the POTS network has a routing protocol used to setup calls/announce which switch is responsible for which number/range. One would suspect that SS7 can be abused by "bad" telcos as easily as BGP can be abused by "bad" ISPs. It can and does happen.
Though it's usually caused by error rather than malice.
It doesn't take much to screw up call routing, usually by passing traffic to the wrong exchange which then either gets analyzed and sent on to it's correct destination via a longer-than-necessary route or ends up in a routing loop, and eventually chokes up the trunk group before the call fails.
So what would they do? Listen in and steal my bank information? Ok, except that would be world class retarded. You spend all this time establishing good cover and getting set up in your target nation, and then blow it to steal a few grand from someone? Maybe stealing it from *one* random dude is stupid, but what about cleaning out the bank accounts of several hundred random people simultaneously (after spending some weeks/months collecting data)?
Odds are several of those folks would have more money than you, and the score could be fairly significant. Plus it would cause a certain amount of chaos and distrust in the banking system. Does that sound like something that a terrorist group might be interested in doing (especially in conjunction with some other event)?
I personally would keep the static line, despite the extra cost, just to have a 'base' to go to when things don't work elsewhere. This also gives me the possibility to log onto my home server and retrieve/store important data through my own VPN.
Lots of things to think about:) Here in Canada I would agree, keep the fixed system for at home.
My cable internet costs about $60/month flat rate. Although they (like most it seems) have mysterious limits to their "unlimited" service, I've never hit it.
The only HSDPA service here is Rogers/Fido (although for some reason they call it HSPA). The least expensive package I can find from them (using a PCMCIA modem) is $65/month max 1Gig/month (2gig $75, 3gig $85, 5Gig $100, $.03/Mb above that).
I have tried it out, and it feels speedy enough to use for general surfing. Didn't try sustained download speed tests, though.
The sales guy says they are upgrading speeds later this year "double what it currently is" he said. I assume that means they are moving to 7.2Mb
it appears that "inciting someone to commit suicide" is not specifically a charge, maybe not in your country it's not. Here is what the Criminal Code of Canada has to say about the subject:
Criminal Code
PART VIII: OFFENCES AGAINST THE PERSON AND REPUTATION
Suicide
Counselling or aiding suicide
241. Every one who
(a) counsels a person to commit suicide, or
(b) aids or abets a person to commit suicide,
whether suicide ensues or not, is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding fourteen years.
R.S., 1985, c. C-46, s. 241; R.S., 1985, c. 27 (1st Supp.), s. 7.
An interesting feature of google that I've always liked is the "This page may harm your computer" or whatever they put on dangerous links. I got an e-mail from my Mom on Monday night that said:
I was downloading something into AVG, and I saw something in red letters that said it was a 'trojan horse'. Is that friend or foe?
I think it's probably safe, but I thought I should check with you first..." Yes, she's confused about what AVG's role in the download is, but that aside.
There was a banner popped up with big red letters, and the word "warning" and she still thought it might be safe.
I guess there is some glimmer of hope, given she had enough doubt to ask me, but still I'd submit she is among the "average users" that need their computers to protect them from themselves.
I'm looking at some of the sandboxes that are being linked in this thread, and hopefully there is something transparent enough to install on her computer to add yet another level of protection.
Time to update my "rescue family members' computers" memstick... Again.
Smaller groups such as certain terrorist organisations possibly do not have the organisation or patience to find out this information themselves, but they do have the ability to look up web pages.
It always comes back to the terrorist bogeyman, doesn't it...
1) In the same way that there *weren't* communists under every bed during the cold war, there *aren't* terrorists lurking in every shadow today.
2) If those terrorists had the technology to affect a satellite in orbit, they probably wouldn't use it for that. They want to hit people "where they live" and freak out large parts of the population. What's going to have a "better" impact in their eyes - taking out some visible infrastructure onthe ground, or taking out a satellite that most people didn't even know existed?
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6) hope like hell that you've hired someone absolutely un-corruptible, with a perfect moral compass.....
Not just spilled beverages either.
I had a cable heap (containing mic, speaker, lighting and god knows what else) to untangle which had been polluted by both beverages and the inevitable result of massive overconsumption of beverages...
Good thing I was able to raid some surgical gloves fro the first aid kit.
I work for a telecom company in Canada, and every time I encounter American techs (at training, or vendor staff) they all have some military background.
I was beginning to think everyone in the USA was formerly in the service.
I wonder if the current military reality in the 'states is having a negative effect on recruitment of techies who want the same deal as you got, without the risks of getting dead on the other side of the planet?
If I had my way, my vote wouldnt be anonymous in anything requiring a vote....Its an expression of your opinion, ideal, morality, etc. and im fairly sure that if everyone could find out who voted for who, it might fix some of the voting "issues".
