My solution is easy, well, sort of easy. OK, so it's still just showing an ID. But I've found out a real good way to make the TSA people squirm a lot. I have licenses to carry a concealed firearm in multiple states (I am an ordinary citizen, not a retired police officer or anything like that). And of course those licenses reside in my wallet.
The requirement for IDs don't stipulate specifics, just that it be a "government issued photo ID." Well, the concealed carry permits are, technically, a "government issued photo ID" as they are issued by a state government. The TSA folk don't have a choice but to accept them as identification. But it sure does make them squirm!
Granted, as in Monty Python and the Holy Grail, "I'm not dead yet!" but it's sad to see this happen. I was a customer of Vonage almost since they started, and have been quite happy with their service. I only recently canceled on account of simply not needing a home phone and having a company-provided cell phone that I can use for personal calls.
Your "absurd" claim is actually 100 percent true. By guarantee of the Constitution, anyone charged with a crime is by default INNOCENT until PROVEN guilty in a court of law. Until then, you could be termed an "alleged murderer" but not a "murderer" or a "convicted murderer."
Keep in mind, people, that regardless of what some senator says, until these wiretaps have been found illegal in a court of law and upheld on appeal, calling them "illegal" is terribly disingenous. They can be alleged to be illegal but until it is found to be illegal in a court of law, it is flat-out wrong (and overtly politically motivated) to call them illegal.
And, if you actually take the time to look into the entire program, I think you'll find that these alleged wiretaps are NOT occuring on domestic phone calls between American citizens. They are happening between people residing in this country (not necessarily citizens) and another party typically in al Queda-linked countries.
It must be that dastardly global warming. Quick, someone call Al Gore and someone else figure out how to blame Bush for this one. It had better hurry up and blow up before he leaves office or it'll be harder to blame it on him.
Gee, thanks. Your prejudice is so nice. Don't write off us "flyover" states so quickly. Don't forget that for all of you on the coasts, us Midwesterners feed and clothe you and produce the ethanol that powers your car. NASCAR is actually more popular on the coasts than it is in the Midwest, believe it or not. Around here, football is what we care about, and that is pretty much universally loved nationwide.
"Small town America" is what built this country. Don't be so quick to discount us.
Actually, you can indeed get outdoor CF floodlights. I was surprised when I saw them at Sams Club a few months ago. I have four flood lights on my garage that cover nearly my entire yard and have them turn on at dusk and off at dawn. Since they're on every day for hours a day, I figured it was worth a try. It's just a swirl bulb inside a floodlight type enclosure. Wow. They put out easily as much light as the 100 watt halogens they replaced. And now, in theory anyway, I won't need to climb up a ladder every 6 months and change them.
OK, so you can share with "nearby friends or strangers." Am I the only one that started thinking back to toothing? I've got this crude mental image of hormone-crazed teenyboppers or/. readers creating their own songs that have alluring names for strangers to pick up on and listen to, directing them to the person with the whatever-team ball cap at the other end of the subway car.
A friend of mine (now deceased, rest his soul, he couldn't beat the cancer) had a treatment along these lines about a year ago to help heal some sort of lesions on his skin (may have been bed sores, I don't recall). It was a device that he'd put over the affected area and it applied voltage to the skin, adjustable by him. I'm not sure if it was for healing or pain control, but it worked. He showed it to me a couple times, when I put it on my hand it felt like a mild version of a 9-volt battery on the tongue.
GraphicConverter on the Mac has some fairly powerful built-in scripting/workflows you can specify for a whole bunch of photos at once. And, it's shareware too. Such as I've used it to all at one time for 100+ photos, perform an "auto levels", reduce the file size so they're easier to e-mail, and create a basic thumbnail Web-ready batch. You can do probably 100 or more tasks this way.
Apple screwed the pooch on the iPod Hi-Fi. Sure, it looks all sleek and such, but it's priced WAY too high. $349 will get you a "home theater in a box" that will sound quite a bit better and give you a ton more flexibility, not to mention the ever-elusive AM/FM radio (not that people listen to it anyway). This thing is really no different from a $99 "boom box" type stereo with an AUX input, except that it charges your iPod, and costs $250 more.
