That might not be true. I've used more modern versions of this technology recently to turn a 25ft x 8ft video wall into a multi-touch surface for an install I was working on, and the system that we installed could recognize up to 10 simultaneous touches across the surface.
Me and another tech were testing out the capabilities using MS paint software, and it would recognize each finger on both hands. Once we added an eleventh simultaneous finger to the mix, it wouldn't recognize it. I think it was more limited to the software driver than the hardware capabilites though was my impression.
The solution we used was a not a cheap one though, so I'm not sure if the kind being written about would have as good of touch resolve or not, but the technology can handle it.
What are arms? military grade equipment? Nuclear ICBM? If you got the money "Shall not be infringed" seems pretty inclusive.
I would have to agree that the list is pretty inclusive. In the day of it's writing, it was meant and understood to mean the same grade and types of weapons that the military at that time used. By logical extension, that opens up quite a list in todays world. I don't think the old argument that they only had muskets and so they meant muskets is valid. However, I'm also sure that most people, even gun lovers in most walks of life would not want an individual or corporation to be able to obtain a nuclear ICBM warhead... However, yes, the line would have be drawn somewhere in between, and I believe that the line isn't in-between some handguns on the list, or some rifle types, but farther out and closer to the ICBM side of the spectrum.
Remember, the reason for the 2nd Amendment is for protection from a Foreign Military force, as well as protection from a tyrannical government emerging within our borders. With that being the root of the 2nd, it would only make sense that the tools available to civilians be capable of performing those duties if needed. Are we anywhere close to that now? Could a civilian militia match the brute force of arms available to any of the 4 military branches? Would civilians, with what is currently available and legal to own, have a chance in defending the country from all enemies, foreign and domestic?
No, I was stating that the reason the smart guns are not at all popular with people that buy guns is in large part due to reliability. Not many people want a gun that 'may' go bang when they want it to. Or one they have to make sure to keep fresh batteries installed in or it won't work when they need it, and the whole concept of a family member needing to use the gun in defense, but the bracelet is being worn by a person who isn't home at the time. Not to mention the additional cost.
In addition to this, the only model that I know of from Armatix (last time I looked) was a.22 cal model, which is not very popular for self defense.
I think the NJ law, and not-yet-created laws similar to that one in other states is a big reason why people are so adamant they don't want it. If it is put out for sale in NJ, then by law, all guns would have to have it within a few year period (in NJ). And while NJ is the only state thus far that has 'shown their cards' by creating the law prior to the tech being released, I think it's very naive to believe other states wouldn't pass similar laws after the gun was released to the market. California is doing the same thing in regards to Micro-stamping laws that manufacturers aren't capable of doing yet.
As for the individual dealers, you have to realize that most dealers don't want to carry them if people have no interest in buying them, as they can't sell them easily. They could use the inventory space for other models that do sell well. I don't think many purchasers are desiring that technology on their guns, just like I don't know any gun owners that are begging for microstamping technology either. The biggest proponents of these technologies aren't the gun users, but are the groups and politicians voting to take away gun rights that are in support of these things.
Now start cleaning that gun and the picture changes.
I don't know how you think guns are cleaned, but when I clean guns, they are less of a danger than normal, as they are usually dis-assembled and non-functional during cleaning. If you don't take a gun apart in order to clean it, then your not cleaning it properly. Taken apart, a gun won't work at all.
So, is the reaction from gun rights activists/NRA on smart guns as a whole.
Is that why to this date, NO police department or military organization in the US and around the world have adopted the standard use of these types of firearms? Because of gun rights activists and the NRA? I think there is more to the story than you are willing to admit, and it's called "reliability".
My biggest gripe with gun law conversations in the US is that the discussion never can have a middle ground. Gun law advocates never admit to the 2nd amendment while gun rights advocates never admit to sane policy. So, when there is a technology that may make guns safer or better, it gets muddied by talking point vomit.
There is no middle ground because the phrase "SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED" is pretty damn clear. Any middle ground between anti-gun laws is an infringment, plain and simple.
Not to mention that it is this "middle ground" you speak of that has gotten us where we are today...
