Immigration usually confiscate the passport, then keep the person in custody (either at the airport or local prison) until the next plane back. At least that's the way I've seen it done before - even to the innocent. It kind of makes it difficult for a person to return to a country but there are plenty of passports issued under a false name for trips that aren't going to appear on the official "entry/exit" database (or are just asylum seekers - genuine or otherwise).
Maybe the language barrier was too much for him or he had trouble reading the map. I don't know - have never been to Japan. Maybe your possible (mis)pronunciation meant you insulted his family or implied you wouldn't pay the fare.
Probably he just thought it wasn't worth the hastle for a foreigner.:)
You got another cab ok though which was fortunate.
No map required, took us directly to the street - no problems - good tip
American cab driver (picked me up from Dallas Fort Worth airport)
Said he "used to live there", had a map - was only 6 miles from the airport but he managed to get lost, take about an hour or two to get there (had this insistence he must drop me off at the correct number) and ended up charging less than what was on his meter out of embarrassment.
So, yes I'll take a London cab driver (or walking/public transport if I'm in America) vs their American equivalent any day of the week.:)
I think the reason people prefer to just get a new one is they figure that once there is a problem, even after you fix it, there may be more
Yes, but I pointed that out to them anyway. So they didn't have to think - I did the thinking for them.:) I prefer to be brutally honest even if it means I lose out on business. I'm quite happy to guarantee quotes.
Yes which is part of the argument I made to them - repairing the motherboard still means something could end up going wrong with the other (admittedly less expensive) parts.
nobody takes their computer, TV or Radio to the repair shop anymore since a new one is a fraction of that cost down at the local convenience store."
Yep, case in point - I gave someone a quote of £175 to fix their laptop. They preferred instead to spend £339 on a new one. Even if the cost is lower for repairs people still prefer to buy new (which doesn't make much sense to me).
It is in everyone's best interests that we don't destroy more of the tropical rainforests to make way for short-term profits such as gold. The innovative use of technology with tribes seen to be primitive is a good example of how technology can be used as a useful tool.
However the article doesn't mention why these illegal logging/mining operations are going on (other than the profit motive). Perhaps the Brazilian government (as well as other South American governments) could put money into deterring these types of operations as well as dealing with them once they have sprung up. It is in humanity's best interest to deal with issues such as these now which affect quality of life and climate change. If we just do nothing and continue on our current path it will eventually lead to the biosphere being hostile to human life and possibly the extinction of humankind as a species.
Whereas the press in the States might have made more of a big deal about the recording of phone calls - under Echelon - it's been happening in the UK and plenty of other countries for years anyway under existing intelligence agency arrangements (as a previous poster points out) since around WWII.
I'm sure there are high security locations with a higher ratio than that - prisons, military bases etc. Most public CCTV cameras are in areas with a history of disorder (eg outside pubs, places a lot of people gather etc).
Yep sounds like the RIAA/MPAA all over again doesn't it? I'm sure there are first amendment issues to fan-made stuff that doesn't tread on the toes of someone's trademark.
If anyone doesn't think viral marketing works - then they should read this. The first I heard about Serenity was on a friend's blog. I think they'd got into a preview screening on the basis that they'd blog about it. I then watched the first eight minutes of it which was being shown to promote the film and enjoyed it. I then went to see the film and enjoyed it and thought it was worth it too.
There are very few films I go see at the cinema and because I don't have a TV most of the promotions for them pass me by - and a lot don't appeal.
Firstly, this doesn't apply on flights without confirmed seating. For example the Ryanair Liverpool to Dublin flight you just take whatever seat is available.
Secondly, the cabin crew count the numbers of passengers on the plane before it takes off (and two of them do this in case of an error). If there was a descrepancy between the number that was on the plane and how many were actually there the plane would be deboarded until it was all sorted out.
Thirdly at the actual gate they check tickets against a handwritten list and tick off against a list who's boarding - duplicates would instantly be spotted (some airlines do this automatically by a machine that scans barcodes).
Fourthly if by some freak chance the above happened (probably only possible on an internal flight anyway) the air marshal would just hand them over to the TSA who would then probably just detain them until law enforcement arrived and charged them with something.
The thing is in your above scenario no-one would know who had the "real ticket". However it would quickly be sorted out when people were asked to provide ID (and law enforcement would check out the ID too).
Seems the ideas in the Minority Report (eg billboards targeted just to the person the advert is aimed at) are starting to have a basis in reality instead of just science fiction.
Any usable quantum computer is still a long way off. Regarding your idea about having the keyrings stored on external media it's very easy for people to just forget and leave the external media (whether it be clipdrive, swipe card - whatever it is) permanently in the machine, or through just absent mindedness leave it behind.
I used the public/private key method because it is the most common in use currently. Yes there are other encryption methods and part of cryptography is figuring out first which method has been used to encrypt the data.
If you're referring to those based on the product of two large prime numbers I think you'll find that even 193 digit numbers can be factored and that estimates about brute force encryption don't take into account advances in processor technology or parallel processing or human ingenuity.
