Nevermind that, we need a new government.
I don't know how well-known Mandy is outside of the UK, but here... well, our satire shows were calling him a "Lord of Darkness" well before he became a Lord. By all rights he shouldn't have any power, he's lost his job several times already due to scandals, but seems to keep coming back.
Actually, the top ten Google searches of the last twelve months are:
facebook login
michael jackson
tuenti
facebook.com
facebook
youtube.com
face
yahoo mail
jogos
hotmail
Read that list again. That's right, most people don't know how to use the internet. They often Google for a domain in preference to just using the domain name. I don't know why, but I would suspect it may have something to do with default home pages and built-in search boxes next to the address bar. I can't [be bothered to] find longer list, but I remember a top-100 list of Google searches that included "Google.com" as one of those searches.
No commercial games? How about RuneScape, which has spent the last two years hovering around a million paying subscribers? Almost all of it (client and back end, but not hardware acceleration) is written in Java.
Now I understand why my previous employer disconnected it's old network from the internet, and gave everyone a new computer (on a separate network) solely for internet work. This made life extremely complicated for everyone, as they make and published browser-based games.
Would that the Nazis were all dead. Last year, I boarded the wrong train while on holiday in Germany, and ended up in a small town called "Bad Kissingen" where I found a swastika graffiti'd across part of the train station wall.
The thing I dislike about patents is that it is in the self interest of their creators to make them unclear, obfuscated, and multi-layered in a way that means that even if the clearly over-general claim quoted in the summary is rejected in a court of law, the patent will still retain most of it's value. Having previously worked under them, will be interesting to see how Andrew Gower and Mark Gerhard deal with this.
I was taught that some states do that, while others try to minimise their tax burden by charging for everything they possibly can. It's swings and roundabouts really, as the money has to come from somewhere.
The legal minimum across the EU is 28 days per year, each year. I don't know about EU laws on sick-pay, but I've heard people complain at getting only a month/year fully paid sick leave, and that further time off sick was only on half pay.
I'm not so sure we have protected ourselves without abridging our freedoms. My country, the UK, is the big black-spot of Europe, and our liking of surveillance goes back at least as far as the days of the IRA. The other EU country famous for terrorists is Spain with ETA, and they don't look that amazing on that map.
One question. Did any country get into the best group?
I happen to have a (former) inside source to Huntingdon Life Sciences. All the good scientists either have left or are in the process of leaving because the managers are penny-pinching bastards. The rules we have in the UK should prevent mistreatment of animals, but they don't because there isn't enough enforcement, and when things are enforced, the managers just transfer blame to the employees that they had ordered to commit the offenses.
Disclaimer: The following comment is based on UK law 18 months ago; also I am NOT a lawyer, I've just been lectured to by one.
There are two sorts of trademark; the one that gets a TM (meaning "trademark") and the one that gets a ® (registered trademark). Anyone can get a TM just by using a name in the operation of a business, but if someone else gets or has a registered trademark, it usurps the TM. Registering a trademark costs money, and is can be blocked by other businesses within the first few months after the application is made. Trademarks are also limited in scope to a particular area of trade, so a computer company called ABC Inc. ® couldn't sue a taxi company called ABC Inc. ® because of the name.
Chances are, you've not noticed, but we've had flying cars since the 1930s. "Why don't we all have one?" I hear you ask. Main reason: it costs UK£10,000 to get a light aircraft pilot's licence.
There is no technical reason why we couldn't have had "flying cars" (or something close enough to count) 70 years ago. The problem is cost: I recently moved to a city with a small airport, which offered flying lessons. I looked up their prices, and found it would cost about £10K (US$20,000) to get a licence to fly small aircraft.
I don't know about last year, but this year more innocent British people have died in Britain from heart attacks brought about by the excitement of riding a motobike for the first time in their life, than from terrorism. The fatality counts being zero and one repsectively.
For the USA? Let's take the last decade:
~170,000 homicides (not counting terrorism)
~300,000 suicides
~300,000 road traffic fatalities
~3000 killed by terrorism
What I'm really interested in, is how many Americans are killed each year by their own Police force?
These things may be hard to design the first time, but I bet they'd be a doddle to reverse-engineer.
Do you really want someone to be able to stop the police car trailing them by shinging a torch backwards? At least with a laser-pointer it's hard to keep the aim!
I wonder how accurate their identification process is... we all know how easy it is to spoof your MAC address, after all.
Also, for some twisted reason, I'm wondering how many banned students would need to make continuous WiFi requests for an effective internal DDOS.
There is a saying; put a frog into a pot of boiling water, and it jumps out. Put it in a pot of cool water, then slowly raise the temperature, and it will stay in the pot until it dies.
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Nevermind that, we need a new government. I don't know how well-known Mandy is outside of the UK, but here... well, our satire shows were calling him a "Lord of Darkness" well before he became a Lord. By all rights he shouldn't have any power, he's lost his job several times already due to scandals, but seems to keep coming back.
