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They were all over the place before they bought the barcode system in. Entire books of blank temple recommends go missing more often than the church security department could cope with. Each temple has a list of blacklisted temple recommends that have recently been either been stolen or lost in their area on the front desk - the list is usually very long (10-20 A4 pages), and until the barcode system, those manning the front desk had to rely entirely upon the spirit to warn them when a blacklisted recommend was being shown, as checking the list each time was not feasible.

It's not illegal - the item is genuine, and belongs to the person who is selling it. I'm not sure if there is an awful lot the church can do to stop it, although if ebay are willing to work with the church on this problem then they would rely on people reporting the item. Ebay can't manually moderate the millions of items that get submitted every single day.

I don't know if it happens in Utah, as I've never lived there (or any US state so far for that matter), but I do know it happens here in the UK. I went inactive for a while because of it. It may or may not happen more densely in Utah, but it's far from the only place that suffers from such immature behaviour.

This post is going to sound quite ironic, seeing as I'm typing it on my iPhone. I don't really have an opinion on whether flash is bad enough to warrant that, but I think we both know where we'll end up disagreeing, as we've had similar discussions before. As someone who works in IT, and is also a computer enthusiast, I dislike the amount of control apple retain over their own devices. I'm used to the ability to manipulate computers for my own needs. I'm used to making my own decisions in areas that apple already does for you in their products. Apple on the other hand realised that the vast majority of problems with competing products were actually caused by user stupidity. So to solve this problem, they essentially hold the hand of their users, and slapping their wrist when something is attempted that apple don't like. You probably find spending an extra few hundred $$$ worth it as a time saver, by letting apple do a lot of the research and work for you. Thats fine if their assumptions about what the end user wants is accurate. For me, it isn't.

It'd be nice to have the choice.

I think that one might have been netnanny. You cannot properly secure a machine that someone has physical access to - the security rights (or lack thereof) they have on that computer are irrelevant. Unfortunately the same applies to filters that are installed on the computer the person you are trying to filter is using. The reason this is relevant is because pornography addicts are the kind of people that have a slight interest in bypassing filters. The information is out there, easily accessible, easy to follow, no expertise required.

Locally installed filters are fundamentally flawed anyway, whether that's PCs, tablets or the nintendo DS. In fact they often make it worse, because it gives the people around the person with the problem a false sense of security. It's like having an burglar alarm installed in your house, only for every company who makes burglar alarms to have the same shutdown password hardcoded into the alarms, and one that is public knowledge. If you are currently relying on a local filter like K9, or covenant eyes, or any of the popular solutions often mentioned here, well... don't. Use them if you wish, but don't rely on them. They are far easier to bypass than the companies would like their customers to think.

There was an office 97 if that helps

To be honest, it depends more on the hardware that the operating system is running on, and the environment of the room the machine is running in. If you have two identical HP Proliant servers running side by side, one with windows server 2008 R2 and one with the latest edition of Fedora, both of them configured correctly and in a reasonably cool room with minimal temperature fluctuations, I'd expect them to both run happily without any kind of human interference for several years. Because it was still running, it shows a greater achievement of the hardware than the software.

I must say, I'm very inclined to agree with funkytown. While I found the iphone useful due to its portability, the ipad just seems pointless to me, so I never purchased one. However about two months ago, I had to bring one home from work as I was researching into the best ways to manage them centrally (incidentally there is practically nothing, once again apple have neglected the corporate sector). Due to us moving buildings at work, I haven't bothered taking it back yet. But have I used it in any way since I concluded my testing? No, it's just been sitting in my drawer. To me, it just doesn't seem to bring anything new to the table. If I wanted to carry the ipad around with me, I may as well just carry around my macbook air as it's just as inconvenient. Leaving me with a choice of the macbook air and ipad? Well obviously I'd chose the macbook. It can do everything the ipad can, but far more on top of that - I became bored with the ipad in 5 minutes. Not to mention I can modify system files at will on my macbook, and I don't have to deal with lack of certain technologies (limited VPN choices, flash etc.) It's all very well and good saying you don't need the technology apple tell you you're not allowed to have, but you're still potentially disabling yourself a few months down the line. When we bought the ipads in at work, it was fine to set each one up manually as we only had about 20 or 30. But an educated guess tells me this will expand considerably over the next year, and we are going to be expected to manage them. In this situation, I'm going to have to spend a lot of time working around apples lack of support in this area - the only software they have made for this purpose is very limited. Maybe I'm a boring old sod that spends way too much time in corporate IT, but I do prefer new devices to bring something new in terms of functionality and usefulness, not just aesthetics.

