If you're going to be "mobile" while on a call, you might have issues with your connections/calls-dropping as you move from tower-to-tower. We have experienced this in-house dealing with TCP-type applications. They lose the handshake.
Assuming you want to start with an R/C "frame" and build from there, "ARF's" are probably the way to go. (Almost Ready to Fly)
They take around 20 hrs to build (YMMV). At least you won't be building from scratch...like a kit. (If/when it crashes, you'll be glad you didn't spend a lot of time building from scratch.)
Anyone notice that their "supercar" isn't as quick as the Tesla Roadster (0-60 3.9 secs)? It definately has Tesla beat in top speed. Perhaps "quickness" isn't a big deal for Le Mans-type racing?
http://www.teslamotors.com/
Interesting thought. One step further. If the bad guys were able to understand/decompile the code and tweak it, they could actually use it _against_ big brother:
Imagine if bad guys tweaked the code and essentially gave it the functionality to "spread"(Think "worm". Spreading to millions of users...and millions of "infected PC's phoning home to Virginia). It would more than likely trash their survellance program with a multitude of false positives.
I was in your shoes and "reinvented" myself you could say. Formally an accountant and morphed to an IT person. I was able to make the "leap" by working for an accounting software developer. I racked-up IT experience there, migrated to their IT department and was able to pursue full-blown IT jobs going forward. (It was a small business that was willing to take a risk on me. Some small businesses can give you lots of exposure/experience.)
So I guess my suggestion is, depending on what your current experience is, find a job that's in-between what you do now and what you want to do (IT). Then gain experience and migrate.
As you all are probably aware, the feds will be investing billions of dollars to upgrade the power grid and push for green technology.
If anyone thinks that any of the oil companies are willing to make this level of committment (throw out their "cash cow" (oil) for green tech) they are fooling themselves. My suggestion is for the gov funding to only be directed to companies whose sole purpose (strategic direction) is green technology.
At least Shell has been honest to state that they are dropping their committment. I'm concerned that the rest of the "energy companies" (oil companies in sheep's clothing)will vie for this funding for the purpose of stifling the development of the technology for their own "business reasons". (They will be involved only to protect their cash cow: oil)
If they really want this technology to take off. Fund the companies who are soley-dedicated to the technology.
I guess I've been asleep at the wheel when this started to happen. My apoligies in advance for the stupid question: When did we start caring about files on a laptop? Do files have a potential of exploding? I thought the focus on laptops were to prevent issues in-flight? When did we start allowing them to do these searches AFTER an international flight? I think there was a line that was crossed and no one pushed back.
You're getting close to a point that I have been trying to make.
Given they have "physical access" to these devices and systems, if their IT dept is worth any salt, they would have been able to recover/crack or reset the passwords they were demanding. (Yes, even the root accounts.)
They didn't have to "demand" passwords from him...or throw him in jail for it. Maybe he's setting "them" up? This is an ego trip for the city. But it may backfire and expose their lack of competency in the IT dept.
It's a great anology.
But the 10th man actually paid ~ $15 (just throwing out a number here for argument's sake) for his share because he was able to take advantage of tax breaks and write-offs that the other 9 could not exploit. His "effective" tax rate was much lower than the others. That's the way it really works.
There is a vast different between the tax rate taken from the "IRS tax table" and what the wealthy's "effective tax rate" actually is (revenue/tax liability). That's where the inequity lies.
A specific example of how the "game works" is "bad debt". When a company bills for something and is not paid within the specified amount of time, the company has the option of writing the account off as bad debt. This lowers their "bottom line" (bad debt write-offs count as an expense and lowers their net income). However, if they happen to recover the bad debt down the road, it's added back as income. Given this; NOW, if you have a number of "bad debt accounts (not an overwhelming number of bad debts, but just a collection of bad debt accounts.) You have the flexibility of determining your OWN tax liability by simply controlling what you want to consider as "bad debt" and writing it off to your satisfaction of what you want to pay in taxes. (And yes, heathly companies do this regularly.)
Tax tables!= effective tax rates != fair
We all agree that Stevens should go. However, I feel there were more important reasons for him to go than "household gifts". Stevens was a source of corruption in Congress. Remember the "skip the swearing-in" tactic that Stevens did for his buddies in hearings a couple years back? (There's a video of someone asking/demanding Stevens (who was running the hearing) to swear-in those that were testifying. He ignored the request and continued on with the testimony. This was to protect those who may purger themselves. He needed to "go" for more important reasons than the "gifts" he was busted on. I'm just glad they were able to get him out of congress...regardless how.
