I find it funny, this reeks of 'what goes around, comes around,' I remember in the 80's using Borland's SuperKey TSR macro keying program in the same manner to start programs from a Dos menu.
Personally, I think I'd look in to making a fake address book etc. to feed to such apps. I don't do that sort of programming, but I'd find a disinformation app to be most amusing. "Oddly, this person's contact list consists solely of names from Steve Martin movies, and their position is circling the White House at 900 MPH."
I switched to Mac almost 5 years ago because I was tired of fixing problems with Windows and still needed Photoshop. I still run Win 7 for work, and Parallels does a good job of that, but we gotta make money somehow.
I also consider myself not a fanboi. I think, overall, it's better than Windows. I have never thought it impervious to malware, the best defense is being cognizant of the threats out there and avoiding such behavior. And I've never tried to impress chicks as I've been happily married for 7 years now.
There's an additional practicality reason for me switching to Macs: my wife's job. She's an astronomer, and her observatory runs almost exclusively *nix and Macs, so it's a lot easier to support her if I'm running the same platform and it's easiest for her to run the same platform as what she does at work. I've never actively proselytized for Macs, but I've had a lot of people come up to me in public spaces and ask me about it. I always play down the 'immune to virus' plank because it's not true. It's not yet to the point that I have to install anti-malware, and I hope it doesn't get to that point, but we'll see.
One thing that the submitter doesn't mention is how big of an infrastructure they currently have: how many POS terminals, how many ticket printers, etc. We don't know how big the restaurant is. I've been administering SQL Server since the 4.21 days on OS/2 and I have extremely high uptime on all of my modern boxes, my biggest box has 16 cores and 48 gig of ram and I can't think of any 'crash' downtime that it's had in 4 years of service. My oldest box sometimes crashes due to power supply failure, but we're getting ready to retire it, so we're not bothering with servicing it.
I would absolutely buy time from a decent DBA (such as myself) to remote in and make sure DBCCs are clean and backups are running properly. I would never count on the vender to set that up properly. Our ERP vendor (we are their biggest customer) thought it was a good idea to set our 100 gig database to simple recovery, truncate the log, then set it back to full recovery in order to shrink the log rather than just let it sit at 500 meg and never have to grow.
My suggestion would be to invest in good hardware (i.e. buy corporate line rather than pick it up at Best Buy), have a backup credit card machine that directly prints a receipt, and make sure that your wait staff can write legibly in receipt copy books and can correctly do math on a calculator. Running in a cloud or having a backup in a cloud is stupid for something like this as communications to the outside internet are likely to be your biggest source of downtime. Setting up a spare server and doing something like transaction log shipping isn't a bad idea, but you're getting in to a more complex environment that should be monitored/inspected more often to ensure that it's working properly.
Oh, and MAKE SURE your routers/switches are on UPS, and replace those batteries annually. Otherwise you're risking a lot of thumb-twiddling if you have a power blink and your server is up but all your network gear is recycling.
Pebble is definitely impressive, I just missed out on the Kickstarter. The fact that it has its own API that you can code for makes it double-plus good.
I remember the Scud leaker that hit the barracks. Turns out that the Patriots had to have a software update to deal with some specific flight characteristic of the Scud or their interceptor role, and the update had a bug. The controlling station needed to be rebooted every 24 hours, or the accuracy of the intercept solution would begin to degrade, and the station that missed had been up for over 48 hours.
Turns out the operators weren't told they needed to reboot their systems daily. Oops.
Mine's sitting in a closet, some minor battery leak corrosion damage, still works great though. I used it to take notes in Psych 101, rigged a 6-volt lantern battery to it and it ran for probably 2-3 months on one set. When I was at my parents last year, my mom had been cleaning out a closet and found my Disk/Video Interface, which gave you a 5.25" floppy drive, and also found my 3.5" floppy drive for it. I actually had a Lisp system for it, I've never seen a program crash a computer so fast.
It is probably my one old computer that I will never get rid of. Good memories.
I don't know how or why. I've been using an iPod Touch for over 2 years as a PDA and had no problems with it. Got a 4S last November (my first smart phone) and made the mistake of telling it to sync to both iCloud and my Mac. Numerous dupes in both contacts and calendar, also notes. I finally turned off the syncing and had to push them back to the phone from iTunes. I'm pretty sure there was something else I had to do, but my brain is fried right now. THEN the cleanup began, had to delete lots of calendar entries and recreate them, also had numerous sync problems with notes for a while, it took a lot of work to get it clean and stable. I know I lost some historic calendar entries, but my notes and contacts seemed largely intact.
