The simplest solution is to use their student ID or student information system identifier (numeric usually and not their actual student ID). Example: student_id@domain.tld, with the display name assigned to be the student's name.
It's a bit ugly though.
My university address, which I think still works, is: First.Last04@[university].ac.uk Since I joined in 2004. The numbers cut down the number of collisions. Had I stayed on and done a PhD (or been employed) they would have also given me the address without the 04.
This has the additional advantage that it's no problem to offer email forwarding, since no future student's name will collide.
Oh, I know -- I took that picture. I was in Beijing for 10 days last year, and some other cities for another 20 days.
When I arrived, the jet-lag was doubly-confusing as the sky was yellow -- it felt like dawn, but was noon. The sun was a hazy bright patch in the yellow sky.
It rained (unusually, for the time of year) on the fourth day, all day and overnight, and the change the next morning was incredible -- I could see the mountains NW of Beijing from my hotel! And it was properly sunny. Everyone was smiling, everyone was in a good mood -- like a more-extreme version of what happens here in England in the winter (e.g. yesterday) when a nice sunny day follows a week of grey clouds.
I returned to London after almost a month in China, and took a train home (still London). I stepped out of the underground station, and grinned at how wonderfully fresh the air smelled. That was on one of the polluted, red roads, with a couple of buses accelerating away from the stop...
For a true emergency phone, I'd expect to get a pay-as-you-go phone and top it up by the minimum amount (£5?) once a year or so to keep the SIM active. (I was given a phone for emergencies when I was about 14, in 2000. The phone was about £30, calls were about 50p/minute, but I hardly ever needed to make one.)
I have a German SIM (I go there once or twice a year). The network sends me a text after about 6 months of inactivity, telling me I have a further 12 months before the SIM is disconnected.
But the number of people who have the time, skills, tools. and the desire to muck around with the complex inner workings of household appliances with replacement costs of $500 to $1000 and up --- way up --- is negligible.
At the moment, sure.
But in 10 years time, there's a rule that washing machines can only be used overnight, to even out the day/night electricity use imbalance. Washing machines are programmed to enforce this restriction. Now people want to change it.
Maybe that's too far-fetched. I'm not really interested in cars, but I understand that altering the software can alter the performance characteristics. Should that be illegal?
Some printer ink cartridges have chips that make them fail after a certain amount of time. Should bypassing the electronic lock be illegal?
A modern TV might include a web browser. Maybe the EPG might show adverts. Maybe the TV will warn the police if you watch too many violent films, or your health insurance company (or your spouse / parents) if you watch too much pornography. More realistically: the TV includes a camera, performs facial recognition to see who watches what programmes, and sends that data an advertising company. The TV switches off if no faces are detected in the room (energy saving feature), so covering up the camera isn't an option. *
It's not only geeks who might want to alter the software. (In the UK, the law at the moment -- as I read it -- allows them to, but it doesn't allow them to do it commercially. I think this probably came about because of people hacking satellite TV receiver equipment to bypass however they check for a valid subscription; I'm not sure what other electronic consumer item would be worth restricting.)
* There's probably software patents in some of these 'ideas'...
I bought an HTC Desire unlocked but subsidised, on a 2-year contract. I spent a few hours finding the best online deal: it was £17.50/month, which worked out to £420, roughly the retail price of the phone, so I essentially got the service (unlimited internet, texts, 400 minutes) free for two years.
The contract ended in September, but I was a bit disorganised and had a couple of foreign trips, so it's taken me until yesterday to sort out a new contract. I'll be paying £6.90/month for 500MB internet, 5000 texts and 400 minutes. (I tried to get another really good deal, the same contract but for £3/month, but suspiciously "failed the credit check"... hmmm)
Ah, my question is answered in the next part of the article:
Furthermore, new court decisions have changed the interpretation of the law. In 2010, the Ninth Circuit court decided in Vernor v. Autodesk, Inc that we cell phone owners do not actually “own” the software running our phones. Instead, we are only “licensing” this software – a key difference – which means that we don’t have a right to alter that software. This also played a role in the Librarian’s decision.
