I recommend Akamai's services as a CDN for static content (eliminates a lot of load from your own servers), a proxy for dynamic content (shield/reverse proxy effect services) as well as a protection against (D)DoS attacks. They have a number of great case studies ( http://www.akamai.com/html/customers/index.html ) which are well worth the time looking through, as they have successfully mitigated attacks against small, medium and large websites. Their (repackaged) Kona Security Services are surprisingly good.
One thing to remember is that for most companies, any activities undertaken on company equipment that create intellectual property is owned outright by the company, and not the individual.
So that book or game or widget that you might write will end up not being your own.
Get yourself a netbook or tablet or whatever - there are just too many reasons why your post is just plain scary for the new employer.
So what the heck does FTP do as its midlife crisis
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Probably try to hook up with some younger protocol - FTP over IPv6 anyone?
American Grads may indeed be unemployable - I've never worked in the USA though, so I cannot say for sure either way.;)
But I have worked with HCL in the UK. The standard working week for an Indian HCL employee is easily 90 hours if you don't count weekends. There is usually a ratio of around 3 HCL employees to replace each UK employee they make redundant. By my weak math skills, I would guess that HCL (at a savings) replaces 1 UK employee with the equivalent of 7 HCL employees on an effort basis.
It would be wonderful of course if those ~7 staff gave ~7x benefit. Sadly in my experience their total sum gives less than half the quality of the 1 UK employee. Mistakes are made, decisions are wrapped up in red tape, and chaos ensues. Put an HCL employee in a situation where there isn't a blow-by-blow script on how to do the job, and they flounder. Badly.
HCL may help save money on the accountants books, but they put the company at risk if the company is stupid enough to outsource without first having everything in order. Sadly the main companies that do outsource are those that don't have a clue how their business is run, and expect HCL employees to be able to think outside of the box, and to be able to use their vast experience in the companies assets to achieve minor miracles on a daily basis. Finding an HCL employee that can think, let alone think outside of the box would be a major miracle...
At least I know which companies shares not to invest in;)
Please note the above is in my experience only and could possibly be unique and not a unilateral standard. I've met some very nice people who work at HCL - I just wish their 'niceness' translated directly into 'quality output'. It's also possible that HCL do actually give quality to some clients (maybe they put their best on the highest payers *shrug*). Anything is possible.
It's also worth noting that I've never been made redundant due to HCL coming in to a company - indeed, I've actually got more work at a company due to them being there. For each external UK person like myself who benefited, there were at least 10 UK people that were made redundant though, and that's a ratio that I dislike moreso than a lack of quality.
Ignoring the alternatives, how many households are we talking about? Even 1 million households would create an 18 million savings overall in the first year....
Not likely - the majority of internet users use whatever they were given when they bought their computer, and then even if there are multiple choices of browsers available, will choose the icon that looks pretty (to them). I remember the Netscape vs IE wars...
Google might start having a few more people use their browser if they do get an OEM deal - no sensible OEM is going to publish a beta product though imo.
The vast majority will never find a good browser with good plugin support like Firefox either - sucks to be them I guess.
If it works out that the drag is reduced significantly, I can see new submarines being coated with a shell of something that gives the same properties. No more crew on deck entrances to port though!
Most of the negative comment posters below obviously didn't take the time to read the linked article.
Some types of stretching are good, some are bad. The article explains the differences quite well and still recommends that some stretching takes place...
Perhaps we could make Mars a new Australia - prisons are overcrowding and being sent down for 'life' could take on a whole new meaning!
As long as stealing a loaf of bread isn't the only prerequisite this time round though;)
Yes, I know Australia is no longer a penal colony, but it did start that way when it seemed as far away from England as Mars does from Earth in this day and age...
I don't dual-box (or 5-box!), but myself and my wife do play WoW. Not that we have a bandwidth cap, but to alleviate the time patching for the big updates, one of us does the update, and then we copy the patch files to the other computer.
I'm sure dual-boxers are just as (if not more so!) intelligent about their bandwidth usage and will do the same thing. In the end its actually a time consideration rather than volume issue that makes most people with more than one account played through the same internet connection to do the same.