I know I have a lot more info on my phone than most people maintain, I've been accumulating it for probably 20 years now starting with Palm Pilots. But based on the number of support forum posts that I saw on Apple's web site when I was trying to find a fix, iCloud syncing is not a universal solution. As of right now, my iCloud account has zero information in it, I maintain it so I can use the tracking functions if my phone is ever lost or stolen.
I remember when my former boss went from an iPhone to an Android long before I bought mine. I asked him what the sync experience was, and he got a dumb look on his face and admitted he'd never sync'd it to his Windows PC. A couple of weeks later he said he finally installed the software and that it was sheer hell. Eventually he found a plug-in for iTunes that let him sync through it. I find that story a little scary.
Let the experience of other countries (where terrorist attacks are unfortunately common) be a lesson here: big crowds are targets. The TSA's security checkpoints at airports, especially busy airports, create big crowds, and those crowds are not behind any sort of security. A terrorist who wanted to kill a big crowd of Americans could walk in to a major airport just before a holiday and kill hundreds of people without ever dealing with security.
The fact that it has not happened yet is an indication that airport security measures are not what is keeping terrorist at bay.
This was demonstrated in Russia a couple of years ago, a Georgian separatist blew himself up in an airport's international arrival area after passing a security checkpoint.
"Yevloyev managed to carry an explosive device under his coat unnoticed while passing a security checkpoint at the terminal entrance. He proceeded through the international arrival hall to the luggage claim area where the explosive device mounted on Yevloyev was detonated. Investigation indicated that the explosive device was packed with shrapnel, pieces of chopped wire and had 2 to 5 kg of TNT equivalent."
I would do it if my wife and I had kids, but I have an immunological problem and there are some early-developing problems that can definitely benefit from stem blood. If both parents and their parents are healthy and don't have any weird problems, I wouldn't bank blood. But genetic problems have the annoying habit of sometimes skipping generations.
Cross the channel, go to France or Germany and fly from there. I would think that you could get a refund from your airline since they are clearly unable to fulfill their part of the contract, that of getting you back to Canadia.
Don't DDOS the database. Crack the database, and update the records of every member of parliament, every government minister, every appointed official, all have their insurance records showing that it is expired.
Here's my problem of Kasparov losing to IBM: the computer was totally programmed specifically with his games. Now, granted, it was programmed with lots of other games also. In a grandmaster tournament like the U.S. Open, the players (pretty much all Grand Masters and International Masters) are in a round-robin tournament. I want to see IBM's software playing a different GM every day from a field of 20 grandmasters and see how it scores.
I was working for a police department in computer services and had bought a condo. The previous occupants didn't take much more than clothes and electronics when they left, and I was stuck with a month-long cleanup. I came across a tiny baggy of pot, wouldn't have even made a joint, so I tossed it. Then I came across a baggie with several ounces of a white crystalline substance. I knew that he/they'd made bathtub meth, so I called the cops and had them come and pick it up. They did a field test, and it wasn't cocaine, so they tagged it for destruction and that was the end of that. Had it been coke, I don't think I would have had a problem as the previous occupant had spent time in prison and was a known drug offender and rumored dealer, but it probably would have cost me some time being interviewed.
A friend of mine driving a Jaguar XKS was pulled over by a Scottsdale cop who claimed he was doing 50+ in a residential zone. I was working at Phoenix Police at the time and had told him that motorcycle cops were supposed to check their radar guns at the start of every shift, then they were calibrated during routine maintenance once or twice a year and I think a copy of those maintenance/calibration records traveled with the bike. I'd told my friend all of this, and he knew he hadn't been speeding, so he asked for the calibration records. The cop eventually called his supervisor, the supervisor pointed the radar gun at a tree and clocked it at 30 MPH and told my friend to leave.
Unbelievable. I worked for Phoenix Police for nine years doing computer work. We had implemented an optical document management system when DUI attorneys started subpoenaing Intoxilyzer maintenance records as SOP when it came to cases, so we started scanning all calibration and maintenance records as part of our SOP. It also made it ridiculously easy to fulfill the subpoena. Our Intoxilyzers were calibrated by the crime lab, so it was actual chemists with a vested interest in accuracy, so it was done right. And this was back in the 90's!
