We already have that simple text login successful movie. It was called wargames. It was a really interesting movie, because it showed how hacking was actually done. Calling the operator and asking for numbers, then trying every number until a modem picks up. Then trying every password you can think of until you actually get into the system.
To be fair, Windows 2000 never released a home version, so for most consumers it was never really an option. Sure you could run windows 2000 Pro at home, and many people I know do, but it's priced a big higher than what most people are willing to pay for an operating system. Also the fact that windows 2000 never came in a "home" version means that it wasn't offered on very many home computers. Non only that, windows 2000 only came out about 20 months younger than windows XP. That leaves a pretty small window for buying windows 2k, and deciding to wait for XP to come out. So, for most people, windows 2000 never really existed, and the predicessors are windows ME/98/95, which were all pretty terrible operating systems. However, I found that windows 98 was pretty stable provided you didn't install tons of crap you downloaded off the internet.
Shouldn't they just be able to provide a way to search by manufacturer part number instead of searching by the item name. It would probably return a lot better results.
The thing is, is that al the stores sell the same crap, and people don't buy more just because Walmart exists. If they weren't buying it at walmart, then they'd be buying it at target or some other store. Just because people choose to shop at walmart, does not mean that walmart is evil. Walmart has lower prices because they strong arm the manufacturers. They also have lower prices because they've streamlined the process of getting stuff into the hands of consumers. Many times they've convinced manufacturers to go around their regular distribution chain, and sell directly to walmart. In the process the manufacturer makes more because they get all the market, or at least a percentage of the markup, that would have gone to the distributor in the first place. I also have no doubt that KMart and Target work quite hard with manufacturers to try to get their prices as low as possible. I don't think that any of them have any ethics. The reason walmart is cheaper is because they've streamlined the process, not because they've bullied all the manufacturers (although they have bullied some).
Walmart isn't any worse than any other department store. Just because they sell more product, does not make them evil. No more percentage of their product comes from China than any other department store.
This is the major problem with shopping in 2006. To get the best price on everything, you have to go to about 7 different stores. Sometimes things are cheaper at walmart, other things are cheaper at the grocery store, and other things are cheaper when you buy them in bulk at Costco. I find Costco to be the worst for having things that are more expensive than anywhere else. Sure, some things are cheaper, but you really have to watch, because many things are much more expensive, and when you're buying a $30 6 Litre bottle of shampoo, you had better be sure you couldn't get 6 1 Litre bottles for $3 each at the grocery store (just a made up example). So you can either spend the extra gas and extra time to run around to the 7 different stores to save $10 a week, or just shop at 1 or 2 stores, spend less time shopping. I know people who drive 30 minutes just to save 40 cents on diapers. Me, I just walk to the pharmacy next store. Sure it costs a little more (sometimes less if they're on sale), but in the end, I don't have to spend 5 hours a week going around to different stores trying to get the best price on absolutely everything.
Does more of Walmart's products come from china than other large department stores like Target? I live in Canada, and my brother refuses to shop at walmart because they are an "evil american corporation, where everything is made in China". So he shops at Zellers, which is the Canadian equivalent. Problem is, is that they sell the exact same stuff. Sure they have the their store brands that aren't carried by the other store, but those products are all made in China/India/Pakistan/Bangladesh anyway. It's not like any of the other department stores are any better. Why does walmart always get bashed when all the department stores are the same. Just for kicks I do a survey of the stuff I buy from walmart when I go there, and it's about half make in North America (canada/us) and half made elsewhere (mostly Asia). That's a pretty good mix if you ask me. Just for argument I asked my brother to name a store where he buys his Canadian made clothes, which are almost impossible to find, and the store he mentioned was Bluenotes. I checked something I had bought 2 months earlier from the store and it was made in Bangladesh. If you're going to bash the stores, then bash them all, because they are equally guilty, unless you only buy food from the local market, and only buy clothes at American Apparel. If i'm going to buy shoddy products made in Asia, I might as well pay less for them and shop at Walmart.
