There are many states in the US where they cannot fire you without a valid reason. They can terminate your employment (layoffs etc) for no reason but then they have to provide you with severence (usually about 2 weeks, but sometimes more), and you can still collect unemployment. Getting fired is different, your basically screwed, but in those states, they must provide a reason, for both laying a person off or firing, and it must be valid. (in the former, a simple financial troubles excuse can get you layed off, but it is still a reason).
In places like Virginia, DC and Maryland (I think MD), these are Right to work states, meaning, they can terminate your employment for breathing in the wrong direction, and they dont even have to tell you why.
I happen to be one of those contractors (although the agency I am in is not listed thankfully, but I have not been able to find the full text of who got what report).
This is not an issue with contractors or subcontractors. This is an issue of money, plane and simple, you try to hire enough personel.. buy the right equipment, when there is no money to do so.
We work with what we have, and do our best, until those people in the position to fund security departments better, security will always be adhoc
They dont need her signature, in the original contract she signed its specifies if you change plans, or purchase a new device, you are ackgnowledge the fact that you are entering into a contract. (like I remember the contract I signed a year ago when getting a new phone or changing plans).
I have ssh loaded onto it. it is currently OS4, as OS5 runs ont eh xscale procs, not the motorola dragonball ones.
When you buy the tungsten w, the net is on when you access it, times out after 2 or 3 min of no use. However there is an update by palm to 4.1, where there is an option to leave it always on. However.. again, when you recieve a call, it disconnects the network. You cannot use both at the same time. However the initial connect/reconnect only take about 3 to 5 seconds, depending on your phone, and the gprs data network.
depending on the provider, your costs will differ, t-mobile offers unlimited data for 29 USD on top of your normal phone bill, att charges 89 a month on top of the phone bill. Its alot more pricey, but that should hopefully drop sometime in the future due to price wars, and the ability to hop networks and keep your number will also come into play (number portability), to keep subscribers. I have very little patience with cell providers, they for the most part offer crappy customer service, and I will start hopping providers if one starts to offer a service I want at a better price.
Odd, I have one of those cell phone PDA's.. I hit 2 buttons to make a call.. one to bring up address book, and one to select the name to call.. not so hard.. no bootup time, and there is a single button press that loads up the phone, which is where it stays by default, device is always on, only screen turns off.
I think thats one of the selling points of PDA's with built in phones... they are connected to the internet. I currently have a tungsten W, its permanently connected to the net... has a wap and full web browser, can aim, irc ssh etc. and it doubles as a phone....
Shredding may have helped. When you get a CC in the mail, it is not active. You need to call the bank to activate it, and they tend to ask questions, that really only you, and the person that read your CC application should know. And even then, atleast these days, its only partial, like last 4 digits of social, maiden name, phone no, address, associated bank account numbers if its with the same bank you do your normal banking with.
That information may have been gleamed from your trash prior to the card being stolen, which will give the thief that much more information to use when he goes to activate your CC card.
create garbage files, of similair size to mp3's and movies, and offer them up. Get a few hundred thousand people to do that, and figure a way to trick the scanners, while normal downloaders can determine the difference, and piss of the *IAA and anyone else doing generic searches.
Simply calling miss utility will give you most of the information about gas lines, power lines, fibre lines etc, in fact, before you do any construction, by law you have to call Miss Utility (stupid name, and I think they are changing it now too), who then go and notify the relavant parties (power, gas, telco), who then come out to mark with chalk or paint, exactly where their lines run in that area.
And there is no way they can classify that info, else you would have to get ALL building contractors, electricians, basically everyone who wants to do any digging or construction, clearances.
Building permits and architectural diagrams are also publically available, aerial maps are out there too.
There is just really alot of info that is freely available that must remain that way for our society to function.
Rather then shutting this poor student up, they should try to resolve the problems, not keep it quiet.
No, the standard is teh same, the frequencies they run on are different. US GSM runs on 1900, rest of the worl runs on 800/1800 (or was it 900/1800... I always mix those up).
Any GSM phone that is Tri Mode, or worldphone will work on ANY GSM network anywhere, provided you have a roaming agreement, or a contract with teh cell provider in your area, simply by swapping out the sim card. In GSM phones, the sim card has ALL the information about the phone, the number, etc, in other phones, sim cards are just to store names/address/media, no phone settings.
