I'm wondering who can afford to watch streaming video on a cell phone, when the cell providers charge by the MB. ($.03/KB on my cell plan, $25/month to watch the provider's mobile TV product)
I know plenty of security 'faults' in my employers system. And I'am not obviously not allowed to make these public. I should fix them.
Yes, you (the collective you, not nescessarily you personally) should fix them. How many times have these security "faults" been pointed out to management, and the answer has been "we don't have the budget to deal with that right now" , or variations on that theme?
Most of us know the "proper" way to do things - the way to do things that makes whatever we are working on more reliable, secure, or fault-tolerant. Unfortunately, in business, there is a trade-off that often has to be made.
Quality - Cost - Speed Pick 2.
Unfortunately, cost and speed are the two that are easiest to fit on a spreadsheet, and that's how most projects get run in today's business world.
Their entire system had a problem, not me....... Effectively I was denied that opportunity to apply for a job, until I slaved thru multiple sessiosn of "save your application" and restarting because their application was horribly written or their database, one or the other.
So, you're saying that they are *NOT* discriminating against you specifically. The real problem is that their system is crap, and no one would be able to use it efficiently.
Sounds like they don't really want to hire anyone too much. Except maybe a web app programmer!
None of this is all that hard if you have basic power technician skills, but you can't just go casually plugging stuff in.
For a high-reliability installation, that's what you want.
At least that's what I would want. Someone with some level of skill putting everything together, not some monkey who just "plugs stuff in wherever it'll fit".
It seems like many people feel compelled to answer their cell phone or reply to an IM no matter what. It's really not that hard to focus, you just have to make the choice to do it!
It's easy to feel compelled to answer those incoming calls/e-mails/messages quickly when your manager tells you that it is a requirement of your job for you to do that.
A year or so back, we started trying to do just what you suggest, and our department's VP (my boss's, boss's boss) got complaints that our department was being "un-co-operative" with other departments in the company. How's that for some added un-nescessary pressure? Having a department sit-down meeting with three strata of annoyed executives, telling you that your attempt to be more productive, and focus more on your work is disruptive to the company.
P.S., I know I get more quality work accomplished, and faster, when I'm working nights and no is around to interrupt me.
I have created an account on the family computer (located in the living room) for my 5 year old. He has the most limited permissions that I can give him. His desktop has icons for Childsplay, TuxPaint, TuxType, TuxMath, Gcompris and a handfull of other educational games.
And he has access to Firefox. It defaults to a local page with links to selected (by me) kid-friendly web sites. And I have it running in "kiosk mode" (no address bar, no search bar, etc)
He gets "computer time" as a treat, and can loose it for mis-behaving.
this is settled law Don't forget, there are more countries in the world than the USA.
From the introduction to Canada's bill C-24
The enactment stipulates that contributions to registered parties, candidates, registered electoral district associations, leadership contestants and nomination contestants may be made only by individuals and are subject to limits. A limited exception allows contributions of up to $1,000 to be made by corporations and trade unions, or by associations from money given by individuals, to registered associations, nomination contestants and candidates.
So, while it doesn't stricty forbid non-individual contributions, it severely limits them, and thus limits the amount of leverage that an organization can exert on a politician. A good thing, in my book. Not perfect, but better than nothing.
Maybe they can't learn the danger. I've had girls argue that they realistically should be able to dress like strippers, go anywhere and not even get cat calls.
I remember in a Spider Robinson book (Night Of Power, IIRC), a bodyguard was admonishing his young female client for "why you gotta make my job so hard" by asking her "would you walk around in Central Park with hundred dollar bills hanging out of all of your pockets? Well, by dressing like that, you're doing the same thing."
It sounds like you have thought about this more than I have, so I've got a couple of follow-ups for you:
Colour: What about slide projector bulbs? I assume that they'd be acceptably white. (yeah, heat is still a problem)
$$$: Ok, if the old tech bulbs won't cut it for power/heat reasons, I'm still a bit surprised that there isn't anything between the $50 range, and the $500+ range.
Isn't there anything that falls in the middle, in terms of performance (and cost)?
The world is not out to get you No, but I still don't trust marketers to price stuff honestly, especially when there aren't a lot of manufacturers in the game (lots of brands, sure, but how many actually make the stuff?)
Maybe I can't get past the cost of 2-3 replacement lamps being more than the cost of a new projector. In my gut, it feels like the printer/ink or razor/blade buisiness model all over again.
'cause, you know, everyone always reads the TOS, don't they.
Hypothetical: Another user on a shared machine uses this, and it exports C:\DocumentsAndSettings\* then everyones data is uploaded, not just the person running the Google service.
(yeah, I know.. restrict user permissions, don't run as admin, etc, etc. Welcome to the real world, where "the right way" isn't what most people do.)
I was in Grade 10 when our school got 4 of these (model 4032, IIRC). The next year they got a printer and a 5 1/4 floppy drive, that were cable-swap shared between the machines. It was amazing what we could coax those poor, abused machines to do.
