Here's a few little goodies that the RIAA forgot to include with their pet study...
1. Nicholls State University is in Thibodaux, Louisana which isn't exactly a hotbed of business research 2. His study doesn't state where the funding to conduct the study was obtained from. 3. The data came from the Consume Expenditure Survey, which is notoriously inaccurate 4. RIAA has cut back on advertising and promotion for music across the board 5. Their sales were actually better while Napster was in operation, without any additional expenditure on their part.
Take it from someone who was there. Actually, there was a particular box of cereal that offered the perfect whistle as the "prize"...
It wasn't ever necessary to purse your lips and whistle as such. Some people used boxes to gen the tone, but when you start whipping out a device and attaching it to a payphone, passers-by tend to look at you oddly. We went lo-tech to avoid notice. Several of us were also musicians and it's not that hard to create a whistle that will produce a specific tone.
The biggest problem is farming everything in the world out to $8/hr guys in some foreign country. If you pay $8/hr, you're going to get an $8/hr guy. Keep in mind that Wal-Mart starts at $9/hr. Given these two statements, I fail to see why it's surprising that such simply fixed vulnerabilities continue to plague software.
The only way that they could get that whole movie to work hinged on the security access for a fired and arrested employee not being deactivated. I don't know about where you work, but when we have someone hauled off in handcuffs, the FIRST thing we do is set about disabling all their accounts and access.
I think that I will *not* be taking pictures of my coworkers with this. I don't want to see anyone I know in that kind of detail. My most of my co-workers look like this anyway. Why would I want a closer-in shot to see the pores, etc.
I had one client who had a bunch of customer records compromised when they sent out some data to a development firm for "testing purposes". There are several products out there that will take actual records, scramble them and spit out a "test" database. I'd highly recommend doing that, no matter what other methodology you use.
What [Google, Vonage, and others] would like to do is to use my pipes free. But I ain't going to let them do that."
I can tell you that Google, Vonage and everyone else who has a web presence out there already pays a bill. They're already paying to make sure that their packets get where they're going. How is it the consumers fault that AT&T can't work out a profitable peering agreement with Google's bandwith provider? I can tell you why they can't! Too many AT&T customers sending email, visiting site, etc. that aren't on AT&T's network. Since they can't keep their customers on their own network, they have agreements that let them swap traffic "for free". For example, AT&T swaps with C&W so that everyone stays connected, all the email gets through, and we can all surf where we want. What they really want to do away with is the peering agreements. They're all trying to move to an AOL-ish model where you keep your customers on your 'net and just call it "the internet", even though it's really only sites that are either hosted or cached on their network. Man, this makes the Chinese goverment look like a bunch of role models instead of the censors that they really are.
Well, I don't want anyone telling me "You've got mail!" I want a real internet connection.
I pay my bill to Verizon for a screaming fast 7MB/sec FIOSS connection. If I want to host, which is against my AUP, but I never put up anything that sucks up too much bandwidth, so they've never complained. Still, it is bandwidth that I purchase from my provider. I want to go where I want and do what I want on 'net without some damn pop up saying "Google is over it's service limit with Verizon and so your access to this site is temporarily blocked." If Verizon tries it, I'll be going back to my own T1 with an indie carrier. If the indie carrier tries it, so help me, I'll start my own wireless 'net replacement, invite everyone to join me, and make rude hand gestures at the big boys like AT&T, C&W, etc.
If you don't like this legislation, write your congressman or your sentor and tell them to get their 90 year old heads out of the sand before it's too late.
You folks need to come to Texas to see how to really run an election. First off, you buy all the votes you can. Then you do a bunch of registration drives, where all kinds of people, including dead ones, get registered. Then you have your lackeys at the polling places. If they see too many ballots coming in that are not voting "the straight party ticket", those boxes get removed, carried away, and the ballots are sorted. Anyone who voted in a way you don't like gets their ballot replaced. Your lackeys also turn a blind eye when it's time for your folks to come through the second, third, or tenth time. Then after the election, you have your counters who convienently skip the other side's candidates votes. Google on Duval County and you'll get the idea. The real clincher folks - it's all Democrats.
Given my experience with the Democrat machine here in Texas, I'd say that they want to stay electronic because it's easier to manipulate. Look at the issues with the Diebold E-voting machines - 1 minute hacks, hardwired admin passwords, etc.
Get a better ball. *giggle* Go to almost any physical therapy clinic and get your pilates ball there. It will cost you a bit more but they are much better made and more durable than the cheap thing from the grocery store, Target, etc. That it is, if you simply must have the Pilates ball.
My solution - it's really simple and best of all, it's free. It's called getting your fat a$$ up and going for a walk. Get a good chair or ball or what ever makes you happy. Be sure to set your desk up properly. Most companies have someone who can help with the proper ergonomic adjustments. Even with all that there are still times when you just feel cramped. When that happens, get up and go walk around the building. It won't take 10 minutes and you'll feel ever so much better. Then you can go back to work.
