Users would be allowed only to choose target location from pre-defined set on iPod-like dialer.
Great. Would each location cost 99 cents? Would I have to repurchase these locations if I upgrade my car? Would I be allowed to use these location in my wife's car, or allow her to borrow my locations?
Just kidding around. I like this contest. If we had to go into battle, I'd rather throw a few million dollars of robots there, then our children.
That is assuming that all the office workers use Office, and for their entire work day. God forbid you do video or sound work as well...
You've never owned a business before I see. Nothing is ever that cut and dry. The point being if my employees salary is 36 Mil over 6 years, my portion of the taxes going to the state and fed are even more. That doesn't include the cost of paying for (lets say half) of the employees health care costs, vacation time, lets say the 3% cost of living increase per year, etc...
Ok now the real point, yes the cost of upgrading Office maybe relitively small per employee per day, the bottom line is as the company owner, I'd need a damn good excuse to pay $20K per year (on average) for software, when that's 2/3 of an additional employee at your rate of pay.
Does my current software do what I NEED it to do? Yes... I keep it. Will upgrading it increase my profits in a tangible way? etc...
A gun manufacturer markets it weapons responsibly. Selling and marketing on "Stopping power" is legal. Adverstising that you can get Illegal items easily using grokster, is well Just not the same thing. You don't see ads for the "Make yo 9 into a machine pistol" in Gangsta Weekly. You may be able to figure out how to convert it, but they don't market or sell it that way.
Grokster marketed the illegal use of it's product. You don't see Smith and Wesson base it's marketing on the fact that you can grind the serial numbers off easily...
As for the BlackMarket... If you hve the contacts, and money, you can buy ANYTHING! A lot of people will sell almost anything for a price. If they can make severla thousand dollars for buying a handgun, then selling it on the streat for a profit, they will.
...How will ATT compete with the likes of: The Internet Storm Center, Security Focus, Packet Storm, and Security Peline which are current and relevant....
Where do you think AT&T will get their information?
4. The TV/Movie industry has methods to stop/track recordings from cable/satellite and their Internet transmissions. In some cases they are not using them, in others they are being developed.
Is this done by magic hand waving? Only in certain circumstances can the CABLE company track recordings. In order to track what is being watched / recorded, you need 2 way communication (Pay-per-view, On Demand, Cable Modems also need 2 way communication). In order to track what is being recorded, the device recording the show, must report back. They can configure the digital cable boxes to log channels watched, etc..., but this is a very uncommon thing. Other then the big three cable companies, not many others have the resources to deal with it either.
I haven't dealt with satellite much, but unless you have a phone cord plugged in, or give the box broadband access via other means, it's not talking back either (2 way communication). Sorry, I'll put my tin foil hat back on.
I work in the IT Security and Auditing field. The 'bad guys' just need a little information in order to hide their outbound data. Think about how much traffic processing 40 million+ cards would be. Find the protocol they use, be it direct sql access, https, etc... Then send your data in little bits using the same protocol. You'd be amazed how many IDS / IPS are misconfigured and would miss something like that. There's also just plain old lazy / over worked admins that don't review logs until something bad happens.
If they flow a constant 30Mb in and out the average admin isn't going to notice an additional 500k/sec, probably not even an additional 1.5Mb/sec.
It's a sad to say, but security is always thought of last.
I went way off track I guess... I have approx 8 years of college under my belt, with majors in Theater arts, Forestry, Paramedicine (Completed this one)... Now I work for an IT audit firm doing ethical hacking.
My father sadi it best...
Don't go for the job that pays well, but you dread going to...
Go for the job that you love to do... You'll figure out the money part.
I think is generally a good point about any hot-button controversy: reserve judgement until the facts come out.
Reserve Judgement until the facts come out?? Where do you think we are? This is Slashdot... Sheesh, next he'll want us to actually read the article before posting...
For those who have moved your/dev/funny-bone to/dev/null... I'm not serious... It's a sad day when you have to add a disclaimer to a joke... Welcome to slashdot.
I already have so many 'services' that get billed monthly, I don't want another. In all honesty the 5 field form you have to fill out from DD every 5 months or so is no big deal. They send you a reminder email with a link. You login, and 30 seconds later, your good to go for another 5 months.
I'd pay $5 a month for a service that actually did something difficult or time consuming for me.
Downloading knoppmyth's iso, burning it, then running an auto-upgrade is no big deal... An hour, and I have MythTV up and running... hell it even recognised and utilized my ATI card's TV out.
When I first read the article (yea I went to the website, sorry it won't happen again) I was spitting mad. I went to my senator's website and was writing a scathing message. I opened the bill to get some details... and while reading it realized that it's not bad, and there are quite a few states already in compliance.
Honestly, New Jersians who have renewed their license this year already comply. The new NJ DLs match the qualifications.
I will also say this is the first year in well since I've been going to the DMV (now MVS) (about 18 years) that I was in and out with a new license in UNDER 45 minutes.
With the database linking, I have no problem with that. I also have no plans to become a terrorist or commit a crime that would result in warrants being issued.
