Probably not... the I-paq one allegedy uses the thermal imprint and not optical, so you would need jelly with suitable infrastructure of arteries and veins.
That is a great idea. Such an elegant solution to what could have been a big problem.
Or maybe not - what is wrong with a lock and key to open the laptop?
Not only would it protect the data, it would prevent the HD and DVD combo from being stolen from the laptop while its sitting on the desk (happened to two colleagues lately).
And stop the keyboard from being damaged by children and small animals.
Given that the T series have titanium cases, a lot of force would be needed to open them and they would probably be wrecked if forced open (assuming a suitably strong lock.) This is the feature I want most next time I buy a T series (I have an IPaq with fingerprint recognition, and its great, but I would still prefer a lock and key for the laptop (I have a T series - they are great too).
The problem was not the BSD licence, it was the lawsuit.
Incidentally, I tried Linux in the very early days. It did not work, so I switched to BSD, and have used it ever since! It worked, and was what I wanted/needed. I use both FreeBSD and NetBSD for different reasons (on different hardware). Would you take your teenage daughter and her friends out in the same vehicle you use to take the sheep to market?Oh, you are geeks, sorry...
I was once told that someone had been prosecuted for posession of a pornographic image with only 7 pixels (at that time, it was almost certainly monchrome), so the number need not be very large! - less than 128 is not large in my books (except maybe a shoe size)!
educate Joe average how harmful these dialers can be
Joe average would never even know that there is a dialer involved. He clicks on [close this popup]. He has no way of knowing that instead of closing the popup, its activated a dialler.
who just routinely close any popup window, don't read any of them, and assume everything is normal.
My personal experience is that if youu don't close the popup before it hss finished opening, you are in deep sh*t. There certainly no time to read it to find out if it says "General Failure reading Drive C:"
Its a life-and-death struggle: If you don't kill it real fast, it will open two more when you DO close it, and each of them opens two more, and in about 6 clicks, your pc is dead.
There is no two ways about it, if a pop-up opens, you MUST kill it before it kills you. This IS the ONLY advice you can give any PC novice.
While biometric passports might make identification more certain,
Might not... Any reasonably competent forger will be able to download the required information into a fake passport with no more effort than making a Costco membership card.
The UK scheme is nothing to do with security, its a scam to take $100 off every man, woman and child in the country to pay for the war in Iraq.
But, it seems to me that an organized campaign to lobby and educate banks and other financial institutions ought to be able to eliminate mortgage spam.
Then you are extremely gullible - what will stop spam is a US congress bill that says any bank that is shown to process transactions for a business involved in spam will have its banking licence removed.
If the banks had to make sure their customers were not sending out spam, they would find a way to do it. Almost all spam is to induce payments by credit card, and almost all credit cards are run by American banks.
Zilog (remember them) have been selling one of these as a demo of their web server module (E-Z80, I kid you not) for at least a year. I know, cos I have one!
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Probably not ... the I-paq one allegedy uses the thermal imprint and not optical, so you would need jelly with suitable infrastructure of arteries and veins.
Or maybe not - what is wrong with a lock and key to open the laptop?
Not only would it protect the data, it would prevent the HD and DVD combo from being stolen from the laptop while its sitting on the desk (happened to two colleagues lately).
And stop the keyboard from being damaged by children and small animals.
Given that the T series have titanium cases, a lot of force would be needed to open them and they would probably be wrecked if forced open (assuming a suitably strong lock.) This is the feature I want most next time I buy a T series (I have an IPaq with fingerprint recognition, and its great, but I would still prefer a lock and key for the laptop (I have a T series - they are great too).
Incidentally, I tried Linux in the very early days. It did not work, so I switched to BSD, and have used it ever since! It worked, and was what I wanted/needed. I use both FreeBSD and NetBSD for different reasons (on different hardware). Would you take your teenage daughter and her friends out in the same vehicle you use to take the sheep to market?Oh, you are geeks, sorry...
No, Its about that cute furry "Extra Terrestrial Lifeform" we used to see on 1970's TV.
I was once told that someone had been prosecuted for posession of a pornographic image with only 7 pixels (at that time, it was almost certainly monchrome), so the number need not be very large! - less than 128 is not large in my books (except maybe a shoe size)!
US law applies world wide - enforced by cluster bombs and cruise misiles.
Spammers, however, are exempt.
An Itanic in your lap could cause serious and painful burns ... Probably not marketing's favourite slogan.
Joe average would never even know that there is a dialer involved. He clicks on [close this popup]. He has no way of knowing that instead of closing the popup, its activated a dialler.
especially after a couple of Guinesses.
No, No... excute them now!
Also Largest Marine Disaster (The Titanic, 1912)
My personal experience is that if youu don't close the popup before it hss finished opening, you are in deep sh*t. There certainly no time to read it to find out if it says "General Failure reading Drive C:"
Its a life-and-death struggle: If you don't kill it real fast, it will open two more when you DO close it, and each of them opens two more, and in about 6 clicks, your pc is dead.
There is no two ways about it, if a pop-up opens, you MUST kill it before it kills you. This IS the ONLY advice you can give any PC novice.
Never heard of 8" floppies? - maybe you need to reply to that viagra spam after all!
Easy - use OpenOffice!
Please can we have RPGs for 419ers and cruise missiles that seek out viagra spammers?
A quick inspection of the instruction set reveals why they only made 157 of these and made 6 million PDP8s.
The truth and the facts may be obsurdly different - don't forget even court reporters smoke crack sometimes.
If you use a Pentium for the arithmetic, you get a Pentabyte - its obvious! (Now, if that Pentium has a Volvo outboard motor ...;-)
So you don't know Latin. Big deal.
Anyway those peole claiming to have 1 million email addresses just have 1 million copies of my address, so don't bother buying from them.
This was recently confirmed by Chicken Little of the ChuckleVision Institute.
Thats SCAM not SCAN. The idea is that the public have to pay for this sh*te - its another of Tony Blair's stealth taxes.
Might not ... Any reasonably competent forger will be able to download the required information into a fake passport with no more effort than making a Costco membership card.
The UK scheme is nothing to do with security, its a scam to take $100 off every man, woman and child in the country to pay for the war in Iraq.
America has 90% of the people with credit cards and gullible enough to buy things from spammers.
Then you are extremely gullible - what will stop spam is a US congress bill that says any bank that is shown to process transactions for a business involved in spam will have its banking licence removed.
If the banks had to make sure their customers were not sending out spam, they would find a way to do it. Almost all spam is to induce payments by credit card, and almost all credit cards are run by American banks.
Zilog (remember them) have been selling one of these as a demo of their web server module (E-Z80, I kid you not) for at least a year. I know, cos I have one!