Just unbelievable that SFPD could be so stupid. There's no excuse for this, whoever is in charge of that calibration really needs to get their heads handed to them. And so does the prosecutor's office for not checking this.
Pop the SIM, remove the battery, drop it in a Faraday bag, turn it off: wouldn't be difficult to neutralize if detected. You'd be better off having the repository server in a foreign country so it couldn't as easily be seized if you tape and offend a Fed.
I really don't know where Arizona rates in terms of public education. I'm thinking more in terms of university teachers who are not tenured, which is a whole issue unto itself, leaving. But it certainly would apply to primary and secondary. I thought the Arizona universities were reasonably good, and U of A has a fairly respected astronomy department, but I'm not really informed in that area.
I'm from Arizona, born there and lived there for over 40 years before I got married and moved away. Personally, I really hope this law passes and you start seeing the quality of the education system (debatable though that is) decline rapidly as teachers move away. I think it's going to take crap like this to actually break the government system before we get rid of the idiots now in charge.
This will surely stop the bad guys because it's unpossible for terrorists to get credit cards and photo ID's! Or break in to a shop, steal and activate some pre-paid phones, possibly with the help of the shop owner.
Within that excerpt, I would agree. But the point of Monsanto GMO seed is that it is created to be resistant to Round-Up, a pesticide (also a Monsanto product) that would definitely be against that regulation. With a crop being Round-Up resistant, they can blanket-spray the entire crop without damage to it. Except that we now havev Round-Up-resistant critters appearing.
And I, as a person who is immuno-compromised, cannot get the shingles vaccine, nor any live vaccine. When my mom had shingles three years ago and I had just been diagnosed with CVID, I couldn't visit my parents for a month. If my wife or anyone I'm phyiscally close to ever gets a live virus injection, I'm supposed to stay away from her for like a month or more.
I'm glad doctors are threatening these people, they need a stiff wake-up call upside the head.
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I find it funny, this reeks of 'what goes around, comes around,' I remember in the 80's using Borland's SuperKey TSR macro keying program in the same manner to start programs from a Dos menu.
Personally, I think I'd look in to making a fake address book etc. to feed to such apps. I don't do that sort of programming, but I'd find a disinformation app to be most amusing. "Oddly, this person's contact list consists solely of names from Steve Martin movies, and their position is circling the White House at 900 MPH."
I switched to Mac almost 5 years ago because I was tired of fixing problems with Windows and still needed Photoshop. I still run Win 7 for work, and Parallels does a good job of that, but we gotta make money somehow.
I also consider myself not a fanboi. I think, overall, it's better than Windows. I have never thought it impervious to malware, the best defense is being cognizant of the threats out there and avoiding such behavior. And I've never tried to impress chicks as I've been happily married for 7 years now.
There's an additional practicality reason for me switching to Macs: my wife's job. She's an astronomer, and her observatory runs almost exclusively *nix and Macs, so it's a lot easier to support her if I'm running the same platform and it's easiest for her to run the same platform as what she does at work. I've never actively proselytized for Macs, but I've had a lot of people come up to me in public spaces and ask me about it. I always play down the 'immune to virus' plank because it's not true. It's not yet to the point that I have to install anti-malware, and I hope it doesn't get to that point, but we'll see.
One thing that the submitter doesn't mention is how big of an infrastructure they currently have: how many POS terminals, how many ticket printers, etc. We don't know how big the restaurant is. I've been administering SQL Server since the 4.21 days on OS/2 and I have extremely high uptime on all of my modern boxes, my biggest box has 16 cores and 48 gig of ram and I can't think of any 'crash' downtime that it's had in 4 years of service. My oldest box sometimes crashes due to power supply failure, but we're getting ready to retire it, so we're not bothering with servicing it.
I would absolutely buy time from a decent DBA (such as myself) to remote in and make sure DBCCs are clean and backups are running properly. I would never count on the vender to set that up properly. Our ERP vendor (we are their biggest customer) thought it was a good idea to set our 100 gig database to simple recovery, truncate the log, then set it back to full recovery in order to shrink the log rather than just let it sit at 500 meg and never have to grow.
