To add further to the description of BT - a company split into three parts - BT Retail (the phone provider / ISP), BT Wholesale (who run the infrastructure and exchanges), and BT Openreach (who run the last mile infrastructure). It's supposed to mean they can't abuse their monopoly. As far as the customer is concerned, it means that reporting a fault might have to go through 3 companies and most of the time spent is the 3 companies passing the buck. They also like to charge each other and pass the cost on to the customer.
I was present as he reported the findings to his Boss and I heard his Boss say "Can you make it look like their fault so we can still bill them?" He replied "No cos he is stood here listening and watched me fix it". This was followed up with an extremely apologetic conversation between me and his Boss where he claimed he was just Kidding!!! Yeah right...That sums BT up exactly
BT Retail is basically staffed by a bunch of MBAs, salemen and shit tech support (although their BTnet tech support is actually pretty good). BT Local business are a bunch of complete wankers and will [literally] cancel your ISDN30 and recreate it so they get more commission - this resulted in 36 hours of downtime.
BT Openreach - you're not allowed to speak to - but when an engineer does come out, they are generally professional and knowledgable. However, in the above case, they will fulfill BT Retails requests to cover their arses. In the above ISDN30 case, they pretended that the failure was due to a faulty NTE-2D (Fibre termination equipment) even though we had it confirmed that our contract had been "cancelled" the day before.
We have a 100Mb/s leased line with BT, which I have to admit has been pretty bulletproof - we've had about 30s of downtime in 4 years (but is also insanely expensive). Anyhow, when we renewed out contract I told them we wanted an IPv6 subnet, this was subject to a charge of £400 as they said they needed to upgrade our bearer. This was never done, so we complained, and they said they would have to charge us £3,000 - the normal installation fee. We pointed them to the contract we signed. Now, instead of sending out a bloke to update the router, or even send out a new router, they have: * Spliced together 26km of fibre to the exchange. * Installed a 3rd fibre into our office * Provided a new NTU * Provided a new Cisco 3xxx router * Sent 3 engineers out to do all this
I spoke to one of the Openreach guys - he shrugged and said "that's the way they like to do it". I said "it's ok, we're not having to pay the standard installation fee, just sounds like a waste of time and money though". He also explained what the bearer was (confirming my assumption) and looked pretty confused when I told him BT Local Business insisted that it had to be upgraded to "carry" IPv6 packets.
I was thinking along the lines of the AC, but I suppose it depends on context - business or personal. I also note that you said you "made" $2,000 - not charged him $2,000 - so I'm going to assume your friend worked out what your time was worth.
I've never asked for money for helping a friend out, but I've been given numerous bottles of wine (including a very nice looking Rioja under my desk), beer and some cash (as my dad once said - refuse twice, then accept). However, I also know to offer my time to people who will appreciate it, and may also be able to help me out in the future.
I have also flat out refused to fix a colleague's home laptop - I'd already fixed it twice (for no reward) and explained to him what to do to prevent his son fucking it up. The 2nd time, I had told him "I never want to see that laptop again in my life". The whole office thought it was hilarious when he tried saying "I'll just leave it on your desk in case you've got time" - my reply was "You bloody well won't, I told you I didn't want to see it again".
I suppose I hadn't thought the CDN content already being cached. Granted, for high volume sites, 100KB will add up, and it's one less (possible more) file for the client to download, but I'm still not massively keen on the idea of the possibility that the library I'm using may have been altered.
I'm aware that I haven't audited the library I downloaded from jQuery, but we've often seen malware being served unwittingly by 3rd parties*. However, I'd also hope that jQuery regularly verify that files served from the CDN haven't been altered, so maybe I should start considering it.
* Basically, if my web server starts serving malware, I'd prefer it's due to my cock-up, not somebody elses, which when I think about it, maybe I should set myself up to blame someone else when the shit hits the fan.
Ok, one qualification - dealers won't take drafts for trade transactions.
The problem is that bankers drafts can be faked and it does happen. Piston Heads - Fraudulent bankers draft update!!!. The problem is that you'll find out the draft is a fake after releasing a car, calling the bank is useless. As far I can see, fake cash is easier to check than a fake draft.
For example, when I was buying my flat, I had to move money from my Irish account to my UK account, by my bank Ulster Bank (part of RBS) were being a bunch of idiots and wouldn't tell me how long the fast transaction would take. My sister, who luckily works for another bank (I'm not going to mention who), told me to have get a draft, pay it into her account and she'd do the international transfer. However, because the draft would take a couple of days to clear, she however had to act as guarantor.
