No, Canadian entering the US are not fingerprinted. At least not yet, and from what I have read, its not planned to go in with the mandatory passports when entering the US via plane or boat.
I saw someone in Ikea last weekend buy a 2.59 item with Interac. I mean come on, whats the service fee on that? $1 or $1.50? Thats quite a markup for the convenience of paying with plastic.
Back in the late 80's I worked at a college that ran Netware (3.12) and everyone, from the dean to the part-time night students used the DOS version as their email client. It was rock solid. At that time I would hazard a guess that many colleges and universities which ran Netware and DOS machines used Pegasus as well.
When I am on vacation - work is as far from my mind as I can put it (quite a distance!). We do take cell phones though - for emergency (ours or something wrong at home with the cats) and convenience. Actually this year we were away for 3 solid weeks, and some of the places we were - a CB would have been more practical for emergencies.
I never touch a computer on vacation, no internet cafe's at least - occasionally the spouse wants to send someone like her mom an email from a PC in a hotel lobby or the old fax room, but that's about it.
The vacations I used to take, I doubt even a CB radio would work, days from the nearest road-head (or road tail?) i nthe middle of the bush - those were the days.
I cannot see anywhere in the article (or the original site itself) where they are using any encryption whatsoever, it looks kinda unsecure to me. Yeah, the article says its as risky as wired access, but AFAIK no one is tapping my DSL line;)
Nothing to see in Toronto - they were banned in late 2005. Not that the people who scream down the sidewalks on motorized carts, or the bicycles that think the sidewalk and intersections are for them and stop lights, stop signs and one way streets and such are only for cars pose any risk, oh no - only the Segway would pose a danger. Right.
All the oh-so-witty mangina and crying-game references aside, this is a very interesting article. And I think not that far off the mark.
My girlfriend and I (who met 7 years ago online but not in a MMOG) are heading down to the US next week to party with the folks we played EQ1 and now play WoW with. This is the third year for us, and the 4th year for the guild as a whole to hold an annual picnic. And ya know what? Its a blast, we don't just sit around re-hashing raids, or talking gear or skills, but actually find that we have this odd bond of trust and openess (likely due to spending countless hours together in somewhat stressful situations). We were really nervous the first year, but look forward to it even more each year. We are expecting from 40-50 people to show up this year, from all over the US (and us two from Canada). Quite a few of us are couples, yes, some are guys who play girls online (oddly most of them single), and there is not a large number of single women in our guild (but there is a few).
Seriously though - I hope organizations which are implementing this are seriously considering the security risks and implications. Though I fear the people trying to sell them this technology are emphasing the cost-savings and largely ignoring the potential for abuse.
I rememeber reading about a problems with a "nano" a while back - just went and dug up he article. On re-reading I realized that though it talks about nan particles and health problems, the conclusion was that it was not the nanoparticles causing the health issue, it was something else in the product specific to it being an aerosol:
The first time I encountered dolphins in the wild - it sent shivers up my spine. I was out on a tour boat in Portsmouth NH, and a pod approached our boat, one of them came right up to the side, stuck its head out of the water and lookd me right in the eye - its was like a person looking at me, not an animal. Its hard to put into words...but its was sure nothing like when my cat or some dog on the street looks at you...more like when an ape in the zoo does (sorry never seen any of them in th wild) - but there was even more of that sense of conciousness when this dolphin looked at me. Wish I knew its name so I could squeek hello.
I wish I had mod points. +5 - my GF asks me why I watch the Daily Show and the Colbert Report and get all upset about news like this - when we live in Canada. I tr yto explain to hher that what happensin the US has some impact on us, and that I am very concerned with the slow erosion of privacy and personal rights occuring in the US today. She just won't understand, so I tell her its okay - I worry enough or the both of us. It makes me glad I am not a US citizen - if I was I would be up in arms right about now.
To quote a few old folks:
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826), to Archibald Stuart, 1791
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790), Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759
....I mean jeez. They are not in the file compression business, they are in the "data protection" business. Specifically disk based backup. They make NO cliam regarding "data compression" - the 25X claim is explicitly in regards to the disk space required to backup data. What they say is that using their solution can lead to a 25x less disk space requirement for backups. It may involve some new compression algorithms, but appears to be more based on never backing up the same data more than once.