Also, they're completely different products. If iTunes movies are anything like Amazon UnBox movies, then there will still be a strong market for movies bought at the store on DVD. The restrictions that they put in place, including the fact that you can't burn it to DVD to play on your TV, means that this will only make DVDs lose a minimal amount of sales, possibly lose no sales at all, because it's so restrictive and takes so long to download a movie that it's simply easier to go down to the store and pick up the physical product. It only takes me 15 minutes to walk to walmart, If I had a car, I could be there in under 5 minutes. Why would I want to spend an extra $20 for high speed internet (instead of high speed lite) and have to wait 8 hours for my movie to download, only not to have a physical copy.
'All of the equipment that was lost or stolen contained protections to prevent a breach of personal information.'
I would like to know what kind of protection is being used. Is it just password protecting windows? encrypted hard drives? This kind of blanket statement doesn't really tell me much about how safe the census data really is.
Exactly, because if you don't change the default password, then it doesn't matter how hard the manual is to get, because somebody is going to get it. Maybe somebody else who also has the same kind of ATM. It's stupid not to change the password in this situation.
However, should ATMs even come with a default password so that they can be hacked? Shouldn't reprogramming them require using some sort of physical/electronic key thats more difficult for people to get ahold of? If you can reprogram an ATM by walking up to it and typing in any code, regardless of whether it's the default password or not, then the ATM security is terrible. It's one thing to put a default password on a digital cable box for blocking channels, it's another matter entirely to put a default password on an ATM.
The hardest exam that I ever took was a multiple choice statistics exam. Every question had an option "E) none of the above". So if you made a single mistake, you would always end up choosing E. You have no idea if you get the question right or wrong, and there is no part marks for trying. So if you matched A,B,C,D, then you could be pretty sure that you got it right. However, if you didn't, then you could choose E, or go back and spend 10 minutes looking for the mistake that you could have made. In the end, I think that about a third of the questions resulted in the answer actually being E.
I know that most of the time in engineering we worked together on assignments. Even when the assignments were "individual", we got together, and worked together, compared answers, eventually figured out who was right, and used that answer. It's a lot more how things work in the real world anyway. No engineer just works by themselves, without running their work by other people. We never considered it cheating, we all did equal amounts of work, and didn't let people just copy the entire assignment an hour before it was due. Usually we would just do the assignment by ourselves, and then compare and correct. We weren't copying answers in exams, or copying entire papers or assignments. But the work hard hardly even done entirely on our own.
I remember 4 years ago somebody told me that you could password protect your blackberry, and that all data would be destroyed on the 3rd (maybe 5th) incorrect password attempt. Doesn't that make this whole thing kind of useless? It seems like a way to over-complicate the problem.
Which is really weird, because I saw it on a couple US networks (i'm assuming your in the US). NBC had it on the news. US Networks usually jump on news like this. Of course your going to correct me and tell me that you live in Montreal, which would be kind of sad.
I imagine this could happen to anybody who develops games based on historical events, than enact violence. I'm sure there's WWII games where you played on the German side. There's always video games where you play the bad guy. He shouldn't feel guilty because someone who enjoyed playing his game was also crazy. Maybe it's what pushed him over the edge, maybe it's not. I highly suspect that this kid was really messed up even before played the game.
This was my point. I either want to be able to carry around my entire collection, or be able to just easily take whatever parts of my collection I want to take with me. It's a lot easier to pick up disk/tape off the desk and bring it with you, then it is to boot up your computer, start iTunes, find the tracks you want, copy them over, unplug your iPod, and then shutdown your computer. I loved my minidisc (minus sonic stage) because I could easily grab the disc with the music I wanted, and head out the door. I can't do this with my iPod shuffle, because it doesn't fit all my music, and takes considerable time to change the music (More than just putting in a different disc).
Probably not. Most students, especially those with not enough money to go home have to spend their summers working for the next year's tuition. Due to co-op at my school being every other semester, I had a summer semester where I had to take classes. There wasn't very much offered other than what was in the curriculum, along with the courses they offered every summer, because half of the class would fail due to bad teaching (when that many fail an introductory course, it's not because it's hard, but because of bad teaching).
I think this is exactly the way people should live their life. Do what you enjoy doing, and don't worry about what other people think about it. I mean, who cares if you think Crossroads is a good movie. Teenagers care about this kind of thing, but I think that most people get over it, and realize that it's more fun to just do whatever you enjoy, rather than trying to do what people tell you you should enjoy.
