Indiana University may be ranked #1, it must be said that Purdue (#2) has secured their wireless. Last I checked IU uses WEP. Purdue uses a VPN-secured connection where all of the wireless traffic is encrypted using 168-bit 3DES, as compared to the 128-bit or even 40-bit encryption offered by WEP.
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No deaths have ever been reported as direct effect of smoking too much dope. I imagine this is because it's physically impossible to continually smoke enough in succession to reach a lethal level. At some point in your quest you'll either stop caring (too lazy) or just pass out. As with coffee, at some point you will get too sick to continue ingesting enough caffeine to reach a lethal level.
Actually there is a company already providing high quality live concerts. They pull up in a semi truck and patch in to the soundboard. They then burn discs of the show and even put a nice little label on it. If I remember, it's the price of a normal CD and you prepay at the beginning of the show.
I just wanted to chime in and say that Medicare is the worst. My father is an Anesthesiologist and estimates 30+% of his medicare cases he works for free. Yes, that's right, only 7 in 10 cases does he actually see any money from because of the high rate of denied claims. I don't think anyone here would be happy getting paid only 28 hours for working 40. So with his 70% he then pays 10% to his billing company and another 20% to malpractice insurance, 40% income tax, well you get the idea. My point is, don't assume all doctors make boat loads of cash. The medical industry needs serious help, but who has the answer? We're quickly getting to the point where premiums are outrageous and only the rich will have insurance.
Agreed. Fight technology with technology. So far the best solution I've tried is Greylisting. Since implementation SPAM is almost non-existant for us. It works by initially delaying (temp fail) incoming e-mail. When the sending mail server retries after X amount of time they will be automatically whitelisted for future mail so as not to be delayed. This is effective because 99.9% of spammers don't use mail server software that retries failed sends. It's too costly for spammers to retry sending failed delivery attempts. It seems to me most SPAM is a "hit and run" campaign.
I doubt the gangs ask for cash to be left in a briefcase in the park. I assume they use PayPal, Wire Transfer, Money Order to a PO, etc.. Anytime electronic money moves it can be traced to the receiver. Just report them to their local police.
Period ending June '03, Micrsoft spent 1.336 Billion in R&D. Five million isn't even half of one percent of research spending. Serious security? Doubtful.
This is what I'm talking about, supply and demand. We (I'm a programmer) are a dime a dozen now. There is such a large supply of qualified programmers our salaries have dropped. Companies are even outsourcing to India where labor is even cheaper. The number of qualified CEOs is significantly less, which is why they demand such salaries.
What staggered me about the list was that CEO's as a body weren't included. Yes, the CEO's of underperforming companies are horribly overpaid, but you can't tell me that Michael Eisner actually did work equal in value to $700 *million*. Honestly, I rather doubt that its possible for anyone to do work worth 700 million
While I agree on principle; how much work is $700 million? The pay rate for CEO's are derived from simple supply and demand. Strategic planning and vision may not equal $700 million in labor, but you're paying for their expertise and experience. Not just any joe off the street can walk in to a Fortune 100 company and become CEO. Most of these overpaid CEOs have been CEO's, Presidents and VP's of other Fortune 500 companies. When they walk on making over $50 million / year they are doing so bringing much experience and wisdom with them.
I never thought computers were all that loud in the first place. I think my refrigerator makes more noise. More importantly, I found that I have a harder time falling asleep at night if my computer isn't on. Strange..
but be prepared...photograph is an expensive hobby!
I've always believed an activity can't be considered a hobby unless one is able to blow their entire life savings doing it. Heck, even stamp collecting, I know there are stamps out their that are worth more than my car.
Our company is deploying three new Airborne shipping stations this week. Airborne / DHL is way behind when compared to the other carriers (FedEx and UPS). Their software, Libra is still a monochrome DOS based application. They have it running as a DOS window on Win2k so they can have ODBC connectivity.
SunnComm probably realized this isn't just some kid trying to burn CDs but rather a research student at a large and well respected institution. Not only would the lawsuit get lots of bad press for SunnComm but the University might choose to aid his defense.
Boilermaker football fans at Purdue University's Ross-Ade Stadium are able to score up-to-the-minute statistics, player and coach biographies and other electronic "infotainment" using PDAs. Purdue received $1.2 million from Cisco to roll out the new wireless infrastructure at the stadium. I haven't tried it myself (not that much of a geek), but definately cool idea.
