How do they determine how much money a country can produce? Can a tiny country produce the same as a large country? Will more of the coins from smaller countries that are produced in lower numbers be taken out of circulation by collectors?
It said on the Euro website that while a country could put whatever they wanted on the back of the coin, it had to maintain a standard weight.
It would be foolish for them to allow coins that are supposed to be interchangeable to weigh different amounts. As for the alloy, I can only assume that that will be a standard also.
The problem with that is the equal representation bit. Why should some tiny country with a few hundred thousand citizens have the same amount of pull as the US? It shouldn't.
What would be needed is like what we have here in the US with two houses of Congress one where the number of representatives is determined by the size of their constituency and the other with equal representation.
Anyway, the only thing that will ever cause the nations of the world to join is a common threat to our lifes, freedoms, or money from a force outside of Earth.
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Furthermore, what is an AltGr key?
Please excuse my stupidity, others have for years.;)
The pictures on this site are quite a bit different from the photograph the original poster put up. I'm assuming that these are drawings from before the final version was complete?
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Then why don't they all just agree to put American images on their money?
Seriously, why didn't they do the 2 side thing for the bills like they did for the coins? It seems that it would help make the transition easier for traditionalists, and also create a market for collectors.
I also got the Sopranos, but now I find that I'm having DVD player problems! ARGH!
Ok, anybody have any ideas? It's a Sony DVD player, about 2 years old. I put a DVD in, it tries to read it for a bit, then says "NO DISC" This happens with every disk I've tried.
I've got plans to use this tonight, and I don't really feel like buying a new one.
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I hear they're thinking of opening a Secret Stash in Shermer, IL.
I bought presents for everyone in my family except for the nieces and nephews in the 15-20 year range. I gave them money. It wasn't because I didn't want to be bothered picking out something for them, I just knew that I wouldn't get them something they would like. You see, I'm old and out of touch with today's youth at the age of 31.
Also, I remember how much I preferred getting money to use for going out and stuff rather than some tacky shirt that I would never wear when I was that age.
Yeah, I gave them money, but I did put a lot of thought into it and decided that was the present they would most likely enjoy the best.
Yeah, it was really annoying buying a gift for my brother from his Amazon wishlist. He knew I was the only one who would be buying something from the list. The things on it ranged in price from cheap to pretty expensive. It was hard picking one from the list that matched what I wanted to spend without looking cheap. And the worst part was that he could go look at his wishlist the next day and see what was missing and know what I bought.
I've been in this situation several times and have been fairly successful. The circumstances are truely less than ideal, but this isn't an ideal world. The posts saying, "Pay a security consultant $20,000 to offer advice and test the system, hire high-priced lawyers to cya, etc." really don't help when the entire project budget is $10,000, including hardware. I'd guess that most of the people saying this are idealistic students/new workers that don't understand the real world, or $20,000 security consultants and high-priced lawyers who are trying to sell something.
But that just fools consumers into an unmerited sense of security because at the back-end, plaintext cc #s are sent by a form-to-email CGI.
You should be able to easily set up a system to PGP encrypt the data before it is emailed to the client. Decryption on the client's end is fairly painless, especially assuming they are on a Windows box and have a PGP plugin available for their mail program. If you don't do at least this, you're just being lazy and should be taken out back and beaten.
Is it the admin's responsibility to fix what the boss is unwilling to pay for? Or should you do the best you can with the resources available to you on your own time?
It's your job to do the best job you can given the resources that are available to you. If you find the job interesting (as I do) and commit some of your personal time for reaserch, etc., all the better. Your current boss wins by getting a better system, and you win even more by expanding your experience, thus becoming more valuable in the present and future jobs.
The absolute most important point in a situation like this is to be totally honest with your boss. Don't wait for him to ask you something. Go sit in his office and explain to him in language he can understand the potential problems and what you are attempting to do to protect the system while remaining within your budget, and what the next few steps you would take if granted more money would be.
The last thing you want is for the boss to be totally surprised if something does go wrong. He needs to know that there are definate risks and that your site WILL have attempted crack attempts no matter how small it is. Never tell anyone that a system is entirely secure. There's no such thing.
