Where is the OP getting his information? Nearly every major retailer in the US allows you to return iPads. They may shorten the amount of time in which they can be returned from the normal return period, but that's not even close to the same thing. For example, Best Buy gives you 14 days to return an iPad. I purchased an iPad 1 from BB a few days before Apple announced the iPad 2, so I took it back and had no trouble at all. I didn't purchase any special investment protection or warranty programs either.
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Maybe it's just the area I live in (central Florida), but I've NEVER seen a gas station selling E85. Every gas station here sells the "up to 10% ethanol" stuff. Is it really so readily available elsewhere?
Especially IT workers because they're often in a horizontal department that touches every single other department, and furthermore IT folks tend to be expensive so there are usually some functions you will perform that have no human redundancies. Smaller companies may only have one programmer or one admin. If there is a problem that crops up during your vacation, even a small one, they will expect you to answer your phone and talk them through fixing it. Usually it's not the company itself that is discouraging you from taking vacation time and actually using it as intended, it's more likely a manager that wants to meet deadlines and doesn't feel bad about making you lose some vacation time to do it.
But it drives me up the fucking wall when I go on vacation and get calls about stupid shit that I would normally handle, but that anybody with a brain could figure out pretty easily. That just means you're lazy and value the 30 minutes it would take you to figure it out on your own more than you value not interrupting my vacation. If I'm the network guy and a core switch catches on fire, then I definitely want you to call me before you start fucking with it, but otherwise just tell people they'll have to wait til next week, it won't be the end of the world.
Just because the image was uploaded in 2011 doesn't mean it was taken in 2011. For example, last year my wife and I had our first child, so I wanted an easy way to share photos with our family, so I created a Flickr Pro account. I use the Flickr app on my smartphone to instantly upload photos. But, I also imported the last 10 years of digital photos from my archive. 100% of those photos were taken with digital cameras, not phones, but that's just because I have a lot of photos from the late 90s through the mid 2000s when camera phones caught on.
Nowadays, 90% of the photos I take are with a phone. I only haul the camera out when I'm going on vacation, or there is a special occasion such as a birthday, holiday, etc. Since EXIF also includes the date the photo was taken, I bet if they ran that same query, but instead of only looking at photos uploaded in 2011, also look at photos that were actually TAKEN in 2011, the percentages would shift by a good amount.
At least from what I have seen users doing. They like tablets for e-mail, web and social media. For example, your typical higher level positions, VPs, SVPs, etc don't usually spend a whole lot of time doing much other than e-mail, web and social media - at least in my organization. Yes, for Excel or other apps, the PC wins every time, but if you're a heavy traveler and your needs are simple, the tablet is going to be far more convenient. Less weight, less bulk and more battery.
Well, technically, yes you're correct. But, in terms of a business user coming to you and complaining about the phone not working, they don't differentiate between not being able to hear the other party and long delays, to them it just doesn't work. At any rate, high latency is going to cause a lot of complaints from users that don't realize they need to wait for the other party to finish before they start talking, they simply see a phone and expect it to work like every other phone they've used, if it doesn't, then it's broken.
You've got to realize that latency of a second isn't as widely acceptable as you're making it out to be. Take your standard webpage these days - it probably has close to 100 items on it, and those hundred items are probably coming from 10+ different servers (think images, flash, JS, ads, etc). Now think about your second of latency and how it impacts the 5-10 DNS lookups that are going to be required, then the subsequent HTTP requests and you can see how even with a > 10 Mbps downstream bandwidth, loading a page like this can still take 15-20 seconds.
Also, unless you're only using the connection for web browsing, you'll probably feel some pain from high latency. VoIP, 2-way video, and games all perform poorly when high latency is introduced. You may not think that impacts non-techies, but there are a ton of teleworkers out there that have Cisco IP phones sitting on the desk in their home office, and that phone call is going to sound like garbage with >1000ms of latency.
Teens usually tend to live where their parents live, and have no control over their broadband choices. As a former teen who lived in the middle of nowhere and had to use dial-up, I could see this as having been an alternative to that.
If you're going to talk economics, then I have a question for you, not to be snarky, but because I'm genuinely interested in why it would or wouldn't work.