Actually, the top ten Google searches of the last twelve months are:
Read that list again. That's right, most people don't know how to use the internet. They often Google for a domain in preference to just using the domain name. I don't know why, but I would suspect it may have something to do with default home pages and built-in search boxes next to the address bar. I can't [be bothered to] find longer list, but I remember a top-100 list of Google searches that included "Google.com" as one of those searches.
No commercial games? How about RuneScape, which has spent the last two years hovering around a million paying subscribers? Almost all of it (client and back end, but not hardware acceleration) is written in Java.
Cushion-stealers loose votes.
I remember a little over a decade ago, a Mac magazine got cross when PC World staff said that "Apple has gone bankrupt, they were bought up by iMac."
Now I understand why my previous employer disconnected it's old network from the internet, and gave everyone a new computer (on a separate network) solely for internet work. This made life extremely complicated for everyone, as they make and published browser-based games.
Would that the Nazis were all dead. Last year, I boarded the wrong train while on holiday in Germany, and ended up in a small town called "Bad Kissingen" where I found a swastika graffiti'd across part of the train station wall.
The thing I dislike about patents is that it is in the self interest of their creators to make them unclear, obfuscated, and multi-layered in a way that means that even if the clearly over-general claim quoted in the summary is rejected in a court of law, the patent will still retain most of it's value. Having previously worked under them, will be interesting to see how Andrew Gower and Mark Gerhard deal with this.
I was taught that some states do that, while others try to minimise their tax burden by charging for everything they possibly can. It's swings and roundabouts really, as the money has to come from somewhere.
Dude, redundant — my normal umbrella has a metal shaft.
The legal minimum across the EU is 28 days per year, each year. I don't know about EU laws on sick-pay, but I've heard people complain at getting only a month/year fully paid sick leave, and that further time off sick was only on half pay.
Where exactly do you think the mercury comes from? The planet of the same name?
I'm not so sure we have protected ourselves without abridging our freedoms. My country, the UK, is the big black-spot of Europe, and our liking of surveillance goes back at least as far as the days of the IRA. The other EU country famous for terrorists is Spain with ETA, and they don't look that amazing on that map.
One question. Did any country get into the best group?
Repeat after me: more people die in police custody than at the hands of terrorists.
I happen to have a (former) inside source to Huntingdon Life Sciences. All the good scientists either have left or are in the process of leaving because the managers are penny-pinching bastards. The rules we have in the UK should prevent mistreatment of animals, but they don't because there isn't enough enforcement, and when things are enforced, the managers just transfer blame to the employees that they had ordered to commit the offenses.
Disclaimer: The following comment is based on UK law 18 months ago; also I am NOT a lawyer, I've just been lectured to by one.
There are two sorts of trademark; the one that gets a TM (meaning "trademark") and the one that gets a ® (registered trademark). Anyone can get a TM just by using a name in the operation of a business, but if someone else gets or has a registered trademark, it usurps the TM. Registering a trademark costs money, and is can be blocked by other businesses within the first few months after the application is made. Trademarks are also limited in scope to a particular area of trade, so a computer company called ABC Inc. ® couldn't sue a taxi company called ABC Inc. ® because of the name.
Chances are, you've not noticed, but we've had flying cars since the 1930s. "Why don't we all have one?" I hear you ask. Main reason: it costs UK£10,000 to get a light aircraft pilot's licence.
There is no technical reason why we couldn't have had "flying cars" (or something close enough to count) 70 years ago. The problem is cost: I recently moved to a city with a small airport, which offered flying lessons. I looked up their prices, and found it would cost about £10K (US$20,000) to get a licence to fly small aircraft.
I don't know about last year, but this year more innocent British people have died in Britain from heart attacks brought about by the excitement of riding a motobike for the first time in their life, than from terrorism. The fatality counts being zero and one repsectively.
For the USA? Let's take the last decade:
~170,000 homicides (not counting terrorism)
~300,000 suicides
~300,000 road traffic fatalities
~3000 killed by terrorism
What I'm really interested in, is how many Americans are killed each year by their own Police force?
(P.S., if anyone is interested, can we please try to fire the head of the UK Association of Chief Police Officers? He's been asking for the power of unlimited duration detention without even filing charges.)
These things may be hard to design the first time, but I bet they'd be a doddle to reverse-engineer. Do you really want someone to be able to stop the police car trailing them by shinging a torch backwards? At least with a laser-pointer it's hard to keep the aim!
Where are the aliens? Wales. It's the perfect answer to every question.
They're not loosing, they're just whining loudly. At least in the case of the RIAA, as music sales are going up.
Also very cheap. And as (external) bandwidth costs money, they may think it's good to make the bandwidth suck.
I wonder how accurate their identification process is... we all know how easy it is to spoof your MAC address, after all. Also, for some twisted reason, I'm wondering how many banned students would need to make continuous WiFi requests for an effective internal DDOS.
There is a saying; put a frog into a pot of boiling water, and it jumps out. Put it in a pot of cool water, then slowly raise the temperature, and it will stay in the pot until it dies.
The British police are also asking for the power to hold suspects "for as long as it takes" to get the evidence needed to formally charge them. I will have none of it; here is a petition calling for the removal of the head of the UK Association of Chief Police Officers.