The correct spelling is so, yup. But SK's book spells it otherwise, 'cos the cemetary sign in the book was handwritten by kids who couldn't spell...
OTOH, the lead for this piece writes "If you recall there was a 're-pet' cloning service to get your dog back if you ever lost them." which isn't true. The euphemism "lost" for "died" is confuses the tale.
After: BAA, the company which owns Heathrow, insists the biometric information will be destroyed after 24 hours and will not be passed on to the police....the article says:
It says the move is necessary to prevent criminals, terrorists and illegal immigrants trying to bypass border controls.
So how do you prevent criminals, terrorists and illegal immigrants trying to bypass border controls without cross checking their fingerprints against outside databases, which identify said people? Do you think Heathrow has a copy of every fingerprint database? No? Then the fingerprints must be transmitted outside for comparison, and outside now has a copy.
Create a full device Truecrypt http://www.truecrypt.org/ volume on each, using the same long (20 chars of so) password for each that you will always remember, and redundantly backup stuff on them. Then put them in a drawer. The Truecrypt volume will completely fill the drive, every sector, so you've wiped the old data. And now you've got backups that no-one else can access, for free.
The President theoretically gets the choice of either passing or rejecting bills in their entirety. No modifications. However, GWB's habit of issuing signing statements modifying leglislation he passes effectively bypasses that restriction.
The President can also indicate whether or not he will pass a particular piece of leglislation early on... for example he indicated NAY for the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) early on in its passage.
What's really stupid is the tendency to judge products by an unattainable ideal. You can't buy a PC for $199 that is a screaming fast, green gaming machine that runs linux, windows or anything else.
...there's nothing else you can get at the $200 price point that has comparable consumption/performance metric. The article totally skipped around this issue, touting alternatives at twice the price.
By letter, template below. Usually, only a letter is legalling binding.
YOUR ADDRESS HERE
DATE
A/C Number: aaaa-bbbb-cccc-dddd
Dear Sir or Madam,
I am writing to close my ISSUING COMPANY NAME Visa/Mastercard credit card account aaaa-bbbb-cccc-dddd. I enclose the one/two issued card(s), cut into pieces.
I have sent a check separately to pay the $$$$.cc balance outstanding on the current statement. I agree to pay for any transactions authorized by me that I have missed in my calculations as soon as you advise me of them.
Any further transactions to the credit card account aaaa-bbbb-cccc-dddd are not authorised by me, and I instruct you not to accept any further purchases or other debits to the account.
I also request that you remove me from your direct mail marketing lists and do not share my name, address, telephone, transaction, and other personal details with ISSUING COMPANY NAME's marketing affiliates or other organisations.
I want time when everyone will know I'm simply not available for work
That's why I won't give work my cell phone number, because the expectation is that people answer or return calls promptly on cell phones. On home answer machines, that's not the case because one could be out that evening/weekend.
I would never take a job where a pager or work cell phone was issued, because the demand is now 24/7.
If it doesn't have an internal battery, a totally reliable means of detecting intrusion, and finally the ability to erase the data memory before an attacker with laser or drill cuts the PCB track from the battery then this is insecure.
Just destroying the escrow keys is not enough. Doubt they are using really heavy crypto such as the AES-Twofish-Serpent I use fo r my TrueCrypt backups... after all they are using a relatively moderate performance microcontroller for the OTF decryption.
Like the crypto description of "military strength". So was Julius Caesar's substition cypher...
Which of the many "insert numeric string here".exe Dell driver installs did you use please? And presumably you used the ndiswrapper approach. The one I used gave me full visibility of the hub, but no access to any configuration that I could spot.
My wife was gaped at when she asked "Is this the queue for the till?" in a supermarket. It's "is this the line for the checkout?" here.
Most Americans are not cosmopolitan...
There are a plurality of licenses, and GPL is simply one of them. No-one is forced to use GPL. If you like a program released under GPL and want to include its functionality in your own program (for sale of not), you can always re-write it.
Until GPL, re-write was the only option, and if every program in teh world was GPL, that still remains an option.
Not really. Sony was acting autonomously here. One problem with the UN is when they pass treaties by democratic standards (negotiation then voting), larger countries who don't like it fail to ratify it (pass it into their country's law). In other words, its a bully problem. We won't even get into the hypocrisy of the Security Council.
The UN's useful function is to make it clear to other countries when one country is behaving badly; just like in a schoolyard, it is difficult to constarin a bully.
Talking semiconductor companies here, generally it is not productive for big to sue big. The reason is that all big semis are violating each others' patents somewhere, and just the lawyers win the battle.
However a small company can stop a big company by showing that they have a case at the first showing and getting an injunction against the big company. It's the stop-shipping injunction that hurts the big company.
One exception is Virgin Mobile (USA), for which the password (they call it vkey) to log onto your account on the Virgin site has always been asked for the Live Adviser when you call customer service.
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The correct spelling is so, yup. But SK's book spells it otherwise, 'cos the cemetary sign in the book was handwritten by kids who couldn't spell...
OTOH, the lead for this piece writes "If you recall there was a 're-pet' cloning service to get your dog back if you ever lost them." which isn't true. The euphemism "lost" for "died" is confuses the tale.
Ain't pedantry fun?
...because after all, the oparating controls are essentially the same.
You missed something.
...the article says:
It says the move is necessary to prevent criminals, terrorists and illegal immigrants trying to bypass border controls.
After: BAA, the company which owns Heathrow, insists the biometric information will be destroyed after 24 hours and will not be passed on to the police.