Why is it illegal to unlock a smartphone? Because unlocking a phone requires making changes to its firmware – software that is copyrighted and owned by your carrier – which would be a violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).
I don't understand. If I buy a book, and make some edits (cross out some paragraphs, change some words) that's not illegal. Perhaps it would be if I distributed the book (or copies of it). Selling pens to make the edits isn't illegal either.
I picked the first large TV that came up on a search, but the same TV is the "best" for energy efficiency according to an impartial consumer review organisation in the UK: http://www.which.co.uk/technology/tv-and-dvd/guides/tv-energy-running-costs/#/the-best . You have to pay to see the detailed statistics (that's how they remain impartial), so I don't know how they measured the consumption.
In any case, it's closer to £120 than $1095 a year.
08-18h (10 hours a day, allowing for flexible working hours) 5 days a week for a 92W 60" TV works out to 0.092*10*5*52 = 240kWh a year. I think my electric is about 15p/kWh, so £35/year.
OK, here: http://imgur.com/dPB4LmA is a picture from the park next to (north of) the Forbidden City in Beijing. Beyond 1.5km it's impossible to see anything, not even the shape of the buildings.
The photo is from October 2012. Can you see anything like that for an American city in 1990?
Also, it's like that much of the time in many Chinese cities. It's even worse when the weather doesn't cooperate (where it might cause smog for a day or two in present-day LA).
I only have 2 references and have no money. I will accept a lower wage position and be happy I have a job or change fields. If I study I can become a teacher.
(But Bradford? That's the only place* in the UK (Europe, even) where I've felt uncomfortable wandering around in the daytime -- the immigrant communities seem very segregated compared to most places, and I felt quite unwelcome walking through one. It has some fantastic buildings, but the mood of the place was unwelcoming and tense. I'm pleased but surprised the Canadian guy likes it.)
(I've not walked round that many places, considering.)
Well I have a degree and I am eager to make less than your minimium wage at this point. I need that resume hole plugged. Many out of shool make $13/hr before takes (I do not know the exchange rate) which is frankly crap. Before 2009 they would earn $15-$17 an hour.
Average for a graduate in the UK is about £20k, or $32k. Assuming a 40 hour week that's $15/hr. That includes the under-employed graduates, but not the unemployed ones, of which there are too many.
(Google can do currency conversions if you know the codes, "20000GBP in USD", but I think it's my problem to work it out since USD is more 'standard'.)
London though is outrageous. I can't see how any non lawyer, CEO, or doctor can afford a single one room place at the rents there so it is a give and take.
That's true. I'm 26, and share a flat with two friends. It's relatively central and in a nice area, and it's pretty good quality. For the same money I could live on my own, but either in an tiny place with poor transport in a crap area, an place that's been cheaply and poorly converted from a house into multiple small flats, or I could live way out at the edge of London and spend over two hours a day on trains. I prefer to live centrally, make the most of the city while I'm here, and move to another city (maybe somewhere else in Europe) when I'm older.
Much of the West End and the City ([of London], i.e. financial district) are way beyond what I'll ever be able to afford. Property in central London is seen as a safe, low-tax (often no-tax) investment by super-rich foreigners, prices in the central areas are beyond ridiculous -- tens of millions of pounds for a large house (example, £19M terraced house). Many British people don't like the idea of flats, or any building over 4 storeys, so there's a shortage of housing (and we end up with 3-storey Victorian houses converted into three crap 'apartments').
Friends outside London typically have a place as big as the one I share, and in at least as good a location, all to themselves or with a partner. They earn a bit less. However, it's harder to find jobs outside London / SE England. Most of the unemployed people on my Facebook thing are in the North or Wales.
$7.25/hr with 40 hours a week lands you $16,500 a year. Can you believe that?
