You know it's a funny thing because businesses like and hate spam. They like it because it brings in money and they hate it because they have to spend money on spam filters and lost work time.
Here is a possible solution. Spammers cover their tracks. Well instead of trying to go after spammers go after the business that use them. Those businesses MUST be traceable because they include ways to buy their product. If we must make a law, which would only work in the US, it should say "You can't hire a spammer to send your mail". Then when www.pacificmeds.com sends me a spam for "save money on prescription drugs" they can be fined.
Go after the source, not the person who fills the need. Once the need is squashed by the law spam will reduce greatly.
I hate evil corps, and I do not use them. Example: I don't use Network Solutions for my domain names.
But I used HR Block before TurboTax and they would charge me $150 for pushing buttons. The last year I did it the guy knew nothing and could barely work the software. What is the atternative? TaxCut? Is it any good? It has HR Block written all over it. I think I will stick to TurboTax till I see the evil. Actually this register problem is the first bad thing I heard.
Actually I like Intuit because if you do a RAL with TurboTax my company is the one that processes the loan. Big bucks for my company and bonus and raise for me.
Yep I have a 20 inch trinitron that is now 10 years old. Works perfectly and the picture it perfect. I just replaced it with a 27 inch Panasonic Tau only because the Pansonic was bigger and had stereo sound. Sure wished I blew the extra $50 and got the strero triniton back then. It will work well as a bedromm TV as soon as I move out of my studio apartment.
Exactly. Monopolies are not illegal in the US. Its what you do with that monopoly. Usually there is only one phone comapny, one water company, etc. If the water comapny was not regulated they could charge $1 per gallon. I hear of this reregulation crap and I shreak. I like less government but that is one thing the governemtn is for, to supply its citizens with the utilities at a fair price.
I have Pacbell, now called SBC. I have DSL. But I have DSLExtreme as my ISP. Why? Becasue for $50 I get 1500/128 wiht a STATIC IP. No damn PPPoE or other authnicating crap. I get an IP, I set that in my router and off I go. Pacbell costs the same but I would have to use PPPoE, I used PPPoE, it sucked. Had to go disconnect and reconnect every few hours.
What I really hate is that I MUST pay for a phone line. My Tivo uses the phone line but only becasue I have not bought a TurboNET yet. Ya my phone bill is only $12 (half is taxes) but I think I should be able to have DSL without the voice phone.
Yep. My servers are in a server room with a locked door. We use these little black radio wave thingys that we wave in front of a panel to open the doors. each one is coded to a person and to certain doors. Also it has an alarm at that is set at night. Then the whole building is secure. Oh and the KVM has a password.
So you need access to our building, access to my server room, know the pin to the alarm system and know a user and password on the kvm.
If we wanted we could go farther and disable booting from floppy or CD and set a password on the bios and lock the rack door, but the first 4 layers seems to be enough.
Exactly. Why would anyone buy a CD version and install it. The online version works great. I used it last year and this year. I went in at home and at work, all info help in one place and no crap installed on my computer. Online is the only way to go. I guess, unless you are too freaked out about the tax info being on a website.
The more patents I read the more I realize how vague they are getting. The wording is right out of the Web Economy Bullshit Generator. I am sure you can take the same patent and reword it 50 times and get 50 patents. It is sicking. I thought patents were for lightbulbs and hammers. Oh well. Live sucks then you die.
Shoot. I had an ex employer that did this. They has one copy of MS Office and installed it on 15 or so computers. They also had a pirated Novell Netware. After I left I ratted them out to MS and Novell, but nothing ever came of it. Guess I bitched to the wrong people. What's BSA's number. I think I have some payback due.
Sun took over iPlanet. It is called Sun ONE now. Netscape(AOL) now has no part in it. The webserver is a pile of crap now. They went from 4.1 to 6.0, skipping 5, just like Netscape did with its browser. Last week I tryed to get a servlet to work in. Took me 6 hours and I just gave up. Installed Tomcat and had servlets running in 10 minutes. So now we have the iPlanet front end with the nsapi_redirect.dll pushing the servlet requests onto Tomcat. Damn what a mess.
