The problem with Nextel is that every time you walk by someone chatting walkie-talkie style on one of their phones there is this irresistable urge to shout "breaker one-nine, catch you on the flip side good buddy!!"
In my consulting practice I will often set up new server at a client site and assign a password, which is always a random string of letters and numbers. I usually get a shocked look when I tell them the password, but they do commit it to memory (I've never had a client write it on a post-it). I repeat the password with a cadence that makes it easy to remember.
One thing I have noticed is that clients will often be reluctant to change a random password they have memorized, as if their brain can only memorize one random string. I'll go back months later to find they are still using that same password. In fact, it often becomes the "standard password" on numerous systems.
The one practice that really makes my skin crawl is the system of using words with numbers replacing letters, like "5ecur1ty" and "pa55w0rd". No one would ever think of adding those to a dictionary attack, would they?
I entered that idea in a contest a couple of years ago, but the lamp won.
Since each CD is an individual reflector you can mount each one independently on a flat surface with a wedge or two to direct light to the focal point.
Although the typical IT job lasts about 3 years, a career is a very long time, so it doesn't make much sense taking a scattershot approach trying to find which fad will let you eke out a few extra pesos. Think long and hard about what you really want to do over the next several years, then decide on a course of action to get you to that goal. It could take a degree (and lots of intern work), or it could involve doing whatever it takes to get onboard that really interesting project you've read about. If you're not doing something you really love, you're just going to end up being a frequently laid-off, low paid, cog in some machine.
One piece of advice when interviewing a prospective employer: Take a look at the server room. The orderliness of that room is a very accurate indicator of the professionalism of the people you'll be working with.
If the same password were asked for all the time then there is a higher risk of compromise. The way authentication works is that you are asked to say a word/phrase and you have to say what is in the grammar that the interpreter is expecting to hear and the voice print must match. Number sequences are easier to get a match for, grammar wise. But, they also make it easier to spoof, since you could dial in a number sequence in your Palm Pilot with 0.wav.. 9.wav and play it. Also, the sampling rate when recording the.wav needs to be pretty high.
I'm a consultant in Georgia and only make $7 an hour. The traffic is horrible. My pickup won't start, so I have to walk 30 miles to work everyday, through the Kudzu, barefoot, uphill (both ways). The only thing we have to eat here is grits, and everyone from here is a toothless, confederate flag waving, cross burning, southern drawl speaking, cousin marrying, gun toting, Pabst Blue Ribbon drinking, Yankee hating redneck. Really. Don't move here. You'll hate it.
Actually, I just saw a similar device at Flashforward2004, a little laser based video projection device prototype from Symbol Technologies. The idea was that you could have a computer in your watch, but instead of having to read a tiny watch screen you would project the display onto any convenient flat surface.
Will we not be able to have male and female ends on our 1/4" audio cable for fear of offending the transgendered? How the hell am I supposed to shop for wires now?
This might fill the bill, however the name, Power Pole might cause some to take offense.
There are (at least) two approaches to voice recognition technology. One is recognition of words from a speaker an application has been trained to understand. Another is recogition of words and phrases from some set of grammars spoken by anyone. The command interpretation can be done so that it falls under that latter context and the grammar can be constructed to account for imprecision in the spoken commands. To give you a taste of this, a grammar for selecting an item from a list might be constructed like so:
?(uh uhm duh)* select (a an the) ?(uh uhm duh) Number (item selection thing) ?[in the list]
The question mark makes the item optional, parens are alternation and brackets are concatenation. This is done quite a bit now in phone based speech applications and the accuracy can be quite good.
My company sells books and we sell about half to clients overseas. The biggest issue for us is the security of the postal system so we ship everything registered mail. We have had one shipment that was returned because the post office at the receiving end failed to notify the customer they had a package, perhaps due to the notice being lost in the mail. We have had zero fraud attempts. However, books are high margin items and we lose little if there is fraud or a lost shipment, but if we were selling low margin items such as computers we could probably not afford the risk of overseas sales. For every country you ship to, you would have to analyze and mitigate risks pertaining to shipping, insurance, fraud, etc.
Is the only thing preventing total chaos in corporate and government IT infrastructures. Can anyone name one thing that is a greater threat to national security than Microsoft's software?
Things have really change in the past year. After several years of corporate level Linux and OpenSource advocacy I now have CEOs *asking me* to implement Linux based solutions.
We have removed HP from our vendor list until HP changes their position. We hope other companies will follow suit. If you do, make sure you notify them of the fact.
If you leave then taking another offer in a year or so would make you look more like a job hopper than staying and looking for something with a better bump in salary.
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The problem with Nextel is that every time you walk by someone chatting walkie-talkie style on one of their phones there is this irresistable urge to shout "breaker one-nine, catch you on the flip side good buddy!!"