I can believe the calculation, but that's a chunk less than minimum wage in the UK. A 40-hour week at minimum wage, £6.29, works out at £12,875, or just over $20k. After tax that leaves £11,300 ($17,800).
How much tax would you pay on $16,500 a year?
(It's interesting to compare. I think low-skilled people/jobs are worse off in the USA, but highly skilled people earn more in the US than they would in the UK.)
College graduates tend to stay away from factories usually because they're afraid of becoming too comfortable.
Do they have the luxury of choice? I know a couple of graduates who I think are a bit comfortable doing menial office work, but that's at least better than being too comfortable living on benefits (which is not too difficult here).
I live in London, where there is relatively very little manufacturing (see category, the little there is is mostly food), I don't know anyone who works in a factory, skilled or not.
(I found the figures. In London in 2005, out of 4.5M working people, only 200k were employed in manufacturing, and 80k of those were in publishing: source. On that basis, I do know people who work in publishing.)
Someone in my class installed a game in the officially-public network share. He was writing an AI for it, for a project. Other students found it, and played it.
It had taken a lot of hacking to get the game to run on Linux, and he was annoyed other students had played it without putting in that effort. So, he altered the 'start.sh' script to generate an ssh key, add the public part to the user's authorized_hosts file, and move the private key somewhere obscure.
He then got bored with the AI project.
Some time later, while helping in a tutorial, I was showing a student how to set up an SSH key. The authorized_keys file already contained about 20 entries. The AI guy was sitting at the next computer, and told me what he'd done (I knew him quite well, but he hadn't told me what he'd done until now). He found over 200 private keys in the obscure place. He deleted them, chown -R go-rwx'd the game, and we thought that was the end of it...
About a year later, Debian had that OpenSSL bug. The sysadmins ran a script across everyone's authorized_keys file, and removed any entries from keys generated by Debian OpenSSL. The email ended (I still have it):
By the way: some of you have FAR TOO MANY authorized_keys ENTRIES
and we seriously recommend that you radically shrink these down.
As I said, we recommend kerberos tickets or ssh-agent instead!
So, who pays for the education of the workers, their healthcare, their food and housing in any times they're not employed, the roads, railways and airports Intel will rely on, etc?
Indeed, and I think now that pretty much everyone who wants broadband has it, the competition has focused on retaining customers.
After moving house and selecting an ISP I checked with my flatmate that it was OK. He said it wasn't -- his online gaming would use 10x as much bandwidth as they would allow. (I don't play games, so I was amazed how much bandwidth Steam used when he told me -- 10GB+ for a game, and regular multi-GB updates.)
I phoned to cancel the order. They upgraded me to the top package (100GB/month included, some charge per GB for more) at no extra change. My flatmate said that was still no good, so I phoned back. They gave us "truly unlimited" (in writing) for the same price, which wasn't advertised on the website. That was 6 months ago, there haven't been any problems.
I told my mum. She phoned her (different) ISP, she got offered a better deal but said she'd have to check with me. When she phoned them back she got offered 12-month contract for 8Mb/s (it's a bit rural...) broadband for £1 per month, on condition that she pays all £12 in advance and tops up her pay-as-you-go mobile phone with at least £10 at least every three months. (This is ADSL, and she pays a different company for landline telephone service, otherwise it would be about £5-12/month extra for a minimal phone service.)
Not just Europe -- the SWIFT system is used internationally, you can look up US banks on the same website. It only identifies the institution. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_9362
On my online banking (British account), if I were to transfer money to a US account I need the SWIFT code and the account number (and addresses). To transfer money to an Austrian account I need the IBAN and (for some reason) the SWIFT code, but not any other numbers.
(Only the local number is printed on my cheques -- of which I've used one in the last four years -- but the SWIFT code and IBAN are printed on all my statements, and also online.)
