CC processors are considered the trash men of the financial industry.
Actually, processors (ttp, acquirers, etc) are the pimple on the ass of the financial industry. Of course, issuers are the hair that grows out of the pimple.....
RC-2000 is a fine remote for most things. My Tivo remote gets used prolly 90% of the time, followed by the RC-2000 8%. Final 2% is my DVD player, which cannot be programmed into the RC-2000.
I tried the Pronto Neo, but it just didn't work right for me. The TSU-3000 may be what I finally end up with. No need for color, and I will never get rid of the Tivo remote -- just too functional!
Good luck on the job. What company are you joining? Having worked the IT and cosulting idustry in Bermy, I might be able to provide some info. Same holds true for the reinsurance biz. Glad to say you aren't going to work for the telephone company!
If you want, drop a message at bermuda@cruxsecurity.com.....
As an expat moving to Berumda, I do hope you have a work permit lined up. Solicitation for work is illegal without a "right to seek employement" letter from Immigration, or in resonse to a published ad in the back of the Royal Gazette or Sun.
As for taxes, I agree. Bermuda is mostly based on a use-tax, but there are some personal taxes too. Income tax in BDA is 12%, of which the company pays 8% and the employee 4%. There is also a mandatory pension plan all employees (bermudian and expats) must contribute too. Good news is when you leave the isles, you get it back.
Also remember that Bermuda has tax treaties signed with Canada, the US, and UK. They also are very concerned about any action that the OECD considers "tax haven" status.
Word of advice, don't use the word haven in Bermuda. That, and say "good morning/day/night" to everyone you run into. Else, you'll be considered rude.
Enjoy Bermy, I spent 6+ years there, and due to the foreign income exemptions, your US tax burden should be close to zero (considering that housing will cost upwards of $1,800-$3,000/month for a decent 2 bedroom house).
Eddy was one of the primary culprits that wanted to use nukes in major engineering efforts, such as creating waterways and such. To such ends, tons of radioactive material was taken from the Nevada Test Site up Alaska way. That and the blasts in Amchitka (5 MegaTON below ground test). Six months of my life were spent trying to monitor the dispersal of material up Barrow, AK. Not the best of times....
My favorite Teller story is when he'd come visit us at LANL. We were working on the Edward Teller envisioned Stars Wars project. Every 6 months or so Ed would drop on by and land by helicopter in our parking lot. Between visits, a liquid hydrogen storage facility was erected and the parking lot closed / marked and not a landing site. Next visit, helicopter lands at the same place and a couple guys get out and spark up some ciggies. Safty Officer went fuggin crazy. Turned out Teller told them to disregard markings and land anyhow.
Dune has much more depth and elegance than any of the "prequel" books. The characters are weak, the interrelationship tween the various factions (factions-to-be?) is transparent.
Brain Herbert needs to give the notes on the final Dune novel to a decent writer who has a better chance of finishing the series.
Then again, maybe the Butlerian Jihad really was started by a posse of robots who are cruel and like to pick on us po' humans. Plus, there was that good Transformer / Mech Assault drama too. Titans my ass....
Can't say enough good things about Iain Banks. There are some really dark ovetones to his books, sci-fi and non-sci-fi.
I was turned on to Banks by one of British friends. Ended up in London at Foyles in Charing Cross. While picking up all of Banks books (about 9 or ten) one of the staff asked me about my selection. Told him I'd read a couple of his books and was hooked. All the books were signed by the author too.
The Brits definitely have a much better selection of Sci-Fi / Fantasy than most US bookstores. Plus, it doesn't seem to be such a "geeky" thing to read the genre.
I thought the primary reason for code samples/examples was to assist a developer in understanding how to program for a particular function? The conclusion I would draw is that in this case, Microsoft have good system level developers.
I wonder if there are any sample code for creating Linux drivers that may also have this issue?
Not true. A co-worker has had DirecTV for over a year. No landline hookup cause there ain't no phone in his apartment.
Normally both Dish and DirecTV will only require a phone hookup in the event there are multiple receivers on the same account, and, of course, to upload the contents of the smartcard for PPV purchase and whatnot.
Also, both providers are aware of the snowbird (i.e., them's older folk that travel the highways and byways). They'll let you do the mobile RV thang, you just need to provide a registration for said vehicle.
Now try to teach your father-in-law how to point the bloody dish when at a camp hook-up is another thing!
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Hopefully, they won't be using unencrypted telnet, or we'll have a whole new set of air piracy problems.
