Digging up a road used by thousands of people a day. A road that has been dug up by every pseudo utility out there and is now a rats nest of cable, water, gas, sewage, rail tracks, bricks, old bumpers and cheeto's bags. A road that you can only block between the hours of 3:04 am and 4:23am. But you can only use rubber tools due to noise restrictions.
OR
Some farmers field where you can lay 80k of cable in an afternoon using an auto trench digging cabling laying truck.
Me thinks it's vastly cheaper and easier and quicker to drop cable in corn country than a city. Even when you factor in price per customer serviced. In the US the country side is fairly easy to access and the distance between rural customers is not excessive. Some areas sure. Like Alaska that's going to suck to drop cable.
In Aus they/we have another issue. The country where it's only farmers and dingos is HUGE. 300k to your nearest pub. In Aus they/we have school by radio set. The shear distance involved is staggering. In the US you gather cattle on horse, quad. In Aus they/we gather cattle by chopper.
Aus by the way has some of the most expensive broadband in the world. So don't be looking up to Aus for a better way of doing things. This 40Billion boon-dongle that is the NBN, ( National Broadband Network ) is going to tack on a few more bucks to this pricey situation as it is.
Don't get me wrong Aus has to do something about it's pathetic broadband situation. Only LARGE aggressive splashes of wasteful money can achieve this before the turn of the century. It's a do it or be left behind situation. The net is the new economy so you better be on it. I think good old Obama knows this too. The US is lagging. The US economy is in a VERY bad state. Think Russia of a few years ago. It's fair that Obama's "team" is looking around the globe at how people are jumping on the new economy. I'm sure Aus has something to offer. But it sure as hell ain't going to be the pricing structure:)
Broadband evolution has two natural enemies. 1. High population density 2. Vast distances
Medium density and continuous population zones are extremely cheap to upgrade. This is pretty much anything eastern sea board USA out side of the cities. This is not Manhattan, Tokyo, or Aussie outback.
So where does this lead. Well an alternative solution has come about. 3G. In cities around the globe broadband on the move and wireless is exploding in popularity. In a lot of major cities many traditional ADSL customers are switching to 3G as their broadband access method. I personally think this is the future of broadband in high population zones. copper is dead. It is not uncommon to find people who have no land connections at all now. No phone, no cable TV, no cable/adsl internet. Yet they have all of those services at equivalent quality via wireless solutions.
Is 3G the only answer. God I hope not. As Scotty would say. "But capt'n she can only take so much mooore!" 3G has it's limits.
Now for the LONG distance country folk. Yah sorry guys. That's going to be pricey for some time. Long cable costs. Long distance wireless costs. Sat costs. Microwave costs. You are pretty much screwed for at least 15-20 years.
OK ( I've drunk 2 glasses of wine during this ramble. I'm done )
Each air traffic control region has an alternate frequency. So yah if they didn't bother to change the frequency they were on they wouldn't hear squat.
Some fancy auto pilots will alert when the flight vector has been achieved.
However most autopilots in a basic mode will simply just make sure a plane maintains heading and elevation. For I think all of US air space this basic autopilot is all that is needed as the US is basically one big highway in the sky where planes simply plop them selves in a sky lane and follow it. None of this fancy find me the fastest route and make sure I don't hit anything else sorta autopilot.
US air space is basically running as if it was 1960 still. You wouldn't fly if you saw what the majority of airports was using for radar:)
First as others have pointed out most people use Metric A4.:)
Anyway there is a school of thought and research that human beings are creatures that are built to understand things on the horizontal. This stems back to our cave man days where most of our food/enemies/friends/life was situated on the horizontal. It is natural to scan left right, right left and see everything we need to see. Our spacial awareness is not very good at up down.
We see this pattern all around us. From several written languages to door handles on cars. It's also why the screens we like are wide screen. We simply like scanning for information on the horizon. We train our cognitive recognition from a young age to see left right, right left.