Living in California, I can't get a CCW in my county even though I have a squeeky clean record, the reason is because it's treated as a privelige rather than a right, and the Sheriff does not issue in most of the counties in my surrounding area.
Living in CA, I cannot buy any model of gun available for purchase, I have to pick from the guns on the "Approved Roster" (which is a small subset of guns available in other states, and shrinking each year).
Living in CA, I cannot own standard capacity magazines that were designed for the gun, and can only buy more expensive, low capacity magazines. Living in CA, I cannot own a semi-automatic rifle that isn't permanently modified to require the use of tools to change the magazine out and reload.
Living in CA, I cannot buy another gun without waiting 10 days first (even if I already own other guns already).
Living in some counties in CA, you cannot mail order ammo from distributors and can only purchase at full retail value (or marked up higher due to the fact that there is less pricing competition.)
This is what the middle ground gets you. Once one law is passed that isn't a "big deal" and is only for safety, it is only a matter of time until another is passed, and another, until you are in the situation that we are in here in CA, and other states like NY. The "middle ground" argument is a constantly moving target that moves more toward gun banning with each law. It's the loss of a right by a thousand cuts, and it all started with gun owners giving in and meeting in the "middle ground".
Stupid things you do while intoxicated are still things you have to suffer consequences for. You don't get a free pass just because your intoxicated and "didn't know better". The example you just mentioned even said the real homeowner warned the person verbally several times. I'm sure if the guy wasn't drunk, he a) would have known his house from someone elses... and b) would have understood and heeded the warnings given to him by the real homeowner as he was breaking into what he thought was his own house.
Exactly this... Our judicial system started going down hill once we started using the system we call "case law", in which each judicial decision is put into the books and used as an argument for all the next cases down the road. This creates a wavering, or gentle slope away from the actual "Spirit of the Law" that was originally put forth in all aspects.
Yes, you can deport the illegal parent(s), and if they want to break up their family and leave their "citizen" children behind, then that is THEIR decision and the moral decision will rest then on the children's parents rather than the state. They would have the chance to take their children (and/or spouse) with them when they go, or not, it's up to them. This is something that they should have thought about prior to illegally entering the country, and therefore the is a price to have to pay for breaking the law.
Quit trying to put the moral delima in "our" lap as a country and instead put it where it belongs.
And why should we dump our money (which we have none of at the moment) into another countries infrastructure, when that country is run by corrupt government officials that are in collusion with drug cartels and organized crime?
Maybe, just maybe... they should get their own "act together" to better the people that live there.
I've had a couple Pi's also exhibit FS corruption on power loss as well. Not everytime, but each time you pull the power plug it's a roll of the dice. I was using them running RaspBMC OS and XBMC on top of them for media servers and I've seen them corrupt several times. Each time, there was no booting afterwards, would fail on boot and require a reflash of the SD card in order to get them back up and running.
I've seen many tactical and weapon light systems in the big sporting good stores going for anywhere between $200-$500. I'm sure the military could find a way to pay twice that on dang flashlight somehow.
They may also be using non-standard UV or IR flashlights too, those seem to cost a lot for some reason as well.
That's not including the double dip you take for time as well. It might be 2.25 per mile, but also (at the same time) a certain amount per minute as well, which end the end, means that going a mile (no matter how fast or slow) does not equal 2.25 as you seemed to imply.
Bull Crap! I don't taxi much, but I have on occassion when on vacation, and I don't think I've ever had a taxi ride under $15.
Let's see, I took a cab from my house to SF once, a total of about 12 miles and the ride cost me about $90 (plus I had to pay for the bridge fare).
I recently took a cab in the LA area from the Airport to a person's house only a couple miles away, and it was about $50 dollars. I was charged about $7 right off the top just for the fact that the ride started at the airport.
I took another cab in Seattle this past year, from our hotel near the airport to the cruise terminal and the fee was about $80 at least.
The closest I've come to getting charged what you said was in Las Vegas that was only a mile or two and it was $15. After finding out how short of drive it was, my wife and I walked back instead of catching the cab.
