Look for work/internships as a systems auditor with a consulting firm.
Every publicly traded company in the US (and many have operations in Canada) is looking for Sarbox help. Look for a consulting firm that is willing to take you on for a few months. Dealing with Sarbox, you'll get a good real-world understanding of security. Though not glamorous, the experience identifying security opportunities and proposing changes will be invaluable later.
Though 2004 is the first year many companies will have to certify for Sarbox, the work for international compliance is still going strong. Look outside North America, you'll get international exposure and security experience.
That wasn't Speakeasy...that was SBC. Speakeasy's service is determined by your local phone company. SBC recently upgraded everyone's upload speed for free so that is why you received your upgrade.
as the CFO of my company put it, china needs to wake up if they want to play with the big boys in the global economy.
The US needs to wake up. China can do whatever it wants. All large companies (and thus US trade policy) will bend to China's every will because they can not survive without China's market.
China does not want to depend on any foreign nation for anything. By developing their own technologies, they are creating jobs for China's population which encourages them to get a better education. Not having to depend on anyone will allow them to pass the US in terms of economic power.
EVD is just a step in that process. To us, it will mean a cheaper media type that will most likely be better than DVD. Hollywood may not catch on, but for home use and personal recording EVD will most likely be a hit because it will be cheaper than DVD. As far as buying extra equipment, I can't imagine China would not build in DVD compatibility with their players/recorders.
My wife and I went to a nutritionist this year and it was probably the best thing we could have done for our health.
Before our appointment, the nutritionist had us get a blood test. At the appointment (which lasted 3 hrs) we went over the results and developed a diet taylored to our blood type. What we ended up with was two diets that were very different.
Basically, my blood type (O) needs A LOT more protein than other blood types. Thus, Atkins is great for me but not so great for my wife (who is not O). At the same time, sugars and other carbs are bad for both us.
The bottom line is, see an expert. In my case, a nutritionist was the best bet. Nutritionists are not doctors so keep that in mind.
Just google for "Eat Right Blood Type" and you'll find resources.
In an enterprise setting, your email is sent clear text only to your BES server which should be within your secured network. After that, it is encrypted on your BES server with a 128bit security key that only YOUR LOCAL BES server and your handheld know.
Once the email is encrypted it is sent from the BES server, to RIM, to the network provider then to your handheld. The only place the email can be decrypted is the handheld.
So, unless you are using encryption on your imap/pop/smtp server the Blackberry is far more secure.
In your case, you would also not be able to remotely lock or erase the device if it were lost which is a really nice thing to have. I wouldn't want to be the one to tell my boss that I couldn't keep company info secure because I couldn't lock the device from my desk.
Winkler contended that none of the Ghetto Hackers he hired had criminal backgrounds.
Okay, so they didn't get caught. Or maybe Winkler did it USofA style and offered to 'stop investigating' GH if they helped him. Kind of like giving one criminal a pardon because he tattled on another.
"If you were a Fortune 500 company and you hired a hacker with a criminal record to test your systems, what would you tell your shareholders?" That we care about our systems and want the best. If I'm going to hire a bodyguard I'm going to hire someone who has been in combat and knows what it REALLY feels like to be shot at.
So why would one want to hire someone with Mitnick's background? Because of his skills, and his ability to raise corporate awareness to how people can "social engineer" them out of sensitive information. Mitnick's book is awesome and should be required reading for anyone who has to answer a phone (hmm..EVERYONE?!). Have you ever held the a door open for someone without asking for their ID if it was required? Ever walked AWAY from a security door while it was still open?
$16.50 for 128kbps is VERY expensive when considered with broadband prices. US based broadband prices are significantly cheaper than this. To get 1.5 at the same scale would be $196. So your accusation of price fixing U.S. broadband doesn't hold water. Dialup is still pretty close since there is a transfer cap.
The government (especially in Illinois) really screwed SBC over. They LOSE money on every line that a third-party provider installs. SBC has to give it to them below their cost. That is why you don't see DSL getting rolled out in more areas. The phone company CAN do it but they WON'T do it. Would you do something if you knew for a fact you would lose money? The phone company still has to make money to pay all their people. I can get 1.5Mbps SDSL if they fired up the RT I'm connected to but since they haven't I'm stuck with 384/128.
