Faxes can be intercepted just as easily as email. It is just a different set of tools. Each line in a fax has its own synchronization codes, so one can even intercept a partial fax without any trouble.
I have recently done some car insurance stuff using a scanner and email. It is just habit I guess. The risk is reduced when people talk over the phone, repeated emails and then follow up over snail mail to confirm the changes. For the whole process to work up to the end, it is relatively secure.
Uhh, tropical fruit have no 'seasons'. Also, what is wrong about importing fruit from the southern hemisphere? Given that most of the southern hemisphere is water and most people live on the northern land mass, supplying food out of season to the north is a major and lucrative source of income to the southern countries.
So many people have thanked me for installing OpenOffice.org to replace the totally unusable MS Office 2007, that I really hope this remains a Chinese feature.
MS Office 2007 ribbons is the best thing MS could have done to promote OOo adoption. We should all send 'thank you' letters to uncle Steve for that.
It sounds like a way to provide work - have a few billion people watch a few billion other people. A totally pointless exercise, but it will keep them busy...
"Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me (Except Cubans and Mexicans), I lift my lamp beside the golden door! "
Yup, I noticed that too. I think the HR drones all use the same, extraodinarily bad resume scanning software.
BTW, if you are after a high paying job, use http://theladders.com/ their resume rewriters actually work and costs about $300.
Oh, yes, almost forgot - watch out for moose dropping from trees. Once a moose bit you in the neck it is very hard to get off. You may end up carrying a moose around on your neck for weeks, before you can convince someone to help. They are a protected species, so the penalty for hurting a dropping moose is huge...
I think you would find Vancouver almost as different as Sydney and Perth, so relax and enjoy it.
The biggest changes are driving on the wrong side of the road and turning right on a red light.
Oh, and there are some funny politicians in Ottawa, but since they are thousands of kilometers away, nobody in the west cares about them. Saskatchewan, Alberta and BC are practically independent countries. Oh, and Yukon - nobody cares about Yukon. The power of the central government doesn't seem to extend much beyond Ontario and Quebec.
I wonder how many of these 'lost tapes' are Tape Trolls forging the records and entering tapes as sent to storage, while they were never done in the first place, due to sleeping on the job...
I guess the Brits have watched too much cartoons when they were young. Someone aught to tell them that Wiley Coyote and Beep Beep the Roadrunner are not real.
Using sunlight for electricity is not particularly attractive, but for the neat 'no moving parts' aspect. It is far better to use solar power for light, water and space heating - those remarkable innovations called windows and skylights for example.
Uhhh, you should watch his presentation. This is a device that actually works. The problem is refining it and scaling it up. It is probably more useful as an engine for spacecraft than for electricity production though.
"windmill != wind turbine"
A mill doesn't just refer to something used to grind flour. Therefore a mill can pump water, grind flour, generate electricity or run an early industrial age loom. Any kind of motor or gearbox can be described as a mill. So a typical car has a little mill in between the front wheels powering it...
Small battery chargers are very easy to make. All you need is a 36V DC cooling fan for a large stationary motor and a diode. That will charge a 12V battery quite nicely and costs only about $100. This is a nice setup to power a cottage or a RV. We used one for many years, till the grid finally caught up with the cottage.
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Actually, faxes are only used by lawyers and realtors. Nobody else use them anymore.
Morse sent his first 'email' messages before or after the first pantograph 'fax'?
...and if you gave the solicitor a power of attorny letter then most of that trouble could have been avoided.
Faxes can be intercepted just as easily as email. It is just a different set of tools. Each line in a fax has its own synchronization codes, so one can even intercept a partial fax without any trouble.
I have recently done some car insurance stuff using a scanner and email. It is just habit I guess. The risk is reduced when people talk over the phone, repeated emails and then follow up over snail mail to confirm the changes. For the whole process to work up to the end, it is relatively secure.
Uhh, tropical fruit have no 'seasons'. Also, what is wrong about importing fruit from the southern hemisphere? Given that most of the southern hemisphere is water and most people live on the northern land mass, supplying food out of season to the north is a major and lucrative source of income to the southern countries.
So many people have thanked me for installing OpenOffice.org to replace the totally unusable MS Office 2007, that I really hope this remains a Chinese feature.
MS Office 2007 ribbons is the best thing MS could have done to promote OOo adoption. We should all send 'thank you' letters to uncle Steve for that.
It sounds like a way to provide work - have a few billion people watch a few billion other people. A totally pointless exercise, but it will keep them busy...
"Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me (Except Cubans and Mexicans), I lift my lamp beside the golden door! "
There, fixed it for you...
Yup, I noticed that too. I think the HR drones all use the same, extraodinarily bad resume scanning software. BTW, if you are after a high paying job, use http://theladders.com/ their resume rewriters actually work and costs about $300. Oh, yes, almost forgot - watch out for moose dropping from trees. Once a moose bit you in the neck it is very hard to get off. You may end up carrying a moose around on your neck for weeks, before you can convince someone to help. They are a protected species, so the penalty for hurting a dropping moose is huge...
I think you would find Vancouver almost as different as Sydney and Perth, so relax and enjoy it.
The biggest changes are driving on the wrong side of the road and turning right on a red light.
Oh, and there are some funny politicians in Ottawa, but since they are thousands of kilometers away, nobody in the west cares about them. Saskatchewan, Alberta and BC are practically independent countries. Oh, and Yukon - nobody cares about Yukon. The power of the central government doesn't seem to extend much beyond Ontario and Quebec.
Neither the summary nor TFA inspired me with awe. Guess I'm losing it.
They are using graphical processors to process graphics. Truly revolutionary. Who woulda thunkit?
I wonder how many of these 'lost tapes' are Tape Trolls forging the records and entering tapes as sent to storage, while they were never done in the first place, due to sleeping on the job...
Once the QA and Qual guys are done with it, a mil-spec Wii remote will weigh at least 50lb, so it will be excellent exercise...
I guess the Brits have watched too much cartoons when they were young. Someone aught to tell them that Wiley Coyote and Beep Beep the Roadrunner are not real.
Chicken. ;)
Why don't you download and try it?
The new bugs and memory leaks are half the fun with Firefox.
Only two replies and the PC World server is already bitten by the Slashdot Spider.
Cool, if nobody will ever download them, are they storing them in /dev/null?
Using sunlight for electricity is not particularly attractive, but for the neat 'no moving parts' aspect. It is far better to use solar power for light, water and space heating - those remarkable innovations called windows and skylights for example.
Uhhh, you should watch his presentation. This is a device that actually works. The problem is refining it and scaling it up. It is probably more useful as an engine for spacecraft than for electricity production though.
Well, I'm a Canadian I know what glaciers look like and it certainly looks like the machine is sitting on top of one. Just my tuppence worth.
I am getting by just fine on my Eee PC with a 4GB SSD and a 8GB SD card, for a total of 12GB.
The trick is to have a server somewhere with enough disk space to keep the bulk of the crap online.
"windmill != wind turbine" A mill doesn't just refer to something used to grind flour. Therefore a mill can pump water, grind flour, generate electricity or run an early industrial age loom. Any kind of motor or gearbox can be described as a mill. So a typical car has a little mill in between the front wheels powering it...
Small battery chargers are very easy to make. All you need is a 36V DC cooling fan for a large stationary motor and a diode. That will charge a 12V battery quite nicely and costs only about $100. This is a nice setup to power a cottage or a RV. We used one for many years, till the grid finally caught up with the cottage.