Each airline deciding this individually isn't really the right way to do this, though. Airlines may have incentives to be more tolerant of risk than passengers are comfortable with (similar to other safety measures). When buying a plane ticket, I shouldn't have to make my own assessment of the safety of flight plans or mechanical maintenance.
There should be an independent agency responsible for setting standards and compliance. Thankfully, there is. The FAA and EASA (EU equivalent) are responsible for issuing notices about which flight plan routes are safe and which aren't. Neither declared this airspace unsafe.
I'm guessing the majority of nasty accidents at intersections result from people trying to catch the tail end of the light... esp when combined with people who are getting a jump on the green.
1) Long yellow-light durations. You'll speed through a light that's just turned yellow, but you'll stop at a light that's been yellow for a while. My hometown (Fremont) found that adjusting this setting reduced red-light running by much more than installing intersection cameras: http://www.thenewspaper.com/news/34/3436.asp 2) Long pauses between the moment that one signal goes red and the cross-traffic's signal turns green. This allows the intersection to clear, even from assholes who still manage to run a red even after the long yellow.
Ironically (but predictably) what seems to happens when stoplight cameras are installed is a LOWERING of the yellow-light duration...
I don't know where you read that article, but it's total bullshit (if it even exists).
Quick searching online reveals tons of info on getting a work visa in both China and India, as well as success stories. I personally know people who have traveled to and worked in China teaching English (commercially).
That advice was given in the article. I'd add to that: check your states lemon laws.
I bought a Dell Inspiron 8200 when they first came out. I bought the extended warranty (3 years) and was very glad I did. Dell laptops are going to break. I had the little clip which holds the battery on break three times, the hard drive fail twice (and then the pins broke on the replacement hard drive, counting as a third breakage), I had it serviced for LCD-related issues three times, and there's some other problem I forgot about. This all happened over 3 years, and Dell was very quick on the gun to get my stuff fixed, usually sending replacement parts in 24 hours. I would have been screwed if I hadn't gotten the extended warranty.
As my warranty period came up, I started to get worried. The laptop was going to break again, and I'd be out in the cold. Turns out, in CA, if you get a computer serviced 3 or more times for the same problem, you can demand your money back. After some arguing with the Dell guys, they sent me an 8500 (refurb). My 3 year warranty expired the next week.
Point is: Paying the extra couple hundred bucks for the warranty saves you from buying a new laptop. After a feeling of joy, I felt a bit guilty about getting 2 laptops for the price of one. Then again, Dell chose to make laptops which fail constantly, not me...
A lot of people are going to be criticizing the wireless link and arguing that they should have used a physical link for this kind of stuff. The fact is, at some point you're going to have to get secure data over an insecure network, whether it be the internet or a wireless link.
If you're building a wifi link, you really should be using VPN over your WPA (not WEP!) link. If this was a database backup between servers then the protocol they were using should have been secure (SCP). If it was a client accessing resources on a server, the protocol should have been secure (https, or other ssl link).
Agreed. Seems like their Marketing money went to the wrong place. Had they instead used that money towards other marketing means (adsense or real world ads) they'd be in a much better situation.
Actually, if your business is run *entirely* off of referrals from one search engine, I would think it would make more sense to use marketing methods which generate referrals from other sources. You can't get away from being dependent on search engines if your business is an online one, but diversifying your income seems like a pretty good idea.
Uuuuuh what? Just because you can use webmail on your own server, doesn't mean it's the best option to use as your primary method of access.
I'm a bit biased, because I'm a hosting provider. Not only do I sympathize with privacy concerns, I also think that there's other major pluses to use a desktop based client with a traditional POP/IMAP provider. I don't use Gmail as my primary account, but do use it for subscriptions to newsgroups (the conversation feature and good search make this a great reason to use it).