Say you own a theatre and presently charge $10 flat rate for all movies. Why not raise your rate to $15 flat rate? It would cause people not willing to pay that much to see a film to go elsewhere, but there will still be folks willing to pay the higher rate. At some point, the revenues from folks willing to buy a ticket at $10 and the number willing to buy a ticket at $15 may equal out. That is to say, if you raise prices, you'd definitely expect to sell less tickets, right? Of course you would. However, even if you sell less tickets, you're making more per ticket. So let's use easy numbers and say you normally sell 100 tickets per day at $10 per ticket, resulting in $1000 of revenue. Now if you raised the ticket price to $15 per ticket, you may only sell 75 tickets instead of 100, but even though you sold 25 less tickets, you brought in $1125 in revenue.
The point I'm trying to make is that at some point, there may be a price point at which you can maintain your current amount of revenue by serving a lot less people. That means your theatre doesn't need to be as big, you don't need as much staff, don't carry as many maintenance expenses, etc. And perhaps more importantly, the people that are willing to pay more are probably those that are genuinely interested in watching the film, and are therefore (hopefully) less likely to be playing with their cell phones or talking during the movie, which would result in an overall better theater experience.
It depends on a couple things - size of the company you're applying at, salary requirements, level of competition in your area, etc.
Size of the company - smaller companies will likely bypass HR in the hiring process, so you have a better chance of your resume getting in front of a CIO or IT manager who will be better able to understand and appreciate the skills and experience listed on your resume.
If there's a lot of competition in your area, then you're likely going to be slotted behind folks that have recent software engineering experience. Similarly, you probably won't be able to demand the same salary as someone who's been doing software dev work for the past 10 years.
100,000 crashes every year, leading to 1,500 deaths, and 71,000 injuries.
Call me crazy but those numbers seem pretty good in terms of a significant number of crashes with no injuries. Out of the 100,000 crashes, say 50% involve at least two cars (the others 50,000 drivers are running into non-car objects such as trees, guard rails, etc), so that would mean that there are at least 150,000 cars involved in the 100,000 crashes they report. Out of 150,000 crashes, you have 72,500 injuries (i'm counting death as a form of injury), so that means that you have a better than 50% chance of coming out of this type of accident injury free, which I found pretty surprising.
The description sounds pretty bad - they're trying to combine the job of a personal assistant, PR manager and technician into one position and are pretty clear that Prof. Hawking has no interest in conversing with you about physics. You're just his bitch. I'm not overly familiar with typical salaries in the UK, but here in the states I'd consider that salary pretty low for the qualifications they're looking for.
Why limit yourself to a case that can physically accomodate all the drives you will ever need from now until the end of time? There is an easier way. Buy yourself a small form factor PC such as a Mac Mini or roll your own miniITX system. Boot from flash and access storage via iSCSI. In an enterprise setting you may say it's not fast enough, but for home usage it's more then enough. There are lots of manufacturers building iSCSI connectivity in these days, so you could get somethink like a Drobo, etc, or you could roll your own.
It may have been better in terms of standards support, but as someone who's spent considerable time with all three of the devices, Android and iOS blow BB away when it comes to web browsing. It's not even close.
BB's strengths are security, battery life, keyboard, Exchange integration, BBM. Android's strengths are openness, wide variety of handsets, social networking integration (through HTC Sense, TouchWiz, etc). iPhone's strengths are polished UI, the App Store, facetime, and out of the box compatibility (I.E. iCloud, iTunes, Apple TV, etc).
Amazon's AWS platform is probably as cheap as you can get while still getting good (i.e. not horribly oversold) service. They also offer a free micro instance for a year to get you hooked.
With MS BPOS / Office 365, they have a handy feature called exchange hosted encryption. Essentially what it does is when you send an e-mail and mark it as encrypted, it'll e-mail a short note to the recipient letting them know they've received an encrypted message, along with a link to an SSL enabled site where they can view it (they have to have a PIN code setup prior to verify their identity). It's not perfect, but it's really easy to use and solves the problem of being able to send an e-mail to just about anyone while maintaining end to end encryption. You can even set up rules by domain or regex, so any e-mails sent to MyLawFirm.com would be encrypted, or anything message that contains text matching the format of an SSN would automatically be encrypted. This is great for office environments where you don't want to have to explain the concept of encryption to your users, or rely on them to encrypt messages they should be encrypting.
Not entirely - as you pointed out SSL would secure the connection between the your computer and your server, however the connection between your server and the remote server, as well as the connection between the recipients computer and their mail server would remain unencrypted, so effectively you only have encryption on 1 of 3 links.
