...if someone offers me money for certain, key private information tidbits, I wont give it....
Interesting comment.
It is a violation of United States federal law to use a social security number for identification purposes. And it is still (barely) possible for a U.S. citizen to reach the age of maturity without obtaining a social security number. However, it would be very difficult to obtain a bank account in that case. After a long discussion with a bank manager, I found out I would have to pay the bank $10,000 per year in order to maintain an account with no social security number on file. That's the amount the bank would be fined for maintaining an account without reporting the social security number of the account holder. (The possibility of an account holder not possessing a social security number is not comprehended by the banking statutes.)
So is your privacy worth $10,000/year? Or is it worth the inconvenience of avoiding any kind of banking transaction? After due consideration, I reluctantly decided that mine is not. If you live in the U.S. and have chosen otherwise, I salute you. When are you moving to New Hampshire?
Most of the posters here are providing links to "toy" fuel cells, suitable for
lab experiments and small robotic toys but vastly underpowered for real-world
applications. So I searched a bit further and found the real thing.
Everybody here seems to assume that any Orkut member
has the ability to create other Orkut members (by
invitation), but neither the CNN story nor the Orkut
website itself supports that assumption.
Many here have issued blanket condemnations of this
scheme, based on the idea that a few members could
ruin the system by inviting undesirables into the
elite club.
If somebody here knows authoritatively what system
Orkut is using, would they please speak up?
On the other hand, what system WOULD work the best?
Employer did issue safety gear.
Employer asserted that excessive wear was
solely due to mis-use on the part of employees.
Employer was willing to sell employees extra
safety gear at cost, which employees could use
for whatever purpose they might desire.
Anyhow, when you're working 60-80 hours a week,
you're thinking about escape, not about a
lawsuit...
The Computer at Stonehenge
Strange things are done to be number one
In selling the computer
IBM has their stratagem
Which steadily grows acuter,
And Honeywell competes like Hell,
But the story's missing link
Is the system old at Stonehenge sold
By the firm of Druids, Inc.
The Druids were entrepreneurs,
And they built a granite box
It tracked the moon, warned of monsoons,
And forecast the equinox
Their price was right, their future bright,
The prototype was sold;
From Stonehenge site their bits and byte
Would ship for Celtic gold.
The movers came to crate the frame;
It weighed a million ton!
The traffic folk thought it a joke
(the wagon wheels just spun);
"They'll nay sell that," the foreman spat,
"Just leave the wild weeds grow;
It's Druid-kind, over-designed,
And belly up they'll go.''
The man spoke true, and thus to you
A warning from the ages;
Your stock will slip if you can't ship
What's in your brochure's pages.
See if it sells without the bells
And strings that ring and quiver;
Druid repute went down the chute
Because they couldn't deliver.
Worked for a month in a grease-processing factory in Portsmouth, VA called Divers Processing. We were issued chemical-resistant boots and gloves once a week; they usually lasted a day and a half before springing leaks. Extra pairs came out of your paycheck. Workday started at 6am and ended when the boss said you were done. Sometimes that was 10pm or later, even on Saturdays and Sundays. Even the rats hated the place; they looked absolutely miserable. A big horsefly landed on my arm once and apparently got a mouthful of what I was shoveling at the time; it died instantly. I used to come home and run my clothes through four wash cycles before the water stopped changing color. It was two weeks after I quit before the smell wore off my hands and arms. Whenever the EPA needs some extra income, it sends an inspection team to assess a six-figure fine. The owner gladly pays because it's cheaper than actually cleaning up the mess.
when you come back to login and someone else logs in, start a second X session,
Already included in KDE3. When the screensaver locks, you can either type in the password of the currently logged-in user, or click the button to start a new, conncurrent session.
'Course, as with many nifty-neato-new features, it takes some twiddling to get the configuration right, which is exactly the point of this article.
Which will keep you safe exactly as long as it takes a judge to order you to give up your encryption key.
It's not about being safe.
It's about denying the slimy sneaks the
satisfaction of being able to blithely
rifle through my files whenever they
darn well please.
Refuse and go to prison.
Ordinarily, I refuse to accept government charity. But in this one case, yes, I would be willing to accept "three hots and a cot" rather than comprimise my principles.
Reminds me of a certain economics professor who responded to any mention of lawyers:
"Any idiot can be a lawyer. See that certificate over there? It's a license to practice law."
Then he'd relate the time he got tired of hearing how hard it was to become a lawyer, so he went out and passed the bar exam on the first try. Never attended a single day of law school.
... production apps under it , like sendmail or bind....