It's entirely possible Tesco make no profit on some of their cheapest products. I think by having the "Tesco Everyday Value" product many more people will be happier buying the second-cheapest product ("Tesco"). Without it, they'd still buy the second-cheapest product ("Birds Eye Burgers") and Tesco wouldn't make so much money.
However, I'd guess WalMart would be a good start.
WalMart bought Asda a few years ago. For a *really* cheap product, these 32% pork sausages are sure to please.
I realised a few years ago I didn't like the bright, white glare of a screen in the evening (or at night).
I installed Redshift (check the repository before installing it manually), and now my screen fades to a warmer palette gradually, as the day progresses. The colour temperature changes to match the outside light. The first time I enabled it at night and the screen changed I could feel my eyes relaxing.
Another option is to leave everything as black-on-white, then invert the screen. KDE has a graphics effect that does this -- either for the whole screen or a single window -- and I'm told there are add-ons for Windows that can do the same thing.
They have a mobile version of the web site. But I sincerely hope they make it possible to download offline packages for different areas. Pair it up with OpenStreetMap data , and you'd have a great app.
I'm certain they will -- that's one of the reasons for the fork of Wikitravel. Wikitravel made it very difficult to do a bulk-download of the content, which meant it was difficult to write an offline Android app, for example.
Slashdot Mirror
http://m.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2083906/claims-com-net-websites-jurisdiction
(Posting from phone, I might folllow up. Properly later.)
The simplest solution is to use their student ID or student information system identifier (numeric usually and not their actual student ID).
Example: student_id@domain.tld, with the display name assigned to be the student's name.
It's a bit ugly though.
My university address, which I think still works, is:
First.Last04@[university].ac.uk
Since I joined in 2004. The numbers cut down the number of collisions. Had I stayed on and done a PhD (or been employed) they would have also given me the address without the 04.
This has the additional advantage that it's no problem to offer email forwarding, since no future student's name will collide.
Oh, I know -- I took that picture. I was in Beijing for 10 days last year, and some other cities for another 20 days.
When I arrived, the jet-lag was doubly-confusing as the sky was yellow -- it felt like dawn, but was noon. The sun was a hazy bright patch in the yellow sky.
It rained (unusually, for the time of year) on the fourth day, all day and overnight, and the change the next morning was incredible -- I could see the mountains NW of Beijing from my hotel! And it was properly sunny. Everyone was smiling, everyone was in a good mood -- like a more-extreme version of what happens here in England in the winter (e.g. yesterday) when a nice sunny day follows a week of grey clouds.
I returned to London after almost a month in China, and took a train home (still London). I stepped out of the underground station, and grinned at how wonderfully fresh the air smelled. That was on one of the polluted, red roads, with a couple of buses accelerating away from the stop...
For a true emergency phone, I'd expect to get a pay-as-you-go phone and top it up by the minimum amount (£5?) once a year or so to keep the SIM active. (I was given a phone for emergencies when I was about 14, in 2000. The phone was about £30, calls were about 50p/minute, but I hardly ever needed to make one.)
I have a German SIM (I go there once or twice a year). The network sends me a text after about 6 months of inactivity, telling me I have a further 12 months before the SIM is disconnected.
$50/£30 is about what a normal contract with a smartphone included costs. See https://www.o2.co.uk/browsing/tariffs/apple/iphone-5-16gb-black/ for examples with an iPhone, I think most people with iPhones probably get something like that.
I know this will come as a shock to the geek.
But the number of people who have the time, skills, tools. and the desire to muck around with the complex inner workings of household appliances with replacement costs of $500 to $1000 and up --- way up --- is negligible.
At the moment, sure.
But in 10 years time, there's a rule that washing machines can only be used overnight, to even out the day/night electricity use imbalance. Washing machines are programmed to enforce this restriction. Now people want to change it.
Maybe that's too far-fetched. I'm not really interested in cars, but I understand that altering the software can alter the performance characteristics. Should that be illegal?
