Microsoft sent me an e-mail a couple of days ago saying that the offer was available "while supplies last" and intimated that I got in too late, pointing me instead to an online location containing the documents that would have been on the drive. I thought I'd heard of someone getting their drive, but maybe not.
I was blocked from taking a plastic Slurpee cup through security because it might contain an acidic or poisonous fluid -- even though I was drinking from it at the time. I was told that I should go and buy a bottled drink from one of the stores in the airport if I wanted to take a beverage on the plane.
That's not really an apt comparison. While the open seas were a little bit like the Internet in that they were largely open to anyone that could get a ship out of port, there were also conventions between nations, long-standing naval traditions, and the simple fact that pretty much everyone recognized that taking shots at a vessel flying under another flag was an act of war.
Legal circumstances of other actions on the Internet are different in that there are serious but legitimate differences in the laws of different countries. The best example of which I can think are Europe's anti-Nazi laws, of which Yahoo famously ran afoul. Trading Nazi memorabilia in France and Germany is strictly forbidden (at least for private parties -- museums may have more leeway), while no court in the United States would entertain such restrictions for very long. In Russia, you have the legal authority to break DRM encryption for the purposes of making a personal backup (though not for warez trading), hence Elcomsoft's legal dilemma with the PDF cracker.
I can't speak to the situation here, because Swedish copyright law may or may not be on the side of TPB, and I'm not familiar with Swedish law in general, but the overall situation may not be nearly as cut and dried as you seem to believe.
One person in the cockpit may be the desire of some, but two people present in the cockpit provide redundancy in case of illness or other incapacitation, and some assurance against a suicidal crewman (though apparently not enough for some flights -- see EgyptAir). It will be very, very hard to convince people (me included) that fewer than two crew (per shift, for extremely long flights) are required up front.
You just have to look for them a bit. I just picked up a 300GB Maxtor SATA-2 with 16MB cache and NCQ that has a 5-year warranty, and it only cost me about $6 more than the 3-year warranty version with identical specs. Other companies may also offer them. (Of course, Maxtor is now a part of Seagate.)
While I realize that the 'reconquistadores' are a small minority, there really are those who believe that the American Southwest was stolen from Mexico and that it should and must be returned to Mexico. There's an even smaller minority within that group that believes that Aztlan -- comprised in their view of the American Southwest and roughly half of Mexico -- should be combined into its own nation separate from the USA and Mexico.
Secunia has eight listed vulnerabilities, including three of Moderately or Highly Critical status in the last three years or so for ZoneLabs products (mostly parts that are included in ZoneAlarm), and I'm fairly certain that they're missing one or two. It is, of course, better than nothing, but it has lost at least my trust.
BTW, if you want to test for the BSOD issue that I mentioned, the easiest way is to install a program when the firewall is in learning mode (particularly one that gets files online, like Yahoo Instant Messenger) and click the Approve button as quickly as it appears (and it will appear a lot if you don't allow it to set rules). The solution is to wait for about a second before clicking (hence my suspicion that it's a race condition), but that delay wasn't always stored in my muscle memory.:)
Your memory is short. From 1993 to 1995, Democrats were the majority party in the House and Senate, and held the presidency. The Supreme Court was roughly balanced.
If you think the Republicans are as monolithic as your words seem to indicate, you don't keep up with them very well. The NSA allegations have split the party, with a very annoyed Arlen Specter scheduling hearings on the matter. The immigration debate has the party divided, and House and Senate Republicans are even more fiercely divided, with words coming from House Republicans that they will not accept any bill from the Senate with a path to citizenship. During the Patriot Act renewal, there was significant debate over which provisions should be extended and for how long. There is increasing dissent on how Iraq is being handled, and several Republican members of Congress have come out blatantly calling for the removal of Rumsfeld from his position.
We'll have to see how the Democrats handle the bribery case since it's pretty new; thus far, most of what I've heard is silence. I think they're still trying to figure out what to do, to be honest.
So is it fine with you to bomb another country for alleged violations of sanctions so long as no American lives are lost? That is how it's sounding from your words there.
Friends don't let friends use Zone Alarm considering their recent history of critical bugs allowing bypass or subversion from outside.
But since I don't know you, I won't try to stop you.:)
Still, I recommend checking out Sunbelt (formerly Kerio) Personal Firewall. Sunbelt bought it from Kerio back in December when Kerio was dropping support. It comes with a 30-day full version, and gracefully drops to a free version at the end of the trial (I think there's one notice at the time) where some of the higher-end features are disabled.