What, encrypted telnet would be better to fly these things?:)
Well, in the Windows world, users have a habit of storing data files..... everywhere. There are some good encyrption programs out there that encrypt/decrypt at the sector level such as DriveCrypt.
Personally, I'd rather buy laptops with a couple hundred extra Mhz rather than lose a laptop with sensitive information.
For OS X, GPG does me fine for those files I deem truly sensitive (of course, my Mac is a personal use only machine--not allowed on the corporate network).
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I hadn't heard about the Cisco patents. Does that mean Nokia has paid money to Cisco (and set a precedent), or are they thumbing their noses at them?
Explicit emails, graphics or not, are not welcome. What if the same user, using Eudora or whatever received a message with the word "fuck fuck fuck" in the subject line? Still offensive and could provoke "hostile workplace" initiatives.....
A P2P network based on PKI could perform authentication without requiring 24/7 access to a central server.
Once the file has been signed by a certificate authority and the CA's public key is loaded in the P2P software, the validity of the file can be confirmed. Of course, certificate revocation lists are more problematic, but they too could be distributed via P2P.
If the network is used to insert files on a continueos basis, subordinate CA's could handle the load a redundancy.
Yup, the exact same ones. Hereis a link to an example of C&W's actions in St. Kitts and Nevis (Caribbean).
C&W still seems to have that old-school British colonial attitude towards the jurisdictions and business they get involved with. Sad part is they have made some good tech purchases, Exodus and the old MCI Internet being a couple examples.
Cable & Worthless has done this in other portions of the Caribbean too. Basically they will land fiber of put up the satellite up/downlink infrastructure, but in turn, require a monopoly on all international communications (assuming there is a local telco provider). Normally, savvy governments will get a percentage of the profits. Or even more "esoteric" monetary "arrangements" like the Cayman government had in place a few years back.
The good news is that the move towards packet based services (i.e., the Internet) has thrown a kink in their business model.
In Bermuda, a local ISP started offering VoIP back in 2000 on a DS3 provisioned into the US. Per minute charges via C&W: $1.10/minute. VoIP: $0.40/minute. Quality? A fuckload better on average than C&W. Now that the ISP has enabled SS7 for true 1+ dialing, the other traditional carriers have had to reduce prices.
Once the service was made available to the public, they were then threatened with termination of the DS3 by the submarine cable provider (not C&W, although they were in on trying to regulate out the use of VoIP except by the international carriers).
It was even worse when C&W mandated no other fiber systems could be brought into a country. They could set pricing on voice and data cicuits to milk the subscribers. Back in 96' a DS1 (T1) from Bermuda to NYC ran $85K... a month. Now it's down to a reasonable $17-22K/month (rack rate).
Sorry for the rant, but I had a bad week with C&W. Dropped a production frame circuit and when calling the Bermuda NOC I was told that it was a US problem and to call them (altough I contract and pay the Bermuda office). US had dropped our email addresses (all 5 of them) from the announcement emails they send out. Some good service for over $100K per year in circuits.
I have to add kudos to NetBank too. MSIE6 works fine (duh!) and so does IE for the Mac along with OmniWeb. No support for Lynx though.
When I repatriated last year, retail banks didn't want my account due to a lack of banking history. NetBank was fast, efficient, and gives great rates.
My only complaint is that you cannot see deposit advices ahead of time, which is something my company does. Must be a batch system in the back for transaction history.
Dunno what I was thinking (ex is from a small town called Oakville, keep getting those confused). Most of my DoE time back East was spent in Germantown or in Savannah.
Cyclotrons can be used for uranium enrichment. Most of the uranium used in the Hiroshima (40*WTC911) and Nagaski (20*WTC911) bombs was purified in cyclotrons.
Actually, they both weren't U135 based.
The Hiroshima weapon, Little-Boy, was a uranium enriched "gun" style weapon. Material from Oakville, TN. Fat-man, the weapon used on Nagasaki, was an implosion based Plutonium; material courtesy of Hanford, WA.
It takes a lot of energy, so you might want to have vast oil reserves that you aren't allowed to export in order to power the cylcotrons.
Aye, that it does. And the results of the processing facilities are the same too. In Oakville and Savannah, there are buildings no one will enter for a long, long, time. In Hanford, the engineers are finding out very interesting things about the waste storage tanks.
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In the olden days, the card type (MC, VISA, AMEX, etc) could be determined from the first couple of digits of the card number.
When I signed up for the Music Store, I too put in the right Card ID number, but forgot to select the card type. Quick fix and I was off to the races.
