Don't be so sure! I recall about eight years ago it was discovered that GSM's 64-bit encryption keys defaulted the last 16 bits of every key to zero, significantly reducing the amount of processing needed to decrypt GSM transmissions. At the time this was widely suspected as an intentional back-door so GSM would gain approval from the necessary goverments before being deployed.
All I'm saying is who's to really, really know if a publicly-traded company like RSA can't get "leaned on" by the government to provide the NSA with a back door? In fact, according to Steven Levy in "Crypto" there was the possibility that the original RSA encryption would never see the light of day if users didn't surrender their keys to the government to be held "in escrow", to be made available to law enforcement with the appropriate warrant... These are just 'for examples'.
Encryption is no panacea and it probably only protects you from the average criminal who tends to prefer easier targets that don't encrypt their data. For these reasons, I just don't see encrypting email as a way of protecting yourself from your own government.
Well part of the issue they raise is that your uric acid levels will increase too, and that's not good for anybody-- unless you'd like a searing case of gout to go with your "bulking up"!
You know 15 minutes a day using a pair of 5kg/10lb. dumbells in a series of exercises can give you tone and make you look much more solid. 30 minutes a day and you can definitely put on some muscle mass. Keep the reps low and do a circuit of different exercises several times. You don't even have to do the exercise all at once, you can get 2-3 cycles done during the commercial breaks of most network TV shows. Plus lean muscle mass is going to be alot healthier for you than flabby fat that puts you at risk of heart disease/stroke as well as the already mentioned diabetes.
Same thing happened to me when I resigned from a job three months ago. Just the mention of the resignation made my manager wince. Seems it was company policy to show the door immediately to anyone offering two-weeks-notice. I was stunned, I never heard of an employer rejecting two-weeks-notice.
Apparently in the business world paranoia is the new normal.
...BellSouth could try, but then Google lights up all their dark fiber and take themselves OUT of BellSouth's market altogether, leaving BellSouth to explain to their customers why they should keep paying for a service that doesn't give them easy access to the most popular search engine on the net.
This would give Yahoo the leverage to say to BellSouth: if you want to have ANY major search engine/portal in your network, better provide unrestricted access to our domain.
Net result: Google owns their own 'Net, Yahoo pwns BellSouth.
Unfortunately they have our money already, Ballmer has even been quoted saying that MS doesn't need to sell a thing for TEN YEARS and they'll still have cash in the bank!
As long as Dell, Gateway, HP, IBM/Lesovo & Sony are all complicitly buying Windows for every new machine they produce then the vote has already been cast before you open your wallet! When you don't buy their hardware, M$ is still laughing all the way to the bank.
I agree that MS won't part with *my* money anytime soon, but not spending money on their products doesn't send a clear message, because they could blame it on changing markets or lack of hardware support, well they could blame it on *anything* and probably not themselves.
I see NO reason why a company with this many people and this much money can't get good patches out the door soon after vulnerabilities are found.
I agree with you that it's pissheaded of any software company to ignore fixing their security holes, I would suggest that that their "reason" would have something to do with the fact that a new version of Windows and IE are on their way, that don't have the same holes, and the cost/effort to fix those existing problems would be too costly to the newer versions (going from the IE Blog, alot of the IE 6 team has something to do with IE 7, and the WinXP team is involved in WinVista).
That being said, perhaps the problem here is that it costs less for Microsoft to ignore security holes than fix them. That would mean the solution is to forget adding to the "Microsoft so bad" arguments and start pressuring lawmakers to punish companies that are negligent and exposing consumers to harm.
Once the cost of inaction is greater than the cost of action, we'll start seeing a difference.
They're harder to see because web services are really a solution aimed at the business-to-business market so even when they get used, its use is overlooked because businesses are likelier to trumpet what the web service grants them to do rather than the use of the web service itself.
For example, my favorite public-facing web service has got to be the USPS address correction web service, but if a company were to exploit this API, any press they create for it would probably read "Company ABC in partnership with USPS to increase mail delivery productivity".
