Years?
"Just 'cos you may have been full of ideals when you first started in a role, doesn't mean you still will be after many years."
So change jobs! Anyway, in this case, he's 25 years old, only started there in 2007 and got caught in 2009.
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The cop was following department for Transport guidance for "self balancing scooters":
http://www.dft.gov.uk/pgr/roads/vehicles/vssafety/factsheetselfbalancing.pdf
Segways are not invalid carriages and therefore, cannot legally use the pavement.
Segways would be classified as powered vehicles, requiring registration plates, road fund license and insurance BUT because Segways have not acquired European Community Whole Vehicle Type Approval, they cannot be registered.
Bottom line: Segways can only be used on private land in the UK.
"What is a **** is that all the contracts still seem to include the money to pay back a subsidy, even though I didn't get one."
Here in Germany, you can be paid to take a "SIM only" contract. I tool out a 24 month contract and was paid the equivalent of 20 months of the minimum monthly charge.
When it came to renewal, the network operator was less generous, paying me 100 Euros, instead of a phone upgrade.
The other benefit of buying your own handset is that you get the original software and not some constrained and cut down version from the network operator.
"Typical NIMBY sillyness"
The sillyness was someone suggesting that anything is justified if done for the common good.
The NIMBY jibe suggests that I would be happy if the problem is dumped on someone else: that is not the case - I don't mind having such things in my street but would prefer them to be installed with some attempt to be less intrusive and not to take half of the available pavement. I fail to understand the ranting of some that BT should be able to install what they like, as if Internet access speed is the only thing that matters in life.
"Will *you* pay the extra it costs for me to get a serviceable broadband service, because you want your street to look like something from Poundbury? Didn't think so"
Well, you thought wrong. I wouldn't mind paying extra to avoid the the road looking like an industrial estate if I felt I needed the speed. As it happens, I value my home environment more than the speed of my Internet connection. Each to their own.
"The street no more doesn't 'belongs' to the residents either."
True but residents can't build in the street despite the fact that residents pay for the council to maintain it. Other utilities have to acquire their own land to site (and disguise) their equipment - why should BT be any different?
"An aside; if you have to 'jump through hoops' to get planning you are doing it wrong, employ an architect or an engineer to do it for you."
Regardless of which people you employ, planning consent is difficult to obtain in many parts of the country unless you are well connected. It depends where you live.
I'm sure BT's planners have sleepless nights worrying about the visual impact of their installations and of the disruption caused to everyone during works.
So, if your local council decided to allow some company to install huge advertising hoardings on the pavement outside your house because the revenue would benefit the wider community, you would have no problem with this? It is not as if looking at the back of an advertising hoarding would be physically harmful to you, it it?
The street does not belong to BT so why should they be able to dump their stuff there with minimal constraints when everyone else has to jump through hoops to get planning permission to build anything on their own properties?
If this is correct, then Estonia shouldn't be a net recipient of EU funds and should be paying back some of the money they have already had. Maybe the UK could have some to improve some of the dire schools from which parents are desperate for their children to avoid.
The problems start when people are hired to be champions of a particular theory, viewpoint or policy. If people are hired with the express purpose of proving or justifying a particular policy, you are hardly likely to end up with unbiased research.
Given that policies to prevent or slow climate change are likely to have a substantial impact on everyone, there is a need to have genuine unbiased research as justification for the pain that will follow. Instead it has been turned into a religion of believers and non-believers, with many prepared to bend or suppress the truth to suit their own beliefs.
From a speech given on 26 June 2009 by David Cameron, outlining the intentions of the next Conservative government:
"We will review the use of the Terrorism Act's Section 44, and the stop and search powers contained within it."
There was also good stuff about RIPA, the US/UK extradition treaty and the ID card scheme.
Those of a suspicious nature might wonder why this legislation was pushed through without time for debate, just before the General Election by members of a government expecting to lose their jobs. It might be interesting to speculate which individuals or organisations might benefit from such legislation and what they might be prepared to offer in return.
This legislation should certainly be on the coalition's list of laws to be repealed.
She got caught twice - and got off lightly both times ....but with conditions. She has chosen to break those conditions and has found out that being pretty, rich and famous is not always enough to get away with continually taking the piss out of the authorities. A short stay in the big house seems just the right thing to make clear that the law also applies to her.
She did not have to wear that booze anklet - she could have just gone straight to jail - she had that choice.
About professional help: maybe that's why the court wanted her to attend alcohol education classes. Now the court are really helping her because she will be attending those classes in jail, without the distractions of well paid work, film festivals and the like.
I have lived in Germany for about 10 years now and still find the differences in transport strange.
