I expect many ISPs to fight this, as it will most certainly lead, or be portrayed to lead, to a decrease in internet usage/subscriptions. Hopefully we can expect the high-volume ILECs like Verizon DSL to fight this like they did the RIAA, though doing so may risk their monopoly, so they may be hesitant to take on this giant.
You could probably do a factory reset on the thing and that will often reset the pw to something basic like 'admin'.
Beware though, if you're not using a modem provided by DirecTV, your ISP may not be very interested in hearing that you've been playing with your router.
Profit margins for DSL are pretty low. A lot of the ISPs were forced to fit in a small market, so some of them were destined to buckle. I've heard mixed reviews of DirecTV, but if you were with them for the static IPs/power-user benefits, Speakeasy offers much of the same, and it's one of the only growing DSL ISPs in the nation. They're also running some damn nice promotions that make me a tad jealous of our customers (I am an employee).
One of the problems with a lot of the providers is their failure to differentiate. Its hard to tell the difference between a lot of these ISPs because they don't provide any one thing better than other companies. Most of these companies shot for bill consolidation, which is nice, but hardly something you can sell yourself off of, since so many internet access companies provide it (direcTV dsl, any ILEC ISP, cable broadband, etc.). There's just too many competitors shooting for the bargain/cheap-goods approach.
Having offered a plug for Speakeasy, I must warn you, they're not cheap, because you pay for what you get (or you get what you pay for, depends on how you want to approach it, I guess). That said, you get a lot of things most other ISPs wouldn't dream of offering.
As always, if you want a good medium to get recommendations, DSL Reports is a good place to go. Don't take my word on Speakeasy, their reputation there will speak for itself.
However, there is one thing to keep in mind - being in the DSL business, at the consumer level, is asking for a potentially complicated relationship. Installation can be quite a pain, and this has as much to do with any one of your phone lines, local phone company, and fate, as it does with the ISP itself. Some people aren't aware of this or don't realize it, and they get frustrated, and since the ISP is the front line of service, they're the ones who get the blame.
Gabe over at Penny Arcade picked up a tablet PC. There's plenty of reasons listed over there, so you can stick the innovator branch of the 'digital artist' category in the list of demand sources, as well.
"Not sure what you're getting at...they made an accounting mistake. If they didn't bill her when they were supposed to, what gives them the right to go back and demand 200 smackers out of the blue?"
Companies do this rather frequently. If you're using a service and not being charged for it, I would imagine you're still liable to be charged for it. Especially if you want to continue your service with that company.
As member of Customer Support at the company I work at now, I've found its nearly impossible at a lot of companies to move up. This may not fall under the 'IT' conception of a small company with a few Unix/NT/Network Admin.s, but I'm curious what your thoughts and suggestions are for viable ways to seek promotion and the skills required for it. Which skills are the most important, and the toughest to learn/rarest to find?
Actually ATI can always attempt to fall back on the hardcore gamer demographic, which largely drives the high-end sector of the consumer graphics card market.
"If the hardcore gamers are using it, and you're not, well then what's wrong with you?"
I don't think anyone would make the claim that a distributed database would save you from accidently hitting the 'Delete' button. That's an interface problem, not a security one.
If someone ELSE hit the Delete button, then its a security issue, but a different one. The data itself, though, is fairly safe.
as long as the ads are on the bottom 1/4th of my screen, why not just tape some cardboard over the bottom quarter of your tv, then take it off when you're watching another channel?
Yeah, that works really well in the current job market. I dare you to try to find a job right now with what you had on your resume when you first got into the industry.
Perhaps the questions students are being asked to solved are becoming more like real-life situations, and therefore more complicated and less easy to put together with pen/paper? This would be the mistake of those providing materials, rather than the 'weak-minded' students - and lets be honest, its too easy to point at high school geometry students, tell them they're stupid because they can't do it the way we did it (5 miles uphill both ways). When you're first learning this stuff, though, and you're being asked to graph something that isn't easily-rounded and therefore easy to do in your head or put on pen/paper, it can be challenging, and daunting to the kid who doesn't see why he needs to learn math.