I used to work at an Cable Company ISP. Overselling is a nessessity. We offered our customers 512K Down 256K up for 29/mo. They could purchase a larger package if they wish. We calculated that on average we could support about 150-200 customers per T1 (1.5Mb). It turned out that reality was about 100 per T1. In states like MO, a T1 costs over $1200/mo where in NJ/NY The average is about $800. Start talking DS3 (at 45Mb) and the differences are even greater if the DS is available at all. One location actually had to have 22 T1 lines because that is the largest pipe available unless we opted to run fiber over 100 miles... Speed/Price in MO is very different then NJ/NY. Hell Cablevision gives residenial customers in north jersey 10Mb downstreams...central jersey where bandwidth is more expensive...3-5Mb
There is a price point per customer. The price given per month is based on average usage. It stated so in your contract. You could request figures on average usage if you wished. We also actually looked at a customer's usage if it was sustained at a high rate. 50% of the time was active users (ie... downloading/uploading/sharing...we didn't look at content), the other 50% usually was virus traffic trying to exit our network.
Now that I've got that out... Gimme my fiber to the home now!
I haven't found a better put together distro that found so many devices with out a hitch. I have a Deb box, and ran slackware for a bit too. I tried suse, and mandrake, but that was a while ago. There are so many places to find pre-packaged add-ons for Fedora, it's great. In fact I'm writing this on Fedora Core 3 using my Dell Precision laptop with the wide screen, using the 802.11g access point secured via WPA_EAP.
OSX is also very well put together, but you said best linux distro.
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So windows is finally getting inetd?
and I hear Windows 8 SP1 will run the 2.6 kernel
Maybe those kids are spoiled and should be brought up not to whine and cry because they don't always get what they want.
Not that I disagree, but you don't have kids older then 2 do you?
Just out of curiosity... How long does it take to watch 25 TB of porn?
You must be a Slackware user.
Most use apt-get, yum, or some other package manager that will solve your dependancy issues.
Users would be allowed only to choose target location from pre-defined set on iPod-like dialer.
Great. Would each location cost 99 cents? Would I have to repurchase these locations if I upgrade my car? Would I be allowed to use these location in my wife's car, or allow her to borrow my locations?
Just kidding around. I like this contest. If we had to go into battle, I'd rather throw a few million dollars of robots there, then our children.
Then why the hell did I quit smoking???
Nice Math.
That is assuming that all the office workers use Office, and for their entire work day. God forbid you do video or sound work as well...
You've never owned a business before I see. Nothing is ever that cut and dry. The point being if my employees salary is 36 Mil over 6 years, my portion of the taxes going to the state and fed are even more. That doesn't include the cost of paying for (lets say half) of the employees health care costs, vacation time, lets say the 3% cost of living increase per year, etc...
Ok now the real point, yes the cost of upgrading Office maybe relitively small per employee per day, the bottom line is as the company owner, I'd need a damn good excuse to pay $20K per year (on average) for software, when that's 2/3 of an additional employee at your rate of pay.
Does my current software do what I NEED it to do?
Yes... I keep it.
Will upgrading it increase my profits in a tangible way? etc...
You too can have this level of service for the low low price of several hundred dollars per device per year.
Here in Sweden you can already get 100 mbit up/down
Hell, AOL dialup can give you 100 millibits per second up and down... or did you mean 100 M(ega)bit...
Capitalization makes a difference, with both the m and the b in reference to data flow.
Mega vs. milli and bits vs. Bytes
Here's the difference.
A gun manufacturer markets it weapons responsibly. Selling and marketing on "Stopping power" is legal. Adverstising that you can get Illegal items easily using grokster, is well Just not the same thing. You don't see ads for the "Make yo 9 into a machine pistol" in Gangsta Weekly. You may be able to figure out how to convert it, but they don't market or sell it that way.
Grokster marketed the illegal use of it's product. You don't see Smith and Wesson base it's marketing on the fact that you can grind the serial numbers off easily...
As for the BlackMarket... If you hve the contacts, and money, you can buy ANYTHING! A lot of people will sell almost anything for a price. If they can make severla thousand dollars for buying a handgun, then selling it on the streat for a profit, they will.
...How will ATT compete with the likes of: The Internet Storm Center, Security Focus, Packet Storm, and Security Peline which are current and relevant....
Where do you think AT&T will get their information?
Genericaly sounds like the RIAA...or SCO...or...
"Our business model doesn't work any more, we're mad! Here's some FUD"
What, are you nuts??
Oh you actually paid for your MS software....
4. The TV/Movie industry has methods to stop/track recordings from cable/satellite and their Internet transmissions. In some cases they are not using them, in others they are being developed.
Is this done by magic hand waving? Only in certain circumstances can the CABLE company track recordings. In order to track what is being watched / recorded, you need 2 way communication (Pay-per-view, On Demand, Cable Modems also need 2 way communication). In order to track what is being recorded, the device recording the show, must report back. They can configure the digital cable boxes to log channels watched, etc..., but this is a very uncommon thing. Other then the big three cable companies, not many others have the resources to deal with it either.