I've always thought that this is why the screwed themselves over with the creation of the CD, and the DVD. Something that can easily be read and copied by computers will always make copying really easy, no matter how much DRM you put in there. If they really wanted to stop people from copying it, then they would use something like the GameCube. There's way less piracy in the GC world, because you can't just stick the disc in your computer and copy it. You also can't just burn a disc and have the gamecube read it without making hardware modifications to it. The fact that the music and movie industry continues to use standard computer media rather than a proprietary format that they could restrict licensing, such that it couldn't be read on computers shows that they really don't understand the technological aspects. Sure it's still possible to rip and play pirated GC games, but you don't see that many people doing it, because it requires modding the hardware.
However, unless you have a 30 Gig iPod where you can fit all your music, then having something with interchangable cartridges is nice. You don't have to boot up your computer and spend 10 minutes changing the tracks just to get a different selection of music. You can just pick up a different cartridge as you head out the door. You can also bring as little or as much music as you want without having to shell out so much for a player that holds all your music. Also, you can have different players (stereo (living room and bedroom), portable, computer) and not have to worry about how the music is going to be synced between all the players.
They can't be called CDs, but that makes no difference to the record companies. You can still sell a shiny disc that contains music which isn't technically a CD, but will play fine on 99% of CD players, while installing software on windows based computers. Oh, and they can be called CDs, just not CD-Audio, and can't contain the CD-Audio Emblem.
I agree with this completely. For any sufficiently sized application, there's too many permutations of data for the developers to think up and make on their own. The only thing you're missing out on, which you probably do, is to create a set of scripts to clear or change any data that the devs or QA team shouldn't see. Confidentiality is an issue, but you should be able to identify the data and delete or change it accordingly. Also, devs probably have access to production data in some form or another anyway, they could even put back doors into the code so that they could access it later. So if you don't trust them to be working on production data, then you'd better have lots of checks and balanaces to make sure that they can't access it. Because a determined developer will be able to access the data, regardless of whether or not they will be working with it on a daily basis.
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We already have that simple text login successful movie. It was called wargames. It was a really interesting movie, because it showed how hacking was actually done. Calling the operator and asking for numbers, then trying every number until a modem picks up. Then trying every password you can think of until you actually get into the system.
To be fair, Windows 2000 never released a home version, so for most consumers it was never really an option. Sure you could run windows 2000 Pro at home, and many people I know do, but it's priced a big higher than what most people are willing to pay for an operating system. Also the fact that windows 2000 never came in a "home" version means that it wasn't offered on very many home computers. Non only that, windows 2000 only came out about 20 months younger than windows XP. That leaves a pretty small window for buying windows 2k, and deciding to wait for XP to come out. So, for most people, windows 2000 never really existed, and the predicessors are windows ME/98/95, which were all pretty terrible operating systems. However, I found that windows 98 was pretty stable provided you didn't install tons of crap you downloaded off the internet.
Shouldn't they just be able to provide a way to search by manufacturer part number instead of searching by the item name. It would probably return a lot better results.
The thing is, is that al the stores sell the same crap, and people don't buy more just because Walmart exists. If they weren't buying it at walmart, then they'd be buying it at target or some other store. Just because people choose to shop at walmart, does not mean that walmart is evil. Walmart has lower prices because they strong arm the manufacturers. They also have lower prices because they've streamlined the process of getting stuff into the hands of consumers. Many times they've convinced manufacturers to go around their regular distribution chain, and sell directly to walmart. In the process the manufacturer makes more because they get all the market, or at least a percentage of the markup, that would have gone to the distributor in the first place. I also have no doubt that KMart and Target work quite hard with manufacturers to try to get their prices as low as possible. I don't think that any of them have any ethics. The reason walmart is cheaper is because they've streamlined the process, not because they've bullied all the manufacturers (although they have bullied some).
See my reply to a similar post here.
Walmart isn't any worse than any other department store. Just because they sell more product, does not make them evil. No more percentage of their product comes from China than any other department store.
