The Cisco VoIP system has a feature called "Comfort Noise" that automatically generates a hiss/static when it doesn't detect any voice traffic in a call. According to our vendor they added this feature because people were used to hearing some minimal amount of background noise when both parties were silent, and when they didn't here it people started wondering if the connection had been droped. In actuality the connection quality is just so good that there is no naturally occuring "self-noise" from the phone system. It is possible to turn it off, but I think the setting is a global setting for all phones on a Call Manager cluster.
I think it would make a nice dent. The emulator isn't made by HP, but they have allowed it to exist thus far without too much trouble.
At the same time, I'm not sure what the legal state of the ROMs for the Emulator are. I don't have a problem using the HP48GX one since own the calculator, and have acutally dumpstered an HP48G whose LCD screen shattered. If TI were to do something like this I could see HP cracking down on the people that provide the ROMs.
The other thing with the keypad is that a lot HP enthuiasts swear by the hp style keypad, which has a much better tactile feel than TI. I've never used the 49G, but from what I heard HP moved away from their traditional keypad with that model, I'm not sure if they brought it back or not.
The interface is what makes the difference. I have an HP48GX as well as a Palm Tungsten E. Someone has written a 48SX/48GX/49G emulator that will on the palm. I have it, and it works great. There's nothing like being able to carry the functionality of my calculator with me wherever I go.
That being said, it is not a part and parcel replacement for my calculator. For intense operations the keypad on the real calculator is worlds better than clicking on the screen. The other thing is that the screen size of my calculator is just a little bit smaller than the screen of my palm, and on the palm screen you have to fit both the keypad and the calculator display.
If they are trying to keep it Hush Hush then they are doing a REALLY poor job of it. The Engraving and Printing guys had someone on The Today Show this morning and the hosts used a new $20 to buy a couple cups of coffee. They made it a point to show everyone the new security features.
Thats why they do a baseline first. You start with questions that are pretty much guaranteed to be right. For example you confirm their name, their address, their phone number etc. This is used to establish a baseline for their voice stress levels. Its the same way that polygraphs work. You think if you are hooked up to all this equipment your pulse and resperation aren't going to be slightly elevated? Of course they are, but they establish a baseline first before asking the questions they are really interested in.
The other thing about this whole thing is that this isn't going to be the end of the process, its just one more thing to check. Kind of like if you file two claims too close together they take a closer look, even if both are legitimate. If you show more stress they are going to take a closer look.
The other interesting thing this brings up is the student's right to earn a living and do what he enjoys vs. the national security implications of this. Like he says, putting classified down on a resume doesn't get you very far, especially outside the Military/Intelligence arena.
The other thing is that, yes, he did put all of the together, but according to the article the raw data he used is all available on the internet. Who's to day that Al Qadea hasn't hasn't already done the research to create their own version of his map. In that case this work could very well prove to be a map of what to defend.
I don't know for sure, but I would think it has something to do with lower population densities. If we assume that a central office can serve 10,000 people, then in the Lake and Peninsula Borough in Alaska you would be providing service over about 100,000 square miles, and would need the copper local loops to serve them. On the other hand in New York County you would only be providing service over 1/5th of a square mile.
If you are acquiring licenses for a business you probably don't care if Microsoft has most of that information. Most of it is going to be business information (business email, phone) etc.
Also Microsoft has since at least NT 4.0 required server client access licenses. And ever since NT 4.0 terminal services you have needed a terminal services cal if you were going to access a terminal server at a higher level than your base O.S. You don't need one if you have an NT box accessing an NT Terminal server, or a 2000 box accessing a 2000 terminal server.
Actually you don't need an EA (Enterprise Agreement) to get products without product activation. Open Business media does not require product activation, and can be acquired with a purchase of as few as 5 licenses. You still have to have a license key for Open Business, but you never transmit any hardware information to Microsoft.
What about an attack launched from behind the firewall. The way the article reads to me if port 135 is blocked then anything the depends on RPC, like print services for one, will break. So its not really feasible to block that port off from your local intranet. However if one of your employees decides that they want to make it so that no one can print they could launch an attack using this vulnerability against the print server.
Microsoft said they would be providing security hot fixes through January 1, 2005. They also said that general hotfixes would be available through January 1, 2004. There is an obligation to live up to what you have promised. If you buy a car and there is a 10 year, 100,000 mile warranty on it, the manufacturer can't change things after the fact. This would be like the manufacturer saying that if someone bangs on your hood your car won't start. The design of your car doesn't allow us to fix this, so we recomend that you always park your car in a locked garage.
If the carrier legitametly did not meet the contract then you would be able to take them to court and be released from the contract. The problem is that they put enough disclamers in the contract that it is almost impossible for them to break the contract as it is signed. They say that service may not be available in all areas, that service may be interupted, etc. etc.