Yep, its all about money. Overall the desisions are made my a few people on the board. There job is to make more money for the shareholders. They see customers as "income cattle" and employees as "expensive resources". They seem to forget they are customers and employees too. My company (also a bank) keeps talking about this imaginary percentage that they wanting us to meet. Damn, jsut switching off of Microsoft Office would save us about $100k a year.
Lau, Ruby, never heard of them. Shoot the first time I heard smalltalk was in a CS class a few years ago. Their are jsut too many languages, it is boggleing to the mind. I personally started with Perl for dynamic websites. Then I evolved to PHP. My current job is Java happy so I am trying to figure out JSP wishing it were PHP. I hate Ints, Strings and Null Pointer Exceptions. Arg!! Anyway I just wanted to comment on how I think there are too many programming languages in the world. It streaches the talent too thin.
Not one RCA product is any good. They make cheap junky stuff. They are the GM of consumer electronics. Give me a Sony anyday. Too bad I guess.
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I don't get it. Why do they even have linking policies. A simple few lines of code in the top of the page could check the referrer and if it was from "outside" then redirect them. Problem solved.
You can also so do this for frames with javascript. A few lines would check to see if the page was in a frame and if it was it moves out of the frame.
I have implemented both these solutions. I am so sick of threats in policies and EULAs. If you dont want people coming into your house just lock freaking the door. Simple as that.
I just dont understand why space flight is so expensive. Is it all the people working on it? Could it be bad budgeting of NASA, you know $400 toilet seats and $200 haircuts, etc.? Do they use some rare materials that are hard to produce. I just don't get it, can anyone that has worked around the space program give some insight.
I won a Palm IIIx a few years back. Worth about $300 at the time. I never got into it, it was jsut cool to have a PDA. Mainly I used it as a shopping list at the grocery store. I thought the Palm OS sucked big time. Plus I never had use for a "planner" anyways. I don't have lots of appointments and one one I do have I keep in my works groupware.
I sold it on ebay for $100, good deal for me and the buyer. I have been looking at a Pocket PC. Since I use a Windows OS on my desktop it seems to fit well with a Windows OS on a PDA. Plus teh Pocket OS has "useful" apps like Pocket Word. On my Palm I could never read anything, it was useless.
I'll tell you why. Big banks have massive investments in their technology and will buy products that intregrate well with those legacy systems. Also big banks have "too many cooks in the kitchen" they have meetings and more meetings. Credit unions are "not for profit" and along with small banks have a lot less political problems.
I bet your Credit Union's IT guy and president meet a few times picked a good product and installed it. Give then Kudos, tell then they are doing the right thing.
Well I hope they disable ICMP. Banks dont need crackers mapping there network with NMAP. Since they have ICMP disabled that means they have a compident security officer.
I am a webmaster at a bank and worked closly with our online banking efforts. Last year we installed our in-house Online banking. The product/vendor that was chosen had the most crappiest code I have ever seen. We only support ie 5.5 or ns 4.6. Mainly due to the fact that all form validation is handled with javascript. I tryed the site with Opera and it could not even show the login page. It took 3 years to get this product installed due to changing specs and vendors dumping us on other vendors, so I dont see it being updated anytime soon.
The system barely limps along and they did the guy that runs the system barly know how it works because of the multiple vendors the server is a mess.We have no idea which or production files because each every thing is scattered and duplicated.
Mod parent up. VNC is very useful. I used it to shut down all the computers in the house at night right from my computer, no need to walk around to each one.
You know Defcon and Blackhat are both ran by the same people. Defcon is for all the guys that can't afford Blackhat. The speakers speak free that is why it is not as good.
Yep, I would have to agree. It is already united under Trillian. Compare IM to IRC. You have to find the server you want log in and pick a username. It never "united" and IM will never either. Trillian is the answer.
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You know it's a funny thing because businesses like and hate spam. They like it because it brings in money and they hate it because they have to spend money on spam filters and lost work time.
Here is a possible solution. Spammers cover their tracks. Well instead of trying to go after spammers go after the business that use them. Those businesses MUST be traceable because they include ways to buy their product. If we must make a law, which would only work in the US, it should say "You can't hire a spammer to send your mail". Then when www.pacificmeds.com sends me a spam for "save money on prescription drugs" they can be fined.