I'm rather surprised that companies haven't taken the view that, with storage/maintenance of data, there are costs involved. Therefore, get rid of the data you don't need to help reduce your operational costs. Granted, they may feel that there is benefit to keeping/storing the data. But the cost vs. benefit may justify getting rid of it.
With the liability and costs involved with maintaining and storage, we already have made the determination to treat data as a "hot potato". Get rid of it when it's no longer needed or get burned with the liabilities/costs associated with storing it.
I agree to a degree. It's actually the "paper" that got us in the mess of e-voting in the first place. We would be on the same system if we had avoided the knee-jerk reaction of e-voting BEFORE ACTUALLY KNOWING what happened:
"quality control revealed significant hanging and falling chad problems"
http://allaboutvoting.com/2007/08/16/more-dan-rather-on-voting-machines/
From what I have read, the "lock-out" was limited to Cisco networking equipment. If that's not correct please disregard the next 4 lines.
If my info is correct, I'm quite surprised that the remainder of the S.F. technical staff could not recover their own Cisco equipment. I know a number of technical staff at our "little ole local government" (at 1/3 of that salary) who would have been able to regain access to the Cisco network devices ON THEIR OWN and would not have needed help from the outside (Cisco). (I read where they said S.F. is getting help from Cisco on the lock-out problem.)
In regards to in-efficencies in gov, from my "local government perspective" (employed for 10+ years), there is plenty of "bloat" but a number of different areas within the same org that also run "lean and mean". (I consider my area lean and mean.) When budgeting comes up, the "lean and mean" are still asked to find ways to cut their budget. This is because ALL areas are asked to cut by the SAME percentage without consideration as to who's "bloated" and who isn't. Cutting everyone by a flat amount is supposed to be an attempt at being "fair" to all. Instead it discourages efficiency/resourcefullness (you're gonna have to cut anyway) and encourages/hides inefficiencies (you might as well add "bloat" to your budget so you can absorb the cut and still operate).
It's not a good situation to be in.
"'spying' on what people do over the net is really the only way to catch the criminals in the act."
I would have to respectfully disagree. As someone with a computer forensics background, I can assure you wiretapping is not necessary (although it can help)to successfully prosecute a cyber-criminal. With proper auditing/logging enabled on systems and proper investigative techniques, evidence can be gained to bust someone....without the need to wiretap.
Don't fall for the "need to wiretap" hype. Don't give up your rights for a lame excuse.
I agree with everything you have said. In one breath they want to hang on to their guns so that they can preserve their rights. In the meantime, their rights are being eroded right out from under them (wiretaps, spy sats, etc). But that's okay, they still have their "guns"....and therefore they still have their rights...they think. Some people need to get their head out of their a$$.
"Finally slashdotters do argue that exploits are targetted at larger OS market shares (naturally they want the largest possible penetration."
I'm glad you point that out. Because, although my logic may be flawed, I would think more exploits would mean there is a greater effort (more people and more time spent) finding holes in an OS that would provide "bad guys/girlz" the biggest bang (crack) for the buck.
Also, I would argue that regardless whether it's open source or commercial, any method of counting vulnerabilities would be flawed due to factors such as "responsible disclosure", programmers who decide to wait for the "next release" before fixing (then report the bug), programmers (who aren't getting paid for what they do) fixing things when they can, or hidden/"secret bugs" that go unreported.
Finally, no one seems to be able to decide/agree how to count the vulnerabilities. Why not a "bake-off?: Decide/agree on a criteria for "counting bugs" and count them for each platform. Let's end this argument once and for all.
I tend to agree that public schools should not have jusrisdiction outside of the school grounds. Also, has anyone considered that the school admins performing these "searches" may be considered "stalkers"????!!!! I thought stalking was bad?
I thought IBM just re-invented stuff and re-branded it as theirs? I'm not sure how they got in the prediction business? The article was no surprise and many "predictions" have been repeated over the years. IBM should try to be innovative and let the "Gartners of the world" handle the predictions. At least Gartner's will be more entertaining. (They won't be necessarily true, but entertaining.)
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If you're going to be "mobile" while on a call, you might have issues with your connections/calls-dropping as you move from tower-to-tower. We have experienced this in-house dealing with TCP-type applications. They lose the handshake.
