Nobody was very impressed with the initial release of the iPod either. It was overpriced, bulky, and seriously, $400 for a music player? Like the iPod, the iPad will evolve.
Apple has succeeded in getting McGraw Hill signed on. Once you can buy textbooks for half the price, which publishers will happily do to make sure they destroy the used book market, every college student will have one. The iPad platform will evolve significantly before they graduate. When those students are in decision making positions, they will find problems that will be solved by the iPad, and buy more.
It's all about letting it go, CYA, documentation, etc.
Here's an idea: sit down with the boss and ask him what his objections are to the policy. Perhaps, rather than dictating something that he finds inconvenient, invasive, or just doesn't like, you should engage him in the solution process. Chances are, if he has a hand in designing the solution, he'll participate in it.
I can think of all kinds of potential problems with your system. I'll pretend to channel your boss for a minute. Maybe I don't want to have everything on my computer backed up. (Perhaps he has a mistress, offshore accounts, cooking the books, records of skimming, concealing things from his wife's divorce attorney) Maybe I don't want to swap my computer that I love with one that you are pulling out of the pool. (I don't want the one that Scroggins has been using, that dude picks his nose, and then goes right on typing. And he types a lot.) Maybe I don't want to drop my computer off once a week for you guys to back it up. (I'm the fucking boss, why should I follow your schedule, punk)
So, if my channeling is correct, you give him a script that only backs up essential folders, and some thumb drives. And then you come collect his backed-up thumb drive once a week, leave a fresh one, and archive the backup onto the server somewhere, where it gets backed up for real.
Yea, they are all grasping at straws, IMO, driven by the fear that they cannot match the iPhone and the 25 or so years that are invested in that technology.
But I did notice the other day that Time Warner is using 10.0.0.0 for user devices, and not just between the device and its gateway. Such IPs are exposed to the public, and fully routable within their network. Well, the cross-section of the public limited to TW customers, I suppose. I discovered this quite by accident. I thought my WiFi router was at 10.something and was very puzzled by the web page I received, which said "Scientific-Atlanta WebStar Cable Modem". Turns out my router is at 10.somethingelse
They already have plenty of money. This is a cash out. That's ok though, the internet tried to tar and feather me when I said Apple was going to turn iTunes into an HD movie rental service, and more recently, when I suggested they are building their own search technology in secret.
Their stock already tanked 7% on Friday. Watch what happens to GOOG on Monday.
And one more thing...there was nothing altruistic about what they did in China. Their opportunity to do any such thing passed long ago, when they had the choice of whether or not to hand over information on Chinese dissidents a couple of years back, gave the guys up, then tried to hide behind the veil of "we're only doing what's lawful".
It is plain and simple, they are cashing out now because they believe their stock is at its peak. We'll see what the street says on Monday. Enjoy your smoke, man.
Actually, there is some shame in that. A vice principal of a Tech Magnet School should have enough skill to discern whether a science project is harmful or not. If he wants to be of service to his students, he should step aside and make room for someone who has the skills.
unless they have some sort of network cache at work
Like most every ISP in the world, to save bandwidth? Look at your server logs, if you have any. You'll see a lot of different users coming from a single IP address. That's a transparent proxy at their ISP.
Yes, it is a generally bad idea. The use of any constant or predictable value in a cookie used for maintaining a session is a bad idea. You want the value to rotate periodically to a new value to defend against someone copying cookies off of another person's computer.
A misconfigured proxy server (or web application with a front-end proxy that doesn't setup the Cache-Control header properly, for that matter) will store the cookies that were sent by the application server, and send copies of the same cookies along to the next requestor.
So, you go to the page http://facebook.com/profile (for example, I'm not a fb user), your browser sends your cookie because you logged in yesterday, the application server sends the cookie back in the response. Then I come along, not logged in, go to http://facebook.com/profile, my browser sends no cookie. The request is intercepted by the proxy server, never forwarded to facebook, and the proxy gives me your profile page and your cookie. Then I'm in on your account. When I go to change your password or change your status to "dolphin fucker", it goes via a POST request, so the proxy doesn't intercept, but my browser is now sending your cookie, so it works.
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Yeah, I think you're confused. Maybe you could use RG-58 to run Arcnet with 75ohm terminators.
Compared to the multiple collision domains on his wireless?
They can't in good faith make that claim. I hope whomever it is has a lawyer who will rip their head off and shit in their neck.
...the turquoise Selectric.
Nobody was very impressed with the initial release of the iPod either. It was overpriced, bulky, and seriously, $400 for a music player? Like the iPod, the iPad will evolve.