Our school offers VPN access and I'm sure most other Universities do also for off campus students. Simply keep your RESNET box connected to the VPN and voila.
It's apparent that Google employs by far the best programmers in the world. Google has published numerous white papers details their infrastructure and technology. By the time a competitor has time to implement, Google would already be far ahead with new innovations.
I don't understand why people still continue to build large clusters with footprint style cases. We have a linux cluster here at Purdue built from standard off the shelf cases / components. It takes up so much space, it frequently gets mocked. Especially now, we've since built smaller clusters using Dell 1U rackmount servers that take up 1/10 the space with ten times more computing power. Bigger is not always better.
I've always thought it funny how all these search pages consider Gambling and Insurance the "most" popular search categories. I don't think I've ever searched for gambling sites in my life and neither have most Internet users. They should rename it "Least Popular categories, but sites who pay us advertising dollars".
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Indiana University may be ranked #1, it must be said that Purdue (#2) has secured their wireless. Last I checked IU uses WEP. Purdue uses a VPN-secured connection where all of the wireless traffic is encrypted using 168-bit 3DES, as compared to the 128-bit or even 40-bit encryption offered by WEP.
No deaths have ever been reported as direct effect of smoking too much dope. I imagine this is because it's physically impossible to continually smoke enough in succession to reach a lethal level. At some point in your quest you'll either stop caring (too lazy) or just pass out. As with coffee, at some point you will get too sick to continue ingesting enough caffeine to reach a lethal level.
Remember, people don't usually hate their job, they hate their boss.
Actually there is a company already providing high quality live concerts. They pull up in a semi truck and patch in to the soundboard. They then burn discs of the show and even put a nice little label on it. If I remember, it's the price of a normal CD and you prepay at the beginning of the show.
They already do sell the information, at $0.25 a search! How it's legal, I have no idea.
I just wanted to chime in and say that Medicare is the worst. My father is an Anesthesiologist and estimates 30+% of his medicare cases he works for free. Yes, that's right, only 7 in 10 cases does he actually see any money from because of the high rate of denied claims. I don't think anyone here would be happy getting paid only 28 hours for working 40. So with his 70% he then pays 10% to his billing company and another 20% to malpractice insurance, 40% income tax, well you get the idea. My point is, don't assume all doctors make boat loads of cash. The medical industry needs serious help, but who has the answer? We're quickly getting to the point where premiums are outrageous and only the rich will have insurance.
Agreed. Fight technology with technology. So far the best solution I've tried is Greylisting. Since implementation SPAM is almost non-existant for us. It works by initially delaying (temp fail) incoming e-mail. When the sending mail server retries after X amount of time they will be automatically whitelisted for future mail so as not to be delayed. This is effective because 99.9% of spammers don't use mail server software that retries failed sends. It's too costly for spammers to retry sending failed delivery attempts. It seems to me most SPAM is a "hit and run" campaign.
I doubt the gangs ask for cash to be left in a briefcase in the park. I assume they use PayPal, Wire Transfer, Money Order to a PO, etc.. Anytime electronic money moves it can be traced to the receiver. Just report them to their local police.
We only need 9.5 million to buy it now. I'll collect for everyone. Hurry up, 1 million people send me $9.50 :)
Period ending June '03, Micrsoft spent 1.336 Billion in R&D. Five million isn't even half of one percent of research spending. Serious security? Doubtful.
This is what I'm talking about, supply and demand. We (I'm a programmer) are a dime a dozen now. There is such a large supply of qualified programmers our salaries have dropped. Companies are even outsourcing to India where labor is even cheaper. The number of qualified CEOs is significantly less, which is why they demand such salaries.
While I agree on principle; how much work is $700 million? The pay rate for CEO's are derived from simple supply and demand. Strategic planning and vision may not equal $700 million in labor, but you're paying for their expertise and experience. Not just any joe off the street can walk in to a Fortune 100 company and become CEO. Most of these overpaid CEOs have been CEO's, Presidents and VP's of other Fortune 500 companies. When they walk on making over $50 million / year they are doing so bringing much experience and wisdom with them.
Anyone else notice you can no longer download the quicktime viewer? When you go to apple.com/quicktime you're redirected to download iTunes.
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I've always believed an activity can't be considered a hobby unless one is able to blow their entire life savings doing it. Heck, even stamp collecting, I know there are stamps out their that are worth more than my car.
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Who said you have to provide accurate information to your registrar. Just use a fake name, address, and phone number.