I'm more concerned about the long-term implications.
Today, NI number and basic details.
Next decade, criminal convictions get added.
Next decade, genetic abnormalities get added.
Next decade, political stance gets added (gotta get those anti-terrorism measures in there somewhere).
Paranoid? Maybe. Look back to what happened Germany in the 1930s and we should be very, very concerned about how this kind of "information" could be abused.
My yahoo.com email address insists I'm in the USA when I'm not. It does not allow me to use POP3 and IIRC the price for enabling this is $19.99.
My yahoo.co.uk email address acknowledges I'm in the UK and DOES allow me to use POP3 free of charge. If I wanted to "upgrade" my mailbox, it's only 8.99 a year.
Also, IIRC, new yahoo.com mailboxes are 4mb, new yahoo.co.uk mailboxes are 6mb, so there are clearly differences with the policies and implementations between the two.
I was - perhaps not so obviously - referring to the context of the OP. I agree with you, Joe Bloggs isn't likely to be hooking his phone up to a PC, but in the kingdom of Slashdot, we do such things!
I was just bemused by a/.'r saying he was troubled by the prospects of losing the contents of his SIM card.
I have two iMacs with Debian installed. Why? Because they're near as damnit silent!
One acts as a server and one as a desktop.
On the desktop, OOo runs just fine, as does the Gnome desktop and all the usual toys. Thunderbird and Firebird packages are available in Debian's "testing" stream.
If all you were doing was fresh installs of the same image, that's fine.
If you're trying to repair previously unseen, massively different, well-established system, with spyware, viruses, drivers, helper apps and application software all intertwined, it's not so clear-cut.
Strange thing was, I wasn't knocking the people from the continent of North America, so I find it odd that you turned nasty on an ally - I'm in the UK.
Every citizen of the USA that I've met has been an absolutely diamond geezer and a true ambassador for your nation.
You, sir, with your "bomb your asses" attitude do your nation a great injustice. If there's one thing I though the USA understood, it was PR/marketing. Given today'snewsstories, both of our nations need to take a long, hard look at how the rest of the world (no pun intended) must look at us.
USA: ~5% of the world's population
UK: ~1% of the world's population
94% of the world's population is outside of our special "club".
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That'll be the "Sunday 25 April" he mentioned.
Today, NI number and basic details.
Next decade, criminal convictions get added.
Next decade, genetic abnormalities get added.
Next decade, political stance gets added (gotta get those anti-terrorism measures in there somewhere).
Paranoid? Maybe. Look back to what happened Germany in the 1930s and we should be very, very concerned about how this kind of "information" could be abused.
Any chemist worth his salt would be able to answer that.
$19.99 for the yahoo.com, GBP 8.99 for the yahoo.co.uk.
For once, something seems to be cheaper in the UK!
My yahoo.com email address insists I'm in the USA when I'm not. It does not allow me to use POP3 and IIRC the price for enabling this is $19.99. My yahoo.co.uk email address acknowledges I'm in the UK and DOES allow me to use POP3 free of charge. If I wanted to "upgrade" my mailbox, it's only 8.99 a year. Also, IIRC, new yahoo.com mailboxes are 4mb, new yahoo.co.uk mailboxes are 6mb, so there are clearly differences with the policies and implementations between the two.
I'd be more concerned about upsetting them and giving them reason to put the rubber gloves on...
GRR!
yeah, those bigs can cause real headaches
I've not checked on a Firefox build yet.
INFRA-RED IS YOUR FRIEND.
Infra-red on the phone, infra-red on the lappy.
I was - perhaps not so obviously - referring to the context of the OP. I agree with you, Joe Bloggs isn't likely to be hooking his phone up to a PC, but in the kingdom of Slashdot, we do such things!
I was just bemused by a /.'r saying he was troubled by the prospects of losing the contents of his SIM card.
I have two iMacs with Debian installed. Why? Because they're near as damnit silent! One acts as a server and one as a desktop. On the desktop, OOo runs just fine, as does the Gnome desktop and all the usual toys. Thunderbird and Firebird packages are available in Debian's "testing" stream.
You are pulling our plonkers, right? Every phone I've owned in the last five years has had some way of syncing with an application on a PC.
What they had done is set up their own business, buying the cheques off the original recipients at reduced value (eg. buy a 15 cheque for a tenner).
The geezers would turn up with a handful of cheques, all signed on the back by the real recipients, and deposit them.
It doesn't work now, as the society only accepts cheques that are account payee only.
I suppose this theory is knackered if they shots are of a, ahem, non-facial nature.
But is that 45 seconds on the battlefield or 45 seconds at medium-to-long-range targets?
ifconfig eth0 down
At least you can explain to your boss why you're now having to use www.booble.com so much!
But the poor fool only has the four letters 'f', 'p', 'w' and 'o' on his keyboard, you insensitive clod!
Sorry.
If you're trying to repair previously unseen, massively different, well-established system, with spyware, viruses, drivers, helper apps and application software all intertwined, it's not so clear-cut.
Could be Perl necklace in this context though
Every citizen of the USA that I've met has been an absolutely diamond geezer and a true ambassador for your nation.
You, sir, with your "bomb your asses" attitude do your nation a great injustice. If there's one thing I though the USA understood, it was PR/marketing. Given today's news stories, both of our nations need to take a long, hard look at how the rest of the world (no pun intended) must look at us.
USA: ~5% of the world's population UK: ~1% of the world's population
94% of the world's population is outside of our special "club".
Not too sure the Canadians would leap on that opportunity though :D
I, for one, welcome our new American overlords!
The gag, muffed up to the n'th degree, should of course have read "I don't know and I don't care".
What an arse.