This is nothing new. Google yourself on "Greimas semantic rectangle". SciFi readers may also remember this from Michel Duval's analysis on Kim Stanley Robinson's Red Mars.
Balancing three Satellite connections and three landlines is not such a big deal. With equipment like Israeli company Radware's LinkProof at both ends, the loss of one line would not be noticed. You can configure that equipment to aggregate all connections to multiply the bandwidth, including spreading VPN traffic across the lines, or just use the other lines as failover. These boxes are supposed to handle 10 connections and are very configurable and are veeeery configurable.
The same technology is available for smaller sites with their Linkproof Branch product.
So what happens when the hackers decide to target Linux, a platform that offers a lot more flexibility once you've 0wn3d the box? People will know less what to do with half-GUI/half-CLI Linux than they will with the 99.99% GUI controlled Windows. I know some distros will offer better updating than RedHat's new "what's up2date?" policy, but don't act like open source has never had any security holes. People will be less likely to update these things unless it's forced on them, and Microsoft is just now getting around to making that happen. I think you overestimate joe-sixpack's armchair admin abilities.
Wait a minute, you're not getting off that easy. You wasted disk space, time seeking the torrent file, download time, electricity to run all that, the oil burned to make the electricity, and thus the lives needed to safeguard that oil, and on top of that you wasted time WATCHING Gigli?!?! You should be brought up on war crime charges, dude.
You misunderstand. Anyone carrying a laptop from home and plugging it into your network ir circumventing the firewall, no matter how well configured it is. What is need is firewalling at each port of a switch. At the very least, laptop users can be placed into a VLAN of their own, probably as part of the WLAN opeartion, so that they can only readily infect each other.
I understand you have a new policy concerning customers, and I believe that I am the customer you are targeting with that policy. I hereby put you on notice that I *will* only buy things from you when they are on sale because they are otherwise overpriced in your store (MSRP, my ass). And if I buy it with a rebate, fulfill the rebate and then find that I am unsatisfied with the product, I *will* return it, and you can worry about the rebate issues.
On the day that you stop having good sales and rebates I will no longer buy from you. I am a veteran of the dot-com boom when everyone and their mother sold things at outrageous prices and then disappeared. I was there when 800.com sold 3 DVDs for $1 with nothing else to buy and they are now gone. Egghead.com had great sales when they went online, but no longer offered competitive pricing so good riddance. Treat me and my fellow customers like crap and you won't even have a store left in your native state of Minnesota. Until then I will suck you dry since (shocking as this may be to Best Buy's management) I am not there to give them as much of my money as I can in each individual product I buy. I want the most bang for the buck.
To those that were actually physically accosted by an employee, I don't know what magic restraint you have, but I would have put that person into an armlock at that point. NOTHING gives them the right to touch you, especially when they are trying to coerce your hard earned money in that fashion.
For items that you know are going to need servicing, it can be a good idea:
A big screen rear-projection TV can need frequent service. I've had the tech out multiple times in the years I've had it, where each visit would have cost me what little I initially paid for the service contract. This was not bought from Best Buy, but from another store. Glad I got it.
Creative Zen Jukebox that I'm using every day and charging very frequently. The contract cost is the cost of the battery which is NOT going to last long in my hands. The manufacturer warranty sucks. I'm going to break the headphone jack...I just am. They replace the unit no questions asked and I just zap my music library onto the new one.
Audio receiver, probably not a good idea. XBox, maybe not a good idea either. Webcam, no.
The features that will cause the most headaches are the component protections in IE and the firewall. I recommend highly that this be tested thoroughly ahead of time, and managed centrally from AD so this does not have to be tuned individually at each end-user system. System policies can be applied across the network so that the common apps in use can be automatically allowed through the firewall and any required ActiveX type controls can be pre-authorized for use. This can even be done for each OU if the apps in use are that different between departments.
Yahoo and Hotmail are being protected by these puppies from Ironport. They use Brightmail to filter to the Bulk folder and Sophos for AV. Hopefully they turned on both features.
...John the Ripper. It's been ported to cracking so many password systems. Very useful in telling someone that their dog's name is not a valid password. The upside of it is that you crack passwords on your own network for your benefit, and not expose them to masses of other people.
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And this improper action cannot be done with other programming languages?
Because right now there are a number of conflicts going on that require our attention for fear that we may not be around to see the little pictures. We should probably sort out why humanity hates itself before we go trying to impress any galactic neighbors.
I'm amazed by how puny these pictures are after having seen what the Mars rovers can produce. Also, I was unaware of the fact that the rings are very pure water. Imagine what Saturn will look like without those rings once we mine them away to support exploration to other parts of the solar system.
