A few problems: 1.Where do you put the bike when you get to work. Most office buildings just dont have anywhere secure to lock a bike so it wont get stolen (in some cases people just lock their bikes in places that aren't designated as bike storage and then have them removed by security or the like) 2.Its not going to look very professional if you turn up to work after having just done physical excercise, all sweaty and etc. The last place I worked provided showers to take care of that but most workplaces dont.
A bot is more like someone breaking into your house and stealing your stuff. If someone was walking past your house and saw someone breaking in and stealing stuff, would you want that person to enter your house to try and stop the burglar (and to return all your stuff to you)?
Same thing applies here, would you want some random software program infesting your PC regardless of what it actually does?
1.Copy anything you have that is important from your laptop onto an internet accessible backup location (e.g. corporate VPN to the company file server if its a work laptop) 2.Copy anything vaguely sensitive that you need on the plane (i.e. whatever you need to get your work done) onto a USB thumb drive. 3.Erase all the sensitive stuff from the laptop 4.Get on the airplane and fly to your destination (and do whatever work you want to do) 5.As soon as you get off the airplane (and before you pass through customs) go and find somewhere that provides wireless access (coffee shop, airline lounge, airport-wide WiFi) and upload any new data from the thumb drive to the secure location (if its a corporate VPN, the VPN software should ensure that anything sent over the WiFi cannot be sniffed) 6.Once all the data is backed up, destroy or dispose of the USB thumb drive somehow so that it cant be usably read. 7.Having done this, go through customs. They can check the laptop all they want but nothing incriminating will be on it. Worst case scenario is that they get an image of a nice safe windows install with a copy of Office and Norton on it or that they seize the laptop itself. 8.Once you pass customs, you can get another USB thumb drive, download the data from the secure server and resume work.
Another option is to omit steps 5,6 and 8 and instead carry a storage device that the customs guy wont know is a storage device. Maybe someone should invent a bluetooth ear piece for mobile phones that is also a storage device. Or a travel alarm clock. Or a digital watch. Or something else that would have a legitimate need to have circuitry and chips inside it but which would not be something that the customs guys would be likely to seize.
Of course, the storage device doesn't need to be a USB thumb drive if the laptop supports Bluetooth or some other such protocol.
Would the state of the art in video codecs (H.264, MPEG4 etc) have been developed if the people doing the development couldn't patent them? Would the codecs have been developed but kept as proprietary trade secrets instead of being standardized?
At my last job, the hardware was company supplied. I had Local Admin rights and was able to install software (and connect the prototype mobile phones I needed to connect as part of my job). Security updates and virus stuff was all done by IT. There was a list of software that was banned (p2p, spyware, stuff like google desktop and GoToMyPC that was a security risk etc) and rules about not installing stuff that you didnt have a license to. Installing stuff like Firefox was allowed.
There are many programs available that will tell you exactly how much you are transferring and when you may be about to go over the limit. Also, many ISPs I have seen will have a web page where you can see exactly how much bandwidth you used in a given month and how much that has cost you.
Each customer gets a certain amount of transfer each month (if they pay for a more expensive plan, they get more transfer). It might be 20GB or 50GB or whatever depending on the plan. Once they use that up, their speed goes back to 64kbps (i.e. near dialup speeds) for the rest of the billing cycle.
Actually, thats not true. Telstra here in Australia has recently rolled out 3G UMTS at 850MHz in rural and remote areas. And the population density of the areas that now have NextG coverage is comparable to the population density of large areas of the US. There is no reason why carriers in the US couldn't do the same and roll out UMTS at 850 or 700 or some other number that gives the same coverage as Telstra are getting.
Why not simply use encryption algorithms that are free of patents like AES and RSA? Assuming the hardware is good enough (and unless the guys that design the smart cards aren't doing their jobs it should be) the fact that they are using a documented algorithim to perform encryption shouldn't matter.
3 reasons: 1.It may not be possible to identify that a given product is made in china or contains chinese components 2.There may be no other option (i.e. all the available choices contain chinese products somehow) and 3.Even if there is another choice, it may be significantly more expensive than the chinese product.
I am referring to the large number of business travelers who (because the company is paying for it or for whatever other reasons) are forced to buy the cheaper tickets.
