I don't know who would use it... how about Doctors?
Imagine a multi-layer X-ray of a patient, which you can move in and out of, just by moving your fingers... very useful. Especially during an operation. Remember, this is just the "first attempt".
I used to pirate games. In fact, I never paid for any for about 15 years. Then I happened onto Direct2Drive. The prices were reasonable (because they were US prices, not Australian prices, which are stupidly inflated) and I could buy a game, download it and play it in a few hours, without having to leave the house.
As a result, I bought quite a few games this way. Then Direct2Drive stopped allowing sales to Australia. Guess what happened next...
Rustylime.com online community once took on an Internet Bullying service (datingpsychos.com, a place where people laod all possible personal information about a victim and then try to extort the victim into paying to have it removed).
Members of the rustylime community found MySQL and PHP exploits on the datingpsychos site and were able, for a long time, to effectively keep it off the air. They were also able to find all the personal information about the publishers of the site, as well.
I know it was pwned because during the installation I got an angry phone call from the Cisco Comms boys, who wanted to know why one of our servers was suddenly flooding the network with traffic matching the signature of the Code Red worm.
Once the installation finished (now with the cable unplugged), sure enough, the box was infected with Code Red. No doubt because IIS installs by default (set to on) and my leaving the cable in allowed it to get infected.
I was then embarrassingly the reason for a new policy stating all installations must be done with the network cable unplugged.
I recall working at a university, in which every PC had a public IP address. I clearly remember a Windows 2000 server being pwned during installation. As in before the install process even finished.
That was the last time I installed with the CAT/5 still plugged in (and yes, it was my first job)....
I should qualify my statements because I realise I am making it sound like these people are getting paid enormous salaries for the most mundane jobs (and they are).
In Western Australia, salaries have basically doubled in the last 4 years. I personally have seen a 120% pay increase in the last 2 years. People are earning massive amounts compared to a few short years ago. Mostly, this is because we have huge reserves of iron ore and China wants it, bad.
However, it's not without downside.
These guys, up on mine sites, can easily make $150,000 a year, working 3 weeks on, 1 week off (so they're actually getting paid $150,000 for 9 months work). But that's 3 weeks out of every 4 away from their families.
Here's another catch. Some of these people can be paying up to $2,000 a week rent. Some of them are living in sea-tainers on the site, and still paying $1,000 a week rent. The companies are getting a lot of that money back off them, in other ways. Of course, for the lucky ones who get rent as part of their package - well they're paying off their mortgage in a few years.
Housing prices have also doubled in the cities, because so many people have more money then they know what to do with. Petrol prices have also doubled and no one seems to care.
So the poor bastards who haven't had phenomenal pay rises in the last few years are dead in the water. The average public servant cannot get a home loan, any longer for example and even rent is becoming too much for the lower income earners.
The big disappointment is that in a society where a few short years ago $50kpa was reasonable, suddenly that's poverty and lots of people are going to suffer.
$90k sounds good to you, as a CIO?!? Come to Western Australia (Australian Dollar btw is basically 1:1 with USD) - broom pushers on mine sites get paid more than that here.
And I literally mean people who push brooms.
For goodness sakes, I have a friend who's job it is to mark a dot on the ground every few metres (where to put the explosives) and he gets $120,000 a year.
Surely if someone can patent frivolous patents, then they can sue these idiots every time they try and patent something they shouldn't be trying to patent.
Although the other guy's comment was much funnier, it probably is worth me point out the expression is "all intents and purposes" not "all intensive purposes".
Still; better you make the mistake and get corrected online than in the boardroom;-)
Instead, we should stick to the track of "Palestinians/Muslims are evil", right?
No, we should stick to the topic at hand. I never once said anything about Palestinians/Muslims being evil, you just made the assumption that I must hate them, because I don't hate Jews. Is the world that black and white to you? You either hate Jews and love Palestinians or vice versa?
So New York citizens should also sue over the WTC attacks?
Sure, why not? Sue the Saudi government, if you can prove a link. Sue the US government for not detecting it. Whatever - if someone has negligence, then so be it. If no one has negligence, then you don't sue.
