"Four-hundred years ago, on the planet Earth, workers who felt their livelihood threatened by automation, flung their wooden shoes, called sabo, into the machines to stop them . . . hence the word: sabotage."
Check it out, a company has a marketing campaign, and you heard it first here on Slashdot! Oh, wait, no you heard it first on Techgeist, but they got it from a forum somewhere so... where was I going with this? Oh, yeah, did I mention Microsoft was evil? It said so in a blog I read once, when I wasn't reading actual important news stories that have content and meaning.
Yeah, welcome to the world of grants. The dates never make any sense. They setup grants here in our sponsored programs department that were sometimes awarded a year or more ago.
No, what they suddenly realized is that they want to make someone else pay for the massive cost to implement the plan. "Create a database of all communication transactions" sounds great on a todo list but starts to fall apart when you get to the details.
I had a webpage that would accept a password, and unencrypt the filenames so they were viewable in readable form on the page. Each one was a hyperlink. There was an extra step required if you wanted the downloaded filename to be unencrypted as well.
If you had a web page on the host that would decrypt the file names (or files), they could have just stored a copy after your code generated it. Not only that, but they could have trivially captured any password you put into it. That's not a secure system at all if you assume a malicious host like the OP assumes.
What is the role DLS today in the broadband world? Is it merely a bandaid for places with no other options, or something more that I am missing?
Around here, cable internet is absolute crap due to all the students sucking the bandwidth dry. I don't care what they claim to provide speed wise, it was always slow. The connection would also just disappear for over an hour at a time most nights around 10PM. DSL doesn't provide the theoretical rates of cable, but what it does provide is a fixed rate and the phone company, as much as they suck, sucks a lot less than the cable company when it comes to reliability.
I apologize for responding seriously in this MS bashing thread, but anyway this looks to be an excellent application for surface technology. Assuming that they have the manpower and peripheral interfaces to update this situation map in real time, it could be amazing. Even just for managing traffic flow and where to stage people. In fact, if I were a part of it I'd want there to be multiple units, each dedicated and customized for different purposes: fire/rescue; traffic; police; public works; transit; etc.
Once mainstream support and bug fixes to XP end, enterprise level IT groups will move to Windows 7 to continue to receive patches (*). There currently is no reason to move to Vista because XP works and is still supported. Once that support is gone, it's time to move on. The grandparent is correct.
(*) No, not all of us can just switch over to Linux, and in fact that would be a horrible idea for your average office that isn't full of geeks. For some of them it's hard enough for them to even understand their job, never mind their OS.
We've had to deal with a number of government agencies where I work. It's not surprising they get hacked. The Defense Security Service, for instance, tried to force us to "get a.com address if you want to interact with our online tools, because.edu addresses are insecure". After laughing to their face it took three weeks to convince them they had no clue what they were talking about. They also asked me to contact them any time we saw "anomalous" traffic on our network. I offered to forward them a copy of the 90% of our packets that are anomalous, but they weren't amused. As another example, the State Department is basing export restriction management on broken Active X that requires users to be Administrators to use.:/ The list goes on.
I was going to go check something on their site, and discovered that it's now running a self signed cert. *sigh* Check out the mission of DSS, and the irony is... scary: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense_Security_Service
DSS is tasked with facilitating personnel security investigations, supervising industrial security, and performing security education and awareness training.
Something tells me you don't work in a position that cares much about history. In our office, individuals access their old email (and files) constantly as part of contract negotiations. They could continue to function without a network connection, which isn't the case if Google owned all their data and Google was completely missing for a day+.
Basically states claim that if a retailer has a physical presence in the state they must collect sales tax. If they do not have a physical presence they do (or did not) have to collect the tax although technically the individual doing the purchasing was supposed to have sent the tax themselves to their own state. That's called "use tax" and is starting to become something more states are getting picky about collecting.
Here's a longer explanation:
http://articles.bplans.com/index.php/business-articles/running-an-online-business/tax-on-internet-sales/
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"Four-hundred years ago, on the planet Earth, workers who felt their livelihood threatened by automation, flung their wooden shoes, called sabo, into the machines to stop them . . . hence the word: sabotage."
Sorry, I couldn't help myself.
Um, call customer service and report the phone as stolen?
Check it out, a company has a marketing campaign, and you heard it first here on Slashdot! Oh, wait, no you heard it first on Techgeist, but they got it from a forum somewhere so... where was I going with this? Oh, yeah, did I mention Microsoft was evil? It said so in a blog I read once, when I wasn't reading actual important news stories that have content and meaning.
Hey, if you are mapping, why not grab all the data up front you might need later? Think about it. The cars use LIDAR too.
