Posts by Keith Williams 134 publicly visible posts • joined 6 Jun 2007
1. To keep an eye on Americans
2. AFAIK, we have never let in any terrorists on a student pilot "I don't need to know how to land a plane" visa
3. American vessels poking driving through the Canadian Arctic
4. I'd like to see the Americans try to defend themselves against Russia and China without our help.
No. I am a techie. I am NOT a nert. I don't have black hornrim glasses, held together with white tape. I do not have a pocket protector, I think slide rules are great for something, but I have no idea what. I think talking with my kids or my girlfriend is a helluvalot more interesting than playing with a computer.
Mine's the one without electronics in the pockets.
"But you must remember, my fellow-citizens, that eternal vigilance by the people is the price of liberty, and that you must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessing. It behooves you, therefore, to be watchful in your States as well as in the Federal Government." -- Andrew Jackson, Farewell Address, March 4, 1837
It buys a hell of a lot more than not having it!
Will it find a cure all by itself - no it won't. But it will help.
Will give publicity to this problem and increase research into it - I hope so.
My Aunt and my g/f's father both suffer from early onset Alzheimers. My Aunt died several years ago. My cousin said, it doesn't matter, my mother died a decade before that.
My G/F's father is presently dying. He had broken a hip and, while healing, forgot how to walk. He has frogotten his family. He has forgotten his name. He has forgotten how to speak. He has forgotten how to eat.
I applaud Mr. Pratchett's donation. I hope that they trigger more donations, both large and small.
I know that should I ever suffer from this awful wasting disease I would serious consider ending my own life immediately rather than seeing it disappear before my eyes.
This is the first time that I have heard of plastic bags killing marine life (even if the article was wrong).
However, in Canada we are reducing our usage of plastic shopping bags because they take up too much space in our landfills and don't degrade in a reasonable period of time.
In my house we use about 12 cloth shopping bags for our groceries, and return other shops bags to them for disposal/recycling.
"Please bare in mind that that clothing often does not come in packages, and therefore will require to have the tag woven into the label or the fabric itself."
I purchased a jacket at WalMart which had a security tag tucked away in the lining. The cashier failed to de-activate it at purchase time and for a year after that every time I exited a store which used the same security system, I triggered the alarm until I was in an HMV, triggered the alarm and the store manager located the tag and we removed it. the tag was simply tucked in, it was not woven into the fabric.
I vote for decativing
I find the responses in here Totally Amazing.
Just because someone doesn't have the technical knowledge to secure a router doesn't make it fair game for someone else to use.
Would you appreciate it if someone was using your wireless router to download child porn? To review bomb making information? To download movies over bit torrent and using up your bandwidth so you got throttled?
It is a crime in the UK, the US and Canada (and probably other countries) to use communications devices without permission of the owner. It doesnt matter if the connection is unencrypted, or un passworded it is still a crime.
Personally, I configure the most powerful encryption I can, preface the name of the router with "()" to indicate closed, and turn off broadcast invitations of the SSID. On the other hand, I do this stuff for a living so it is no problem for me.
Flames because I expected better of everyone here.
"I believe the Pentagon
By Anonymous Coward
Posted Thursday 21st February 2008 10:37 GMT
They just happened to have this modified missile handy, on a cruiser in a suitable position in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, and the trajectory software was knocked up in a week when this super secret satellite "GallileoTargetPractice#1" failed to respond"
They've known this moment was coming since the satellite was launched and failed to respond in 2006. Lots of time to modify the missile and plan the shot(s). They just had to wait until it was beginning re-entry.
Barrie, being Canadian, I had never been asked for photo ID to go with a credit card purchase until I went to Las Vegas last month, where I was sometimes asked for photo id for $10 (sunglasses) and somethimes not for $50+ (buffet for 2) (ok, so I'm really cheap).
Michael, our cops are jealous of yours. Things will change so we are no better off than you are. sorry.
To me, Fraud is lying to obtain something to which you are not rightfully entitled. Therefore, you are committing fraud whenever you misrepresent yourself as a person who is entitled to have those phone records.
I also wonder why the phone companies are willing to beleive that so many people need a history of their inbound and outbound phone calls.
I too am a vonage customer. I initially got vonage because I hated paying $53/month for my voice line with all the crap. I get a much better deal from Vonage at $20/mo for 500 minutes, which I never even come close to using, plus tons of features. And the service has been much better the last few months, with no dropped calls, no echo and no 1/2 calls (one side can't hear the other)
The phone companies, and even the cable companies (mine wants $49/mo for less service and claims "up to" 25% savings) have dropped the ball on this.
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