I agree, if you can spoof being an iPod with another device, you do it with software. It's pretty easy to see why Apple would NOT want anyone to spoof one of their devices. Also, perhaps Palm asked nicely if it could sync with iTunes, Apple said "sure with will be $1,000,000 for the privilege and Palm said "uh, we will figure some other way, thanks". And here we are today.
1 password that is easy to type for almost every site that requires registration (like here). 1 password that is complex for places I think people might try randomly to hack, that I don't want them into (like paypal). And one super easy one for my desktop OS. I am smart enough to not get phished, and no one is going to get a keylogger on my system because, one can not be remotely installed and two most of the people around my system are armed and I trust them with my life.
I have always believed the weakest point of passwords is keylogging and phishing, all these stupid sites that make you type one uppercase, one number and so on; I have always believed are wasting our time and making things harder for use to remember.
So, I concur. Long complex passwords is a waste of time.
Managing multiple identity's, that's a whole different story.
At a friends gift shop, I found some of my photo's for sale. I had sold them a single use license (signed and paid for) for their tri-fold brochure.
What do you know, a few months later there are post cards with my photographs on them in their gift shop. Being close friends with the owner, I didn't mind to much (and there were selling them for a very low sum, it was not worth bringing up). And after the first run they choose not to sell any more postcards. Had it been someone I did not have a friendship with I would have raised the issue when I saw them and/or taken them to court and won my $3
When the screeners (I was in testing) found something it became a L.E.O. issue and they called them over to handle it. I worked at ANC and people forget all the time to take their gun out of their pocket or carry on. It wouldn't even make the local news (You really need to live here to understand that for so many reasons, so I am not going into details) but even those really stupid people did not always get arrested. We just did a local and NCIC check on them and if they were clear they lost their weapon (or it was returned outside the secure area) and everyone went on their way. Go a head ask my why I quite (which is not easy to do) - Sorry I signed 3 different documents saying I wouldn't tell. BUT they have made some improvements "agency" in actual security. (jerks not with standing).
Side note: I love going thought the check points and saying "Hey I used to work for the TSA" Then the "Why did you leave?" questions from a Screener. Followed by my "Do you really want me to say in front of all these passengers?" Always good for a laugh.
Artist's deserve to get paid. Maybe their contract with the label suck. But damn it they should get paid for every song they put out "there" in the world.
There is a part about submitting to administrative searches. As in; If you want to do into the courthouse they make you go though a metal detector and your stuff through the x-ray machine.
While this is a bit strange that it is to to be self reported (but they can only on check what you tell them - for the most part). It is searching you via self-reported background information. They have every right to check what you are into in order for you to get the job.
For now I am ignoring the whole password part, that is crazy talk. And there is no way a court rule in favor of making you hand over your password as part of getting a job.
And I still have not gotten that first $100 check from Google after 18 months. Granted I am niche. A friend who gets 1000's of readers (many returning) a day makes an "insignificant amount" also from click ads.
The first thing I am going to do is copy all my real documents to an external drive. Then take the internal drive from my computer and throw it off a bridge in the middle of the night. Let the chips fall where them may. I know "IP logs" and all that, but with no HD to search.....
Or the CEO won't authorize group licensing and wants you to use the same win 2000 disk for every white box he demands you order. Yes, I reported that to the software alliance and then quit. Notice I said "worst year of my life".
Now we get our news online. It wasn't so long ago that we sat in our living rooms or at the table in the dinning room or in the backyard, coffee shop and read the news. We also had news casts at 5 and 11 nightly. I am in my 30's and I remember it well. But now the news is on the Internet. When a newspaper sales person comes to the door to sell me the Anchorage Daily News for delivery I ask them if they know it's free on the Internet. They respond every time with "but you can't get the coupons there" I point out that "Yes, in fact you can get coupons on the internet" and "why would I pay $60 a year to get free coupons in the paper? and did you know other people mail us piles of local coupons also for free?" It goes do hill from there "Yeah, well you can take the newspaper with you" and I respond with "You know the Internet is everywhere right?" Hey, it's not my fault that they pick a bad product to sell.
The rise of the anonymous blogger. At some point a bunch of geeks thought it would be great IF everyone could contribute to the content on the internet. Not in the way it was being done at this point with those horrible free websites from geocities that popped up an ad every time you went to a new more horrible page on the Hampsterdance website. The came up with Web 2.0 and a bunch of communist type ideas of everybody contributes. This is both inevitable and a horrible idea. To sum it up Wikipedia. (but your keyed in, you know that already).
Where it gets interesting. Some open source web geek took the discussion forum and added it to the bottom of real news at a real news source. No longer were forums about expensive cats, jeeps and how awesome Jesus is. Now "sparkelshoes1978" can voice how she feels about North Korea trying to launch a rocket into space. Or "redneckforever" can comment on "3 cavers rescued after 2 days trapped in mine". You can see where this is going.
