There is not much of a house advantage in blackjack and if you combine perfect strategy with a bonus you can come out ahead and some do (without cheating). If you do cheat you need to know that it's usually very easy to spot bots in the casino logs.
It gets even easlier if the casino screwed up on it's blackjack design. Try anything using the older software from Avesta or 2kservices from before they started tweaking their software's odds to get around their shoddy design for a good example of this.
Boy are you off.. online casino sites tend to have no clue when it comes to security. Most of the time they think throwing a firewall and using encryption is enough.
A former co worker of mine once found a site whoes games linked directly to the SQL server.. they had the password embedded inside the executable!
Now granted the current drive towards multi player games seems to be weeding out the usless monkeys as web oriented companies try and fail to write their games using.net (or whatever the latest cure all technology is these days).
But a if a lot of the software I'm seeing so far is any indication I'm not holding out much hope. Odds are there will be good money in messing with smaller software vendors systems.
This is a major problem with their software development practices. MS tends to have a "lets make this code as reusable as possible no matter the cost" ideology and as a result they design functions to be able to do as many things as possible.
If a function does one or two things with a few number of params then it's much easier to test. but instead we see functions with 7 or 8 params and those are a pain to debug.
Well that and their complete lack of attention to security in the design stage. It's as if they assumed that website operators are always good. MS was told going in that ActiveX as designed would be a security nightmare. Turns out the experts were right.
I also have fun memories of a Javascript function a few years ago that would basically let you edit any file on the drive provided that you had permission to access it and it wasn't locked. Guess how much fun that was? I know a guy who used it to overwrite c:\windows\hosts to redirect traffic from other sites to his... and yet another site that used it to wipe boot files. Exploit? no . It was actually designed to let you do that but they didn't consider that people might actually use it in a non friendly maner.
Their problem has nothing at all to do with market share and MS needs to scrap IE as it is now and rewrite it with security in mind.
The assumption seems to be that Autozone copied the binaries to Linux and with that copied the static libraries.
Since it was an internal Autozone app that they had the source to I'm guessing they did a proper port and recompiled for linux.
Even if they are right I can't imagine the payout based on that to amount to very much.
A credit card number would have been justifiable.. the problem was they wanted to charge the card for a $1000 piece of equipment and then refund it when the old one arrived.
And yes Cisco did tell me they would have charged me for the second switch if I failed to return it. It's fair so I'm completely fine with that.
You had Cisco Smartnet, they don't advanced replace for warranty period without a contract.
Not with that employer(too cheap) I told them I didn't have one. Cisco will replace a dead switch even without it. When I got to the second level tech I simply read him the post error and he demanded my shipping address to send the replacement to.
Too late, I've already been burned by 3Com. We had a switch show up DOA and called them for a replacement only to have them demand payment for a second switch before they would ship the replacement. When that didn't happen they told us to send the switch backand as it turned out.. they didn't even have that model in stock they told us we would get our replacement in three weeks! After fighting it out with them I managed to talk them down to a week and a half.
Contrast that with Cisco: Last time I had a Cisco with a dead port they sent me the replacement overnight delivery and then told me I had three weeks to return the old one or be sent a bill.
Cisco's advantage is their customer service. They have your back when things go bad. 3Com doesn't understand this and until they do I won't consider them a serious player.
That's mostly because in Canada we know what to do with monopolies.
Of the list you mentioned, the only one I suspect would be able to get a clue on it's own is Telus. The rest are forced into minimum service levels by the government.
Forget that.. I did that for months on end only to get layed off and I having to completely relearn what to do with free time.
Now that I'm employed again I fight any hours over 40. The laugh is that now that I'm not the company footstool I'm valued even more now. It does however help that there is no one here who can do what I do.
Some friends of mine had just picked up an old ps/2. However they did not have enough room in the Suzuki for all 5 of them and the computer. The fix? The roof of course.. one of them had his hand out the window to hold it in place.
They lost it on a stretch of highway going somewhere between 110 and 120 KPH. (68 - 75 Miles per hour for you poor Americans) It bounced a few times on the pavement before landing on the side of the road.
They backed up.. picked it up again.. and plugged it in when they got home.
We actually use the flash circuts for pranks when we get a dead camera(or a disposable). Power it up.. toss the board to the victim and laugh as (s)he drops it.
TV tubes are much worse.. the largest zap I've ever gotten was from a powered up flyback transformer while I was trying to goof around with the picture when my friend was trying to get work done. My hand slipped under the protective cover and *zap*. I remember being unable to stop laughing for a good 5 minutes after that.
Strangely enough I was raised in BC and don't have a scottish accent but I was in the US once and had my American friends bugging me nonstop about how I pronounce that word.
