They are already getting out of that system. Take China for instance: US companies have a US headquarters, tech development in California and Manufacturing in China. The Chinese have discovered that they can have their headquarters and their manufacturing in china but have their tech development in California.
I've watched the Chinese companies make products of comparable quality and gain market share last few years. The US is being reduced to an outsourcing center for scientists.
Bush third term? Blatant Obama ripoff. Never mind that the GOP considers Canadian conservatives to be too liberal for their taste.
What is stupid about putting a cost on emitting CO2? Currently the emitters benefit from being able to emit CO2 but the costs are felt by everyone. This is privatized gain with socialized risk. Putting a cost on emitting CO2 helps to eliminate this moral hazard.
Well first off as it's presented it's taking from corporations on one hand and giving it back as personal tax cuts.. basically raising corporate taxes via the back door. Who will end up paying for the higher corporate taxes? The consumers.
Second: Taxes on gasoline and heating oil are already carefully balanced so that people pay more to drive but less to heat their homes. Messing with that balance is dangerous.
Third: punishing carbon emitters is a bad idea. That's all stick and no carrot. Energy consumption is already expensive and a motivator to cut costs. What happens if you can't afford to make the needed improvements? Take my landlord for instance. He and his wife both work full time to pay for his house. We have talked several times about how he could save money by replacing his ancient heating oil system and replacing it with a new one. Want to know why he hasn't yet? He can't afford the $15 000 it would cost him. He just doesn't have that money laying around. Same goes for some of the homeowners around the corner who can't afford the major renovations needed to properly insulate their houses. My old apartment wasn't insulated properly either but my landlord didn't feel the need to insulate the place. Why not? Because I had to pay for the heating. Guess who would pay the increased carbon tax too? What obscure corner of Canada does this all happen in? St-Laurent, Dion's own riding. All he had to do was talk to some of his own constituents to find out what the problems with his plans are.
Except if I do this as a business owner I pay the price in lost profits or efficiency. If I do this as a government official then the cost gets passed on to the taxpayers.
This sort of thing needs to be punished wherever it's found and "everyone does it" is just not an excuse.
I don't know how this keeps getting repeated. The media has been much easier on Palin than they were on Obama or even his wife. Not so much an anti Obama thing either it was that they got lambasted for going off into the trivial.
How long did they go on about "why doesn't he wear a flag pin?" Is your memory so short that you can't remember from two months ago?
McCain crying that the media hates him doesn't make it so. If he didn't want a media frenzy then he shouldn't have picked a complete unknown as his VP.
Try BC then. The BC Liberal party (made up entirely of former social credit conservatives) inherited a province from the NDP that was doing poorly economically yet managed to both put the economy back on track and balance the budget.
He seems to genuinely care about his fellow man, and wants to solve conflicts rather than fan the flames.
Jack is nothing more than a walking soundbite. I lost any respect I had for him last election when he made a big show of handing a coin to a pan handler. As someone who has actually worked with street people I can tell you that the absolute worst thing you can do for them is give them money.
And if he really was about solving conflicts he would not be so eager to accuse his opponents of "hidden agendas". He has spent more time name calling than any other party leader.
I'm at a complete loss on who to vote for this election. Harper has done a decent job fiscally but I can't vote for someone who tried to pass a Canadian DCMA. Dion is an idiot who thinks hes Obama and wants to rearrange the tax system in a really stupid way. Layton just comes off cross between a used car salesmen and the uncle from the Adam's Family and someone really needs to inform him that "eat the rich" is bad fiscal policy.
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It's a bit of a trade off.. more options vs better organization. I actually haven't found 2.6.x harder to configure.
You can generally tell what something is based on what sub menu it's in and if you get stuck on something you can use the descriptions provided.
Also one of the nice things about grub is that most distros keep the old kernels in the menu so you always have a backup when your trying something that will break things.
Myth No. 9: Going to DC power will inevitably save energy. Fact: Going to DC power entails removing the power supplies from a rack of servers or all the servers in a datacenter and consolidating the AC-DC power supply into a single unit for all the systems. Doing this may not actually be more efficient since you lose a lot of power over the even relatively small distances between the consolidated unit and the machines. New servers have 95 percent efficient power supplies, so any power savings you might have gotten by going DC is lost in the transmission process. Your savings will really depend on the relative efficiency of the power supplies in the servers you're buying as well as the one in the consolidated unit.
This is completely wrong. The author missed out on two of the three power conversions that take place in a data center. Data center UPS units take the AC current convert to DC then back again just so the server can convert it back to DC. Even if you have 95% efficiency at each stage the conversion losses will add up.