1) Privacy: As a host, I don't rummage through users email, unless specifically asked to do it (by the user). 2) Support: It varies between hosts, but there's a lot of providers which will give you better support than Google if you have a problem 3) Offline/Downtime: Ability to do work when you're not connected to the server. Storing mail on the client (preferably as well as the server) allows you to work offline. And yes, Gmail goes down too. Usually I'm near the internet, but sometimes I need to open up my laptop and get an emailed address or phone number while on the road. 4) Archive: You have an archive of the data on your client. Google probably won't explode anytime soon (and if we get nuked you've got bigger things to worry about), but that doesn't mean people's accounts don't get deleted, etc. 5) Multiple points of access: If you use IMAP to a client, you've got it on your client and on the server, for webmail access. Best of both worlds. 6) Control: yes, you can forward mail around with gmail, but you can do more complex forwarding with a host (or your own server). You can also take your domain/email with you between hosts, or (gasp) forward it to gmail:)
I'd think of more good reasons, but dinner's ready:)
I wonder what other features this software has. Are these Game-Houses typically internet cafes? If so are these computers also used for web browsing?
Sure sure, I know China's already got the tap on these places. The sites these users visit (that aren't blocked), are probably logged for easy reviewing access. But it sure would be nice to tie browsing (and game-playing) history to one person, regardless as to what computer he sits at or cafe's he visits.
Monitoring in-game chat would also be a "nice" feature.
Oh, I agree completely. 56k may be a bit extreme (though it should be fine for reading journal articles!), and it's better to do the quota on a daily basis, rather than monthly. The point is that you have to have some pretty severe throttling for someone who's seeding/leeching a TON of traffic, and it needs to be automatic. Most schools have some pretty good connections, and they can take a large portion of their students transferring some media on a daily basis.
But you're right. Users can always get mad, which is why it's important to do this correctly. Stop the arms race by *not* targeting bittorrent traffic, and send email reminders when users get close to or reach their quota. Link to a page which says "Why is my internet connection slow?" with a script which gives them some graphs on their traffic, the rules, the fixes, and a tech support number. Also let them have a clickable "get out of jail free" button on the page, to be used once or twice...
Again, this is a good guide for ISPs too. As long as they let their user's know what they're getting, ahead of time, and charge appropriately. Too bad it'll never happen...
Just auth your users (whether it be on a physical port or otherwise), and tell them you're providing them X GB per month, and Y GB per day, before they're tripped down to 56k-connection-land. If they're hitting their daily/monthly quota regularly, lower the quota for them permanently. Of course you need to have a process in place to grant higher quotas to those who need them, or investigate why someone's hitting their quota all the time if they're on vacation, etc.
For a Uni this line of thought is easy to justify (if not a bit tricky to implement). The Uni network is for scholarly purposes, but we respect that you may want to download the new Gray's Anatomy every week. Just note that the more you screw off downloading games, movies, and songs, the more of a pain in the ass it's going to be for you to MySpace (or, gasp, do your homework) later that month.
This policy works great for ISPs, too, IF they are upfront about it. Which, of course, is the problem. They don't want to tell you that $60/mo "unlimited" connection is only for X amount of data before you're shaped...
I think if I ever run into Darl I'll run up to him and be like "Hey, Mr. McBride? Can I get an autograph..." "Thanks! Now I just have to get the Enron guys and I'll have the whole set!
Uh, when did you go visit? Because (I'm assuming) since you've been there the military has overthrown the government and remains in power.
While I fully support the right of a group of people to determine how they want to best be governed (say, whether a particular act of defacement is wrong or not), I don't see how this can be achieved when the military is running the country, with no authority given to them by the people, who have no say in a possible referendum of their policy.
The reason why this is news is because it's censorship by a group who everyone (including the Thai people) is concerned will try to centralize power in their hands and not give it back (as they promised they would).
That's the thing, a lot of people want to use EVDO access as their primary internet connection. Sure, it's not as fast as their Comcast connection at home, but if you're on the road for weeks at a time or (for some reason or another) it's tricky to get DSL/Cable at your house, EVDO is a great option.
With a 5GB limit, Verizon is saying "no, that $60 a month (on top of your phone plan) is for just signing on to check your email, not to download photos of the kids, patch Windows on the run, or get your iTunes music." It's pretty contrary to what they advertise when they're touting how fast and unlimited it is, like broadband anywhere!!!!
