Your name is personal data but it is not personally identifiable information
You seem to be contradicting the quotation from US Office of Management and Budget Memo 07-16 that was in the summary:
"information which can be used to distinguish or trace an individual's identity, such as their name, social security number, biometric records, etc. alone, or when combined with other personal or identifying information which is linked or linkable to a specific individual, such as date and place of birth, mother's maiden name, etc."
That definition is all I had to work from, and I hope you'd agree with me that it looks a lot more like a definition of personal data than what you're defining as PII.
But I don't think addresses and phone numbers are deserving of the protection that your name, birthdate and SSN get, because you can't go open a checking account in my name just by knowing my address.
Sure, but can you open one without giving your address?
My date of birth and mother's maiden name don't uniquely identify me either. In fact I'd give good odds that the tuple (name, father's name, mother's name, date of birth, city of birth) doesn't form a unique identifier. That doesn't make them not PII (or "personal data" for those of us in the EU).
Not that it's what this is about, as someone else has already pointed out, but getting the brighter students teaching the slower ones benefits both groups. Being able to communicate things which are obvious to you to people for whom they aren't obvious is a valuable skill.
Permissive licenses such as Creative Commons and GPL are NOT Public Domain.
That's precisely my point. I was responding to a post which said that Wikipedia shouldn't allow copyrighted images: this is equivalent to saying that it should only allow images which are in the public domain. But in reality there's no problem with Wikipedia allowing images which are still in copyright as long as they're suitably licensed.
Rumsfeld is giving Dubya the daily briefing on Iraq. "And, I'm sad to say, Mr President, that two Brazilian men were killed yesterday by IEDs." Bush turns white, his jaw drops open, and he freezes as though catatonic. After two minutes he stammers, "That's, that's terr-terrible. How, how, how many is a Brazilian?"
I'm proper fed up with having to spell my surname to everyone taking my name down.
That can happen to almost anyone. My surname is the 4th or 5th most common in the UK, but I was at school with a family who had a rare variant of it, so I still had to spell my surname for everyone. It took me a few years after leaving school to get out of the habit, and in that time I confused everyone who didn't know about the variant. (Imagine saying "Larsen, -en" to someone who always spells it that way: they think you're saying "Larsen, E. N.").
I remember some PCBs specifically designed for 555s which were flexible enough for a number of different projects. Copper strip board should be fairly cheap until you factor in the cost of the lab technician to chop it into sections and drill each strip into two halves so you can mount chips.
Maybe there's some straightforward* way to hack your USB drivers so that the only devices they support are self-destructing drives, but if not then I'd prefer any computer with data sensitive enough to need this drive not to have the ability to mount any USB drive. You just need to look at the British civil service to see what happens when it's possible to dump your database to an unencrypted physical medium and then leave it on the train / lose it in the post.
For security-conscious home users it's great. For government / enterprise users you need methods of transfer which the sysadmin can lock down.
* Emphasised because I don't need to be told that if you use Linux you can obtain the source and break it to your heart's content.
When were you a kid? There were books like this around in the 80s: the main difference was that they used BASIC rather than Python. (To save everyone else from pointing it out: well, duh! Python hadn't been created).
I found them rather too simple by the time I got round to reading them, though, because I'd learnt from the manual which came with my family's Amstrad CPC.
Try reading it in poor translation. I just finished reading it in Spanish, and at some points I had to translate the Spanish to English, word for word, to work out what it meant.
I'm not sure that's even the worst infelicity of the summary. The start, "Launched in May, BBC" establishes that BBC (perhaps "the BBC") was launched in May.
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Your name is personal data but it is not personally identifiable information
You seem to be contradicting the quotation from US Office of Management and Budget Memo 07-16 that was in the summary:
"information which can be used to distinguish or trace an individual's identity, such as their name, social security number, biometric records, etc. alone, or when combined with other personal or identifying information which is linked or linkable to a specific individual, such as date and place of birth, mother's maiden name, etc."
That definition is all I had to work from, and I hope you'd agree with me that it looks a lot more like a definition of personal data than what you're defining as PII.
But I don't think addresses and phone numbers are deserving of the protection that your name, birthdate and SSN get, because you can't go open a checking account in my name just by knowing my address.