However your example is a bad one - the US govt. can reasonably claim it had no idea of the impending 9/11 attack - the Israeli govt. cannot make such a claim; when rocket attacks occur each and every single day. Therefore, there's more of a genuine complaint of negligence.
So if Sderot need to sue their government into action, so be it.
should probably read "over repeated aggressive and violent attacks from a neighbouring region, over repeated aggressive and violent attacks from its nation, over repeated aggressive and violent attacks from a neighbouring region, over...".
I don't see residents of Sderot lining up to fire rockets into Gaza. They're just families trying to get on with their life. Why should they be forced to suffer attack after attack, over actions of other people?
Unfortunately, the Palestinian side is probably too disorganised to commonly decide on anything. That means the only hope is for Israel to stop it, but I'm not too hopeful that will happen.
So the Palestinians are absolved of all responsibility? How convenient!
Can we all please make an effort to keep the comments on track, and not diverge into a "Israelis/Jews are evil" fest?
The residents of Sderot have every right to expect their government to protect them and if the government is refusing to take any preventative action, while over 7,000 rockets have fallen on the town, then suing the government seems a very reasonable action.
Please note that they're not strapping bombs to themselves and running into cafes or government buildings - they're taking a legal action in a desperate request for help.
To pre-empt the comments that will follow, it's not relevant to point out Israeli action in Gaza and get into a debate over whether it's justified or not - this topic is about residents of Sderot taking completely non-violent, legal action, over repeated aggressive and violent attacks from a neighbouring region.
If only everyone in the region sought such a solution, instead of violence meets violence.
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There's a lot you can do about it.
Often, simply saying "are you sure about that? It's ok if you did {stupid thing}..." works and they tell you what really happened.
Even if there's nothing you can do about it, you still got the answer to your question, which was the real point of asking it, wasn't it? You just know the answer is the opposite of what they said, so work your diagnosis from that angle.
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Personal experience has taught me the magic formula for telling when a user (over the phone) is lying. (And no, I don't mean that their lips are moving). In all seriousness, I've found an almost 100% correlation with this simple "is the user lying" test. I call it the 2 Second Rule.
Ask the user your question. E.g. "Did you do {insert something the user may have done}". If the user takes longer than 2 seconds to reply to a simple yes/no question, they are lying. No one takes 3 seconds to say yes or no.
People only take this length of time to reply if a more complex thought process has kicked off in the background. Something along the lines of "oh no, I did do that... should I have? Should I tell support? Will they still help me or think less of me if I say yes?"... at which time a few seconds have passed and you'll hear back down the telephone line ".....no". BINGO! User is lying.
Here's a simple work around. run uTorrent on port 21. then your data will appear to be FTP.
Next, register the DNS of your site to be ftp.companyname.com and if they complain say "yes, that's where my customers upload their high resolution nautical maps to, for my research into deep sea excavation"
Of course, I strongly suspect ISPs will work it like this: If downloads > x then
you_are_a_pirate end if
You're talking about "joe newbie"... he can't install Linux if he's never heard of it. To most non-IT, non-geek people, it's Windows or Apple. Linux isn't even on the radar.
I knew we should have taken out a comprehensive insurance policy! Did anyone see the galaxy that hit us, coz the premiums are going to be HUGE on this one!
I'm thinking the front door is made out of balsa wood and fly screen and is missing a hinge...
Oh and there's only 3 walls, with a great big opening out to the carpark...
The US mistake is that they want to be popular and fight a war at the same time. You can't... Absolutely 100% on the money. Israel & the US are getting killed in the media war. Israel can do nothing right, as far as the media is concerned, where as killing Jews is just as fashionable as ever.
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I don't know who would use it... how about Doctors?
Imagine a multi-layer X-ray of a patient, which you can move in and out of, just by moving your fingers... very useful. Especially during an operation. Remember, this is just the "first attempt".
Although I am a little late to the party - yes Avast is superb for personal use. 32bit or 64bit, no probs.
Couldn't be happier with it.
