SERIAL NUMBERS AND CD'S ARE NOT PROOF OF PURCHASE. You MUST HAVE RECEIPTS!
There are other forms of proof of purchace than a recipt!
Unless you paid cash for the software (unlikely) you will have credit card / bank statements (they WILL keep records of all transactions) showing payment to XYZ software co. Cheque book stubs, tax records from when your busness claimed back the sales tax (VAT in the UK) on the purchaesd software etc etc.
If they demand recipts that were lost years ago I'd tell them to go fuck themselves.
Besides, think of the BSA as being like baliffs (repo men). If you dont answer the door, they quickly give up and go someware else to another easier job. If you open the door and say "it wasnt me" they will know you are an easy target:-)
Looking at St Finian Collage website there is nothing about this under there press relese section...
Did the/. edditors not want to make a single phone call (1pm in Ireland) or e-mail to cheak this out?
I'm from Europe + when I was hitchhiking through the US I did the usual touresty stuff around the White House etc.
I hardly heard a single American accent in DC!
People will trael the world but not look at what is on there own doorstep. (I'm sure I could say the same for most cities in the world)
Incidently, the Musiums in DC are some of the best I've ever visited....
In the UK, you may have your fingerprints taken if you are arrested, but if found not guilty (or only guilty of a civil offence.... including traffic offences) the fiingerprints are destroyed.
ie In the UK only convicted criminals have there fingerprints on record
The natioal DNA database will not desrtoy the DNA samples but keeps them indefinately even if you are found not guilty or are only convicted of a civil offence including traffic violations!
There was a huge uproar a year or so ago when strathclyde police began collecting DNA samples from motorists stoped for minor traffic offences. (Although I belive this practice has now stopped, it is still leagl and the DNA is still held on record)
Something to think about is often when a serious crime has taken place (rape, murder etc), police will often ask for every man in a large area to submit a DNA sample. Fair enough, many people do in order to catch the bastard resopnsable. However these samples are not destroied but are kept indefinately!
Call me a member of the tin hat bregade, but in an age of cloaning, I'm fucked if the government is gonna have indefinate access to my DNA, esp if I have never broken a (serious) law.
Police are also given the authority to extract a DNA sample from you by force if nessisary (shoving a swab in your mouth to collect cheak cells).
No I'm not trolling... but if you want a better driving experiance then take the windshield out of your car (or become a biker) that will keep you more occupied than any distracting toys.
Devices such as automatic braking systems will encorage drivers to pay even less attention to waht they are doing.
If memory serves, when BMW poped TV sets into the dash of some of there high end cars they would only turn on when the parking brake was engaged...
On a shortcut through the law department at my university, I noticed many of the Proffessors had posted there contact e-mail address on the doors of there offices.
Without fail, these were all hotmail accounts rather than the official university address they are given.
I can only assume this is because they don't know how to connect to the universities mail server from home (or more likely, assume it cant be done).
The solution to this was to print out the regester article entitled Hacking hotmail made easy and stick it on each door displaying a hotmail address.
Last time I went through the law dept, everyone had given up on hotmail!
They both echo the Oxford English dictionary! (ie a US billion = thousand million , UK billion = million million)
As I said, it gets very confusing in the UK. Esp when accountants (who deal with trendy things and small numbers + always seem to talk in US billions) start talking to us Physics types (who use big numbers all the time and therefore always use UK billions)
In the UK 1 Billion = 10^12 (Million Million)
In the US 1 Billion = 10^9 (thousand Million)
(Check your dictionaries people!)
I _assume_ that in the US, a trillion is a UK Billion.
Q. Is timothy British?
Any yes before you ask, it can get confusing for us UK physists dealing with big numbers when reading US work!
Somewhat ironic, conisdering that part of growing up is learning to be indipendent from your parents.
Remember when you first got lost as a kid?
