Microsoft must be the biggest supporter of computer forensic investigators.
Even since DOS 1.0, Microsoft operating systems never really erase a file. Now, they use cache, temp files, and the recycling bin to make lots of copies too. And that's only on the unerased portion of the hard drive. Chances are there are more copies on the erased data sectors.
Most users who really want to erase a file from the file system have to erase about two or three copies (if they know where the copies are). Wiping a file only zaps the original, not the copies.
Those investigators have it too easy.
My wiping program is made by Craftsman Tools (claw or ball-peen configuration)
Cutting of.be would be spiteful. Yes, their hits would go way down, but so would Goggle's shared revenue (assuming the news and info sites have Goggle ads).... also grumbling about having to retest a lot of java applications after the daylight savings patches are applied to the web servers
True, there is no date in a Certificates of Authenticity . There is no name either. They want to see paperwork with "The Name of the Audited Entity" on it.
A COA might be good enough for a home user, but a business needs rock solid proof that not only do they have a license (and enough of them), but the license is for the proper date, version, business name, etc.
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If he has a radar reflector, at least the big ships can warn him before they run him over.
I assume that he would maintain a watch on channel 16 (156.800 MHZ) while near a shipping lane. Or whatever the correct channel is in that area.
How can you prove that the Certificates of Authenticity is yours
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He might not have radar, but he certainly should have a radar reflector.
It would be crazy not to hoist a radar reflector if sailing around major shipping lanes. They only cost a few dollars. They are easy to assemble, stow, and hoist. Even in the open waters, every sailing cruiser has one.
Take a look: www.davisnet.com/news/photos/marine/safety.asp
I blame the ISPs for allowing traffic to leave their networks with spoofed IP addresses. That is - passing IP packets that are sourced within thier network with IP addresses that are not within their network.
Botnets spoof IP addresses to make if harder to track down the bots. But the IPS know where the bots are and could kill them, or filter them, if they had the testicles to do it. By pass the spoofed IP addressed traffic they make it harder for the rest of the world to filter the bots.
Botnets would be a heck of a lot easier to filter, and choke, if valid IP addresses were forced on all traffic.
Anyone who relocates for an employment-at-will job is not very smart. You need an employment contract for at least the length of time to make it worth it.
No way would I relocate without a one year contract. If they fire me or lay me off for any reason (other than cause) I would still want to get paid.
Without an employment contract, the parent comment is correct - they can fire you in five minutes.
"Members of the board themselves are elected by the general meeting of shareholders"
That is a pipe dream. In most cases, board vacancies are fill at the recommendation of other board members before a shareholder meeting. New board members are chosen from corporate social networks.
At the next annual election, the new members are put on the ballot and voted into office. Almost 99.9999% of the time, board supported candidates are voted on to the board.
Many companies farm out sales. I can think of a couple easy examples.
First is manufacturers. Many use indepenent sales reps (manufacturer's reps) rather than an in house sales staff. They also use distributors who handle product sales to retailers.
Next is travel related businesses. They use all sorts of commission based plans to farm out their sales.
There are generic sales firms that will sell *anything* for a commission. You give them the leads and they will hit the streets. I've dealt with those guys. They are mercenary.
I'm thinking that the refunds are a result of the newness of on-line banking. When the newness wears off - people will lose their life savings with these tricks.
It's no different than meat-space scams that trick people into withdrawing money or allow theives access to their bank accounts (like a stolen ATM card with the PIN number written on it).
The message here should be "if you do on-line banking, your computer is your ATM card. Protect it just as you would your ATM card"
... and the tools that work the best are hookers and booze.
Blogging is just the newest play thing for the lobbyist. As a lobbying tool, it effectiveness is unproven. As opposed to hookers and booze which has proven to be VERY effective. Next if terms of effectiveness are: free travel, complimentary sports tickets, paid golf club fees, courtesy cars, etc.
You are probably thinking of file,print, and Internet connection sharing hacks, which would affect Win 9x. That is if file, print, and Internet connection sharing is used. Which would not be wise. It's just not smart to have open ports available for hacking. Win 9x has far fewer open ports than Win 2K and Win XP.
A Win 9x machine running Firefox and Thunderbird is, IMHO, more secure than Win 2K and Win XP machines running IE and Outlook.
