I am a professional driver, I have been for about 15 years.
I haven't had an accident for 12 years, and never above 10 miles per hour.
I could no more pass a frigging driving test than I could plait piss.
The problem with your solution is twofold.
1. It would increase the number of people using vehicles without the proper license, and by extension raise the amount of uninsured losses the rest of us would have to suffer.
2. It doesn't address the problem of confidence. Young drivers have too much of it, older persons don't have enough.
I'm all for mandatory testing of drivers actually, but the tests in use are utterly wrong.
The driving test in the UK is so out of whack with what happens on today's roads that people are encouraged to wear green "L" plates for 6 months after they attain their full car license, in my opinion to let other people know that they haven't learned how to drive "properly" yet.
Passing your test is one thing, being able to drive safely and without causing other people to get annoyed with you is another.
Much as I like Skype, I'd prefer to be OSS, and would expend significant amounts of energy to persuade my friends (mixture of Win/Mac/BSD/Linux) to get with the new program.
I would make sure that family got the switch, and mail their friends with directions for talking to them with the new client (or, shit, go round and do it for them like I had to do before. You would be amazed at how much coffee people over 50 will make if you fix their computer for them =).
Skype works just fine on my EEE, in fact, there is a whole backstory I posted about leaving one in the USA with my family when they got trapped there for medical reasons. (If anyone cares, it's in my posting history somewhere). Upshot is, I used the webcam to talk to them and they used Skype-Out to make cheap as chips calls to the UK from their hotel room.
I use Skype on my openSUSE 11 desktop, my (mostly unused) Windows XP install has Skype on it, and my Windows Mobile 5 PDA has Skype.
I so wish Skype would go OSS, that would be a total unreserved "Oh man you guys are gods" moment.
And then educate them into using SSL encryption so you can't follow their movements and live in that holy trinity of love, lust and mistrust that we all seem to enjoy so much...
The point wasn't that I had secured it, it was that to the naked eye it looked green, under UV it glowed. It wasn't a security measure, it was a tell. I know that the bag wasn't searched.
These TSA locks you can get are just dumb. Buy 5 of them and make a TSA masterkey and the whole point of padlocking your luggage is gone, isn't it?
Not only that, weren't the media on about our judicial system integrating Sharia elements in perpetuity to cover cases like this, or alternatively letting Muslim enclaves have their own justices?
I don't mind anyone having an imaginary friend, be that Yahweh, God, Jesus Allah or Bhudda, but to purposely put immigrant populations in a single area of a city then watch as they recreate their home country's problems seems utterly ludicrous.
Black, white, yellow or brown, stick them all in together and call it British when it comes out the other end thoroughly mixed up and all the dependencies solved. Let the kids play together and work out exactly how to get along with each other's religions under UK law.
I got the BART to Powell St. from SFO and the first thing I saw when I walked into daylight was 4 masked protesters holding placards denouncing the Stress Test as Co$ recruitment. I got a picture of three of them (voluntarily, they posed) for posterity.
Reassuring to know that people are prepared to put their lives on the line to demonstrate against cults, isn't it?
I would imagine that all your questions could be answered in full here...
If you click through to the documentation you will find more in-depth answers to questions you didn't know you had.
The 4Gs I bought have an 800x480 screen, 4GB of SSD.
It isn't enough. My family (still in Vegas due to illness) have one of these still in their possession to use for Skype(+Out) calls and email. It works fine if you have good eyes, but all three people have glasses and could really do with those extra couple of inches (couldn't we all?).
I intend to find a fast USB key (8/16GB) to hardwire into mine to make the silly little/dev/sda obsolete.
Once you decide that this size computer is acceptable to you the price of it then becomes a function of disposable income. I was more than happy with my HTC Universal for long enough. 64MB SSD, SDHC reader, 640x480 screen, 128MB RAM, WiFI and BlueTooth. Add 3G internet access into that and only the use you put it to will decide on which is the better machine. If there was an NX client for PocketPC I would have never needed the EEE.
Note also that the EEE doesn't have MS tax on it, which was a selling point to me.
Shoot on sight depends on the situation and the location. Running from armed security services is one of those stupid things to do that becomes Darwinian. Breaking into another person's property is indefensible. Shooting someone for not cooperating at Customs is just being sarcastic.