Expansion packs / new games / re-released games - why not let us download them (and/or buy a key online) rather than have to buy a box in a store?
For WoLK (WoW) this makes more sense for most of us than having to pre-order and wait for a postie to turn up with the box (or drive into a store and buy it or pick it up). We already have the game installed as part of the 3.02 update, so having to wait for a physical item that could be delivered electronically annoys the customers that don't want or desire the physical box.
Think of all the environment that would be saved too! Electronic delivery of a registration key harms less trees than shipping a box all over the place does, that's for sure!
If you are going to take a game like WoW to it's extreme, then do it in style!
I can see the attraction - PUGs (pick up groups) can be very annoying as it takes just one muppet to ruin the quest/dungeon/raid for everybody else.
That said, I doubt I would go past the more standard 5 that multi-boxers (http://www.wowwiki.com/Multiboxing) seem to go for as a standard group is 5 and that makes a bit more sense...
But in the end, who really cares who signs it now - what can be signed once, must be able to be signed again (especially if there is a validity period of the signature), and if the signatory needs to change in the future then it can be changed then.
Delaying the signing process is counter-productive, as procrastination in this regard only helps the hackers and not the greater unwashed masses who don't know they need this process to be completed in the first place...
Maybe they should ask for comments _after_ they have told us the first signatories name. They will get comments then regardless of who they choose;)
Never trust any input from anywhere. A large number of existing security vulnerabilities are because programmers couldn't be stuffed validating input.
If you should be getting an integer, then make sure it is one and throw an exception (and log if appropriate) if you didn't get one.
If you should be getting a string, make sure the string content fits with what you are trying to achieve, and isn't too short, and isn't longer than it should be.
The above is especially true if you are passing on input from one area (say a customer) and passing it on to another (say an application server that will end up putting that input into a database).
Never trust that other people's code is validating your input either if you are passing input to their code!
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I recommend Akamai's services as a CDN for static content (eliminates a lot of load from your own servers), a proxy for dynamic content (shield/reverse proxy effect services) as well as a protection against (D)DoS attacks. They have a number of great case studies ( http://www.akamai.com/html/customers/index.html ) which are well worth the time looking through, as they have successfully mitigated attacks against small, medium and large websites. Their (repackaged) Kona Security Services are surprisingly good.
One thing to remember is that for most companies, any activities undertaken on company equipment that create intellectual property is owned outright by the company, and not the individual. So that book or game or widget that you might write will end up not being your own. Get yourself a netbook or tablet or whatever - there are just too many reasons why your post is just plain scary for the new employer.
Probably try to hook up with some younger protocol - FTP over IPv6 anyone?
Given the original vision of this and every other MMORPG is to see how much money they can syphon from the customers, this is totally in-line ;)
American Grads may indeed be unemployable - I've never worked in the USA though, so I cannot say for sure either way. ;)
;)
But I have worked with HCL in the UK. The standard working week for an Indian HCL employee is easily 90 hours if you don't count weekends. There is usually a ratio of around 3 HCL employees to replace each UK employee they make redundant. By my weak math skills, I would guess that HCL (at a savings) replaces 1 UK employee with the equivalent of 7 HCL employees on an effort basis.
It would be wonderful of course if those ~7 staff gave ~7x benefit. Sadly in my experience their total sum gives less than half the quality of the 1 UK employee. Mistakes are made, decisions are wrapped up in red tape, and chaos ensues. Put an HCL employee in a situation where there isn't a blow-by-blow script on how to do the job, and they flounder. Badly.
HCL may help save money on the accountants books, but they put the company at risk if the company is stupid enough to outsource without first having everything in order. Sadly the main companies that do outsource are those that don't have a clue how their business is run, and expect HCL employees to be able to think outside of the box, and to be able to use their vast experience in the companies assets to achieve minor miracles on a daily basis. Finding an HCL employee that can think, let alone think outside of the box would be a major miracle...
At least I know which companies shares not to invest in
Please note the above is in my experience only and could possibly be unique and not a unilateral standard. I've met some very nice people who work at HCL - I just wish their 'niceness' translated directly into 'quality output'. It's also possible that HCL do actually give quality to some clients (maybe they put their best on the highest payers *shrug*). Anything is possible.
