I put only the most limited info in my profile, basically that I am a 32 year old, liberal pastafarian but i still try to keep unwanted apps away from my info. I rarely install thrid party apps (i think i have 2 or 3 installed), and i only do it for apps made by people who have that info anyway. I wasn't aware that my friends apps could access my info without installing them, if they can then why would you have to install them?
I have tried to disable it by following the instructions in the article but there simply isn't the "other apps" section in my privacy settings it refers to. Anyone else had this problem?
As a raging pedant i must point out that in the UK you have to be over 18 to buy alcohol. To drink alcohol legally purchased then you only have to be over the age of 5 so long as you are not drinking it in a bar/pub/club.
The English Channel is the area of sea between the south of England and France. The cable between Brtain and Ireland is in the Irish Sea, nowhere near the English Channel.
I have never understood this phrase "socialized" medicine you Americans use for a tax payer funded health care system. In the US the police forces, fire services etc are funded by tax payers but you do not describe them as "socialized" police forces etc. Public schools are funded by tax payers, do you have a "socialized" education system? Here in the UK we have had tax payer funded National Health Service for over 50 years. The NHS is just considered a public service like refuse collection, fire and police service, state education etc and from my perspective it is bizarre to talk about healthcare like it is a commodity.
Like vtechpilot says pretty much all ISPs in the UK offer metered services. Some offer "unlimited" services but these generally have a published "fair use policy" which in effect puts a cap on your usage. It is pretty fair becuase the low tiers are pretty cheap and if all you do is send email and shop online then they are perfectly adequate. If you do want to download movies etc then you just go onto the higher tier and pay more. I.e. you get the service you pay for. Most tiered plans do offer a fixed bill, it's just that your connection speeds gets restricted if you go over your usage limit.
I am on the top tier of cable company virgin media. I have a 20 Mbit connection. I can download up to 3gb per day between 4PM and 9 PM and as much as i want for the rest of the time. If i exceed 3gb during this time then my connection drops to 5Mbit for the next 5 hours. To me this seems pretty fair and in practice i don't think it has ever kicked in.
It's easy to settle this argument. Pick any sugary food or drink in the US, looks at ingredients, what's the sweetner? Probably HFCS. Do the same anywhere else in the world, it's sugar.
What do they mean by "Analogue TVs", do they mean CRT tv's or just TVs with analogue tuners or what I don't get it, i am not sure what would clasify as a "Digital TV".
85% of the UK watches digital TV but only a small minority of them do it through TVs that can pick up over the air digital tv without a set top box.
I am in the UK so maybe there is some kind of different technology over in the US but i simply don't understand: "They can either convert the digital SD signal to analog SD and pipe it across their lines (which means using more bandwidth and carrying three versions of a single channel) or they can offer digital SD only and roll out converter boxes to all their subscribers (which could be expensive)".
In the UK all digital cable channels work like this, there simply isn't a TV that you can buy that can pick up digital cable signals without a digital cable box and you just get one when you sign up to cable. Most of these boxes only have analogue outputs, the only ones that have any kind of digital outputs are the DVR/HiDef boxes that you pay extra for, these have HDMI outputs as well.
What kind of input do these TVs have that can somehow pick up digital cable signals without a cable box. Do the have some sort of built in DVB-C decoders or similar?
In the UK you can take people to the small claims court without the need for a lawyer, it will cost you a small percentage of the claim whether you win or lose. I think the limit is about £2500 ($5000) for the claim so a laptop should be covered. Still a pain though.
As much as I beleive in human rights for everyone it simply isn't possible for a company to comply with 2 sets of conflicting laws in 2 different juristictions. Perhaps Morton Sklar can explain how Yahoo could follow Chinese law and US law at the same time if the two are mutually exclusive, rather than simply spouting rhetoric.
I have never really understood what the point of these social networking sites are, and i can't say I'm really any the wiser for reading the article. It just gives a number of reasons why facebook is better than other social networking sites but does not touch on why anybody bothers with them at all. I participate in community discussion sites like Slashdot and Digg because they provide insight into subjects that interest me but i do not form online relationships with any of the members of these sites. I have actual friends who I interact with in the actual real world why would anyone want to create faux relationships with with strangers on websites. Ironically i think if find trying to work out why these sites are so popular more engaging and interesting than the sites themselves.
I imagine you can silently install this over the air from the BES server. In my current and previous job I am the only IT profesional in the company and the sole administrator of the BES server, if i could roll this out using the BES server to everyones blackberries then only i would know. I would then be able to listen to all of the senior management's mobile phone calls. Ahh the power of being the BOFH
I consider myself to have pretty good eyesight and i get about 50% of captchas wrong
The point of a captcha is to ask something that is trivial for a human being and dificult for a computer. Rather than using the often very difcult to read "swirly text on a swirly background" images that are so common go down a different path. Show photos of peoples faces, 1 woman then rest men and ask the user to pick the female. Some photos of amnimals, pick the cat/elephant/parrot/gerbil etc. Some photos of people with different exagerated facial expressions, pick the angry/sad/happy person. Some care would be needed in picking the images but once the initial work is done it is much easier for a user to recognise which one of a series of faces is female than it is to work out what word that swirly squiggle is suposed to be.