So no it's probably more right than wrong that UI have menu's, ribbons, tabs what have you on the horizontal. The average person is probably just better at understanding and utilizing a horizontal interface.
Is it a waste of space? Yes. But is the space better used for usability? Probably.
Yes Yes, what about language X and it's up down metaphor. What about elevator buttons on the up down. Yes yes you can all find examples that seem to violate the statements above. But it is hard to disagree that the majority of our informational awareness is on the level plain.
Clearly 3Com is on the dying a slow horrible death if they resort to this sort of action. So instead of going out in a respectable style by releasing the patents to the world they decide to slow innovation and drag already other suffering industries intro the courts to spew money on legal toilet waste.
More people loose their jobs, shares of more companies drop, and more lawyers drive hummers.
Well at least we have all learned something here. Short 3Com stock.
Have you ever been to an amature comedy night and just cringed and felt pity for the dud eon stage? Well that's exactly how I feel about this situation.
Damn I should patent the SCO patent spiral of death. I'd make heaps.
Clean just improves the odds no matter the company. My self personally I like someone not afraid to self express. So I tend to take a liking to the ab-normal. Hell I drive a H.D. to work and sport the odd tat myself.
I was just speaking of the average. As you have probably experienced in your own life there is a degree of higher resistance to you and your chosen appearance. Are these people that give you the "slanted" look narrow minded and a bit backwards? You bet yah.
"Worth working for" is a lot different than "working". When it comes to food in the childs mouth you go the safe route.
Why would FOSS or volunteer work be any different than work you did for a pay check?
It goes on the Resume same as any other job. I treat them with the exactly the same.
I read about data miners and other such rubbish filtering out FOSS and such type work. Well that is complete and total non-sense. Your resume is a record of your experience and accomplishments plain and simple.
Hear is some advice.
DO NOT MAKE YOUR RESUME OVERLY COMPLICATED. You do not need 20 headings highlighting the different views of your career. K.I.S.S. Keep It Simple Stupid is the rule to follow. Spend your effort on making sure that each piece of experience is effectively presented through a well written resume.
I use this rule of thumb. I treat my resume/CV as a full time job for 1 week. I spend no less than 40 hours working on it before any potential employer will see it. That's nto for every employer. That's for each time I'm on the job market. In North America no more than 4 pages EVER. In other parts of the world they like to see as much as a page per year experience ( I know ridiculous ). So what if the agency filters it and puts into their format. Let them. You're bring fresh copies on PLAIN WHITE PAPER in B/W to the interview? Cause you should be slapped if you don't. Oh gee all of a sudden your resume stands out in the pile of identical resumes in the stack. Why? Because it is well formatted on quality WHITE paper.
I read a lot of resumes. A LOT. I toss almost all of the resumes that have pictures / fancy paper / more heft than a phone book into the bin before turning the first page.
------ Do NOT's - Put your picture on the resume. You are not that good looking. - Use colored paper. What are you 12? - Use textured paper. Again are you 12? - Use multiple fonts. Only use Helvetica. Why all printers have it and it looks clean and is easy to read. - Leave half empty pages. All pages should have a solid balance of text. Half pages are tossed pages. - Only use one recruiter. Where is there a law that states you can only use one recruiter? - Forget to shave. Guys Gals, it applies to both of you. Clean looks get the jobs and more money. Don't care if it's racist / prejudice or what ever complaint you have. Clean looks always win. Grow the pRon mustache after you get the job OK.
Great the honest guy who goes through the process of being a legit passported internet user is going to get screwed as everything he does skimmed by 20 people for cash.
The bad guy on the other hand with 5k forged identities makes out like a bandit.
Anonymity is the only thing that makes the internet work.
If you are working for a legit business and doing quality work that is all that people care about. There are always some personality types that are going to take offence.
Gambling Job pisses people off with strong opinions on morality. Miltary job pisses off peace lovers. Government job brands you as lazy and un-coroperative. Tax Office job pisses of your mother and everyone else. Transit employee brands you as a unionist and lazy Tobaco brands you as a selfish evil abuser. etc.