It's also worth noting that I've never been made redundant due to HCL coming in to a company - indeed, I've actually got more work at a company due to them being there. For each external UK person like myself who benefited, there were at least 10 UK people that were made redundant though, and that's a ratio that I dislike moreso than a lack of quality.
Ignoring the alternatives, how many households are we talking about? Even 1 million households would create an 18 million savings overall in the first year....
At least they are trying to do something imo.
In other news, the cleaning lady has now visited the site, and the mould has been cleaned of the lens.
Given it has now been a while since breakfast for the scientists, the sugar levels are now dropping.
Did the OP actually expect anything other than disbelief and notsofunnyafterall posts in reply? *sigh*
Not likely - the majority of internet users use whatever they were given when they bought their computer, and then even if there are multiple choices of browsers available, will choose the icon that looks pretty (to them). I remember the Netscape vs IE wars...
Google might start having a few more people use their browser if they do get an OEM deal - no sensible OEM is going to publish a beta product though imo.
The vast majority will never find a good browser with good plugin support like Firefox either - sucks to be them I guess.
If it works out that the drag is reduced significantly, I can see new submarines being coated with a shell of something that gives the same properties. No more crew on deck entrances to port though!
Underwater planes sound more fun of course.
Most of the negative comment posters below obviously didn't take the time to read the linked article.
Some types of stretching are good, some are bad. The article explains the differences quite well and still recommends that some stretching takes place...
Perhaps we could make Mars a new Australia - prisons are overcrowding and being sent down for 'life' could take on a whole new meaning! ;)
As long as stealing a loaf of bread isn't the only prerequisite this time round though
Yes, I know Australia is no longer a penal colony, but it did start that way when it seemed as far away from England as Mars does from Earth in this day and age...
I don't dual-box (or 5-box!), but myself and my wife do play WoW. Not that we have a bandwidth cap, but to alleviate the time patching for the big updates, one of us does the update, and then we copy the patch files to the other computer.
I'm sure dual-boxers are just as (if not more so!) intelligent about their bandwidth usage and will do the same thing. In the end its actually a time consideration rather than volume issue that makes most people with more than one account played through the same internet connection to do the same.
Expansion packs / new games / re-released games - why not let us download them (and/or buy a key online) rather than have to buy a box in a store?
For WoLK (WoW) this makes more sense for most of us than having to pre-order and wait for a postie to turn up with the box (or drive into a store and buy it or pick it up). We already have the game installed as part of the 3.02 update, so having to wait for a physical item that could be delivered electronically annoys the customers that don't want or desire the physical box.
Think of all the environment that would be saved too! Electronic delivery of a registration key harms less trees than shipping a box all over the place does, that's for sure!
If you are going to take a game like WoW to it's extreme, then do it in style!
I can see the attraction - PUGs (pick up groups) can be very annoying as it takes just one muppet to ruin the quest/dungeon/raid for everybody else.
That said, I doubt I would go past the more standard 5 that multi-boxers (http://www.wowwiki.com/Multiboxing) seem to go for as a standard group is 5 and that makes a bit more sense...
'And to start using your new terminal, you will now have to wear flares'.
Some concepts should be revisited - terminals (unlike flares) are indeed one of them.
But in the end, who really cares who signs it now - what can be signed once, must be able to be signed again (especially if there is a validity period of the signature), and if the signatory needs to change in the future then it can be changed then. Delaying the signing process is counter-productive, as procrastination in this regard only helps the hackers and not the greater unwashed masses who don't know they need this process to be completed in the first place... Maybe they should ask for comments _after_ they have told us the first signatories name. They will get comments then regardless of who they choose ;)
Never trust any input from anywhere. A large number of existing security vulnerabilities are because programmers couldn't be stuffed validating input. If you should be getting an integer, then make sure it is one and throw an exception (and log if appropriate) if you didn't get one. If you should be getting a string, make sure the string content fits with what you are trying to achieve, and isn't too short, and isn't longer than it should be. The above is especially true if you are passing on input from one area (say a customer) and passing it on to another (say an application server that will end up putting that input into a database). Never trust that other people's code is validating your input either if you are passing input to their code!