My kids actually play Runescape and doing their tech support is not much fun. Game seems to have tolerably acceptable graphics although nothing to shout about. But what a memory hog and CPU burner (literally! leave it on the "exit game y/n" flaming torch screen for a while and watch the temperature go through the roof.)
Perhaps I'm too easily pleased but I honestly don't understand why Apple's music-playing-phone-with-camera is different from anyone else's. I've had only a passing experience with a borrowed iPod; the dial-shaped menu selector is unusual albeit perfectly usable, but beyond that the device seemed like just another MP3 player to me. Same with mobile phones, I've tried several (mostly Nokia but also Sony-Ericsson and Moto) that had music-storage-play facility and they all seemed fine. Beyond the legendary beautiful white plastic just what exactly do people hope Apple's secret sauce will be?
It's not just a question of having travel plans and making them available. It's a question of yet one more thing on top of everything else that was already pissing people off (unbelievably rude treatment, pointlessly intrusive "security" processes, fingerprints, yadda yadda etc.) If I ever can't avoid visiting you for business then I'll show up, but I've decided not to take my family's vacations there any more.
Amen to that... certainly it's a great place to visit, top of my list in fact. I've had such great times in America and I suspect I still would. But now the process of actually entering the country is just too much effort and unpleasantness so I don't go there any more. Why not just flat-out admit you're finished with foreigners taking their vacations in America, save everyone the trouble.
You can already do this, even without paying the two dollars. You can ask the Verisign/Thawte "Web of trust" to sign your public key just like you are suggesting. This will usually be free so long as you can prove your identity with some real-world photo-id. After that one-time registration you could then send unlimited mail which most people would auto-whitelist, assuming some education first about keys etc.
The problem with this approach is that if you live in a repressive regime and you are critical of the government... do you really want to supply continuous and automatic 100% proof that an e-mail originates from you? Some people have a strong belief in e-mail anonymity.
I think it is quite simple. The multiple surveillance elements collectively give "someone" a large amount of power to affect my life. I do not in return have an ability to defend against use of this power or similarly to affect their lives in a comparative way. I am not really sure who that "someone" actually is but the best label I have is "the government." So I have to ask myself do I completely trust this someone, this government, both now and in all possible futures? Based on past experience the answer is unfortunately "no."
That is why the vague feeling of unease arises, because it forces an explicit admission of a lack of trust that everyone knows but finds shameful and disloyal to say out loud.
A bit more explanation - Brit motorways have no "fast lane" despite the popular misconception. The lane furthest away from the entry/exit lane is correctly named the "overtaking lane" and is meant for, well, overtaking. The speed limit is 70 miles per hour but if you decide that does not apply to you then at the very least you should be competent to drive at that speed and allow for the fact that other drivers may react unexpectedly when you appear by magic in their rear-view mirror. Police-trained and a handful of other genuinely capable drivers may successfully avoid incident but typically if you drive everywhere at 100mph you are likely to hurt someone eventually. People who do emergency stops because the computer ordered them to just makes me come out in a cold sweat.
It's already possible to get SSL server certificates for a few dollars; these "work" in the sense of not triggering scary browser messages but are essentially worthless in the sense that they do not provide any further positive identification of site ownership. Unfortunately it's hard to see how anything "open source" could improve on this, unless the open source CA were willing to provide background-checking services for free.
It's also already possible to get high quality free/beer personal identification certificates for example the Thawte Web Of Trust who issue personal certs based on real-world check of national ID such as passport.
What we really need from an open CA is something you cannot to my knowledge get elsewhere which is reliable code-signing certificates without spending hundreds of dollars.
Bogus transactions appeared on my card last week. The transactions looked pretty much like the kind of purchases I do all the time anyway but somehow the card company (NatWest) security department noticed it was happening and blocked the card pretty quick. I shop at TK Maxx all the time and when I phoned them a couple months ago they said we can't tell you anything but look out for any fraud on your card. Well it happened so called them back yesterday and they said yep it was likely my card details came out of their break-in.
I'm a Brit and I visted Canada recently. GSM roaming voice calls on their "Rogers" network cost me exactly one pound a minute (let's say a couple of dollars.) Calls to same numbers via Skype Out on my PDA cost 0.02 Euro/min. Guess which one I used most.
