You know, in fairness, that even if you're foolish enough to leave your bluetooth device set to be discoverable, you still have to accept the file being sent to you, unless it's coming from an already trusted device - something you've paired with.
Anyone that gets infected with this gets what they deserve. Hopefully at this point, you wouldn't open a strange file attachment, so why would you accept a strange file on your phone?
I will turn off bluetooth or set my phone's visibility to off.
I will turn off bluetooth or set my phone's visibility to off.
I will turn off bluetooth or set my phone's visibility to off.
There, was that so hard? If for some reason, you refuse to do that, don't accept files from other devices unless you specifically know they're ok. You know, just like you do with your email.
I'm serious when I say not everyone has a checking account. I can't for various credit reasons
What does your bad credit have to do with having a checking account???
Each and every time I've opened a checking account, from the first time, when I was 12 (1984) and had a paper route to the latest time, when I was 31 (2003) and opened a new joint checking account with my wife, credit checks were never a part of opening a checking account.
You go to the bank, fill out the paperwork, provide some ID, an initial deposit, and you're done. I can't think of a bank that doesn't offer a FREE checking plan these days. In fact, I just looked at some of the major banks online (Wells Fargo, Bank of America, Wachovia), and they all have a FREE checking account. Some do require you have at least one Direct Deposit per month for it to be free, but it's still free.
Cashing a check isn't cheap for people who don't have checking accounts, not everyone does have one too.
You can't scrape together $20, $50 or $100 to open a free checking account? Money tight? Save $5 a week and you're there in no time. Surely you could manage to put aside $5 a week, right?
The days of banks only offering free checking with high minimum balances are quite over.
Really, how hard is it to spend 15 minutes in a bank branch to open a checking account? Unless you're an illegal alien, of course. Though, for all I know, there are probably ways for them to open a free checking account too.
Like most of those reading this (who are employed, not still in school, or worse - unemployed), I spend the bulk of my day looking at a computer display. Last year, when my vision had gotten worse for the 4th year in a row, my eye doctor told me to stop looking at CRTs and start using LCDs. My boss got me a 17" LCD for my work system, and my (fantastic) wife got me an Apple Cinema Display for my birthday. Since then, I've gotten rid of the Cinema Display as I've gone 100% mobile (just using a PowerBook now, the G4 is now a headless OS X Server). So then net - I only use LCD displays now. The only CRTs in the house are our 2 TVs, which I don't sit close to.
A year later, my eyes haven't changed. Stayed about the same. Anecdotal evidence for certain, but it seems to be working for me.
That just seems foolish to me. Why even permit a window of compromise, even if exploiting it only serves as a minor annoyance?
Suppose a vulnerability in the WebDAV module your web server uses pops up, or worse, if you're using FTP, and there's a root compromise (anyone remember wu-ftpd exploits?). Now you'd find yourself wishing you'd taken the incredibly simple step of securing that password with SSL, wouldn't you? A root compromise does not always happen in just one step - many times an attacker needs to gain a foothold first.
For me, I use WebDAV with SSL. In fact, I've got the SSLRequireSSL directive set for that directory. That way, even if I screw up and forget to tell a new installation to use SSL, I'll be reminded, because the connection will fail with a status 403 SSL required.
So in my configuration, unless there's an attack that can circumvent the http basic auth (done over ssl) and then exploit mod_dav, I'm safe.
Seems I too have been exceptionally lucky. I just got a new 15" and my wife got a new 12", both the latest revisions with the new trackpad. No dead pixels, no trackpads that don't work, none of the stuff that people have been trumpeting loud & long about.
My only point of complaint was the trackpad on the 15" seems to track a bit slow for my tastes at the default setting. Turning up the tracking speed fixed that right up. Totally fine now.
I was rockin' to your post until I read this. As any telecom afficionado knows, Verizon landlines are handled by Verizon Domestic Telecom, while mobile is handled by Verizon Wireless. They use completely separate equipment, service centers, and billing systems.
