You don't have to have a contract to liable - think about your sidewalk - someone walks down the street, trips on a flaw in your sidewalk, and breaks a leg - your liable
Although encryption is, in theory, breakable, the resources to do so don't exist
While the resources probably don't exist to directly attack PGP, this makes certain assumptions
That PGP has no leaks
That there have been no mathematical breakthroughs in factoring
Even if those are true, there are other attacks possible - Most people don't use a sufficient passphrase, so that becomes the easiest attack. After that, you have to worry about things like "Magic Lantern" and black bag jobs How paranoid do you want to get?
Yeah, I can fix my own car, but I don't. Back when I was younger (read less money, and more time) I used to fix my own cars. No I don't have the time. Cars were somewhat simpler then too - no computer. As someone else said, suspension, brakes, shockes etc are simple - struts are just about as simple IF you have the tools.
Now days I get my mechanical fix buy BUILDING steam engines - 1.5" to the foot scale. No these aren't electric models - they have REAL boilers, can bull 20-30 people around and coal.
To do this requires I have a rather nice shop - Metal Lathe, Vertical Mill, arc welders, torch set, etc. (Gotta get a surface grinder someday)
Picture you develop/work in two locations, home, and a client. The client may NOT allow you to have a VPN. They have supplied you with a desktop, plus a computer system. This allows you to bring YOUR box with you to have the environment YOU want - you use THEIR monitor and keyboard, and work!
Your not old fashioned, BUT you are one of a self selected group of people called computer admins/programers - aka "a computer geek"
It's a problems that we have. Remember that the AVERAGE programmer scores 2 std deviations ABOVE the norm for intelligence - we tend to be around a 150 - 160 on the IQ scale (average is 100)
We have no problems with this "stuff" because we ARE smarter than "they" are. What works for you and I doesn't work for the average user
Considered and rejected - It turns out that they have way too many spares of the current engine around and too much support stuff for it to be economical
1)Your thinking Broadcast
2)Multicast can be great, if you can get your LAN guys to get it on line, and keep it there
We have an application that has about 300 - 500 simultaneous users here at the office - Updates often have to go to ALL the users screens right away. Multicast is the only effective way to go. We have problems with segments going down - so we end up having to put up Multicast tunnels, but that leads to echo problems
And what do you do when the developer is also the DBA? As in designs the tables, and writes the stored procs - do you laigh him out of your office too?
Now the big question is WHY is the cost of living so high in the "Blue" areas? Could it be that you (we) are paying for those sophisticated items, and all the overhead that goes with them? I'd say yes
He wasn't trolling. I've spent upto 6 months trying to get a port opened, only to be refused. Work for a bung company owned by another big company that says "You will not open a port", and you have 12 levels of management to go through to even ASK
I said when the spun off Agilent "HP is dead" - HP was and intrumentation company FIRST, when they spun that divison off I said it was over. I wonder if Agilent can survive on it's own, and if they can, should they BUY the HP name and calculator division when HP liquidates?
Electronic for me was with a HP-41CV. I bought it the day before my Class C amp theory midterm when my Ti died. I had NO problem adapting, because I had used HPs before, and was actually writing in FORTH for fun at the time
Anyway, I get the calculator, and write programs to solve just about any class C amp problem - Gain, resonant freqs, reverse of above (given Freq and C, what is L) etc - everything you could thing of, and I enter them ALL into the calculator
Go to my test, and with 10 minutes was done with the midterm. 4 problems worth a total of 80%, and ten multiple choice questions worth 20%
I get to the next session of the class, and the Prof calls me over - "You got a 98 - How did you do it? I KNOW you didn't have the test, as I wrote it the day of the exam"
I showed him my calculator, and the programs. He asked one question "Did you write the programs yourself?" I told him I had. He siad "That's fair - it proves that you KNOW how the amps work if you can write the programs"
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In NYC, you have to fix the sidewalk too, and if you don't the city will, and send you the bill
That's interesting!
In the US, the sidewalk in front of your house is the responsability of the homeowner!
You most likely will be sued, and your insurance company will settle - no contract, but you'll be at least partly liable
You don't have to have a contract to liable - think about your sidewalk - someone walks down the street, trips on a flaw in your sidewalk, and breaks a leg - your liable
While the resources probably don't exist to directly attack PGP, this makes certain assumptions
Even if those are true, there are other attacks possible - Most people don't use a sufficient passphrase, so that becomes the easiest attack.
After that, you have to worry about things like "Magic Lantern" and black bag jobs
How paranoid do you want to get?
