You bring up a good point. Nobody visits those sites so it is really no big deal for them to be down. I think a more effective method would be to attack their customers. Get their customers to drop them and they lose their money.
I think this will work in the short term, but eventually they will catch on and just work around it. Just like they do with Norton now. With competition in the marketplace and new versions released at different schedules (building new locks) the virus maker hedges on missing or out of date protection (building new keys). With it built in, not only will everyone exploit the holes (since the lock never changes), but will give users a truly false sense of security (everyone has a master key).
Then there is the whole "in order to make it secure he had to build it in to the OS and can't be uninstalled..."
A few years ago I would have agreed 100%. Running a SW department with people with all different strengths I'd be fine to pay it. If I needed Android development I would have two choices. Hire someone new (way costly) or have a C# developer pick it up. My guys are sharp and could do it but the learning time needed would be far more than a grand. Assuming it worked well I can see it saving money for a lot of C# dev houses that have increased demand for Android/iOS apps.
As it is the.XXX TLD is basically just a.com TLD for porn.
That is 5x the cost..XXX is expected to be around $50/yr. Content producers are pissed because they will have to registered all their brands under.xxx to protect them. They can't really use them because.xxx will be far more likely to be blocked so all they will do is bounce to the existing.com site.
100 times this. Most users don't have a clue about security or why they shouldn't install every stupid widget they see on the internet. It's hard enough keeping this junk from polluting the install base and network with company hardware. It would only be a matter of time before you heard "I'm not doing that, it's my computer and I'll do what I want with it". Heaven forbid some of the corporate software pooched some other program.
The only way I could see this working is if everyone ran a VM. Clients are lightweight, admins can control the environment and in the event of termination it's a simple disconnect from the 'hive'.
Ditto here. Not only was it cheaper, but it was far more intelligent. If that wasn't enough, the human voice mimicking a computers "be do boop beep" sound when it was 'thinking' was frickin' hilarious.
I was just about to post the same thing. I wish I had mod points to give this. I can see myself watching my slow connection get saturated with torrent traffic but unable to block it because my co-workers need it to download.
That said, I think it would be a great idea if it was an alternative option, especially over those stupid proprietary download mangers (looking at you Dell). At the end of the day it will only take off if the end user likes it more which faster download speeds would do.
I would tend to agree. If you're going to do something like this it needs to be a) sustained and b) something that interfere's with the business. MX records come to mind.
I think what the article means to say is that "In canada, they're not litigation happy, and the courts have made it very difficult to get a multimillion dollar settlement for pouring hot coffee on your lap and claiming that it was the fault of the coffee shop for not telling you that coffee is hot... (and other such nonsense cases... like awarding a family damages over the autism-caused-by-vaccines debacle which has been debunked by real scientists over and over...)".
I love how everyone uses that case as their poster-child for all things wrong in American courts. I guess everyone is susceptible to media bias as one point or another. Here's the actual facts of the case: http://www.lectlaw.com/files/cur78.htm
A problem that companies run into from time to time is voicemail hijacking from drug traffickers. They create an account and place outgoing calls from within the company. I can see the same thing happening here. If they want to get really clever they can jump their call through a few voicemail accounts. Even if a call was tapped/traced it would probably take days or weeks (if ever) to trace down the real source. Certainly takes the power of wiretapping a few notches.
I doubt that would work for a few reasons. The USPS doesn't offer guaranteed delivery on Saturday now (for standard mail), so people would only be paying more for the 'chance' of making it on Saturday. They would still need to maintain a Saturday fleet that wouldn't be much smaller than the current one but would carry far less mail. As you said, Fedex and UPS offer these services now, so if price isn't an issue the demand is covered.
If we use IMAP or POP there are little issues on the iPhone. If was a carrier issue, they would be having issues as well. We also have 1 user on AT&T using a WinMo device with few issues.
I'm happy to admit that AT&T sucks as a carrier but data is data especially when connecting to the same server. From my experience, the iPhone just don't have a robust exchange interface yet.
Have you used a current WinMo device?. I've never used the stylus once with my HTC Touch Pro 2. While I'll admit that HTC does add their own UI enhancements to help that along, but that is true of most new devices now.
It really depends on what your priorities are. Mine are getting my email, calendar, tasks and contacts without compromise. The 8 or so iPhone users constantly struggle with connectivity issues just to get email unless it's 8pm at night for some reason. Blackberry has a bit better track-record unless they have another nationwide blackout.
From what I have seed of the Droid, the email situation is not much better there. We only have one person here with one so time will tell.
Our company is in the process of telling everyone that we will be dropping AT&T. We simply can't afford international travel, at least not with an iPhone. When you call them they seem smug in their prices, almost like "Well, what do you expect. You have an iPhone, paying ridiculous amounts of money is part of the deal".
