You should look into how many cars have gas tanks behind the axle by the way. Would you prefer it outside the frame rail on the side like GM pickups of the 70-80's. Or in the cab like 50s trucks?
'50's???!
My '74 F-250 has a tank behind the seat. Good thing too...because the gas gauge doesn't work. It's pretty quitet when it's full...gets noisy at about half a tank, and when it starts getting quiet again (usually about 18 or 19 miles down the road form your last fill up) you know it's time for some more gas.
I think it would be cool if someone fixed up a "hardware hack" that would let me add a keypad so I could call up all the additional data on the dashboard display...
I hardware hack can be found ni places called junk yards. While the bulk of/. wouldn't even know where to start looking form something like this, you can find them most everywhere. Start calling and looked for a wrecked SLT, wipe the blood off the control buttons, remove, install in your truck.
There are even sites where you can request a search for the parts you are looking for from many participating junkyards.
Ring. Ring.
Me: Hello? SIP call:Stop wasting money! Enjoy holiday savings on Marlboros and more, with free shipping! click Ring. Ring.
Me: Hello? SIP call: Get the AMAZING penis patch! click Ring. Ring.
Me: Hello? SIP call: Having consulted with my colleagues and based on the information gathered from the Nigerian Chambers Of Commerce And Industry, I have the privilege to request for your assistance to transfer the sum... click
Me: rip 7960 out of ethernet port, toss out window.
Your approach will spoof CLID (Calling Line ID), but not ANI (Automatic Number Identification, which is what the telco uses for billing, etc. and is the basis for "official" record of calls.)
Perhaps you ought to read up on the way the telephone network really works (especially the SS7 parts that you can't touch at all) before making such sweeping generalizations about your ability to hack it.
Perhaps you ought to think before making sweeping generalizations about who you think does and does not have access to SS7 infrastructure equipment, especially when you have no idea who you are responding to.
I'm sure some ad exec would bend over backwards trying to make some tenuous psychological argument about "sub conscious choices" or "product awareness" but I think car makers just waste a hell of a lot of money in the end.
IANAAE (I am not an ad exec) BUT, I'd augue that product awareness is exactly correct. Ever buy a car, new or used, and all of a sudden you start to notice that SO many other people have one, when you've never noticed before? Yeah. It's like that. If you don't notice the product really exists, you're not likely to even consider purchasing it.
Whoever has actually based a purchasing decision on a commercial...well....please give me a call. I have some things for sale I'm too lazy to list on eBay.
If it's important enough, ANI will call your CallerID's bluff...
Of course it will. But the discussion is about people who aren't technical enough to use email properly. People who can often be fooled by changing the HEADERS on a fax. Do you really think this type of person doesn't just blindly trust caller ID information?
The thing about analogue lines is their authenticity. It is very difficult to hijack someone's phone number and pretend you are that person. We all know how easy it is to spoof an IP.
You're kidding, right?
Give me a phone number to call you at, and tell me what phone number you want me to appear to be calling from. It will take me about as long to set the outbound caller ID up as it takes to actually dial the number.
Probably the same argument for IP telephony vs telephones may be applied. When IP or Internet voice calls become standard and analogue lines become antiquainted we'll see the emergence of some applicance (document scanner with an Ethernet interface).
Network scanners have been around for at least 10 years now. Ethernet on a scanner is very, very old news.
You will quickly find out if you need a hardware firewall or not.
Of course, with the limited use of the tools mentioned, I'd hardly say that a hradware firewall appropriate for this "NOC" would cost $15,000. Try a $600 PIX 501, if you must have a PIX.
I think your missing the point. It's "slideware" (did the NY Times coin that just now?
Hardly....but it has been used "incorrectly" by NYT. Slideware usually refers to vaporware when it's in it whiz-bang marketing stage (existing as a presentation of slides targeted at potential investors). I first heard it in the early 90s.
I pay over $1,600 dollars a year in taxes for my house which is in a city. I always thought that city == trash pickup because of said taxes. Nope,
Not that I don't think the trash should be part of it, but think City tax=streets, police, fire, ems, street lights, public buildings, courts, prisons, etc.
If you think about it, it is funny: the digital hub is also turning into a power hub.
Get a life.
My hope is that Power over ethernet takes off. This would mean a single power supply that injects power on the ethernet, and all network components would draw their power off it. Now if my laptop could draw power out of the ethernet link, it would really be nice.