It's my belief that if Apple TRULY wanted market share, they'd follow Microsoft's lead on the Xbox and sell it at a loss but then make it up in other ways. If they sold the Mac Mini for $299 or even $349, they'd sell millions overnight, still make money on dot-Mac, iWork, keyboards, iTunes songs, iPods, etc. And they'd get a hugely larger share of the market. Then, when mom and dad send junior off to college, give him the mini and buy an iMac for at home, or buy junior an iBook, etc.
I think the real reason they haven't made a decision yet is because this is what happens when you take a bunch of high-paid bureaucrats who answer to no one and let them have free reign of things. They don't make decisions! They're simply incapable of it. It's easier to defer a decision under the guise of some lame excuse for a long time, that way you can more easily justify your "job" and it makes it look like you're actually doing something. Mix it in with governments from around the world, and it's a picture-perfect recipe for nothing to happen.
Oh, and since it's getting slow already, here's the article:
ICANN meeting passes on.com,.xxx decisions
5th December 2005
By Kevin Murphy in Vancouver
As the Internet Corp for Assigned Names and Numbers wound up its annual meeting in Vancouver yesterday it was inactions that were still causing all the controversy.
Major decisions on the.com and.xxx domains had been postponed until next year, as the domain name management body seeks to balance the interests of governments and commercial domain name organizations.
During a public forum on Saturday, domain registrars voiced concerns over the proposed settlement between ICANN and VeriSign Inc, which would give VeriSign a five-year extension to its.com registry contract and the ability to raise prices 7% a year.
And proponents of the.xxx domain said their proposals to launch a porn-only address has been turned into a political football by ICANN's governmental advisors, a charge not being strenuously denied by ICANN or governments.
"The very few governments that have written to ICANN, with the possible exception of the US, are not opposed to our proposal on substantive grounds," said Stuart Lawley, president of would-be.xxx operator ICM Registry Inc.
"The ICM application is being held hostage in a dispute between ICANN and the GAC," he added, referring to ICANN's Government Advisory Committee, which has members from dozens of international governments.
Lawley had arrived here working on the assumption that ICANN's board would approve.xxx on Sunday. However, it was pulled from the agenda at the eleventh hour after the GAC asked for more time to review the.xxx proposal.
"Some governments are concerned with the content of.xxx itself, then there are those concerned about process," GAC chair Mohamed Sharil Tarmizi, a senior Malaysian telecommunications regulator, said in an interview with ComputerWire.
Members of the GAC "are just trying to understand the processes ICANN took" he said. Some had assumed that because a proposal to offer.xxx from ICM was rejected in 2000, that it would also be thrown out this time, he said.
There's a bigger political picture too. Following the recent World Summit on the Information Society, a UN meeting on internet governance, governmental interest in the ICANN process has been reignited.
"In some respects, this discussion about.xxx is a proxy for the renewed attention governments are paying to ICANN," ICANN president Paul Twomey told us.
WSIS created a document called the Tunis Agenda, which promised to leave existing internet management bodies including ICANN essentially untouched, while also recognizing the roles government can play.
"It's not unimaginable that some governments went into this GAC meeting with their own interpretation of Tunis Agenda," Tarmizi said. "There were those who saw the Tunis Agenda being a statement of political will for change to take place, there were some who said it just reaffirmed what we had already being saying."
While Tarmizi would not be drawn on which governments are demanding the extra scrutiny of
No, Apple does not plan to keep using G4s in the lower-end stuff. It'd make no sense. Apple is likely securing this contract so they have a supply of G4 chips for product repairs for the next three years, as AppleCare is a 3-year agreement.
I am hit by this limitation sometimes too, as I frequently record services, special functions, etc., at my church, and many of them run longer than an hour or hour and a half. Lately I've just been bringing my laptop with me (PowerBook G4 12", 80G drive) and recording directly to the hard drive via iMovie. Yeah it's not Linux, but you can get an iBook with 100G hard drive for $1199 from Apple. That will hold a TON of video.