If you're going to do that, it really shouldn't be on line. While I agree that someone needs to be able to get to the "God" passwords in the event of a catastrophic event, our solution to that is very low tech. They are written out on a sheet of paper and placed in a slightly special safe. It takes two keys to open and only a few of us have keys. Some of us have the A key and some of us have the B key.
That way if any of us needs a password to which we do not normally have access, we still have to convince another person to help us open the safe. It provides a secure check & balance with very little inconvienence other than filing away a new sheet of paper once a month.
Being a female geek isn't easy and so I've tried the on-line dating thing. (Dramatic Eye Roll) - All you ever get are a bunch of posers and losers. Most of them are married, many with children and none of them are shy about giving out personal details like employment (bragging), salary (bragging), work phone #, cell phone #, email address, etc. What you won't get from most of them is a photo that's taken in the last 20 years or a home phone #.
Target is a private business. They are not required to offer service to anyone or to offer any service from which they do not expect to make money. They're going to have to go to no small expense to 1) defend this lawsuit and 2) revamp their web site. I reiterate my statement from above - "Which one of you - squeezed between high gas prices, high taxes, and a few years of pay cuts - wants to pay more for anything?" You don't seriously expect Target to just "suck it up". They're going to pass it on to everyone else that shops at Target. Once again, the majority is paying a premium so that the "minority" can have something for free.
After being tagged a troll on my last post for hoping that they had fixed the foam problem, NASA annouced today that two pieces of foam came off during the launch this time.
You know...I don't really care if anyone can or can't see my web site. It's MY blog. If you don't like how it looks, or it makes your screen reader barf...read someone else's blog.
If the Target.com web site doesn't suit you, shop elsewhere. Target isn't that great anyway. Encourge others not to shop at Target and write the company to tell them why you aren't shopping there. It's a lot more effective than a law suit.
(open sarcasm and flamebait) No, we have the people who used to be left behind as bear bait telling everyone else to march around to a specific set of rules or they'll sue. Do they pay for any of this? No...they expect the business to foot the bill and then pass the costs on to the rest of the customers. You know who that means, don't you? It means the other 99% of us. With a site the size of Target.com, that's a pretty signficiant chunck of change. Which one of you, squeezed between high taxes, high gas prices, and a few years of pay cuts, wants to pay more for anything because a relatively small group of people doesn't like the web site?
If you don't like the web site, go to the store. If you don't like the store, SHOP SOMEWHERE ELSE.
Why? So some freakin' lawyer can get his grubby mits on 1/3 or more of the settlement and some money grubbers can get their hands on the rest. (end sarcasm and flamebait)
1) $2000 degausser 2) $50 for a really nice sledge hammer from home depot (shock absorbing handle)
Since they were willing to spring for replacment drives rather than risk data disclosure, I'd opt for the sledge hammer. You can buy a lot of hard drives for $1950.00.
Yeah, I think Symantec showed us just how safe the software we buy is.
(open sarcasm) That Norton Security Suite didn't have any spyware or anything built into it. It didn't basically root kit everyone's machine that installed it. (end sarcasm)
I'm all in favor of the open source guys. I run ClamWin on several machines. I've found it to be reliable and quite effective. I keep hoping that they'll release an enterprise type console where I can force updates, force scans, and lock users out of their settings.
I'd really like to see something similar from the open source community for a firewall product. I don't trust the Collective to make good choices for me, so I'd be pretty open to turning off Windows Firewall in favor of an open source product. While I don't make a habit of perusing source code for such things, it's always nice to know that you can so that you can avoid another Symantec situation.
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Project Tools for group projects
Forums for classes
Something like http://www.experts-exchange.com/ for answers to questions
Just my 2 cents for things I'd like to see us implement.
QueenB
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QueenB.
I do think it's a legitimate argument since it ties in with #2 on the list. I'm guessing that you're a Nicholls State University alumn....
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Calling people names is never constructive and I really don't see a reason to curse at people on
Perhaps you should remove your head from your transverse colon....
Another 2 cents,
QueenB
What good will it do to have a trillion floating point calcuations per second if they're all still WRONG?
When will Intel fix their floating point issue?
2 cents,
QueenB
Here's a few little goodies that the RIAA forgot to include with their pet study...
1. Nicholls State University is in Thibodaux, Louisana which isn't exactly a hotbed of business research
2. His study doesn't state where the funding to conduct the study was obtained from.
3. The data came from the Consume Expenditure Survey, which is notoriously inaccurate
4. RIAA has cut back on advertising and promotion for music across the board
5. Their sales were actually better while Napster was in operation, without any additional expenditure on their part.
Just my 2 cents,
QueenB
No, but paying someone crappily will almost always ensure that you have crap for code.
