US Zip codes were originally 5 digits and each post office was assigned one or two. Latter they added Zip +4 which gives a 9 digit zip code and the bar coded zip codes are 11 digits which are unique to the building in most cases. The 5 digits are now mostly used for routing information and the +4 is used for local sorting and delivery.
Do you know your +4? (I've never known it anywhere I've lived) Does everyplace you order from allow you to enter the +4? What do you do when UPS, FedEx or DHL don't bother to check beyond the 5-digit ZIP code?
Think that's bad? Try dealing with the bureaucracy of getting a street name changed - or even adding a "neighborhood" to the address - when there are 2 streets with the same name in the same ZIP code although technically in 2 different towns.
EMS, fire & police have been dispatched to the wrong location by 911 because of this screw-up. People have come to my parents' house demanding a tour/showing because they saw it listed in MLS, complete with pictures - when in fact it was the OTHER street where the house was for sale. Prescriptions delivered to the wrong location. It goes on and on.
It's been over 20 years that they've been fighting it and the town has decided that the cost & inconvenience outweighs the benefit. I figured the full emergency response force being dispatched to the wrong place & needing 45 minutes to sort it out would get them to come to their senses, but apparently not. At least they'll have it on public record that the town decided to do nothing when a wrongful death or property loss lawsuit gets filed against them when the EMS/fire crews really are needed and something really bad happens because of the mix-up.
This could easily be solved via fixing data/software - it's the bureaucracy that's killing it.
Apparently online distribution was a third contender waiting in the wings. We shall see.
If your ISP has anything to say about it, online distribution isn't going to be viable. Does a week go by here without a story on ISPs throttling, capping, or otherwise neutering our "high speed, unlimited" services?
It will establish a precedent of impeaching presidents who are grossly incompetent and overstep the constitutional limits on their power
But it also establishes the precedent that you can be grossly incompetent, lie, and violate the constitution for 6 years before you get "caught" 6 months before you leave office.
Given that the government sees fit to redefine "subversive or terrorist activities" at their discretion, what's the point? You can truthfully answer "no" today, but tomorrow they can redefine things so that your answer is false.
But are Bush's advisers really that good? Someone else pointed out that Bush is all about loyalty, not necessarily the right person for the job.
Bush picked cronies and yes-men above all else. Haven't we heard a number of stories of Bush refusing to listen to those who disagree, simply because they disagree?
I'm not running TMP as the tab-management features of FF2 and 3 have been enough to keep me happy. I used TMP in earlier releases to make up for deficiencies there.
FF3 betas and RCs have been far better about memory consumption on both my Mac and Thinkpad than any previous FF release. On OS X, it's better than Safari as well.
plastic cups can be more eco friendly compared to traditional ceramic cups due to the large amounts of energy needed to create the ceramics and the energy and chemicals needed to clean the cup. It all depends on the number of times the ceramic cup is reused.
I've got ceramic mugs which are over 15 years old (my parents have ones that are even older), and they'll keep on working just fine for another 15 years (assuming they don't get dropped).
We just threw out a bunch of reusable plastic (bottles) because of the discovery of BPA. That won't be happening with our ceramic mugs.
I have to choose between lots of bandwidth and lots of volume at a high price, or low volume at low bandwidth for a low price?
I only use my home connection on nights and weekends, I don't seed torrents. I don't need a lot of capacity, I just want it to be fast when I do use it. That goes out the window, apparently.
Are they offering a way for users to actually monitor their usage so they don't have to guess?
I guess it's all moot anyway - I'm getting 500Kbps down and paying for 10Mbps already.
Especially since making concrete effectively weather proof hasn't been all that hard for a very long time. You can still go to Italy and find concrete from the Roman times.
The temperature cycles experienced by the blast pit under a launchpad are a bit more extreme than those induced by the seasons in Florida or Italy.
Because body part replacement is a bitch and something you do because you have to, not because you want to. My father recently had his hip replaced because he took an odd fall - his femur broke just below the ball, and the given his relatively young age and activity level, a full Titanium replacement (ball and socket) was deemed to be the best option for him. The bones were in perfect condition, he just landed on it in such a way that it broke.
He's going to have some degree of limp for the rest of his days and walk with a cane. He has a list of things that he either can't do, or has to be extremely careful while doing (mundane things like bending over to tie his shoes even). His doctors and therapists have done a terrific job - but there's only so much that can be done.
