For those who live in nation-states of an imperial nature, like the United States, Canada, Russia or UK, it's hard to grasp this, but not every country views itself as composed of generic people.
You sound serious, but when I read this I had to wonder whether you were pulling my leg. If the US views itself as composed of generic people, why is such a big fuss made about Obama being black? How many Canadians do you think don't know that Quebec separatists exist? How many Russians don't know that Russia contains a number of republics with their own titular nationality? How many Brits don't know the difference between England and the UK? And leaving aside your examples, isn't the nature of an "imperial" nation-state that it contains multiple cultural or ethnic groups?
ARM have been making chips which run Java bytecode natively for at least five years. Hardware isn't really my area so I can't say whether they're appropriate for this kind of application.
If the website requires a credit card, use this information for credentialling.
I don't know about your credit card, but mine has a habit of expiring every few years. Besides which, very few sites should actually store credit card data. The majority should route you through someone like Worldpay and never even see your credit card details, because there's less impact on you from their inability to secure their database properly.
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Bush may have been more restrained than his closest ally, but Tony Blair told Parliament that Saddam had WMD ready for deployment in 15 minutes. That's considerably less than a month or so.
I'm not sure what your "reality that nobody wants to admit" is, but I suspect it's a gross over-simplification. To take "teach them how to fish" literally, do you know why there are so many Senegalese illegal immigrants in Spain nowadays? Obviously there are many factors involved, but one of them is that overfishing by Spanish trawlers off Africa has led to many Senegalese fisherman being unable to make a living. Of course education doesn't help if more developed countries use their technology (not to mention trade agreements which allow them to subsidise their own industries) to prevent fair competition.
Nah, because if you refused to pay it would cost them too much to take you back. This does give me an idea, though: next time I fly with them, I should charge them before I get off.
The stuff about using obscure airports is fair (although it's not an issue for me) but the bit about 0 baggage allowance is nonsense. The baggage allowance is 15kg. Yes, you have to pay per bag for hold luggage, but you only pay excess (i.e. a charge per kg) over 15kg.
While it may be a minority opinion here at Slashdot, there is no denying that it isn't a majority opinion in many countries around the world (for example, the security obsessed UK).
I think you may have miscounted your negatives. On the presumption that you meant to say that in the security-obsessed UK the majority opinion is that a national biometric database doesn't infringe on essential liberties, permit me to observe that the government sold the ID database to a significant (but not exclusive - terrorism was mentioned) extent on matters such as job security: i.e. it will cut down on working by illegal immigrants. Why they believe that employers who don't currently check National Insurance number cards will check biometric ID cards, I have no idea.
In short, a series of Home Secretaries claim to believe that a biometric database of the entire country is so far from infringing on essential liberties that it can be justified without recourse to security.
The article may be right to state that no other "democratic" country has a comprehensive biometric database of all citizens, but the UK is working towards it. It already has the Act of Parliament.
It's the other way round if you only have one name and move to Spain, especially if people copy your details from the photocopy of your passport which they inevitably ask for. They assume that your middle name is your first surname and your surname is your second surname. A friend of mine gets statements from his bank addressed to Sr Christopher, which is his middle name.
The timing is quite amusing, though, because the Chinese government has just had a major crackdown on bad translations into English as part of the preparation for the Olympics.
On an unrelated note, in previewing this I realized that Slashdot defaults to using latin 1 for its encoding and I thus can't add in Chinese characters.
It borks characters in Latin 1 unless you submit them as escape codes, too. Compare Ã' and Ñ - the first I just typed, and the second is done with the escape code. Although in fairness, this seems to be Firefox's fault for using Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded and not specifying the charset (UTF-8).
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For those who live in nation-states of an imperial nature, like the United States, Canada, Russia or UK, it's hard to grasp this, but not every country views itself as composed of generic people.
You sound serious, but when I read this I had to wonder whether you were pulling my leg. If the US views itself as composed of generic people, why is such a big fuss made about Obama being black? How many Canadians do you think don't know that Quebec separatists exist? How many Russians don't know that Russia contains a number of republics with their own titular nationality? How many Brits don't know the difference between England and the UK? And leaving aside your examples, isn't the nature of an "imperial" nation-state that it contains multiple cultural or ethnic groups?