Tears... upset.... A learning experiance wasn't it! Maybe someone had to call a policeman for you? All turned out right in the end didn't it. (Kiddy fiddlers are few and far between)
Maybe parents dont want there kid go grow up or something....
All spam advertises is the usual porn/get rich quick/dodgey viagra crap. No legitemate companies need educating as every company knows, sending unsoliceted spam is a quick way to piss off your customers.
(Miss representing yourself and products like that is very illegal. Quite a few of the electricity commpanies have been fined in the UK for deciving customers to sign for information, but in reality changing there electricity suplier)
x.509 certificates are supported as standard in shitloads of mail clients (inc. Netscape and the ever popular MS Outhouse). Many people regard those as an "industry standard"
However, x.509 is more suited to compannies, as each public key must be signed by a trusted certificate authority to be valid. (e.g. Signed by Thwate.... otherwise use openSSL and set yourself up as a certificate authority and generate your own x.509 certs). This is only really practacle for a large company.
Individuals are better suited to PGP because of its "web of trust" model eliminates the need for certificate authoritys, but will be impractacle for a large organisation. (Its no wonder NA failed to sell PGP to companies.... the existing x.509 standard is mutch more suited)
Wouldn't suprise me if they did change the name to "The Who Towers"
I recall reading a massive rant and online petition asking for the name to be changed 'cos they thought "The Two Towers" had some sort of terrorist connetation.
How anyone can confise New York with the Shires in Middle Earth is beyond me.
Hmmmm
At my university the microwaves in the student accomodation had warnings on them not to dry cloths as they could catch fire.
Dunno if there is any truth in that, but I suppose in a microwave without a turntable (yes, these were cheap micowaves!), localised points could get very hot....
heh
I had a part time job in a supermarket here in the UK. You wouldn't belive the number of customers that would leave thair shopping recipt and credit card recipts in the shopping trollys [ US'ians --> shopping cart] once they had packed up thair shopping.
Chasing after the customers and giving them thair recipt expaining why this was a bad thing just got you a black look. (One fuckwit even thought I was having a go at him for littering the shopping trolly with his credit card recipt!)
The reason most supermarkets now dont print all the didgits of the card number is because people were collecting CC recipts from shopping trollys and from around the car parks after closing time. Most other retailers (to my knowlage) havent yet followed suit.
No suprises there then!
Previously in the Balkans, the Uk troops couldn't afford encrypted radios. The soultion to this was to employ troops from one on the Welsh regements as radio operators. They chatted away in the Welsh language as a means of "security".
Thus, the fact that NATO can't set up a secure sattelite link dosn't suprise me in the least!
However look at the number of "profesional bodies" here in the UK (Institue of Physics etc) who charge £40 (~US$60) a year plus, just so you can call yourself a "Chartered Physicist" or "Charterd Enginer"
In reality all this means in that the title holder has a BSc/BEng degree (These are regulated to a minumum standard anyway) with three or four years works experiance, and is stupid enough to cough up money to an unelected body every year.
Yet people still pay to be "chartered" and people still look for "charterd profesionals"
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SERIAL NUMBERS AND CD'S ARE NOT PROOF OF PURCHASE. You MUST HAVE RECEIPTS!
There are other forms of proof of purchace than a recipt!
Unless you paid cash for the software (unlikely) you will have credit card / bank statements (they WILL keep records of all transactions) showing payment to XYZ software co. Cheque book stubs, tax records from when your busness claimed back the sales tax (VAT in the UK) on the purchaesd software etc etc.
If they demand recipts that were lost years ago I'd tell them to go fuck themselves.
Besides, think of the BSA as being like baliffs (repo men). If you dont answer the door, they quickly give up and go someware else to another easier job. If you open the door and say "it wasnt me" they will know you are an easy target :-)
Talk about alarmist!
"He said the technique could open doors worldwide for criminals and terrorists."
He forgot to add peidophiles.
*Sarcasm*
Just like cryptography, these things are only good for terrorists and peidophiles.
Looking at St Finian Collage website there is nothing about this under there press relese section...