That new hotel/casino is a very slick-looking building. I saw it for the first time two days ago when I was in Vegas on business. It's also right across the street from the Las Vegas Apple Store in the Fashion Show mall.
Slashdot Mirror
That could get messy.
And then puts the finishing touches on her pro-Obama book while sipping said wine.
I'll happily stick to America, where I can legally defend myself with the pistol in my pocket.
So in other words, when farting a lot, it disperses quicker?
My solution is easy, well, sort of easy. OK, so it's still just showing an ID. But I've found out a real good way to make the TSA people squirm a lot. I have licenses to carry a concealed firearm in multiple states (I am an ordinary citizen, not a retired police officer or anything like that). And of course those licenses reside in my wallet.
The requirement for IDs don't stipulate specifics, just that it be a "government issued photo ID." Well, the concealed carry permits are, technically, a "government issued photo ID" as they are issued by a state government. The TSA folk don't have a choice but to accept them as identification. But it sure does make them squirm!
Granted, as in Monty Python and the Holy Grail, "I'm not dead yet!" but it's sad to see this happen. I was a customer of Vonage almost since they started, and have been quite happy with their service. I only recently canceled on account of simply not needing a home phone and having a company-provided cell phone that I can use for personal calls.
As a Vonage subscriber and hating what Verizon is doing to them, I'm all for someone doing a goatse on Verizon.
Your "absurd" claim is actually 100 percent true. By guarantee of the Constitution, anyone charged with a crime is by default INNOCENT until PROVEN guilty in a court of law. Until then, you could be termed an "alleged murderer" but not a "murderer" or a "convicted murderer."
And, if you actually take the time to look into the entire program, I think you'll find that these alleged wiretaps are NOT occuring on domestic phone calls between American citizens. They are happening between people residing in this country (not necessarily citizens) and another party typically in al Queda-linked countries.
It must be that dastardly global warming. Quick, someone call Al Gore and someone else figure out how to blame Bush for this one. It had better hurry up and blow up before he leaves office or it'll be harder to blame it on him.
Gee, thanks. Your prejudice is so nice. Don't write off us "flyover" states so quickly. Don't forget that for all of you on the coasts, us Midwesterners feed and clothe you and produce the ethanol that powers your car. NASCAR is actually more popular on the coasts than it is in the Midwest, believe it or not. Around here, football is what we care about, and that is pretty much universally loved nationwide.
"Small town America" is what built this country. Don't be so quick to discount us.
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Mr. Gorman,
In general, what qualities in an open source project do you find attractive and worthy of consideration for venture capital?
Actually, you can indeed get outdoor CF floodlights. I was surprised when I saw them at Sams Club a few months ago. I have four flood lights on my garage that cover nearly my entire yard and have them turn on at dusk and off at dawn. Since they're on every day for hours a day, I figured it was worth a try. It's just a swirl bulb inside a floodlight type enclosure. Wow. They put out easily as much light as the 100 watt halogens they replaced. And now, in theory anyway, I won't need to climb up a ladder every 6 months and change them.
OK, so you can share with "nearby friends or strangers." Am I the only one that started thinking back to toothing? I've got this crude mental image of hormone-crazed teenyboppers or /. readers creating their own songs that have alluring names for strangers to pick up on and listen to, directing them to the person with the whatever-team ball cap at the other end of the subway car.
Well, it's hosted on one of the top 20 (as measured by hosted sites) hosting companies, so ideally it'll survive. I guess we'll find out!
It's getting pretty slow. Here's a mirror.
A friend of mine (now deceased, rest his soul, he couldn't beat the cancer) had a treatment along these lines about a year ago to help heal some sort of lesions on his skin (may have been bed sores, I don't recall). It was a device that he'd put over the affected area and it applied voltage to the skin, adjustable by him. I'm not sure if it was for healing or pain control, but it worked. He showed it to me a couple times, when I put it on my hand it felt like a mild version of a 9-volt battery on the tongue.
