If your not a US citizen you can use your passport number instead, but watch as the bank wets itself when you tell them your allowed.
Had that problem when I first came here, couldn't get a bank account without a SSN number, couldn't get SSN without proof of a house, for eg. Bank bill to house. After checking with legal I could open the account with just the passport and I had to bring a guy from legal around to tell them to get thier finger out.
Here's something scary though, I was told the middle digit in the SSN is a certain number if you are under the witness protection program.
Is that M$ didn't invent it. They licensed the code from SpyGlass.
SpyGlass came in one morning and found that they had been put out of business by M$ releasing thier browser free. People who were paying Spyglass for the code dumped them and took M$ browser (which was technically the same thing).
So don't get all gooey eyed about something until you know it's history.
My previous job (some years back), I had the misfortune of being told to scan all the office machines for games/screen savers (only blank screen saver allowed) and remove them (this was before email).
What's worse was I had to do monthly. It finally stopped as everyone knew when I was coming around, deleted all the stuff and put it back on when I left (save disks supplied by me:). Also I ( a few months into it and intentional) would take the machine down for quite some time while I checked it, which in turn had the departments complaining it was being disruptive and finally got it stopped .
Unless a nerd is someone who loves Linux. Seriously though 99% of the stories are Linux Biased. I wouldn't come here as often if it wasn't for the diverse comments on the stories correcting and pointing out things I missed.
A bit more impartial editing would be intresting.
And what is with the urge to "Hey wouldn't this be cool if we could turn it into a Beowulf Cluster" in most of the posts?:)
Try http://www.anonymizer.com/3.0/index.shtml
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See that address box, if you type in http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=99/08/23/03122 10&threshold=0&commentsort=0&mode=thread &startat=30&pid=0 you can break into this thread!! It's like so c00l man 8-)
This sort of argument is kind of "What I'm doing is better then you", and is something we would see Katz writing about.
The truth is, yes the hardcore Geeks think they are elite (in fact they proberly are), but then most people expert in thier field tend to think that way too, and what your trying to describe is much the same feelings that a All Star Football player would emote about some Geek mouthing off about knowing everything about Football.
And if you think being a geek means you don't get laid, well I think you should examine the issue more closely.
As for this MTV guy, never watched the show but he sounds a bit of a muppet from the online stuff. And I would never believe what MTV tried to feed me as the truth (I mean it's called Music Television and when was the last time I actually saw a music video on it?)
It's probably a good thing that QCs are a long way down the line. I'm sure it would be easy to interface one to a current computer, and then the Internet, and crack everything on it
But think of all the pron sites you could get into!:))
The more intresting thing is, who is working on these? Something like this would normally be funded by the military, but any company with this wouldn't have to worry about the military.
Anyone that paranoid is going to take countermeasures against this.
But more to the point, at what time does it go onto the machine? What are we looking at? Software? a Chip?
No business in thier right minds is going to use a machine with this ability, can you imagine the damage that will be caused when the script kiddies get to play.
It comes as standard on most machines. Your just getting the cost absorbed into the machine. I personally wouldn't download it if it was free (you would still have to end up paying to buy it).
How much of the cost of a PC does the O/S take up anyway? Would the PC makers push this deduction onto the public?
I use linux, windows (all flavors), AIX and Mac. Does that make my comments unbiased?
What Mircosoft is doing is just to screw over AOL. They are no more intrested in IM being open standards then AOL are. Sure we get the protocols, but they will just change them once AOL have been taken out.
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You have to wonder after thier stock market SNAFU recently can you take them seriously?
If your not a US citizen you can use your passport number instead, but watch as the bank wets itself when you tell them your allowed.
Had that problem when I first came here, couldn't get a bank account without a SSN number, couldn't get SSN without proof of a house, for eg. Bank bill to house. After checking with legal I could open the account with just the passport and I had to bring a guy from legal around to tell them to get thier finger out.
Here's something scary though, I was told the middle digit in the SSN is a certain number if you are under the witness protection program.
The people M$ were licensing the Browser off. When they dumped it free they pretty much killed the Spyglass company.
Is that M$ didn't invent it. They licensed the code from SpyGlass.
SpyGlass came in one morning and found that they had been put out of business by M$ releasing thier browser free. People who were paying Spyglass for the code dumped them and took M$ browser (which was technically the same thing).
So don't get all gooey eyed about something until you know it's history.
and it says "Outlook cloudy. Try again later"
You could have the ball radio/IR/whatever linked to a central computer on the ship and just have the ball as a I/O device.
I think it would be more intresting if they used Furbys with little jetpacks instead.
You can be jailed for not voting in Austrailia, so who voted these clowns in?
I agree and can relate.
My previous job (some years back), I had the misfortune of being told to scan all the office machines for games/screen savers (only blank screen saver allowed) and remove them (this was before email).
What's worse was I had to do monthly. It finally stopped as everyone knew when I was coming around, deleted all the stuff and put it back on when I left (save disks supplied by me:). Also I ( a few months into it and intentional) would take the machine down for quite some time while I checked it, which in turn had the departments complaining it was being disruptive and finally got it stopped .
Unless a nerd is someone who loves Linux. Seriously though 99% of the stories are Linux Biased. I wouldn't come here as often if it wasn't for the diverse comments on the stories correcting and pointing out things I missed.
:)
A bit more impartial editing would be intresting.
And what is with the urge to "Hey wouldn't this be cool if we could turn it into a Beowulf Cluster" in most of the posts?
http://www.anonymizer.com/3.0/index.shtml for those that can't cut and paste.
See that address box, if you type in http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=99/08/23/03122 10&threshold=0&commentsort=0&mode=thread &startat=30&pid=0 you can break into this thread!! It's like so c00l man 8-)
This sort of argument is kind of "What I'm doing is better then you", and is something we would see Katz writing about.
The truth is, yes the hardcore Geeks think they are elite (in fact they proberly are), but then most people expert in thier field tend to think that way too, and what your trying to describe is much the same feelings that a All Star Football player would emote about some Geek mouthing off about knowing everything about Football.
And if you think being a geek means you don't get laid, well I think you should examine the issue more closely.
As for this MTV guy, never watched the show but he sounds a bit of a muppet from the online stuff. And I would never believe what MTV tried to feed me as the truth (I mean it's called Music Television and when was the last time I actually saw a music video on it?)
But think of all the pron sites you could get into!
The more intresting thing is, who is working on these? Something like this would normally be funded by the military, but any company with this wouldn't have to worry about the military.
Anyone that paranoid is going to take countermeasures against this.
But more to the point, at what time does it go onto the machine? What are we looking at? Software? a Chip?
No business in thier right minds is going to use a machine with this ability, can you imagine the damage that will be caused when the script kiddies get to play.
It comes as standard on most machines. Your just getting the cost absorbed into the machine. I personally wouldn't download it if it was free (you would still have to end up paying to buy it).
How much of the cost of a PC does the O/S take up anyway? Would the PC makers push this deduction onto the public?
I use linux, windows (all flavors), AIX and Mac. Does that make my comments unbiased?
What Mircosoft is doing is just to screw over AOL. They are no more intrested in IM being open standards then AOL are. Sure we get the protocols, but they will just change them once AOL have been taken out.
They are only doing this to kill off AOL. But all you will be left with is Microsoft in the number one slot.
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And giving out the protocol? Big deal, AOL did that and then went and changed it. Who's promising MS won't do the same?
I think they should make the standard similar to HTML... no wait they subverted that too.