I would think that any "telecom afficionado knows" that Verizon Wireless is in fact mostly owned by Verizon Communications. Cellco, the actual name of the company is a partnership between Verizon Communications and Vodafone.
Like I said before, the guys I know that work for VZW are nice guys, but if I'm making a decision to not support a specific company with my business, why would I support a company that is owned in no small part by the company I'm trying to "punish"?
While yes, it's certainly a distinct legal corporation, Verizon owns a majority share of Verizon Wireless. The rest is owned by Vodafone. There may be other tiny minority part owners in the Cellco Partnership (the name Verizon Wireless is a DBA for Cellco), but I'm not aware of any.
So those "asshats" own most of your employer...
Since I was particularly po'd at Verizon, I didn't see the need to continue lining their pockets when I made the choice to move to mobiles.
Disclaimer: The guys I know that work at VZW are nice guys. Verizon losing my few $$ won't put any of those guys out of work.
Look at say, Finland. The vast majority of folks there use a mobile as their primary phone. With LNP now available here in the US, particularly the ability to migrate a landline number to a mobile, this trend will only increase.
Take my wife & I as an example.. We had 2 landlines here in our house. One was ours, the other is paid for by my company (I work from home). During a 2 month period, our home phone got shut off no less than 5 times. And before you start to think it - no, we paid the bill each month, on time. Each call to Verizon customer service was greeted with an endless sea of automated menus to troubleshoot your line. Thankfully, you can keep mashing down the 0 key to get a human on the phone.
Each time this happened, we were told that we could expect to see a technician at our house in some ridiculous amount of time, usually 3-8 days. Then, mysteriously, the line would start working again. The explanation was always some inane excuse like, "someone unplugged your line at the CO" or "we had a mux that failed". We complained about rotten service to CS reps, Supervisors, Supervisors of Supervisors, and even to the office of Ivan Seidenberg (the CEO of Verizon for those who don't know). Know where it got us? Nowhere, fast.
Tired of the crap, we voted with our feet. We were spending about $50 a month for the Verizon line, plus about another $35 for my wife's mobile. We popped over to the Cingular store and got a couple of phones on a family plan. I got a new number and we ported the home phone number over to the wife's mobile. Now our phones cost about $65 a month. We can call any Cingular customer (now including AT&T Wireless users) for free, have free nights & weekends, 850 min/mo and rollover. No coverage problems around here, and it all "just works".
And hey, if you decide to do something like this - make sure you port to a carrier OTHER than Verizon Wireless. That is, if you're doing it because you're sick of Verizon. Otherwise, if you're happy with them, do whatever you feel like.
[Here come the Apple zealots, saying that "iPod is the only mp3 player that matters!" Sheep...]
What the parent neglects to say is that the iPod is in fact the only portable music player that matters. Apple happens to own over 90% of the hard-drive player market. (source).
When one vendor owns over 90% of the market for a specific device, the competition is a complete non-factor in shaping the direction of the market. Are users going to throw their $250-$600 iPods in the trash tomorrow if Archos comes up with something new? Not likely.
The comparison between MSIE and the iPod just doesn't ring true. The iPod is a piece of hardware that requires a monetary investment to acquire. MSIE is a piece of software that you can download for free if you're on a supported platform, or an unsupported one if you're a Crossover Office kind of person.;) The alternatives to MSIE are also free, especially my favorite browser, Firefox.
Have you seen the prices charged by hotels? They charge $5.95 for the first 15 minutes and $0.25 for each minute there after. What the park is charging is an all-you-can-eat special.
What hotels have you been staying in?!?!? The ones I stay in (Marriotts, Hiltons, Hyatts, and the occasional Wyndham) all charge by the day, and it varies from $5 to $12, except for one that I remember costing $15.
Yum is no better then the package managers that build the RPM's and my experience with Red Hat/Fedora is that dependency issues are still very much a thing of the present.
How's that? Yum handles dependencies just fine.
If I try to install say, the php-mysql package, but don't have the php package already installed, Yum notices that and says (effectively), "Hey, you also need these packages to make this work, I'm going to get them too, ok?"
