Well, I personally don't use any Symantec products, consumer or otherwise, but I do on occasion support family & friends who do (and recommend that they move to different products).
I've been disenchanted with Symantec for over 10 years. I used to work in the software packaging industry and was involved with the manufacture of some of their products (I wrote serialization routines for the diskette duplicating equipment) prior to and shortly after being subsumed by Symantec (DMA PcAnyWhere, Certus Novi-which was incorporated into Norton AntiVirus). I didn't like their business practices then or now. Their activation nightmare, buggy software & shoddy customer service continues to confirm my opinion.
Symantec Products, regardless of what you think of them, generally work out of the box without much hassle - How old is your Symantec software?
I still like the centralized Symantec AV Console--it's quite clean - You mean you like Symantec adopting DLL hell even as Microsoft abandons it? Install Norton SystemWorks 2005 while NIS is installed & you'll find that the shared code isn't compatible between them-You lose all access to the NIS console! (and then it's a major pain to fully uninstall)
Or even better, fix the brain dead CPU architecture that allows overflows to cross code/data boundaries. errr I know, kinda late now, but it has irked me for many years that Intel never addressed this in HARDWARE. They kinda had it working with segmentation...
That will be an all or nothing proposition for the bank. Either they take them or they don't. It will not on be on an individual check level.
The point is moot anyway-I did some further digging through the Federal Reserve site & found out (buried in their regulations for implementing the law) that it can't be used with ACH, as it requires an original check to create a substitute one.
The Federal Reserve Board took comments from concerned parties in formulating the regulations (many of which were the same as my concerns about fraud and forgery) and specifically added regulations to address them. I don't know if they covered every possible huckster's scheme, but enough of them to (pardon the mixed metaphor) take enough wind out of my sail to get me off this hobby horse...
And considering that he was the expert in the case that established the abstraction, filtration and comparison that this court will use to determine copyright infringement, he testimony is a nuke to SCO's 'case'.
Hey, I think I still have a copy of the Lunar Lander program from Control Data came with their 6000 series & Cyber 70/170/early 180 series mainframes and displayed on the system console. (I have to say from experience that there was nothing else like turning a supercomputer into a gaming machine)
Now if the 30+ year old tape is still good & I had a 9 track 1600 bpi drive to load it with, I could run it on this simulator...Cyber Emulator
Not just felons do this... I have seen the disenfranchised do idiotic things like drink alcohol or even urinate in front of a police department in order to get '3 hots & a cot' when it is cold...
Years ago when Mother Jones magazine was first established and struggling, they asked the charter members if they wanted higher subscription rates or advertising-we voted advertising.
The result - a full page Ford Pinto advertisement across from an expose on the Pinto's penchant for bursting into flames in rear collisions. Truly Rich!
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Don't give the risk averse PC nazi's any ideas....after all, they know what's good for us far better than we do!
I've been disenchanted with Symantec for over 10 years. I used to work in the software packaging industry and was involved with the manufacture of some of their products (I wrote serialization routines for the diskette duplicating equipment) prior to and shortly after being subsumed by Symantec (DMA PcAnyWhere, Certus Novi-which was incorporated into Norton AntiVirus). I didn't like their business practices then or now. Their activation nightmare, buggy software & shoddy customer service continues to confirm my opinion.
Symantec Products, regardless of what you think of them, generally work out of the box without much hassle - How old is your Symantec software?
I still like the centralized Symantec AV Console--it's quite clean - You mean you like Symantec adopting DLL hell even as Microsoft abandons it? Install Norton SystemWorks 2005 while NIS is installed & you'll find that the shared code isn't compatible between them-You lose all access to the NIS console! (and then it's a major pain to fully uninstall)
Or even better, fix the brain dead CPU architecture that allows overflows to cross code/data boundaries. errr I know, kinda late now, but it has irked me for many years that Intel never addressed this in HARDWARE. They kinda had it working with segmentation...
The point is moot anyway-I did some further digging through the Federal Reserve site & found out (buried in their regulations for implementing the law) that it can't be used with ACH, as it requires an original check to create a substitute one.
The Federal Reserve Board took comments from concerned parties in formulating the regulations (many of which were the same as my concerns about fraud and forgery) and specifically added regulations to address them. I don't know if they covered every possible huckster's scheme, but enough of them to (pardon the mixed metaphor) take enough wind out of my sail to get me off this hobby horse...
If anyone else out there has any curiousity: Check 21 Regulations & Comments as PDF
I left out that you won't be able to use the original check for proving forgery or alteration, since it may (read probably) will no longer exist!
See: Check Clearing for the 21st Century Act
Information Week raised some of the issues: Quality vs. Deception in Managing IRDs
And considering that he was the expert in the case that established the abstraction, filtration and comparison that this court will use to determine copyright infringement, he testimony is a nuke to SCO's 'case'.
Does Dante know this?
As opposed to that mass slaughter espoused by Jehovah in the Old Testament when the Israelites settled in Canaan?
Now if the 30+ year old tape is still good & I had a 9 track 1600 bpi drive to load it with, I could run it on this simulator...Cyber Emulator
Not just felons do this... I have seen the disenfranchised do idiotic things like drink alcohol or even urinate in front of a police department in order to get '3 hots & a cot' when it is cold...
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I've seen how this can work.
Years ago when Mother Jones magazine was first established and struggling, they asked the charter members if they wanted higher subscription rates or advertising-we voted advertising.
The result - a full page Ford Pinto advertisement across from an expose on the Pinto's penchant for bursting into flames in rear collisions. Truly Rich!