No no, they fixed that. I believe somebody just kicked the box which was at the time being used as a doorstop in Brin's office.
Listen up Sergey boy. It's time to stop being so foolhardy. Send it back to Big Ben and we'll forget this ever happened, yeah?
from a reputable source (i.e. them).
I do not think that word means what you think it means.
Exactly! HURD is the kernel, Emacs is the operating system.
There's a very cool british TV program called "The Real Hustle" in which they perform popular cons with a hidden camera and then explain them.
In one episode they show how a waiter can hide a card reader stuck to the side of their leg or under an apron and swipe it after purposely dropping it to the floor and then either picking it up or cleaning it. In this cases the waiters were using the portable reader that goes to your table, and they still were able to steal data.
For those interested in seeing this, here you go.
I'm the paranoid sort with this sort of thing, I have to say. I usually only use my credit card for select purchases and often in stores I trust (as far as you can). I never use debit or credit cards for groceries and trivial things like that.
As always though, there are new attack vectors coming into play all the time and you only need to be caught out once. It's entirely possible that I might be caught out one day by some new method I'm unaware of. For now I'm just content to reduce my 'attack surface' and try to be as vigilant as I can. (eg not specifically credit card related but a few years ago cycle rental place wanted to hold my passport until the cycle was returned. I refused.)
I usually give credit where credit is due
Ace! I'll take 10,000 blank American Express. Meet me by the disused warehouse down by the docks in three hours.
Cheer up mate. You just posted details to Slashdot. Sales will have gone through the roof right about.... now!
It is interesting to note that this is indeed how it has been (or with similar traits (non-cooperative departments)) in the past, in some countries. Folks who had fire marks (insurance) on their homes were protected and the fire was dealt with. (Different companies had different badges/fire marks making the situation more troublesome).
The comments by you and others are all fair enough. For the record I'm not a so-called lefty. Nor do I watch/read an awful lot of any one news source. Further still, I haven't been following any of the things you raised in your post.
My opinion was based solely on what I've seen reported, and how, in contrast to other news sources. I will gladly admit that I am not the most informed in such matters and evidently don't have the full picture. I will happily peruse the linked articles.
We've got speed cameras in the UK. Thousands of the damn things, in fact. They're almost universally despised, being widely perceived as both a cash cow and a substitute for real policing.
The problem with any serious effort to get rid of them is that the authorities with the data to provide useful statistics...
I thought this was an interesting read on said speed camera statistics. (FWIW the author thinks speed cameras are generally a good idea.)
Don't forget too that BBC News also covers things that are shameful for the BBC itself, such as the fines.
I think the BBC is one of, if not the, most impartial news source around, personally. Certainly far better than Fox News etc.
But then, I've always had trouble believing what anyone like Nancy Grace, Bill O'Reilly, Diane Dimond et al have to say given their very confrontational tone of voice and quickness to anger when they are called on their views, or are otherwise contradicted. They would say they are hard-hitting. I would say they are hot-headed egotistical scuzzbags.
Your wallet is a tool for change.
Sure is.
Joking aside, I have to agree. I haven't yet taken it to the extent you have. I still have my old music and movies but I don't buy anything new. It was never really a conscious decision against the RIAA or MPAA for me, but a result of a growing dislike towards money-grabbing/useless corporations generally. (For me this not only includes companies that don't provide value for money, but also those that treat me as a stupid consumer.)
I'd like to send these associations and the companies they represent the way of the Big Three, which would hopefully knock some much needed sense into them. The problem as I see it is that media is seen as a disposable asset by many people; something to just waste money on regardless of the low quality and unoriginality. Vehicle purchases are quite different: most people want to get value for money and have a vehicle that will last them years.
Part of me - the slightly sinister part - secretly hopes the economy will worsen more and the general populace will be forced to tighten their belts even more. With luck, it would be enough to seriously disable these media cartels. However, even then I doubt it would work. More people would just clue onto downloading tracks and the RIAA would go back to their old method of suing every last one of them. Other people would continue to purchase their shiny CDs even in the face of bankruptcy (the world has no shortage of idiots).
The hardest part of climbing the ladder of success is getting through the crowd at the bottom.
