I have to point out what others have repeatedly said: Before clearing immigration/customs at a port of entry in the USA, *you have no constitutional rights* No 4th, 5th, 1st, Nth amendments.
I'm pretty sure the old days of staying in the "international" part of the airport in the United States are over. The last two international flights I've been on required every single person to clear immigration and customs before you could connect to your next flight. One arrived at SFO and the other Newark.
I see the point being made about the fact that Dynadot made this agreement voluntarily rather than being ordered, but my point was more to the distrust of courts around the world. I am not aware of any country where registrars operate that give the registrar the legal right to disobey a court order. And the reality of today's world is that the party with the most money/power/influence usually prevails in court, at least until there have been a few appellate review rounds, regardless of whether that party is really in the right. Anyone making a controversial stand that is opposed by government or big business better have a fallback plan B, C, D, etc. to cover what happened today.
I'm waiting for a US court to order ISPs to filter content entering the USA at the packet level - that'll be fun fireworks to watch. I believe this scenario was mentioned if Sealand ever took off as a haven for offshore internet gambling.
I thought this was common knowledge among nerds - your registrar could yank your domain for any reason. Standard boilerplate agreement between big company and small potatoes consumer.
More commonly known examples of this botanical phenomenon are the Century Plant (Agave americana) and many species of high altitude bromeliads in the genus Puya, found primarily in the Andes.
I'm gay, 10 years older than you, grew up in Trussville, went to Birmingham-Southern and worked at Southern Company Services during college. While there is always a little exaggeration in everything, the opening "What church do you go to?" question was very real. There was not a single admitted social liberal in the ~100 person group I worked in at SCS from '92 to '94 and in fact many of them socialized outside of work at church functions. I was there when Clinton was elected the first time. Leading up to the election these people were acting like the antichrist was coming. Of course I said yes when a friend said he could get me a job in Austin, Texas!
During High School, you knew where every single person went to church and the more private people were always viewed with a little suspicion. 1/4 of my graduating class went to the same megachurch. Everyone pretended to not know each other at the grocery store if they had beer or wine in their cart. Condoms were NOT on sale at the Food Fair - they tried to sell them and the outcry was enough to make them just go away. Until I got to college and started going to bars I honestly could not tell you were to purchase a condom. Finally - my high school was not small - Hewitt-Trussville at the time was 3 grades and ~1400 students. There were 100 more students in my HS graduating class than my college class.
Alabama voted to ban gay marriage by roughly 80% yes 20% no. That says a lot about the state and I've always wondered why these car companies from Europe were willing to set up shop in such a conservative state.
I had one college friend from Hueytown and he was not a church do-gooder - maybe they raise them a little more sane on the west side of town. =)
The last time I was home in 2004 I had two different idiots mutter "skinhead" under their breath at me on the street. All because I wear a buzz cut. I wear jeans and tennis shoes and generic Old Navy clothes - I'm not even remotely close to what a real skinhead looks like.
Interestingly enough, San Francisco is just as intolerant as the stereotypical deep south, just on the other end of the ideological spectrum. Why am I still here? People in San Francisco don't want me dead because of who I love. I can't say that about JQ Random fratboy or redneck in Alabama.
I agree with everything you've said but I really have to add that if you're not straight and religious, you're in for a world of hurt. The first question out of many people's mouths when they meet you is "Where do you go to church?" - and I'm not talking about the cashier at Burger King. It can be a little like Japan with a southern twist - if you don't fall into the supermajority of heterosexual, family-centered, devoutly religious, you're shunned.
-Eric, who grew up in suburban Birmingham and went to probably the most liberal college in the state, upon which I promptly escaped.
I don't doubt it's a local thing - SF is full of opportunistic leeches. Another poster in this part of the thread mentioned the "steal checkbooks, deposit fake check into pilfered account #, take out the federally mandated $100 immediate withdrawal" scheme.
