It actually requires less expertise to leave and retrieve a hardware keystroke logger than it does to try to circumvent unknown protection to install your own logging software. Sure, the hardware costs more, and you have to come back for the pickup, but you don't have to care what OS the public system is running or how it's locked down.
I doubt it. I once lost my keys, including the key to my bike's Kryptonite lock. I spent a while beating the shit out of it before taking the bike to a welding shop. (Happily, I hadn't attached the bike to anything.) The guy there cut through my lock in less than a second with a small oxyacetylene torch.
No, a geek should not try to be a MBA, and a MBA should not try to be a geek. They should however, understand each other.
I was at a SIGCHI conference years ago, and Don Norman said that very thing. Basically, he said that if the usability (we can substitute "geek" here) types were ever to have a serious shot at controlling where companies went, they needed to learn how to address management and address management concerns in their own language.
For what it's worth, I earned my Ph.D. and was a tenure-track professor. It didn't take long to decide that teaching and begging for grant money (half of which went to administrative overhead) was boring and I'd rather make stuff.
I went corporate, and love it. I'm taking a few classes on the side to learn the business end, and looks like I might get an MBA after all.
I'm not saying that everyone can straddle the fence, but anyone who's reasonably bright and curious will tend to succeed, regardless of academic or corporate culture. And, for what it's worth, the line between the two worlds isn't nearly as well-defined as many people claim it is.
I never wrote anything about profits or oil, so I don't know why you're bringing it up. What I wrote was, since there's no proof of domestic terrorism being stopped or prevented by the USA PATRIOT act, there's no legitimate reason to continue trampling the rights of United States citizens.
Nothing in that article refers to domestic terrorism or proof that accessing domestic library records, for example, has ever prevented an attack, much less is currently doing so.
Feel free to curtail your own rights, but don't screw with mine just because you can't read or reason.
Now that Bush is actively stopping these attacks--not just preventing, STOPPING them in the act--people, er, I mean liberals, are up in arms about their civil liberties being "violated".
You're failed to prove that Bush is actually stopping anyone.
If nothing happens it could be because Bush & Co. are stopping it. On the other hand, it could be because al Queda is merely planning the Next Big Thing and hasn't acted. Considering the lack of press conferences by Ashcroft in an election year when he needs something to show an increasingly skeptical country, I suspect the latter.
There's nothing wrong with failing to exercise your own civil rights. Don't deny me mine just because you suck at logic.
Call 'em clueless Apple fanboys if it makes you feel better, but the iPod is the most popular MP3 player in the world because lots of people buy it. No one is twisting their arms and making them buy the things; maybe there's some innate quality about the iPod they appreciate that you don't. Maybe people would rather spend a little more to have something that's a joy to use.
It's kinda funny how in the last couple of years when people started from scratch with portable MP3 players, the majority of them choose the iPod for its simplicity and elegance, even though it cost more than others. It kinda makes you wonder what kind of personal computer they might buy if they didn't have an existing Microsoft infrastructure/investment influencing their decisions.
The fact that the majority of (original) iMacs I've seen had an external drive would seem to bear this out.
At first I was kinda surprised by the iMacs without the floppies --- then I looked around and realized that I hadn't actually used one in over a year. By 1998, I was already using a Zip drive, CD, ftp, or e-mail for anything that I used to use a floppy for. Since then, the only time I've used a floppy drive at all was to retrieve old data before throwing the floppies away.
You don't have to go through a third party to file taxes. However, the IRS does "encourage" people to file electronically.
The problem is, this requires either (a) buying tax software which includes this feature, (b) paying for a tax service which has their feature in their store, or (c) re-typing everything from your completed federal tax forms into an online form of some third-party company that you've never heard of that may or may not be free, depending on how much you've earned that year. Oh yeah, and the site requires that you use Internet Explorer.
Considering that I (a) do my taxes by hand and would have to enter my nine pages of forms and (b) owe the government money come tax time, so I'm no in a rush for a refund, I just send it snail mail.
I know it's less efficient to have the IRS do the data entry themselves -- a college friend of mine once had a temp job removing staples for the IRS -- but until the IRS makes it worth my while to file electronically, I'm not going out of my way for their convenience.