The first machine that was truly mine was an Apple ][+ that I bought for a full summer's wages. I've still got it, somewhere. I should see if any of the boot disks are still functional, and spend some nostalga time with the original Castle Wolfenstein. Glorious 16 colour action!
From what I can tell, you're attributing a lot more intlelgence to "criminals" than they deserve.
Sure, there is probably an un-usually smart one in the mix, but most criminals appear to me (as the family member of a person involved in law enforcement) to be below average in intellegence, wisdom, and common sense (in varying proportions).
If there is a statistically signifigant conter-arguement, then I haven't seen it.
If we attack the head (the company paying the spammer), spam should be reduced.
What is the address of "B1gg3r P3n15 Incorperated", again? And how do I get there to attack them?
Seriously, I don't usually see spam from real, legitimate companies. Most of what I get is from some shady "deal-too-good-to-be-true" kind of outfit with no name.
My bet is the spammer, and the company selling the "product" are usualy one in the same.
This feature is disabled in Greece by default (or should be anyway) because it is illegal
Disabled, sure, but it's a standard Ericsson (and every other phone switch maker, as well, I expect) feature. The code to make it happen is part of the system, and all that is needed to turn it on is a handfull of commands (restricted level commands typically issued by Ericsson).
The collection of Ericsson cell phone switches that I am currently sitting beside (4 of them) have a lot of features available in them, that my employer hasn't bought, and are not enabled. All it'll take to enable those features is a call to Ericsson with a purchase order.
My wild-assed speculation is that this "hack" was done by an employee, or former employee) who was probably recieving more than one income..
They (whoever "they" is) did it all from the telephone company switch.
This is exactly the same mechanism that is used for "proper" (IE: court ordered, law enforcement initiated) taps.
A command is issued in the switch that makes any future calls to or from the "target" phone part of a conference. The 3rd party in the conference would normally be a one-way audio device, that is connected to the police recording equipment.
In this case, it appears that the monitoring party was another cell phone (a pre-paid one, hard to track down who it belongs to).
The "hack" in this case, is really just an un-authorized use of an existing function in the telephone switching platform. It only takes a couple of commands, from a login with appropriate permissions, to do this.
All that stuff in the movies "..what was that, did you hear a click?" is bogus. I've been involved in a lot of testing of these and you can't tell that there's anything out of the ordinary going on.
Most of the malls here (Winnipeg.MB.CA),have a sign posted somewhere on the property that says something like "no roller blading, skateboarding...list of other things... or any other activity deemed unsuitable by the owners of this property"
I'm guessing that photgraphy without their permission would fit in there somewhere.
Not saying I have to like it, but it is their building, and they can decide what they want to be allowed within it's walls.
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I'm wondering who can afford to watch streaming video on a cell phone, when the cell providers charge by the MB. ($.03/KB on my cell plan, $25/month to watch the provider's mobile TV product)
You'll have to hire more competent developers when you outsource.
And that's bad because....?
I know plenty of security 'faults' in my employers system. And I'am not obviously not allowed to make these public. I should fix them.
Yes, you (the collective you, not nescessarily you personally) should fix them.
How many times have these security "faults" been pointed out to management, and the answer has been "we don't have the budget to deal with that right now" , or variations on that theme?
Most of us know the "proper" way to do things - the way to do things that makes whatever we are working on more reliable, secure, or fault-tolerant. Unfortunately, in business, there is a trade-off that often has to be made.
Quality - Cost - Speed
Pick 2.
Unfortunately, cost and speed are the two that are easiest to fit on a spreadsheet, and that's how most projects get run in today's business world.
Their entire system had a problem, not me. ......
Effectively I was denied that opportunity to apply for a job, until I slaved thru multiple sessiosn of "save your application" and restarting because their application was horribly written or their database, one or the other.
So, you're saying that they are *NOT* discriminating against you specifically.
The real problem is that their system is crap, and no one would be able to use it efficiently.
Sounds like they don't really want to hire anyone too much.
Except maybe a web app programmer!
None of this is all that hard if you have basic power technician skills, but you can't just go casually plugging stuff in.
For a high-reliability installation, that's what you want.
At least that's what I would want. Someone with some level of skill putting everything together, not some monkey who just "plugs stuff in wherever it'll fit".
It's easy to feel compelled to answer those incoming calls/e-mails/messages quickly when your manager tells you that it is a requirement of your job for you to do that.
A year or so back, we started trying to do just what you suggest, and our department's VP (my boss's, boss's boss) got complaints that our department was being "un-co-operative" with other departments in the company. How's that for some added un-nescessary pressure? Having a department sit-down meeting with three strata of annoyed executives, telling you that your attempt to be more productive, and focus more on your work is disruptive to the company.
P.S., I know I get more quality work accomplished, and faster, when I'm working nights and no is around to interrupt me.
GIS for Honeywagon
That's what we always called 'em when I was growing up on the farm.
At the moment it does.
I hotlinked Calabro's image to Fark's scratchpad page (lifespan=2 hours) and it seems to work.
Until Google notices someone doing this, then they'll probably put a stop to it.
I have created an account on the family computer (located in the living room) for my 5 year old.
He has the most limited permissions that I can give him.
