Posts by The Original Ash 617 publicly visible posts • joined 11 Jun 2009
They arrest you prior to forming a case, to collect evidence, and to test the substance to make sure it's not controlled. Kind of like saying "No officer, this is some self-raising flour for my mum to make a sponge." and them arresting you *on suspicion* of possession of a controlled substance.
It's a common misconception that having a criminal record / soft information on a CRB check will stop you getting a job which requires you to have one. It's down to the employer.
"Combined with a form of fusion, they'd found all the power they'd need."
With 80 mile range on the batteries, and 420 on the turbine, what's the point of the battery? Remove batteries, improve efficiency of the system to compensate for reduced weight, and bring to market. If electric motors are more economical than the regular combustion engine and mechanical transmission of energy, then this is a winner.
The batteries are probably only there so they can hop on the green bandwagon; Good for publicity, but ultimately pointless.
Either way, a turbine powered car would be awesome.
You'll regret those words when they disconnect your service because:
- You're behind on payments on your credit card (online banking)
- You're looking up information on cancer medication, using your name to sign up (risk of bad debt)
- You have a bad customer experience with their Tech Support department, post about it on a forum, and have your service terminated with a demand for the full amount, or a court summons for libel.
- Your daughter received a phone call from an employee as they saw her picture on Facebook after monitoring your bitstream for the credentials.
Not saying these happen, or will happen, just hypothetical situations.
"Nothing to hide" is a fallacy. Nothing *illegal* to hide is more accurate, but everyone has secrets and personal information you don't want looked at.
The Pirate Bay has switched to Distributed Hash Tables for its trackers, BitTorrent clients are beginning to enable encrypted streams by default, and more people are learning about darknets / Tor.
You're squeezing a water balloon, Mandelson; The only thing keeping everyone in one place is convenience. Squeeze too hard and the balloon will burst. File sharers will obscure and secure, and you'll be left holding the flaccid remnants and a giant clean-up bill.
Give up. Tell the music industry to adapt its business model, or fail. They are relics of a time of scarcity and limited resources. Distribution is no longer in their control, and shouldn't be their business.
I don't download unlicensed music, as I already own all of the music I like. That is the worst place for you to be, in my opinion. Improve your products so I *want* to pirate your music, and make it easy for me to buy it so I'll do that instead. Or...
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Nope, all they have to prove is there is the possibility of something being hidden from them. It's possible that you have a hidden volume hiding the kiddy / bomb files, therefore you'd best show them that they're not there. By having a hidden volume with... More of your g/f in it!
Only way to be sure.
Truecrypt provides no way to prove there *isn't* a hidden volume. Conversation goes thusly:
PC Plod: "Give us the key."
Perp: "Here you go."
PC Plod: "Ok, thanks. Nice girlfriend you have. Now, the key for the hidden volume."
Perp: "There isn't one."
PC Plod: "Key for the hidden volume or RIPA S.3 violation."
Perp: "There isn't one!"
PC Plod: "Move directly to jail."
The trouble, Tony, is that Apple have *only* quality going for them. Microsoft has marketshare, Linux has servers and nerds who like to tinker, and Apple has remarkable build quality, aesthetics and stability out of the box. When those things are not delivered, it's a *huge* blow to the Apple customer, just like if Microsoft said "We're making our own internet, IE won't work with regular web anymore" and if the Linux community said "We're taking away conf files in favour of a Windows Registry-style central settings repository."
It's akin to Rolls Royce shipping Phantom Drophead's with a tear in the roof lining. You bet they'll lose customers.
IT'S NOT REAL. IT'S FAKE.
FANTASY.
A STORY.
FICTION.
FALSE.
ARTIFICIAL.
If these games were at all meant to imitate reality to any reasonable standard, there would be only one play-through, and if you died the game would delete itself and prevent re-installation, to accurately represent real life death in that situation.
XBox Live ToS regarding modded consoles are there because console modding allows cheating on XBox Live. Those with modded consoles are able to cheat.
You should put in the article that xBox consoles continue to work without the XBox Live service, as do all XBox services which don't require XBox live.
There are plenty of enhancements over at XDA-Developers, my personal favourite being a 4x4 icon grid below the clock, and one to disable that truly irritating 1 hour 2 minute clock flip whenever you shift back to the home tab.
MoDaCo NoData will let you (selectively) disable data connections, so no roaming charges / unwanted data connections.
I don't read up much on the Leo forums (Codename for the HD2) but do check them out; Knowledgeable bunch!
Still like my Diamond 2, though :D
My g/f works in student finance for a top Uni, and she's had "emergency requests" from students who needed:
- Gym membership
- A new coat (designer label, of course)
- Salon treatment (facial, nails etc)
- Drinking
They have such warped ideas of "essential" it's untrue.
Facebook owners and employees are terrorists and want to blow up planes. Oh, wait, wrong straw man?
Drop CEOP, pay Social Workers what they deserve for an incredibly dangerous and thankless job, and go after creators and distributors of indecent images of children, instead of creating rubbish laws which makes seeing images which you find extremely objectionable (even by accident, or malicious intent of another) a crime which gets you on the sex offenders register, which you are unable to report for exactly that reason.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troy_Hurtubise#Firepaste
http://www.baytoday.ca/content/news/details.asp?c=63
I can't find the video, but this guy made a 15mm plate out of his paste, puts it to his face, and holds a blowtorch against it for over 10 minutes. No appreciable temperature change behind the mask, material still strong.
This guy has been made bankrupt many times, yet his ideas and inventions are staggering. Give the guy some R&D money. Hell, send him to the Skunk Works. His wacky ideas will do your ailing boffins a world of good.
Oops! He's Canadian. Sucks to be you, I guess :D
Sending and receiving SMS messages costs the network absolutely nothing; It's built into Signalling System 7, and is part of the signal responsible for initiating and clearing voice connections.
The network infrastructure would be no less congested without SMS, and being able to charge for them is 100% profit.
"I wonder how many of the accepted "elite" are also members of mensa?"
There's a lady who features in adult films who has a doctorate in Psychiatry. She chose to move into adult movies, though, as the pay was significantly better.
Pretty people can be smart too. (For a given value of pretty).
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