This makes perfect sense, but what about for data that has to be shared and also secured. One example that comes to mind would be a database of patient data. The data needs to be available to the user once an SSL connection was established and password authentication was performed.
I could set up a secure box connected nic to nic via a crossover cable that only ran an sql daemon that only responded to the web server, and have all the data in the database encrypted. The problem I see is that the applications that requested data from the database server would have to contain the key to decrypt the data. Once someone rooted the web server they would have access to the scripts that handled communication to the database. A yes/no from the server wouldn't be enough in this case, it would have to actually get the data.
Because most people are lazy and/or stupid. They want their cc info to be safe, as long as it doesn't require much effort on their part. If my mother wanted to buy something from Amazon but they told her she had to download and install some small program to allow her to do this, she'd find the item somewhere else or drive down to the wal-mart instead.
What would the advantage be in changing to another language? Assuming the team develops coding standards and creates clean, documented code that can run under mod_perl, why would PHP or java be better?
The team is obviously already familiar with perl, and some code could be reused after a bit of cleaning. Perl is perfect for applications that require a lot of string manipulation and as a front end for a database. This is what most web programming involves.
The only drawback that I can see in using perl is if your team is messy. Perl will allow you to be messy, but it doesn't have to be. Perl can look just as clean as any other language. I go back to apps I wrote 3 years ago in perl and can follow every bit of it. It's all commented and has plenty of white space to make it easy on the eyes.
I've written several large perl applications for the web and yes, I do know other languages, but perl is better suited for this type of work. It's fairly quick to put together and performs well. Now I wouldn't try to write an OS or first person shoot'em up game in perl, but for this it's just as viable of a choice as anything else.
I'm also not saying that PHP or java would be bad if you have a good grasp on it and are starting a new project. Remember, TMTOWTDI is good!
Just don't use ASP!;)
Sure, installing is the easy part for them. So what do you tell mom and/or grandma when they call you on the phone wanting to know why they can't access a certain website? Or their eyes are too bad to make out the horrible fonts? Or they can't install this great new program they found in the bargain bin at wal-mart or downloaded from shareware.com? Or they can't open a document sent to them by your sister? Or the cheapo ink jet printer they bought won't work?
It's a big hassle. My older brother asked me if he should try Linux. I told him no. He uses his machine for surfing, trying new programs that he finds, and watching porn videos from newsgroups (which he would have a time getting all the codes for, even if they where all available).
He came back at me with, "So why do you run it then?" Why? hmmmm....
You are correct about the use of images in schools, at least at the ones I was at. I worked as a consultant for 13 small to medium sized school districts for 4 years, so I have some insight into this.
School district admins wouldn't even listen to a suggestion of putting Linux on desktops. The rational? Well, I've listed a few:
1) "The kids need to learn on the types of computers that they will be using in a typical office. They need to know how to use Word and Excel."
- I know they could develop the same skills by using an alternative, but the name recognition thing is really important. Parents would be up in arms at the next school board meeting if they heard their kids weren't going to learn about spreadsheets using Excel.
2) "We can't run Accelerated Reader and the other programs that are essential to teaching on Linux."
- This is a huge argument. AR is used a lot in most schools. It helps teachers not actually have to teach anything. If you're not familiar with it, it's a pretty simple program that tests a students understanding of a book after they have read it. There was some chance of using the old DOS version on Linux, but we haven't been able to run the Windows version under wine. The program would be trivial to duplicate, but the real value is in all of the thousands of tests that are available for it.
3) "Windows doesn't cost that much money for us, and most of our grants specify a certain portion of the funds for software purchase."
- This is true. I know we where spending like $21 for a Windows 98 license, $45 for NT. And, the federal grants that we where writing (and helped spend the money from;) for the schools required us to allocate for the purchase of OS and application programs or the proposal would be rejected. I'm sure we could appeal if this where the case, but schools don't like to risk it. Every t must be crossed, every i dotted, and the staple has to be in exact right spot.
