As a frequent traveler I applied for a Canadian passport last October and I haven't gotten it yet... WTF
I applied in late October and received it in 2 weeks. Considering that you need to send a birth certificate/old passport with it, you should have called them a long time ago. I believe the application gives time ranges when you should hear something and that you should call if you don't.
For Canadians travelling from Canada to the United States: Since January 23, 2007, a new American law requires everyone entering the United States BY AIR to have a valid passport. Canadians can continue to use such documents as their birth certificates and drivers' licence to cross the Canada-U.S. border BY LAND AND SEA for at least another year.
You're saying Debian is secure because there is a centrally controlled repository of software. Vista requires signed kernel-level drivers and you'd say that Microsoft is cutting out open-source developers.
So is centrally controlled the desirable feature, or is ability to develop your own software without requiring approval?
Patenting a virus... Would that mean I could sue them for their patent infringing on me? It sounds too much like a Soviet Russia joke (patent infringes you?)
approach to fighting spam. Your idea will not work. Here is why it won't work. (One or more of the following may apply to your particular idea, and it may have other flaws which used to vary from state to state before a bad federal law was passed.)
( ) Spammers can easily use it to harvest email addresses ( ) Mailing lists and other legitimate email uses would be affected (x) No one will be able to find the guy or collect the money ( ) It is defenseless against brute force attacks ( ) It will stop spam for two weeks and then we'll be stuck with it ( ) Users of email will not put up with it ( ) Microsoft will not put up with it (x) The police will not put up with it ( ) Requires too much cooperation from spammers ( ) Requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once ( ) Many email users cannot afford to lose business or alienate potential employers ( ) Spammers don't care about invalid addresses in their lists ( ) Anyone could anonymously destroy anyone else's career or business
Specifically, your plan fails to account for
(x) Laws expressly prohibiting it ( ) Lack of centrally controlling authority for email (x) Open relays in foreign countries ( ) Ease of searching tiny alphanumeric address space of all email addresses ( ) Asshats (x) Jurisdictional problems ( ) Unpopularity of weird new taxes ( ) Public reluctance to accept weird new forms of money ( ) Huge existing software investment in SMTP ( ) Susceptibility of protocols other than SMTP to attack ( ) Willingness of users to install OS patches received by email (x) Armies of worm riddled broadband-connected Windows boxes ( ) Eternal arms race involved in all filtering approaches ( ) Extreme profitability of spam ( ) Joe jobs and/or identity theft ( ) Technically illiterate politicians ( ) Extreme stupidity on the part of people who do business with spammers ( ) Dishonesty on the part of spammers themselves ( ) Bandwidth costs that are unaffected by client filtering ( ) Outlook
and the following philosophical objections may also apply:
( ) Ideas similar to yours are easy to come up with, yet none have ever been shown practical ( ) Any scheme based on opt-out is unacceptable ( ) SMTP headers should not be the subject of legislation ( ) Blacklists suck ( ) Whitelists suck ( ) We should be able to talk about Viagra without being censored ( ) Countermeasures should not involve wire fraud or credit card fraud ( ) Countermeasures should not involve sabotage of public networks ( ) Countermeasures must work if phased in gradually ( ) Sending email should be free ( ) Why should we have to trust you and your servers? ( ) Incompatiblity with open source or open source licenses (x) Feel-good measures do nothing to solve the problem ( ) Temporary/one-time email addresses are cumbersome ( ) I don't want the government reading my email (x) Killing them that way is not slow and painful enough
Furthermore, this is what I think about you:
( ) Sorry dude, but I don't think it would work. (x) This is a stupid idea, and you're a fascist for suggesting it. ( ) Nice try, assh0le! I'm going to find out where you live and burn your house down!
In many cases, auditing a site's security is a service. Perhaps Acunetix should ask them to pick the random sites and ask permission to test their security much in the fashion as the above letter for the purpose of this challenge.
Favorite artists who are on Warner labels get letters saying that their new albums will not be purchased as long as they continue to do business with Warner
This would be followed by letters from Warner explaining their contracts and how the artist can not sign on with another label. Remember that in most cases Warner owns the rights to the music, not the artist.
...the [mini-mac] cost is around $600 or a little more. That's actually less than what I've been quoting people lately who ask me to put a decent gaming PC together
Then you said:
a Mac Mini is not a good choice for running games
So what you are telling us is that a gaming system costs more than a non-gaming system whether it is a mac or a PC.
I disagree. I'm from Canada and I always find the playing of the great American sport (of suing each other) funny. By being an international forum, the community can comment on the laws of their own states/countries to compare with.
For example, I believe that in Canada, working is an agreement between the employer and the employee. Either party can end that relationship at any time (with some exception for discrimination/etc). The poster didn't give enough detail about the job, but I can't think of any scenarios that quitting would result in a lawsuit, unless it involved something else (delete * from everything, format C: D: E: F:..., or the mentioned NDAs/contracts).
At worst, if somebody figures out that this is legal/appropriate, it serves as a warning not to work in Texas.
Slashdot Mirror
Be even more original and tag is 'lasers'. No one will every find it then.
Until next year, you can still drive from Canada to the USA without a passport, but you need a passport to fly to the US.
