Don't be resigned to the status quo. Operating systems could be a hell of a lot better.
Sure they could, but we already have what is there now. Making a new OS with better video handling, no file system interdependencies, better network handling, etc will require that every application that you use today be redesigned and rewritten from scratch. I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but most people are happy enough with the OS they have to not spend the time redesigning everything. Not to mention, many API's are made the way they are because of hardware, so changing them becomes inefficient without a hardware change. And filesystem interdependencies are there because people like to reuse libraries, it's more efficient, and avoids keeping 50 copies of the same thing on your system to prevent all of those dependencies. Just because it isn't pretty doesn't mean it didn't become that way without a good reason.
Until there's a drastic hardware change that forces a new OS to be created, people will ignore anyone chearing for their new fancy OS. The main reason Linux caught on was because people didn't have to change, they already had Unix software and x86 systems. Even writing an application in C with libraries has enough similarities when porting to a new OS that you don't have to learn a completely different method.
PC's are likely to stick with their current OS's until x86 is changed, and even then, there's a good chance someone will just port the existing OS's over. When they need to handle the high speed video services, people will just bolt on features and add a better video card. Changing the OS will take a lot more than video, maybe when quantum computing becomes a reality.
If you want something that's crying out for a better OS, try cell phones. Palm seems to be in a downward spiral, windows based systems are too resource intensive, RIM is getting tied up in patent disputes, and linux is only becoming popular there because the others are so bad. Find a good OS for smart phones that multi-tasks, easily and securely communicates with other devices, implements a simple UI that can be navigated with one thumb, easily runs applications like PIM/email/mp3, doesn't kill batteries, and doesn't have a big licensing fee, and people will be lining up.
And beyond that, the interface in both is terrible. Is the data I'm looking for in/usr/bin/run? C:/documents and settings/Default User/Application Data/? Or one of a million other places? Is my dependency tree resolved properly?
First off, you seem upset with user interfaces, lack of video standards, and lack of quality applications, not the OS itself. We could build a new OS and still have all these problems. Fixing the OS we have would seem to be a more efficient solution. Also, just because something is complex doesn't mean it won't stick around. I don't think people consider Tivo complicated because the UI hides everything under the covers.
And on the flip side, you don't hear a lot of people complaining about what a PITA it was to change the water pump in their car, because they get a mechanic to do that. And yet cars are still around despite the fact that you need to learn how to drive and get a license before you're allowed to use one. There's probably more than one thing the computer industry could learn from the automotive industry, they've been doing it for longer. OS's are still a ways away from needing to make our own gas to electric conversion.
It might be a little tricky to get two DSLRs that close, and of course they'd need to have the same lens, but i might give it a shot sometime soon.
Most people I've seen with these setups place the cameras bottom to bottom to get them close enough. You just have to rotate the pictures in different directions. The same lens is half the problem, getting the same focus, white balance, and exposure is the other. Having cameras where these things are all manual makes this much easier.
For example, if I'm a bank and someone comes in with a bunch of information as well as something that looks like a valid driver's license, should I be liable for granting credit to them if they're committing fraud?
Of course the person committing the fraud should be arrested and liable. But if the company gives credit to people that they are not really you, should you be liable? No, and yet with todays system, you are presumed guilty until you prove that it wasn't you, at your own expense. So credit companies are happy to send solicitations to people's pets and anyone else with minimal verification since you are responsible for proving that they gave credit to the wrong person. Making the credit company responsible for their mistakes gives them the motivation to fix their own problem. Credit reporting companies would also willing give you open access to view your own information to help eliminate errors since otherwise they could be held liable for any damages their mistakes cause.
Will that cause a greater expense on credit card companies? Yes, but only to those companies that are careless. Those that clamp down on ID theft and fraud will reduce their expenses and therefore continue to offer the low rates (speaking of which, you really should be paying your bill off every month).
A simple change to credit reporting laws that would require a second level of verification of the identity of a consumer before granting credit, like what happens when you put a fraud alert on your credit report, would go a long way toward fixing this problem.
