The man is 77. If he was actually elected, he'd be 78 when he took office, and 82 at the end of his term. Being President of the U.S. is a crushing burden, both mentally and physically. I'm sorry, but his positions are pretty much irrelevant; he's just too old to do it.
1. You could already do the same -- I've never seen a polling place that prevents you from snapping a picture of your ballot with your cell phone.
Then you haven't been paying attention, because *every* polling place prevents you from snapping a *useful* picture of your ballot. If you're using a physical ballot, you can fill it out, snap the picture, and then tell a poll worker that you've spoiled the ballot and turn it in for a fresh ballot. If you're doing electronic voting, *every* electronic voting only shows whom you have selected on screens you can back out of and select somebody else.
Actually, I think it *is* unreasonable to expect someone to have to read the article to learn that the title may be misleading. That is what titles are supposed to do, you know--tell you what the article is about. And, yes, I got the reference to the Abbie Hoffman book, however, again, it is not fair to blame a person for not having a given piece of information, and this one is only moderately well-known.
Did you RTFA? He's not suggesting that everyone should go out and steal Wi-Fi, he's just saying that it's nice to leave your own Wi-Fi unsecured so that others can use it if they want.
I don't think it's entirely unfair to assume that an article entitled "Steal this Wi-Fi" is about stealing Wi-Fi.
You should be able to specify the SSID you want to be using with the iwconfig command; tell the system you want to use your SSID (which will need to be different from your neighbor's, of course). You can automate this (at least in Debian, I don't know Fedora) in/etc/network/interfaces with a pre-up line in the stanza for your wireless interface to have the iwconfig command run before the interface is brought up.
There's no shortage of people who would be happy to have a job driving for you if you don't drive.
Indeed, there isn't. However, I, and anybody else with an ordinary paycheck, can't really afford to take cabs all the time. I can, and do, regularly take mass transit; it takes two to three times as long to get anywhere compared to driving and that's assuming you aren't trying to get somewhere during off hours when the buses run infrequently or not at all.
I can drive. I don't *want* to drive, generally. Tell the car where I'm going and I can get in some reading on the way to and from work.
Yep, follow some of the links in other posts. They have discretion to confiscate almost anything. Technically, it's still yours; DHS is supposed to give it back to you when their investigation is complete or the laptop is no longer required for the investigation. There is, however, no time limit on how long DHS can take doing this. One of the articles linked to in this thread reports a woman's been waiting for over a year with still no indication of when they'll give it back.
It is possible to encrypt the contents of the hard drive using a SmartCard, then mail the SmartCard to your destination in advance of your border crossing. By doing so, it would be absolutely impossible* for you to give them access to your data. And while they may have the legal authority to search your laptop at the border, they do NOT have the authority to break in to your destination address and take the SmartCard (without probable cause, warrant, etc.).
No. But if I'm understanding some other posters here, they DO have the authority to simply keep your laptop. That seems to be the problem with most of these "solutions": no, the Feds don't get to see your data. But you're out maybe $1500 worth of laptop that you'll never see again.
No, I think we need to go back to this question. Because the answer is: no. Not as long as they're distributing graphics files lifted directly from the game. That's not going to fly under anybody's copyright laws anywheres. Somebody elsewhere stated the plan is at some point to not distribute those files and have people to use the graphics files from Starcraft CDs they own legally. I'm not sure if that'll be legal or not, but that's not what they're doing now. What they're doing now is clearly distributing copyrighted material, and it's not legal.
Nothing parallel about this. Microsoft isn't going to stop blocking the competition's file formats by default, so you'll still need to edit your registry to be able to use them. They'll see about doing something to make it easier...Real Soon Now. Meanwhile, have this absolutely worthless apology! Nothing unusual about this...Microsoft has always been willing to talk sweet when it needs to calm things down a bit. Actually fixing the problem, particularly when the problem has been carefully orchestrated to kick the competition in the crotch? Not so much.
...but we're going to continue to block your file formats by default on our systems. Those who want to use your file formats will need to go through the MicroSoft KB and find our designated fix for it, but we'll try to make that easier to use. Have a nice day!
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Hello, person who's never used Office 2007. How are you?
Very lucky, it would seem.
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This, I don't understand. If you open a ".doc" in word 07, and save, it's saved as ".doc". In fact, if you open a ".doc", do a save as, and change the name, it will still default to ".doc".
Which ".doc" among the half-dozen incompatible variations Microsoft has hidden under that extension does it default to?
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You left out TeX! Something's got to interpret all those hand-coded macros and make look pretty when you're finished!
What you mean "couldn't", kemosabe. It ain't past tense. There's no place I know of where I can just walk in and get a Wii for $250 (which is supposed to be the MSRP). I've been thinking I might like one, but I'm not paying a premium or buying one of those ridiculous bundle packs. I'll buy one when I can buy one for $250, and until then, well, I really do have a lot of other games, some of which I haven't gotten around to playing at all yet.
At Columbia, in 2003, Haney tested a cocaine vaccine on 10 people who had no plans to quit using the drug.
Let me get this straight. People who had no plans to quit using cocaine volunteered to test a vaccine which, if successful, would make it impossible to use the drug?
I don't know if 5 years is the right number, but 120 is ridiculously high.
On the contrary, it makes perfect sense once you realize the ruling principle of US copyright law: Mickey Mouse will never become public domain. Look for another extension around 2040.