I used to pirate games. In fact, I never paid for any for about 15 years. Then I happened onto Direct2Drive. The prices were reasonable (because they were US prices, not Australian prices, which are stupidly inflated) and I could buy a game, download it and play it in a few hours, without having to leave the house.
As a result, I bought quite a few games this way. Then Direct2Drive stopped allowing sales to Australia. Guess what happened next...
Rustylime.com online community once took on an Internet Bullying service (datingpsychos.com, a place where people laod all possible personal information about a victim and then try to extort the victim into paying to have it removed).
http://www.rustylime.com/show_article.php?id=1372
Members of the rustylime community found MySQL and PHP exploits on the datingpsychos site and were able, for a long time, to effectively keep it off the air. They were also able to find all the personal information about the publishers of the site, as well.
I know it was pwned because during the installation I got an angry phone call from the Cisco Comms boys, who wanted to know why one of our servers was suddenly flooding the network with traffic matching the signature of the Code Red worm.
Once the installation finished (now with the cable unplugged), sure enough, the box was infected with Code Red. No doubt because IIS installs by default (set to on) and my leaving the cable in allowed it to get infected.
I was then embarrassingly the reason for a new policy stating all installations must be done with the network cable unplugged.
I recall working at a university, in which every PC had a public IP address. I clearly remember a Windows 2000 server being pwned during installation. As in before the install process even finished.
That was the last time I installed with the CAT/5 still plugged in (and yes, it was my first job)....
I have to thank you.
That was the best explanation of multi core processing I have ever read.
I should qualify my statements because I realise I am making it sound like these people are getting paid enormous salaries for the most mundane jobs (and they are).
In Western Australia, salaries have basically doubled in the last 4 years. I personally have seen a 120% pay increase in the last 2 years. People are earning massive amounts compared to a few short years ago. Mostly, this is because we have huge reserves of iron ore and China wants it, bad.
However, it's not without downside.
These guys, up on mine sites, can easily make $150,000 a year, working 3 weeks on, 1 week off (so they're actually getting paid $150,000 for 9 months work). But that's 3 weeks out of every 4 away from their families.
Here's another catch. Some of these people can be paying up to $2,000 a week rent. Some of them are living in sea-tainers on the site, and still paying $1,000 a week rent. The companies are getting a lot of that money back off them, in other ways. Of course, for the lucky ones who get rent as part of their package - well they're paying off their mortgage in a few years.
Housing prices have also doubled in the cities, because so many people have more money then they know what to do with. Petrol prices have also doubled and no one seems to care.
So the poor bastards who haven't had phenomenal pay rises in the last few years are dead in the water. The average public servant cannot get a home loan, any longer for example and even rent is becoming too much for the lower income earners.
The big disappointment is that in a society where a few short years ago $50kpa was reasonable, suddenly that's poverty and lots of people are going to suffer.
Nope, He marks a black paint dot every time the wheel on the end of his stick goes 'tick' (i.e. at a pre-defined distance).
:-p
Speaking as someone who has an MBA and an Engineering degree (and doesn't work on a minesite), this is somewhat depressing.
That's the whole thing, though.
People are making more than that for unskilled work on the mines, here. Skilled people (managers, tech's etc) are making $200,000 +
The downside is you have to work on a minesite in the middle of nowhere, so I guess it evens out a little...
$90k sounds good to you, as a CIO?!? Come to Western Australia (Australian Dollar btw is basically 1:1 with USD) - broom pushers on mine sites get paid more than that here.
And I literally mean people who push brooms.
For goodness sakes, I have a friend who's job it is to mark a dot on the ground every few metres (where to put the explosives) and he gets $120,000 a year.
Go to uni and get a degree, they said....
Surely if someone can patent frivolous patents, then they can sue these idiots every time they try and patent something they shouldn't be trying to patent.
Although the other guy's comment was much funnier, it probably is worth me point out the expression is "all intents and purposes" not "all intensive purposes". Still; better you make the mistake and get corrected online than in the boardroom ;-)
Instead, we should stick to the track of "Palestinians/Muslims are evil", right?
...".