If a couple of days to clear is "cleared funds", then by that logic, so is a cheque. Go get a draft and try cashing it in a different bank and see how quickly it happens.
Because the US is a bigger country, so 5 times 0 is - let me get my calculator -zero? That can't be right.
Anyhow there's a difference between the UK and Germany and the US. In the UK, police generally don't carry firearms*, we have specialised armed response units**. German police do carry firearms, but clearly aren't that trigger happy. American police, well...
* They do in airports and other heightened security areas. ** Which have had some spectacular fuck ups in the past.
Probably the annual Labour Day march (1st May), which is probably only going to confirm to you that they're all a bunch of commie bastards who deserve to have their heads kicked in.
Maybe it's just me, but I really want to know what that Chicken vs Chicken plot actually is. Also the more I look at that paper, the more I think "is that really how chicken is spelt?" - it just doesn't look correct when written so many times.
You'll be lucky if you find a car dealer accepting a bank draft as cleared funds nowadays. I know of several companies that have been burned that way. Same goes for debit cards - we always assumed that they were cleared funds, however after one of our clients paid for a Bentley (trade transaction), some Muppet in the back cancelled the transaction, which meant that the seller was down £60k, the buyer wasn't even at fault.
As a result, we advise people to only release a car when the money is actually in their account, however that's not even guaranteed as we've encountered scams where people attempt to reverse bank transfers.
Short story, there no such thing as cleared funds.
I know, every time I read about something like this I think "these idiots are really opening themselves up for a massive DOS attack". It probably means a whole load of overtime, so maybe that's why they do it.
Remember, it was the FAA that was the force behind deactivating SA. Turning it back on now could well be more dangerous than just denying GPS and issuing a NOTAM.
How the hell is that 7 word phrase with punctuation (I'll ignore the case, as only the first word is capitalised) susceptible to a dictionary attack?
If I tell you that my password contains 7 words (contained in my/usr/share/dict/words which is 99171 lines long), with a comma after the 3rd and a full stop at the end, you will still have to search through 94,339,343,028,749,422,154,850,189,341,666,091 (9.4E34) combinations - best get cracking. If I'm even nicer to you and tell you that none of the words are repeated, then there are only 94,319,367,837,042,826,040,647,505,756,227,200 (9.4E34). It turns out that when I'm being nice, I'm not being that helpful.
I do use random alphanumeric passwords, because I can remember quite a few of them - it takes a while to remember them and it's massively annoying when I have to change one.
However for my company's keepass file, I use a pass-phrase that is an incorrect quotation from a well know poem - go on, have a guess.
They're overrated - getting all the spokes out of the carcase is worse than plucking a pheasant any day. Also, the thighs don't tend to have much meat on them.
I noticed the abundance of java files too, searchcode.com seems to match a whole load of Python files which don't even match the search string - go figure. However I wouldn't really call it observational bias - you run a search for a piece of text and you see a correlation in the results. The code fragment being searched for is "fairly" language neutral - it would match most CLR languages in addition to java, javascript, python etc. What's more interesting is why the OS detection is being done in the first place - the cynic in me says it's probably because they're using the OS version to make assumptions about file system locations.
On the plus side, some of the java files are checking the version number as well as the OS name, so at least that's something.
Shame there's not some method for inserting plain text into code that will explain what you're doing, but has no effect on the actual compiled application. Maybe we could call them comments or something.
Or maybe there's some way of referencing a number, but with a name which describes what the number is so that it can be reused. It's be great if you could guarantee that the number couldn't be changed. Hmm, what could we call that?
The Bramble Bank in the central Solent does the same. It's also the location for an annual cricket match. I've hit it numerous time when racing, but never actually seen it.
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To add further to the description of BT - a company split into three parts - BT Retail (the phone provider / ISP), BT Wholesale (who run the infrastructure and exchanges), and BT Openreach (who run the last mile infrastructure). It's supposed to mean they can't abuse their monopoly. As far as the customer is concerned, it means that reporting a fault might have to go through 3 companies and most of the time spent is the 3 companies passing the buck. They also like to charge each other and pass the cost on to the customer.
Phone lines cut out randomly
I was present as he reported the findings to his Boss and I heard his Boss say "Can you make it look like their fault so we can still bill them?" He replied "No cos he is stood here listening and watched me fix it". This was followed up with an extremely apologetic conversation between me and his Boss where he claimed he was just Kidding!!! Yeah right...That sums BT up exactly
BT Retail is basically staffed by a bunch of MBAs, salemen and shit tech support (although their BTnet tech support is actually pretty good). BT Local business are a bunch of complete wankers and will [literally] cancel your ISDN30 and recreate it so they get more commission - this resulted in 36 hours of downtime.
