Or, more likely, your car had previously been sold thru a "Buy Here, Pay Here" type predatory dealership. They frequently use remote-shutdown devices to remotely disable vehicles of people who don't make their monthly payments. Another option is it was a poorly installed alarm. From all accounts, the GPS trackers that are being seen have plenty of on-board battery to not need any connection to the vehicle wiring. Post more details (like pics of the circuits) and I bet someone can tell you exactly what the device actually does...
Anytime you convert AC DC there's some loss due to inefficiency. They can create DC centrally more efficiently than doing it in each and every server chassis (like your home computer does, in the power supply). This efficiency has a two-fold effect as well, since that lossy conversion results in heat as a byproduct, so the more efficient you are with getting power from generation to work, the less you spend on cooling it too.
The OP already has the online storage covered. This is regarding using HDD's for offline (not spinning) storage. Even if they're not being accessed and are physically separate from the primary storage, you still are subject to wear (spinning platters) and things like power surges.
Putting the dries back into their orignal enclosures, or perhaps an "OEM Pack" piece of foam (with anti-static bags) may be the best option. Better, consider putting the whole mess into a media-rated fire-safe.
Well, if you're going to pull a big Cat6 (or whatever) run and then crip ends on it, it doesn't matter if you're building or buying - it's not the right way to be installing the cable.
For a long run like that you should be terminating both ends into a patch panel of some sort. Mount the cable and panel securely - the solid core cable that you're probably buying isn't designed to "hang loose". I'd strongly suggest you run 2 or 4 cables at the same time. Cable is relatively cheap, labor isn't, even yours. This way when you change vendors, get another circuit, etc you'll already have teh run done. It also gives you an easy way to check if it's a cable issue or now when something stops working.
Run the cables, patch panel on each end, then factor-made stranded-core patch cables from teh panels to the endpoints.
Why would it be illegal? Disclosure, yes. But these were VZW employees who were given the ability to look at records as part of their job. VZW's policy though is that they only look at records that they have a reason to - for customer service, billing, etc.
Unless they turned these over to an outside party (media, government, etc) then there's probably nothing illegal happening. Completely different from the wiretaps.
It's amazing though that the employees are still dumb enough to not realize that their actions, even if they don't change anything, can be tracked.
+1 on this. Let someone else deal with it. They have a whole lot of aggregate data to use to create their filtering, and it's what they do. Also, by having someone else do the filtering you don't end up paying for bandwidth and storage for the spam.
Since messagelabs doesn't require that you relay your outbound thru them, it's entirely possible that they could, in fact, do nothing about the spam you were receiving. In SMTP, your inbound and outbound do not have to be the same path.
...and of course GeoTrust is now owned by Verisign.
We used them as well. Price was the main thing - we did a "bulk" type plan since we were trying to get a hold on all of our rogue cert purchasers. We also got a decent portal out of them to expedite certs for any pre-vetted domain.
Because the requests will still come. And even without a response, the request will consume bandwidth that someone is paying for, and consuming an IP address that someone would like to re-use.
OBD Only tells you emissions related stuff - generally engine codes. That's only one of serveral systems that talks on the car's network. Others deal with things like Chassis issues (HVAC and the like) and major systems like ABS that aren't mandated to be released to the public like the emissions stuff that OBD (I, II) cover. This is what the mechanics need access too to fix many problems.
Think "$EMPLOYER says you're fired if you don't vote for $CANDIDATE and bring him the paper to prove it" or "hey, I'll give you $50 for every voting receipt proving a vote for $CANDIDATE"
Maybe because DirecTivo doesn't have to encode to MPEG? That's not a cheap thing to do so being able to just grab the already encoded stream and save to disk makes having two tuners possible. OTOH, a two-tuner standalone Tivo would need two MPEG encoders which means cost for the hardware and licensing (MP4 isn't free IIRC...)
``I'm not familiar with any type of ligation that is any more costly than patent litigation,'' says R. Duff Thompson, vice president and general counsel of the WordPerfect Corporation. But Thompson's greatest fear is that software patents will wipe out young, independent programmers, who until now have been the software industry's source of inspiration. Imagine what happens, says Thompson, when ``some 23-year-old kid who has a terrific idea in a piece of software is hammered by a demand letter from someone holding a patent.''
