Funny how things keep crawling out of the crypt. As long as there are Windows and disco (or its house/techno/blahblah descendants), there will be people who want something better.
Bring a laptop into the theater in case the movie being shown is crap. If you have your laptop with you, you can pop in a DVD and watch something better. If the movie is truly, severely crap, you will probably attract some new friends, maybe even some hittable ones.
If you go just outside of the city, you can easily find a decent 2-br. apartment for $1200 - 1400/mo. That's a lot more expensive than Bentonville, but a lot cheaper than New York. A lot of the IT jobs are outside the city, so the hellish commute is not all that relevant if you can just stay off Rte. 128. IT jobs used to cluster around Cambridge and Rte. 128, but now you find plenty of them in the Chelmsford MA/ Nashua NH region, outside of Rte. 495. With some kind of industry experience besides IT (health care, financial services, education, security, etc.), you should have no trouble scoring a job.
We have beaches, mountains, lakes, night life, whatever you like. The only thing we don't have is tickets to the Red Sox - they just had their 500th consecutive sold-out game. Maybe you can see them in New York when the play the Wankees.
People who believe they will make their fortune from a blog need to read up on the internet bubble. Eyeballs are not dollars, as investors discovered. A blog is just another kind of website. If you are selling your services, a blog is a great way of showing your expertise. You must make your money by actually doing something, though, not by writing about it. The blog just shows prospective clients what you know.
I can just hear the DC election commissioners now, poring over the source code: "What is this? Why can't they write in plain English? What's this 'Studio H' stuff supposed to mean?"
I actually got back a URL that I had dropped by mistake when changing hosts. If you have the patience or are angry enough, register with a backorder service to pick up the URL next renewal time. Do it well in advance of expiration, as the service providers don't move all that fast. Also, don't obsessively check the URL. Squatters track the visits and will be more likely to renew or pick up URLs that generate traffic.
Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards seem kind of weak to me. Here are just some of the issues:
Independence PCI DSS auditors are permitted to audit companies where the auditor sold, installed, configured, or has rights to the security software being used. Also, if the auditor disagrees with the client, the client is free to hire a more pliable auditor with no one the wiser.
Scope The standards permit the client to limit the scope of the audit to defined systems and their components using defined methods. If the client doesn't want to pay for penetration tests, the auditor doesn't do them.
Completeness A typical PCI DSS audit uses the client's system and security documentation as the starting point. The responsibility for gathering other evidence is limited. There is no requirement to do any network scanning (like with NMAP) or to go sniffing for undocumented wireless entry points, so there may be elements of the system not documented and not tested. This sounds like the case discussed here.
Validation PCI DSS auditors are not responsible for verifying that the client's controls worked as intended. There is no mandate for penetration testing, war driving, or independent virus scanning.
Even if the auditor had done his job (not really clear from the articles), that to me would not demonstrate that the customer data was safe.
Aside from WordPerfect and Lotus 1-2-3, there were other applications that made business desktops well worth having:
Harvard Graphics (eaten by Power Point)
Visio (flowcharting)
PK Zip, so you could fit things on a floppy
Microsoft Project
The point is that these changed business computing, which is where most people first encountered computers back then. Without that degree of penetration, there would not have been such a thing as a home computer. Most people buying home computers told themselves that they were doing it to work from home.
What they need is a solid system of IT auditing to make sure the standards are followed. To the extent they are done now, IT audits are done within each agency and rarely receive attention at the department secretary level. Each department has an inspector general with oversight responsibilities, but they don't seem to put IT audits at the top of their agendas. GAO does not do much with this, either. Why not?
A White House directive for IT audits and request for reports of results would really be sufficient. Let them know the president is taking the issue seriously and they would do so as well.
People keep confusing this issue. First, no Japanese officers or personnel were convicted just on the basis of waterboarding. Although they did use it, they were more likely to use something like the Swedish Drink, which causes severe physical damage and painful death.
Think about it for a bit, and ask yourself if the war crimes investigators would have been likely to have gone after someone for waterboarding when there were so many other hideous crimes committed: the Wake Island massacre, the Rape of Nanking, the destruction of Manila, the routine torture and murder of POWs (including the vivisection of an entire bomber crew), the massacres after the fall of Singapore, the Bataan death march, etc. One Japanese general was hanged for selecting prisoners to be slaughtered and eaten! Not every Japanese soldier or official who participated in these far more serious and widespread abuses was prosecuted.
Please apply a little common sense and do a little research before parroting nonsense.
You don't even need to deploy the most advanced technology. A medical student I know created an Access database for a clinic in Zambia that brought huge efficiencies and may have saved lives. The staff there learned to use it because he modeled the input screens on the paper forms they were used to.
Also, think about installing (and maintaining!) QuickBooks or some other accounting package. The key to helping them is to always keep in mind that you are not dealing with computer specialists. Keep it simple. Make yourself available to set up new machines, install software, and answer questions. How about volunteering for their board of trustees?
Just be aware that the not-for-profit world is significantly different from one where there is the intention and hope of making money. Things happen slowly and progress takes unanticipated routes. War stories available upon request.
So, does the "republican" tag indicate that the bushitler regime's tentacles have insinuated their way into British ISPs? Or is this a nefarious plot to end the monarchy?
What they seem to be proposing is a method of pre-positioning their content on mirror servers near their customers. The transactions go through the same set of pipes as all other traffic, just to a different location. This is essentially the same service Akamai has been offering for 10 years. Google is just doing it for themselves with their own hardware. ISPs won't go along with it unless they can (a) get paid and (b) show benefit to their customers.
