A system running UNIX doesn't necessarily mean it was stable. It could have all sorts of flaws in the code, hardware failures, etc.
Sure, Windows 95 in particular and Windows in general is often less stable than modern counterparts. But an upgrade from an old, obsolete UNIX to a new Windows system could have had significant benefits and made a lot of sense at the time. Without the full information behind the decision, how can you judge whether the decision was bad or not?
from my experience, most programmers are either under 150 pounds of programmer meat or over 250 pounds of programmer meat. 200 pounds of programmer meat sounds far too healthy. Are you sure you aren't a manager that accidentally fell into the wrong cubicle?
The problem with employee trust and removable media is not necessarily with the employees. Even if they have the best intentions with the data and you trust that they're going to do right by you, what if someone steals the hard drive, or it gets left in an airport bathroom, or whatever? Do we trust the thief too?
There's not much of a reason for the average employee to haul a ton of documents home every day. Why grant the access to do so in the first place? Giving people the access they require to do their job and nothing more is a sound security principle.
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The manufacturers probably aren't making too many 10GB drives these days. So, you get a bulk lot of what's cheapest which is probably somewhere in the 30 to 60 gig range these days for a cheap IDE 3.5" hard drive.
Hey, lots of companies install policies on their IT assets that flat out prevent installing unauthorized patches on corporate systems.
This is a pretty big patch, and people have known for a while that it's going to change the way some things work. It makes sense to show caution before allowing a mass deployment. There's not much news here.
it's a military/boarding school/other miscellaneous dorm tradition for dealing with malcontents. One person covers the party "guest" with a blanket so they can't escape while the others take turns beating them (often with soap in a sock, aka a "sock party").
Everyone has to take a swing so that everyone is culpable and no one can report it without incriminating themselves.
See Pvt. Pyle in "Full Metal Jacket" the night after he eats the jelly donut for a graphic reference.
The serial number on US paper currency is in a standard, clear font in a standard position. This should make it very easy for modern OCR to read these numbers with very few errors. It would probably even be easier than a barcode, because the serial number is probably clearer and more distinct than a barcode would be after it's been in various pockets/cash registers/washing machines/etc.
This also applies to many other paper currencies. Offhand, I'm looking at some euro and Australian dollar notes on my desk and while the serial number is in a different place between the currencies, it is in a distinct font and appears to be in a somewhat standard location.
I don't think it would be difficult to read those electronically either, you'd just have to have a way to identify the currency type and denomination to make sure you look in the right place for the number.
Sometimes they play accounting games like billing back to different departments and making it look like the internal helpdesk turns a "profit" but that's just stupid accounting. Companies with internal help desks (i.e. no "customers" from the outside calling it) usually don't care about "repeat business" except for the management of the helpdesk itself. Their goal is to get people to not call the helpdesk at all.
Wouldn't bundling a virus scanner in be about the same to the virus scanner market as, say, Internet Explorer is to the browser market or Media Player is to the media player market?
Just a thought. There's one reason right there, there are probably quite a few more.
and from county to county as well. Sometimes the state sets the rules, sometimes local election boards do. This is an interesting point to remember. Not all elections will follow the same procedures that Professor Rubin's site did. This could introduce new risks or mitigate existing ones, depending on local procedure and policy. I think he made a note of that in his writeup as well.
The primary elections are designed to narrow candidates in a specific party down. Therefore, if you're a Democrat you should receive a Democrat ballot and if you're a Republican you should receive a Republican ballot. Some areas have you register as a particular party, most just ask you what ballot you want when you vote.
Note that since this isn't necessarily kept in any databases, you can request whichever ballot you want. One strategy that some people try sometimes (although it rarely works with national candidateS) is to request the "wrong" ballot and vote someone "bad" as the primary winner, so their candidate will have an easier time in his campaign.
That might be an entirely reasonable figure based on a few factors such as whether you use SAN or local disks on the servers, what backup systems you use and the number of tapes you have to purchase and store offline, etc.
but it would also be quite helpful for MANY others. If something helps a lot of people and can be made into an option so that it doesn't hurt other people, what's the harm in adding it as an option?
Iridium needed a worldwide network of satellites with decent bandwidth and lots of other features. XM uses a couple satellites, Sirius probably the same. They only cover North America and only have a limited bandwidth that they need to provide. Maybe they could even lease excess capacity on their satellites to other companies. At any rate, it's a totally different and much cheaper business model than Iridium.
many credit card vendors let you generate "fake account" numbers per online transaction. MC/visa both do it, amex might too (haven't looked recently). it's a feature that the banks offer, in the case of MC/visa, so your bank may not offer it. But it's been done.
that acct# gets used for one transaction only.. can't be reused, etc.