Don't know where the heck your riding cabs for $10 (with the tip included), but in my little cab'ing experience, I've never found one. I think they'd charge you that much for driving to the end of the block. Most cabs I've seen charge you a couple bucks before leaving the curb and to start the meter.
(That's why the Koreans were on the roofs of their stores with guns during the Rodney King post-verdict activities in Los Angeles.)
This happened again (not sure about Koreans specifically), but in case you didn't see, the stores that didn't get looted were being protected by groups of store owners and friends armed with AR-15's.
Pic: http://www.libertynews.com/201...
You seem to have missed my last sentence, that with paper ballots, if problems are discovered after the fact, the votes can be recounted after the fact by referring to the original ballots and hand counting with human eyes that can decern the difference between a fold, or smudge and a legitimate mark on the paper ballot. That is not possible with electronic vote casting.
Also, the you tube videos aren't depicted of people with unfettered access to the voting machines and finding vulnerabilities, they seem to be depicting real world examples where the machine was "malfunctioning" and the user whipped out their camera and recorded it. There are other reports, not caught on camera, where people noticed a problem during voting sessions and reported it to election officials, but did not get a chance to video the reported malfunctions. These are not videos of hackers demo'ing vulnerabilities in lab settings by all means like you seem to make it sound.
I find it amazing that people think this topic was solved, proved without doubt, and the case is closed and not open to discussion. Especially after having any experience in photoshop/digital documents and looking at the document that was provided as said "Proof".
BTW, you can try to intimidate and belittle all you want by calling people "birthers", but the fact remains that every professional graphics analyst that have analyzed the document state that it contains several signs of possible forgery that wouldn't show up if it was a true 'scan' of an original document.
Same with the Selective Services form, and there have been nothing but crickets chirping when it comes to explaining the multitude of SSN numbers assigned to him, including the current one from a dead man in Connecticut, where he never lived, but did have a relative that lived and worked at a SSN office in that state.
Never mind the fact that it is undeniable, whether born here or not, that citizenship was renounced when he lived in Indonesia as required by Indonesian law to attend school. Or the fact that only one parent was a citizen at the time of his birth, which does not meet the required "natural born citizen" as defined and discussed in various texts and Federalist papers. Even if citizenship was not denounced while in Indonesia, at best, he has dual citizenship, which disqualifies him, as he holds allegiances (citizenship) to another country, as explained by the constitution framers.
I recall seeing some video's online of electronic voting machines performing vote switching on the users within a day of this last election. Not to be trusted, any malicious algorithm can be slipped in to mess with the vote. I also saw them 2 years ago after that election. When it's happening enough, that people can get a cell phone video of it happening, it's happening too much. How many people don't realize that the machine mis-recorded or switched their vote between the time they selected the candidate, and the time they press the submit button?
Whether voter fraud, calibration issues, or electronic malfunction, it doesn't matter, as in all cases, there is no way to go back and re-check and re-count the ballots.
I realize this is fairly standard, however that's not the point. As any paying customer, residential or business, they shouldn't be blocking any of it. I should be able to use whatever port I want. I shouldn't have to jump through hoops if I'm running some obscure application or service that uses some port that they block just because they didn't forsee the average user using that application. That is BS.
If they do this to port 25 and some others for our protection, what's to say that one day, when you pay an ISP for internet, they will only open up port 80 and the rest is blocked "for your protection". Oh, you want those other ports open, you need to pay us more for a business class service!
This is fairly normal. Many ISPs simply block outbound port 25 rather than filtering out STARTTLS. Personally I think that's the better approach for these ISPs (to just block the port alltogether), but either way this article is a bunch of crap written by someone who can't even set his email client to connect to the right port.
Except when I pay for an internet connection, I would like all ~65K ports OPEN, not just some of those open. I have my own router/firewall, and can block any ports if needed on my side, I just want an open pipe, all of it. If it's ok for them to block port 25, then when they want to stop other services from working on their network, they will block other ports, and then the user isn't getting the whole internet access that they are paying for. I think it's disingenuous for any IPS to block ports on their end to a customer.