The equivalent of VED is about the same here in Germany (about 100 euros per annum for my car). The petrol is now about the same price (the exchange rate made it cheaper in the UK for a while). Insurance is about 400 Euros a year and is probably a bit cheaper than I would pay in the UK.
I drive to work - it takes about 10 minutes as there is not much congestion. I park for free in the company car park. I could take the tram - it stops 400m from my house and little bit further away from my work.
Public transport is far more frequent than in the UK and my impression is that it is generally cheaper.
Given the tax burden in the UK and Germany is about the same, why the hell is the public transport in the UK so poor? All the UK governments and local authorities ever do is increase taxes but never deliver a viable public transport system or even adequate parking. Where does all the money go in the UK? Germany has a welfare state, schools, etc. but still manages to build and maintain viable public transport without the need to continually extort more money from motorists. WTF is going on in the UK?
Why not simply display MOT and insurance discs instead of a tax disc?
In some countries, insurers are obliged to tell the authorities when you cancel your vehicle policy, thereby triggering a check that the vehicle has been insured elsewhere or is off the road.
The current UK system has not prevented large numbers of untaxed, untested and uninsured vehicles from being driven around so I am all for the migration of the DVLA to something cheaper.
"Since it's clear that these people have been "known" for sometime you have to wonder why bust them now?"
The complaint filing more or less indicates what happened: An undercover FBI agent managed to convince Anna Chapman that he was sent to help her and she gave him her laptop to be fixed. He later gave her a fake passport to give to someone else. After this, she must have realised something was wrong, bought a PAYG mobile phone and an international calling card (presumably to contact her bosses in Moscow) and she did not attend another prearranged meeting. The FBI must then have realised they had been rumbled and decided to arrest everyone before they escaped.
The arrest of a drunk driver in the company of an unidentified blonde back in 1971 hastened Oleg Lyalin's defection:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/witness/september/30/newsid_2523000/2523457.stm
I liked the bit "You cannot talk to me, you cannot beat me, I am a KGB officer." Classic.
Not quite as good as the Profumo affair but more entertaining than leaving notebooks in wine bars or that WLAN rock.
None of them have been charged with espionage. The related charge is that of "acting as agent of a foreign power (without registering)" with a maximum sentence of 5 years. If they had registered as agents of the Russian government, they could have lobbied and researched legally and in the open.
The most serious charges any of them face are those of money laundering - i.e. bringing in bundles of cash and not declaring it or paying tax on it - maximum sentence of 20 years.
Russian girls often use Henna as hair colouring - hence the popularity of that red colour. You may also have noticed that Anna Chapman was also blond in one of the popular photos from her Facebook pages.
BTW A few people seem confused about her surname. The big surprise is that she changed her name when she got married (apparently to an English guy) - her maiden name was Kuschenko. As for the first name, the transliteration of Russian into English or other non-Cyrillic languages tends to leave some flexibility about the exact spelling - hence Anna, Anja, Anya, etc.
Maybe the Americans asked friendly nations to detain him on the basis that he is wanted in the USA. Cyprus would probably expect similar cooperation in the event that they wished to catch someone who had broken their laws and then left the island. Ronnie Biggs went to Brazil precisely because they had no extradition agreement with the UK.
Where does the that pays for the public sector come from? Taxes. It stands to reason that the more public sector jobs you create, the more taxes are needed to fund them. If the public sector is not to act like a huge fucking parasite, the private sector needs to grow to a point where the public sector can be paid without bleeding the private sector to death. If like the last government, you address unemployment by creating public sector jobs, then you end up with ridiculous levels of public spending which has to be dealt with while the interest rates are still low if the country isn't going to be bled dry simply by the interest payments on former spending.
Really? You don't say.
Let me explain: If you take the price charged by Cisco in the USA for some standard product and compare it with price charged for the same product in the UK, you will find that the UK price is substantially higher, even when you take duty, shipping and unfavourable exchange rates into account.
Presumably, the veracity of the grandson's statement concerning his call to 911 can be verified by retrieving the recording. If policemen were sent instead of paramedics or if the recording has gone missing, then the the city will have to explain why.
Regardless, I think they will difficulty explaining why they felt it necessary to enter an old woman's home and assault them because the she refused to take some medicine. IANAL but I would have thought that any adult (not already the subject of some court order concerning their mental state) has every right to refuse medication.
Whilst http and its use on the Internet may be important, it is not the only application to use TCP. In corporate environments, http is likely to behind file serving and databases, in terms of TCP traffic volumes. When tinkering with TCP parameters/algorithms, it is important to consider the function and performance of all applications in use.
