That's not exactly true. Cooptel has their own equipment in the bell colocation so they are renting raw fiber pairs from Bell. That goes for the eastern half of the island anyhow or that's what their installers told me two years ago while I was installing equipment for colba.net.
It's possible that they are reselling for Bell in areas they don't cover yet.
Microsoft's biggest market advantage is the amount of legacy software that supports their platform.
Rewriting an app to be cross platform is not much more work than rewriting for a single OS so if they force application makers to do a complete rewrite they risk having them rewrite using cross platform libraries.
UAC's constant nagging is actually there to piss off users of bad software and put pressure on application makers so they will go through the trouble of designing software that doesn't need constant admin access.
Actually deep linking helps you in the short term.
You end up with a site like boston.com sending their own customers to your site where their customers read your news articles and you get revenue because you get paid when they see your ads.
Objections to deep linking come from the flawed idea that without deep linking the customers would have come to the main page and read the ads there before going on to the page in question. I find it much more likely that they would never have known about the article at all.
That's a leftover from when train engineers really were engineers. Coal fueled engines needed to be carefully regulated or they could explode.
As for the "Network Engineers" at least in Canada it's actually against the law to call yourself that. The engineering association in Canada put their collective feet down a few years ago about the whole MCSE thing. Microsoft of course pretends it didn't happen but just tells people to call themselves an MCSE and not spell out what it means.
Payment card industry standards require Anti virus software to be installed on anything running Windows that can possibly access credit card data. That means servers + any workstations that access admin functions.
It's worse than that. The bitkeeper author at one point tried to extend that as a ban on anyone who works for a company that has a competing product with bitkeeper.
I can confirm EBCDIC is still being used for new projects. A bank handed the company I work for something that was essentially EBCDIC encapsulated in SOAP.
It's interesting to me how often I've seen it work the other way. In many union work places I've been to there is an attitude of "I'm entitled to my wages so I can just do enough to keep my job" The other problem is that the union will add an extra layer of bureaucracy to the work so now I can't just go to my boss with an issue and have it fixed this week instead I'll have to go file papers with my union so they can talk to my boss about it.
I think the problem is that you can't force someone to not be an idiot. An employer who can't be bothered to care for the employees is still going to be a pain to deal with once the union is involved.
I think a better idea then unions would be to just allow better labor mobility. That way if the employer sucks the employees can quit and the employer's business suffers. I suspect that's the only way we will ever get rid of idiot employers.
The problem is that under the current rules unions now have the upper hand in bargaining and union management tends to have their own agenda that often doesn't take the financial health of the employer into account.
Facing a choice of either losing gobs of money now due to a strike or sacrificing long term profitability is not an enviable position to be in.
The problem though is that people see patterns and come to the wrong conclusion. It's the delusion that everything has to do with you.
See the same person driving behind you a lot? Could it be that that you leave around the same time every day and so does that person? If you think this is happening to you then you should break your patterns and see if their pattern changes as well.
As an example: I had a girl think I was stalking her and confront me about it. Her evidence? Several times when she was praying I was nearby.
I thought about it for awhile since it's rather disconcerting when someone I wasn't paying any attention to whatsoever is suddenly screaming at me and accusing me of eavesdropping. I realized that I had a favorite seat and so did she. Her favorite seat was several rows behind me. Simple crowd dynamics explained that when she went up to pray I ended up being in the same area.
She could have tested her suspicions by praying elsewhere and saved me the headache and her the trouble of having her family think she lost her marbles.
No in the sense that for example a printer would show itself as say an "AC 2008" printer with Quality control but no paper sorting bin and the OS would load a generic printer driver and handle it.
It doesn't require the device to be smarter since it would have the same capabilities as before. The only difference is that each printer maker would now implement the standard interface instead of inventing it's own.
Not even close.. They need a hardware standard.. not a driver standard.
Imagine if you plugged in a printer and the OS said "oh you plugged in a printer" and just handled it instead of having to go off in search of a driver.
Or better yet: they could demand all devices conform to a set standard and then produce drivers for standard hardware only.
There is no reason for printers to all have different ways to talk to the OS. Same goes for scanners. This could all be standardized.