The lien holder is different from the owner. The owner owns the car and can do what ever he wants with it. The lien holder is just that, a finance company who holds legal rights to take the vehicle back if it's not paid for. While the lien holders hold the Title of the car, the owner is the registered owner at the DMV and for all other purposes.
If you are still making payments on a car, as the owner, you still have the right to modify the car however you wish. If you want to paint the car, fix it up to make it faster, add new stereo equipment, whatever, you can and don't need permission from the Lien holder. If the Lien holder were the actual owner, you would need permission from them to do this.
This is also why a lien holder can't just report the car as stolen if they want it back, they have the right to repo it back, but they can't just file a police report and say the car hasn't been paid for and therefore is stolen. If they could, I'm sure they would do this as it would be easier and cheaper for them to have the police track it down as a stolen car then hire repo men to find it and get it back. But they don't.
It's a perfectly good identification number for what it's intentions are. However, I don't want the same identification number to be used by government agencies, schools, IRS, banks, Credit card companies, hospitals, etc.
While I have a problem with SSN numbers used for identification, mostly due to principles, in that they aren't supposed to be. The bigger problem with using them as ID for everything, is that your personal, global credit/debt history/report is tied to this number, along with IRS records. Meaning, if anyone gets and uses this number in a fraudulent way, your credit report and possibly your financial identification is screwed. Talk to someone who has had IDTheft before, you can't get these credit bureaus to remove fraudulent data, and it can literally ruin your financial and credit reputation for many, many years, and possibly put you in an ill relationship with the IRS as well.
For a ID number to have that much power over your life, it should not be used for other things that are comparatively trivial, like school ID numbers.
I specifically remember a childhood rumor going back to the early/mid 80's that there were 9 stories total. Obviously, for years, the other 6 never came, and it kinda turned into an urban legend until the announcement of the first 3.
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That might not be true. I've used more modern versions of this technology recently to turn a 25ft x 8ft video wall into a multi-touch surface for an install I was working on, and the system that we installed could recognize up to 10 simultaneous touches across the surface.
Me and another tech were testing out the capabilities using MS paint software, and it would recognize each finger on both hands. Once we added an eleventh simultaneous finger to the mix, it wouldn't recognize it. I think it was more limited to the software driver than the hardware capabilites though was my impression.
The solution we used was a not a cheap one though, so I'm not sure if the kind being written about would have as good of touch resolve or not, but the technology can handle it.
What are arms? military grade equipment? Nuclear ICBM? If you got the money "Shall not be infringed" seems pretty inclusive.
I would have to agree that the list is pretty inclusive. In the day of it's writing, it was meant and understood to mean the same grade and types of weapons that the military at that time used. By logical extension, that opens up quite a list in todays world. I don't think the old argument that they only had muskets and so they meant muskets is valid. However, I'm also sure that most people, even gun lovers in most walks of life would not want an individual or corporation to be able to obtain a nuclear ICBM warhead... However, yes, the line would have be drawn somewhere in between, and I believe that the line isn't in-between some handguns on the list, or some rifle types, but farther out and closer to the ICBM side of the spectrum.
Remember, the reason for the 2nd Amendment is for protection from a Foreign Military force, as well as protection from a tyrannical government emerging within our borders. With that being the root of the 2nd, it would only make sense that the tools available to civilians be capable of performing those duties if needed. Are we anywhere close to that now? Could a civilian militia match the brute force of arms available to any of the 4 military branches? Would civilians, with what is currently available and legal to own, have a chance in defending the country from all enemies, foreign and domestic?
No, I was stating that the reason the smart guns are not at all popular with people that buy guns is in large part due to reliability. Not many people want a gun that 'may' go bang when they want it to. Or one they have to make sure to keep fresh batteries installed in or it won't work when they need it, and the whole concept of a family member needing to use the gun in defense, but the bracelet is being worn by a person who isn't home at the time. Not to mention the additional cost.
.22 cal model, which is not very popular for self defense.
