You wrote, "It is a 3rd year course, so students...". That should be either, "...course, and so..." or "...course; so...".

I use Discover's Secure Online Account Numbers all over the place. They are only good for the first merchant to charge them, and that merchant can charge indefinitely. You can cancel a single number any time. Charges go to your regular Discover account.

I found them to be a problem on Amazon, because regular purchases come from a "different" merchant than the one that MP3 downloads do and will get declined. So I just have two virtual cards on file and choose the appropriate one.

Case-insensitive subword buffer switching.

>While the tech community can stand to be more
>political, I think the mainstream business
>community even more desperately needs to get
>technical.

There's a nice commentary on how it is difficult to separate social from technical concerns. [link]. Perhaps that should be extended to the economic space as well.

What Verisign is trying to do is simple, enclose the entire DNS space. One solution in rejecting their governance is to support alternative domains ([AlterNIC]) but in some ways this is akin to a poison pill defense in that you're likely to get instability until an oliopoly forms.

Practically I doubt whether profit-oriented entity is willing to give up their fee from the assignment of names. I just hope an enlightened successor to Postel steps forward.

LL