True, not every country will read the digital data ( not unless there is a universial format). Zimbabwe will read your name and look at your picture and say next.
I am looking at digital passports as the U.S. tracking people leaving and entering the country.
I dont know the process because I have never left the country and that database would be huge.
Why in the hell is any information stored digitaly on the passport. Only store a Passport ID that can only be used for passport verification. Not another SSN, Just an identification number not tied to any thing but who you are to the US.
The readers should be tied into a central database that has your picture, name, DOB, and (optionialy your drivers license number). That is it. why would you need anything more?
If you number gets stolen, your picture shows up when they try to use it. If they fake a number it will not validate. If the system gets hacked, the less personal info they store the better (and makes it less of a target).
If the only thing that is digitised is the number than encryption is more of an option (they mentioned a speed issue) or barcodes. I still say print the usual stuff on the cover just dont include it digitaly.
Our local comunity college gives a detailed list of the courses and how they transfer. How they transfer is the important one. All of you credits do transfer but alot of them are marked as electives.
Most of your first 3 semesters of university classes (in the general areas) can be taken at a Jr college, but verify that before you take them.
You are better off looking at the University course and finding its match than taking courses and trying to get them to transfer.
What ever happened to that V-Chip that was supposed to protect the children? DirectTV had the ability to lock out content and disable channels a long time ago. I remember showing my parents how to turn it off when they screwed it up.
Technology and government are not substitutes for parenting
That just shows how little I know about linux. I have installed it a few times, ran it as a web sever, and use the live CD's to save me in a pinch. I have even had to recompile to add a few features in the past. But that is the extent of my experience. I use it until I realize that I am not missing anything and it is just as easy to use windows (that argument goes both ways).
I dont want to call myself an expert, but everyone around me does. But they (including myself) work and live in a windows enviroment. I can walk them step by step to solve mose user problems over the phone while I drive home. (I wouldn't know where to begin if it was linux).
I am getting off topic. I guess my point is people look to me for support and I know nothing about linux. I live in a microsoft dreamland. I dont mean to sound so anti linux, because I am not. I am just one of many that know windows inside and out, and dont have a clue on Linux. And there are a lot of us.
Exactly, This does not tell us anything we did not know before. How many honeypot papers have told us this already.
It is sad that the internet has become so hostile. At work I connected one of our servers to a connection on the outside of our firewall for some remote support (didn't have the VPN papers signed yet). The moment that I enabled the nic, the server informed me that the RPC Service has failed and the computer will shut down.
I was foolish for not checking the patch levels. I assumed that someone else was on top of that. A mistake I will not make again. But home users have problems of their own. They don't know they have to keep it up patched. If I had my grandma running Linux, I would be the one patching it. What about converting all my friends and family to Linux. I would be so overwhelmed keeping each one current.
As it stands, I format, install XP/w SP2, change their user accounts to limited access, install spyware detection, antivirus, leave the firewall and automatic updates on, and finally put firefox on the desktop.
At the same time, I have to explain why XP is better than the 98 or ME that came with the computer, what SP2 is and why it takes so long, what a firewall is, what firefox is, why I created a special admin account for them to install stuff with and why the should never surf the web while logged into admin with the red background.
And if you are a slashdot regular, I am not telling you anything new. I should release this as a news story, but as we all know, this is not news. Its just the way it is.
Hold on. They are not giving away $5 for lost data, they are capping the damages. $5 is the most you can get. You accepted the EULA that says $5 is the most you can get from them.
The insult is not that they think you data is worth $5, but telling you that $5 is all you get.
The best thing i did for my parents was to leave home. It was so easy for them to ask for help. Now that I hardly ever get home, my parents have gotten alot better. I am a phone call away to help with the hard stuff.
My mom is getting heavy into the digital photos and digital video. I even gave her a video card and told her that it will only fit in one spot and she got it right.
She has become the front line of the extended family help calls. They call her to get my number and most of the time she solves it. If not, I get the call.
I have been running duel montors for several years and over time have gotten several other people stuck on it. family, friends, and co-workers. One you have it, it is hard to go back.
My newest trend is rotating the one on the left so it sits taller than wide. At high resolutions, a lot of space is wasted to websites that dont adjust to the width. By rotating the screen, they display more actual content.
This also lets me see 2 more slashdot headdings and 4 more google results in one look.
Having both displays rotated just looks weird and throws everything off.
