Sounds like they need to do what UOP does with their civil engineering program: 2.5 years of study, then you get apprenticed out for.5 year, then 1 year of study, then.5 year of apprentice, then.5 year of study and graduation. I may have the math just a bit off as to when the 6 months of apprenticing are, but that's the basics of it, you end up with two 6 month breaks where you are working and gaining real-world experience for real civil engineering firms.
The downside is that it takes 5 years instead of 4, the upside is that you have 1 year of experience in addition to the BS degree and at least one and possibly two contact/references (if they don't just hire you for their own firm).
Well I've done this many times in California (mail-in judgement, where each side is to mail in their evidence and statements, and the judge makes a ruling and it is mailed back out), and the officer has never done his part, and the judge has ruled not guilty each time for speeding infractions.
I'm sure it depends on the case load of the court and and the seriousness of the infraction.
I've also done this method where I was found guilty (due to my admitting to having driven on a levee to get to the river in my statement to the court), but I showed that there was no signs or chains posted the way I entered and contrasted that to another entrance which had chains and signs (basically I said, "How was I to know? Nothing said I could not drive on the levee" - but ignorance of the law doesn't matter). Due to the evidence presented by me (photos and maps), but again, nothing by the officer, the judge had to find me guilty, but he dismissed the entire fine. I was only 20, and if I had to do it over again and could see the future, I could have submitted nothing and I would have won, since I would not have admitted any guilt, but the officer would not have made his case either. Actually, as the only thing I was at risk for was the fine vs. the fine and having it on my record (but not a driving infraction point, per California's point system), I probably would do it the same at this point.
The main point here is to do nothing to ever say or show yourself as guilty (duh, but still). If you don't show you are guilty and the officer doesn't provide anything, then there is no way the judge can find you guilty as no proof has been shown.
Around here you always want to protest the ticket and put up whatever evidence you can and hope the officer doesn't show. You can do it via the mail as well (just write your facts, again, hope the officer doesn't send in anything). So long as you don't incriminate yourself, and the officer presents no evidence, you must be found not guilty.
Plus, even if you are found guilty, you can still opt to go to traffic school and have it removed from your record (but you have to pay the fine), so long as you haven't been to traffic school in the last 18 months.
100% isolated with no Internet access, period. Bring all patches in via offline media and/or an isolated DMZ drop off point, and then bring them into a central WSUS/Secunia/Shavlik server for updates. Remove all external media methods (remove DVD/CD drives, epoxy USB ports). Install a decent piece of auditing software (Tripwire) to track all unauthorized changes. Not simple, but not hard for a competent IT team.
Add a proper test/staging lab where you evaluate all changes and track them, and you've got a fool-proof method to insure stability and uptime.
The problem is that you may send your username and password over HTTPS, each page after that you send your auth cookie over plain ol' unencrypted HTTP. Someone is capturing those auth cookies and using them to send delete commands to Facebook (no doubt after capturing all of the info and friends).
Use HTTPS Everywhere and force all your traffic that can be to be using HTTPS.
Low-tech solution would be to write the time on their coffee cup when they make their purchase. That's an easy way to ask them to leave after 30 minutes, or get them to make another purchase.
Here's a thought: What if the coffee shop had on the receipt a one-time code that a user could use to surf with. So long as there were at least X free seats, let folks site around and surf. If a crowd shows up, push the Expired button for anything older than 15 minutes. Additionally, just prior to popular rush times, expire those codes. For all expired codes, replace their next click with a "Thank you for visiting, please come again! We need to make room for more customers." The codes that would be supplied during the rush times could be limited to 15 minutes.
Naturally this won't work with electronic book readers that store the book locally and don't need live Internet, and for those customers you could just politely ask them to leave after a reasonable amount of time. It's really no different than places with a no-cell phone policy. The sign only does so much, sometimes you have to ask the customer to hang up their phone or please leave.
Guess what, this might even bring in more sales, as someone would be required to make a purchase every 15 minutes during busy times to get more Internet access - or they might just leave and open up room for more customers - but either way it would be customers who had paid in the past 15 minutes who you'd give Internet access to.
PIN code is to use your credit card as a cash advance/ATM.
A stolen credit card with your wallet would be easy to know the ZIP code (if your ID is up to date, mine always seems to get sent to me before I move), but the assumption is that just having a fake credit card (one that has been programmed with stolen numbers) won't often have the ZIP code.
