I have to type this quietly from under my desk - because *they* are watching.
Although having somebody remind me to get focused again isn't a horrible thing. How many watercool conversations have you been part of or overheard and thought "yeah - this topic has gone off the rails - back to work" --- and the gang somehow doesn't do that until a more senior person asks, "you folks work here?"
This seems policy plain and simple. This employee looks to have loose lips - giving out details for what the company considers IP. My employer has a social media policy - plus I am also prohibited by law from speaking about the products (making false claims about product capabilities etc). Not only am I not allowed to disparage the company in general - I must also obey the law (which the policy also points out in an addendum because not all employees work on products in this area).
A company can have any policy that they want - for whatever reasons they want (or need) - and employees are expected to follow them.
Right - this is no longer hooking car-pooling folks up. This is a self-business taxi service for some.
Around here - the local city govt took Uber to task. The city had a problem years ago with unnamed drivers painting their cars yellow and going into business. Not following laws (put in place due to previous safety issues), criminals banned from service, non-insured drivers, unsafe cars, and other basic "cleaned up the system due to bad actors." One concern was these folks would just turn to Uber.
An agreement in place now allows Uber to operate in the city.
I, for one, rely heavily on the credit card fraud protection - and that I'm not responsible for theft of services.
VISA/MC/AMEX might care because they foot the bill. But it ain't my problem.
I've had my cards reissued twice due to "strange purchases in far away places" - which is a PITA because I must update all of my auto-bill-pays. So I have adopted a ringed mechanism - I have a card that is used only for bill pay - and another for shopping. Hopefully reducing *my* PITA from stolen cards. The one I use for shopping has "an app" that pops up immediate "Your card was used to buy $xxx at StoreABC"
As a Netflix user - I was hoping that rumor to be true.
I've been purchasing TopGear through iTunes for years because my local cable didn't carry TopGear UK (or it was in a package I didn't want to fork over an extra ++ $50 / month). I did the math. TopGear was $44 / year. Cable wanted an extra $52 Per Month.
Now I have a reason to buy Prime - faster shipping by itself wasn't worth it previously.
Amazon made a good move. They know this show will drive demand - and if the show lives up to expectations - Amazon stands to make money, and expand Prime. Which makes more money.
I heard a podcast episode on 99% Invisible that talked about "Moonlight Towers." Giant arc lamps setup in cities to chase away the dark. It had an advertising slant too - people could come out at night and do stuff. Buy stuff. Kind of like Daylight Savings is thought to extend the shopping day because there is more light out.
There is also a semi-related run in with crime (serial killer) that may or may not have pressed the need to erect these lights.
While the batteries do lose some range - they work quite well. I'm in VT (USA) where winter "gets real." - and a local person purchased a Leaf a few years ago (2013). She reported on using it over the first year. It had impressive range - even with access to 120V chargers during the day. For those of you unfamiliar with local landmarks - some of the distanced she drove were impressive. A few routes are rather, remote. She attempted trips on a low charge that I'd make sure of having 1/2 tank of gas. Very brave - but necessary due to lack of charging stations. Still the car did it. Her fear of running out of juice slowly dissipated.
And just yesterday I saw a blue Info sign pointing to an EV charging station in the middle of town. So the infrastructure is coming. Until now charging stations have been in key areas - in front of City Hall etc. While I see dozens of Tesla's & Leafs in this area - hybrids are most common.
Similar to my question. I don't understand how these things are on the internet - what does that mean? I haven't been able to find technical details.
If I have a basic home firewall (e.g. Netgear) - with uPNP disabled - are these things on the "internet?" Are these devices found via portscan?
I went through this when looking at baby monitors. I only want to use them in my house - on the local WiFi. Are these things tunneling out to "the cloud" and are accessible through another channel? Can they be blocked at the perimeter of the house network - using basic equipment?
In the baby monitor case I decided to go with a proprietary model without "internet" features.
Yes - passwords may be sacred cows...and we all know what makes the best burgers.
I use a keyfob for my corp VPN. The form factor is a PITA (the retired the software one due to high manageability cost issues) - but it works. Credit cards are hacked, passwords are hacked - time for something new.
Password managers just help maintain status quo. A "best" solution in an imperfect world. What if those Password "Identity" Managers somehow transferred a secure token - or something radically different?
Patents don't need to be useful - just a protection of ideas.
The middle person has two sets of people staring at them. Yeah fun!
