A big thanks to
All the parents out there who have bought their under 10 a mobile phone for making my life a little bit harder.
down vote away!
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I not sure the government or industry cares what the customers think. It's being rolled out for their benefit, not ours, and they damn well know.
The rest is just marketing spin to make you think you want it. This prevents the uproar that would otherwise be created by the fact that we've got to pay for something the majority of us really don't need.
“The genius of our system is global interoperability,” said David Masters, MasterCard's Vice President of Strategy and Corporate Affairs, who points out that merchants in developing nations may lack reliable access – or sometimes any access - to online transaction processing facilities.
not one of you, not even Dr Mouse, have taken issue with the amount of damage caused to DRIVERS
"Last month, Confused.com said that satnavs had caused more than £203m worth of damage to drivers"
Is it possible to put a monetary value on damage to something that was clearly faulty anyway?
And Nike will still expect you to pay £100 a pair despite having reduced the labour, material, distribution and retailer costs to 0 (ok the distribution costs won't be quite 0 but damn close).
A new ass. of America will be born,(Trainer Wholesalers Against Theft ) lobbying against the piracy of shoes.
from here
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/07/20/mp_booze_science_probe/
The Sheffield study admitted that "four out of five cohort studies showed statistically significant reduction of all causes of mortality between 15 per cent and 25 per cent for moderate drinking". And "moderate" was around three pints of beer a day for men, or two glasses of wine for women, per day.
A CD has already lost information from what was originally played because of sampling and quantization levels but if you take that as the starting point
FLAC will compress the data on that CD to a smaller size in such a way that the original 0's and 1's contained on that cd are reproduced exactly. You can repeat the decode, re-encode cycle a thousand times and still end up with exactly what you started with. A lossy format like mp3 tries to decide what data is irrelevant in the original and throws it away. It does a reasonably good job of this and what you get when you decode will sound to your ears the same as the original(well that's the intent). If you looked at the 1's and 0's after decoding, you will see differences, even at higher bit rates. If you put an mp3 through a thousand decode/recode cycles you might not even be able to recognise what is left.
To sum up, lossless formats are exactly what they say, without loss! there is no removal of information what so ever.
Even assuming that people actually learnt something in the weekend course you propose, all you do is raise the bar slightly. This may stop some random passer by from using your network to find out what time the next bus is but it won't stop anyone with truly nefarious intentions and now , in their eyes, its the governments fault they've been hacked because they did everything they'd been told in class.
I'm not saying that education isn't a good thing, it clearly is. You're not going to teach people, who don't want to learn, all about internet security in a weekend though.
Further to this, sooner or later, the majority of people will secure there network anyway either because they've been hacked or they know somebody who has.
It'll make bugger all difference though. Everyone has locks on their doors these days but people still get burgled.
As for your anti virus suggestion, do you work for McAfee ?
Anyone want to bet that option 3 is the outcome of this?
For those who haven't read it , it's the one that says "lets get rid of this edited register that's not worth very much and start selling the full one again."
So help to keep our data private and actually respond to the consultation!
I don't really object to these They are quite likely less lethal than bullets. the problem is they won't be used as an alternative to bullets. Just like normal tasers, they'll be used instead of physical restraint. I assure you they are not less lethal than a pair of handcuffs