"You may not work with an employee, partner, or owner of StrongWebmail.com or any of its affiliates or partners..."
I interpret that as colluding or conspiring with them is forbidden when in fact social engineering would technically be 'working against them'.
agreed.
In the real world I'm not going to care HOW my secret correspondence was hacked when they assured me it would never happen.
"They got in through a vulnerability in our OS, but our software held up".
"Someone in our company helped themselves/someone else to your mails, but our software held up".
"Someone installed a trojan that compromised the authentication system, but our software held up".
I understand perfectly what they are trying to achieve with this contest but they come off as sounding as if any other means of obtaining 'secure' information is beyond their liability when they state that it is the most secure webmail system out there.
There are many different levels to security that need to be continually addressed yet they seem to think that as long as their little solo phone app doesn't get compromised then it's not really their fault.
At least that's the way the rules and TFA sound.
Well, I was expecting that maybe the Dell tech would have told her over the phone.
If Dell sells Ubuntu on their boxes they should be obligated to support them as well.
Obviously Dell isn't Verizon but it _is_ just a general connectivity issue so they should have been able to get it up and running.
I use a Verizon 3G wireless usb on my Ubuntu box and it couldn't be simpler.
Run gnome-ppp and enter the following in respective fields:
Username: phone_num@vzw3g.com
Password: vzw
Phone #: #777
Device:/dev/ACM0
Type: USB
Click 'Connect' That's all there is to it.
There is no need for having Windows installed for her to get on teh intarwebs and OO.org suite is a reasonable alternative to Office.
(Off to rtfa, now)
I was going to post that same thing re: leaving the ideas open to the public for them to possibly pursue on their own. When I started reading TFA I initially thought that it would be a one-way closed communication between the idea submitter and the big Goog and when I saw that the ideas were to be posted in an open forum I immediately thought of someone taking someone else's idea and patenting it. Only three things are to come out of this for anyone submitting an idea:
* Google uses your idea with a simple "kudos 2 U!!!1one! and no monetary compensation. * Since you have liberated your secret idea, someone else patents it and potentially profits from it. * Google dismisses your idea entirely and nothing at all happens and life goes on.
I would like to have some revolutionary idea to put forth to Google but the lack of some time of compensation doesn't leave much incentive.
I've never heard of this game either so I would also believe the lack of marketing was the reason it went south.
Everquest has been around for nearly 10 years with 15 expansions and it is still fairly strong.
Granted Verant and then Sony had/have a lot to throw at it in terms of dev and marketing but they are keeping it putting along rather well.
It's a shame that NCSoft thought they had a revolutionary game and put a lot of effort & money into it only to have it fail.
The current estimation is believed to be ~13.7 billion light years with a diameter of ~93Gly, (46 billion light years in any direction out from Earth).((Comoving distance, cosmologicaql time, et al.))
3,000 LY would equate to roughly 17,635,876,119,550,800 miles.
46G LY would equate to roughly 270,416,767,166,418,000,000,000 miles.
While not very close, it is a heck of a lot closer than if we were able to see it nearer the \edge\ of the observable portion of our universe.
That's the kind of thing I have issue with. If you get paid to start at 9 yet your computer takes 20 minutes to boot-to-usable, to be in compliance you would be required to arrive at work at 8:40 to get the ball rolling to be ready in time.
There are only 2 values of time when someone has a job; their personal time and their work time and neither should infringe on the other without consequence.
Agreed. If I'm scheduled to start work at 9AM and leave at 5PM it shouldn't matter what I am doing in the interim, provided it is work related I should be paid fully.
I am in their place of business turning on their computer running god-knows-what that takes forever and a day to boot; that's their problem.
Perhaps they need a setup where the new shift's comps all turn on at the same time and if no one logs in to start the virtual time clock then they turn off accordingly.
Most people would initially have a natural aversion to drinking recycled urine-water but if you take all of the urine out and are left with nothing but H2O molecules then naturally all you would be drinking is pure water.
It shouldn't matter what the source was, H2O is H2O, not a water molecule with a pee molecule attached to it.
1. They arrested him on the spot with the equipment.
2. The theaters each have a unique embedded watermark.
3. The investigation into his wrongdoing took 6 months.
/boggle
It's pretty funny the way Google Translate parsed the German to this: "If you want to support us, please let us send a donation."
Well, if they think donating to me will help support them then I am all for helping out.
Funny, that. Isn't it interesting that any time piracy is involved the hot air spewed from the mouths of the opponents are wildly arbitrary numbers that they can't possibly back up but will most assuredly `always` be very high.
Anywho, to me this reads as DRM not doing anything for the piracy aspect and keeping the honest users honest but aggravating them during the process with all of the protection measures.
Curiously I wonder if anyone has actually gone through all of the Let's Make a Deal shows and shown what the outcomes had been based on that logic. Since some people have `way` too much time on their hands I bet somewhere out there someone has done it.
Unsolicited spam email Subject lines _MUST_ contain the phrase, "this is an unsolicited email".
I think that would pretty much cover it. (The word Spam isn't used so there isn't any gray area with that processed meat product).
I know that there have been attempts at this before and it has been shot down but I don't understand why.
Obviously the purpose of this would be to have these in email filters to block the crap all of the time so why doesn't it pass? Someone in the gubment think it unfair to all of the people sending ILLEGAL emails?
Poor little guy gets a single centimeter in 20 picoseconds-time and poofs into nothingness but I'll give it an A for effort.
I hope this does ultimately afford us a new awareness into how things work down the road; preferably in my lifetime. (Read: Something absolutely astounding).