The reason is that Win 9x doesn't leave ports open for hacking like Win 2K and Win XP does. What makes Win 9x inscure is the applications. What makes Win 2K and Win XP insecure in the operating system.
Like the GP, I'll stick with Win 9x for home use on old hardware. I have a Linux box too, but I'd never get my wife to use it becaues she needs Word.
Home builders have architectural plans. Machinist have blueprints. Electronic equipment builders have schematics.
Software engineers are stuck trying to figure out the incoherent ramblings of marketing/sales/business analysts/corporate executives/users and a host of others who have no means to specify what they are asking for.
Buying online is all about trust, and eBay doesn't have mine either. The eBay feedback system is so broken. When the system for ensuring trust is not trustworthly - you know there is a problem.
Very few people leave negaitive feedback. And not without great fear of retaliatory feedback. A lot of people don't leave feedback at all anymore.
I know that the feedback system has to balance the buyer and the seller. Right now it's tilted far to the side of the seller. And that has helped to drive the increasing number of scammer and frauds selling on eBay.
Good luck to eBay - getting back trust once it's been broken is not easy.
"1984: Sneaking PCs into an all-mainframe shop... buying parts, on seperate POs."
I did the POs for everything except the case. I got the monitors, power suppies, motherboards, disk drives, keyboards, mice, and cables no problem. But if I tried to get a case, red flags would have flown. With amber monochrome monitors they didn't draw too much attention. The other montors (from Data General and IBM) were all green screens. The MIS dweebs were clueless. (Management Information Systems - now called "IT")
A buddy of mine made wooden cases for the PCs. We put them under our desks. We were gods.
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Microsoft must be the biggest supporter of computer forensic investigators.
Even since DOS 1.0, Microsoft operating systems never really erase a file. Now, they use cache, temp files, and the recycling bin to make lots of copies too. And that's only on the unerased portion of the hard drive. Chances are there are more copies on the erased data sectors.
Most users who really want to erase a file from the file system have to erase about two or three copies (if they know where the copies are). Wiping a file only zaps the original, not the copies.
Those investigators have it too easy.
My wiping program is made by Craftsman Tools (claw or ball-peen configuration)
Cutting of .be would be spiteful. Yes, their hits would go way down, but so would Goggle's shared revenue (assuming the news and info sites have Goggle ads). ... also grumbling about having to retest a lot of java applications after the daylight savings patches are applied to the web servers
This is a civil, not criminal, matter. You're not innocent until proven guilty. The standard is the presumption of guilt. And they presume a lot.
If you're going to serve alcohol at the theater, don't forget the pizzia: http://www.brewview.com/ .
I love that place....
"Law is in large part our attempt to codify morality and ethics"
Only when it's done wrong.
I think "smooth functioning of society" is the more desired course of action.
YMMV
Who wants to be a virgin aournd a volcano?
True, there is no date in a Certificates of Authenticity . There is no name either. They want to see paperwork with "The Name of the Audited Entity" on it.
A COA might be good enough for a home user, but a business needs rock solid proof that not only do they have a license (and enough of them), but the license is for the proper date, version, business name, etc.
If he has a radar reflector, at least the big ships can warn him before they run him over.
I assume that he would maintain a watch on channel 16 (156.800 MHZ) while near a shipping lane. Or whatever the correct channel is in that area.
How can you prove that the Certificates of Authenticity is yours
He might not have radar, but he certainly should have a radar reflector.
It would be crazy not to hoist a radar reflector if sailing around major shipping lanes. They only cost a few dollars. They are easy to assemble, stow, and hoist. Even in the open waters, every sailing cruiser has one.
Take a look:
www.davisnet.com/news/photos/marine/safety.asp
Close,
I translate it as " who guards the guardians"
I blame the ISPs for allowing traffic to leave their networks with spoofed IP addresses. That is - passing IP packets that are sourced within thier network with IP addresses that are not within their network.
Botnets spoof IP addresses to make if harder to track down the bots. But the IPS know where the bots are and could kill them, or filter them, if they had the testicles to do it. By pass the spoofed IP addressed traffic they make it harder for the rest of the world to filter the bots.
Botnets would be a heck of a lot easier to filter, and choke, if valid IP addresses were forced on all traffic.
Anyone who relocates for an employment-at-will job is not very smart. You need an employment contract for at least the length of time to make it worth it.
No way would I relocate without a one year contract. If they fire me or lay me off for any reason (other than cause) I would still want to get paid.