Yep, it is. I'm very happy with my $13000 Hyundai. It's run well and hasn't given me a lick of trouble for over a year now. You'll have to ask those other guys why they spent over three times as much, because I can't tell you.
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The man is 77. If he was actually elected, he'd be 78 when he took office, and 82 at the end of his term. Being President of the U.S. is a crushing burden, both mentally and physically. I'm sorry, but his positions are pretty much irrelevant; he's just too old to do it.
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Then you haven't been paying attention, because *every* polling place prevents you from snapping a *useful* picture of your ballot. If you're using a physical ballot, you can fill it out, snap the picture, and then tell a poll worker that you've spoiled the ballot and turn it in for a fresh ballot. If you're doing electronic voting, *every* electronic voting only shows whom you have selected on screens you can back out of and select somebody else.
Chris Mattern
Actually, I think it *is* unreasonable to expect someone to have to read the article to learn that the title may be misleading. That is what titles are supposed to do, you know--tell you what the article is about. And, yes, I got the reference to the Abbie Hoffman book, however, again, it is not fair to blame a person for not having a given piece of information, and this one is only moderately well-known.
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I don't think it's entirely unfair to assume that an article entitled "Steal this Wi-Fi" is about stealing Wi-Fi.
Chris Mattern
You should be able to specify the SSID you want to be using with the iwconfig command; tell the system you want to use your SSID (which will need to be different from your neighbor's, of course). You can automate this (at least in Debian, I don't know Fedora) in /etc/network/interfaces with a pre-up line in the stanza for your wireless interface to have the iwconfig command run before the interface is brought up.
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Indeed, there isn't. However, I, and anybody else with an ordinary paycheck, can't really afford to take cabs all the time. I can, and do, regularly take mass transit; it takes two to three times as long to get anywhere compared to driving and that's assuming you aren't trying to get somewhere during off hours when the buses run infrequently or not at all.
I can drive. I don't *want* to drive, generally. Tell the car where I'm going and I can get in some reading on the way to and from work.
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Yep, follow some of the links in other posts. They have discretion to confiscate almost anything. Technically, it's still yours; DHS is supposed to give it back to you when their investigation is complete or the laptop is no longer required for the investigation. There is, however, no time limit on how long DHS can take doing this. One of the articles linked to in this thread reports a woman's been waiting for over a year with still no indication of when they'll give it back.
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No. But if I'm understanding some other posters here, they DO have the authority to simply keep your laptop. That seems to be the problem with most of these "solutions": no, the Feds don't get to see your data. But you're out maybe $1500 worth of laptop that you'll never see again.
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Wonderful! Better than Iron!
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Yes, it means retailers are desperate to get them out the doors while they can still find people willing to pay money for them.
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No, I think we need to go back to this question. Because the answer is: no. Not as long as they're distributing graphics files lifted directly from the game. That's not going to fly under anybody's copyright laws anywheres. Somebody elsewhere stated the plan is at some point to not distribute those files and have people to use the graphics files from Starcraft CDs they own legally. I'm not sure if that'll be legal or not, but that's not what they're doing now. What they're doing now is clearly distributing copyrighted material, and it's not legal.
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Personally, I remember it mainly because I wonder why anybody would want to name their video technology "Blurry".
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Nothing parallel about this. Microsoft isn't going to stop blocking the competition's file formats by default, so you'll still need to edit your registry to be able to use them. They'll see about doing something to make it easier...Real Soon Now. Meanwhile, have this absolutely worthless apology! Nothing unusual about this...Microsoft has always been willing to talk sweet when it needs to calm things down a bit. Actually fixing the problem, particularly when the problem has been carefully orchestrated to kick the competition in the crotch? Not so much.
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...but we're going to continue to block your file formats by default on our systems. Those who want to use your file formats will need to go through the MicroSoft KB and find our designated fix for it, but we'll try to make that easier to use. Have a nice day!
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Very lucky, it would seem.
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Which ".doc" among the half-dozen incompatible variations Microsoft has hidden under that extension does it default to?
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You left out TeX! Something's got to interpret all those hand-coded macros and make look pretty when you're finished!
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What you mean "couldn't", kemosabe. It ain't past tense. There's no place I know of where I can just walk in and get a Wii for $250 (which is supposed to be the MSRP). I've been thinking I might like one, but I'm not paying a premium or buying one of those ridiculous bundle packs. I'll buy one when I can buy one for $250, and until then, well, I really do have a lot of other games, some of which I haven't gotten around to playing at all yet.
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This argument would be more convincing if Moriarty had actually won instead of just being tricked by another level of VR.
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You appear to have misspelled your answer: the correct answer is "Real soon now. Not really."
Google has no IPv6 address to connect to. Nor have most other major net sites. IPv4 is still the only way to connect to almost all of the internet.
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Feature, not a bug. I seriously don't *want* you accessing my damn toaster and the fact that you don't have a route to it suits me just fine.
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Yep, sure. We can get Len Bias to testify to that fact.
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Let me get this straight. People who had no plans to quit using cocaine volunteered to test a vaccine which, if successful, would make it impossible to use the drug?
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On the contrary, it makes perfect sense once you realize the ruling principle of US copyright law: Mickey Mouse will never become public domain. Look for another extension around 2040.
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Yep, it is. I'm very happy with my $13000 Hyundai. It's run well and hasn't given me a lick of trouble for over a year now. You'll have to ask those other guys why they spent over three times as much, because I can't tell you.
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