Perhaps you should move to the UK, there's a huge list of people who could sign your application, provided they hold a passport themselves:
ACCEPTABLE COUNTERSIGNATURES
Accountant Articled Clerk of a Limited Company Assurance Agent of Recognised Company Bank/Building Society Official Barrister Broker Chairman/Director of Limited Company Chemist Chiropodist Christian Science Practitioner Commissioner of Oaths Councillor: Local or County Civil Servant (permanent) Dentist Engineer (with professional Qualifications) Fire Service Official Funeral Director Insurance agent (full time) of a recognised Company Journalist Justice of the Peace Legal Secretary (members and fellows of the Institute of legal secretaries) Local Government Officer Manager/Personnel Officer (of Limited Company) Member of Parliament Merchant Navy Officer Minister of a recognised religion Nurse (SRN and SEN) Officer of the armed services (Active or Retired) Optician Person with Honours (eg OBE MBE etc) Photographer (Professional) Police Officer Post Office Official President/Secretary of a recognised organisation Salvation Army Officer Social Worker Solicitor Surveyor Teacher, Lecturer Trade Union Officer Travel Agency (Qualified) Valuers and auctioneers (fellow and associate members of the incorporated society) Warrant officers and Chief Petty Officers Or persons of similar standing to the above, working or retired, are acceptable as countersignatories.
This guy acts like they were stealing the money from him
Well strangely enough, with the new chip-and-pin system they've just brought in in the UK, if the vendor doesn't accept c&p (i.e. they just take a signature), they are liable. (Although the card companies appear not to be enforcing that too strongly just yet since they can't distribute the necessary card readers fast enough.)
All the 'billions to one chance' likelihoods of there being a DNA match which you read about assume a random distribution, but that's never really been proven, and (to put it delicately) in some closed groups (small communities, racial enclaves) the variety is likely to be significantly less than that.
Now, as long as the DNA is used as an additional proof on top of other evidence, it doesn't matter so much, but when the police work backwards from the DNA database to the suspect - as they will if they can - there will be ample scope for wrongful conviction.
Imagine a car park containing 210 million white cars (representing the population) and three red cars (representing DNA matches to a sample). If you pick up a car because you have evidence that it might be the one you want, and it turns out actually to be a red car, the probability's 70M:1 it's the one you're after.
But if you already know about one of the red cars, and you just select it with no other evidence, the probability's 1:3 that you've got the right one.
The problem we don't know how many red cars there might be. The only way to find out would be to DNA finger print the whole population.
And for all you know, you might have an identical twin out there committing all sorts of unpleasantries; how would you get out of that?
This has a faster processor, bigger disk and more RAM than a standard PC from three years ago; what applications have turned up since then that require more than this?
It seems th me that the most constructive thing to do would be to publically, physically destroy a voting machine (or perhaps just the memory card) after the votes are in, and focus the public on the fact that there is no backup.
There is a question, of course, about how long you might be locked up for doing so.
From here:
It has been stated above that domestic supply voltage in [the UK] is 240 volts. From 1st January
1995 the nominal voltage of domestic supply across Europe has been 'harmonised' at 230 volts.
However The Electricity Safety, Quality and Continuity Regulations 2002 which came into force on
31st January 2003 allow UK domestic supply voltage tolerances of 230 volts - 6% to + 10%. On this
basis there is no need at present to change the domestic supply voltage from its present value of
240 volts.
How soon must a company apply for a Patent after having described the essential technique in writing?
I have beside me an original printed copy of "The Windows Interface: An Application Design Guide", Copyright Microsoft Corp, 1987, 1992 (from the Windows 3.1 SDK,document number PC28921-0692), wherein we learn that
(Section 3.3.2) "Keyboard navigation to controls relies primarily on mnemonic access characters and on the TAB, ENTER, and ESC keys."
Table 3.4 lists recommended keyboard navigation techniques: "TAB: moves focus to next control. The order of movement is generally from left to right and from top to bottom.* [* Unless there is a more logical order defined within the context of the operation.]"
There's a disclaimer too: "Microsoft... shall not be liable for any use of [the information contained in this document] by the recipient."
There's also a handy bibliography which may help to determine where these ideas came from in the first place.
The final sentence tries to extend tabbing to any application:
"While the present invention has been described above in reference to a preferred embodiment thereof, those skilled in the art will appreciate that various changes in form and detail may be made without departing from the intended scope of the present invention as defined in the appended claims. For example, the tabbing may work with application programs other than the web browser."
Member of Parliament (MP) Austin Mitchell demonstrated that, in the UK at least, your name is what you choose to be known by - he changed his name by Deed Poll to Austin Haddock to highlight efforts to save the fishing industry.