I suspect the reason they haven't done this before is that having 1000 devices all needing different drivers is a huge advantage for the incumbent OS. Unfortunately for Microsoft that incumbent OS is XP not Vista so it's all come back to bite them.
Bank systems assume that all parts of their network are trusted and that everyone connected is honest. This assumption broke horribly with ACH.
Ever link Paypal to your account? Wonder why Paypal will do a micro deposit and then ask for the amount they sent before it lets you use it? It's because the transfer is done via ACH and if you get the account number wrong they will end up withdrawing from the wrong account. No one checks these things.
There are third parties you can go to and use them to withdraw the money for you. All I need are your transit, branch and account numbers. All of these numbers are at the bottom of every check if you know how to read the account number.
I do a lot of IT contract work and some of it has been for telemarketing ops in Montreal and most of them are less than honest. Take a guess what form of payment they prefer? ACH.. it takes awhile to notice that the money is gone and it's the hardest to reverse.
Your making the mistake of assuming a fraudster will go through the effort of making a fake check.
I can take the numbers off the bottom of the check and initiate an ACH transfer that has no security checks whatsoever.
Fraudulent electronic transfers are the victim's responsibility to check and in the few days to a month it will take someone to notice the problem I can move the money somewhere else.
It's all electronic too so I'd have much less chance of being caught.
This is why I have a seperate account where my checks go to that only has enough money in it to cover the outstanding.
Has the added benefit of not accidentally bouncing checks because I forgot there was one pending. Works great for those cases where some idiot keeps my checks for a month before cashing it.
Hes also made the mistake of thinking that all people work on open source for free. These days many people get payed to work on open source projects by people who either make money selling open source products(Red Hat, IBM) or need certain features to work a certain way(Google, Adaptec).
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That's not exactly true. Cooptel has their own equipment in the bell colocation so they are renting raw fiber pairs from Bell. That goes for the eastern half of the island anyhow or that's what their installers told me two years ago while I was installing equipment for colba.net.
It's possible that they are reselling for Bell in areas they don't cover yet.
Could also use metal conduit. That should protect it from anything except construction workers..
Microsoft Exec: UAC Designed to Annoy Users
Microsoft's biggest market advantage is the amount of legacy software that supports their platform.
Rewriting an app to be cross platform is not much more work than rewriting for a single OS so if they force application makers to do a complete rewrite they risk having them rewrite using cross platform libraries.
UAC's constant nagging is actually there to piss off users of bad software and put pressure on application makers so they will go through the trouble of designing software that doesn't need constant admin access.
Actually deep linking helps you in the short term.
You end up with a site like boston.com sending their own customers to your site where their customers read your news articles and you get revenue because you get paid when they see your ads.
Objections to deep linking come from the flawed idea that without deep linking the customers would have come to the main page and read the ads there before going on to the page in question. I find it much more likely that they would never have known about the article at all.
Whoever filed that lawsuit needs to be fired.
That's a leftover from when train engineers really were engineers. Coal fueled engines needed to be carefully regulated or they could explode.
As for the "Network Engineers" at least in Canada it's actually against the law to call yourself that. The engineering association in Canada put their collective feet down a few years ago about the whole MCSE thing. Microsoft of course pretends it didn't happen but just tells people to call themselves an MCSE and not spell out what it means.
Payment card industry standards require Anti virus software to be installed on anything running Windows that can possibly access credit card data.
That means servers + any workstations that access admin functions.
It's worse than that. The bitkeeper author at one point tried to extend that as a ban on anyone who works for a company that has a competing product with bitkeeper.
I can confirm EBCDIC is still being used for new projects. A bank handed the company I work for something that was essentially EBCDIC encapsulated in SOAP.
EBCDIC + XML = bank based web services!
PCI is too stringent and the result is that most merchants take one look and then don't even try.
It's interesting to me how often I've seen it work the other way. In many union work places I've been to there is an attitude of "I'm entitled to my wages so I can just do enough to keep my job" The other problem is that the union will add an extra layer of bureaucracy to the work so now I can't just go to my boss with an issue and have it fixed this week instead I'll have to go file papers with my union so they can talk to my boss about it.
