At least the IIT people are legitimate replacements for western workers.
Too many Indians get their "degrees" from diploma mills or by openly cheating. Their rates are so cheap that letting them learn on the job is still somewhat cost-effective.
I'd rather deal with 2-3 leakers than risk throwing away good mail.
Generally, messages that leak through have bizarre subjects or contents are easily to identify. Mozilla does a remarkable job (for me at least) in getting rid of the spam that looks like generic mail.
What are you going to sue for? Taking advantage of an idiot?
Your wife did something rather silly, and some scum-sucking salesman looking for a $50 commission took advantage of her lapse in judgement.
Instead of making an ass out of yourselves and the wasting the courts time with a lawsuit, maybe you should close the account (assuming that you called them before activating it) and ask to be removed from marketing lists.
You haven't suffered any damages other than receiving spam -- which may have nothing to do with this incident.
Consider yourself lucky that your wife's cavalier attitude towards her personal data didn't result in a real identity theft case.
The Federal Reserve's concern is to protect itself and the banking industry... People who work with lots of money in the banks can generally spot fakes quickly, and use the microscopic crap to confirm their suspicions.
The retailer with typical clerks and store managers just eat the losses -- which is one reason why they welcome credit card payments in spite of the high costs associated with accepting them.
You might have missed the numbers in large print... US currency is designated with positive integers like "1", "5", "10", "20", "50", "100", which indicates the value.
The texture of each bill is slightly different. The newsstand near my office is run by a blind guy who is likely the fastest money sorter/counter that I have ever met.
The vast majority of US currency (around 80%) is used overseas, where it is the defacto currency of business.
Foreign banks, particularly in places like Russia and Asia will require you to turn in your old currency if you wish to do business with them in US Dollars.
The problem with opening things up is that it takes time to figure out what is going on in the code.
If your "security through obscurity" rants were close to reality, there would be NO released security bugs in the publically-reviewed Linux, Apache or Samba codebase. Yet that isn't the case.
The real reason for the delay is likely due to the fact that it will take the Valve programmers signifigant amounts of time to verify that trojans or backdoors are not present in the game.
How good would the PR be if it turned out that Half Life 2 was allowing hackers to takeover people's computers?
Who knows what tidbits were left in the code. I imagine Valve will be spending many hours auditing that code for trojans or backdoors.
Only someone living in Slashdot fantasy land would think for a second that a compromised development project in a wide open network is NOT a bad thing.
Would you now trust any code that came from Valve?
Thanks to the insane lawsuit culture in the US, people get MRI's for just about anything. Complain to a doctor about a heachache, ear pain or something similar and a referral for an MRI will be right behind the amoxicillin prescription.
50% improvements in performance are the results of excellent engineering, not language arm-wrestling contests.
If this guy & his colleagues lack the talent to even hire skilled outsourcers to develop an application for them, whether they use C, Java, or the C-Shell to implement matters little.
They were crushed because big media companies can bundle advertising packages together and share costs for wire services and reporting. You can go to an ad agency and purchase a full spectrum of advertisements to appear on tv, radio, billboards, newpapers, busses, magazines, etc for less money than it would cost to call individual, smaller outlets.
The vast majority of US markets have one newpaper that is affiliated with one of the big corporate media groups.
This is a good sign, because Massachusetts will bear the burden of developing applications that interface with Federal human services, medicare and other services with Linux.
Then you'll start to see the code & designs that they develop show up in other states, either via conferences/workshops with the Feds or because Accenture or IGS sells the Mass software to other states.
Desktops generally get refreshed in 3-4 year cycles. Thin clients will eliminate that.
Also, a light footprint on the client side means less games, spyware, security patches, etc that need to be handled by deskside support.
Maintaining 100 servers is cheaper in terms of manpower than maintaining 15 desktops, and labor costs are probaly the largest component of your firm's overhead.
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At least the IIT people are legitimate replacements for western workers.
Too many Indians get their "degrees" from diploma mills or by openly cheating. Their rates are so cheap that letting them learn on the job is still somewhat cost-effective.
I'd rather deal with 2-3 leakers than risk throwing away good mail.
Generally, messages that leak through have bizarre subjects or contents are easily to identify. Mozilla does a remarkable job (for me at least) in getting rid of the spam that looks like generic mail.
What are you going to sue for? Taking advantage of an idiot?
Your wife did something rather silly, and some scum-sucking salesman looking for a $50 commission took advantage of her lapse in judgement.
Instead of making an ass out of yourselves and the wasting the courts time with a lawsuit, maybe you should close the account (assuming that you called them before activating it) and ask to be removed from marketing lists.
