has to be a beep or verbal agreement as far as i know.. but AOL usually says the call is being recorded anyway- so perhaps its understood the call is being recorded by AOL, but does it matter if the other party records unanounced, or is it enough that both parties understand that call is recorded somewhere.
John was the AOL rep, but yeah- he should have gotten a reprimand for not listening to the customer (yes, he should have tried to figure out what was wrong, but then let up), he shouldn't have gotten fired.
Vincent was a little unreasonable- 4 minutes isn't so terrible either. Vincent needed to be more patient, but has a right to cancel the account.
Regarding the having the data on the work computer- this is exactly the problem.
Of course the potential also exists for viruses or trojans to affect the data over the VPN.
One could even argue that since these same problems could potentially exist on the local lan at the office (installing bad stuff on the machines (again, bad security)) that having it over a vpn is safer since it's not an always-on link.
Bottom line- good security and not allowing people to take things home/offload data (part of good security) are crucial.
The problem here isn't telecommuting, it is bad security practices and these problems probably would have happened one way or another, whether it's over a SSH tunnel, VPN, or local on the lan.
exactly- tape, while expensive is one of the most durable, recoverable and safe long-term storage mechanisms (in the right storage environment). (this for the person you replied to)
RAID is PART of the solution. The problem with RAID is that it doesn't account for Operator Error (deletion), Operating System Error (corruption at the filesystem level), Virii, etc. RAID is a great online-storage mechanism, but should be only an intermediary to tape/dvd/'permanent' media.
While permissions, ACLs, etc, can reduce the risk, RAID still doesn't protect your data from the more immediate threat.
Also note that RAID does not account for fire, flood, lightning and other things that may irreparably screw over the drives. Last I knew, Ontrac and others still charge by the size of the drive, and if you're using big disks, you'll pay a fortune. With RAID, generally the platters inside the disk must be relatively unharmed (no gauging, cracking, corrosion, etc) since you cannot do a recovery based on the file allocation tables since you don't have all of the data on the one disk. If they can transplant the platters into a happy drive, you may be ok, but I wouldn't bet my inheritance on it.
Now, if you can afford to create two RAIDs and keep one (if one is bigger, the bigger one) offline except when copying things that have changed in, you're in better shape- and even better shape if that is located in a different building or even locality.
Does anyone know if there is a reputable and inexpensive (hard to find that combo) place to buy a working stun pen? I often drive a bus full of drunken bachelors through bad parts of town and end up staying on darkened busses in empty alleyways waiting for the groups to come back. I can't carry something as obvious as a taser so as not to scare customers, but I wouldn't mind having something concealable as a last resort defense or if I absolutely had to, to subdue a rider as a last resort?
Seems unlikely that one of these things charged on a triple a battery could generate both the voltage and current necessary. AAA bats are what 1.5 volt 750mAh for a NiMH- wouldn't imagine you could get much amperage at 500kV? On second thought, it's what, 1/4 amp that will kill you? What is the desired amperage to incapacitate anyway? I was under the impression that the voltage in and of itself wasn't so much the incapacitator as it is the frequency of a modulated open AC line?
Anyway, bottom line is I don't know much, do these things work?
Ever changing end user demands, request for new and/or unproven technology eg "Oh, this thing called Ruby just came out yesterday, I'd like to have a site in that.. Or this new ajax thing"- now these things are old, but when they were just fresh out in the wild, customers wanted it because it was the 'new way'. I hate huge projects where the user changes their mind on something major halfway through and that requires a rewrite of nearly everything you've done, or you find yourself shoehorning things in even when you tried to anticipate features they haven't asked for but will think of or would be nice.. I always found myself giving them way more than they wanted and always ending up with them wanting more. Drives me batty, plus I'm a contractor, so I have to deal with a middle-man who deals with the customer- never play telephone with web-design, it makes it even harder and you get stuck needing input on something and it takes 3 days to get an answer. Ack!
I don't have a solution for you, I'm now working in an electronic engineering company doing the software side of things and am in way over my head as far as the electronics is concerned, but I'm learning and am paid well- its a great job that's not on contract. Don't do contracts unless you've got lots of customers and other people to help you, otherwise you just get all the headache managing things- there are in fact advantages to working for someone else, as much as I like being on my own.
This is by far the -best- and -most important- response in the thread so far. I was going to write something similar, but wouldn't have been nearly as good.
With high host density- wireless is a terrible idea, for exactly the reasons posted here.
I hate "MOD PARENT UP" posts, but this one deserves it!
Yes and no- they have a right to encrypt their signal and we have a right to listen to the encrypted signal- which essentially does no good. Decrypting that signal would be illegal/wrong given the current laws and morals of radio communications- in a perfect world we could line of sight transmit to the intended users specifically and not irradiate everyone else and we could alter the laws to make more sense.