Does your BoA require you to swipe your ATM and enter your PIN before working with you?
ps. I'm going to assume you weren't calling me a liar directly, and if you were, have you attempted to deposit money in a third party's account at a BoA in San Francisco to validate my statement?
*shrug* That's how it is in San Francisco Bank of America branches. No ATM/PIN combo to swipe, government ID checked before they even ask what you want.
I got a teller to let me deposit money into my partner's account once when he was overdrawn. The teller only did it because I banked there every day with my job and she knew I wasn't shady. She even whispered "I could get in trouble for this, don't tell anyone."
I can't tell where you are from from your/. profile, but we do not have to pass through exit immigration when leaving the USA. My friends from Australia were quite surprised at that.
I can't speculate as to what circumstances Homeland Security can refuse entry to a returning US citizen, but will admit in this day and age it is a valid concern.
Bank of America now requires authorization to make deposits, too. If you can't swipe your ATM card and enter your PIN, they check your government issued ID before even asking what you want to do at the bank.
Beaches in California and Alabama are 100% public and free by law. California has one stretch of beach/coast owned by a military base that's closed to the public, otherwise you can walk from Oregon to Mexico on the beach or along a cliff if there is no beach. (I do think they go over the GG Bridge rather than transit the entire San Pablo and San Francisco Bay waterfronts)
I would walk for miles early in the morning in Gulf Shores, past all kinds of interesting developments. You would see signs higher up in the dry sand - "No tresspassing" - but the landowner was not allowed to install fences into the water to keep you off "their" beach.
Turning on chat logging in most IM clients is trivial. You can even move the log file around, but many people simply rely on their desktop search utility to index and search their saved chats.
Most of my friends I chat with on AIM have logging turned on. They have copies of every chat they've ever participated in. One should *always* assume their IM conversation is being recorded by the other party.
I am not aware of any client that will notify or even prevent a chat from taking place if one of the participants is logging. This seems like an obvious feature to add, but I'm unclear why the chatting public hasn't asked or been heard if they have asked.
Grocery stores aren't going anywhere - and for MOST people in the country, popping in and out for electronics isn't an option, either. I don't count a 30+ minute drive through suburbia to be "popping in/out" to get something. Every time I've been in Best Buy, even in suburban ones, there is no such thing as a pop-in and pop-out quickly. One of the reasons I stopped going.
Valid points, and all I can say is that I've never had a computer or laptop of mine over the years go belly-up under warranty. I personally would have a hardware backup solution of SOME kind in place if the computer/laptop was essential to my livelihood.
But you STILL have to deal with indifferent/hostile/ignorant clerks in your situation, which is what really gets me. The sad reality is that American national retailers have cost-cut to the point where having sales associates (notice I didn't say 'clerk') who are intelligent, honest, and interested in their jobs is pretty much never going to happen again.
Every national electronics retailer has treated me so poorly that I simply will not do business with them, period. I would rather deal with online returns/repairs than give those crooks any money. It's more the principle for me, I guess.
My only exception, and I hesitate to relate this because it might spark a religious argument, is Apple. We are a Mac shop at the nonprofit I work for and we've had consistently excellent service from cradle to grave on our machines. Just buy that AppleCare! Sure, one laptop had a backordered part for 3 weeks, but we had a hand-me-down spare laptop that could pinch-hit while waiting for the repair. Apple has *never* nit-picked us on trying to find a loophole that would prevent them from covering a repair, and I really value that.
Are you kidding me? I can't WAIT for a world with no stores. No more surly sales clerks, no more snake-oil sales clerks, no more presumption of criminality (papers! Ve need your papers upon exit!), I could go on and on.
I buy as much as I can online now and as imaging and bandwith increase, it will be easier and easier to buy more and more things online.
Gives me more time to spend time with friends and family and to do the things I enjoy, whatever they may be.
I have Comcast (8/768) in Cole Valley, San Francisco, and I have also noticed the speed increase. Uploads to my website are now cruising at 140kb/sec, occasionally dropping to 90kb/s. No complaints here! I performed a dslreports speed test recently and it also reported some Korean or Scandanavian-class bandwith numbers - the highest I've certainly ever seen in my time with broadband.