Even if a replacement body part would have "more capabilities" than OEM parts, the problems that go along with the actual replacement may make it more trouble than it's worth.
But the bank still needs to have your SSN for tax-reporting purposes, and most of the accounts in question have tax implications (interest payments, capital gains, etc.).
So even if they weren't using your SSN for your ID number (which, as I noted in my earlier post, they do sometimes) they'd still have your SSN in the data that was compromised.
Sorry to be replying to myself, but when I wrote my previous post I wasn't able to get to TFA. Now I can.
TFA has a lot of information which wasn't given to customers in the letter. The tapes were unencrypted? I can believe that. I kind of assumed it, which is a sad state of affairs. There were names, DOBs and SSNs on the tapes? That I can believe, and assumed, but like I posted above, it wasn't made known via the notice that was sent out.
But how the hell can this guy say "that none of the unencrypted data has been accessed or used?" That's impossible for them to know. The tapes are out of their physical control - the people in possession of them now could have skimmed all those records off already, and just haven't used them yet.
The article doesn't mention the $25K of "insurance" that we get by signing up with the free credit monitoring. Except I'm an NY resident, and by NY state law they can't offer such insurance to me. WTF?
So here I sit, having managed to go 30 years with a lone incident of a "guessed" CC number as my only brush with identity theft, and now I'm left to be looking over my shoulder for the next several years thanks to this.
This page has changed since Thursday. Originally it was only one incident, now it's two. The letter said that I'd get 1 year of credit monitoring at all 3 bureaus, free; when I signed up, I was given (and the page above) two years. The letter said there was no indication that the information had been used, but it also didn't mention what the summary here says - that SSNs and birthdates were on those tapes (I assumed they were).
What really pisses me off isn't that it happened - it's that it took them three fucking months to inform me.
I have 2 accounts with them (for the same employer, which is really stupid). One account requires my SSN, the stock ticker, and a 6-digit PIN. Digits only. Not terribly secure - there's only 10^6 possible PINs, my SSN may be in someone's hands, and there are only a couple thousand stock tickers. The other is a seemingly random ID and a 6-31 digit PIN. My previous PIN was 12 characters. The new one is 31.
I reset both my PINs Thursday night, which took about half an hour - the sites, while not normally speed demons, were obscenely slow that night. I'm hoping it's because people were changing their PINs.
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Does everyplace you order from allow you to enter the +4?
What do you do when UPS, FedEx or DHL don't bother to check beyond the 5-digit ZIP code?
Think that's bad? Try dealing with the bureaucracy of getting a street name changed - or even adding a "neighborhood" to the address - when there are 2 streets with the same name in the same ZIP code although technically in 2 different towns.
EMS, fire & police have been dispatched to the wrong location by 911 because of this screw-up. People have come to my parents' house demanding a tour/showing because they saw it listed in MLS, complete with pictures - when in fact it was the OTHER street where the house was for sale. Prescriptions delivered to the wrong location. It goes on and on.
It's been over 20 years that they've been fighting it and the town has decided that the cost & inconvenience outweighs the benefit. I figured the full emergency response force being dispatched to the wrong place & needing 45 minutes to sort it out would get them to come to their senses, but apparently not. At least they'll have it on public record that the town decided to do nothing when a wrongful death or property loss lawsuit gets filed against them when the EMS/fire crews really are needed and something really bad happens because of the mix-up.
This could easily be solved via fixing data/software - it's the bureaucracy that's killing it.
It had been about 4 months since I last went to mozilla.com at all, so that shouldn't have been an issue.
or nearly 3 and half hours since this was supposed to start, and mozilla.com still shows 2.0.0.14 for download.
Pretty disorganized.
You mean "shit rolls downhill."
Of the 4 dissenting voices, only one was appointed by a Democrat - Thomas.
were appointed by Bush.
Anyone at all surprised by that?
Not a terribly good deterrent IMO.
Given that the government sees fit to redefine "subversive or terrorist activities" at their discretion, what's the point? You can truthfully answer "no" today, but tomorrow they can redefine things so that your answer is false.
Saying "Oh Ess Ten Ten Point Five" is very awkward.
But are Bush's advisers really that good? Someone else pointed out that Bush is all about loyalty, not necessarily the right person for the job.