So how do you prevent criminals, terrorists and illegal immigrants trying to bypass border controls without cross checking their fingerprints against outside databases, which identify said people? Do you think Heathrow has a copy of every fingerprint database? No? Then the fingerprints must be transmitted outside for comparison, and outside now has a copy.
Australia introduced rabbits into the wild too, now a major problem together with wild ex-domenstic cats.
Why waste good drives?
Create a full device Truecrypt http://www.truecrypt.org/ volume on each, using the same long (20 chars of so) password for each that you will always remember, and redundantly backup stuff on them. Then put them in a drawer. The Truecrypt volume will completely fill the drive, every sector, so you've wiped the old data. And now you've got backups that no-one else can access, for free.
Doesn't the Justice Department report to the Executive Branch?
The President theoretically gets the choice of either passing or rejecting bills in their entirety. No modifications. However, GWB's habit of issuing signing statements modifying leglislation he passes effectively bypasses that restriction.
The President can also indicate whether or not he will pass a particular piece of leglislation early on... for example he indicated NAY for the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) early on in its passage.
See http://www.democracynow.org/2008/1/3/vote_for_change_atrocity_linked_us/ for examples of lack of accountability.
What's really stupid is the tendency to judge products by an unattainable ideal. You can't buy a PC for $199 that is a screaming fast, green gaming machine that runs linux, windows or anything else.
...there's nothing else you can get at the $200 price point that has comparable consumption/performance metric. The article totally skipped around this issue, touting alternatives at twice the price.
...so mod 'im up, please, someone!
By letter, template below. Usually, only a letter is legalling binding.
YOUR ADDRESS HERE
DATE
A/C Number: aaaa-bbbb-cccc-dddd
Dear Sir or Madam,
I am writing to close my ISSUING COMPANY NAME Visa/Mastercard credit card account aaaa-bbbb-cccc-dddd. I enclose the one/two issued card(s), cut into pieces.
I have sent a check separately to pay the $$$$.cc balance outstanding on the current statement. I agree to pay for any transactions authorized by me that I have missed in my calculations as soon as you advise me of them.
Any further transactions to the credit card account aaaa-bbbb-cccc-dddd are not authorised by me, and I instruct you not to accept any further purchases or other debits to the account.
I also request that you remove me from your direct mail marketing lists and do not share my name, address, telephone, transaction, and other personal details with ISSUING COMPANY NAME's marketing affiliates or other organisations.
Yours faithfully,
YOUR FULL NAME
And I bet 90% of such ridiculous statistics are made up without any grounding in reality whatsoever.
Actually, 86.43% of statistics are made up on the the spur of the moment.
I want time when everyone will know I'm simply not available for work
That's why I won't give work my cell phone number, because the expectation is that people answer or return calls promptly on cell phones. On home answer machines, that's not the case because one could be out that evening/weekend.
I would never take a job where a pager or work cell phone was issued, because the demand is now 24/7.
Yes, I spend time at work reading personal email, /., even trading stock.
Yes, I also spend my personal time at evenings and weekends doing work.
What's the problem here?
If it doesn't have an internal battery, a totally reliable means of detecting intrusion, and finally the ability to erase the data memory before an attacker with laser or drill cuts the PCB track from the battery then this is insecure.
Just destroying the escrow keys is not enough. Doubt they are using really heavy crypto such as the AES-Twofish-Serpent I use fo r my TrueCrypt backups... after all they are using a relatively moderate performance microcontroller for the OTF decryption.
Like the crypto description of "military strength". So was Julius Caesar's substition cypher...
Per Everex where-2-buy at http://www.everex.com/where%20to%20buy/where%20to% 20buy.htm, Wal-Mart stores carry it but walmart.com doesn't.
Which of the many "insert numeric string here".exe Dell driver installs did you use please? And presumably you used the ndiswrapper approach. The one I used gave me full visibility of the hub, but no access to any configuration that I could spot.
...and did you get the WLAN DW1390 to work properly? And I don't mean just a wrapper 'round the Win driver, but all the configuration stuff too.
My wife was gaped at when she asked "Is this the queue for the till?" in a supermarket. It's "is this the line for the checkout?" here.
Most Americans are not cosmopolitan...
There are a plurality of licenses, and GPL is simply one of them. No-one is forced to use GPL. If you like a program released under GPL and want to include its functionality in your own program (for sale of not), you can always re-write it.
Until GPL, re-write was the only option, and if every program in teh world was GPL, that still remains an option.
Not really. Sony was acting autonomously here. One problem with the UN is when they pass treaties by democratic standards (negotiation then voting), larger countries who don't like it fail to ratify it (pass it into their country's law). In other words, its a bully problem. We won't even get into the hypocrisy of the Security Council.
The UN's useful function is to make it clear to other countries when one country is behaving badly; just like in a schoolyard, it is difficult to constarin a bully.
Last time I used SBC there was no penalty for moving if you moved the account too.
Talking semiconductor companies here, generally it is not productive for big to sue big. The reason is that all big semis are violating each others' patents somewhere, and just the lawyers win the battle.
However a small company can stop a big company by showing that they have a case at the first showing and getting an injunction against the big company. It's the stop-shipping injunction that hurts the big company.
One exception is Virgin Mobile (USA), for which the password (they call it vkey) to log onto your account on the Virgin site has always been asked for the Live Adviser when you call customer service.
Make and sell something.
Nothing to stock an individual using a patent to build a one-off.