Re: 450 nautical miles up
> They will do anything to avoid metric won't they.
In the US Navy?
You have no idea how superior nautical miles are to the French equivalent.
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> "Fixing long standing interoperability bugs with other modern browsers could actually break sites who have coded to the IE-specific behavior,"
"Fixing long standing international standards panellists a second time around could be difficult and will be expensive,"
There, fixed you advert for you Reg. Carrion.
Generally when people don't like a law it is because it is unjust. In the absence of an unjust law people tend to behave. If you give people a reason to agitate for change they will eventually gt what the mass demand becomes.
That is the nature of politics. A company that doesn't understand customer relations tends to go out of business long before any of that sort of thing happens. Less frequently, isolated incidents occur. Best not to upset too many people and let that happen. In most European countries and all but 2 North American ones, the justice system works fairly well.
When it doesn't, you just keep off their grass.
Loading a computer with the closed source crapware Windows included IS the business. They are unlikely to have been making dollars on the crap they foisted. It was more likely cents, maybe even fractions of cents.
And low as it is, Linux can't compete with that. But at least it lifts a lid few of us get to see under.
> The safest solution, albeit the more expensive solution, is to invest in a lock that requires a custom key that cannot be duplicated.
http://www.wmbfnews.com/story/22184016/key-to-danger-who-else-has-a-key-to-your-house
That was a US survey. British door locks are all made by one firm these days. Chubb, Union, Yale all in the same few factories.
Your best bet is to get two "Yale" locks and a five lever dead bolt on each door. Put the Yales within reach (top and middle, say) and the deadlock at the other extreme. Don't get caught in a fire though.
Nobody wants to know about politics in Britain. Yet if you watch or listen to the BBC, you would get the opinion that all the viewers are interested in is soap and politics. With some economics on the side. I am not saying we are unaware or antisocial. Just that like things in the US, nobody wants to vote for a politician.
People with functional brain cells stay in and watch the telly/go out for the evening when there is an election. But only because of passing interest/disinterest.
> Speculation that the Dutch manufacturer may be forced to recall chips, incurring huge costs, caused its share price to fall eight per cent in early trading before recovering a little to four per cent down on closing.
If someone invented a heavy vehicle (lets call it a tank because it will be big and hold a lot of heavy) and goes around banging into other people's vehicles on purpose, you can't blame the manufacturers of other people's vehicles. What the manufacturers of other people's vehicles need to do is take out the tank.
If you supply some "thing" designed for fair wear and tear and a madman completely out of control decides to rip it up and throw it in our face, all you can do is deal with the madman and go and get another "thing".
The market will open up to every other manufacturer of "things" . Some to sell to people who are afraid of psychos and some to people who expect to be treated the way that they treat others. You can't fuck with the golden rule. Not for long. You get heroes like Snowden coming along and pulling your trousers down.
Then, hopefully, someone with a lot of confidence will give you a fucking good spanking.
How thick a veneer do the people who work at secret HQs believe they have?
There are lots of survivalists in Utah and all of them subscribe to channels on video sites that do nothing but discuss bows, arrows, knives, guns and ammo. They can't all be working for the NSA can they?
I can't wait for the action to get started. I wonder if Mr Snowden confiscated their addresses. Could be funny.
> “Now it changes the incentive from creating flashy features that demo well but may not be all that useful, to trying to keep our existing subscribers happy,” he added. “We have an incentive to provide new features very quickly, to ship them as they are ready."
> Future users of Photoshop are likely to make increasing use of cloud technology, for example to enable processor-intensive operations even on low-spec mobile devices, and such things only make sense with subscriptions that pay for the ongoing usage costs. So, like it or not, subscription is here to stay.
Sounds like an advert for Gimp.
I am a bit thick when it comes to stuff like this. What is the meaning for settled law cases where people have been found guilty of piracy and they claimed innocence?
Will every case in (presumably) the western world have to go back to court or will everyone get a free pass/pardon/whatever?
(Just hoping that the people who claim they own all the music in the world will go broke paying back the damages they "claimed".)
