That is why I always early vote. It is on paper where I vote and that stands a better chance of getting counted correctly.
In my district, (the company formerly known as) Diebold still "counts" the paper ballots. According to BlackBox.org, there easy ways to tamper with these machines as well.
For the/. Comunity being a Paid Election Support Worker would be a way to get personally involved in safeguarding against this type of hacking. According to previous BlackBox.org posts, all voting maching contracts come with an Election Day Support Contract. Diebold etc. are required to hire on site technicians for each polling station. These techs are to setup the machines, ensure that they are not tampered with, trouble shoot any voting/printing snafus and take down the machines after polls close. Bb.org feels these jobs are the "front line" for ensuring fair elections. These jobs are hiring in your area right now! P.S. You might want to leave MOST of your experience OFF of your resume, since this is a very low paying temp job, and most everyone here would be considered vastly over qualified.
For the/. Comunity being a Paid Election Support Worker would me the best safeguard. According to previous BlackBox.org posts, all voting maching contracts come with an Election Day Support Contract. Diebold etc. are required to hire on site technicians for each polling station. These techs are to setup the machines, ensure that they are not tampered with, trouble shoot any voting/printing snafus and take down the machines after polls close.
Bb.org feels these jobs are the "front line" for ensuring fair elections.
These jobs are hiring in your area right now!
P.S. You might want to leave MOST of your experience OFF of your resume, since this is a very low paying temp job, and most everyone here would be considered vastly over qualified.
After reading your whiny obnoxious comment, I think I understand why you got banned. My vote (which does not count for didly, and I'm ok with that) is DON"T give this guy his mod points back. I got over the fact that my submittals don't make the cut very often, and that my mod points (which I still have) only make a marginal dent. I am NOT the most important user on this site. Obviously, the editors think the same of you. Get over yourself. You are just a geek like the rest of us here. Nothing to whine about here, move along.
I deal with largish offices who NEED the features in XP PRO but the person ordering their new systems did not know any better, so they ordered the cheapest Dell they could find. I show up to add it to their network and have to attempt to explain why "home" is for home and "Pro" is for an office environment. At this point, they look at me with a blank look... Say "oh, now I understand". Then, they usually ask me if I can "make it work" so that they don't have to explain to their boss why they screwed up, trying to save $$.
People do not know what they need from their computers. If they did they would never be satisfied with the poor quality of the OS they are currently using.
This is also one of the reasons why the general public will never adopt Linux, Unix, Etc. Too Many Choices that they do not know how to make a decision about. I bet that this alone scares many system admins away from Linux. They are smart enough to know that Windows is not right for the job they need it to do, but "linux is confusing". (and these are the "computer savvy" types!) Too many choices can be a bad thing, if the learning curve will cause errors or poor choices to be made. Bad for Linux, and Bad for windows (less for Windows, because they will probably get many folks to buy 2 or more versions after they realize that the computer they bought won't do (feature x) and buy the OS they should have bought in the first place).
"so long as it is easy to generate an inverse playlist from their "safe" versions"
Under the language of the new law, altering playback of DVDs is a protected right. The technology they are responding to is Clear Play, which can remove "dirty" content from playing on DVDs. But.. the wording of the law clearly protects the right for ANY kind of altering of the playback of a movie. An industrious person/company could make a no boring parts version or an adult content only version of the DVD using similar technology. Currently, there just is not anyone doing this, at least not that I am aware of.
New steps to profit:
1 Invent inverse Clear Play device
2 Sell to girlfriendless slashdotters all over the globe
3 PROFIT!!
Apple has just announced that Black is back in fashion. All new G5 and Powerbook purchases will come with a FREE Black Hat. This stylish Black Hat will have a Titanium Apple logo on the front, and will include built-in Bluetooth and WiFi network sniffers. We are calling it the iNod. Get yours today!
Did any one else (who actually read the article) find these two quotes incongruous?
"If you're a bad guy and you want to frustrate law enforcement, use a Mac.... They just don't know how to recover data on them."
"many of the computer security folks back at FBI HQ use Macs running OS X, since those machines can do just about anything: run software for Mac, Unix, or Windows, using either a GUI or the command line."
My question; If the Computer Security team at the FBI uses alot of Macs, wouldn't you think they know them well enough to hack them??