This is the major problem with shopping in 2006. To get the best price on everything, you have to go to about 7 different stores. Sometimes things are cheaper at walmart, other things are cheaper at the grocery store, and other things are cheaper when you buy them in bulk at Costco. I find Costco to be the worst for having things that are more expensive than anywhere else. Sure, some things are cheaper, but you really have to watch, because many things are much more expensive, and when you're buying a $30 6 Litre bottle of shampoo, you had better be sure you couldn't get 6 1 Litre bottles for $3 each at the grocery store (just a made up example). So you can either spend the extra gas and extra time to run around to the 7 different stores to save $10 a week, or just shop at 1 or 2 stores, spend less time shopping. I know people who drive 30 minutes just to save 40 cents on diapers. Me, I just walk to the pharmacy next store. Sure it costs a little more (sometimes less if they're on sale), but in the end, I don't have to spend 5 hours a week going around to different stores trying to get the best price on absolutely everything.
Does more of Walmart's products come from china than other large department stores like Target? I live in Canada, and my brother refuses to shop at walmart because they are an "evil american corporation, where everything is made in China". So he shops at Zellers, which is the Canadian equivalent. Problem is, is that they sell the exact same stuff. Sure they have the their store brands that aren't carried by the other store, but those products are all made in China/India/Pakistan/Bangladesh anyway. It's not like any of the other department stores are any better. Why does walmart always get bashed when all the department stores are the same. Just for kicks I do a survey of the stuff I buy from walmart when I go there, and it's about half make in North America (canada/us) and half made elsewhere (mostly Asia). That's a pretty good mix if you ask me. Just for argument I asked my brother to name a store where he buys his Canadian made clothes, which are almost impossible to find, and the store he mentioned was Bluenotes. I checked something I had bought 2 months earlier from the store and it was made in Bangladesh. If you're going to bash the stores, then bash them all, because they are equally guilty, unless you only buy food from the local market, and only buy clothes at American Apparel. If i'm going to buy shoddy products made in Asia, I might as well pay less for them and shop at Walmart.
Also, they're completely different products. If iTunes movies are anything like Amazon UnBox movies, then there will still be a strong market for movies bought at the store on DVD. The restrictions that they put in place, including the fact that you can't burn it to DVD to play on your TV, means that this will only make DVDs lose a minimal amount of sales, possibly lose no sales at all, because it's so restrictive and takes so long to download a movie that it's simply easier to go down to the store and pick up the physical product. It only takes me 15 minutes to walk to walmart, If I had a car, I could be there in under 5 minutes. Why would I want to spend an extra $20 for high speed internet (instead of high speed lite) and have to wait 8 hours for my movie to download, only not to have a physical copy.
'All of the equipment that was lost or stolen contained protections to prevent a breach of personal information.'
I would like to know what kind of protection is being used. Is it just password protecting windows? encrypted hard drives? This kind of blanket statement doesn't really tell me much about how safe the census data really is.
Exactly, because if you don't change the default password, then it doesn't matter how hard the manual is to get, because somebody is going to get it. Maybe somebody else who also has the same kind of ATM. It's stupid not to change the password in this situation.
However, should ATMs even come with a default password so that they can be hacked? Shouldn't reprogramming them require using some sort of physical/electronic key thats more difficult for people to get ahold of? If you can reprogram an ATM by walking up to it and typing in any code, regardless of whether it's the default password or not, then the ATM security is terrible. It's one thing to put a default password on a digital cable box for blocking channels, it's another matter entirely to put a default password on an ATM.
The hardest exam that I ever took was a multiple choice statistics exam. Every question had an option "E) none of the above". So if you made a single mistake, you would always end up choosing E. You have no idea if you get the question right or wrong, and there is no part marks for trying. So if you matched A,B,C,D, then you could be pretty sure that you got it right. However, if you didn't, then you could choose E, or go back and spend 10 minutes looking for the mistake that you could have made. In the end, I think that about a third of the questions resulted in the answer actually being E.
I know that most of the time in engineering we worked together on assignments. Even when the assignments were "individual", we got together, and worked together, compared answers, eventually figured out who was right, and used that answer. It's a lot more how things work in the real world anyway. No engineer just works by themselves, without running their work by other people. We never considered it cheating, we all did equal amounts of work, and didn't let people just copy the entire assignment an hour before it was due. Usually we would just do the assignment by ourselves, and then compare and correct. We weren't copying answers in exams, or copying entire papers or assignments. But the work hard hardly even done entirely on our own.