My suggestion would be to invest in good hardware (i.e. buy corporate line rather than pick it up at Best Buy), have a backup credit card machine that directly prints a receipt, and make sure that your wait staff can write legibly in receipt copy books and can correctly do math on a calculator. Running in a cloud or having a backup in a cloud is stupid for something like this as communications to the outside internet are likely to be your biggest source of downtime. Setting up a spare server and doing something like transaction log shipping isn't a bad idea, but you're getting in to a more complex environment that should be monitored/inspected more often to ensure that it's working properly.
Oh, and MAKE SURE your routers/switches are on UPS, and replace those batteries annually. Otherwise you're risking a lot of thumb-twiddling if you have a power blink and your server is up but all your network gear is recycling.
Pebble is definitely impressive, I just missed out on the Kickstarter. The fact that it has its own API that you can code for makes it double-plus good.
I remember the Scud leaker that hit the barracks. Turns out that the Patriots had to have a software update to deal with some specific flight characteristic of the Scud or their interceptor role, and the update had a bug. The controlling station needed to be rebooted every 24 hours, or the accuracy of the intercept solution would begin to degrade, and the station that missed had been up for over 48 hours.
Turns out the operators weren't told they needed to reboot their systems daily. Oops.
I remember the power line broadband trials were terribly noisy for ham radio services, I wonder if this is any better.
Mine's sitting in a closet, some minor battery leak corrosion damage, still works great though. I used it to take notes in Psych 101, rigged a 6-volt lantern battery to it and it ran for probably 2-3 months on one set. When I was at my parents last year, my mom had been cleaning out a closet and found my Disk/Video Interface, which gave you a 5.25" floppy drive, and also found my 3.5" floppy drive for it. I actually had a Lisp system for it, I've never seen a program crash a computer so fast.
It is probably my one old computer that I will never get rid of. Good memories.
I don't know how or why. I've been using an iPod Touch for over 2 years as a PDA and had no problems with it. Got a 4S last November (my first smart phone) and made the mistake of telling it to sync to both iCloud and my Mac. Numerous dupes in both contacts and calendar, also notes. I finally turned off the syncing and had to push them back to the phone from iTunes. I'm pretty sure there was something else I had to do, but my brain is fried right now. THEN the cleanup began, had to delete lots of calendar entries and recreate them, also had numerous sync problems with notes for a while, it took a lot of work to get it clean and stable. I know I lost some historic calendar entries, but my notes and contacts seemed largely intact.
I know I have a lot more info on my phone than most people maintain, I've been accumulating it for probably 20 years now starting with Palm Pilots. But based on the number of support forum posts that I saw on Apple's web site when I was trying to find a fix, iCloud syncing is not a universal solution. As of right now, my iCloud account has zero information in it, I maintain it so I can use the tracking functions if my phone is ever lost or stolen.
I remember when my former boss went from an iPhone to an Android long before I bought mine. I asked him what the sync experience was, and he got a dumb look on his face and admitted he'd never sync'd it to his Windows PC. A couple of weeks later he said he finally installed the software and that it was sheer hell. Eventually he found a plug-in for iTunes that let him sync through it. I find that story a little scary.
Let the experience of other countries (where terrorist attacks are unfortunately common) be a lesson here: big crowds are targets. The TSA's security checkpoints at airports, especially busy airports, create big crowds, and those crowds are not behind any sort of security. A terrorist who wanted to kill a big crowd of Americans could walk in to a major airport just before a holiday and kill hundreds of people without ever dealing with security. The fact that it has not happened yet is an indication that airport security measures are not what is keeping terrorist at bay.
This was demonstrated in Russia a couple of years ago, a Georgian separatist blew himself up in an airport's international arrival area after passing a security checkpoint.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Domodedovo_International_Airport_bombing
"Yevloyev managed to carry an explosive device under his coat unnoticed while passing a security checkpoint at the terminal entrance. He proceeded through the international arrival hall to the luggage claim area where the explosive device mounted on Yevloyev was detonated. Investigation indicated that the explosive device was packed with shrapnel, pieces of chopped wire and had 2 to 5 kg of TNT equivalent."
... She was horrible as a governor ...
But compared to Jan Brewer?
I would do it if my wife and I had kids, but I have an immunological problem and there are some early-developing problems that can definitely benefit from stem blood. If both parents and their parents are healthy and don't have any weird problems, I wouldn't bank blood. But genetic problems have the annoying habit of sometimes skipping generations.