There is always something.
Guess what. Do good work. Have something to show for your time. And you will not have issues with future employment.
The monster problem is arrogant security people don't trust the other arrogant security people. Trust is implemented via certificates. EG I certify that this thing is what I say it is.
Problem. Who trusts the guy who gives out the certificate. Well as it turns out. Not many trust the other guys certificate. This leads to a problem. You can't build a pyramid of trust when you can't really trust the other guy.
So basically it makes it fairly impossible to create something like a local key store. I can't trust your key store because I can't trust the people that say your key store is a good one. Lets put this in terms people can understand. The government issues a locksmith with a certificate stating that this lock smith can hold copies of your home and safe keys. You can trust him because we the government trust him. Problem is no one trusts the government and no one believes that this guy actually has a real certificate. It could have been forged after all. So I'm not going to let him hold my precious keys.
So now I can't even trust my local key store. So just in case I'm going to add another level on top. I'm going to add a pass phrase. This is something I need to repeat every time I need to do something special involving security. Like say open a door. I turn the key and utter my pass phrase.
Again we got a problem. I have doubts about the pass phrase. Someone might have recorded the pass phrase and is able to play it back after they have used a dodgy copy of my key.
So in the end the trust chain is very fragile. Just one little bit of doubt in the system and it all falls down. This is what has happened. Due to now decades of mistrust of the trust systems layers and layers of paranoia trust have been piled on. And those too have suffered mistrust. So now you have this massive mess of mis-trusted trust and as a result security has broken down. Or rather it has never built up.
--- Basically I have given up all hope that certificate authorities can give me something that is trust worthy and future proof. Simply because they don't like to talk to each other and subsequently they under mine each others public trust. My business is private in that I deal with a customer at a time.
I issue my own private certs and ask them to accept them. They pay me for a service. The contract they sign with me puts legal consequences around the violation of trust of our financial agreement. Thus I simply state this contract is the legal trust you require. If you trust the contract your trust my certificate. In most cases the contract is less expensive than buying a cert. Everyone wins and we actually have a contract of trust. I make more money and they customer pays less. Of course this model doesn't apply to strangers dealing with strangers but it works great for me.
Every time I do the numbers I just can't figure this one out.
It would roughly cost me 20 times to store archive material in the cloud than it would to implement a robust local solution. I haven't bothered to redo the numbers for about 6 months.
There are so many more costs with the cloud. + bandwidth + monthly space fees + registration
And if you don't pay the bill your data usually vanishes.
At the moment SATA drives are extremely cheap. Making backup to physical and then putting the drives in secure storage is very cheap and fast. And I don't loose the data if I forget/can't to pay the bill.
Cloud storage is just a form of data extortion from what I can see. It's like crack, almost free for the first hit and so easy to use. Then you can't get away from it. You want to but it won't let you go. You will fall apart with out if you leave it.
So I've gone to the trouble of putting my business data on a drive ready to ship to Amazon. AKA it's a backup now.
Why don't I just ship the drive to a physical storage facility that I pay next to nothing for? Why do I need this in the cloud?
If my "shop" burns down, aka local disaster, I've got issues that are going to be higher priority than having access to my 3 week old data now. Cause there is zero chance Amazon's cloud is going to have an updated copy of my hard drive on-line over night.
Yah I need to have my core business data handy. VERY handy. A local backup is the way to go. The best strategy is to have local corp agents have encrypted copies of it on their laptops. This can be completely automatted with a simple script. The automation rules out most of the human screwups and laziness.
So I got core business at my finger tips. I have my legacy data in storage. I'm set.
Cause once you have to start shipping drives around the data on it is legacy. And there are cheaper ways of handling legacy data.
Lots of people now understand that touching your face in general is a very common way to get infected. So cleaning your hands is now fairly common. Thank goodness.
