In Oz, Air Express couriers will deliver to post offices and PO boxes. Australia Post are trialing the locker delivery system as well, but at the moment there aren't enough sites to make it very useful.
For anyone building a new home, maybe they should think about putting in an externally accessible lock box as part of the design? Use a combination lock that could be changed for every new delivery. I have found waiting around the house for deliveries that never seem to come when promised to be a right pain.
I've looked at putting solar panels on my house, and it will cost $30K after tax breaks and credits. The life span of a solar panel is 15-20 years with a denigration of efficiency of about 25% over that period.
The better quality panels sold in Australia come with a 25 to 30 year guarantee, and have an expected life span of up to 40 years, although you still may have a point about the overall economics.
The third most common murder weapons are body parts such hands, feet, fists and head. Throwing a punch, a head-butt or a kick against another personâ(TM)s head usually has fatal consequences and unfortunately many people have been murdered as such. In 2008 it is reported that 861 lost their lives by fatal body blows in the US.
Just think of how many lives would be saved if we just cut off everyone's hands.
Good luck killing 12 people (so far) in one place with your hands and feet. A typical assault rifle clip holds 30 rounds, and he changed clips at least once according to early reports.
"It's the gun laws, stupid", (at least in large part).
What pisses me off is different prices for the same piece of downloadable software from the same company, depending on where you live. I can't remember the product, but it cost $30 from an Australian IP address and around $20 in the US. Australian Tax would add $2 to the US price, but where'd that other eight bucks come from?
The 2012 version of Kaspersky was available in the US weeks ahead of Australia, but you were redirected to the Australian site whether you wanted to be or not.
Hotspot Shield give me a US IP address on the rare occasions I need one.
Is this coincidence or a pattern? I have no idea how the journal publishing is supposed to work, but being the "victim" of the two most prolific forgers leaves me a little suspicious of the quality of the publishing in general.
Also, what is it about anesthesiology and its practitioners that makes them succumb to the lure of academic forgery? Something about people who enjoy putting other people at the edge of death being power-mad?
Voting fraud is ridiculously easy (in California, at least): They don't even check your ID to make sure you're the person you say you are! Figuring out how to cheat the system on a wide scale is an exercise for the reader.
They aren't spoofing anything and they are doing nothing shady. These is just using the authentication services provided by ?google, Facebook, etc. it's not giving them access to your account. That is unfounded FUD. And if they were spoofing things it would be easy to spot since you would notice you aren't being directed t the proper login page. Stop falling for FUD.
I take it you've never heard of Man-in-the-middle (MITM) attacks?
50 cent roll of electrical tape. Cut a 3x3cm square using scissors. Place it over the camera aperature.
1$ bottle of superglue. The watery runny kind that whicks up into paper, and has a long neck applicator. Lay the television temporarily on a soft, cushioned surface face up, say, on the sofa. Into the microphone grill, gently dribble the runny superglue. Leave in this position for 2 to 3 hours for maximal cone set. Return television to the entertainment center, and feel marginally safer.
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Ooops. yo've just invalidated your warranty
From TFA Samsung says:
Samsung assumes no responsibility, and shall not be liable, in connection with whether any such products or services will be appropriate, functional or supported for the Samsung products or services available in your country.
and
Want to read the owner’s manual for your new Samsung TV? This is accomplished by download, as Samsung stopped including printed owner’s manuals at least two years ago. However, before you may download the manual, you must first agree to the following online statement:
Samsung assumes no responsibility, and shall not be liable, in connection with whether any such products or services will be appropriate, functional or supported for the Samsung products or services available in your country.
In Australia, not only would these statements not have any legal standing, I suspect one or both may actually be in violation of consumer protection laws.
My elderly mother has an iPad, the best that has happened to her in a long while. She uses Skype on it to keep in touch with relatives in other cities, keeps all her photos on it, and plays games on it when idle..
I hope you've told her about the importance of back ups.
Even if it was legal, do you think it would pass FDA approval?
LSD does have some long term side-effects on people. Such as Trips years after using the drug.
Years ago, I read a comparison of clinically prescribed LSD vs street acid.
It said that while a psychoactive dose of LSD was typically between 125 and 175 micrograms, depending on body weight.
In comparison, samples of street acid were tested as being between 1000 and 1500 micrograms, plus who-knows-what funky impurities and additives.
I wonder how much the massive overdoses had to do with bad trips and flashbacks.
As someone else said, your relatives/friends could mindlessly give away your information on Facebook or something such as that. Even just a name may be enough for someone to learn something revealing about you with a quick search
When you do not reveal everything to your friends, colleagues, and even to your own family members, how much do you think they can reveal to the world about you?
After all, the word "Privacy" came from "Private", and the most "Private" thing there is yourself - yes, your very own self
I saw someone on TV on the weekend quoting figures that 30% of US companies said they would not hire a job applicant if they saw a picture of them holding a glass of wine on a social media web site. So all it takes is some dickhead labelling a picture of you at a party on THEIR Facebook page, and they may have damaged your reputation for years.
dips into IT funds when their pet project budgets run low
Given the fact that you work in the public sector, you may wish to consider obtaining anything and everything available on budgetary policy for your school district, county, state, etc. It may turn out that what you're observing on the fiscal side of things actually represents clear misappropriation of funds. If that's the case, bringing it to the attention of people three or four levels up in the chain of command may have an interesting effect, and perhaps a detailed letter to a state representative would bring uncomfortable attention to those mismanaging the funds.
