Don't drop out. The CS degree will (or should) give you a good understanding of the foundations, and these don't change very much over time. This understanding will make it much easier to be a GOOD developer, rather than a one trick pony or somebody whose code appears on The Daily WTF. A sound understanding of the foundations will make you a *much* better developer for *much* longer, and able to progress further. How do you know that in 10 years time you still want to be a web developer?
No, the answer is work sets up an authenticated SMTP server that you can tell your mail client to use for email for that particular account. It's not hard to do. I have it set up for my own mail system - whether I'm on a 3G network in Timbuktoo or at the office on my office PC, outgoing mail goes through an authenticating SMTP (SMTP+TLS, actually - sending credentials in plain text is not good practice) which I control, so the sending SMTP server is always allowed by my SPF record.
No need to set up a VPN.
If you're sending work email through a SMTP relay they don't control, then you're doing exactly what SPF was designed to stop: spoofing the sender's address.
These balloons are nothing new - they have them on the Texas coast and down the Mexican border, and they've been using them for decades to spot illegal flights coming out of Mexico. Look at any aeronautical chart for these areas and you'll see a circle with the warning "Unmarked balloon on cable up to 15,000 feet" or something similar (sorry, I don't have a Houston sectional to hand to check).
I did multitasking in DOS without a GUI, using Quartedeck's DesqView/386. That way I could run a BBS and still use my PC for most other things. It actually worked pretty well.
I have to wonder at which point workstation AV software becomes a bigger risk than the actual malware.
So far in our organization, we've had two AV incidents. One several years ago when a user brought in an infected laptop with one of the Microsoft RPC exploiting worms. We got the worm before the AV vendor (Symantec at the time) had a signature for it, so the AV software was totally useless. The other event was when Symantec erroneously flagged a Windows Server 2003 resource kit program as malware and quarantined it (fortunately, a program we didn't rely on). So so far, for us - AV has failed to catch our only malware infection and has broken a non-infected program. Strict filtering (both inbound AND outbound) has done a lot more to stop malware in our organization than AV software ever has.
I also remember an incident a few years ago when a prominent AV vendor's software (I think it was Norton) erroneously quarantined a system file in the Chinese version of WinXP, and rendered the workstation unbootable, affecting a very large number of users.
I also wonder if any of the AV companies have independently verified and verifiable procedures for making their updates; a malicious employee at one of the big AV vendors could cause a lot of damage by releasing an update that results in an important system file getting quarantined. What safeguards do each AV vendor have in place to prevent this happening? How is it verified that the companies are actually carrying out the policies if they have them to ensure updates are not malicious, and how is it verified that these policies are actually watertight?
You can engineer spinning head type things for bumpy environments. I have a Sony Digital-8 video recorder. It has been strapped to a racing sidecar outfit (with virtually no suspension travel), an extreme vibration environment if there ever was one. The recording didn't miss a beat. (These days I use solid state recorders).
The set of "just about any program" is smaller than the set of "all programs". So the claim is entirely true. Yes, just about any program will crash if you type the magic string and just because Firefox is outside of the set of "just about any program" doesn't make it any less true. Firefox is somewhat of an oddity by being a Mac app that doesn't use the Apple framework. Most do.
All the "pot heads" I know are engineers (and various other professionals). They all turn up to work on time. They all do a good job. They are all interested in working for a living. And I bet half the people you know who are "reliable", "responsible" and all other sorts of things ending in -ible also have smoked or do smoke pot.
Linux isn't American. The WTO didn't rule you could override the copyrights of non-Americans, and at least one major copyright holder is Finnish. At least one other is Welsh.
That's how I learned Unix, I had access to a IBM RT (predecessor to the RS/6000). "dir" happened to be aliased to "ls", and it started knowing only that command, finding/bin, and running stuff at random that got listed by "dir".