It isn't even about big business.
It is about slowing down the speed of the internet so that the secret police can keep tabs on us without hiring even more third party goers.
What will happen is that more and more military personnel are going to be draughted to spy on the good guys. 5 years time the numbers of trained military men (who set out to become soldiers) co-opted into radioland will make news. In 10 years time it will be taken for granted.
Are you sure you meant to say this:
> The controversy has served to generate a debate about the economics of the PC manufacturing business, which suffers from notoriously low margins, among security experts.
AMTFTFY:
The controversy has served to generate a debate among security experts, about the economics of the PC manufacturing business -which suffers from notoriously low margins.
Or better still:
The PC manufacturing business suffers from notoriously low margins and the controversy served to generate debate among security experts.
I am pretty sure that the NSA would be broken to crawling pace if everyone downloaded a book at random and sent that with the various files that a secret police farce might be interested in.
Anyone who has any sense and wants to send terrorist information would be using book codes of a pretty nearly unbreakable source by now anyway. I mean how long does it take to write a couple of novels these days?
You could even have them badly translated into various languages to help clog the Satanic mills of Utah. The NSA will eventually cripple USA the way that the Afghanistan war crippled Russia if we all did that. They would have to make Verizon and Comcast a permanent crawl to keep up.
You can photocopy the Quran or Bible -or if you really want to go large any of the Indian religious mantras. Some of those Yogis are really off the wall. That would make life fun for GCHQueuers. Might even convert a few of them. Or worse :)
You are only saying that because the USA are all xenophobes when not killing home grown brown coloured people. Why do you suppose god hasn't let us off this one yet?
Once we have seen what the world's penultimate governments can't do, things will have to change. It won't be too late by then but it won't be easy, either:
http://biblehub.com/web/2_timothy/3.htm
> That being said, we are rather constructing mountains out of mole shit here.
Quite but:
> I hire a friend who is an author ,ex journalist, and Olympic class pedant to review
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I hire a friend who is an author, ex journalist and Olympic class pedant to review...
FTFBoY. (How much do you pay?)
> Does anyone here have any other examples of websites, that have also recently gone through a phase of pointless, badly thought out and unwanted rebranding, leading to frustrated, irritated and alienated long-term users?
The only one I know of inthe private sector is El Reg. I think the present schem,e is crap but it still works. That is more than I can say for government agencies in Britain and America such as the MetOffice and Smithsonian.
I tried to add that they crapped out at the Smithsonian in their advert on Wikipedia but my edit was scrapped with no explanation. Most of the data on these agencies has been javascripted at. If not downright Adobified. But the government one has always been a site that sends you round in ever decreasing circles, like a plot in a Victorian East European novel.
I had an idea about poor security but I didn't realise how bad it might be.
When I invent the time machine I will go forward in time to get a don't unplug without authorisation socket for the power lead then go back in time and take a whatever they will be using to operate Linux Bellsnwhistles OS on in that future with me. And get that patented in Texas.
> "It does not mean that there was any deliberate wrongdoing on the part of the security and intelligence agencies, which have always taken their obligation to protect legally privileged material extremely seriously," the government spokesman said.
They go after whoever, really seriously, in an area with ill defined, recently written laws that have yet to go through the courts -only of course, they can't.
??
Unlike the USA, Britain's legal system is moderated by the courts where arguments are given in exactitudes and examples are taken or made for future reference. But when the government finally took the last leaf out of Magna Carta Liberatum under a Tory led social government, our fates were sealed.
While it is still unlikely we can go to prison, or be held in secret or whatever they call it these days, for writing stuff like this, there is no right to be produced in an open court for anyone deemed a terrorist.
But no laws about who is a terrorist.
I don't know much about the US legal system but 65 years or so white people could be treated as black people for being social or expecting the protection of what they called the Fifth.
Have I got that right?
I mean did I state that correctly.
Cherry is the colour of demagnetise
In the morning when we rise
Glue is the cover of the sparkling sky
According to Newton
(Forget Einstein)
In the morning
In the morning when we rise
Flares are the feeling I've been solar pup
That it's time
That it's time
That it's time to try again.