The service is too easy to use. Already in for about 30 songs. Weeeee
Yeah, it is a sad, sad industry, that's for sure. Even more sad I'm still in it after 3+ years. :)
Actually, processors (ttp, acquirers, etc) are the pimple on the ass of the financial industry. Of course, issuers are the hair that grows out of the pimple.....
RC-2000 is a fine remote for most things. My Tivo remote gets used prolly 90% of the time, followed by the RC-2000 8%. Final 2% is my DVD player, which cannot be programmed into the RC-2000.
I tried the Pronto Neo, but it just didn't work right for me. The TSU-3000 may be what I finally end up with. No need for color, and I will never get rid of the Tivo remote -- just too functional!
Hell, how about 110 baud on the "hardwired" TTY to the Univac?
One must remember to run postmap after editing the virtual files.....
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Good luck on the job. What company are you joining? Having worked the IT and cosulting idustry in Bermy, I might be able to provide some info. Same holds true for the reinsurance biz. Glad to say you aren't going to work for the telephone company!
If you want, drop a message at bermuda@cruxsecurity.com.....
As an expat moving to Berumda, I do hope you have a work permit lined up. Solicitation for work is illegal without a "right to seek employement" letter from Immigration, or in resonse to a published ad in the back of the Royal Gazette or Sun.
As for taxes, I agree. Bermuda is mostly based on a use-tax, but there are some personal taxes too. Income tax in BDA is 12%, of which the company pays 8% and the employee 4%. There is also a mandatory pension plan all employees (bermudian and expats) must contribute too. Good news is when you leave the isles, you get it back.
Also remember that Bermuda has tax treaties signed with Canada, the US, and UK. They also are very concerned about any action that the OECD considers "tax haven" status.
Word of advice, don't use the word haven in Bermuda. That, and say "good morning/day/night" to everyone you run into. Else, you'll be considered rude.
Enjoy Bermy, I spent 6+ years there, and due to the foreign income exemptions, your US tax burden should be close to zero (considering that housing will cost upwards of $1,800-$3,000/month for a decent 2 bedroom house).
CVV/CVC2 numbers are not be physically stored by the merchant, acquirer, or any 3rd party processor. Same holds true for PIN numbers.
Teller is about as whacked as they come.
Eddy was one of the primary culprits that wanted to use nukes in major engineering efforts, such as creating waterways and such. To such ends, tons of radioactive material was taken from the Nevada Test Site up Alaska way. That and the blasts in Amchitka (5 MegaTON below ground test). Six months of my life were spent trying to monitor the dispersal of material up Barrow, AK. Not the best of times....
My favorite Teller story is when he'd come visit us at LANL. We were working on the Edward Teller envisioned Stars Wars project. Every 6 months or so Ed would drop on by and land by helicopter in our parking lot. Between visits, a liquid hydrogen storage facility was erected and the parking lot closed / marked and not a landing site. Next visit, helicopter lands at the same place and a couple guys get out and spark up some ciggies. Safty Officer went fuggin crazy. Turned out Teller told them to disregard markings and land anyhow.
Dune has much more depth and elegance than any of the "prequel" books. The characters are weak, the interrelationship tween the various factions (factions-to-be?) is transparent.
Brain Herbert needs to give the notes on the final Dune novel to a decent writer who has a better chance of finishing the series.
Then again, maybe the Butlerian Jihad really was started by a posse of robots who are cruel and like to pick on us po' humans. Plus, there was that good Transformer / Mech Assault drama too. Titans my ass....
Can't say enough good things about Iain Banks. There are some really dark ovetones to his books, sci-fi and non-sci-fi.
I was turned on to Banks by one of British friends. Ended up in London at Foyles in Charing Cross. While picking up all of Banks books (about 9 or ten) one of the staff asked me about my selection. Told him I'd read a couple of his books and was hooked. All the books were signed by the author too.
The Brits definitely have a much better selection of Sci-Fi / Fantasy than most US bookstores. Plus, it doesn't seem to be such a "geeky" thing to read the genre.
I thought the primary reason for code samples/examples was to assist a developer in understanding how to program for a particular function? The conclusion I would draw is that in this case, Microsoft have good system level developers.
I wonder if there are any sample code for creating Linux drivers that may also have this issue?
Not true. A co-worker has had DirecTV for over a year. No landline hookup cause there ain't no phone in his apartment.
Normally both Dish and DirecTV will only require a phone hookup in the event there are multiple receivers on the same account, and, of course, to upload the contents of the smartcard for PPV purchase and whatnot.
Also, both providers are aware of the snowbird (i.e., them's older folk that travel the highways and byways). They'll let you do the mobile RV thang, you just need to provide a registration for said vehicle.