Microsoft being run into the ground would be MORE competition in the OS market. On the desktop, there currently really isn't any (Windows is still over 90% of desktops). Let's say, for argument's sake, Microsoft rapidly began losing market share today. It does not follow it would all go to Mac OSX. In this apocalyptic (for Microsoft) scenario, let's say the end game is they wind up with about 30% market share. The other 70% would not be just be Apple, the "desktop vacuum" would likely be filled with at least two or three Linux desktop distros (perhaps Ubuntu would be one, a RedHat derived desktop OS would be another, and perhaps something from Google, although that'd likely be ChromeOS rather than a fully fledged Linux distro). MIcrosoft losing desktop market share at this point INCREASES competition.
I'm sure the UK would let them continue to use the pound sterling, after all Scotland is hardly going to be considered an "enemy nation" and the remaining UK has much to gain by keeping an independent Scotland close, as the Scots do by keeping the UK close.
What would be interesting is if Scotland were to become independent, and an EU country, whilie the rest of the UK voted to leave the EU...
Many of the cameras are actually publically viewable. As a general aviation pilot, I find them quite useful in filling in the gaps between aviation weather reporting stations, the traffic cameras will show me at least what the cloud cover and visibility is like and if there's any precipitation.
It's easy to use an iPhone without using a single kb of 3G/GSM etc data, just turn off mobile data in settings and it'll never use the mobile data. Or just not put in valid APN details for the mobile data network. (Or both).
As someone who lives on an small island with its own carrier, and has to pay mindbogglingly extortionate roaming fees for data absolutely everywhere else, it's something I do every time I need to travel, and it works perfectly.
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Don't drop out. The CS degree will (or should) give you a good understanding of the foundations, and these don't change very much over time. This understanding will make it much easier to be a GOOD developer, rather than a one trick pony or somebody whose code appears on The Daily WTF. A sound understanding of the foundations will make you a *much* better developer for *much* longer, and able to progress further. How do you know that in 10 years time you still want to be a web developer?
No! The Austin Allegro had a square steering wheel.
Why not? It's a heat engine and follows well understood laws of motion.
What you describe is NOT best practice for email. Spoofing the sender address is not best practice.
No, the answer is work sets up an authenticated SMTP server that you can tell your mail client to use for email for that particular account. It's not hard to do. I have it set up for my own mail system - whether I'm on a 3G network in Timbuktoo or at the office on my office PC, outgoing mail goes through an authenticating SMTP (SMTP+TLS, actually - sending credentials in plain text is not good practice) which I control, so the sending SMTP server is always allowed by my SPF record.
No need to set up a VPN.
If you're sending work email through a SMTP relay they don't control, then you're doing exactly what SPF was designed to stop: spoofing the sender's address.
These balloons are nothing new - they have them on the Texas coast and down the Mexican border, and they've been using them for decades to spot illegal flights coming out of Mexico. Look at any aeronautical chart for these areas and you'll see a circle with the warning "Unmarked balloon on cable up to 15,000 feet" or something similar (sorry, I don't have a Houston sectional to hand to check).
It might not be *completely* inert. It is thought that it could be coerced into reacting with fluorine to produce some very unstable compounds.
I did multitasking in DOS without a GUI, using Quartedeck's DesqView/386. That way I could run a BBS and still use my PC for most other things. It actually worked pretty well.
But only systems that touch cardholder data in scope. If the heritage system never can touch cardholder data, it's out of scope for a PCI-DSS audit.
I have to wonder at which point workstation AV software becomes a bigger risk than the actual malware.
So far in our organization, we've had two AV incidents. One several years ago when a user brought in an infected laptop with one of the Microsoft RPC exploiting worms. We got the worm before the AV vendor (Symantec at the time) had a signature for it, so the AV software was totally useless. The other event was when Symantec erroneously flagged a Windows Server 2003 resource kit program as malware and quarantined it (fortunately, a program we didn't rely on). So so far, for us - AV has failed to catch our only malware infection and has broken a non-infected program. Strict filtering (both inbound AND outbound) has done a lot more to stop malware in our organization than AV software ever has.