Sorry, but my little Philips Pronto for $180 off EBay does all I need. Fully programmable, though not in color, I can control X10 devices and all my AV gear.
As the father of DNS put it, one day everything will be an URL. I can't imagine that in the future we won't have thousands of channels that require URLs instead of referring to numbers as once was done with IP addresses so long long ago. Amazingly the infotainment medium of the Internet has surpassed television in that regard so that realistically the two will merge and television as we know it will just be another service on the Internet called up by the URLs we all know and love. I just hate to think of the Goatse commercials on the Slashdot channel.
As if the PRC is going to allow those people to use the IP addresses on communication devices with which to freely express themselves. To think that a human being can't say "I think this policy is crap" without fear of having their head beaten in and being starved in a jail. Instead, I see a lot of IP based monitoring devices going into place.
So sooner or later we are due to have our market of cheap products squeezed just like our market for cheap oil is being squeezed. This wouldn't be a danger if we relied more on homespun tech. Sure, those cheap jobs aren't really good enough for Americans, but any job is better than none.
Online billpay is great for month-to-month living, but if you want to do any planning at all, you should actively seek a bank that is compatible with one of those two. I don't mean seeing a couple of past months worth of statements, but seeing a few years worth of expenses and income that you can do custom reports and graphs on. A few banks that do online billpay allow you to download in either of those formats, so even if the software does not directly link to the bank (see OFX and www.corillian.com), then you can still do the above.
Amazing how people will strive for maximum compatibility out of their phone and computers, but when it comes to managing the resource that pays for those, we don't mind what services we get.
Some time this past year, Sun revoked their cert they use for the PatchPro automated patch system. I use the system so infrequently (as opposed to the monthly use of Microsoft's SUS) that when it was revoked I had to look up how to get the new cert onto all the Sun systems (update the SUNWcert package).
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This is nothing new. Google yourself on "Greimas semantic rectangle". SciFi readers may also remember this from Michel Duval's analysis on Kim Stanley Robinson's Red Mars.
Me, please.
Me too. Gmail, but no Orkut.
Balancing three Satellite connections and three landlines is not such a big deal. With equipment like Israeli company Radware's LinkProof at both ends, the loss of one line would not be noticed. You can configure that equipment to aggregate all connections to multiply the bandwidth, including spreading VPN traffic across the lines, or just use the other lines as failover. These boxes are supposed to handle 10 connections and are very configurable and are veeeery configurable.
The same technology is available for smaller sites with their Linkproof Branch product.
It was called The Core.
In other news, OJ is still looking for the real killer. It wasn't him either.
So what happens when the hackers decide to target Linux, a platform that offers a lot more flexibility once you've 0wn3d the box? People will know less what to do with half-GUI/half-CLI Linux than they will with the 99.99% GUI controlled Windows. I know some distros will offer better updating than RedHat's new "what's up2date?" policy, but don't act like open source has never had any security holes. People will be less likely to update these things unless it's forced on them, and Microsoft is just now getting around to making that happen. I think you overestimate joe-sixpack's armchair admin abilities.
Secondly, the earth (by virtue of being heavier) has a lower surface area to volume ratio
Isn't the ratio of surface area to volume for a sphere a constant, i.e., both dependent on the diameter? Did you mean "surface area to mass ratio"?
volume =(4/3) [pi] r^{3}
surface area = 4 [pi] r^{2} (a derivative of the volume)
Nothing there indicating it will change due to the contents being heavier.
Wait a minute, you're not getting off that easy. You wasted disk space, time seeking the torrent file, download time, electricity to run all that, the oil burned to make the electricity, and thus the lives needed to safeguard that oil, and on top of that you wasted time WATCHING Gigli?!?! You should be brought up on war crime charges, dude.
You misunderstand. Anyone carrying a laptop from home and plugging it into your network ir circumventing the firewall, no matter how well configured it is. What is need is firewalling at each port of a switch. At the very least, laptop users can be placed into a VLAN of their own, probably as part of the WLAN opeartion, so that they can only readily infect each other.
I understand you have a new policy concerning customers, and I believe that I am the customer you are targeting with that policy. I hereby put you on notice that I *will* only buy things from you when they are on sale because they are otherwise overpriced in your store (MSRP, my ass). And if I buy it with a rebate, fulfill the rebate and then find that I am unsatisfied with the product, I *will* return it, and you can worry about the rebate issues.
