I am too mean to pay for games, but many of the open-source games available for various flavours of UNIX are superb. (albeit, without fancy graphics in most cases.)
I recently moved from the UK to the US. In the UK, you can pretty much live happily with no ID.
Here in California ID is required for everything. For example, I just (20 minutes ago) requested some info about cable modems. I needed to provide an ID number before getting any info!
Okay, so I don't have a Californian driving license. I don't have a social security card. If I didn't have a UK passport I would be pretty stuffed. That would mean: no bank account, no apartment, no TV, and (most importantly) no Beer.
So I have to carry my passport everywhere (and risk losing it - which would be a real bummer). I figure it is okay to leave it with my clothes whilst surfing off pacific beach, but technically that's against the INS rules.
Presumably all Americans need to carry their driving license nearly always. That sucks.
So, overall, I don't think a national ID would make any difference to anybody's privacy, and it would make going out considerably easier. (Gesh, half the doormen at bars/clubs don't know where to find my photo in my passport).
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I am too mean to pay for games, but many of the open-source games available for various flavours of UNIX are superb. (albeit, without fancy graphics in most cases.)
freeciv has to be the best civ-like game.
An open-source version is currently under development: FreecivAC.
If the product was renamed to WinUX, it would be interesting to see whether M$ sue 'cos WinUX sounds like Win98, WinMe etc.
Nobody got sued for producing *DOS.
Or *BSD.
Are there any "real-world" benchmarks around which compare this new Dual Athlon setup against the 833MHz Dual Alpha setup?
I recently moved from the UK to the US. In the UK, you can pretty much live happily with no ID.
Here in California ID is required for everything. For example, I just (20 minutes ago) requested some info about cable modems. I needed to provide an ID number before getting any info!
Okay, so I don't have a Californian driving license. I don't have a social security card. If I didn't have a UK passport I would be pretty stuffed. That would mean: no bank account, no apartment, no TV, and (most importantly) no Beer.
So I have to carry my passport everywhere (and risk losing it - which would be a real bummer). I figure it is okay to leave it with my clothes whilst surfing off pacific beach, but technically that's against the INS rules.
Presumably all Americans need to carry their driving license nearly always. That sucks.
So, overall, I don't think a national ID would make any difference to anybody's privacy, and it would make going out considerably easier. (Gesh, half the doormen at bars/clubs don't know where to find my photo in my passport).