Sure, but last time I checked, your picture didn't get taken there, which IS the point being discussed.
If you're THAT paranoid, I suggest you use private couriers then, pay them through numbered accounts in Switzerland, and use a 3rd-party agent to drop off your packages.
Or, just stand in the line and hand-write your labels out. Don't forget to only ever pay cash for postage too.
I fly nearly every week, often cross country, and on the major airlines.
It's all in the planning.
Finding power outlets is HIGHLY dependent on what airline you fly on, as well as the type of equipment.
Living near Philly, I fly US Air just about everywhere. As long as I'm on an Airbus 320 or 321, I'm virtually guaranteed to have power. The outlets also show up quite a lot on 319s and 737s. I've never seen them on American, though I did see them on a United flight to Chicago (again, out of Philly). I used to fly US Air twice a week Philly to Boston, and had power 8 out of 10 times. Every US Air flight to the west coast I've ever been on had it as well.
So, think when you plan your travel and you'll probably have power.
And I've never seen a cigarette lighter type power plug on a plane. The only kind I've ever seen on planes are like this. Many of those type have things that slide over the end to let them be used in a cig lighter, but I've never seen a cig lighter plug on a plane.
Sure, and your car has a couple of features that allow you to drive off a cliff (a steering wheel, and a gas pedal). Does that mean you should use them?
Until there are consumer-grade IPv6 routers that offer reasonable firewalling, you won't see anyone even remotely interested in migrating there.
Don't want mysql to startup on boot? In SysV init you mave to rename six symbolic links to begin with the leter "K", and possibly reorder them. In BSD init, you just remove the executable permission from rc.mysql.
Why on earth would you do that? Use the tools your distro provides:
RedHat/Fedora/Mandrake:
chkconfig mysqld off
Gentoo:
rc-update del mysql default
Debian:
update-rc.d -f mysql remove
Those things are much simpler IMHO than tracking down some filesystem permissions issue later. Suppose they change the behavior to not directly exec rc.whatever, but rather do something like/bin/sh/etc/rc.d/rc.whatever, now you're sunk. Your rc.whatever will be run even if +x isn't set..
While CDMA2000 offers slightly faster data rates than EDGE, don't forget that EDGE has an "edge" in that while you're on a data call with EDGE, you can be interrupted with a voice call, have your data session suspended, take the call, hang up and go right back to the data session.
Until 1xEVDV, you won't be able to do that with CDMA. With current CDMA solutions, your voice calls will go to voice mail directly until you conclude your data session.
I pay something like $5 a month for the "Call Intercept" service from Verizon. Basically, if you block your number, or have one of those "Out of Area" messages pop up, you get intercepted, and offerred to either allow the system to disclose your number, or record a message stating who you are.
If they disclose the number, I see it on caller id. If they record, I get told by the disembodied voice of Verizon (DVoV) that I have a call from (insert recorded name here). At that point, i can choose whether or not to take the call.
Bottom line? I haven't had a telemarketer call for 6 months.
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Anyone that gets infected with this gets what they deserve. Hopefully at this point, you wouldn't open a strange file attachment, so why would you accept a strange file on your phone?
I will turn off bluetooth or set my phone's visibility to off.
I will turn off bluetooth or set my phone's visibility to off.
There, was that so hard? If for some reason, you refuse to do that, don't accept files from other devices unless you specifically know they're ok. You know, just like you do with your email.
What does your bad credit have to do with having a checking account???
Each and every time I've opened a checking account, from the first time, when I was 12 (1984) and had a paper route to the latest time, when I was 31 (2003) and opened a new joint checking account with my wife, credit checks were never a part of opening a checking account.
You go to the bank, fill out the paperwork, provide some ID, an initial deposit, and you're done. I can't think of a bank that doesn't offer a FREE checking plan these days. In fact, I just looked at some of the major banks online (Wells Fargo, Bank of America, Wachovia), and they all have a FREE checking account. Some do require you have at least one Direct Deposit per month for it to be free, but it's still free.