I guess folks who play tabletop roleplaying games can call us weak-minded because we don't use our imagination to play games?
The problem is the people who set them. Most of them think that their accounts are nothing more than a place that people can read email sent to them. They do not realize that a malicious person has no interest in accessing their personal correspondence, but rather in assuming an identity that is not their own.
The simple truth is, and it becomes evident when you think of it this way, the people with the greatest vested interest in password security are not the people who the passwords belong to, but the people providing the service that password gives access to. In real life terms, the company wants John Doe's password to be secure a lot more than John Doe does.
I'm working at the IT Helpdesk for my school, and I've found that a brief addendum to our 'introductory' speech that we give new employees and students can often clarify a lot of misunderstanding. That addendum consists of a simple explanation that password security isn't done as much to protect their own personal emails, but to prevent people from pretending to be them. This little bit of "insight" seems to change a lot of people's perception of password security, and they tend to be a lot more understanding of password uniqueness, length, and character variety requirements.
Of course, this still doesn't prevent them from leaving their logins and passwords on a sticky note on their monitor.
The stars closer to the center of the galaxy are incapable of sustaining life within their system. Most of the stars towards the center of the galaxy are far too young to even have planetary systems, yet.
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So do we get to watch Bush and Ashcroft, too?
I expect many ISPs to fight this, as it will most certainly lead, or be portrayed to lead, to a decrease in internet usage/subscriptions. Hopefully we can expect the high-volume ILECs like Verizon DSL to fight this like they did the RIAA, though doing so may risk their monopoly, so they may be hesitant to take on this giant.
Not if you send them redundantly. Come on, nobody builds anything without redundancy if they actually want it to work.
The Direct Marketing Association is threatening to sue to save U.S. consumers from the potential loss of buying opportunities.
Next: Stalker sues State for issuing restraining order, denying his ex-wife the opportunity to be harassed mercilessly.
Did you get them to sign a 1-year contract with you?
You could probably do a factory reset on the thing and that will often reset the pw to something basic like 'admin'.
Beware though, if you're not using a modem provided by DirecTV, your ISP may not be very interested in hearing that you've been playing with your router.
Profit margins for DSL are pretty low. A lot of the ISPs were forced to fit in a small market, so some of them were destined to buckle. I've heard mixed reviews of DirecTV, but if you were with them for the static IPs/power-user benefits, Speakeasy offers much of the same, and it's one of the only growing DSL ISPs in the nation. They're also running some damn nice promotions that make me a tad jealous of our customers (I am an employee).
One of the problems with a lot of the providers is their failure to differentiate. Its hard to tell the difference between a lot of these ISPs because they don't provide any one thing better than other companies. Most of these companies shot for bill consolidation, which is nice, but hardly something you can sell yourself off of, since so many internet access companies provide it (direcTV dsl, any ILEC ISP, cable broadband, etc.). There's just too many competitors shooting for the bargain/cheap-goods approach.
Having offered a plug for Speakeasy, I must warn you, they're not cheap, because you pay for what you get (or you get what you pay for, depends on how you want to approach it, I guess). That said, you get a lot of things most other ISPs wouldn't dream of offering.
As always, if you want a good medium to get recommendations, DSL Reports is a good place to go. Don't take my word on Speakeasy, their reputation there will speak for itself.
However, there is one thing to keep in mind - being in the DSL business, at the consumer level, is asking for a potentially complicated relationship. Installation can be quite a pain, and this has as much to do with any one of your phone lines, local phone company, and fate, as it does with the ISP itself. Some people aren't aware of this or don't realize it, and they get frustrated, and since the ISP is the front line of service, they're the ones who get the blame.
when they get blown over in heavy winds?
Gabe over at Penny Arcade picked up a tablet PC. There's plenty of reasons listed over there, so you can stick the innovator branch of the 'digital artist' category in the list of demand sources, as well.