GraphicConverter on the Mac has some fairly powerful built-in scripting/workflows you can specify for a whole bunch of photos at once. And, it's shareware too. Such as I've used it to all at one time for 100+ photos, perform an "auto levels", reduce the file size so they're easier to e-mail, and create a basic thumbnail Web-ready batch. You can do probably 100 or more tasks this way.
It's my belief that if Apple TRULY wanted market share, they'd follow Microsoft's lead on the Xbox and sell it at a loss but then make it up in other ways. If they sold the Mac Mini for $299 or even $349, they'd sell millions overnight, still make money on dot-Mac, iWork, keyboards, iTunes songs, iPods, etc. And they'd get a hugely larger share of the market. Then, when mom and dad send junior off to college, give him the mini and buy an iMac for at home, or buy junior an iBook, etc.
Oh, and since it's getting slow already, here's the article:
ICANN meeting passes on .com, .xxx decisions
5th December 2005
By Kevin Murphy in Vancouver
As the Internet Corp for Assigned Names and Numbers wound up its annual meeting in Vancouver yesterday it was inactions that were still causing all the controversy.
Major decisions on the .com and .xxx domains had been postponed until next year, as the domain name management body seeks to balance the interests of governments and commercial domain name organizations.
During a public forum on Saturday, domain registrars voiced concerns over the proposed settlement between ICANN and VeriSign Inc, which would give VeriSign a five-year extension to its .com registry contract and the ability to raise prices 7% a year.
And proponents of the .xxx domain said their proposals to launch a porn-only address has been turned into a political football by ICANN's governmental advisors, a charge not being strenuously denied by ICANN or governments.
"The very few governments that have written to ICANN, with the possible exception of the US, are not opposed to our proposal on substantive grounds," said Stuart Lawley, president of would-be .xxx operator ICM Registry Inc.
"The ICM application is being held hostage in a dispute between ICANN and the GAC," he added, referring to ICANN's Government Advisory Committee, which has members from dozens of international governments.
Lawley had arrived here working on the assumption that ICANN's board would approve .xxx on Sunday. However, it was pulled from the agenda at the eleventh hour after the GAC asked for more time to review the .xxx proposal.
"Some governments are concerned with the content of .xxx itself, then there are those concerned about process," GAC chair Mohamed Sharil Tarmizi, a senior Malaysian telecommunications regulator, said in an interview with ComputerWire.
Members of the GAC "are just trying to understand the processes ICANN took" he said. Some had assumed that because a proposal to offer .xxx from ICM was rejected in 2000, that it would also be thrown out this time, he said.
There's a bigger political picture too. Following the recent World Summit on the Information Society, a UN meeting on internet governance, governmental interest in the ICANN process has been reignited.
"In some respects, this discussion about .xxx is a proxy for the renewed attention governments are paying to ICANN," ICANN president Paul Twomey told us.
WSIS created a document called the Tunis Agenda, which promised to leave existing internet management bodies including ICANN essentially untouched, while also recognizing the roles government can play.
"It's not unimaginable that some governments went into this GAC meeting with their own interpretation of Tunis Agenda," Tarmizi said. "There were those who saw the Tunis Agenda being a statement of political will for change to take place, there were some who said it just reaffirmed what we had already being saying."
While Tarmizi would not be drawn on which governments are demanding the extra scrutiny of
No, Apple does not plan to keep using G4s in the lower-end stuff. It'd make no sense. Apple is likely securing this contract so they have a supply of G4 chips for product repairs for the next three years, as AppleCare is a 3-year agreement.
I am hit by this limitation sometimes too, as I frequently record services, special functions, etc., at my church, and many of them run longer than an hour or hour and a half. Lately I've just been bringing my laptop with me (PowerBook G4 12", 80G drive) and recording directly to the hard drive via iMovie. Yeah it's not Linux, but you can get an iBook with 100G hard drive for $1199 from Apple. That will hold a TON of video.
Again, we see the unique innovation of Apple's products and their users!
That new hotel/casino is a very slick-looking building. I saw it for the first time two days ago when I was in Vegas on business. It's also right across the street from the Las Vegas Apple Store in the Fashion Show mall.