One problem is the low-end users who have systems they have bought from a "friend" which turns out to have a WGA-failing pirated copy of Windows. Windows Updates refused to allow it to be patched, leaving it to sit there waiting to be infested.
What Windows needs to do with WGA is give a grace period (60 days?) and warned if you do not get this copy legally licensed within X days then it will stop working (just like beta demo copies). After that time, have it just start up, explain the error and shut back down after 60 seconds. Not popular, but it would keep the bad machines offline. It would force the users to either get legit Windows installs which would have patch support, and/or they'd move to Linux which would also have patch support.
First, Google would have to index IPv6 websites. They do not. Google presently only indexes IPv4 websites. Of course Google would need to maintain two tables of indexes: the current index which doesn't include IPv6 and a new index which did include IPv6-only websites. The IPv6-only website index would need to be presented only to IPv6-enabled clients who are searching.
To test that Google doesn't index IPv6 webites (unless they have IPv4, which doesn't count), search for my made-up word "gorberakinNAY" and you will find it on an IPv4-only page. Search for "gorberakin" plus the word "YAY" (I don't want to say it as I don't want Google to index this page). The results are on an IPv6-only page (linked to by the first page and others) and you will not find it when you search for it on non-IPv6--searching search engines.
Further, I have yet another keyword like this which can only be accessed if you have IPv6 connectivity and your DNS servers have IPv6 connectivity.
If you can pass with a 10/10 score at this IPv6 Test then you can get to all 3 of my websites.
Yes, but you can always delete those messages. Further, it's unlikely that unformatted information like that is going to end up in a mass database since it would require a human interface to parse.
What would make you want to give Facebook your address in the first place? I don't mind ZIP code, but nothing more specific than that.
Further, why give out your phone number? Unless you are a business, why does Facebook need it? Worst case, get a Google Voice account number and have your calls forwarded.
Even more foolish is giving out your complete birthday. I can see how it is nice to get greetings on your birthday, but it's not worth the extra info for identify fraud. Put in 1900 (or whatever they first allow) and the 1st day of the week you're born. You still get nice birthday wishes at about the right time.
The new movie reflects the new reality. User's don't control the programs and you don't need a matrix to suck energy from humans. Look at Facebook and a host of Farmville-like apps and the control the apps have over users... and I thought WoW and Evercrack were bad, but they were just the tip of the iceberg as they were too complicated for the less than average user, which Facebook clearly makes up for.
I thought the movie was good enough. Of course, I grew up with Tron on VHS in the 80s and watched it many, many times (nearly as many as Star Wars). I'm sure that has me biased, but I still thought it was good enough.
** SPOILER WARNING **
The whole Isos concept was lame - like a digital evolution or some garbage nonsense. Suspension of disbelief is a skill required for most movies, and this one is no different.
ISPs that don't provide IPv6 address space will begin to be left. The market will take care of itself, keep the government out of it.
The government is already putting plenty of good healthy pressure on companies, asking them if they're dog-fooding or not, and if not possibly skipping them and going with other vendors with hands-on real-world IPv6 deployment on their own networks.
Disk is cheap and I've never had to restore data from more than 6 months ago. Sure, I've got stacks of older hard drives (it's a chuckle to see "big" 80gb drives and "small" 2gb drives), but I've never had to go back to them.
As disk is cheap, my data has basically moved with me. Anything that I need that I'd have to go back in time is just dated that way (GnuCash, financial reports, etc.) and still on my current hard drive and daily/weekly/monthly/yearly grandfathering backup.
The only downside is that the amount of data I have just keeps growing. But disk is cheap, and if it doesn't change rsync doesn't care and backups go fast.
Speaking of, I should pick up a new 2tb backup drive, as my current 1tb backup drive is about a year old (and the.5tb drive before won't hold my daily/weekly/monthly/yearly backups without me doing some pruning of full system backups due to rolling Fedora upgrades).
I can't remember the last time I had a hard drive failure, but short of 3 disk failures at the same time on 3 different systems, I'd never lose data.
I think one reason I never have disk failure is that I don't keep drives with critical longer than 2-3 years.
The baby issue with repeat names is actually fairly common.