You can't scrape together $20, $50 or $100 to open a free checking account? Money tight? Save $5 a week and you're there in no time. Surely you could manage to put aside $5 a week, right?
The days of banks only offering free checking with high minimum balances are quite over.
Really, how hard is it to spend 15 minutes in a bank branch to open a checking account? Unless you're an illegal alien, of course. Though, for all I know, there are probably ways for them to open a free checking account too.
Like most of those reading this (who are employed, not still in school, or worse - unemployed), I spend the bulk of my day looking at a computer display. Last year, when my vision had gotten worse for the 4th year in a row, my eye doctor told me to stop looking at CRTs and start using LCDs. My boss got me a 17" LCD for my work system, and my (fantastic) wife got me an Apple Cinema Display for my birthday. Since then, I've gotten rid of the Cinema Display as I've gone 100% mobile (just using a PowerBook now, the G4 is now a headless OS X Server). So then net - I only use LCD displays now. The only CRTs in the house are our 2 TVs, which I don't sit close to.
A year later, my eyes haven't changed. Stayed about the same. Anecdotal evidence for certain, but it seems to be working for me.
Suppose a vulnerability in the WebDAV module your web server uses pops up, or worse, if you're using FTP, and there's a root compromise (anyone remember wu-ftpd exploits?). Now you'd find yourself wishing you'd taken the incredibly simple step of securing that password with SSL, wouldn't you? A root compromise does not always happen in just one step - many times an attacker needs to gain a foothold first.
For me, I use WebDAV with SSL. In fact, I've got the SSLRequireSSL directive set for that directory. That way, even if I screw up and forget to tell a new installation to use SSL, I'll be reminded, because the connection will fail with a status 403 SSL required.
So in my configuration, unless there's an attack that can circumvent the http basic auth (done over ssl) and then exploit mod_dav, I'm safe.
Just be careful. Remember, unless you're using webdav with ssl, your password is flying around in the clear!
My only point of complaint was the trackpad on the 15" seems to track a bit slow for my tastes at the default setting. Turning up the tracking speed fixed that right up. Totally fine now.
I would think that any "telecom afficionado knows" that Verizon Wireless is in fact mostly owned by Verizon Communications. Cellco, the actual name of the company is a partnership between Verizon Communications and Vodafone.
Like I said before, the guys I know that work for VZW are nice guys, but if I'm making a decision to not support a specific company with my business, why would I support a company that is owned in no small part by the company I'm trying to "punish"?
So those "asshats" own most of your employer...
Since I was particularly po'd at Verizon, I didn't see the need to continue lining their pockets when I made the choice to move to mobiles.
Disclaimer: The guys I know that work at VZW are nice guys. Verizon losing my few $$ won't put any of those guys out of work.
Take my wife & I as an example.. We had 2 landlines here in our house. One was ours, the other is paid for by my company (I work from home). During a 2 month period, our home phone got shut off no less than 5 times. And before you start to think it - no, we paid the bill each month, on time. Each call to Verizon customer service was greeted with an endless sea of automated menus to troubleshoot your line. Thankfully, you can keep mashing down the 0 key to get a human on the phone.
Each time this happened, we were told that we could expect to see a technician at our house in some ridiculous amount of time, usually 3-8 days. Then, mysteriously, the line would start working again. The explanation was always some inane excuse like, "someone unplugged your line at the CO" or "we had a mux that failed". We complained about rotten service to CS reps, Supervisors, Supervisors of Supervisors, and even to the office of Ivan Seidenberg (the CEO of Verizon for those who don't know). Know where it got us? Nowhere, fast.
Tired of the crap, we voted with our feet. We were spending about $50 a month for the Verizon line, plus about another $35 for my wife's mobile. We popped over to the Cingular store and got a couple of phones on a family plan. I got a new number and we ported the home phone number over to the wife's mobile. Now our phones cost about $65 a month. We can call any Cingular customer (now including AT&T Wireless users) for free, have free nights & weekends, 850 min/mo and rollover. No coverage problems around here, and it all "just works".
