I haven't read the letters but there was a program on TV this evening. IANAH but I'm just writing what I heard on that show.
Basically, they said that Heisenberg travelled to his friend Bohr whom he hadn't seen for years. This was in 1941 while the Germans were still going strong. Bohr didn't believe an atomic bomb was possible. Heisenberg was furious that Bohr didn't believe his physics and replied that he had been heading a team for two years. Heisenberg wanted Bohr on the team. Germany will win; be a slave or be a Nazi.
We now know the outcome. Bohr fled to Sweden, and Heisenberg didn't make the bomb. The thing with these letters is that until now people thought Heisenberg deliberately frustrated the German war effort. Which is apparently not the case.
Astaro seems like an interesting product. It too is based on Linux (GPL) and sports a firewall, IPSEC, PPTP etc. I have downloaded the ISO but haven't installed it yet since it insists on whiping the harddisk. Seems reasonable but I'll have to find a test machine first;-).
Lots of SSL servers don't run an e-commerce site but are used for an extranet, or for access to internal webmail...
Re:Coming from a store owner...
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I assume your bank charges for converting dollars as well, otherwise they would be running the exchange rate risk. And banks would not be doing that, otherwise they would not be banks for much longer:-).
I have never heard of this particular anti-counterfeit measure. But how is this different from a number or barcode printed on it? Or perhaps it's an anti-theft measure, similar to RFID tags in clothing etc.? (One could always buy a wallet with built-in Faraday cage:-)
Ten percent fluctuation in one day? I don't buy that. In fact, I read that the euro has weathered the Sept 11th crisis better than the dollar. The thing is probably that you have more American customers who want to pay with their own money than European customers. To me, it's a form of respect to exchange your money for the local currency. It would be convenient to pay you in euros but I would not expect it. But what if one of your competitors would start accepting euros? Would you?
So that leaves the anti-Euro sentiment. Which is, of course, mainly politics.
Re:Picture of bills with US bill
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You might have a hologram on your creditcard. If it's good for you, it's good enough for us also:-)
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I tried three cash machines this morning (there were queues, people are enthousiastic apparently) and one of them had an error. I don't know whether it was out of bills or there was some bigger problem.
Then I tried the recharging stations for the (chipcard based) debit card called "Chipknip" (similar to Proton in Belgium and Geldkarte in Germany). Two out of three malfunctioning.
Now, these chipcards are not used very much by the general public. But the thing is, banks have promoted it a lot lately, because it would make the transition easier. The banks should have done a better job if they are really serious about this.
Also, I have a device which I can use to recharge my chipcard at home. I connect it to a phone line and then it makes a connection with the bank.
I noticed that from now on I can recharge it with 25 euro as a minimum. Previously the minimum was about 10 euro. I wished they had maintained that minimum amount.
Re:Strange..."Gift Cards"...
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We have those vouchers here on the continent too. Of course they are generally protected through security measures and they are made by the same companies which print money, bank cards etc.
It seems the merchants tried to reinvent the wheel with these gift cards. They could have used scratchcards such as for prepaid GSM phones, for instance. These contain a unique random number.
Although in the US, people like to use non-cash methods for large but legal
sums, say for a car or a house, in may parts of the EU, people will make major
purchases in cash, yes even houses and these people have their cash legally
too!
Not very likely. AFAIK, people here in Europe buy cars by visiting their banks and arranging a special deal. You get permission to pay with your debit card at the car dealer's for a sum of money which is much larger than the normal amount per day. You might have to inform the bank about the place and the date of the payment.
you will find that Holland was the first country
outside the UK where LOTR was translated and published (around 1955 IIRC), and it was a bestseller at the
time. He mentions it specifically because he did not approve of the quality of the translation into Dutch and told his
publisher that he needed to review all future translations before publication.
I'm not a Tolkien nut so what do I know, but I read recently that he was happy with the Dutch translation. After the Swedish translation he wanted to review all future ones.
I sync my Siemens M35i phonebook with the phonebook in my Handspring Visor. I use GSMtool. Works great. With it you can send SMS from your PDA as well.
I do not use Infrared since those phones are more
expensive. Besides, I don't like them that much
because you have to put both devices at a
certain distance. The Visor has its IR LED on
the left side so that makes it more difficult
to point to a phone which typically has its LED
at the top.
So I bought a serial (or rather TTL level)
cable from Ubishop.
With it I can hookup the Visor to the Siemens
and leave the Siemens in my coat's pocket.
Last week I did a Modem Sync to my home PC
using the cellphone's modem. I intend to buy a
CompactFlash card for backups. It needs a driver
(not present in the Visor's ROM) so after a crash I just have to Modem Sync the
driver program (20 KB) and then restore the
backup from flash.
Immediately after his talk at the HAL2001 (wait for the video recordings to show up on this site!) hackers from the audience shouted: "Give us the paper! We'll get the word out!".
Crypto expert Niels Ferguson was at the HAL2001 festival yesterday, speaking about AES/Rijndael vulnerabilities. At the end of his presentation, he wanted to add a personal note.
He said that he had done some research on some topic (unfortunately I could not hear what it was about). He said he would go to the US next week for a conference and he feared being arrested if he would publish. Since he had mouths to feed and rent to pay, he said he could not afford to take the risk. So he decided to not publish his research. He urged everyone to protest against the DMCA which affects him as a non-US citizen. He did realise that at the HAL he was preaching to the choir...
I don't know which one was first but e-gold has been around for a while.
You can even get an account in other precious metals, such as silver and palladium. They have stats on this. One of their customers even has between
100 kg and 1000 kg of e-gold!
Now, how to convert your life savings into e-zinc and where to put it?:-)
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I haven't read the letters but there was a program on TV this evening. IANAH but I'm just writing what I heard on that show.