What I would like to see is a legal rite to b#$ch slap those dumb a$$es that sneeze and cough right into my face and think nothing of it. Common courtesy people, cover your bloody mouth and turn away. At least apologize if you can't do it in time. No amount of hand washing is going to stop me catching something if the infection vector is some inconsiderate moron coughing in my face.
Putting your picture on your resume is a bad idea. Why open your self up to all sorts of discrimination? Your picture does that. There are always positive and NEGATIVE comments/thoughts when people see pictures of others. Why even have that possibility happen.
I can not say this clearly enough. DO NOT INCLUDE YOUR PHOTO ON YOUR RESUME.
And guess what. You're not as good looking as you think. More than likely you look like some one in need of attention. When I look at resumes I toss instantly the ones with photo's. Why? Most likely the person has some social issues.
It doesn't matter if it's against the law ( CANADA ) or if it opens you up to discrimination it simple reduces your chances of getting an interview.
"Also, as soon as a contracting company knowingly falsifies data about you or otherwise misrepresents you, make it clear to them that the first time was the last time. If they keep it up, drop them."
This is bad advice. JUST DROP THEM. No second chances. It's your life that these individuals are screwing with. Make sure all of your friends know the score with this dodgy company.
At no time what so ever do you ever tolerate someone making up lies about you when it affects something so fundamental as your ability to earn money.
First time it happens you WALK. Second time it happens you SUE. ( Yah guess what the bad head hunters will continue putting you forward even after you said don't. )
Head hunters work for you. They get paid when they place you in a position. If all the head hunter is doing is leaving a trail of lies in front of you get rid of them FAST.
If you find out in an interview that a head hunters has altered your information. You better have a copy of your resume with you. Point out the mistake don't dwell on it and hand out new accurate copies of the resume and continue. The interview is about you and the position not what an idiot the head hunter is. #1 ALWAYS carry spare copies of your resume. NEVER get caught with out extra's.
Honestly does anyone here think that walking around passing through "POWER" emitting stations I'll call them is a good idea?
People have enough reservations with mobile phones and power lines over head.
I know, I have a great idea. I'll combine the mobile and the power line into wireless power. There is no way people will object.
Seriously people this is nuts. It's bad enough that the first desired usage is small devices and entertainment devices. Things that we literally put on our heads and near our crouches.
Lets take two steps into the future shall we. --- Wireless power is now part of the land scape. It leaks only %5 now a vast improvement. I live a dream life where my toys are no longer burdened with the bulk of a battery. My phone is literally glued to my ear now. I have a flexable touch display wrapper around my left fore arm. I live in a geeks nirvana.
Ah but the flip side. The companies that make these devices are cutting corners to save money. One theing they no longer have to worry about is low power consumption. Because they can literally use as much as they like and not worry about how big the battery is.
So now our portable device have become power hungry machines. We have power broadcast stations everywhere. We are now walking around in a constant field of almost 1200 watts of broadcast em power. ----
Does any one else now see how this is a STUPID idea? This is not a case of I'm afraid of new tech. I'm afraid of DUMB tech. And this ranks up there with the over priced black and white Kindle that cost more than an netbook kinda DUMB.
Slashdot Mirror
Have you seen the pants the Swedes & Fins wear. Something is wrong there. Really.
All the men like their moms a little too much for my liking.
But pRon access is excellent.
( Sorry couldn't resist, forgive me )
Hmm what's going to be cheaper.
Digging up a road used by thousands of people a day. A road that has been dug up by every pseudo utility out there and is now a rats nest of cable, water, gas, sewage, rail tracks, bricks, old bumpers and cheeto's bags. A road that you can only block between the hours of 3:04 am and 4:23am. But you can only use rubber tools due to noise restrictions.
OR
Some farmers field where you can lay 80k of cable in an afternoon using an auto trench digging cabling laying truck.