In addition to this, the only model that I know of from Armatix (last time I looked) was a
I think the NJ law, and not-yet-created laws similar to that one in other states is a big reason why people are so adamant they don't want it. If it is put out for sale in NJ, then by law, all guns would have to have it within a few year period (in NJ). And while NJ is the only state thus far that has 'shown their cards' by creating the law prior to the tech being released, I think it's very naive to believe other states wouldn't pass similar laws after the gun was released to the market. California is doing the same thing in regards to Micro-stamping laws that manufacturers aren't capable of doing yet.
As for the individual dealers, you have to realize that most dealers don't want to carry them if people have no interest in buying them, as they can't sell them easily. They could use the inventory space for other models that do sell well. I don't think many purchasers are desiring that technology on their guns, just like I don't know any gun owners that are begging for microstamping technology either. The biggest proponents of these technologies aren't the gun users, but are the groups and politicians voting to take away gun rights that are in support of these things.
Now start cleaning that gun and the picture changes.
I don't know how you think guns are cleaned, but when I clean guns, they are less of a danger than normal, as they are usually dis-assembled and non-functional during cleaning. If you don't take a gun apart in order to clean it, then your not cleaning it properly. Taken apart, a gun won't work at all.
Well I'm glad that happened in a country with NO guns! Imagine what could have happened if there were guns in that country? (/sarcasm)
So, is the reaction from gun rights activists/NRA on smart guns as a whole.
Is that why to this date, NO police department or military organization in the US and around the world have adopted the standard use of these types of firearms? Because of gun rights activists and the NRA? I think there is more to the story than you are willing to admit, and it's called "reliability".
My biggest gripe with gun law conversations in the US is that the discussion never can have a middle ground. Gun law advocates never admit to the 2nd amendment while gun rights advocates never admit to sane policy. So, when there is a technology that may make guns safer or better, it gets muddied by talking point vomit.
There is no middle ground because the phrase "SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED" is pretty damn clear. Any middle ground between anti-gun laws is an infringment, plain and simple.
Not to mention that it is this "middle ground" you speak of that has gotten us where we are today...
Living in California, I can't get a CCW in my county even though I have a squeeky clean record, the reason is because it's treated as a privelige rather than a right, and the Sheriff does not issue in most of the counties in my surrounding area.
Living in CA, I cannot buy any model of gun available for purchase, I have to pick from the guns on the "Approved Roster" (which is a small subset of guns available in other states, and shrinking each year).
Living in CA, I cannot own standard capacity magazines that were designed for the gun, and can only buy more expensive, low capacity magazines. Living in CA, I cannot own a semi-automatic rifle that isn't permanently modified to require the use of tools to change the magazine out and reload.
Living in CA, I cannot buy another gun without waiting 10 days first (even if I already own other guns already).
Living in some counties in CA, you cannot mail order ammo from distributors and can only purchase at full retail value (or marked up higher due to the fact that there is less pricing competition.)
This is what the middle ground gets you. Once one law is passed that isn't a "big deal" and is only for safety, it is only a matter of time until another is passed, and another, until you are in the situation that we are in here in CA, and other states like NY. The "middle ground" argument is a constantly moving target that moves more toward gun banning with each law. It's the loss of a right by a thousand cuts, and it all started with gun owners giving in and meeting in the "middle ground".
Stupid things you do while intoxicated are still things you have to suffer consequences for. You don't get a free pass just because your intoxicated and "didn't know better". The example you just mentioned even said the real homeowner warned the person verbally several times. I'm sure if the guy wasn't drunk, he a) would have known his house from someone elses... and b) would have understood and heeded the warnings given to him by the real homeowner as he was breaking into what he thought was his own house.
Exactly this... Our judicial system started going down hill once we started using the system we call "case law", in which each judicial decision is put into the books and used as an argument for all the next cases down the road. This creates a wavering, or gentle slope away from the actual "Spirit of the Law" that was originally put forth in all aspects.
Yes, you can deport the illegal parent(s), and if they want to break up their family and leave their "citizen" children behind, then that is THEIR decision and the moral decision will rest then on the children's parents rather than the state. They would have the chance to take their children (and/or spouse) with them when they go, or not, it's up to them. This is something that they should have thought about prior to illegally entering the country, and therefore the is a price to have to pay for breaking the law.