UK figures show that, on average, employees put in an amount of unpaid time over the period of a year that is equivalent to working for free up until Feb 23. That date every year is "Work your proper hours day" when employees are encouraged to do just that. Trade unions usually also take the opportunity to nag employers to stop taking advantage.
I know I'll get flamed but will say it anyway - I think this site is just plain cruel to take the piss out of people who have had severe accidents with fatal results. Especially as things ain't always what they seem, such as the side-splitting hilarious story of Vietnamese bomb-rollers who got blown up. According to TFA they know perfectly well it is dangerous but are forced to do it anyway because they are starving and get a few cents if they can reclaim the scrap metal.
I'm a Brit and don't know a deer from an elk from a moose - some of them have horns some of the time don't they? I've rarely been able to get close to large animals for photos in North America but imagine the embarrassment if I saw one of these and was snapping away like hell when the cops came.
Well I saw on TV that "nothing cleans cleaner than Snazzle", which everyone knows is really just another way of saying Snazzle cleans cleaner than anything. Including SOAP. That any help?
Dawn also said it was "good news" that there had been an increase in employers who did decide to run background checks. So CERT seems to have a "pro-check" agenda going here; can you really trust those figures?
What happens if the bug does *not* use the GSM network and is simply an old fashioned AM transmitter?
That flashes too - I tried it with various transmitters including PMR446 ("Family Radio) walkie-talkies and microwave ovens. They all produce enough of the right radiation to make a cellphone novelty toy flash.
The EU and UK are not approaching unlocking rights from the point of view of copyright protection, rather they see it as a "restraint of trade" lawful competition issue where locking interferes with your consumer rights to dump one network and prefer the services of another.
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Does anyone have the conversion factor from Football Fields to Libraries of Congress?
I see you only got the RC3 hardware stepping. I've upgraded to the release version and now it's clear how totally superior MySQL is to Postgres.
My kids actually play Runescape and doing their tech support is not much fun. Game seems to have tolerably acceptable graphics although nothing to shout about. But what a memory hog and CPU burner (literally! leave it on the "exit game y/n" flaming torch screen for a while and watch the temperature go through the roof.)
Perhaps I'm too easily pleased but I honestly don't understand why Apple's music-playing-phone-with-camera is different from anyone else's. I've had only a passing experience with a borrowed iPod; the dial-shaped menu selector is unusual albeit perfectly usable, but beyond that the device seemed like just another MP3 player to me. Same with mobile phones, I've tried several (mostly Nokia but also Sony-Ericsson and Moto) that had music-storage-play facility and they all seemed fine. Beyond the legendary beautiful white plastic just what exactly do people hope Apple's secret sauce will be?
It's not just a question of having travel plans and making them available. It's a question of yet one more thing on top of everything else that was already pissing people off (unbelievably rude treatment, pointlessly intrusive "security" processes, fingerprints, yadda yadda etc.) If I ever can't avoid visiting you for business then I'll show up, but I've decided not to take my family's vacations there any more.
Amen to that... certainly it's a great place to visit, top of my list in fact. I've had such great times in America and I suspect I still would. But now the process of actually entering the country is just too much effort and unpleasantness so I don't go there any more. Why not just flat-out admit you're finished with foreigners taking their vacations in America, save everyone the trouble.
The guy wheeling a rack of womens' dresses who shouts "Hey" as he gets pushed aside? Or is that New York.
You can already do this, even without paying the two dollars. You can ask the Verisign/Thawte "Web of trust" to sign your public key just like you are suggesting. This will usually be free so long as you can prove your identity with some real-world photo-id. After that one-time registration you could then send unlimited mail which most people would auto-whitelist, assuming some education first about keys etc.
http://www.thawte.com/wot
The problem with this approach is that if you live in a repressive regime and you are critical of the government... do you really want to supply continuous and automatic 100% proof that an e-mail originates from you? Some people have a strong belief in e-mail anonymity.
Where's the orange plastic blob at the barrel end?
I think it is quite simple. The multiple surveillance elements collectively give "someone" a large amount of power to affect my life. I do not in return have an ability to defend against use of this power or similarly to affect their lives in a comparative way. I am not really sure who that "someone" actually is but the best label I have is "the government." So I have to ask myself do I completely trust this someone, this government, both now and in all possible futures? Based on past experience the answer is unfortunately "no."