Butchered name spellings - all the time. One of my ancestors' surname is Wuornos, but I've found census data with the same family names, ages, and city as Warnos.
Adjust your firewall to allow the traffic (you do firewall all your systems, right?): # dropbox LAN sync -A INPUT -m state --state NEW -m udp -p udp -s YOURLAN/LANMASK --dport 17500 -j ACCEPT -A INPUT -m state --state NEW -m tcp -p tcp -s YOURLAN/LANMASK --dport 17500 -j ACCEPT
I wouldn't advise allowing just all Dropbox traffic in, in case your system travels. Specifically your home LAN (-s YOURLAN/LANMASK).
I'm not sure why you cannot have two accounts. I have two accounts, and I have "linked" them by sharing folders that are needed between them (but I share the folders no one else). Seems to work just fine for me.
The only downside I could see is that I've got over 5gb of space on my first account, but have not shared the referral link with my second account yet. Once I get to 8gb on my first account (the max free space for referrals, etc.) then I'll change the referral link I share to be my second account.
I've gone a step further than not using my Debit Card and even replaced my Debit Card with ATM-only cards and then destroying my Debig Card. That's right, I don't want the VISA/MC digits. I want it to be ATM-only and require my PIN.
BankAmerica's ShopSafe virtual credit card online app lets you do just that. You ask it to generate a temporary card number (you pick how long it is good for, I think a minimum of the current month + 1 month) and you pick the amount. I've been using this since back when MBNA had it and they offered the LinuxFund card (before they cancelled it and LinuxFund had to move to US Bank)
CitiBank has a Virtual card option as well, but gives you no control as to limiting the length and amount, but it is still limited to the current month + 1. I figure this is good enough, and worst case I can always dispute the charges.
As the accounts these cards are used 100% online, it's easy to keep track of what I bought. I wouldn't mix these cards with physical card usage (which I could do as I have permanent numbered physical cards), but the whole point for me is to be able to keep the physical card limited to places I really know, and the accounts with virtual card options to just online.
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Sounds like they need to do what UOP does with their civil engineering program: 2.5 years of study, then you get apprenticed out for .5 year, then 1 year of study, then .5 year of apprentice, then .5 year of study and graduation. I may have the math just a bit off as to when the 6 months of apprenticing are, but that's the basics of it, you end up with two 6 month breaks where you are working and gaining real-world experience for real civil engineering firms.
The downside is that it takes 5 years instead of 4, the upside is that you have 1 year of experience in addition to the BS degree and at least one and possibly two contact/references (if they don't just hire you for their own firm).
Well I've done this many times in California (mail-in judgement, where each side is to mail in their evidence and statements, and the judge makes a ruling and it is mailed back out), and the officer has never done his part, and the judge has ruled not guilty each time for speeding infractions.
I'm sure it depends on the case load of the court and and the seriousness of the infraction.
I've also done this method where I was found guilty (due to my admitting to having driven on a levee to get to the river in my statement to the court), but I showed that there was no signs or chains posted the way I entered and contrasted that to another entrance which had chains and signs (basically I said, "How was I to know? Nothing said I could not drive on the levee" - but ignorance of the law doesn't matter). Due to the evidence presented by me (photos and maps), but again, nothing by the officer, the judge had to find me guilty, but he dismissed the entire fine. I was only 20, and if I had to do it over again and could see the future, I could have submitted nothing and I would have won, since I would not have admitted any guilt, but the officer would not have made his case either. Actually, as the only thing I was at risk for was the fine vs. the fine and having it on my record (but not a driving infraction point, per California's point system), I probably would do it the same at this point.
The main point here is to do nothing to ever say or show yourself as guilty (duh, but still). If you don't show you are guilty and the officer doesn't provide anything, then there is no way the judge can find you guilty as no proof has been shown.
Around here you always want to protest the ticket and put up whatever evidence you can and hope the officer doesn't show. You can do it via the mail as well (just write your facts, again, hope the officer doesn't send in anything). So long as you don't incriminate yourself, and the officer presents no evidence, you must be found not guilty.
Plus, even if you are found guilty, you can still opt to go to traffic school and have it removed from your record (but you have to pay the fine), so long as you haven't been to traffic school in the last 18 months.