BT Openreach - you're not allowed to speak to - but when an engineer does come out, they are generally professional and knowledgable. However, in the above case, they will fulfill BT Retails requests to cover their arses. In the above ISDN30 case, they pretended that the failure was due to a faulty NTE-2D (Fibre termination equipment) even though we had it confirmed that our contract had been "cancelled" the day before.
We have a 100Mb/s leased line with BT, which I have to admit has been pretty bulletproof - we've had about 30s of downtime in 4 years (but is also insanely expensive). Anyhow, when we renewed out contract I told them we wanted an IPv6 subnet, this was subject to a charge of £400 as they said they needed to upgrade our bearer. This was never done, so we complained, and they said they would have to charge us £3,000 - the normal installation fee. We pointed them to the contract we signed. Now, instead of sending out a bloke to update the router, or even send out a new router, they have:
* Spliced together 26km of fibre to the exchange.
* Installed a 3rd fibre into our office
* Provided a new NTU
* Provided a new Cisco 3xxx router
* Sent 3 engineers out to do all this
I spoke to one of the Openreach guys - he shrugged and said "that's the way they like to do it". I said "it's ok, we're not having to pay the standard installation fee, just sounds like a waste of time and money though". He also explained what the bearer was (confirming my assumption) and looked pretty confused when I told him BT Local Business insisted that it had to be upgraded to "carry" IPv6 packets.
I was thinking along the lines of the AC, but I suppose it depends on context - business or personal. I also note that you said you "made" $2,000 - not charged him $2,000 - so I'm going to assume your friend worked out what your time was worth.
I've never asked for money for helping a friend out, but I've been given numerous bottles of wine (including a very nice looking Rioja under my desk), beer and some cash (as my dad once said - refuse twice, then accept). However, I also know to offer my time to people who will appreciate it, and may also be able to help me out in the future.
I have also flat out refused to fix a colleague's home laptop - I'd already fixed it twice (for no reward) and explained to him what to do to prevent his son fucking it up. The 2nd time, I had told him "I never want to see that laptop again in my life". The whole office thought it was hilarious when he tried saying "I'll just leave it on your desk in case you've got time" - my reply was "You bloody well won't, I told you I didn't want to see it again".
I suppose I hadn't thought the CDN content already being cached. Granted, for high volume sites, 100KB will add up, and it's one less (possible more) file for the client to download, but I'm still not massively keen on the idea of the possibility that the library I'm using may have been altered.
I'm aware that I haven't audited the library I downloaded from jQuery, but we've often seen malware being served unwittingly by 3rd parties*. However, I'd also hope that jQuery regularly verify that files served from the CDN haven't been altered, so maybe I should start considering it.
* Basically, if my web server starts serving malware, I'd prefer it's due to my cock-up, not somebody elses, which when I think about it, maybe I should set myself up to blame someone else when the shit hits the fan.
Ok, one qualification - dealers won't take drafts for trade transactions.
The problem is that bankers drafts can be faked and it does happen. Piston Heads - Fraudulent bankers draft update!!!. The problem is that you'll find out the draft is a fake after releasing a car, calling the bank is useless. As far I can see, fake cash is easier to check than a fake draft.
For example, when I was buying my flat, I had to move money from my Irish account to my UK account, by my bank Ulster Bank (part of RBS) were being a bunch of idiots and wouldn't tell me how long the fast transaction would take. My sister, who luckily works for another bank (I'm not going to mention who), told me to have get a draft, pay it into her account and she'd do the international transfer. However, because the draft would take a couple of days to clear, she however had to act as guarantor.
If a couple of days to clear is "cleared funds", then by that logic, so is a cheque. Go get a draft and try cashing it in a different bank and see how quickly it happens.
Because the US is a bigger country, so 5 times 0 is - let me get my calculator -zero? That can't be right.
Anyhow there's a difference between the UK and Germany and the US. In the UK, police generally don't carry firearms*, we have specialised armed response units**. German police do carry firearms, but clearly aren't that trigger happy. American police, well...
* They do in airports and other heightened security areas.
** Which have had some spectacular fuck ups in the past.
Probably the annual Labour Day march (1st May), which is probably only going to confirm to you that they're all a bunch of commie bastards who deserve to have their heads kicked in.