Sure, but can you open one without giving your address?
My date of birth and mother's maiden name don't uniquely identify me either. In fact I'd give good odds that the tuple (name, father's name, mother's name, date of birth, city of birth) doesn't form a unique identifier. That doesn't make them not PII (or "personal data" for those of us in the EU).
Not that it's what this is about, as someone else has already pointed out, but getting the brighter students teaching the slower ones benefits both groups. Being able to communicate things which are obvious to you to people for whom they aren't obvious is a valuable skill.
Is that the unholy spawn of NASCAR and NASDAQ?
50 cents, surely. Isn't the reason for the prices here on Earth that they have to ship the beans from the Moon?
Permissive licenses such as Creative Commons and GPL are NOT Public Domain.
That's precisely my point. I was responding to a post which said that Wikipedia shouldn't allow copyrighted images: this is equivalent to saying that it should only allow images which are in the public domain. But in reality there's no problem with Wikipedia allowing images which are still in copyright as long as they're suitably licensed.
Who modded this insightful? It's not about copyright vs public domain but about permissively licensed vs restrictively licensed content.
No, you need a copy in Comic Sans as well so that the people who try to decode it in the future have a wide corpus of works with which to compare it.
Dollars? No, it's men. As in the joke:
Rumsfeld is giving Dubya the daily briefing on Iraq. "And, I'm sad to say, Mr President, that two Brazilian men were killed yesterday by IEDs." Bush turns white, his jaw drops open, and he freezes as though catatonic. After two minutes he stammers, "That's, that's terr-terrible. How, how, how many is a Brazilian?"
I'm proper fed up with having to spell my surname to everyone taking my name down.
That can happen to almost anyone. My surname is the 4th or 5th most common in the UK, but I was at school with a family who had a rare variant of it, so I still had to spell my surname for everyone. It took me a few years after leaving school to get out of the habit, and in that time I confused everyone who didn't know about the variant. (Imagine saying "Larsen, -en" to someone who always spells it that way: they think you're saying "Larsen, E. N.").
I don't know the UK laws, I don't have a good guide for the UK laws
Life + 50. So it expired a while back.
If they ship the signature then the manifest can be updated. Shouldn't be a problem.
I remember some PCBs specifically designed for 555s which were flexible enough for a number of different projects. Copper strip board should be fairly cheap until you factor in the cost of the lab technician to chop it into sections and drill each strip into two halves so you can mount chips.
Why not? 24 bits mantissa, 8 bits for exponent of 10.
$5. But if they've got any sense they'll pay the whole thing off straight away to avoid the interest.
What can they do to people who go longer than 24 hours without carrying their ID card?
Maybe the researchers used frozen cats?
Maybe there's some straightforward* way to hack your USB drivers so that the only devices they support are self-destructing drives, but if not then I'd prefer any computer with data sensitive enough to need this drive not to have the ability to mount any USB drive. You just need to look at the British civil service to see what happens when it's possible to dump your database to an unencrypted physical medium and then leave it on the train / lose it in the post.
For security-conscious home users it's great. For government / enterprise users you need methods of transfer which the sysadmin can lock down.
* Emphasised because I don't need to be told that if you use Linux you can obtain the source and break it to your heart's content.
When were you a kid? There were books like this around in the 80s: the main difference was that they used BASIC rather than Python. (To save everyone else from pointing it out: well, duh! Python hadn't been created).
I found them rather too simple by the time I got round to reading them, though, because I'd learnt from the manual which came with my family's Amstrad CPC.
Here in Spain the name given varies. Just the other day I saw a new poster in the airport which called it "H1N1 flu of porcine origin".
what use IS it, when foreign passports don't have the same chip??
I don't know whether my British passport has the same chip, but it definitely has a chip. I carry it in a tinfoil wallet.
Try reading it in poor translation. I just finished reading it in Spanish, and at some points I had to translate the Spanish to English, word for word, to work out what it meant.
Because the submitter is an insensitive clod and thinks you and I are just pretending to be Europeans.
I'm not sure that's even the worst infelicity of the summary. The start, "Launched in May, BBC" establishes that BBC (perhaps "the BBC") was launched in May.