This is one of the major problems with the computer industry. People find the need to change things that work well, either for profit or (often) just because they think it's too old and hey, excitement is good. Change for the sake of change is A BAD THING.
I'd rather have a very inexpensive, very old component that just did its work and was done than a new buggy one.
This may come as a shock to people who do write code, I know. Not everyone who uses a computer is able to actually write or change a program. This even applies to people who might use some sort of OS or applications that would require them to compile the code before they can run it.
You aren't required to have a warranty on a car and you aren't required to have maintenance on a switch from Ebay either. It's obviously helpful when something breaks, though.
Probably not all auto makers charge for it, and local laws may vary. There are probably parts of the world where it may even be illegal to charge for a warrantry transfer. However, the point is that it isn't unheard of either.
The auto industry already does make you pay money to transfer a warranty over if you sell a car. Or, at least, many manufacturers do. Chrysler charges about $150. Other makers may vary.
I Can definitely see why a company would want to charge something to cover paperwork, handling, and maybe even require a recertification or inspection of the device as they now have to support it as if it were new. Charging a reasonable fee for that doesn't strike me as too bad of an idea. You got a bargain on the hardware, good for you. The manufacturer has no idea what they're getting into, because it is not new from them or someone they've allowed to sell it, so it's only smart for them to ensure that what you have is supportable before they agree to support it.
I do think it's somewhat stupid to charge a huge amount, but on the other hand, what is "reasonable" when you're dealing with equipment that costs tens of thousands of dollars or more? I guess the market decides that. If people think it's way too much they won't pay it. If it breaks, that was the gamble you took when you opted for that bargain.
Yes, technically you can play it wherever you want to, but a statement like that does give support a convenient out when someone from Korea or Australia or Germany or what have you calls and complains about the network latency or support staff availability.
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A system running UNIX doesn't necessarily mean it was stable. It could have all sorts of flaws in the code, hardware failures, etc.
Sure, Windows 95 in particular and Windows in general is often less stable than modern counterparts. But an upgrade from an old, obsolete UNIX to a new Windows system could have had significant benefits and made a lot of sense at the time. Without the full information behind the decision, how can you judge whether the decision was bad or not?
from my experience, most programmers are either under 150 pounds of programmer meat or over 250 pounds of programmer meat. 200 pounds of programmer meat sounds far too healthy. Are you sure you aren't a manager that accidentally fell into the wrong cubicle?
The problem with employee trust and removable media is not necessarily with the employees. Even if they have the best intentions with the data and you trust that they're going to do right by you, what if someone steals the hard drive, or it gets left in an airport bathroom, or whatever? Do we trust the thief too?
There's not much of a reason for the average employee to haul a ton of documents home every day. Why grant the access to do so in the first place? Giving people the access they require to do their job and nothing more is a sound security principle.
The manufacturers probably aren't making too many 10GB drives these days. So, you get a bulk lot of what's cheapest which is probably somewhere in the 30 to 60 gig range these days for a cheap IDE 3.5" hard drive.
Hey, lots of companies install policies on their IT assets that flat out prevent installing unauthorized patches on corporate systems.
This is a pretty big patch, and people have known for a while that it's going to change the way some things work. It makes sense to show caution before allowing a mass deployment. There's not much news here.
it's a military/boarding school/other miscellaneous dorm tradition for dealing with malcontents. One person covers the party "guest" with a blanket so they can't escape while the others take turns beating them (often with soap in a sock, aka a "sock party").
Everyone has to take a swing so that everyone is culpable and no one can report it without incriminating themselves.
See Pvt. Pyle in "Full Metal Jacket" the night after he eats the jelly donut for a graphic reference.
The serial number on US paper currency is in a standard, clear font in a standard position. This should make it very easy for modern OCR to read these numbers with very few errors. It would probably even be easier than a barcode, because the serial number is probably clearer and more distinct than a barcode would be after it's been in various pockets/cash registers/washing machines/etc.
This also applies to many other paper currencies. Offhand, I'm looking at some euro and Australian dollar notes on my desk and while the serial number is in a different place between the currencies, it is in a distinct font and appears to be in a somewhat standard location.
