Of course this leaves us stuck with Verisign being the single vendor and the single point of failure. No doubt they're going to price themselves accordingly once they get a commanding share of the token market. And, of course, they're sure to protect our records and not resell that data. Um, yeah.
Ideally, you could use any token that met the standard. Buy your own, or the company you need to use it will will sell you one (perhaps subsidized or free depending on their business model). It could easily be rolled in to the setup fee on your checking account, for example.
Smartcards aren't particularily expensive these days.
Sorry, but you might just be hosed. I work for a company that does biometrics, and a few people who work for us just don't have well-enough defined prints to make the sensors read reliably. Sometimes you can help that by pressing harder or lighter. Also, some readers can be adjusted for sensitivity. The problem with cranking the sensitivity up on a public reader is that can make it *less* reliable for people with normal prints.
Are the sensors chip-based or optical? If they're chip-based, I've found that having clean fingers helps, but if I *just* washed and dried my hands, it's harder to get a good read than if I wait a minute for some sweat/oil to form on the skin again.
I've got a Z-5500. Works pretty well, except that there's basically no way to do synchronization with my Mac. I can turn on Samba on the Z, and then connect to it over WiFi, or SSH/SCP to it, but there is no iCal/Adbk/etc sync.
I do QA for a living. I mostly work on designing and implementing tools for automated testing, and performance testing. I code, write test plans, work with management and dev to help decide project goals and requirements, provide input on hardware and software capital expenditures for the QA team, etc. Not all QA jobs involve following "button pushing" scripts that somebody else wrote.
If you are unhappy with the level of challenge at work, then I suggest you improve your skillset and look for work elsewhere.
Automation can save significant amounts of time and money if the project:
Has a large enough number of regressions to make the expense of automating less than the cost of all of the regressions.
Has APIs and/or UIs that are stable enough over the project (and hopefully across versions) to allow the automation to work without lots of maintenance.
Has management and development behind the automation effort so that time is properly allocated and dev understands the needs of QA.
Set up a linux/BSD box with a software RAID 5 array configured to hold as much as you'd like. Share that volume out with SMB/NFS. Run a MythTV.org box (combined or separate frontend/backend) to record/play the shows.
It would be great if more of the games had a "pay as you go" sort of system rather than a flat rate for unlimited play. I rarely have enough time to play to make it worth the $12-15/mo.
It doesn't matter if they're in a state with an anti-spam law or not. For WA residents, anyway, it only matters that the spam was delivered to an email address of a WA resident. As long as the perp lives in the US or a place where the US legal system can be brought to bear, they can be sued.
If the spammer is operating out of someplace that has strong anti-spam laws, then you may be able to work something out, especially if you can enlist the aid of a local lawyer or the local law enforcement folks. I don't think that has been done so far, but I'd love to be proved wrong.
Otheriwse, your're probably SOL.
One thing to remember is that just beacuse the spam is sent from an open relay in Glubknowswhere, the person/company behind that spam may very well live in the US. If you can subpoena your way through the layers of misdirection, you may still be able to serve them with papers.
If the spammer is stupid, they will put personal information (company phone/address, etc) in the email or in the domain registrations. You can also link things together by looking at informtion contained in places like SpamHaus and the various block lists. You can also call/email posing as a potential customer to get data. Company information can often be researched through state/county/city clerks offices (sometimes over the net).
I'm not sure how the process works exactly (any law-talking-folks want to jump in?), but I think once you have a lawsuit filed, you can use subpoenas to get info from ISPs, domain regsitrars, etc.
Here's a site that has some good info for WA specifically from somebody who has done this successfully. If this bill is signed, then some of the focus on small claims court will be unnecessary, but there's still good stuff here.
Many vendors (AT&T WS in the States, anyway) will sell you a phone for less then street value, but they lock the phone so that it will only work with a SIM card from them. This prevents one from buying a discount phone from them and reselling it or switching to another network.
Of course, most any phone can be unlocked over the net these days.
Ok, here's how a shaped charge really works...
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Ok, there's some misconceptions here about what a shaped charge warhead does and how it works. Basically there is a very precisely shaped cone of a ductile metal (copper is the usual choice). This is surrounded with explosives which have a high VOD (Velocity Of Detonation). The detonator is at the apex of the cone (away from the target). When fired, the blast wavefront propagates towards the open of the cone symmetrically. It moves so fast and with such a large amount of force, that the metal cone flows like a liquid (but does NOT melt), and is inverted into a long thin jet. This jet is moving on the order of 30,000 - 50,000 ft./sec. This velocity is what give the jet its penetrating power. It is not melted or turned into a plasma, and it does not burn through the target, it simply pushes aside or shatters the target material out of the way. Do a search on the "Munroe Effect". The standoff from the target allows the jet to enlongate and penetrate deeper (thus the long nose on the TOW II).
Shaped charges have been cut into slices and fired into water. Pieces of the jet were recovered with the cuts intact...thus no melting.
Ugh! Belkins suck! The front panel ergonomics are horrible on the OmniView 2 port I have at work! Let's see here...let's make the button you use the least (power button) the biggest. Then let's take the switches you use to flip between machines small, flush with the faceplate, and tucked down to the bottom of the case. Good idea! On top of that, it works horribly with the MS scroll mice. The units by Cybex are better and cheaper than the Belkin stuff. The Black Box stuff apparently rules, but it is serious $$$.
Anybody know what HTTP server the QT4 installer stub tries to get get content from? I need the IP number because my upstream provider's DNS is hosed and I can't resolve any Apple domain names.
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Of course this leaves us stuck with Verisign being the single vendor and the single point of failure. No doubt they're going to price themselves accordingly once they get a commanding share of the token market. And, of course, they're sure to protect our records and not resell that data. Um, yeah.