100% isolated with no Internet access, period. Bring all patches in via offline media and/or an isolated DMZ drop off point, and then bring them into a central WSUS/Secunia/Shavlik server for updates. Remove all external media methods (remove DVD/CD drives, epoxy USB ports). Install a decent piece of auditing software (Tripwire) to track all unauthorized changes. Not simple, but not hard for a competent IT team.
Add a proper test/staging lab where you evaluate all changes and track them, and you've got a fool-proof method to insure stability and uptime.
The problem is that you may send your username and password over HTTPS, each page after that you send your auth cookie over plain ol' unencrypted HTTP. Someone is capturing those auth cookies and using them to send delete commands to Facebook (no doubt after capturing all of the info and friends).
Use HTTPS Everywhere and force all your traffic that can be to be using HTTPS.
Low-tech solution would be to write the time on their coffee cup when they make their purchase. That's an easy way to ask them to leave after 30 minutes, or get them to make another purchase.
Here's a thought:
What if the coffee shop had on the receipt a one-time code that a user could use to surf with. So long as there were at least X free seats, let folks site around and surf. If a crowd shows up, push the Expired button for anything older than 15 minutes. Additionally, just prior to popular rush times, expire those codes. For all expired codes, replace their next click with a "Thank you for visiting, please come again! We need to make room for more customers." The codes that would be supplied during the rush times could be limited to 15 minutes.
Naturally this won't work with electronic book readers that store the book locally and don't need live Internet, and for those customers you could just politely ask them to leave after a reasonable amount of time. It's really no different than places with a no-cell phone policy. The sign only does so much, sometimes you have to ask the customer to hang up their phone or please leave.
Guess what, this might even bring in more sales, as someone would be required to make a purchase every 15 minutes during busy times to get more Internet access - or they might just leave and open up room for more customers - but either way it would be customers who had paid in the past 15 minutes who you'd give Internet access to.
PIN code is to use your credit card as a cash advance/ATM.
A stolen credit card with your wallet would be easy to know the ZIP code (if your ID is up to date, mine always seems to get sent to me before I move), but the assumption is that just having a fake credit card (one that has been programmed with stolen numbers) won't often have the ZIP code.
5 more times as the RIRs run out.
One problem is the low-end users who have systems they have bought from a "friend" which turns out to have a WGA-failing pirated copy of Windows. Windows Updates refused to allow it to be patched, leaving it to sit there waiting to be infested.
What Windows needs to do with WGA is give a grace period (60 days?) and warned if you do not get this copy legally licensed within X days then it will stop working (just like beta demo copies). After that time, have it just start up, explain the error and shut back down after 60 seconds. Not popular, but it would keep the bad machines offline. It would force the users to either get legit Windows installs which would have patch support, and/or they'd move to Linux which would also have patch support.
Interesting. First I'd see of an IPv6-only site being indexed. I wonder if it was manually seeded into their index the first time or something.
First, Google would have to index IPv6 websites. They do not. Google presently only indexes IPv4 websites. Of course Google would need to maintain two tables of indexes: the current index which doesn't include IPv6 and a new index which did include IPv6-only websites. The IPv6-only website index would need to be presented only to IPv6-enabled clients who are searching.
To test that Google doesn't index IPv6 webites (unless they have IPv4, which doesn't count), search for my made-up word "gorberakinNAY" and you will find it on an IPv4-only page. Search for "gorberakin" plus the word "YAY" (I don't want to say it as I don't want Google to index this page). The results are on an IPv6-only page (linked to by the first page and others) and you will not find it when you search for it on non-IPv6--searching search engines.
Further, I have yet another keyword like this which can only be accessed if you have IPv6 connectivity and your DNS servers have IPv6 connectivity.
If you can pass with a 10/10 score at this IPv6 Test then you can get to all 3 of my websites.
Yes, but you can always delete those messages. Further, it's unlikely that unformatted information like that is going to end up in a mass database since it would require a human interface to parse.
What would make you want to give Facebook your address in the first place? I don't mind ZIP code, but nothing more specific than that.
Further, why give out your phone number? Unless you are a business, why does Facebook need it? Worst case, get a Google Voice account number and have your calls forwarded.
Even more foolish is giving out your complete birthday. I can see how it is nice to get greetings on your birthday, but it's not worth the extra info for identify fraud. Put in 1900 (or whatever they first allow) and the 1st day of the week you're born. You still get nice birthday wishes at about the right time.