Message encryption makes transport encryption unnecessary. I.E. you don't care if someone grabs the body of the e-mail because it's useless if you can't decrypt it. Although I do recognize that I, along with most of the rest of the world I think, consider e-mail an inherently insecure communication tool and treat it as such. If you need to send something secure through e-mail, throw it in a password protected rar file and send it as an attachment.
Unfortunately, this is all too true. Just recently, I had to contact support for one of the largest IT companies in the world. They will remain nameless, but the company has a 4 letter name and they were at one time the largest PC manufacturer. I asked to speak to someone in the support dept for the product I was using, and the people on the other end of the phone had no idea that product even existed.
When you port a mobile number (at least in the US), there is a period during which you can't receive SMS messages from SMS aggregators (the bulk messaging APIs banks and other companies use to send automated messages). After I ported my number from AT&T to Verizon, my BofA SMS messages stopped working. I called the bank and they instantly knew that it was because I had recently ported, so it must be a common problem. It took about two weeks for them to start working again.
So either this is different in Australia, or there's a big hole in this story.
And it would seem that any standard FTP client from the last 15-20 years will do exactly what you want as far as uploading your files while preserving the directory structure.
I have a whole bunch of unencrypted USB sticks...because the stuff I put on them isn't worth encrypting. As a geek I put stuff like drivers, or maybe music or a movie on them. Hardly stuff I care about other people getting their hands on. What would be more telling is the percentage of unencrypted sticks that contained sensitive information such as financial or medical data.
First off, don't do anything more. Realistically, you could already probably be found guilty of criminal acts (accessing computer systems without authorization, etc). If you piss them off, they are likely to respond in the only they know how (with a lawsuit). What I would do is tell explain to them where their failures have been, advise them that they need to take security seriously.
With that being said, if you threaten to expose their issues, you will probably have crossed some legal lines that you don't want to cross. As of now, you are probably on questionable ground if they decided to take legal action against you (assuming they know who you are).
If they don't know who you are, and you are reasonably sure they can't find out, then I say tell them have 30 days to convince you that they are actively working to fix the problems, or else you'll announce their ineptitude to the world and let their company fall apart.
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Where is the OP getting his information? Nearly every major retailer in the US allows you to return iPads. They may shorten the amount of time in which they can be returned from the normal return period, but that's not even close to the same thing. For example, Best Buy gives you 14 days to return an iPad. I purchased an iPad 1 from BB a few days before Apple announced the iPad 2, so I took it back and had no trouble at all. I didn't purchase any special investment protection or warranty programs either.
Maybe it's just the area I live in (central Florida), but I've NEVER seen a gas station selling E85. Every gas station here sells the "up to 10% ethanol" stuff. Is it really so readily available elsewhere?
Especially IT workers because they're often in a horizontal department that touches every single other department, and furthermore IT folks tend to be expensive so there are usually some functions you will perform that have no human redundancies. Smaller companies may only have one programmer or one admin. If there is a problem that crops up during your vacation, even a small one, they will expect you to answer your phone and talk them through fixing it. Usually it's not the company itself that is discouraging you from taking vacation time and actually using it as intended, it's more likely a manager that wants to meet deadlines and doesn't feel bad about making you lose some vacation time to do it.
But it drives me up the fucking wall when I go on vacation and get calls about stupid shit that I would normally handle, but that anybody with a brain could figure out pretty easily. That just means you're lazy and value the 30 minutes it would take you to figure it out on your own more than you value not interrupting my vacation. If I'm the network guy and a core switch catches on fire, then I definitely want you to call me before you start fucking with it, but otherwise just tell people they'll have to wait til next week, it won't be the end of the world.
Just because the image was uploaded in 2011 doesn't mean it was taken in 2011. For example, last year my wife and I had our first child, so I wanted an easy way to share photos with our family, so I created a Flickr Pro account. I use the Flickr app on my smartphone to instantly upload photos. But, I also imported the last 10 years of digital photos from my archive. 100% of those photos were taken with digital cameras, not phones, but that's just because I have a lot of photos from the late 90s through the mid 2000s when camera phones caught on.
Nowadays, 90% of the photos I take are with a phone. I only haul the camera out when I'm going on vacation, or there is a special occasion such as a birthday, holiday, etc. Since EXIF also includes the date the photo was taken, I bet if they ran that same query, but instead of only looking at photos uploaded in 2011, also look at photos that were actually TAKEN in 2011, the percentages would shift by a good amount.