The snag with the idea of using multiple TCP connections (like common P2P apps) is that this subverts the typical "per connection" sharing of bandwidth and is likely to be countered by traffic shaping measures. Given that some P2P apps masquerade as http traffic to get around firewall restrictions, it is reasonable to assume that TCP connections on http or https ports will already be considered for such constraints (Google Maps sometimes falls foul of such measures).
The difficulty for Google is that they did not bother to store encrypted payload data, only the unencrypted payload data. This indicates that a decision not to store the encrypted payload data was based on the knowledge that no useful information could be gleaned from it - but that the unencrypted data might be rather more useful.
Possible benefit to Google is not relevant in determining the legality of their actions in this case. i might intercept someone's emails out of idle curiosity but that would not a viable defence against conviction.
Purely in the interests of journalistic research, some Google searches suggest that there are several "Naked Cowgirls" in NY and elsewhere. However, none of them are actually naked until you get to continental Europe. Not far from where I live, this young lady will apparently strut her stuff starting off in a cowgirl costume but ending in her birthday suit: (NSFW)
http://www.strip-jasmin.de/
I still have a ZX81 boxed up somewhere - and it still worked the last time I powered it up.
My computing started on an IBM system using an early version of Fortran via Hollerith cards. The system also had BASIC which could be used interactively via teletypes - I remember playing Lunar Lander and Star Trek using a teletype :-)
I also used the Commodore PET and the Apple II - both excellent machines of their time.
,,,it only involves reading a few books and a couple of essays to get through each year of the course. When I was at university, it was the subject of choice for girls who had came to university to find a husband and did not want a heavy workload but wanted to feel superior to those taking Sociology. Media Studies is another possibility - get a degree for watching TV and reading a few newspapers then writing about it.
"Google wasn't trying to steal data they were just using AP names to create non-GPS maps."
No, that's not right - Google were capturing and storing payload data in addition to the SSIDs. That's what the fuss is about, not the geolocation of SSIDs. The particular difficulty for Google is that they didn't bother to store encrypted payload data, only the unencrypted data, which implies some intention to use the contents of the payload data.
"Would you leave your door open then cry when you got burgled ?"
No, I would just laugh it off, happy in the knowledge that some junkie can get a few quid towards his next fix for the sale of my family heirlooms.
Are you implying that failure to secure property justifies it's theft? If you drop your credit card in the street, would you be happy for the finder to use your card and not expect them to be prosecuted if caught?
Also, if the Google Street View operators were not certified security professionals (e.g. CISSP), then they were in breach of criminal law when they drove around Germany - for the possession of the software in question. This is a big corporation - they have enough lawyers - they should have known what they were doing was illegal.
True but that doesn't mean Google or others cannot determine your router's MAC address (e.g. http://test-geolocation.appspot.com/), The point is that the router MAC address acts like a cookie you cannot delete. Whilst the Internet facing IP address may change regularly and cookies may be deleted, the router's MAC address is likely to remain for at least a couple of years. It is the linkage of all the retrieved information that is significant. You may be blocking cookies and not allowing various active web content but if someone else using the same WLAN is less careful, then they will have leaked your location in addition to their own (because you will both be using the same Internet facing IP).
".... how much data did Google actually capture?"
I think they coughed to capturing about 600GB of data.
"True, they probably shouldn't have done it and they should just delete the data and be done with it. But come on, is this realy any different to overhearing a conversation on a train?"
Yes, it is different: Overhearing a conversation on a train is not illegal and needs no particular effort or special equipment. Intercepting someone else's communications is illegal in many countries. Additionally, the mere possession of the necessary software to capture traffic and to extract useful data (other than by a certified security professional) is illegal in several countries.
Are they going to insist on similar Specific Absorption Rate labelling for other devices, like microwave ovens? Unlike mobile phones, microwave ovens actually use a wavelength more suited to boiling your eyeballs and use substantially higher powers, so one would assume that these should be first on the list of stuff needing some seriously scary labelling.
Then there's Bluetooth headsets, microwave motion detectors in security systems,.....
"Well those price comparison sites are already earmarked for extinction and few will mourn their passing - they don't really add much value."
I disagree - I use price comparison sites to find the best prices for purchases like SD cards, memory or hard disks. They do what they say - compare prices. I do not want any added value, I just want to know who sells xyz item for the best price. If I want to know technical details of the products, I look elsewhere. The results of Google's shopping search are almost always dramatically more expensive and often, less relevant.
"Small business owners in the UK blame currency movements for threatening their ability to export goods - or at least to export goods profitably."
If they could not export goods profitably with the GBP at record lows over the last few years, then they are doomed, regardless of what/how they hedge.
The company that paid for the research is in the FX business and can apparently offer the sort of currency management services promoted^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hdiscussed in the article. There's a surprise :-)