Not really. They US government says that they don't have a record of it.
Think about who is speaking. The US government are the people in the world with most interest in proving links between SH and 9/11. When they say they can't find any support for it, after years of trying, desperate for even the smallest shred, I think we can be reasonably sure there is none.
In any case the idea was allways rather odd. Saddam was near the top of Bin Laden's hate list, and knew it. There might be some level of enemy of my enemy, but he was hardly going to risk actual involvement in an attack on the US which, if it worked, would move him up the list of targets.
If you like conspiracy theories, there is a much better one to be had if you start from the fact that one of the direct effects of the fall of SH was that Bush was able to comply with Bin Laden's main demand that US troops be removed from Saudi Arabia...
Does it strike anyone else as worrying that these people are dim enough to use a computer security related codeword to label a computer security related investigation?
They probably have Password as their password too.
That there is also evidence for: Saddam was integral in the attacks of WTC1, OKC, and 9-11 [etc]
Well, in the sense there is evidence for Elvis being alive and well and abducting people in his flying saucer to anally probe them with an everlasting lightbulb supplied by the Illuminati.
It has always been pretty easy to do this from a PBX, now it's just open to the masses.
What amazes, and pleases, me is that so many of the people I don't want to answer the phone for withhold their number. If they gave the real number I might answer, but if they withhold it I don't (at least not outside office hours).
Can you think of a time when NK, Iran, or Iraq were peaceful?
NK has been fairly peaceful for ages. Starving people don't cause too many problems.
Iran has been reasonably peaceful since they got rid of the Shah, except when attacked by Iraq. Since both the Shah and Iraq were being supported by the US, the lesson there seems to say more about the US than Iran.
Iraq was a pain in the world's arse, but Since they got their arse kicked out of Kuwait and were being kept forcably quiet, they were reasonably innocuous. Until the US decided to stir up trouble there again to distract attention from Afganistan, where Ossama was refusing to be a nice puppet.
On the whole, the `axis of evil' was fairly peaceful, so far as the outside world was concerned. Bastards to their own people of course. probably almost as dangerous to live in Iraq before the US invaded as it is now the US has turned the place into a terrorists' heaven.
I can't wait to read the the response to his invitation.
Since no one sane replies to a MAKE MONEY FAST email, which is what his message is, the only entertainment to be gained from the replies will be of the rather sick kind people get from watching cripples fall dosn stairs.
Mind you, I'm pretty sick myself when it comes to humour...
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Freedom of the Press means that if there is a right-wing channel, you are free to start a left wing channel.
From reading the how it was compiled page, I can't tell to what extent they take that issue into account. They talk about regulatory authorities, but from context it seems they might just be looking at what regulation there is of existing channels.
removed from the initial bill is not `gone for good'.
Like universallity and enforced carrying of the cards it can and will be introduced as an incremental change later.
I mean, if you have an ID card and a passport and a driving licence, why should you have to remember where they all are? Let the nic egovernment make your life simpler by combining them...
I already have an ID that I carry everywhere. It is called a drivers license.
That you do carry it with you is not the same as if you had to. You don't even have to have one.
And the driver's licence is connected to a quite limited (and by all accounts crap) database which doesn't doesn't have the ability to connect it to everything else about you.
Of course, even a limited ID and database can and will lead to bad consequences. A man was sent to prison last week for using his position at the DVLA to pass on the names and addresses of the drivers of cars which were seen visitig a farm to animal rights loonies, who then started to terrorise the families involved.
Scale that up to a database linking your car licence to your government issued ID to your bank details to your health records to your school records, to the register of who is related to you by births/deaths/marriage or because you mentioned them on a tax return to your membership of organisations you payed fees to from your bank account to...
Even if we were (bizzarely) to totally trust this and all possible future governemnts, do we trust everyone employed by every small government agency?
Things are bad enough as it is, with NI numbers as the worst part. But the main advertised reason for the new cards is to make finding these kinds of links trivial rather than requiring some work.
At the moment there is only an issue of someone takes an interest. With a unified scheme in place, the whole range of automated fishing and data warehousing techniques -- and those which will be developed in the future as technology continues to evolve -- will be available to that animal rights loonie and his equivalents and every bent policemen with a grudge and, of course, to the political party in power.
A final example. Anyone remeber Shirley Porter and her scheme to sell off council houses in marginal wards on the theory that home owners were more likely to vote Tory? Imagine what schemes for subtle vote manipulation are available once you can link all this information together.
At least they haven't got arround to proposing electronic voting yet, though the all-postal votes may be a step that way.
I'd love to have them embedded in my books, DVDs, and so forth so I could get an inventory and stop buying the same books over and over again because I can't remember which ones i own..:(
Scan the barcodes. Eg with http://www.collectorz.com/book/. I keep meaning to have a go at this for my books, but doing my CDs used up this decade's allocation of can be arsedness.
Over half of you don't even know what Sender ID is or how it works.
