Once IE has less than 15% of the market share, it will become the safest browser available. Anyone who assumes that other browswers are really that much safer are diluded. If the majority of people use a product on their computer it becomes a target. Once the market has flipped, whoever is on top will be targeted and will show all of its holes to the world.
The only way to protect a computer from attacks is to never attatch it to the internet, or train the user not to go to websites that are not trusted. OS issues are the same problem, no one would ever think of writing a hack/virus for a commodore today.
I think that the number of fake listings has overwhelmed anyone trying to make up such a list and therefore there is nothing useful in getting this award. I am not sure this is even the group that started this stuff up. Maybe just someone that wants some ad click revenue to pay for their annual christmas debt.
BTW, good job on taking their servers down slashdotters.
I dream of a day when products can only claim to do something that has been proven by unbiased testing. If the result that is desired is known and the testers understand that fact, they can make nearly any test say anything. Herbal items are not forced to be tested for safety or effectiveness. This is a problem since there are commercials and magazine articles that tout the benefits. If all of them were created to some standard and it was proven to work, then it is fine, otherwise they should just be able to say. This product may do something for some people and no more.
Where these get used, the snow is cultured and is make of evian drinking water with a stable PH that would do no damage to your metal combination. Static buildup on the other hand could do some real damage to the joints between the different metals.
Just like to add that the biggest waste of time for staff that I have worked for is food chaining hardware. It seems that department A hired a new person and there is not a computer for them. Well the manager of that department has a computer that is 9 months old, so they need to get the new one and that computer has to get moved down to the new employee. This gets even worse when you get to people and laptops due to all of the extra stuff they have put on the machine to keep the kids busy on those family trips, usually requires full re-image of the machine before moving to next person so the system does not yell for the freddy fish disk every time it boots.
Would be nice to upgrade the people that use their computers the most so they do not have to deal with slow loading software. That would be the best use of resources.
As others have said, it depends on software and user base. We have 7 field people and 10 other sysadmin, DBA, Dev types to support 1,000 users in 15 locations. I think it is not enough given the industry specific software that needs a lot of attention. We get by, so there is little need to add staff. Tricky balance to not get by and not get fired so you can get more staff.
FTC has site on Phishing that may help. We have been getting the Outlook update link in an fake email here for a while, have had to send many reminders that we will not send links to people for updates on their computer since we manage patches and updates automatically.
http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/menus/consumer/tech/privacy.shtm
You could still monitor what they do by not having a permanent VPN to their office, but have them do the remote with some sort of web meeting program that you can use to give them control. I work for a company that has several support plans with software vendors and we allow them to do their stuff while someone is watching. This does two things, first it stops your systems from being directly connected to their network so if someone breaks into their systems, you are still safe, second it stops them from doing anything that is not what you want. You can stop them from downloading content from your servers and other things like that. In our case, we started this after a software vendor updated their software without our knowledge and stopped several dozen people from doing their job the next day. Also, make sure they have had audits done of their process and systems, we are a public company and require all of our contractors and support groups to have a SAS-70 done by an external group that we can see to assure us that they do not let their cleaning people access our system or passwords.
We need to get these guys to sue all people that send out SPAM. I think their patent covers that as well. This would be awesome. Stop the drug emails for good!!!
I have been a software developer type for 25 years and have always been in smaller departments and we get stuck in limbo. Not admin staff, not business operations, not accounting. Maybe it should be an all IT day, so that we can all play halo and eat pizza and drink mountain dew!
OK, maybe I am wrong, but I doubt that the government would be able to create the software to gather and use the information. It took them 50 years to get tax records onto a computer and that is just one set per person per year. How would they handle dozens of transactions per car per year. My bet would be they spend more to create and manage the system than they get in additional revenue. I live in a state where there are no toll roads and people pay for the roads through gas tax. Works great IMHO. Would not want to see the guy with the 8,000 pound SUV paying the same rate per mile that I pay with my tiny grocery getter.
The real issue is when there will be full lines of software available for Linux or other operating systems. How much does it cost me to run 2 OS's in an environment because I can not find software that will run on Linux to perform my corporate functions that are industry specific. The real cost will come out when all software uses browser based interfaces. Until I can get all of my applications covered by software that can run on Linux, I would have to hire two sets of staff to support the two systems and then a whole new team to keep the interaction between the two of them stable. If most people spent as much time planning a windows environment as is spent with a Linux environment, things would be a lot more stable. The quick and dirty installs of Windows are the problem. If you checked, you would probably find that nearly all corporte Windows installs have the common user escalated to local admin for ease of support. If all Linux users ran their browsers and other applications as root, the same world will eventually arrive, a bunch of unsupportable crap.
I am done ranting now, move along, no more to see here.