From what I've heard, people placing fraud alerts can frequently find places that ignore the credit warning and give out a card with little or no checking. And if everyone had fraud alerts, finding places that don't check would be even easier. Quite simply, credit reporting companies need to be 100% liable for reporting false information, and credit vendors (including banks and mortgage companies) need to be 100% liable for offering credit to and identity thief. And that liability needs to include paying you an hourly rate comparable to your existing job (if not more) for any time you spent repairing your credit and payment for any damages incurred from reporting false information (e.g. loss of a job, home loan, etc). The companies will only care when you make them financially responsible. Until then, they will make things as easy as possible for them to make a profit. The only reason this hasn't happened already is because politicians can be influenced by people with money.
every guests name, address, phone number, what government agency/corporation they work for, and CC#'s/expiration dates
If the CC information is unencrypted and usable, I'm sure that the various CC companies would be interested in knowing about it. Various retail companies that I know have all sorts of security that they have to comply with to do business with a CC company. Some data is in the form where one person has access to the encrypted form, another has half of the key, and a third has the other half. I'm not saying that everyone goes through such strict measures, but having completely unencrypted and unsecured CC data with the name and expiration would get CC processing rights removed if the CC company (visa, mc, amex, disc) discovered this.
What the hell does this mean? Are you saying the "new" way of doing business means not achieving profitability?
It means that corporate america seems to be saying "open source is great, where do we buy it" instead of considering how to adjust their business to better utilize OSS. They seem to be jumping on the latest buzzword or trend without really understanding the value. And the boom of Red Hat seems to be indicating that people are buying OSS rather than buying into the OSS concept. Phrasing it to avoid "shouldn't Red Hat want to make a profit" confusion would have taken a few more brain cells working than I had before the morning sugar rush, sorry.
You're thinking about the business model of Red Hat itself, which is a good one. I was referring to the business model of the large corporations who seem to be saying "open source is great, where do we buy it from?" Support is a great argument to pay someone else, but that choice frequently backfires. Support organizations make their money by hiring cheap labor and postpone resolving the problem until the customer frequently does it themselves, or blames someone else for the problem. I've seen it happen so often, that I don't understand why managers think support provides a valuable benefit for the cost.
So the better business model for larger organizations would have a stronger IT organization that has enough capacity to understand the applications they are implementing and provide support internally.
For smaller organizations, I think they are better served by getting a local resource that they can call for problems and that performs a checkup a few times a year just like that organization would do with legal and accounting services.
And for the record, I don't think we've crossed the threshold yet, but it's interesting to see what the business types are watching.
'After more than five years of trying, the recording industry has not yet demonstrated a workable DRM scheme for music CDs. Gartner believes that it will never achieve this goal as long as CDs must be playable by stand-alone CD players.'
Damn, you weren't supposed to tell them that. This was just starting to get funny.
It's not the man in the middle attack you need to worry about (as others have already said). It's the ability the spoof who you are by monitoring just your computer (or possibly the internet connection if it's not secure enough, but with all the spyware out there, the former is more likely and easier). To make this secure, the second form of identification must be something that changes in an unpredictable way. Fingerprints do not change enough, and therefore can be forged after monitoring just one bank transaction. Secure dongles may have the same problem, but usually not enough is known about how they work to be sure. The one time pads and tokens with numbers that change are basically the only solutions I can see that adds security at this point. However, if one were to break the number generating algorithm on those tokens, it's going to be a huge cost to fix. Hopefully the bank can easily reprogram these things should such an event occur.
Additionally, I stand by a previously stated view that banks should have a way to provide "red flag" credentials (user id, pass, etc) to their customers which they can then input on the phishing web pages. When those credentials are later used, the bank sees the red flag and the criminals are easier tracked and prevented from doing more damage.
