What part of flying on an airplane requires that you have fingerprints?
I dunno. In the past 7 years, I've flown to around 14 different countries from South America, Africa to the Middle and Far East (clearly not at the same time,) and not once have I ever had my fingerprints taken as part of the process.
You go to jail if you dont register the birth within 30 days.
No you don't. At least not in the country TFA is talking about: you get prosecuted (which might, but is highly unlikely to, result in jail - our prisons are full enough TYVM,) and you have 42 days to do it in:
It is a legal duty to register a birth within 42 days. Failure to do so will not only leave you liable to prosecution but will also make it impossible for you to register to receive family allowance or register your baby with a doctor.
That sort of behaviour would likely to earn you a criminal record, and a marker on this database to indicate that your child is now on the child protection register (one of the groups of people for whom this database is for I'd imagine after the farce over 'Baby P.')
It's coming to something when even the submitters can't be bothered RTFA. All night hackathons are not going to kill you:
All of these physiological changes are reversible, thoughâ"take a nap, and you'll be on the road back to normal. [...] After 32 days of total sleep deprivation, all the rats were dead.
So unless you work 32 days straight, you're not going to die.
Full Hungarian notation is a bit redundant, precisely because everyone (for reasonable values of 'everyone') DOES use some form of IDE to code, and any non-epic-fail IDE will at the least tell you variable types when you mouse over them, or pop up a member list for a class/struct when you go to type them.
Um - Hungarian notation is for coding what the variable represents, not the type of variable it's represented by.
Anyone using iVariable or sVariable to indicate that the former is an int and the latter is a string is doing it wrong.
It's this misunderstanding that's resulted in HN's 'bad' reputation.
For instance, Gmail supports the "+arbitrary_tag" convention. So email sent to:
example+listserv1@gmail.com
example+bank1@gmail.com
example+dad@gmail.com
-- all shows up in the Gmail inbox of 'example@gmail.com'.
That, also, only works for companies that accept a + sign in the local part. Amex, for example, don't. As do(n't) a wide variety of regex's that people swipe off the net to use in their websites.
The truth should not be absolute defense against a charge of libel when confidentiality is at issue.
Um - if confidentiality is what this is pivoting on, shouldn't the charge be something other than libel in the first place, since AIUI, libel relates to false statements?
Even Unix (way before Linux) knew to kick you out after 3 failed attempts.
Perfect way to DOS someone. Exponential timeouts for retries is a better way to go to prevent rapid-fire. (1 second after first wrong attempt, then 2 seconds, 4, 8, 16 etc.)
A COUPLE were left annoyed after being told their wheelie bin containing grass cuttings was not emptied because binmen could not lift it with two fingers.
insert JavaScript that computes the MD5 sum of the client-received document (sans the added information)
This won't work, because browsers typically change the HTML during parsing. Might work if you only compute the MD5 of only parts of it (like only the img src values.)
just to have advert free, relatively unbiased news?
What on earth makes you think the BBC is advert free? You may not have noticed, but it's actually full of cross-service adverts.
BBC2: Watch Eastenders later/tomorrow/whenever Radio2: Watch Panorama on BBC2 at.... News: Every 15 minutes (or less) an announcement of what's on later today/tomorrow/next week.
I've even seen the weather people advertising programmes!
Just because they aren't advertising 3rd party goods, doesn't make it 'not advertising,' and I find it annoying that people claim paying for a TV license gives us an advertisement free service.
Ok - so now we've got some more big names to supply the credentials - where are all the big names actually using the credentials to log into their websites?
Can I use OpenID, say, to log into Slashdot? Yahoo? AOL? Google?
The TouchStream is both a mouse and keyboard in one. The keyboard splits in half to try to provide extra comfort. The keys are all flat, which can make them feel strange to type on. It retails on the internet for about $350.
The Touchstream keyboards went out of production over a year ago. I had two of these for ages and loved them, then when both eventually 'wore out' I tried to get another - http://www.fingerworks.com/:
FingerWorks has ceased operations as a business. [...]
FingerWorks products are no longer available for resale, and no further updates to software drivers will be developed.
[In reply to businesses who contemplate doing this (and people illegally using jammers in said establishments...)]
