Don't I know it! Never ceases to amaze me when I refer to a book I've got or that I've found and he says he doesn't have it! Doesn't happen too often!
I should state that my cllection reflects my qualifications, MA(Hist), PGDip(psy), BA(Hon)(hist) and ONC in Marine Electronics, MRGC and DTI Fault Finding Radar and Radio! Not all of them, I would say around 2000 deal with WW1, WW2, Korea, Vietnam, Middle East, Falklands and Modern Iraq. 65 different sets of Pilots Notes for main WW2 aircraft and that does not include the Crew Manual for the B29 and the sets that I downloaded or up loaded onto my PC, I did back them up onto CDroms. The most recent ones are the Mig29 and AV8B Harrier. I have quite a lot of books dealing with Intelligence matters, including a complete set of Pamphlets issued to Military intelligence officers during the Korea War. Also, books on codes and ciphers because for a while I worked on them in the RAF! Plus lots of Technical Manuals for Various weapons. A complete set of the publications of The RAF Historical Society from the start to the present day! A first edition Of David Kahn's The Codebreakers, which is famous because MI6 spoke to Kahn to get it banned because he mentions CGHQ in 1965, when offically they did not exist! Most of the first batch was destroyed by the printers but some escaped and I have one of them, cost me £7.50 from a bookstore in Norwich! I also have books on, philosophy, politics, religion, Latin, ancient history, psychology medicine and the Life and Times of Vincent Van Goth! Plus, over two hundred books comic books of Snoopy, Garfield, Wizard of ID, Pearls Before Swine and Ziggy! Now I will have to nootify the police to keep an eye on my flat while I am out!
Never heard of them! But here is a website which gives you most of the various cartoons. You will see a white box with "Comics List" with a dropdown menu. My younger brother is into Calvin and Hobbes but never really got into it!
100 people protesting outside their offices for a couple of days should get that sorted out. What a bunch of............................!
RANT: I received a telephone call from my bank this afternoon (presumably to sell me something). She wished to start by first asking me some security questions (Data Protection Act you know). Since she phoned me I declined to answer them. I reasoned that when she phones me at home there is little chance that anyone other than either my husband or I will answer the phone, whereas she could be anyone from anywhere merely saying that she worked for my bank. She got really huffy. Do they really not understand that a) I actually do not know who is on the end of the phone so it is a bit of an impasse for us both to want some sort of proof that we are really who we say we are and b) if the bad guys had my credit or debit card details it is not too difficult to find out additional personal information already in the public domain and my supplying the answers to things like my mother's maiden name etc. would simply complete the job for them. Everybody I know has had their cards used fraudulently in some way or another. One set of friends in exactly the same way as above (unusual surname in a small village), a seemingly innocuous telephone call supposedly from their bank to chat about insurance or something but only after the security information had been divulged. It was all then used in conjunction with the electoral rolls etc. to open more credit accounts in their name. I am lucky enough to have a small number of shares kept with a broker. Having already issued me with a secret online account number and separate password, they have just introduced a new level of security to their online accounts service. If a burglar breaks into my house and logs onto my computer, going through my own password system first, they are then required to fathom out my secret account number and password before being asked ...... for the first and last characters from the post code!!!!!! Bet that will deter all but the most resolute!!!! RAVE: Wasn't it a beautiful day today???
You did the right thing by refusing to give the info because it's a well known con. Banks advise that if in doubt then to ring them using their advertised number, and they will have record of any calls they may have made. That way you'll know if it's a con. Another con is the mobile phone one of texts claiming to be from your company and offering upgrades if you ring back. It's a premium number con. I've had many texts, and with the first one I called my company on the customer number I knew. I was about the 100th person that day smart enough to check direct rather than fall for the false number. And it was indeed a lovely day.
Watch the emails that ask for passwords as well. I've had a few come through usually in shorts bursts of several emails from different "services" over a couple of days.
>>> Every bank has a outbound service and when they contact customers, they have to access the account by asking security questions. With the bank I work for, if a customer does not feelhappy answering the security questions, then they are advised to call back to customer services and get transfered through. As for e-mail, the rule is, if you do not know who sent the e-mail or are unsure, then do not open the e-mail, just delete it as it may have a "dialer" embedded in it, which starts when you open the mail.