So how do we fix it? Do we require companies to prove that they are developing or selling a product that uses a patent for them to maintain it? Do we require that damages have been incurred (e.g. loss of revenue) due to a competing product? It seems appropriate to have a way to protect a small company from competition from a larger copy-and-destroy company (e.g. Microsoft). But then with so many patents out there, how does a small company ensure that they are not infringing on someone else's patents for a reasonable cost (free) and in a reasonable time (should it take one person hours, days, months, or years to do the checking)? If RIM failed to verify this, what hope does anyone else have? I think the world has gotten too complex for an easy answer to this problem, and the knee-jerk reaction to get rid of software patents would only trade one problem (long if not impossible research process) for another (copy-and-destroy business model).
Very true, the US government doesn't play by the same rules. When you develop something for one branch of the government, they are free to give it away to any other government agency. This means you have to be extra careful on government work, how the contract is written, how it's licensed, etc. We realized this very quickly when agency A heard that agency B had the problem solved already. Agency A picks up the phone to get all of the code and documentation sent over to them, and there's nothing you can do to stop them despite all of the confidential and non-disclosure headings on everything. Agency A just looks at you and says "we're the government, their the government, it hasn't been disclosed to anyone else."
The article seems to indicate the same issue exists with patents, but there aren't enough details to say for sure. Now if we could only get our members of congress to get rid of their fully funded health care packages, maybe they would look at reforming the issues in the health care industry.
If you didn't have the constraints of being an employee, would you work more or less?
If you'd work more because you get paid by the hour, enjoy what you do, have a desire to understand how businesses are run, and now have a vested ownership in the results, then you're on the right path to start contracting.
If you like having the business do the business part for you (legal, financial, insurance, management, etc), like knowing that you can leave work behind after your 40 hours a week, and you don't go home trying to figure out what else you could be doing (and not just because you signed an IP agreement) then you're probably better off as an employee.
It's a big leap, and everyone here is right when they say you take on more costs (but you already knew that I hope), that there's more work, taxes, risks, etc. But it really comes down to a personal desire, since if you have that desire (and hopefully some ability that people will pay for), then everything else will work itself out.
But what I want to see is large companies that have lots of phishers after their customers offer a "what to do if you receive a suspicious email" link on their home page. And when you click on that, it gives you a fake user id, password, account number, and any other identifying information that a phisher is looking for. When the fake user id and password is used by a phisher, actions from that PC are temporarily disabled and any accounts accessed from this location are flagged as stolen. Do what you can to try to get the phisher to reveal themselves and also start re-authenticating your clients with good old fashion phone calls (plus you can ask them to stop giving our their account information). Have some reasonable checks in there so that if a customer thinks they are being phished and sends the fake info to the real web site, you don't go knocking their door in with a swat team. It wouldn't be hard to create this anti-phishing tool. Smart customers help you, fraud goes down, dumb customers receive some protection without the big company being liable, and the company gets known as a safe place to do business. The only losers are the phishers and the little bit of time it takes to setup and maintain the system.
38.0.0.0/8 Class A is Cogent/PSI... how much bigger than being an entire Class A (and then some?!) does one have to be to be considered [ahem] "equal"?
I don't claim to know much about Tier 1 providers, but it would seem some negotiations didn't work out to a good agreement, and now there's a little pissing contest going on. And as for the earlier post about the BGP routes being dropped, there's another comment that describes how this is perfectly normal.
Has it ever occurred to you that the war on terror's refined capacities to detect explosives could also be used to suppress a "rebellious" majority population? (that is to say, to enforce a dictatorship in the USA?)
If every time that something is put into place for the public safety or other benign purpose someone shouts "dictatorship", how many people will be paying attention when our civil liberties actually are taken away?
Has it ever occurred to you that the war on terror's refined capacities to detect explosives could also be used to suppress a "rebellious" majority population? (that is to say, to enforce a dictatorship in the USA?) [Cut the rest of the political rant]
How does this stuff get moderated up? People need to remember that driving a car is a privledge, not a right (and judges will be happy to remind you of that after you break a few driving laws). Similarly, when you get on any form of mass transportation (airplane, subway, train, etc), you subject yourself to the rules of that mode of transportation. Yes, it would be easy for a group to skew those rules to discriminate, so we need to keep an eye on our elected officials. But who in their right mind is defending someone that brings a backpack or shoe filled with explosives onto a plane or anywhere else? All I ask is that you treat the person with respect until you know for sure that it's some kind of explosives and not "yet another false positive."