(cringe!) I hate it when people mention "production" and "sendmail" in the same breath.
We criticize businessmen who ignore security concerns and stick with Windows because it's what they know.
Then we stick with sendmail and bind for precisely the same reason.
There is NO REASON to run sendmail. Not when qmail, and courier, and postfix, and exim, and Zmailer, and just about any other smtp server written in the last ten years, all have it beat for features, performance, and security.
I've hot-swapped regular parallel-ATA drives in removable drive bay enclosures with no problem.
Unmount the partition
Unlock the drive cartridge (this powers down the drive)
Remove the old cartridge and insert the new one
Lock the drive cartridge
Mount the partition
But since this method doesn't force a bios scan,
it hangs if the drives have different disc/cyl/head
geometries, or different partition sizes.
Re:As no one got it right in the earlier article
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Yes, you can change rotational velocity in a closed system:
Stand on ice or some similarly low-friction surface
Point your left arm straight forward and your right arm straight back.
Swing both arms through a horizontal plane so that your left arm points behind and your right arm points ahead.
Swing both arms through a vertical plane so that the left arm points forward and the right arm back, again
Repeat as needed to accelerate rotational velocity. The effect is more pronounced if done while holding small barbells, and it even works for astronauts in free-fall.
Is there now a federal law against being disorganized?
If so, it would be perfectly consistent
with other federal legislation, setting
higher standards for private citizens
than for their "civil servants." (1)
Which, for the most part, are neither civil nor servile.
You could use Zope and Plone to accomplish this sort of thing. There is a very flexible workflow implementation. With a little python scripting you can make it do just about anything.
I think classic Ethernet is about the oldest and slowest networking medium that's still widely supported, unless you want to use serial connections.
I've used serial, parallel, arcnet, and ethernet.
Ethernet beats the rest. Unless you're comparing
it with fiber optic (not within the budget of most
geeks), I don't know how you get off calling it
"slowest."
And what's the difference between "classic" ethernet and
the plain-old-commodity-grade ethernet that runs through
cat-5 and 3c905 adapters?
Keep trying. According to my logs, about 30% of the time,
they DO respond. I don't know if they're overloaded 70%
of the time or if their IP-filter breaks 30% of the time,
but if you keep trying long enough, you will get through.
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Hello.
I'm from the government, and I'm here to help you...
.
..
...
BWAAAAHAAAAHAAHAHAHAHhahahahhahaaaahooo!
(sorry; just couldn't hold it any longer.)
Yup. Email me offline if you like; I'd be interested in further discourse.
In the event you chose #3 above, was it because:
Any response will, of course, be held in the strictest confidence.
Interesting comment.
It is a violation of United States federal law to use a social security number for identification purposes. And it is still (barely) possible for a U.S. citizen to reach the age of maturity without obtaining a social security number. However, it would be very difficult to obtain a bank account in that case. After a long discussion with a bank manager, I found out I would have to pay the bank $10,000 per year in order to maintain an account with no social security number on file. That's the amount the bank would be fined for maintaining an account without reporting the social security number of the account holder. (The possibility of an account holder not possessing a social security number is not comprehended by the banking statutes.)
So is your privacy worth $10,000/year? Or is it worth the inconvenience of avoiding any kind of banking transaction? After due consideration, I reluctantly decided that mine is not. If you live in the U.S. and have chosen otherwise, I salute you. When are you moving to New Hampshire?
Troll. Even if you did register MikeRoweSoftOffice.com, that would be prima-facie evidence of intent to deceive, since your other domain is registered under a different name.
And the next three I checked weren't registered by anybody.
Most of the posters here are providing links to "toy" fuel cells, suitable for lab experiments and small robotic toys but vastly underpowered for real-world applications. So I searched a bit further and found the real thing.
Product brochure (PDF format) is here.
Click here for a search interface to various fuel-cell products and technologies.
Everybody here seems to assume that any Orkut member has the ability to create other Orkut members (by invitation), but neither the CNN story nor the Orkut website itself supports that assumption.
Many here have issued blanket condemnations of this scheme, based on the idea that a few members could ruin the system by inviting undesirables into the elite club.
If somebody here knows authoritatively what system Orkut is using, would they please speak up?
On the other hand, what system WOULD work the best?
Wrong website, buddy. Move along.
Employer did issue safety gear. Employer asserted that excessive wear was solely due to mis-use on the part of employees. Employer was willing to sell employees extra safety gear at cost, which employees could use for whatever purpose they might desire.
Anyhow, when you're working 60-80 hours a week, you're thinking about escape, not about a lawsuit...