You haven't suffered any damages other than receiving spam -- which may have nothing to do with this incident.
Consider yourself lucky that your wife's cavalier attitude towards her personal data didn't result in a real identity theft case.
Scientists have restored paper burned by the volcano at Pompeii, so I think they could restore a credit card application too.
Nobody really cares about the retailers.
The Federal Reserve's concern is to protect itself and the banking industry... People who work with lots of money in the banks can generally spot fakes quickly, and use the microscopic crap to confirm their suspicions.
The retailer with typical clerks and store managers just eat the losses -- which is one reason why they welcome credit card payments in spite of the high costs associated with accepting them.
You might have missed the numbers in large print... US currency is designated with positive integers like "1", "5", "10", "20", "50", "100", which indicates the value.
The texture of each bill is slightly different. The newsstand near my office is run by a blind guy who is likely the fastest money sorter/counter that I have ever met.
The vast majority of US currency (around 80%) is used overseas, where it is the defacto currency of business.
Foreign banks, particularly in places like Russia and Asia will require you to turn in your old currency if you wish to do business with them in US Dollars.
Why don't you download the Java Source and use your 3733t h4x0ring skills to recompile and make it faster!
Or use the GNU Java clone, it's GPL'd, so it must be faster.
Open Source != High performance
His eccentricity would no doubt have been diagnosed as ADD or ADHD. He would have been drugged with narcotics and told to behave himself.
The problem with opening things up is that it takes time to figure out what is going on in the code.
If your "security through obscurity" rants were close to reality, there would be NO released security bugs in the publically-reviewed Linux, Apache or Samba codebase. Yet that isn't the case.
The real reason for the delay is likely due to the fact that it will take the Valve programmers signifigant amounts of time to verify that trojans or backdoors are not present in the game.
How good would the PR be if it turned out that Half Life 2 was allowing hackers to takeover people's computers?
Do you have any background in software engineering at all? Or how about common sense?
As long as human beings design & manufacture anything, there will be bugs, design flaws, etc.
Please enlighten us with your sage knowledge of how to "correctly and securely" write software.
Oh yeah, it's nonsense...
Who knows what tidbits were left in the code. I imagine Valve will be spending many hours auditing that code for trojans or backdoors.
Only someone living in Slashdot fantasy land would think for a second that a compromised development project in a wide open network is NOT a bad thing.
Would you now trust any code that came from Valve?
Sell some of your valuable files, and use the proceeds to fund a security upgrade.
If you want to win a slot jackpot, go to vegas with $50-70k and play $50-100 machines only. Play the same machine until you run out of loot.
Slots are required to pay a certain amount over a period of time... switching machines reduces the chances that you'll hit a jackpot.
Please, most IT staff are either a bunch of trained monkeys or so pissed off at retarded management that trained monkeys would be more effective.
Companies ran better when runners and secretaries did the clerical work.
Thanks to the insane lawsuit culture in the US, people get MRI's for just about anything. Complain to a doctor about a heachache, ear pain or something similar and a referral for an MRI will be right behind the amoxicillin prescription.
Why didn't you use the old version of Lost & Found to find the new, "hidden" version?
50% improvements in performance are the results of excellent engineering, not language arm-wrestling contests.
If this guy & his colleagues lack the talent to even hire skilled outsourcers to develop an application for them, whether they use C, Java, or the C-Shell to implement matters little.
They were crushed because big media companies can bundle advertising packages together and share costs for wire services and reporting. You can go to an ad agency and purchase a full spectrum of advertisements to appear on tv, radio, billboards, newpapers, busses, magazines, etc for less money than it would cost to call individual, smaller outlets.
The vast majority of US markets have one newpaper that is affiliated with one of the big corporate media groups.
Ra!
Thanks, Theo!
Linux geeks can't do anything wrong.
RTFM.
This is a good sign, because Massachusetts will bear the burden of developing applications that interface with Federal human services, medicare and other services with Linux.
Then you'll start to see the code & designs that they develop show up in other states, either via conferences/workshops with the Feds or because Accenture or IGS sells the Mass software to other states.
Unix != Security.
Use VPNs to secure connectivity, and intrusion dectection like tripwire to keep your servers safe.
Don't be silly. If the DoS read /., everything would be running on OpenBSD and MySQL.
Desktops generally get refreshed in 3-4 year cycles. Thin clients will eliminate that.
Also, a light footprint on the client side means less games, spyware, security patches, etc that need to be handled by deskside support.
Maintaining 100 servers is cheaper in terms of manpower than maintaining 15 desktops, and labor costs are probaly the largest component of your firm's overhead.