I've just trained my friends to email me if they want me to know about something they've posted on FB, since I don't have an account. Otherwise, it's their fault for not telling me. Only time this didn't work was when a freind's fiance decided that putting the wedding travel/hotel/directions details only on FB was the best way to let everyone know. But then I just found out from everyone else.
I get grumbles. Even the occasional threat to make a page for me without telling me. But they know better.
When are they going to learn and force all trades to happen in bins. I.e. all trades arriving within each X seconds (or even some reasonable fraction) window get treated the same. The window being well-known and the same for all traders. That would put an end to most of this zero-sum gamesmanship trying to beat/trick/manipulate the other guy's trading algorithm and jump ahead of normal Joe Shmoes who can't afford to get a fat/fast pipe within uS of the trading network.
Oh, wait, the exchanges are making money by charging for this unequal access? Nevermind.
I find a basic Chrome install is nice for online banking in a separate browser without having to quit Firefox and reload just to have a clean, banking-only browsing session.
Now if only they'd let you choose to install it somewhere other than 'Documents and Settings'.........grrrrr.
My family's first Apple ][c did let the Magic Blue Smoke out shortly after we got it home and plugged in. No explosion, but there was a wisp of smoke rising off the thing. Of course dad took it right back to the store for a replacement.
It was entertaining, and not THAT bad compared to other movies folks are talking about in here. And Sid made a pretty fun badass bad guy......"ah, ah, ah! faster!"
I wrote a term paper on that movie. Seriously. For a class on sci fi (and how it reflects on the society that creates it) that started with Aelita: Queen of Mars from 1924 Russia. The term paper focused on how serial killers (real life all the way back to Jack the Ripper, and Sid) are products of--and couldn't exist without--modern media. And yes, I laughed myself all the way to an 'A'.
Someone else in that class did a paper on RoboCop being a commentary on rampant corporate abuses and gaining power to rival the sovereign. Though I think that Max Headroom handled the subject better.
There was the episode where the captain, Roh, etc. got turned into children and had trouble accessing the computer with permissions problems. So apparently the computer can automagically distinguish children from adults easy enough. Not sure if that's any 'better.'
I can't believe I had to search this far down to find "The Net." Wasn't the whole premise that the bad guy somehow put a secret icon on every web page that when you clicked on it magically hacked the server for that page? And he forgot to deactivate/remove it from his own server? What a load of...bullock.
I always liked to think that because the aliens were a hive mind and/or telepathic, there was no real reason for them to need good computer security, since no alien in their population would ever try to maliciously manipulate the system. They just trusted each other. Making it a cakewalk for humans who have had practice. Imagine someone from today (ok the 90s) being asked to hack some of the first computers in the past, before hackers and crackers had started making life more interesting.
Also explains the system not changing in 50 years. Why? It's not like they've been getting repeatedly hacked for 50 years and sending patch updates out. And even our modern OSes have lots of backwards compatibility, and we are probably on a steeper part of the development curve.
Oh, and if they were going a good fraction of the speed of light to get to earth they'd have way less than 50 years.
I'm guessing he's given bruises on his knuckles from where he beat you, as his punishment. And a stern "don't get caught next time" talk from his Sargent?
Not only that, but over the lifetime of the CFL bulb doesn't the (extra) coal burnt to power the (hour equivalent) 3-4 incandecents release more mercury than was in the same CFL? And the CFL mercury only gets released if not disposed of properly.
Or, they could go back to the first licensed contract engineer and say "WTF did we pay you for" and let them defend their initial assessment. It fact because it was taxpayer dollars being spent, they have a DUTY to make sure it wasn't wasted on a hack firm that happens to hire hack PEs. If Cox's work is faulty then those licensed engineers should be able to rebut it easy enough. (And yes, most government contract law means that you have to pay the contractor time and materials while they are rebutting/defending their own work. But that--or hiring a second firm--is the cost of having no one at DOT capable of evaluating the work of their contractors.)
Either Cox's work/assumptions/math are completely correct or not correct and flawed somehow. So: If the work is correct then how could it be "misleading"? But if the work is not correct then how can it be "engineering-quality"?
So Lacy's allegations aren't even logically coherent.
He's a consultant. The first thing I though reading this article was that he's fishing for customers. Why break the lotto for $600 a day when you can get yourself hired by the lotto companies to check their work by showing them how weak their current auditors are?
I thought they officially changed their name to the letters "TLC" and haven't been "The Learning Channel" for quite some time. Now back to go watch more Spike TV...........
I don't see the point in signing up if I'm not planning on using 90% of the features.
It keeps your friends from threatening to make a Facebook page for you, without your consent because they feel that you are a Luddite hiding behind silly "privacy concerns." Though I've pretty well trained most of them to email me important info, except the one who put all their wedding planing info ONLY on Facebook and expected us to all magically know which hotel, where the reception was, what time, etc.
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I've just trained my friends to email me if they want me to know about something they've posted on FB, since I don't have an account. Otherwise, it's their fault for not telling me. Only time this didn't work was when a freind's fiance decided that putting the wedding travel/hotel/directions details only on FB was the best way to let everyone know. But then I just found out from everyone else.