I think we Canadians just don't pronounce it with the accent Americans are used to so it sounds funny to them.
After having worked for an isp I can tell you the prefered childporn is in the less than 5 years old category. Theres is no way in hell they are consenting.
Arguing that the fringe elements are somehow acceptable doesn't change the fact that most of it is just evil.
That's another variation of old design flaw in ipv4 so they can patch around it for another 50 years and still not fully fix it. The best they can hope for is to make it harder to exploit.
It's one of the problems that IPv6 was designed to fix from the start.
I have a Nigerian friend and his explanation is that the police don't want to be bothered with one crook ripping off another. Since everything the 419 folks ask you to help them with is a crime: your a crook if you fall for it.
The police in Nigeria are also notoriously easy to bribe, in some situations you can be penalised for not bribing them so that makes them even less likely to help.
"About half the people in this program barely know how to turn on a computer, so we need to start with the very basics. The Cisco curriculum and texts assume a certain level of knowledge."
I'm not so sure this is the best idea hes dumbed down the manual to make room for the computer illiterate.. shoehorning students with no technical background into a network administration course seems like a bit of a waste.
There is a lot to be said for having a sepperate class to teach the basics.
At he place I graduated high school they had the ultimate remotes.. these things were capeable of turning on any TV in the school, accessing the bank of VCRs in the library and could schedual an event such as a VCR playing and a TV turning on or off up to two years in advance.
Each teacher was given one when we all moved into the newly built school.. after four months of TVs being randomly turned on and off by teachers lost in these remotes the teachers all went back to the old TV/vcr on a rolling tables that they used before we switched buildings and relegating the new high tech system to school announcements.
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He means he gives out lots of money.
There is not much of a house advantage in blackjack and if you combine perfect strategy with a bonus you can come out ahead and some do (without cheating). If you do cheat you need to know that it's usually very easy to spot bots in the casino logs.
It gets even easlier if the casino screwed up on it's blackjack design. Try anything using the older software from Avesta or 2kservices from before they started tweaking their software's odds to get around their shoddy design for a good example of this.
Boy are you off.. online casino sites tend to have no clue when it comes to security. Most of the time they think throwing a firewall and using encryption is enough. A former co worker of mine once found a site whoes games linked directly to the SQL server.. they had the password embedded inside the executable! Now granted the current drive towards multi player games seems to be weeding out the usless monkeys as web oriented companies try and fail to write their games using .net (or whatever the latest cure all technology is these days).
But a if a lot of the software I'm seeing so far is any indication I'm not holding out much hope. Odds are there will be good money in messing with smaller software vendors systems.
This is a major problem with their software development practices. MS tends to have a "lets make this code as reusable as possible no matter the cost" ideology and as a result they design functions to be able to do as many things as possible.
If a function does one or two things with a few number of params then it's much easier to test. but instead we see functions with 7 or 8 params and those are a pain to debug.
Well that and their complete lack of attention to security in the design stage. It's as if they assumed that website operators are always good. MS was told going in that ActiveX as designed would be a security nightmare. Turns out the experts were right. I also have fun memories of a Javascript function a few years ago that would basically let you edit any file on the drive provided that you had permission to access it and it wasn't locked. Guess how much fun that was? I know a guy who used it to overwrite c:\windows\hosts to redirect traffic from other sites to his... and yet another site that used it to wipe boot files. Exploit? no . It was actually designed to let you do that but they didn't consider that people might actually use it in a non friendly maner. Their problem has nothing at all to do with market share and MS needs to scrap IE as it is now and rewrite it with security in mind.
The assumption seems to be that Autozone copied the binaries to Linux and with that copied the static libraries. Since it was an internal Autozone app that they had the source to I'm guessing they did a proper port and recompiled for linux. Even if they are right I can't imagine the payout based on that to amount to very much.
A credit card number would have been justifiable.. the problem was they wanted to charge the card for a $1000 piece of equipment and then refund it when the old one arrived. And yes Cisco did tell me they would have charged me for the second switch if I failed to return it. It's fair so I'm completely fine with that.
You had Cisco Smartnet, they don't advanced replace for warranty period without a contract.
Not with that employer(too cheap) I told them I didn't have one. Cisco will replace a dead switch even without it. When I got to the second level tech I simply read him the post error and he demanded my shipping address to send the replacement to.
Too late, I've already been burned by 3Com. We had a switch show up DOA and called them for a replacement only to have them demand payment for a second switch before they would ship the replacement. When that didn't happen they told us to send the switch backand as it turned out.. they didn't even have that model in stock they told us we would get our replacement in three weeks! After fighting it out with them I managed to talk them down to a week and a half.
