Ask the British......why do they still (informally) use customary units for food weights, or (more formally) for gas and driving speed (gallons and miles per hour).
Old habits die hard.
I hate to break it to you, old chap, but we Brits do use metric. Petrol (gas) is sold by the litre, and speed and distance by the kilometre. I do buy food by the pound (legally, the kilogram). After all, it (appears to be) much cheaper to buy a pound of bananas for 0.99 than a kilogram for 2.18.
The Government's Strategic Defence and Security Review, which revealed: "We will introduce a programme to preserve the ability of the security, intelligence and law enforcement agencies to obtain communication data and to intercept communications within the appropriate legal framework.
Yes, it is _just_ a proposal, do you want it to come about? So... time to ramp up development of https-everywhere, ensure that you use GNU Privacy guard for all EMail, bit locker on your drives, and dust off your NT box to run https-everywhere!
Upon ascertaining that the jaywalker had returned to his flat at #12, Wellington Gardens, the controller launched a Hellfire missile...
Honestly, the UK is already the most monitored country, with little real result. This won't be any more beneficial to anyone, the authorities included!
as an IBM employee I use the "Whatis bot" all the time. It is just a chat bot on Sametime chat inside Lotus Notes that allows you to message it an abbreviation and it tells you all the meanings. This is very useful when you get an e-mail from a long time IBMer that knows every abbreviation and doesn't hesitate to use them.
As a long time customer of IBM, I'd love to have access to that tool. After all, I after reading my invoices, I always thought IBM stood for It'll Be More!
I'd rolf, but then would I owe IBM more money?
Software encryption is slow, but using drives with encryption on the hardware will be quicker. I'm not making a product recommendation with Seagate, I understand Fujistsu also has a FDE solution.
In an enterprise environment, you can set up centralized password recovery utilities (for when the user goes under the bus, or over the wall to your competitor)...
six-year-old who recently stole his parents' car and drove it into a utility pole has passed the buck onto a familiar scapegoat: the video game, Grand Theft Auto. Rockstar Games' controversial Grand Theft Auto video game
Of course it's his parent's problem. Not only did they leave the keys where the child could find them, but they didn't prepare him properly.
Everyone knows that they should have bought him Gran Turismo or any other driving simulation, instead of the game GTA, if they really wanted him to drive to school!
And in a related article (found on page 9), Al Gore has claimed responsibility for inventing the pneumatic tubes, while Ted Stevens admitted he doesn't understand them. John McCain admits the he doesn't use pneumatic tubes...
The more things change, the more they stay the same!
While many Canadians will be glad to hear that they are monitoring Bryan Adams, the rest of us are left to wonder, wouldn't it have been more in the public interest to monitor Celine Dion?
Argh... can't edit my post?
The difficulty with using biometrics to identify and passport holder is that the identity of the individual is based on a piece of paper (the birth certificate), and not something more concrete. Biometrics just identifies the fact that the passport holder is the one who applied for the document in the first place...
We could throw the complete inventory of a franchise music store into Boston Harbor. and maybe a few politicians as well. Great solution. And then we'd face fines from the EPA as well...
We're wondering why you haven't invaded us already, we sell you far more oil then any other country:) If you do, we promise not to burn the White House down again...
Yes, this is obviously a clever ploy for the Canadian government to discover where all the Tim Horton's restaurants are located. They don't need to use RFID coins for that, they just need to follow the Mounties...
the oft-defeated broadcast flag DRM scheme is being sneaked into Senator Steven's Telecommunications bill. Aside from the fact that it has no business being in that bill
What do you mean that the broadcast flag isn't related to the telecom bill? Aren't you the nation that passed the DCMA (Digital Millenium Copyright Act) that covers the highly related issue of double hulling US registered ships?
There's also the concern of an onboard terrorist using implementation flaws to hack the airplane. The crew would have a deuce of a time trying to understand why they're locked out of their controls.
Or the pointy-haired boss trying to land the plane using the Excel Flight Simulator...
The Japanese don't have the technology to create ice cubes and are now ruining the environment for ancient ice cubes? Where's the Sierra Club when you need them!
They are harvesting the ice cubes for scientific purposes. The fact that they plan to consume them in drinks later is merely an effort not to waste a precious resource.