And hey, if you decide to do something like this - make sure you port to a carrier OTHER than Verizon Wireless. That is, if you're doing it because you're sick of Verizon. Otherwise, if you're happy with them, do whatever you feel like.
Nope, there are landlines in 917. My office has about 20 numbers in 917, all on landlines.
I used to think the same thing.
What the parent neglects to say is that the iPod is in fact the only portable music player that matters. Apple happens to own over 90% of the hard-drive player market. (source).
When one vendor owns over 90% of the market for a specific device, the competition is a complete non-factor in shaping the direction of the market. Are users going to throw their $250-$600 iPods in the trash tomorrow if Archos comes up with something new? Not likely.
The comparison between MSIE and the iPod just doesn't ring true. The iPod is a piece of hardware that requires a monetary investment to acquire. MSIE is a piece of software that you can download for free if you're on a supported platform, or an unsupported one if you're a Crossover Office kind of person. ;) The alternatives to MSIE are also free, especially my favorite browser, Firefox.
What hotels have you been staying in?!?!? The ones I stay in (Marriotts, Hiltons, Hyatts, and the occasional Wyndham) all charge by the day, and it varies from $5 to $12, except for one that I remember costing $15.
How's that? Yum handles dependencies just fine.
If I try to install say, the php-mysql package, but don't have the php package already installed, Yum notices that and says (effectively), "Hey, you also need these packages to make this work, I'm going to get them too, ok?"
If you're THAT paranoid, I suggest you use private couriers then, pay them through numbered accounts in Switzerland, and use a 3rd-party agent to drop off your packages.
Or, just stand in the line and hand-write your labels out. Don't forget to only ever pay cash for postage too.
So put your tinfoil hat on, print your label & postage online, then drop your package off at the post office, or schedule a pickup from their website.
Really, if it freaks you out to know that they take your picture and can match it with your address, simply remove that possibility from the equation!
It's all in the planning.
Finding power outlets is HIGHLY dependent on what airline you fly on, as well as the type of equipment.
Living near Philly, I fly US Air just about everywhere. As long as I'm on an Airbus 320 or 321, I'm virtually guaranteed to have power. The outlets also show up quite a lot on 319s and 737s. I've never seen them on American, though I did see them on a United flight to Chicago (again, out of Philly). I used to fly US Air twice a week Philly to Boston, and had power 8 out of 10 times. Every US Air flight to the west coast I've ever been on had it as well.
So, think when you plan your travel and you'll probably have power.
And I've never seen a cigarette lighter type power plug on a plane. The only kind I've ever seen on planes are like this. Many of those type have things that slide over the end to let them be used in a cig lighter, but I've never seen a cig lighter plug on a plane.
Until there are consumer-grade IPv6 routers that offer reasonable firewalling, you won't see anyone even remotely interested in migrating there.
try it for yourself.
/bin/sh /path/to/myfile
make a shell script, but don't set +x, then do:
Your commands will exec.
Why on earth would you do that? Use the tools your distro provides: RedHat/Fedora/Mandrake: chkconfig mysqld off Gentoo: rc-update del mysql default Debian: update-rc.d -f mysql remove Those things are much simpler IMHO than tracking down some filesystem permissions issue later. Suppose they change the behavior to not directly exec rc.whatever, but rather do something like /bin/sh /etc/rc.d/rc.whatever, now you're sunk. Your rc.whatever will be run even if +x isn't set..
It was both. Maybe you went to the bathroom during the post-it sequence???
Until 1xEVDV, you won't be able to do that with CDMA. With current CDMA solutions, your voice calls will go to voice mail directly until you conclude your data session.
If they disclose the number, I see it on caller id. If they record, I get told by the disembodied voice of Verizon (DVoV) that I have a call from (insert recorded name here). At that point, i can choose whether or not to take the call.
Bottom line? I haven't had a telemarketer call for 6 months.
Waaaah. Boohoo, poor you. I guess you haven't heard of FTP, or a mirror site, like say http://cpan.perl.com/.