First thing that has to happen is the bill needs to make it through whatever subcomittie it ends up being refered to. It will probably be the subcommittee on Science Technology and Space, so if you live in any of the following states contact your senator that sits on that subcommittee and tell them that you want to see this bill passed: KS (Sam Brownback) VA (George Allen) AK (Ted Stevens) MT (Conrad Burns) MS (Trent Lott) TX (Kay Bailey Hutchinson) NV (John Ensign) NH (John Sununu) LA (John Breaux) WV (John D. Rockefeller) MA (John F. Kerry) ND (Byron Dorgan) OR (Ron Wyden) FL (Bill Nelson) NJ (Frank Lautenberg)
Actually, you might be suprised. One of the fastest growing segments of private computer users is the retired set. This suprises a lot of people but once you look at it it starts to make sense.
Most people retiring today have at least a basic familiarity with computers from their workplace. The retired set as a group also tend to have more disposable income that they can spend on computers. Yeah, the teenager might be all excited about technology, and know all about it, but can he afford it?. Lastly they have the free time to spend on the computer engaged in lesiure activities. They may not buy the latest and greatest games, but they e-mail, surf the web, etc.
Retirement communities are now having to take into consideration things such as computer labs, high speed access for their residents, and a generally more tech savy population than ever before. I think you would be suprised by the number of older people who would seriously consider taking advantage of this if McDonalds offered it.
Be sure to read your EULAs real close before you do this. Microsoft has worded their EULAs so that you still have to license a copy of the app for every machine you have that connects to citrix. You also have to have a Microsoft Terminal Services CAL for every machine that connects to the Citrix server, because the citrix server is running on top of Microsoft Terminal Services. The cost for a TS CAL is about 1/4 of an XP license...
Part of the problem is that there are several different standards for digital cellphones here in the states. Some networks use CDMA technology, some use TDMA technology, and some use GSM technology. If you are switching between carriers that use the same technology then you can probalby keep your phone. This is also how out of area roaming works. I have Dobson/Cellular One phone. AT&T Wireless uses the same technology as Dobson, so when I get out of my local area I start using AT&T phones. If you look at the model numbers of cellphones you'll often model numbers that only differ by one digit. A Nokia 8260 and 8290 for example. These phones are basically the same except that one can talk TDMA and the other talks CDMA.
Actually one of the selling points of the various volume licensing programs is their ease in tracking. If you have 200 machines, or 2000 machines or whatever then you don't want to keep that many items around, and you don't want to track that much paper. In the various license agreements all you have to do is track your agreement numbers, which probaby don't even fill up a single sheet of paper. When BSA shows up you just go out to microsoft's site, punch your agreement numbers up and click a button and right there is a list of how many of each product you have licensed.
Typically the most liberal license that microsoft gives goes along with their FPP (Full Package Product) licesnses. These are the ones you walk down to the store and buy off the shelf. The volume agreements restrict a few of the rights, mainly transferability. You still have liberal downgrade rights etc. The OEM licenses are the most restrictive. Until Windows XP came out you couldn't legally run a copy of WinNT 4.0 on a machine with an OEM Win2k license. The Windows XP OEM license does provide downgrade rights, but many of the other OEM licenses (Office for example) do not.
How do I know all this? Well after the company I work for was hit with a Microsoft audit about 2 years ago part of my job became keeping up to date on Microsoft's various licensing programs.
The kiss is in Empire, after Han saves Luke on Hoth. Han is being his normall boastful self and Leia decides to show him that he's not all that and plants one on Luke. Keep in mind that at this point they don't know that they are related. Luke leans back with a big grin on face, and Chewie chuckles in background. Han turns to Chewie and says "Laugh it up". That should be enough to bring the scene back to mind for most of the people here.
On my Phillips unit it also functions like the TV/VCR button on a VCR. You can be recording one show on the Tivo, and watching another on TV. I've actually been recording one show on my Tivo, another on my VCR and watching a third...
Keep in mind that Access XP includes a desktop version of SQL server that I believe is installed by default. Microsoft is trying to move away from the Jet engine that Access is based on and towards using SQL for all databases, both large and small. I'm sure that some of the thousands of infected systems are desktop systems.
There are also plenty of business apps that run on top of SQL server. The program's installer takes care of setting up the SQL server with little to no knowledge or intervention required on the users part.
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The Cisco VoIP system has a feature called "Comfort Noise" that automatically generates a hiss/static when it doesn't detect any voice traffic in a call. According to our vendor they added this feature because people were used to hearing some minimal amount of background noise when both parties were silent, and when they didn't here it people started wondering if the connection had been droped. In actuality the connection quality is just so good that there is no naturally occuring "self-noise" from the phone system. It is possible to turn it off, but I think the setting is a global setting for all phones on a Call Manager cluster.