Apple has succeeded in getting McGraw Hill signed on. Once you can buy textbooks for half the price, which publishers will happily do to make sure they destroy the used book market, every college student will have one. The iPad platform will evolve significantly before they graduate. When those students are in decision making positions, they will find problems that will be solved by the iPad, and buy more.
And that's just one of its growth paths.
Not really, when you consider they only got mod_perl for 2.x into a production release about 2-3 years ago.
It's all about letting it go, CYA, documentation, etc.
Here's an idea: sit down with the boss and ask him what his objections are to the policy. Perhaps, rather than dictating something that he finds inconvenient, invasive, or just doesn't like, you should engage him in the solution process. Chances are, if he has a hand in designing the solution, he'll participate in it.
I can think of all kinds of potential problems with your system. I'll pretend to channel your boss for a minute. Maybe I don't want to have everything on my computer backed up. (Perhaps he has a mistress, offshore accounts, cooking the books, records of skimming, concealing things from his wife's divorce attorney) Maybe I don't want to swap my computer that I love with one that you are pulling out of the pool. (I don't want the one that Scroggins has been using, that dude picks his nose, and then goes right on typing. And he types a lot.) Maybe I don't want to drop my computer off once a week for you guys to back it up. (I'm the fucking boss, why should I follow your schedule, punk)
So, if my channeling is correct, you give him a script that only backs up essential folders, and some thumb drives. And then you come collect his backed-up thumb drive once a week, leave a fresh one, and archive the backup onto the server somewhere, where it gets backed up for real.
So, did you send the other guy some of your images?
Yea, they are all grasping at straws, IMO, driven by the fear that they cannot match the iPhone and the 25 or so years that are invested in that technology.
But I did notice the other day that Time Warner is using 10.0.0.0 for user devices, and not just between the device and its gateway. Such IPs are exposed to the public, and fully routable within their network. Well, the cross-section of the public limited to TW customers, I suppose. I discovered this quite by accident. I thought my WiFi router was at 10.something and was very puzzled by the web page I received, which said "Scientific-Atlanta WebStar Cable Modem". Turns out my router is at 10.somethingelse
They already have plenty of money. This is a cash out. That's ok though, the internet tried to tar and feather me when I said Apple was going to turn iTunes into an HD movie rental service, and more recently, when I suggested they are building their own search technology in secret.
Their stock already tanked 7% on Friday. Watch what happens to GOOG on Monday.
And one more thing...there was nothing altruistic about what they did in China. Their opportunity to do any such thing passed long ago, when they had the choice of whether or not to hand over information on Chinese dissidents a couple of years back, gave the guys up, then tried to hide behind the veil of "we're only doing what's lawful".
It is plain and simple, they are cashing out now because they believe their stock is at its peak. We'll see what the street says on Monday. Enjoy your smoke, man.
Let's not forget that Nokia started this little game of ring around the rosies. Motorola just sort of woke up and went "oh, me too me too"
That's irrelevant. This is their signal that they think it's over.
You could share your thoughts with them
Yeah, or even just ask the teachers over the intercom if they know of any side projects the student might be working on.
You can read them here. If you can see where the kid violated school policy, I'd appreciate it if you could explain it to me.
Actually, there is some shame in that. A vice principal of a Tech Magnet School should have enough skill to discern whether a science project is harmful or not. If he wants to be of service to his students, he should step aside and make room for someone who has the skills.
The school's statement makes no sense either. The school's policies are published here I don't see where he ran afoul of them.
unless they have some sort of network cache at work
Like most every ISP in the world, to save bandwidth? Look at your server logs, if you have any. You'll see a lot of different users coming from a single IP address. That's a transparent proxy at their ISP.
Perhaps, one good thing about it being standardized is that if I send to someone on that service, I also know if's a bit more secure.
Except you're suggesting a browser-based email service, so all bets are off once the next browser vulnerability is discovered.
Yes, it is a generally bad idea. The use of any constant or predictable value in a cookie used for maintaining a session is a bad idea. You want the value to rotate periodically to a new value to defend against someone copying cookies off of another person's computer.
A misconfigured proxy server (or web application with a front-end proxy that doesn't setup the Cache-Control header properly, for that matter) will store the cookies that were sent by the application server, and send copies of the same cookies along to the next requestor.
So, you go to the page http://facebook.com/profile (for example, I'm not a fb user), your browser sends your cookie because you logged in yesterday, the application server sends the cookie back in the response. Then I come along, not logged in, go to http://facebook.com/profile, my browser sends no cookie. The request is intercepted by the proxy server, never forwarded to facebook, and the proxy gives me your profile page and your cookie. Then I'm in on your account. When I go to change your password or change your status to "dolphin fucker", it goes via a POST request, so the proxy doesn't intercept, but my browser is now sending your cookie, so it works.
Apparently not.