You can also use distributed computing over the internet to tackle computer problems on the scale of your "supercomputer will take 5-10 years" sort. There are many examples of those if you care to look.
They could store all the information they need on a clipdrive. Most email accounts have webmail access. All they need is access to an internet connected computer which they can find in any public library. I fix computers as part of my job and have never seen the need to lug around a laptop with me as opposed to a clipdrive with what I need on it.
Requiring someone to provide a username and password is not there for the purpose of protecting the data. It is there to try to keep people from using the laptop without authorization.
Surely the two are related though?
Protecting confidential data pretty much requires encryption. Yes, and as most commonly used encryption schemes from password protecting a file to other methods have encryption that can be broken by readily available programs it's merely a variation on the username/password argument.
(well, within reason, the physical security can be bypassed, but assume a perfect company for discussion).
Yep, have you heard of a Keyghost SX hardware logger? Any person with physical access to the desktop could easily install one of those in seconds, leave it there for a week, retreive it and they have every single keystroke entered by the users who used the computer. Then they would know the correct username/passwords and no-one would be any the wiser. That method can't be used for laptops because the keyboard is built in.
Hackers who would remotely exploit a computer leave an audit trail of an IP address somewhere - this doesn't.
To be perfectly honest a company that cares about the confidentiality of the data they hold wouldn't expect an employee to take data home with them.
If you want an example of how someone can embarrass someone else with the contents of their hard drive you have no further to look than this link.
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Because it slows it down, laptops can have user authorisation anyway (fingerprint or username/password combo) - and short of physically taking the harddrive out and reading it or booting from a CD there's very little someone can do to access the info on it without that. The point is - people just shouldn't be putting confidential stuff on laptops in the first place because of the security risk not just from theft but from casual users finding something they shouldn't or the computer geek repairing it.
So you enjoy reading music on public transport then?;) How about singing music too. lol
Yep small talk can be dull but so are public transport journeys, it doesn't have to all be conducted in silence just because that's how most people do it. When people are travelling together they talk with each other.
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Immigration usually confiscate the passport, then keep the person in custody (either at the airport or local prison) until the next plane back. At least that's the way I've seen it done before - even to the innocent. It kind of makes it difficult for a person to return to a country but there are plenty of passports issued under a false name for trips that aren't going to appear on the official "entry/exit" database (or are just asylum seekers - genuine or otherwise).
Maybe the language barrier was too much for him or he had trouble reading the map. I don't know - have never been to Japan. Maybe your possible (mis)pronunciation meant you insulted his family or implied you wouldn't pay the fare.
:)
Probably he just thought it wasn't worth the hastle for a foreigner.
You got another cab ok though which was fortunate.
London cab driver (visiting my mum's cousin):-
:)
No map required, took us directly to the street - no problems - good tip
American cab driver (picked me up from Dallas Fort Worth airport)
Said he "used to live there", had a map - was only 6 miles from the airport but he managed to get lost, take about an hour or two to get there (had this insistence he must drop me off at the correct number) and ended up charging less than what was on his meter out of embarrassment.
So, yes I'll take a London cab driver (or walking/public transport if I'm in America) vs their American equivalent any day of the week.
I think the reason people prefer to just get a new one is they figure that once there is a problem, even after you fix it, there may be more
:) I prefer to be brutally honest even if it means I lose out on business. I'm quite happy to guarantee quotes.
Yes, but I pointed that out to them anyway. So they didn't have to think - I did the thinking for them.
Yes which is part of the argument I made to them - repairing the motherboard still means something could end up going wrong with the other (admittedly less expensive) parts.
nobody takes their computer, TV or Radio to the repair shop anymore since a new one is a fraction of that cost down at the local convenience store."
Yep, case in point - I gave someone a quote of £175 to fix their laptop. They preferred instead to spend £339 on a new one. Even if the cost is lower for repairs people still prefer to buy new (which doesn't make much sense to me).
It is in everyone's best interests that we don't destroy more of the tropical rainforests to make way for short-term profits such as gold. The innovative use of technology with tribes seen to be primitive is a good example of how technology can be used as a useful tool.
However the article doesn't mention why these illegal logging/mining operations are going on (other than the profit motive). Perhaps the Brazilian government (as well as other South American governments) could put money into deterring these types of operations as well as dealing with them once they have sprung up. It is in humanity's best interest to deal with issues such as these now which affect quality of life and climate change. If we just do nothing and continue on our current path it will eventually lead to the biosphere being hostile to human life and possibly the extinction of humankind as a species.
Whereas the press in the States might have made more of a big deal about the recording of phone calls - under Echelon - it's been happening in the UK and plenty of other countries for years anyway under existing intelligence agency arrangements (as a previous poster points out) since around WWII.
This is normal for the UK, after WWII the government completely disarmed the populace and were well on the way to this state until WWII interupted.