Second - it's my understanding that as you saturate the uplink connection (max out uploading a file) on a consumer-grade connection/router, you interrupt the normal control-channel "Chatter" of web browsing. Basically, the "I got it" packets are stuck due to the saturated uplink, and you don't get the next packet until the acknowledgement makes it.
I could be completely wrong - I am by no means a networking expert, so if this is wrong, be gentle.
Ding!Ding!Ding! This is exactly what I was excited about. For street photographers or photographers who happen to be shooting the police beating someone, this is an excellent first step.
Unfortunately, it sounds like you have to scope out your area FIRST, to find and configure any public wifi networks onto the card, but it's only a matter of time before they will auto-connect to any open wifi connection.
Once you've got the connection, it's a lot harder for the cops, (or worse - private security guards) to take your gear away and delete your pictures (or have an evidence technician "destroy" the card while "investigating" it). They've all been automatically uploaded to a server outside the reach of your local legal system!
If they come out with a Compact Flash version AND drop the price, Nikon is going to crap their pants. Nikon sells a pricey wifi add-on for their pro cameras that was just rendered obsolete.
3. YOUR REGISTRATION OBLIGATIONS In consideration of your use of the
Service, you represent that you are of legal age to form a binding
contract and are not a person barred from receiving services under the
laws of the United States or other applicable jurisdiction. You also
agree to: (a) provide true, accurate, current and complete information
about yourself as prompted by the Service's registration form (the
"Registration Data") and (b) maintain and promptly update the
Registration Data to keep it true, accurate, current and complete. If
you provide any information that is untrue, inaccurate, not current or
incomplete, or Yahoo! has reasonable grounds to suspect that such
information is untrue, inaccurate, not current or incomplete, Yahoo! has
the right to suspend or terminate your account and refuse any and all
current or future use of the Service (or any portion thereof).
Slashdot Mirror
I have to point out what others have repeatedly said: Before clearing immigration/customs at a port of entry in the USA, *you have no constitutional rights* No 4th, 5th, 1st, Nth amendments.
I'm pretty sure the old days of staying in the "international" part of the airport in the United States are over. The last two international flights I've been on required every single person to clear immigration and customs before you could connect to your next flight. One arrived at SFO and the other Newark.
I see the point being made about the fact that Dynadot made this agreement voluntarily rather than being ordered, but my point was more to the distrust of courts around the world. I am not aware of any country where registrars operate that give the registrar the legal right to disobey a court order. And the reality of today's world is that the party with the most money/power/influence usually prevails in court, at least until there have been a few appellate review rounds, regardless of whether that party is really in the right. Anyone making a controversial stand that is opposed by government or big business better have a fallback plan B, C, D, etc. to cover what happened today.
I'm waiting for a US court to order ISPs to filter content entering the USA at the packet level - that'll be fun fireworks to watch. I believe this scenario was mentioned if Sealand ever took off as a haven for offshore internet gambling.
I thought this was common knowledge among nerds - your registrar could yank your domain for any reason. Standard boilerplate agreement between big company and small potatoes consumer.
And where have you been lately? Apple is on record stating they don't aspire to a Microsoft/PC level of success.
Their bank account tends to support their strategy.
The first. The botanical term is monocarpic.
More commonly known examples of this botanical phenomenon are the Century Plant (Agave americana) and many species of high altitude bromeliads in the genus Puya, found primarily in the Andes.
I'm gay, 10 years older than you, grew up in Trussville, went to Birmingham-Southern and worked at Southern Company Services during college. While there is always a little exaggeration in everything, the opening "What church do you go to?" question was very real. There was not a single admitted social liberal in the ~100 person group I worked in at SCS from '92 to '94 and in fact many of them socialized outside of work at church functions. I was there when Clinton was elected the first time. Leading up to the election these people were acting like the antichrist was coming. Of course I said yes when a friend said he could get me a job in Austin, Texas!