So go self-employed. AIUI all you have to do is put a card in local phone boxes with your number and a description of the services you provide.
I found the Indians to have better English, both in terms of grammar AND accent.
Of course. India was part of the British Empire and English has been the language of education there for over a century.
ARM have been making chips which run Java bytecode natively for at least five years. Hardware isn't really my area so I can't say whether they're appropriate for this kind of application.
KDE is a desktop environment. It's in the name, for crying out loud!
If the website requires a credit card, use this information for credentialling.
I don't know about your credit card, but mine has a habit of expiring every few years. Besides which, very few sites should actually store credit card data. The majority should route you through someone like Worldpay and never even see your credit card details, because there's less impact on you from their inability to secure their database properly.
Wise in the ways of Yoda they are.
IIRC Mac OS X used to default to tcsh and switched at 10.3 or 10.4 to bash.
If you want to learn Bash, read the man page. I once spent hours tidying up an HTML version of it, and I learnt a lot in the process.
Surely it would be faster to write lots of it in bc so that he wouldn't have to keep spawning processes?
Bush may have been more restrained than his closest ally, but Tony Blair told Parliament that Saddam had WMD ready for deployment in 15 minutes. That's considerably less than a month or so.
They're probably not using sodium chloride for it, but it's perfectly plausible that they're using cloud seeding to try to control the pollution.
Surely you don't need to jailbreak an iPhone to turn it into a ballistic computer. Just ask Naomi Campbell for some tips on throwing technique.
Yes, we're all using GNU/Hurd now.
I'm not sure what your "reality that nobody wants to admit" is, but I suspect it's a gross over-simplification. To take "teach them how to fish" literally, do you know why there are so many Senegalese illegal immigrants in Spain nowadays? Obviously there are many factors involved, but one of them is that overfishing by Spanish trawlers off Africa has led to many Senegalese fisherman being unable to make a living. Of course education doesn't help if more developed countries use their technology (not to mention trade agreements which allow them to subsidise their own industries) to prevent fair competition.
Nah, because if you refused to pay it would cost them too much to take you back. This does give me an idea, though: next time I fly with them, I should charge them before I get off.
The stuff about using obscure airports is fair (although it's not an issue for me) but the bit about 0 baggage allowance is nonsense. The baggage allowance is 15kg. Yes, you have to pay per bag for hold luggage, but you only pay excess (i.e. a charge per kg) over 15kg.
273. I'll leave you to supply units.
It's not trivial. It's feasible, but you have to know how the letters change form according to their neighbours.
Who's the (sole, I presume) citizen?
While it may be a minority opinion here at Slashdot, there is no denying that it isn't a majority opinion in many countries around the world (for example, the security obsessed UK).
I think you may have miscounted your negatives. On the presumption that you meant to say that in the security-obsessed UK the majority opinion is that a national biometric database doesn't infringe on essential liberties, permit me to observe that the government sold the ID database to a significant (but not exclusive - terrorism was mentioned) extent on matters such as job security: i.e. it will cut down on working by illegal immigrants. Why they believe that employers who don't currently check National Insurance number cards will check biometric ID cards, I have no idea.
In short, a series of Home Secretaries claim to believe that a biometric database of the entire country is so far from infringing on essential liberties that it can be justified without recourse to security.
The article may be right to state that no other "democratic" country has a comprehensive biometric database of all citizens, but the UK is working towards it. It already has the Act of Parliament.
It's the other way round if you only have one name and move to Spain, especially if people copy your details from the photocopy of your passport which they inevitably ask for. They assume that your middle name is your first surname and your surname is your second surname. A friend of mine gets statements from his bank addressed to Sr Christopher, which is his middle name.
The timing is quite amusing, though, because the Chinese government has just had a major crackdown on bad translations into English as part of the preparation for the Olympics.
On an unrelated note, in previewing this I realized that Slashdot defaults to using latin 1 for its encoding and I thus can't add in Chinese characters.
It borks characters in Latin 1 unless you submit them as escape codes, too. Compare Ã' and Ñ - the first I just typed, and the second is done with the escape code. Although in fairness, this seems to be Firefox's fault for using Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded and not specifying the charset (UTF-8).