Uninstall every application you're positive you don't want/need, including Indexing Service (which you could replace with Google Desktop or Copernic)
If you (shudder) use Outlook, it gets pretty logey around 800Mb or so, especially if you frequently recieve or send attachments, use the archival function to stow away old email, at work I do mine my year. Another handy tool is "Google GMail Loader", I have archived all my email at home in my Gmail account, which turns your GMail into offsite backup of your email.
Create a new logon, your user profile is probably quite bloated and mangled. A new profile will let you start from zero. Migrate bookmarks, email and your My Documents folder... DO NOT delete your original user logon until you're satisfied that you've migrated everything you want to keep (deleting the profile will delete everything associated to that logon in Documents and Settings).
Quick pagefile defrag tip: Move your page file to a different hard drive partition through the Virtual Memory dialog (Control Panel > System > Advanced > Performance > Virtual Memory)-- set the min and max sizes to the same number so it never has to grow again once its been initialized as this will limit the opportunity for it to fragment.
Do some housekeeping, delete files you don't need, empty your internet cache, then defrag the hard drive.
Through Google, you can find alot of advice on which services you can turn off without hapering the funcitoning of XP. I manage fine without doing this step but some swear by it.
Since most of my prototyping is for web applications, I quickly found that HTML as a prototype is just as time consuming as actual coding. The temptation to include prototype pages that would actually appear to do something would only stetch out the time it would take to produce something that could satisfy a client.
Then I switched to Visio and was able to crank out diagrams of a robust website quickly, and still include all the subtitles and annotations that you want. I could template pages easily enough, which would help when quickly rebranding the prototype for other clients in under 30 minutes (pretty common practice when you work for an App service provider).
When a proto was ready for client review I'd send the Visio printout to CutePDF, using the filename for dating and versioning. Our clients loved PDF prototyping since it was easier to printout the whole "website" and make their own notes, something they wouldn't do as easily with a website, prototyped in HTML or as a working demo.
I chose Visio as it was easily available in our office, no doubt there's an OO.org equivalent that would do just as well.
A signal split that many times is going to be no good.
Take a trip to your local Radio Shack and look for something called a speaker switch box. It would look like a small brick with a knob on the front with the letters "A", "B", etc. on it, and plugs on the back for input/output signals. This would have the net effect of unplugging thhe unused speakers from your soundcard without the need for plugging/unplugging the cables yourself, sparing you the signal degradation.
If you're at all handy with a soldering iron, you could probably make your own speaker switch box with $5 or $10 worth of parts.
I would say that cellphone antenna towers are already in place, depending on the area, traffic cameras might need to be installed.
A traffic camera also has a limited scope and would cost more to run a series of cameras to provide continuous coverage along a single stretch of road. Presumably, if there's cellphone coverage in a given area, there could be traffic monitoring with no need to deploy extra hardware and technicians.
So from a procurement and deployement angle, this could actually save money and provide more bang for the buck, considering how pervasive cellphone coverage is in metropolitan areas.
In the US, what's the usual speed limit? Like 90 mp/h?
It's 65mp/h! Please try not to laugh your head off the next time you're driving an autobahn.
The real irony is they put it the low speed limit to save lives and gasoline, then they go and build SUVs that guzzle gasoline and are prone to rolling over at high speeds.
*Sighs with relief after not buying expensive music player*
How rotter, considering the depth of the market out there, Apple should understand that people buy iPods for the looks more than just about any other reason, and they ought to have made the screen out of something damn-near bulletproof-- now a scratch-resistant screen would be a really nice selling feature.
...And has anyone tried getting out their CD repair kit and burnishing in the scratch removal stuff onto the screen by hand? You know, that scratch remover supposed to be good enough not to interfere with CD optics, it must be good enough for your Nano screens.
Energy cannot be created nor destroyed. So when you blow apart a hurricane, the energy has to go somewhere... are you so sure what form that energy is going to take?