I'll address (1) only because (2) is an American problem and I'm not American. As far as my opinion matters on that, we in the UK have several major fund wasting initiatives going on at the moment too and our £s are being misused to implement them.
You're in a catch 22 there. If you give attitude, you're a terrorist, if you don't then you're a well trained terrorist. (Ain't war hell? anyone?). Being my normal personable self served *me* well in that situation.
As I said, YMMV. I was already sweating from the 120+ heat outside, I had two computers and several USB leads, ethernet cable, an assortment of cards and keys, camera and my GF set the metal detector off. We were both let through 3 times without having to be pulled into a little room for questions, for which we were both fully prepared. She had the party's details on her SD card, I had them on mine. We could demonstrate a reason for being in the States, a destination we were travelling to, the return date and addresses and contact details for all the places we would be at during the two weeks of being in-country.
More worrying was some of the conversations we had in San Fransisco with apparently random strangers. Sounded more like Scientology interview processes than spur of the moment chat sprung up with total strangers. But the tinfoil hat was the first thing out of the suitcase lol
I was fully expecting to be pulled into a side room to cool my heels. I asked my travel desk to check with TSA that I was OK to fly with the materials I had on me for just that reason. I kept receipts for the shooting sessions to prove that on two occasions I had been in a room full of people using explosives. I didn't put the clothes that I was wearing, nor the casings into my luggage until after I had a reasonable expectation of passing security.
My experience with officialdom (police, security, borders, etc) is exactly as you describe. Keep your head down, be less of a perceived threat than the next guy and hope for the best. If you don't do that you might as well not put yourself in their hands to start with and avoid all border crossings.
I agree also that this procedure is unreasonable. The detention of people who refuse to hand over encryption keys, the retention of electronics, the whole Visa programme that takes weeks to complete and can significantly delay your vacation/trip. As another two posters (at least) have said, how is anyone supposed to look forward to travelling to the US for either business or pleasure with these measures hanging over them?
As a fairly well informed traveller I took precautions against loss, but what of those people who are blind to these perils? I had on my person the flight details, passport images, dates and times of stays, the wedding booking and arrangements of all 5 people that were travelling to the US for the same reason I was. I bent over so far that most of it was totally unnecessary. But I was prepared for the worst. If I had turned up with this laptop, rather than the other one, I would have links in the history to posts like this which would have made my life very hard. The word "PReDiToR" did not accompany me to the US. I left my political leanings and opinions outside the airports so they didn't cause me trouble in there.
Once you waive your rights by entering the secured area, you cannot behave the same way as you would if you were holding a placard outside the airport terminal.
Had I the time, patience, good credit history, clean social and criminal history, anal leeway and balls I could have made a scene and asked WTF they thought they were doing molesting me, but what would be the point?
Hours of doing their jobs, to me personally, wouldn't take away their right (under law) to do it. It wouldn't hit the news, it wouldn't raise public awareness, it wouldn't make it all go away because I was standing up to them, it wouldn't have made them think twice about what they were doing, either to their citizens or their economy.
Basically, yeah. Bend over and take it, you agreed to it by entering their secured area. Retarded or not, the secured area isn't the place to make that stand.
I like your tone, does that get you a long way in life?
Come over here sir, we just need to check your bags.
No, I was relating my own experiences with the TSA as a/. reader who was fully aware of how shitty the experience could be.
I'm saying that being helpful and smiling and not criticising the process *while you're in it* can get you through it a lot faster, and with less pain. Your tone would suggest that you're one of these people that have a permanent look of disdain on their face over the whole thing, rather than a "How can I help, officer?" look that will have them happy to wave you through because you're not making their lives hard.
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My wife not only uses Linux but thought that gOS wasn't man enough for her and asked me for the DVD so she could install openSUSE 11.
Call me daft, but doesn't Orange PAYG still have the "pay £1 for 24 hours (max, ends at midnight) unlimited access @ 384kbps?
I have been using that for years. It actually did say "unlimited".
I disagree.
I am a professional driver, I have been for about 15 years.
I haven't had an accident for 12 years, and never above 10 miles per hour.
I could no more pass a frigging driving test than I could plait piss.
The problem with your solution is twofold.
1. It would increase the number of people using vehicles without the proper license, and by extension raise the amount of uninsured losses the rest of us would have to suffer.
2. It doesn't address the problem of confidence. Young drivers have too much of it, older persons don't have enough.
I'm all for mandatory testing of drivers actually, but the tests in use are utterly wrong.