During High School, you knew where every single person went to church and the more private people were always viewed with a little suspicion. 1/4 of my graduating class went to the same megachurch. Everyone pretended to not know each other at the grocery store if they had beer or wine in their cart. Condoms were NOT on sale at the Food Fair - they tried to sell them and the outcry was enough to make them just go away. Until I got to college and started going to bars I honestly could not tell you were to purchase a condom. Finally - my high school was not small - Hewitt-Trussville at the time was 3 grades and ~1400 students. There were 100 more students in my HS graduating class than my college class.
Alabama voted to ban gay marriage by roughly 80% yes 20% no. That says a lot about the state and I've always wondered why these car companies from Europe were willing to set up shop in such a conservative state.
I had one college friend from Hueytown and he was not a church do-gooder - maybe they raise them a little more sane on the west side of town. =)
The last time I was home in 2004 I had two different idiots mutter "skinhead" under their breath at me on the street. All because I wear a buzz cut. I wear jeans and tennis shoes and generic Old Navy clothes - I'm not even remotely close to what a real skinhead looks like.
Interestingly enough, San Francisco is just as intolerant as the stereotypical deep south, just on the other end of the ideological spectrum. Why am I still here? People in San Francisco don't want me dead because of who I love. I can't say that about JQ Random fratboy or redneck in Alabama.
I agree with everything you've said but I really have to add that if you're not straight and religious, you're in for a world of hurt. The first question out of many people's mouths when they meet you is "Where do you go to church?" - and I'm not talking about the cashier at Burger King. It can be a little like Japan with a southern twist - if you don't fall into the supermajority of heterosexual, family-centered, devoutly religious, you're shunned.
-Eric, who grew up in suburban Birmingham and went to probably the most liberal college in the state, upon which I promptly escaped.
A quick google search found this:
t tps_proxy_tunnels.shtml
http://www.urlfilterdb.com/url_filter_faq/block_h
And my username is.......Eric in SF
=)
I don't doubt it's a local thing - SF is full of opportunistic leeches. Another poster in this part of the thread mentioned the "steal checkbooks, deposit fake check into pilfered account #, take out the federally mandated $100 immediate withdrawal" scheme.
Does your BoA require you to swipe your ATM and enter your PIN before working with you?
ps. I'm going to assume you weren't calling me a liar directly, and if you were, have you attempted to deposit money in a third party's account at a BoA in San Francisco to validate my statement?
*shrug* That's how it is in San Francisco Bank of America branches. No ATM/PIN combo to swipe, government ID checked before they even ask what you want.
I got a teller to let me deposit money into my partner's account once when he was overdrawn. The teller only did it because I banked there every day with my job and she knew I wasn't shady. She even whispered "I could get in trouble for this, don't tell anyone."
I can't tell where you are from from your /. profile, but we do not have to pass through exit immigration when leaving the USA. My friends from Australia were quite surprised at that.
I can't speculate as to what circumstances Homeland Security can refuse entry to a returning US citizen, but will admit in this day and age it is a valid concern.
Bank of America now requires authorization to make deposits, too. If you can't swipe your ATM card and enter your PIN, they check your government issued ID before even asking what you want to do at the bank.
Reading the original article, they were stolen from the parking lot where the intern lived, not a state parking lot.
Beaches in California and Alabama are 100% public and free by law. California has one stretch of beach/coast owned by a military base that's closed to the public, otherwise you can walk from Oregon to Mexico on the beach or along a cliff if there is no beach. (I do think they go over the GG Bridge rather than transit the entire San Pablo and San Francisco Bay waterfronts)
I would walk for miles early in the morning in Gulf Shores, past all kinds of interesting developments. You would see signs higher up in the dry sand - "No tresspassing" - but the landowner was not allowed to install fences into the water to keep you off "their" beach.
I work 3 blocks from 365 Main.
There were 5 individual power failures, each no longer than 5 minutes, over a roughly 30 minute period. A couple of them were in quick succession.