What do you mean, takes off? It's avaialble now. But you can't power printers and laptops off of it for very obvious reasons: LOOK AT THE GAUGE OF CAT5. It's a low power solution only: phones, access points, etc.
I suggest you check out what's going on in the real world to hopefully get some perspective on life. Hiding behind AC posts on/. doesn't seem to be helping your grasp on reality too much.
I'd rather have a friendly bunch of idiots running around/. being 'ignorant' than a single fat-fingered (and arguably stupider) malicious jackass like you.
#1.) I'm hardly alone
#2.) You appear a bit malicious youself.
#3.) Try taking responsibility for your posts, AC.
What gives you the idea that Spanish is a gutter language? Spain is a country as dignified and noble as France or England with a similarly interesting history as the other two countries.
If not even more so, in my opinion. I'm certianl not talking about Spain and proper Spanish. I'm talking about the Mexican/American mangling (Spenglish) that is spoken by most illegal immigrants from south of our borders in the US.
That's one of the funnyiest things I've heard in a while. Is that what most Americans believe? No wonder less than 1 in 10 have a passport!!
Many Americans do beleve that, but the passport issue is a seperate one. You see, very few of us need a passport to go on a 2-hour car trip. We have a little bit more land mass (than you most likely do, as I'm assuming you live in Europe). Besides, most Americans don't particularly want to stoop to lowering their standard of living by going somewhere else.
Be angry/jealous/in a furious rage about this, but that's just the way it is. To add to this horrible lack of US Citizen "worldliness" that Europeans have, most of us only speak one language.....imagine that....we go on a day trip and the people still speak the same language as we do at home (with the excpetion of convenient store workers, bus boys, landscapers, and hotel cleaning staff).
Would I like to be able to have an easy way to practice languages other than gutter Spanish? Sure. But it's a small price to pay for living here.
It really has nothing to do with knowing about business. It has to do with not knowing how to critically think, how to actually problem solve, or any of those essential traits of a real programmer.
Of course that's a much more accurate description of what I meant. But I will slightly disagree: it does mean knowing business if you are writing software to perform business functions.
It really comes down to all of the things you said, PLUS knowledge of [insert purpose/target audience of software you are coding here].
One of the worst offenders of this principal, whom I fired quickly after taking the management position, actually told me that he didn't need to know how to do anyone else's job to write code to help them. This is the guy who wrote a chunk of database code to help one of the acocuntants move money from fund holding accounts into fund disbursement accounts. His logic was so flawed, that not only did it not work, it could have created a major SEC violation had I not gone behind him and verified what he was doing (yes, I know that was my job anyway, but......). It took putting him in a room with the person who had been doing this process manually for a total of ONE HOUR for him to get the logic and re-code correctly. That's 2 days of wasted coding that needed to be fixed, because of someone primadonna coder who was too good to do their job correctly.
While this was one of the worst cases, the same type of thing on a much smaller scale seems to be all too typical.
There are many good programmers that don't understand business and want to be handed clean coding tasks. These are the people that are whining incessantly because their requirements documents aren't right.
My god....someone else who gets it. When I was a coder (internal apps for a fund accounting firm), I sat down with the people who did the job I was to assist/automate with code and LEARNED TO DO THEIR JOB. By writing my own requirements doc, I could craft a better end product.
Then I move up to being the dev manager at another place. And I hear nothing but whining from coders who don't have a detailed enough requirement doc, or that I wanted something else even though what they did techincally allowed them to check off every box on their completion crieria. Cittone/DeVry/NameAnotherCrappy"School" never tought them a damn thing about business. I had coders who could run circles around me in raw code. But they had no concept of the practical application of their skills. They will always be in jeopardy of losing their jobs. And they will always be the ones who whine the loudest.
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You should look into how many cars have gas tanks behind the axle by the way. Would you prefer it outside the frame rail on the side like GM pickups of the 70-80's. Or in the cab like 50s trucks?
'50's???!
My '74 F-250 has a tank behind the seat. Good thing too...because the gas gauge doesn't work. It's pretty quitet when it's full...gets noisy at about half a tank, and when it starts getting quiet again (usually about 18 or 19 miles down the road form your last fill up) you know it's time for some more gas.