I gotta wonder if somebody else thought of this idea years ago and and canceled the thought themselves with "Yeah - that would be a bad idea" and tossed the design in the circular file.
I use Verizon Wireless with an iPhone. This gives me two levels of data overage. My philosophy is - I'm paying for 2GB, nothing wrong with using it.
Check with your carrier - I'm sure they all have similar features. Here's what VZW & iOS offers...
First: VZW offers to send me text messages when I get to ~80% and 90% of my monthly usage. Enable that. Second: iPhone now has "widgets" and VZW created a data usage one. So I can now see a % progress bar in the notification screen. Third: I've configured my phone and certain apps to only download data on Wifi. App patches, podcast downloads etc. If I want something Now! on cell-data I'll manually pull it.
And finally - VZW stops me if I reach my allotted data plan. I haven't yet maxed it out because I spend most of my time on WiFi. I let photo uploads occur anytime.
There's no harm on my plan for reaching 100% usage...other than data stops.
I agree - This seems like mistaken identity from a noob. Years ago somebody signed me up for something - but had actually gotten their own email address confused with mine. Rather than Bob@email.com.au --- they used Bob@email.com (or something like that). I figured out via Google that there was another ISP with the same name using.au --- so I logged in using the Reset Password, and updated "my" email address to what I thought was the intended one.
And after doing that --- I again pressed the Reset Password button which (hopefully) sent notice to the real user.
This raises a good point. I've had interactions with folks who need me to fax something to them - and I no longer have anything that can fax. The point - there are no Easy replacements for fax.
Sure - I can email a scanned document to somebody. But it isn't easy. A fax - I pop the pages in, tap out a phone number - and bing zzziip-zzziiip it goes. My HP Printer/Scanner required A) my PC to be on, B) put the document up on the screen as a PDF to be saved C) required me to follow whatever email steps my system needed. It isn't all in one package.
If only we all had "phone numbers" instead of email addresses. I could call you, or "fax" you, all negotiated by the device.
But it doesn't exist yet. Voice Mail has a plan B. Texting or Emailing. And for those of us leaving email behind - "Social" media corp websites for collaboration and communication.
Fax is more than voicemail. It was a technology package.
Yeah! Will they be learning Data Structure, Interrupts vs Polling, Analysis of Algorithms?
Or just how to write code in [Java/C#/Ruby/Swift/Go/Python/Perl/...F#] ?
For me - learning how to type was helpful (no, really). Plus learning how to Execute a program with pencil and paper was useful in understanding how a computer Accomplishes Work. It made me comfortable with computers. Granted I had an IBM PC at home with BASICA on it and a print out of the BIOS. But learning in HS how to write a real program and seeing that it was something to be studied set me up for College.
But - the real skills I've used in my life.... Geometry and Algebra, some Calculus, English Sentence structure, and to otherwise be curious. All of which are considered Electives in a CS degree;-)
A computer is to me what a hammer & saw are to a carpenter. Understanding Fractions/angles etc are the foundation.
Oh - and one more math skill. Learning how to compute Logarithms by hand. Turns out - the basic algorithm is how a lot of software/CPUs get the job done.
Yes true. In our case we haven't had a native OS on Hardware for over 8 years. VMware all the way!!
But your suggestion is another tool in the mitigation toolbox. Move the physical to a VM.
As old as these OSs are - they still work and chug along. I always say that software isn't like milk - it doesn't expire and go bad.
Even the VMs are behind Network Packet Inspectors. Actually - our whole DC is surround by at least one such ring of devices. My PC traffic goes through such a device to get to the servers inside the building.
This all comes down to constant investing in systems. Don't grow old - always innovate as the budget allows. And Retire what you can because it will keep costs down in the long run.
Yes exactly. We have mitigation plans that start with "turn off/retire unused systems" - followed by round up all remaining W2k3 machines and surround by multiple levels of security devices.
Mitigation plans are:
* upgrade products to support newer OS when possible
* for legacy systems with no upgrade path (or kept for supporting older product) - surround with packet inspectors. Configure system in most secure method possible (eg Windows firewall)
And have clear owners of the devices.
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I enjoy having to wait 9 months to get the cool new features that my Android friends already have.
Seriously - Apple needs to find a way to update certain apps more frequently. These "huge" OS uplifts are painful. While I can appreciate some features needing to be part of the OS (low battery sleep mode) others need to come out "now."
