The US regulations, making your personal information available to anyone.
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"Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny. "
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1) Open notepad.
2) Type 'Bush hid the facts' (without the speech marks.)
3) Save it as whatever you like, then close it.
4) Open it again.
It's all a conspiracy.
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My how I laughed when I read this extract ....
However, the suspicion is that the distance over which the signal can be read relates only to the weakness of the signal sent out by the readers. What if the readers sent out much stronger signals? Potentially, then, criminals with powerful readers could suck out your information as you passed by.
The Government denies that this scenario is viable, but, in January, Dutch security specialists Riscure successfully read and de-encrypted information from its country's new biometric passports from a distance of about 30ft in just two hours.Comment
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Now that is strange !Originally posted by PRC19641) Open notepad.
2) Type 'Bush hid the facts' (without the speech marks.)
3) Save it as whatever you like, then close it.
4) Open it again.
It's all a conspiracy.
He thought he saw an Argument
That proved he was the Pope:
He looked again, and found it was
A Bar of Mottled Soap.
'A fact so dread,' he faintly said,
'Extinguishes all hope!'
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Oo-er, it goes all weird.Originally posted by PRC19641) Open notepad.
2) Type 'Bush hid the facts' (without the speech marks.)
3) Save it as whatever you like, then close it.
4) Open it again.
It's all a conspiracy.
Rule #76: No excuses. Play like a champion.Comment
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It's just how notepad tries to detect the char encoding (ANSI, Unicode, UTF-8, UTF-16) and for short sentences it sometimes gets it wrong.
You guys.
As if Microsoft are involved in government conspiracies.
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Almost any combination of 4,3,3,5 letter words will have the same effect. It's a bug in the unicode detection routines in notepad.
this can get upset
for example."Being nice costs nothing and sometimes gets you extra bacon" - Pondlife.Comment
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However I will say it's cool that Microsoft can have bugs in an application as simple and old as Notepad. Takes some doing.Comment
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True. And why is 'unicode detection' an application-specific thing ffs?Originally posted by DimPrawn
You've come right out the other side of the forest of irony and ended up in the desert of wrong.
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How can you get someone's details from the BA website with an Executive Card number and no password?If you think my attitude stinks, you should smell my fingers.Comment
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