2 more cents,
QueenB
Take it from someone who was there. Actually, there was a particular box of cereal that offered the perfect whistle as the "prize"...
It wasn't ever necessary to purse your lips and whistle as such. Some people used boxes to gen the tone, but when you start whipping out a device and attaching it to a payphone, passers-by tend to look at you oddly. We went lo-tech to avoid notice. Several of us were also musicians and it's not that hard to create a whistle that will produce a specific tone.
2 more cents,
QueenB
Even if it IS stupid user error, then BANKS can't get their act together?!?! This just makes me feel all warm and fuzzy about Diebold, etc.
Ah...but you should feel all warm and fuzzy about Diebold handling your votes come election time.
2 cents,
QueenB
I can recall when:
Modems hooked up the handset on your rotary phone...
We thought we were big time with a 9600 baud internal modem...
Whistling into pay phones for free calls was legal...
I can recall an internet before the BBS's came...
2 cents,
QueenB
The biggest problem is farming everything in the world out to $8/hr guys in some foreign country. If you pay $8/hr, you're going to get an $8/hr guy. Keep in mind that Wal-Mart starts at $9/hr. Given these two statements, I fail to see why it's surprising that such simply fixed vulnerabilities continue to plague software.
2 cents,
QueenB
The only way that they could get that whole movie to work hinged on the security access for a fired and arrested employee not being deactivated. I don't know about where you work, but when we have someone hauled off in handcuffs, the FIRST thing we do is set about disabling all their accounts and access.
2 cents,
QueenB
The Chinese goverment will be too busy censoring the code for the project to ever get off the ground.
2 cents,
QueenB
I think that I will *not* be taking pictures of my coworkers with this. I don't want to see anyone I know in that kind of detail. My most of my co-workers look like this anyway. Why would I want a closer-in shot to see the pores, etc.
2 cents,
QueenB
I had one client who had a bunch of customer records compromised when they sent out some data to a development firm for "testing purposes". There are several products out there that will take actual records, scramble them and spit out a "test" database. I'd highly recommend doing that, no matter what other methodology you use.
2 cents,
QueenB
Phhhtttt!!!
That's to all of you who made fun of us geeks!
*Rude Hand Gesture*
That's for every bully who ever shoved someone into a locker during PE.
Due to our superior ability to manipulate poorly secured cash dispensing devices, we shall now rule the world!
First the treasury...then the military. World domination cannot be far behind.
2 cents,
QueenB
What [Google, Vonage, and others] would like to do is to use my pipes free. But I ain't going to let them do that."
I can tell you that Google, Vonage and everyone else who has a web presence out there already pays a bill. They're already paying to make sure that their packets get where they're going. How is it the consumers fault that AT&T can't work out a profitable peering agreement with Google's bandwith provider? I can tell you why they can't! Too many AT&T customers sending email, visiting site, etc. that aren't on AT&T's network. Since they can't keep their customers on their own network, they have agreements that let them swap traffic "for free". For example, AT&T swaps with C&W so that everyone stays connected, all the email gets through, and we can all surf where we want. What they really want to do away with is the peering agreements. They're all trying to move to an AOL-ish model where you keep your customers on your 'net and just call it "the internet", even though it's really only sites that are either hosted or cached on their network. Man, this makes the Chinese goverment look like a bunch of role models instead of the censors that they really are.
Well, I don't want anyone telling me "You've got mail!" I want a real internet connection.
I pay my bill to Verizon for a screaming fast 7MB/sec FIOSS connection. If I want to host, which is against my AUP, but I never put up anything that sucks up too much bandwidth, so they've never complained. Still, it is bandwidth that I purchase from my provider. I want to go where I want and do what I want on 'net without some damn pop up saying "Google is over it's service limit with Verizon and so your access to this site is temporarily blocked." If Verizon tries it, I'll be going back to my own T1 with an indie carrier. If the indie carrier tries it, so help me, I'll start my own wireless 'net replacement, invite everyone to join me, and make rude hand gestures at the big boys like AT&T, C&W, etc.
If you don't like this legislation, write your congressman or your sentor and tell them to get their 90 year old heads out of the sand before it's too late.
2 cents,
QueenB
You folks need to come to Texas to see how to really run an election. First off, you buy all the votes you can. Then you do a bunch of registration drives, where all kinds of people, including dead ones, get registered. Then you have your lackeys at the polling places. If they see too many ballots coming in that are not voting "the straight party ticket", those boxes get removed, carried away, and the ballots are sorted. Anyone who voted in a way you don't like gets their ballot replaced. Your lackeys also turn a blind eye when it's time for your folks to come through the second, third, or tenth time. Then after the election, you have your counters who convienently skip the other side's candidates votes. Google on Duval County and you'll get the idea. The real clincher folks - it's all Democrats.
