My father-in-law (Canadian) used to tell stories about how in the summer gas station owners would pump gasoline into the glass reservoir above the pump, in preparation for the next customer. While waiting, of course, the fuel heated up, and the station owner made a tidy profit from the scam.
Bigger engines will only encourage bad ship design. One engine, one screw, one rudder. It's cheap to build and run, but a failure of any component leaves the boat adrift. Crude oil carriers especially are a problem, because running aground is so gucky. Why doesn't the world insist on two engines, screws, and rudders for tankers?
Ha ha! But then the F-14s will magically transmogrify into fully loaded commercial A300s, and make the Evil EVIL minions in the Navy look reeeely Evil. And stupid. And Evil.
If you go to the Bank of Ireland's "Security and Online Fraud" page, you'll find no instructions on how to report phishing/scamming attempts to them. Instead they suggest forwarding the mail to the local Gardai/Police, or, with no smiley faces even, the abuse address of the remitter's ISP (abuse@hotmail.com, etc).
So the Bank of Ireland hasn't a clue about forged From: addresses, encourages customers to involve innocent ISP's abuse departments, and takes no interest in pursuing malicious emails involving its own name. It suggests the police might care more about the Bank's security than the bank itself.
IMHO the BOI has no business berating its own customers for not having a clue/care, especially when they demonstrate so little themselves.
"The object is basically public relations. Domestic use would make it easier to avoid questions from others about possible safety considerations, said Secretary Michael Wynne."
The others here means customers, methinks. So the next protesters inside a "no-protest zone" will be helping (or hindering, if there is a death) the marketing of torture implements to China. Makes me feel warm all over.
When all the incadescents have been replaced with CFLs, and all other machinery in our lives are hyper-efficient, how can we respond to the next energy crisis? There will be nothing left to make more efficient. At that point the cuts are really going to hurt. CFLs aren't the answer -- they only buy us a little extra time.
26. OSI information Other Supplemantary Information which does "not require action or a reply by the carrier. They are low-priority messages and are usually used for information purpose only."
27. SSI/SSR information Special Service Request
"Use SSR messages when you require an action or a reply to your request for these service items:
Send Emergency Contact Information (PCTC)
Send OTHS for CC Holder to carriers
Send Passport Info (3PSPT)
Send Special Meal Request
Send Unaccompanied Minor Information
Send Wheelchair Request "
This obviously can include Credit Card and other information relating to connecting flights or to other passengers not even travelling to the USA.
Passport information is not mandatory for travel agents to demand, but it is often included.
So much for the exclusion of meal requests from the initial list of 39...
33. Any collected APIS information - Advanced Passenger Information System
- "passenger manifests" including name, nationality, passport number, date of birth, etc. - why are they duplicating data on two systems ?
34. ATFQ fields Automatic Ticket Fare Quote i.e. the price of the ticket and could be commercially sensitive
The SABRE system (and probably the other CRS systems) seems to have other hidden free text fields in the Passenger Name Record, which can be hidden from other airlines etc, but which are, presumably available to the US Deptment of Homeland Security
These are the 34 items, taken from the DHS document at http://www.dhs.gov/interweb/assetlibrary/CBP-DHS_P NRUndertakings5-25-04.pdf which also describes how easily the data can be distributed, and how "deleted after 3.5 years" doesn't really mean what it says, but may mean that your data goes into a file marked "deleted, honest, and reely hard to read because it's raw data" and kept for 8 years or more.
1. PNR record locator code 2. Date of reservation 3. Date(s) of intended travel 4. Name 5. Other names on PNR 6. Address 7. All forms of payment information 8. Billing address 9. Contact telephone numbers 10. All travel itinerary for specific PNR 11. Frequent flyer information (limited to miles flown and address(es)) 12. Travel agency 13. Travel agent 14. Code share PNR information 15. Travel status of passenger 16. Split/Divided PNR information 17. Email address 18. Ticketing field information 19. General remarks 20. Ticket number 21. Seat number 22. Date of ticket issuance 23. No show history 24. Bag tag numbers 25. Go show information 26. OSI information 27. SSI/SSR information 28. Received from information 29. All historical changes to the PNR 30. Number of travelers on PNR 31. Seat information 32. One-way tickets 33. Any collected APIS information 34. ATFQ fields
Their PR puts a lot of emphasis on the fact that the air density at 65,000 feet is 1/18 as much as sea level. So a high-altitude 60 mph wind has as much force as a sea-level 3.3 mph breeze, and so it doesn't take much force to counteract. But doesn't the same effect apply to the propellers, which will have 1/18 as much "bite", and so need 18 times as much power? Does this in fact scale linearly or are there other wierd effects on propellers at altitude?
The current administration is more than willing casually to pour treasure and blood into the sands of Iraq and Afghanistan. The equivalent of how many shuttles and crews so far? Dozens? Hundreds?
So why be so precious about one more dangerous mission? If it fails, there won't even be television cameras allowed into Dover AFB to witness the coffins coming home.
Of the fourteen points that Dr. Lawrence Britt uses to define fascism, this is pretty well summed up by numbers 4 and 11.