Becuase their are a number of things they could do to eliminate or at worst reduce fraud on cardholder not present transactions but they don't, because they have no financial incentive to do so.
The reason credit card companies don't make any effort to stop this sort of thing is becuase at a financial level it is just not their problem. If you want to commit fraud using someones credit card details but not their actual card it means that you have to do what's called a cardholder not present transaction, i.e. mail order, over the phone or internet. Credit card companies offer businesses who accept credit cards no protection whatever from fraudulant card holder not present transactions. If someone buys somehting from you using a credit card over the internet or the phone and it turns out to be fraud the credit card companies issue a what's called a chargeback and take the money back. There is very little you can do to fight a chargeback, if the cardholder reports a transaction as fraud then the credit card companies just issue a chargeback and take the money back.
Until some government outlaws this practice and makes credit card comapnies liable for fraud committed using their cards they will never take any serious steps to prevent cardholder not present fraud because they simply have no financial incentive to do so. Meanwhile the bill is footed by businesses who do business over the internet and phone and is then subsequently passed on to consumers as higher prices.
Really, that much? Three orders of magnitude equates to 1000 times more fuel efficient. I don't know a great deal about nuclear power but i do know that THORP at the Sellafield site in the UK is a pure nuclear reporsessing plant offering commercial reprosessing and it does very little business because it is simply not economical.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorp_nuclear_fuel_re processing_plant
I would have thought that the best way to cope with sexual desire among healthy young men and women during a mission years long would be for them to have sex with each other;-)
So long as you code is purely.net it should port with no modifications. If you have used COM interop stuff then it would probably fall over. This applies to any.net stuff that runs on mono, it's got to be pure.net.
Very probably it will be free but only to UK residents. As mentioned in another comment in the UK we pay an annual license fee, which is enforced like a tax. Everyone that owns equipment capable of viewing TV has to pay it. This funds the BBC so they can't then charge for stuff and there are no adverts.
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I put only the most limited info in my profile, basically that I am a 32 year old, liberal pastafarian but i still try to keep unwanted apps away from my info. I rarely install thrid party apps (i think i have 2 or 3 installed), and i only do it for apps made by people who have that info anyway. I wasn't aware that my friends apps could access my info without installing them, if they can then why would you have to install them? I have tried to disable it by following the instructions in the article but there simply isn't the "other apps" section in my privacy settings it refers to. Anyone else had this problem?
As a raging pedant i must point out that in the UK you have to be over 18 to buy alcohol. To drink alcohol legally purchased then you only have to be over the age of 5 so long as you are not drinking it in a bar/pub/club.
The English Channel is the area of sea between the south of England and France. The cable between Brtain and Ireland is in the Irish Sea, nowhere near the English Channel.
I have never understood this phrase "socialized" medicine you Americans use for a tax payer funded health care system. In the US the police forces, fire services etc are funded by tax payers but you do not describe them as "socialized" police forces etc. Public schools are funded by tax payers, do you have a "socialized" education system? Here in the UK we have had tax payer funded National Health Service for over 50 years. The NHS is just considered a public service like refuse collection, fire and police service, state education etc and from my perspective it is bizarre to talk about healthcare like it is a commodity.
Like vtechpilot says pretty much all ISPs in the UK offer metered services. Some offer "unlimited" services but these generally have a published "fair use policy" which in effect puts a cap on your usage. It is pretty fair becuase the low tiers are pretty cheap and if all you do is send email and shop online then they are perfectly adequate. If you do want to download movies etc then you just go onto the higher tier and pay more. I.e. you get the service you pay for. Most tiered plans do offer a fixed bill, it's just that your connection speeds gets restricted if you go over your usage limit.
I am on the top tier of cable company virgin media. I have a 20 Mbit connection. I can download up to 3gb per day between 4PM and 9 PM and as much as i want for the rest of the time. If i exceed 3gb during this time then my connection drops to 5Mbit for the next 5 hours. To me this seems pretty fair and in practice i don't think it has ever kicked in.
It's easy to settle this argument. Pick any sugary food or drink in the US, looks at ingredients, what's the sweetner? Probably HFCS. Do the same anywhere else in the world, it's sugar.
What does that stand for?
Yeah, i have never heard of anywhere offering a BA in maths, surely it would be a BSc?
What do they mean by "Analogue TVs", do they mean CRT tv's or just TVs with analogue tuners or what I don't get it, i am not sure what would clasify as a "Digital TV". 85% of the UK watches digital TV but only a small minority of them do it through TVs that can pick up over the air digital tv without a set top box.