Go after the source, not the person who fills the need. Once the need is squashed by the law spam will reduce greatly.
I hate evil corps, and I do not use them. Example: I don't use Network Solutions for my domain names.
But I used HR Block before TurboTax and they would charge me $150 for pushing buttons. The last year I did it the guy knew nothing and could barely work the software. What is the atternative? TaxCut? Is it any good? It has HR Block written all over it. I think I will stick to TurboTax till I see the evil. Actually this register problem is the first bad thing I heard.
Actually I like Intuit because if you do a RAL with TurboTax my company is the one that processes the loan. Big bucks for my company and bonus and raise for me.
For all those asking when and were to sign up let me make it simple. It says Summer. It is administrated by the FTC.
So that means in July go to either firstgov.gov or ftc.gov and search for "do not call". Simple huh? Well stop whining... "when, where, oh boo hoo".
Use TurboTax for the Web. What dumbass would buy software to install on their computer for a one time use like TurboTax.
A guy at my work bought TurboTax and make 10 copies and gave it to everyone at work. Duh of course Intuit is going to setup some anti-piracy stuff.
I say again, you are an idiot if you don't do it online.
Yep I have a 20 inch trinitron that is now 10 years old. Works perfectly and the picture it perfect. I just replaced it with a 27 inch Panasonic Tau only because the Pansonic was bigger and had stereo sound. Sure wished I blew the extra $50 and got the strero triniton back then. It will work well as a bedromm TV as soon as I move out of my studio apartment.
Exactly. Monopolies are not illegal in the US. Its what you do with that monopoly. Usually there is only one phone comapny, one water company, etc. If the water comapny was not regulated they could charge $1 per gallon. I hear of this reregulation crap and I shreak. I like less government but that is one thing the governemtn is for, to supply its citizens with the utilities at a fair price.
I have Pacbell, now called SBC. I have DSL. But I have DSLExtreme as my ISP. Why? Becasue for $50 I get 1500/128 wiht a STATIC IP. No damn PPPoE or other authnicating crap. I get an IP, I set that in my router and off I go. Pacbell costs the same but I would have to use PPPoE, I used PPPoE, it sucked. Had to go disconnect and reconnect every few hours.
What I really hate is that I MUST pay for a phone line. My Tivo uses the phone line but only becasue I have not bought a TurboNET yet. Ya my phone bill is only $12 (half is taxes) but I think I should be able to have DSL without the voice phone.
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Yep. My servers are in a server room with a locked door. We use these little black radio wave thingys that we wave in front of a panel to open the doors. each one is coded to a person and to certain doors. Also it has an alarm at that is set at night. Then the whole building is secure. Oh and the KVM has a password.
So you need access to our building, access to my server room, know the pin to the alarm system and know a user and password on the kvm.
If we wanted we could go farther and disable booting from floppy or CD and set a password on the bios and lock the rack door, but the first 4 layers seems to be enough.
That article is totally correct.
Exactly. Why would anyone buy a CD version and install it. The online version works great. I used it last year and this year. I went in at home and at work, all info help in one place and no crap installed on my computer. Online is the only way to go. I guess, unless you are too freaked out about the tax info being on a website.
The more patents I read the more I realize how vague they are getting. The wording is right out of the Web Economy Bullshit Generator. I am sure you can take the same patent and reword it 50 times and get 50 patents. It is sicking. I thought patents were for lightbulbs and hammers. Oh well. Live sucks then you die.
Shoot. I had an ex employer that did this. They has one copy of MS Office and installed it on 15 or so computers. They also had a pirated Novell Netware. After I left I ratted them out to MS and Novell, but nothing ever came of it. Guess I bitched to the wrong people. What's BSA's number. I think I have some payback due.
