I had a call back from Citibank, an 'anti-money laundering' call to check the purpose of the money transfer requesting the telephone number of the **** company to receive the money.
I never provide any sensitive information to any entity on an INBOUND call. I completely confused a poor Discover rep once when they called and needed to verify something and I refused to give them my information to verify myself as the account owner. I asked them for a department name and reference ID of some sort so I could call my number for Discover and get transferred to them.
Seriously, someone calls you and says they are from your financial institution and need info??? Yeah, right.
In the case of Discover, it was legit. Call me crazy, but its a precaution and extra 15 minutes of trouble I'm willing to take.
For how much more $$$? I'm not sure where the originator came up with the 600k number, but at the pace of technology change two questions come up right away:
What is the cost of making the ongoing technical changes to the network to keep up (including monitoring to see what folks are using and paid staff to understand what these new emerging technologies are, etc. etc.)
Do you think a government sponsored or government run program will be able to be as responsive as technology changes as a private venture?
Their next step is to do data logging, and then finally triangulation of the location of a given user on a WiFi network.
One problem with that idea... triangulation only works if you are communicating with 3 geographically diverse AP's... How often are you on a WiFi network and doing that?
coming from Northern Europe(Denmark) and having spent a long time in the US, I can tell you that corporations just don't have the same kind of power over politicians in these parts(that would include Finland, which falls in the same category).
Ok, so a follow-up then. If the research is universal and the big corporations don't have as much influence in Northern Europe, then why haven't we seen massive legislation or awards against cell phone companies in those countries? With Finland as home to Nokia and Sweden as home to Ericsson it isn't like they lack jurisdiction to take action. So if the evidence is so universally conclusive... and only in the US do corporations hold sway... then why the lack of action?
This is just yet another example of the corporations exerting their stranglehold on US policy to up profits, damn the consequences.
Why do you limit your statement to the US? Seeing as how we aren't the leader in cellular use... Are the big corporations exerting their stranglehold on Finnish policy?
With these two documents you can see that the IT policy administrator (usually the BES Admin) can force an "automatic backup" onto the device. BES 4.0 now allows that backup to be done wirelessly, without the need to sync at all. So, these users could have had their device content "backed up" (intercepted) wirelessly, likely with no on-screen notification.
If you attach a BB to your company's network, expect them to have control over the device and the content. We'd hardly be able to sell the solution to large enterprises without a degree of enterprise control!
If you think birth control and education is the answer, where the track record of success?
From: The University of MI, here's a quick example I found with a very basic web search. Note that almost every result page I found described the correlation between education, birth control and population growth rates:
Both Thailand and the Philippines began with roughly the same sized population in 1950, 20 million, of which young males accounted for about 10 percent, or 2 million. Thailand had a slightly lower fertility rate in the 1950s, but the real difference came in the 1960s when Thailand began what has become one of the world's most successful national family planning programs. The Philippines lagged behind because its family planning program was held hostage to religious resistance. It also had weak overall public services - education, health and other things - held back by a pervasive weakness of government. By 1970 Philippines young males were a third larger in number than their Philippine counterparts (1.7 to 1.4 million). Today (2000) there are 4 million young male Filipinos against only 2.8 million Thais. Which country bears greater costs of providing education and jobs? By 2025, Young Filipino males will number 4.7 million against 2.7 million young Thais. The Philippines is fostering a large cohort of young men who need schools and jobs to keep them in society; without those amenities, this population will be vulnerable to leaders who can use them for their own purposes, ostensibly through providing work and a sense of belonging.
Most research shows that higher levels of education, espescially education of females on topics of family planning, lead to lower birth rates.
Predator has NEVER been shown uncut on regular broadcast TV in the US. Please stop making up BS just so you can try to feel superior to the US.
I believe that you are mistaking what he said as "making up BS" when he was probably just mistaken. I don't doubt that the version of Predator he saw was probably less censored than what would have had to occur to show it at that time in the UK.
When I was in Sweden I routinely encountered smuggled US versions of movies and video games that didn't have the violence "cut". But there was no problem being naked on a public beach.
Note: My time in Sweden was circa 1993, so it may not speak for them today.
Gee, where has the old American igenuity gone? We used to do the difficult before lunch and the impossible by 5PM. If we just turn our backs on hard problems, then I guess we have to take whatever solution someone else gives us. Hard problems are not cheap to solve, they WILL involve some failures and setbacks (learning experiences) but they often have great long term benefits.
As much as I disagree with the President, I think if you applied that entire paragraph to his attempt to democratize the Middle East, you'd have some idea of the philopsophy that is driving him.
I don't know how much this remains true today, but Apple has had strength in the Education market and this is something IBM could use. IBM handles outsourced IT for many education customers but otherwise needs a greater hold on that vertical.
Again you are taking my comments out of context and making assumptions. I have never stated that the US should "take the lead", only that we should not rule out unilateral discussions as a potential avenue toward progress. There is no reason whay China, Japan, South Korea, etc. could not ALSO have unilateral discussions with NK if they saw fit (and you insist it is of the utmost concern to them).
Why would the U.S. want the responsibility?
Presumably we have aims at nuclear non-proliferation, maintaining our military superiority, maintaining a status-quo stability in the region, etc. Certainly if NK launched a nuke at Japan it would be a major upset to one of our largest trading partners (who, BTW, has little military and recent military experience to retaliate, so we would most likely be directly involved).
Finally, on another note, what makes you think there's even something to negotiate here?
Blind optimism?;) Yes, there is still a part of me that refuses to believe NK's leadership has only ill-intentions.
Indeed, under what possible scenario would we even want to cut off North Korea's neighbors from the peace process?