The driving test in the UK is so out of whack with what happens on today's roads that people are encouraged to wear green "L" plates for 6 months after they attain their full car license, in my opinion to let other people know that they haven't learned how to drive "properly" yet.
Passing your test is one thing, being able to drive safely and without causing other people to get annoyed with you is another.
You must be new here ...
A mate of mine is a total Mac fanboi, calls my OS "Lunix".
Always thought he was calling us "loonies".
Had the same thing.
Can you only register on Fridays or something?
Much as I like Skype, I'd prefer to be OSS, and would expend significant amounts of energy to persuade my friends (mixture of Win/Mac/BSD/Linux) to get with the new program.
I would make sure that family got the switch, and mail their friends with directions for talking to them with the new client (or, shit, go round and do it for them like I had to do before. You would be amazed at how much coffee people over 50 will make if you fix their computer for them =).
Skype works just fine on my EEE, in fact, there is a whole backstory I posted about leaving one in the USA with my family when they got trapped there for medical reasons. (If anyone cares, it's in my posting history somewhere). Upshot is, I used the webcam to talk to them and they used Skype-Out to make cheap as chips calls to the UK from their hotel room.
I use Skype on my openSUSE 11 desktop, my (mostly unused) Windows XP install has Skype on it, and my Windows Mobile 5 PDA has Skype.
I so wish Skype would go OSS, that would be a total unreserved "Oh man you guys are gods" moment.
How do you Anonymize IP logs?
By using Scroogle.
Note to mods:
I got my karma for this post here, don't mod me up again for the same information <grin>.
If you don't like the thought of Google watching your every move, you could always try Scroogle.
More information here and here.
Firefox search plugin available too, but some links to it don't work.
Fail.
You forgot to figure in women with brains.
And then educate them into using SSL encryption so you can't follow their movements and live in that holy trinity of love, lust and mistrust that we all seem to enjoy so much ...
Oh, he is long dead, but here is a snippet of his family history that should give you a warm fuzzy feeling next time you're asked.
Sorry for the ad-site, but I was in a rush. Find a better one here.
Why not?
They hired Bodgitt, Quick and Scarper to build Vista =)
Bodge*
Scarper*
And a whole bunch of people are trying to get Linux to run on those devices instead of those semi-operating systems.
It won't be long til most phones and PDAs run Linux, either replacing the OS or pre-installed.
"Folders"?
Someone has been using Microsoft products for too long.
We used to call them directories before Windows 95 came out.
Now get off my damn lawn.
The point wasn't that I had secured it, it was that to the naked eye it looked green, under UV it glowed. It wasn't a security measure, it was a tell. I know that the bag wasn't searched.
These TSA locks you can get are just dumb. Buy 5 of them and make a TSA masterkey and the whole point of padlocking your luggage is gone, isn't it?
Not only that, weren't the media on about our judicial system integrating Sharia elements in perpetuity to cover cases like this, or alternatively letting Muslim enclaves have their own justices?
I don't mind anyone having an imaginary friend, be that Yahweh, God, Jesus Allah or Bhudda, but to purposely put immigrant populations in a single area of a city then watch as they recreate their home country's problems seems utterly ludicrous.
Black, white, yellow or brown, stick them all in together and call it British when it comes out the other end thoroughly mixed up and all the dependencies solved. Let the kids play together and work out exactly how to get along with each other's religions under UK law.
I got the BART to Powell St. from SFO and the first thing I saw when I walked into daylight was 4 masked protesters holding placards denouncing the Stress Test as Co$ recruitment. I got a picture of three of them (voluntarily, they posed) for posterity.
Reassuring to know that people are prepared to put their lives on the line to demonstrate against cults, isn't it?
I would imagine that all your questions could be answered in full here...
If you click through to the documentation you will find more in-depth answers to questions you didn't know you had.
By trying to make everyone use the DSA keys that are usually[Citation Needed] insecure.
4096 bit RSA keys FTW!
The 4Gs I bought have an 800x480 screen, 4GB of SSD. /dev/sda obsolete.
It isn't enough. My family (still in Vegas due to illness) have one of these still in their possession to use for Skype(+Out) calls and email. It works fine if you have good eyes, but all three people have glasses and could really do with those extra couple of inches (couldn't we all?).