At least from what I have seen users doing. They like tablets for e-mail, web and social media. For example, your typical higher level positions, VPs, SVPs, etc don't usually spend a whole lot of time doing much other than e-mail, web and social media - at least in my organization. Yes, for Excel or other apps, the PC wins every time, but if you're a heavy traveler and your needs are simple, the tablet is going to be far more convenient. Less weight, less bulk and more battery.
Well, technically, yes you're correct. But, in terms of a business user coming to you and complaining about the phone not working, they don't differentiate between not being able to hear the other party and long delays, to them it just doesn't work. At any rate, high latency is going to cause a lot of complaints from users that don't realize they need to wait for the other party to finish before they start talking, they simply see a phone and expect it to work like every other phone they've used, if it doesn't, then it's broken.
You've got to realize that latency of a second isn't as widely acceptable as you're making it out to be. Take your standard webpage these days - it probably has close to 100 items on it, and those hundred items are probably coming from 10+ different servers (think images, flash, JS, ads, etc). Now think about your second of latency and how it impacts the 5-10 DNS lookups that are going to be required, then the subsequent HTTP requests and you can see how even with a > 10 Mbps downstream bandwidth, loading a page like this can still take 15-20 seconds.
Also, unless you're only using the connection for web browsing, you'll probably feel some pain from high latency. VoIP, 2-way video, and games all perform poorly when high latency is introduced. You may not think that impacts non-techies, but there are a ton of teleworkers out there that have Cisco IP phones sitting on the desk in their home office, and that phone call is going to sound like garbage with >1000ms of latency.
Teens usually tend to live where their parents live, and have no control over their broadband choices. As a former teen who lived in the middle of nowhere and had to use dial-up, I could see this as having been an alternative to that.
If you're going to talk economics, then I have a question for you, not to be snarky, but because I'm genuinely interested in why it would or wouldn't work.
Say you own a theatre and presently charge $10 flat rate for all movies. Why not raise your rate to $15 flat rate? It would cause people not willing to pay that much to see a film to go elsewhere, but there will still be folks willing to pay the higher rate. At some point, the revenues from folks willing to buy a ticket at $10 and the number willing to buy a ticket at $15 may equal out. That is to say, if you raise prices, you'd definitely expect to sell less tickets, right? Of course you would. However, even if you sell less tickets, you're making more per ticket. So let's use easy numbers and say you normally sell 100 tickets per day at $10 per ticket, resulting in $1000 of revenue. Now if you raised the ticket price to $15 per ticket, you may only sell 75 tickets instead of 100, but even though you sold 25 less tickets, you brought in $1125 in revenue.
The point I'm trying to make is that at some point, there may be a price point at which you can maintain your current amount of revenue by serving a lot less people. That means your theatre doesn't need to be as big, you don't need as much staff, don't carry as many maintenance expenses, etc. And perhaps more importantly, the people that are willing to pay more are probably those that are genuinely interested in watching the film, and are therefore (hopefully) less likely to be playing with their cell phones or talking during the movie, which would result in an overall better theater experience.
Food for thought, anyway.
It depends on a couple things - size of the company you're applying at, salary requirements, level of competition in your area, etc.
Size of the company - smaller companies will likely bypass HR in the hiring process, so you have a better chance of your resume getting in front of a CIO or IT manager who will be better able to understand and appreciate the skills and experience listed on your resume.
If there's a lot of competition in your area, then you're likely going to be slotted behind folks that have recent software engineering experience. Similarly, you probably won't be able to demand the same salary as someone who's been doing software dev work for the past 10 years.
100,000 crashes every year, leading to 1,500 deaths, and 71,000 injuries.
Call me crazy but those numbers seem pretty good in terms of a significant number of crashes with no injuries. Out of the 100,000 crashes, say 50% involve at least two cars (the others 50,000 drivers are running into non-car objects such as trees, guard rails, etc), so that would mean that there are at least 150,000 cars involved in the 100,000 crashes they report. Out of 150,000 crashes, you have 72,500 injuries (i'm counting death as a form of injury), so that means that you have a better than 50% chance of coming out of this type of accident injury free, which I found pretty surprising.
Almost afraid to ask - but how do you know what a dick up your ass feels like?
The description sounds pretty bad - they're trying to combine the job of a personal assistant, PR manager and technician into one position and are pretty clear that Prof. Hawking has no interest in conversing with you about physics. You're just his bitch. I'm not overly familiar with typical salaries in the UK, but here in the states I'd consider that salary pretty low for the qualifications they're looking for.