Why anonymous blogging is BAD. If you are posting under a pseudonym you think you can write what ever you want, that makes some people mean and makes some people make stuff up. I read a bunch of news sources online. Let's take 3; cNet, Politico, & ADN.
cNet: Blogger's are mostly civil. I would put it at about 90% Arguments happen, but mostly it's not mean spirited.
Politico: Down right horrible, mean, lying bloggers mixed with a few humans. Just filled with hate speech. 90% nasty, I just don't bother posting my opinion there.
ADN: Rude, mean spirited bloggers mixed with white unpleasant racists. About a 50/50 mix.
There seems to be no way to fix this issue. Censures and self reporting work to some degree, but it in the best interest of the outlet to have a reason to keep users coming back so they only try hard enough to fuel the fire. Add in the ability to write a scrip to do what you want (flag other users, boost your rating, bump others down, post a link to a virus or porn) and it compounds the problem.
Why anonymous blogging is GOOD. For the exact same reasons as why its bad, you post an honest opinion and some wacko takes issue with it and you and wow, Google says you live two blocks away (if you used your real name). Lets take Ben Franklin or Mark Twain. Both wrote under pseudonyms (Twain was the pseudonym) for different and obvious reasons.
"Whistle Blower" there are comments about the news on the site, then there is a blog. Like mine (where you can find my real name and GPS position if I have it on) and some like my friend Alaska Mundflats who I have known for over 10 years and had no idea she was behind this "Anonymous Blog" until she was outed by a Representative Mike Doogan (D) (Asshole). Why? Even though "AKM" mostly wrote about NPD Sarah Palin, apparently AKM made the mistake of calling Doogan on bad email etiquette. Mr. Doogan also used to work at the Anchorage Daily News. AKM had a user account there (which I am assuming she created before she was an award winning blogger and hence used her real name when she signed up). Do you see where this is going? Mike Doo
I was IT manager for a small ($20 mil a year) company in 2001 and it was the worst year of my life. It seems like things are just getting harder and harder to deal with. Good luck guys!
Live in small town, use cash. live simply. Try Amish style. Or stop caring; What's the worse that can happen? Hacked, credit gets bad? Bail the country. Go off grid. Lot's of options.
I bought a first gen iphone pre-price reduction. And I just got a new iPhone last month. This would be capitalism at work. We have to pay-up or put-up.
Just wait it out, you will be fine. This is no different then any other contract on any other phone, except, ofcourse this one is really cool.
IANAL but I thought there was a big to do (in the courts) years ago about how TOS only applied if you had to navigate through (like iTunes) it not lust click a box agreeing that you read it (Facebook). Anyone have info on dat?
Even if.....I don't see it even remotely enforceable. How about if I download something from China owned by someone in Washington and I live in Alaska. (Alaskans are exempt from paying sales taxes in Washington state with proof of residency). How many man hours would be spent figuring that out?
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I agree, if you can spoof being an iPod with another device, you do it with software. It's pretty easy to see why Apple would NOT want anyone to spoof one of their devices. Also, perhaps Palm asked nicely if it could sync with iTunes, Apple said "sure with will be $1,000,000 for the privilege and Palm said "uh, we will figure some other way, thanks". And here we are today.
Yes, I have taken it, I passed as "ok" . BUT, I guess I am not allowed to take it again (under the stated logic)
I have always believed the weakest point of passwords is keylogging and phishing, all these stupid sites that make you type one uppercase, one number and so on; I have always believed are wasting our time and making things harder for use to remember.
So, I concur. Long complex passwords is a waste of time.
Managing multiple identity's, that's a whole different story.
What do you know, a few months later there are post cards with my photographs on them in their gift shop. Being close friends with the owner, I didn't mind to much (and there were selling them for a very low sum, it was not worth bringing up). And after the first run they choose not to sell any more postcards. Had it been someone I did not have a friendship with I would have raised the issue when I saw them and/or taken them to court and won my $3
That clearly deserves a raise, what a great business man!
Thanks!
No, not bullshit. Sorry, not ever g-man is a dick. Thanks for playing.
We NEVER EVER did that kind of stuff.
When the screeners (I was in testing) found something it became a L.E.O. issue and they called them over to handle it. I worked at ANC and people forget all the time to take their gun out of their pocket or carry on. It wouldn't even make the local news (You really need to live here to understand that for so many reasons, so I am not going into details) but even those really stupid people did not always get arrested. We just did a local and NCIC check on them and if they were clear they lost their weapon (or it was returned outside the secure area) and everyone went on their way. Go a head ask my why I quite (which is not easy to do) - Sorry I signed 3 different documents saying I wouldn't tell. BUT they have made some improvements "agency" in actual security. (jerks not with standing).
Side note: I love going thought the check points and saying "Hey I used to work for the TSA" Then the "Why did you leave?" questions from a Screener. Followed by my "Do you really want me to say in front of all these passengers?" Always good for a laugh.
Artist's deserve to get paid. Maybe their contract with the label suck. But damn it they should get paid for every song they put out "there" in the world.
