It's realy quite easy. Call up SBC and tell them you're moving. Where you tell that you're moving is the key. You have to pick a place that does not have ANY SBC service. Rural areas work well (such as my tiny home town of 231 people). If SBC does not have coverage in that area they have to let you out of the contract. That's their policy and they adhere to it. I've moved twice now to areas that didn't (yet in some cases) have SBC coverage and was let out of my contract. I'm considering doing that right now even though I'm really not moving. They've raised my DSL and phone prices 3 months in a row. The only downside to "moving" like this is that you lose you telephone number. If you're like me that really doesn't matter. Only a handful of people call me and I can just as easily tell them all the new number. Moving forward I think I'm going to use Vonage.
It's an article summary, not a novel. There isn't enough space to detail all sides of the story, analyze them, and give a final (hopefully unbiased) synopsis. That's what the links are for.
But only one side (the legit side at SourceForge) is recommending you use a well-known and trusted competitor's list. That's saying something. There is no question about who we should trust.
Honestly, no. The laws governing financial institutions and the protection of their customers' financial data should prevent banks from supporting SSL 2.0 or less. I can't think of any bank websites that I've come across that require anything less than a browser with 128-bit SSL encryption. Now I must admit that my memory is a bit rusty on this topic but I believe most browsers started offering 128-bit encryption when they moved to SSL 3.0 (but not on 2.0 certs). IE5 comes to mind.
I've been in nearly this exact same boat (minus the legal charges). I was accused of causing around $14k worth of damages (labor for the outsourced IT company to come down and fix the problem) way back when I was a freshman in HS. It was not possible that neither I nor the other person they accused could have done the dead though because 1) I was home sick on the Saturday that the logs show the first of the damage and I was at the doctor 1+ hours away on Monday when the second round of damage occured, and 2) the other kid was on the basketball court playing in a JV tournament on that Saturday (that I missed because I was sick), and was at home having supper with his family when the second round of damage occured. When pressed with this information the principal even admitted that neither of us could have caused the damage. He needed a scapegoat though. The other kid's parents had the right approach. They told the principal in no uncertain terms to go to hell and that they were through with the matter. My mother was a district teacher though so that wouldn't fly. The principal made me do 120 hours of community service. It was easy to account for though since I filmed all the football games (which he counted) and had worked for the school pro bono for years.
However after all of that came to an end, I was still treated by the school staff as some sort of hacker. Many openly expressed their distrust of me around their computers. Whenever ANYTHING ever went wrong with the computer system I was the first person they blamed. Now I was also the one they always turned to for a fix to their problem. Still I had to put up with all that grief just because my parents elected to take the deal.
Moral of the story, if you're innocent then don't agree to any deal where blame can still be associated with you. If you're innocent then make damned certani everyone knows it.
Honestly I would bet that is has something to do with them heading off a union strike. By shutting down the automated process they create more unions jobs. This could appease the union and keep them happy for a few years. Granted the manual baggage handling system costs more but it probably costs them less than a strike would. Just an idea...
Perhaps my memory is failing me but wasn't it a year ago last month that the DHS recommended not using IE for security reasons? Perhaps we should remind the USPTO of this fact.
The only logical method of implementaion would start with basic port knocking and steadily progress from there. It's really quite simple. Good luck finding it after the fact without the source, a helluca lot of time and research, or sniffing Big Brother making such a connection to said device.
With that reasoning someone might call WuFTP "stable software" whereas I'd call it an outdated, unmaintained, abandoned piece of crap. I can see your point about a buggy project making lots of fixup releases. However that ignores all the other projects that are simply under active development. If I'm looking for a new tool to do a specific task I'm not necessarily looking for one that hasn't been updated since the days of Redhat 6 or for that matter Redhat 9. I greatly prefer something that's been updated in the last 1/2 year because that greatly increases the odds that someone on the development team is using a reasonably up to date box and thus probably fixed any compile-time bugs in the project's source that would be a problem on the newer release.
A high vitality is actually a mark of instability!
I'd definitely disagree here. A high vitality mark just means that the project is continually making progress. It doesn't mean that it's instable. It means that the developers are actively moving forward with the project. I do agree that this isn't exactly a useful benchmark. Look at Sendmail's vitality. Ha! I'd consider it to be the best MTA and it from Freshmeat's number is looks like an abandoned project.:-)
Here here. This is the first thing I noticed as well. I'm all for a rating system for open source projects (even if people use it for no other reason than to find projects that they hadn't found anywhere else). However how hypocritcal can we possibly be when we write reviews of open source software in a non-open source format? Good grief, people. What the hell were you thinking?