The United Kingdom Deed Poll Service allows you to change your name online. It also has a handy FAQ which touches on the the OP's problem: for security reasons, we strongly advise that you do not travel overseas bearing documents in different names e.g. your passport in one name and your travel documents, credit cards and driving licence etc in a different name.
The UK Government's data standard catalogue allows 35 Unicode characters for each Person Given Name - which according to the Person Name UML diagram is a repeating field in the person's structured name (so you can have as many given names as you like, in addition to a Family Name.)
That's as well as Full Name and Requested Name fields.
It has been thought of before... see UK company Lindstrand Balloons Ltd's HALE (High Altitude Long Endurance) project:
The airship is unmanned and will fly in the stratosphere at 70,000 feet and is geostationary, i.e. it will use its propulsive power to motor into the wind and will therefore remain stationary over its intended position on earth
At this altitude the airship will have a tremendous coverage reaching 400 miles in every direction. This means that if the airship is used as a mobile telephone relay station two airships flying over the UK can instantly create complete mobile phone coverage of the entire country.
I't not clear though whether this project will ever get off the ground... (ho ho ho)
Read here about the Manchester University differential analyser, designed by a Professor D. R. Hartree in 1935, and inspired by MIT's analyser.
"Hartee began trying to build a Meccano model 'more for amusement than with any serious purpose', which was so successful that, with the help of a student, Arthur Porter, he built a small differential analyser using many standard Meccano parts. It was capable of useful work, and gave good practice in 'programming' whilst the full-size analyser was under construction."
If there were somebody in your state offering an illegal service would you be surprised if people objected - regardless of how stupid/you/ might perceive the law to be?
This is probably not the same generator as you saw in the early 90's but...
ITPower say they "successfully installed the world's first commercial scale marine current turbine" off Lynmouth in Devon in June 2003:
"Seaflow - a 300 kW Marine Current Turbine. IT Power heads a consortium which has piloted the development and demonstration of the world's first commercial scale marine current turbine. IT Power experts were involved in the conceptualisation and design of a prototype 300 kW pile-mounted turbine that captures energy utilising marine currents (tidal stream). Currently, the prototype is being tested in the Bristol Channel at Lynmouth, North Devon, England."
The Automobile Association (AA) - one of the UK's major roadside assistance organisations - has the following advice:
"There is a perception that a 'lone female' is at risk of being attacked on a motorway hard shoulder. Research shows that the risk of being hit by another vehicle is much greater."
"SMTP servers MUST NOT send notification
messages about problems transporting notification messages. One way
to prevent loops in error reporting is to specify a null reverse-path
in the MAIL command of a notification message. When such a message
is transmitted the reverse-path MUST be set to null (see section
4.5.5 for additional discussion). A MAIL command with a null
reverse-path appears as follows:
"If an SMTP server has accepted the task of relaying the mail and
later finds that the destination is incorrect or that the mail cannot
be delivered for some other reason, then it MUST construct an
"undeliverable mail" notification message and send it to the
originator of the undeliverable mail (as indicated by the reverse-path). Formats specified for non-delivery reports by other standards
(see, for example, [24, 25]) SHOULD be used if possible." (RFC 2821)
However the writers of the RFC didn't foresee spoofed 'from' addresses, so it might be time for an update.
"If an SMTP server has accepted the task of relaying the mail and later finds that the destination is incorrect or that the mail cannot be delivered for some other reason [such as its containing a virus], then it MUST construct an "undeliverable mail" notification message and send it to the originator of the undeliverable mail (as indicated by the reverse-path). Formats specified for non-delivery reports by other standards (see, for example, [24, 25]) SHOULD be used if possible."
So (serious question) why don't ambitious American managers, programmers and technologists move to India? It's evidently where a lot of stuff is happening and is going to happen.
Huh, my father had me run cables under the floor of the house (there was a two foot high gap) when I was three years old. He'd put me under the floor and shine a torch where I was supposed to come out.
I still remember the amazement of coming up in a different room to where I went down...
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This guy acts like they were stealing the money from him
Well strangely enough, with the new chip-and-pin system they've just brought in in the UK, if the vendor doesn't accept c&p (i.e. they just take a signature), they are liable. (Although the card companies appear not to be enforcing that too strongly just yet since they can't distribute the necessary card readers fast enough.)
All the 'billions to one chance' likelihoods of there being a DNA match which you read about assume a random distribution, but that's never really been proven, and (to put it delicately) in some closed groups (small communities, racial enclaves) the variety is likely to be significantly less than that.
Now, as long as the DNA is used as an additional proof on top of other evidence, it doesn't matter so much, but when the police work backwards from the DNA database to the suspect - as they will if they can - there will be ample scope for wrongful conviction.
Imagine a car park containing 210 million white cars (representing the population) and three red cars (representing DNA matches to a sample). If you pick up a car because you have evidence that it might be the one you want, and it turns out actually to be a red car, the probability's 70M:1 it's the one you're after.