. . . and nothing bad ever happens to whistle blowers./sarcasm
The question of those born blind and with disease of the retinas does need to be answered. Of course, a lot of blind people do retain some residual awareness of light and dark and still others might have an in-tact pathway to the SCM while having no conscious awareness of it.
Total blindness certainly DOES cause disruptions of body circadian rhythms. Just Google "blindness circadian" and get an eyeful.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10085469
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM200010123431503
jcem.endojournals.org/content/75/1/127
Those above are just a few of the available references.
If this was a real reveal, there'd be no blacked out information.
BTW, amusingly for a security company document, I think the PDF has been improperly redacted. Using Foxit Reader I jumped to the end of the document and then scrolled forward from there. I could briefly read the content of figures 10 and 11 on page 14 with no problem.
When I reversed direction they were blacked out again, and I have been unable to repeat the trick. From what I read, I don't know why they bothered. Both messages were bland and unconvincing phishing invitations to an unnamed conference, with details (and malware) in the attachments. No personal names or organisations were mentioned.
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In Oz, Air Express couriers will deliver to post offices and PO boxes. Australia Post are trialing the locker delivery system as well, but at the moment there aren't enough sites to make it very useful.
For anyone building a new home, maybe they should think about putting in an externally accessible lock box as part of the design? Use a combination lock that could be changed for every new delivery. I have found waiting around the house for deliveries that never seem to come when promised to be a right pain.
I've looked at putting solar panels on my house, and it will cost $30K after tax breaks and credits. The life span of a solar panel is 15-20 years with a denigration of efficiency of about 25% over that period.
The better quality panels sold in Australia come with a 25 to 30 year guarantee, and have an expected life span of up to 40 years, although you still may have a point about the overall economics.
Microsoft should do the same with Windows 8. :)
Either a bot, or an intelligent user who won't read the adverts. Same result for the advertiser.
You're saying 80% of Facebook users are that intelligent?
Why stop with guns?
http://www.top10stop.com/lifestyle/top-10-most-common-murder-weapons
The third most common murder weapons are body parts such hands, feet, fists and head. Throwing a punch, a head-butt or a kick against another personâ(TM)s head usually has fatal consequences and unfortunately many people have been murdered as such. In 2008 it is reported that 861 lost their lives by fatal body blows in the US.
Just think of how many lives would be saved if we just cut off everyone's hands.
Good luck killing 12 people (so far) in one place with your hands and feet. A typical assault rifle clip holds 30 rounds, and he changed clips at least once according to early reports.
"It's the gun laws, stupid", (at least in large part).
A short video about a Dutch athlete on the BBC site, blocked for Dutch viewers.
Want to download from the BBC? Expatshield is your friend.
http://www.expatshield.com/
The web page below has a list of other free proxy services
http://www.techsupportalert.com/best-free-anonymous-surfing-service.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+gizmosbest+%28Gizmo%27s+Best-ever+Freeware%29
What pisses me off is different prices for the same piece of downloadable software from the same company, depending on where you live. I can't remember the product, but it cost $30 from an Australian IP address and around $20 in the US. Australian Tax would add $2 to the US price, but where'd that other eight bucks come from?
The 2012 version of Kaspersky was available in the US weeks ahead of Australia, but you were redirected to the Australian site whether you wanted to be or not.
Hotspot Shield give me a US IP address on the rare occasions I need one.
I suggest living with someone for a year, then if you get married don't have kids for about 7 years.
By which time she's infertile.
Is this coincidence or a pattern? I have no idea how the journal publishing is supposed to work, but being the "victim" of the two most prolific forgers leaves me a little suspicious of the quality of the publishing in general.
Also, what is it about anesthesiology and its practitioners that makes them succumb to the lure of academic forgery? Something about people who enjoy putting other people at the edge of death being power-mad?
Maybe some of their gases are leaking?
Voting fraud is ridiculously easy (in California, at least): They don't even check your ID to make sure you're the person you say you are! Figuring out how to cheat the system on a wide scale is an exercise for the reader.
Vote early and often!
what would SCOTUS say if someone would invoke their right to defend themselves and 2nd amendment against illegal arrest?".
It would never get to SCOTUS. The police would shoot you dead on the spot.
Most likely on several spots.
From TFA:
As a refresher, here were the top 10 passwords used by RockYou users:
123456, 12345, 123456789, Password, iloveyou, princess, rockyou, 1234567, 12345678, abc123,
So it hardly matters if the passwords are in plaintext or not.
" Rainbow tables? We don't need no stinking rainbow tables!"
Why should they be afraid of being recognized?
Maybe this is a reason.
http://www.theverge.com/2012/3/23/2896525/new-surveillance-system-compare-your-face-against-36-million-others-in-one-second#
Gawker then opens a window that claims to redirect you to facebook, and you type in your un/pw.