Quit trying to put the moral delima in "our" lap as a country and instead put it where it belongs.
And why should we dump our money (which we have none of at the moment) into another countries infrastructure, when that country is run by corrupt government officials that are in collusion with drug cartels and organized crime?
Maybe, just maybe... they should get their own "act together" to better the people that live there.
I've had a couple Pi's also exhibit FS corruption on power loss as well. Not everytime, but each time you pull the power plug it's a roll of the dice. I was using them running RaspBMC OS and XBMC on top of them for media servers and I've seen them corrupt several times. Each time, there was no booting afterwards, would fail on boot and require a reflash of the SD card in order to get them back up and running.
Not sure what kind they are, but they might look something like this: (price $900) http://www.foxfury.com/product...
I've seen many tactical and weapon light systems in the big sporting good stores going for anywhere between $200-$500. I'm sure the military could find a way to pay twice that on dang flashlight somehow.
They may also be using non-standard UV or IR flashlights too, those seem to cost a lot for some reason as well.
That's not including the double dip you take for time as well. It might be 2.25 per mile, but also (at the same time) a certain amount per minute as well, which end the end, means that going a mile (no matter how fast or slow) does not equal 2.25 as you seemed to imply.
Bull Crap! I don't taxi much, but I have on occassion when on vacation, and I don't think I've ever had a taxi ride under $15.
Let's see, I took a cab from my house to SF once, a total of about 12 miles and the ride cost me about $90 (plus I had to pay for the bridge fare).
I recently took a cab in the LA area from the Airport to a person's house only a couple miles away, and it was about $50 dollars. I was charged about $7 right off the top just for the fact that the ride started at the airport.
I took another cab in Seattle this past year, from our hotel near the airport to the cruise terminal and the fee was about $80 at least.
The closest I've come to getting charged what you said was in Las Vegas that was only a mile or two and it was $15. After finding out how short of drive it was, my wife and I walked back instead of catching the cab.
Don't know where the heck your riding cabs for $10 (with the tip included), but in my little cab'ing experience, I've never found one. I think they'd charge you that much for driving to the end of the block. Most cabs I've seen charge you a couple bucks before leaving the curb and to start the meter.
(That's why the Koreans were on the roofs of their stores with guns during the Rodney King post-verdict activities in Los Angeles.)
This happened again (not sure about Koreans specifically), but in case you didn't see, the stores that didn't get looted were being protected by groups of store owners and friends armed with AR-15's. Pic: http://www.libertynews.com/201...
You seem to have missed my last sentence, that with paper ballots, if problems are discovered after the fact, the votes can be recounted after the fact by referring to the original ballots and hand counting with human eyes that can decern the difference between a fold, or smudge and a legitimate mark on the paper ballot. That is not possible with electronic vote casting.
Also, the you tube videos aren't depicted of people with unfettered access to the voting machines and finding vulnerabilities, they seem to be depicting real world examples where the machine was "malfunctioning" and the user whipped out their camera and recorded it. There are other reports, not caught on camera, where people noticed a problem during voting sessions and reported it to election officials, but did not get a chance to video the reported malfunctions. These are not videos of hackers demo'ing vulnerabilities in lab settings by all means like you seem to make it sound.
What about conservative women and minorities so infuriates the left?
They don't further their agenda by supporting the narrative of oppressed minorities.
I find it amazing that people think this topic was solved, proved without doubt, and the case is closed and not open to discussion. Especially after having any experience in photoshop/digital documents and looking at the document that was provided as said "Proof".
BTW, you can try to intimidate and belittle all you want by calling people "birthers", but the fact remains that every professional graphics analyst that have analyzed the document state that it contains several signs of possible forgery that wouldn't show up if it was a true 'scan' of an original document.
Same with the Selective Services form, and there have been nothing but crickets chirping when it comes to explaining the multitude of SSN numbers assigned to him, including the current one from a dead man in Connecticut, where he never lived, but did have a relative that lived and worked at a SSN office in that state.