Basically, they said that Heisenberg travelled to his friend Bohr whom he hadn't seen for years. This was in 1941 while the Germans were still going strong. Bohr didn't believe an atomic bomb was possible. Heisenberg was furious that Bohr didn't believe his physics and replied that he had been heading a team for two years. Heisenberg wanted Bohr on the team. Germany will win; be a slave or be a Nazi.
We now know the outcome. Bohr fled to Sweden, and Heisenberg didn't make the bomb. The thing with these letters is that until now people thought Heisenberg deliberately frustrated the German war effort. Which is apparently not the case.
There's also a support community.
Some companies such as Pyramid are reselling Astaro with hardware and support.
While also saving the Usenet archives (public and widely dispersed information)..!
Well, this cartoon (the one on the right) says it all...
(Shamelessly stolen from mit.edu, years and years ago -- mail me if you know who drew it!)
Lots of SSL servers don't run an e-commerce site but are used for an extranet, or for access to internal webmail...
I assume your bank charges for converting dollars as well, otherwise they would be running the exchange rate risk. And banks would not be doing that, otherwise they would not be banks for much longer :-).
:-)
I have never heard of this particular anti-counterfeit measure. But how is this different from a number or barcode printed on it? Or perhaps it's an anti-theft measure, similar to RFID tags in clothing etc.? (One could always buy a wallet with built-in Faraday cage
Ten percent fluctuation in one day? I don't buy that. In fact, I read that the euro has weathered the Sept 11th crisis better than the dollar. The thing is probably that you have more American customers who want to pay with their own money than European customers. To me, it's a form of respect to exchange your money for the local currency. It would be convenient to pay you in euros but I would not expect it. But what if one of your competitors would start accepting euros? Would you?
So that leaves the anti-Euro sentiment. Which is, of course, mainly politics.
You might have a hologram on your creditcard. If it's good for you, it's good enough for us also :-)
I tried three cash machines this morning (there were queues, people are enthousiastic apparently) and one of them had an error. I don't know whether it was out of bills or there was some bigger problem.
Then I tried the recharging stations for the (chipcard based) debit card called "Chipknip" (similar to Proton in Belgium and Geldkarte in Germany). Two out of three malfunctioning.
Now, these chipcards are not used very much by the general public. But the thing is, banks have promoted it a lot lately, because it would make the transition easier. The banks should have done a better job if they are really serious about this.
Also, I have a device which I can use to recharge my chipcard at home. I connect it to a phone line and then it makes a connection with the bank.
I noticed that from now on I can recharge it with 25 euro as a minimum. Previously the minimum was about 10 euro. I wished they had maintained that minimum amount.
We have those vouchers here on the continent too. Of course they are generally protected through security measures and they are made by the same companies which print money, bank cards etc.
It seems the merchants tried to reinvent the wheel with these gift cards. They could have used scratchcards such as for prepaid GSM phones, for instance. These contain a unique random number.
Not very likely. AFAIK, people here in Europe buy cars by visiting their banks and arranging a special deal. You get permission to pay with your debit card at the car dealer's for a sum of money which is much larger than the normal amount per day. You might have to inform the bank about the place and the date of the payment.
Actually, I believe it's the *US* where you can pay huge amounts in cash! Look at this $10,000 note!
"Yeah, but those eEye guys didn't want to be on our Security-Through-Obscurity team! And we had all these great goodies for them!"
I'm not a Tolkien nut so what do I know, but I read recently that he was happy with the Dutch translation. After the Swedish translation he wanted to review all future ones.
Well, I guess the studio was clever to run the movie first in countries such as The Netherlands and Iceland. The reviews are raving.
Reminds me of that devil sketch by Rowan Atkinson ("Mr Bean") in which he tell the atheists in the audience:
You must be feeling a right bunch of nitwits!
Note that you were able to verify the horribly stupid bug as an ultra-blunder because Apple included the source (it was a script).
Perhaps one of those Microsoft bugs can be attributed to a similar ultra-blunder. You'll never know, because you don't have the source. (Or do you?)
What's wrong with Mandrake 8.0 for PPC? Doesn't it run on the iBook?
They have a bit of a problem though with invalidating the stamp. I guess the ink can be wiped off easily!
I do not use Infrared since those phones are more expensive. Besides, I don't like them that much because you have to put both devices at a certain distance. The Visor has its IR LED on the left side so that makes it more difficult to point to a phone which typically has its LED at the top.
So I bought a serial (or rather TTL level) cable from Ubishop. With it I can hookup the Visor to the Siemens and leave the Siemens in my coat's pocket.
Last week I did a Modem Sync to my home PC using the cellphone's modem. I intend to buy a CompactFlash card for backups. It needs a driver (not present in the Visor's ROM) so after a crash I just have to Modem Sync the driver program (20 KB) and then restore the backup from flash.
Unless you're in Afghanistan... ;-)
Ferguson of course declined.
I was packing up after his talk when he mentioned he had cracked something so I missed what he had cracked...
He said that he had done some research on some topic (unfortunately I could not hear what it was about). He said he would go to the US next week for a conference and he feared being arrested if he would publish. Since he had mouths to feed and rent to pay, he said he could not afford to take the risk. So he decided to not publish his research. He urged everyone to protest against the DMCA which affects him as a non-US citizen. He did realise that at the HAL he was preaching to the choir...
Does this mean that if the Australians happen to be abroad (offshore) they will be banned from gambling too? ;-)
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It seems that the guy on this website has a vested interest in e-gold, so take this with a grain of er... salt.
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You can even get an account in other precious metals, such as silver and palladium. They have stats on this. One of their customers even has between 100 kg and 1000 kg of e-gold!
Now, how to convert your life savings into e-zinc and where to put it? :-)
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