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"You may not work with an employee, partner, or owner of StrongWebmail.com or any of its affiliates or partners..." I interpret that as colluding or conspiring with them is forbidden when in fact social engineering would technically be 'working against them'.
agreed.
In the real world I'm not going to care HOW my secret correspondence was hacked when they assured me it would never happen.
"They got in through a vulnerability in our OS, but our software held up".
"Someone in our company helped themselves/someone else to your mails, but our software held up".
"Someone installed a trojan that compromised the authentication system, but our software held up".
I understand perfectly what they are trying to achieve with this contest but they come off as sounding as if any other means of obtaining 'secure' information is beyond their liability when they state that it is the most secure webmail system out there.
There are many different levels to security that need to be continually addressed yet they seem to think that as long as their little solo phone app doesn't get compromised then it's not really their fault.
At least that's the way the rules and TFA sound.
Well, I was expecting that maybe the Dell tech would have told her over the phone.
If Dell sells Ubuntu on their boxes they should be obligated to support them as well.
Obviously Dell isn't Verizon but it _is_ just a general connectivity issue so they should have been able to get it up and running.
I use a Verizon 3G wireless usb on my Ubuntu box and it couldn't be simpler.
/dev/ACM0
Run gnome-ppp and enter the following in respective fields:
Username: phone_num@vzw3g.com
Password: vzw
Phone #: #777
Device:
Type: USB
Click 'Connect'
That's all there is to it.
There is no need for having Windows installed for her to get on teh intarwebs and OO.org suite is a reasonable alternative to Office.
(Off to rtfa, now)
I was going to post that same thing re: leaving the ideas open to the public for them to possibly pursue on their own.
When I started reading TFA I initially thought that it would be a one-way closed communication between the idea submitter and the big Goog and when I saw that the ideas were to be posted in an open forum I immediately thought of someone taking someone else's idea and patenting it.
Only three things are to come out of this for anyone submitting an idea:
* Google uses your idea with a simple "kudos 2 U!!!1one! and no monetary compensation.
* Since you have liberated your secret idea, someone else patents it and potentially profits from it.
* Google dismisses your idea entirely and nothing at all happens and life goes on.
I would like to have some revolutionary idea to put forth to Google but the lack of some time of compensation doesn't leave much incentive.
I've never heard of this game either so I would also believe the lack of marketing was the reason it went south.
Everquest has been around for nearly 10 years with 15 expansions and it is still fairly strong.
Granted Verant and then Sony had/have a lot to throw at it in terms of dev and marketing but they are keeping it putting along rather well.
It's a shame that NCSoft thought they had a revolutionary game and put a lot of effort & money into it only to have it fail.
The current estimation is believed to be ~13.7 billion light years with a diameter of ~93Gly, (46 billion light years in any direction out from Earth).((Comoving distance, cosmologicaql time, et al.)) 3,000 LY would equate to roughly 17,635,876,119,550,800 miles. 46G LY would equate to roughly 270,416,767,166,418,000,000,000 miles.
While not very close, it is a heck of a lot closer than if we were able to see it nearer the \edge\ of the observable portion of our universe.
That's the kind of thing I have issue with.
If you get paid to start at 9 yet your computer takes 20 minutes to boot-to-usable, to be in compliance you would be required to arrive at work at 8:40 to get the ball rolling to be ready in time.
There are only 2 values of time when someone has a job; their personal time and their work time and neither should infringe on the other without consequence.
Agreed.
If I'm scheduled to start work at 9AM and leave at 5PM it shouldn't matter what I am doing in the interim, provided it is work related I should be paid fully.
I am in their place of business turning on their computer running god-knows-what that takes forever and a day to boot; that's their problem.
Perhaps they need a setup where the new shift's comps all turn on at the same time and if no one logs in to start the virtual time clock then they turn off accordingly.
Most people would initially have a natural aversion to drinking recycled urine-water but if you take all of the urine out and are left with nothing but H2O molecules then naturally all you would be drinking is pure water.
It shouldn't matter what the source was, H2O is H2O, not a water molecule with a pee molecule attached to it.
1. They arrested him on the spot with the equipment.
/boggle
2. The theaters each have a unique embedded watermark.
3. The investigation into his wrongdoing took 6 months.
It's pretty funny the way Google Translate parsed the German to this: "If you want to support us, please let us send a donation." Well, if they think donating to me will help support them then I am all for helping out.
Funny, that. Isn't it interesting that any time piracy is involved the hot air spewed from the mouths of the opponents are wildly arbitrary numbers that they can't possibly back up but will most assuredly `always` be very high. Anywho, to me this reads as DRM not doing anything for the piracy aspect and keeping the honest users honest but aggravating them during the process with all of the protection measures.
Curiously I wonder if anyone has actually gone through all of the Let's Make a Deal shows and shown what the outcomes had been based on that logic. Since some people have `way` too much time on their hands I bet somewhere out there someone has done it.
Unsolicited spam email Subject lines _MUST_ contain the phrase, "this is an unsolicited email". I think that would pretty much cover it. (The word Spam isn't used so there isn't any gray area with that processed meat product). I know that there have been attempts at this before and it has been shot down but I don't understand why. Obviously the purpose of this would be to have these in email filters to block the crap all of the time so why doesn't it pass? Someone in the gubment think it unfair to all of the people sending ILLEGAL emails?
Poor little guy gets a single centimeter in 20 picoseconds-time and poofs into nothingness but I'll give it an A for effort. I hope this does ultimately afford us a new awareness into how things work down the road; preferably in my lifetime. (Read: Something absolutely astounding).