Slashdot Mirror
I thought this was Sparta?
Funny how things keep crawling out of the crypt. As long as there are Windows and disco (or its house/techno/blahblah descendants), there will be people who want something better.
Well, except for the part about harvesting your organs, maybe...
EOM means end of message. Don't read this.
You mean like the old Avalon Hill games? Progress!
I said "eom," dammit!
Bring a laptop into the theater in case the movie being shown is crap. If you have your laptop with you, you can pop in a DVD and watch something better. If the movie is truly, severely crap, you will probably attract some new friends, maybe even some hittable ones.
I said eom, dammit!
Maybe AM radio causes cancer, maybe it doesn't. Why take a chance? From now on, I'm only going to listen to FM.
Nearly everything coming out of Washington looks like a 419 scam anyway.
Always use a rubber duck.
Next, the maker of Photoshop is indicted for aiding and abetting DIY kiddie porn. This is just stupid.
If you go just outside of the city, you can easily find a decent 2-br. apartment for $1200 - 1400/mo. That's a lot more expensive than Bentonville, but a lot cheaper than New York. A lot of the IT jobs are outside the city, so the hellish commute is not all that relevant if you can just stay off Rte. 128. IT jobs used to cluster around Cambridge and Rte. 128, but now you find plenty of them in the Chelmsford MA/ Nashua NH region, outside of Rte. 495. With some kind of industry experience besides IT (health care, financial services, education, security, etc.), you should have no trouble scoring a job.
We have beaches, mountains, lakes, night life, whatever you like. The only thing we don't have is tickets to the Red Sox - they just had their 500th consecutive sold-out game. Maybe you can see them in New York when the play the Wankees.
Step 1: Start blog
Step 2: ???
Step 3: Profit!
People who believe they will make their fortune from a blog need to read up on the internet bubble. Eyeballs are not dollars, as investors discovered. A blog is just another kind of website. If you are selling your services, a blog is a great way of showing your expertise. You must make your money by actually doing something, though, not by writing about it. The blog just shows prospective clients what you know.
Here is my qualified "yes": it should be required only for archaeologists.
Everybody panic!
I can just hear the DC election commissioners now, poring over the source code: "What is this? Why can't they write in plain English? What's this 'Studio H' stuff supposed to mean?"
I actually got back a URL that I had dropped by mistake when changing hosts. If you have the patience or are angry enough, register with a backorder service to pick up the URL next renewal time. Do it well in advance of expiration, as the service providers don't move all that fast. Also, don't obsessively check the URL. Squatters track the visits and will be more likely to renew or pick up URLs that generate traffic.
Even if the auditor had done his job (not really clear from the articles), that to me would not demonstrate that the customer data was safe.
Links:
Congress is not happy, either.
PCI DSS Validation Standards
PCI DSS audit procedures
So much for my lunch break.
The point is that these changed business computing, which is where most people first encountered computers back then. Without that degree of penetration, there would not have been such a thing as a home computer. Most people buying home computers told themselves that they were doing it to work from home.
There is already a set of standards and an agency with responsibility for setting and updating them, namely the Computer Security Division of the National Institute of Standards and Technology. We don't need another czar; we're running out of Fabergé eggs and gaudy uniforms.
What they need is a solid system of IT auditing to make sure the standards are followed. To the extent they are done now, IT audits are done within each agency and rarely receive attention at the department secretary level. Each department has an inspector general with oversight responsibilities, but they don't seem to put IT audits at the top of their agendas. GAO does not do much with this, either. Why not?
A White House directive for IT audits and request for reports of results would really be sufficient. Let them know the president is taking the issue seriously and they would do so as well.
People keep confusing this issue. First, no Japanese officers or personnel were convicted just on the basis of waterboarding. Although they did use it, they were more likely to use something like the Swedish Drink, which causes severe physical damage and painful death.
Think about it for a bit, and ask yourself if the war crimes investigators would have been likely to have gone after someone for waterboarding when there were so many other hideous crimes committed: the Wake Island massacre, the Rape of Nanking, the destruction of Manila, the routine torture and murder of POWs (including the vivisection of an entire bomber crew), the massacres after the fall of Singapore, the Bataan death march, etc. One Japanese general was hanged for selecting prisoners to be slaughtered and eaten! Not every Japanese soldier or official who participated in these far more serious and widespread abuses was prosecuted.
Please apply a little common sense and do a little research before parroting nonsense.
You don't even need to deploy the most advanced technology. A medical student I know created an Access database for a clinic in Zambia that brought huge efficiencies and may have saved lives. The staff there learned to use it because he modeled the input screens on the paper forms they were used to.
Also, think about installing (and maintaining!) QuickBooks or some other accounting package. The key to helping them is to always keep in mind that you are not dealing with computer specialists. Keep it simple. Make yourself available to set up new machines, install software, and answer questions. How about volunteering for their board of trustees?
Just be aware that the not-for-profit world is significantly different from one where there is the intention and hope of making money. Things happen slowly and progress takes unanticipated routes. War stories available upon request.
So, does the "republican" tag indicate that the bushitler regime's tentacles have insinuated their way into British ISPs? Or is this a nefarious plot to end the monarchy?
What they seem to be proposing is a method of pre-positioning their content on mirror servers near their customers. The transactions go through the same set of pipes as all other traffic, just to a different location. This is essentially the same service Akamai has been offering for 10 years. Google is just doing it for themselves with their own hardware. ISPs won't go along with it unless they can (a) get paid and (b) show benefit to their customers.
Everybody !panic