In other news, scientists are working hard on airplanes that can't crash, pens that can't forge signatures and music that can't be copied.
Pick one teacher, one that stands the best chance of being receptive to using the new stuff. you've got to offer them the right carrot:
Get them a box with the best stuff you've got. You know, responsive, boots quickly and has the goodies they're interested in (Email, Internet and wordprocessing, spreadsheet etc.) but use your selections for the goodies, even cheat by ripping off icons, look-alike skins for the desktop and apps-- even each icon's position on the desktop is important.
Bend over backwards to keep the teacher you select happy with their new box. Even if it means undeleting a file from the hard drive that they fat-fingered or rearranging the desktop icons.
Once this teacher's satisfaction increases, word will get around and teachers will be approaching you to "fix" their computer just like you did for Teacher A.
Since the last paragraph mentions not to mention Macintosh, I assume by answering "Apple" you either didn't read carefully, or, being teachers that he's working for, he should curry favour by bribing them with the traditional red apple, like students from a previous century used to.
You know, CEOs of many companies feel a similar way towards their competition. Passive, happy-go-lucky people do not wind up being CEOs of anything. He's not an ordinary person.
To understand more about CEO's rent "Gorillas in the Mist" and pay close attention to the silverback male.
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Don't be so sure! I recall about eight years ago it was discovered that GSM's 64-bit encryption keys defaulted the last 16 bits of every key to zero, significantly reducing the amount of processing needed to decrypt GSM transmissions. At the time this was widely suspected as an intentional back-door so GSM would gain approval from the necessary goverments before being deployed.
All I'm saying is who's to really, really know if a publicly-traded company like RSA can't get "leaned on" by the government to provide the NSA with a back door? In fact, according to Steven Levy in "Crypto" there was the possibility that the original RSA encryption would never see the light of day if users didn't surrender their keys to the government to be held "in escrow", to be made available to law enforcement with the appropriate warrant... These are just 'for examples'.
Encryption is no panacea and it probably only protects you from the average criminal who tends to prefer easier targets that don't encrypt their data. For these reasons, I just don't see encrypting email as a way of protecting yourself from your own government.
Well said!. That was a direct hit. Now if there was some way to recoup all those lost hours mangling Javascript and CSS to work in IE:Mac.
You know 15 minutes a day using a pair of 5kg/10lb. dumbells in a series of exercises can give you tone and make you look much more solid. 30 minutes a day and you can definitely put on some muscle mass. Keep the reps low and do a circuit of different exercises several times. You don't even have to do the exercise all at once, you can get 2-3 cycles done during the commercial breaks of most network TV shows. Plus lean muscle mass is going to be alot healthier for you than flabby fat that puts you at risk of heart disease/stroke as well as the already mentioned diabetes.
Yes I agree, let's re-assign those scientists studying Mars. Tell them to suck it up, go find Bin Laden and do something useful for a change.
Apparently in the business world paranoia is the new normal.
This would give Yahoo the leverage to say to BellSouth: if you want to have ANY major search engine/portal in your network, better provide unrestricted access to our domain.
Net result: Google owns their own 'Net, Yahoo pwns BellSouth.
As long as Dell, Gateway, HP, IBM/Lesovo & Sony are all complicitly buying Windows for every new machine they produce then the vote has already been cast before you open your wallet! When you don't buy their hardware, M$ is still laughing all the way to the bank.
I agree that MS won't part with *my* money anytime soon, but not spending money on their products doesn't send a clear message, because they could blame it on changing markets or lack of hardware support, well they could blame it on *anything* and probably not themselves.
I agree with you that it's pissheaded of any software company to ignore fixing their security holes, I would suggest that that their "reason" would have something to do with the fact that a new version of Windows and IE are on their way, that don't have the same holes, and the cost/effort to fix those existing problems would be too costly to the newer versions (going from the IE Blog, alot of the IE 6 team has something to do with IE 7, and the WinXP team is involved in WinVista).
