This relatively small tragedy resulted in a 10% reduced income (profit) for the company. Imagine if your paycheck was %10 smaller for a quarter (or more). I think you would be upset as well.
Elliptic Curve encryption is what the NSA uses and pushes. PKE is definitely breakable--its really a question of when. That is to say, if it has not already been broken by a government or inteligence agency. No one is going to announce that they have cracked factoring large numbers into prime numbers quickly when they do.
Personally, I am falling back on two fairly basic investment notions:
1) You should buy a house, because you want to live there, or because you want to become a slum lord. 2) You should buy stock because you want to own the company, or they pay substantial dividends that you will use as income.
I have to say, Mac servers spew so much heat out of the back end we needed a spot cooler just for them.
Beyond that your list is fair.
I often find my GF's android incredibly sluggish. I've seen some nice ones around the office, but they seem to be the exception, rather then the expectation.
Having a private room where you can close the door is far more important then any of those things. When you are in your office, you are at work. Only work things exist in your office. If you don't want to work, leave your office. As a contractor this is especially essential as you need that separate room in order to expense it on your taxes.
I was pointing out the double standard that people tend to have about *nix vs windows (vs mac vs android etc). When it happens on windows, people tend to believe to believe that they caught the analogous cold, not that some malicious programmer wrote software that got on their computer and messed things up. When it happens on *nix, people say "Oh I got hacked".
From my perspective--it is all code--which is all hacking--since your code gets unauthorized access to someones computer. Whether is put there via social engineering, or self propagating code is irrelevant in my mind.
Look at the rest of the comments in this thread as an example of this. Linux doesn't get any viruses? Look at some other posts in this thread to seem people talking about them, or better yet, http://bit.ly/trJ9sd
One favorite was to sound interested and then ask for their own personal telephone number. When they inevitably refused, I'd say something like "what's wrong, you don't like having strangers bother you at home?"
I played a few of those games too, but ultimately decided it was taking more of my time than I wanted. So instead, as soon as the person went into their pitch, I would just leave the phone off the hook, thereby wasting their time and not mine.
I'd play the game with the opening, "Oh he's dead." Which usually draws an immediate silence, and them taking the note to not call that number again.
ColdFusion is a programming language, on the same tier as.NET or PHP. People have been abandoning it because of licensing--but if Adobe wants to sell editors, not server software, they may conceivably ditch the license in order to sell more editors.
Adobe (/Macromedia/Alaire) built their empire by building quality development software (Photoshop, Fireworks, Dreamweaver/HomeSite, InDesign, etc). The CS# suite has/had some of the best pieces of editing software out there for a long time. It seems like there are a couple other contendors out there these days, like Visual Studio (Pretty Awesome) or Eclipse (I'm not a fan), but not a lot.
That's why I call myself a Computer Scientist. That and I know mostly Physics and Chemistry Scientists, and it pisses them off to no end that they got the PHD and I did not. If I knew more Engineers of any sort I'd probably call myself a Computer Engineer though.
Seriously. That second request for donations really didn't work out for them so well did it. Personally I couldn't believe they did that without first offering up either a public service, or an easy installation of shitty software. If they set up a yum distro that lets me install it I'd consider it.
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For anyone other then Charlie Sheen, 3 less hookers and %10 less coke can be horrendously depressing.
This relatively small tragedy resulted in a 10% reduced income (profit) for the company. Imagine if your paycheck was %10 smaller for a quarter (or more). I think you would be upset as well.
Elliptic Curve encryption is what the NSA uses and pushes. PKE is definitely breakable--its really a question of when. That is to say, if it has not already been broken by a government or inteligence agency. No one is going to announce that they have cracked factoring large numbers into prime numbers quickly when they do.
Personally, I am falling back on two fairly basic investment notions:
1) You should buy a house, because you want to live there, or because you want to become a slum lord.
2) You should buy stock because you want to own the company, or they pay substantial dividends that you will use as income.
I have to say, Mac servers spew so much heat out of the back end we needed a spot cooler just for them.
Beyond that your list is fair.
I often find my GF's android incredibly sluggish. I've seen some nice ones around the office, but they seem to be the exception, rather then the expectation.
Honestly, over the last 10 years my checking account has out performed my investment accounts.
S: Hey, that's a good looking family you've got there.
C: That's my daughter Kate...
So true. Sometimes I feel dirty listening to sales calls.
Are there any other solid ones I should include?
Having a private room where you can close the door is far more important then any of those things. When you are in your office, you are at work. Only work things exist in your office. If you don't want to work, leave your office. As a contractor this is especially essential as you need that separate room in order to expense it on your taxes.
especially fertilizers... they can be used to make rocket fuel! imagine all those farmers engaging in criminal activities all over the world...
...and the moon and beyond!
I was pointing out the double standard that people tend to have about *nix vs windows (vs mac vs android etc). When it happens on windows, people tend to believe to believe that they caught the analogous cold, not that some malicious programmer wrote software that got on their computer and messed things up. When it happens on *nix, people say "Oh I got hacked".
From my perspective--it is all code--which is all hacking--since your code gets unauthorized access to someones computer. Whether is put there via social engineering, or self propagating code is irrelevant in my mind.
Look at the rest of the comments in this thread as an example of this. Linux doesn't get any viruses? Look at some other posts in this thread to seem people talking about them, or better yet, http://bit.ly/trJ9sd
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When it's on windows, its called a "Virus", when its on Linux its called "Hacking".
Ever had a server hacked cause someone uploaded something onto it that gave them root access?
Alternately, you can cache the ga file on your server, which works even better then putting it at the bottom of the page.
One favorite was to sound interested and then ask for their own personal telephone number. When they inevitably refused, I'd say something like "what's wrong, you don't like having strangers bother you at home?"
I played a few of those games too, but ultimately decided it was taking more of my time than I wanted. So instead, as soon as the person went into their pitch, I would just leave the phone off the hook, thereby wasting their time and not mine.
I'd play the game with the opening, "Oh he's dead." Which usually draws an immediate silence, and them taking the note to not call that number again.
Not particularly, but it would be awesome if they donated the source to their project.
ColdFusion is a programming language, on the same tier as .NET or PHP. People have been abandoning it because of licensing--but if Adobe wants to sell editors, not server software, they may conceivably ditch the license in order to sell more editors.
I am waiting with baited breath for them to off-load ColdFusion to the open source world.
Since you broadcasted outside of your house, and they drove by. If they had to trespass to acquire this information it would be arguably yours.
As an administrator:
1) Active Directory
2) It works. Pretty well.
3) Active Directory
4) SQL Server Scales better then MySQL
Office is dead for me at home. Google docs kind of sucks (just like open office) but its good enough when I'm not at work.
Adobe (/Macromedia/Alaire) built their empire by building quality development software (Photoshop, Fireworks, Dreamweaver/HomeSite, InDesign, etc). The CS# suite has/had some of the best pieces of editing software out there for a long time. It seems like there are a couple other contendors out there these days, like Visual Studio (Pretty Awesome) or Eclipse (I'm not a fan), but not a lot.
Honestly, I like fireworks better for vector based drawings. Though it doesn't really handle animations.
That's why I call myself a Computer Scientist. That and I know mostly Physics and Chemistry Scientists, and it pisses them off to no end that they got the PHD and I did not. If I knew more Engineers of any sort I'd probably call myself a Computer Engineer though.
Isn't that what we used to say about flash?
Seriously. That second request for donations really didn't work out for them so well did it. Personally I couldn't believe they did that without first offering up either a public service, or an easy installation of shitty software. If they set up a yum distro that lets me install it I'd consider it.