Me thinks it's vastly cheaper and easier and quicker to drop cable in corn country than a city. Even when you factor in price per customer serviced. In the US the country side is fairly easy to access and the distance between rural customers is not excessive. Some areas sure. Like Alaska that's going to suck to drop cable.
In Aus they/we have another issue. The country where it's only farmers and dingos is HUGE. 300k to your nearest pub. In Aus they/we have school by radio set. The shear distance involved is staggering. In the US you gather cattle on horse, quad. In Aus they/we gather cattle by chopper.
Aus by the way has some of the most expensive broadband in the world. So don't be looking up to Aus for a better way of doing things. This 40Billion boon-dongle that is the NBN, ( National Broadband Network ) is going to tack on a few more bucks to this pricey situation as it is.
Don't get me wrong Aus has to do something about it's pathetic broadband situation. Only LARGE aggressive splashes of wasteful money can achieve this before the turn of the century. It's a do it or be left behind situation. The net is the new economy so you better be on it. I think good old Obama knows this too. The US is lagging. The US economy is in a VERY bad state. Think Russia of a few years ago. It's fair that Obama's "team" is looking around the globe at how people are jumping on the new economy. I'm sure Aus has something to offer. But it sure as hell ain't going to be the pricing structure :)
Broadband evolution has two natural enemies.
1. High population density
2. Vast distances
Medium density and continuous population zones are extremely cheap to upgrade. This is pretty much anything eastern sea board USA out side of the cities. This is not Manhattan, Tokyo, or Aussie outback.
So where does this lead.
Well an alternative solution has come about. 3G. In cities around the globe broadband on the move and wireless is exploding in popularity. In a lot of major cities many traditional ADSL customers are switching to 3G as their broadband access method. I personally think this is the future of broadband in high population zones. copper is dead. It is not uncommon to find people who have no land connections at all now. No phone, no cable TV, no cable/adsl internet. Yet they have all of those services at equivalent quality via wireless solutions.
Is 3G the only answer. God I hope not. As Scotty would say. "But capt'n she can only take so much mooore!" 3G has it's limits.
Now for the LONG distance country folk. Yah sorry guys. That's going to be pricey for some time. Long cable costs. Long distance wireless costs. Sat costs. Microwave costs. You are pretty much screwed for at least 15-20 years.
OK ( I've drunk 2 glasses of wine during this ramble. I'm done )
Nuff Said.
Nope. Each control zone has a unique frequency.
However since they were on their laptops if someone had sent them an IM, Twitter, or email they would have probably been alright.
Wow in Flight has to much LAG. Can't raid. Daily quests maybe!
Ah I got it. Auction house bidding war. And they were the two idiots out bidding each other.
Each air traffic control region has an alternate frequency. So yah if they didn't bother to change the frequency they were on they wouldn't hear squat.
Some fancy auto pilots will alert when the flight vector has been achieved.
However most autopilots in a basic mode will simply just make sure a plane maintains heading and elevation. For I think all of US air space this basic autopilot is all that is needed as the US is basically one big highway in the sky where planes simply plop them selves in a sky lane and follow it. None of this fancy find me the fastest route and make sure I don't hit anything else sorta autopilot.
US air space is basically running as if it was 1960 still. You wouldn't fly if you saw what the majority of airports was using for radar :)
It was bloody windows 7.
I would hope a Pilot was smarter than that to use Vista Yeesh!
I'm guessing Malware infection from Delta hub slowed the whole thing down.
First as others have pointed out most people use Metric A4. :)
Anyway there is a school of thought and research that human beings are creatures that are built to understand things on the horizontal. This stems back to our cave man days where most of our food/enemies/friends/life was situated on the horizontal. It is natural to scan left right, right left and see everything we need to see. Our spacial awareness is not very good at up down.
We see this pattern all around us. From several written languages to door handles on cars. It's also why the screens we like are wide screen. We simply like scanning for information on the horizon. We train our cognitive recognition from a young age to see left right, right left.