I haven't dealt with satellite much, but unless you have a phone cord plugged in, or give the box broadband access via other means, it's not talking back either (2 way communication).
Sorry, I'll put my tin foil hat back on.
I work in the IT Security and Auditing field. The 'bad guys' just need a little information in order to hide their outbound data. Think about how much traffic processing 40 million+ cards would be. Find the protocol they use, be it direct sql access, https, etc... Then send your data in little bits using the same protocol. You'd be amazed how many IDS / IPS are misconfigured and would miss something like that. There's also just plain old lazy / over worked admins that don't review logs until something bad happens.
/sec.
If they flow a constant 30Mb in and out the average admin isn't going to notice an additional 500k/sec, probably not even an additional 1.5Mb
It's a sad to say, but security is always thought of last.
I went way off track I guess... I have approx 8 years of college under my belt, with majors in Theater arts, Forestry, Paramedicine (Completed this one)... Now I work for an IT audit firm doing ethical hacking.
My father sadi it best...
Don't go for the job that pays well, but you dread going to...
Go for the job that you love to do... You'll figure out the money part.
Pass Phrases are much better then passwords. Change up the letter substitution...ie...
Big8@dw0!fl1{3sSnake$-[yuk!]
BigBadwolflikesSnakes-[yuk!]
This basically turns days into weeks for crackers like Lophtcrack.
Nothing is uncrackable, but you make it as hard as you can... For windows, use groups of 7 chars.
I think is generally a good point about any hot-button controversy: reserve judgement until the facts come out.
/dev/funny-bone to /dev/null... I'm not serious... It's a sad day when you have to add a disclaimer to a joke...
Reserve Judgement until the facts come out?? Where do you think we are? This is Slashdot... Sheesh, next he'll want us to actually read the article before posting...
For those who have moved your
Welcome to slashdot.
No it will still be an option.
I already have so many 'services' that get billed monthly, I don't want another. In all honesty the 5 field form you have to fill out from DD every 5 months or so is no big deal. They send you a reminder email with a link. You login, and 30 seconds later, your good to go for another 5 months.
I'd pay $5 a month for a service that actually did something difficult or time consuming for me.
Downloading knoppmyth's iso, burning it, then running an auto-upgrade is no big deal... An hour, and I have MythTV up and running... hell it even recognised and utilized my ATI card's TV out.
When I first read the article (yea I went to the website, sorry it won't happen again) I was spitting mad. I went to my senator's website and was writing a scathing message. I opened the bill to get some details... and while reading it realized that it's not bad, and there are quite a few states already in compliance.
Honestly, New Jersians who have renewed their license this year already comply. The new NJ DLs match the qualifications.
I will also say this is the first year in well since I've been going to the DMV (now MVS) (about 18 years) that I was in and out with a new license in UNDER 45 minutes.
With the database linking, I have no problem with that. I also have no plans to become a terrorist or commit a crime that would result in warrants being issued.
I used to work at an Cable Company ISP. Overselling is a nessessity. We offered our customers 512K Down 256K up for 29/mo. They could purchase a larger package if they wish. We calculated that on average we could support about 150-200 customers per T1 (1.5Mb). It turned out that reality was about 100 per T1. In states like MO, a T1 costs over $1200/mo where in NJ/NY The average is about $800. Start talking DS3 (at 45Mb) and the differences are even greater if the DS is available at all. One location actually had to have 22 T1 lines because that is the largest pipe available unless we opted to run fiber over 100 miles... Speed/Price in MO is very different then NJ/NY. Hell Cablevision gives residenial customers in north jersey 10Mb downstreams...central jersey where bandwidth is more expensive...3-5Mb
There is a price point per customer. The price given per month is based on average usage. It stated so in your contract. You could request figures on average usage if you wished. We also actually looked at a customer's usage if it was sustained at a high rate. 50% of the time was active users (ie... downloading/uploading/sharing...we didn't look at content), the other 50% usually was virus traffic trying to exit our network.
Now that I've got that out... Gimme my fiber to the home now!
Gimme Gimme Gimme
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I reject your reality, and substitute my own!
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PBX = Private Branch Exchange
(Your work phone system)
Just in case it's not clear yet
http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/P/PBX.html
Your swipping it in the wrong direction...
I haven't found a better put together distro that found so many devices with out a hitch. I have a Deb box, and ran slackware for a bit too. I tried suse, and mandrake, but that was a while ago. There are so many places to find pre-packaged add-ons for Fedora, it's great. In fact I'm writing this on Fedora Core 3 using my Dell Precision laptop with the wide screen, using the 802.11g access point secured via WPA_EAP.
OSX is also very well put together, but you said best linux distro.
But the truth is, Linux has been "coming of age" for about 3 bloody years.
And windows has been coming of age since the 80's...
Maybe My entire family are geeks, but my mother's new laptop runs Fedora Core 3, as do I and my 6 and 8 year old children.
I will say I don't do a lot of gaming, but the kids do.
If you haven't looked at FC3, check it out.