But damn does it plow some snow.
oh yeah? then why do they always blow up when they nose dive off a cliff in james bond movies? ;)
I know that was a joke, but rear engine == front fuel tank in most cars.
I think it would be cool if someone fixed up a "hardware hack" that would let me add a keypad so I could call up all the additional data on the dashboard display...
/. wouldn't even know where to start looking form something like this, you can find them most everywhere. Start calling and looked for a wrecked SLT, wipe the blood off the control buttons, remove, install in your truck.
I hardware hack can be found ni places called junk yards. While the bulk of
There are even sites where you can request a search for the parts you are looking for from many participating junkyards.
There is a reason that The Book Of Four Rings
I think you're missing a ring.
Why IP and not by e-mail address?
Ring. Ring.
Me: Hello?
SIP call:Stop wasting money! Enjoy holiday savings on Marlboros and more, with free shipping!
click
Ring. Ring.
Me: Hello?
SIP call: Get the AMAZING penis patch!
click
Ring. Ring.
Me: Hello?
SIP call: Having consulted with my colleagues and based on the information gathered from the Nigerian Chambers Of Commerce And Industry, I have the privilege to request for your assistance to transfer the sum...
click
Me: rip 7960 out of ethernet port, toss out window.
Your approach will spoof CLID (Calling Line ID), but not ANI (Automatic Number Identification, which is what the telco uses for billing, etc. and is the basis for "official" record of calls.)
I'm aware of that. See previous post.
Perhaps you ought to read up on the way the telephone network really works (especially the SS7 parts that you can't touch at all) before making such sweeping generalizations about your ability to hack it.
Perhaps you ought to think before making sweeping generalizations about who you think does and does not have access to SS7 infrastructure equipment, especially when you have no idea who you are responding to.
I'm sure some ad exec would bend over backwards trying to make some tenuous psychological argument about "sub conscious choices" or "product awareness" but I think car makers just waste a hell of a lot of money in the end.
IANAAE (I am not an ad exec) BUT, I'd augue that product awareness is exactly correct. Ever buy a car, new or used, and all of a sudden you start to notice that SO many other people have one, when you've never noticed before? Yeah. It's like that. If you don't notice the product really exists, you're not likely to even consider purchasing it.
Whoever has actually based a purchasing decision on a commercial...well....please give me a call. I have some things for sale I'm too lazy to list on eBay.
If it's important enough, ANI will call your CallerID's bluff...
Of course it will. But the discussion is about people who aren't technical enough to use email properly. People who can often be fooled by changing the HEADERS on a fax. Do you really think this type of person doesn't just blindly trust caller ID information?
Of course they do. And that's the point.
The thing about analogue lines is their authenticity. It is very difficult to hijack someone's phone number and pretend you are that person. We all know how easy it is to spoof an IP.
You're kidding, right?
Give me a phone number to call you at, and tell me what phone number you want me to appear to be calling from. It will take me about as long to set the outbound caller ID up as it takes to actually dial the number.
Probably the same argument for IP telephony vs telephones may be applied. When IP or Internet voice calls become standard and analogue lines become antiquainted we'll see the emergence of some applicance (document scanner with an Ethernet interface).
Network scanners have been around for at least 10 years now. Ethernet on a scanner is very, very old news.
You will quickly find out if you need a hardware firewall or not.
Of course, with the limited use of the tools mentioned, I'd hardly say that a hradware firewall appropriate for this "NOC" would cost $15,000. Try a $600 PIX 501, if you must have a PIX.
I think your missing the point. It's "slideware" (did the NY Times coin that just now?
Hardly....but it has been used "incorrectly" by NYT. Slideware usually refers to vaporware when it's in it whiz-bang marketing stage (existing as a presentation of slides targeted at potential investors). I first heard it in the early 90s.
I pay over $1,600 dollars a year in taxes for my house which is in a city. I always thought that city == trash pickup because of said taxes. Nope,
Not that I don't think the trash should be part of it, but think City tax=streets, police, fire, ems, street lights, public buildings, courts, prisons, etc.
If you think about it, it is funny: the digital hub is also turning into a power hub.
Get a life.
My hope is that Power over ethernet takes off. This would mean a single power supply that injects power on the ethernet, and all network components would draw their power off it. Now if my laptop could draw power out of the ethernet link, it would really be nice.