And of course Restaurants etc. would never ever have a land-line (or other alternative (turn the jammer off if it was their's)) to use in case of such a 911/112/999 emergency.
Your right to use a mobile phone loudly stops when it infinges on my (and others') right to enjoy my (our) meal in an atmostphere unencumbered with twats shouting loudly 'I'm in the restaurant' into their phones.
Transfer metaphor to other places of your choice. Please include cinemas, theatres, pubs (the reasonably quiet ones of course,) library.....
Of course, jammers in places that don't have land-line phones available where said illegal jammers would conceivably be used, hang/shoot/jail them (in any order.)
Wow, that's expensive. I'm using uFile in Canada, and it's $16 to fill in your return, and submit it electronically. All inclusive.
In the UK if[1] you have to file a tax return, the government provide free online software as a viable alternative to the list of reccommended software at http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/efiling/sa_efiling/soft_dev .htm (some of which is also free.)
[1] Not everyone has to file a return - in fact the government is trying to reduce the amount of tax return 'paperwork' they need, unusually.
how a credit card company had charged them £25 on an account that didn't exist for a card which no longer existed.
Simply cancelling a credit card doesn't mean the account ceases to exist - they merely mark the account as closed, and reopen it if another charge on the card goes through; this is why you cannot cancel CPA's (continious payment authorities) simply by closing your card - you must tell the charging company to stop.
Sounds like your friend had either a CPA on the account and didn't realise it (what was the £25 for? Did you get that far?,) or someone miskeyed in some details somewhere and they just happened to match her closed card.
What's more, blood banks are regularly short of supply. [...] Consider this, too. Blood banks have all kinds of rules. [...]
I wonder if these two statements could possibly be connected? Nah, don't be silly.....
I fall foul of the rules, so can't donate. If they don't want my blood, so be it. Just stop complaining that you (the organisations that is) haven't got enough.
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What part of flying on an airplane requires that you have fingerprints?
I dunno. In the past 7 years, I've flown to around 14 different countries from South America, Africa to the Middle and Far East (clearly not at the same time,) and not once have I ever had my fingerprints taken as part of the process.
You go to jail if you dont register the birth within 30 days.
No you don't. At least not in the country TFA is talking about: you get prosecuted (which might, but is highly unlikely to, result in jail - our prisons are full enough TYVM,) and you have 42 days to do it in:
http://www.barnsley.gov.uk/bguk/Community/Registrars/Registering_Births_Deaths/Registering_a_Birth
if i had kids i'd refuse or give bogus details.
That sort of behaviour would likely to earn you a criminal record, and a marker on this database to indicate that your child is now on the child protection register (one of the groups of people for whom this database is for I'd imagine after the farce over 'Baby P.')
And I'm not being cynical, I only wish I were.
And to answer to your objection from a different message [...]
I raised no objection in a different message, this being my second on this story.
It's coming to something when even the submitters can't be bothered RTFA. All night hackathons are not going to kill you:
So unless you work 32 days straight, you're not going to die.
Full Hungarian notation is a bit redundant, precisely because everyone (for reasonable values of 'everyone') DOES use some form of IDE to code, and any non-epic-fail IDE will at the least tell you variable types when you mouse over them, or pop up a member list for a class/struct when you go to type them.
Um - Hungarian notation is for coding what the variable represents, not the type of variable it's represented by.
Anyone using iVariable or sVariable to indicate that the former is an int and the latter is a string is doing it wrong.
It's this misunderstanding that's resulted in HN's 'bad' reputation.
See http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Wrong.html for an example of how HN should be used.
For instance, Gmail supports the "+arbitrary_tag" convention. So email sent to:
example+listserv1@gmail.com
example+bank1@gmail.com
example+dad@gmail.com
-- all shows up in the Gmail inbox of 'example@gmail.com'.
That, also, only works for companies that accept a + sign in the local part. Amex, for example, don't. As do(n't) a wide variety of regex's that people swipe off the net to use in their websites.
The truth should not be absolute defense against a charge of libel when confidentiality is at issue.
Um - if confidentiality is what this is pivoting on, shouldn't the charge be something other than libel in the first place, since AIUI, libel relates to false statements?