There is an issue with the 4.2 version set, in which some have had with a BSOD when clicking through approvals or denials quickly (maybe a race condition, but I don't know the back-end details), so YMMV, but if you run into it, contact support and they'll provide a link to a development 4.3 version which, to my experience, has not had the problem at all.
Well, so far as we know, they can't crack it. And they probably can't. But didn't Churchill let a town be bombed, costing many lives, because if the bomber flight were intercepted the enemy would know that they had cracked that round of Enigma?
I never proposed it as an argument against the concept of such an amendment. I am concerned about how it affects society. If it provides adults the ability to not be harrassed or tried for what they do consensually behind closed doors, that could be a good thing. If it prevents the press from getting FOIA information on the grounds that someone in the information doesn't want to be in the press, that could be a bad thing.
As I opened my original post, it all depends on how it's worded.
It all depends on how it's worded. Any time the Constitution is amended, a new balance is struck, and it potentially upsets existing court precedent, particularly when it has to do with personal rights. A change to allow foreign-born citizens to run for president is relatively easy to do -- most of the debate comes over how long a person must have been a citizen and has lived in the country. A change to personal rights can alter the very core of a society. Just off the top of my head, I can think of the following issues:
How would a privacy amendment alter free press rights?
How would a privacy amendment alter police searches?
How would a privacy amendment alter searches by other authorities, such as school staff of lockers?
That would be "an airplane." Check with the people on the nearby highway who saw it pass not far over their heads. It's also not hard to see the imprint of the plane in the photographs.
Somehow being able to take away the monopoly of an airline catering to its customers aboard its own jet.
So bring your own food. I've done this for years, accepting only the free stuff that they hand out, and occasionally not all of that. Usually, it's as simple as a piece of fruit or a bag of chips; on other occasions, I've brought along basically entire meals, including sandwich, fruit, cookies, and string cheese. I just get the beverage from the cart, and I usually keep something for that just in case. On one occasion, I brought onboard three pastrami sandwiches from a local place because the person whom I was visiting loved them and didn't have one of the chain anywhere close; no one said anything, except for the person next to me who commented on the aroma.
There's been talk of trimming back the costs of airline flights to absolutely minimum amounts, and then charging on a per-amenity basis. You would be charged for your checked baggage, for each carry-on, for snacks/drinks, for sound access, and so forth. I believe that one airline in Europe has even done some trials, where the basic flights come out to some absurdly low number but people buy the amenities, and often end up spending just about the same money as before. Others walk in with little more than a portable music player, and pay the base rate, and are happy with it.
They're data points collected on people currently in process in some fashion, similar to fingerprints in that respect. If a person is not in custody or on parole or probation, the DNA sample cannot be required.
It's been in place now for more than a year, and DNA collection of certain felons has been the norm for much longer. This simply expanded the collection to include all felons, and certain non-felons. If it were an unconstitutional ex post facto law, it would have been challenged and dismissed by now.
I could swear the standard procedure is to swab cells from the inside of ones cheek.
That is how California does DNA collection. Not only is it just as effective, it doesn't require someone with special training in needle handling.
As a side note, California voters passed DNA collection into law 62-38 with Prop 69 in 2004. It specified that DNA be collected from any adult or juvenile convicted of a felony offense; any adult or juvenile convicted of any sex or arson offense, felony or not; and any adult arrested for any murder, voluntary manslaughter, or felony sex offense, or attempt to commit any of those. Those on parole or probation, or who are arrested for any offense and have a prior criminal history, are required to provide samples as well, if they have past offenses that are on that list. In 2009, this expands to any adult arrested for or charged with any felony offense at all. The costs are offset by a 10% addition to criminal fines imposed by the courts. Any person who has been released without being arraigned within the lawfully allowed time, or who has been found factually innocent or not guilty, or who has had their case dismissed, may make a written request to have the samples destroyed and the database expunged of searchable DNA information.
As of the end of last year, 631,913 DNA profiles have been collected, 368,307 of which have been analyzed and uploaded into the database. More than 2000 investigations have been assisted by this, including many cold cases that have been solved through DNA matching. I have read numerous stories about rapes being tied to existing prisoners, and several murderers have been caught based on the evidence. Several times it has been after their release from prison on other, lesser charges, because there's a backlog in the DNA work that is expected to be largely caught up sometime in the next few years.