As for Apple streaming - sounds good. I'm not personally interested in it - no more than I was with Radio. But please please Please --- don't make it the default widget that comes up in the Music app. What a PITA Radio was. I don't use Radio - stop trying to launch the widget/tab and then showing me the message "you are not subscribed to Radio" --- well Duh !!!
Developer "free" is always welcome. So that us home hobbyists can play. While $99 wasn't expensive (on top of a $1,500 Mac) - allowing people to goof off and try fun things out will probably generate new ideas and new developers to the market.
After having a smartphone for ~5 years - I'm growing tired of the touch screen concept. My first smartphone had a slide out keyboard - my current iPhone is 100% touch. Before that a flip phone.
Oh how I yearn for the simple "UI" of the flip phone. It rings?! flip it open. Works whether your hands are wet or dry. My slide out Palm Pre - when it was wet the touch screen didn't work well --- but okay just slide out the keyboard and it acted like a flip to answer the call. iPhone doesn't have plan B.
Last week I had an emergency and the on-call doctor called me. It was lightly raining and I couldn't swipe to answer the call. It was a panicked few minutes while I attempted to dry my fingers and screen to answer the call. Normally I can wait a few minutes for these screen problems (i.e. change my env). But in an emergency it needs to work.
Having a second dumb phone with a battery that lasts all week would be nice. Maybe I just need a "Mini" tablet and simple phone. Imagine that - a dumb phone with wifi hotspot (because two data plans are expensive).
Reminds me of the scene in Friend Green Tomatoes - when the younger girls steal the parking spot from the older woman. "Face it lady - I'm younger and faster"
The older lady gets her boat of a car up to Ramming speed and smashes the car. "Face it girls - I'm older and have more insurance"
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I have to type this quietly from under my desk - because *they* are watching.
Although having somebody remind me to get focused again isn't a horrible thing. How many watercool conversations have you been part of or overheard and thought "yeah - this topic has gone off the rails - back to work" --- and the gang somehow doesn't do that until a more senior person asks, "you folks work here?"
This seems policy plain and simple. This employee looks to have loose lips - giving out details for what the company considers IP. My employer has a social media policy - plus I am also prohibited by law from speaking about the products (making false claims about product capabilities etc). Not only am I not allowed to disparage the company in general - I must also obey the law (which the policy also points out in an addendum because not all employees work on products in this area).
A company can have any policy that they want - for whatever reasons they want (or need) - and employees are expected to follow them.
I agree - several points resonated.
But the tone and writing quality of the document suggested she was having a stroke. How many off-topic topics can one blog post have?
Right - this is no longer hooking car-pooling folks up. This is a self-business taxi service for some.
Around here - the local city govt took Uber to task. The city had a problem years ago with unnamed drivers painting their cars yellow and going into business. Not following laws (put in place due to previous safety issues), criminals banned from service, non-insured drivers, unsafe cars, and other basic "cleaned up the system due to bad actors." One concern was these folks would just turn to Uber.
An agreement in place now allows Uber to operate in the city.
http://www.sevendaysvt.com/Off...
I, for one, rely heavily on the credit card fraud protection - and that I'm not responsible for theft of services.
VISA/MC/AMEX might care because they foot the bill. But it ain't my problem.
I've had my cards reissued twice due to "strange purchases in far away places" - which is a PITA because I must update all of my auto-bill-pays. So I have adopted a ringed mechanism - I have a card that is used only for bill pay - and another for shopping. Hopefully reducing *my* PITA from stolen cards. The one I use for shopping has "an app" that pops up immediate "Your card was used to buy $xxx at StoreABC"
As a Netflix user - I was hoping that rumor to be true.
I've been purchasing TopGear through iTunes for years because my local cable didn't carry TopGear UK (or it was in a package I didn't want to fork over an extra ++ $50 / month). I did the math. TopGear was $44 / year. Cable wanted an extra $52 Per Month.
Now I have a reason to buy Prime - faster shipping by itself wasn't worth it previously.
Amazon made a good move. They know this show will drive demand - and if the show lives up to expectations - Amazon stands to make money, and expand Prime. Which makes more money.
Now the USA needs a Federal Tax code :-P
"Never let the truth get in the way of a good story!!"