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Yup - and this is what cost Nationsbank (Bank of America) a lawsuit a couple of years ago - they were applying all debits first instead of doign everything in chronological order.
...actually when there's a non-break fault they frequently have to cut the cable to get it to the surface -- there's not enough slack when it's 2 miles below the surface. They cut and then splice new cable to give them enough slack.
I seem to recall that Livejournal uses some sort of dupe-detection on it's feed creation code - basically looks at the links to see if they match. This would at least catch some of them.
The Credit Card Co's don't "eat" shit - they gladly deduct from the merchant what they credit back to the consumer. It's ultimately the merchant that's out the $$ and/or product from an "unauthorized" transaction.
Because blocking incoming connections will not stop the problem. The spammers are using custom written relays to do this - there's nothing stopping them from writing the app so that it actually "phones homes" to get it's workload for the day and then sends the spam.
Blocking incoming connections is good for preventing unintentional use - like when most major MTA's came pre-configured to relay anything. That's not the case now so the use from a stanpoint of preventing intentional unauthorized use by internal users it's really not an effective measure.
A more effective method would be to prevent the workstations from actually sending any mail directly - instead forcing them thru a corporate/university managed relay that can do appropriate anti-spam measures, including throttling excessive senders. This is the tactic that man commercial ISP's are taking the the exact same reasons.
Not really. BIOS's are getting bigger, and floppies are not exactly the most reliable device - especially one that's not used very often. The *last* time that you want to take a read error due to a floppy-drive dust-bunny is while you're flashing a BIOS.
Dell seems to shop all their BIOS upgrades now as "run from windows" packages. I doubt that makng a bootable ISO image is out of their means if they want to do it "windowless" either. Then again, they're back to only selling PC's with an OS it seems so you should have a copy of windows around to install on a small partition to use for BIOS flashing.
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Or, more likely, your car had previously been sold thru a "Buy Here, Pay Here" type predatory dealership. They frequently use remote-shutdown devices to remotely disable vehicles of people who don't make their monthly payments. Another option is it was a poorly installed alarm. From all accounts, the GPS trackers that are being seen have plenty of on-board battery to not need any connection to the vehicle wiring. Post more details (like pics of the circuits) and I bet someone can tell you exactly what the device actually does...
Anytime you convert AC DC there's some loss due to inefficiency. They can create DC centrally more efficiently than doing it in each and every server chassis (like your home computer does, in the power supply). This efficiency has a two-fold effect as well, since that lossy conversion results in heat as a byproduct, so the more efficient you are with getting power from generation to work, the less you spend on cooling it too.
The OP already has the online storage covered. This is regarding using HDD's for offline (not spinning) storage. Even if they're not being accessed and are physically separate from the primary storage, you still are subject to wear (spinning platters) and things like power surges.
Putting the dries back into their orignal enclosures, or perhaps an "OEM Pack" piece of foam (with anti-static bags) may be the best option. Better, consider putting the whole mess into a media-rated fire-safe.
Well, if you're going to pull a big Cat6 (or whatever) run and then crip ends on it, it doesn't matter if you're building or buying - it's not the right way to be installing the cable.
For a long run like that you should be terminating both ends into a patch panel of some sort. Mount the cable and panel securely - the solid core cable that you're probably buying isn't designed to "hang loose". I'd strongly suggest you run 2 or 4 cables at the same time. Cable is relatively cheap, labor isn't, even yours. This way when you change vendors, get another circuit, etc you'll already have teh run done. It also gives you an easy way to check if it's a cable issue or now when something stops working.
Run the cables, patch panel on each end, then factor-made stranded-core patch cables from teh panels to the endpoints.
Why would it be illegal? Disclosure, yes. But these were VZW employees who were given the ability to look at records as part of their job. VZW's policy though is that they only look at records that they have a reason to - for customer service, billing, etc.
Unless they turned these over to an outside party (media, government, etc) then there's probably nothing illegal happening. Completely different from the wiretaps.
It's amazing though that the employees are still dumb enough to not realize that their actions, even if they don't change anything, can be tracked.