So no it's probably more right than wrong that UI have menu's, ribbons, tabs what have you on the horizontal. The average person is probably just better at understanding and utilizing a horizontal interface.
Is it a waste of space? Yes. But is the space better used for usability? Probably.
Yes Yes, what about language X and it's up down metaphor. What about elevator buttons on the up down. Yes yes you can all find examples that seem to violate the statements above. But it is hard to disagree that the majority of our informational awareness is on the level plain.
I absolutely agree. This will end 3Com.
Clearly 3Com is on the dying a slow horrible death if they resort to this sort of action. So instead of going out in a respectable style by releasing the patents to the world they decide to slow innovation and drag already other suffering industries intro the courts to spew money on legal toilet waste.
More people loose their jobs, shares of more companies drop, and more lawyers drive hummers.
Well at least we have all learned something here. Short 3Com stock.
Have you ever been to an amature comedy night and just cringed and felt pity for the dud eon stage? Well that's exactly how I feel about this situation.
Damn I should patent the SCO patent spiral of death. I'd make heaps.
Clean just improves the odds no matter the company. My self personally I like someone not afraid to self express. So I tend to take a liking to the ab-normal. Hell I drive a H.D. to work and sport the odd tat myself.
I was just speaking of the average. As you have probably experienced in your own life there is a degree of higher resistance to you and your chosen appearance. Are these people that give you the "slanted" look narrow minded and a bit backwards? You bet yah.
"Worth working for" is a lot different than "working". When it comes to food in the childs mouth you go the safe route.
.doc MS word only still people.
The HR department can only open word 97 files. Don't care how nerdy the job is. HR is still in the stone age.
( Yes I took the bait )
I'm with yah brother.
If I don't see what I want by page 2 it's in the bin.
And all fancy paper needs to be banned. NO CIO EVER used sea shell green as a base color for the resume. EVER!
Why would FOSS or volunteer work be any different than work you did for a pay check?
It goes on the Resume same as any other job. I treat them with the exactly the same.
I read about data miners and other such rubbish filtering out FOSS and such type work. Well that is complete and total non-sense. Your resume is a record of your experience and accomplishments plain and simple.
Hear is some advice.
DO NOT MAKE YOUR RESUME OVERLY COMPLICATED. You do not need 20 headings highlighting the different views of your career. K.I.S.S. Keep It Simple Stupid is the rule to follow. Spend your effort on making sure that each piece of experience is effectively presented through a well written resume.
I use this rule of thumb. I treat my resume/CV as a full time job for 1 week. I spend no less than 40 hours working on it before any potential employer will see it. That's nto for every employer. That's for each time I'm on the job market. In North America no more than 4 pages EVER. In other parts of the world they like to see as much as a page per year experience ( I know ridiculous ). So what if the agency filters it and puts into their format. Let them. You're bring fresh copies on PLAIN WHITE PAPER in B/W to the interview? Cause you should be slapped if you don't. Oh gee all of a sudden your resume stands out in the pile of identical resumes in the stack. Why? Because it is well formatted on quality WHITE paper.
I read a lot of resumes. A LOT. I toss almost all of the resumes that have pictures / fancy paper / more heft than a phone book into the bin before turning the first page.
------
Do NOT's
- Put your picture on the resume. You are not that good looking.
- Use colored paper. What are you 12?
- Use textured paper. Again are you 12?
- Use multiple fonts. Only use Helvetica. Why all printers have it and it looks clean and is easy to read.
- Leave half empty pages. All pages should have a solid balance of text. Half pages are tossed pages.
- Only use one recruiter. Where is there a law that states you can only use one recruiter?
- Forget to shave. Guys Gals, it applies to both of you. Clean looks get the jobs and more money. Don't care if it's racist / prejudice or what ever complaint you have. Clean looks always win. Grow the pRon mustache after you get the job OK.
Great the honest guy who goes through the process of being a legit passported internet user is going to get screwed as everything he does skimmed by 20 people for cash.