I don't think it would be difficult to read those electronically either, you'd just have to have a way to identify the currency type and denomination to make sure you look in the right place for the number.
You can do stuff like tcpdump -i xl0 src 10.0.0.1 and dst 10.0.0.2 and stuff like that.
That's almost a stupid question. Pretty much everyone I know with a PS2 has played an original playstation game at least once.
Sometimes they play accounting games like billing back to different departments and making it look like the internal helpdesk turns a "profit" but that's just stupid accounting. Companies with internal help desks (i.e. no "customers" from the outside calling it) usually don't care about "repeat business" except for the management of the helpdesk itself. Their goal is to get people to not call the helpdesk at all.
Wouldn't bundling a virus scanner in be about the same to the virus scanner market as, say, Internet Explorer is to the browser market or Media Player is to the media player market?
Just a thought. There's one reason right there, there are probably quite a few more.
and from county to county as well. Sometimes the state sets the rules, sometimes local election boards do. This is an interesting point to remember. Not all elections will follow the same procedures that Professor Rubin's site did. This could introduce new risks or mitigate existing ones, depending on local procedure and policy. I think he made a note of that in his writeup as well.
The primary elections are designed to narrow candidates in a specific party down. Therefore, if you're a Democrat you should receive a Democrat ballot and if you're a Republican you should receive a Republican ballot. Some areas have you register as a particular party, most just ask you what ballot you want when you vote.
Note that since this isn't necessarily kept in any databases, you can request whichever ballot you want. One strategy that some people try sometimes (although it rarely works with national candidateS) is to request the "wrong" ballot and vote someone "bad" as the primary winner, so their candidate will have an easier time in his campaign.
A transmeta processor would still have to be properly shielded against radiation and other environmental hazards.
That might be an entirely reasonable figure based on a few factors such as whether you use SAN or local disks on the servers, what backup systems you use and the number of tapes you have to purchase and store offline, etc.
but it would also be quite helpful for MANY others. If something helps a lot of people and can be made into an option so that it doesn't hurt other people, what's the harm in adding it as an option?
Iridium needed a worldwide network of satellites with decent bandwidth and lots of other features. XM uses a couple satellites, Sirius probably the same. They only cover North America and only have a limited bandwidth that they need to provide. Maybe they could even lease excess capacity on their satellites to other companies. At any rate, it's a totally different and much cheaper business model than Iridium.
in mainframes and other "big iron" in finance shops.
many credit card vendors let you generate "fake account" numbers per online transaction. MC/visa both do it, amex might too (haven't looked recently). it's a feature that the banks offer, in the case of MC/visa, so your bank may not offer it. But it's been done.
that acct# gets used for one transaction only.. can't be reused, etc.
If it works, why break it?
This is one of the major problems with the computer industry. People find the need to change things that work well, either for profit or (often) just because they think it's too old and hey, excitement is good. Change for the sake of change is A BAD THING.
I'd rather have a very inexpensive, very old component that just did its work and was done than a new buggy one.
This may come as a shock to people who do write code, I know. Not everyone who uses a computer is able to actually write or change a program. This even applies to people who might use some sort of OS or applications that would require them to compile the code before they can run it.
You aren't required to have a warranty on a car and you aren't required to have maintenance on a switch from Ebay either. It's obviously helpful when something breaks, though.
Probably not all auto makers charge for it, and local laws may vary. There are probably parts of the world where it may even be illegal to charge for a warrantry transfer. However, the point is that it isn't unheard of either.
The auto industry already does make you pay money to transfer a warranty over if you sell a car. Or, at least, many manufacturers do. Chrysler charges about $150. Other makers may vary.
I Can definitely see why a company would want to charge something to cover paperwork, handling, and maybe even require a recertification or inspection of the device as they now have to support it as if it were new. Charging a reasonable fee for that doesn't strike me as too bad of an idea. You got a bargain on the hardware, good for you. The manufacturer has no idea what they're getting into, because it is not new from them or someone they've allowed to sell it, so it's only smart for them to ensure that what you have is supportable before they agree to support it.
I do think it's somewhat stupid to charge a huge amount, but on the other hand, what is "reasonable" when you're dealing with equipment that costs tens of thousands of dollars or more? I guess the market decides that. If people think it's way too much they won't pay it. If it breaks, that was the gamble you took when you opted for that bargain.
Yes, technically you can play it wherever you want to, but a statement like that does give support a convenient out when someone from Korea or Australia or Germany or what have you calls and complains about the network latency or support staff availability.