Yeah, I can fix my own car, but I don't. Back when I was younger (read less money, and more time) I used to fix my own cars. No I don't have the time. Cars were somewhat simpler then too - no computer. As someone else said, suspension, brakes, shockes etc are simple - struts are just about as simple IF you have the tools.
Now days I get my mechanical fix buy BUILDING steam engines - 1.5" to the foot scale. No these aren't electric models - they have REAL boilers, can bull 20-30 people around and coal.
To do this requires I have a rather nice shop - Metal Lathe, Vertical Mill, arc welders, torch set, etc. (Gotta get a surface grinder someday)
So, yeah, I can fix a car
but not at that price!
Picture you develop/work in two locations, home, and a client. The client may NOT allow you to have a VPN. They have supplied you with a desktop, plus a computer system. This allows you to bring YOUR box with you to have the environment YOU want - you use THEIR monitor and keyboard, and work!
Thing is, at that price, you can buy a laptop
I double checked - the average programmer is that high on SOME scales - but tends to be in the 130+ range on most scales - aka 98th percentile and up
Guy,
You calm down - I'm just quoting various studies. Believe it or not, we are smarter than the norm
Your not old fashioned, BUT you are one of a self selected group of people called computer admins/programers - aka "a computer geek"
It's a problems that we have. Remember that the AVERAGE programmer scores 2 std deviations ABOVE the norm for intelligence - we tend to be around a 150 - 160 on the IQ scale (average is 100)
We have no problems with this "stuff" because we ARE smarter than "they" are. What works for you and I doesn't work for the average user
Considered and rejected - It turns out that they have way too many spares of the current engine around and too much support stuff for it to be economical
Yep, Polar Bears north, Penguins south. I think the Polar bears might be the reason there are no penguins north
1)Your thinking Broadcast
2)Multicast can be great, if you can get your LAN guys to get it on line, and keep it there
We have an application that has about 300 - 500 simultaneous users here at the office - Updates often have to go to ALL the users screens right away. Multicast is the only effective way to go. We have problems with segments going down - so we end up having to put up Multicast tunnels, but that leads to echo problems
Sigh
I assume you mean EMT, and NOT rigid steel, because you mentioned the bender (aka a Hickie)
Living in NYC, electrical is fun - 110v stuff ALL has to be metal armored - be it EMT, rigid, or BX cable - no romex here
Yep, we give them a login, aliased to SA, and SA has a password, but they do have "an" SA password
And what do you do when the developer is also the DBA? As in designs the tables, and writes the stored procs - do you laigh him out of your office too?
The Windows editor "Textpad" uses the "Transparent Dialog Boxes" options just like this - very cool
BTW I think that TextPad is the BEST windows editor out there, bar none - now we won't talk about editors under *inx, don't want to start a flame war
Now the big question is WHY is the cost of living so high in the "Blue" areas? Could it be that you (we) are paying for those sophisticated items, and all the overhead that goes with them? I'd say yes
I wish I was building a house so I could put one in. The only problem is retrofits - that's expensive because the walls aren't already open
He wasn't trolling. I've spent upto 6 months trying to get a port opened, only to be refused. Work for a bung company owned by another big company that says "You will not open a port", and you have 12 levels of management to go through to even ASK
Yep,
My first system was an HP 1000, and I later spent a lot of time in front of an HP-1000e built into an HP Vibration test setup
I said when the spun off Agilent "HP is dead" - HP was and intrumentation company FIRST, when they spun that divison off I said it was over. I wonder if Agilent can survive on it's own, and if they can, should they BUY the HP name and calculator division when HP liquidates?
Yep, you have a cat (or did)
Electronic for me was with a HP-41CV. I bought it the day before my Class C amp theory midterm when my Ti died. I had NO problem adapting, because I had used HPs before, and was actually writing in FORTH for fun at the time
Anyway, I get the calculator, and write programs to solve just about any class C amp problem - Gain, resonant freqs, reverse of above (given Freq and C, what is L) etc - everything you could thing of, and I enter them ALL into the calculator
Go to my test, and with 10 minutes was done with the midterm. 4 problems worth a total of 80%, and ten multiple choice questions worth 20%
I get to the next session of the class, and the Prof calls me over - "You got a 98 - How did you do it? I KNOW you didn't have the test, as I wrote it the day of the exam"
I showed him my calculator, and the programs. He asked one question "Did you write the programs yourself?" I told him I had. He siad "That's fair - it proves that you KNOW how the amps work if you can write the programs"
And did you ever notice that Yoda talks in RPN?
He guys - It wasn't a troll - a bad attempt a humor, yes