I mean come on - regionalized Internet - what don't you get about the internet? Like how it's made the global community that much smaller (in terms of virtual distances between disparate cultures and regions)? Personally, I visit foreign websites pretty much ever day. Even though I live in Canada I buy most of my music from Germany, I play an online game hosted on London England, but the developers are in Iceland. I talk to people in Serbia, Sweden, Israel......someone needs to bonk this guy with a clue-by-4. Globalization in the economic sense may not be a great thing, but globalization in a community/cultural sense - the sharing between people of different cultures and widely separated communities brought together instantaneously via the internet is a "good thing".
I pay for di.fm premium - and gladdly too - why? 'cause they play the kind of music I like, *and* its about the only place I know where I can hear new material to consider purchasing. I stopped listening to the radio in the 90's when grunge took over - our local "new music" station plays crap now.
One of the old MUD's (MUME: http://mume.pvv.org/mume.php) works a bit along those lines. Well the Personality line at least;)
In the last version I played, you didnot really pick a character type so much as learn various abilities which in turn made learning other abilities in that school easier. So, as a caster type I could lear n healing spells and offensive spells, but if I did not specialise in healing or offense, I would not be very good at either.
But I hear what you are saying, though it would be a terrible challenge to create a world that had persistence and maintained permanency, allowed personality and psychology but avoided chaos.
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No, Canadian entering the US are not fingerprinted. At least not yet, and from what I have read, its not planned to go in with the mandatory passports when entering the US via plane or boat.
I saw someone in Ikea last weekend buy a 2.59 item with Interac. I mean come on, whats the service fee on that? $1 or $1.50? Thats quite a markup for the convenience of paying with plastic.
Back in the late 80's I worked at a college that ran Netware (3.12) and everyone, from the dean to the part-time night students used the DOS version as their email client. It was rock solid. At that time I would hazard a guess that many colleges and universities which ran Netware and DOS machines used Pegasus as well.
I was quite sad to read its being discontinued.
Maybe you should look into importing yourself a sense of humour?
Um, cause by design RFID tags have no power source, they rely on an induction current from the reader for power?
DOH!
Have we gone from the loud but slow adagio of the root-kit fiasco to what...a moderato with this?
Still a ways to go til we hit anything really worth dancing to.
When I am on vacation - work is as far from my mind as I can put it (quite a distance!). We do take cell phones though - for emergency (ours or something wrong at home with the cats) and convenience. Actually this year we were away for 3 solid weeks, and some of the places we were - a CB would have been more practical for emergencies.
I never touch a computer on vacation, no internet cafe's at least - occasionally the spouse wants to send someone like her mom an email from a PC in a hotel lobby or the old fax room, but that's about it.
The vacations I used to take, I doubt even a CB radio would work, days from the nearest road-head (or road tail?) i nthe middle of the bush - those were the days.
Um, actually its already been done...as a musical that played in Toronto for a while. Since ticket sales were not up to expectations (and the one review I read said it was for the most part boring) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptations_of_The_Lo rd_of_the_Rings#Toronto_musical, they closed it down and put it on the road:
http://www.lotr.com/home.php - its opening in London next spring. We'll see how well it does there.
I was gonna post a witty comment, but what to say? Bah, piss on it...
I cannot see anywhere in the article (or the original site itself) where they are using any encryption whatsoever, it looks kinda unsecure to me. Yeah, the article says its as risky as wired access, but AFAIK no one is tapping my DSL line ;)
Nothing to see in Toronto - they were banned in late 2005. Not that the people who scream down the sidewalks on motorized carts, or the bicycles that think the sidewalk and intersections are for them and stop lights, stop signs and one way streets and such are only for cars pose any risk, oh no - only the Segway would pose a danger. Right.
All the oh-so-witty mangina and crying-game references aside, this is a very interesting article. And I think not that far off the mark.
My girlfriend and I (who met 7 years ago online but not in a MMOG) are heading down to the US next week to party with the folks we played EQ1 and now play WoW with. This is the third year for us, and the 4th year for the guild as a whole to hold an annual picnic. And ya know what? Its a blast, we don't just sit around re-hashing raids, or talking gear or skills, but actually find that we have this odd bond of trust and openess (likely due to spending countless hours together in somewhat stressful situations). We were really nervous the first year, but look forward to it even more each year. We are expecting from 40-50 people to show up this year, from all over the US (and us two from Canada). Quite a few of us are couples, yes, some are guys who play girls online (oddly most of them single), and there is not a large number of single women in our guild (but there is a few).