Frankly I prefer a review system based on raw numbers such as how FreshMeat.net handles ratings. How many downloads does a project get? How many click-throughs does the website get? How often does the project release new versions? How have individuals rated the project? Even SourceForge's rating system is a useful tool. I don't want people to give me a lengthy book review. Just give ma thumbs up or down in mass and I'll take it from there.
Horrible analogy. Cisco had months of advance notice. There didn't have to "bang something out in a hurry." They simply haven't gotten off their asses and fixed the problem. Microsoft is not the only lazy monopoly in town.
It's not to "see how Cisco responds." They've known about this gaping security hole for months and have yet to release a fix for it. Tell me something, if Microsoft were to do this same thing and a well-known security researcher were to blow the lid on their lack of effort, wouldn't everyone be in an uproar against Microsoft? Why is it that so many people think Cisco is in the right when they pulled the same stunt that Microsoft pulls on a monthly basis?
There is no way an investigator can relay the facts regarding a suspect to a prosecutor who then has to understand the technical drivel enough to explain it to a judge who then has to comprehend all the facts and make a legal decision in under 10 minutes. The process takes at a minimum hours. A speedy legal system is not as good as it sounds.
In this case the Dvorak story survives not because of the flimsy, circumstantial "proof" but rather because it evokes people's sense of outrage of the "Little Guy with new ideas" being unable fight the tide of convention.
That sounds a lot like the battle between vi and every useable text editor ever invented for every single platform in existence. Or maybe it's just me. There are literally hundreds if not thousands of better text editors out there and yet for some ungodly reason there are still diehards that insist that it's the best. Like leaded gasoline, vi needs to go the way of the dodo.
The best analogy is there's a TV on in the building and it's facing an window. The window of course has no blinds or curtains so passersby can see what's playing on TV. He stood in front of the open window, watched the TV and got caught. Legally he hasn't done anything wrong.
You may find this PDF useful. Actually the whole site is quite useful.
I've been in a similar situation before. I never really found many ISP-specific resources. There's discussion boards that pertain to ISPs but mainly I used that resources that broke it down by specific service or task. ie spam filtering, virus prevention, network redundancy, security, bonus user services, administration ease, etc. An ISP has to encompass all of that and more, much more so than any other IT shop. Plus you have to do it on a budget and you have to not piss off the paying customers, all while attracting more paying customers. It's a challenging environment. Best of luck.
Unless of course the blatently obvious applies. I would have to say that close to half of the Windows machines I see on a daily basis (including my own!) use a blank screen as their screensaver. Also don't forget that all Energy Star-compliant monitors will turn the display off after a certain period of time. I would much rather see a user get a blue screen than arbitrarily giving their computer the one-finger salute every time their screen saver kicks in or their monitor goes into energy saver mode. I can just imagine the helpdesk tickets and support calls now: "My computer locks up every day while I'm at lunch!" or "Every morning when I come in my computer has locked up."
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It's realy quite easy. Call up SBC and tell them you're moving. Where you tell that you're moving is the key. You have to pick a place that does not have ANY SBC service. Rural areas work well (such as my tiny home town of 231 people). If SBC does not have coverage in that area they have to let you out of the contract. That's their policy and they adhere to it. I've moved twice now to areas that didn't (yet in some cases) have SBC coverage and was let out of my contract. I'm considering doing that right now even though I'm really not moving. They've raised my DSL and phone prices 3 months in a row. The only downside to "moving" like this is that you lose you telephone number. If you're like me that really doesn't matter. Only a handful of people call me and I can just as easily tell them all the new number. Moving forward I think I'm going to use Vonage.
It's an article summary, not a novel. There isn't enough space to detail all sides of the story, analyze them, and give a final (hopefully unbiased) synopsis. That's what the links are for.
But only one side (the legit side at SourceForge) is recommending you use a well-known and trusted competitor's list. That's saying something. There is no question about who we should trust.
Because there is a hijack going on here. Why do you instantly assume that the author of the story has only heard one side?
That's very interesting. What the hell version of Java are they running anyways? Java was pretty damned infantile before SSLv3 came out.
Honestly, no. The laws governing financial institutions and the protection of their customers' financial data should prevent banks from supporting SSL 2.0 or less. I can't think of any bank websites that I've come across that require anything less than a browser with 128-bit SSL encryption. Now I must admit that my memory is a bit rusty on this topic but I believe most browsers started offering 128-bit encryption when they moved to SSL 3.0 (but not on 2.0 certs). IE5 comes to mind.
However after all of that came to an end, I was still treated by the school staff as some sort of hacker. Many openly expressed their distrust of me around their computers. Whenever ANYTHING ever went wrong with the computer system I was the first person they blamed. Now I was also the one they always turned to for a fix to their problem. Still I had to put up with all that grief just because my parents elected to take the deal.