Even Unix (way before Linux) knew to kick you out after 3 failed attempts.
Perfect way to DOS someone. Exponential timeouts for retries is a better way to go to prevent rapid-fire. (1 second after first wrong attempt, then 2 seconds, 4, 8, 16 etc.)
Well...
wget -o /dev/null -O - http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-space/
He's asking IANA for the netblocks... (click the link to see what does get returned)
grep whois.apnic.net
administerd by APNIC (Asia-Pacific)
grep ALLOCATED
currently in use (not legacy ones)
cut -d " " -f 1
culling everything from each line except the IP/mask (the first item)
xargs
and strips the carriage returns to generate a list of IP blocks in the AP region.
# need to add in .0.0.0 though
Of course he has to manually add in the .0.0.0 for each block for the next to work
for asia in 58.0.0.0/8 59.0.0.0/8
do
$fw -A INPUT -s $asia -j DROP
done
He then sets up his firewall to instantly drop any packets coming from any of those IP blocks so he can't hear them.
It's a bit sledgehammer/nut IMO.
You do realise that the Dutch only cracked the Oyster card, and that the card itself is used in London.
Which isn't in Holland.
Life imitating art. Well sort of : http://news.google.co.uk/news?q=bin+%22two+fingers%22&btnG=Search+News
Example: http://www.thisiswiltshire.co.uk/news/headlines/display.var.2317800.0.anger_over_two_finger_bin_rule.php
This won't work, because browsers typically change the HTML during parsing. Might work if you only compute the MD5 of only parts of it (like only the img src values.)
The 'Banking Code' is a voluntary code of conduct between banks and their customers. It has nothing to do with 'Law.'
What on earth makes you think the BBC is advert free? You may not have noticed, but it's actually full of cross-service adverts.
BBC2: Watch Eastenders later/tomorrow/whenever
Radio2: Watch Panorama on BBC2 at....
News: Every 15 minutes (or less) an announcement of what's on later today/tomorrow/next week.
I've even seen the weather people advertising programmes!
Just because they aren't advertising 3rd party goods, doesn't make it 'not advertising,' and I find it annoying that people claim paying for a TV license gives us an advertisement free service.
Ok - so now we've got some more big names to supply the credentials - where are all the big names actually using the credentials to log into their websites?
Can I use OpenID, say, to log into Slashdot? Yahoo? AOL? Google?
http://technology.newscientist.com/channel/tech/dn13208-origami-spaceplane-aims-for-space-station-descent.html?feedId=tech_rss20
The Touchstream keyboards went out of production over a year ago. I had two of these for ages and loved them, then when both eventually 'wore out' I tried to get another - http://www.fingerworks.com/
[...]
FingerWorks products are no longer available for resale, and no further updates to software drivers will be developed.
[In reply to businesses who contemplate doing this (and people illegally using jammers in said establishments...)]
And of course Restaurants etc. would never ever have a land-line (or other alternative (turn the jammer off if it was their's)) to use in case of such a 911/112/999 emergency.
Your right to use a mobile phone loudly stops when it infinges on my (and others') right to enjoy my (our) meal in an atmostphere unencumbered with twats shouting loudly 'I'm in the restaurant' into their phones.
Transfer metaphor to other places of your choice. Please include cinemas, theatres, pubs (the reasonably quiet ones of course,) library.....
Of course, jammers in places that don't have land-line phones available where said illegal jammers would conceivably be used, hang/shoot/jail them (in any order.)
Really?
In which part of the world?
In which year (in the case of the US)?
[1] Not everyone has to file a return - in fact the government is trying to reduce the amount of tax return 'paperwork' they need, unusually.
Simply cancelling a credit card doesn't mean the account ceases to exist - they merely mark the account as closed, and reopen it if another charge on the card goes through; this is why you cannot cancel CPA's (continious payment authorities) simply by closing your card - you must tell the charging company to stop.
Sounds like your friend had either a CPA on the account and didn't realise it (what was the £25 for? Did you get that far?,) or someone miskeyed in some details somewhere and they just happened to match her closed card.
I fall foul of the rules, so can't donate. If they don't want my blood, so be it. Just stop complaining that you (the organisations that is) haven't got enough.