The world is a half decent place when everyone is doing unto others as they would have done unto themselves. It's reasonable to defend mass transportation when there are some crazy folks that want to kill a lot of people. It's also reasonable to figure out why someone is so upset that they would get that pissed off at us to see if there's some way we can get along better with our neighbors. But we should be able to do that without the political rants.
Palm OS has had IP for a long time. I used a IIIe to get on the net with CDPD and no special drivers.
I'm an old Palm Vx user originally, so the upgrade to the Treo was my first opportunity with IP. I did win a Palm VII, but liked the Vx more so I ended up giving it away as a gift. True, my issue may be with my app, but I'd prefer if apps couldn't break the network on a device.
PalmOS can also multithread -- it defiantely does with PocketTunes! It sounds like an application problem.
Maybe apps can be written to get around it, but the user interface has always been one app at a time. Yes, I can have the phone running in the background while I run something else, and you've got PocketTunes to do the same. But to copy something from an email message into a contact, I can't alt-tab between the two. Rather I have to keep switching to the other app which implicitly closes the previous app and loses my place there so I have to renavigate each time.
The clock in 5.2.8 had an alarm clock feature in the 'standard' clock.
Damn, time to look for an upgrade. Thanks for the tip. The Treo 600 came with 5.2.1.
I think people knock palm from these Treo devices.:) The zire/tungsten line had all the advancements.
Don't get me wrong, I love my Treo (only wish I waited a few more months for the 650, but I didn't realize they were coming out and the battery in my Vx was dying). That said, when this one is ready to be replaced, I'll be happy to use whatever has a decent PIM, sync's with linux, works as a phone (maybe GSM coverage will be good enough to change carriers too), and can pull my imap (ssl) based email.
Before the bad, a quick recap on what they did right:
Battery life, better than just about everyone else
Simple interface and PIM apps (well, I have always wondered why they never added category support to the calendar, but that's a side issue)
But the real issues I see include:
OS isn't multi-threaded. So when my email app kicks in to sync on my Treo, everything else has to stop. (Secondary is that Sprint and Verizon have data and voice on the same channel, so you can't use both at the same time. This is one of several huge advantages for GSM these days.)
No built in file system. Everything has to be in the palm database format unless you are using an external memory card. So loading a pdf or mp3 is a complicated process that should be much easier.
Poor network support. Now that they finally got IP, I still have to reset about once a month or so to get my email app working again.
Pet peeve: you can't specify how long to snooze alarms
Another pet peeve: no built in alarm clock. I'm living with a reoccuring appointment for now, but I want something that's loud enough to wake me up, easy to change, and doesn't clutter up my calendar.
What I want to see in my Treo 600 replacement (still a couple years off) is:
Good WiFi, Bluetooth, and GSM support.
True multi threading so clients can run in the background
Keep the long battery life
Include an easy to use but extendable set of default apps:
calendar
alarm clock
contacts
advanced todo list (the old todo list didn't have enough features, floating entries in the calendar aren't half bad, but I use a shopping list app now because it lets me keep multiple lists with different properties)
email with pop, imap, and exchange support (for the home, advanced, and corporate users respectively)
web browser
pdf viewer
mp3 player
anything else I'm missing that should come out of the box?
Easy integration with any OS. Best thing is to appear as a USB flash memory to any OS without software built in. Keep calendar, contact, and email data in common formats that can be copied. If someone has the latest drivers, the device can also pass events back and forth (think hot sync button) or maybe appear as an IP device for a client/server additional interface.
I think there are good reasons for the underlying OS to be linux, but that really doesn't matter if it has the above features out of the box and it's easy to write synchronization software and build new apps to run on the thing.