1) "British Rail" doesn't exist. I assume the OP means the British railway system.
2) They're not "committed" to using it. "Key industry figures" (lobby groups?) had a meeting on Tuesday about whether to implement it system-wide. RTFA.
3) It won't be ready for service in 2008, that's when Galileo will be operational. RTFA.
Bad example. Ebay refuses Nazi items so that it can continue to operate in Germany, where such sales are illegal. Thay're not excercising their rights; they're bending to censorship.
Not necessarily. A local minimum may trap the cold air, so warmer air flows over the top of it and the bottom stays frosty. That's how Oymyakon (Siberia) manages to hold the title of coldest inhabited place on earth.
So if Dome A has a wierd microclimate, that strikes me as a particularly bad place for a weather station. Or am I missing something?
I wish better instrumentation became ubiquitous. Every car should have an instantaneous and average MPG indication, tire pressure indicators (and self-inflators), oil pressure, and so forth. This would help improve fuel efficiency for the country, and help reduce fuel and maintenance costs for individuals.
...and in London. IBM got fined hundreds of thousands of dollars for their Peace, Love, Linux vandalism in San Francisco, Chicago, Boston and New York in 2001. Now Napster tries to be cool by turning public property into private marketing space. Sorry Shawn. It's way cooler trading music for free than buying your DRM-crippled, vandal-marketed, over-priced tracks.
Concorde's noise restricted its routes to over-water, and its range meant the trans-Pacific routes were non-starters. With such severe restrictions on its routes, no airline wanted to buy them. BA and Air France got them for free, and they were still uneconomical.
In a very real sense, Concorde killed the UK aviation industry. Had all those talanted engineers concentrated on building a commercially viable airframe, they might have had a competitor to the 707 and 747 and retained all that talent at home instead of exporting it to Seattle when the Concorde program folded.
Wouldn't it be funny if, in November, the voting machines actually worked properly and were not rigged, but the election was STILL stolen?
Contrary to popular belief, the main problem in Florida was not unreliable paper voting systems, which accounted for a few hundred misplaced votes. The main killer was the erroneous exclusion of tens of thousands of blacks from the voter lists by Database Technologies (DBT).
http://archive.salon.com/politics/feature/2000/12/ 04/voter_file/
Diebold may come out of the 2004 election smelling like roses, so nobody will care when 2008 rolls around. And the election can still be stolen in both instances, with one weapon (manipulated voter lists) in '04, and yet another (rigged machines) in '08.
Who says the neocons are dumb? Not me!
Toward the end of its life, various subsystems were weakening and its ultimate fate was obvious to the control team. Some of the mission scientists were in favour of sending it to risky areas--that had up to then been avoided--in the hope of yielding really exciting scientific results. If it failed (ie. rolled down a crater wall), no big deal; it was gonna die anyway. Sadly, management vetoed the idea and Lunokhod 1 died with a whimper, not a bang.
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My father-in-law (Canadian) used to tell stories about how in the summer gas station owners would pump gasoline into the glass reservoir above the pump, in preparation for the next customer. While waiting, of course, the fuel heated up, and the station owner made a tidy profit from the scam.
Hey, I like the concept! They'll pay attention when teacher talks about a homer (Ezek 45.11-14) of beer!
Bigger engines will only encourage bad ship design. One engine, one screw, one rudder. It's cheap to build and run, but a failure of any component leaves the boat adrift. Crude oil carriers especially are a problem, because running aground is so gucky. Why doesn't the world insist on two engines, screws, and rudders for tankers?
Ha ha! But then the F-14s will magically transmogrify into fully loaded commercial A300s, and make the Evil EVIL minions in the Navy look reeeely Evil. And stupid. And Evil.
So the Bank of Ireland hasn't a clue about forged From: addresses, encourages customers to involve innocent ISP's abuse departments, and takes no interest in pursuing malicious emails involving its own name. It suggests the police might care more about the Bank's security than the bank itself.
IMHO the BOI has no business berating its own customers for not having a clue/care, especially when they demonstrate so little themselves.
The others here means customers, methinks. So the next protesters inside a "no-protest zone" will be helping (or hindering, if there is a death) the marketing of torture implements to China. Makes me feel warm all over.
When all the incadescents have been replaced with CFLs, and all other machinery in our lives are hyper-efficient, how can we respond to the next energy crisis? There will be nothing left to make more efficient. At that point the cuts are really going to hurt. CFLs aren't the answer -- they only buy us a little extra time.
26. OSI information Other Supplemantary Information which does "not require action or a reply by the carrier. They are low-priority messages and are usually used for information purpose only."
27. SSI/SSR information Special Service Request
"Use SSR messages when you require an action or a reply to your request for these service items:
This obviously can include Credit Card and other information relating to connecting flights or to other passengers not even travelling to the USA.
Passport information is not mandatory for travel agents to demand, but it is often included.
So much for the exclusion of meal requests from the initial list of 39...