The problem the RIAA has right now is that the evidence they have to show that was talking sharing is not as ironclad as it should be (and the tactics they are using to collect that evidence aren't that good)
The question is, why did the DNS provider roll over instead of fighting. IANAL but my understanding is that the Communications Decency Act section 230 means that the DNS provider was not liable for the content provided by WikiLeaks.
Why then did the DNS provider not claim said immunity under section 230 and (per my understanding of the law) direct BJB to go after WikiLeaks instead.
Are there file formats, network protocols, APIs or other items Microsoft have not yet published that the EU wants them to publish? Is the license attached to the ones they have published still not acceptable to the EU? Are there still issues with Microsoft bundling stuff with Windows that the EU doesn't want them to bundle?
Its like if Disney asked eBay to stop people selling second hand Disney DVDs so they can continue to rape consumers with the price they charge for new DVDs of the same content.
And even if the law is being broken somehow, why should ebay give this so-called "church" any greater access than what they give to other people. Do they give Disney direct access to cancel auctions of pirate Disney DVDs? Do they give Gucci direct access to cancel auctions of fake Gucci stuff? Do they give Microsoft direct access to cancel auctions of OEM software? As far as I know, no they dont. So why should this "church" get such powers? (obviously if other members of the VeRO program do get such powers, then thats different)
Sony stopped making good electronic gear when they stopped being an electronics company and allowed the content producers to dictate the direction of the company.
If they aren't already doing it (I dont know the exact technical details of what they are doing), ISPs like Comcast will simply start looking for anyone uploading large amounts of data (especially if they are uploading to a bunch of different people at once) and block that.
AVG Anti-Virus is good. Free for personal use, isn't full of bloat like Symantec or Mcafee and installs cleanly (uninstalling I dont know about since I have never uninstalled it)
Even better is for banks to abandon email altogether and deliver important messages via direct postings on their website, a message service in their online banking system or failing that via snail mail.
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A few problems:
1.Where do you put the bike when you get to work. Most office buildings just dont have anywhere secure to lock a bike so it wont get stolen (in some cases people just lock their bikes in places that aren't designated as bike storage and then have them removed by security or the like)
2.Its not going to look very professional if you turn up to work after having just done physical excercise, all sweaty and etc. The last place I worked provided showers to take care of that but most workplaces dont.
A bot is more like someone breaking into your house and stealing your stuff. If someone was walking past your house and saw someone breaking in and stealing stuff, would you want that person to enter your house to try and stop the burglar (and to return all your stuff to you)?
Same thing applies here, would you want some random software program infesting your PC regardless of what it actually does?
1.Copy anything you have that is important from your laptop onto an internet accessible backup location (e.g. corporate VPN to the company file server if its a work laptop)
2.Copy anything vaguely sensitive that you need on the plane (i.e. whatever you need to get your work done) onto a USB thumb drive.
3.Erase all the sensitive stuff from the laptop
4.Get on the airplane and fly to your destination (and do whatever work you want to do)
5.As soon as you get off the airplane (and before you pass through customs) go and find somewhere that provides wireless access (coffee shop, airline lounge, airport-wide WiFi) and upload any new data from the thumb drive to the secure location (if its a corporate VPN, the VPN software should ensure that anything sent over the WiFi cannot be sniffed)
6.Once all the data is backed up, destroy or dispose of the USB thumb drive somehow so that it cant be usably read.
7.Having done this, go through customs. They can check the laptop all they want but nothing incriminating will be on it. Worst case scenario is that they get an image of a nice safe windows install with a copy of Office and Norton on it or that they seize the laptop itself.
8.Once you pass customs, you can get another USB thumb drive, download the data from the secure server and resume work.
Another option is to omit steps 5,6 and 8 and instead carry a storage device that the customs guy wont know is a storage device. Maybe someone should invent a bluetooth ear piece for mobile phones that is also a storage device. Or a travel alarm clock. Or a digital watch. Or something else that would have a legitimate need to have circuitry and chips inside it but which would not be something that the customs guys would be likely to seize.
Of course, the storage device doesn't need to be a USB thumb drive if the laptop supports Bluetooth or some other such protocol.
How is this NOT a violation of the trade practices act?
Anyone know the right way to get the ACCC to investigate this?