Bush picked cronies and yes-men above all else. Haven't we heard a number of stories of Bush refusing to listen to those who disagree, simply because they disagree?
I'm not running TMP as the tab-management features of FF2 and 3 have been enough to keep me happy. I used TMP in earlier releases to make up for deficiencies there.
FF3 betas and RCs have been far better about memory consumption on both my Mac and Thinkpad than any previous FF release. On OS X, it's better than Safari as well.
We just threw out a bunch of reusable plastic (bottles) because of the discovery of BPA. That won't be happening with our ceramic mugs.
My employer happily accepted scanned & emailed copies of the paperwork to add my son to my health insurance when he was born almost 2 years ago.
I have to choose between lots of bandwidth and lots of volume at a high price, or low volume at low bandwidth for a low price?
I only use my home connection on nights and weekends, I don't seed torrents. I don't need a lot of capacity, I just want it to be fast when I do use it. That goes out the window, apparently.
Are they offering a way for users to actually monitor their usage so they don't have to guess?
I guess it's all moot anyway - I'm getting 500Kbps down and paying for 10Mbps already.
Where the hell are you seeing a 3-hour delay? Yahoo! Finance!, Google Finance and most others are a 20-minute delay, not 3 hours.
Because body part replacement is a bitch and something you do because you have to, not because you want to. My father recently had his hip replaced because he took an odd fall - his femur broke just below the ball, and the given his relatively young age and activity level, a full Titanium replacement (ball and socket) was deemed to be the best option for him. The bones were in perfect condition, he just landed on it in such a way that it broke.
He's going to have some degree of limp for the rest of his days and walk with a cane. He has a list of things that he either can't do, or has to be extremely careful while doing (mundane things like bending over to tie his shoes even). His doctors and therapists have done a terrific job - but there's only so much that can be done.
Even if a replacement body part would have "more capabilities" than OEM parts, the problems that go along with the actual replacement may make it more trouble than it's worth.
It would also make credit records useless, because people would refuse to allow anything negative - true or not - to be put onto their records.
But the bank still needs to have your SSN for tax-reporting purposes, and most of the accounts in question have tax implications (interest payments, capital gains, etc.).
So even if they weren't using your SSN for your ID number (which, as I noted in my earlier post, they do sometimes) they'd still have your SSN in the data that was compromised.
Sorry to be replying to myself, but when I wrote my previous post I wasn't able to get to TFA. Now I can.
TFA has a lot of information which wasn't given to customers in the letter. The tapes were unencrypted? I can believe that. I kind of assumed it, which is a sad state of affairs. There were names, DOBs and SSNs on the tapes? That I can believe, and assumed, but like I posted above, it wasn't made known via the notice that was sent out.
But how the hell can this guy say "that none of the unencrypted data has been accessed or used?" That's impossible for them to know. The tapes are out of their physical control - the people in possession of them now could have skimmed all those records off already, and just haven't used them yet.
The article doesn't mention the $25K of "insurance" that we get by signing up with the free credit monitoring. Except I'm an NY resident, and by NY state law they can't offer such insurance to me. WTF?
So here I sit, having managed to go 30 years with a lone incident of a "guessed" CC number as my only brush with identity theft, and now I'm left to be looking over my shoulder for the next several years thanks to this.
I got a letter on Thursday informing me of the breach. It gave this URL: http://www.bnymellon.com/tapequery/
This page has changed since Thursday. Originally it was only one incident, now it's two. The letter said that I'd get 1 year of credit monitoring at all 3 bureaus, free; when I signed up, I was given (and the page above) two years. The letter said there was no indication that the information had been used, but it also didn't mention what the summary here says - that SSNs and birthdates were on those tapes (I assumed they were).
What really pisses me off isn't that it happened - it's that it took them three fucking months to inform me.
I have 2 accounts with them (for the same employer, which is really stupid). One account requires my SSN, the stock ticker, and a 6-digit PIN. Digits only. Not terribly secure - there's only 10^6 possible PINs, my SSN may be in someone's hands, and there are only a couple thousand stock tickers. The other is a seemingly random ID and a 6-31 digit PIN. My previous PIN was 12 characters. The new one is 31.
I reset both my PINs Thursday night, which took about half an hour - the sites, while not normally speed demons, were obscenely slow that night. I'm hoping it's because people were changing their PINs.