That being said, perhaps the problem here is that it costs less for Microsoft to ignore security holes than fix them. That would mean the solution is to forget adding to the "Microsoft so bad" arguments and start pressuring lawmakers to punish companies that are negligent and exposing consumers to harm.
Once the cost of inaction is greater than the cost of action, we'll start seeing a difference.
For example, my favorite public-facing web service has got to be the USPS address correction web service, but if a company were to exploit this API, any press they create for it would probably read "Company ABC in partnership with USPS to increase mail delivery productivity".
Then I switched to Visio and was able to crank out diagrams of a robust website quickly, and still include all the subtitles and annotations that you want. I could template pages easily enough, which would help when quickly rebranding the prototype for other clients in under 30 minutes (pretty common practice when you work for an App service provider).
When a proto was ready for client review I'd send the Visio printout to CutePDF, using the filename for dating and versioning. Our clients loved PDF prototyping since it was easier to printout the whole "website" and make their own notes, something they wouldn't do as easily with a website, prototyped in HTML or as a working demo.
I chose Visio as it was easily available in our office, no doubt there's an OO.org equivalent that would do just as well.
Take a trip to your local Radio Shack and look for something called a speaker switch box. It would look like a small brick with a knob on the front with the letters "A", "B", etc. on it, and plugs on the back for input/output signals. This would have the net effect of unplugging thhe unused speakers from your soundcard without the need for plugging/unplugging the cables yourself, sparing you the signal degradation.
If you're at all handy with a soldering iron, you could probably make your own speaker switch box with $5 or $10 worth of parts.
A traffic camera also has a limited scope and would cost more to run a series of cameras to provide continuous coverage along a single stretch of road. Presumably, if there's cellphone coverage in a given area, there could be traffic monitoring with no need to deploy extra hardware and technicians.
So from a procurement and deployement angle, this could actually save money and provide more bang for the buck, considering how pervasive cellphone coverage is in metropolitan areas.
I banged two rocks together and cousin Ugg just "got it".
Hurricane Pepsi has strengthened to a "category 5 delicous" and is expected to be refreshing residents of the Florida coast by early Tuesday morning.
It's 65mp/h! Please try not to laugh your head off the next time you're driving an autobahn.
The real irony is they put it the low speed limit to save lives and gasoline, then they go and build SUVs that guzzle gasoline and are prone to rolling over at high speeds.
...Because the music sounds better with round corners?
All text, no graphics... It's alkmost like they knew they'd get slashdotted... Bookmark the site and check again next week.
Wow, I listen to music with my iPod, what the heck are you doing with yours?
How rotter, considering the depth of the market out there, Apple should understand that people buy iPods for the looks more than just about any other reason, and they ought to have made the screen out of something damn-near bulletproof-- now a scratch-resistant screen would be a really nice selling feature.
...And has anyone tried getting out their CD repair kit and burnishing in the scratch removal stuff onto the screen by hand? You know, that scratch remover supposed to be good enough not to interfere with CD optics, it must be good enough for your Nano screens.
In other news, scientists are working hard on airplanes that can't crash, pens that can't forge signatures and music that can't be copied.
Get them a box with the best stuff you've got. You know, responsive, boots quickly and has the goodies they're interested in (Email, Internet and wordprocessing, spreadsheet etc.) but use your selections for the goodies, even cheat by ripping off icons, look-alike skins for the desktop and apps-- even each icon's position on the desktop is important.
Bend over backwards to keep the teacher you select happy with their new box. Even if it means undeleting a file from the hard drive that they fat-fingered or rearranging the desktop icons.
Once this teacher's satisfaction increases, word will get around and teachers will be approaching you to "fix" their computer just like you did for Teacher A.
Since the last paragraph mentions not to mention Macintosh, I assume by answering "Apple" you either didn't read carefully, or, being teachers that he's working for, he should curry favour by bribing them with the traditional red apple, like students from a previous century used to.
To understand more about CEO's rent "Gorillas in the Mist" and pay close attention to the silverback male.
Will their new cellphone only have one button, just like their mice? Just kidding...