no. not some places. Every entry point takes fingerprints of every visitor who is not a US Citizen or legal US Resident.
Not completely right... only US citizens get to enter the US without fingerprinting and a picture of your face taken. US Residents (Green Card holders) used to be able to get in without the fingerprints/picture, but they changed the rules recently. After getting it, I only managed to get into the US once without being fingerprinted using my GC before the rule change. And it only got worse. At first it was only the index finger that was fingerprinted, now it's all ten fingers.
I have a Nokia 3650 (oldie) running Symbian, and there's this app called Agile Messenger which allows me to connect to all major IM services (AIM, Yahoo, MSN, ICQ and whatever Gtalk uses). So, Agile just logs me in and I get a list of icons with the people who are online, just like on a regular computer. I then select the victim and it opens a new chat window (you can open several at the same time with different people). So far, quite similar to a PC.
The actual typing is a bit more convoluted than a regular PC (this is what you were really asking about), but with a predictive keypad (the T9 somebode else mentioned), I just type the word I want and the internal dictionary guesses what I'm trying to say. So, say I want to say 'hello', I punch '43556' and I get 'hello'. Usually, the longer the word, the better the guess. If two words share the same key combination, you can cycle among the words that match that combo. If all fails, you can add the word to the dictionary (helpful for swearing:oD). So, you end up pressing more or less one key per letter, like in a regular keyboard.
The actual pressing of the keys requires a bit more practice and getting used to. My phone doesn't have a regular keypad (the 3 by 3 grid), but rather, the buttons are in the (really) old-style circular pattern. I've found out that it's easier for conversations, since there's two halves, one for each thumb. I don't need to criss-cross my fingers to reach all keys.
Once you get the hang of it, it's not that much harder to use than a regular keyboards. Although I can't pull off those amazing speeds that some people are capable off, I manage to type fast enough to keep up with the conversation. Plus, my parents are of the hunt-and-peck types on a regular keyboard, so they're even slower than me on the phone.;o)
Personally, I use IM on my phone to talk with my family at home (they live in a different country than me) whenever I'm not at home. For instance, I leave it on at work all day and once in a while my brother or my parents pop in and say hi. Very easy, unobtrusive way to keep in touch without paying tonnes of money for international calls or SMSs.
Unfortunately, that system would also mean that the ride would be very jerky. Having two pedals for accelerating and braking and using the same foot for both means that you let go of the accelerator before you brake, which under normal conditions leads to a smoother ride. Try riding with somebody who uses both feet (one on each pedal, and you need an automatic car to pull this off) and you'll be jerked around a bit more as they hit the brake while they're still pressing the gas. At least that has been my experience, and it makes for a pretty annoying ride.
Well, it seems you just gave examples of what the guy meant by viruses needing a kick-start:
floppy disks: The user has to put the disk on the machine, and run some program on it (or, just put it in if it's a boot sector virus). But it required action on the user's part.
autostart.ini: same thing, the virus was run from another place, in this case an autostart.ini file. The user had to do something to run that file (even if it's just turning the computer on). Something had to write that entry in the.ini file, and it could've been a program you run, or even a worm.
malformed html: the user clicked on the link, got the virus to run on his computer.
Whereas for a trojan, the computer is just sitting there, and all of a sudden it's spamming (among other things) like crazy after it got hit by the worm. The user didn't intervene in any way.
I know, it's a fine line, but it still seems to be there.
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no. not some places. Every entry point takes fingerprints of every visitor who is not a US Citizen or legal US Resident.
Not completely right... only US citizens get to enter the US without fingerprinting and a picture of your face taken. US Residents (Green Card holders) used to be able to get in without the fingerprints/picture, but they changed the rules recently. After getting it, I only managed to get into the US once without being fingerprinted using my GC before the rule change. And it only got worse. At first it was only the index finger that was fingerprinted, now it's all ten fingers.
I have a Nokia 3650 (oldie) running Symbian, and there's this app called Agile Messenger which allows me to connect to all major IM services (AIM, Yahoo, MSN, ICQ and whatever Gtalk uses). So, Agile just logs me in and I get a list of icons with the people who are online, just like on a regular computer. I then select the victim and it opens a new chat window (you can open several at the same time with different people). So far, quite similar to a PC.
:oD). So, you end up pressing more or less one key per letter, like in a regular keyboard.
;o)
The actual typing is a bit more convoluted than a regular PC (this is what you were really asking about), but with a predictive keypad (the T9 somebode else mentioned), I just type the word I want and the internal dictionary guesses what I'm trying to say. So, say I want to say 'hello', I punch '43556' and I get 'hello'. Usually, the longer the word, the better the guess. If two words share the same key combination, you can cycle among the words that match that combo. If all fails, you can add the word to the dictionary (helpful for swearing
The actual pressing of the keys requires a bit more practice and getting used to. My phone doesn't have a regular keypad (the 3 by 3 grid), but rather, the buttons are in the (really) old-style circular pattern. I've found out that it's easier for conversations, since there's two halves, one for each thumb. I don't need to criss-cross my fingers to reach all keys.
Once you get the hang of it, it's not that much harder to use than a regular keyboards. Although I can't pull off those amazing speeds that some people are capable off, I manage to type fast enough to keep up with the conversation. Plus, my parents are of the hunt-and-peck types on a regular keyboard, so they're even slower than me on the phone.
Personally, I use IM on my phone to talk with my family at home (they live in a different country than me) whenever I'm not at home. For instance, I leave it on at work all day and once in a while my brother or my parents pop in and say hi. Very easy, unobtrusive way to keep in touch without paying tonnes of money for international calls or SMSs.
Unfortunately, that system would also mean that the ride would be very jerky. Having two pedals for accelerating and braking and using the same foot for both means that you let go of the accelerator before you brake, which under normal conditions leads to a smoother ride. Try riding with somebody who uses both feet (one on each pedal, and you need an automatic car to pull this off) and you'll be jerked around a bit more as they hit the brake while they're still pressing the gas. At least that has been my experience, and it makes for a pretty annoying ride.
Errr... sorry, trojan --> worm.
Well, it seems you just gave examples of what the guy meant by viruses needing a kick-start:
.ini file, and it could've been a program you run, or even a worm.
floppy disks: The user has to put the disk on the machine, and run some program on it (or, just put it in if it's a boot sector virus). But it required action on the user's part.
autostart.ini: same thing, the virus was run from another place, in this case an autostart.ini file. The user had to do something to run that file (even if it's just turning the computer on). Something had to write that entry in the
malformed html: the user clicked on the link, got the virus to run on his computer.
Whereas for a trojan, the computer is just sitting there, and all of a sudden it's spamming (among other things) like crazy after it got hit by the worm. The user didn't intervene in any way.
I know, it's a fine line, but it still seems to be there.