Surely you mean,
This is normal for the UK, after WWI the government completely disarmed the populace and were well on the way to this state until WWII interupted.
WWI instead of WWII?
I'm sure there are high security locations with a higher ratio than that - prisons, military bases etc. Most public CCTV cameras are in areas with a history of disorder (eg outside pubs, places a lot of people gather etc).
Yep sounds like the RIAA/MPAA all over again doesn't it? I'm sure there are first amendment issues to fan-made stuff that doesn't tread on the toes of someone's trademark.
In this case it was a she not a he friend. I think I found the trailer/first eight minutes myself online after they'd piqued my curiousity.
If anyone doesn't think viral marketing works - then they should read this. The first I heard about Serenity was on a friend's blog. I think they'd got into a preview screening on the basis that they'd blog about it. I then watched the first eight minutes of it which was being shown to promote the film and enjoyed it. I then went to see the film and enjoyed it and thought it was worth it too.
There are very few films I go see at the cinema and because I don't have a TV most of the promotions for them pass me by - and a lot don't appeal.
Firstly, this doesn't apply on flights without confirmed seating. For example the Ryanair Liverpool to Dublin flight you just take whatever seat is available.
Secondly, the cabin crew count the numbers of passengers on the plane before it takes off (and two of them do this in case of an error). If there was a descrepancy between the number that was on the plane and how many were actually there the plane would be deboarded until it was all sorted out.
Thirdly at the actual gate they check tickets against a handwritten list and tick off against a list who's boarding - duplicates would instantly be spotted (some airlines do this automatically by a machine that scans barcodes).
Fourthly if by some freak chance the above happened (probably only possible on an internal flight anyway) the air marshal would just hand them over to the TSA who would then probably just detain them until law enforcement arrived and charged them with something.
The thing is in your above scenario no-one would know who had the "real ticket". However it would quickly be sorted out when people were asked to provide ID (and law enforcement would check out the ID too).
I think a psychotherapist would have a field day with slashdot users. Either that or they'd end up needing therapy themselves. ;)
The most TLAs in one article goes to this one - IBM, SCO, DoD & MP3 makes 4.
Seems the ideas in the Minority Report (eg billboards targeted just to the person the advert is aimed at) are starting to have a basis in reality instead of just science fiction.
Any usable quantum computer is still a long way off. Regarding your idea about having the keyrings stored on external media it's very easy for people to just forget and leave the external media (whether it be clipdrive, swipe card - whatever it is) permanently in the machine, or through just absent mindedness leave it behind.
I used the public/private key method because it is the most common in use currently. Yes there are other encryption methods and part of cryptography is figuring out first which method has been used to encrypt the data.
If you're referring to those based on the product of two large prime numbers I think you'll find that even 193 digit numbers can be factored and that estimates about brute force encryption don't take into account advances in processor technology or parallel processing or human ingenuity.
You can also use distributed computing over the internet to tackle computer problems on the scale of your "supercomputer will take 5-10 years" sort. There are many examples of those if you care to look.
They could store all the information they need on a clipdrive. Most email accounts have webmail access. All they need is access to an internet connected computer which they can find in any public library. I fix computers as part of my job and have never seen the need to lug around a laptop with me as opposed to a clipdrive with what I need on it.
Requiring someone to provide a username and password is not there for the purpose of protecting the data. It is there to try to keep people from using the laptop without authorization.
Surely the two are related though?
Protecting confidential data pretty much requires encryption. Yes, and as most commonly used encryption schemes from password protecting a file to other methods have encryption that can be broken by readily available programs it's merely a variation on the username/password argument.
(well, within reason, the physical security can be bypassed, but assume a perfect company for discussion).
Yep, have you heard of a Keyghost SX hardware logger? Any person with physical access to the desktop could easily install one of those in seconds, leave it there for a week, retreive it and they have every single keystroke entered by the users who used the computer. Then they would know the correct username/passwords and no-one would be any the wiser. That method can't be used for laptops because the keyboard is built in.
Hackers who would remotely exploit a computer leave an audit trail of an IP address somewhere - this doesn't.
To be perfectly honest a company that cares about the confidentiality of the data they hold wouldn't expect an employee to take data home with them.
If you want an example of how someone can embarrass someone else with the contents of their hard drive you have no further to look than this link.
If comment has Bush, Cheney or Republican moderate +1 informative per each word. If comment has Democrat, open source, or competitor's names mark -1 offtopic.
Because it slows it down, laptops can have user authorisation anyway (fingerprint or username/password combo) - and short of physically taking the harddrive out and reading it or booting from a CD there's very little someone can do to access the info on it without that. The point is - people just shouldn't be putting confidential stuff on laptops in the first place because of the security risk not just from theft but from casual users finding something they shouldn't or the computer geek repairing it.
So you enjoy reading music on public transport then? ;) How about singing music too. lol
Yep small talk can be dull but so are public transport journeys, it doesn't have to all be conducted in silence just because that's how most people do it. When people are travelling together they talk with each other.