This and a comment a few notches below reminds me of a story an old professor at my university told in an ethics class. He was an expert witness at trial where a state inspector was run over by a 'modern' paving machine. The defense lawyers requested a copy of the source code for the firmware in the machine. They came into the office one day to find on their fax machine pages and pages of printouts of the crap produced from opening the executable in Word. The executable, not the source code!
Bottom line, when it comes to lawyers do not assume they have an ounce of common sense and depend upon them to charge you for their own mistakes.
Free textbooks to professors isn't a kickback? I recently worked in a departmental office at a University. A professor could walk up to me with a list of textbooks and ask me to contact the publisher for copies. A phone call later, the publisher is sending free copies to the professor. While it's not cash, it can still be a kickback.
Looking at it another way, some professors will require a book for their class because they like the book (that was given to them for free). They don't consider the fact that their free book will cost me $100-$200.
My thought to his "avoid the pat down" by taking the train was that will only work until trains/high-speed rail become a popular method of transportation. Then the government and the TSA will see fit to put themselves between the terrorists and the train terminals, resulting in pat downs for everyone taking the train as well as the plane.
I was a customer of their's last year before I moved. They were the only true broadband provider in the rural area I was living in. So moving to a "better" provider was practically impossible. Back then they were already running their service in fear of what their providers or the government would do to them (IMO). They were automatically blocking several ports (port 22 among others) because they are used for spam and hacking.
I find it a shame really when ISPs are more afraid of their customers than they are afraid of threats from the outside.
Access to School Account. By providing Ultrinsic with your username and password for your online school account, you authorize Ultrinsic to access the account and to view and record any information in your account.
There's a lot they can potentially access beyond a simple transcript and course schedule. At least at my school, computer lab logins, library account, tuition and fees, financial aid, even purchasing a parking permit is all done through the same UN/PW pair.
I encountered a problem related to this recently. Back in Februrary I purchased tickets to see a special screening of Weird Al's movie "UHF". Between the time I purchased the tickets and the time I picked them up at WillCall, my bank had canceled the card I used and issued a due one due to a possible security breach. The conditions of being able to pick up my ticket was to have the credit card that I used for the purchase; that was no longer possible. (I also didn't realize there was this condition and failed to save the old CC to use as proof).
Thankfully the girl at WillCall didn't ask to see my CC and I got my tickets. But there are little things like this that could prove troublesome.
Would text messages be equivalent to e-mails? Government agencies are required to retain copies of all e-mails, IIRC. If texts are equivalent to e-mails then they would need to be saved. It may be easier for the phone provider to archive the texts than for the government agency to intercept them to archive them.
If you create a webmaster account with Google and register your site, Google will tell you how many people they send to you. They'll also give you a lot of other information like where in the list of search results was your website when it was clicked on.
I realize that BP is not a US company... but is it "too big to fail"? What if the cleanup expenses are so great BP goes bankrupt. Will government agencies then provide them handouts?
Was it really a NASA balloon? What about the bodies witnesses claimed to see around the crash site? Those were just anthropomorphic dummies, eh? Video of the crash you say? Well, they have video of Apollo landing on the moon too and that didn't happen!
*Wonders how long until someone says this in a non-joking manner*
Sounds a lot like "Stealthy IP Prefix Hijacking". Advertise a BGP route that will be accepted by some people to attract their traffic. Do it correctly, it may be less noticeable than a full prefix hijacking (though it was obviously noticed in this case). You can also attempt to moderate the amount of traffic you receive so that you don't DOS yourself with the incoming flow and you can analyze the traffic easier. BGP is a pretty insecure protocol and depends a lot upon the upstream providers filtering announcements properly.
What's worse is when student #2 makes no modifications to student #1's work.... including changing the name at the top of the code. Student #2 hand wrote their name at the top of the printout though.
Get a grip, and learn. I suggest going back to school. Just my opinion
though.
Ah, but here lies the problem. Schools are no longer teaching COBOL. They are teaching Windows and Linux, C++ and JAVA, and distributed/clustered computing. They, apparently, could care less about COBOL and mainframes.
I think Adobe (PDF and Flash) are the biggest nuisance to computers. I hate it when PDFs in firefox freeze the browser.
Check out the FF add-on PDF Download. When you click on a link that goes to a PDF it prompts you and asks if you want to open it in the browser, save it to disk, or open in with Adobe Reader (outside the browser). No more FF lockups on PDFs for me.
You work in a federal court? Where's your ID that lets you walk by the US Marshall without going through security procedure? You shouldn't have to worry about cameras on your laptop or your cell phone.
Even if you don't "Work in a federal court" it is as simple as answering the US Marshall's responding to the question, "Do you have a camera on that thing?", "No Sir." I've passed by a US Marshall manning a metal detector too many times to know this should work.
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This and a comment a few notches below reminds me of a story an old professor at my university told in an ethics class. He was an expert witness at trial where a state inspector was run over by a 'modern' paving machine. The defense lawyers requested a copy of the source code for the firmware in the machine. They came into the office one day to find on their fax machine pages and pages of printouts of the crap produced from opening the executable in Word. The executable, not the source code! Bottom line, when it comes to lawyers do not assume they have an ounce of common sense and depend upon them to charge you for their own mistakes.