You will find there are 3 types of GSM phones, single, dual, and tri mode, sing and tri mode will work in the US, single mde will ONLY work in the US, and Tri mode will work everywhere.
There is no law that says they have to, or dont have to, however if you want an unlocked phone, most manufacturers will sell you one, take nokia for example, 2 identical phones, 1 unlocked, the other locked, will vary in price by about 300 to 400 USD. The provider subsidises the cost of the phone in return for you signing a contract.
This is all good and well, during your contractual period, I can understand their reluctance, however once your contract is up, you should be allowed to unlock the phone. ATT will still bitch up a storm and flatly deny it, but you can eventually get the code if you put up some resistance and keep bothering them, or go pay some cell phone guy $50 to unlock the phone for you, takes about 20 min for them to do it manually.
I quite like bluetooth, although my phone has infra red, sometimes its a pain to sync data across it, and pull data from my phone. So I use bluetooth to transfer the data (my phone plays mp3's, but the damn multimedia card is under the simcard/battery, so its a pain to pull it in and out all the time). also, work well with bluetooth between my ipaq and phone (and maybe bluetooth wireless headset if they come down in price, and size cos they look rediculous currently).
Bluetooth connects devices within a limited range, wifi connects devices to a network, why do people try to use bluetooth as a network device, I dont know (and it is possible), but really, apples and oranges.
I am not sure what the deal is with wifi/gsm debates. But I believe this has something to do with possibly putting high gain wifi antennas on cell towers, and making phones with wifi built in. This would make for cheaper (and hopefully unlimited bandwidth at a flat fee) data service, in conjunction with cell services. as the current 3g technology is a little flakey. I am supposed to be able to get 1.5 megs down, 256k up via my phone, but I rarely get more then 45k in any direction, and at 0.008 cents per k, after my initial 4 megs.. I can rack up quite a bill by the end of the month.
500k machines.. easy. pick any federal orginasation that has satellite offices around the country... think FAA, think FBI, each of those easily has 500k machines (granted about half to may 2/3 are workstations, but you get the point)
Scripting is not the answer in a large scale enviroment. It works great for small groups of machines where they interact alot, but for large scale applications, where say everyone is using said application, a server solution is the most cost effective and scalable solution.
That, and like I said in an earlier response to you, the IM Providers actually have commercial versions of their servers for corperate customers, those solutions also include secure communications, unlike std IMing which is plain text for the most part, or very very week encryption (usually to make the non provider supplied clients incompatable with those supplied by the IM Provider themselves).
Its much eaiser to implement a corperate version of an IM server, that most IM networks now provide, then firewall off the other IM servers, forcing the clients to use the corperate version, or proxy all IM client request to std IM servers to the corperate one, provides central logging point, and peace of mind for the security personel.
On the other hand.. IM is not secure by any means, anyone stupid enough to use it in a financial industry for anything other then talking to friends and bullshitting around, should be shot.
One of the reasons you can get away with 5 to 10 over the limit, is due to margin of error. ALL cars have a +- 5 mph error rate on their speedometer, and alot of states still use radar, which needs to be recalibrated after every trap (some states, like Virginia/Maryland/DC/NY/a few others, use laser+radar which does not need calibration). You get this buffer of speed, not so you can speed, but because of the margin of errors involved in getting your exact speed.
Nope, your wrong, depending on which state you live in, is how many tickets you can get. Different violations have different point values, ranging from 2 for failing to obey a highway sign, 4 for running a stop sign, 6 for reckless driving (20 or more miles over the limit).
I believe (although I could be a point or 2 off), you get a max of 17 or 18 points (atleast in Virginia).
First time you exceed your point value, the DMV sends you a notice to attend driving school or lose your license for 90 days.
Any moving violation what so ever will also drastically increase your insurance rates (I pay $200 a month for insurance cos of my driving record)
Further more, currently, in Virginia and surrounding areas (DC, MD), up to 19 miles over, is speeding, 20 to 39 miles over the limit is reckless driving, 40 miles over the limit, and your fucked, Driving with the Intent to kill, attempted vehicular manslaughter, insta lose license, go straight to jail, carries up ro around 10 to 15 years jail time, and a very very hefty fine, $50k to 100k
The main thing sun has going for themselves over anyone supplying linux and white box hardware, is stability, scallability, support and availability.
