Chances are they want to know if the ticket is really yours. =) Just a guess!
But why should it matter? You don't need to show indentification to get on the train, take a bus or drive across state lines, why should you need to show ID to fly from 1 city to another? International maybe a different story but domestically it shouldn't be necessary to show id.
There should be an ultimatum: if there is another terrorist attack or attacks causing major loss of life, any country found to be harboring and/or funding Islamic terrorists will be attacked.
I guess that includes Britain and Germany, some of US's strongest allies. Did you think about what you wrote?
This is not a war that Military Might alone is going to resolve.
Does anyone who ever worked on Outlook ever get on a plane? Ever? Do they know what a time zone is?
Absolutely. I use Outlook all the time - in fact the only 3 apps I regularly use on my PC are outlook, X and firefox. But being based in Tokyo and regularly (as in several times a day) working with people in NY, London, HK, Singapore, Sydney, the timezone handling in Outlook sucks big time.
Give me a groupware calendar that handles multiple timezones please!
Can you imagine how badly you would screw up investigations if you went around pulling plugs on a bunch of Linux machines, and losing the entire contents of their/tmp directories in the process? That's liable to get you in the doghouse, that's for sure
You know, all the time that I was reading the previous comments, when people talked about 'plugging the plug', I assumed that they meant the network connection, it didn't occur to me that they meant the power. Unless the process is stomping all over your fs, I would leave it running but incomunicado by preference. That would keep the evidence (unless the process was designed to delete itself if it lost network connectivity).
"Our leaders proudly announced that European Citizens no longer need passports to travel between European states"
Actually anyone can travel between European Union states without a passport. Even travelling between France (an EU country) and Switzland (a non-EU country) can often be done without needing to produce identification.
think its time for the US gov't to rationalize security -- no New Zelanders, Irish, or Icelandic people have ever committed acts or terrorism against the USA
I also travel to the US frequently for work (and have a strong connection to 9/11) and have informed my company that I will no longer travel there until things change.
I have no desire to participate in your exercise of mass delusion and harassment. There are plenty of more interesting countries in the world for me to spend my time (and money) in.
official prohibition or restriction of any type of expression believed to threaten the political, social, or moral order. It may be imposed by governmental authority, local or national, by a religious body, or occasionally by a powerful private group That's from http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/c1/censorsh.asp
but Taiwan is not a country recognized internationally.
It's recognised enough to be allowed to compete as a separate country.
Consistency is important. If you let Taiwan compete, it shoudl be able to use its flag. If you don't recognise it as a country, don't let it compete as one.
There is a MUCH better way to do this. First off, instead of letting users choose their own passwords, assign them for each person. This lets you, the administrator to be entirely in control of all passwords on the system. With this control, you can maintain a master list of all users and passwords securely in either encrypted/secure files (with no permissions to anyone but root). This also allows you to force good passwords onto users. They do not need to be impossible, but something like 2 three letter words or partial words (chosen at random) with 2 other ASCII characters are usually not too hard for people to remember, but are still tough enough to make it hard to guess with password word lists.
There is so many things wrong with this that it is hard to know where to start. I'll just chose a couple.
First, forcing passwords on users is dumb. What might be an easy combination of words and number s for you to remember might be completely impossible for me to remember if the word means nothing to me. And if I can't remember I am going to write it down. It is much better to allow people to chose their own passwords to that they can make a combination that they can remember.
Second, accountability for your password goes out the window when someone else knows and controls the password. If the adminstrator knows all the passwords, they can logon as the user without the user knowing. Alternatively, the user can suggest that the administrator did the action which the user is being accused of.
More intelligent password checking rules is a much simpler and more effective solution.
"At risk of sounding redundant, it is relatively common knowledge...at least among the geek crowd...that all electronics come out of two factories out of Taiwan"
Yep, that's true, even the parts made in the factory down the road from me are really made in Taiwan and the workers are all pretending to manufacture them. It's all a conspiracy!
And as I mentioned to someone else, At least from my experience, Sony reliability for me and my friends has always been extremely high. I know of only one item that any of my friends have had to return - and that was fixed promply.
But then, my experience in the UK and Japan markets. The US may be different.
If they're anything like Sony, they're all borderline. Sony products have gone to hell. Remember when you used to be able to use a Sony CD player as wheel chocks or a battering ram, and it'd still work peachy? Now they barely survive the 90 day legal minimum warranty.
You know, I hear this a lot and from anadotal evidence it doesn't seem true to me. None of the people I know have had any bad Sony products.
Granted, I used to live in the UK and now live in Japan so maybe the build quality that goes to these markets are better? Or alternatively, maybe the consumers handle the equipment better.
