this reminds me, the USPS has recently decided that quasi-anonymous mailboxes (like MailBoxes, Etc) are bad, and that starting *this fall* all users of such mailboxes are required to: present two forms of identification with your real physical address, update this information quarterly, and also place a bogus 'PMB' on your mailbox address - or they won't deliver it.
This is big-brotherism at it's best. Screws over: battered wives hiding from their ex-husbands, people who don't *have* a fixed address (boat-people), and misanthropes like me who just don't like giving their physical address to just anyone.
Ahh, the irony. I have a 386SX16 from Magnavox, from the early 90's, that lets you redirect the console I/O (keyboard *and* screen) to the serial port. Clearly, they were ahead of their time...
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this reminds me, the USPS has recently decided that quasi-anonymous mailboxes (like MailBoxes, Etc) are bad, and that starting *this fall* all users of such mailboxes are required to: present two forms of identification with your real physical address, update this information quarterly, and also place a bogus 'PMB' on your mailbox address - or they won't deliver it.
This is big-brotherism at it's best. Screws over: battered wives hiding from their ex-husbands, people who don't *have* a fixed address (boat-people), and misanthropes like me who just don't like giving their physical address to just anyone.
Ahh, the irony. I have a 386SX16 from Magnavox, from the early 90's, that lets you redirect the console I/O (keyboard *and* screen) to the serial port. Clearly, they were ahead of their time...
If it weren't for reverse engineering, all of our PCs would say 'IBM' on them...