With a Sun package (hardware and software) you have the ability to upgrade both system software components, and hardware (including memory and cpu's) without downing the machine, and in many cases without even rebooting the machine. Whatever it is serving, is always available, even after upgrades (granted, we are talking their high end machines, but for... say financial institutions, downtime is a no no, even a few min can cost ungodly amounts of money). Kernel updates, and software updates can also be made (not in all cases) without even rebooting the system.
There are no linux, or even bsd boxes that can do that to my knowledge, and certainly no windows systems.
The reason Apple and Sun hardware/software combinations are superiour in stability, is due to the fact that they are made to support each other, unlike in a windows enviroment, where you have a mix and match of hardware, and software drivers that bring in many inknowns sometimes.
XP Home Upgrade Edition, $99 XP Home Full edition, $199 XP Pro Upgrade Edition, $199 XP Pro Full Edition, $299
The prices may fluctuate a lil up or down, depending on where its being sold, but thats about the going rates on XP for the various versions, the upgrade being identical to the full install, but it looks for a previous version, easily fooled by sticking in any old windows cd, or even dos bootdisk.
The problem is, the people who we vote for only bring up subjects that they are paid to... sorry, I meant by those companies who "donated" money to said politicians campaign's.
Yes, we voted them in, but the only agenda's these politicians have are those that put more money in their pocket.. Welcome to Democracy...
What is up with verizon, they complain about everything, they lobby'd to get deregulated, promising that if that happened they would provide data services to homes, that happened, and Verizon backed out of that and refuse to push out data services. Now they are bitching about number portability... Odds are this has nothing to do with cost, the only reason is because if they did enable it, most of their customers would jump ship, because their pricing, and customer service is the worst, of anything, cell provider, phone provider, data services, they are always rated the worst.
Its time someone bitch slapped Verizon. They are only fighting for their own survival, and still raking in the money for poor services.
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okay.. so where is the evidence....
There are many states in the US where they cannot fire you without a valid reason. They can terminate your employment (layoffs etc) for no reason but then they have to provide you with severence (usually about 2 weeks, but sometimes more), and you can still collect unemployment. Getting fired is different, your basically screwed, but in those states, they must provide a reason, for both laying a person off or firing, and it must be valid. (in the former, a simple financial troubles excuse can get you layed off, but it is still a reason).
In places like Virginia, DC and Maryland (I think MD), these are Right to work states, meaning, they can terminate your employment for breathing in the wrong direction, and they dont even have to tell you why.
I can think of a few machines that a 9 iron would come in handy for.
I happen to be one of those contractors (although the agency I am in is not listed thankfully, but I have not been able to find the full text of who got what report).
This is not an issue with contractors or subcontractors. This is an issue of money, plane and simple, you try to hire enough personel.. buy the right equipment, when there is no money to do so.
We work with what we have, and do our best, until those people in the position to fund security departments better, security will always be adhoc
They dont need her signature, in the original contract she signed its specifies if you change plans, or purchase a new device, you are ackgnowledge the fact that you are entering into a contract. (like I remember the contract I signed a year ago when getting a new phone or changing plans).
I have ssh loaded onto it. it is currently OS4, as OS5 runs ont eh xscale procs, not the motorola dragonball ones.
When you buy the tungsten w, the net is on when you access it, times out after 2 or 3 min of no use. However there is an update by palm to 4.1, where there is an option to leave it always on. However.. again, when you recieve a call, it disconnects the network. You cannot use both at the same time. However the initial connect/reconnect only take about 3 to 5 seconds, depending on your phone, and the gprs data network.
depending on the provider, your costs will differ, t-mobile offers unlimited data for 29 USD on top of your normal phone bill, att charges 89 a month on top of the phone bill. Its alot more pricey, but that should hopefully drop sometime in the future due to price wars, and the ability to hop networks and keep your number will also come into play (number portability), to keep subscribers. I have very little patience with cell providers, they for the most part offer crappy customer service, and I will start hopping providers if one starts to offer a service I want at a better price.