Assuming you want to start with an R/C "frame" and build from there, "ARF's" are probably the way to go. (Almost Ready to Fly) They take around 20 hrs to build (YMMV). At least you won't be building from scratch...like a kit. (If/when it crashes, you'll be glad you didn't spend a lot of time building from scratch.)
Anyone notice that their "supercar" isn't as quick as the Tesla Roadster (0-60 3.9 secs)? It definately has Tesla beat in top speed. Perhaps "quickness" isn't a big deal for Le Mans-type racing? http://www.teslamotors.com/
I heard rumor that they will be disabling autorun in one of their future releases of Vista. Since it's not mentioned for SP2, I guess we'll be waiting for another update for Vista? http://blogs.technet.com/msrc/archive/2009/04/28/changes-in-windows-to-meet-changes-in-threat-landscape.aspx
Interesting thought. One step further. If the bad guys were able to understand/decompile the code and tweak it, they could actually use it _against_ big brother: Imagine if bad guys tweaked the code and essentially gave it the functionality to "spread"(Think "worm". Spreading to millions of users...and millions of "infected PC's phoning home to Virginia). It would more than likely trash their survellance program with a multitude of false positives.
I was in your shoes and "reinvented" myself you could say. Formally an accountant and morphed to an IT person. I was able to make the "leap" by working for an accounting software developer. I racked-up IT experience there, migrated to their IT department and was able to pursue full-blown IT jobs going forward. (It was a small business that was willing to take a risk on me. Some small businesses can give you lots of exposure/experience.) So I guess my suggestion is, depending on what your current experience is, find a job that's in-between what you do now and what you want to do (IT). Then gain experience and migrate.
As you all are probably aware, the feds will be investing billions of dollars to upgrade the power grid and push for green technology. If anyone thinks that any of the oil companies are willing to make this level of committment (throw out their "cash cow" (oil) for green tech) they are fooling themselves. My suggestion is for the gov funding to only be directed to companies whose sole purpose (strategic direction) is green technology. At least Shell has been honest to state that they are dropping their committment. I'm concerned that the rest of the "energy companies" (oil companies in sheep's clothing)will vie for this funding for the purpose of stifling the development of the technology for their own "business reasons". (They will be involved only to protect their cash cow: oil) If they really want this technology to take off. Fund the companies who are soley-dedicated to the technology.
Maybe it's a unique law over the pond, but I thought in the states this "demonstration" by the BBC would still be considered illegal?
I guess I've been asleep at the wheel when this started to happen. My apoligies in advance for the stupid question: When did we start caring about files on a laptop? Do files have a potential of exploding? I thought the focus on laptops were to prevent issues in-flight? When did we start allowing them to do these searches AFTER an international flight? I think there was a line that was crossed and no one pushed back.
You're getting close to a point that I have been trying to make. Given they have "physical access" to these devices and systems, if their IT dept is worth any salt, they would have been able to recover/crack or reset the passwords they were demanding. (Yes, even the root accounts.) They didn't have to "demand" passwords from him...or throw him in jail for it. Maybe he's setting "them" up? This is an ego trip for the city. But it may backfire and expose their lack of competency in the IT dept.
You forgot to include the "Deciders".
It's a great anology. But the 10th man actually paid ~ $15 (just throwing out a number here for argument's sake) for his share because he was able to take advantage of tax breaks and write-offs that the other 9 could not exploit. His "effective" tax rate was much lower than the others. That's the way it really works. There is a vast different between the tax rate taken from the "IRS tax table" and what the wealthy's "effective tax rate" actually is (revenue/tax liability). That's where the inequity lies. A specific example of how the "game works" is "bad debt". When a company bills for something and is not paid within the specified amount of time, the company has the option of writing the account off as bad debt. This lowers their "bottom line" (bad debt write-offs count as an expense and lowers their net income). However, if they happen to recover the bad debt down the road, it's added back as income. Given this; NOW, if you have a number of "bad debt accounts (not an overwhelming number of bad debts, but just a collection of bad debt accounts.) You have the flexibility of determining your OWN tax liability by simply controlling what you want to consider as "bad debt" and writing it off to your satisfaction of what you want to pay in taxes. (And yes, heathly companies do this regularly.) Tax tables!= effective tax rates != fair
We all agree that Stevens should go. However, I feel there were more important reasons for him to go than "household gifts". Stevens was a source of corruption in Congress. Remember the "skip the swearing-in" tactic that Stevens did for his buddies in hearings a couple years back? (There's a video of someone asking/demanding Stevens (who was running the hearing) to swear-in those that were testifying. He ignored the request and continued on with the testimony. This was to protect those who may purger themselves. He needed to "go" for more important reasons than the "gifts" he was busted on. I'm just glad they were able to get him out of congress...regardless how.
