Posts by Christoph 3323 publicly visible posts • joined 24 Dec 2007
Most of the pictures will never show up anywhere but on a screen. Very very few will ever get printed. So why bother with more megapixels than a screen will hold?
Keep the megapixels down and the pixel size up, and you get better pictures, less noise, and better low-light sensitivity.
The top-end cameras have ludicrous resolution unless you are printing in a glossy magazine.
Because if you are a shop owner and someone comes in whose face appears to match one on a list of "suspicious" individuals, you might keep an eye on them a bit more rather than adjusting the goods on the shelves.
So if your face happens to resemble a poor quality image of someone who one shop keeper was suspicious of, all the local shopkeepers are going to be treating you as suspicious and keeping an eye on you every time you go out shopping. Every shop you go into is gong to be making it clear they are watching you. Every time.
They spent most of the afternoon in the garden discussing the best way to "fix the social"
Yes, young people tend to be irresponsible. Hardly news. If you had been next to the house of someone very rich you could have heard the children and their friends discussing which restaurant they were next going to visit as members of the Bullingdon Club with the deliberate intention of getting stinking drunk and smashing the place up for 'a bit of fun' .
Now try considering the now vast numbers of people who are not trying to fiddle anything, they are trying to feed themselves and their children. But simply by being thrown out of work through no fault of their own they are somehow instantly transformed into useless workshy scroungers who can be kicked and sneered at without limit, and made to wade through ever increasing amounts of bureaucracy simply to feed their families.
Remember when huge numbers of MPs were found to be fiddling their expenses? When some very simply controls were put in place to reduce the fiddling they squealed like stuck pigs at this terrible imposition. And then went back and voted for more and more and more oppressive controls on benefits to reduce the fiddling. Which is now known to be far, far less prevalent than that expense fiddling was.
changing people's behaviour by ensuring there is always an incentive to be in work.
And exactly how will this change the behaviour of people who are desperately trying to find work when THERE AREN'T ANY JOBS.
It doesn't matter how much pressure you put on them, how much you fiddle the rules so you can cut their benefits to fund tax cuts for the rich, how much you make their life a living hell while sneering at them as 'scroungers'. The only way to get more people into jobs is to have more jobs available for them.
The only 'success' of such a scheme is that it has reduced the number of people out of work - by the number driven to suicide.
The future television will have myriad extra functions, and it looks like these will all end up under the control of the advertisers rather than the viewers. Those advertisers will be able to grab any information they like about what the viewer is doing.
At this point it isn't really just a television any more, so it ought to have a new name.
How about 'Telescreen'?
the number of companies that settle dubious claims because the cost of fighting them greatly outweighs any fee they might have to pay.
And that is called paying the Dane-geld;
But we've proved it again and again,
That if once you have paid him the Dane-geld
You never get rid of the Dane.
Or of course the reference to "lives at risk" and the extreme concern felt by the British (and US) governments regarding Snowden's revelations may not be related to the cable-tapping base at all, but to something else as yet undisclosed.
Or it could just be that they are lying in their teeth.
Europa is not particularly hospitable for people to live on. But there might just possibly be existing life there.
If there is such life it may be evolved from spores drifting from Earth. Or it may be an entirely separate evolution.
We have one single example of life. Everything on Earth evolved from the last universal ancestor.
Have you the slightest comprehension of the value to science of a second, independently arisen example of life, uncontaminated by whatever bugs can hitch a ride on spacecraft? We MUST NOT risk contaminating or destroying it.
I'm curious as to why vBulletin allows a user with to run "SELECT * FROM USERS;"
Depends how much effort you can put into security.
Yes it's much more secure to allow ONLY stored procedures, but that costs a lot in development time.
All security systems are compromises between security and usability.
However much they foam at the mouth, at present this is completely legal.
There is no current law against viewing hard-core Cameron.
Even stuff which most people would find revolting and disgusting - it's not even illegal to look at videos of people Murdoching!
Here's the form you'll have to fill in if you want to keep reading filthy porn sites such as Wikipedia:
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