Without an employment contract, the parent comment is correct - they can fire you in five minutes.
Moral of the story - use a lawyer or get screwed.
There are plenty of tool and die makers around. I could order a few blanks ^W, - I mean custom metal parts, for a hell of a lot less than $3,000.
investment - the act of investing; laying out money or capital with the expectation of profit.
Sounds like every situation that you mentioned.
It's not "gaming the system?", profit *is* the system. Did you fail ECON 101?
"Members of the board themselves are elected by the general meeting of shareholders"
That is a pipe dream. In most cases, board vacancies are fill at the recommendation of other board members before a shareholder meeting. New board members are chosen from corporate social networks.
At the next annual election, the new members are put on the ballot and voted into office. Almost 99.9999% of the time, board supported candidates are voted on to the board.
Many companies farm out sales. I can think of a couple easy examples.
First is manufacturers. Many use indepenent sales reps (manufacturer's reps) rather than an in house sales staff. They also use distributors who handle product sales to retailers.
Next is travel related businesses. They use all sorts of commission based plans to farm out their sales.
There are generic sales firms that will sell *anything* for a commission. You give them the leads and they will hit the streets. I've dealt with those guys. They are mercenary.
I'm thinking that the refunds are a result of the newness of on-line banking. When the newness wears off - people will lose their life savings with these tricks.
It's no different than meat-space scams that trick people into withdrawing money or allow theives access to their bank accounts (like a stolen ATM card with the PIN number written on it).
The message here should be "if you do on-line banking, your computer is your ATM card. Protect it just as you would your ATM card"
Blogging is just the newest play thing for the lobbyist. As a lobbying tool, it effectiveness is unproven. As opposed to hookers and booze which has proven to be VERY effective. Next if terms of effectiveness are: free travel, complimentary sports tickets, paid golf club fees, courtesy cars, etc.
Nearly all SMB port hack affects Win 2K and Win XP, not Win 9x.
n /MS05-027.mspxn /MS05-011.mspx
Non-Affected Software:
Microsoft Windows 98, Microsoft Windows 98 Second Edition (SE), and Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition (ME)
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulleti
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulleti
You are probably thinking of file,print, and Internet connection sharing hacks, which would affect Win 9x. That is if file, print, and Internet connection sharing is used. Which would not be wise. It's just not smart to have open ports available for hacking. Win 9x has far fewer open ports than Win 2K and Win XP.
The worst they would ever do is put him, for a few months, into a white-collar, minimum-security resort. Do you know, they have conjugal visits there.
A Win 9x machine running Firefox and Thunderbird is, IMHO, more secure than Win 2K and Win XP machines running IE and Outlook.
The reason is that Win 9x doesn't leave ports open for hacking like Win 2K and Win XP does. What makes Win 9x inscure is the applications. What makes Win 2K and Win XP insecure in the operating system.
Like the GP, I'll stick with Win 9x for home use on old hardware.
I have a Linux box too, but I'd never get my wife to use it becaues she needs Word.
Home builders have architectural plans. Machinist have blueprints. Electronic equipment builders have schematics.
Software engineers are stuck trying to figure out the incoherent ramblings of marketing/sales/business analysts/corporate executives/users and a host of others who have no means to specify what they are asking for.
Software specifications are uniformly deplorable.
Buying online is all about trust, and eBay doesn't have mine either. The eBay feedback system is so broken. When the system for ensuring trust is not trustworthly - you know there is a problem.
Very few people leave negaitive feedback. And not without great fear of retaliatory feedback. A lot of people don't leave feedback at all anymore.
I know that the feedback system has to balance the buyer and the seller. Right now it's tilted far to the side of the seller. And that has helped to drive the increasing number of scammer and frauds selling on eBay.
Good luck to eBay - getting back trust once it's been broken is not easy.
"1984: Sneaking PCs into an all-mainframe shop ... buying parts, on seperate POs."
I did the POs for everything except the case. I got the monitors, power suppies, motherboards, disk drives, keyboards, mice, and cables no problem. But if I tried to get a case, red flags would have flown. With amber monochrome monitors they didn't draw too much attention. The other montors (from Data General and IBM) were all green screens. The MIS dweebs were clueless. (Management Information Systems - now called "IT")
A buddy of mine made wooden cases for the PCs. We put them under our desks. We were gods.