While this is a bit strange that it is to to be self reported (but they can only on check what you tell them - for the most part). It is searching you via self-reported background information. They have every right to check what you are into in order for you to get the job.
For now I am ignoring the whole password part, that is crazy talk. And there is no way a court rule in favor of making you hand over your password as part of getting a job.
It's the way for the future.
The first thing I am going to do is copy all my real documents to an external drive. Then take the internal drive from my computer and throw it off a bridge in the middle of the night. Let the chips fall where them may. I know "IP logs" and all that, but with no HD to search.....
Or the CEO won't authorize group licensing and wants you to use the same win 2000 disk for every white box he demands you order. Yes, I reported that to the software alliance and then quit. Notice I said "worst year of my life".
The rise of the anonymous blogger. At some point a bunch of geeks thought it would be great IF everyone could contribute to the content on the internet. Not in the way it was being done at this point with those horrible free websites from geocities that popped up an ad every time you went to a new more horrible page on the Hampsterdance website. The came up with Web 2.0 and a bunch of communist type ideas of everybody contributes. This is both inevitable and a horrible idea. To sum it up Wikipedia. (but your keyed in, you know that already).
Where it gets interesting. Some open source web geek took the discussion forum and added it to the bottom of real news at a real news source. No longer were forums about expensive cats, jeeps and how awesome Jesus is. Now "sparkelshoes1978" can voice how she feels about North Korea trying to launch a rocket into space. Or "redneckforever" can comment on "3 cavers rescued after 2 days trapped in mine". You can see where this is going.
Why anonymous blogging is BAD. If you are posting under a pseudonym you think you can write what ever you want, that makes some people mean and makes some people make stuff up. I read a bunch of news sources online. Let's take 3; cNet, Politico, & ADN. cNet: Blogger's are mostly civil. I would put it at about 90% Arguments happen, but mostly it's not mean spirited. Politico: Down right horrible, mean, lying bloggers mixed with a few humans. Just filled with hate speech. 90% nasty, I just don't bother posting my opinion there. ADN: Rude, mean spirited bloggers mixed with white unpleasant racists. About a 50/50 mix. There seems to be no way to fix this issue. Censures and self reporting work to some degree, but it in the best interest of the outlet to have a reason to keep users coming back so they only try hard enough to fuel the fire. Add in the ability to write a scrip to do what you want (flag other users, boost your rating, bump others down, post a link to a virus or porn) and it compounds the problem.
Why anonymous blogging is GOOD. For the exact same reasons as why its bad, you post an honest opinion and some wacko takes issue with it and you and wow, Google says you live two blocks away (if you used your real name). Lets take Ben Franklin or Mark Twain. Both wrote under pseudonyms (Twain was the pseudonym) for different and obvious reasons.
"Whistle Blower" there are comments about the news on the site, then there is a blog. Like mine (where you can find my real name and GPS position if I have it on) and some like my friend Alaska Mundflats who I have known for over 10 years and had no idea she was behind this "Anonymous Blog" until she was outed by a Representative Mike Doogan (D) (Asshole). Why? Even though "AKM" mostly wrote about NPD Sarah Palin, apparently AKM made the mistake of calling Doogan on bad email etiquette. Mr. Doogan also used to work at the Anchorage Daily News. AKM had a user account there (which I am assuming she created before she was an award winning blogger and hence used her real name when she signed up). Do you see where this is going? Mike Doo
I was IT manager for a small ($20 mil a year) company in 2001 and it was the worst year of my life. It seems like things are just getting harder and harder to deal with. Good luck guys!
Live in small town, use cash. live simply. Try Amish style. Or stop caring; What's the worse that can happen? Hacked, credit gets bad? Bail the country. Go off grid. Lot's of options.
" and I think it's a gamble on the part of the prosecutors" ha ha ha ha, you are very funny!
The Big Island of Hawaii has a great anti-light pollution rules. A) Only 100K people live there anyway B) Strict street light rules. The night sky from Mauna Kea will make you cry: http://www.anadventurer.com/2008/06/mauna-kea-sunset-and-moon-rise.html
Just wait it out, you will be fine. This is no different then any other contract on any other phone, except, ofcourse this one is really cool.
I have an off grid estate in Hawaii. Didn't RTFA but, I am still paying $139 for a 130W panel. Love to see some of this tech make it to consumers.
mod him up!
IANAL but I thought there was a big to do (in the courts) years ago about how TOS only applied if you had to navigate through (like iTunes) it not lust click a box agreeing that you read it (Facebook). Anyone have info on dat?
Please keep in mind in Maine it is still illegal to ride a bicycle underwater.
I offer free same day shipping on all orders over $2000 (that would be 8 hatchlings). Newest and best!
Even if.....I don't see it even remotely enforceable. How about if I download something from China owned by someone in Washington and I live in Alaska. (Alaskans are exempt from paying sales taxes in Washington state with proof of residency). How many man hours would be spent figuring that out?