Signal fulfills your first, second, and third requirements nicely, although I see why you suggest rotating responsibility. Your fourth requirement, allowing third-party clients, is sort of implicitly allowed but not encouraged, I think.
There's a company called PacSafe that makes what are essentially collapsible wire cages you can wrap your bag in, and then chain the bag to something solid, like a drain pipe: http://pacsafe.com/
That being said, I went around the world a couple of times without one of these, and did just fine. They tend to draw attention.
Not a Mac user, and agree their benefits seem pretty good, but wouldn't calling their technical support area the "Genius Bar" imply that Apple does want to hire people a little better than just "expendable?"
Why stop at CD quality? It's an old and outmoded format; most music could be resampled at better aural resolutions. Thomas Dolby's promised to release his next album in higher-than-CD quality formats online.
Say what you will about Eric S. Raymond, reading his (free) book The Art of Unix Programming is the best way to understand the design philosophy behind any Unix system, not just Linux. And it has general applicability as well.
The ironic thing is, I spent three weeks in Tunisia earlier this year, and I encountered Tunisian guys offering to Bluetooth amateur porn from their mobile phone to mine. Sneakernet always wins.
You are absolutely correct -- I was a victim of this attack despite using stock Wordpress, with all the latest updates applied. I would have never discovered it, either, if it weren't for Duke University's IT department (the blog was on their subdomain) being incredibly on-the-ball with security checks. Wordpress has unfixed security holes that are being exploited; people need to know!
T-Mobile is basically the only US carrier that seems friendly towards folks with unlocked phones just looking for a SIM card. There's also been some rumblings that they might start offering the first prepaid data service in the US; how likely that is, I don't know. I do know that they used to let iPhone users use their prepaid data plan for Sidekicks, but that is no longer possible. They only blocked port 80, though, so you can still check your mail via IMAP, or SSH to a remote sever somewhere! I've even used Opera before, by passing my traffic through an Opera proxy server.
Also, you can get $100 of prepaid credit for $70 by utilizing Bing.com cash back (YMMV) -- and that credit is good for a year. Not bad if you don't do a lot of talking or need port 80.
I think Microsoft might be making another push to get Windows on more netbooks. There was a poorly-written piece in the Wall Street Journal today warning consumers not to buy netbooks with Linux.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124346723960760371.html
Once, just once, I would like to see a column from them warning consumers that their Windows netbooks will not work out-of-the-box with Office documents -- which is true (what netbook comes with an Office license?).
Firefox 3.0's self-signed certificate system is much better than the old one because it allows you to store security exceptions, much like in, say, SSH. That way, you will get a warning that the cert has changed in the future, indicating a potential eavesdropper. It eliminates a number of vulnerabilities (although, of course, not MITM attacks on the initial certificate exchange).
I don't understand all the hate for it.
The sort of people who you think would use a pre-loaded mail program are in fact using webmail as we speak -- and wouldn't have a clue how to set up a POP or IMAP account anyway. This is a good step.
Better test, do they understand source control?
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Much of good IT management is in using the right tools for the job. Sure, you could develop without source control, or a bug tracker, or team mailing lists, or a standardized build process. You could share information without a wiki. You could manage Java dependencies without Maven. But all these things can improve productivity dramatically -- if your boss understands the right way to use them and acts as an advocate for their use. Many developers, especially ones fresh out of college, do not have this project management experience unless they've been working on open-source projects.
Your boss, since they have a position of authority, should be a champion of these technical solutions. Since there are good and bad source control systems, good and bad bug trackers, etc., and new developments happen all the time. Understanding the tools available to manage people is just as important as managing them.
"Security firm Kapersky Labs has already created a Mac version of its anti-virus software for release should Mac growth continue (and the Mac thus [find] itself prey to more hackers)."
Last I checked, all Windows anti-virus programs did was slow your computer to a crawl while consistently breaking their host machines over time. They're a completely backwards answer to the problem of security. Please don't tell me that enterprise Macs will have to run anti-virus too; isn't there anyone in corporate IT that understands this? It's especially silly considering that OS X tends to have much better privilege separation than (pre-Vista) Windows.
I can't wait for on-access scanning to become standard on Macs, causing everyone to complain about how slow Apples are.
Why haven't the comments pointing out how ludicrous it is to implement mandatory education for under-5s been modded up higher? That just seems like a bad idea on the face of it -- most parents are perfectly capable of taking care of their kids, and, of those that aren't, many end up in Head Start, which isn't terribly effective as things stand anyway. This changes my view on Obama quite a bit.
Facebook needs to consider allowing POP/IMAP access to the inbox and only allow messages to be sent to other Facebook members via the same method.
Wouldn't that just make them a webmail provider, with stupid restrictions about sending?
Actually, that would be interesting, since right now I believe the only requirement for registering on Facebook is an email address.
I think that once they get into the corporate world, these kids will acclimate to email pretty quickly. Interoperability, groupware, attachments, ease of archiving, speed -- these are all important when you're dealing with different companies. Not to mention confidentiality. And I can't seriously believe that email will stop being used for purchase confirmations, online bank statements, etc. any time soon. Doesn't bode well for mass adoption of interoperable standards or non-monopolistic services, though.
