... that if you believe all those Tesla-stock-pimpers' advice, your investment, like your investments in Webvan, CMGI, Pets.Com, etc., will soon sleep with the fishes.
I have a tendency to agree. The "PhDs", including some participants in Vortex 2, are mostly people who have their either extreme video or tornado tourism businesses.
Sorry, folks, the roads belong to everyone, but ultimately the Highway Patrol "owns" the road, and yes, in places they are cracking down on crazed drivers, parking in the road, piles of gadgets obscuring the windows, etc.
Ultimately, I'd be more worried about some fly-by-night outfit rolling a van or driving head-on into someone either because the vehicles are poorly maintained or the driver is sleep-deprived.
I spend about 80% of my time cleaning up messes caused by replies to phishing campaigns, breakins from weak or null passwords, viruses from dubious web sites, torrent servers using all the bandwidth from a building, and people who have supposedly "lost" all their email after accidentally moving it to the trash. I have the right to go through their mail and search for, say, replies to phishing emails in their "Sent" mail, or log into their PC and look for pr0n in their Bookmarks. Does that count?
Aside from that, I have worked NOWHERE (even at a big huge bank) where employee web surfing habits or emails were actively scrutinized. It just isn't worth the trouble. We thought about "saving" all incoming and outgoing email (for 8000 people), but after Management saw the price tag, that idea went nowhere.
Certain PCs in certain locations with a proclivity for mischief (library kiosk, night hours security guards, building maintenance office in windowless basement) can just be locked down.
Best countermeasure: open cubes with monitor windows facing out.
Actually, you should check out Mexican dentists (and doctors.) Sailboat liveaboards and other adventurers who spend extended periods of time down there swear by them. A good many are reported to have US training, speak English, and your cash expense could be less than your insurance deductible.
You have to realize SF's Board of Supes is way into touchy feeley useless laws, it's easier than fixing their broken water mains, potholes, clogged storm drains, unreliable transit system, intractable homeless problem, and enormous budget deficit.
This law just requires sellers to post SAR levels where they can be easily evaluated. Verizon already posts SARs on the little price cards next to the phone. Whatever, SAR is a completely meaningless figure anyway.
It isn't nearly as nutty as the City of Sebastopol which refused to consider municipal WiFi, citing radiation concerns:
... not just a crown. They drill a screw down into your jaw or skull bone, then mount a tooth on it.
I would *definitely* not want to have problems with that, they could take as many X-rays as they want. At 0.005 millisieverts (see parent's link) that's still 1/20th the amount of a chest Xray.
Now off to brush my teeth compulsively for the next hour.
And probably old news. The Nosotek web site is (C)2008 and 100% boilerplate. And a few weeks ago, DPRK cut off all contact with S Korea and confiscated S Korean property in the N. Doesn't look like BofA or Lockheed or even the Simpsons will be outsourcing anything there anytime in the near future.
Google Reader's "Recommended Items" is currently doing this job for me.
Plus, it is forcing me to be more intelligent in my browsing habits; the all seeing eye of Google encourages me to choose wisely so there is less random crap and more bona fide tech news on my list.
The "eat your own dog food" concept worked just fine. I worked at Sun in the 90s and as far as I can remember I never used a spreadsheet there. We arranged our data in plain text files and sorted it with shell scripts, and we did this walking uphill in the snow both ways, sonny.
Seriously, there were word processing, Visio, and powerpoint equivalents in Solaris, and for apps that just had to run in a Windows environment, an emulation environment (name?) that sort-of worked, and I think a few people that really really needed them had Macs.
In some states in the US, denial of the theory of evolution is used as the basis for educational policy. I suppose it is a policy that attempts to keep evangelical Christians in power by stunting the education of their children.
You are also fundamentally wrong that climate science is attempting to predict the future. It is also an attempt to understand the past history of climate changes.
Also, the argument that scientists are trying to formulate policy is the same red herring used by conservatard politicians to harass researchers. If the scientists somehow were convinced that burning *more* fossil fuels would prevent ocean levels from rising, polar ice from melting, etc, they would say so. But the preponderance of evidence, so far, points in the other direction.
My playground is a 5000-user community at a small university. The students are actually the computer savvy ones, it's faculty and staff that click on phishing scam links and have their weak passwords guessed.
My best guess is that there are about 1 or 2 infected/bot'ed machines out there at any given time. They are easy to spot. Guessed passwords are almost immediately used to log in to our mail server and relay spam, which is also easy to spot and usually shut down quickly by my IDS.
Everyone should know by now that 90% (or more) of the trades in the markets are done by bots. Traders are moving their offices from Chicago to New Jersey where the trading floors (computers) are because the time it takes for a TCPIP packet to make it from Chicago to New Jersey in too long.
I am sure these trading bots are given about as much QA time as it takes to do one of these trades.
Slashdot Mirror
They have their "slow food" movement, now they have their "slow computing" movement.
Not that there's anything wrong with that.
... that if you believe all those Tesla-stock-pimpers' advice, your investment, like your investments in Webvan, CMGI, Pets.Com, etc., will soon sleep with the fishes.
I have a tendency to agree. The "PhDs", including some participants in Vortex 2, are mostly people who have their either extreme video or tornado tourism businesses.
Sorry, folks, the roads belong to everyone, but ultimately the Highway Patrol "owns" the road, and yes, in places they are cracking down on crazed drivers, parking in the road, piles of gadgets obscuring the windows, etc.
Ultimately, I'd be more worried about some fly-by-night outfit rolling a van or driving head-on into someone either because the vehicles are poorly maintained or the driver is sleep-deprived.