Never mind the fact that it is undeniable, whether born here or not, that citizenship was renounced when he lived in Indonesia as required by Indonesian law to attend school. Or the fact that only one parent was a citizen at the time of his birth, which does not meet the required "natural born citizen" as defined and discussed in various texts and Federalist papers. Even if citizenship was not denounced while in Indonesia, at best, he has dual citizenship, which disqualifies him, as he holds allegiances (citizenship) to another country, as explained by the constitution framers.
I recall seeing some video's online of electronic voting machines performing vote switching on the users within a day of this last election. Not to be trusted, any malicious algorithm can be slipped in to mess with the vote. I also saw them 2 years ago after that election. When it's happening enough, that people can get a cell phone video of it happening, it's happening too much. How many people don't realize that the machine mis-recorded or switched their vote between the time they selected the candidate, and the time they press the submit button?
Here is one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?... and another: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Whether voter fraud, calibration issues, or electronic malfunction, it doesn't matter, as in all cases, there is no way to go back and re-check and re-count the ballots.
I realize this is fairly standard, however that's not the point. As any paying customer, residential or business, they shouldn't be blocking any of it. I should be able to use whatever port I want. I shouldn't have to jump through hoops if I'm running some obscure application or service that uses some port that they block just because they didn't forsee the average user using that application. That is BS.
If they do this to port 25 and some others for our protection, what's to say that one day, when you pay an ISP for internet, they will only open up port 80 and the rest is blocked "for your protection". Oh, you want those other ports open, you need to pay us more for a business class service!
This is fairly normal. Many ISPs simply block outbound port 25 rather than filtering out STARTTLS. Personally I think that's the better approach for these ISPs (to just block the port alltogether), but either way this article is a bunch of crap written by someone who can't even set his email client to connect to the right port.
Except when I pay for an internet connection, I would like all ~65K ports OPEN, not just some of those open. I have my own router/firewall, and can block any ports if needed on my side, I just want an open pipe, all of it. If it's ok for them to block port 25, then when they want to stop other services from working on their network, they will block other ports, and then the user isn't getting the whole internet access that they are paying for. I think it's disingenuous for any IPS to block ports on their end to a customer.
The lien holder is different from the owner. The owner owns the car and can do what ever he wants with it. The lien holder is just that, a finance company who holds legal rights to take the vehicle back if it's not paid for. While the lien holders hold the Title of the car, the owner is the registered owner at the DMV and for all other purposes.
If you are still making payments on a car, as the owner, you still have the right to modify the car however you wish. If you want to paint the car, fix it up to make it faster, add new stereo equipment, whatever, you can and don't need permission from the Lien holder. If the Lien holder were the actual owner, you would need permission from them to do this.
This is also why a lien holder can't just report the car as stolen if they want it back, they have the right to repo it back, but they can't just file a police report and say the car hasn't been paid for and therefore is stolen. If they could, I'm sure they would do this as it would be easier and cheaper for them to have the police track it down as a stolen car then hire repo men to find it and get it back. But they don't.
It's a perfectly good identification number for what it's intentions are. However, I don't want the same identification number to be used by government agencies, schools, IRS, banks, Credit card companies, hospitals, etc.
While I have a problem with SSN numbers used for identification, mostly due to principles, in that they aren't supposed to be. The bigger problem with using them as ID for everything, is that your personal, global credit/debt history/report is tied to this number, along with IRS records. Meaning, if anyone gets and uses this number in a fraudulent way, your credit report and possibly your financial identification is screwed. Talk to someone who has had IDTheft before, you can't get these credit bureaus to remove fraudulent data, and it can literally ruin your financial and credit reputation for many, many years, and possibly put you in an ill relationship with the IRS as well.
For a ID number to have that much power over your life, it should not be used for other things that are comparatively trivial, like school ID numbers.
I specifically remember a childhood rumor going back to the early/mid 80's that there were 9 stories total. Obviously, for years, the other 6 never came, and it kinda turned into an urban legend until the announcement of the first 3.