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Wiki so probably 70% true. Ididn't know the first bit about computer misuse act. British law In British Law, any modification of data stored on a computer so that unauthorised access is gained to software packages, games, movies, and music would be a criminal offence under §3 Computer Misuse Act 1990. So, if a read-only music CD is placed in a PC drive and the contents loaded into the computer's memory for playing, any application that allows the music to be copied and stored on the machine or an MP3 player would commit the offence in theory but, so far, there have been no prosecutions on this set of facts. More generally, §16 and 20 Copyright, Designs & Patents Act 1988 (as amended by the Copyright, however this does grant the right to create backup copies of software, so that the original can be kept safe from damage, technically meaning companies must provide either additional discs or the means to overcome any copy protection. and Trade Marks (Offences and Enforcement) Act 2002) cover copyrighted materials, and people who distribute and download copyrighted recordings without permission are liable to face civil actions for damages and penalties (the largest to date is £6,500, or $12,120.55). As in the United States, the enforcement agencies were able to identify the IP addresses and the ISPs were obliged to disclose the name and address of the owner of each such internet account but legislation was passed recently so that it isn't compulsory to hand over the information.[citation needed] A 2006 survey carried out for the National Consumer Council indicated that over half of British adults infringe copyright law by copying and ripping music CDs, with 59% stating a belief that copying for personal use is legal.[39] However, ripping music from CDs to another format, such as MP3, is currently illegal. In 2006 The Institute for Public Policy Research called for a "public right to copy".[40] In January 2008 the government proposed changes to copyright law that would legalise copying for personal use.[41] [edit] Criminal offences For the most part, the criminal law is only used for commercial copyright infringement with one exception[citation needed], and an offence is committed when knowing or reasonably suspecting that the files are illegal copies[citation needed], and without the permission of the copyright owner, a person: makes unauthorised copies e.g. burning music files or films on to CD-Rs or DVD-Rs; distributes, sells or hires out unauthorised copies of CDs, VCDs and DVDs; on a larger scale, distributes unauthorised copies as a commercial enterprise on the internet; possesses unauthorised copies with a view to distributing, selling or hiring these to other people; while not dealing commercially, distributes unauthorised copies of software packages, books, music, games, and films on such a scale as to have a measurable impact on the copyright owner's business; publishing someone else's original copy work and claiming you have made it. (This is known as plagiarism and is completely different from copyright infringement, but laws concerning it come under the section of copyright law in some countries); certain copyrights allow Archival copies of software to be made however these are not to be distributed. The penalties for these "copyright infringement" offences depend on the seriousness of the offences: before a magistrates' Court, the penalties for distributing unauthorised files are a maximum fine of £5,000 and/or six months imprisonment; in the Crown Court, the penalties for distributing unauthorised files are an unlimited fine and/or up to 10 years imprisonment. Also note §24 Copyright and Related Rights Regulations 2003 which creates a range of offences relating to the distribution of any device, product or component which is primarily designed, produced, or adapted for the purpose of enabling or facilitating the circumvention of effective technological measures. When this is for non-commercial purposes, it requires there to be a measurable effect on the rights holder's business.

Funny enough they dont like it when you point out that piracy is not theft, its copyright infringement a civil offence not a criminal one.

1.It was a long time ago, it has not aged well then.

Tickets Please. Three ICT Guys from the IT department and three managers from management are traveling by train to a conference. At the station, the three managers each buy tickets and watch as the three ICT Guys only buy a single ticket. "How are three people going to travel on only one ticket?" asks a manager. "Watch and you'll see," answers an engineer. They all board the train. The managers take their respective seats but all three ICT Guys cram into a restroom and close the door behind them. Shortly after the train has departed, the conductor comes around collecting tickets. He knocks on the restroom door and says, "Ticket, please." The door opens just a crack and a single arm emerges with a ticket in hand. The conductor takes it and moves on. The managers saw this and agreed it was quite a clever idea. So after the conference, the managers decide to copy the engineers on the return trip and save some money (being clever with money, and all that). When they get to the station, they buy a single ticket for the return trip. To their astonishment, the ICT Guys don't buy a ticket at all. "How are you going to travel without a ticket?" says one perplexed manager. "Watch and you'll see," answers an ICT Guy. When they board the train the three managers cram into a restroom and the three ICT Guys cram into another one nearby. The train departs. Shortly afterward, one of the ICT Guys leaves the restroom and walks over to the restroom where the managers are hiding. He knocks on the door and says, "Ticket, please."