Anyone else read the title and get excited that it was about the future of "BattleTech" the FASA war/board game?
Or is that 1 +1 +Forth-sighful +1?
A sawn-off tree trunk that is 60 feet in diameter? That's twice as big as some of California's giant redwood trees. Oh wait, I RTF. Sorry about that.
Free textbooks to professors isn't a kickback? I recently worked in a departmental office at a University. A professor could walk up to me with a list of textbooks and ask me to contact the publisher for copies. A phone call later, the publisher is sending free copies to the professor. While it's not cash, it can still be a kickback. Looking at it another way, some professors will require a book for their class because they like the book (that was given to them for free). They don't consider the fact that their free book will cost me $100-$200.
My thought to his "avoid the pat down" by taking the train was that will only work until trains/high-speed rail become a popular method of transportation. Then the government and the TSA will see fit to put themselves between the terrorists and the train terminals, resulting in pat downs for everyone taking the train as well as the plane.
I was a customer of their's last year before I moved. They were the only true broadband provider in the rural area I was living in. So moving to a "better" provider was practically impossible. Back then they were already running their service in fear of what their providers or the government would do to them (IMO). They were automatically blocking several ports (port 22 among others) because they are used for spam and hacking. I find it a shame really when ISPs are more afraid of their customers than they are afraid of threats from the outside.
Maybe the students figured they would get extra credit for going the extra step?
Access to School Account. By providing Ultrinsic with your username and password for your online school account, you authorize Ultrinsic to access the account and to view and record any information in your account.
There's a lot they can potentially access beyond a simple transcript and course schedule. At least at my school, computer lab logins, library account, tuition and fees, financial aid, even purchasing a parking permit is all done through the same UN/PW pair.
No need to ... Weird Al already took care of it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uQ_extNBDA&feature=related
I encountered a problem related to this recently. Back in Februrary I purchased tickets to see a special screening of Weird Al's movie "UHF". Between the time I purchased the tickets and the time I picked them up at WillCall, my bank had canceled the card I used and issued a due one due to a possible security breach. The conditions of being able to pick up my ticket was to have the credit card that I used for the purchase; that was no longer possible. (I also didn't realize there was this condition and failed to save the old CC to use as proof).
Thankfully the girl at WillCall didn't ask to see my CC and I got my tickets. But there are little things like this that could prove troublesome.
Would text messages be equivalent to e-mails? Government agencies are required to retain copies of all e-mails, IIRC. If texts are equivalent to e-mails then they would need to be saved. It may be easier for the phone provider to archive the texts than for the government agency to intercept them to archive them.
And Grandma will correctly reply: "WTF is all this other stuff" "F%$k off Dick, I'll just call Aunt June to get the number."
Damn... Grandma has really developed a potty mouth lately.
If you create a webmaster account with Google and register your site, Google will tell you how many people they send to you. They'll also give you a lot of other information like where in the list of search results was your website when it was clicked on.
I realize that BP is not a US company... but is it "too big to fail"? What if the cleanup expenses are so great BP goes bankrupt. Will government agencies then provide them handouts?
Was it really a NASA balloon? What about the bodies witnesses claimed to see around the crash site? Those were just anthropomorphic dummies, eh? Video of the crash you say? Well, they have video of Apollo landing on the moon too and that didn't happen! *Wonders how long until someone says this in a non-joking manner*
Sounds a lot like "Stealthy IP Prefix Hijacking". Advertise a BGP route that will be accepted by some people to attract their traffic. Do it correctly, it may be less noticeable than a full prefix hijacking (though it was obviously noticed in this case). You can also attempt to moderate the amount of traffic you receive so that you don't DOS yourself with the incoming flow and you can analyze the traffic easier. BGP is a pretty insecure protocol and depends a lot upon the upstream providers filtering announcements properly.
What's worse is when student #2 makes no modifications to student #1's work.... including changing the name at the top of the code. Student #2 hand wrote their name at the top of the printout though.
"it is projected to increase internet traffic capacity between the two regions by over 20%, a wonderful boast to transpacific relations!"
That is until a ship drops anchor on top of it.
Get a grip, and learn. I suggest going back to school. Just my opinion though.
Ah, but here lies the problem. Schools are no longer teaching COBOL. They are teaching Windows and Linux, C++ and JAVA, and distributed/clustered computing. They, apparently, could care less about COBOL and mainframes.
"which would potentially allow criminals to clone the card in order to withdraw cash. "
Heh... the joke is on the hacker. I have no money in my bank account to withdraw!
I think Adobe (PDF and Flash) are the biggest nuisance to computers. I hate it when PDFs in firefox freeze the browser.
Check out the FF add-on PDF Download. When you click on a link that goes to a PDF it prompts you and asks if you want to open it in the browser, save it to disk, or open in with Adobe Reader (outside the browser). No more FF lockups on PDFs for me.
Will the ASCAP be targeting Weird Al now?
You work in a federal court? Where's your ID that lets you walk by the US Marshall without going through security procedure? You shouldn't have to worry about cameras on your laptop or your cell phone. Even if you don't "Work in a federal court" it is as simple as answering the US Marshall's responding to the question, "Do you have a camera on that thing?", "No Sir." I've passed by a US Marshall manning a metal detector too many times to know this should work.
At an average of 28mph, I'll stick with a gas guzzler thank you very much.