Yeah, welcome to the world of grants. The dates never make any sense. They setup grants here in our sponsored programs department that were sometimes awarded a year or more ago.
No, what they suddenly realized is that they want to make someone else pay for the massive cost to implement the plan. "Create a database of all communication transactions" sounds great on a todo list but starts to fall apart when you get to the details.
If you had a web page on the host that would decrypt the file names (or files), they could have just stored a copy after your code generated it. Not only that, but they could have trivially captured any password you put into it. That's not a secure system at all if you assume a malicious host like the OP assumes.
Constituents?! No, too many lobbyist and politicians were getting tickets, because the cameras don't accept the "do you know who I am?!" excuse...
Or at least we know he can mock up some convincing looking "screen captures". :)
Around here, cable internet is absolute crap due to all the students sucking the bandwidth dry. I don't care what they claim to provide speed wise, it was always slow. The connection would also just disappear for over an hour at a time most nights around 10PM. DSL doesn't provide the theoretical rates of cable, but what it does provide is a fixed rate and the phone company, as much as they suck, sucks a lot less than the cable company when it comes to reliability.
That's no longer an issue in MS Office 2007, and the collaboration features work between MS Office 2007 and Open Office.
I believe the relative velocity was 2,300mph, not that it would matter much either way if it hit.
Star Trek 5 had a good trailer. Unfortunately, that minute and whatever was the only good footage they had managed to shoot.
Take a deep breath, calm down a minute, and stop attributing malice due to not understanding fully.
http://www.thestandard.com/news/2009/02/16/facebook-we-have-never-claimed-ownership-members-content
So, Facebook changes its TOS to be clear that it might still have backups of your data around for a while, and people get MAD?!
"No Facebook, I want you to set it up so if you crash, that's it, all my data is gone for good! That'll teach me!"
Yeah, it didn't say that specifically, but neither, according to TFA, did they explicitly claim ownership.
I apologize for responding seriously in this MS bashing thread, but anyway this looks to be an excellent application for surface technology. Assuming that they have the manpower and peripheral interfaces to update this situation map in real time, it could be amazing. Even just for managing traffic flow and where to stage people. In fact, if I were a part of it I'd want there to be multiple units, each dedicated and customized for different purposes: fire/rescue; traffic; police; public works; transit; etc.
Once mainstream support and bug fixes to XP end, enterprise level IT groups will move to Windows 7 to continue to receive patches (*). There currently is no reason to move to Vista because XP works and is still supported. Once that support is gone, it's time to move on. The grandparent is correct.
(*) No, not all of us can just switch over to Linux, and in fact that would be a horrible idea for your average office that isn't full of geeks. For some of them it's hard enough for them to even understand their job, never mind their OS.
Applied the old Mark-1 Hammer, did they?
We've had to deal with a number of government agencies where I work. It's not surprising they get hacked. The Defense Security Service, for instance, tried to force us to "get a .com address if you want to interact with our online tools, because .edu addresses are insecure". After laughing to their face it took three weeks to convince them they had no clue what they were talking about. They also asked me to contact them any time we saw "anomalous" traffic on our network. I offered to forward them a copy of the 90% of our packets that are anomalous, but they weren't amused. As another example, the State Department is basing export restriction management on broken Active X that requires users to be Administrators to use. :/ The list goes on.
I was going to go check something on their site, and discovered that it's now running a self signed cert. *sigh* Check out the mission of DSS, and the irony is... scary: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense_Security_Service
DSS is tasked with facilitating personnel security investigations, supervising industrial security, and performing security education and awareness training.
Doomed I tell you, doomed.
I like big butts and all, but damn. Ten meters is a bit much even for me!
Something tells me you don't work in a position that cares much about history. In our office, individuals access their old email (and files) constantly as part of contract negotiations. They could continue to function without a network connection, which isn't the case if Google owned all their data and Google was completely missing for a day+.
It's obvious. Galloping around the cosmos is a game for the young, Doctor!
Dude, the grandparent was making a reference to a Pink Floyd album. *sigh* Kids these days... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dark_Side_of_the_Moon
I know when I was looking previously I stumbled upon some other options, such as http://www.emperorlinux.com/ which is still perhaps a viable route.
Basically states claim that if a retailer has a physical presence in the state they must collect sales tax. If they do not have a physical presence they do (or did not) have to collect the tax although technically the individual doing the purchasing was supposed to have sent the tax themselves to their own state. That's called "use tax" and is starting to become something more states are getting picky about collecting. Here's a longer explanation: http://articles.bplans.com/index.php/business-articles/running-an-online-business/tax-on-internet-sales/