Turning on chat logging in most IM clients is trivial. You can even move the log file around, but many people simply rely on their desktop search utility to index and search their saved chats.
Most of my friends I chat with on AIM have logging turned on. They have copies of every chat they've ever participated in. One should *always* assume their IM conversation is being recorded by the other party.
I am not aware of any client that will notify or even prevent a chat from taking place if one of the participants is logging. This seems like an obvious feature to add, but I'm unclear why the chatting public hasn't asked or been heard if they have asked.
Grocery stores aren't going anywhere - and for MOST people in the country, popping in and out for electronics isn't an option, either. I don't count a 30+ minute drive through suburbia to be "popping in/out" to get something. Every time I've been in Best Buy, even in suburban ones, there is no such thing as a pop-in and pop-out quickly. One of the reasons I stopped going.
Valid points, and all I can say is that I've never had a computer or laptop of mine over the years go belly-up under warranty. I personally would have a hardware backup solution of SOME kind in place if the computer/laptop was essential to my livelihood.
But you STILL have to deal with indifferent/hostile/ignorant clerks in your situation, which is what really gets me. The sad reality is that American national retailers have cost-cut to the point where having sales associates (notice I didn't say 'clerk') who are intelligent, honest, and interested in their jobs is pretty much never going to happen again.
Every national electronics retailer has treated me so poorly that I simply will not do business with them, period. I would rather deal with online returns/repairs than give those crooks any money. It's more the principle for me, I guess.
My only exception, and I hesitate to relate this because it might spark a religious argument, is Apple. We are a Mac shop at the nonprofit I work for and we've had consistently excellent service from cradle to grave on our machines. Just buy that AppleCare! Sure, one laptop had a backordered part for 3 weeks, but we had a hand-me-down spare laptop that could pinch-hit while waiting for the repair. Apple has *never* nit-picked us on trying to find a loophole that would prevent them from covering a repair, and I really value that.
Sorry for the threadjack.
Are you kidding me? I can't WAIT for a world with no stores. No more surly sales clerks, no more snake-oil sales clerks, no more presumption of criminality (papers! Ve need your papers upon exit!), I could go on and on.
I buy as much as I can online now and as imaging and bandwith increase, it will be easier and easier to buy more and more things online.
Gives me more time to spend time with friends and family and to do the things I enjoy, whatever they may be.
Two things:
I have Comcast (8/768) in Cole Valley, San Francisco, and I have also noticed the speed increase. Uploads to my website are now cruising at 140kb/sec, occasionally dropping to 90kb/s. No complaints here! I performed a dslreports speed test recently and it also reported some Korean or Scandanavian-class bandwith numbers - the highest I've certainly ever seen in my time with broadband.
Second - it's my understanding that as you saturate the uplink connection (max out uploading a file) on a consumer-grade connection/router, you interrupt the normal control-channel "Chatter" of web browsing. Basically, the "I got it" packets are stuck due to the saturated uplink, and you don't get the next packet until the acknowledgement makes it.
I could be completely wrong - I am by no means a networking expert, so if this is wrong, be gentle.
Ding!Ding!Ding! This is exactly what I was excited about. For street photographers or photographers who happen to be shooting the police beating someone, this is an excellent first step.
Unfortunately, it sounds like you have to scope out your area FIRST, to find and configure any public wifi networks onto the card, but it's only a matter of time before they will auto-connect to any open wifi connection.
Once you've got the connection, it's a lot harder for the cops, (or worse - private security guards) to take your gear away and delete your pictures (or have an evidence technician "destroy" the card while "investigating" it). They've all been automatically uploaded to a server outside the reach of your local legal system!
If they come out with a Compact Flash version AND drop the price, Nikon is going to crap their pants. Nikon sells a pricey wifi add-on for their pro cameras that was just rendered obsolete.
Yeah, I'd get one for parties - my D80 takes SD.
I want to live where you live! Expanded Basic (NOT digital!) + cable modem is over $100/mo in San Francisco.