I think the problem is that you can't force someone to not be an idiot. An employer who can't be bothered to care for the employees is still going to be a pain to deal with once the union is involved.
I think a better idea then unions would be to just allow better labor mobility. That way if the employer sucks the employees can quit and the employer's business suffers. I suspect that's the only way we will ever get rid of idiot employers.
The problem is that under the current rules unions now have the upper hand in bargaining and union management tends to have their own agenda that often doesn't take the financial health of the employer into account.
Facing a choice of either losing gobs of money now due to a strike or sacrificing long term profitability is not an enviable position to be in.
That would be an add-on problem.
I think anyone who doesn't like the current vigilante approach should step up and implement something better.
At the moment there is no other option and they should quit whining.
The problem though is that people see patterns and come to the wrong conclusion. It's the delusion that everything has to do with you.
See the same person driving behind you a lot? Could it be that that you leave around the same time every day and so does that person? If you think this is happening to you then you should break your patterns and see if their pattern changes as well.
As an example:
I had a girl think I was stalking her and confront me about it. Her evidence? Several times when she was praying I was nearby.
I thought about it for awhile since it's rather disconcerting when someone I wasn't paying any attention to whatsoever is suddenly screaming at me and accusing me of eavesdropping. I realized that I had a favorite seat and so did she. Her favorite seat was several rows behind me. Simple crowd dynamics explained that when she went up to pray I ended up being in the same area.
She could have tested her suspicions by praying elsewhere and saved me the headache and her the trouble of having her family think she lost her marbles.
No in the sense that for example a printer would show itself as say an "AC 2008" printer with Quality control but no paper sorting bin and the OS would load a generic printer driver and handle it.
It doesn't require the device to be smarter since it would have the same capabilities as before. The only difference is that each printer maker would now implement the standard interface instead of inventing it's own.
Think about all the new features they have added to the CPU in the last few years yet somehow software compiled for Intel works on AMD and vice versa.
Not even close.. They need a hardware standard.. not a driver standard.
Imagine if you plugged in a printer and the OS said "oh you plugged in a printer" and just handled it instead of having to go off in search of a driver.
Or better yet: they could demand all devices conform to a set standard and then produce drivers for standard hardware only.
There is no reason for printers to all have different ways to talk to the OS. Same goes for scanners. This could all be standardized.
I suspect the reason they haven't done this before is that having 1000 devices all needing different drivers is a huge advantage for the incumbent OS. Unfortunately for Microsoft that incumbent OS is XP not Vista so it's all come back to bite them.
It's not a check it's an ACH.
Bank systems assume that all parts of their network are trusted and that everyone connected is honest. This assumption broke horribly with ACH.
Ever link Paypal to your account? Wonder why Paypal will do a micro deposit and then ask for the amount they sent before it lets you use it? It's because the transfer is done via ACH and if you get the account number wrong they will end up withdrawing from the wrong account. No one checks these things.
There are third parties you can go to and use them to withdraw the money for you. All I need are your transit, branch and account numbers. All of these numbers are at the bottom of every check if you know how to read the account number.
I do a lot of IT contract work and some of it has been for telemarketing ops in Montreal and most of them are less than honest. Take a guess what form of payment they prefer? ACH.. it takes awhile to notice that the money is gone and it's the hardest to reverse.
That's interesting since ACH transfers tend not not have check numbers.
Your making the mistake of assuming a fraudster will go through the effort of making a fake check.
I can take the numbers off the bottom of the check and initiate an ACH transfer that has no security checks whatsoever.
Fraudulent electronic transfers are the victim's responsibility to check and in the few days to a month it will take someone to notice the problem I can move the money somewhere else.
It's all electronic too so I'd have much less chance of being caught.
This is why I have a seperate account where my checks go to that only has enough money in it to cover the outstanding.
Has the added benefit of not accidentally bouncing checks because I forgot there was one pending. Works great for those cases where some idiot keeps my checks for a month before cashing it.
Hes also made the mistake of thinking that all people work on open source for free. These days many people get payed to work on open source projects by people who either make money selling open source products(Red Hat, IBM) or need certain features to work a certain way(Google, Adaptec).