4) "We don't need to worry about maintaining desktops. Each teacher has a boot disk for all of the machines in their room that will automatically reimage the system if there is some sort of problem. Network apps and updates are provided via NAL or something similiar based on the user logged in, so we don't even have to touch a system to allow access to new programs."
- The same system could be used by Linux, but because the same thing could be said about Windows it doesn't help the argument in their minds.
Now I want to be clear that every one of the school systems that I worked in had at least one, usually quite a few, Linux boxes performing functions behind the scenes. After talking to some of the IT directors recently I found that these boxes where all just running perfectly. And they loved that, they just run.
So you're saying that the only expense they have in delivering this service is the bandwidth? What about all the employees and servers required to pull this off?
They need to have a revenue stream or they will go under. I kind of agree that $9.95 @ month is a bit steep. But after careful reflection I find that the reason I feel that way is because I'm used to getting everything for free. I'm spoiled.
Even in the Windows world a whole lot of people don't ever pay for anything on their machines. It's even harder for these people to make the jump. The thought process would be like "I never had to pay anything when I was using Windows, why would I pay for the privilage of using a $free$ operating system?"
I had a 10Meg hard drive on my C=64 BBS. It interfaced through the cartridge slot. The one I got was called a Lt. Kernel (or was it Colonel?) I'm not even sure of the name anymore (I must be getting old).
I do remember that it cost $995, but we had the hottest C-Net BBS around!
He also warned of an upcoming attack on Indian Parliament and it went off just like he said it would. Lucky guess? Maybe. I'm not totally sure that someone doesn't attack Indian Parliament every other week.
It does lend some grain of credibility to his claim.
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How do they determine how much money a country can produce? Can a tiny country produce the same as a large country? Will more of the coins from smaller countries that are produced in lower numbers be taken out of circulation by collectors?
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It said on the Euro website that while a country could put whatever they wanted on the back of the coin, it had to maintain a standard weight.
It would be foolish for them to allow coins that are supposed to be interchangeable to weigh different amounts. As for the alloy, I can only assume that that will be a standard also.
The problem with that is the equal representation bit. Why should some tiny country with a few hundred thousand citizens have the same amount of pull as the US? It shouldn't.
What would be needed is like what we have here in the US with two houses of Congress one where the number of representatives is determined by the size of their constituency and the other with equal representation.
Anyway, the only thing that will ever cause the nations of the world to join is a common threat to our lifes, freedoms, or money from a force outside of Earth.
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Furthermore, what is an AltGr key?
;)
Please excuse my stupidity, others have for years.
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The pictures on this site are quite a bit different from the photograph the original poster put up. I'm assuming that these are drawings from before the final version was complete?
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Then why don't they all just agree to put American images on their money?
Seriously, why didn't they do the 2 side thing for the bills like they did for the coins? It seems that it would help make the transition easier for traditionalists, and also create a market for collectors.
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I also got the Sopranos, but now I find that I'm having DVD player problems! ARGH!
Ok, anybody have any ideas? It's a Sony DVD player, about 2 years old. I put a DVD in, it tries to read it for a bit, then says "NO DISC" This happens with every disk I've tried.
I've got plans to use this tonight, and I don't really feel like buying a new one.
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I hear they're thinking of opening a Secret Stash in Shermer, IL.
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Yeah, uh, me too! That's just what I'm going to be doing tonight.
/., as usual.
(God I'm so depressed)
I've got several thousand lines of code that has to be completed before tomorrow morning to meet some client billing deadline. Geez.
and look how I'm wasting my time reading
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Nah, he's too tall.
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I bought presents for everyone in my family except for the nieces and nephews in the 15-20 year range. I gave them money. It wasn't because I didn't want to be bothered picking out something for them, I just knew that I wouldn't get them something they would like. You see, I'm old and out of touch with today's youth at the age of 31.
Also, I remember how much I preferred getting money to use for going out and stuff rather than some tacky shirt that I would never wear when I was that age.
Yeah, I gave them money, but I did put a lot of thought into it and decided that was the present they would most likely enjoy the best.
.