I think it would make a nice dent. The emulator isn't made by HP, but they have allowed it to exist thus far without too much trouble.
At the same time, I'm not sure what the legal state of the ROMs for the Emulator are. I don't have a problem using the HP48GX one since own the calculator, and have acutally dumpstered an HP48G whose LCD screen shattered. If TI were to do something like this I could see HP cracking down on the people that provide the ROMs.
The other thing with the keypad is that a lot HP enthuiasts swear by the hp style keypad, which has a much better tactile feel than TI. I've never used the 49G, but from what I heard HP moved away from their traditional keypad with that model, I'm not sure if they brought it back or not.
The interface is what makes the difference. I have an HP48GX as well as a Palm Tungsten E. Someone has written a 48SX/48GX/49G emulator that will on the palm. I have it, and it works great. There's nothing like being able to carry the functionality of my calculator with me wherever I go.
That being said, it is not a part and parcel replacement for my calculator. For intense operations the keypad on the real calculator is worlds better than clicking on the screen. The other thing is that the screen size of my calculator is just a little bit smaller than the screen of my palm, and on the palm screen you have to fit both the keypad and the calculator display.
Actually I'd rather think of it as "Holy Spirit Led minds think alike"
Wow, as soon as I read this article I picked up my palm and started looking for that exact verse, with that exact same logic.
If they are trying to keep it Hush Hush then they are doing a REALLY poor job of it. The Engraving and Printing guys had someone on The Today Show this morning and the hosts used a new $20 to buy a couple cups of coffee. They made it a point to show everyone the new security features.
Thats why they do a baseline first. You start with questions that are pretty much guaranteed to be right. For example you confirm their name, their address, their phone number etc. This is used to establish a baseline for their voice stress levels. Its the same way that polygraphs work. You think if you are hooked up to all this equipment your pulse and resperation aren't going to be slightly elevated? Of course they are, but they establish a baseline first before asking the questions they are really interested in.
The other thing about this whole thing is that this isn't going to be the end of the process, its just one more thing to check. Kind of like if you file two claims too close together they take a closer look, even if both are legitimate. If you show more stress they are going to take a closer look.
The other interesting thing this brings up is the student's right to earn a living and do what he enjoys vs. the national security implications of this. Like he says, putting classified down on a resume doesn't get you very far, especially outside the Military/Intelligence arena.
The other thing is that, yes, he did put all of the together, but according to the article the raw data he used is all available on the internet. Who's to day that Al Qadea hasn't hasn't already done the research to create their own version of his map. In that case this work could very well prove to be a map of what to defend.
The scary thing is that I know people that engage in the practice of body ironing (that is ironing the clothes they are wearing) on a regular basis...
That way we can find a black monolith on the back side of the moon. 10+ years late, but hey at least we would find it :-)
I don't know for sure, but I would think it has something to do with lower population densities. If we assume that a central office can serve 10,000 people, then in the Lake and Peninsula Borough in Alaska you would be providing service over about 100,000 square miles, and would need the copper local loops to serve them. On the other hand in New York County you would only be providing service over 1/5th of a square mile.
If you are acquiring licenses for a business you probably don't care if Microsoft has most of that information. Most of it is going to be business information (business email, phone) etc.
Also Microsoft has since at least NT 4.0 required server client access licenses. And ever since NT 4.0 terminal services you have needed a terminal services cal if you were going to access a terminal server at a higher level than your base O.S. You don't need one if you have an NT box accessing an NT Terminal server, or a 2000 box accessing a 2000 terminal server.
Actually you don't need an EA (Enterprise Agreement) to get products without product activation. Open Business media does not require product activation, and can be acquired with a purchase of as few as 5 licenses. You still have to have a license key for Open Business, but you never transmit any hardware information to Microsoft.
What about an attack launched from behind the firewall. The way the article reads to me if port 135 is blocked then anything the depends on RPC, like print services for one, will break. So its not really feasible to block that port off from your local intranet. However if one of your employees decides that they want to make it so that no one can print they could launch an attack using this vulnerability against the print server.
Microsoft said they would be providing security hot fixes through January 1, 2005. They also said that general hotfixes would be available through January 1, 2004. There is an obligation to live up to what you have promised. If you buy a car and there is a 10 year, 100,000 mile warranty on it, the manufacturer can't change things after the fact. This would be like the manufacturer saying that if someone bangs on your hood your car won't start. The design of your car doesn't allow us to fix this, so we recomend that you always park your car in a locked garage.
