What people fail to see is that most identity theft happens with students who have loans. Have a student loan? What's your loan number? I bet that 90% of the time a student's loan number is the same as their SSN plus 1 extra digit -- typically a 0 or a 1. Guess where that loan number gets printed all the time? On the notice the school sends you about your financial aid status, the bill the school sends you for tuition, the letter thanking you for paying your bill and letting you know how much of your loan you have left. Its all over the place, and it most likely has your SSN as the account number.
But what could someone do with your student loan number? They could get a credit report listing all of your other info. How? Well the letter your school sends you probably has a verifiable address you've lived at for at least the past 6 months, it probably has your school id (network id, etc) where someone can jolly on to the school's website, type in the id and pull up your permanent address (white pages get the parents name/phone), get your birthdate, and any other info the school leaks.
So they call up the credit check company, give your name, your address, your parents address, your SSN, maybe your credit card number, your birthdate, and then they love to verify a loan for over a couple thousand dollars... like your student loan... SSN+1.
Man, that was some tough work to get a college kid's entire credit report and start turning their life into a nightmare.....
Actually, most people *are* fed-up with Internet Explorer. It might be allowing pop-ups once a minute, or not displaying certain websites correctly (most often https), or just behaving slowly.
I've worked on 758 help requests for college students living in dorms since September. I'd say about 20% of them had problems that were simply solved by installing a copy of Firefox, nothing more. Many of these students are sold on the idea of Firefox. They do their own advertising... I've watched the most non-technical students advocate Firefox to the kid across the hall.
Last night I got a call from a user who could pull up yahoo.com, but after entering a simple search, the page would load and give some web server error. She went to Help->About, and clicking "OK" wouldn't close the dialog box. This was with an updated version of IE. Got her to go to mozilla.org, and the green "Download Now" section wouldn't display. After linking directly to the mozilla suite, and getting that installed, she was able to properly view webpages.
Out of the 758 students I've dealt with this semester, and the equally high number I've dealt with in the past 3 years at this job, only twice have I seen a resident contact us saying that Firefox won't load a certain page.
All those webpages with ActiveX controls..... the everyday user doesn't care about them. And slashdot not loading properly, I think we all know why that is.... its reporting itself as HTML 3.2 and still gets 116 errors from http://validator.w3.org/
Actually, my impression of the American Express Blue cards are that when read, they provide a different random number based on your real CC #. This way each place of business never gets your real CC #, so if somebody steals the hashed number, AMEX can trace it to the place of business that originally saw that hash.
Makes it difficult for companies that use CC #'s to verify information (like credit check companies), but all you can do is say, "Sorry, we can't verify any information using American Express cards because they're too secure."
Then the question is, why don't the rest of the CC card companies follow suit?
> Acutally, Windows doesn't really crash any more,
I have worked as a computer technician for a university housing department with nearly 10,000 students. Out of the past three years, only two or three times have I been contacted by someone using Linux. In one case, the student had the RJ11-45 cable plugged in backwards. In the other case, the student didn't know that he needed to DHCP.
In the over 5,000 other cases, I've seen more than 30 windows boxes that will no longer run IE. I've seen at least four windows boxes that had a fresh install of XP and decided to crap on the registry so even control panel wouldn't open. I've seen two Win2K boxes that killed the password files so badly that even ntchpw couldn't help.
Recently, the only reason I've had to deal with win9x boxes is because of old viruses, not because of blue screens. From my experience at work, WinME has the highest rate of trouble and blue screens. I'd bet I've personally met every person in our housing who has WinME. How about that winipcfg on WinME everybody!
Although there haven't been many XP bluescreens or crashes lately, it has become too virus ridden. When I started, we dealt with our most difficult year, Code Red and Nimda. We were backlogged around 300 help requests. I was told that the most requests open at a time before that was only in the 100's. This past semester we nearly reached 400. The percentage of students with computers has risen about 2%. But the incidents of viruses, crashes, disappearing programs (the entire program folder), IE problems, etc, has greatly increased.