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But why should it matter? You don't need to show indentification to get on the train, take a bus or drive across state lines, why should you need to show ID to fly from 1 city to another? International maybe a different story but domestically it shouldn't be necessary to show id.
Sure, most homes have them in Tokyo. We just moved to new apartment which doesn't have one and my wife is hassling me to go and get one asap.
That would be fun for me - my labels are written in katakana (I live in Japan)!
I guess that includes Britain and Germany, some of US's strongest allies. Did you think about what you wrote?
This is not a war that Military Might alone is going to resolve.
Unfortunately this excludes diplomats otherwise it really would be fun to watch.
It's augmentation of the muscles, not complete replacement of them. I expect that there will be the ability to select how much muscle use is needed.
Since when was Korea in Japan?
Now what we need is a hybrid London cab - that would be perfect.
Seriously, I always wondered why London cabs aren't being used in NYC - it has a huge capacity for people and luggage and the leg room is enormous.
Maybe because they are not american cars?
Absolutely. I use Outlook all the time - in fact the only 3 apps I regularly use on my PC are outlook, X and firefox. But being based in Tokyo and regularly (as in several times a day) working with people in NY, London, HK, Singapore, Sydney, the timezone handling in Outlook sucks big time.
Give me a groupware calendar that handles multiple timezones please!
What company makes you bring your own computer to work? They must have some pretty good other benefits to keep you working there!
You know, all the time that I was reading the previous comments, when people talked about 'plugging the plug', I assumed that they meant the network connection, it didn't occur to me that they meant the power. Unless the process is stomping all over your fs, I would leave it running but incomunicado by preference. That would keep the evidence (unless the process was designed to delete itself if it lost network connectivity).
Almost plausable but not true - I just accessed it from Japan.
The overseas media has reporters in the US and some give quite intensive coverage.
Have a look at the BBC's coverage (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/americas/2004 /vote_usa_2004/default.stm) for example to see that there is a lot of depth of coverage.
You could do worst than relying on overseas media.
Actually anyone can travel between European Union states without a passport. Even travelling between France (an EU country) and Switzland (a non-EU country) can often be done without needing to produce identification.
There are plenty of them - they are not illegal in the UK so companies can openly advertise chipped players.
Have a look at http://www.techtronics.com/ for example.
However Israel secret agents have tried to get New Zealand passports http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,1262 362,00.html so it's not to hard to imagine other terrorists trying to do the same thing.
I also travel to the US frequently for work (and have a strong connection to 9/11) and have informed my company that I will no longer travel there until things change.
I have no desire to participate in your exercise of mass delusion and harassment. There are plenty of more interesting countries in the world for me to spend my time (and money) in.
Lets see:
official prohibition or restriction of any type of expression believed to threaten the political, social, or moral order. It may be imposed by governmental authority, local or national, by a religious body, or occasionally by a powerful private group
That's from http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/c1/censorsh.asp
Censorship is the use of state or group power to control freedom of expression
and that's from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship
I think the GP's use of the word is correct, don't you?
It's recognised enough to be allowed to compete as a separate country.
Consistency is important. If you let Taiwan compete, it shoudl be able to use its flag. If you don't recognise it as a country, don't let it compete as one.
There is so many things wrong with this that it is hard to know where to start. I'll just chose a couple.
First, forcing passwords on users is dumb. What might be an easy combination of words and number s for you to remember might be completely impossible for me to remember if the word means nothing to me. And if I can't remember I am going to write it down. It is much better to allow people to chose their own passwords to that they can make a combination that they can remember.
Second, accountability for your password goes out the window when someone else knows and controls the password. If the adminstrator knows all the passwords, they can logon as the user without the user knowing. Alternatively, the user can suggest that the administrator did the action which the user is being accused of.
More intelligent password checking rules is a much simpler and more effective solution.
Even the French and Germans with the Euro are giving you a kicking (1 Euro = ~ $1.20)
bummer dude.
Yep, that's true, even the parts made in the factory down the road from me are really made in Taiwan and the workers are all pretending to manufacture them. It's all a conspiracy!
And as I mentioned to someone else, At least from my experience, Sony reliability for me and my friends has always been extremely high. I know of only one item that any of my friends have had to return - and that was fixed promply.
But then, my experience in the UK and Japan markets. The US may be different.
You know, I hear this a lot and from anadotal evidence it doesn't seem true to me. None of the people I know have had any bad Sony products.
Granted, I used to live in the UK and now live in Japan so maybe the build quality that goes to these markets are better? Or alternatively, maybe the consumers handle the equipment better.
They are done with the PDA market in North America but still in the Japanese Market.
I'll have to see how they promote it here.
So that they can load more money in the machine and have longer intervals between refilling.