What do you mean, takes off? It's avaialble now. But you can't power printers and laptops off of it for very obvious reasons: LOOK AT THE GAUGE OF CAT5. It's a low power solution only: phones, access points, etc.
I'm well aware of what inanity means. Your drivel simply isn't worth my full attention.
You are still hiding as an AC, I see. Try growing a set.
push the envelope on inanity as far as you have
/. doesn't seem to be helping your grasp on reality too much.
Insanity?
I suggest you check out what's going on in the real world to hopefully get some perspective on life. Hiding behind AC posts on
I'd rather have a friendly bunch of idiots running around /. being 'ignorant' than a single fat-fingered (and arguably stupider) malicious jackass like you.
#1.) I'm hardly alone
#2.) You appear a bit malicious youself.
#3.) Try taking responsibility for your posts, AC.
Touche. But at least that's fat fingers and not ignorance.
What gives you the idea that Spanish is a gutter language? Spain is a country as dignified and noble as France or England with a similarly interesting history as the other two countries.
If not even more so, in my opinion. I'm certianl not talking about Spain and proper Spanish. I'm talking about the Mexican/American mangling (Spenglish) that is spoken by most illegal immigrants from south of our borders in the US.
cutting the cables is rediculous
/. still haven't figured out how to spell that word properly.
What's ridiculious is that people on
an entirely new paradigm
Yay! Bingo! I got buzzword bingo and I'm only 1/3 of the way throught the comments!
That's one of the funnyiest things I've heard in a while. Is that what most Americans believe? No wonder less than 1 in 10 have a passport!!
Many Americans do beleve that, but the passport issue is a seperate one. You see, very few of us need a passport to go on a 2-hour car trip. We have a little bit more land mass (than you most likely do, as I'm assuming you live in Europe). Besides, most Americans don't particularly want to stoop to lowering their standard of living by going somewhere else.
Be angry/jealous/in a furious rage about this, but that's just the way it is. To add to this horrible lack of US Citizen "worldliness" that Europeans have, most of us only speak one language.....imagine that....we go on a day trip and the people still speak the same language as we do at home (with the excpetion of convenient store workers, bus boys, landscapers, and hotel cleaning staff).
Would I like to be able to have an easy way to practice languages other than gutter Spanish? Sure. But it's a small price to pay for living here.
(remember, we're #1)
It really has nothing to do with knowing about business. It has to do with not knowing how to critically think, how to actually problem solve, or any of those essential traits of a real programmer.
Of course that's a much more accurate description of what I meant. But I will slightly disagree: it does mean knowing business if you are writing software to perform business functions.
It really comes down to all of the things you said, PLUS knowledge of [insert purpose/target audience of software you are coding here].
One of the worst offenders of this principal, whom I fired quickly after taking the management position, actually told me that he didn't need to know how to do anyone else's job to write code to help them. This is the guy who wrote a chunk of database code to help one of the acocuntants move money from fund holding accounts into fund disbursement accounts. His logic was so flawed, that not only did it not work, it could have created a major SEC violation had I not gone behind him and verified what he was doing (yes, I know that was my job anyway, but......). It took putting him in a room with the person who had been doing this process manually for a total of ONE HOUR for him to get the logic and re-code correctly. That's 2 days of wasted coding that needed to be fixed, because of someone primadonna coder who was too good to do their job correctly.
While this was one of the worst cases, the same type of thing on a much smaller scale seems to be all too typical.
Where is this mythical land?'
I belive it is called India.
There are many good programmers that don't understand business and want to be handed clean coding tasks. These are the people that are whining incessantly because their requirements documents aren't right.
My god....someone else who gets it. When I was a coder (internal apps for a fund accounting firm), I sat down with the people who did the job I was to assist/automate with code and LEARNED TO DO THEIR JOB. By writing my own requirements doc, I could craft a better end product.
Then I move up to being the dev manager at another place. And I hear nothing but whining from coders who don't have a detailed enough requirement doc, or that I wanted something else even though what they did techincally allowed them to check off every box on their completion crieria. Cittone/DeVry/NameAnotherCrappy"School" never tought them a damn thing about business. I had coders who could run circles around me in raw code. But they had no concept of the practical application of their skills. They will always be in jeopardy of losing their jobs. And they will always be the ones who whine the loudest.