A photo journalist who bought their service to upload pictures from the field is screwed, a band who bought the service to stream their concerts live is screwed, and actually, anyone who doesn't sign on to do really basic stuff is screwed.
Let's say you like listening to Digitally Imported or some other internet radio service for 3 hours a day, while you're traveling around the country. A 128 kilobit stream for 3 hours a day, for 30 days is almost 5 gigs right there. If your "unlimited" internet access can't handle a little streaming music without putting you over your bandwidth cap, then there's no way you can compare it to a fixed broadband connection, which is what they do in their advertising...
People, generally, speak very differently to others while in their presence than they do while on the phone. Let's look at the example of a moderately busy restaurant at lunchtime (not, say, TGIF during happy hour or kids-eat-free day at IHOP). Most of the time the "annoying" people in the restaurant are people on cell phones.
Why do these cell-phone-people stand out, and why is this even trickier on planes? Several theories:
1) restaurants (and planes) are areas where it has traditionally been impossible and/or impolite to be on the telephone. People are paying quite a bit of money to enjoy their meal/trip, and expect some level of decorum from those around them.
2) When conversing with someone who is next to you, they can also observe the atmosphere and tailor the conversation (content, volume, laughter, emotion) to be appropriate. One party is probably not on the plane, and the party who is tends to get lost in conversation and converse without this regard. Is it the person on the planes responsibility to be polite? Yes. Do cell phones foster this behavior? I say no.
3) WHAT?!?!??! I'M ON THE AIRPLANE? CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW?
4) In a restaurant and in an airplane people often try to converse, get business done, and eat. But planes have other considerations also. People try to watch movies (and no, headphones don't cancel out loud talking), sleep, read, or work diligently on their laptops. Some of these things are pretty hard to do when a large percentage of people are on the phone.
5) Extremely confined spaces mean people can be more irritable, and also require more consideration of others. Airplanes make quite a large number of people nervous, since they often combine numerous phobias/anxieties into one ordeal. Activities which foster respect, quiet, calm, and polite behavior should be fostered (such as movies, reading, sleeping, eating, headphone-music), and activities which don't shouldn't be (everyone on their cell phone, first-class vs coach rugby, or a lan party). Although those things may be rather fun on a plane, they're not exactly calm-enducing:)
Is there a middle road? Yes, and the airlines have a responsibility to try to promote it. Loud cell phone conversations should be given warnings, and then barred from use on 2nd or 3rd offense. On long haul flights, specific blocks of time should be set aside as no-cell-phone period, say when the lights go out for nap time or a movie is playing. Having some mention of these things by the crew serves a reminder that cell-phone politeness is really important on a plane. Staff shouldn't lie about why cell phones aren't allowed during certain periods, though, that's counter productive.
Do I think airlines care about these things? Maybe. They probably care more about money, though, and that's why they're going in the direction they're going (i.e., no VoIP on wifi, pay for cell phone service, encourage seat-back phone use, etc). As someone who tries to get things done on a plane (business, reading, etc) I welcome the option to use my cell phone at a reasonable rate, but I also feel that I'd be less-productive if everyone (including myself) turns plane rides into Verizon commercials.
I was traveling internationally, lost my wallet, reported cards as stolen. Ended up finding the wallet (with money, yay!) but had to wait for my new cards to get to my house in the US, and then to me in Europe.
Fast forward 2 weeks. I receive my cards in Europe and 2 days later I notice that there's a charge on one of my cards for something I didn't buy. And it was made BETWEEN the times that I reported my card "stolen" and when I activated my new card. The charges are getting wiped off my bill, but still, I'll never know what was going on.
Did someone at the hotel get my card number? If so, how could they use it 1 1/2 weeks after it was reported stolen? Did someone grab the number while it was being shipped in the USPS (charges were before it was shipped int'l)? If so, how could they use a card before it's activated? Was it just an error at my Financial Institution? How can that happen?
Unfortunately Providian (now WaMu) won't tell me what card number they used to make the transaction (new one or old one?). That would narrow it down a lot, but they claim "they don't have that information." I don't know what would worry me more, them actually not having that information or them lying to me to cover their ass, but I suspect it's the latter...