The Computer at Stonehenge
Strange things are done to be number one
In selling the computer
IBM has their stratagem
Which steadily grows acuter,
And Honeywell competes like Hell,
But the story's missing link
Is the system old at Stonehenge sold
By the firm of Druids, Inc.
The Druids were entrepreneurs,
And they built a granite box
It tracked the moon, warned of monsoons,
And forecast the equinox
Their price was right, their future bright,
The prototype was sold;
From Stonehenge site their bits and byte
Would ship for Celtic gold.
The movers came to crate the frame;
It weighed a million ton!
The traffic folk thought it a joke
(the wagon wheels just spun);
"They'll nay sell that," the foreman spat,
"Just leave the wild weeds grow;
It's Druid-kind, over-designed,
And belly up they'll go.''
The man spoke true, and thus to you
A warning from the ages;
Your stock will slip if you can't ship
What's in your brochure's pages.
See if it sells without the bells
And strings that ring and quiver;
Druid repute went down the chute
Because they couldn't deliver.
Worked for a month in a grease-processing factory in Portsmouth, VA called Divers Processing. We were issued chemical-resistant boots and gloves once a week; they usually lasted a day and a half before springing leaks. Extra pairs came out of your paycheck. Workday started at 6am and ended when the boss said you were done. Sometimes that was 10pm or later, even on Saturdays and Sundays. Even the rats hated the place; they looked absolutely miserable. A big horsefly landed on my arm once and apparently got a mouthful of what I was shoveling at the time; it died instantly. I used to come home and run my clothes through four wash cycles before the water stopped changing color. It was two weeks after I quit before the smell wore off my hands and arms. Whenever the EPA needs some extra income, it sends an inspection team to assess a six-figure fine. The owner gladly pays because it's cheaper than actually cleaning up the mess.
Already included in KDE3. When the screensaver locks, you can either type in the password of the currently logged-in user, or click the button to start a new, conncurrent session.
'Course, as with many nifty-neato-new features, it takes some twiddling to get the configuration right, which is exactly the point of this article.
It's not about being safe.
It's about denying the slimy sneaks the satisfaction of being able to blithely rifle through my files whenever they darn well please.
Ordinarily, I refuse to accept government charity. But in this one case, yes, I would be willing to accept "three hots and a cot" rather than comprimise my principles.
Just one of the many reasons I decided to encrypt my entire filesystem.
NGO = Non-Governmental Organization.
The logical conclusion from your post is that all Organizations should be Governmental.
My church is a Non-Governmental Organization.
So is the company who happens to pay my bills.
Obviously, you must live in a country where private ownership of property has been abolished, and you like it there.
Then he'd relate the time he got tired of hearing how hard it was to become a lawyer, so he went out and passed the bar exam on the first try. Never attended a single day of law school.
(cringe!) I hate it when people mention "production" and "sendmail" in the same breath.
We criticize businessmen who ignore security concerns and stick with Windows because it's what they know.
Then we stick with sendmail and bind for precisely the same reason.
There is NO REASON to run sendmail. Not when qmail, and courier, and postfix, and exim, and Zmailer, and just about any other smtp server written in the last ten years, all have it beat for features, performance, and security.
Ditto for bind and djbdns/powerdns/etc.
But since this method doesn't force a bios scan, it hangs if the drives have different disc/cyl/head geometries, or different partition sizes.
Yes, you can change rotational velocity in a closed system:
Repeat as needed to accelerate rotational velocity. The effect is more pronounced if done while holding small barbells, and it even works for astronauts in free-fall.
If so, it would be perfectly consistent with other federal legislation, setting higher standards for private citizens than for their "civil servants." (1)
You could use Zope and Plone to accomplish this sort of thing. There is a very flexible workflow implementation. With a little python scripting you can make it do just about anything.
I've used serial, parallel, arcnet, and ethernet. Ethernet beats the rest. Unless you're comparing it with fiber optic (not within the budget of most geeks), I don't know how you get off calling it "slowest."
And what's the difference between "classic" ethernet and the plain-old-commodity-grade ethernet that runs through cat-5 and 3c905 adapters?
Like this?
Keep trying. According to my logs, about 30% of the time, they DO respond. I don't know if they're overloaded 70% of the time or if their IP-filter breaks 30% of the time, but if you keep trying long enough, you will get through.
Had to look up the word "corrosive" before responding. It is basically synonymous with "acidic."
So yes, liquid sodium is non-corrosive; even more non-corrosive than the hydrogen used in the Hindenberg.
And even more reactive .