fine. But if it costs that much I wouldn't do much else.
In some places (here in the UK) landlines can be so cheap when purchased with DSL/TV/etc that its worth having, e.g. to receive international calls, call premium numbers, etc.
I don't have one any more though.
First off, fair call by you to post a correction to your original post.
But perhaps a further correction: you note the private/ independent school you went to had fees of $15K. However, I would think it's very unlikely that the school income was solely based on students fees, so the likelihood is that your education may have cost more than $15K.
My old school (the accounts were easy to find online at opencharities.org) received over £10M directly from fees and £80k from donations, but "gave" £375k worth of education to poorer students. 0.8% of their income came from investments.
My dad teaches at a private school, and he says they don't have much money in reserve -- just enough for unplanned essential expenditure, like a recession causing lots of parents to lose income (the children may get a discount in this case, so they can stay).
Both these schools are at the cheaper end though, probably the famous schools charging several times more have more to spare, and richer alumni.
Right.
Except that we never address the real issue, culture, because to do so would get labeled "racist" ten seconds after it is mentioned.
[...]
The only thing that will fix this situation is for people to realize that the Ghetto/Bario/Urban "culture" is one of ignorance and failure and to not tolerate it at all.
That culture isn't necessarily related to race. In the UK there are plenty of areas where the underachieving children are white-British. From this article,
White British students make up more than three-quarters of low achievers in English schools and do worse than children from other ethnic groups with similar economic backgrounds, research revealed today.
Boys outnumber girls as low achievers at school by three to two, the study by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation found.
Nearly half of those who leave education with no or limited qualifications are white British males, and white students are more likely than other ethnic groups to do persistently badly at school, the study said.
(Rather than urban culture, in the UK it might be related to a lack of aspiration, or laziness, or just not knowing why education is important... the state will pay enough to live on, and in some places three generations of people have never worked. However, there is still a national culture which prefers celebrity to intelligence. I was teased at a private school for consistently being in the top 5 in the class, until I was about 16. Saying "oh, I'm no good at numbers!" is more acceptable among many people than being able to do basic arithmetic.).
Try this article: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/1261829.stm
It looks like Tesco were prevented from importing goods from outside the EU, but weren't prevented from sourcing the jeans from within the EU (but not the UK) for a lower price, then selling them in the UK.
This Wikipedia article has some possible reasons why this might be reasonable for some goods, like different safety standards for a car... hmmm.
Data show that having children decreases happiness.
Since when were scientists ever concerned about happiness. If they were, they wouldn't be in such an often-unrewarded (financially, emotionally, etc.) profession
There is much more to life than money. Many scientists I know (and I work with lots) feel they're doing something positive for the world, and the high-paying alternative jobs are bad for society. We're paid less, but I have a practically zero-stress job, 30+8 days paid leave per year, flexible hours (where if I accumulate more than 8 hours I'm required to take a day off), ...
People in my year from university who work at banks and hedge funds have to get to work for 6:30, stay until 22:30, worry about work all the time, get the legal minimum of leave (20+8), and 1.5-2× as much money. I get a phone calls every month or so from recruiters (people from uni have my contact details, and would get a big bonus if someone they referred was recruited) but I'm not interested.
Look up pumped storage hydroelectric power: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pumped-storage_hydroelectricity
I hate to break this to you, but that makes him about as famous to the rest of the world as the guy with the funny voice who sells beer in the left field bleachers at Wrigley Field.
I hate football, but I can't deny he's well-known internationally for his football. He's one of the best-known players for one of the world's most well known teams, you can find Manchester United fans all over the world.
In 2010, Forbes magazine ranked Manchester United second only to the New York Yankees in its list of the ten most valuable sports team brands, valuing the Manchester United brand at $285 million
(I've heard of the New York Yankees. I couldn't tell you whether they play baseball or American football, but I've heard of them, and I hate sport.)
Children (and sometimes adults) in foreign countries have asked me about "Man U", once they find out that I'm English; normally before asking if I've met the queen.
Similarly, unless Twitter has a significant UK office, it is governed by US law and not UK law.
Twitter has a UK office -- it's very new (is it even operating yet? I don't know). You can see many jobs advertised: http://twitter.com/jobs-international.html