When I started with my current employer, we had a very complicated PDFing process. Every night a transfer workstation would copy datafiles localy from a backup of the production server. A pervasive driver was loaded to read the dat files. Access would import the data from pervasive and run a report that was saved as a RTF file. It was then opened in Word where a macro would then PDF the document and close. The PDF was then copied to the webserver for the users to download.
What a mess and a nightmare to debug. It would work for a few months and then at seamingly random times, it would crash horibly for several days in a row.
When it did break, i felt like I wasted a lot of time tracking down ghost problems. In my slow days I rewrote it.
It now pulls read only data from the production server with that pervasive driver into a xml file. Then apply a xsl transform and pass the result to the FOP processor and place the result directly on the webserver.
A process that took an hour to run now finishes in 2 minutes. It is quick enough, we run it every 20 min. FOP was quick to setup and the examples are like a blue print and easy to figure out.
I have never had a problem with the new implementation and the end user had no impact and was unaware of the change.
I would recomend using a FOP processor to my friends.
Do not go home for the first month. Same goes for your laptop. leave it tucked away for for that first month. Attend the social events and get to know a few classmates. You social contacts you make the first few weeks will reward you over and over again.
And the less you talk about computers the better.
Or you can be the savior the first week removing spyware and viruses and installing network cards for other students in your dorm/classes.
Microsoft is not in the hardware business. If they make hardware, it is to sell more software.
PocketPC and Tablets are a prime examples. They created the hardware platform so they could market software. I feel that their shortlived entry with sidewinder was to not only set a standard, but also to get other venders desiging hardware that takes advantage of Direct3D. Now that hardware supports it, more game developers will also suport it. It is the chicken and the egg story, but with microsoft making the rules. they tell the hardware that the software supports it and they tell the software that the hardware supports it. Then they show examples of sidewinder and Direct3D, it is so, thus said Microsoft.
I think their entry into home networking was a strategic push to get the quality and usibility up while pushing home networking as a feature of XP. and maybe, just maybe, I realy have no idea what I am talking about, but thought it sounded insightful for the karma.
What is the best way to list languages on a resume that you have minimal skill in.
When listing programming languages, is it best to describe your skill at each one or just list them all.
If I were to put JAVA on my resume, I would be in that percentage that doesn't realy know it. Yeh, I took a few classes and I should mention it, but how?
Good point, but most cellphone plans have free long distance in a limited service area. All my friends have coverage that grants them free longdistance in Nebraska.
everyone I know my age has made the move to wireless plans. No land line for us.
Now, my parents on the other hand... Yes is does cost them more.
Two years ago I moved from seattle to Lincoln, NE. Verizon does not have home coverage in Lincoln, but because my plan included the extended network, I still got service.
I tried several times to get a local (or atleast in state) number. Every time I called they refused to give me a number. I could not get a Lincoln number because they dont have local coverage. I could not get a Omaha number because I did not live in Omaha (where they do have coverage).
Finaly, I added a second phone to my plan at an Omaha store and they "made" me get a local "Omaha" number.
Hey, atleast it is in the state.
Re:Lets hope that the result is progress
on
Google v. Microsoft
·
· Score: 1
I would love to see a good alternative to google. not because I dont like google, but I like a second choice. or atleast a different view
The patent does not cover just name@subdomain.domain
Reading the details, the name@subdomain.domain must match a name.subdomain.domain with name being the same for a user and each user has a unique name.
With that said, I dont see how they can sue the sites that sell domains. The liability should sit with the purchasers because they are the ones that manage the subdomains.
Create a fake postmaster delivery failure print out that looks like a bounced email. Set up caller ID or *69 and fax back to them the failure and the fax they sent you.
It would put a puzzled look on their face and would waste their ink and toner.
or you could fax 100 black pages back to them
or put your modem on autodial and call any 800 numbers you find all day while you are at work
Slashdot Mirror
True, not every country will read the digital data ( not unless there is a universial format). Zimbabwe will read your name and look at your picture and say next.
I am looking at digital passports as the U.S. tracking people leaving and entering the country.
I dont know the process because I have never left the country and that database would be huge.
Why in the hell is any information stored digitaly on the passport. Only store a Passport ID that can only be used for passport verification. Not another SSN, Just an identification number not tied to any thing but who you are to the US.
The readers should be tied into a central database that has your picture, name, DOB, and (optionialy your drivers license number). That is it. why would you need anything more?