I heard a podcast episode on 99% Invisible that talked about "Moonlight Towers." Giant arc lamps setup in cities to chase away the dark. It had an advertising slant too - people could come out at night and do stuff. Buy stuff. Kind of like Daylight Savings is thought to extend the shopping day because there is more light out.
There is also a semi-related run in with crime (serial killer) that may or may not have pressed the need to erect these lights.
Give it a listen http://99percentinvisible.org/...
While the batteries do lose some range - they work quite well. I'm in VT (USA) where winter "gets real." - and a local person purchased a Leaf a few years ago (2013). She reported on using it over the first year. It had impressive range - even with access to 120V chargers during the day. For those of you unfamiliar with local landmarks - some of the distanced she drove were impressive. A few routes are rather, remote. She attempted trips on a low charge that I'd make sure of having 1/2 tank of gas. Very brave - but necessary due to lack of charging stations. Still the car did it. Her fear of running out of juice slowly dissipated.
And just yesterday I saw a blue Info sign pointing to an EV charging station in the middle of town. So the infrastructure is coming. Until now charging stations have been in key areas - in front of City Hall etc. While I see dozens of Tesla's & Leafs in this area - hybrids are most common.
http://archive.burlingtonfreep...
Similar to my question. I don't understand how these things are on the internet - what does that mean? I haven't been able to find technical details.
If I have a basic home firewall (e.g. Netgear) - with uPNP disabled - are these things on the "internet?" Are these devices found via portscan?
I went through this when looking at baby monitors. I only want to use them in my house - on the local WiFi. Are these things tunneling out to "the cloud" and are accessible through another channel? Can they be blocked at the perimeter of the house network - using basic equipment?
In the baby monitor case I decided to go with a proprietary model without "internet" features.
Except they claim Windows 10 wouldn't have helpped. They bypassed the Kiosk and went straight to the underlying system.
Yes - passwords may be sacred cows...and we all know what makes the best burgers.
I use a keyfob for my corp VPN. The form factor is a PITA (the retired the software one due to high manageability cost issues) - but it works. Credit cards are hacked, passwords are hacked - time for something new.
Password managers just help maintain status quo. A "best" solution in an imperfect world. What if those Password "Identity" Managers somehow transferred a secure token - or something radically different?
Imagine --- FPS on XBox through the Google Drones as a live view. Game play that makes it Real!!!
Bounties could be offered by each country for those extra special poachers.
Oh yeah baby!!
Patents don't need to be useful - just a protection of ideas.
The middle person has two sets of people staring at them. Yeah fun!
I gotta wonder if somebody else thought of this idea years ago and and canceled the thought themselves with "Yeah - that would be a bad idea" and tossed the design in the circular file.
I use Verizon Wireless with an iPhone. This gives me two levels of data overage. My philosophy is - I'm paying for 2GB, nothing wrong with using it.
Check with your carrier - I'm sure they all have similar features. Here's what VZW & iOS offers...
First: VZW offers to send me text messages when I get to ~80% and 90% of my monthly usage. Enable that.
Second: iPhone now has "widgets" and VZW created a data usage one. So I can now see a % progress bar in the notification screen.
Third: I've configured my phone and certain apps to only download data on Wifi. App patches, podcast downloads etc. If I want something Now! on cell-data I'll manually pull it.
And finally - VZW stops me if I reach my allotted data plan. I haven't yet maxed it out because I spend most of my time on WiFi. I let photo uploads occur anytime.
There's no harm on my plan for reaching 100% usage...other than data stops.
I agree - This seems like mistaken identity from a noob. Years ago somebody signed me up for something - but had actually gotten their own email address confused with mine. Rather than Bob@email.com.au --- they used Bob@email.com (or something like that). I figured out via Google that there was another ISP with the same name using .au --- so I logged in using the Reset Password, and updated "my" email address to what I thought was the intended one.
And after doing that --- I again pressed the Reset Password button which (hopefully) sent notice to the real user.
This raises a good point. I've had interactions with folks who need me to fax something to them - and I no longer have anything that can fax. The point - there are no Easy replacements for fax.
Sure - I can email a scanned document to somebody. But it isn't easy. A fax - I pop the pages in, tap out a phone number - and bing zzziip-zzziiip it goes. My HP Printer/Scanner required A) my PC to be on, B) put the document up on the screen as a PDF to be saved C) required me to follow whatever email steps my system needed. It isn't all in one package.
If only we all had "phone numbers" instead of email addresses. I could call you, or "fax" you, all negotiated by the device.