This is similar to the toll road transponders for cars. In the northeastern USA, there's a common system called EZ-Pass or SpeedPass. You can drive from PA to NH without stopping to pay a toll, which really eases toll plaza congestion. When they first came to MA, you had to pay for the transponder ($25). They even had some sleazy deal with a bank so you'd get a transponder if you opened an account with them. People stayed away in droves.
NY state, on the other hand, wanted to encourage people to use them, so they gave away the transponder and a toll discount to anyone using them on NYC bridges and tunnels. People were interested and scooped 'em up. (I live in Boston, but I got my transponder from NY state.)
If the IRS wants to get serious about people filing electronically, they need to make it worthwhile. Knock a few bucks off the taxes, provide their own software, something like that.
There's a link on the bottom of the page "Homeland Security & Model Rocketry"
Which frickin' "level" is it on?
I used to make Estes rockets every summer, and wanted to know how the prices have changed in the last 20 years or so. I actually found a model close to one I built back then, and clicked for more info. The price isn't in the specs, though, so you have to go to the online store. Only then does the site spew the message "Estes E-commerce requires Internet Explorer 5.0 or above, or Netscape 4.5 or above to function. Please use another browser, or upgrade accordingly."
Well, the author was supposed to marry the sheriff's son, but ran out, leaving him at the alter. So the sheriff and his son go chasing the black Trans Am that the author climbed into. Little does the sheriff know, though, but the driver of the black Trans Am is running blocker for an 18-wheeler that's full of coors beer that's being bootlegged from Texas to win an $80,000 bet.
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It actually requires less expertise to leave and retrieve a hardware keystroke logger than it does to try to circumvent unknown protection to install your own logging software. Sure, the hardware costs more, and you have to come back for the pickup, but you don't have to care what OS the public system is running or how it's locked down.
Next to the rat trap.
I doubt it. I once lost my keys, including the key to my bike's Kryptonite lock. I spent a while beating the shit out of it before taking the bike to a welding shop. (Happily, I hadn't attached the bike to anything.) The guy there cut through my lock in less than a second with a small oxyacetylene torch.
Bugs are found, worked out, kinked, etc.
Alright, who's been a naughty variable? Don't make me get out the ball gag and lash.
Historically, the Batman movies have gone from great to shit...
Actually, you're only looking at the recent movies.
Go back further, and you'll find that the first full-length batman movie was campy and silly, and had none of that "dark" bullshit associated with it.
But will they have call-center accent training like the Indians?
Self-defense.
It's a lot harder to call someone an "electronicafag."
Agreed. It's not like it's a huge effort to find a way to run TeX on OS X.
But MUM could have other shapes, just like this cheese-shaped lander shows.
...a non-removable microchip in his arm, to ... give him access to a new crime database...
Somewhere in Mexico, an IT guy is laughing his ass off.
All the simplicity of Unix.
All the stability of Windows
Now that's reverse engineering!
No, a geek should not try to be a MBA, and a MBA should not try to be a geek. They should however, understand each other.
I was at a SIGCHI conference years ago, and Don Norman said that very thing. Basically, he said that if the usability (we can substitute "geek" here) types were ever to have a serious shot at controlling where companies went, they needed to learn how to address management and address management concerns in their own language.
For what it's worth, I earned my Ph.D. and was a tenure-track professor. It didn't take long to decide that teaching and begging for grant money (half of which went to administrative overhead) was boring and I'd rather make stuff.
I went corporate, and love it. I'm taking a few classes on the side to learn the business end, and looks like I might get an MBA after all.
I'm not saying that everyone can straddle the fence, but anyone who's reasonably bright and curious will tend to succeed, regardless of academic or corporate culture. And, for what it's worth, the line between the two worlds isn't nearly as well-defined as many people claim it is.
I never wrote anything about profits or oil, so I don't know why you're bringing it up. What I wrote was, since there's no proof of domestic terrorism being stopped or prevented by the USA PATRIOT act, there's no legitimate reason to continue trampling the rights of United States citizens.
Nothing in that article refers to domestic terrorism or proof that accessing domestic library records, for example, has ever prevented an attack, much less is currently doing so.
Feel free to curtail your own rights, but don't screw with mine just because you can't read or reason.
Now that Bush is actively stopping these attacks--not just preventing, STOPPING them in the act--people, er, I mean liberals, are up in arms about their civil liberties being "violated".
You're failed to prove that Bush is actually stopping anyone.