Cross the channel, go to France or Germany and fly from there. I would think that you could get a refund from your airline since they are clearly unable to fulfill their part of the contract, that of getting you back to Canadia.
Don't DDOS the database. Crack the database, and update the records of every member of parliament, every government minister, every appointed official, all have their insurance records showing that it is expired.
Here's my problem of Kasparov losing to IBM: the computer was totally programmed specifically with his games. Now, granted, it was programmed with lots of other games also. In a grandmaster tournament like the U.S. Open, the players (pretty much all Grand Masters and International Masters) are in a round-robin tournament. I want to see IBM's software playing a different GM every day from a field of 20 grandmasters and see how it scores.
I was working for a police department in computer services and had bought a condo. The previous occupants didn't take much more than clothes and electronics when they left, and I was stuck with a month-long cleanup. I came across a tiny baggy of pot, wouldn't have even made a joint, so I tossed it. Then I came across a baggie with several ounces of a white crystalline substance. I knew that he/they'd made bathtub meth, so I called the cops and had them come and pick it up. They did a field test, and it wasn't cocaine, so they tagged it for destruction and that was the end of that. Had it been coke, I don't think I would have had a problem as the previous occupant had spent time in prison and was a known drug offender and rumored dealer, but it probably would have cost me some time being interviewed.
A friend of mine driving a Jaguar XKS was pulled over by a Scottsdale cop who claimed he was doing 50+ in a residential zone. I was working at Phoenix Police at the time and had told him that motorcycle cops were supposed to check their radar guns at the start of every shift, then they were calibrated during routine maintenance once or twice a year and I think a copy of those maintenance/calibration records traveled with the bike. I'd told my friend all of this, and he knew he hadn't been speeding, so he asked for the calibration records. The cop eventually called his supervisor, the supervisor pointed the radar gun at a tree and clocked it at 30 MPH and told my friend to leave.
Unbelievable. I worked for Phoenix Police for nine years doing computer work. We had implemented an optical document management system when DUI attorneys started subpoenaing Intoxilyzer maintenance records as SOP when it came to cases, so we started scanning all calibration and maintenance records as part of our SOP. It also made it ridiculously easy to fulfill the subpoena. Our Intoxilyzers were calibrated by the crime lab, so it was actual chemists with a vested interest in accuracy, so it was done right. And this was back in the 90's!
Just unbelievable that SFPD could be so stupid. There's no excuse for this, whoever is in charge of that calibration really needs to get their heads handed to them. And so does the prosecutor's office for not checking this.
Pop the SIM, remove the battery, drop it in a Faraday bag, turn it off: wouldn't be difficult to neutralize if detected. You'd be better off having the repository server in a foreign country so it couldn't as easily be seized if you tape and offend a Fed.
I really don't know where Arizona rates in terms of public education. I'm thinking more in terms of university teachers who are not tenured, which is a whole issue unto itself, leaving. But it certainly would apply to primary and secondary. I thought the Arizona universities were reasonably good, and U of A has a fairly respected astronomy department, but I'm not really informed in that area.
I'm from Arizona, born there and lived there for over 40 years before I got married and moved away. Personally, I really hope this law passes and you start seeing the quality of the education system (debatable though that is) decline rapidly as teachers move away. I think it's going to take crap like this to actually break the government system before we get rid of the idiots now in charge.
This will surely stop the bad guys because it's unpossible for terrorists to get credit cards and photo ID's! Or break in to a shop, steal and activate some pre-paid phones, possibly with the help of the shop owner.
Within that excerpt, I would agree. But the point of Monsanto GMO seed is that it is created to be resistant to Round-Up, a pesticide (also a Monsanto product) that would definitely be against that regulation. With a crop being Round-Up resistant, they can blanket-spray the entire crop without damage to it. Except that we now havev Round-Up-resistant critters appearing.
And I, as a person who is immuno-compromised, cannot get the shingles vaccine, nor any live vaccine. When my mom had shingles three years ago and I had just been diagnosed with CVID, I couldn't visit my parents for a month. If my wife or anyone I'm phyiscally close to ever gets a live virus injection, I'm supposed to stay away from her for like a month or more.
I'm glad doctors are threatening these people, they need a stiff wake-up call upside the head.
I don't think so, unless eBay/China requires ActiveX. I'm on a Mac, and to the best of my knowledge Firefox doesn't run ActiveX controls.