From the artical: Digital File Check is easy to use and can help people prevent their employees...
But then it says:...for private use only...
If they really want companies to keep an eye on their employees, they need to work on that. That said, most large companies are too busy patching PC's, looking for bandwidth hogs, and keeping virus scanners up to date to spend time looking for illegal music.
HP all-in-ones work very well with SANE, provided you have the HPOJ drivers installed.
I'll second that. I've got an HP Office Jet 5510 working with the usb cable on Debian. Installed the sane/xsane and hpoj packages, and it just plain worked. Haven't had a need to print to it just yet (I needed the fax and scanner the most), but I'm not expecting any difficulties there either.
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Don't be resigned to the status quo. Operating systems could be a hell of a lot better.
Sure they could, but we already have what is there now. Making a new OS with better video handling, no file system interdependencies, better network handling, etc will require that every application that you use today be redesigned and rewritten from scratch. I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but most people are happy enough with the OS they have to not spend the time redesigning everything. Not to mention, many API's are made the way they are because of hardware, so changing them becomes inefficient without a hardware change. And filesystem interdependencies are there because people like to reuse libraries, it's more efficient, and avoids keeping 50 copies of the same thing on your system to prevent all of those dependencies. Just because it isn't pretty doesn't mean it didn't become that way without a good reason.
Until there's a drastic hardware change that forces a new OS to be created, people will ignore anyone chearing for their new fancy OS. The main reason Linux caught on was because people didn't have to change, they already had Unix software and x86 systems. Even writing an application in C with libraries has enough similarities when porting to a new OS that you don't have to learn a completely different method.
PC's are likely to stick with their current OS's until x86 is changed, and even then, there's a good chance someone will just port the existing OS's over. When they need to handle the high speed video services, people will just bolt on features and add a better video card. Changing the OS will take a lot more than video, maybe when quantum computing becomes a reality.
If you want something that's crying out for a better OS, try cell phones. Palm seems to be in a downward spiral, windows based systems are too resource intensive, RIM is getting tied up in patent disputes, and linux is only becoming popular there because the others are so bad. Find a good OS for smart phones that multi-tasks, easily and securely communicates with other devices, implements a simple UI that can be navigated with one thumb, easily runs applications like PIM/email/mp3, doesn't kill batteries, and doesn't have a big licensing fee, and people will be lining up.
And beyond that, the interface in both is terrible. Is the data I'm looking for in /usr/bin/run? C:/documents and settings/Default User/Application Data/? Or one of a million other places? Is my dependency tree resolved properly?
First off, you seem upset with user interfaces, lack of video standards, and lack of quality applications, not the OS itself. We could build a new OS and still have all these problems. Fixing the OS we have would seem to be a more efficient solution. Also, just because something is complex doesn't mean it won't stick around. I don't think people consider Tivo complicated because the UI hides everything under the covers.
And on the flip side, you don't hear a lot of people complaining about what a PITA it was to change the water pump in their car, because they get a mechanic to do that. And yet cars are still around despite the fact that you need to learn how to drive and get a license before you're allowed to use one. There's probably more than one thing the computer industry could learn from the automotive industry, they've been doing it for longer. OS's are still a ways away from needing to make our own gas to electric conversion.
It might be a little tricky to get two DSLRs that close, and of course they'd need to have the same lens, but i might give it a shot sometime soon.
Most people I've seen with these setups place the cameras bottom to bottom to get them close enough. You just have to rotate the pictures in different directions. The same lens is half the problem, getting the same focus, white balance, and exposure is the other. Having cameras where these things are all manual makes this much easier.
For example, if I'm a bank and someone comes in with a bunch of information as well as something that looks like a valid driver's license, should I be liable for granting credit to them if they're committing fraud?
