Pizza with a credit card

2002-07-30 Thread Duncan Frissell
http://villagevoice.com/issues/0230/baard.phpBuying Trouble In which the Village Voice discusses the use of commercial databases including supermarket discount cards in hunting terrorists. One useful piece of advice: Don't but pizza with a credit card: Oddly enough, one of the factors was if

today in dc

2002-07-30 Thread Declan McCullagh
no, not a joke. yes, this is clearly an important thing for our congresscritters to be doing. SENATE COMMERCE, SCIENCE AND TRANSPORTATION COMMITTEE Consumer Protection Consumer Affairs, Foreign Commerce, and Tourism Subcommittee hearing on improvement in consumer choice with regard to

RE: today in dc

2002-07-30 Thread Trei, Peter
Declan McCullagh[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: no, not a joke. yes, this is clearly an important thing for our congresscritters to be doing. SENATE COMMERCE, SCIENCE AND TRANSPORTATION COMMITTEE Consumer Protection Consumer Affairs, Foreign Commerce, and Tourism Subcommittee hearing

RE: today in dc

2002-07-30 Thread Albion Zeglin
There are consumer protection laws that may be used to open this up. Manufacturers are required to provide for repair parts for a minimum amount of time. Being able to take your car to an independent repair services has in the past been defined as an owner's right. Data pertaining to the

Re: How to Defeat DVD Zone Controls

2002-07-30 Thread Steve Schear
At 07:44 PM 7/30/2002 -0400, you wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Most players cannot be hacked. And many hacks do not operate properly. How about just rent or borrow DVDs, reprocess to remove the region controls and reburn to a DVD-R? DVD-Rs are only about $1.25 or less each. Test

Re: How to Defeat DVD Zone Controls

2002-07-30 Thread Mark Renouf
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Most players cannot be hacked. And many hacks do not operate properly. How about just rent or borrow DVDs, reprocess to remove the region controls and reburn to a DVD-R? DVD-Rs are only about $1.25 or less each. Test burn on a DVD-RW to help prevent expensive

Article on file encryption options

2002-07-30 Thread Matthew X
http://www.zdnet.com.au/itmanager/technology/story/0,229587,20266902,00.htm FROM http://www.zdnet.com.au/ WHERE A Swiss company named id Quantique is already selling a device that performs over fiber networks what it calls quantum key distribution. Eat your heart out peter Trei.

Is Latvia Offshore?

2002-07-30 Thread Duncan Frissell
So I wonder. Is Latvia Offshore? I am in receipt of a fun piece of spam: Dear Customer, Looking for a superior asset protection and tax management tool? Concerned about preserving your wealth in the heart of Europe without personal identity disclosure? We have a

A QA exchange between me and Eugene Volokh

2002-07-30 Thread Duncan Frissell
A QA exchange between me and Eugene Volokh: [Eugene's responses in square brackets.] The topic was Gilmore v. Ashcroft -- FAA ID Challenge in which John Gilmore is suing the Feds to be allowed to fly domestically without ID. So, does John have a chance? [No.] So it is your view that the Feds