So, FUSE (Filesystem in Userspace), which can be run on a number of platforms, allows you to mount your Gmail account like a drive. If you copy data to this disk, it uploads it to your Gmail account as a message/attachment. So now you have a ~3GB hosted virtual drive, albeit with pretty slow access speeds... Pretty wild stuff.
Unlimited messagees on Yahoo makes me hope someone is working on a libYmail component, allowing FUSE to do the same with Yahoo Mail. Got a 15 gigs of TV shows/movies/porn which you've been thinking about deleting anyway? Let Yahoo have them!
Users are subject to Yahoo's abuse policies, which requires users to follow "normal email practices" and not engage in activities like using Yahoo mail for basic online storage (a number of services have popped up to help people use Gmail for this purpose). Abusive accounts will not be summarily deleted - users will be notified by Yahoo and/or accounts suspended, but users will still have access to the data.
If you get caught, Yahoo seems to allow you to pull the data back down. If they won't (I'm going to guess they're going to change that policy pretty quick), then oh well, you were going to delete that stuff anyway!:)
Off the top of my head, it seems like the best place to implement these would be in places where you would be artificially altering the coastline anyway. Ports and harbors would be a good example, or the areas surrounding landfills.
Levees, such as those in New Orleans, are built to keep the harsh waves at bay, and something which absorbed them like this would be extremely beneficial. You're building the levee and disrupting marine life anyway, so you may as well do it in a way which reduces your environmental footprint.
I don't think anybody is advocating excavating coral reefs and replacing them with wave-farms to "save the environment"...
Ultimate Language Translation researchers should probably compete along a stretch of the Mojave desert so as not to injure or offend nearby native speakers
What he SHOULD have done was printed them out with VOID or his site URL printed diagonally across the ticket. In that way it's a proof of concept, and he can't be accused of directly allowing terrorists to use his tickets.
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Each airline deciding this individually isn't really the right way to do this, though. Airlines may have incentives to be more tolerant of risk than passengers are comfortable with (similar to other safety measures). When buying a plane ticket, I shouldn't have to make my own assessment of the safety of flight plans or mechanical maintenance.
There should be an independent agency responsible for setting standards and compliance. Thankfully, there is. The FAA and EASA (EU equivalent) are responsible for issuing notices about which flight plan routes are safe and which aren't. Neither declared this airspace unsafe.
Why do I get the feeling that there is some motivation (other than lost farming equipment) behind the resistance to the LightSquared network?
I'm guessing the majority of nasty accidents at intersections result from people trying to catch the tail end of the light... esp when combined with people who are getting a jump on the green.
1) Long yellow-light durations. You'll speed through a light that's just turned yellow, but you'll stop at a light that's been yellow for a while. My hometown (Fremont) found that adjusting this setting reduced red-light running by much more than installing intersection cameras: http://www.thenewspaper.com/news/34/3436.asp
2) Long pauses between the moment that one signal goes red and the cross-traffic's signal turns green. This allows the intersection to clear, even from assholes who still manage to run a red even after the long yellow.
Ironically (but predictably) what seems to happens when stoplight cameras are installed is a LOWERING of the yellow-light duration...
I don't know where you read that article, but it's total bullshit (if it even exists).
Quick searching online reveals tons of info on getting a work visa in both China and India, as well as success stories. I personally know people who have traveled to and worked in China teaching English (commercially).
China's program is called a Z-Visa: http://www.ehow.com/how_2365046_get-work-visa-china.html
India's Employment Visa: http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview/id/597004.html
That advice was given in the article. I'd add to that: check your states lemon laws.
I bought a Dell Inspiron 8200 when they first came out. I bought the extended warranty (3 years) and was very glad I did. Dell laptops are going to break. I had the little clip which holds the battery on break three times, the hard drive fail twice (and then the pins broke on the replacement hard drive, counting as a third breakage), I had it serviced for LCD-related issues three times, and there's some other problem I forgot about. This all happened over 3 years, and Dell was very quick on the gun to get my stuff fixed, usually sending replacement parts in 24 hours. I would have been screwed if I hadn't gotten the extended warranty.