People wouldn't be going DC if it didn't result in measurable power savings.
CVV2 is there to force the card theft to be either physical (from the back of the card) or real time (by monitoring transactions on the server).
If I take a picture of your credit card: I have one credit card and it took me several seconds to get it and I risk getting caught.
If I monitor the server I have to either transmit the data back to myself in real time or break in again to read my logs. Both increase my risk of being caught but I can gain hundreds or thousands of cards.
Before CVV2 If I broke in to your server once I could grab all of your logs and have thousands or even millions of credit card numbers in a single shot without having to come back. It was actually a huge problem before CVV2.
I nearly had a stroke when I read that but thankfully it's a bad summary, The requirement is for machines "commonly affected by malicious software"
So my back end Linux servers will still not have AV software.
I'm not even sure why such a stupid rule even applies to windows really. A well maintained windows server should be safe from viral infection as long as it's not used for web browsing, email or file sharing. In other words nothing you would use a back end credit card processing server for.
There is no solution that would allow for the non logging of transactions that would also allow for accountability. Transactions simply must be logged for proof that the transaction happened and, in the case something goes wrong, to allow the rebuilding/ confirmation of the correct account balances.
Having said that PCI-DSS does demand end to end encryption and the requirements for storage encryption go up considerably if you actually store the entire credit card number (masking it out works better). CVV2 does actually help because merchants are not ever allowed to store the CVV2 info. If the credit card companies ever find out that a merchant is storing CVV2 their ability to process transactions will be revoked.
That's because PCI-DSS covers weak passwords but doesn't really test for them.
PCI is more about documentation and network layout than anything else. When my company did my audit they demanded segregated backend/ front end networks, SNORT machines on both and then followed up with a "pennetration test" that checked for common web server exploits and misconfiguration and the security scan actually encouraged us to hide all of the version numbers.
The upshot of all of this is that some of the things I had to do made things more secure but most of them were things that would look good on paper. I can still do things like not change passwords when people leave or put them on a paper I keep on a bulletin board and still keep my cert.
At a previous job I had access to telephone exchanges. DSLAM firmware updates can easily take an hour or two and my diagnostic equipment included a telephone headset with a bix clip adapter.
Given that I was alone most of the time, there are thousands of lines going into the rooms I worked in and the competition left their panels out in the open I can completely see how someone with less of a moral backbone could have caused a lot of trouble without getting caught.
Someone working for the telco itself would have access to hundreds of thousands of lines.
It's more than that. Microsoft pushed countries that otherwise would have had no interest in the process to sign on as voting members. They also stuffed country committee meetings with their own people and in one case got caught paying people to attend.
It was so bad that the working group responsible is now paralyzed because too many of the new countries who signed on as voting members can't even be bothered to vote on anything that's not OOXML.
This is not just a disagreeable decision. It's an abuse of process.
I have one password for banking sites which has been described by neteller.com helpdesk as "a bunch of random letters" (it's not).
I have a password for less important sites where I care about my identity.
I have two or three passwords I use on sites where I consider the accounts "throwaway" for sites that demand I sign up to view content, one time comments, sites that demand I have an account to buy things but don't store my credit card, etc.
I'm guessing you have never been to the downtown east side in Vancouver.
They are not even close to decriminalized. Just because they have one safe injection site does not mean that the police won't arrest you for dealing. It also does not mean they won't arrest you if they catch you using drugs in public.
The reality of the downtown east side is that injection drug use is so rampant that the police couldn't arrest everyone who did it even if they wanted to. The single safe injection site isn't even close to large enough and neither are the detox centers. The result is that the dug users still shoot up in the alleys.
Actually in Canada politicians are not allowed to take donations from corporations and individuals are limited to small donations.
The problem here is not money it's the previous government signing a treaty that makes something like the DMCA a requirement and the US ambassador lobbying on behalf of the RIAA/MPAA threatening to damage Canada's economy with a trade war.
The other real problem is that Prentice doesn't have enough of a backbone.
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On the upside there are rumors that Jim Prentice won't be in charge next time so there is some hope.
I guess they intend to push him off on another cabinet position in the hopes that he doesn't suck at that one too.
They are already getting out of that system. Take China for instance: US companies have a US headquarters, tech development in California and Manufacturing in China. The Chinese have discovered that they can have their headquarters and their manufacturing in china but have their tech development in California.
I've watched the Chinese companies make products of comparable quality and gain market share last few years. The US is being reduced to an outsourcing center for scientists.