Hey genius, have you considered the possibilities of bribery and intimidation?
Or governments reacting differently to you depending on whether you voted for them or against them in the last election?
That happened in Canada not that long ago, although the elected official learned how the citizen voted thru party polling, not official government means, but the end result was the same.
The citizen was told, " you didn't vote for me, so why should I help you"
Doesn't the process of selecting the leader of the (for better or worse) one of the most powerful and influential nations on the planet have some relevance to the phrase "stuff that matters"?
Even if you live in another country, the US government and it's actions have some amount of influence on your existence. (whether it should have as much influence as it does is another topic for another thread).
1) Management acknowleges teat we have some pretty broken processes that get in the way of us doing things properly, and generally piss people off. (All workers know that their workplace does stuff that makes their job harder/more frustrating than it needs to be)
2) collect input about what processes are the most broken (no shortage of finger pointing here)
3) in depth analysis of the most broken processes (step by step, department by department. This is a long and paperwork intense process)
4) managers of all departments involved in the broken process meet to figure out how to deal with all the flaws identified in the process.
5) the document coming out of step 4 becomes the procedure document and is cascaded to the staff. And put somewhere on the company intranet (with thousands of similar documents, each with a cryptic title)
Repeat, until all processes have been looked at.
The process falls apart a bit at the last step, because it's so hard to find the process document if you weren't around when the review happened. But it did staff get buy-in at the beginning, because we were all willing to admit that there were a lot of broken processes around here, and we figured this couldn't make them much worse. In that part, we were mostly right. Most of the processes did get smoother and less frustrating, although they did also get a bit more beaurocratic.
I work in an increasingly large and beaurocratic telco. CYA is the biggest reason around here for using e-mail (and keeping a multi year archive of both my inbox and outbox).
"Gee Mr. manager, the batteries finally failed due to overheating... Yup, here's my e-mail from last year telling you we needed to upgrade the cooling. And here's my e-mail from 3 years ago saying the same thing (with your reply saying you'll deal with it later)."
A suggestion like this might solve a lot of the *IAA problems that people have been having.
Maybe if copyright is re-defined as being attributable to individuals only, not corporate entities, as well as reducing the length of the term back to what it originally was, rather than the Mickey Mouse 125 number that it currently is....
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Stuck the -*-plaintiff's lawyers-*- with the litigation costs. Big difference. The only downside for the plaintiff is they lost the case.
What, you don't expect the lawyer to pass those "expenses" on to the client? Possibly with a markup.Though it's usually caused by error rather than malice.
It doesn't take much to screw up call routing, usually by passing traffic to the wrong exchange which then either gets analyzed and sent on to it's correct destination via a longer-than-necessary route or ends up in a routing loop, and eventually chokes up the trunk group before the call fails.
Odds are several of those folks would have more money than you, and the score could be fairly significant.
Plus it would cause a certain amount of chaos and distrust in the banking system. Does that sound like something that a terrorist group might be interested in doing (especially in conjunction with some other event)?
Lots of things to think about
Here in Canada I would agree, keep the fixed system for at home.
My cable internet costs about $60/month flat rate. Although they (like most it seems) have mysterious limits to their "unlimited" service, I've never hit it.
The only HSDPA service here is Rogers/Fido (although for some reason they call it HSPA). The least expensive package I can find from them (using a PCMCIA modem) is $65/month max 1Gig/month (2gig $75, 3gig $85, 5Gig $100, $.03/Mb above that).
I have tried it out, and it feels speedy enough to use for general surfing. Didn't try sustained download speed tests, though.
The sales guy says they are upgrading speeds later this year "double what it currently is" he said. I assume that means they are moving to 7.2Mb
Here is what the Criminal Code of Canada has to say about the subject: Criminal Code
PART VIII: OFFENCES AGAINST THE PERSON AND REPUTATION
Suicide
Counselling or aiding suicide
241. Every one who
(a) counsels a person to commit suicide, or
(b) aids or abets a person to commit suicide,
whether suicide ensues or not, is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding fourteen years.
R.S., 1985, c. C-46, s. 241; R.S., 1985, c. 27 (1st Supp.), s. 7.
There was a banner popped up with big red letters, and the word "warning" and she still thought it might be safe.
I guess there is some glimmer of hope, given she had enough doubt to ask me, but still I'd submit she is among the "average users" that need their computers to protect them from themselves. I'm looking at some of the sandboxes that are being linked in this thread, and hopefully there is something transparent enough to install on her computer to add yet another level of protection. Time to update my "rescue family members' computers" memstick... Again.
Of course the alternative to your suggestion is to identify people who are particularly addictable.