Now try to teach your father-in-law how to point the bloody dish when at a camp hook-up is another thing!
What, encrypted telnet would be better to fly these things? :)
Well, in the Windows world, users have a habit of storing data files..... everywhere. There are some good encyrption programs out there that encrypt/decrypt at the sector level such as DriveCrypt. Personally, I'd rather buy laptops with a couple hundred extra Mhz rather than lose a laptop with sensitive information. For OS X, GPG does me fine for those files I deem truly sensitive (of course, my Mac is a personal use only machine--not allowed on the corporate network).
I hadn't heard about the Cisco patents. Does that mean Nokia has paid money to Cisco (and set a precedent), or are they thumbing their noses at them?
Explicit emails, graphics or not, are not welcome. What if the same user, using Eudora or whatever received a message with the word "fuck fuck fuck" in the subject line? Still offensive and could provoke "hostile workplace" initiatives.....
A P2P network based on PKI could perform authentication without requiring 24/7 access to a central server.
Once the file has been signed by a certificate authority and the CA's public key is loaded in the P2P software, the validity of the file can be confirmed. Of course, certificate revocation lists are more problematic, but they too could be distributed via P2P.
If the network is used to insert files on a continueos basis, subordinate CA's could handle the load a redundancy.
Hello, can you hear me now?
Didn't think so.
Yup, the exact same ones. Hereis a link to an example of C&W's actions in St. Kitts and Nevis (Caribbean).
C&W still seems to have that old-school British colonial attitude towards the jurisdictions and business they get involved with. Sad part is they have made some good tech purchases, Exodus and the old MCI Internet being a couple examples.
Cable & Worthless has done this in other portions of the Caribbean too. Basically they will land fiber of put up the satellite up/downlink infrastructure, but in turn, require a monopoly on all international communications (assuming there is a local telco provider). Normally, savvy governments will get a percentage of the profits. Or even more "esoteric" monetary "arrangements" like the Cayman government had in place a few years back.
The good news is that the move towards packet based services (i.e., the Internet) has thrown a kink in their business model.
In Bermuda, a local ISP started offering VoIP back in 2000 on a DS3 provisioned into the US. Per minute charges via C&W: $1.10/minute. VoIP: $0.40/minute. Quality? A fuckload better on average than C&W. Now that the ISP has enabled SS7 for true 1+ dialing, the other traditional carriers have had to reduce prices.
Once the service was made available to the public, they were then threatened with termination of the DS3 by the submarine cable provider (not C&W, although they were in on trying to regulate out the use of VoIP except by the international carriers).
It was even worse when C&W mandated no other fiber systems could be brought into a country. They could set pricing on voice and data cicuits to milk the subscribers. Back in 96' a DS1 (T1) from Bermuda to NYC ran $85K... a month. Now it's down to a reasonable $17-22K/month (rack rate).
Sorry for the rant, but I had a bad week with C&W. Dropped a production frame circuit and when calling the Bermuda NOC I was told that it was a US problem and to call them (altough I contract and pay the Bermuda office). US had dropped our email addresses (all 5 of them) from the announcement emails they send out. Some good service for over $100K per year in circuits.
Grrrrrrr.
I have to add kudos to NetBank too. MSIE6 works fine (duh!) and so does IE for the Mac along with OmniWeb. No support for Lynx though.
When I repatriated last year, retail banks didn't want my account due to a lack of banking history. NetBank was fast, efficient, and gives great rates.
My only complaint is that you cannot see deposit advices ahead of time, which is something my company does. Must be a batch system in the back for transaction history.
Dunno what I was thinking (ex is from a small town called Oakville, keep getting those confused). Most of my DoE time back East was spent in Germantown or in Savannah.
Cyclotrons can be used for uranium enrichment. Most of the uranium used in the Hiroshima (40*WTC911) and Nagaski (20*WTC911) bombs was purified in cyclotrons.
Actually, they both weren't U135 based.
The Hiroshima weapon, Little-Boy, was a uranium enriched "gun" style weapon. Material from Oakville, TN. Fat-man, the weapon used on Nagasaki, was an implosion based Plutonium; material courtesy of Hanford, WA.
It takes a lot of energy, so you might want to have vast oil reserves that you aren't allowed to export in order to power the cylcotrons.
Aye, that it does. And the results of the processing facilities are the same too. In Oakville and Savannah, there are buildings no one will enter for a long, long, time. In Hanford, the engineers are finding out very interesting things about the waste storage tanks.