TimR

Sounds like he was breaching a court order and that's what he got arrested for, not breaking a 'silly law'.

A quick reminder to check your gear. A loose neutral on a regularly used extension lead. Could have been the loose terminal or the terminal could have come loose due to overheating. Either way, there was no evidence of the problem, until there was evidence.

My fretless is in my loft, along with a photo of me when I had hair.

https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/review-of-the-computer-misuse-act-1990/review-of-the-computer-misuse-act-1990-consultation-and-response-to-call-for-information-accessible

I can't do that on my home router. So would have to actively and deliberately go out and buy a new router and set it up. You're being very obtuse, your average home PC user will not be doing this. Your ISP will still be doing the routing.

Where are the Basschat servers located? How do we know we aren't already in contravention some local laws in another country?

Really? https://www.gov.uk/government/news/life-saving-drink-drive-law-turns-50

Yes. The trend for these shows to go on for hours is a bit mad really. I guess at £180 a ticket, people are expecting a good return. I still remember all the times I saw them at Hammersmith Odeon in the 80s. Saw them once at the O2 and it just wasn't the same.

No. As has been said, banning VPNs would be counter productive. Controlling what people can access and shutting down websites that don't conform to standards (which is what the thread is about) is what is being proposed (all be it via the route of making sure everyone conforms by bringing in laws). The point is if UK VPNs are being complicit then they should also be subject to the new laws. How you extend that to people using offshore VPNs is another subject, but you just make it very hard for people to access offshore VPNs via the ISPs and onshore VPNs. Yes sure "It's easy to build your own VPN server and anyone can do it.", but I'm sorry, it's not, you need a certain level of IT knowledge. Most people I know have enough trouble creating a simple spreadsheet in Excel.

I think there's always an issue once a singer gets their foot in the door and (like a lot of relationships) appears to initially like everything you do, only to find a year or so down the line, their tastes are vastly different and they start changing the set list completely. If your band has a style, you need to make sure the front person (amd everyone else?) is on board 100% with that kind of music. Personally I'll play anything within reason and happy to learn an entire new set list in a few weeks for the right band/singer.

Nope. 'You' wouldn't have to do anything. The responsibility would be with the ISPs.

Not a true VPN and not 'anyone'. Your ISP will still be able to block websites.

The VPN we use at work is. But as @Bassassin points out, very hard to do as everyone would just use an offshore VPN server. Unless, of course, those VPN servers are also blacklisted.

You don't need to collect user data. You just need to block IPs. They already do this for known malicious Websites.

Ha. Yes. I'm not talking about banning VPNs. I'm talking about fixing a white list to VPN software. Although I'm not sure of the exact mechanics behind VPNs. Edit: you're essentially using the VPN services server as an ISP. So yes, it would be pretty simple to do.

You don't police it. You make it illegal to access it. And if VPN companies are creating software that allows its use, then they're also culpable.

All vulnerable people. Which is going to include old people and any of us who are open to be scammed etc. Effectively if you own a property and you knowingly allow undesirables to hang around and cause harm, you could be held responsible for failing to deal with it. Online should be no different other than the number of people could be exponentially higher.

I've not read it yet but that's my gut feeling from what I've been seeing. The number of small sports clubs and societies that have and rely on BBs amd small Web platforms runs to the thousands. You'll just need a policy in place and an audit trail to show you're following the policy. If your users step out of line then you just need a report function and then you need to show you acted on it. We did find it a struggle when facebook was new to moderate our group as certain people would pile on and in some cases be malicious. But that was swiftly dealt with and people calmed down. I guess the online bullying and harassment is their main reason for clamping down.

12h28m worth!

I have a tape of 20 or so songs that I put onto CD with some noise reduction, multiband compression and EQ to master it a bit. I often wonder what it would sound like with competent musicians, recorded in a recording studio with someone with some musical experience to tweak the ideas. The songs are OK, and they're of a time but have potential to sound quite good if anyone had the time and interest. Probably best left as tape recordings.

I met the drummer and 'singer' in the 90s having not spoken to them for over 10 years. The drummer is now professional and the singer hasn't sung since we broke up. I'm still in contact with the guitarist and have played quite a bit with him. I used the drummer as a dep on a couple of gigs. I don't think that's got any legs. One of the guitarists I used to play with contacted me to play in the band he originally played in. Seems the bass player still had the same issues that caused the band to break up originally, and they'd resurfaced when they'd tried to get together again. I rehearsed for a few weeks with them and played 3 gigs. The gigs were superb and I think they found another (more local) bass player to join shortly after. I think elements of the band still play together in one form or another.

It's not supposed to be good. In fact the worse the singers are, the more people will get up, the more people lsugh and the more drink is consumed. As soon as someone good goes up, everyone else will be put off getting up.

Would it be a bad time to mention the brown note?

The video claims that the nautral frequency of 8hz is the resonance of thunder. And our ears have evolved to resonate at certain frequencies because of that. I didn't watch further than that.

What a load of nonsense. Octaves based on 8hz are 16, 32, 64, 128, 256 and 512. People will believe anything it seems. 🤦‍♂️😂