But it doesn't exist yet. Voice Mail has a plan B. Texting or Emailing. And for those of us leaving email behind - "Social" media corp websites for collaboration and communication.
Fax is more than voicemail. It was a technology package.
Yeah! Will they be learning Data Structure, Interrupts vs Polling, Analysis of Algorithms?
Or just how to write code in [Java/C#/Ruby/Swift/Go/Python/Perl/...F#] ?
For me - learning how to type was helpful (no, really). Plus learning how to Execute a program with pencil and paper was useful in understanding how a computer Accomplishes Work. It made me comfortable with computers. Granted I had an IBM PC at home with BASICA on it and a print out of the BIOS. But learning in HS how to write a real program and seeing that it was something to be studied set me up for College.
But - the real skills I've used in my life.... Geometry and Algebra, some Calculus, English Sentence structure, and to otherwise be curious. All of which are considered Electives in a CS degree ;-)
A computer is to me what a hammer & saw are to a carpenter. Understanding Fractions/angles etc are the foundation.
Oh - and one more math skill. Learning how to compute Logarithms by hand. Turns out - the basic algorithm is how a lot of software/CPUs get the job done.
Yes true. In our case we haven't had a native OS on Hardware for over 8 years. VMware all the way!!
But your suggestion is another tool in the mitigation toolbox. Move the physical to a VM.
As old as these OSs are - they still work and chug along. I always say that software isn't like milk - it doesn't expire and go bad.
Even the VMs are behind Network Packet Inspectors. Actually - our whole DC is surround by at least one such ring of devices. My PC traffic goes through such a device to get to the servers inside the building.
This all comes down to constant investing in systems. Don't grow old - always innovate as the budget allows. And Retire what you can because it will keep costs down in the long run.
Yes exactly. We have mitigation plans that start with "turn off/retire unused systems" - followed by round up all remaining W2k3 machines and surround by multiple levels of security devices.
Mitigation plans are:
* upgrade products to support newer OS when possible
* for legacy systems with no upgrade path (or kept for supporting older product) - surround with packet inspectors. Configure system in most secure method possible (eg Windows firewall)
And have clear owners of the devices.
I enjoy having to wait 9 months to get the cool new features that my Android friends already have.
Seriously - Apple needs to find a way to update certain apps more frequently. These "huge" OS uplifts are painful. While I can appreciate some features needing to be part of the OS (low battery sleep mode) others need to come out "now."
As for Apple streaming - sounds good. I'm not personally interested in it - no more than I was with Radio. But please please Please --- don't make it the default widget that comes up in the Music app. What a PITA Radio was. I don't use Radio - stop trying to launch the widget/tab and then showing me the message "you are not subscribed to Radio" --- well Duh !!!
Developer "free" is always welcome. So that us home hobbyists can play. While $99 wasn't expensive (on top of a $1,500 Mac) - allowing people to goof off and try fun things out will probably generate new ideas and new developers to the market.
After having a smartphone for ~5 years - I'm growing tired of the touch screen concept. My first smartphone had a slide out keyboard - my current iPhone is 100% touch. Before that a flip phone.
Oh how I yearn for the simple "UI" of the flip phone. It rings?! flip it open. Works whether your hands are wet or dry. My slide out Palm Pre - when it was wet the touch screen didn't work well --- but okay just slide out the keyboard and it acted like a flip to answer the call. iPhone doesn't have plan B.
Last week I had an emergency and the on-call doctor called me. It was lightly raining and I couldn't swipe to answer the call. It was a panicked few minutes while I attempted to dry my fingers and screen to answer the call. Normally I can wait a few minutes for these screen problems (i.e. change my env). But in an emergency it needs to work.
Having a second dumb phone with a battery that lasts all week would be nice. Maybe I just need a "Mini" tablet and simple phone. Imagine that - a dumb phone with wifi hotspot (because two data plans are expensive).
We could create a GoFundMe for the laid off US workers to make up for lost severance. Then let them walk !!
I thought Apple just lost out that you can't patent the basic shape of the phone?! Yet in this case Typo can't copy the look of a keyboard?
Reminds me of the scene in Friend Green Tomatoes - when the younger girls steal the parking spot from the older woman. "Face it lady - I'm younger and faster"
The older lady gets her boat of a car up to Ramming speed and smashes the car. "Face it girls - I'm older and have more insurance"