Lincoln City Council has taken upon itself to surreptitiously photograph its citizens
RTFA - The City Council never "took" the photos. The girl had someone take pictures of her doing something that violates a local ordinance. She then posted them on her own web site. She put the evidence of her crime in a "public place" (her website) for the police to find by perfectly legal means.
Also, IMHO, I really don't think the "Photoshop Defense" will work either. Simply because she had no reason to fake her location.
"No really Your Honor, I decided to travel to (insert legal location here) and take the photos there. But... when I got back home I thought it would be worth the time and effort to make it look like I only went down the street to take the pictures."
Her defense attorney would need to convince the judge that, in addition to having the talent to do so, she had a good reason to spent the time, money, and effort to make the fake photos. I think she would need a pretty good lawyer to pull that one off.
May I be the first to volunteer to test the Brewers Yeast in space. Preferably in its fermented liquid state. I am especially interested if the space trip is free (as in Beer).
GST are are you ignorant or just in the mood to troll. Every post you have made is about how crappy Apples QA department is. This is not even remotely QA issue.
1 Apple know about this (non) issue.
2 They have always stated that a Mac iPod will NOT work with a windows computer.
3 The original poster did not say that his iPod was broken, simply that it will not play songs transfered to it from his Windows version of iTunes.
4 Apple makes tools to switch a Windows iPod to a Mac, and to switch a Windows iPod from Mac back to Windows. Go figure, but the only tool they do NOT provide is a tool to convert a Mac iPod to work with Windows.
Apple is only doing what it thinks it has to do to protect what little market share it has left. This decision was not because of a bad/shoddy QA. As to wether it was a bad decision on the part of Apple, that is up to everyones personal opinion. Don't blame Apple's QA dept. for not finding/fixing a simple "problem" that their programmers were most definitely told not to do anything about.
P.S. Any QA applicants who stated "they're all just 'firewire hard drives', right" would have no place in my company.
Hey Moofie, There is one easy solution to this problem.
BACKUP your files!
I have multiple copies of my music files. It is the only way to go. The main copy is the working file. This is the one I organize. The second copy is on an external hard drive (dedicated to music files only). I copy the working copy to the backup when ever I have done major work on the master file (add, rename, delete, etc.). I also bring the backup copy to work w/ me every once a while. Where I borrow some of my employers hard drive space (they will never know or care) for a third off-site backup.
Any time that iTunes did something disruptive to the working file I just over wrote it from my backup copy.
As an avid user of iTunes/iPod, (They have been my entire music/stereo system for several years) this has been invaluable. There have been at least 7 would be fatal action over the course of this time. They ranged from entire loss of the working file to just loosing rating type information. To be fair, some were caused by pilot error, others by iTunes preference changes. But regardless, they all were recoverable because of the extra copies. Because my entire collection is now converted to digital, I would have lost my whole music life, had I not backed-up regularly.
Now Moofie, as a very experienced computer user should know... "If it is Important to you......Back it up, and back it up often."
I have done quit a bit of work for large clients with both Cold Fusion and PHP. Most clients did not care what language the code was written in. They rarely cared about much more than these three things:
1- How much will It cost us to deploy solution X.
2- Who quickly will solution X be operational.
3- Is it compatible with our current infrastructure.
Becaues of this clients who were already using Cold Fusion wanted us to use it for their new projects. The rest were quite happy when we would suggest a PHP solution.
First you have to assume that no Banking System in the world is completely secure to hacking. But...
It would seem to make more sense for banks to choose an obscure (read: not windows) operating systems. A system that has many well publicized vulnerabilities will always be easier for an amateur to hack. It is akin to using dictionary words for your login and/or password. It siginificantly lowers the barrier of entry.
The Professional Computer Cracker will get past always be able to get past a system with a vulnerability, but at least amateurs will have to be comfortable in at least 2 OS's. That statistically eliminates a huge portion of the population right off the bat.
I would never recommend using an operating system that shares it roots with "consumer" clients for such a target rich device as an ATM.
This article is old enough that I am probably just replying to Jared, but I thought it worth a follow up. Moderators do well, I think the flaw is probably in the meta-moderator system. When you meta moderate you do not have access (without serious effort) to all the redundancies, or the ability to sort out which ones were "first" or "best". My personal Moderation style leads me to giving out Mod points to redundant posters, because my habit is to change my viewing preferences to: newest first, and view all. I do this to see the posts good posts that have not been moderated yet....but it leads to errors of points given to redundant posters. In theory, I could off set this by modding down redundant posts but, I don't like to "waste" points that way. I feel like it is more important to bring good information to the surface. So IMHO, the best place to solve this would be with a subtle modification of the Meta-Mod system.