If you number gets stolen, your picture shows up when they try to use it. If they fake a number it will not validate. If the system gets hacked, the less personal info they store the better (and makes it less of a target).
If the only thing that is digitised is the number than encryption is more of an option (they mentioned a speed issue) or barcodes. I still say print the usual stuff on the cover just dont include it digitaly.
Our local comunity college gives a detailed list of the courses and how they transfer. How they transfer is the important one. All of you credits do transfer but alot of them are marked as electives.
Most of your first 3 semesters of university classes (in the general areas) can be taken at a Jr college, but verify that before you take them.
You are better off looking at the University course and finding its match than taking courses and trying to get them to transfer.
Oh, crap
I need to unload my invites before they become worthless. Once this finally goes public, I will not be able to give them away.....
I still have 50 that I couldn't get rid of before. How am I going to get rid of them now.
Damn you, google!
Well said.
What ever happened to that V-Chip that was supposed to protect the children? DirectTV had the ability to lock out content and disable channels a long time ago. I remember showing my parents how to turn it off when they screwed it up.
Technology and government are not substitutes for parenting
That just shows how little I know about linux. I have installed it a few times, ran it as a web sever, and use the live CD's to save me in a pinch. I have even had to recompile to add a few features in the past. But that is the extent of my experience. I use it until I realize that I am not missing anything and it is just as easy to use windows (that argument goes both ways).
I dont want to call myself an expert, but everyone around me does. But they (including myself) work and live in a windows enviroment. I can walk them step by step to solve mose user problems over the phone while I drive home. (I wouldn't know where to begin if it was linux).
I am getting off topic. I guess my point is people look to me for support and I know nothing about linux. I live in a microsoft dreamland. I dont mean to sound so anti linux, because I am not. I am just one of many that know windows inside and out, and dont have a clue on Linux. And there are a lot of us.
but thanks for the auto update tip.
Exactly, This does not tell us anything we did not know before. How many honeypot papers have told us this already.
/w SP2, change their user accounts to limited access, install spyware detection, antivirus, leave the firewall and automatic updates on, and finally put firefox on the desktop.
It is sad that the internet has become so hostile. At work I connected one of our servers to a connection on the outside of our firewall for some remote support (didn't have the VPN papers signed yet). The moment that I enabled the nic, the server informed me that the RPC Service has failed and the computer will shut down.
I was foolish for not checking the patch levels. I assumed that someone else was on top of that. A mistake I will not make again. But home users have problems of their own. They don't know they have to keep it up patched. If I had my grandma running Linux, I would be the one patching it. What about converting all my friends and family to Linux. I would be so overwhelmed keeping each one current.
As it stands, I format, install XP
At the same time, I have to explain why XP is better than the 98 or ME that came with the computer, what SP2 is and why it takes so long, what a firewall is, what firefox is, why I created a special admin account for them to install stuff with and why the should never surf the web while logged into admin with the red background.
And if you are a slashdot regular, I am not telling you anything new. I should release this as a news story, but as we all know, this is not news. Its just the way it is.
--
Kevin Marquette
antispyware
I can't even get my own links correct, how sad is that.
--
Kevin Marquette
Antispyware
Hold on. They are not giving away $5 for lost data, they are capping the damages. $5 is the most you can get. You accepted the EULA that says $5 is the most you can get from them.
The insult is not that they think you data is worth $5, but telling you that $5 is all you get.
--
Kevin Marquette
Antispyware
Oh Cr*p,
I can see it now.
Gator like spyware injecting flash adds on the client side.
---
flash based spyware
Works good for college students as well.
--
Antispyware
The best thing i did for my parents was to leave home. It was so easy for them to ask for help. Now that I hardly ever get home, my parents have gotten alot better. I am a phone call away to help with the hard stuff.
My mom is getting heavy into the digital photos and digital video. I even gave her a video card and told her that it will only fit in one spot and she got it right.
She has become the front line of the extended family help calls. They call her to get my number and most of the time she solves it. If not, I get the call.
I used to have that one as well. mine was called crashIE.htm. I say "was" because my anti-virus deleted it for me.
I have the same problem with nmap. oh well, atleast I am protected.
I have been running duel montors for several years and over time have gotten several other people stuck on it. family, friends, and co-workers. One you have it, it is hard to go back.
My newest trend is rotating the one on the left so it sits taller than wide. At high resolutions, a lot of space is wasted to websites that dont adjust to the width. By rotating the screen, they display more actual content.