In my consulting practice I will often set up new server at a client site and assign a password, which is always a random string of letters and numbers. I usually get a shocked look when I tell them the password, but they do commit it to memory (I've never had a client write it on a post-it). I repeat the password with a cadence that makes it easy to remember.
One thing I have noticed is that clients will often be reluctant to change a random password they have memorized, as if their brain can only memorize one random string. I'll go back months later to find they are still using that same password. In fact, it often becomes the "standard password" on numerous systems.
The one practice that really makes my skin crawl is the system of using words with numbers replacing letters, like "5ecur1ty" and "pa55w0rd". No one would ever think of adding those to a dictionary attack, would they?
I entered that idea in a contest a couple of years ago, but the lamp won.
Since each CD is an individual reflector you can mount each one independently on a flat surface with a wedge or two to direct light to the focal point.
I'll bet the custom duties were paid with a counterfeit check.
Doesn't the Ministry of Defense dictate what is allowed on government and commercial networks in the UK?
Fortunately, Sprint provides online outage reporting.
Although the typical IT job lasts about 3 years, a career is a very long time, so it doesn't make much sense taking a scattershot approach trying to find which fad will let you eke out a few extra pesos. Think long and hard about what you really want to do over the next several years, then decide on a course of action to get you to that goal. It could take a degree (and lots of intern work), or it could involve doing whatever it takes to get onboard that really interesting project you've read about. If you're not doing something you really love, you're just going to end up being a frequently laid-off, low paid, cog in some machine.
One piece of advice when interviewing a prospective employer: Take a look at the server room. The orderliness of that room is a very accurate indicator of the professionalism of the people you'll be working with.
If the same password were asked for all the time then there is a higher risk of compromise. The way authentication works is that you are asked to say a word/phrase and you have to say what is in the grammar that the interpreter is expecting to hear and the voice print must match. Number sequences are easier to get a match for, grammar wise. But, they also make it easier to spoof, since you could dial in a number sequence in your Palm Pilot with 0.wav .. 9.wav and play it. Also, the sampling rate when recording the .wav needs to be pretty high.
It's energizing core synergies.
I'm a consultant in Georgia and only make $7 an hour. The traffic is horrible. My pickup won't start, so I have to walk 30 miles to work everyday, through the Kudzu, barefoot, uphill (both ways). The only thing we have to eat here is grits, and everyone from here is a toothless, confederate flag waving, cross burning, southern drawl speaking, cousin marrying, gun toting, Pabst Blue Ribbon drinking, Yankee hating redneck. Really. Don't move here. You'll hate it.
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Actually, I just saw a similar device at Flashforward2004, a little laser based video projection device prototype from Symbol Technologies. The idea was that you could have a computer in your watch, but instead of having to read a tiny watch screen you would project the display onto any convenient flat surface.
Next thing you know they'll stop selling flash cubes.
It's not mud! It's not mud! It's quicksa
There are (at least) two approaches to voice recognition technology. One is recognition of words from a speaker an application has been trained to understand. Another is recogition of words and phrases from some set of grammars spoken by anyone. The command interpretation can be done so that it falls under that latter context and the grammar can be constructed to account for imprecision in the spoken commands. To give you a taste of this, a grammar for selecting an item from a list might be constructed like so:
?(uh uhm duh)* select (a an the) ?(uh uhm duh) Number (item selection thing) ?[in the list]
The question mark makes the item optional, parens are alternation and brackets are concatenation. This is done quite a bit now in phone based speech applications and the accuracy can be quite good.
Real geeks use natural gas generators.
My company sells books and we sell about half to clients overseas. The biggest issue for us is the security of the postal system so we ship everything registered mail. We have had one shipment that was returned because the post office at the receiving end failed to notify the customer they had a package, perhaps due to the notice being lost in the mail. We have had zero fraud attempts. However, books are high margin items and we lose little if there is fraud or a lost shipment, but if we were selling low margin items such as computers we could probably not afford the risk of overseas sales. For every country you ship to, you would have to analyze and mitigate risks pertaining to shipping, insurance, fraud, etc.
See this Linux Journal article ca. 1995:
http://linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1071
Is the only thing preventing total chaos in corporate and government IT infrastructures. Can anyone name one thing that is a greater threat to national security than Microsoft's software?
MuPAD is a (somewhat) free CAS similar to Mathematica and Maple at http://www.mupad.de/
Microsoft pastes butterflies as IBM builds supercomputers.
Things have really change in the past year. After several years of corporate level Linux and OpenSource advocacy I now have CEOs *asking me* to implement Linux based solutions.
We have removed HP from our vendor list until HP changes their position. We hope other companies will follow suit. If you do, make sure you notify them of the fact.
If you leave then taking another offer in a year or so would make you look more like a job hopper than staying and looking for something with a better bump in salary.
Ask me about my vow of silence!