Given my experience with the Democrat machine here in Texas, I'd say that they want to stay electronic because it's easier to manipulate. Look at the issues with the Diebold E-voting machines - 1 minute hacks, hardwired admin passwords, etc.
2 cents,
QueenB
Get a better ball. *giggle* Go to almost any physical therapy clinic and get your pilates ball there. It will cost you a bit more but they are much better made and more durable than the cheap thing from the grocery store, Target, etc. That it is, if you simply must have the Pilates ball.
My solution - it's really simple and best of all, it's free. It's called getting your fat a$$ up and going for a walk. Get a good chair or ball or what ever makes you happy. Be sure to set your desk up properly. Most companies have someone who can help with the proper ergonomic adjustments. Even with all that there are still times when you just feel cramped. When that happens, get up and go walk around the building. It won't take 10 minutes and you'll feel ever so much better. Then you can go back to work.
2 cents,
QueenB
If you're going to do that, it really shouldn't be on line. While I agree that someone needs to be able to get to the "God" passwords in the event of a catastrophic event, our solution to that is very low tech. They are written out on a sheet of paper and placed in a slightly special safe. It takes two keys to open and only a few of us have keys. Some of us have the A key and some of us have the B key.
That way if any of us needs a password to which we do not normally have access, we still have to convince another person to help us open the safe. It provides a secure check & balance with very little inconvienence other than filing away a new sheet of paper once a month.
2 cents,
QueenB
Being a female geek isn't easy and so I've tried the on-line dating thing. (Dramatic Eye Roll) - All you ever get are a bunch of posers and losers. Most of them are married, many with children and none of them are shy about giving out personal details like employment (bragging), salary (bragging), work phone #, cell phone #, email address, etc. What you won't get from most of them is a photo that's taken in the last 20 years or a home phone #.
2 cents,
QueenB
Target is a private business. They are not required to offer service to anyone or to offer any service from which they do not expect to make money. They're going to have to go to no small expense to 1) defend this lawsuit and 2) revamp their web site. I reiterate my statement from above - "Which one of you - squeezed between high gas prices, high taxes, and a few years of pay cuts - wants to pay more for anything?" You don't seriously expect Target to just "suck it up". They're going to pass it on to everyone else that shops at Target. Once again, the majority is paying a premium so that the "minority" can have something for free.
2 more cents,
QueenB
After being tagged a troll on my last post for hoping that they had fixed the foam problem, NASA annouced today that two pieces of foam came off during the launch this time.
*sticks tongue out*
Take that, you small minded moderators!
2 cents,
QueenB
You know...I don't really care if anyone can or can't see my web site. It's MY blog. If you don't like how it looks, or it makes your screen reader barf...read someone else's blog.
If the Target.com web site doesn't suit you, shop elsewhere. Target isn't that great anyway. Encourge others not to shop at Target and write the company to tell them why you aren't shopping there. It's a lot more effective than a law suit.
(open sarcasm and flamebait)
No, we have the people who used to be left behind as bear bait telling everyone else to march around to a specific set of rules or they'll sue. Do they pay for any of this? No...they expect the business to foot the bill and then pass the costs on to the rest of the customers. You know who that means, don't you? It means the other 99% of us. With a site the size of Target.com, that's a pretty signficiant chunck of change. Which one of you, squeezed between high taxes, high gas prices, and a few years of pay cuts, wants to pay more for anything because a relatively small group of people doesn't like the web site?
If you don't like the web site, go to the store. If you don't like the store, SHOP SOMEWHERE ELSE.
Why? So some freakin' lawyer can get his grubby mits on 1/3 or more of the settlement and some money grubbers can get their hands on the rest.
(end sarcasm and flamebait)
2 cents,
QueenB
Your choices are:
1) $2000 degausser
2) $50 for a really nice sledge hammer from home depot (shock absorbing handle)
Since they were willing to spring for replacment drives rather than risk data disclosure, I'd opt for the sledge hammer. You can buy a lot of hard drives for $1950.00.
Consider it therapy for the geeks...
2 cents,
QueenB
Yeah, I think Symantec showed us just how safe the software we buy is.
(open sarcasm)
That Norton Security Suite didn't have any spyware or anything built into it. It didn't basically root kit everyone's machine that installed it.
(end sarcasm)
I'm all in favor of the open source guys. I run ClamWin on several machines. I've found it to be reliable and quite effective. I keep hoping that they'll release an enterprise type console where I can force updates, force scans, and lock users out of their settings.
I'd really like to see something similar from the open source community for a firewall product. I don't trust the Collective to make good choices for me, so I'd be pretty open to turning off Windows Firewall in favor of an open source product. While I don't make a habit of perusing source code for such things, it's always nice to know that you can so that you can avoid another Symantec situation.
2 cents,
QueenB