Some printer ink cartridges have chips that make them fail after a certain amount of time. Should bypassing the electronic lock be illegal?
A modern TV might include a web browser. Maybe the EPG might show adverts. Maybe the TV will warn the police if you watch too many violent films, or your health insurance company (or your spouse / parents) if you watch too much pornography. More realistically: the TV includes a camera, performs facial recognition to see who watches what programmes, and sends that data an advertising company. The TV switches off if no faces are detected in the room (energy saving feature), so covering up the camera isn't an option. *
It's not only geeks who might want to alter the software. (In the UK, the law at the moment -- as I read it -- allows them to, but it doesn't allow them to do it commercially. I think this probably came about because of people hacking satellite TV receiver equipment to bypass however they check for a valid subscription; I'm not sure what other electronic consumer item would be worth restricting.)
* There's probably software patents in some of these 'ideas'...
I bought an HTC Desire unlocked but subsidised, on a 2-year contract. I spent a few hours finding the best online deal: it was £17.50/month, which worked out to £420, roughly the retail price of the phone, so I essentially got the service (unlimited internet, texts, 400 minutes) free for two years.
The contract ended in September, but I was a bit disorganised and had a couple of foreign trips, so it's taken me until yesterday to sort out a new contract. I'll be paying £6.90/month for 500MB internet, 5000 texts and 400 minutes. (I tried to get another really good deal, the same contract but for £3/month, but suspiciously "failed the credit check"... hmmm)
Ah, my question is answered in the next part of the article:
Furthermore, new court decisions have changed the interpretation of the law. In 2010, the Ninth Circuit court decided in Vernor v. Autodesk, Inc that we cell phone owners do not actually “own” the software running our phones. Instead, we are only “licensing” this software – a key difference – which means that we don’t have a right to alter that software. This also played a role in the Librarian’s decision.
FTA:
Why is it illegal to unlock a smartphone?
Because unlocking a phone requires making changes to its firmware – software that is copyrighted and owned by your carrier – which would be a violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).
I don't understand. If I buy a book, and make some edits (cross out some paragraphs, change some words) that's not illegal. Perhaps it would be if I distributed the book (or copies of it). Selling pens to make the edits isn't illegal either.
How is changing firmware different?
I picked the first large TV that came up on a search, but the same TV is the "best" for energy efficiency according to an impartial consumer review organisation in the UK: http://www.which.co.uk/technology/tv-and-dvd/guides/tv-energy-running-costs/#/the-best . You have to pay to see the detailed statistics (that's how they remain impartial), so I don't know how they measured the consumption.
In any case, it's closer to £120 than $1095 a year.
I doubt 24/7 is necessary.
08-18h (10 hours a day, allowing for flexible working hours) 5 days a week for a 92W 60" TV works out to 0.092*10*5*52 = 240kWh a year. I think my electric is about 15p/kWh, so £35/year.
24/7 it would be £120/year.
How about a giant Raspberry Pi-powered etch-a-sketch?
The video isn't very good, and it's not giant, but: http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/3046
OK, here: http://imgur.com/dPB4LmA is a picture from the park next to (north of) the Forbidden City in Beijing. Beyond 1.5km it's impossible to see anything, not even the shape of the buildings.
The photo is from October 2012. Can you see anything like that for an American city in 1990?
Also, it's like that much of the time in many Chinese cities. It's even worse when the weather doesn't cooperate (where it might cause smog for a day or two in present-day LA).
I only have 2 references and have no money. I will accept a lower wage position and be happy I have a job or change fields. If I study I can become a teacher.
I found this while replying to the other post: http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2012/nov/28/canadian-teachers-learn-meaning-bradford
(But Bradford? That's the only place* in the UK (Europe, even) where I've felt uncomfortable wandering around in the daytime -- the immigrant communities seem very segregated compared to most places, and I felt quite unwelcome walking through one. It has some fantastic buildings, but the mood of the place was unwelcoming and tense. I'm pleased but surprised the Canadian guy likes it.)