Of course the person committing the fraud should be arrested and liable. But if the company gives credit to people that they are not really you, should you be liable? No, and yet with todays system, you are presumed guilty until you prove that it wasn't you, at your own expense. So credit companies are happy to send solicitations to people's pets and anyone else with minimal verification since you are responsible for proving that they gave credit to the wrong person. Making the credit company responsible for their mistakes gives them the motivation to fix their own problem. Credit reporting companies would also willing give you open access to view your own information to help eliminate errors since otherwise they could be held liable for any damages their mistakes cause.
Will that cause a greater expense on credit card companies? Yes, but only to those companies that are careless. Those that clamp down on ID theft and fraud will reduce their expenses and therefore continue to offer the low rates (speaking of which, you really should be paying your bill off every month).
A simple change to credit reporting laws that would require a second level of verification of the identity of a consumer before granting credit, like what happens when you put a fraud alert on your credit report, would go a long way toward fixing this problem.
From what I've heard, people placing fraud alerts can frequently find places that ignore the credit warning and give out a card with little or no checking. And if everyone had fraud alerts, finding places that don't check would be even easier. Quite simply, credit reporting companies need to be 100% liable for reporting false information, and credit vendors (including banks and mortgage companies) need to be 100% liable for offering credit to and identity thief. And that liability needs to include paying you an hourly rate comparable to your existing job (if not more) for any time you spent repairing your credit and payment for any damages incurred from reporting false information (e.g. loss of a job, home loan, etc). The companies will only care when you make them financially responsible. Until then, they will make things as easy as possible for them to make a profit. The only reason this hasn't happened already is because politicians can be influenced by people with money.
every guests name, address, phone number, what government agency/corporation they work for, and CC#'s/expiration dates
If the CC information is unencrypted and usable, I'm sure that the various CC companies would be interested in knowing about it. Various retail companies that I know have all sorts of security that they have to comply with to do business with a CC company. Some data is in the form where one person has access to the encrypted form, another has half of the key, and a third has the other half. I'm not saying that everyone goes through such strict measures, but having completely unencrypted and unsecured CC data with the name and expiration would get CC processing rights removed if the CC company (visa, mc, amex, disc) discovered this.
What the hell does this mean? Are you saying the "new" way of doing business means not achieving profitability?
It means that corporate america seems to be saying "open source is great, where do we buy it" instead of considering how to adjust their business to better utilize OSS. They seem to be jumping on the latest buzzword or trend without really understanding the value. And the boom of Red Hat seems to be indicating that people are buying OSS rather than buying into the OSS concept. Phrasing it to avoid "shouldn't Red Hat want to make a profit" confusion would have taken a few more brain cells working than I had before the morning sugar rush, sorry.
You're thinking about the business model of Red Hat itself, which is a good one. I was referring to the business model of the large corporations who seem to be saying "open source is great, where do we buy it from?" Support is a great argument to pay someone else, but that choice frequently backfires. Support organizations make their money by hiring cheap labor and postpone resolving the problem until the customer frequently does it themselves, or blames someone else for the problem. I've seen it happen so often, that I don't understand why managers think support provides a valuable benefit for the cost.
So the better business model for larger organizations would have a stronger IT organization that has enough capacity to understand the applications they are implementing and provide support internally.
For smaller organizations, I think they are better served by getting a local resource that they can call for problems and that performs a checkup a few times a year just like that organization would do with legal and accounting services.
And for the record, I don't think we've crossed the threshold yet, but it's interesting to see what the business types are watching.
'After more than five years of trying, the recording industry has not yet demonstrated a workable DRM scheme for music CDs. Gartner believes that it will never achieve this goal as long as CDs must be playable by stand-alone CD players.'
Damn, you weren't supposed to tell them that. This was just starting to get funny.
"in mid-2001, X10's company Web site was the fourth-most visited"
Hmm, I may have been "benchmarking" their web server around that time.