Strange that you get this from Dion. I would think this description applies more to Layton, and Googlefight agrees.
http://election.globaltv.com/topstorydetail.aspx?sectionid=223&postid=49412
Bush third term? Blatant Obama ripoff. Never mind that the GOP considers Canadian conservatives to be too liberal for their taste.
Well first off as it's presented it's taking from corporations on one hand and giving it back as personal tax cuts.. basically raising corporate taxes via the back door. Who will end up paying for the higher corporate taxes? The consumers.
Second: Taxes on gasoline and heating oil are already carefully balanced so that people pay more to drive but less to heat their homes. Messing with that balance is dangerous.
Third: punishing carbon emitters is a bad idea. That's all stick and no carrot. Energy consumption is already expensive and a motivator to cut costs. What happens if you can't afford to make the needed improvements? Take my landlord for instance. He and his wife both work full time to pay for his house. We have talked several times about how he could save money by replacing his ancient heating oil system and replacing it with a new one. Want to know why he hasn't yet? He can't afford the $15 000 it would cost him. He just doesn't have that money laying around. Same goes for some of the homeowners around the corner who can't afford the major renovations needed to properly insulate their houses. My old apartment wasn't insulated properly either but my landlord didn't feel the need to insulate the place. Why not? Because I had to pay for the heating. Guess who would pay the increased carbon tax too? What obscure corner of Canada does this all happen in? St-Laurent, Dion's own riding. All he had to do was talk to some of his own constituents to find out what the problems with his plans are.
Except if I do this as a business owner I pay the price in lost profits or efficiency. If I do this as a government official then the cost gets passed on to the taxpayers.
This sort of thing needs to be punished wherever it's found and "everyone does it" is just not an excuse.
I don't know how this keeps getting repeated. The media has been much easier on Palin than they were on Obama or even his wife. Not so much an anti Obama thing either it was that they got lambasted for going off into the trivial.
How long did they go on about "why doesn't he wear a flag pin?" Is your memory so short that you can't remember from two months ago?
McCain crying that the media hates him doesn't make it so. If he didn't want a media frenzy then he shouldn't have picked a complete unknown as his VP.
Try BC then. The BC Liberal party (made up entirely of former social credit conservatives) inherited a province from the NDP that was doing poorly economically yet managed to both put the economy back on track and balance the budget.
He seems to genuinely care about his fellow man, and wants to solve conflicts rather than fan the flames.
Jack is nothing more than a walking soundbite. I lost any respect I had for him last election when he made a big show of handing a coin to a pan handler. As someone who has actually worked with street people I can tell you that the absolute worst thing you can do for them is give them money.
And if he really was about solving conflicts he would not be so eager to accuse his opponents of "hidden agendas". He has spent more time name calling than any other party leader.
I'm at a complete loss on who to vote for this election. Harper has done a decent job fiscally but I can't vote for someone who tried to pass a Canadian DCMA. Dion is an idiot who thinks hes Obama and wants to rearrange the tax system in a really stupid way. Layton just comes off cross between a used car salesmen and the uncle from the Adam's Family and someone really needs to inform him that "eat the rich" is bad fiscal policy.
It's a bit of a trade off.. more options vs better organization. I actually haven't found 2.6.x harder to configure.
You can generally tell what something is based on what sub menu it's in and if you get stuck on something you can use the descriptions provided.
Also one of the nice things about grub is that most distros keep the old kernels in the menu so you always have a backup when your trying something that will break things.
Myth No. 9: Going to DC power will inevitably save energy.
Fact: Going to DC power entails removing the power supplies from a rack of servers or all the servers in a datacenter and consolidating the AC-DC power supply into a single unit for all the systems. Doing this may not actually be more efficient since you lose a lot of power over the even relatively small distances between the consolidated unit and the machines. New servers have 95 percent efficient power supplies, so any power savings you might have gotten by going DC is lost in the transmission process. Your savings will really depend on the relative efficiency of the power supplies in the servers you're buying as well as the one in the consolidated unit.
This is completely wrong. The author missed out on two of the three power conversions that take place in a data center. Data center UPS units take the AC current convert to DC then back again just so the server can convert it back to DC. Even if you have 95% efficiency at each stage the conversion losses will add up.
People wouldn't be going DC if it didn't result in measurable power savings.
CVV2 is there to force the card theft to be either physical (from the back of the card) or real time (by monitoring transactions on the server).
If I take a picture of your credit card: I have one credit card and it took me several seconds to get it and I risk getting caught.
If I monitor the server I have to either transmit the data back to myself in real time or break in again to read my logs. Both increase my risk of being caught but I can gain hundreds or thousands of cards.