Ideally, you could use any token that met the standard. Buy your own, or the company you need to use it will will sell you one (perhaps subsidized or free depending on their business model). It could easily be rolled in to the setup fee on your checking account, for example.
Smartcards aren't particularily expensive these days.
Sorry, but you might just be hosed. I work for a company that does biometrics, and a few people who work for us just don't have well-enough defined prints to make the sensors read reliably. Sometimes you can help that by pressing harder or lighter. Also, some readers can be adjusted for sensitivity. The problem with cranking the sensitivity up on a public reader is that can make it *less* reliable for people with normal prints.
Are the sensors chip-based or optical? If they're chip-based, I've found that having clean fingers helps, but if I *just* washed and dried my hands, it's harder to get a good read than if I wait a minute for some sweat/oil to form on the skin again.
http://www.m0n0.ch/wall/
I've got a Z-5500. Works pretty well, except that there's basically no way to do synchronization with my Mac. I can turn on Samba on the Z, and then connect to it over WiFi, or SSH/SCP to it, but there is no iCal/Adbk/etc sync.
Already doing/done all of that. Finding candidates who need work is no problem at all. Finding ones that actually:
...is proving to be very hard.
1) Have the skillset and depth of knowledge needed.
2) Fit in with the team.
Using headhunters is producing some better candidates, but still not what one would expect.
If the market is so bad, why can't we find any programmers to hire who can pass a dead-simple programming test?
One would think that the lack of a pump and fan would improve the effeciency, as well.
I'm also a satisfied Johncompanies customer.
Excellent! That mind reading drug I bought from that spammer is working! :-)
Actually I've been over and over that topic with management at my various jobs.
I do QA for a living. I mostly work on designing and implementing tools for automated testing, and performance testing. I code, write test plans, work with management and dev to help decide project goals and requirements, provide input on hardware and software capital expenditures for the QA team, etc. Not all QA jobs involve following "button pushing" scripts that somebody else wrote.
If you are unhappy with the level of challenge at work, then I suggest you improve your skillset and look for work elsewhere.
Set up a linux/BSD box with a software RAID 5 array configured to hold as much as you'd like. Share that volume out with SMB/NFS. Run a MythTV.org box (combined or separate frontend/backend) to record/play the shows.
It would be great if more of the games had a "pay as you go" sort of system rather than a flat rate for unlimited play. I rarely have enough time to play to make it worth the $12-15/mo.
It doesn't matter if they're in a state with an anti-spam law or not. For WA residents, anyway, it only matters that the spam was delivered to an email address of a WA resident. As long as the perp lives in the US or a place where the US legal system can be brought to bear, they can be sued.
If the spammer is operating out of someplace that has strong anti-spam laws, then you may be able to work something out, especially if you can enlist the aid of a local lawyer or the local law enforcement folks. I don't think that has been done so far, but I'd love to be proved wrong.
Otheriwse, your're probably SOL.
One thing to remember is that just beacuse the spam is sent from an open relay in Glubknowswhere, the person/company behind that spam may very well live in the US. If you can subpoena your way through the layers of misdirection, you may still be able to serve them with papers.
I haven't sued any spammers...yet.
If the spammer is stupid, they will put personal information (company phone/address, etc) in the email or in the domain registrations. You can also link things together by looking at informtion contained in places like SpamHaus and the various block lists. You can also call/email posing as a potential customer to get data. Company information can often be researched through state/county/city clerks offices (sometimes over the net).
I'm not sure how the process works exactly (any law-talking-folks want to jump in?), but I think once you have a lawsuit filed, you can use subpoenas to get info from ISPs, domain regsitrars, etc.
Here's a site that has some good info for WA specifically from somebody who has done this successfully. If this bill is signed, then some of the focus on small claims court will be unnecessary, but there's still good stuff here.
Zen and the Art of Small Claims
Many vendors (AT&T WS in the States, anyway) will sell you a phone for less then street value, but they lock the phone so that it will only work with a SIM card from them. This prevents one from buying a discount phone from them and reselling it or switching to another network.
Of course, most any phone can be unlocked over the net these days.
Ok, there's some misconceptions here about what a shaped charge warhead does and how it works. Basically there is a very precisely shaped cone of a ductile metal (copper is the usual choice). This is surrounded with explosives which have a high VOD (Velocity Of Detonation). The detonator is at the apex of the cone (away from the target). When fired, the blast wavefront propagates towards the open of the cone symmetrically. It moves so fast and with such a large amount of force, that the metal cone flows like a liquid (but does NOT melt), and is inverted into a long thin jet. This jet is moving on the order of 30,000 - 50,000 ft./sec. This velocity is what give the jet its penetrating power. It is not melted or turned into a plasma, and it does not burn through the target, it simply pushes aside or shatters the target material out of the way. Do a search on the "Munroe Effect". The standoff from the target allows the jet to enlongate and penetrate deeper (thus the long nose on the TOW II).
Shaped charges have been cut into slices and fired into water. Pieces of the jet were recovered with the cuts intact...thus no melting.
Ugh! Belkins suck! The front panel ergonomics are horrible on the OmniView 2 port I have at work! Let's see here...let's make the button you use the least (power button) the biggest. Then let's take the switches you use to flip between machines small, flush with the faceplate, and tucked down to the bottom of the case. Good idea! On top of that, it works horribly with the MS scroll mice. The units by Cybex are better and cheaper than the Belkin stuff. The Black Box stuff apparently rules, but it is serious $$$.
Anybody know what HTTP server the QT4 installer stub tries to get get content from? I need the
IP number because my upstream provider's DNS is hosed and I can't resolve any Apple domain names.