That is why the vague feeling of unease arises, because it forces an explicit admission of a lack of trust that everyone knows but finds shameful and disloyal to say out loud.
A bit more explanation - Brit motorways have no "fast lane" despite the popular misconception. The lane furthest away from the entry/exit lane is correctly named the "overtaking lane" and is meant for, well, overtaking. The speed limit is 70 miles per hour but if you decide that does not apply to you then at the very least you should be competent to drive at that speed and allow for the fact that other drivers may react unexpectedly when you appear by magic in their rear-view mirror. Police-trained and a handful of other genuinely capable drivers may successfully avoid incident but typically if you drive everywhere at 100mph you are likely to hurt someone eventually. People who do emergency stops because the computer ordered them to just makes me come out in a cold sweat.
It's already possible to get SSL server certificates for a few dollars; these "work" in the sense of not triggering scary browser messages but are essentially worthless in the sense that they do not provide any further positive identification of site ownership. Unfortunately it's hard to see how anything "open source" could improve on this, unless the open source CA were willing to provide background-checking services for free.
It's also already possible to get high quality free/beer personal identification certificates for example the Thawte Web Of Trust who issue personal certs based on real-world check of national ID such as passport.
What we really need from an open CA is something you cannot to my knowledge get elsewhere which is reliable code-signing certificates without spending hundreds of dollars.
Bogus transactions appeared on my card last week. The transactions looked pretty much like the kind of purchases I do all the time anyway but somehow the card company (NatWest) security department noticed it was happening and blocked the card pretty quick. I shop at TK Maxx all the time and when I phoned them a couple months ago they said we can't tell you anything but look out for any fraud on your card. Well it happened so called them back yesterday and they said yep it was likely my card details came out of their break-in.
I'm a Brit and I visted Canada recently. GSM roaming voice calls on their "Rogers" network cost me exactly one pound a minute (let's say a couple of dollars.) Calls to same numbers via Skype Out on my PDA cost 0.02 Euro/min. Guess which one I used most.
UK figures show that, on average, employees put in an amount of unpaid time over the period of a year that is equivalent to working for free up until Feb 23. That date every year is "Work your proper hours day" when employees are encouraged to do just that. Trade unions usually also take the opportunity to nag employers to stop taking advantage.
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http://www.worksmart.org.uk/workyourproperhoursda
Not that you can read any of the links anyway... slashdotted after only a dozen or so posts.
I know I'll get flamed but will say it anyway - I think this site is just plain cruel to take the piss out of people who have had severe accidents with fatal results. Especially as things ain't always what they seem, such as the side-splitting hilarious story of Vietnamese bomb-rollers who got blown up. According to TFA they know perfectly well it is dangerous but are forced to do it anyway because they are starving and get a few cents if they can reclaim the scrap metal.
I'm a Brit and don't know a deer from an elk from a moose - some of them have horns some of the time don't they? I've rarely been able to get close to large animals for photos in North America but imagine the embarrassment if I saw one of these and was snapping away like hell when the cops came.
Well I saw on TV that "nothing cleans cleaner than Snazzle", which everyone knows is really just another way of saying Snazzle cleans cleaner than anything. Including SOAP. That any help?
I think Yootle is a stupid name for a unit of fake currency. How about... hmm... hey I know, "Flooz"! No wait, even better, "Beanz"!
That would be Open Cola then...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenCola
I'm not that knowledgeable about Java but do the bells+whistles in this new release overlap with what GWT does?
http://java.sun.com/javase/6/
Dawn also said it was "good news" that there had been an increase in employers who did decide to run background checks. So CERT seems to have a "pro-check" agenda going here; can you really trust those figures?
That flashes too - I tried it with various transmitters including PMR446 ("Family Radio) walkie-talkies and microwave ovens. They all produce enough of the right radiation to make a cellphone novelty toy flash.
The EU and UK are not approaching unlocking rights from the point of view of copyright protection, rather they see it as a "restraint of trade" lawful competition issue where locking interferes with your consumer rights to dump one network and prefer the services of another.