Actually, what I meant to say was that they did stop. Each school changed its policy while I was a student there; they do not use SSNs as IDs now. The point was that these policies were changed within the last ten years at both schools, which is a short enough time for many faculty members to have the older SSNs on file for one reason or another.
Because not so long ago, it was common practice to use a student's SSN as their student ID number. In ~2001 and ~2004, I attended schools which changed their policies on this matter in those years, respectively. For each school, I started with a student ID that was the same digits as my SSN, and when I was graduated, I had a new student ID that was an unrelated string of digits.
Using the SSN as an ID is very convenient. For every incoming person, you have a unique number that they probably already have memorized. From there, it should be no surprise when professors get lists of SSNs on class rosters at the beginning of a semester, and they might store it in one form or another over the course of grading, and similar activities.
Well, the thing is that short, touring trips are the only way I can resolve most of the issues raised (repeatedly) in this thread. If you are taking a short trip and returning to the place from which you departed, then you will have no luggage in teh hold beneath your feet, you do not need to have the seats so crowded together that you see more feet than ground, and there is a reduced need for the transparent lavatory, so the shy traveler can hold it in until landing.
My point about "not much to see" was with respect to man-made points of interest, which is the selling point that Airbus was pitching. I agree that a birds-eye view of the earth below can be beautiful, but that is not the marketing strategy I read. Airbus representatives speak of “an unparalleled, unobstructed view of the wonders of the five continents – where you will be able see the pyramids or the Eiffel Tower.” But if I am flying (say) from Madrid to Dubai, I will only see pyramids for a few minutes out of a multi-hour flight. If it is Wonders of the World which I seek, it makes more sense to journey to Egypt, then take a guided air tour of the Valley of the Kings, just like I would take an open-top bus tour of London.
To be fair, the last flight I took was transatlantic, at night. There was not much to see, and I would not have wanted the sunrise shining through transparent walls as I tried to catch what little sleep I was able to get. However, once I was up and had my breakfast on my tray, it would have been very nice to have a better view of the land and sky.
Such a plane would be suitable only for short excursion use.
Perhaps that is their primary use case. On most trips, there is not a whole lot to see. At least, nothing on the scale of the Eiffel tower or ancient pyramids.
Given the placement of his asterisk, I think pjt33 was expecting some grammar Nazi to dispute their use of 'Ironically'. Ironically, that was the only part of the comment which has not been disputed.;c)
The correct line when filling out a Risk Assessment in the UK is, "If a boy falls out of a tree in a forest, and no one heard him, is there any way that anyone could be held liable?"
Sorry if I'm being dense, but is this not precisely what the original poster means by 'wireless extenders' which he doesn't want to pay the company for? ($250 in Verizon's case, and he has looked at AT&T.)
I am pretty sure that the submitter has the following dilemma: he wants to record stereo sound from a HI-FI (probably with stereo RCA jacks) and he is already using something equivalent to the adapter you mentioned to plug into the stereo line-in jack in his 'ancient' computer. The reason he uses the input labeled 'line in', rather than the input labeled 'microphone', is because the former allows stereo input and the latter only records one channel (mono). He either assumes or has tested and confirmed that all every 'microphone'-labeled audio input on his bevvy of laptops also has this mono disability.
The three laptops at my house have single audio inputs. The HP and Toshiba units are labeled with microphones and the Macbook has a generic audio in. I have no idea whether any of them can handle stereo. I know that a microATX motherboard that I bought three years ago came with seperate line-in and microphone jacks.
I think that if the submitter is worried about the age of his computer, he might consider getting a new desktop. The case on such a device won't have such a premium on input port real-estate.
What the deuce? It seems pretty clear that GP is a student, not a teacher. XPeter might have to worry about their own graduation, but really; Jailbait? Take a chill pill.
And many universities are pulling phones out of the dorms, because so many students use cell phones and VoIP instead that it is not cost-effective to provide the service.
What if they were DRM'd? IANA(ancient Egyptian)L, but I can imagine that those Pharaohs were pretty stingy about people copying their words from one pyramid to the next. Can you imagine what the penalties for breaking the Ancient Millenium Copyright Act would be? Death by crocodile? Live mummification? Or just having to lift a finger in the building of your own tomb?
Resize the photo in the linked article to 50% smaller. If you get a grey rectangle instead of something interesting, your software has teh problem. Irfanview 4.25, according to my quick experiments, has the problem when rescaling, but not resizing.
Thank you! A link to the controversial blog post is the main reason why I clicked 'Read More...' from the front page. I don't understand why they didn't put in in the summary.
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+1, Offtopic but nice.
[The battle against escrowed encryption] was fought and lost in the mid 1990s.
Don't look now, but that threat was not put to rest permanently. The price of freedom is vigilance.
My DeLorean lets me drive to a variety of pharmacies where the medicine is developed by hobbyist chemists.
Actually, what I meant to say was that they did stop. Each school changed its policy while I was a student there; they do not use SSNs as IDs now. The point was that these policies were changed within the last ten years at both schools, which is a short enough time for many faculty members to have the older SSNs on file for one reason or another.