Would the state of the art in video codecs (H.264, MPEG4 etc) have been developed if the people doing the development couldn't patent them? Would the codecs have been developed but kept as proprietary trade secrets instead of being standardized?
Indonesia was actually Dutch, not British.
At my last job, the hardware was company supplied. I had Local Admin rights and was able to install software (and connect the prototype mobile phones I needed to connect as part of my job). Security updates and virus stuff was all done by IT. There was a list of software that was banned (p2p, spyware, stuff like google desktop and GoToMyPC that was a security risk etc) and rules about not installing stuff that you didnt have a license to. Installing stuff like Firefox was allowed.
There are many programs available that will tell you exactly how much you are transferring and when you may be about to go over the limit. Also, many ISPs I have seen will have a web page where you can see exactly how much bandwidth you used in a given month and how much that has cost you.
Each customer gets a certain amount of transfer each month (if they pay for a more expensive plan, they get more transfer). It might be 20GB or 50GB or whatever depending on the plan. Once they use that up, their speed goes back to 64kbps (i.e. near dialup speeds) for the rest of the billing cycle.
This is what most ISPs in Australia are using.
Actually, thats not true. Telstra here in Australia has recently rolled out 3G UMTS at 850MHz in rural and remote areas. And the population density of the areas that now have NextG coverage is comparable to the population density of large areas of the US.
There is no reason why carriers in the US couldn't do the same and roll out UMTS at 850 or 700 or some other number that gives the same coverage as Telstra are getting.
Why not simply use encryption algorithms that are free of patents like AES and RSA? Assuming the hardware is good enough (and unless the guys that design the smart cards aren't doing their jobs it should be) the fact that they are using a documented algorithim to perform encryption shouldn't matter.
3 reasons:
1.It may not be possible to identify that a given product is made in china or contains chinese components
2.There may be no other option (i.e. all the available choices contain chinese products somehow)
and 3.Even if there is another choice, it may be significantly more expensive than the chinese product.
I would have thought that the recycled atmosphere of a submarine was the LAST place you would want to allow smoking
I am referring to the large number of business travelers who (because the company is paying for it or for whatever other reasons) are forced to buy the cheaper tickets.
Could such an airline be price competitive with current airlines? Could such an airline make any profit?
The problem the RIAA has right now is that the evidence they have to show that was talking sharing is not as ironclad as it should be (and the tactics they are using to collect that evidence aren't that good)
The question is, why did the DNS provider roll over instead of fighting. IANAL but my understanding is that the Communications Decency Act section 230 means that the DNS provider was not liable for the content provided by WikiLeaks.
Why then did the DNS provider not claim said immunity under section 230 and (per my understanding of the law) direct BJB to go after WikiLeaks instead.
Are there file formats, network protocols, APIs or other items Microsoft have not yet published that the EU wants them to publish? Is the license attached to the ones they have published still not acceptable to the EU? Are there still issues with Microsoft bundling stuff with Windows that the EU doesn't want them to bundle?
What law is being broken by the sale of e-meters?
Its like if Disney asked eBay to stop people selling second hand Disney DVDs so they can continue to rape consumers with the price they charge for new DVDs of the same content.
And even if the law is being broken somehow, why should ebay give this so-called "church" any greater access than what they give to other people. Do they give Disney direct access to cancel auctions of pirate Disney DVDs? Do they give Gucci direct access to cancel auctions of fake Gucci stuff? Do they give Microsoft direct access to cancel auctions of OEM software? As far as I know, no they dont. So why should this "church" get such powers? (obviously if other members of the VeRO program do get such powers, then thats different)
Sony stopped making good electronic gear when they stopped being an electronics company and allowed the content producers to dictate the direction of the company.
If they aren't already doing it (I dont know the exact technical details of what they are doing), ISPs like Comcast will simply start looking for anyone uploading large amounts of data (especially if they are uploading to a bunch of different people at once) and block that.
Banks dont use consumer grade internet connections to talk to each other.
If you do need to print something that could be traced back to you, print it in greyscale with the yellow toner cartridge removed.
AVG Anti-Virus is good. Free for personal use, isn't full of bloat like Symantec or Mcafee and installs cleanly (uninstalling I dont know about since I have never uninstalled it)
Even better is for banks to abandon email altogether and deliver important messages via direct postings on their website, a message service in their online banking system or failing that via snail mail.