The bad guy on the other hand with 5k forged identities makes out like a bandit.
Anonymity is the only thing that makes the internet work.
No one really cares,
If you are working for a legit business and doing quality work that is all that people care about. There are always some personality types that are going to take offence.
Gambling Job pisses people off with strong opinions on morality.
Miltary job pisses off peace lovers.
Government job brands you as lazy and un-coroperative.
Tax Office job pisses of your mother and everyone else.
Transit employee brands you as a unionist and lazy
Tobaco brands you as a selfish evil abuser.
etc.
There is always something.
Guess what. Do good work. Have something to show for your time. And you will not have issues with future employment.
ASN.1
You almost had it :)
I blame JAVA.
Java dev to any other IT dude: "I don't need to know about that the jvm abstracts that away for me. So buzz off and let me do real IT work. "
Just kidding :) Well actually I'm not. In general Java devs know ZIP about anything out side of a JAR file.
SSL is all about trust in the end.
The monster problem is arrogant security people don't trust the other arrogant security people. Trust is implemented via certificates. EG I certify that this thing is what I say it is.
Problem. Who trusts the guy who gives out the certificate. Well as it turns out. Not many trust the other guys certificate. This leads to a problem. You can't build a pyramid of trust when you can't really trust the other guy.
So basically it makes it fairly impossible to create something like a local key store. I can't trust your key store because I can't trust the people that say your key store is a good one. Lets put this in terms people can understand. The government issues a locksmith with a certificate stating that this lock smith can hold copies of your home and safe keys. You can trust him because we the government trust him. Problem is no one trusts the government and no one believes that this guy actually has a real certificate. It could have been forged after all. So I'm not going to let him hold my precious keys.
So now I can't even trust my local key store. So just in case I'm going to add another level on top. I'm going to add a pass phrase. This is something I need to repeat every time I need to do something special involving security. Like say open a door. I turn the key and utter my pass phrase.
Again we got a problem. I have doubts about the pass phrase. Someone might have recorded the pass phrase and is able to play it back after they have used a dodgy copy of my key.
So in the end the trust chain is very fragile. Just one little bit of doubt in the system and it all falls down. This is what has happened. Due to now decades of mistrust of the trust systems layers and layers of paranoia trust have been piled on. And those too have suffered mistrust. So now you have this massive mess of mis-trusted trust and as a result security has broken down. Or rather it has never built up.
---
Basically I have given up all hope that certificate authorities can give me something that is trust worthy and future proof. Simply because they don't like to talk to each other and subsequently they under mine each others public trust. My business is private in that I deal with a customer at a time.
I issue my own private certs and ask them to accept them. They pay me for a service. The contract they sign with me puts legal consequences around the violation of trust of our financial agreement. Thus I simply state this contract is the legal trust you require. If you trust the contract your trust my certificate. In most cases the contract is less expensive than buying a cert. Everyone wins and we actually have a contract of trust. I make more money and they customer pays less. Of course this model doesn't apply to strangers dealing with strangers but it works great for me.
Every time I do the numbers I just can't figure this one out.
It would roughly cost me 20 times to store archive material in the cloud than it would to implement a robust local solution. I haven't bothered to redo the numbers for about 6 months.
There are so many more costs with the cloud.
+ bandwidth
+ monthly space fees
+ registration
And if you don't pay the bill your data usually vanishes.
At the moment SATA drives are extremely cheap. Making backup to physical and then putting the drives in secure storage is very cheap and fast. And I don't loose the data if I forget/can't to pay the bill.
Cloud storage is just a form of data extortion from what I can see. It's like crack, almost free for the first hit and so easy to use. Then you can't get away from it. You want to but it won't let you go. You will fall apart with out if you leave it.
So I've gone to the trouble of putting my business data on a drive ready to ship to Amazon. AKA it's a backup now.
Why don't I just ship the drive to a physical storage facility that I pay next to nothing for? Why do I need this in the cloud?