If nothing happens it could be because Bush & Co. are stopping it. On the other hand, it could be because al Queda is merely planning the Next Big Thing and hasn't acted. Considering the lack of press conferences by Ashcroft in an election year when he needs something to show an increasingly skeptical country, I suspect the latter.
There's nothing wrong with failing to exercise your own civil rights. Don't deny me mine just because you suck at logic.
The real criminals are the assholes with cell phones who stand up and wave behind home plate before every pitch.
Even though its got more than a million people, it is far more homogenous than the USSR or Yugoslavia (proportionate to their populations).
Yeah, and with a disproportionate number of men in the population, it's getting to be even more homogenous.
Call 'em clueless Apple fanboys if it makes you feel better, but the iPod is the most popular MP3 player in the world because lots of people buy it. No one is twisting their arms and making them buy the things; maybe there's some innate quality about the iPod they appreciate that you don't. Maybe people would rather spend a little more to have something that's a joy to use.
It's kinda funny how in the last couple of years when people started from scratch with portable MP3 players, the majority of them choose the iPod for its simplicity and elegance, even though it cost more than others. It kinda makes you wonder what kind of personal computer they might buy if they didn't have an existing Microsoft infrastructure/investment influencing their decisions.
The fact that the majority of (original) iMacs I've seen had an external drive would seem to bear this out.
At first I was kinda surprised by the iMacs without the floppies --- then I looked around and realized that I hadn't actually used one in over a year. By 1998, I was already using a Zip drive, CD, ftp, or e-mail for anything that I used to use a floppy for. Since then, the only time I've used a floppy drive at all was to retrieve old data before throwing the floppies away.
You don't have to go through a third party to file taxes. However, the IRS does "encourage" people to file electronically.
The problem is, this requires either (a) buying tax software which includes this feature, (b) paying for a tax service which has their feature in their store, or (c) re-typing everything from your completed federal tax forms into an online form of some third-party company that you've never heard of that may or may not be free, depending on how much you've earned that year. Oh yeah, and the site requires that you use Internet Explorer.
Considering that I (a) do my taxes by hand and would have to enter my nine pages of forms and (b) owe the government money come tax time, so I'm no in a rush for a refund, I just send it snail mail.
I know it's less efficient to have the IRS do the data entry themselves -- a college friend of mine once had a temp job removing staples for the IRS -- but until the IRS makes it worth my while to file electronically, I'm not going out of my way for their convenience.
This is similar to the toll road transponders for cars. In the northeastern USA, there's a common system called EZ-Pass or SpeedPass. You can drive from PA to NH without stopping to pay a toll, which really eases toll plaza congestion. When they first came to MA, you had to pay for the transponder ($25). They even had some sleazy deal with a bank so you'd get a transponder if you opened an account with them. People stayed away in droves.
NY state, on the other hand, wanted to encourage people to use them, so they gave away the transponder and a toll discount to anyone using them on NYC bridges and tunnels. People were interested and scooped 'em up. (I live in Boston, but I got my transponder from NY state.)
If the IRS wants to get serious about people filing electronically, they need to make it worthwhile. Knock a few bucks off the taxes, provide their own software, something like that.
There's a link on the bottom of the page "Homeland Security & Model Rocketry"
Which frickin' "level" is it on?
I used to make Estes rockets every summer, and wanted to know how the prices have changed in the last 20 years or so. I actually found a model close to one I built back then, and clicked for more info. The price isn't in the specs, though, so you have to go to the online store. Only then does the site spew the message "Estes E-commerce requires Internet Explorer 5.0 or above, or Netscape 4.5 or above to function. Please use another browser, or upgrade accordingly."
Some webmonkey needs a slap in the head.
Someone requesting pictures of the goatse man!
I believe it's rot-26 encryption. I've heard that the next model will support rot-52, but they're not for export.
Kinda like this.
These colors don't run, baby.
Well, the author was supposed to marry the sheriff's son, but ran out, leaving him at the alter. So the sheriff and his son go chasing the black Trans Am that the author climbed into. Little does the sheriff know, though, but the driver of the black Trans Am is running blocker for an 18-wheeler that's full of coors beer that's being bootlegged from Texas to win an $80,000 bet.
Any woman who worries about how she looks when jogging -- to the point of carrying lipstick -- has some serious issues.