Odd, I have one of those cell phone PDA's.. I hit 2 buttons to make a call.. one to bring up address book, and one to select the name to call.. not so hard.. no bootup time, and there is a single button press that loads up the phone, which is where it stays by default, device is always on, only screen turns off.
I think thats one of the selling points of PDA's with built in phones... they are connected to the internet. I currently have a tungsten W, its permanently connected to the net... has a wap and full web browser, can aim, irc ssh etc. and it doubles as a phone....
Shredding may have helped. When you get a CC in the mail, it is not active. You need to call the bank to activate it, and they tend to ask questions, that really only you, and the person that read your CC application should know. And even then, atleast these days, its only partial, like last 4 digits of social, maiden name, phone no, address, associated bank account numbers if its with the same bank you do your normal banking with.
That information may have been gleamed from your trash prior to the card being stolen, which will give the thief that much more information to use when he goes to activate your CC card.
create garbage files, of similair size to mp3's and movies, and offer them up. Get a few hundred thousand people to do that, and figure a way to trick the scanners, while normal downloaders can determine the difference, and piss of the *IAA and anyone else doing generic searches.
Simply calling miss utility will give you most of the information about gas lines, power lines, fibre lines etc, in fact, before you do any construction, by law you have to call Miss Utility (stupid name, and I think they are changing it now too), who then go and notify the relavant parties (power, gas, telco), who then come out to mark with chalk or paint, exactly where their lines run in that area.
And there is no way they can classify that info, else you would have to get ALL building contractors, electricians, basically everyone who wants to do any digging or construction, clearances.
Building permits and architectural diagrams are also publically available, aerial maps are out there too.
There is just really alot of info that is freely available that must remain that way for our society to function.
Rather then shutting this poor student up, they should try to resolve the problems, not keep it quiet.
Read the article properly... financial info would require a court order, only IP/name/address/email is available without 1
No, the standard is teh same, the frequencies they run on are different. US GSM runs on 1900, rest of the worl runs on 800/1800 (or was it 900/1800... I always mix those up).
Any GSM phone that is Tri Mode, or worldphone will work on ANY GSM network anywhere, provided you have a roaming agreement, or a contract with teh cell provider in your area, simply by swapping out the sim card. In GSM phones, the sim card has ALL the information about the phone, the number, etc, in other phones, sim cards are just to store names/address/media, no phone settings.
You will find there are 3 types of GSM phones, single, dual, and tri mode, sing and tri mode will work in the US, single mde will ONLY work in the US, and Tri mode will work everywhere.
There is no law that says they have to, or dont have to, however if you want an unlocked phone, most manufacturers will sell you one, take nokia for example, 2 identical phones, 1 unlocked, the other locked, will vary in price by about 300 to 400 USD. The provider subsidises the cost of the phone in return for you signing a contract.
This is all good and well, during your contractual period, I can understand their reluctance, however once your contract is up, you should be allowed to unlock the phone. ATT will still bitch up a storm and flatly deny it, but you can eventually get the code if you put up some resistance and keep bothering them, or go pay some cell phone guy $50 to unlock the phone for you, takes about 20 min for them to do it manually.
I quite like bluetooth, although my phone has infra red, sometimes its a pain to sync data across it, and pull data from my phone. So I use bluetooth to transfer the data (my phone plays mp3's, but the damn multimedia card is under the simcard/battery, so its a pain to pull it in and out all the time). also, work well with bluetooth between my ipaq and phone (and maybe bluetooth wireless headset if they come down in price, and size cos they look rediculous currently).
Bluetooth connects devices within a limited range, wifi connects devices to a network, why do people try to use bluetooth as a network device, I dont know (and it is possible), but really, apples and oranges.
I am not sure what the deal is with wifi/gsm debates. But I believe this has something to do with possibly putting high gain wifi antennas on cell towers, and making phones with wifi built in. This would make for cheaper (and hopefully unlimited bandwidth at a flat fee) data service, in conjunction with cell services. as the current 3g technology is a little flakey. I am supposed to be able to get 1.5 megs down, 256k up via my phone, but I rarely get more then 45k in any direction, and at 0.008 cents per k, after my initial 4 megs.. I can rack up quite a bill by the end of the month.