Well that quote is from the article so are you saying that the article is just wrong?
I am in the UK so maybe there is some kind of different technology over in the US but i simply don't understand: "They can either convert the digital SD signal to analog SD and pipe it across their lines (which means using more bandwidth and carrying three versions of a single channel) or they can offer digital SD only and roll out converter boxes to all their subscribers (which could be expensive)". In the UK all digital cable channels work like this, there simply isn't a TV that you can buy that can pick up digital cable signals without a digital cable box and you just get one when you sign up to cable. Most of these boxes only have analogue outputs, the only ones that have any kind of digital outputs are the DVR/HiDef boxes that you pay extra for, these have HDMI outputs as well. What kind of input do these TVs have that can somehow pick up digital cable signals without a cable box. Do the have some sort of built in DVB-C decoders or similar?
In the UK you can take people to the small claims court without the need for a lawyer, it will cost you a small percentage of the claim whether you win or lose. I think the limit is about £2500 ($5000) for the claim so a laptop should be covered. Still a pain though.
I have never heard an exclamation mark refered to as a bang before, where did that come from?
As much as I beleive in human rights for everyone it simply isn't possible for a company to comply with 2 sets of conflicting laws in 2 different juristictions. Perhaps Morton Sklar can explain how Yahoo could follow Chinese law and US law at the same time if the two are mutually exclusive, rather than simply spouting rhetoric.
No idea where you get your figures from, the US abanonded the gold standard in 1933 after about 50 years of use. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_standard
I have never really understood what the point of these social networking sites are, and i can't say I'm really any the wiser for reading the article. It just gives a number of reasons why facebook is better than other social networking sites but does not touch on why anybody bothers with them at all. I participate in community discussion sites like Slashdot and Digg because they provide insight into subjects that interest me but i do not form online relationships with any of the members of these sites. I have actual friends who I interact with in the actual real world why would anyone want to create faux relationships with with strangers on websites. Ironically i think if find trying to work out why these sites are so popular more engaging and interesting than the sites themselves.
I imagine you can silently install this over the air from the BES server. In my current and previous job I am the only IT profesional in the company and the sole administrator of the BES server, if i could roll this out using the BES server to everyones blackberries then only i would know. I would then be able to listen to all of the senior management's mobile phone calls. Ahh the power of being the BOFH
I consider myself to have pretty good eyesight and i get about 50% of captchas wrong The point of a captcha is to ask something that is trivial for a human being and dificult for a computer. Rather than using the often very difcult to read "swirly text on a swirly background" images that are so common go down a different path. Show photos of peoples faces, 1 woman then rest men and ask the user to pick the female. Some photos of amnimals, pick the cat/elephant/parrot/gerbil etc. Some photos of people with different exagerated facial expressions, pick the angry/sad/happy person. Some care would be needed in picking the images but once the initial work is done it is much easier for a user to recognise which one of a series of faces is female than it is to work out what word that swirly squiggle is suposed to be.
Becuase their are a number of things they could do to eliminate or at worst reduce fraud on cardholder not present transactions but they don't, because they have no financial incentive to do so.
The reason credit card companies don't make any effort to stop this sort of thing is becuase at a financial level it is just not their problem. If you want to commit fraud using someones credit card details but not their actual card it means that you have to do what's called a cardholder not present transaction, i.e. mail order, over the phone or internet. Credit card companies offer businesses who accept credit cards no protection whatever from fraudulant card holder not present transactions. If someone buys somehting from you using a credit card over the internet or the phone and it turns out to be fraud the credit card companies issue a what's called a chargeback and take the money back. There is very little you can do to fight a chargeback, if the cardholder reports a transaction as fraud then the credit card companies just issue a chargeback and take the money back. Until some government outlaws this practice and makes credit card comapnies liable for fraud committed using their cards they will never take any serious steps to prevent cardholder not present fraud because they simply have no financial incentive to do so. Meanwhile the bill is footed by businesses who do business over the internet and phone and is then subsequently passed on to consumers as higher prices.
Really, that much? Three orders of magnitude equates to 1000 times more fuel efficient. I don't know a great deal about nuclear power but i do know that THORP at the Sellafield site in the UK is a pure nuclear reporsessing plant offering commercial reprosessing and it does very little business because it is simply not economical. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorp_nuclear_fuel_re processing_plant
I was being facetious...
I would have thought that the best way to cope with sexual desire among healthy young men and women during a mission years long would be for them to have sex with each other ;-)
So long as you code is purely .net it should port with no modifications. If you have used COM interop stuff then it would probably fall over. This applies to any .net stuff that runs on mono, it's got to be pure .net.
Very probably it will be free but only to UK residents. As mentioned in another comment in the UK we pay an annual license fee, which is enforced like a tax. Everyone that owns equipment capable of viewing TV has to pay it. This funds the BBC so they can't then charge for stuff and there are no adverts.