His desktop has icons for Childsplay, TuxPaint, TuxType, TuxMath, Gcompris and a handfull of other educational games.
And he has access to Firefox. It defaults to a local page with links to selected (by me) kid-friendly web sites. And I have it running in "kiosk mode" (no address bar, no search bar, etc)
He gets "computer time" as a treat, and can loose it for mis-behaving.
Slashdotted, and Farked simultaneously.
No web server can survive the combined trampling of 2 herds of geeks.
Don't forget, there are more countries in the world than the USA.
From the introduction to Canada's bill C-24
So, while it doesn't stricty forbid non-individual contributions, it severely limits them, and thus limits the amount of leverage that an organization can exert on a politician.
A good thing, in my book. Not perfect, but better than nothing.
Maybe they can't learn the danger. I've had girls argue that they realistically should be able to dress like strippers, go anywhere and not even get cat calls.
I remember in a Spider Robinson book (Night Of Power, IIRC), a bodyguard was admonishing his young female client for "why you gotta make my job so hard" by asking her "would you walk around in Central Park with hundred dollar bills hanging out of all of your pockets? Well, by dressing like that, you're doing the same thing."
Fine, then they can give individual contributions to their local candidate.
In their own name.
With their own money.
From TIVO.COM: So, I guess I won't.
... but buying things pre-assembled is a lot less geeky than building it.
And a lot less fun.
Colour: What about slide projector bulbs? I assume that they'd be acceptably white. (yeah, heat is still a problem)
$$$: Ok, if the old tech bulbs won't cut it for power/heat reasons, I'm still a bit surprised that there isn't anything between the $50 range, and the $500+ range.
Isn't there anything that falls in the middle, in terms of performance (and cost)?
The world is not out to get you
No, but I still don't trust marketers to price stuff honestly, especially when there aren't a lot of manufacturers in the game (lots of brands, sure, but how many actually make the stuff?)
Maybe I can't get past the cost of 2-3 replacement lamps being more than the cost of a new projector. In my gut, it feels like the printer/ink or razor/blade buisiness model all over again.
So, then, do they have to use such high-priced light sources? The lamps for old-school overhead projectors or slide projectors are well under $50.
Is there some inherent requirement in projecting a digital image that requires so much more lamp, versus projecting a film/transparency/analog source?
'cause, you know, everyone always reads the TOS, don't they.
Hypothetical: Another user on a shared machine uses this, and it exports C:\DocumentsAndSettings\* then everyones data is uploaded, not just the person running the Google service.
(yeah, I know.. restrict user permissions, don't run as admin, etc, etc. Welcome to the real world, where "the right way" isn't what most people do.)
I was in Grade 10 when our school got 4 of these (model 4032, IIRC).
The next year they got a printer and a 5 1/4 floppy drive, that were cable-swap shared between the machines.
It was amazing what we could coax those poor, abused machines to do.
The first machine that was truly mine was an Apple ][+ that I bought for a full summer's wages. I've still got it, somewhere. I should see if any of the boot disks are still functional, and spend some nostalga time with the original Castle Wolfenstein. Glorious 16 colour action!
From what I can tell, you're attributing a lot more intlelgence to "criminals" than they deserve.
Sure, there is probably an un-usually smart one in the mix, but most criminals appear to me (as the family member of a person involved in law enforcement) to be below average in intellegence, wisdom, and common sense (in varying proportions).
If there is a statistically signifigant conter-arguement, then I haven't seen it.
What is the address of "B1gg3r P3n15 Incorperated", again? And how do I get there to attack them?
Seriously, I don't usually see spam from real, legitimate companies. Most of what I get is from some shady "deal-too-good-to-be-true" kind of outfit with no name.
My bet is the spammer, and the company selling the "product" are usualy one in the same.
Well, they might have. Have you read what the spammers are writing?
But you didn't give them permission, and that makes it un-solicited.
The collection of Ericsson cell phone switches that I am currently sitting beside (4 of them) have a lot of features available in them, that my employer hasn't bought, and are not enabled. All it'll take to enable those features is a call to Ericsson with a purchase order.
My wild-assed speculation is that this "hack" was done by an employee, or former employee) who was probably recieving more than one income..
They didn't have to.
They (whoever "they" is) did it all from the telephone company switch.
This is exactly the same mechanism that is used for "proper" (IE: court ordered, law enforcement initiated) taps.
A command is issued in the switch that makes any future calls to or from the "target" phone part of a conference. The 3rd party in the conference would normally be a one-way audio device, that is connected to the police recording equipment.
In this case, it appears that the monitoring party was another cell phone (a pre-paid one, hard to track down who it belongs to).
The "hack" in this case, is really just an un-authorized use of an existing function in the telephone switching platform. It only takes a couple of commands, from a login with appropriate permissions, to do this.
All that stuff in the movies "..what was that, did you hear a click?" is bogus. I've been involved in a lot of testing of these and you can't tell that there's anything out of the ordinary going on.
I'm guessing that photgraphy without their permission would fit in there somewhere.
Not saying I have to like it, but it is their building, and they can decide what they want to be allowed within it's walls.