I personally feel we should be able to listen to anything that crosses our space- and decrypt it if we can (or have fun with the challenge of doing so), but not necessarily use whatever service gets decrypted (eg- ok cool, I did it, I can decode DirecTV, next project) and definately not interfere- with the exception of unlicensed bands where interference is more or less necessary.
No patch required, just the right code- the board merely takes a stream of values and transmits them.
As for making it illegal, the board is considered test equipment and even the transmit boards only have a minimal power output (100 mw or less)- you'd need to buy or build an amplifier for the right frequency get the cables to hook it up, and build an appropriate antenna.
This is still not a device that just any idiot can cobble together something that does thoes things- it's not necessarily extremely difficult, but still requires effort.
There are simpler ways to jam transmissions without such complex equipment.
I don't think the government has much to worry about from these boards and the FCC is quite good at noticing and finding rogue signals that cause interference.
Hundreds of movies on a subaudible or non-visible carrier? The bandwidth must be miniscule!? What are they using, VIVO (you know the 1990's era video technology where you get a postage stamp sized video?)
worth noting that I'm aware that an exploit in the gimp in a corporate environment that would allow an employee to gain root on the machine may or may not matter depending on the setup. if well administered, gaining root would at most allow the user to set up a server or install something. At worst, someone has set up ssh keys to get in other places and you've already given out the keys to the kingdom and left them behind unmonitored 1/8" plexiglass in the lobby.
Anyway, applications that do not listen on a port and are mostly basic user applications probably don't matter in the scheme of things.
One thing I see all the time is code that doesn't matter is under total scrutiny. So what if there's an exploit in the gimp? If your machine is properly firewalled in (for a regular home user), and you're the only one using it, what does it really matter?
Hunting down these things is nice, but not necessary in a lot of cases.
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I heavily recommend the blackfin. Well supported, from a good vendor (http://www.analog.com) and runs the latest kernel.
has to be a beep or verbal agreement as far as i know.. but AOL usually says the call is being recorded anyway- so perhaps its understood the call is being recorded by AOL, but does it matter if the other party records unanounced, or is it enough that both parties understand that call is recorded somewhere.
John was the AOL rep, but yeah- he should have gotten a reprimand for not listening to the customer (yes, he should have tried to figure out what was wrong, but then let up), he shouldn't have gotten fired.
Vincent was a little unreasonable- 4 minutes isn't so terrible either. Vincent needed to be more patient, but has a right to cancel the account.
Meh, I think this is a big deal over nothing.
Just for his trouble they probably signed him up again for 6 free months!
Regarding the having the data on the work computer- this is exactly the problem.
Of course the potential also exists for viruses or trojans to affect the data over the VPN.
One could even argue that since these same problems could potentially exist on the local lan at the office (installing bad stuff on the machines (again, bad security)) that having it over a vpn is safer since it's not an always-on link.
Bottom line- good security and not allowing people to take things home/offload data (part of good security) are crucial.
The problem here isn't telecommuting, it is bad security practices and these problems probably would have happened one way or another, whether it's over a SSH tunnel, VPN, or local on the lan.
That's an excellent point, I suppose I lost track of the original intent.
Speaking of which, does anybody know a relatively inexpensive RAID5 based NAS unit?
exactly- tape, while expensive is one of the most durable, recoverable and safe long-term storage mechanisms (in the right storage environment). (this for the person you replied to)
For a second, I thought they were discriminating against your American farmer. I suppose they're too busy doing real work to be online.
RAID is PART of the solution. The problem with RAID is that it doesn't account for Operator Error (deletion), Operating System Error (corruption at the filesystem level), Virii, etc. RAID is a great online-storage mechanism, but should be only an intermediary to tape/dvd/'permanent' media.
While permissions, ACLs, etc, can reduce the risk, RAID still doesn't protect your data from the more immediate threat.
Also note that RAID does not account for fire, flood, lightning and other things that may irreparably screw over the drives. Last I knew, Ontrac and others still charge by the size of the drive, and if you're using big disks, you'll pay a fortune. With RAID, generally the platters inside the disk must be relatively unharmed (no gauging, cracking, corrosion, etc) since you cannot do a recovery based on the file allocation tables since you don't have all of the data on the one disk. If they can transplant the platters into a happy drive, you may be ok, but I wouldn't bet my inheritance on it.
Now, if you can afford to create two RAIDs and keep one (if one is bigger, the bigger one) offline except when copying things that have changed in, you're in better shape- and even better shape if that is located in a different building or even locality.