Solar surface dynamics are driven by magnetic fields,
They are what?
At those temperatures?
At those temperatures?
Are they f++k!
> One may indeed be foolish if one wanders down a dark alley late at night but one still does not "deserve" to wake up in intensive care.
Isn't that better than the alternative?
And in all fairness is has to be admitted that it only happens occasionally. So, statistically, that's all right then.
> Personally, I wish this person's right to privacy was simply suspended.
What right to privacy?
Anyone can post photos of him and state where and when taken if taken in public.
It will be interesting to have a follow up in a few year's time of whatever happened to so and so. Perhaps we can look forward to more regular updates?
Anyone got a link?
I wonder if they would take on the voice qualities of the average human around here. Sitting in my front room with the doors and windows closed to keep out the cold winter air, I had to get up to check on the kind of creature that can be heard across the road through double glazing from inside a closed car, speaking on a phone.
(The driver didn't seem worried that the monkey could get out easily if he learns how the door handles work.)
> And an enemy of the US state, and they have made themselves an enemy
Anyone that notices that any government is acting illegally should speak out about it, you tosser. Or do you really think that brown nosing the US government will inspire them to treat you as a citizen?
And not shit on you.
I haven't used the site on Opera but it looks shit on Firefox. The idiosyncratic headlines are no match for hypertext muckup language.
Or maybe they are. Keep it simple, stupids!
BTW, I couldn't get the browser to download. I rather suspect it has about as much planning and good coding as Vivaldi.net.
So there you have it. We just wait for Hollywood to adopt it as one of their own and it will be found to be working after all.
And just in time for the hols.
And to save the world.
And to have a pretty astranautess on board (with large mammary glands too.)
I read to just before your post so I could be sure all the children had had their say and that we could get on with a discussion.
Pity you were so slow to catch on. Maybe next time eh?
Sooo
What is it about ramjets and paraffin that puts people off that sort of thing for re-entry vehicles?
I would have thought all the said fuel could be used up outbound and through docking/releasing cargo all the way maybe to re-entry then a switch over to said paraffin low cost cruising?
Since the company has an humiliatingly bad reputation, anyone doing business with it is a fool. However one has to accept that if there is no choice there are no choices.
But think of what else is involved.
Who would work for such a company and why?
Going along with the status quo just because there is no alternative, is never going to solve the problems. Is it?
OK thanks for the new info.
I do have a Windows partition on this laptop. I used it a couple of time to access the Smithsonian archives but once I had the list of eruptions I didn't need it. If I ever do need such a thing again I shall be sure to give up the Internet.
I should have known they would have come up with something as they had already resolved the lack of Optical Drive drives by 1998, IIRC.
Or was it 2001?
Sadly I shall never know.
> We encourage customers to keep their anti-virus software up to date, install all available Security Updates and enable the firewall on their computer.
Anyone using Windows and not having the option to use a Live CD or something sensible has to wait 90 days with a company dispensing this sort of advice. I am presuming the largest softwarez company in the world is still not into making antiviruses a part of the process.
Please excuse me if I am wrong.
Please execute somebody if I am right.
Nice advice about the firewall though.
Very good.
Edit...
Oh wait...
Isn't "not having the firewall switched on" the same thing as not needing one after you have used the internet for a moment?
It should be pretty nearly immune to everyone but the new user by then?
Find out how to get people to remember very long passwords
I should come up with a book of alphanumeric rhymes. OK, don't nobody* read this until after websites start demanding 4 line couplets for passwords.
I should be ready by then.
*Especially if you work for NSA or GCHQ and ...what's the other one called?
It doesn't necessarily follow that being broke means you can't get rich or have financial clout. A lot of people having died for non tax purposes have not enjoyed the paradox of being made rich on the process.
So too, being sucker punched by state run crooks doesn't make you a bad risk.
And even if you were there are plenty of perhaps fellow criminals that would let you take up their slack.
Whatever. Good luck to him and may he have an happy new year.