Cable modems are also expensive to rollout but the cable company doesn't have to share (go figure). Your $50 a month is a drop in the bucket compared to what it costs to install the cable modem infrastructure (even when added up over a year or so).
Please, try being your own ISP before complaining when your ISP is restricting you at $50 a month.
For my business I pay $500 a month for a T1 with NO CAPS/RESTRICTIONS WHAT SO EVER. If you want the same get something similiar or get 'business' class.
Will the people who forked over the $300 (or whatever) for "lifetime service" be considered creditors too? Shouldn't they be?
Lifetime is the life of the company or the life of the product line (which ever ends first), not YOUR lifetime.
That's is a myth. Have you been to a recruitment fair in awhile? A lot of companies just turn master students away because they want more money (in general). If you don't believe me, go to just about any job/internship fair. The only exception being teachers.
Also, masters programs can be viewed as an 'easy out' to finding a job. Getting a masters right out of undergrad will not help you. The point of a masters is to build on what you've learned in your life experience.
Right out of college you have nothing to lose. Live with your parents for awhile (I did). Take your time finding a job, research companies you want to work at and talk to people who work there. Most jobs are found through someone you know.
The Dell and T23 I have had less than year. The Compaq and Thinkpad 600 I had for over a year. If a battery goes bad within a year that's just a terrible battery, I'm not excusing that. My point was if you take care of it, you are more likely to keep it in good condition.
That said...if you get two years out of a laptop battery you got a great deal.
I wouldn't recommend leaving the bay open though. I know Dell and Compaq make covers. A quick search on IBMs website didn't find any covers but I bet if you call 1-888-SHOP-IBM ext.7000 they can hook you up with one.
I owned a Thinkpad 600 for about 1.5 years (with heavy battery usage in class) and never had a battery problem. I've also owned a Compaq laptop and currently have a Dell laptop (personal) and IBM T-23 (work) and have no battery problems.
For all of my laptops, I made it a habit to discharge the battery to about 10% every two to three weeks and recharge it when the unit is off. If I'm not going to be using the battery I take it out and leave it in the laptop bag.
Pretty simple but tedious. At the same time, however, I have not had to purchase a replacement battery for any laptop I've ever owned.
As a side note, I gave my Thinkpad 600 to my mother about a year ago and she has never had a problem either. She still discharges the battery to 10% once a month and it is still in good condition.
You can try and block the ports in question but if you really need those ports open then the firewall does you no good.
Firewalls are not a catch-all. There are ways to examine each packet as it goes through to check the payload but they are both expensive and slow down your network quite a bit.
There are many ways for a virus to get in a large corporate network (not just from the public internet). I know in one case a developer (which means the image isn't locked down) had dialed out with their laptop and without rebooting plugged it back into the docking station...boom.
Believe me, I'd rather have warm arms around me than an item in EQ anyday.
I played while my now fiancee was in Europe studying. Started playing the day she left. Stopped the day she came back. Probably kept me out of a lot of trouble since it is so consuming:).
I like the Li-Ion battery in the Zire. My biggest complaint about my current PDA is the short lifespan of the AAA batteries (which get expensive). I didn't see a car charger on the list of accessories but I'm sure they will have one.
As mentioned in previous posts, it only has 2MB of memory. For the average user this is fine. If I begin to run out of space I can simply sync with my PC and store what I haven't used in awhile.
The m105 is the same price for the more memory but uses AAA batteries, has an older PalmOS but has internet support. I'm suprised this feature isn't built into the Zire.
I guess the one thing that the Zire does have going for it is style. The m105 is pretty ugly:).
When you said "max hours player per week" I thought about Legend Of the Red Dragon:). My favorite BBS DOOR game:).
You can only play so many turns a day (in the main game at least, the addons were different). The only way to really get ahead of people was to use your time effectively and to play everday.
I love EQ and the realm it is set in. If they offered a server where you could only get "X" amount of experience a week I would play on that server. I work 10-12 hours a day now and can only play for a few hours a night if at all. At least with a server like this you know you are with casual players in a more relaxed environment (or at least I think it would be).
But when you hit that experience limit, that doesn't mean you can't play. You just can't gain any more experience.
Now if we can do something about loot mongering....:)
The first one though, may be changing. Hopefully we'll see some corporate accountability if the execs from Worldcom, Adelphia, et al are convicted and get nice long prison sentences or very large fines.