I've spent my whole life among Americans, and from time to time things surprise and befuddle me here, too.
"Not sure what you're getting at...they made an accounting mistake. If they didn't bill her when they were supposed to, what gives them the right to go back and demand 200 smackers out of the blue?"
Companies do this rather frequently. If you're using a service and not being charged for it, I would imagine you're still liable to be charged for it. Especially if you want to continue your service with that company.
he got sucked in by that vulgar computer game, and next thing we know he's running around his school like a madman.. flashing everyone!
You'd think they could name it something pronounceable, like 'Bob'...
As member of Customer Support at the company I work at now, I've found its nearly impossible at a lot of companies to move up. This may not fall under the 'IT' conception of a small company with a few Unix/NT/Network Admin.s, but I'm curious what your thoughts and suggestions are for viable ways to seek promotion and the skills required for it. Which skills are the most important, and the toughest to learn/rarest to find?
Actually ATI can always attempt to fall back on the hardcore gamer demographic, which largely drives the high-end sector of the consumer graphics card market.
"If the hardcore gamers are using it, and you're not, well then what's wrong with you?"
I don't think anyone would make the claim that a distributed database would save you from accidently hitting the 'Delete' button. That's an interface problem, not a security one.
If someone ELSE hit the Delete button, then its a security issue, but a different one. The data itself, though, is fairly safe.
Check DSLReports.com, they're one of the best-rated DSL services in the country, and their T1 service is great too. Give them a call, (800)556-5829.
From an IT perspective, don't most IT departments just ghost their installs onto new machines? Talk about a pointless .. point ..
as long as the ads are on the bottom 1/4th of my screen, why not just tape some cardboard over the bottom quarter of your tv, then take it off when you're watching another channel?
Well, it is bad in that it cost them, about 45 million just to get this far, and the test itself cost 9 million.
Its almost as humiliating to screw something up like that as it is to have it simply not work.
Yeah, that works really well in the current job market. I dare you to try to find a job right now with what you had on your resume when you first got into the industry.
Perhaps the questions students are being asked to solved are becoming more like real-life situations, and therefore more complicated and less easy to put together with pen/paper? This would be the mistake of those providing materials, rather than the 'weak-minded' students - and lets be honest, its too easy to point at high school geometry students, tell them they're stupid because they can't do it the way we did it (5 miles uphill both ways). When you're first learning this stuff, though, and you're being asked to graph something that isn't easily-rounded and therefore easy to do in your head or put on pen/paper, it can be challenging, and daunting to the kid who doesn't see why he needs to learn math.
I guess folks who play tabletop roleplaying games can call us weak-minded because we don't use our imagination to play games?
The problem is the people who set them. Most of them think that their accounts are nothing more than a place that people can read email sent to them. They do not realize that a malicious person has no interest in accessing their personal correspondence, but rather in assuming an identity that is not their own.
The simple truth is, and it becomes evident when you think of it this way, the people with the greatest vested interest in password security are not the people who the passwords belong to, but the people providing the service that password gives access to. In real life terms, the company wants John Doe's password to be secure a lot more than John Doe does.
I'm working at the IT Helpdesk for my school, and I've found that a brief addendum to our 'introductory' speech that we give new employees and students can often clarify a lot of misunderstanding. That addendum consists of a simple explanation that password security isn't done as much to protect their own personal emails, but to prevent people from pretending to be them. This little bit of "insight" seems to change a lot of people's perception of password security, and they tend to be a lot more understanding of password uniqueness, length, and character variety requirements.
Of course, this still doesn't prevent them from leaving their logins and passwords on a sticky note on their monitor.
Willing to bet if I could swing from building to building I could get a better woman than Kirsten Dunst (nothing against her mind you)?
Actually, yes and no.
The stars closer to the center of the galaxy are incapable of sustaining life within their system. Most of the stars towards the center of the galaxy are far too young to even have planetary systems, yet.
There's always a market for people who can write a readable, comprehendable technical document. The pay isn't too bad either, I hear.