Read my post again I guess... I said in addition to. I would not suggest the US hold unilateral talks without multilateral talks as well. Yes, multilateral talks should take precedence. But anytime you wait to get 4-5 parties together before discussion can begin the process is greatly slowed. And in a race against nuclear weapons development, we cannot afford that slowdown.
The US should not be afraid to talk with NK directly, on the side, and to bring the results of such unilateral discussions to the multilateral meetings as appropriate.
Both Bush and Clinton could have and perhaps should have done more to combat and intercept AQ operatives and plans.
Bush is a warmonger for trying to prevent another 9/11 from Iraq.
9/11 did not occur at the hands of a sovereign nation and no invading of a sovereing nation and overthrowing of its government likely would have prevented it. We needed better field intelligence and operatives within the AQ network which was known to exist for several presidencies. If you notice, even the invasion and overthrow in Afghanistan has not "stopped" AQ.
Bush is incompetent for not dealing unilaterally with North Korea.
True, he is incompetent for not dealing unilaterally with NK. That is not to say INSTEAD OF multilaterally, but in addition to. Bush is famous for NOT pursuing all avenues available to him.
Bush is incompetent for dealing unilaterally with Iraq.
No, Bush is incompetent because he dealt unilateraly with Iraq militarily. Dealing with them unilaterally (as in sanctions) is a valid foreign policy at times. Military action (sanctioned by the UN) is also a valid policy at times. Unilateral Military action is NOT a valid policy.
Bush is incompetent for not invading Iran to stop their nuclear program.
Ack! No liberal I know wants Bush to unilaterally invade Iran either! I think the closest statement to this has been that if one were to pick the "more likely to be pursuing WMD (esp. nuclear weapons)" then Iran would have made more sense than Iraq by about 100x. That's a citation of inconsistency, not a policy suggestion.
Bush is incompetent for invading Iraq to stop their nuclear program.
See above. Also, Bush is incompetent for setting a precedent that violation of another nation's sovereignty without the support of the international community on the grounds of poorly verified intelligence is a "good thing"(tm).
Want to spot a liberal? Look for the guy pressing his hands against his temples trying to keep his head from exploding from all the contradictions he's shoving into his brain.
Want to spot a conservative? Look for the guy who cannot (and really doesn't have an interest in) understanding other people's views.
As far as actual evacuation from the pod mid-trip, I honestly don't know.
This wouldn't be hard to make as easy as today's system. I.e. today you cannot get off the subway until the next available stop. I'd imagine that even if you pre-programmed a long trip, you could at any time hita button to stop at the next stop and get off, probably losing the net difference in cost to the system.
I know not everyone here is a fan, but I was all set to go out and buy SWG until I found it wouldn't play on either of my (older) PCs and also wouldn't play on my new dual-processor G5. I still have many friends playing it today and I'm still not.
This despite the fact that every other Star Wars computer game has been ported to the Mac and despite the fact that the creator (Sony) ported their other MMORPG (Everquest) to the Mac. *sigh*
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Seriously, someone calls you and says they are from your financial institution and need info??? Yeah, right.
In the case of Discover, it was legit. Call me crazy, but its a precaution and extra 15 minutes of trouble I'm willing to take.
After further research, this document, on page 45, states that PIN messages cannot be backed up wirelessly...
That leaves the following possibilities I am aware of:
- IT Policy Administration
- Blackberry 4.0 Enhancement Overview
With these two documents you can see that the IT policy administrator (usually the BES Admin) can force an "automatic backup" onto the device. BES 4.0 now allows that backup to be done wirelessly, without the need to sync at all. So, these users could have had their device content "backed up" (intercepted) wirelessly, likely with no on-screen notification.If you attach a BB to your company's network, expect them to have control over the device and the content. We'd hardly be able to sell the solution to large enterprises without a degree of enterprise control!
Both Thailand and the Philippines began with roughly the same sized population in 1950, 20 million, of which young males accounted for about 10 percent, or 2 million. Thailand had a slightly lower fertility rate in the 1950s, but the real difference came in the 1960s when Thailand began what has become one of the world's most successful national family planning programs. The Philippines lagged behind because its family planning program was held hostage to religious resistance. It also had weak overall public services - education, health and other things - held back by a pervasive weakness of government. By 1970 Philippines young males were a third larger in number than their Philippine counterparts (1.7 to 1.4 million). Today (2000) there are 4 million young male Filipinos against only 2.8 million Thais. Which country bears greater costs of providing education and jobs? By 2025, Young Filipino males will number 4.7 million against 2.7 million young Thais. The Philippines is fostering a large cohort of young men who need schools and jobs to keep them in society; without those amenities, this population will be vulnerable to leaders who can use them for their own purposes, ostensibly through providing work and a sense of belonging.
Most research shows that higher levels of education, espescially education of females on topics of family planning, lead to lower birth rates.
Yeah, we'll see how the vote on THAT initiative comes out after you USE diebold machines to cast those votes...
When I was in Sweden I routinely encountered smuggled US versions of movies and video games that didn't have the violence "cut". But there was no problem being naked on a public beach.
Note: My time in Sweden was circa 1993, so it may not speak for them today.
The US should not be afraid to talk with NK directly, on the side, and to bring the results of such unilateral discussions to the multilateral meetings as appropriate.
This despite the fact that every other Star Wars computer game has been ported to the Mac and despite the fact that the creator (Sony) ported their other MMORPG (Everquest) to the Mac. *sigh*
The alternative to "12,345,678.89" is not "12.345.678.89" as you suggest. It could be written "12.345.678,89" in one country and "12 345 678.89" in another country. Check out this site for more info!