As my warranty period came up, I started to get worried. The laptop was going to break again, and I'd be out in the cold. Turns out, in CA, if you get a computer serviced 3 or more times for the same problem, you can demand your money back. After some arguing with the Dell guys, they sent me an 8500 (refurb). My 3 year warranty expired the next week.
Point is: Paying the extra couple hundred bucks for the warranty saves you from buying a new laptop. After a feeling of joy, I felt a bit guilty about getting 2 laptops for the price of one. Then again, Dell chose to make laptops which fail constantly, not me...
netherlands?
A lot of people are going to be criticizing the wireless link and arguing that they should have used a physical link for this kind of stuff. The fact is, at some point you're going to have to get secure data over an insecure network, whether it be the internet or a wireless link.
If you're building a wifi link, you really should be using VPN over your WPA (not WEP!) link. If this was a database backup between servers then the protocol they were using should have been secure (SCP). If it was a client accessing resources on a server, the protocol should have been secure (https, or other ssl link).
Agreed. Seems like their Marketing money went to the wrong place. Had they instead used that money towards other marketing means (adsense or real world ads) they'd be in a much better situation.
Actually, if your business is run *entirely* off of referrals from one search engine, I would think it would make more sense to use marketing methods which generate referrals from other sources. You can't get away from being dependent on search engines if your business is an online one, but diversifying your income seems like a pretty good idea.
Uuuuuh what? Just because you can use webmail on your own server, doesn't mean it's the best option to use as your primary method of access.
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I'm a bit biased, because I'm a hosting provider. Not only do I sympathize with privacy concerns, I also think that there's other major pluses to use a desktop based client with a traditional POP/IMAP provider. I don't use Gmail as my primary account, but do use it for subscriptions to newsgroups (the conversation feature and good search make this a great reason to use it).
1) Privacy: As a host, I don't rummage through users email, unless specifically asked to do it (by the user).
2) Support: It varies between hosts, but there's a lot of providers which will give you better support than Google if you have a problem
3) Offline/Downtime: Ability to do work when you're not connected to the server. Storing mail on the client (preferably as well as the server) allows you to work offline. And yes, Gmail goes down too. Usually I'm near the internet, but sometimes I need to open up my laptop and get an emailed address or phone number while on the road.
4) Archive: You have an archive of the data on your client. Google probably won't explode anytime soon (and if we get nuked you've got bigger things to worry about), but that doesn't mean people's accounts don't get deleted, etc.
5) Multiple points of access: If you use IMAP to a client, you've got it on your client and on the server, for webmail access. Best of both worlds.
6) Control: yes, you can forward mail around with gmail, but you can do more complex forwarding with a host (or your own server). You can also take your domain/email with you between hosts, or (gasp) forward it to gmail
I'd think of more good reasons, but dinner's ready
I wonder what other features this software has. Are these Game-Houses typically internet cafes? If so are these computers also used for web browsing?
Sure sure, I know China's already got the tap on these places. The sites these users visit (that aren't blocked), are probably logged for easy reviewing access. But it sure would be nice to tie browsing (and game-playing) history to one person, regardless as to what computer he sits at or cafe's he visits.
Monitoring in-game chat would also be a "nice" feature.
-Derek
The correct spelling of the word:
Privilig..errr
Privelig..errr
Privileges!
Preferably on the cover of the book.
They already exist! $25 for one that supports one flash card, and $30 for one that supports 2. :)
Oh, I agree completely. 56k may be a bit extreme (though it should be fine for reading journal articles!), and it's better to do the quota on a daily basis, rather than monthly. The point is that you have to have some pretty severe throttling for someone who's seeding/leeching a TON of traffic, and it needs to be automatic. Most schools have some pretty good connections, and they can take a large portion of their students transferring some media on a daily basis.
But you're right. Users can always get mad, which is why it's important to do this correctly. Stop the arms race by *not* targeting bittorrent traffic, and send email reminders when users get close to or reach their quota. Link to a page which says "Why is my internet connection slow?" with a script which gives them some graphs on their traffic, the rules, the fixes, and a tech support number. Also let them have a clickable "get out of jail free" button on the page, to be used once or twice...