Years ago, before I got into IT, I was helping to plan a booth at a convention of some sort. There was a word in the budget that I didn't recognize, and I asked what it meant. It referred to the people that collect the garbage from the booths and toss them into the main collection bins. There was a paragraph in the contract that stipulated that we could incur extra costs or even be ejected from the convention floor if we so much as changed the bag in the trash can if it got full. All of that work was to be done by unionized employees. I seem to recall that it wasn't a small charge, either -- a couple of hundred dollars over the course of a week.
Smog is not nearly the problem that it's made out to be in Los Angeles. Back when I was in elementary school, hot months (basically April to June, then September and sometimes October) would see Stage 1 smog alerts often, and Stage 2 smog alerts with enough regularity that we stopped complaining about having to stay inside during recess and lunch. According to the LA Times, there were 121 Stage 1 alerts in 1977, and that dropped to seven in 1996. I don't even remember the last time that a Stage 1 alert was called in the LA area. All this has happened even as the volume of gasoline consumed has gone up significantly in the last 30 years.
No, dehydration isn't an issue. I recently had a physical, and with the exception of a high potassium level and a moderately high cholesterol level, there were no significant issues found. I usually have a glass of milk or water in the morning, and a couple of glasses of milk, water, Gatorade, or some other beverage in the evening.
Getting up and moving around is fine. Factoring in lunch, you shouldn't be at your desk for more than six hours at a stretch in any case (emergencies excepted). I usually go outside and play a game on my cellphone, or take a walk through the building; it's rare that I don't leave my desk at least once every couple of hours.
Sounds like the recipe for fixing stuck Quantum Bigfoot drives. This is the advice that we got from Compaq many years ago (after putting them in a freezer baggie sealed closed with as little air inside as possible), when I was just starting out as a desktop tech, and we had several drives fail. Trouble was, we had information we needed from them, and no one wanted to pay for professional data recovery.
BTW, if this failed, we were to turn them on their side, one specific edge down, and rap it hard on a table. That actually worked more often than the freezer deal.
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I might if I didn't use a spam address and don't especially care about what physical mail gets sent to me, since I opted out of most lists long ago.
Microsoft sent me an e-mail a couple of days ago saying that the offer was available "while supplies last" and intimated that I got in too late, pointing me instead to an online location containing the documents that would have been on the drive. I thought I'd heard of someone getting their drive, but maybe not.
I was blocked from taking a plastic Slurpee cup through security because it might contain an acidic or poisonous fluid -- even though I was drinking from it at the time. I was told that I should go and buy a bottled drink from one of the stores in the airport if I wanted to take a beverage on the plane.
That's not really an apt comparison. While the open seas were a little bit like the Internet in that they were largely open to anyone that could get a ship out of port, there were also conventions between nations, long-standing naval traditions, and the simple fact that pretty much everyone recognized that taking shots at a vessel flying under another flag was an act of war.
Legal circumstances of other actions on the Internet are different in that there are serious but legitimate differences in the laws of different countries. The best example of which I can think are Europe's anti-Nazi laws, of which Yahoo famously ran afoul. Trading Nazi memorabilia in France and Germany is strictly forbidden (at least for private parties -- museums may have more leeway), while no court in the United States would entertain such restrictions for very long. In Russia, you have the legal authority to break DRM encryption for the purposes of making a personal backup (though not for warez trading), hence Elcomsoft's legal dilemma with the PDF cracker.
I can't speak to the situation here, because Swedish copyright law may or may not be on the side of TPB, and I'm not familiar with Swedish law in general, but the overall situation may not be nearly as cut and dried as you seem to believe.
One person in the cockpit may be the desire of some, but two people present in the cockpit provide redundancy in case of illness or other incapacitation, and some assurance against a suicidal crewman (though apparently not enough for some flights -- see EgyptAir). It will be very, very hard to convince people (me included) that fewer than two crew (per shift, for extremely long flights) are required up front.
You just have to look for them a bit. I just picked up a 300GB Maxtor SATA-2 with 16MB cache and NCQ that has a 5-year warranty, and it only cost me about $6 more than the 3-year warranty version with identical specs. Other companies may also offer them. (Of course, Maxtor is now a part of Seagate.)
