Police Cruizer A notices you at 5th and A Street at 7:30. Curuzer B reports you at 10th and C Street at 7:37 - But the points are so far apart that you would have had to have speeded to get from one to the other in 7 minutes.
"Supermarket A" did this to "Supermarket B" a few years ago, sent someone over to write down all the plate numbers in the lot, then sent all the people "Supermarket A" fliers and coupons.
(Names have been changes because I don't remember who Supermarket A or Supermarket B actually were)
Recently, while parking in Arden Fair Mall (Sacramento ca) I noticed the rentacop car had cameras on both front window pillars looking out and downward, into the general direction of the license plate. He was driving up and down the rows of parked cars, slowly.
I wonder what a rentacop needs with a list of parked car license plate numbers.
Ok here's an idea, someone setup "Rent a Laptop" in the baggage collection section the airports - while you are at your destination you can rent one of these, Get your pictures and movies and what ever.
As an extra service: The laptop has strong encryption installed - before you turn it back in at departure you encrypt your stuff and fill in a text file with contact information. While you are flying home the laptop landords are sending you the encrypted file. Then they wipe the machine for the next person. You can also send the data yourself of course and even wipe the machine yourself (It's ok to turn in a blank-disked laptop)
Only works if you can force every traveler to buy. If not only the ones that believe they are targets will buy and you will have a disproportionate pay-out.
Could it be that they copy the contents in order to not hold up the traveler. It takes a short time to copy the contents and much longer to scan each file to see if they are contraband or not.
What happens to the copy after that - it should be destroyed.
A lot of malware today is makes your machine a zombie. It makes your machine do things for the zombie master - like send spam, DDOS other computers or act as a part of a P2P network, carrying all kinds of stuff (including porn).
David, If you live in an "at will" state you boss can fire you for no reason at all. They just sort of lose the "will" to keep you. No reason given, "thanks for all your work, buhbye" and your out the door.
Yeah, I live in CA - an "At Will" state. It's like this, they can fire you any time they want without even telling you why, for any reason, even a made up one.
Even if a message arrives in my mailbox, addressed to me, mentions my wife by name, and complements me on the the good behavior of my dog, If they are trying to sell me something or introduce me to something IT IS SPAM.
Your kind of spam is just harder to make, but it is still spam.
Worse off, the grade book program was accessible from any networked machine (thanks Novell) Don't blame novell, the system admin should have: 1) put the sensitive files in a directory 2) put the teachers in a group 3) only granted rights for that directory to the teacher group
It's not Novell's fault. It's the Netadmin's fault.
I wonder if a bunch of US could enter the market and build our own backbone/network - If net neutrality is important to customers fill the niche, profit (I know it is not in standard format)
Tiered pricing is ok, as long as I get what I paid for and my packets are not sorted as to type. If I only pay for 5 packets a minute, I want to be able to send any 5 packets, not just the kinds my ISP likes. And I darned well better be able to send 5 packet each minute until -I- get tired.
I think a better idea would be, the ISP has a control panel with a slider where you can set your bits per second and several checkboxes where you can turn on and off protocols like Bit torrent, perhaps another checkbox for "Let me be a server" that fixes your IP address until you uncheck it.
Move the slider to the slower end, uncheck all the boxes and you pay $10.00 a month. As you enable stuff or move the slider toward "faster" the price goes up.
The ISP checks your "settings" every five minutes and provisions your connection accordingly.
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Then how long am I allowed to remain in the mall?
There is an apple store in there. What if I just spend all day there because it's 103 degrees out and I don't want to run my own AC at home?
What if I work there? I suppose employees plates are registered or they have to park in an "employee area".
I wonder if they could autoticket speeders:
Police Cruizer A notices you at 5th and A Street at 7:30. Curuzer B reports you at 10th and C Street at 7:37 - But the points are so far apart that you would have had to have speeded to get from one to the other in 7 minutes.
Someone mod this up!
The problem here is a record is being created where there was none before.
