When I did the contractor thing, I was increasing my salary by 6-10% every time I moved to a different company.
I then landed a very secure full time job where I am not really challenged and ended up taking about a 20% cut for that security. I am basically back to where I started before contract work.... but, I have serious job security, good retirement plan + matching, great health coverage, yearly raise + bonus, free metro transit and a bunch of other perks...
So, I guess it is all about what you are willing to handle.
I do miss the days of challenge and uncertainty a little bit. I sort of feel my skills slip a little bit more every day as I get more and more comfortable in this job.
The vast majority of "hacked" systems I have encountered over the years have been Linux servers.
I am primarily a Windows admin and have been in hundreds of local businesses with Windows and Linux servers and nearly 100% of pwnd systems were Linux boxes.
The only Windows server I have ever personally seen hacked was due to RDP being open to the Internet with a very weak admin password (I believe the password was "pass")
You could always go with a Windows smart phone... nobody will ever develop an app for that...;)
Years ago I did the data port device thing in my '98 Jeep Cherokee. I was using Progressive at the time and they were rolling this thing out with the promise of significant savings on monthly premium costs.
I had it plugged in and working for almost a year and was also committed to proving what a safe driver I was. I would never exceed the speed limit, always brake as gently as possible, leave 1 car length for every 10MPH of speed and all that.
After several months I was not seeing any rate reduction at all and then without warning Progressive told me the unit didn't work with my car and they were taking the device back.
I still wonder if, perhaps, what they were really trying to do with the program was nail people for bad driving and increase rates.
Yeah, I worked as an IT consultant for almost 10 years where I would encounter different network and computer problems daily.
It was one of those situations where if I didn't have a solution there was no solution so I was always doing interesting things and learned a ton about different network configurations.
Anyway, even though I was primarily sedentary, I would come home exhausted every single day.
I have worked some very physical jobs in my life as well. Most notably, I worked as a loader at UPS for many years and I was never so exhausted as I was after a hard day of solving computer problems.
First of all TWO full 30 second ads in a 7 minute video? come on man...
Second, I didn't get any better sense at all about what the pets would be wearing... the guy mostly just talked about how we (humans) are using more wearables these days and how maybe they could be used to.... idk (there was no real point made).
Talk about blatant/vertisement... I think the video is simply a vehicle for the ads and that is it.
Guns have no other purpose than to kill. That is what they were invented for and that is what they are designed to do. Practicing with one increases your accuracy for when you actually want to kill something. It may be fun to practice, but that doesn't change the nature of the gun.
If only there was some clarification to this point either in the article or even in the summary itself.... Oh well, I guess we'll never know the answer to this...
Also, the vendor could encrypt something of no consequence with reversible encryption. Then, when the phone gets back to them, they can say truthfully that they decrypted it. Oh wait, you wanted the user's data? Oh, that is encrypted with their own system... we don't have access to that...
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No, you must be mistaken... Apple products are not vulnerable to malware, anyone on /. can tell you that...
You are probably making more money.
When I did the contractor thing, I was increasing my salary by 6-10% every time I moved to a different company.
I then landed a very secure full time job where I am not really challenged and ended up taking about a 20% cut for that security. I am basically back to where I started before contract work.... but, I have serious job security, good retirement plan + matching, great health coverage, yearly raise + bonus, free metro transit and a bunch of other perks...
So, I guess it is all about what you are willing to handle.
I do miss the days of challenge and uncertainty a little bit. I sort of feel my skills slip a little bit more every day as I get more and more comfortable in this job.
The vast majority of "hacked" systems I have encountered over the years have been Linux servers.
I am primarily a Windows admin and have been in hundreds of local businesses with Windows and Linux servers and nearly 100% of pwnd systems were Linux boxes.
The only Windows server I have ever personally seen hacked was due to RDP being open to the Internet with a very weak admin password (I believe the password was "pass")
Yep, socialism is the worst... we really need to get rid of that social security and medicare socialist BS.
Also, public roads and parks are a socialist agenda, stealing land from people and redistributing it to the public...
Let corporations make the rules, they have our best interests at heart.
You don't want big government fiddling in the affairs of free market, right?
So let companies do what they want, it will all self equalize eventually...
You could always go with a Windows smart phone... nobody will ever develop an app for that... ;)
Years ago I did the data port device thing in my '98 Jeep Cherokee. I was using Progressive at the time and they were rolling this thing out with the promise of significant savings on monthly premium costs.
I had it plugged in and working for almost a year and was also committed to proving what a safe driver I was. I would never exceed the speed limit, always brake as gently as possible, leave 1 car length for every 10MPH of speed and all that.
After several months I was not seeing any rate reduction at all and then without warning Progressive told me the unit didn't work with my car and they were taking the device back.
I still wonder if, perhaps, what they were really trying to do with the program was nail people for bad driving and increase rates.
Wait a minute... how is Trump or Sanders not the 1%?
We hate the 1% so let's vote for the 1%?
Yeah, I worked as an IT consultant for almost 10 years where I would encounter different network and computer problems daily.
It was one of those situations where if I didn't have a solution there was no solution so I was always doing interesting things and learned a ton about different network configurations.
Anyway, even though I was primarily sedentary, I would come home exhausted every single day.
I have worked some very physical jobs in my life as well. Most notably, I worked as a loader at UPS for many years and I was never so exhausted as I was after a hard day of solving computer problems.
Vouchers issued by whom? The government?
Nobody can win a presidential election by popular vote.
Your vote means nothing in a presidential election.
POTUS is elected by the electoral college who is appointed and has no obligation to reflect the popular vote.
First of all TWO full 30 second ads in a 7 minute video? come on man...
Second, I didn't get any better sense at all about what the pets would be wearing... the guy mostly just talked about how we (humans) are using more wearables these days and how maybe they could be used to .... idk (there was no real point made).
Talk about blatant /vertisement... I think the video is simply a vehicle for the ads and that is it.
Would you trust them if they all when to 4 letters or 2 letters and a number or 1 letter and 2 numbers?
The amount of money involved as well as the implied exclusion of other, competing products makes it collusion in my book.
But again, working as intended.
yeah, and wildly inaccurate.
There are only like 7 billion people on this earth... you are saying that every single person has been through TSA run security millions of times?
I think you are shifting the decimal point a few too many places...
You are being disingenuous.
Guns have no other purpose than to kill. That is what they were invented for and that is what they are designed to do. Practicing with one increases your accuracy for when you actually want to kill something. It may be fun to practice, but that doesn't change the nature of the gun.
well.. ok, but this one is easy... car applies brakes when it senses it is running out of road.
But what about falling anvils?
If only there was some clarification to this point either in the article or even in the summary itself.... Oh well, I guess we'll never know the answer to this...
Perhaps people are afraid that Obama will come into their home, eat all their grilled cheese sandwiches and steal their guns.
I want to smack whoever decided we should put "smart" in front of everything because it has some software on it...
Who knew that Volvo had the secret to immortality.
Gives new meaning to "riding off into the sunset." (only to see another sunrise)
Company makes money and colludes with competitor to make more money.
Nothing to see here; Working as intended.
Yeah.... but if even *one* Californian makes it to the Nevada shore... the cycle will start all over again...
As VZ forces contractors to race to the bottom in bid prices and then pushes them to move faster and cut corners on safety.
But at least we will have fast internet...
Also, the vendor could encrypt something of no consequence with reversible encryption. Then, when the phone gets back to them, they can say truthfully that they decrypted it. Oh wait, you wanted the user's data? Oh, that is encrypted with their own system... we don't have access to that...
During initial set up, flip on encryption... there you go, you can have that one for free Apple...