While I realize that the 'reconquistadores' are a small minority, there really are those who believe that the American Southwest was stolen from Mexico and that it should and must be returned to Mexico. There's an even smaller minority within that group that believes that Aztlan -- comprised in their view of the American Southwest and roughly half of Mexico -- should be combined into its own nation separate from the USA and Mexico.
Secunia has eight listed vulnerabilities, including three of Moderately or Highly Critical status in the last three years or so for ZoneLabs products (mostly parts that are included in ZoneAlarm), and I'm fairly certain that they're missing one or two. It is, of course, better than nothing, but it has lost at least my trust.
:)
BTW, if you want to test for the BSOD issue that I mentioned, the easiest way is to install a program when the firewall is in learning mode (particularly one that gets files online, like Yahoo Instant Messenger) and click the Approve button as quickly as it appears (and it will appear a lot if you don't allow it to set rules). The solution is to wait for about a second before clicking (hence my suspicion that it's a race condition), but that delay wasn't always stored in my muscle memory.
Your memory is short. From 1993 to 1995, Democrats were the majority party in the House and Senate, and held the presidency. The Supreme Court was roughly balanced.
If you think the Republicans are as monolithic as your words seem to indicate, you don't keep up with them very well. The NSA allegations have split the party, with a very annoyed Arlen Specter scheduling hearings on the matter. The immigration debate has the party divided, and House and Senate Republicans are even more fiercely divided, with words coming from House Republicans that they will not accept any bill from the Senate with a path to citizenship. During the Patriot Act renewal, there was significant debate over which provisions should be extended and for how long. There is increasing dissent on how Iraq is being handled, and several Republican members of Congress have come out blatantly calling for the removal of Rumsfeld from his position.
We'll have to see how the Democrats handle the bribery case since it's pretty new; thus far, most of what I've heard is silence. I think they're still trying to figure out what to do, to be honest.
So is it fine with you to bomb another country for alleged violations of sanctions so long as no American lives are lost? That is how it's sounding from your words there.
Friends don't let friends use Zone Alarm considering their recent history of critical bugs allowing bypass or subversion from outside.
:)
But since I don't know you, I won't try to stop you.
Still, I recommend checking out Sunbelt (formerly Kerio) Personal Firewall. Sunbelt bought it from Kerio back in December when Kerio was dropping support. It comes with a 30-day full version, and gracefully drops to a free version at the end of the trial (I think there's one notice at the time) where some of the higher-end features are disabled.
There is an issue with the 4.2 version set, in which some have had with a BSOD when clicking through approvals or denials quickly (maybe a race condition, but I don't know the back-end details), so YMMV, but if you run into it, contact support and they'll provide a link to a development 4.3 version which, to my experience, has not had the problem at all.
Well, so far as we know, they can't crack it. And they probably can't. But didn't Churchill let a town be bombed, costing many lives, because if the bomber flight were intercepted the enemy would know that they had cracked that round of Enigma?
They require access to AT&T's international connections. Their connections to the primary domestic backbone itself are harder to explain.
I never proposed it as an argument against the concept of such an amendment. I am concerned about how it affects society. If it provides adults the ability to not be harrassed or tried for what they do consensually behind closed doors, that could be a good thing. If it prevents the press from getting FOIA information on the grounds that someone in the information doesn't want to be in the press, that could be a bad thing.
As I opened my original post, it all depends on how it's worded.
Lots of questions for such an amendment.
That would be "an airplane." Check with the people on the nearby highway who saw it pass not far over their heads. It's also not hard to see the imprint of the plane in the photographs.
Somehow being able to take away the monopoly of an airline catering to its customers aboard its own jet.
So bring your own food. I've done this for years, accepting only the free stuff that they hand out, and occasionally not all of that. Usually, it's as simple as a piece of fruit or a bag of chips; on other occasions, I've brought along basically entire meals, including sandwich, fruit, cookies, and string cheese. I just get the beverage from the cart, and I usually keep something for that just in case. On one occasion, I brought onboard three pastrami sandwiches from a local place because the person whom I was visiting loved them and didn't have one of the chain anywhere close; no one said anything, except for the person next to me who commented on the aroma.