Again, this is a good guide for ISPs too. As long as they let their user's know what they're getting, ahead of time, and charge appropriately. Too bad it'll never happen...
This can be solved easily.
Just auth your users (whether it be on a physical port or otherwise), and tell them you're providing them X GB per month, and Y GB per day, before they're tripped down to 56k-connection-land. If they're hitting their daily/monthly quota regularly, lower the quota for them permanently. Of course you need to have a process in place to grant higher quotas to those who need them, or investigate why someone's hitting their quota all the time if they're on vacation, etc.
For a Uni this line of thought is easy to justify (if not a bit tricky to implement). The Uni network is for scholarly purposes, but we respect that you may want to download the new Gray's Anatomy every week. Just note that the more you screw off downloading games, movies, and songs, the more of a pain in the ass it's going to be for you to MySpace (or, gasp, do your homework) later that month.
This policy works great for ISPs, too, IF they are upfront about it. Which, of course, is the problem. They don't want to tell you that $60/mo "unlimited" connection is only for X amount of data before you're shaped...
I think if I ever run into Darl I'll run up to him and be like "Hey, Mr. McBride? Can I get an autograph..." "Thanks! Now I just have to get the Enron guys and I'll have the whole set!
Uh, when did you go visit? Because (I'm assuming) since you've been there the military has overthrown the government and remains in power.
While I fully support the right of a group of people to determine how they want to best be governed (say, whether a particular act of defacement is wrong or not), I don't see how this can be achieved when the military is running the country, with no authority given to them by the people, who have no say in a possible referendum of their policy.
The reason why this is news is because it's censorship by a group who everyone (including the Thai people) is concerned will try to centralize power in their hands and not give it back (as they promised they would).
That's the thing, a lot of people want to use EVDO access as their primary internet connection. Sure, it's not as fast as their Comcast connection at home, but if you're on the road for weeks at a time or (for some reason or another) it's tricky to get DSL/Cable at your house, EVDO is a great option.
With a 5GB limit, Verizon is saying "no, that $60 a month (on top of your phone plan) is for just signing on to check your email, not to download photos of the kids, patch Windows on the run, or get your iTunes music." It's pretty contrary to what they advertise when they're touting how fast and unlimited it is, like broadband anywhere!!!!
A photo journalist who bought their service to upload pictures from the field is screwed, a band who bought the service to stream their concerts live is screwed, and actually, anyone who doesn't sign on to do really basic stuff is screwed.
Let's say you like listening to Digitally Imported or some other internet radio service for 3 hours a day, while you're traveling around the country. A 128 kilobit stream for 3 hours a day, for 30 days is almost 5 gigs right there. If your "unlimited" internet access can't handle a little streaming music without putting you over your bandwidth cap, then there's no way you can compare it to a fixed broadband connection, which is what they do in their advertising...
People, generally, speak very differently to others while in their presence than they do while on the phone. Let's look at the example of a moderately busy restaurant at lunchtime (not, say, TGIF during happy hour or kids-eat-free day at IHOP). Most of the time the "annoying" people in the restaurant are people on cell phones.
:)
Why do these cell-phone-people stand out, and why is this even trickier on planes? Several theories:
1) restaurants (and planes) are areas where it has traditionally been impossible and/or impolite to be on the telephone. People are paying quite a bit of money to enjoy their meal/trip, and expect some level of decorum from those around them.
2) When conversing with someone who is next to you, they can also observe the atmosphere and tailor the conversation (content, volume, laughter, emotion) to be appropriate. One party is probably not on the plane, and the party who is tends to get lost in conversation and converse without this regard. Is it the person on the planes responsibility to be polite? Yes. Do cell phones foster this behavior? I say no.
3) WHAT?!?!??! I'M ON THE AIRPLANE? CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW?
4) In a restaurant and in an airplane people often try to converse, get business done, and eat. But planes have other considerations also. People try to watch movies (and no, headphones don't cancel out loud talking), sleep, read, or work diligently on their laptops. Some of these things are pretty hard to do when a large percentage of people are on the phone.
