I have hundreds of books on shelves in my house. In one of them, on a particular page, all my user ids and passwords are written down. And I know what you're thinking - but if my house burns down, finding my passwords will be the least of my worries...
>thus removing most of the business benefit of using a web application in the first place
Point taken, but then large corporations can define which version of which browser or JVM is standard and installed on their users' machines, n'est-ce pas?
>stick it inside someone else's bag and you look like you were traveling with them
Nope. The cards need to be quite close to the reader to register.
By the way, I have an Oyster, but it's unregistered because I objected to giving them my details. The downside is I can only buy weekly tickets - any longer and the card needs to be registered. It means I lose out on the savings I would get from a monthly pass, but personally I think it's worth it.
But a GOOD black suit flatters your body shape; it gives you a slimmer look, which works well if you're overweight. In addition, if you're not overweight, it looks great!
You can only fill up Oyster cards for travel periods of up to a week without registering the card with your name, I believe. They tell you this is because longer period travelcards will have large amounts on them (say £100 for a monthly 1&2 zone pass), and it's therefore for your own good. However, with a registered card, "they" can obviously monitor your travel patterns. Presuming "they" would want to.
Anyway, I don't take the risk. I fill up my Oyster weekly, and pay in cash. Even if they could correlate my card number with me (say, through visual observation as I pass through a ticket barrier), I guess I've done as much as I can to make it hard for them.
Believe it or not, there ARE people in Britain who are concerned about the Surveillance Society, and are doing little bits and bobs to undermine it. See e.g today's Observer.
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Actually, it's mostly Sri Lankans. .
It'd be DAVID Attenborough for the voice-over, as in "Life On Earth", not his brother Dickie, I think.
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"his Honor"
Honour Honour Honour Honour Honour Honour Honour Honour!
Gah!
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"No".
Next question, please.
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There's only one thing to do...
"FIIIIIIIIIIGHT!"
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"Ni"
I think that should be "apologies to Monty Python" there
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I have hundreds of books on shelves in my house. In one of them, on a particular page, all my user ids and passwords are written down.
And I know what you're thinking - but if my house burns down, finding my passwords will be the least of my worries...
Well I rang the WHO Swine Flu hotline, but all I got was crackling.
Thank you, I'm here all weeeeeeeek.
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>thus removing most of the business benefit of using a web application in the first place
Point taken, but then large corporations can define which version of which browser or JVM is standard and installed on their users' machines, n'est-ce pas?
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>There are cars that accelerate faster than that. Of course, I suppose they don't weigh 4.5 million pounds.....
And they're not accelerating upwards (I hope)
Who gets a 40 year mortgage? Except people who bought at the top of the bubble.
The standard term is 25 years, surely?
Your point still stands, but I don't want other people thinking that we in the UK are in hock to the banks for 40 years!
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5) Who shot first?
Thanks for the reference to the theme tune from Ronnie Barker's "Going Straight".
What a show.
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>Any lawyers know if there are any countries which would absolutely refuse extradition?
IANAL, but might I suggest Iran? Or North Korea?
>stick it inside someone else's bag and you look like you were traveling with them
Nope. The cards need to be quite close to the reader to register.
By the way, I have an Oyster, but it's unregistered because I objected to giving them my details.
The downside is I can only buy weekly tickets - any longer and the card needs to be registered. It means I lose out on the savings I would get from a monthly pass, but personally I think it's worth it.
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"in it's ten years of operation."
Grud-dammit, the Grammar Liberation Front is preparing a case right now.
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But a GOOD black suit flatters your body shape; it gives you a slimmer look, which works well if you're overweight. In addition, if you're not overweight, it looks great!
>consumers would tend to evaluate a widget more favorably if they had paid more money for it.
Pah. Does every Slashdot comment need an Apple angle?
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It's not "faster", it's "more quickly", as it's a comparative adverb...
Here in Europe each year we have a bunch of super rich arrogant bastards who also make the roads even more dangerous than they already are..
No shit, however sometimes they get their come-uppance - The Times
Given here.
I'm a bloke.
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"there's no fork() in Windows"
LOL, that's like "There's only one F in Fulham"
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You can only fill up Oyster cards for travel periods of up to a week without registering the card with your name, I believe. They tell you this is because longer period travelcards will have large amounts on them (say £100 for a monthly 1&2 zone pass), and it's therefore for your own good. However, with a registered card, "they" can obviously monitor your travel patterns. Presuming "they" would want to.
Anyway, I don't take the risk. I fill up my Oyster weekly, and pay in cash. Even if they could correlate my card number with me (say, through visual observation as I pass through a ticket barrier), I guess I've done as much as I can to make it hard for them.
Believe it or not, there ARE people in Britain who are concerned about the Surveillance Society, and are doing little bits and bobs to undermine it. See e.g today's Observer.
Anyone read V For Vendetta recently? :-)
.PC users only : Make sure Num Lock is on, hold down the Alt key and type 148
Voila! ö
Or should I say "Voilà!"
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