This is actually irrelevent. The problem is not with the technical details but the legalities. So long as there is a patented technology included without a universal right to use for any purpose, the proposal stinks and needs to be kicked in the head.
it is interesting that we have settled for an interface that is ideally suited for someone with three hands.
What you need is a chord keyboard and a mouse.
Even better, a chord keyboard which is a mouse. That would finally mean that it would be posible to use a computer while holding a piece of paper, or flicking through a book or just while drinking coffee to keep you're brain in a fit state to supply something useful to type.
A guy who invented the Mac interface deserves at least [that you read his opinions].
You mean adapted the Xerox interface for the Mac?
A guy who promotes design ing software optimized for [human] restrictions is worthy of some respect,
True, but I'm not sure I agree with his reading of what those restrictions are. For instance, the assumption that people can not efficiantly deal with multiple things at once (the main assumption which makes using a Mac painful, with click-to-type-and-raise and the use-one-application-then-swap arangement) is clearly bogus as anyone who has seen a parent looking after two children while cooking and talking on the phone knows. Perhaps narrow concentration is just a common feature of technical people and psychologists resulting in over-generalisation.
On the other hand, his model of operations and dislike of modes at least puts him on the side of the angels in the vi vs. emacs wars.:-)
How about being able to download old episodes of Dr Who from a phone booth...
Dr Who had a police box, not a phone box. Presumably phone box would sell you the Superman theme, and possibly allow you to order lycra body stickings and underwear online for really quick delivery.
Anyway, around here the police boxes have all turned into coffee kiosks. I'm not sure what test to run to find out if this is real or if they have fixed the chameleon circuits.
Er, no they aren't. The set of people with any kind of digital music player is rather larger.
They aren't losing money on telephone calls, they are losing money on having the hardware standing around not earning money, so anything they can do with little or no more hardware which drags in a few more users will probably be a small win.
Not that I think this is going to be very profitable. Mostly I expect this is just an advertising press release, designed to draw attention to their kiosks.
Mind you, the people who buy ringtones might be a market. The latest thing on phones seems to be MP3 ringtones, presumably rather bigger than midi ones. So perhaps the kind of peron who changes their ringtone every other day (bizzare IMO) might be tempted to get anew one every time they walk past the kiosk in the shopping centre.
[...] but probably a better record than humans remembering hundreds of faces from suspect warning mugshots.
This is comparing a person to a database of one, on their passport, so it is supposed to be an alternative to someone comparing the face in front of them to the photograph in front of them.
Well for the UK government the reason is 'because it's new and a very nice man from [insert name of big IT company] told us that everyone would want it next year.'
no, from the UK gov. POV it is because the US government told them to.
What I can't work out is why the US governemnt chose such a turkey of a system. Perhaps someone should check the Homeland Security bigwigs for interests in the companies involved.
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Think about who is speaking. The US government are the people in the world with most interest in proving links between SH and 9/11. When they say they can't find any support for it, after years of trying, desperate for even the smallest shred, I think we can be reasonably sure there is none.
In any case the idea was allways rather odd. Saddam was near the top of Bin Laden's hate list, and knew it. There might be some level of enemy of my enemy, but he was hardly going to risk actual involvement in an attack on the US which, if it worked, would move him up the list of targets.
If you like conspiracy theories, there is a much better one to be had if you start from the fact that one of the direct effects of the fall of SH was that Bush was able to comply with Bin Laden's main demand that US troops be removed from Saudi Arabia...
They probably have Password as their password too.
However, the US government says the Czech governemrnt are raving. (in nice diplomatic language of course).
Well, in the sense there is evidence for Elvis being alive and well and abducting people in his flying saucer to anally probe them with an everlasting lightbulb supplied by the Illuminati.
What amazes, and pleases, me is that so many of the people I don't want to answer the phone for withhold their number. If they gave the real number I might answer, but if they withhold it I don't (at least not outside office hours).
Someone should tell them they need to get a pointless flash front page or no one will take them seriously.
NK has been fairly peaceful for ages. Starving people don't cause too many problems.
Iran has been reasonably peaceful since they got rid of the Shah, except when attacked by Iraq. Since both the Shah and Iraq were being supported by the US, the lesson there seems to say more about the US than Iran.
Iraq was a pain in the world's arse, but Since they got their arse kicked out of Kuwait and were being kept forcably quiet, they were reasonably innocuous. Until the US decided to stir up trouble there again to distract attention from Afganistan, where Ossama was refusing to be a nice puppet.
On the whole, the `axis of evil' was fairly peaceful, so far as the outside world was concerned. Bastards to their own people of course. probably almost as dangerous to live in Iraq before the US invaded as it is now the US has turned the place into a terrorists' heaven.
Since no one sane replies to a MAKE MONEY FAST email, which is what his message is, the only entertainment to be gained from the replies will be of the rather sick kind people get from watching cripples fall dosn stairs.
Mind you, I'm pretty sick myself when it comes to humour...
Pope takes a shit in the woods.