Why would you link to libraries on a remote web server? I this time and again, and have never understood the reasoning.
Maybe it's just me, but I really want to know what that Chicken vs Chicken plot actually is. Also the more I look at that paper, the more I think "is that really how chicken is spelt?" - it just doesn't look correct when written so many times.
I didn't vote for the PM either, and odds are 1 in 650 that he even represents you directly.
* I'm assuming that like me, you live in the UK.
You'll be lucky if you find a car dealer accepting a bank draft as cleared funds nowadays. I know of several companies that have been burned that way. Same goes for debit cards - we always assumed that they were cleared funds, however after one of our clients paid for a Bentley (trade transaction), some Muppet in the back cancelled the transaction, which meant that the seller was down £60k, the buyer wasn't even at fault.
As a result, we advise people to only release a car when the money is actually in their account, however that's not even guaranteed as we've encountered scams where people attempt to reverse bank transfers.
Short story, there no such thing as cleared funds.
Seeing as it's essentially an electronic device (a big PDA) "thrown" across our solar system, I think think the preferred unit is Campbells
I think you've got it the wrong way round - 465 (SMTPs) is deprecated, 25 is still the standard SMTP port.
I know, every time I read about something like this I think "these idiots are really opening themselves up for a massive DOS attack". It probably means a whole load of overtime, so maybe that's why they do it.
About as bad as the guy not being allowed to fly because of his optimus prime t-shirt, picture of him wearing it.
But they won't kill you over it.
Or more accurately, like most other religious followers, the majority of Buddhists won't kill you for it. Like every religion, it has followers who are willing to kill for their beliefs - Special Report: Buddhist monks incite Muslim killings in Myanmar
But, but, but, they weren't true Buddhists - true Buddhists wouldn't do something like that!
Because nothing wins an argument like the No True Scotsman fallacy.
Not on the Block IIIA Satellites - DoD Permanently Discontinues Procurement Of Global Positioning System Selective Availability. Granted, they're not in the sky yet, but the US military already has the capability to deny GPS to specific areas, so they wouldn't need it anyway.
Remember, it was the FAA that was the force behind deactivating SA. Turning it back on now could well be more dangerous than just denying GPS and issuing a NOTAM.
How the hell is that 7 word phrase with punctuation (I'll ignore the case, as only the first word is capitalised) susceptible to a dictionary attack?
If I tell you that my password contains 7 words (contained in my /usr/share/dict/words which is 99171 lines long), with a comma after the 3rd and a full stop at the end, you will still have to search through 94,339,343,028,749,422,154,850,189,341,666,091 (9.4E34) combinations - best get cracking. If I'm even nicer to you and tell you that none of the words are repeated, then there are only 94,319,367,837,042,826,040,647,505,756,227,200 (9.4E34). It turns out that when I'm being nice, I'm not being that helpful.
I do use random alphanumeric passwords, because I can remember quite a few of them - it takes a while to remember them and it's massively annoying when I have to change one.
However for my company's keepass file, I use a pass-phrase that is an incorrect quotation from a well know poem - go on, have a guess.
Mario responded to PETA in person.
They're overrated - getting all the spokes out of the carcase is worse than plucking a pheasant any day. Also, the thighs don't tend to have much meat on them.
No, the search string was:
if(version,startswith("windows 9")
I'm guessing the person who ran the search made the assumption the search engine query is comma delimited, but was in fact space delimited.
I noticed the abundance of java files too, searchcode.com seems to match a whole load of Python files which don't even match the search string - go figure. However I wouldn't really call it observational bias - you run a search for a piece of text and you see a correlation in the results. The code fragment being searched for is "fairly" language neutral - it would match most CLR languages in addition to java, javascript, python etc. What's more interesting is why the OS detection is being done in the first place - the cynic in me says it's probably because they're using the OS version to make assumptions about file system locations.
On the plus side, some of the java files are checking the version number as well as the OS name, so at least that's something.
Shame there's not some method for inserting plain text into code that will explain what you're doing, but has no effect on the actual compiled application. Maybe we could call them comments or something.
Or maybe there's some way of referencing a number, but with a name which describes what the number is so that it can be reused. It's be great if you could guarantee that the number couldn't be changed. Hmm, what could we call that?
Brilliant - I normally check the links, but this time I *assumed* I'd copied and pasted it correctly,
The Bramble Bank in the central Solent does the same. It's also the location for an annual cricket match. I've hit it numerous time when racing, but never actually seen it.