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As Kirk once (will?) said, "Beam me up Scotty. There's no intelligent (ly designed) life down here."
Ask the British... ...why do they still (informally) use customary units for food weights, or (more formally) for gas and driving speed (gallons and miles per hour).
Old habits die hard.
I hate to break it to you, old chap, but we Brits do use metric. Petrol (gas) is sold by the litre, and speed and distance by the kilometre. I do buy food by the pound (legally, the kilogram). After all, it (appears to be) much cheaper to buy a pound of bananas for 0.99 than a kilogram for 2.18.
Ah, yes.... cehc all of your links :-)
The last one is, of course, PGP Fone, silly!
The Government's Strategic Defence and Security Review, which revealed: "We will introduce a programme to preserve the ability of the security, intelligence and law enforcement agencies to obtain communication data and to intercept communications within the appropriate legal framework.
Yes, it is _just_ a proposal, do you want it to come about? So... time to ramp up development of https-everywhere, ensure that you use GNU Privacy guard for all EMail, bit locker on your drives, and dust off your NT box to run https-everywhere!
Hey! Kim Jong-Il has invented the Internet, and is allowing us to use it as well!
There you go supporting the Torontonians belief that they're at the centre of the universe again! We didn't feel it out here on the Wet Coast, BTW...
Upon ascertaining that the jaywalker had returned to his flat at #12, Wellington Gardens, the controller launched a Hellfire missile...
Honestly, the UK is already the most monitored country, with little real result. This won't be any more beneficial to anyone, the authorities included!
as an IBM employee I use the "Whatis bot" all the time. It is just a chat bot on Sametime chat inside Lotus Notes that allows you to message it an abbreviation and it tells you all the meanings. This is very useful when you get an e-mail from a long time IBMer that knows every abbreviation and doesn't hesitate to use them.
As a long time customer of IBM, I'd love to have access to that tool. After all, I after reading my invoices, I always thought IBM stood for It'll Be More! I'd rolf, but then would I owe IBM more money?
Software encryption is slow, but using drives with encryption on the hardware will be quicker. I'm not making a product recommendation with Seagate, I understand Fujistsu also has a FDE solution. In an enterprise environment, you can set up centralized password recovery utilities (for when the user goes under the bus, or over the wall to your competitor)...
six-year-old who recently stole his parents' car and drove it into a utility pole has passed the buck onto a familiar scapegoat: the video game, Grand Theft Auto. Rockstar Games' controversial Grand Theft Auto video game
Of course it's his parent's problem. Not only did they leave the keys where the child could find them, but they didn't prepare him properly. Everyone knows that they should have bought him Gran Turismo or any other driving simulation, instead of the game GTA, if they really wanted him to drive to school!
And in a related article (found on page 9), Al Gore has claimed responsibility for inventing the pneumatic tubes, while Ted Stevens admitted he doesn't understand them. John McCain admits the he doesn't use pneumatic tubes... The more things change, the more they stay the same!
So... Google has added an "airforce" to complement their navy...
Didn't Hans Solo stuff Luke into the Tonton?
The ISP can tell you who is at an IP address, and from that, you can find your computers.
Of course they can, but they won't. In my experience, they are even loathe to disclose this information to the police without a search warrant.
While many Canadians will be glad to hear that they are monitoring Bryan Adams, the rest of us are left to wonder, wouldn't it have been more in the public interest to monitor Celine Dion?
Argh... can't edit my post? The difficulty with using biometrics to identify and passport holder is that the identity of the individual is based on a piece of paper (the birth certificate), and not something more concrete. Biometrics just identifies the fact that the passport holder is the one who applied for the document in the first place...
I thought being first was limited to subscribers!
We could throw the complete inventory of a franchise music store into Boston Harbor. and maybe a few politicians as well. Great solution. And then we'd face fines from the EPA as well...
Global warming doesn't exist. George Bush tells us so...
Or the pointy-haired boss trying to land the plane using the Excel Flight Simulator...
You're lucky it wasn't a Blue Screen...
They are harvesting the ice cubes for scientific purposes. The fact that they plan to consume them in drinks later is merely an effort not to waste a precious resource.