Tis true, the digital conversion pretty much stopped any ability to easily pick up TV while driving. The doppler effect of motion on the signal will likely make it impossible to recieve a picture while moving. Try moving a set top antena around a bit and your picture will tile and block like crazy. If you are driving in a perfect circle around the transmitting tower, it may work for a while. Sat based would be the only way I could see it working and that has been out there for a while, although aimed at the limo market.
I guess I was addressin the poster's use of the word, not the actual act. I do not know exactly what she did or did not do, but I assume the expense for the parking for the members of the court would cover the real losses that the RIAA is trying to recover, so the whole thing is kind of a circus.
"The judge mercifully only removed that new evidence from the trial. It was related to whether or not an external hard drive was ever connected to the computer."
Looks from this, that you want the RIAA to win the case with last minute evidence. What side is the poster of this on?
If you are doing a run that goes through the walls/ceilings, then you will want to setup a patch panel near the telco connection and in your data center. Then punch down at least 4-6 sets using nothing but a wire cutter and a $5 110 punc down tool. That way you will have multiple connections in the case of an issue. Then buy short cables at each end for the connection to the equipment. That will allow you to say you bought cables, but you can save the money if it is a long run by using your box of cable.
In the warrant, it lists that he has the password for this persons computer because it was setup by the suspect when they were still friends. I should think most people that use a computer should be able to change the password, and I certainly would change the password on a computer that was setup by someone who is no longer my friend.
A ton of impossible to prove things were in the warrant, that had nothing to do with the original complaint. Sounds like a character bashing that should come back to the person who filed this as slander.
It may just be that they will get more information on their product than their traveling shows. This also may prove to be a lower cost solution than flying people in to their corporate office to get information on how people use their products, or what they want from them. Even if they lose money it will at least churn some money to cover cost of direct contact with their users.
Just so you know, you need to complain to the BBB on a product to change their rating of them. They do not actively go out and research anything themselves, so your post here will not impact how they rate the product. It is a simple formula of how much the company paid to be listed in BBB vs the number of negative comments they get about the company.
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Once IE has less than 15% of the market share, it will become the safest browser available. Anyone who assumes that other browswers are really that much safer are diluded. If the majority of people use a product on their computer it becomes a target. Once the market has flipped, whoever is on top will be targeted and will show all of its holes to the world.
The only way to protect a computer from attacks is to never attatch it to the internet, or train the user not to go to websites that are not trusted. OS issues are the same problem, no one would ever think of writing a hack/virus for a commodore today.
So just teasers to get us to buy her books!!
I think that the number of fake listings has overwhelmed anyone trying to make up such a list and therefore there is nothing useful in getting this award. I am not sure this is even the group that started this stuff up. Maybe just someone that wants some ad click revenue to pay for their annual christmas debt.
BTW, good job on taking their servers down slashdotters.
I dream of a day when products can only claim to do something that has been proven by unbiased testing. If the result that is desired is known and the testers understand that fact, they can make nearly any test say anything. Herbal items are not forced to be tested for safety or effectiveness. This is a problem since there are commercials and magazine articles that tout the benefits. If all of them were created to some standard and it was proven to work, then it is fine, otherwise they should just be able to say. This product may do something for some people and no more.
Where these get used, the snow is cultured and is make of evian drinking water with a stable PH that would do no damage to your metal combination. Static buildup on the other hand could do some real damage to the joints between the different metals.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galvanic_corrosion
Just like to add that the biggest waste of time for staff that I have worked for is food chaining hardware. It seems that department A hired a new person and there is not a computer for them. Well the manager of that department has a computer that is 9 months old, so they need to get the new one and that computer has to get moved down to the new employee. This gets even worse when you get to people and laptops due to all of the extra stuff they have put on the machine to keep the kids busy on those family trips, usually requires full re-image of the machine before moving to next person so the system does not yell for the freddy fish disk every time it boots.
Would be nice to upgrade the people that use their computers the most so they do not have to deal with slow loading software. That would be the best use of resources.
As others have said, it depends on software and user base. We have 7 field people and 10 other sysadmin, DBA, Dev types to support 1,000 users in 15 locations. I think it is not enough given the industry specific software that needs a lot of attention. We get by, so there is little need to add staff. Tricky balance to not get by and not get fired so you can get more staff.
There is a riff track special also being played through a simulcast at marcus theatres in the wisconsin area. http://www.marcustheatres.com/Movie/MovieDetail/63178
Not sure if this is related directly or not, but it is the MST3K guys.
The Oneder(pronounced oneeder). Woops, joke lost on geek crowd that probably never saw the movie.