33. Any collected APIS information - Advanced Passenger Information System
- "passenger manifests" including name, nationality, passport number, date of birth, etc. - why are they duplicating data on two systems ?
34. ATFQ fields Automatic Ticket Fare Quote i.e. the price of the ticket and could be commercially sensitive
The SABRE system (and probably the other CRS systems) seems to have other hidden free text fields in the Passenger Name Record, which can be hidden from other airlines etc, but which are, presumably available to the US Deptment of Homeland Security
These are the 34 items, taken from the DHS document at http://www.dhs.gov/interweb/assetlibrary/CBP-DHS_P NRUndertakings5-25-04.pdf which also describes how easily the data can be distributed, and how "deleted after 3.5 years" doesn't really mean what it says, but may mean that your data goes into a file marked "deleted, honest, and reely hard to read because it's raw data" and kept for 8 years or more.
1. PNR record locator code
2. Date of reservation
3. Date(s) of intended travel
4. Name
5. Other names on PNR
6. Address
7. All forms of payment information
8. Billing address
9. Contact telephone numbers
10. All travel itinerary for specific PNR
11. Frequent flyer information (limited to miles flown and address(es))
12. Travel agency
13. Travel agent
14. Code share PNR information
15. Travel status of passenger
16. Split/Divided PNR information
17. Email address
18. Ticketing field information
19. General remarks
20. Ticket number
21. Seat number
22. Date of ticket issuance
23. No show history
24. Bag tag numbers
25. Go show information
26. OSI information
27. SSI/SSR information
28. Received from information
29. All historical changes to the PNR
30. Number of travelers on PNR
31. Seat information
32. One-way tickets
33. Any collected APIS information
34. ATFQ fields
McGill University also has a great series of lectures -- "Bringing you yesterday's lectures, today" -- at http://cool.mcgill.ca/
...or Saab, or Hummer, or Acura, or Isuzu, or Audi, or Volkswagen...
Their PR puts a lot of emphasis on the fact that the air density at 65,000 feet is 1/18 as much as sea level. So a high-altitude 60 mph wind has as much force as a sea-level 3.3 mph breeze, and so it doesn't take much force to counteract. But doesn't the same effect apply to the propellers, which will have 1/18 as much "bite", and so need 18 times as much power? Does this in fact scale linearly or are there other wierd effects on propellers at altitude?
So why be so precious about one more dangerous mission? If it fails, there won't even be television cameras allowed into Dover AFB to witness the coffins coming home.
Of the fourteen points that Dr. Lawrence Britt uses to define fascism, this is pretty well summed up by numbers 4 and 11.
2) They're not "committed" to using it. "Key industry figures" (lobby groups?) had a meeting on Tuesday about whether to implement it system-wide. RTFA.
3) It won't be ready for service in 2008, that's when Galileo will be operational. RTFA.
Bad example. Ebay refuses Nazi items so that it can continue to operate in Germany, where such sales are illegal. Thay're not excercising their rights; they're bending to censorship.
DeLorean took his factory overseas (N. Ireland), and it didn't seem to work for him.
So if Dome A has a wierd microclimate, that strikes me as a particularly bad place for a weather station. Or am I missing something?
The graveyards are full of indispensable men. - Charles De Gaulle
I wish better instrumentation became ubiquitous. Every car should have an instantaneous and average MPG indication, tire pressure indicators (and self-inflators), oil pressure, and so forth. This would help improve fuel efficiency for the country, and help reduce fuel and maintenance costs for individuals.
...and in London. IBM got fined hundreds of thousands of dollars for their Peace, Love, Linux vandalism in San Francisco, Chicago, Boston and New York in 2001. Now Napster tries to be cool by turning public property into private marketing space. Sorry Shawn. It's way cooler trading music for free than buying your DRM-crippled, vandal-marketed, over-priced tracks.
In a very real sense, Concorde killed the UK aviation industry. Had all those talanted engineers concentrated on building a commercially viable airframe, they might have had a competitor to the 707 and 747 and retained all that talent at home instead of exporting it to Seattle when the Concorde program folded.
Wouldn't it be funny if, in November, the voting machines actually worked properly and were not rigged, but the election was STILL stolen? Contrary to popular belief, the main problem in Florida was not unreliable paper voting systems, which accounted for a few hundred misplaced votes. The main killer was the erroneous exclusion of tens of thousands of blacks from the voter lists by Database Technologies (DBT). http://archive.salon.com/politics/feature/2000/12/ 04/voter_file/
Diebold may come out of the 2004 election smelling like roses, so nobody will care when 2008 rolls around. And the election can still be stolen in both instances, with one weapon (manipulated voter lists) in '04, and yet another (rigged machines) in '08.
Who says the neocons are dumb? Not me!
Toward the end of its life, various subsystems were weakening and its ultimate fate was obvious to the control team. Some of the mission scientists were in favour of sending it to risky areas--that had up to then been avoided--in the hope of yielding really exciting scientific results. If it failed (ie. rolled down a crater wall), no big deal; it was gonna die anyway. Sadly, management vetoed the idea and Lunokhod 1 died with a whimper, not a bang.