I wrote this years ago and found it on the web archive, dated but funny still, I hope. Every time Neo downloaded an upgrade to his brain he would find that he would become sluggish and unresponsive. If he asked Morpheous for an explanation he would be told that his hardware (Brain) was obsolete and no longer supported. Every time Neo had a fight with Agent Smith it would be even more flashy than the last one they had. Yet it would still leave them with the feeling that nothing else had changed except that it was now harder to pull off those amazing moves that were so simple last time they met. Every time Neo was caught in a fight Clipit (the office assistant) would appear to ask "It appears that you are in a fight would you like me to help?". This would distract Neo just enough so that he would be creamed by the attacking agent. There would be embarrassing scenes where Neo, Morpheous, Trinity and the agents would all be fighting but fail to connect any blows. This would continue until someone realized they were using incompatible versions of direct fight. There would then be an embarrassing lull while the offending party downloaded the correct update. Fight scenes would be interrupted by pop up adverts for Viagra. Also every bill board would show adds for hard core teen sex. Agents would simply stop functioning for no apparent reason at the most dramatic point in any scene. In doing so they would spoil completely any suspense generated by the plot. The hardware requirements to connect to the Matrix would be such that the Osiris far from being the small, manoeuvrable craft of the contemporary film would in fact be the size of an aircraft carrier and require a nuclear fusion reactor to power it. Neo, Morepheous, Trinity and the rest of the crew would also be deaf and possibly completely insane due to the constant whine of cooling fans trying to dissipate several gigawatts of heat generated by running the office assistant. * * The processor overhead of running clipit has been noted by all male members of the crew, and it has in fact been pointed out to Trinity that by disabling it their systems would become more stable, responsive and most importantly less annoying. Unfortunately Trinity for no logical reason refuses to let them turn it off. If questioned her only response is that she finds it amusing. The team would find themselves dumped out of the Matrix back to the Osaris at random times for no reason. They would accept this as normal without question. When trying to reconnect they would get busy or engaged tones. It ought to be noted that even though they have a "always on flat rate connection" if they stayed in the matrix for more than two hours they would be automatically disconected. IF Morpheous analysed agent smiths code he would be able to trace the program all the way back to Microsoft Messenger. This explains why he so hard to get rid of. Agent Smith would harp on about Security being the single most important aspect of the Matrix. Unfortunately some eight year old hacker would always crack any new security protocols easily within minutes. Invariably they would proceed to change Smith out of his smart black and white attire and into a gorilla suite. Although you might think the agents would find this embarrassing they would just pretend it never happened and say it couldn't happen again. Of course it would happen every week but that would change nothing. When neo sees the Matrix for what it really is, it would not appear as green letters scrolling down in a modernisctic representation of reality. far from it, it would in fact appear looking like the 3D maze screen saver from windows 3.1. This would be even though the matrix was running on Nvidia Geforce 900000 pro turbo titanium version 7 with a billion giga quads of ram. It would also for no apparent reason be locked a 640 x 480 at 60Hz and give Neo severe migraines after just 30 minutes inside. It would of course blue screen at regular intervals and have server graphical glitches. The Architect would be exactly the same except that he would have an AOL logo on his white suit. Evil, calculating bastard that he is. There would be small, light, very powerful weapons with very high rates of fire. They would never fail to work, never run out of ammo and cost very little in terms of hardware or money. The Agents would never be able circumvent the security protocols and develop counter measures. Yet these weapons would be overlooked by the team because the trigger was in a different place. At the climax as the machines are closing in there would be a big meeting in Zion about how to shut down the Matrix. There would be Neo, Morepheous and Trinity pleading for calm as all seemed to be lost. The machines would finally brake through and start to disassemble the underground city. Just as the final battle was comming to an end and it looked like humanity would be enslaved forever, everything would suddenly grind to a halt. The Matrix would fail, the machines would fall over, agent smith would go supercritical in a pyrotechnic display to rival the end of the universe and everyone would be finally free of the tyranny of the artificial intelligence. The day in fact would be saved. When the dust had settled, hugs and kisses dished out ect ect, they would discover that it had all be down to a middle aged man simply opening an email attachment sent to him by someone he didn't know called BrittanySpearsNaked.exe . And finally if Microsoft built the Matrix.. Neo, for no apparent reason, would be a small black and white penguin.