It's not the man in the middle attack you need to worry about (as others have already said). It's the ability the spoof who you are by monitoring just your computer (or possibly the internet connection if it's not secure enough, but with all the spyware out there, the former is more likely and easier). To make this secure, the second form of identification must be something that changes in an unpredictable way. Fingerprints do not change enough, and therefore can be forged after monitoring just one bank transaction. Secure dongles may have the same problem, but usually not enough is known about how they work to be sure. The one time pads and tokens with numbers that change are basically the only solutions I can see that adds security at this point. However, if one were to break the number generating algorithm on those tokens, it's going to be a huge cost to fix. Hopefully the bank can easily reprogram these things should such an event occur.
Additionally, I stand by a previously stated view that banks should have a way to provide "red flag" credentials (user id, pass, etc) to their customers which they can then input on the phishing web pages. When those credentials are later used, the bank sees the red flag and the criminals are easier tracked and prevented from doing more damage.
So what happens when someone forgets to turn off their phone on an airplane?
"Wow, traffic is really flying on the I-95 corridor"
So how do we fix it? Do we require companies to prove that they are developing or selling a product that uses a patent for them to maintain it? Do we require that damages have been incurred (e.g. loss of revenue) due to a competing product? It seems appropriate to have a way to protect a small company from competition from a larger copy-and-destroy company (e.g. Microsoft). But then with so many patents out there, how does a small company ensure that they are not infringing on someone else's patents for a reasonable cost (free) and in a reasonable time (should it take one person hours, days, months, or years to do the checking)? If RIM failed to verify this, what hope does anyone else have? I think the world has gotten too complex for an easy answer to this problem, and the knee-jerk reaction to get rid of software patents would only trade one problem (long if not impossible research process) for another (copy-and-destroy business model).
Very true, the US government doesn't play by the same rules. When you develop something for one branch of the government, they are free to give it away to any other government agency. This means you have to be extra careful on government work, how the contract is written, how it's licensed, etc. We realized this very quickly when agency A heard that agency B had the problem solved already. Agency A picks up the phone to get all of the code and documentation sent over to them, and there's nothing you can do to stop them despite all of the confidential and non-disclosure headings on everything. Agency A just looks at you and says "we're the government, their the government, it hasn't been disclosed to anyone else."
The article seems to indicate the same issue exists with patents, but there aren't enough details to say for sure. Now if we could only get our members of congress to get rid of their fully funded health care packages, maybe they would look at reforming the issues in the health care industry.
If you didn't have the constraints of being an employee, would you work more or less?
If you'd work more because you get paid by the hour, enjoy what you do, have a desire to understand how businesses are run, and now have a vested ownership in the results, then you're on the right path to start contracting.
If you like having the business do the business part for you (legal, financial, insurance, management, etc), like knowing that you can leave work behind after your 40 hours a week, and you don't go home trying to figure out what else you could be doing (and not just because you signed an IP agreement) then you're probably better off as an employee.
It's a big leap, and everyone here is right when they say you take on more costs (but you already knew that I hope), that there's more work, taxes, risks, etc. But it really comes down to a personal desire, since if you have that desire (and hopefully some ability that people will pay for), then everything else will work itself out.
But what I want to see is large companies that have lots of phishers after their customers offer a "what to do if you receive a suspicious email" link on their home page. And when you click on that, it gives you a fake user id, password, account number, and any other identifying information that a phisher is looking for. When the fake user id and password is used by a phisher, actions from that PC are temporarily disabled and any accounts accessed from this location are flagged as stolen. Do what you can to try to get the phisher to reveal themselves and also start re-authenticating your clients with good old fashion phone calls (plus you can ask them to stop giving our their account information). Have some reasonable checks in there so that if a customer thinks they are being phished and sends the fake info to the real web site, you don't go knocking their door in with a swat team. It wouldn't be hard to create this anti-phishing tool. Smart customers help you, fraud goes down, dumb customers receive some protection without the big company being liable, and the company gets known as a safe place to do business. The only losers are the phishers and the little bit of time it takes to setup and maintain the system.
38.0.0.0/8 Class A is Cogent/PSI... how much bigger than being an entire Class A (and then some?!) does one have to be to be considered [ahem] "equal"?
Presumably, you need to make this list.