The problem is, I'm 23, and I don't understand why people use Facebook for messages at all. They all have email! It does the same thing, only faster and more reliably, with a better interface! Get off my lawn!
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Signal fulfills your first, second, and third requirements nicely, although I see why you suggest rotating responsibility. Your fourth requirement, allowing third-party clients, is sort of implicitly allowed but not encouraged, I think.
There's a company called PacSafe that makes what are essentially collapsible wire cages you can wrap your bag in, and then chain the bag to something solid, like a drain pipe: http://pacsafe.com/ That being said, I went around the world a couple of times without one of these, and did just fine. They tend to draw attention.
Well, it worked for Kirk...
Not a Mac user, and agree their benefits seem pretty good, but wouldn't calling their technical support area the "Genius Bar" imply that Apple does want to hire people a little better than just "expendable?"
Here's a list of which classic Doctor Who stories you can stream through Netflix or Amazon Instant, and here's a list for new (post-2005) Doctor Who.
Why stop at CD quality? It's an old and outmoded format; most music could be resampled at better aural resolutions. Thomas Dolby's promised to release his next album in higher-than-CD quality formats online.
Say what you will about Eric S. Raymond, reading his (free) book The Art of Unix Programming is the best way to understand the design philosophy behind any Unix system, not just Linux. And it has general applicability as well.
The ironic thing is, I spent three weeks in Tunisia earlier this year, and I encountered Tunisian guys offering to Bluetooth amateur porn from their mobile phone to mine. Sneakernet always wins.
Anyone who thinks that interactive books can't be a force for good needs to go read Neal Stephenson.
You are absolutely correct -- I was a victim of this attack despite using stock Wordpress, with all the latest updates applied. I would have never discovered it, either, if it weren't for Duke University's IT department (the blog was on their subdomain) being incredibly on-the-ball with security checks. Wordpress has unfixed security holes that are being exploited; people need to know!
T-Mobile is basically the only US carrier that seems friendly towards folks with unlocked phones just looking for a SIM card. There's also been some rumblings that they might start offering the first prepaid data service in the US; how likely that is, I don't know. I do know that they used to let iPhone users use their prepaid data plan for Sidekicks, but that is no longer possible. They only blocked port 80, though, so you can still check your mail via IMAP, or SSH to a remote sever somewhere! I've even used Opera before, by passing my traffic through an Opera proxy server. Also, you can get $100 of prepaid credit for $70 by utilizing Bing.com cash back (YMMV) -- and that credit is good for a year. Not bad if you don't do a lot of talking or need port 80.
It's quite easy to set up, using the Ubuntu alternate install cd.
I think Microsoft might be making another push to get Windows on more netbooks. There was a poorly-written piece in the Wall Street Journal today warning consumers not to buy netbooks with Linux. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124346723960760371.html Once, just once, I would like to see a column from them warning consumers that their Windows netbooks will not work out-of-the-box with Office documents -- which is true (what netbook comes with an Office license?).
Firefox 3.0's self-signed certificate system is much better than the old one because it allows you to store security exceptions, much like in, say, SSH. That way, you will get a warning that the cert has changed in the future, indicating a potential eavesdropper. It eliminates a number of vulnerabilities (although, of course, not MITM attacks on the initial certificate exchange). I don't understand all the hate for it.
The sort of people who you think would use a pre-loaded mail program are in fact using webmail as we speak -- and wouldn't have a clue how to set up a POP or IMAP account anyway. This is a good step.
Your boss, since they have a position of authority, should be a champion of these technical solutions. Since there are good and bad source control systems, good and bad bug trackers, etc., and new developments happen all the time. Understanding the tools available to manage people is just as important as managing them.
Last I checked, all Windows anti-virus programs did was slow your computer to a crawl while consistently breaking their host machines over time. They're a completely backwards answer to the problem of security. Please don't tell me that enterprise Macs will have to run anti-virus too; isn't there anyone in corporate IT that understands this? It's especially silly considering that OS X tends to have much better privilege separation than (pre-Vista) Windows.
I can't wait for on-access scanning to become standard on Macs, causing everyone to complain about how slow Apples are.
Why haven't the comments pointing out how ludicrous it is to implement mandatory education for under-5s been modded up higher? That just seems like a bad idea on the face of it -- most parents are perfectly capable of taking care of their kids, and, of those that aren't, many end up in Head Start, which isn't terribly effective as things stand anyway. This changes my view on Obama quite a bit.
Actually, that would be interesting, since right now I believe the only requirement for registering on Facebook is an email address.
I think that once they get into the corporate world, these kids will acclimate to email pretty quickly. Interoperability, groupware, attachments, ease of archiving, speed -- these are all important when you're dealing with different companies. Not to mention confidentiality. And I can't seriously believe that email will stop being used for purchase confirmations, online bank statements, etc. any time soon. Doesn't bode well for mass adoption of interoperable standards or non-monopolistic services, though.
The problem is, I'm 23, and I don't understand why people use Facebook for messages at all. They all have email! It does the same thing, only faster and more reliably, with a better interface! Get off my lawn!