Yeah, it was really annoying buying a gift for my brother from his Amazon wishlist. He knew I was the only one who would be buying something from the list. The things on it ranged in price from cheap to pretty expensive. It was hard picking one from the list that matched what I wanted to spend without looking cheap. And the worst part was that he could go look at his wishlist the next day and see what was missing and know what I bought.
Kind of frustrating.
I've been in this situation several times and have been fairly successful. The circumstances are truely less than ideal, but this isn't an ideal world. The posts saying, "Pay a security consultant $20,000 to offer advice and test the system, hire high-priced lawyers to cya, etc." really don't help when the entire project budget is $10,000, including hardware. I'd guess that most of the people saying this are idealistic students/new workers that don't understand the real world, or $20,000 security consultants and high-priced lawyers who are trying to sell something.
But that just fools consumers into an unmerited sense of security because at the back-end, plaintext cc #s are sent by a form-to-email CGI.
You should be able to easily set up a system to PGP encrypt the data before it is emailed to the client. Decryption on the client's end is fairly painless, especially assuming they are on a Windows box and have a PGP plugin available for their mail program. If you don't do at least this, you're just being lazy and should be taken out back and beaten.
Is it the admin's responsibility to fix what the boss is unwilling to pay for? Or should you do the best you can with the resources available to you on your own time?
It's your job to do the best job you can given the resources that are available to you. If you find the job interesting (as I do) and commit some of your personal time for reaserch, etc., all the better. Your current boss wins by getting a better system, and you win even more by expanding your experience, thus becoming more valuable in the present and future jobs.
The absolute most important point in a situation like this is to be totally honest with your boss. Don't wait for him to ask you something. Go sit in his office and explain to him in language he can understand the potential problems and what you are attempting to do to protect the system while remaining within your budget, and what the next few steps you would take if granted more money would be.
The last thing you want is for the boss to be totally surprised if something does go wrong. He needs to know that there are definate risks and that your site WILL have attempted crack attempts no matter how small it is. Never tell anyone that a system is entirely secure. There's no such thing.
This makes perfect sense, but what about for data that has to be shared and also secured. One example that comes to mind would be a database of patient data. The data needs to be available to the user once an SSL connection was established and password authentication was performed.
I could set up a secure box connected nic to nic via a crossover cable that only ran an sql daemon that only responded to the web server, and have all the data in the database encrypted. The problem I see is that the applications that requested data from the database server would have to contain the key to decrypt the data. Once someone rooted the web server they would have access to the scripts that handled communication to the database. A yes/no from the server wouldn't be enough in this case, it would have to actually get the data.
What is the solution in this case?
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What happens to all the cc numbers of new members that sign up each day?
Because most people are lazy and/or stupid. They want their cc info to be safe, as long as it doesn't require much effort on their part. If my mother wanted to buy something from Amazon but they told her she had to download and install some small program to allow her to do this, she'd find the item somewhere else or drive down to the wal-mart instead.
What would the advantage be in changing to another language? Assuming the team develops coding standards and creates clean, documented code that can run under mod_perl, why would PHP or java be better?
;)
The team is obviously already familiar with perl, and some code could be reused after a bit of cleaning. Perl is perfect for applications that require a lot of string manipulation and as a front end for a database. This is what most web programming involves.
The only drawback that I can see in using perl is if your team is messy. Perl will allow you to be messy, but it doesn't have to be. Perl can look just as clean as any other language. I go back to apps I wrote 3 years ago in perl and can follow every bit of it. It's all commented and has plenty of white space to make it easy on the eyes.
I've written several large perl applications for the web and yes, I do know other languages, but perl is better suited for this type of work. It's fairly quick to put together and performs well. Now I wouldn't try to write an OS or first person shoot'em up game in perl, but for this it's just as viable of a choice as anything else.
I'm also not saying that PHP or java would be bad if you have a good grasp on it and are starting a new project. Remember, TMTOWTDI is good!
Just don't use ASP!
What does Chag Sameach on Simchas Torah mean?