On the day that you stop having good sales and rebates I will no longer buy from you. I am a veteran of the dot-com boom when everyone and their mother sold things at outrageous prices and then disappeared. I was there when 800.com sold 3 DVDs for $1 with nothing else to buy and they are now gone. Egghead.com had great sales when they went online, but no longer offered competitive pricing so good riddance. Treat me and my fellow customers like crap and you won't even have a store left in your native state of Minnesota. Until then I will suck you dry since (shocking as this may be to Best Buy's management) I am not there to give them as much of my money as I can in each individual product I buy. I want the most bang for the buck.
To those that were actually physically accosted by an employee, I don't know what magic restraint you have, but I would have put that person into an armlock at that point. NOTHING gives them the right to touch you, especially when they are trying to coerce your hard earned money in that fashion.
For items that you know are going to need servicing, it can be a good idea:
A big screen rear-projection TV can need frequent service. I've had the tech out multiple times in the years I've had it, where each visit would have cost me what little I initially paid for the service contract. This was not bought from Best Buy, but from another store. Glad I got it.
Creative Zen Jukebox that I'm using every day and charging very frequently. The contract cost is the cost of the battery which is NOT going to last long in my hands. The manufacturer warranty sucks. I'm going to break the headphone jack...I just am. They replace the unit no questions asked and I just zap my music library onto the new one.
Audio receiver, probably not a good idea. XBox, maybe not a good idea either. Webcam, no.
The features that will cause the most headaches are the component protections in IE and the firewall. I recommend highly that this be tested thoroughly ahead of time, and managed centrally from AD so this does not have to be tuned individually at each end-user system. System policies can be applied across the network so that the common apps in use can be automatically allowed through the firewall and any required ActiveX type controls can be pre-authorized for use. This can even be done for each OU if the apps in use are that different between departments.
Yahoo and Hotmail are being protected by these puppies from Ironport. They use Brightmail to filter to the Bulk folder and Sophos for AV. Hopefully they turned on both features.
...John the Ripper. It's been ported to cracking so many password systems. Very useful in telling someone that their dog's name is not a valid password. The upside of it is that you crack passwords on your own network for your benefit, and not expose them to masses of other people.
And this improper action cannot be done with other programming languages?
Because right now there are a number of conflicts going on that require our attention for fear that we may not be around to see the little pictures. We should probably sort out why humanity hates itself before we go trying to impress any galactic neighbors.
I'm amazed by how puny these pictures are after having seen what the Mars rovers can produce. Also, I was unaware of the fact that the rings are very pure water. Imagine what Saturn will look like without those rings once we mine them away to support exploration to other parts of the solar system.
Sorry, but my little Philips Pronto for $180 off EBay does all I need. Fully programmable, though not in color, I can control X10 devices and all my AV gear.
As the father of DNS put it, one day everything will be an URL. I can't imagine that in the future we won't have thousands of channels that require URLs instead of referring to numbers as once was done with IP addresses so long long ago. Amazingly the infotainment medium of the Internet has surpassed television in that regard so that realistically the two will merge and television as we know it will just be another service on the Internet called up by the URLs we all know and love. I just hate to think of the Goatse commercials on the Slashdot channel.
As if the PRC is going to allow those people to use the IP addresses on communication devices with which to freely express themselves. To think that a human being can't say "I think this policy is crap" without fear of having their head beaten in and being starved in a jail. Instead, I see a lot of IP based monitoring devices going into place.
So sooner or later we are due to have our market of cheap products squeezed just like our market for cheap oil is being squeezed. This wouldn't be a danger if we relied more on homespun tech. Sure, those cheap jobs aren't really good enough for Americans, but any job is better than none.
Online billpay is great for month-to-month living, but if you want to do any planning at all, you should actively seek a bank that is compatible with one of those two. I don't mean seeing a couple of past months worth of statements, but seeing a few years worth of expenses and income that you can do custom reports and graphs on. A few banks that do online billpay allow you to download in either of those formats, so even if the software does not directly link to the bank (see OFX and www.corillian.com), then you can still do the above.
Amazing how people will strive for maximum compatibility out of their phone and computers, but when it comes to managing the resource that pays for those, we don't mind what services we get.
Tom Clancy had a tech in Rainbox Six that tracked heartbeats, but was blown off at the time as being unrealistic.
Much like that interstellar travel stuff.
How is this different from the Web of Trust free cert service that Thawte provides? Same notarization scheme.
Some time this past year, Sun revoked their cert they use for the PatchPro automated patch system. I use the system so infrequently (as opposed to the monthly use of Microsoft's SUS) that when it was revoked I had to look up how to get the new cert onto all the Sun systems (update the SUNWcert package).