Quotes for Android phones from Sprint and Verizon range from 1/5th to 1/4th of the AT&T costs for the same phones but with unlimited data. Eventually the 'new' wears off everything and you have to evaluate what it is really costing you.
Mozy has saved me twice. Two massive drive crashes about a year apart. For $4.95 a month, you can't beat it.
The only downsize is the restore. I was in the middle of a huge project during the last one and it took 3 days to download everything. I had to download bits of data that I needed to get working again, but really got me thinking I should do more than just Mozy.
I have two raid1 sets, one internal and the other external. External has all my data, pictures, etc.. Internal has scratch folders and the OS. I realized that having to rebuild the OS, developer tools, adobe suite, settings, takes a couple days barebones and weeks of tweaking after. It was only another $80 to mirror it, well worth it.
'backup' to a computer is more than just a hard drive crash. Theft and Fire can just as easily wipe out a decade worth of family photos.
A job description is all that matters. If they need to be strong in HTML/CSS with Javascript then put that in the listing. If they need to do design, put that. In this economy I can assure you that all potential candidates will look for any posting with "web" in it.
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Depends on how you define 'get a job'. If you define it as a tool for helping you find a job, then I know a few people who have got a job with it. When it came time for them to find something else they contacted every person they could through their profile and was able to get their resume in past normal channels.
I think it is safe to say that most of us don't keep on contact with past co-workers but most will pass a resume on.
I've yet to hear of a prison that has a surplus of cash lying around either. The idea is a good one, but owning cell towers myself I am aware of the costs of such a project. To put it bluntly, the monthly operating costs would be more money then a box that jammed signals. Once you add in staff, initial equipment costs, etc... well, you get the idea.
It's a lifesaver when money gets tight. I just had a router go for my T1 last week and don't really have the cash to pick up a new one. $75 on Craigslist and I'm running again with a Cisco 2600/w WIC.
*drum roll*.... FTP! With a bit of scripting and command line Winzip you can transfer everything automatically. Get a $5 a month unlimited bandwidth hosting account and have your clients check for updates every day. The new stuff is downloaded automatically and you can have the script even email you when the transfer is complete (with details of the CRC and file size).
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You bring up a good point. Nobody visits those sites so it is really no big deal for them to be down. I think a more effective method would be to attack their customers. Get their customers to drop them and they lose their money.
I think this will work in the short term, but eventually they will catch on and just work around it. Just like they do with Norton now. With competition in the marketplace and new versions released at different schedules (building new locks) the virus maker hedges on missing or out of date protection (building new keys). With it built in, not only will everyone exploit the holes (since the lock never changes), but will give users a truly false sense of security (everyone has a master key). Then there is the whole "in order to make it secure he had to build it in to the OS and can't be uninstalled..."
You know at least half the people over there had this thought cross their minds, "Shit, I hedged my bets wrong"
A few years ago I would have agreed 100%. Running a SW department with people with all different strengths I'd be fine to pay it. If I needed Android development I would have two choices. Hire someone new (way costly) or have a C# developer pick it up. My guys are sharp and could do it but the learning time needed would be far more than a grand. Assuming it worked well I can see it saving money for a lot of C# dev houses that have increased demand for Android/iOS apps.
As it is the .XXX TLD is basically just a .com TLD for porn.
That is 5x the cost. .XXX is expected to be around $50/yr. Content producers are pissed because they will have to registered all their brands under .xxx to protect them. They can't really use them because .xxx will be far more likely to be blocked so all they will do is bounce to the existing .com site.
100 times this. Most users don't have a clue about security or why they shouldn't install every stupid widget they see on the internet. It's hard enough keeping this junk from polluting the install base and network with company hardware. It would only be a matter of time before you heard "I'm not doing that, it's my computer and I'll do what I want with it". Heaven forbid some of the corporate software pooched some other program.
The only way I could see this working is if everyone ran a VM. Clients are lightweight, admins can control the environment and in the event of termination it's a simple disconnect from the 'hive'.
Ditto here. Not only was it cheaper, but it was far more intelligent. If that wasn't enough, the human voice mimicking a computers "be do boop beep" sound when it was 'thinking' was frickin' hilarious.
I was just about to post the same thing. I wish I had mod points to give this. I can see myself watching my slow connection get saturated with torrent traffic but unable to block it because my co-workers need it to download.
That said, I think it would be a great idea if it was an alternative option, especially over those stupid proprietary download mangers (looking at you Dell). At the end of the day it will only take off if the end user likes it more which faster download speeds would do.
I would tend to agree. If you're going to do something like this it needs to be a) sustained and b) something that interfere's with the business. MX records come to mind.