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Sure, installing is the easy part for them. So what do you tell mom and/or grandma when they call you on the phone wanting to know why they can't access a certain website? Or their eyes are too bad to make out the horrible fonts? Or they can't install this great new program they found in the bargain bin at wal-mart or downloaded from shareware.com? Or they can't open a document sent to them by your sister? Or the cheapo ink jet printer they bought won't work?
It's a big hassle. My older brother asked me if he should try Linux. I told him no. He uses his machine for surfing, trying new programs that he finds, and watching porn videos from newsgroups (which he would have a time getting all the codes for, even if they where all available).
He came back at me with, "So why do you run it then?" Why? hmmmm....
You are correct about the use of images in schools, at least at the ones I was at. I worked as a consultant for 13 small to medium sized school districts for 4 years, so I have some insight into this.
;) for the schools required us to allocate for the purchase of OS and application programs or the proposal would be rejected. I'm sure we could appeal if this where the case, but schools don't like to risk it. Every t must be crossed, every i dotted, and the staple has to be in exact right spot.
School district admins wouldn't even listen to a suggestion of putting Linux on desktops. The rational? Well, I've listed a few:
1) "The kids need to learn on the types of computers that they will be using in a typical office. They need to know how to use Word and Excel."
- I know they could develop the same skills by using an alternative, but the name recognition thing is really important. Parents would be up in arms at the next school board meeting if they heard their kids weren't going to learn about spreadsheets using Excel.
2) "We can't run Accelerated Reader and the other programs that are essential to teaching on Linux."
- This is a huge argument. AR is used a lot in most schools. It helps teachers not actually have to teach anything. If you're not familiar with it, it's a pretty simple program that tests a students understanding of a book after they have read it. There was some chance of using the old DOS version on Linux, but we haven't been able to run the Windows version under wine. The program would be trivial to duplicate, but the real value is in all of the thousands of tests that are available for it.
3) "Windows doesn't cost that much money for us, and most of our grants specify a certain portion of the funds for software purchase."
- This is true. I know we where spending like $21 for a Windows 98 license, $45 for NT. And, the federal grants that we where writing (and helped spend the money from
4) "We don't need to worry about maintaining desktops. Each teacher has a boot disk for all of the machines in their room that will automatically reimage the system if there is some sort of problem. Network apps and updates are provided via NAL or something similiar based on the user logged in, so we don't even have to touch a system to allow access to new programs."
- The same system could be used by Linux, but because the same thing could be said about Windows it doesn't help the argument in their minds.
Now I want to be clear that every one of the school systems that I worked in had at least one, usually quite a few, Linux boxes performing functions behind the scenes. After talking to some of the IT directors recently I found that these boxes where all just running perfectly. And they loved that, they just run.
So you're saying that the only expense they have in delivering this service is the bandwidth? What about all the employees and servers required to pull this off?
They need to have a revenue stream or they will go under. I kind of agree that $9.95 @ month is a bit steep. But after careful reflection I find that the reason I feel that way is because I'm used to getting everything for free. I'm spoiled.
Even in the Windows world a whole lot of people don't ever pay for anything on their machines. It's even harder for these people to make the jump. The thought process would be like "I never had to pay anything when I was using Windows, why would I pay for the privilage of using a $free$ operating system?"
Simple, full immersion video. Sure, it's still video, but almost a totally different animal that will surely take a huge amount of space.
Someone will always come up with a way to use resources. The drive manufacturers know that.
I had a 10Meg hard drive on my C=64 BBS. It interfaced through the cartridge slot. The one I got was called a Lt. Kernel (or was it Colonel?) I'm not even sure of the name anymore (I must be getting old).
I do remember that it cost $995, but we had the hottest C-Net BBS around!
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He also warned of an upcoming attack on Indian Parliament and it went off just like he said it would. Lucky guess? Maybe. I'm not totally sure that someone doesn't attack Indian Parliament every other week.
It does lend some grain of credibility to his claim.
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Or better yet, just have the plant find the backdoors that where already in place for use by the FBI/CIA/insert your favorite org here.
You know there's got to be some in there. That would be some powerful information.
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