From reading the how it was compiled page, I can't tell to what extent they take that issue into account. They talk about regulatory authorities, but from context it seems they might just be looking at what regulation there is of existing channels.
Like universallity and enforced carrying of the cards it can and will be introduced as an incremental change later.
I mean, if you have an ID card and a passport and a driving licence, why should you have to remember where they all are? Let the nic egovernment make your life simpler by combining them...
That you do carry it with you is not the same as if you had to. You don't even have to have one.
And the driver's licence is connected to a quite limited (and by all accounts crap) database which doesn't doesn't have the ability to connect it to everything else about you.
Of course, even a limited ID and database can and will lead to bad consequences. A man was sent to prison last week for using his position at the DVLA to pass on the names and addresses of the drivers of cars which were seen visitig a farm to animal rights loonies, who then started to terrorise the families involved.
Scale that up to a database linking your car licence to your government issued ID to your bank details to your health records to your school records, to the register of who is related to you by births/deaths/marriage or because you mentioned them on a tax return to your membership of organisations you payed fees to from your bank account to ...
Even if we were (bizzarely) to totally trust this and all possible future governemnts, do we trust everyone employed by every small government agency?
Things are bad enough as it is, with NI numbers as the worst part. But the main advertised reason for the new cards is to make finding these kinds of links trivial rather than requiring some work.
At the moment there is only an issue of someone takes an interest. With a unified scheme in place, the whole range of automated fishing and data warehousing techniques -- and those which will be developed in the future as technology continues to evolve -- will be available to that animal rights loonie and his equivalents and every bent policemen with a grudge and, of course, to the political party in power.
A final example. Anyone remeber Shirley Porter and her scheme to sell off council houses in marginal wards on the theory that home owners were more likely to vote Tory? Imagine what schemes for subtle vote manipulation are available once you can link all this information together.
At least they haven't got arround to proposing electronic voting yet, though the all-postal votes may be a step that way.
Scan the barcodes. Eg with http://www.collectorz.com/book/. I keep meaning to have a go at this for my books, but doing my CDs used up this decade's allocation of can be arsedness.
Wouldn't they get more energy from thrash metal?
This is actually irrelevent. The problem is not with the technical details but the legalities. So long as there is a patented technology included without a universal right to use for any purpose, the proposal stinks and needs to be kicked in the head.
True, but I can't see why you'd care. When was the last time you wrote in assembler? Someone has done the hard work of putting linux on the thing.
That's 65 quid for something which is already running linux and can be hacked. Bit over $100, but then hardware is usually cheaper in the US.
Of course it's not a desktop, but that's not in the rules.
What you need is a chord keyboard and a mouse.
Even better, a chord keyboard which is a mouse. That would finally mean that it would be posible to use a computer while holding a piece of paper, or flicking through a book or just while drinking coffee to keep you're brain in a fit state to supply something useful to type.
You mean adapted the Xerox interface for the Mac?
A guy who promotes design ing software optimized for [human] restrictions is worthy of some respect,
True, but I'm not sure I agree with his reading of what those restrictions are. For instance, the assumption that people can not efficiantly deal with multiple things at once (the main assumption which makes using a Mac painful, with click-to-type-and-raise and the use-one-application-then-swap arangement) is clearly bogus as anyone who has seen a parent looking after two children while cooking and talking on the phone knows. Perhaps narrow concentration is just a common feature of technical people and psychologists resulting in over-generalisation.
On the other hand, his model of operations and dislike of modes at least puts him on the side of the angels in the vi vs. emacs wars.:-)
The result is pretty much nothing but `Jef Raskin is a grumpy old man'.
Dr Who had a police box, not a phone box. Presumably phone box would sell you the Superman theme, and possibly allow you to order lycra body stickings and underwear online for really quick delivery.
Anyway, around here the police boxes have all turned into coffee kiosks. I'm not sure what test to run to find out if this is real or if they have fixed the chameleon circuits.
Er, no they aren't. The set of people with any kind of digital music player is rather larger.
They aren't losing money on telephone calls, they are losing money on having the hardware standing around not earning money, so anything they can do with little or no more hardware which drags in a few more users will probably be a small win.
Not that I think this is going to be very profitable. Mostly I expect this is just an advertising press release, designed to draw attention to their kiosks.
Mind you, the people who buy ringtones might be a market. The latest thing on phones seems to be MP3 ringtones, presumably rather bigger than midi ones. So perhaps the kind of peron who changes their ringtone every other day (bizzare IMO) might be tempted to get anew one every time they walk past the kiosk in the shopping centre.
This is comparing a person to a database of one, on their passport, so it is supposed to be an alternative to someone comparing the face in front of them to the photograph in front of them.
no, from the UK gov. POV it is because the US government told them to.
What I can't work out is why the US governemnt chose such a turkey of a system. Perhaps someone should check the Homeland Security bigwigs for interests in the companies involved.
Such a persuasive technical argument, I am sure we are all almost as impressed by your insight as by your inability to work out how to log in.