I think what the article means to say is that "In canada, they're not litigation happy, and the courts have made it very difficult to get a multimillion dollar settlement for pouring hot coffee on your lap and claiming that it was the fault of the coffee shop for not telling you that coffee is hot... (and other such nonsense cases ... like awarding a family damages over the autism-caused-by-vaccines debacle which has been debunked by real scientists over and over...)".
I love how everyone uses that case as their poster-child for all things wrong in American courts. I guess everyone is susceptible to media bias as one point or another. Here's the actual facts of the case: http://www.lectlaw.com/files/cur78.htm
Injustice is always newsworthy.
A problem that companies run into from time to time is voicemail hijacking from drug traffickers. They create an account and place outgoing calls from within the company. I can see the same thing happening here. If they want to get really clever they can jump their call through a few voicemail accounts. Even if a call was tapped/traced it would probably take days or weeks (if ever) to trace down the real source. Certainly takes the power of wiretapping a few notches.
I doubt that would work for a few reasons. The USPS doesn't offer guaranteed delivery on Saturday now (for standard mail), so people would only be paying more for the 'chance' of making it on Saturday. They would still need to maintain a Saturday fleet that wouldn't be much smaller than the current one but would carry far less mail. As you said, Fedex and UPS offer these services now, so if price isn't an issue the demand is covered.
If we use IMAP or POP there are little issues on the iPhone. If was a carrier issue, they would be having issues as well. We also have 1 user on AT&T using a WinMo device with few issues.
I'm happy to admit that AT&T sucks as a carrier but data is data especially when connecting to the same server. From my experience, the iPhone just don't have a robust exchange interface yet.
Have you used a current WinMo device?. I've never used the stylus once with my HTC Touch Pro 2. While I'll admit that HTC does add their own UI enhancements to help that along, but that is true of most new devices now.
It really depends on what your priorities are. Mine are getting my email, calendar, tasks and contacts without compromise. The 8 or so iPhone users constantly struggle with connectivity issues just to get email unless it's 8pm at night for some reason. Blackberry has a bit better track-record unless they have another nationwide blackout.
From what I have seed of the Droid, the email situation is not much better there. We only have one person here with one so time will tell.
Our company is in the process of telling everyone that we will be dropping AT&T. We simply can't afford international travel, at least not with an iPhone. When you call them they seem smug in their prices, almost like "Well, what do you expect. You have an iPhone, paying ridiculous amounts of money is part of the deal".
Quotes for Android phones from Sprint and Verizon range from 1/5th to 1/4th of the AT&T costs for the same phones but with unlimited data. Eventually the 'new' wears off everything and you have to evaluate what it is really costing you.
There's no time wasted blowing (the console).
I fear this is the nostalgia that many are looking for.
There are a bunch of other tactics but those are the big ones and work for my company.
Mozy has saved me twice. Two massive drive crashes about a year apart. For $4.95 a month, you can't beat it.
The only downsize is the restore. I was in the middle of a huge project during the last one and it took 3 days to download everything. I had to download bits of data that I needed to get working again, but really got me thinking I should do more than just Mozy.
I have two raid1 sets, one internal and the other external. External has all my data, pictures, etc.. Internal has scratch folders and the OS. I realized that having to rebuild the OS, developer tools, adobe suite, settings, takes a couple days barebones and weeks of tweaking after. It was only another $80 to mirror it, well worth it.
'backup' to a computer is more than just a hard drive crash. Theft and Fire can just as easily wipe out a decade worth of family photos.
Does it matter what they are called?
A job description is all that matters. If they need to be strong in HTML/CSS with Javascript then put that in the listing. If they need to do design, put that. In this economy I can assure you that all potential candidates will look for any posting with "web" in it.
Depends on how you define 'get a job'. If you define it as a tool for helping you find a job, then I know a few people who have got a job with it. When it came time for them to find something else they contacted every person they could through their profile and was able to get their resume in past normal channels.
I think it is safe to say that most of us don't keep on contact with past co-workers but most will pass a resume on.
I've yet to hear of a prison that has a surplus of cash lying around either. The idea is a good one, but owning cell towers myself I am aware of the costs of such a project. To put it bluntly, the monthly operating costs would be more money then a box that jammed signals. Once you add in staff, initial equipment costs, etc... well, you get the idea.
Why make a feature that could never be used by its members?
It's a lifesaver when money gets tight. I just had a router go for my T1 last week and don't really have the cash to pick up a new one. $75 on Craigslist and I'm running again with a Cisco 2600 /w WIC.
*drum roll* .... FTP! With a bit of scripting and command line Winzip you can transfer everything automatically. Get a $5 a month unlimited bandwidth hosting account and have your clients check for updates every day. The new stuff is downloaded automatically and you can have the script even email you when the transfer is complete (with details of the CRC and file size).