Before CVV2 If I broke in to your server once I could grab all of your logs and have thousands or even millions of credit card numbers in a single shot without having to come back. It was actually a huge problem before CVV2.
You can find a better summary here: http://pcianswers.com/2008/10/01/pci-dss-version-12-differences-and-updates/
I nearly had a stroke when I read that but thankfully it's a bad summary, The requirement is for machines "commonly affected by malicious software"
So my back end Linux servers will still not have AV software.
I'm not even sure why such a stupid rule even applies to windows really. A well maintained windows server should be safe from viral infection as long as it's not used for web browsing, email or file sharing. In other words nothing you would use a back end credit card processing server for.
There is no solution that would allow for the non logging of transactions that would also allow for accountability. Transactions simply must be logged for proof that the transaction happened and, in the case something goes wrong, to allow the rebuilding/ confirmation of the correct account balances.
Having said that PCI-DSS does demand end to end encryption and the requirements for storage encryption go up considerably if you actually store the entire credit card number (masking it out works better). CVV2 does actually help because merchants are not ever allowed to store the CVV2 info. If the credit card companies ever find out that a merchant is storing CVV2 their ability to process transactions will be revoked.
That's because PCI-DSS covers weak passwords but doesn't really test for them.
PCI is more about documentation and network layout than anything else. When my company did my audit they demanded segregated backend/ front end networks, SNORT machines on both and then followed up with a "pennetration test" that checked for common web server exploits and misconfiguration and the security scan actually encouraged us to hide all of the version numbers.
The upshot of all of this is that some of the things I had to do made things more secure but most of them were things that would look good on paper. I can still do things like not change passwords when people leave or put them on a paper I keep on a bulletin board and still keep my cert.
At a previous job I had access to telephone exchanges. DSLAM firmware updates can easily take an hour or two and my diagnostic equipment included a telephone headset with a bix clip adapter.
Given that I was alone most of the time, there are thousands of lines going into the rooms I worked in and the competition left their panels out in the open I can completely see how someone with less of a moral backbone could have caused a lot of trouble without getting caught.
Someone working for the telco itself would have access to hundreds of thousands of lines.
Aren't DMCA notice senders supposed to be legally responsible for the accuracy of the notice? Where is the consequences for blatant abuse?
It's more than that. Microsoft pushed countries that otherwise would have had no interest in the process to sign on as voting members. They also stuffed country committee meetings with their own people and in one case got caught paying people to attend.
It was so bad that the working group responsible is now paralyzed because too many of the new countries who signed on as voting members can't even be bothered to vote on anything that's not OOXML.
This is not just a disagreeable decision. It's an abuse of process.
Well the original poster did say FTP.
As for the www.onlinebackupvault.com crud your shilling... It's windows only so useless for those of us who don't use windows on our servers.
Wow you have three posts since you registered that account and all three are ads for "onlinebackupvault.com"
How about not spamming?
I do the same and it's not as bad as it sounds.
I have one password for banking sites which has been described by neteller.com helpdesk as "a bunch of random letters" (it's not).
I have a password for less important sites where I care about my identity.
I have two or three passwords I use on sites where I consider the accounts "throwaway" for sites that demand I sign up to view content, one time comments, sites that demand I have an account to buy things but don't store my credit card, etc.
ReacOS has the same problem WINE does: Coding bug for bug compatibility in hundreds of libraries is long, hard and not very fun work.
Your working in banking so this sounds like 250 000 lines of financial data that your storing on a PC.
Are you sure there are no security/ data integrity issues with putting this all on a PC?
I work in a PCI-DSS environment and I would be putting our certification at risk if I did this.
I'm guessing you have never been to the downtown east side in Vancouver.
They are not even close to decriminalized. Just because they have one safe injection site does not mean that the police won't arrest you for dealing. It also does not mean they won't arrest you if they catch you using drugs in public.
The reality of the downtown east side is that injection drug use is so rampant that the police couldn't arrest everyone who did it even if they wanted to. The single safe injection site isn't even close to large enough and neither are the detox centers. The result is that the dug users still shoot up in the alleys.
Actually in Canada politicians are not allowed to take donations from corporations and individuals are limited to small donations.
The problem here is not money it's the previous government signing a treaty that makes something like the DMCA a requirement and the US ambassador lobbying on behalf of the RIAA/MPAA threatening to damage Canada's economy with a trade war.
The other real problem is that Prentice doesn't have enough of a backbone.
The real problem is not knowing about rsync since it's designed for exactly his problem.