(I've not walked round that many places, considering.)
Well I have a degree and I am eager to make less than your minimium wage at this point. I need that resume hole plugged. Many out of shool make $13/hr before takes (I do not know the exchange rate) which is frankly crap. Before 2009 they would earn $15-$17 an hour.
Average for a graduate in the UK is about £20k, or $32k. Assuming a 40 hour week that's $15/hr. That includes the under-employed graduates, but not the unemployed ones, of which there are too many.
(Google can do currency conversions if you know the codes, "20000GBP in USD", but I think it's my problem to work it out since USD is more 'standard'.)
London though is outrageous. I can't see how any non lawyer, CEO, or doctor can afford a single one room place at the rents there so it is a give and take.
That's true. I'm 26, and share a flat with two friends. It's relatively central and in a nice area, and it's pretty good quality. For the same money I could live on my own, but either in an tiny place with poor transport in a crap area, an place that's been cheaply and poorly converted from a house into multiple small flats, or I could live way out at the edge of London and spend over two hours a day on trains. I prefer to live centrally, make the most of the city while I'm here, and move to another city (maybe somewhere else in Europe) when I'm older.
Much of the West End and the City ([of London], i.e. financial district) are way beyond what I'll ever be able to afford. Property in central London is seen as a safe, low-tax (often no-tax) investment by super-rich foreigners, prices in the central areas are beyond ridiculous -- tens of millions of pounds for a large house (example, £19M terraced house ). Many British people don't like the idea of flats, or any building over 4 storeys, so there's a shortage of housing (and we end up with 3-storey Victorian houses converted into three crap 'apartments').
Friends outside London typically have a place as big as the one I share, and in at least as good a location, all to themselves or with a partner. They earn a bit less. However, it's harder to find jobs outside London / SE England. Most of the unemployed people on my Facebook thing are in the North or Wales.
I should probably stop complaining :-)
$7.25/hr with 40 hours a week lands you $16,500 a year. Can you believe that?
I can believe the calculation, but that's a chunk less than minimum wage in the UK. A 40-hour week at minimum wage, £6.29, works out at £12,875, or just over $20k. After tax that leaves £11,300 ($17,800).
How much tax would you pay on $16,500 a year?
(It's interesting to compare. I think low-skilled people/jobs are worse off in the USA, but highly skilled people earn more in the US than they would in the UK.)
College graduates tend to stay away from factories usually because they're afraid of becoming too comfortable.
Do they have the luxury of choice? I know a couple of graduates who I think are a bit comfortable doing menial office work, but that's at least better than being too comfortable living on benefits (which is not too difficult here).
I live in London, where there is relatively very little manufacturing (see category, the little there is is mostly food), I don't know anyone who works in a factory, skilled or not.
(I found the figures. In London in 2005, out of 4.5M working people, only 200k were employed in manufacturing, and 80k of those were in publishing: source. On that basis, I do know people who work in publishing.)
Someone in my class installed a game in the officially-public network share. He was writing an AI for it, for a project. Other students found it, and played it.
It had taken a lot of hacking to get the game to run on Linux, and he was annoyed other students had played it without putting in that effort. So, he altered the 'start.sh' script to generate an ssh key, add the public part to the user's authorized_hosts file, and move the private key somewhere obscure.
He then got bored with the AI project.
Some time later, while helping in a tutorial, I was showing a student how to set up an SSH key. The authorized_keys file already contained about 20 entries. The AI guy was sitting at the next computer, and told me what he'd done (I knew him quite well, but he hadn't told me what he'd done until now). He found over 200 private keys in the obscure place. He deleted them, chown -R go-rwx'd the game, and we thought that was the end of it...
About a year later, Debian had that OpenSSL bug. The sysadmins ran a script across everyone's authorized_keys file, and removed any entries from keys generated by Debian OpenSSL. The email ended (I still have it):
By the way: some of you have FAR TOO MANY authorized_keys ENTRIES
and we seriously recommend that you radically shrink these down.