"Supermarket A" did this to "Supermarket B" a few years ago, sent someone over to write down all the plate numbers in the lot, then sent all the people "Supermarket A" fliers and coupons.
(Names have been changes because I don't remember who Supermarket A or Supermarket B actually were)
Recently, while parking in Arden Fair Mall (Sacramento ca) I noticed the rentacop car had cameras on both front window pillars looking out and downward, into the general direction of the license plate. He was driving up and down the rows of parked cars, slowly.
I wonder what a rentacop needs with a list of parked car license plate numbers.
Ok here's an idea, someone setup "Rent a Laptop" in the baggage collection section the airports - while you are at your destination you can rent one of these, Get your pictures and movies and what ever.
As an extra service: The laptop has strong encryption installed - before you turn it back in at departure you encrypt your stuff and fill in a text file with contact information. While you are flying home the laptop landords are sending you the encrypted file. Then they wipe the machine for the next person. You can also send the data yourself of course and even wipe the machine yourself (It's ok to turn in a blank-disked laptop)
Only works if you can force every traveler to buy. If not only the ones that believe they are targets will buy and you will have a disproportionate pay-out.
Except if they are going to take your laptop, they will probably take every thing else you have that can store data.
I wonder where is the "confiscated laptops" auction going to be held.
Second System Syndrome: Learning from the errors of the first system.
Third system: Adding too many bells and whistles missed in the first system that will need to be fixed in the fourth system.
Wouldn't this fall to the 'porn site' attack..
I suppose the fly by wire system uses a watchdog interrupt that triggers NMI every 1/10th of a second.
Could it be that they copy the contents in order to not hold up the traveler. It takes a short time to copy the contents and much longer to scan each file to see if they are contraband or not.
What happens to the copy after that - it should be destroyed.
A lot of malware today is makes your machine a zombie. It makes your machine do things for the zombie master - like send spam, DDOS other computers or act as a part of a P2P network, carrying all kinds of stuff (including porn).
David, If you live in an "at will" state you boss can fire you for no reason at all. They just sort of lose the "will" to keep you. No reason given, "thanks for all your work, buhbye" and your out the door.
Yeah, I live in CA - an "At Will" state. It's like this, they can fire you any time they want without even telling you why, for any reason, even a made up one.
Oh, and you can quit without notice too. (wup)
Even if a message arrives in my mailbox, addressed to me, mentions my wife by name, and complements me on the the good behavior of my dog, If they are trying to sell me something or introduce me to something IT IS SPAM.
Your kind of spam is just harder to make, but it is still spam.
That's better than the day one of the computer ops snagged the halon button on the way out the door to go home. The button broke off.
But everything was fine... until he tried to put the button back on.
Halon dump - evacuate the computer room.
1) put the sensitive files in a directory
2) put the teachers in a group
3) only granted rights for that directory to the teacher group
It's not Novell's fault. It's the Netadmin's fault.
So donate to the government. Or to a charity.
I wonder if a bunch of US could enter the market and build our own backbone/network - If net neutrality is important to customers fill the niche, profit (I know it is not in standard format)
Tiered pricing is ok, as long as I get what I paid for and my packets are not sorted as to type. If I only pay for 5 packets a minute, I want to be able to send any 5 packets, not just the kinds my ISP likes. And I darned well better be able to send 5 packet each minute until -I- get tired.
Cuz I'm the TAXMAN yeah the tax man.
I think a better idea would be, the ISP has a control panel with a slider where you can set your bits per second and several checkboxes where you can turn on and off protocols like Bit torrent, perhaps another checkbox for "Let me be a server" that fixes your IP address until you uncheck it.
Move the slider to the slower end, uncheck all the boxes and you pay $10.00 a month.
As you enable stuff or move the slider toward "faster" the price goes up.
The ISP checks your "settings" every five minutes and provisions your connection accordingly.
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I actually have one, wrote a BASIC program on it today.
So you want to be able to read it for 4 years.. The market forces want you only to be able to read it ONCE, then pay the fee again.