Snow: (his avatar always seemed to give the impression of him watching you)

I saw hoosierguy's comments saying the article was bigoted, and wondered why, until I saw the link went to that dreaded media website known as the daily mail (mail online), which goes much further than most other news organisations to publish whatever it thinks will be read, regardless of what facts there are to back it up. However, as I read the article, I couldn't help but agree with most of it. There is still unofficially a 'class' system in the UK, and the gap between the classes seems to be forever increasing. The usage of the word feral seems particularly appropriate to describe the 'class' of people being referred to in the article, in my experience. There are teachers in my family, and I myself currently work in the education sector. Such a sad, sad situation and one that isn't going to be resolved for a long time. Correct. We also use Post Meridian in the UK too. But MP is almost never used to refer to a Member of Parliament. It's far more commonly used to refer to a Mounted Policeman.

with this guy around probably isn't a good idea: M1 accident emergency lane blocked - YouTube

Pam:

He was trying to be kind

Slamjet: http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTzX2Xa4Yvg5XLCR0Jbirhk9Eh1_mhsyTwEKUYnPbYbjPp10ll5OA

They'll be disappointed when they realise it normally takes about 3 weeks to be delivered.

Are you serious? :/ I thought everyone worldwide knew they were mounted policemen i.e. police on horseback. Policemen in the military??

I can't find the one I saw a couple of days ago on TV that I was referring to, but this one works almost as well: BBC News - London rioters: 'Showing the rich we do what we want' My point was, most of them don't have an underlying reason to be rioting, other than greed. These girls weren't positive about which government party was actually in power, yet somehow, these unknown government types and rich people were to blame...

BBC News - PM backs police to use water cannon and rubber bullets One thing I've always liked about our current prime minister is his habit of purposely going against what is deemed to be PC...

Other than those economic elite probably employ scores, possibly hundreds or even thousands of those "common men". What do they hope to gain by looting? Several small and medium sized businesses have gone bust as a result, resulting in another contribution to unemployment. Larger businesses may close down those stores that have been destroyed, rather than rebuild, resulting in job losses. If money is the cause of these riots, why are they forcing the government to spend more public money unnecessarily, and contributing to unemployment?

I did have to laugh when watching the TV last night, and a reporter asked one of the looters why they were doing it. His response was a long tirade of what the government were doing wrong. When asked what he thinks the government should be doing instead, he just stared blankly at the camera for a few seconds before talking about something else entirely. I didn't honestly expect an intelligent answer from someone who sees destroying and ripping apart his own town/city/country, making several SMEs go completely bankrupt, and costing a fortune in public money as the answer to his problems...

I think a lot of the police here would disagree with your understanding of the most serious thing they encounter on an average day, especially in the cities :)

Eventually, the army will be called in. The police, admittedly, are a little worried about having to be politically correct, due to incidents in the past where they weren't so PC and the results of those incidents. Currently they are using more scare tactics than force - putting CCTV images of those involved in the rioting out in the public domain for identification, making hundreds of arrests and getting them into court the next day, lots of forceful speeches on TV etc. If it gets to the point where the army have to be called in, they won't be so reserved when it comes to force.

I don't think anyone in the UK believes the riots/looting are about the shooting anymore. That's what it started off as, with just a small band of people. Now, it's a free for all. A lot of youth saw this as an opportunity to run wild, break into shops, houses, steal expensive goods, loot and do things they'd never normally be able to do. That's literally all it is now. There is no cause other than greed. As for the British not complaining much, I'd say we are normally quite a reserved nation as a whole, but quite frankly this is a rare time where I'm ashamed to say that I'm British. I've never known anything like this to happen before - just two miles from where I live.