As I said, we recommend kerberos tickets or ssh-agent instead!
...so I don't think they knew how they got there.
So, who pays for the education of the workers, their healthcare, their food and housing in any times they're not employed, the roads, railways and airports Intel will rely on, etc?
Indeed, and I think now that pretty much everyone who wants broadband has it, the competition has focused on retaining customers.
After moving house and selecting an ISP I checked with my flatmate that it was OK. He said it wasn't -- his online gaming would use 10x as much bandwidth as they would allow. (I don't play games, so I was amazed how much bandwidth Steam used when he told me -- 10GB+ for a game, and regular multi-GB updates.)
I phoned to cancel the order. They upgraded me to the top package (100GB/month included, some charge per GB for more) at no extra change. My flatmate said that was still no good, so I phoned back. They gave us "truly unlimited" (in writing) for the same price, which wasn't advertised on the website. That was 6 months ago, there haven't been any problems.
I told my mum. She phoned her (different) ISP, she got offered a better deal but said she'd have to check with me. When she phoned them back she got offered 12-month contract for 8Mb/s (it's a bit rural...) broadband for £1 per month, on condition that she pays all £12 in advance and tops up her pay-as-you-go mobile phone with at least £10 at least every three months. (This is ADSL, and she pays a different company for landline telephone service, otherwise it would be about £5-12/month extra for a minimal phone service.)
I count 50 providers in the UK: http://www.thinkbroadband.com/isps.html
Many of them do DSL, resold using BT's equipment. A few have their own equipment in BT's exchanges, and only use BT's phone lines.
One or two are cable or fibre, and have nothing to do with BT.
Some do more than one of these.
(Not included: mobile broadband. There are probably about 6 nationwide providers.)
Not just Europe -- the SWIFT system is used internationally, you can look up US banks on the same website. It only identifies the institution. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_9362
An IBAN identifies an account: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_13616
On my online banking (British account), if I were to transfer money to a US account I need the SWIFT code and the account number (and addresses). To transfer money to an Austrian account I need the IBAN and (for some reason) the SWIFT code, but not any other numbers.
(Only the local number is printed on my cheques -- of which I've used one in the last four years -- but the SWIFT code and IBAN are printed on all my statements, and also online.)
This is the product: http://www.tesco.com/groceries/Product/Details/?id=264291549
It's entirely possible Tesco make no profit on some of their cheapest products. I think by having the "Tesco Everyday Value" product many more people will be happier buying the second-cheapest product ("Tesco"). Without it, they'd still buy the second-cheapest product ("Birds Eye Burgers") and Tesco wouldn't make so much money.
However, I'd guess WalMart would be a good start.
WalMart bought Asda a few years ago. For a *really* cheap product, these 32% pork sausages are sure to please.
Would never sprinkle "soya protein isolate" on my burgers anymore. Always thought I added too much
The last information I read suggested that it was essentially "horse protein isolate" that was the source of the horse DNA found in the burgers.
I realised a few years ago I didn't like the bright, white glare of a screen in the evening (or at night).
I installed Redshift (check the repository before installing it manually), and now my screen fades to a warmer palette gradually, as the day progresses. The colour temperature changes to match the outside light. The first time I enabled it at night and the screen changed I could feel my eyes relaxing.
Another option is to leave everything as black-on-white, then invert the screen. KDE has a graphics effect that does this -- either for the whole screen or a single window -- and I'm told there are add-ons for Windows that can do the same thing.
They have a mobile version of the web site. But I sincerely hope they make it possible to download offline packages for different areas. Pair it up with OpenStreetMap data , and you'd have a great app.
I'm certain they will -- that's one of the reasons for the fork of Wikitravel. Wikitravel made it very difficult to do a bulk-download of the content, which meant it was difficult to write an offline Android app, for example.