I spend about 80% of my time cleaning up messes caused by replies to phishing campaigns, breakins from weak or null passwords, viruses from dubious web sites, torrent servers using all the bandwidth from a building, and people who have supposedly "lost" all their email after accidentally moving it to the trash. I have the right to go through their mail and search for, say, replies to phishing emails in their "Sent" mail, or log into their PC and look for pr0n in their Bookmarks. Does that count?
Aside from that, I have worked NOWHERE (even at a big huge bank) where employee web surfing habits or emails were actively scrutinized. It just isn't worth the trouble. We thought about "saving" all incoming and outgoing email (for 8000 people), but after Management saw the price tag, that idea went nowhere.
Certain PCs in certain locations with a proclivity for mischief (library kiosk, night hours security guards, building maintenance office in windowless basement) can just be locked down.
Best countermeasure: open cubes with monitor windows facing out.
Also (on topic) a few friends of mine have had implants and that's more or less what they paid. Sheesh, my dentist charges $1000 - $1500 for a crown.
Actually, you should check out Mexican dentists (and doctors.) Sailboat liveaboards and other adventurers who spend extended periods of time down there swear by them. A good many are reported to have US training, speak English, and your cash expense could be less than your insurance deductible.
http://www.diabetesmine.com/2009/03/lifescans-new-diabetes-iphone-app.html
This is one step. This thing could save lives - unless it's Flash-based.
You have to realize SF's Board of Supes is way into touchy feeley useless laws, it's easier than fixing their broken water mains, potholes, clogged storm drains, unreliable transit system, intractable homeless problem, and enormous budget deficit.
This law just requires sellers to post SAR levels where they can be easily evaluated. Verizon already posts SARs on the little price cards next to the phone. Whatever, SAR is a completely meaningless figure anyway.
It isn't nearly as nutty as the City of Sebastopol which refused to consider municipal WiFi, citing radiation concerns:
http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/local&id=6082680
... not just a crown. They drill a screw down into your jaw or skull bone, then mount a tooth on it.
I would *definitely* not want to have problems with that, they could take as many X-rays as they want. At 0.005 millisieverts (see parent's link) that's still 1/20th the amount of a chest Xray.
Now off to brush my teeth compulsively for the next hour.
And probably old news. The Nosotek web site is (C)2008 and 100% boilerplate. And a few weeks ago, DPRK cut off all contact with S Korea and confiscated S Korean property in the N. Doesn't look like BofA or Lockheed or even the Simpsons will be outsourcing anything there anytime in the near future.
Google Reader's "Recommended Items" is currently doing this job for me.
Plus, it is forcing me to be more intelligent in my browsing habits; the all seeing eye of Google encourages me to choose wisely so there is less random crap and more bona fide tech news on my list.
The "eat your own dog food" concept worked just fine. I worked at Sun in the 90s and as far as I can remember I never used a spreadsheet there. We arranged our data in plain text files and sorted it with shell scripts, and we did this walking uphill in the snow both ways, sonny.
Seriously, there were word processing, Visio, and powerpoint equivalents in Solaris, and for apps that just had to run in a Windows environment, an emulation environment (name?) that sort-of worked, and I think a few people that really really needed them had Macs.
The only technology that would take care of that the gov't has that the oil patch doesn't is nuclear bombs that could be exploded on the seafloor.
My guess is it would be a tossup at this point as to which would make a bigger mess.
Da, I cannot believe no one is getting joke you make! We solve problem in Soviet Russia by having one story factories.
-Joseph Stalin
if (/flash/ or /DRM/ or /yro.slashdot.org/ or /Kindle/ or /Sony eBook/ or /iPad/) {
sarcasmDetected;
}
There, wrote some code for you.
"Be vewwy vewwy qwiet! I'm hunting for satewwites!"
The first license will be issued to a Maj Gen Fudd, I am sure.
Point is - it's a free country, start your own internet of you don't like it.
In some states in the US, denial of the theory of evolution is used as the basis for educational policy. I suppose it is a policy that attempts to keep evangelical Christians in power by stunting the education of their children.
You are also fundamentally wrong that climate science is attempting to predict the future. It is also an attempt to understand the past history of climate changes.
Also, the argument that scientists are trying to formulate policy is the same red herring used by conservatard politicians to harass researchers. If the scientists somehow were convinced that burning *more* fossil fuels would prevent ocean levels from rising, polar ice from melting, etc, they would say so. But the preponderance of evidence, so far, points in the other direction.
Of course you are not running Windows.
My playground is a 5000-user community at a small university. The students are actually the computer savvy ones, it's faculty and staff that click on phishing scam links and have their weak passwords guessed.
My best guess is that there are about 1 or 2 infected/bot'ed machines out there at any given time. They are easy to spot. Guessed passwords are almost immediately used to log in to our mail server and relay spam, which is also easy to spot and usually shut down quickly by my IDS.
Everyone should know by now that 90% (or more) of the trades in the markets are done by bots. Traders are moving their offices from Chicago to New Jersey where the trading floors (computers)
are because the time it takes for a TCPIP packet to make it from Chicago to New Jersey in too long.
I am sure these trading bots are given about as much QA time as it takes to do one of these trades.
I think that's what *most* people might call it in those parts, 15+% unemployment notwithstanding.
If Gopher might had became the Internets: Imagine all those VT-terminals that wouldn't be in landfills!
And we'd be working on Gopher-5, the Flash-killer!
Considering the amount of time I spent swapping floppy disks on my first Mac, I find that story dubious.
I was sufficiently motivated to clip out the measly 128k dram chips and painstakingly solder in 512k chips to cut down on the tedium.
Pshaw. He gets a raise and a trip to the next trade show for helping pull off a successful guerrilla marketing trick.
And I can still load iPhone apps that consist of nothing more than audio clips of farts.
Go figure.