FTC has site on Phishing that may help. We have been getting the Outlook update link in an fake email here for a while, have had to send many reminders that we will not send links to people for updates on their computer since we manage patches and updates automatically. http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/menus/consumer/tech/privacy.shtm
You could still monitor what they do by not having a permanent VPN to their office, but have them do the remote with some sort of web meeting program that you can use to give them control. I work for a company that has several support plans with software vendors and we allow them to do their stuff while someone is watching. This does two things, first it stops your systems from being directly connected to their network so if someone breaks into their systems, you are still safe, second it stops them from doing anything that is not what you want. You can stop them from downloading content from your servers and other things like that. In our case, we started this after a software vendor updated their software without our knowledge and stopped several dozen people from doing their job the next day. Also, make sure they have had audits done of their process and systems, we are a public company and require all of our contractors and support groups to have a SAS-70 done by an external group that we can see to assure us that they do not let their cleaning people access our system or passwords.
We need to get these guys to sue all people that send out SPAM. I think their patent covers that as well. This would be awesome. Stop the drug emails for good!!!
I have been a software developer type for 25 years and have always been in smaller departments and we get stuck in limbo. Not admin staff, not business operations, not accounting. Maybe it should be an all IT day, so that we can all play halo and eat pizza and drink mountain dew!
There is visual proof of them being on the Moon, and next year we will have Jupiter turn into a second star in our solar system. 2010
OK, maybe I am wrong, but I doubt that the government would be able to create the software to gather and use the information. It took them 50 years to get tax records onto a computer and that is just one set per person per year. How would they handle dozens of transactions per car per year. My bet would be they spend more to create and manage the system than they get in additional revenue. I live in a state where there are no toll roads and people pay for the roads through gas tax. Works great IMHO. Would not want to see the guy with the 8,000 pound SUV paying the same rate per mile that I pay with my tiny grocery getter.
The real issue is when there will be full lines of software available for Linux or other operating systems. How much does it cost me to run 2 OS's in an environment because I can not find software that will run on Linux to perform my corporate functions that are industry specific. The real cost will come out when all software uses browser based interfaces. Until I can get all of my applications covered by software that can run on Linux, I would have to hire two sets of staff to support the two systems and then a whole new team to keep the interaction between the two of them stable. If most people spent as much time planning a windows environment as is spent with a Linux environment, things would be a lot more stable. The quick and dirty installs of Windows are the problem. If you checked, you would probably find that nearly all corporte Windows installs have the common user escalated to local admin for ease of support. If all Linux users ran their browsers and other applications as root, the same world will eventually arrive, a bunch of unsupportable crap.
I am done ranting now, move along, no more to see here.
Tis true, the digital conversion pretty much stopped any ability to easily pick up TV while driving. The doppler effect of motion on the signal will likely make it impossible to recieve a picture while moving. Try moving a set top antena around a bit and your picture will tile and block like crazy. If you are driving in a perfect circle around the transmitting tower, it may work for a while. Sat based would be the only way I could see it working and that has been out there for a while, although aimed at the limo market.
I guess I was addressin the poster's use of the word, not the actual act. I do not know exactly what she did or did not do, but I assume the expense for the parking for the members of the court would cover the real losses that the RIAA is trying to recover, so the whole thing is kind of a circus.
"The judge mercifully only removed that new evidence from the trial. It was related to whether or not an external hard drive was ever connected to the computer."
Looks from this, that you want the RIAA to win the case with last minute evidence. What side is the poster of this on?
First I want to see what is actually under the cloth, second I want to know if he is just using a multiple pickup therimin, one for each axis.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theremin
If you are doing a run that goes through the walls/ceilings, then you will want to setup a patch panel near the telco connection and in your data center. Then punch down at least 4-6 sets using nothing but a wire cutter and a $5 110 punc down tool. That way you will have multiple connections in the case of an issue. Then buy short cables at each end for the connection to the equipment. That will allow you to say you bought cables, but you can save the money if it is a long run by using your box of cable.
In the warrant, it lists that he has the password for this persons computer because it was setup by the suspect when they were still friends. I should think most people that use a computer should be able to change the password, and I certainly would change the password on a computer that was setup by someone who is no longer my friend.
A ton of impossible to prove things were in the warrant, that had nothing to do with the original complaint. Sounds like a character bashing that should come back to the person who filed this as slander.
All they have to do is fake the images on their servers and this test is toast. Give them another 4 hours to create a work around.
It may just be that they will get more information on their product than their traveling shows. This also may prove to be a lower cost solution than flying people in to their corporate office to get information on how people use their products, or what they want from them. Even if they lose money it will at least churn some money to cover cost of direct contact with their users.
Just so you know, you need to complain to the BBB on a product to change their rating of them. They do not actively go out and research anything themselves, so your post here will not impact how they rate the product. It is a simple formula of how much the company paid to be listed in BBB vs the number of negative comments they get about the company.
The article rips on the product, but google ads put an ad for their product into my RSS feed. Ironic? Good marketing?