"Human nature is usually positive, but only so far as not too much effort is required." - unknown
Me-too post get moderated well becaues there is no "more like this" button when you are moderating/meta-moderating. Moderators have no clue who many people have made THE EXACT SAME COMMENT. So they can't account for redundancy.
P.S. Any one know of a company who wants to hire a Mac Geek and buy a G5 for their new employee?? I am ready to start as of Monday.:-p ...and my resume is filled to the brim with all the right leters (XML, PHP, DHTML, BLA, BLA, JAVA, PERL, ETC, ETC) just like the rest of us.
line ernie line at line dambach line dot line org line - read between the lines to email me all those job offers out there.
A LIBERAL DECALOGUE
By Bertrand Russell
Perhaps the essence of the Liberal outlook could be summed up in a new
decalogue, not intended to replace the old one but only to supplement it.
The Ten Commandments that, as a teacher, I should wish to promulgate, might
be set forth as follows:
1. Do not feel absolutely certain of anything.
2. Do not think it worth while to proceed by concealing evidence,
for the evidence is sure to come to light.
3. Never try to discourage thinking for you are sure to succeed.
4. When you meet with opposition, even if it should be from your
husband or your children, endeavor to overcome it by argument and not by
authority, for a victory dependent upon authority is unreal and illusory.
5. Have no respect for the authority of others, for there are
always contrary authorities to be found.
6. Do not use power to suppress opinions you think pernicious,
for if you do the opinions will suppress you.
7. Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion
now accepted was once eccentric.
8. Find more pleasure in intelligent dissent that in passive agreement,
for, if you value intelligence as you should, the former implies a deeper
agreement than the latter.
9. Be scrupulously truthful, even if the truth is inconvenient,
for it is more inconvenient when you try to conceal it.
10. Do not feel envious of the happiness of those who live in
a fool's paradise, for only a fool will think that it is happiness."
"A Liberal Decalogue" is from The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell,
Vol. 3: 1944-1969, pp. 71-2.
Copied from the
Bertrand
Russell Society's website
This ruling will have serious consequences throughout the web and programming communities.
It will open up the flood gates if the ruling is in favor of the defendant. OR it will cause many more court cases and innocent prople jailed if the prosecution wins.
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That is why I always early vote. It is on paper where I vote and that stands a better chance of getting counted correctly.
In my district, (the company formerly known as) Diebold still "counts" the paper ballots. According to BlackBox.org, there easy ways to tamper with these machines as well.
/. Comunity being a Paid Election Support Worker would be a way to get personally involved in safeguarding against this type of hacking. According to previous BlackBox.org posts, all voting maching contracts come with an Election Day Support Contract. Diebold etc. are required to hire on site technicians for each polling station. These techs are to setup the machines, ensure that they are not tampered with, trouble shoot any voting/printing snafus and take down the machines after polls close. Bb.org feels these jobs are the "front line" for ensuring fair elections. These jobs are hiring in your area right now! P.S. You might want to leave MOST of your experience OFF of your resume, since this is a very low paying temp job, and most everyone here would be considered vastly over qualified.
For the
For the /. Comunity being a Paid Election Support Worker would me the best safeguard. According to previous BlackBox.org posts, all voting maching contracts come with an Election Day Support Contract. Diebold etc. are required to hire on site technicians for each polling station. These techs are to setup the machines, ensure that they are not tampered with, trouble shoot any voting/printing snafus and take down the machines after polls close.
Bb.org feels these jobs are the "front line" for ensuring fair elections.
These jobs are hiring in your area right now!
P.S. You might want to leave MOST of your experience OFF of your resume, since this is a very low paying temp job, and most everyone here would be considered vastly over qualified.
After reading your whiny obnoxious comment, I think I understand why you got banned. My vote (which does not count for didly, and I'm ok with that) is DON"T give this guy his mod points back. I got over the fact that my submittals don't make the cut very often, and that my mod points (which I still have) only make a marginal dent. I am NOT the most important user on this site. Obviously, the editors think the same of you. Get over yourself. You are just a geek like the rest of us here. Nothing to whine about here, move along.