+1 on this. Let someone else deal with it. They have a whole lot of aggregate data to use to create their filtering, and it's what they do. Also, by having someone else do the filtering you don't end up paying for bandwidth and storage for the spam.
Since messagelabs doesn't require that you relay your outbound thru them, it's entirely possible that they could, in fact, do nothing about the spam you were receiving. In SMTP, your inbound and outbound do not have to be the same path.
...and of course GeoTrust is now owned by Verisign.
We used them as well. Price was the main thing - we did a "bulk" type plan since we were trying to get a hold on all of our rogue cert purchasers. We also got a decent portal out of them to expedite certs for any pre-vetted domain.
Because the requests will still come. And even without a response, the request will consume bandwidth that someone is paying for, and consuming an IP address that someone would like to re-use.
Do they use the DHCP Protocol on that network?
Can I take my car with the CVT Transmission to buy SSL Lighting?
The article is referring to Nitric Oxide - NO -- not Nitrous Oxide - N2O
...not to mention the whole Powerbook 5300 "Firestarter" fiasco...
http://www.fueleconomy.gov/
OBD Only tells you emissions related stuff - generally engine codes. That's only one of serveral systems that talks on the car's network. Others deal with things like Chassis issues (HVAC and the like) and major systems like ABS that aren't mandated to be released to the public like the emissions stuff that OBD (I, II) cover. This is what the mechanics need access too to fix many problems.
Two words: Touch. Screen.
Think "$EMPLOYER says you're fired if you don't vote for $CANDIDATE and bring him the paper to prove it" or "hey, I'll give you $50 for every voting receipt proving a vote for $CANDIDATE"
Maybe because DirecTivo doesn't have to encode to MPEG? That's not a cheap thing to do so being able to just grab the already encoded stream and save to disk makes having two tuners possible. OTOH, a two-tuner standalone Tivo would need two MPEG encoders which means cost for the hardware and licensing (MP4 isn't free IIRC...)
Wow - another neat google hit from that list:
``I'm not familiar with any type of ligation that is any more costly than patent litigation,'' says R. Duff Thompson, vice president and general counsel of the WordPerfect Corporation. But Thompson's greatest fear is that software patents will wipe out young, independent programmers, who until now have been the software industry's source of inspiration. Imagine what happens, says Thompson, when ``some 23-year-old kid who has a terrific idea in a piece of software is hammered by a demand letter from someone holding a patent.''
Yup - and this is what cost Nationsbank (Bank of America) a lawsuit a couple of years ago - they were applying all debits first instead of doign everything in chronological order.
...actually when there's a non-break fault they frequently have to cut the cable to get it to the surface -- there's not enough slack when it's 2 miles below the surface. They cut and then splice new cable to give them enough slack.
No, he doesn't. Apparently he left a couple of months ago for personal reasons.
I seem to recall that Livejournal uses some sort of dupe-detection on it's feed creation code - basically looks at the links to see if they match. This would at least catch some of them.
The Credit Card Co's don't "eat" shit - they gladly deduct from the merchant what they credit back to the consumer. It's ultimately the merchant that's out the $$ and/or product from an "unauthorized" transaction.
Because blocking incoming connections will not stop the problem. The spammers are using custom written relays to do this - there's nothing stopping them from writing the app so that it actually "phones homes" to get it's workload for the day and then sends the spam.
Blocking incoming connections is good for preventing unintentional use - like when most major MTA's came pre-configured to relay anything. That's not the case now so the use from a stanpoint of preventing intentional unauthorized use by internal users it's really not an effective measure.
A more effective method would be to prevent the workstations from actually sending any mail directly - instead forcing them thru a corporate/university managed relay that can do appropriate anti-spam measures, including throttling excessive senders. This is the tactic that man commercial ISP's are taking the the exact same reasons.
Not really. BIOS's are getting bigger, and floppies are not exactly the most reliable device - especially one that's not used very often. The *last* time that you want to take a read error due to a floppy-drive dust-bunny is while you're flashing a BIOS.
Dell seems to shop all their BIOS upgrades now as "run from windows" packages. I doubt that makng a bootable ISO image is out of their means if they want to do it "windowless" either. Then again, they're back to only selling PC's with an OS it seems so you should have a copy of windows around to install on a small partition to use for BIOS flashing.