XP Secure? Do you remember when it shipped with the Shared Documents folder writeable by anyone?
And although this isn't specifically MS's problem, Fast-User Switching didn't work with any virus scanners I knew of for the first year.
So don't just say "So security, yes fine" and pretend everything's alright. In the eye of the average students (who really only needs Word, Outlook, and maybe Excel, or similar), computers running windows are getting to be more of a pain than they were in the past, and many have said so.
From where I'm sitting, linux is becoming easier to install, maintain, and use on a day by day basis.
And what happens when one of the student's hard drives crash? Pop in a knoppix CD, show them GAIM and Konquerer, and be on your way.
I worked a two year stint at Fermi Lab, and right when I was leaving they were starting to firewall the servers that store all their project data.
It turns out that they were competing on a design with a couple other labs, and one of the other labs just pulled up fnal.gov, went to the project site, and stole the whole project. They lost the bid to their own design.
I guess one way or another you'll learn to implement some sort of security...
This sounds like an issue on our campus between some professors and a company that farms students to take notes on classes and sells them. Even though the professors work is usually copyrighted through the university, the students version of the notes is their own and they can use their notes however they want, including selling them to the company (and the company selling them to other students).
So if the text is your interpretation of the lyrics, i.e. you listened to the song and wrote what you heard, I'd say you have a pretty fair chance you can have fair use of them. Of course that gets a little black and white once you start performing songs with those lyrics or selling them.
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What people fail to see is that most identity theft happens with students who have loans. Have a student loan? What's your loan number? I bet that 90% of the time a student's loan number is the same as their SSN plus 1 extra digit -- typically a 0 or a 1. Guess where that loan number gets printed all the time? On the notice the school sends you about your financial aid status, the bill the school sends you for tuition, the letter thanking you for paying your bill and letting you know how much of your loan you have left. Its all over the place, and it most likely has your SSN as the account number.
... SSN+1.
But what could someone do with your student loan number? They could get a credit report listing all of your other info. How? Well the letter your school sends you probably has a verifiable address you've lived at for at least the past 6 months, it probably has your school id (network id, etc) where someone can jolly on to the school's website, type in the id and pull up your permanent address (white pages get the parents name/phone), get your birthdate, and any other info the school leaks.
So they call up the credit check company, give your name, your address, your parents address, your SSN, maybe your credit card number, your birthdate, and then they love to verify a loan for over a couple thousand dollars... like your student loan
Man, that was some tough work to get a college kid's entire credit report and start turning their life into a nightmare.....
MOD PARENT UP.
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He's right and the one that got modded up is not informative.
2.4GHz is the resonant frequency of H2O's electrical dipole. http://colorado.edu/physics/2000/microwaves/water
Damned Meta-Moderation
Hmm. Download Accelerator or FlashGet?
I thought this was slashdot. Use `wget`
I agree.
Its the same as when you're in the store trying to buy some USB device and all it says is "USB ready"... 1.0, 1.1 or 2.0?
Even my SATA dvdr didn't specify the SATA type anywhere on the box (or on the spec sheet from the company site). Turns out to be SATA-II
Be specific and maybe we'll buy in!
Wow! Nice to meet you Mr. President.
Actually, most people *are* fed-up with Internet Explorer. It might be allowing pop-ups once a minute, or not displaying certain websites correctly (most often https), or just behaving slowly.
I've worked on 758 help requests for college students living in dorms since September. I'd say about 20% of them had problems that were simply solved by installing a copy of Firefox, nothing more. Many of these students are sold on the idea of Firefox. They do their own advertising... I've watched the most non-technical students advocate Firefox to the kid across the hall.