Why limit yourself to a case that can physically accomodate all the drives you will ever need from now until the end of time? There is an easier way. Buy yourself a small form factor PC such as a Mac Mini or roll your own miniITX system. Boot from flash and access storage via iSCSI. In an enterprise setting you may say it's not fast enough, but for home usage it's more then enough. There are lots of manufacturers building iSCSI connectivity in these days, so you could get somethink like a Drobo, etc, or you could roll your own.
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It may have been better in terms of standards support, but as someone who's spent considerable time with all three of the devices, Android and iOS blow BB away when it comes to web browsing. It's not even close.
BB's strengths are security, battery life, keyboard, Exchange integration, BBM. Android's strengths are openness, wide variety of handsets, social networking integration (through HTC Sense, TouchWiz, etc). iPhone's strengths are polished UI, the App Store, facetime, and out of the box compatibility (I.E. iCloud, iTunes, Apple TV, etc).
Amazon's AWS platform is probably as cheap as you can get while still getting good (i.e. not horribly oversold) service. They also offer a free micro instance for a year to get you hooked.
Anything by Michael Crichton is gold, but you've probably already read them. If not, definitely pick them up.
If you're into military / black-ops stuff, Tom Clancy is also great.
With MS BPOS / Office 365, they have a handy feature called exchange hosted encryption. Essentially what it does is when you send an e-mail and mark it as encrypted, it'll e-mail a short note to the recipient letting them know they've received an encrypted message, along with a link to an SSL enabled site where they can view it (they have to have a PIN code setup prior to verify their identity). It's not perfect, but it's really easy to use and solves the problem of being able to send an e-mail to just about anyone while maintaining end to end encryption. You can even set up rules by domain or regex, so any e-mails sent to MyLawFirm.com would be encrypted, or anything message that contains text matching the format of an SSN would automatically be encrypted. This is great for office environments where you don't want to have to explain the concept of encryption to your users, or rely on them to encrypt messages they should be encrypting.
Not entirely - as you pointed out SSL would secure the connection between the your computer and your server, however the connection between your server and the remote server, as well as the connection between the recipients computer and their mail server would remain unencrypted, so effectively you only have encryption on 1 of 3 links.
Message encryption makes transport encryption unnecessary. I.E. you don't care if someone grabs the body of the e-mail because it's useless if you can't decrypt it. Although I do recognize that I, along with most of the rest of the world I think, consider e-mail an inherently insecure communication tool and treat it as such. If you need to send something secure through e-mail, throw it in a password protected rar file and send it as an attachment.
Unfortunately, this is all too true. Just recently, I had to contact support for one of the largest IT companies in the world. They will remain nameless, but the company has a 4 letter name and they were at one time the largest PC manufacturer. I asked to speak to someone in the support dept for the product I was using, and the people on the other end of the phone had no idea that product even existed.
When you port a mobile number (at least in the US), there is a period during which you can't receive SMS messages from SMS aggregators (the bulk messaging APIs banks and other companies use to send automated messages). After I ported my number from AT&T to Verizon, my BofA SMS messages stopped working. I called the bank and they instantly knew that it was because I had recently ported, so it must be a common problem. It took about two weeks for them to start working again.
So either this is different in Australia, or there's a big hole in this story.
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And it would seem that any standard FTP client from the last 15-20 years will do exactly what you want as far as uploading your files while preserving the directory structure.
I have a whole bunch of unencrypted USB sticks...because the stuff I put on them isn't worth encrypting. As a geek I put stuff like drivers, or maybe music or a movie on them. Hardly stuff I care about other people getting their hands on. What would be more telling is the percentage of unencrypted sticks that contained sensitive information such as financial or medical data.
First off, don't do anything more. Realistically, you could already probably be found guilty of criminal acts (accessing computer systems without authorization, etc). If you piss them off, they are likely to respond in the only they know how (with a lawsuit). What I would do is tell explain to them where their failures have been, advise them that they need to take security seriously.
With that being said, if you threaten to expose their issues, you will probably have crossed some legal lines that you don't want to cross. As of now, you are probably on questionable ground if they decided to take legal action against you (assuming they know who you are).
If they don't know who you are, and you are reasonably sure they can't find out, then I say tell them have 30 days to convince you that they are actively working to fix the problems, or else you'll announce their ineptitude to the world and let their company fall apart.