"with the toolset they had 30+ years ago." I got a Java programmer to admit that bad code today is much worse than the bad code of the '70s and the '80s. I believe that the today's toolsets contribute to that.
The business plan of your typical ISP is based on customers not using all the bits. We have ZoomTown here in Cincinnati. Once, using publicly available information, a friend and I figured out that if only.1% (.001) of their subscriber base used the full bandwidth, ZoomTown's connection to the Internet would be saturated.
In other words, you're not paying for the full bits, so if you share those bits with others, you're ripping off your provider. That said, it usually doesn't matter, but in some extreme cases (five people streaming Netflix, for example), it would.
Apple's AirPort Extreme Base Station and Time Capsule support guest networks. I still have my guess network secured with a password which is even different than the password for the main network!
Sorry, wrong federal agency. I doubt DHS had anything to do with it except to shit themselves when they found out how vulnerable U.S. infrastructure is.
Maybe because I want to run an app that gives me directions? That's right, I want to keep my location secret but I still need directions to the place I'm going to. Try to solve that puzzle.
One solution: I stop every 15 seconds, get a street address and key the whole thing into my app as my current location. Yeah, that'll work and still keep my current location secret.
A Barnes & Noble person told me that there's going to be major upgrade this month which will allow the Nook to shop at an app store. I expect more of the Android OS to be apparent at that point. I don't plan to root mine; I will let B&N make the improvements.
My wife bought me a Nook Color for Christmas. One factor was the ability to download books from our library. For me, it's took late for Amazon; I will never buy a Kindle.
Many states have already worked on simplifying the tax rules. Ohio now taxes shipping and handling and also taxes based on where you live, not where the merchandise was shipped from.
Agreed. But any of this can happen any time someone sees my email address. Every time my friends' computers gets hacked, the hacker downloads his/her address book and gets my email address. The Epsilon disclosure doesn't make me any more vulnerable than before. There is no story!
When I watched Watson on Jeopardy!, I realized we had entered the post-Microsoft era: Where technologies and techniques that were common in the '70s would be brought back to prominence and we can go forward. It is the dawning of a new age in Computer Science.
B.S. in Computer Science, 1976, Department of Engineering, University of Illinois
Who said anything about passwords being compromised? My e-mail address is now public. Big whoop, it has always been public. If the "public" (don't include me) uses the same password for their checking account as they do their email, shame on them.
I went into an Apple store to buy a cable. The salesperson greeted me at the door, confirmed that the cable I thought I needed was the correct one, called to the back to get someone to retrieve said cable and then rang up the sale on his custom iPod Touch (the credit card reader is not standard). I was in and out within five minutes with the correct cable. Don't expect that at Best Buy.
Let me help you: "fast-spreading" "compromising millions of websites" All vulnerable Web sites are infected by now. If your Web site is out there and not infected, then you're probably okay. If it did get infected, you tried to fix it and it gets reinfected, you haven't fixed it!
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"with the toolset they had 30+ years ago." I got a Java programmer to admit that bad code today is much worse than the bad code of the '70s and the '80s. I believe that the today's toolsets contribute to that.
The business plan of your typical ISP is based on customers not using all the bits. We have ZoomTown here in Cincinnati. Once, using publicly available information, a friend and I figured out that if only .1% (.001) of their subscriber base used the full bandwidth, ZoomTown's connection to the Internet would be saturated.
In other words, you're not paying for the full bits, so if you share those bits with others, you're ripping off your provider. That said, it usually doesn't matter, but in some extreme cases (five people streaming Netflix, for example), it would.
Apple's AirPort Extreme Base Station and Time Capsule support guest networks. I still have my guess network secured with a password which is even different than the password for the main network!
Sorry, wrong federal agency. I doubt DHS had anything to do with it except to shit themselves when they found out how vulnerable U.S. infrastructure is.
Maybe because I want to run an app that gives me directions? That's right, I want to keep my location secret but I still need directions to the place I'm going to. Try to solve that puzzle.
One solution: I stop every 15 seconds, get a street address and key the whole thing into my app as my current location. Yeah, that'll work and still keep my current location secret.
The submitter appears to be the same person who wrote the blog entry...
Numbers, please, not "best selling item ever." Oh, Amazon doesn't release numbers. Wonder why?
Sorry, what you've proposed is at best unethical and at worst illegal. I'll pass.
A Barnes & Noble person told me that there's going to be major upgrade this month which will allow the Nook to shop at an app store. I expect more of the Android OS to be apparent at that point. I don't plan to root mine; I will let B&N make the improvements.
My wife bought me a Nook Color for Christmas. One factor was the ability to download books from our library. For me, it's took late for Amazon; I will never buy a Kindle.
Not couldn't but wouldn't.
It sounds like the problem is that your stock company is sending phish messages of its own.
Many states have already worked on simplifying the tax rules. Ohio now taxes shipping and handling and also taxes based on where you live, not where the merchandise was shipped from.
Agreed. But any of this can happen any time someone sees my email address. Every time my friends' computers gets hacked, the hacker downloads his/her address book and gets my email address. The Epsilon disclosure doesn't make me any more vulnerable than before. There is no story!
When I watched Watson on Jeopardy!, I realized we had entered the post-Microsoft era: Where technologies and techniques that were common in the '70s would be brought back to prominence and we can go forward. It is the dawning of a new age in Computer Science.
B.S. in Computer Science, 1976, Department of Engineering, University of Illinois
Who said anything about passwords being compromised? My e-mail address is now public. Big whoop, it has always been public. If the "public" (don't include me) uses the same password for their checking account as they do their email, shame on them.
Thanks for setting me straight.
Generic certificates (like *.example.com) should also be banned in my opinion.
The weak point on Macs is not the operating system, it's browsers, Adobe products and other added programs. This is where the hackers play.
Nook App Store coming this month...
I went into an Apple store to buy a cable. The salesperson greeted me at the door, confirmed that the cable I thought I needed was the correct one, called to the back to get someone to retrieve said cable and then rang up the sale on his custom iPod Touch (the credit card reader is not standard). I was in and out within five minutes with the correct cable. Don't expect that at Best Buy.
Yes, you can, but can your Mom?
Yep, I missed your point. I assumed when you were talking about gas station reward cards you were including the Kroger Plus card. My bad.
Let me help you: "fast-spreading" "compromising millions of websites" All vulnerable Web sites are infected by now. If your Web site is out there and not infected, then you're probably okay. If it did get infected, you tried to fix it and it gets reinfected, you haven't fixed it!
Oh, I'm so glad I won't run into you when I'm shopping at Kroger...