Yes people are that stupid.
I deal with largish offices who NEED the features in XP PRO but the person ordering their new systems did not know any better, so they ordered the cheapest Dell they could find. I show up to add it to their network and have to attempt to explain why "home" is for home and "Pro" is for an office environment. At this point, they look at me with a blank look... Say "oh, now I understand". Then, they usually ask me if I can "make it work" so that they don't have to explain to their boss why they screwed up, trying to save $$.
People do not know what they need from their computers. If they did they would never be satisfied with the poor quality of the OS they are currently using.
This is also one of the reasons why the general public will never adopt Linux, Unix, Etc. Too Many Choices that they do not know how to make a decision about. I bet that this alone scares many system admins away from Linux. They are smart enough to know that Windows is not right for the job they need it to do, but "linux is confusing". (and these are the "computer savvy" types!)
Too many choices can be a bad thing, if the learning curve will cause errors or poor choices to be made. Bad for Linux, and Bad for windows (less for Windows, because they will probably get many folks to buy 2 or more versions after they realize that the computer they bought won't do (feature x) and buy the OS they should have bought in the first place).
New steps to profit:
1 Invent inverse Clear Play device
2 Sell to girlfriendless slashdotters all over the globe
3 PROFIT!!
I just bought a brand new 2.2Ghz HP w XP pro for the exact same price. Now that is depreciation!
Personally I'd still rather have a 4 year old G4. The HP is for a print server at work.
My question; If the Computer Security team at the FBI uses alot of Macs, wouldn't you think they know them well enough to hack them??
She put the evidence of her crime in a "public place" (her website) for the police to find by perfectly legal means.
Also, IMHO, I really don't think the "Photoshop Defense" will work either. Simply because she had no reason to fake her location. Her defense attorney would need to convince the judge that, in addition to having the talent to do so, she had a good reason to spent the time, money, and effort to make the fake photos. I think she would need a pretty good lawyer to pull that one off.
May I be the first to volunteer to test the Brewers Yeast in space. Preferably in its fermented liquid state. I am especially interested if the space trip is free (as in Beer).
GST are are you ignorant or just in the mood to troll. Every post you have made is about how crappy Apples QA department is. This is not even remotely QA issue.
1 Apple know about this (non) issue.
2 They have always stated that a Mac iPod will NOT work with a windows computer.
3 The original poster did not say that his iPod was broken, simply that it will not play songs transfered to it from his Windows version of iTunes.
4 Apple makes tools to switch a Windows iPod to a Mac, and to switch a Windows iPod from Mac back to Windows. Go figure, but the only tool they do NOT provide is a tool to convert a Mac iPod to work with Windows.
Apple is only doing what it thinks it has to do to protect what little market share it has left. This decision was not because of a bad/shoddy QA. As to wether it was a bad decision on the part of Apple, that is up to everyones personal opinion. Don't blame Apple's QA dept. for not finding/fixing a simple "problem" that their programmers were most definitely told not to do anything about.
P.S. Any QA applicants who stated "they're all just 'firewire hard drives', right" would have no place in my company.
Hey Moofie,
...Back it up, and back it up often."
There is one easy solution to this problem.
BACKUP your files!
I have multiple copies of my music files. It is the only way to go. The main copy is the working file. This is the one I organize. The second copy is on an external hard drive (dedicated to music files only). I copy the working copy to the backup when ever I have done major work on the master file (add, rename, delete, etc.). I also bring the backup copy to work w/ me every once a while. Where I borrow some of my employers hard drive space (they will never know or care) for a third off-site backup.
Any time that iTunes did something disruptive to the working file I just over wrote it from my backup copy.
As an avid user of iTunes/iPod, (They have been my entire music/stereo system for several years) this has been invaluable. There have been at least 7 would be fatal action over the course of this time. They ranged from entire loss of the working file to just loosing rating type information. To be fair, some were caused by pilot error, others by iTunes preference changes. But regardless, they all were recoverable because of the extra copies. Because my entire collection is now converted to digital, I would have lost my whole music life, had I not backed-up regularly.
Now Moofie, as a very experienced computer user should know...
"If it is Important to you...
I have done quit a bit of work for large clients with both Cold Fusion and PHP. Most clients did not care what language the code was written in.
They rarely cared about much more than these three things:
1- How much will It cost us to deploy solution X.
2- Who quickly will solution X be operational.