At the end, one of the soldiers (I can't remember his name) says something like: "I'm not going back out there for political reasons or because I feel bad for the people here, I'm going back out there for the guy next me."
So maybe the department should be: dieing-for-the-guy-next-you.
The "poor college student" line is old. You are not poor. Studies have shown college students have the most disposable income of all but the highest tax brackets.
I bet you spend more than five bucks a WEEK on things like beer, pizza or pepsi/coke out of vending machines. Think about that when you order from Papa John's or Pizza Hut.
Some of your other reasons (like quality and availability) are good though.
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Look for work/internships as a systems auditor with a consulting firm.
Every publicly traded company in the US (and many have operations in Canada) is looking for Sarbox help. Look for a consulting firm that is willing to take you on for a few months. Dealing with Sarbox, you'll get a good real-world understanding of security. Though not glamorous, the experience identifying security opportunities and proposing changes will be invaluable later.
Though 2004 is the first year many companies will have to certify for Sarbox, the work for international compliance is still going strong. Look outside North America, you'll get international exposure and security experience.
That wasn't Speakeasy...that was SBC. Speakeasy's service is determined by your local phone company. SBC recently upgraded everyone's upload speed for free so that is why you received your upgrade.
The US needs to wake up. China can do whatever it wants. All large companies (and thus US trade policy) will bend to China's every will because they can not survive without China's market.
China does not want to depend on any foreign nation for anything. By developing their own technologies, they are creating jobs for China's population which encourages them to get a better education. Not having to depend on anyone will allow them to pass the US in terms of economic power.
EVD is just a step in that process. To us, it will mean a cheaper media type that will most likely be better than DVD. Hollywood may not catch on, but for home use and personal recording EVD will most likely be a hit because it will be cheaper than DVD. As far as buying extra equipment, I can't imagine China would not build in DVD compatibility with their players/recorders.
America wants it cheap and China gives it to us.
My wife and I went to a nutritionist this year and it was probably the best thing we could have done for our health.
Before our appointment, the nutritionist had us get a blood test. At the appointment (which lasted 3 hrs) we went over the results and developed a diet taylored to our blood type. What we ended up with was two diets that were very different.
Basically, my blood type (O) needs A LOT more protein than other blood types. Thus, Atkins is great for me but not so great for my wife (who is not O). At the same time, sugars and other carbs are bad for both us.
The bottom line is, see an expert. In my case, a nutritionist was the best bet. Nutritionists are not doctors so keep that in mind.
Just google for "Eat Right Blood Type" and you'll find resources.
Sketchpad is an application my wife (a high school teacher) uses ALL the time.
Now if Grade Machine worked under Wine...
In an enterprise setting, your email is sent clear text only to your BES server which should be within your secured network. After that, it is encrypted on your BES server with a 128bit security key that only YOUR LOCAL BES server and your handheld know.
Once the email is encrypted it is sent from the BES server, to RIM, to the network provider then to your handheld. The only place the email can be decrypted is the handheld.
So, unless you are using encryption on your imap/pop/smtp server the Blackberry is far more secure.
In your case, you would also not be able to remotely lock or erase the device if it were lost which is a really nice thing to have. I wouldn't want to be the one to tell my boss that I couldn't keep company info secure because I couldn't lock the device from my desk.
Okay, so they didn't get caught. Or maybe Winkler did it USofA style and offered to 'stop investigating' GH if they helped him. Kind of like giving one criminal a pardon because he tattled on another.
"If you were a Fortune 500 company and you hired a hacker with a criminal record to test your systems, what would you tell your shareholders?"
That we care about our systems and want the best. If I'm going to hire a bodyguard I'm going to hire someone who has been in combat and knows what it REALLY feels like to be shot at.
So why would one want to hire someone with Mitnick's background? Because of his skills, and his ability to raise corporate awareness to how people can "social engineer" them out of sensitive information.
Mitnick's book is awesome and should be required reading for anyone who has to answer a phone (hmm..EVERYONE?!). Have you ever held the a door open for someone without asking for their ID if it was required? Ever walked AWAY from a security door while it was still open?
The government (especially in Illinois) really screwed SBC over. They LOSE money on every line that a third-party provider installs. SBC has to give it to them below their cost. That is why you don't see DSL getting rolled out in more areas. The phone company CAN do it but they WON'T do it. Would you do something if you knew for a fact you would lose money? The phone company still has to make money to pay all their people. I can get 1.5Mbps SDSL if they fired up the RT I'm connected to but since they haven't I'm stuck with 384/128.
