They've had biometric turnstiles at Walt Disney World for at least three years now, first for Cast Members, then Annual Pass Holders, and now anyone with a multi-day ticket has their index-middle finger biometrics taken on their first day in the park. If the metrics don't match up on a subsequent day, the greeters will check the signatures on the tickets against a photo id.
Submitter here. Incidentally, I used to work at the Omniplex when Mr. Ary was in charge. We were very excited when he came to the museum; we had heard that he practically built the Cosmosphere with his bare hands. He pioneered the Smithsonian Affiliate program, one of the best ways for museums to get their hands on great government collections. This indictment has come as a shock to everyone.
I don't know about you guys, but I was at work all day. We made more money at the box office at my science center last Friday than we did all of Feburary. Everyone turned out for a day of family fun and learning after their shopping adventures.
You'll notice that one of the theatres is in Laka Buena Vista, Fl, which is another name for DisneyWorld. The Pleasure Island AMC 24 will offer a Disney Cast-Member DLP screening of the film midnight of the day it's released. Tickets are only $4.
So boo-yeah. Glad I work for Disney.
Extreme Croquet seems like a pretty geeky fun game to me. Polymer mallet heads, machiened wickets, physics, geometery and the outdoors. The Connectuicut eXtreme Croquet Society has an interesing site on the subject.
You have to be careful when dealing with many paper book publishers when discussing publishing something developed from the Internet. This territory is unfamiliar, and will often lead to dire consequences if all parties involved don't understand what's going on. Take the case of Eric Weisstein, author of the CRC Concise Encyclopedia of Mathematics. His book was based off of years of his own work on his website, Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, and some collaboration from outside sources. After CRC published the book, they demanded that the website be taken down, effectively ending all collaborative work on the project. You can read more about the incident here. One calendar year and lots of litigation later, the website is back online. Don't let this happen to you.
Well, keep in mind that the Post Office has the right to inspect your packages that you send Parcel Post through the mail. From USPS Customer Service Inquiry about that Domestic Mail Manual section E611.1.2
Domestic Mail Manual (DMM) E611.1.2, provide that Standard Mail must be wrapped or packaged so that it can be easily examined. Standard Mail is not sealed against inspection. Mailing at the Standard Mail rates of postage constitutes consent by the sender to postal inspection of the contents whether or not the mail piece is secured. To assure that parcels will not be opened for postal inspection, customers should, in addition to paying the First-Class rate of postage, plainly mark their parcels "First-Class".
So there's their problem. They didn't mark their "packages" First-Class. Most of them weren't eligible to be mailed First-Class anyway. So let's not be so hard on the USPS in the future; we have postal inspectors for a reason.
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They've had biometric turnstiles at Walt Disney World for at least three years now, first for Cast Members, then Annual Pass Holders, and now anyone with a multi-day ticket has their index-middle finger biometrics taken on their first day in the park. If the metrics don't match up on a subsequent day, the greeters will check the signatures on the tickets against a photo id.
Well, seeing as how our Slashdot readership surely knows the difference between an indictment and a conviction, it seems a little redundant to me.
Submitter here. Incidentally, I used to work at the Omniplex when Mr. Ary was in charge. We were very excited when he came to the museum; we had heard that he practically built the Cosmosphere with his bare hands. He pioneered the Smithsonian Affiliate program, one of the best ways for museums to get their hands on great government collections. This indictment has come as a shock to everyone.
(-1, Factually Incorrect) Standard operating procedures straight from VISA USA.
The University of Oklahoma has a nice open-source package availible to do what you've described: SINapse, the PHP backend for the Sooner Information Network. Very effective and freely availible.
Hello, my name is Philo and welcome to Secrets of the Universe. Today we are going to learn how to make plutonium from common household items.
Seems that you've been a victim of Amazon's "Buy It Now, And We'll Never Send It To You, Ever" technology.
Here's the page from the Congressional Record from the GPO. Look at the botton of the first column. Neat.
Everyone say it with me: there are lies, damn lies, and benchmarks.
I don't know about you guys, but I was at work all day. We made more money at the box office at my science center last Friday than we did all of Feburary. Everyone turned out for a day of family fun and learning after their shopping adventures.
Smooth, guys. Way to slashdot the website of the entire State of Oklahoma.
Did we slashdot these guys latley?
There is but one general chemistry textbook: Chemistry, by Stephen S. Zumdahl. Fantastic.
You'll notice that one of the theatres is in Laka Buena Vista, Fl, which is another name for DisneyWorld. The Pleasure Island AMC 24 will offer a Disney Cast-Member DLP screening of the film midnight of the day it's released. Tickets are only $4. So boo-yeah. Glad I work for Disney.
Extreme Croquet seems like a pretty geeky fun game to me. Polymer mallet heads, machiened wickets, physics, geometery and the outdoors. The Connectuicut eXtreme Croquet Society has an interesing site on the subject.
Is Taco karma whoring? :-P
You have to be careful when dealing with many paper book publishers when discussing publishing something developed from the Internet. This territory is unfamiliar, and will often lead to dire consequences if all parties involved don't understand what's going on. Take the case of Eric Weisstein, author of the CRC Concise Encyclopedia of Mathematics. His book was based off of years of his own work on his website, Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, and some collaboration from outside sources. After CRC published the book, they demanded that the website be taken down, effectively ending all collaborative work on the project. You can read more about the incident here. One calendar year and lots of litigation later, the website is back online. Don't let this happen to you.
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