There's been talk of trimming back the costs of airline flights to absolutely minimum amounts, and then charging on a per-amenity basis. You would be charged for your checked baggage, for each carry-on, for snacks/drinks, for sound access, and so forth. I believe that one airline in Europe has even done some trials, where the basic flights come out to some absurdly low number but people buy the amenities, and often end up spending just about the same money as before. Others walk in with little more than a portable music player, and pay the base rate, and are happy with it.
They're data points collected on people currently in process in some fashion, similar to fingerprints in that respect. If a person is not in custody or on parole or probation, the DNA sample cannot be required.
It's been in place now for more than a year, and DNA collection of certain felons has been the norm for much longer. This simply expanded the collection to include all felons, and certain non-felons. If it were an unconstitutional ex post facto law, it would have been challenged and dismissed by now.
I could swear the standard procedure is to swab cells from the inside of ones cheek.
That is how California does DNA collection. Not only is it just as effective, it doesn't require someone with special training in needle handling.
As a side note, California voters passed DNA collection into law 62-38 with Prop 69 in 2004. It specified that DNA be collected from any adult or juvenile convicted of a felony offense; any adult or juvenile convicted of any sex or arson offense, felony or not; and any adult arrested for any murder, voluntary manslaughter, or felony sex offense, or attempt to commit any of those. Those on parole or probation, or who are arrested for any offense and have a prior criminal history, are required to provide samples as well, if they have past offenses that are on that list. In 2009, this expands to any adult arrested for or charged with any felony offense at all. The costs are offset by a 10% addition to criminal fines imposed by the courts. Any person who has been released without being arraigned within the lawfully allowed time, or who has been found factually innocent or not guilty, or who has had their case dismissed, may make a written request to have the samples destroyed and the database expunged of searchable DNA information.
As of the end of last year, 631,913 DNA profiles have been collected, 368,307 of which have been analyzed and uploaded into the database. More than 2000 investigations have been assisted by this, including many cold cases that have been solved through DNA matching. I have read numerous stories about rapes being tied to existing prisoners, and several murderers have been caught based on the evidence. Several times it has been after their release from prison on other, lesser charges, because there's a backlog in the DNA work that is expected to be largely caught up sometime in the next few years.
My Saitek X-52 configured for a Cessna 172 with modes for taxi/takeoff/landing and cruise works so beautifully.
Then I switch it to the config for an F-15, and I'm completely lost. Like you said, too many buttons!
Years ago, before I got into IT, I was helping to plan a booth at a convention of some sort. There was a word in the budget that I didn't recognize, and I asked what it meant. It referred to the people that collect the garbage from the booths and toss them into the main collection bins. There was a paragraph in the contract that stipulated that we could incur extra costs or even be ejected from the convention floor if we so much as changed the bag in the trash can if it got full. All of that work was to be done by unionized employees. I seem to recall that it wasn't a small charge, either -- a couple of hundred dollars over the course of a week.
Smog is not nearly the problem that it's made out to be in Los Angeles. Back when I was in elementary school, hot months (basically April to June, then September and sometimes October) would see Stage 1 smog alerts often, and Stage 2 smog alerts with enough regularity that we stopped complaining about having to stay inside during recess and lunch. According to the LA Times, there were 121 Stage 1 alerts in 1977, and that dropped to seven in 1996. I don't even remember the last time that a Stage 1 alert was called in the LA area. All this has happened even as the volume of gasoline consumed has gone up significantly in the last 30 years.
No, dehydration isn't an issue. I recently had a physical, and with the exception of a high potassium level and a moderately high cholesterol level, there were no significant issues found. I usually have a glass of milk or water in the morning, and a couple of glasses of milk, water, Gatorade, or some other beverage in the evening.
Getting up and moving around is fine. Factoring in lunch, you shouldn't be at your desk for more than six hours at a stretch in any case (emergencies excepted). I usually go outside and play a game on my cellphone, or take a walk through the building; it's rare that I don't leave my desk at least once every couple of hours.
The box says "decaffeinated" and so I work with that. I don't have the time or interest to get that deeply into the chemical makeup of my teas.
Sounds like the recipe for fixing stuck Quantum Bigfoot drives. This is the advice that we got from Compaq many years ago (after putting them in a freezer baggie sealed closed with as little air inside as possible), when I was just starting out as a desktop tech, and we had several drives fail. Trouble was, we had information we needed from them, and no one wanted to pay for professional data recovery.
BTW, if this failed, we were to turn them on their side, one specific edge down, and rap it hard on a table. That actually worked more often than the freezer deal.