Last night I got a call from a user who could pull up yahoo.com, but after entering a simple search, the page would load and give some web server error. She went to Help->About, and clicking "OK" wouldn't close the dialog box. This was with an updated version of IE. Got her to go to mozilla.org, and the green "Download Now" section wouldn't display. After linking directly to the mozilla suite, and getting that installed, she was able to properly view webpages.
Out of the 758 students I've dealt with this semester, and the equally high number I've dealt with in the past 3 years at this job, only twice have I seen a resident contact us saying that Firefox won't load a certain page.
All those webpages with ActiveX controls..... the everyday user doesn't care about them. And slashdot not loading properly, I think we all know why that is.... its reporting itself as HTML 3.2 and still gets 116 errors from http://validator.w3.org/
Actually, my impression of the American Express Blue cards are that when read, they provide a different random number based on your real CC #. This way each place of business never gets your real CC #, so if somebody steals the hashed number, AMEX can trace it to the place of business that originally saw that hash.
Makes it difficult for companies that use CC #'s to verify information (like credit check companies), but all you can do is say, "Sorry, we can't verify any information using American Express cards because they're too secure."
Then the question is, why don't the rest of the CC card companies follow suit?
Or they might just change the numbering to Mozilla/Firefox 2004 SP4 or XP SP2
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> Acutally, Windows doesn't really crash any more,
I have worked as a computer technician for a university housing department with nearly 10,000 students. Out of the past three years, only two or three times have I been contacted by someone using Linux. In one case, the student had the RJ11-45 cable plugged in backwards. In the other case, the student didn't know that he needed to DHCP.
In the over 5,000 other cases, I've seen more than 30 windows boxes that will no longer run IE. I've seen at least four windows boxes that had a fresh install of XP and decided to crap on the registry so even control panel wouldn't open. I've seen two Win2K boxes that killed the password files so badly that even ntchpw couldn't help.
Recently, the only reason I've had to deal with win9x boxes is because of old viruses, not because of blue screens. From my experience at work, WinME has the highest rate of trouble and blue screens. I'd bet I've personally met every person in our housing who has WinME. How about that winipcfg on WinME everybody!
Although there haven't been many XP bluescreens or crashes lately, it has become too virus ridden. When I started, we dealt with our most difficult year, Code Red and Nimda. We were backlogged around 300 help requests. I was told that the most requests open at a time before that was only in the 100's. This past semester we nearly reached 400. The percentage of students with computers has risen about 2%. But the incidents of viruses, crashes, disappearing programs (the entire program folder), IE problems, etc, has greatly increased.
XP Secure? Do you remember when it shipped with the Shared Documents folder writeable by anyone?
And although this isn't specifically MS's problem, Fast-User Switching didn't work with any virus scanners I knew of for the first year.
So don't just say "So security, yes fine" and pretend everything's alright. In the eye of the average students (who really only needs Word, Outlook, and maybe Excel, or similar), computers running windows are getting to be more of a pain than they were in the past, and many have said so.
From where I'm sitting, linux is becoming easier to install, maintain, and use on a day by day basis.
And what happens when one of the student's hard drives crash? Pop in a knoppix CD, show them GAIM and Konquerer, and be on your way.
I'd love to see them die instead of saying their innovating...
I worked a two year stint at Fermi Lab, and right when I was leaving they were starting to firewall the servers that store all their project data.
It turns out that they were competing on a design with a couple other labs, and one of the other labs just pulled up fnal.gov, went to the project site, and stole the whole project. They lost the bid to their own design.
I guess one way or another you'll learn to implement some sort of security...
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This sounds like an issue on our campus between some professors and a company that farms students to take notes on classes and sells them. Even though the professors work is usually copyrighted through the university, the students version of the notes is their own and they can use their notes however they want, including selling them to the company (and the company selling them to other students).
So if the text is your interpretation of the lyrics, i.e. you listened to the song and wrote what you heard, I'd say you have a pretty fair chance you can have fair use of them. Of course that gets a little black and white once you start performing songs with those lyrics or selling them.