Sun took over iPlanet. It is called Sun ONE now. Netscape(AOL) now has no part in it. The webserver is a pile of crap now. They went from 4.1 to 6.0, skipping 5, just like Netscape did with its browser. Last week I tryed to get a servlet to work in. Took me 6 hours and I just gave up. Installed Tomcat and had servlets running in 10 minutes. So now we have the iPlanet front end with the nsapi_redirect.dll pushing the servlet requests onto Tomcat. Damn what a mess.
Yep, its all about money. Overall the desisions are made my a few people on the board. There job is to make more money for the shareholders. They see customers as "income cattle" and employees as "expensive resources". They seem to forget they are customers and employees too. My company (also a bank) keeps talking about this imaginary percentage that they wanting us to meet. Damn, jsut switching off of Microsoft Office would save us about $100k a year.
Lau, Ruby, never heard of them. Shoot the first time I heard smalltalk was in a CS class a few years ago. Their are jsut too many languages, it is boggleing to the mind. I personally started with Perl for dynamic websites. Then I evolved to PHP. My current job is Java happy so I am trying to figure out JSP wishing it were PHP. I hate Ints, Strings and Null Pointer Exceptions. Arg!! Anyway I just wanted to comment on how I think there are too many programming languages in the world. It streaches the talent too thin.
Not one RCA product is any good. They make cheap junky stuff. They are the GM of consumer electronics. Give me a Sony anyday. Too bad I guess.
I don't get it. Why do they even have linking policies. A simple few lines of code in the top of the page could check the referrer and if it was from "outside" then redirect them. Problem solved.
You can also so do this for frames with javascript. A few lines would check to see if the page was in a frame and if it was it moves out of the frame.
I have implemented both these solutions. I am so sick of threats in policies and EULAs. If you dont want people coming into your house just lock freaking the door. Simple as that.
I just dont understand why space flight is so expensive. Is it all the people working on it? Could it be bad budgeting of NASA, you know $400 toilet seats and $200 haircuts, etc.? Do they use some rare materials that are hard to produce. I just don't get it, can anyone that has worked around the space program give some insight.
I won a Palm IIIx a few years back. Worth about $300 at the time. I never got into it, it was jsut cool to have a PDA. Mainly I used it as a shopping list at the grocery store. I thought the Palm OS sucked big time. Plus I never had use for a "planner" anyways. I don't have lots of appointments and one one I do have I keep in my works groupware.
I sold it on ebay for $100, good deal for me and the buyer. I have been looking at a Pocket PC. Since I use a Windows OS on my desktop it seems to fit well with a Windows OS on a PDA. Plus teh Pocket OS has "useful" apps like Pocket Word. On my Palm I could never read anything, it was useless.
I'll tell you why. Big banks have massive investments in their technology and will buy products that intregrate well with those legacy systems. Also big banks have "too many cooks in the kitchen" they have meetings and more meetings. Credit unions are "not for profit" and along with small banks have a lot less political problems.
I bet your Credit Union's IT guy and president meet a few times picked a good product and installed it. Give then Kudos, tell then they are doing the right thing.
Well I hope they disable ICMP. Banks dont need crackers mapping there network with NMAP. Since they have ICMP disabled that means they have a compident security officer.
I am a webmaster at a bank and worked closly with our online banking efforts. Last year we installed our in-house Online banking. The product/vendor that was chosen had the most crappiest code I have ever seen. We only support ie 5.5 or ns 4.6. Mainly due to the fact that all form validation is handled with javascript. I tryed the site with Opera and it could not even show the login page. It took 3 years to get this product installed due to changing specs and vendors dumping us on other vendors, so I dont see it being updated anytime soon.
The system barely limps along and they did the guy that runs the system barly know how it works because of the multiple vendors the server is a mess.We have no idea which or production files because each every thing is scattered and duplicated.
Doesn't the government censor websites in Australia? That seems to suck to me.
Mod parent up. VNC is very useful. I used it to shut down all the computers in the house at night right from my computer, no need to walk around to each one.
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You know Defcon and Blackhat are both ran by the same people. Defcon is for all the guys that can't afford Blackhat. The speakers speak free that is why it is not as good.
Yep, I would have to agree. It is already united under Trillian. Compare IM to IRC. You have to find the server you want log in and pick a username. It never "united" and IM will never either. Trillian is the answer.