Did the
A number of people had submitted this over the weekend - there's absolutely no hard data that I can find to go along with this
Ahh! The theory of "proof by the masses".
"If everyone else belives it, it must be true"
I'm from Europe + when I was hitchhiking through the US I did the usual touresty stuff around the White House etc.
I hardly heard a single American accent in DC!
People will trael the world but not look at what is on there own doorstep. (I'm sure I could say the same for most cities in the world)
Incidently, the Musiums in DC are some of the best I've ever visited....
It dosn't.
Nobody is evesdroping on your phone call, just ""pinging"" your phone. I suspect the law is similar in most countries
Anyway, bacofoil is the tin foil of choice for avoiding government intervention :-)
In the UK, you may have your fingerprints taken if you are arrested, but if found not guilty (or only guilty of a civil offence.... including traffic offences) the fiingerprints are destroyed.
ie In the UK only convicted criminals have there fingerprints on record
The natioal DNA database will not desrtoy the DNA samples but keeps them indefinately
even if you are found not guilty or are only convicted of a civil offence including traffic violations!
There was a huge uproar a year or so ago when strathclyde police began collecting DNA samples from motorists stoped for minor traffic offences. (Although I belive this practice has now stopped, it is still leagl and the DNA is still held on record)
Something to think about is often when a serious crime has taken place (rape, murder etc), police will often ask for every man in a large area to submit a DNA sample. Fair enough, many people do in order to catch the bastard resopnsable. However these samples are not destroied but are kept indefinately!
Call me a member of the tin hat bregade, but in an age of cloaning, I'm fucked if the government is gonna have indefinate access to my DNA, esp if I have never broken a (serious) law.
Police are also given the authority to extract a DNA sample from you by force if nessisary (shoving a swab in your mouth to collect cheak cells).
No I'm not trolling... but if you want a better driving experiance then take the windshield out of your car (or become a biker) that will keep you more occupied than any distracting toys.
Devices such as automatic braking systems will encorage drivers to pay even less attention to waht they are doing.
If memory serves, when BMW poped TV sets into the dash of some of there high end cars they would only turn on when the parking brake was engaged...
If I had lost the calculator, I probably would have been prepared to pay $400 to replace it
For $400 I'll sell you my graphics calculator and put some gaffer tape over the buttons you don't want to use.
(Moderators: yes its offtopic, get a sence of humour)
On a shortcut through the law department at my university, I noticed many of the Proffessors had posted there contact e-mail address on the doors of there offices.
Without fail, these were all hotmail accounts rather than the official university address they are given.
I can only assume this is because they don't know how to connect to the universities mail server from home (or more likely, assume it cant be done).
The solution to this was to print out the regester article entitled Hacking hotmail made easy and stick it on each door displaying a hotmail address.
Last time I went through the law dept, everyone had given up on hotmail!
No, that's out of date. In the UK a billion usually means a thousand million now as well.
Only if you speak American English (as many people in the UK seem to be going!)
See this
And this
They both echo the Oxford English dictionary! (ie a US billion = thousand million , UK billion = million million)
As I said, it gets very confusing in the UK. Esp when accountants (who deal with trendy things and small numbers + always seem to talk in US billions) start talking to us Physics types (who use big numbers all the time and therefore always use UK billions)
In the UK 1 Billion = 10^12 (Million Million)
In the US 1 Billion = 10^9 (thousand Million)
(Check your dictionaries people!)
I _assume_ that in the US, a trillion is a UK Billion.
Q. Is timothy British?
Any yes before you ask, it can get confusing for us UK physists dealing with big numbers when reading US work!
Where any of these devices sold in the uk?
In the UK the Trade Descriptions Act would make a deliberate false description of the device very illegal.
Even if the false description was a genuine error, customers would still be entitled to a refund.
Somewhat ironic, conisdering that part of growing up is learning to be indipendent from your parents.
Remember when you first got lost as a kid?