Moral of the story, if you're innocent then don't agree to any deal where blame can still be associated with you. If you're innocent then make damned certani everyone knows it.
Honestly I would bet that is has something to do with them heading off a union strike. By shutting down the automated process they create more unions jobs. This could appease the union and keep them happy for a few years. Granted the manual baggage handling system costs more but it probably costs them less than a strike would. Just an idea...
Perhaps my memory is failing me but wasn't it a year ago last month that the DHS recommended not using IE for security reasons? Perhaps we should remind the USPTO of this fact.
The only logical method of implementaion would start with basic port knocking and steadily progress from there. It's really quite simple. Good luck finding it after the fact without the source, a helluca lot of time and research, or sniffing Big Brother making such a connection to said device.
With that reasoning someone might call WuFTP "stable software" whereas I'd call it an outdated, unmaintained, abandoned piece of crap. I can see your point about a buggy project making lots of fixup releases. However that ignores all the other projects that are simply under active development. If I'm looking for a new tool to do a specific task I'm not necessarily looking for one that hasn't been updated since the days of Redhat 6 or for that matter Redhat 9. I greatly prefer something that's been updated in the last 1/2 year because that greatly increases the odds that someone on the development team is using a reasonably up to date box and thus probably fixed any compile-time bugs in the project's source that would be a problem on the newer release.
I'd definitely disagree here. A high vitality mark just means that the project is continually making progress. It doesn't mean that it's instable. It means that the developers are actively moving forward with the project. I do agree that this isn't exactly a useful benchmark. Look at Sendmail's vitality. Ha! I'd consider it to be the best MTA and it from Freshmeat's number is looks like an abandoned project. :-)
I must plead Long Day....
Frankly I prefer a review system based on raw numbers such as how FreshMeat.net handles ratings. How many downloads does a project get? How many click-throughs does the website get? How often does the project release new versions? How have individuals rated the project? Even SourceForge's rating system is a useful tool. I don't want people to give me a lengthy book review. Just give ma thumbs up or down in mass and I'll take it from there.
Horrible analogy. Cisco had months of advance notice. There didn't have to "bang something out in a hurry." They simply haven't gotten off their asses and fixed the problem. Microsoft is not the only lazy monopoly in town.
It's not to "see how Cisco responds." They've known about this gaping security hole for months and have yet to release a fix for it. Tell me something, if Microsoft were to do this same thing and a well-known security researcher were to blow the lid on their lack of effort, wouldn't everyone be in an uproar against Microsoft? Why is it that so many people think Cisco is in the right when they pulled the same stunt that Microsoft pulls on a monthly basis?
There is no way an investigator can relay the facts regarding a suspect to a prosecutor who then has to understand the technical drivel enough to explain it to a judge who then has to comprehend all the facts and make a legal decision in under 10 minutes. The process takes at a minimum hours. A speedy legal system is not as good as it sounds.
That sounds a lot like the battle between vi and every useable text editor ever invented for every single platform in existence. Or maybe it's just me. There are literally hundreds if not thousands of better text editors out there and yet for some ungodly reason there are still diehards that insist that it's the best. Like leaded gasoline, vi needs to go the way of the dodo.
The best analogy is there's a TV on in the building and it's facing an window. The window of course has no blinds or curtains so passersby can see what's playing on TV. He stood in front of the open window, watched the TV and got caught. Legally he hasn't done anything wrong.
My employer is a Dell Partner and reseller and we have no complaints. That's our ONLY PC hardware partner.
I've been in a similar situation before. I never really found many ISP-specific resources. There's discussion boards that pertain to ISPs but mainly I used that resources that broke it down by specific service or task. ie spam filtering, virus prevention, network redundancy, security, bonus user services, administration ease, etc. An ISP has to encompass all of that and more, much more so than any other IT shop. Plus you have to do it on a budget and you have to not piss off the paying customers, all while attracting more paying customers. It's a challenging environment. Best of luck.
Mad Dog. Boones Farm. I've never had moonshine but I know it's still prevalent in the South.
Isn't there a kernel arguement that can be dropped in via grub, lilo, or silo to disable hyperthreading?
But the rest of us would love you (see nick above). No, not in that way! Sicko
Unless of course the blatently obvious applies. I would have to say that close to half of the Windows machines I see on a daily basis (including my own!) use a blank screen as their screensaver. Also don't forget that all Energy Star-compliant monitors will turn the display off after a certain period of time. I would much rather see a user get a blue screen than arbitrarily giving their computer the one-finger salute every time their screen saver kicks in or their monitor goes into energy saver mode. I can just imagine the helpdesk tickets and support calls now: "My computer locks up every day while I'm at lunch!" or "Every morning when I come in my computer has locked up."