Fixed that for you.
They aren't spoofing anything and they are doing nothing shady. These is just using the authentication services provided by ?google, Facebook, etc. it's not giving them access to your account. That is unfounded FUD. And if they were spoofing things it would be easy to spot since you would notice you aren't being directed t the proper login page. Stop falling for FUD.
I take it you've never heard of Man-in-the-middle (MITM) attacks?
Oh hush. It's very easy.
50 cent roll of electrical tape. Cut a 3x3cm square using scissors. Place it over the camera aperature.
1$ bottle of superglue. The watery runny kind that whicks up into paper, and has a long neck applicator. Lay the television temporarily on a soft, cushioned surface face up, say, on the sofa. Into the microphone grill, gently dribble the runny superglue. Leave in this position for 2 to 3 hours for maximal cone set. Return television to the entertainment center, and feel marginally safer.
>
Ooops. yo've just invalidated your warranty
From TFA Samsung says:
Samsung assumes no responsibility, and shall not be liable, in connection with whether any such products or services will be appropriate, functional or supported for the Samsung products or services available in your country.
and
Want to read the owner’s manual for your new Samsung TV? This is accomplished by download, as Samsung stopped including printed owner’s manuals at least two years ago. However, before you may download the manual, you must first agree to the following online statement: Samsung assumes no responsibility, and shall not be liable, in connection with whether any such products or services will be appropriate, functional or supported for the Samsung products or services available in your country.
In Australia, not only would these statements not have any legal standing, I suspect one or both may actually be in violation of consumer protection laws.
For the criminals, the simplest alternative would be to use another convertible currency for your transactions.
Euros, US dollars, whatever; as long as all countries haven't joined in to the digital cash trend, evil doers can just ignore it
After that, what . . . barter?
My elderly mother has an iPad, the best that has happened to her in a long while. She uses Skype on it to keep in touch with relatives in other cities, keeps all her photos on it, and plays games on it when idle. .
I hope you've told her about the importance of back ups.
At some family reunions you might be better off with a real rifle.
My solution to that would be making pot legal. Then drug dealing would be rewarding AND stable!
Nah, the trade would be taken over by the big tobacco companies, using pot grown and imported from China.
Even if it was legal, do you think it would pass FDA approval? LSD does have some long term side-effects on people. Such as Trips years after using the drug.
Years ago, I read a comparison of clinically prescribed LSD vs street acid.
It said that while a psychoactive dose of LSD was typically between 125 and 175 micrograms, depending on body weight.
In comparison, samples of street acid were tested as being between 1000 and 1500 micrograms, plus who-knows-what funky impurities and additives.
I wonder how much the massive overdoses had to do with bad trips and flashbacks.
Really? Humans as 'batteries' makes sense? Not merely sucking out energy of those living, but actively feeding and breeding them?
"Lisa, in this house we obey the laws of thermodynamics!"
As someone else said, your relatives/friends could mindlessly give away your information on Facebook or something such as that. Even just a name may be enough for someone to learn something revealing about you with a quick search
When you do not reveal everything to your friends, colleagues, and even to your own family members, how much do you think they can reveal to the world about you?
After all, the word "Privacy" came from "Private", and the most "Private" thing there is yourself - yes, your very own self
I saw someone on TV on the weekend quoting figures that 30% of US companies said they would not hire a job applicant if they saw a picture of them holding a glass of wine on a social media web site. So all it takes is some dickhead labelling a picture of you at a party on THEIR Facebook page, and they may have damaged your reputation for years.
No action from you required
dips into IT funds when their pet project budgets run low
Given the fact that you work in the public sector, you may wish to consider obtaining anything and everything available on budgetary policy for your school district, county, state, etc. It may turn out that what you're observing on the fiscal side of things actually represents clear misappropriation of funds. If that's the case, bringing it to the attention of people three or four levels up in the chain of command may have an interesting effect, and perhaps a detailed letter to a state representative would bring uncomfortable attention to those mismanaging the funds.
. . . and nothing bad ever happens to whistle blowers. /sarcasm
The question of those born blind and with disease of the retinas does need to be answered. Of course, a lot of blind people do retain some residual awareness of light and dark and still others might have an in-tact pathway to the SCM while having no conscious awareness of it.
Total blindness certainly DOES cause disruptions of body circadian rhythms. Just Google "blindness circadian" and get an eyeful.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10085469
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM200010123431503
jcem.endojournals.org/content/75/1/127
Those above are just a few of the available references.
If this was a real reveal, there'd be no blacked out information.
BTW, amusingly for a security company document, I think the PDF has been improperly redacted. Using Foxit Reader I jumped to the end of the document and then scrolled forward from there. I could briefly read the content of figures 10 and 11 on page 14 with no problem.
When I reversed direction they were blacked out again, and I have been unable to repeat the trick. From what I read, I don't know why they bothered. Both messages were bland and unconvincing phishing invitations to an unnamed conference, with details (and malware) in the attachments. No personal names or organisations were mentioned.