...since right about now the servers hosting it are on FIRE!!!!!
;)
I made it to about the 4th page before I got an error about too many connections
welcome our new RFID Tag pirating overlords.
Seriously though - I hope organizations which are implementing this are seriously considering the security risks and implications. Though I fear the people trying to sell them this technology are emphasing the cost-savings and largely ignoring the potential for abuse.
I rememeber reading about a problems with a "nano" a while back - just went and dug up he article. On re-reading I realized that though it talks about nan particles and health problems, the conclusion was that it was not the nanoparticles causing the health issue, it was something else in the product specific to it being an aerosol:
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http://www.economist.com/science/displayStory.cfm
The first time I encountered dolphins in the wild - it sent shivers up my spine. I was out on a tour boat in Portsmouth NH, and a pod approached our boat, one of them came right up to the side, stuck its head out of the water and lookd me right in the eye - its was like a person looking at me, not an animal. Its hard to put into words...but its was sure nothing like when my cat or some dog on the street looks at you...more like when an ape in the zoo does (sorry never seen any of them in th wild) - but there was even more of that sense of conciousness when this dolphin looked at me. Wish I knew its name so I could squeek hello.
I wish I had mod points. +5 - my GF asks me why I watch the Daily Show and the Colbert Report and get all upset about news like this - when we live in Canada. I tr yto explain to hher that what happensin the US has some impact on us, and that I am very concerned with the slow erosion of privacy and personal rights occuring in the US today. She just won't understand, so I tell her its okay - I worry enough or the both of us. It makes me glad I am not a US citizen - if I was I would be up in arms right about now.
To quote a few old folks:
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826), to Archibald Stuart, 1791
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790), Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759
Both taken from: http://www.quotationspage.com/subjects/freedom/
Thats the old news on the lawsuit...check the EFF website for the new injunction here:
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http://www.eff.org/news/archives/2006_04.php#0045
which cleary states they have evidence that AT&T is funneling internet traffic to the NSA in a wholesale manner.
....I mean jeez. They are not in the file compression business, they are in the "data protection" business. Specifically disk based backup. They make NO cliam regarding "data compression" - the 25X claim is explicitly in regards to the disk space required to backup data. What they say is that using their solution can lead to a 25x less disk space requirement for backups. It may involve some new compression algorithms, but appears to be more based on never backing up the same data more than once.
I wanted something I could use to carry my laptop to work, and use as a daypack when travelling, or shopping - so I got this:
D UCT%3C%3Eprd_id=845524442280621&FOLDER%3C%3Efolder _id=2534374302699713&bmUID=1144269078394
http://www.mec.ca/Products/product_detail.jsp?PRO
Serves me very well, and it stealthy too - sure does not look like a laptop case!
I mean come on - regionalized Internet - what don't you get about the internet? Like how it's made the global community that much smaller (in terms of virtual distances between disparate cultures and regions)? Personally, I visit foreign websites pretty much ever day. Even though I live in Canada I buy most of my music from Germany, I play an online game hosted on London England, but the developers are in Iceland. I talk to people in Serbia, Sweden, Israel... ...someone needs to bonk this guy with a clue-by-4. Globalization in the economic sense may not be a great thing, but globalization in a community/cultural sense - the sharing between people of different cultures and widely separated communities brought together instantaneously via the internet is a "good thing".
I pay for di.fm premium - and gladdly too - why? 'cause they play the kind of music I like, *and* its about the only place I know where I can hear new material to consider purchasing. I stopped listening to the radio in the 90's when grunge took over - our local "new music" station plays crap now.
You must be one of the players who characterizes anything they do not like by calling it "gay".
One of the old MUD's (MUME: http://mume.pvv.org/mume.php) works a bit along those lines. Well the Personality line at least ;)
In the last version I played, you didnot really pick a character type so much as learn various abilities which in turn made learning other abilities in that school easier. So, as a caster type I could lear n healing spells and offensive spells, but if I did not specialise in healing or offense, I would not be very good at either.
But I hear what you are saying, though it would be a terrible challenge to create a world that had persistence and maintained permanency, allowed personality and psychology but avoided chaos.