If the carrier legitametly did not meet the contract then you would be able to take them to court and be released from the contract. The problem is that they put enough disclamers in the contract that it is almost impossible for them to break the contract as it is signed. They say that service may not be available in all areas, that service may be interupted, etc. etc.
First thing that has to happen is the bill needs to make it through whatever subcomittie it ends up being refered to. It will probably be the subcommittee on Science Technology and Space, so if you live in any of the following states contact your senator that sits on that subcommittee and tell them that you want to see this bill passed:
KS (Sam Brownback)
VA (George Allen)
AK (Ted Stevens)
MT (Conrad Burns)
MS (Trent Lott)
TX (Kay Bailey Hutchinson)
NV (John Ensign)
NH (John Sununu)
LA (John Breaux)
WV (John D. Rockefeller)
MA (John F. Kerry)
ND (Byron Dorgan)
OR (Ron Wyden)
FL (Bill Nelson)
NJ (Frank Lautenberg)
Actually, you might be suprised. One of the fastest growing segments of private computer users is the retired set. This suprises a lot of people but once you look at it it starts to make sense.
Most people retiring today have at least a basic familiarity with computers from their workplace. The retired set as a group also tend to have more disposable income that they can spend on computers. Yeah, the teenager might be all excited about technology, and know all about it, but can he afford it?. Lastly they have the free time to spend on the computer engaged in lesiure activities. They may not buy the latest and greatest games, but they e-mail, surf the web, etc.
Retirement communities are now having to take into consideration things such as computer labs, high speed access for their residents, and a generally more tech savy population than ever before. I think you would be suprised by the number of older people who would seriously consider taking advantage of this if McDonalds offered it.
Every time I see the dance dance revolution pad my mind instantly flashes to the power pad!
Be sure to read your EULAs real close before you do this. Microsoft has worded their EULAs so that you still have to license a copy of the app for every machine you have that connects to citrix. You also have to have a Microsoft Terminal Services CAL for every machine that connects to the Citrix server, because the citrix server is running on top of Microsoft Terminal Services. The cost for a TS CAL is about 1/4 of an XP license...
Part of the problem is that there are several different standards for digital cellphones here in the states. Some networks use CDMA technology, some use TDMA technology, and some use GSM technology. If you are switching between carriers that use the same technology then you can probalby keep your phone. This is also how out of area roaming works. I have Dobson/Cellular One phone. AT&T Wireless uses the same technology as Dobson, so when I get out of my local area I start using AT&T phones. If you look at the model numbers of cellphones you'll often model numbers that only differ by one digit. A Nokia 8260 and 8290 for example. These phones are basically the same except that one can talk TDMA and the other talks CDMA.
Actually one of the selling points of the various volume licensing programs is their ease in tracking. If you have 200 machines, or 2000 machines or whatever then you don't want to keep that many items around, and you don't want to track that much paper. In the various license agreements all you have to do is track your agreement numbers, which probaby don't even fill up a single sheet of paper. When BSA shows up you just go out to microsoft's site, punch your agreement numbers up and click a button and right there is a list of how many of each product you have licensed.
Typically the most liberal license that microsoft gives goes along with their FPP (Full Package Product) licesnses. These are the ones you walk down to the store and buy off the shelf. The volume agreements restrict a few of the rights, mainly transferability. You still have liberal downgrade rights etc. The OEM licenses are the most restrictive. Until Windows XP came out you couldn't legally run a copy of WinNT 4.0 on a machine with an OEM Win2k license. The Windows XP OEM license does provide downgrade rights, but many of the other OEM licenses (Office for example) do not.
How do I know all this? Well after the company I work for was hit with a Microsoft audit about 2 years ago part of my job became keeping up to date on Microsoft's various licensing programs.
The kiss is in Empire, after Han saves Luke on Hoth. Han is being his normall boastful self and Leia decides to show him that he's not all that and plants one on Luke. Keep in mind that at this point they don't know that they are related. Luke leans back with a big grin on face, and Chewie chuckles in background. Han turns to Chewie and says "Laugh it up". That should be enough to bring the scene back to mind for most of the people here.
On my Phillips unit it also functions like the TV/VCR button on a VCR. You can be recording one show on the Tivo, and watching another on TV. I've actually been recording one show on my Tivo, another on my VCR and watching a third...
Keep in mind that Access XP includes a desktop version of SQL server that I believe is installed by default. Microsoft is trying to move away from the Jet engine that Access is based on and towards using SQL for all databases, both large and small. I'm sure that some of the thousands of infected systems are desktop systems.
There are also plenty of business apps that run on top of SQL server. The program's installer takes care of setting up the SQL server with little to no knowledge or intervention required on the users part.
Actually, yes I did. I forget all the details, but I remember spending many an hour playing the game.