No, we should stick to the topic at hand. I never once said anything about Palestinians/Muslims being evil, you just made the assumption that I must hate them, because I don't hate Jews. Is the world that black and white to you? You either hate Jews and love Palestinians or vice versa?
So New York citizens should also sue over the WTC attacks?
Sure, why not? Sue the Saudi government, if you can prove a link. Sue the US government for not detecting it. Whatever - if someone has negligence, then so be it. If no one has negligence, then you don't sue.
However your example is a bad one - the US govt. can reasonably claim it had no idea of the impending 9/11 attack - the Israeli govt. cannot make such a claim; when rocket attacks occur each and every single day. Therefore, there's more of a genuine complaint of negligence.
So if Sderot need to sue their government into action, so be it.
should probably read "over repeated aggressive and violent attacks from a neighbouring region, over repeated aggressive and violent attacks from its nation, over repeated aggressive and violent attacks from a neighbouring region, over
I don't see residents of Sderot lining up to fire rockets into Gaza. They're just families trying to get on with their life. Why should they be forced to suffer attack after attack, over actions of other people?
Unfortunately, the Palestinian side is probably too disorganised to commonly decide on anything. That means the only hope is for Israel to stop it, but I'm not too hopeful that will happen.
So the Palestinians are absolved of all responsibility? How convenient!
Can we all please make an effort to keep the comments on track, and not diverge into a "Israelis/Jews are evil" fest?
The residents of Sderot have every right to expect their government to protect them and if the government is refusing to take any preventative action, while over 7,000 rockets have fallen on the town, then suing the government seems a very reasonable action.
Please note that they're not strapping bombs to themselves and running into cafes or government buildings - they're taking a legal action in a desperate request for help.
To pre-empt the comments that will follow, it's not relevant to point out Israeli action in Gaza and get into a debate over whether it's justified or not - this topic is about residents of Sderot taking completely non-violent, legal action, over repeated aggressive and violent attacks from a neighbouring region.
If only everyone in the region sought such a solution, instead of violence meets violence.
There's a lot you can do about it.
Often, simply saying "are you sure about that? It's ok if you did {stupid thing}..." works and they tell you what really happened.
Even if there's nothing you can do about it, you still got the answer to your question, which was the real point of asking it, wasn't it? You just know the answer is the opposite of what they said, so work your diagnosis from that angle.
Personal experience has taught me the magic formula for telling when a user (over the phone) is lying. (And no, I don't mean that their lips are moving). In all seriousness, I've found an almost 100% correlation with this simple "is the user lying" test. I call it the 2 Second Rule.
... at which time a few seconds have passed and you'll hear back down the telephone line ".....no". BINGO! User is lying.
Ask the user your question. E.g. "Did you do {insert something the user may have done}". If the user takes longer than 2 seconds to reply to a simple yes/no question, they are lying. No one takes 3 seconds to say yes or no.
People only take this length of time to reply if a more complex thought process has kicked off in the background. Something along the lines of "oh no, I did do that... should I have? Should I tell support? Will they still help me or think less of me if I say yes?"
Here's a simple work around. run uTorrent on port 21. then your data will appear to be FTP.
Next, register the DNS of your site to be ftp.companyname.com and if they complain say "yes, that's where my customers upload their high resolution nautical maps to, for my research into deep sea excavation"
Of course, I strongly suspect ISPs will work it like this:
If downloads > x then
you_are_a_pirate
end if
You're talking about "joe newbie"... he can't install Linux if he's never heard of it. To most non-IT, non-geek people, it's Windows or Apple. Linux isn't even on the radar.
A board chairman really shouldn't give a rats *ss what the stock price is.
Of course, that is unless the board chairman is given a huge volume of said stock as part of his incentive package.
I knew we should have taken out a comprehensive insurance policy! Did anyone see the galaxy that hit us, coz the premiums are going to be HUGE on this one!
I'm thinking the front door is made out of balsa wood and fly screen and is missing a hinge... Oh and there's only 3 walls, with a great big opening out to the carpark...
You're correct - I am not familiar with the American media.
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