I'm rather surprised that companies haven't taken the view that, with storage/maintenance of data, there are costs involved. Therefore, get rid of the data you don't need to help reduce your operational costs. Granted, they may feel that there is benefit to keeping/storing the data. But the cost vs. benefit may justify getting rid of it. With the liability and costs involved with maintaining and storage, we already have made the determination to treat data as a "hot potato". Get rid of it when it's no longer needed or get burned with the liabilities/costs associated with storing it.
I agree to a degree. It's actually the "paper" that got us in the mess of e-voting in the first place. We would be on the same system if we had avoided the knee-jerk reaction of e-voting BEFORE ACTUALLY KNOWING what happened: "quality control revealed significant hanging and falling chad problems" http://allaboutvoting.com/2007/08/16/more-dan-rather-on-voting-machines/
From what I have read, the "lock-out" was limited to Cisco networking equipment. If that's not correct please disregard the next 4 lines. If my info is correct, I'm quite surprised that the remainder of the S.F. technical staff could not recover their own Cisco equipment. I know a number of technical staff at our "little ole local government" (at 1/3 of that salary) who would have been able to regain access to the Cisco network devices ON THEIR OWN and would not have needed help from the outside (Cisco). (I read where they said S.F. is getting help from Cisco on the lock-out problem.) In regards to in-efficencies in gov, from my "local government perspective" (employed for 10+ years), there is plenty of "bloat" but a number of different areas within the same org that also run "lean and mean". (I consider my area lean and mean.) When budgeting comes up, the "lean and mean" are still asked to find ways to cut their budget. This is because ALL areas are asked to cut by the SAME percentage without consideration as to who's "bloated" and who isn't. Cutting everyone by a flat amount is supposed to be an attempt at being "fair" to all. Instead it discourages efficiency/resourcefullness (you're gonna have to cut anyway) and encourages/hides inefficiencies (you might as well add "bloat" to your budget so you can absorb the cut and still operate). It's not a good situation to be in.
"'spying' on what people do over the net is really the only way to catch the criminals in the act." I would have to respectfully disagree. As someone with a computer forensics background, I can assure you wiretapping is not necessary (although it can help)to successfully prosecute a cyber-criminal. With proper auditing/logging enabled on systems and proper investigative techniques, evidence can be gained to bust someone....without the need to wiretap. Don't fall for the "need to wiretap" hype. Don't give up your rights for a lame excuse.
I agree with everything you have said. In one breath they want to hang on to their guns so that they can preserve their rights. In the meantime, their rights are being eroded right out from under them (wiretaps, spy sats, etc). But that's okay, they still have their "guns"....and therefore they still have their rights...they think. Some people need to get their head out of their a$$.
"Finally slashdotters do argue that exploits are targetted at larger OS market shares (naturally they want the largest possible penetration." I'm glad you point that out. Because, although my logic may be flawed, I would think more exploits would mean there is a greater effort (more people and more time spent) finding holes in an OS that would provide "bad guys/girlz" the biggest bang (crack) for the buck. Also, I would argue that regardless whether it's open source or commercial, any method of counting vulnerabilities would be flawed due to factors such as "responsible disclosure", programmers who decide to wait for the "next release" before fixing (then report the bug), programmers (who aren't getting paid for what they do) fixing things when they can, or hidden/"secret bugs" that go unreported. Finally, no one seems to be able to decide/agree how to count the vulnerabilities. Why not a "bake-off?: Decide/agree on a criteria for "counting bugs" and count them for each platform. Let's end this argument once and for all.
I tend to agree that public schools should not have jusrisdiction outside of the school grounds. Also, has anyone considered that the school admins performing these "searches" may be considered "stalkers"????!!!! I thought stalking was bad?
I thought IBM just re-invented stuff and re-branded it as theirs? I'm not sure how they got in the prediction business? The article was no surprise and many "predictions" have been repeated over the years. IBM should try to be innovative and let the "Gartners of the world" handle the predictions. At least Gartner's will be more entertaining. (They won't be necessarily true, but entertaining.)