Does anyone know if there is a reputable and inexpensive (hard to find that combo) place to buy a working stun pen? I often drive a bus full of drunken bachelors through bad parts of town and end up staying on darkened busses in empty alleyways waiting for the groups to come back. I can't carry something as obvious as a taser so as not to scare customers, but I wouldn't mind having something concealable as a last resort defense or if I absolutely had to, to subdue a rider as a last resort?
Seems unlikely that one of these things charged on a triple a battery could generate both the voltage and current necessary. AAA bats are what 1.5 volt 750mAh for a NiMH- wouldn't imagine you could get much amperage at 500kV? On second thought, it's what, 1/4 amp that will kill you? What is the desired amperage to incapacitate anyway? I was under the impression that the voltage in and of itself wasn't so much the incapacitator as it is the frequency of a modulated open AC line?
Anyway, bottom line is I don't know much, do these things work?
Ever changing end user demands, request for new and/or unproven technology eg "Oh, this thing called Ruby just came out yesterday, I'd like to have a site in that.. Or this new ajax thing"- now these things are old, but when they were just fresh out in the wild, customers wanted it because it was the 'new way'. I hate huge projects where the user changes their mind on something major halfway through and that requires a rewrite of nearly everything you've done, or you find yourself shoehorning things in even when you tried to anticipate features they haven't asked for but will think of or would be nice.. I always found myself giving them way more than they wanted and always ending up with them wanting more. Drives me batty, plus I'm a contractor, so I have to deal with a middle-man who deals with the customer- never play telephone with web-design, it makes it even harder and you get stuck needing input on something and it takes 3 days to get an answer. Ack!
I don't have a solution for you, I'm now working in an electronic engineering company doing the software side of things and am in way over my head as far as the electronics is concerned, but I'm learning and am paid well- its a great job that's not on contract. Don't do contracts unless you've got lots of customers and other people to help you, otherwise you just get all the headache managing things- there are in fact advantages to working for someone else, as much as I like being on my own.
This is by far the -best- and -most important- response in the thread so far. I was going to write something similar, but wouldn't have been nearly as good.
With high host density- wireless is a terrible idea, for exactly the reasons posted here.
I hate "MOD PARENT UP" posts, but this one deserves it!
don't forget dry erase markers!
Yes and no- they have a right to encrypt their signal and we have a right to listen to the encrypted signal- which essentially does no good. Decrypting that signal would be illegal/wrong given the current laws and morals of radio communications- in a perfect world we could line of sight transmit to the intended users specifically and not irradiate everyone else and we could alter the laws to make more sense.
I personally feel we should be able to listen to anything that crosses our space- and decrypt it if we can (or have fun with the challenge of doing so), but not necessarily use whatever service gets decrypted (eg- ok cool, I did it, I can decode DirecTV, next project) and definately not interfere- with the exception of unlicensed bands where interference is more or less necessary.
No patch required, just the right code- the board merely takes a stream of values and transmits them.
As for making it illegal, the board is considered test equipment and even the transmit boards only have a minimal power output (100 mw or less)- you'd need to buy or build an amplifier for the right frequency get the cables to hook it up, and build an appropriate antenna.
This is still not a device that just any idiot can cobble together something that does thoes things- it's not necessarily extremely difficult, but still requires effort.
There are simpler ways to jam transmissions without such complex equipment.
I don't think the government has much to worry about from these boards and the FCC is quite good at noticing and finding rogue signals that cause interference.
games, games, games... what about scientific visualization?
could you just suck fuel through the tubes?
Ah but your neural inhibitors will keep the mechanical arms from taking over your brain for only so long!
They have talked about setting up a cell 'tower' in the plane that goes over a sat link so your phone works properly.
should add, whats wrong with digital cable, pay per view, dvd, etc?
I'm guessing $4 for a movie of tv or worse quality with stereo only audio is a bit overpriced. Netflix is my friend.
Hundreds of movies on a subaudible or non-visible carrier? The bandwidth must be miniscule!? What are they using, VIVO (you know the 1990's era video technology where you get a postage stamp sized video?)
worth noting that I'm aware that an exploit in the gimp in a corporate environment that would allow an employee to gain root on the machine may or may not matter depending on the setup. if well administered, gaining root would at most allow the user to set up a server or install something. At worst, someone has set up ssh keys to get in other places and you've already given out the keys to the kingdom and left them behind unmonitored 1/8" plexiglass in the lobby.
Anyway, applications that do not listen on a port and are mostly basic user applications probably don't matter in the scheme of things.
One thing I see all the time is code that doesn't matter is under total scrutiny. So what if there's an exploit in the gimp? If your machine is properly firewalled in (for a regular home user), and you're the only one using it, what does it really matter?
Hunting down these things is nice, but not necessary in a lot of cases.
Meant to add- if someone wants to shell out the money and dev time for a dev kit, sign a few NDA's or whatever, who cares?