If my "shop" burns down, aka local disaster, I've got issues that are going to be higher priority than having access to my 3 week old data now. Cause there is zero chance Amazon's cloud is going to have an updated copy of my hard drive on-line over night.
Yah I need to have my core business data handy. VERY handy. A local backup is the way to go. The best strategy is to have local corp agents have encrypted copies of it on their laptops. This can be completely automatted with a simple script. The automation rules out most of the human screwups and laziness.
So I got core business at my finger tips. I have my legacy data in storage. I'm set.
Cause once you have to start shipping drives around the data on it is legacy. And there are cheaper ways of handling legacy data.
Lots of people now understand that touching your face in general is a very common way to get infected. So cleaning your hands is now fairly common. Thank goodness.
What I would like to see is a legal rite to b#$ch slap those dumb a$$es that sneeze and cough right into my face and think nothing of it. Common courtesy people, cover your bloody mouth and turn away. At least apologize if you can't do it in time. No amount of hand washing is going to stop me catching something if the infection vector is some inconsiderate moron coughing in my face.
Putting your picture on your resume is a bad idea. Why open your self up to all sorts of discrimination? Your picture does that. There are always positive and NEGATIVE comments/thoughts when people see pictures of others. Why even have that possibility happen.
I can not say this clearly enough.
DO NOT INCLUDE YOUR PHOTO ON YOUR RESUME.
And guess what. You're not as good looking as you think. More than likely you look like some one in need of attention. When I look at resumes I toss instantly the ones with photo's. Why? Most likely the person has some social issues.
It doesn't matter if it's against the law ( CANADA ) or if it opens you up to discrimination it simple reduces your chances of getting an interview.
"Also, as soon as a contracting company knowingly falsifies data about you or otherwise misrepresents you, make it clear to them that the first time was the last time. If they keep it up, drop them."
This is bad advice. JUST DROP THEM. No second chances. It's your life that these individuals are screwing with. Make sure all of your friends know the score with this dodgy company.
At no time what so ever do you ever tolerate someone making up lies about you when it affects something so fundamental as your ability to earn money.
First time it happens you WALK.
Second time it happens you SUE. ( Yah guess what the bad head hunters will continue putting you forward even after you said don't. )
Head hunters work for you. They get paid when they place you in a position. If all the head hunter is doing is leaving a trail of lies in front of you get rid of them FAST.
If you find out in an interview that a head hunters has altered your information. You better have a copy of your resume with you. Point out the mistake don't dwell on it and hand out new accurate copies of the resume and continue. The interview is about you and the position not what an idiot the head hunter is. #1 ALWAYS carry spare copies of your resume. NEVER get caught with out extra's.
Honestly does anyone here think that walking around passing through "POWER" emitting stations I'll call them is a good idea?
People have enough reservations with mobile phones and power lines over head.
I know, I have a great idea. I'll combine the mobile and the power line into wireless power. There is no way people will object.
Seriously people this is nuts. It's bad enough that the first desired usage is small devices and entertainment devices. Things that we literally put on our heads and near our crouches.
Lets take two steps into the future shall we.
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Wireless power is now part of the land scape. It leaks only %5 now a vast improvement. I live a dream life where my toys are no longer burdened with the bulk of a battery. My phone is literally glued to my ear now. I have a flexable touch display wrapper around my left fore arm. I live in a geeks nirvana.
Ah but the flip side. The companies that make these devices are cutting corners to save money. One theing they no longer have to worry about is low power consumption. Because they can literally use as much as they like and not worry about how big the battery is.
So now our portable device have become power hungry machines. We have power broadcast stations everywhere. We are now walking around in a constant field of almost 1200 watts of broadcast em power.
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Does any one else now see how this is a STUPID idea? This is not a case of I'm afraid of new tech. I'm afraid of DUMB tech. And this ranks up there with the over priced black and white Kindle that cost more than an netbook kinda DUMB.