Better watch out for those Canadians.
I remember 4 years ago somebody told me that you could password protect your blackberry, and that all data would be destroyed on the 3rd (maybe 5th) incorrect password attempt. Doesn't that make this whole thing kind of useless? It seems like a way to over-complicate the problem.
Which is really weird, because I saw it on a couple US networks (i'm assuming your in the US). NBC had it on the news. US Networks usually jump on news like this. Of course your going to correct me and tell me that you live in Montreal, which would be kind of sad.
I imagine this could happen to anybody who develops games based on historical events, than enact violence. I'm sure there's WWII games where you played on the German side. There's always video games where you play the bad guy. He shouldn't feel guilty because someone who enjoyed playing his game was also crazy. Maybe it's what pushed him over the edge, maybe it's not. I highly suspect that this kid was really messed up even before played the game.
This was my point. I either want to be able to carry around my entire collection, or be able to just easily take whatever parts of my collection I want to take with me. It's a lot easier to pick up disk/tape off the desk and bring it with you, then it is to boot up your computer, start iTunes, find the tracks you want, copy them over, unplug your iPod, and then shutdown your computer. I loved my minidisc (minus sonic stage) because I could easily grab the disc with the music I wanted, and head out the door. I can't do this with my iPod shuffle, because it doesn't fit all my music, and takes considerable time to change the music (More than just putting in a different disc).
Probably not. Most students, especially those with not enough money to go home have to spend their summers working for the next year's tuition. Due to co-op at my school being every other semester, I had a summer semester where I had to take classes. There wasn't very much offered other than what was in the curriculum, along with the courses they offered every summer, because half of the class would fail due to bad teaching (when that many fail an introductory course, it's not because it's hard, but because of bad teaching).
I think this is exactly the way people should live their life. Do what you enjoy doing, and don't worry about what other people think about it. I mean, who cares if you think Crossroads is a good movie. Teenagers care about this kind of thing, but I think that most people get over it, and realize that it's more fun to just do whatever you enjoy, rather than trying to do what people tell you you should enjoy.
I've always thought that this is why the screwed themselves over with the creation of the CD, and the DVD. Something that can easily be read and copied by computers will always make copying really easy, no matter how much DRM you put in there. If they really wanted to stop people from copying it, then they would use something like the GameCube. There's way less piracy in the GC world, because you can't just stick the disc in your computer and copy it. You also can't just burn a disc and have the gamecube read it without making hardware modifications to it. The fact that the music and movie industry continues to use standard computer media rather than a proprietary format that they could restrict licensing, such that it couldn't be read on computers shows that they really don't understand the technological aspects. Sure it's still possible to rip and play pirated GC games, but you don't see that many people doing it, because it requires modding the hardware.
However, unless you have a 30 Gig iPod where you can fit all your music, then having something with interchangable cartridges is nice. You don't have to boot up your computer and spend 10 minutes changing the tracks just to get a different selection of music. You can just pick up a different cartridge as you head out the door. You can also bring as little or as much music as you want without having to shell out so much for a player that holds all your music. Also, you can have different players (stereo (living room and bedroom), portable, computer) and not have to worry about how the music is going to be synced between all the players.
They can't be called CDs, but that makes no difference to the record companies. You can still sell a shiny disc that contains music which isn't technically a CD, but will play fine on 99% of CD players, while installing software on windows based computers. Oh, and they can be called CDs, just not CD-Audio, and can't contain the CD-Audio Emblem.
I agree with this completely. For any sufficiently sized application, there's too many permutations of data for the developers to think up and make on their own. The only thing you're missing out on, which you probably do, is to create a set of scripts to clear or change any data that the devs or QA team shouldn't see. Confidentiality is an issue, but you should be able to identify the data and delete or change it accordingly. Also, devs probably have access to production data in some form or another anyway, they could even put back doors into the code so that they could access it later. So if you don't trust them to be working on production data, then you'd better have lots of checks and balanaces to make sure that they can't access it. Because a determined developer will be able to access the data, regardless of whether or not they will be working with it on a daily basis.
Also, most bills come folded in the mail, getting the paper to lie flat enough would also create problems.