500k machines.. easy. pick any federal orginasation that has satellite offices around the country... think FAA, think FBI, each of those easily has 500k machines (granted about half to may 2/3 are workstations, but you get the point)
Scripting is not the answer in a large scale enviroment. It works great for small groups of machines where they interact alot, but for large scale applications, where say everyone is using said application, a server solution is the most cost effective and scalable solution.
That, and like I said in an earlier response to you, the IM Providers actually have commercial versions of their servers for corperate customers, those solutions also include secure communications, unlike std IMing which is plain text for the most part, or very very week encryption (usually to make the non provider supplied clients incompatable with those supplied by the IM Provider themselves).
Its much eaiser to implement a corperate version of an IM server, that most IM networks now provide, then firewall off the other IM servers, forcing the clients to use the corperate version, or proxy all IM client request to std IM servers to the corperate one, provides central logging point, and peace of mind for the security personel.
On the other hand.. IM is not secure by any means, anyone stupid enough to use it in a financial industry for anything other then talking to friends and bullshitting around, should be shot.
Nothing wrong with a good piece of ass, hit the mute button, and watch
One of the reasons you can get away with 5 to 10 over the limit, is due to margin of error. ALL cars have a +- 5 mph error rate on their speedometer, and alot of states still use radar, which needs to be recalibrated after every trap (some states, like Virginia/Maryland/DC/NY/a few others, use laser+radar which does not need calibration). You get this buffer of speed, not so you can speed, but because of the margin of errors involved in getting your exact speed.
Nope, your wrong, depending on which state you live in, is how many tickets you can get. Different violations have different point values, ranging from 2 for failing to obey a highway sign, 4 for running a stop sign, 6 for reckless driving (20 or more miles over the limit).
I believe (although I could be a point or 2 off), you get a max of 17 or 18 points (atleast in Virginia).
First time you exceed your point value, the DMV sends you a notice to attend driving school or lose your license for 90 days.
Any moving violation what so ever will also drastically increase your insurance rates (I pay $200 a month for insurance cos of my driving record)
Further more, currently, in Virginia and surrounding areas (DC, MD), up to 19 miles over, is speeding, 20 to 39 miles over the limit is reckless driving, 40 miles over the limit, and your fucked, Driving with the Intent to kill, attempted vehicular manslaughter, insta lose license, go straight to jail, carries up ro around 10 to 15 years jail time, and a very very hefty fine, $50k to 100k
The main thing sun has going for themselves over anyone supplying linux and white box hardware, is stability, scallability, support and availability.
With a Sun package (hardware and software) you have the ability to upgrade both system software components, and hardware (including memory and cpu's) without downing the machine, and in many cases without even rebooting the machine. Whatever it is serving, is always available, even after upgrades (granted, we are talking their high end machines, but for... say financial institutions, downtime is a no no, even a few min can cost ungodly amounts of money). Kernel updates, and software updates can also be made (not in all cases) without even rebooting the system.
There are no linux, or even bsd boxes that can do that to my knowledge, and certainly no windows systems.
The reason Apple and Sun hardware/software combinations are superiour in stability, is due to the fact that they are made to support each other, unlike in a windows enviroment, where you have a mix and match of hardware, and software drivers that bring in many inknowns sometimes.
XP Home Upgrade Edition, $99
XP Home Full edition, $199
XP Pro Upgrade Edition, $199
XP Pro Full Edition, $299
The prices may fluctuate a lil up or down, depending on where its being sold, but thats about the going rates on XP for the various versions, the upgrade being identical to the full install, but it looks for a previous version, easily fooled by sticking in any old windows cd, or even dos bootdisk.
The problem is, the people who we vote for only bring up subjects that they are paid to... sorry, I meant by those companies who "donated" money to said politicians campaign's.
Yes, we voted them in, but the only agenda's these politicians have are those that put more money in their pocket.. Welcome to Democracy...
What is up with verizon, they complain about everything, they lobby'd to get deregulated, promising that if that happened they would provide data services to homes, that happened, and Verizon backed out of that and refuse to push out data services. Now they are bitching about number portability... Odds are this has nothing to do with cost, the only reason is because if they did enable it, most of their customers would jump ship, because their pricing, and customer service is the worst, of anything, cell provider, phone provider, data services, they are always rated the worst.
Its time someone bitch slapped Verizon. They are only fighting for their own survival, and still raking in the money for poor services.