Contrast that with Cisco: Last time I had a Cisco with a dead port they sent me the replacement overnight delivery and then told me I had three weeks to return the old one or be sent a bill.
Cisco's advantage is their customer service. They have your back when things go bad. 3Com doesn't understand this and until they do I won't consider them a serious player.
Slackware.. then my first full time job: "See those 30 comps?" your in charge now and we don't know how they work.
Thankfully they were debian. But steep learning curves are a fun thing.
That's mostly because in Canada we know what to do with monopolies.
Of the list you mentioned, the only one I suspect would be able to get a clue on it's own is Telus. The rest are forced into minimum service levels by the government.
Forget that.. I did that for months on end only to get layed off and I having to completely relearn what to do with free time.
Now that I'm employed again I fight any hours over 40. The laugh is that now that I'm not the company footstool I'm valued even more now. It does however help that there is no one here who can do what I do.
Learn some ballance.
You really don't want to do that anyways... SCOX is so thinly traded the precentage of shorted stock at 56% short squeeze will be quite a problem.
In fact.. theres a good chance that a lot of what people thought were SCO "painting" was actually short squeeze in progress.
You want dropped?
Some friends of mine had just picked up an old ps/2. However they did not have enough room in the Suzuki for all 5 of them and the computer. The fix? The roof of course.. one of them had his hand out the window to hold it in place.
They lost it on a stretch of highway going somewhere between 110 and 120 KPH. (68 - 75 Miles per hour for you poor Americans) It bounced a few times on the pavement before landing on the side of the road.
They backed up.. picked it up again.. and plugged it in when they got home.
It still worked.
I disagree.. having tried both.
.. toss the board to the victim and laugh as (s)he drops it.
We actually use the flash circuts for pranks when we get a dead camera(or a disposable). Power it up
TV tubes are much worse.. the largest zap I've ever gotten was from a powered up flyback transformer while I was trying to goof around with the picture when my friend was trying to get work done. My hand slipped under the protective cover and *zap*. I remember being unable to stop laughing for a good 5 minutes after that.
I think we need to take a good look at what they claim to own in their court filings:
JFS? ported from OS/2.
RCU? Initially refused by Linus until IBM granted all of opensource use of IBM's patent on the technology.
ELF? Released to the open public as a standard by Novell, Old SCO, and Intel.
There are more but they are along the same lines.
This case is baseless.
Strangely enough I was raised in BC and don't have a scottish accent but I was in the US once and had my American friends bugging me nonstop about how I pronounce that word.
I think we Canadians just don't pronounce it with the accent Americans are used to so it sounds funny to them.
Uhh no.
After having worked for an isp I can tell you the prefered childporn is in the less than 5 years old category. Theres is no way in hell they are consenting.
Arguing that the fringe elements are somehow acceptable doesn't change the fact that most of it is just evil.
That's another variation of old design flaw in ipv4 so they can patch around it for another 50 years and still not fully fix it. The best they can hope for is to make it harder to exploit.
It's one of the problems that IPv6 was designed to fix from the start.
None of those 500 people were in Nigeria. If you don't leave Nigeria your safe from prosicution.
I have a Nigerian friend and his explanation is that the police don't want to be bothered with one crook ripping off another. Since everything the 419 folks ask you to help them with is a crime: your a crook if you fall for it.
The police in Nigeria are also notoriously easy to bribe, in some situations you can be penalised for not bribing them so that makes them even less likely to help.
In all fairness there is one other site that makes good use of ActiveX: housecall.antivirus.com.
It's great when you need to quickly scan a customer machine without installing anything or running updates on whatever happens to be there already.
I don't think 2 useful sites justify that travasty of a feature though.
They are half right.. I do care about security but I am NOT willing to pay for it.
It had better come shipped secure and in the case it's not I had better get a free fix for it.
Software vendors who fail to comply with those requirements are relegated to as few tasks as possible at my customer sites.
"About half the people in this program barely know how to turn on a computer, so we need to start with the very basics. The Cisco curriculum and texts assume a certain level of knowledge."
I'm not so sure this is the best idea hes dumbed down the manual to make room for the computer illiterate.. shoehorning students with no technical background into a network administration course seems like a bit of a waste.
There is a lot to be said for having a sepperate class to teach the basics.
Tell me about it..
At he place I graduated high school they had the ultimate remotes.. these things were capeable of turning on any TV in the school, accessing the bank of VCRs in the library and could schedual an event such as a VCR playing and a TV turning on or off up to two years in advance.
Each teacher was given one when we all moved into the newly built school.. after four months of TVs being randomly turned on and off by teachers lost in these remotes the teachers all went back to the old TV/vcr on a rolling tables that they used before we switched buildings and relegating the new high tech system to school announcements.