Cable modems are also expensive to rollout but the cable company doesn't have to share (go figure). Your $50 a month is a drop in the bucket compared to what it costs to install the cable modem infrastructure (even when added up over a year or so).
Please, try being your own ISP before complaining when your ISP is restricting you at $50 a month.
For my business I pay $500 a month for a T1 with NO CAPS/RESTRICTIONS WHAT SO EVER. If you want the same get something similiar or get 'business' class.
Oh, and de glad you don't live in Australia.
Will the people who forked over the $300 (or whatever) for "lifetime service" be considered creditors too? Shouldn't they be?
Lifetime is the life of the company or the life of the product line (which ever ends first), not YOUR lifetime.
Also, masters programs can be viewed as an 'easy out' to finding a job. Getting a masters right out of undergrad will not help you. The point of a masters is to build on what you've learned in your life experience.
Right out of college you have nothing to lose. Live with your parents for awhile (I did). Take your time finding a job, research companies you want to work at and talk to people who work there. Most jobs are found through someone you know.
Because most pop stars don't write their own music. Anyone can learn to play three cords. It takes talent to write good music.
That said...if you get two years out of a laptop battery you got a great deal.
I wouldn't recommend leaving the bay open though. I know Dell and Compaq make covers. A quick search on IBMs website didn't find any covers but I bet if you call 1-888-SHOP-IBM ext.7000 they can hook you up with one.
For all of my laptops, I made it a habit to discharge the battery to about 10% every two to three weeks and recharge it when the unit is off. If I'm not going to be using the battery I take it out and leave it in the laptop bag.
Pretty simple but tedious. At the same time, however, I have not had to purchase a replacement battery for any laptop I've ever owned.
As a side note, I gave my Thinkpad 600 to my mother about a year ago and she has never had a problem either. She still discharges the battery to 10% once a month and it is still in good condition.
Firewalls are not a catch-all. There are ways to examine each packet as it goes through to check the payload but they are both expensive and slow down your network quite a bit.
There are many ways for a virus to get in a large corporate network (not just from the public internet). I know in one case a developer (which means the image isn't locked down) had dialed out with their laptop and without rebooting plugged it back into the docking station...boom.
Oh well, monster.com decided to show a commercial (pretty bad too).
People doing this stuff are probably genius level, not just taught :).
As mentioned in previous posts, it only has 2MB of memory. For the average user this is fine. If I begin to run out of space I can simply sync with my PC and store what I haven't used in awhile.
The m105 is the same price for the more memory but uses AAA batteries, has an older PalmOS but has internet support. I'm suprised this feature isn't built into the Zire.
I guess the one thing that the Zire does have going for it is style. The m105 is pretty ugly :).
When you said "max hours player per week" I thought about Legend Of the Red Dragon :). My favorite BBS DOOR game :).
:)
You can only play so many turns a day (in the main game at least, the addons were different). The only way to really get ahead of people was to use your time effectively and to play everday.
I love EQ and the realm it is set in. If they offered a server where you could only get "X" amount of experience a week I would play on that server. I work 10-12 hours a day now and can only play for a few hours a night if at all. At least with a server like this you know you are with casual players in a more relaxed environment (or at least I think it would be).
But when you hit that experience limit, that doesn't mean you can't play. You just can't gain any more experience.
Now if we can do something about loot mongering....
I like both quotes.
The first one though, may be changing. Hopefully we'll see some corporate accountability if the execs from Worldcom, Adelphia, et al are convicted and get nice long prison sentences or very large fines.
Is there any way to be certain the software from Brilliant will be removed if you uninstall Kazaa and delete the program directory?
Katz obviously didn't watch the end of the movie.
At the end, one of the soldiers (I can't remember his name) says something like: "I'm not going back out there for political reasons or because I feel bad for the people here, I'm going back out there for the guy next me."
So maybe the department should be: dieing-for-the-guy-next-you.
Know an important quote when you hear one.
The "poor college student" line is old. You are not poor. Studies have shown college students have the most disposable income of all but the highest tax brackets.
I bet you spend more than five bucks a WEEK on things like beer, pizza or pepsi/coke out of vending machines. Think about that when you order from Papa John's or Pizza Hut.
Some of your other reasons (like quality and availability) are good though.