I don't claim to know much about Tier 1 providers, but it would seem some negotiations didn't work out to a good agreement, and now there's a little pissing contest going on. And as for the earlier post about the BGP routes being dropped, there's another comment that describes how this is perfectly normal.
setup a test using the ever popular younger brother as a target?
Has it ever occurred to you that the war on terror's refined capacities to detect explosives could also be used to suppress a "rebellious" majority population? (that is to say, to enforce a dictatorship in the USA?)
If every time that something is put into place for the public safety or other benign purpose someone shouts "dictatorship", how many people will be paying attention when our civil liberties actually are taken away?
Has it ever occurred to you that the war on terror's refined capacities to detect explosives could also be used to suppress a "rebellious" majority population? (that is to say, to enforce a dictatorship in the USA?)
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How does this stuff get moderated up? People need to remember that driving a car is a privledge, not a right (and judges will be happy to remind you of that after you break a few driving laws). Similarly, when you get on any form of mass transportation (airplane, subway, train, etc), you subject yourself to the rules of that mode of transportation. Yes, it would be easy for a group to skew those rules to discriminate, so we need to keep an eye on our elected officials. But who in their right mind is defending someone that brings a backpack or shoe filled with explosives onto a plane or anywhere else? All I ask is that you treat the person with respect until you know for sure that it's some kind of explosives and not "yet another false positive."
The world is a half decent place when everyone is doing unto others as they would have done unto themselves. It's reasonable to defend mass transportation when there are some crazy folks that want to kill a lot of people. It's also reasonable to figure out why someone is so upset that they would get that pissed off at us to see if there's some way we can get along better with our neighbors. But we should be able to do that without the political rants.
Palm OS has had IP for a long time. I used a IIIe to get on the net with CDPD and no special drivers.
:) The zire/tungsten line had all the advancements.
I'm an old Palm Vx user originally, so the upgrade to the Treo was my first opportunity with IP. I did win a Palm VII, but liked the Vx more so I ended up giving it away as a gift. True, my issue may be with my app, but I'd prefer if apps couldn't break the network on a device.
PalmOS can also multithread -- it defiantely does with PocketTunes! It sounds like an application problem.
Maybe apps can be written to get around it, but the user interface has always been one app at a time. Yes, I can have the phone running in the background while I run something else, and you've got PocketTunes to do the same. But to copy something from an email message into a contact, I can't alt-tab between the two. Rather I have to keep switching to the other app which implicitly closes the previous app and loses my place there so I have to renavigate each time.
The clock in 5.2.8 had an alarm clock feature in the 'standard' clock.
Damn, time to look for an upgrade. Thanks for the tip. The Treo 600 came with 5.2.1.
I think people knock palm from these Treo devices.
Don't get me wrong, I love my Treo (only wish I waited a few more months for the 650, but I didn't realize they were coming out and the battery in my Vx was dying). That said, when this one is ready to be replaced, I'll be happy to use whatever has a decent PIM, sync's with linux, works as a phone (maybe GSM coverage will be good enough to change carriers too), and can pull my imap (ssl) based email.
But the real issues I see include:
What I want to see in my Treo 600 replacement (still a couple years off) is:
I think there are good reasons for the underlying OS to be linux, but that really doesn't matter if it has the above features out of the box and it's easy to write synchronization software and build new apps to run on the thing.
Anyway, that's my $0.02.
From the artical: Digital File Check is easy to use and can help people prevent their employees...
...for private use only...
But then it says:
If they really want companies to keep an eye on their employees, they need to work on that. That said, most large companies are too busy patching PC's, looking for bandwidth hogs, and keeping virus scanners up to date to spend time looking for illegal music.
HP all-in-ones work very well with SANE, provided you have the HPOJ drivers installed.
I'll second that. I've got an HP Office Jet 5510 working with the usb cable on Debian. Installed the sane/xsane and hpoj packages, and it just plain worked. Haven't had a need to print to it just yet (I needed the fax and scanner the most), but I'm not expecting any difficulties there either.