I also remember an incident a few years ago when a prominent AV vendor's software (I think it was Norton) erroneously quarantined a system file in the Chinese version of WinXP, and rendered the workstation unbootable, affecting a very large number of users.
I also wonder if any of the AV companies have independently verified and verifiable procedures for making their updates; a malicious employee at one of the big AV vendors could cause a lot of damage by releasing an update that results in an important system file getting quarantined. What safeguards do each AV vendor have in place to prevent this happening? How is it verified that the companies are actually carrying out the policies if they have them to ensure updates are not malicious, and how is it verified that these policies are actually watertight?
I've heard Leicester called lots of things, but "paradise" ain't one of them!
Simply refer them to the reply given in Arkell vs Pressdram.
You can engineer spinning head type things for bumpy environments. I have a Sony Digital-8 video recorder. It has been strapped to a racing sidecar outfit (with virtually no suspension travel), an extreme vibration environment if there ever was one. The recording didn't miss a beat. (These days I use solid state recorders).
The set of "just about any program" is smaller than the set of "all programs". So the claim is entirely true. Yes, just about any program will crash if you type the magic string and just because Firefox is outside of the set of "just about any program" doesn't make it any less true. Firefox is somewhat of an oddity by being a Mac app that doesn't use the Apple framework. Most do.
All the "pot heads" I know are engineers (and various other professionals). They all turn up to work on time. They all do a good job. They are all interested in working for a living. And I bet half the people you know who are "reliable", "responsible" and all other sorts of things ending in -ible also have smoked or do smoke pot.
That means half of us have to die off. There will be *a lot* of unpleasantness while we are reduced to a sustainable number.
The Kent State experience shows that to the contrary - front line troops will be willing and eager to fire, if necessary on unarmed civilians.
Linux isn't American. The WTO didn't rule you could override the copyrights of non-Americans, and at least one major copyright holder is Finnish. At least one other is Welsh.
This is the *first thing* I turn off on a router. UPnP is basically a security hole by design.
That's how I learned Unix, I had access to a IBM RT (predecessor to the RS/6000). "dir" happened to be aliased to "ls", and it started knowing only that command, finding /bin, and running stuff at random that got listed by "dir".
Good job I didn't have root access.
Microsoft being run into the ground would be MORE competition in the OS market. On the desktop, there currently really isn't any (Windows is still over 90% of desktops). Let's say, for argument's sake, Microsoft rapidly began losing market share today. It does not follow it would all go to Mac OSX. In this apocalyptic (for Microsoft) scenario, let's say the end game is they wind up with about 30% market share. The other 70% would not be just be Apple, the "desktop vacuum" would likely be filled with at least two or three Linux desktop distros (perhaps Ubuntu would be one, a RedHat derived desktop OS would be another, and perhaps something from Google, although that'd likely be ChromeOS rather than a fully fledged Linux distro). MIcrosoft losing desktop market share at this point INCREASES competition.
And whisky is much more valuable than gold.
- You can't drink gold, but you can drink whisky.
- Holding gold doesn't create wealth, whereas making whisky creates wealth.
I'm sure the UK would let them continue to use the pound sterling, after all Scotland is hardly going to be considered an "enemy nation" and the remaining UK has much to gain by keeping an independent Scotland close, as the Scots do by keeping the UK close.
What would be interesting is if Scotland were to become independent, and an EU country, whilie the rest of the UK voted to leave the EU...
Many of the cameras are actually publically viewable. As a general aviation pilot, I find them quite useful in filling in the gaps between aviation weather reporting stations, the traffic cameras will show me at least what the cloud cover and visibility is like and if there's any precipitation.
It's easy to use an iPhone without using a single kb of 3G/GSM etc data, just turn off mobile data in settings and it'll never use the mobile data. Or just not put in valid APN details for the mobile data network. (Or both).
As someone who lives on an small island with its own carrier, and has to pay mindbogglingly extortionate roaming fees for data absolutely everywhere else, it's something I do every time I need to travel, and it works perfectly.