Know, I said it right, digital evolution. Digital creationism is what Tron universe, Clu, Tron, and other things are.
The new movie reflects the new reality. User's don't control the programs and you don't need a matrix to suck energy from humans. Look at Facebook and a host of Farmville-like apps and the control the apps have over users... and I thought WoW and Evercrack were bad, but they were just the tip of the iceberg as they were too complicated for the less than average user, which Facebook clearly makes up for.
I thought the movie was good enough. Of course, I grew up with Tron on VHS in the 80s and watched it many, many times (nearly as many as Star Wars). I'm sure that has me biased, but I still thought it was good enough.
** SPOILER WARNING **
The whole Isos concept was lame - like a digital evolution or some garbage nonsense. Suspension of disbelief is a skill required for most movies, and this one is no different.
ISPs that don't provide IPv6 address space will begin to be left. The market will take care of itself, keep the government out of it.
The government is already putting plenty of good healthy pressure on companies, asking them if they're dog-fooding or not, and if not possibly skipping them and going with other vendors with hands-on real-world IPv6 deployment on their own networks.
Disk is cheap and I've never had to restore data from more than 6 months ago. Sure, I've got stacks of older hard drives (it's a chuckle to see "big" 80gb drives and "small" 2gb drives), but I've never had to go back to them.
As disk is cheap, my data has basically moved with me. Anything that I need that I'd have to go back in time is just dated that way (GnuCash, financial reports, etc.) and still on my current hard drive and daily/weekly/monthly/yearly grandfathering backup.
The only downside is that the amount of data I have just keeps growing. But disk is cheap, and if it doesn't change rsync doesn't care and backups go fast.
Speaking of, I should pick up a new 2tb backup drive, as my current 1tb backup drive is about a year old (and the .5tb drive before won't hold my daily/weekly/monthly/yearly backups without me doing some pruning of full system backups due to rolling Fedora upgrades).
I can't remember the last time I had a hard drive failure, but short of 3 disk failures at the same time on 3 different systems, I'd never lose data.
I think one reason I never have disk failure is that I don't keep drives with critical longer than 2-3 years.
The baby issue with repeat names is actually fairly common.
Butchered name spellings - all the time. One of my ancestors' surname is Wuornos, but I've found census data with the same family names, ages, and city as Warnos.
Adjust your firewall to allow the traffic (you do firewall all your systems, right?):
# dropbox LAN sync
-A INPUT -m state --state NEW -m udp -p udp -s YOURLAN/LANMASK --dport 17500 -j ACCEPT
-A INPUT -m state --state NEW -m tcp -p tcp -s YOURLAN/LANMASK --dport 17500 -j ACCEPT
I wouldn't advise allowing just all Dropbox traffic in, in case your system travels. Specifically your home LAN (-s YOURLAN/LANMASK).
I'm not sure why you cannot have two accounts. I have two accounts, and I have "linked" them by sharing folders that are needed between them (but I share the folders no one else). Seems to work just fine for me.
The only downside I could see is that I've got over 5gb of space on my first account, but have not shared the referral link with my second account yet. Once I get to 8gb on my first account (the max free space for referrals, etc.) then I'll change the referral link I share to be my second account.
Thing is, you can use OpenDNS to filter 99% of things for free and it is so easy to set up. Why bother paying?
I've gone a step further than not using my Debit Card and even replaced my Debit Card with ATM-only cards and then destroying my Debig Card. That's right, I don't want the VISA/MC digits. I want it to be ATM-only and require my PIN.
BankAmerica's ShopSafe virtual credit card online app lets you do just that. You ask it to generate a temporary card number (you pick how long it is good for, I think a minimum of the current month + 1 month) and you pick the amount. I've been using this since back when MBNA had it and they offered the LinuxFund card (before they cancelled it and LinuxFund had to move to US Bank)
CitiBank has a Virtual card option as well, but gives you no control as to limiting the length and amount, but it is still limited to the current month + 1. I figure this is good enough, and worst case I can always dispute the charges.
As the accounts these cards are used 100% online, it's easy to keep track of what I bought. I wouldn't mix these cards with physical card usage (which I could do as I have permanent numbered physical cards), but the whole point for me is to be able to keep the physical card limited to places I really know, and the accounts with virtual card options to just online.