Sorry, but I'm finding your logic a big fuzzy too.
You're saying Debian is secure because there is a centrally controlled repository of software. Vista requires signed kernel-level drivers and you'd say that Microsoft is cutting out open-source developers.
So is centrally controlled the desirable feature, or is ability to develop your own software without requiring approval?
For some reason, they don't take orders from somebody on Slashdot with a 900k+ user ID.
Osama is both dead and alive until somebody sees him. If the US gets him and places him in a box, I think we all know what his state will be.
So after they copyleft their music and we place that music out there freely, who proves:
- food
- shelter
- other living expenses
Patenting a virus... Would that mean I could sue them for their patent infringing on me? It sounds too much like a Soviet Russia joke (patent infringes you?)
1|h4v3|4|G1r1fr3nd|u|1n53n5171v3|c10d!
You Personally advocate a
( ) technical ( ) legislative ( ) market-based (x) vigilante
approach to fighting spam. Your idea will not work. Here is why it won't work. (One or more of the following may apply to your particular idea, and it may have other flaws which used to vary from state to state before a bad federal law was passed.)
( ) Spammers can easily use it to harvest email addresses
( ) Mailing lists and other legitimate email uses would be affected
(x) No one will be able to find the guy or collect the money
( ) It is defenseless against brute force attacks
( ) It will stop spam for two weeks and then we'll be stuck with it
( ) Users of email will not put up with it
( ) Microsoft will not put up with it
(x) The police will not put up with it
( ) Requires too much cooperation from spammers
( ) Requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once
( ) Many email users cannot afford to lose business or alienate potential employers
( ) Spammers don't care about invalid addresses in their lists
( ) Anyone could anonymously destroy anyone else's career or business
Specifically, your plan fails to account for
(x) Laws expressly prohibiting it
( ) Lack of centrally controlling authority for email
(x) Open relays in foreign countries
( ) Ease of searching tiny alphanumeric address space of all email addresses
( ) Asshats
(x) Jurisdictional problems
( ) Unpopularity of weird new taxes
( ) Public reluctance to accept weird new forms of money
( ) Huge existing software investment in SMTP
( ) Susceptibility of protocols other than SMTP to attack
( ) Willingness of users to install OS patches received by email
(x) Armies of worm riddled broadband-connected Windows boxes
( ) Eternal arms race involved in all filtering approaches
( ) Extreme profitability of spam
( ) Joe jobs and/or identity theft
( ) Technically illiterate politicians
( ) Extreme stupidity on the part of people who do business with spammers
( ) Dishonesty on the part of spammers themselves
( ) Bandwidth costs that are unaffected by client filtering
( ) Outlook
and the following philosophical objections may also apply:
( ) Ideas similar to yours are easy to come up with, yet none have ever been shown practical
( ) Any scheme based on opt-out is unacceptable
( ) SMTP headers should not be the subject of legislation
( ) Blacklists suck
( ) Whitelists suck
( ) We should be able to talk about Viagra without being censored
( ) Countermeasures should not involve wire fraud or credit card fraud
( ) Countermeasures should not involve sabotage of public networks
( ) Countermeasures must work if phased in gradually
( ) Sending email should be free
( ) Why should we have to trust you and your servers?
( ) Incompatiblity with open source or open source licenses
(x) Feel-good measures do nothing to solve the problem
( ) Temporary/one-time email addresses are cumbersome
( ) I don't want the government reading my email
(x) Killing them that way is not slow and painful enough
Furthermore, this is what I think about you:
( ) Sorry dude, but I don't think it would work.
(x) This is a stupid idea, and you're a fascist for suggesting it.
( ) Nice try, assh0le! I'm going to find out where you live and burn your house down!
Actually i didn't really notice any Internet problems. I was too busy reading a fascinating story about a goat.
In other news, mice thank mankind; postpone taking over the world
*turns off computer*
In many cases, auditing a site's security is a service. Perhaps Acunetix should ask them to pick the random sites and ask permission to test their security much in the fashion as the above letter for the purpose of this challenge.
You need a state law to make a change to library policy? Why not just talk to the librarians? Isn't a bill overkill?
Perhaps limit a few specified PCs to personal use and a few others to research purposes only? Perhaps restrict personal use during peak hours?
However, I have never seen a phone with the screen placed on the bottom.
But how do you protect the map?
I think its better proof that 87% of their crap isn't even worth stealing.
Biggest bully?:
1. Scientology
2. US Government
3. RIAA/MPAA
4. Microsoft
5. Jack Thompson
6. Cowboyneal
There's a violent solution. You must be a video game player.
I disagree. I'm from Canada and I always find the playing of the great American sport (of suing each other) funny. By being an international forum, the community can comment on the laws of their own states/countries to compare with.
..., or the mentioned NDAs/contracts).
For example, I believe that in Canada, working is an agreement between the employer and the employee. Either party can end that relationship at any time (with some exception for discrimination/etc). The poster didn't give enough detail about the job, but I can't think of any scenarios that quitting would result in a lawsuit, unless it involved something else (delete * from everything, format C: D: E: F:
At worst, if somebody figures out that this is legal/appropriate, it serves as a warning not to work in Texas.