you get yourself a bunch of private pipes, and you use them as a backbone using IP, and you use a private set of addresses like the 10-net, and you make no connections whatsoever between this and The Connected Internet.
What you advocate is not "an internet" - it is an Intranet. Or you might call it a private network.
I agree that the fingerprint has likely evolved very little in the last 60 years - perhaps hundreds of thousands of years! However, the evolution of *fingerprinting* technology is more to the scale mentioned in the story. Or, am I being too picky?
As far I'm concerned, destroying the drive physically is without doubt the safest way to go. Of course, if the drive is still useful I'll wipe it DOD and repurpose it. But when it's time to dispose of those old platters, the drive will meet a harsh end. One of my favorite how-to vids on the topic: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAZlFoYa41c
Lack of sufficient postage was not an oversight - it was a strategic move. By paying for the delivery, proof of receipt is not in question. Sons of bastages!
It seems of late, at least in the Roman Catholic that while voluntary, tithing is expected. And you get a nice card spelling out just how much you "owe" based on what you make (they have the ranges factored out for you already). One more reason I don't visit so much any more. Shame, really - to have your religion make you feel uncomfortable when you visit.
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you get yourself a bunch of private pipes, and you use them as a backbone using IP, and you use a private set of addresses like the 10-net, and you make no connections whatsoever between this and The Connected Internet.
What you advocate is not "an internet" - it is an Intranet. Or you might call it a private network.
I agree that the fingerprint has likely evolved very little in the last 60 years - perhaps hundreds of thousands of years! However, the evolution of *fingerprinting* technology is more to the scale mentioned in the story. Or, am I being too picky?
I was *SO* not expecting that.
As far I'm concerned, destroying the drive physically is without doubt the safest way to go. Of course, if the drive is still useful I'll wipe it DOD and repurpose it. But when it's time to dispose of those old platters, the drive will meet a harsh end. One of my favorite how-to vids on the topic: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAZlFoYa41c
Lack of sufficient postage was not an oversight - it was a strategic move. By paying for the delivery, proof of receipt is not in question. Sons of bastages!
It seems of late, at least in the Roman Catholic that while voluntary, tithing is expected. And you get a nice card spelling out just how much you "owe" based on what you make (they have the ranges factored out for you already). One more reason I don't visit so much any more. Shame, really - to have your religion make you feel uncomfortable when you visit.
Ah, that would be * bung * hole, not bum. (Heh, heh - he said "hole". Heh.)