Tears... upset.... A learning experiance wasn't it! Maybe someone had to call a policeman for you? All turned out right in the end didn't it. (Kiddy fiddlers are few and far between)
Maybe parents dont want there kid go grow up or something....
Careful.... Replying to one of those messages is an 09*** number. Typically charging about £1 ( ~US$1.30) per minute!
It's the companies we need to "educate"
I've never had spam from a legit companny.
All spam advertises is the usual porn/get rich quick/dodgey viagra crap.
No legitemate companies need educating as every company knows, sending unsoliceted spam is a quick way to piss off your customers.
The problem is though, that to date there is no law against it.
Maybe not in the US, but as they are based in the UK I'm sure this would come under decpetive marketing.
I'd report them to the UK Trading Standards.
(Miss representing yourself and products like that is very illegal. Quite a few of the electricity commpanies have been fined in the UK for deciving customers to sign for information, but in reality changing there electricity suplier)
You need one of the international versions of PGP available from www.pgpi.org you do
Available on a shitload of platforms
And pgpi is a very trusted site
(I could also mention the Cyber Knights Templar builds. Also very trusted + open source)
x.509 certificates are supported as standard in shitloads of mail clients (inc. Netscape and the ever popular MS Outhouse). Many people regard those as an "industry standard"
However, x.509 is more suited to compannies, as each public key must be signed by a trusted certificate authority to be valid. (e.g. Signed by Thwate.... otherwise use openSSL and set yourself up as a certificate authority and generate your own x.509 certs). This is only really practacle for a large company.
Individuals are better suited to PGP because of its "web of trust" model eliminates the need for certificate authoritys, but will be impractacle for a large organisation. (Its no wonder NA failed to sell PGP to companies.... the existing x.509 standard is mutch more suited)
See this link
Wouldn't suprise me if they did change the name to "The Who Towers"
I recall reading a massive rant and online petition asking for the name to be changed 'cos they thought "The Two Towers" had some sort of terrorist connetation.
How anyone can confise New York with the Shires in Middle Earth is beyond me.
Hmmmm
At my university the microwaves in the student accomodation had warnings on them not to dry cloths as they could catch fire.
Dunno if there is any truth in that, but I suppose in a microwave without a turntable (yes, these were cheap micowaves!), localised points could get very hot....
heh
I had a part time job in a supermarket here in the UK. You wouldn't belive the number of customers that would leave thair shopping recipt and credit card recipts in the shopping trollys [ US'ians --> shopping cart] once they had packed up thair shopping.
Chasing after the customers and giving them thair recipt expaining why this was a bad thing just got you a black look. (One fuckwit even thought I was having a go at him for littering the shopping trolly with his credit card recipt!)
The reason most supermarkets now dont print all the didgits of the card number is because people were collecting CC recipts from shopping trollys and from around the car parks after closing time. Most other retailers (to my knowlage) havent yet followed suit.
No suprises there then!
Previously in the Balkans, the Uk troops couldn't afford encrypted radios. The soultion to this was to employ troops from one on the Welsh regements as radio operators. They chatted away in the Welsh language as a means of "security".
Thus, the fact that NATO can't set up a secure sattelite link dosn't suprise me in the least!
Personaly I think it is a crap idea open to abuse
However look at the number of "profesional bodies" here in the UK (Institue of Physics etc) who charge £40 (~US$60) a year plus, just so you can call yourself a "Chartered Physicist" or "Charterd Enginer"
In reality all this means in that the title holder has a BSc/BEng degree (These are regulated to a minumum standard anyway) with three or four years works experiance, and is stupid enough to cough up money to an unelected body every year.
Yet people still pay to be "chartered" and people still look for "charterd profesionals"
Stupid!
And that is why it will suceed
my HR director once told us that she doesn't want to hear that "the cause of the problems are the users"
To which your reply should have been (the clasic)
"Tell me Mrs X, who's interest does ignorance serve?"
Never fails :-)