I intend to find a fast USB key (8/16GB) to hardwire into mine to make the silly little
Once you decide that this size computer is acceptable to you the price of it then becomes a function of disposable income. I was more than happy with my HTC Universal for long enough. 64MB SSD, SDHC reader, 640x480 screen, 128MB RAM, WiFI and BlueTooth. Add 3G internet access into that and only the use you put it to will decide on which is the better machine. If there was an NX client for PocketPC I would have never needed the EEE.
Note also that the EEE doesn't have MS tax on it, which was a selling point to me.
Shoot on sight depends on the situation and the location. Running from armed security services is one of those stupid things to do that becomes Darwinian. Breaking into another person's property is indefensible. Shooting someone for not cooperating at Customs is just being sarcastic.
I'll address (1) only because (2) is an American problem and I'm not American. As far as my opinion matters on that, we in the UK have several major fund wasting initiatives going on at the moment too and our £s are being misused to implement them.
You're in a catch 22 there. If you give attitude, you're a terrorist, if you don't then you're a well trained terrorist. (Ain't war hell? anyone?). Being my normal personable self served *me* well in that situation.
As I said, YMMV. I was already sweating from the 120+ heat outside, I had two computers and several USB leads, ethernet cable, an assortment of cards and keys, camera and my GF set the metal detector off. We were both let through 3 times without having to be pulled into a little room for questions, for which we were both fully prepared. She had the party's details on her SD card, I had them on mine. We could demonstrate a reason for being in the States, a destination we were travelling to, the return date and addresses and contact details for all the places we would be at during the two weeks of being in-country.
More worrying was some of the conversations we had in San Fransisco with apparently random strangers. Sounded more like Scientology interview processes than spur of the moment chat sprung up with total strangers. But the tinfoil hat was the first thing out of the suitcase lol
I agree with your assessment of my post.
I was fully expecting to be pulled into a side room to cool my heels. I asked my travel desk to check with TSA that I was OK to fly with the materials I had on me for just that reason. I kept receipts for the shooting sessions to prove that on two occasions I had been in a room full of people using explosives. I didn't put the clothes that I was wearing, nor the casings into my luggage until after I had a reasonable expectation of passing security.
My experience with officialdom (police, security, borders, etc) is exactly as you describe. Keep your head down, be less of a perceived threat than the next guy and hope for the best. If you don't do that you might as well not put yourself in their hands to start with and avoid all border crossings.
I agree also that this procedure is unreasonable. The detention of people who refuse to hand over encryption keys, the retention of electronics, the whole Visa programme that takes weeks to complete and can significantly delay your vacation/trip. As another two posters (at least) have said, how is anyone supposed to look forward to travelling to the US for either business or pleasure with these measures hanging over them?
As a fairly well informed traveller I took precautions against loss, but what of those people who are blind to these perils? I had on my person the flight details, passport images, dates and times of stays, the wedding booking and arrangements of all 5 people that were travelling to the US for the same reason I was. I bent over so far that most of it was totally unnecessary. But I was prepared for the worst. If I had turned up with this laptop, rather than the other one, I would have links in the history to posts like this which would have made my life very hard. The word "PReDiToR" did not accompany me to the US. I left my political leanings and opinions outside the airports so they didn't cause me trouble in there.
Once you waive your rights by entering the secured area, you cannot behave the same way as you would if you were holding a placard outside the airport terminal.
Had I the time, patience, good credit history, clean social and criminal history, anal leeway and balls I could have made a scene and asked WTF they thought they were doing molesting me, but what would be the point?
Hours of doing their jobs, to me personally, wouldn't take away their right (under law) to do it. It wouldn't hit the news, it wouldn't raise public awareness, it wouldn't make it all go away because I was standing up to them, it wouldn't have made them think twice about what they were doing, either to their citizens or their economy.
Basically, yeah. Bend over and take it, you agreed to it by entering their secured area. Retarded or not, the secured area isn't the place to make that stand.
I like your tone, does that get you a long way in life?
/. reader who was fully aware of how shitty the experience could be.
Come over here sir, we just need to check your bags.
No, I was relating my own experiences with the TSA as a
I'm saying that being helpful and smiling and not criticising the process *while you're in it* can get you through it a lot faster, and with less pain. Your tone would suggest that you're one of these people that have a permanent look of disdain on their face over the whole thing, rather than a "How can I help, officer?" look that will have them happy to wave you through because you're not making their lives hard.