But if you already know about one of the red cars, and you just select it with no other evidence, the probability's 1:3 that you've got the right one.
The problem we don't know how many red cars there might be. The only way to find out would be to DNA finger print the whole population.
And for all you know, you might have an identical twin out there committing all sorts of unpleasantries; how would you get out of that?
It doesn't seem likely that this would be something I could import into the UK without raising some eyebrows...
Use an inline function and let the compiler do the work...
...;
inline bool isNull(void *x) { return x == 0; }
if (isNull(ptr)) {
}
--
Roger
This has a faster processor, bigger disk and more RAM than a standard PC from three years ago; what applications have turned up since then that require more than this?
The problem is that all the strength needs to be at the top; the bottom end needs to be light because it's effectively being dangled from the top.
There is a question, of course, about how long you might be locked up for doing so.
From here: It has been stated above that domestic supply voltage in [the UK] is 240 volts. From 1st January 1995 the nominal voltage of domestic supply across Europe has been 'harmonised' at 230 volts. However The Electricity Safety, Quality and Continuity Regulations 2002 which came into force on 31st January 2003 allow UK domestic supply voltage tolerances of 230 volts - 6% to + 10%. On this basis there is no need at present to change the domestic supply voltage from its present value of 240 volts.
I have beside me an original printed copy of "The Windows Interface: An Application Design Guide", Copyright Microsoft Corp, 1987, 1992 (from the Windows 3.1 SDK,document number PC28921-0692), wherein we learn that
(Section 3.3.2) "Keyboard navigation to controls relies primarily on mnemonic access characters and on the TAB, ENTER, and ESC keys."
Table 3.4 lists recommended keyboard navigation techniques: "TAB: moves focus to next control. The order of movement is generally from left to right and from top to bottom.* [* Unless there is a more logical order defined within the context of the operation.]"
There's a disclaimer too: "Microsoft ... shall not be liable for any use of [the information contained in this document] by the recipient."
There's also a handy bibliography which may help to determine where these ideas came from in the first place.
The final sentence tries to extend tabbing to any application:
"While the present invention has been described above in reference to a preferred embodiment thereof, those skilled in the art will appreciate that various changes in form and detail may be made without departing from the intended scope of the present invention as defined in the appended claims. For example, the tabbing may work with application programs other than the web browser."
The United Kingdom Deed Poll Service allows you to change your name online. It also has a handy FAQ which touches on the the OP's problem: for security reasons, we strongly advise that you do not travel overseas bearing documents in different names e.g. your passport in one name and your travel documents, credit cards and driving licence etc in a different name.
That's as well as Full Name and Requested Name fields.
I't not clear though whether this project will ever get off the ground... (ho ho ho)
"Hartee began trying to build a Meccano model 'more for amusement than with any serious purpose', which was so successful that, with the help of a student, Arthur Porter, he built a small differential analyser using many standard Meccano parts. It was capable of useful work, and gave good practice in 'programming' whilst the full-size analyser was under construction."
If there were somebody in your state offering an illegal service would you be surprised if people objected - regardless of how stupid /you/ might perceive the law to be?
Actually Neville Chamberlain said this after the Minich Conference (referring, in 1938, to Czechoslovakia).
ITPower say they "successfully installed the world's first commercial scale marine current turbine" off Lynmouth in Devon in June 2003:
"Seaflow - a 300 kW Marine Current Turbine. IT Power heads a consortium which has piloted the development and demonstration of the world's first commercial scale marine current turbine. IT Power experts were involved in the conceptualisation and design of a prototype 300 kW pile-mounted turbine that captures energy utilising marine currents (tidal stream). Currently, the prototype is being tested in the Bristol Channel at Lynmouth, North Devon, England."
The Automobile Association (AA) - one of the UK's major roadside assistance organisations - has the following advice:
"There is a perception that a 'lone female' is at risk of being attacked on a motorway hard shoulder. Research shows that the risk of being hit by another vehicle is much greater."
MAIL FROM:<>"
However the writers of the RFC didn't foresee spoofed 'from' addresses, so it might be time for an update.
"If an SMTP server has accepted the task of relaying the mail and later finds that the destination is incorrect or that the mail cannot be delivered for some other reason [such as its containing a virus], then it MUST construct an "undeliverable mail" notification message and send it to the originator of the undeliverable mail (as indicated by the reverse-path). Formats specified for non-delivery reports by other standards (see, for example, [24, 25]) SHOULD be used if possible."
Maybe they read Microsoft's online documentation for handling event notifications from a WebBrowser control or from the Internet Explorer application:
So (serious question) why don't ambitious American managers, programmers and technologists move to India? It's evidently where a lot of stuff is happening and is going to happen.
I still remember the amazement of coming up in a different room to where I went down...