Because not so long ago, it was common practice to use a student's SSN as their student ID number. In ~2001 and ~2004, I attended schools which changed their policies on this matter in those years, respectively. For each school, I started with a student ID that was the same digits as my SSN, and when I was graduated, I had a new student ID that was an unrelated string of digits.
Using the SSN as an ID is very convenient. For every incoming person, you have a unique number that they probably already have memorized. From there, it should be no surprise when professors get lists of SSNs on class rosters at the beginning of a semester, and they might store it in one form or another over the course of grading, and similar activities.
Well, the thing is that short, touring trips are the only way I can resolve most of the issues raised (repeatedly) in this thread. If you are taking a short trip and returning to the place from which you departed, then you will have no luggage in teh hold beneath your feet, you do not need to have the seats so crowded together that you see more feet than ground, and there is a reduced need for the transparent lavatory, so the shy traveler can hold it in until landing.
My point about "not much to see" was with respect to man-made points of interest, which is the selling point that Airbus was pitching. I agree that a birds-eye view of the earth below can be beautiful, but that is not the marketing strategy I read. Airbus representatives speak of “an unparalleled, unobstructed view of the wonders of the five continents – where you will be able see the pyramids or the Eiffel Tower.” But if I am flying (say) from Madrid to Dubai, I will only see pyramids for a few minutes out of a multi-hour flight. If it is Wonders of the World which I seek, it makes more sense to journey to Egypt, then take a guided air tour of the Valley of the Kings, just like I would take an open-top bus tour of London.
To be fair, the last flight I took was transatlantic, at night. There was not much to see, and I would not have wanted the sunrise shining through transparent walls as I tried to catch what little sleep I was able to get. However, once I was up and had my breakfast on my tray, it would have been very nice to have a better view of the land and sky.
Such a plane would be suitable only for short excursion use.
Perhaps that is their primary use case. On most trips, there is not a whole lot to see. At least, nothing on the scale of the Eiffel tower or ancient pyramids.
No, the change away from Rails hapenned a couple of years ago. The current changes are not at the framework level.
Unless the worm's author is American. The US hasn't done much domestic bombing, yet.
Given the placement of his asterisk, I think pjt33 was expecting some grammar Nazi to dispute their use of 'Ironically'. Ironically, that was the only part of the comment which has not been disputed. ;c)
^H and friends are available through sticky keys. press and release Ctrl, (look in the lower-left of the page) then press H.
The correct line when filling out a Risk Assessment in the UK is, "If a boy falls out of a tree in a forest, and no one heard him, is there any way that anyone could be held liable?"
Then all code checksums fail, and your car won't go anywhere.
Let's hope the Indian administrators are not using Chinese DNS to access the American proxies!
I print out all my emails on glossy photo paper and file them in an index card box.
The inverse of whoosh would be whack thump. Instead of going over your head, it knocks your feet out from under you.
Sorry if I'm being dense, but is this not precisely what the original poster means by 'wireless extenders' which he doesn't want to pay the company for? ($250 in Verizon's case, and he has looked at AT&T.)
I am pretty sure that the submitter has the following dilemma: he wants to record stereo sound from a HI-FI (probably with stereo RCA jacks) and he is already using something equivalent to the adapter you mentioned to plug into the stereo line-in jack in his 'ancient' computer. The reason he uses the input labeled 'line in', rather than the input labeled 'microphone', is because the former allows stereo input and the latter only records one channel (mono). He either assumes or has tested and confirmed that all every 'microphone'-labeled audio input on his bevvy of laptops also has this mono disability.
The three laptops at my house have single audio inputs. The HP and Toshiba units are labeled with microphones and the Macbook has a generic audio in. I have no idea whether any of them can handle stereo. I know that a microATX motherboard that I bought three years ago came with seperate line-in and microphone jacks.
I think that if the submitter is worried about the age of his computer, he might consider getting a new desktop. The case on such a device won't have such a premium on input port real-estate.
What the deuce? It seems pretty clear that GP is a student, not a teacher. XPeter might have to worry about their own graduation, but really; Jailbait? Take a chill pill.
Linux is not that secure if you have physical access to the machine.
And many universities are pulling phones out of the dorms, because so many students use cell phones and VoIP instead that it is not cost-effective to provide the service.
What if they were DRM'd? IANA(ancient Egyptian)L, but I can imagine that those Pharaohs were pretty stingy about people copying their words from one pyramid to the next. Can you imagine what the penalties for breaking the Ancient Millenium Copyright Act would be? Death by crocodile? Live mummification? Or just having to lift a finger in the building of your own tomb?
No wonder they took us so long to decipher!
Resize the photo in the linked article to 50% smaller. If you get a grey rectangle instead of something interesting, your software has teh problem. Irfanview 4.25, according to my quick experiments, has the problem when rescaling, but not resizing.
Thank you! A link to the controversial blog post is the main reason why I clicked 'Read More...' from the front page. I don't understand why they didn't put in in the summary.
Exactly. That sounds like a great thing to put on a resume: "Designed and implemented system to replace myself."
If I were hiring, I'd jump at such a person. I would only have to employ them for a few months.