This also lets me see 2 more slashdot headdings and 4 more google results in one look.
Having both displays rotated just looks weird and throws everything off.
We had this problem once, but worse.
When I started with my current employer, we had a very complicated PDFing process. Every night a transfer workstation would copy datafiles localy from a backup of the production server. A pervasive driver was loaded to read the dat files. Access would import the data from pervasive and run a report that was saved as a RTF file. It was then opened in Word where a macro would then PDF the document and close. The PDF was then copied to the webserver for the users to download.
What a mess and a nightmare to debug. It would work for a few months and then at seamingly random times, it would crash horibly for several days in a row.
When it did break, i felt like I wasted a lot of time tracking down ghost problems. In my slow days I rewrote it.
It now pulls read only data from the production server with that pervasive driver into a xml file. Then apply a xsl transform and pass the result to the FOP processor and place the result directly on the webserver.
A process that took an hour to run now finishes in 2 minutes. It is quick enough, we run it every 20 min. FOP was quick to setup and the examples are like a blue print and easy to figure out.
I have never had a problem with the new implementation and the end user had no impact and was unaware of the change.
I would recomend using a FOP processor to my friends.
Do not go home for the first month. Same goes for your laptop. leave it tucked away for for that first month. Attend the social events and get to know a few classmates. You social contacts you make the first few weeks will reward you over and over again.
And the less you talk about computers the better.
Or you can be the savior the first week removing spyware and viruses and installing network cards for other students in your dorm/classes.
Microsoft is not in the hardware business. If they make hardware, it is to sell more software.
PocketPC and Tablets are a prime examples. They created the hardware platform so they could market software. I feel that their shortlived entry with sidewinder was to not only set a standard, but also to get other venders desiging hardware that takes advantage of Direct3D. Now that hardware supports it, more game developers will also suport it. It is the chicken and the egg story, but with microsoft making the rules. they tell the hardware that the software supports it and they tell the software that the hardware supports it. Then they show examples of sidewinder and Direct3D, it is so, thus said Microsoft.
I think their entry into home networking was a strategic push to get the quality and usibility up while pushing home networking as a feature of XP. and maybe, just maybe, I realy have no idea what I am talking about, but thought it sounded insightful for the karma.
What is the best way to list languages on a resume that you have minimal skill in.
When listing programming languages, is it best to describe your skill at each one or just list them all.
If I were to put JAVA on my resume, I would be in that percentage that doesn't realy know it. Yeh, I took a few classes and I should mention it, but how?
Good point, but most cellphone plans have free long distance in a limited service area. All my friends have coverage that grants them free longdistance in Nebraska.
... Yes is does cost them more.
everyone I know my age has made the move to wireless plans. No land line for us.
Now, my parents on the other hand
Two years ago I moved from seattle to Lincoln, NE. Verizon does not have home coverage in Lincoln, but because my plan included the extended network, I still got service.
I tried several times to get a local (or atleast in state) number. Every time I called they refused to give me a number. I could not get a Lincoln number because they dont have local coverage. I could not get a Omaha number because I did not live in Omaha (where they do have coverage).
Finaly, I added a second phone to my plan at an Omaha store and they "made" me get a local "Omaha" number.
Hey, atleast it is in the state.
I would love to see a good alternative to google. not because I dont like google, but I like a second choice. or atleast a different view
The patent does not cover just name@subdomain.domain
Reading the details, the name@subdomain.domain must match a name.subdomain.domain with name being the same for a user and each user has a unique name.
With that said, I dont see how they can sue the sites that sell domains. The liability should sit with the purchasers because they are the ones that manage the subdomains.
I dont have a fax machine, but I have an idea.
Create a fake postmaster delivery failure print out that looks like a bounced email. Set up caller ID or *69 and fax back to them the failure and the fax they sent you.
It would put a puzzled look on their face and would waste their ink and toner.
or you could fax 100 black pages back to them
or put your modem on autodial and call any 800 numbers you find all day while you are at work
IE users know that Alt+F4 kills pop-up windows that have the focus.
Use F5 for flash adds (page reload)
On most pages, they only show you the flash add once. Just reload the page (F5) and it will not replay. (unless you block cookies)
http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:5PmmhAbvWIUJ: www.metafilter.com/mefi/30757+http://goatse.cx&hl= en&ie=UTF-8