"Warning this person has no self control. Please keep addictive substances away."
Smaller groups such as certain terrorist organisations possibly do not have the organisation or patience to find out this information themselves, but they do have the ability to look up web pages.
It always comes back to the terrorist bogeyman, doesn't it...
1) In the same way that there *weren't* communists under every bed during the cold war, there *aren't* terrorists lurking in every shadow today.
2) If those terrorists had the technology to affect a satellite in orbit, they probably wouldn't use it for that. They want to hit people "where they live" and freak out large parts of the population. What's going to have a "better" impact in their eyes - taking out some visible infrastructure onthe ground, or taking out a satellite that most people didn't even know existed?
6) hope like hell that you've hired someone absolutely un-corruptible, with a perfect moral compass.....
Then arrest him for things that he stated (in writing) he was planning to do, not for what he had on his bookshelf.
Not just spilled beverages either. I had a cable heap (containing mic, speaker, lighting and god knows what else) to untangle which had been polluted by both beverages and the inevitable result of massive overconsumption of beverages... Good thing I was able to raid some surgical gloves fro the first aid kit.
That explains it...
I work for a telecom company in Canada, and every time I encounter American techs (at training, or vendor staff) they all have some military background.
I was beginning to think everyone in the USA was formerly in the service.
I wonder if the current military reality in the 'states is having a negative effect on recruitment of techies who want the same deal as you got, without the risks of getting dead on the other side of the planet?
The predecessor to the tape recorder.
Magnetic recording on a piece of metal wire which is moved past an electromagnetic recording head.
Lookie here
"Never attribute to malice that which may adequately be explained by incompetence"
or something like that.
If I had my way, my vote wouldnt be anonymous in anything requiring a vote. ...Its an expression of your opinion, ideal, morality, etc. and im fairly sure that if everyone could find out who voted for who, it might fix some of the voting "issues".
Hey genius, have you considered the possibilities of bribery and intimidation?
Or governments reacting differently to you depending on whether you voted for them or against them in the last election?
That happened in Canada not that long ago, although the elected official learned how the citizen voted thru party polling, not official government means, but the end result was the same.
The citizen was told, " you didn't vote for me, so why should I help you"
Clearly you've never read the Hitchhiker's guide?
President Zaphod
Doesn't the process of selecting the leader of the (for better or worse) one of the most powerful and influential nations on the planet have some relevance to the phrase "stuff that matters"?
Even if you live in another country, the US government and it's actions have some amount of influence on your existence. (whether it should have as much influence as it does is another topic for another thread).
So you can't even talk about doing it hypothetically?
Do they also apply the same filter to people who have a SOHO package which does allow servers?
1) Management acknowleges teat we have some pretty broken processes that get in the way of us doing things properly, and generally piss people off. (All workers know that their workplace does stuff that makes their job harder/more frustrating than it needs to be)
2) collect input about what processes are the most broken (no shortage of finger pointing here)
3) in depth analysis of the most broken processes (step by step, department by department. This is a long and paperwork intense process)
4) managers of all departments involved in the broken process meet to figure out how to deal with all the flaws identified in the process.
5) the document coming out of step 4 becomes the procedure document and is cascaded to the staff. And put somewhere on the company intranet (with thousands of similar documents, each with a cryptic title)
Repeat, until all processes have been looked at.
The process falls apart a bit at the last step, because it's so hard to find the process document if you weren't around when the review happened. But it did staff get buy-in at the beginning, because we were all willing to admit that there were a lot of broken processes around here, and we figured this couldn't make them much worse.
In that part, we were mostly right. Most of the processes did get smoother and less frustrating, although they did also get a bit more beaurocratic.
I work in an increasingly large and beaurocratic telco.
CYA is the biggest reason around here for using e-mail (and keeping a multi year archive of both my inbox and outbox).
"Gee Mr. manager, the batteries finally failed due to overheating... Yup, here's my e-mail from last year telling you we needed to upgrade the cooling. And here's my e-mail from 3 years ago saying the same thing (with your reply saying you'll deal with it later)."
I thought the US was supposed to have a reputation for turning enemies into friends.
Maybe a long time ago.
Recently it's been pretty much the opposite.
I usually describe OSS programmers as volunteers.
Most people get the concept of volunteering.
At least it gets them away from the image of "giving it away 'cause it isn't good enough to sell"
Curious:
What's the one holdout's story?
Might give us some insight relevant to this discussion.
Yet, a cooperation can't vote. There has to be some legal difference.
A suggestion like this might solve a lot of the *IAA problems that people have been having.
Maybe if copyright is re-defined as being attributable to individuals only, not corporate entities, as well as reducing the length of the term back to what it originally was, rather than the Mickey Mouse 125 number that it currently is....