If you have never flown before then you need to get a simulator. Stick with it, then get some sort of electric trainer. That thing is a missile, and quite hard to control. Or rather if you make one mistake its all over.

£70 for the plane. plus 3 servos @£15 Plus receiver and batteries at £75 Plus engine @ £80+ So roughly £300 wizzing around with the life expectancy of a pogo stick tester in a mine field. Its not a sport for the faint of heart. Any crash at 100mph+ is going to leave nothing but a large hole and some matchwood and a very very unhappy IT support tech (it would be a bad week too forget your password).

Tigershark from Weston UK ARTF Sport Wing span 940mm - Length 840mm - Weight 1.75kg - Engine required 40-50 size - Radio required 4 channel Tigershark delta in ARTFformat. Capable of speeds in excess of 150mph, this amazing delta’s low speed handling characteristics are unsurpassed. All that is required is to simply attach the fin and the landing skid and the airframe is ready for motor and radio. Wing span 940mm - Length 840mm - Weight 1.75kg - Engine required 40-50 size - Radio required 4 channel Available as kit only or with West Eurotech 50 V1 engine and pipe I have a .53 engine which is good for a shade under 2hp. I will be getting a tuned pipe which will give a little more rpm and even more speed. That's 2 hp in something that weighs in at less than a laptop, with no drag and the aerodynamics of a dart. When you come away from flying it your face hurts, from grinning so hard. Oh and its also a little bit loud. This is not me, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_gbB8kgHCw&feature=related flys the same though.

ha! Ha!

Nearly hit a bird, a little one. I was at full speed and it ducked out the way with less than 1/8 second to spare. Thought process for the bird must have been.. food food sex food WTF s**t Bug**r F**k B*****D!

Graphics card does not support? Remember display properties will only show the resolutions the currently connected plug and pray monitor can display. This is not the list of the resolutions the graphics card is cabable of. http://img2.freeimagehosting.net/uploads/9f6b68e111.jpg

Flying. I have a new pocket rocket. Its been compared to a flying tea tray, a tea tray that goes 120mph+ http://img2.freeimagehosting.net/uploads/7241ff5263.jpg It was teh fun.

Watch the vid. 12 oclock flasher = someone who has every appliance in his / her house flashing 120clock.

Reinstall windows, in the top ten ways to break the will of the people you are there to help. reminds me of the Three dead trolls skitt, welcome to the internet helpdesk. Troll XP I know a lot of 12 o'clock flashers.

Try LanShutdown from lantricks, saves a lot of hassle.

Is Cash Generators? Payday Loan?

Cheap as chips way (I use this in my shed to cool it down on summers evenings.) Buy a very cheap 12V power supply, the kind you get from wilkos for £3. Make up a connector or alternatively just solder and heat shrink sleeve it directly to the transformer lead, job done.

I have a central folder called digi pics, which is organised into year groups / classes. Pics are loaded onto the system by me. I regularly to a jpeg search and use the ms picture resizer to resize all pics to a max of 1200 x 1024. This cuts them down to less than 100kb each. And I feel your pain, my server is down to the last 5 gigs of spare space.

Stray not from the path of the geek yound Dos_box.

Change the key to local machine and set it to run on start up.

That's the way I have always done my slipstreaming (from 2000 onwards). I have not tried the cd I made earlier, I will give it a try later.

vbs script? VBScript for Windows 2003 - Change registry settings Below is the script he uses which can be adapted. ' The script writes to the registry value: Empty Temporary Internet Files ' The key Method is RegWrite. RegLocate is the name of the variable ' Note: REG_DWORD (not REG_SZ) ' Note: Logic of 0 (zero = off) means persistent ON - strange but true! Dim objShell, RegLocate, RegLocate1 Set objShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell") On Error Resume Next RegLocate = "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\Cache\Persistent" ' Take great care with the line above ' Note the space between \Internet and Settings\ objShell.RegWrite RegLocate,"0","REG_DWORD" WScript.Quit ' Tells the script to stop and exit.

Will post pic of happy geek soon.

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Wow, thank you! w00t!