5) Extremely confined spaces mean people can be more irritable, and also require more consideration of others. Airplanes make quite a large number of people nervous, since they often combine numerous phobias/anxieties into one ordeal. Activities which foster respect, quiet, calm, and polite behavior should be fostered (such as movies, reading, sleeping, eating, headphone-music), and activities which don't shouldn't be (everyone on their cell phone, first-class vs coach rugby, or a lan party). Although those things may be rather fun on a plane, they're not exactly calm-enducing
Is there a middle road? Yes, and the airlines have a responsibility to try to promote it. Loud cell phone conversations should be given warnings, and then barred from use on 2nd or 3rd offense. On long haul flights, specific blocks of time should be set aside as no-cell-phone period, say when the lights go out for nap time or a movie is playing. Having some mention of these things by the crew serves a reminder that cell-phone politeness is really important on a plane. Staff shouldn't lie about why cell phones aren't allowed during certain periods, though, that's counter productive.
Do I think airlines care about these things? Maybe. They probably care more about money, though, and that's why they're going in the direction they're going (i.e., no VoIP on wifi, pay for cell phone service, encourage seat-back phone use, etc). As someone who tries to get things done on a plane (business, reading, etc) I welcome the option to use my cell phone at a reasonable rate, but I also feel that I'd be less-productive if everyone (including myself) turns plane rides into Verizon commercials.
Hopefully they'll devote enough resources at keeping this information as secure as they do for my SSN.
This EXACT situation happened to me.
I was traveling internationally, lost my wallet, reported cards as stolen. Ended up finding the wallet (with money, yay!) but had to wait for my new cards to get to my house in the US, and then to me in Europe.
Fast forward 2 weeks. I receive my cards in Europe and 2 days later I notice that there's a charge on one of my cards for something I didn't buy. And it was made BETWEEN the times that I reported my card "stolen" and when I activated my new card. The charges are getting wiped off my bill, but still, I'll never know what was going on.
Did someone at the hotel get my card number? If so, how could they use it 1 1/2 weeks after it was reported stolen?
Did someone grab the number while it was being shipped in the USPS (charges were before it was shipped int'l)? If so, how could they use a card before it's activated?
Was it just an error at my Financial Institution? How can that happen?
Unfortunately Providian (now WaMu) won't tell me what card number they used to make the transaction (new one or old one?). That would narrow it down a lot, but they claim "they don't have that information." I don't know what would worry me more, them actually not having that information or them lying to me to cover their ass, but I suspect it's the latter...
This explains SOOOOO much about /. comments! Clearly almost everyone here is using this implementation.
So, FUSE (Filesystem in Userspace), which can be run on a number of platforms, allows you to mount your Gmail account like a drive. If you copy data to this disk, it uploads it to your Gmail account as a message/attachment. So now you have a ~3GB hosted virtual drive, albeit with pretty slow access speeds... Pretty wild stuff.
Unlimited messagees on Yahoo makes me hope someone is working on a libYmail component, allowing FUSE to do the same with Yahoo Mail. Got a 15 gigs of TV shows/movies/porn which you've been thinking about deleting anyway? Let Yahoo have them!
From this other article:
If you get caught, Yahoo seems to allow you to pull the data back down. If they won't (I'm going to guess they're going to change that policy pretty quick), then oh well, you were going to delete that stuff anyway! :)
Off the top of my head, it seems like the best place to implement these would be in places where you would be artificially altering the coastline anyway. Ports and harbors would be a good example, or the areas surrounding landfills.
Levees, such as those in New Orleans, are built to keep the harsh waves at bay, and something which absorbed them like this would be extremely beneficial. You're building the levee and disrupting marine life anyway, so you may as well do it in a way which reduces your environmental footprint.
I don't think anybody is advocating excavating coral reefs and replacing them with wave-farms to "save the environment"...
Ultimate Language Translation researchers should probably compete along a stretch of the Mojave desert so as not to injure or offend nearby native speakers
What he SHOULD have done was printed them out with VOID or his site URL printed diagonally across the ticket. In that way it's a proof of concept, and he can't be accused of directly allowing terrorists to use his tickets.