I get grumbles. Even the occasional threat to make a page for me without telling me. But they know better.
I've turned down Linkedin invites too.
When are they going to learn and force all trades to happen in bins. I.e. all trades arriving within each X seconds (or even some reasonable fraction) window get treated the same. The window being well-known and the same for all traders. That would put an end to most of this zero-sum gamesmanship trying to beat/trick/manipulate the other guy's trading algorithm and jump ahead of normal Joe Shmoes who can't afford to get a fat/fast pipe within uS of the trading network.
Oh, wait, the exchanges are making money by charging for this unequal access? Nevermind.
Note also that you are not allowed to know or organize the other stockholders.
So all shareholders that attend the annual meeting must wear ski masks and use first names only?
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VE_1KlWFJyA is closer to the video-game-based-movie-plot theme.
I find a basic Chrome install is nice for online banking in a separate browser without having to quit Firefox and reload just to have a clean, banking-only browsing session.
Now if only they'd let you choose to install it somewhere other than 'Documents and Settings'.........grrrrr.
Are you viewing it from a mobile? I'm a server!
It's just easier to keep a recording of them on your iPhone, ready to play at the push of a button. Like my friend does whenever I tell a joke.
Good thing they only made the one, then.
My family's first Apple ][c did let the Magic Blue Smoke out shortly after we got it home and plugged in. No explosion, but there was a wisp of smoke rising off the thing. Of course dad took it right back to the store for a replacement.
It was entertaining, and not THAT bad compared to other movies folks are talking about in here. And Sid made a pretty fun badass bad guy......"ah, ah, ah! faster!"
I wrote a term paper on that movie. Seriously. For a class on sci fi (and how it reflects on the society that creates it) that started with Aelita: Queen of Mars from 1924 Russia. The term paper focused on how serial killers (real life all the way back to Jack the Ripper, and Sid) are products of--and couldn't exist without--modern media. And yes, I laughed myself all the way to an 'A'.
Someone else in that class did a paper on RoboCop being a commentary on rampant corporate abuses and gaining power to rival the sovereign. Though I think that Max Headroom handled the subject better.
There was the episode where the captain, Roh, etc. got turned into children and had trouble accessing the computer with permissions problems. So apparently the computer can automagically distinguish children from adults easy enough. Not sure if that's any 'better.'
I can't believe I had to search this far down to find "The Net." Wasn't the whole premise that the bad guy somehow put a secret icon on every web page that when you clicked on it magically hacked the server for that page? And he forgot to deactivate/remove it from his own server? What a load of...bullock.
I always liked to think that because the aliens were a hive mind and/or telepathic, there was no real reason for them to need good computer security, since no alien in their population would ever try to maliciously manipulate the system. They just trusted each other. Making it a cakewalk for humans who have had practice. Imagine someone from today (ok the 90s) being asked to hack some of the first computers in the past, before hackers and crackers had started making life more interesting.
Also explains the system not changing in 50 years. Why? It's not like they've been getting repeatedly hacked for 50 years and sending patch updates out. And even our modern OSes have lots of backwards compatibility, and we are probably on a steeper part of the development curve.
Oh, and if they were going a good fraction of the speed of light to get to earth they'd have way less than 50 years.
Free publicity may be worth more.
I'm guessing he's given bruises on his knuckles from where he beat you, as his punishment. And a stern "don't get caught next time" talk from his Sargent?
Not only that, but over the lifetime of the CFL bulb doesn't the (extra) coal burnt to power the (hour equivalent) 3-4 incandecents release more mercury than was in the same CFL? And the CFL mercury only gets released if not disposed of properly.
The largest number of people who can successfully keep a secret is two.
"Darmok, and Jalad... at Tanagra!"
Or, they could go back to the first licensed contract engineer and say "WTF did we pay you for" and let them defend their initial assessment. It fact because it was taxpayer dollars being spent, they have a DUTY to make sure it wasn't wasted on a hack firm that happens to hire hack PEs. If Cox's work is faulty then those licensed engineers should be able to rebut it easy enough. (And yes, most government contract law means that you have to pay the contractor time and materials while they are rebutting/defending their own work. But that--or hiring a second firm--is the cost of having no one at DOT capable of evaluating the work of their contractors.)
Either Cox's work/assumptions/math are completely correct or not correct and flawed somehow. So: If the work is correct then how could it be "misleading"? But if the work is not correct then how can it be "engineering-quality"?
So Lacy's allegations aren't even logically coherent.
He's a consultant. The first thing I though reading this article was that he's fishing for customers. Why break the lotto for $600 a day when you can get yourself hired by the lotto companies to check their work by showing them how weak their current auditors are?
I thought they officially changed their name to the letters "TLC" and haven't been "The Learning Channel" for quite some time. Now back to go watch more Spike TV...........
I don't see the point in signing up if I'm not planning on using 90% of the features.
It keeps your friends from threatening to make a Facebook page for you, without your consent because they feel that you are a Luddite hiding behind silly "privacy concerns." Though I've pretty well trained most of them to email me important info, except the one who put all their wedding planing info ONLY on Facebook and expected us to all magically know which hotel, where the reception was, what time, etc.
Prox Mines FTW. And no, I was never Odd Job, why do you ask?