3- Is it compatible with our current infrastructure.
Becaues of this clients who were already using Cold Fusion wanted us to use it for their new projects. The rest were quite happy when we would suggest a PHP solution.
--
Ernie Dambach
If you own a diesel you already own a car that will run on an alternative fuel.
Bio-diesel
It can be made from corn or from re-cycled vegitiable oil (read: used fast food fryer oil).
For more info check out Grasolean.com.
--
Ernie Dambach
First you have to assume that no Banking System in the world is completely secure to hacking. But...
It would seem to make more sense for banks to choose an obscure (read: not windows) operating systems.
A system that has many well publicized vulnerabilities will always be easier for an amateur to hack. It is akin to using dictionary words for your login and/or password. It siginificantly lowers the barrier of entry.
The Professional Computer Cracker will get past always be able to get past a system with a vulnerability, but at least amateurs will have to be comfortable in at least 2 OS's. That statistically eliminates a huge portion of the population right off the bat.
I would never recommend using an operating system that shares it roots with "consumer" clients for such a target rich device as an ATM.
--Ernie Dambach
This article is old enough that I am probably just replying to Jared, but I thought it worth a follow up. Moderators do well, I think the flaw is probably in the meta-moderator system. When you meta moderate you do not have access (without serious effort) to all the redundancies, or the ability to sort out which ones were "first" or "best". My personal Moderation style leads me to giving out Mod points to redundant posters, because my habit is to change my viewing preferences to: newest first, and view all. I do this to see the posts good posts that have not been moderated yet. ...but it leads to errors of points given to redundant posters. In theory, I could off set this by modding down redundant posts but, I don't like to "waste" points that way. I feel like it is more important to bring good information to the surface. So IMHO, the best place to solve this would be with a subtle modification of the Meta-Mod system.
"Human nature is usually positive, but only so far as not too much effort is required." - unknown
Me-too post get moderated well becaues there is no "more like this" button when you are moderating/meta-moderating. Moderators have no clue who many people have made THE EXACT SAME COMMENT. So they can't account for redundancy.
__
IMHO
Ernest Dambach
Because like entirely too many of us here....
:-p
......I still don't have a JOB!
P.S. Any one know of a company who wants to hire a Mac Geek and buy a G5 for their new employee?? I am ready to start as of Monday.
...and my resume is filled to the brim with all the right leters (XML, PHP, DHTML, BLA, BLA, JAVA, PERL, ETC, ETC) just like the rest of us.
line ernie line at line dambach line dot line org line - read between the lines to email me all those job offers out there.
1. Do not feel absolutely certain of anything.
2. Do not think it worth while to proceed by concealing evidence, for the evidence is sure to come to light.
3. Never try to discourage thinking for you are sure to succeed.
4. When you meet with opposition, even if it should be from your husband or your children, endeavor to overcome it by argument and not by authority, for a victory dependent upon authority is unreal and illusory.
5. Have no respect for the authority of others, for there are always contrary authorities to be found.
6. Do not use power to suppress opinions you think pernicious, for if you do the opinions will suppress you.
7. Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
8. Find more pleasure in intelligent dissent that in passive agreement, for, if you value intelligence as you should, the former implies a deeper agreement than the latter.
9. Be scrupulously truthful, even if the truth is inconvenient, for it is more inconvenient when you try to conceal it.
10. Do not feel envious of the happiness of those who live in a fool's paradise, for only a fool will think that it is happiness."
"A Liberal Decalogue" is from The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell, Vol. 3: 1944-1969, pp. 71-2. Copied from the Bertrand Russell Society's website
This ruling will have serious consequences throughout the web and programming communities.
It will open up the flood gates if the ruling is in favor of the defendant. OR it will cause many more court cases and innocent prople jailed if the prosecution wins.
Pixar has one position that should be of interest to the /. crowd: (asks for a unix geek who can program PERL etc.)
MacOS X Systems Administrator
Here is their comlpete listing of current jobs:
Mac/PC Systems Administrator, Systems
MacOS X Systems Administrator, Systems
Security and Safety Officer, Facilities
Software Engineer, RenderMan Products (Seattle)
Quality Assurance Engineer/API Tester, Studio Tools
Project Coordinator, Studio Tools
Film-On-Line Tools Engineer, Studio Tools
QA/Automated Test Engineer, Studio Tools
Good Luck!