Such a statistic seems to say more about what makes a good American than humanity. Here in Europe it feels like the other way round. I guess it got burned out of the senisble people during the religious wars. Now with Tory Blair and Yo Bush we seem to be going wrong again.
Interestingly it seems yahoo is having some problems today displaying my myhome pages. That doesn't seem to be related to whether I use IE7 or not though.
I was a student at Imperial College in the late 60's. Two guys with brown coats came in to the student union lounge one day and asked for assistance in rolling up the recently laid carpet (it was quite a big room). After about thirty minutes the two guys and several helpful students loaded the giant roll of carpet into a van. The van drove off and the carpet was never seen again. Whether it was a real theft or just some kind of student prank I never found out. People are in general only too willing to believe good of the other guy, it must be a survival related gene or something.
Having had this story rejected at 10:01 I wonder what it is about this particular report that makes it acceptable.
None of the above 'worries' were mentioned in the BBC interview of Nationwide's CEO. He implied that the laptop was 'secured'.
The main thrust of the questioning was 1) why the three month delay in revealing the theft & 2) what information was actually at risk. The diversionary answer was that on Police advice no answers or relevant information could be given except that PIN numbers were not part of the information and that no financial loss would be incurred. Repeated attempts by the interviewer to clarify the situation were stonewalled. We don't even know that all customers are involved.
As for Identity Theft it happens all the time; the BBC indicates that ID theft is one of the fastest growing frauds in Britain. We are daily warned to shred all of our paper records before trashing them.
It's no use whining about the way things ought to be; economics currently dictates that a Utility Bill or Bank Statement is taken by many as being proof of identity. We were informed the other day that Glasgow police believe 1 in 8 call centres in that city had been infiltrated by organized criminals specifically for the purpose of obtaining credit card and other personal details. We want things cheap, but look away when the local bank is closed in favour of some remote transaction processing centre.
> I seriously doubt we have the technology to have them fly very far then deliver > some type of lethal force (e.g. poison) to a specific target.
Perhaps we should consider co-opting real hornets. After all didn't we read that someone had control over cockroaches or rats. Bio-engineered hornets with built in wifi sounds perfectly feasible. Probably we can get them trained up to attack only people with headbands, or beards, or blue eyes or whatever. Scent discrimination is in the vespidae genes we might even be able to breed them to attack only members of one race. Greeeaaat
I submitted this story on Wednesday, but my take was "God plays the beautiful game, not American football". Of course my submission was rejected. Typical Amerikan shiite.
I'm happy in a way too. The kind of system palladium represents will no doubt spawn a new kind of virus writer who makes relay-viruses that are always legal and provide contact for the semi-legal Linux masses.
I predict the death of His Billness real soon now.
This thing can only have a total energy equivalent of something in the range 100Kg - 1000Kg of some military explosive since it's deliverable by some kind of aircraft/rocket and unless I misread the article is non-nuclear.
I guess it must work by collapsing a wire/tube in a magnetic field or possibly by accelerating a jet of metal into/through such a field. Even assuming 100% conversion it would seem given the inverse square law that with such a limited energy input it can't really do a lot of damage.
The nuclear emp weapons would have much larger inputs (by factors of 10k-1M) and would likely be more effective.
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So long as he doesn't re-appear in three days we'll be ok
First off the ship indicates what exactly?
Well I'm not there, but neither was Guido van Rossum so I suppose you can call yourself an ubergeek :)
Such a statistic seems to say more about what makes a good American than humanity. Here in Europe it feels like the other way round. I guess it got burned out of the senisble people during the religious wars. Now with Tory Blair and Yo Bush we seem to be going wrong again.
A particle that costs nothing clearly violates the laws^H^H^H^Haxioms^H^H^H^H^Hassertions of economics.
Interestingly it seems yahoo is having some problems today displaying my myhome pages. That doesn't seem to be related to whether I use IE7 or not though.
I was a student at Imperial College in the late 60's. Two guys with brown coats came in to the student union lounge one day and asked for assistance in rolling up the recently laid carpet (it was quite a big room). After about thirty minutes the two guys and several helpful students loaded the giant roll of carpet into a van. The van drove off and the carpet was never seen again. Whether it was a real theft or just some kind of student prank I never found out. People are in general only too willing to believe good of the other guy, it must be a survival related gene or something.
Having had this story rejected at 10:01 I wonder what it is about this particular report that makes it acceptable.
None of the above 'worries' were mentioned in the BBC interview of Nationwide's CEO. He implied that the laptop was 'secured'.
The main thrust of the questioning was 1) why the three month delay in revealing the theft & 2) what information was actually at risk. The diversionary answer was that on Police advice no answers or relevant information could be given except that PIN numbers were not part of the information and that no financial loss would be incurred. Repeated attempts by the interviewer to clarify the situation were stonewalled. We don't even know that all customers are involved.
As for Identity Theft it happens all the time; the BBC indicates that ID theft is one of the fastest growing frauds in Britain. We are daily warned to shred all of our paper records before trashing them.
It's no use whining about the way things ought to be; economics currently dictates that a Utility Bill or Bank Statement is taken by many as being proof of identity. We were informed the other day that Glasgow police believe 1 in 8 call centres in that city had been infiltrated by organized criminals specifically for the purpose of obtaining credit card and other personal details. We want things cheap, but look away when the local bank is closed in favour of some remote transaction processing centre.
> I seriously doubt we have the technology to have them fly very far then deliver
> some type of lethal force (e.g. poison) to a specific target.
Perhaps we should consider co-opting real hornets. After all didn't we read that someone had control over cockroaches or rats. Bio-engineered hornets with built in wifi sounds perfectly feasible. Probably we can get them trained up to attack only people with headbands, or beards, or blue eyes or whatever. Scent discrimination is in the vespidae genes we might even be able to breed them to attack only members of one race. Greeeaaat
If I knew what and where this WGA spyware sends I could write a simulator and just set it going. Is that a DOS? Am I liable to criminal sanction?
I submitted this story on Wednesday, but my take
was "God plays the beautiful game, not American football". Of course my submission was rejected. Typical Amerikan shiite.
I'm happy in a way too. The kind of system palladium
represents will no doubt spawn a new kind of virus writer who makes relay-viruses that are always legal and provide contact for the semi-legal Linux masses.
I predict the death of His Billness real soon now.
This thing can only have a total energy equivalent of something in the range 100Kg - 1000Kg of some military explosive since it's deliverable by some kind of aircraft/rocket and unless I misread the article is non-nuclear. I guess it must work by collapsing a wire/tube in a magnetic field or possibly by accelerating a jet of metal into/through such a field. Even assuming 100% conversion it would seem given the inverse square law that with such a limited energy input it can't really do a lot of damage. The nuclear emp weapons would have much larger inputs (by factors of 10k-1M) and would likely be more effective.