I'm fully aware of the tracking techniques used.. and I don't delete my cookies. I'm an anonymous number to them.
Are you really? Prove it. Prove they are not tracking your IP. Even if it is dynamic there is still a trail for a time. Prove they are not tracking your MAC address. What about those little 1X1 gifs they use? Do you know all the tracking techniques used?
I hold doors for my friends, for whoever I happen to be walking with, for people I've never seen before and will most likely never see again, they just happen to have fallen in 3 steps behind me. Most people I know around here do the same pretty much all the time. I know holding doors isn't everything, but it is just a convenient example; there are tons of others I could have used.
I don't mean in the slightest that the south is perfect. Just that, in general, the people are more polite.
I do the same out here in the west. I was raised that way. It is just common courtesy.
The south does not hold a monopoly on politeness. I bet you see plenty of of examples of nonpoliteness too.
Then, if a particular IP or User Agent requests a login that is suspicious, send an SMS message to the account owner (who would need their cell number on file fdirst, obviously:) explaining the access and where it is being made from.
I don't have a cell phone.
Yep! I am maybe the last person in the world without one.
"How may I help you?" is "What is your social security number". That is usually followed by, "And what can I do for you Mr./Ms. ______?"
I bank there and the only time I have ever been asked for my SSN was the form that asked for it. It was never asked for it in the open. All they ever asked for was my card.
"We compete against AutoMARK around the country all the time," Weisberg said. "Based on the criteria set out by the Commonwealth, we had a fair degree of confidence we'd come out on top, and nothing we heard during the process dissuaded us of that confidence."
Translation: it is the suxors! We lost!
Galvin cited as an important factor in favor of AutoMARK its machine's use of one kind of paper ballot for disabled voters and others.
He said that gave extra privacy to disabled voters.
"If you happened to have only one disabled voter in a precinct, that person's ballot is easily identifiable," he said.
Ouch! A voter is easily identified. I thought that was the whole reason for the paper ballot and punch holes.
And huh? How does this give extra privacy to disabled voters? Oh, I see. There has to be at least two.
I'm uncomfortable with both of them. I am not a Diebold fan by any means but identifying voters by vote is just as bad.
Apple TV is tiny, just about eight inches square and an inch high, far smaller than a typical DVD player or cable or satellite box, even though it packs in a 40-gigabyte hard disk, an Intel processor and a modified version of the Mac operating system. And it has a carefully limited set of functions.
Interestingly, the report makes numerous references to RIAA and MPAA legal actions against file-sharing activity, as well as cites a 2005 Department of Homeland Security report that government workers had installed file-sharing programs that accessed classified information without their knowledge.
Huh? Where I work there is something called an Air Gap(tm). There are no classified systems anywhere near a p2p program or the Intarweb. Classified info on a publically connected net?
Prosecution of the admins and users.
Of course I think TFA is all bullshit. I DO think a site called shadowmonkey that cites this info is legit.
Not. I see no evidence in the article that anything classified has leaked. I work in this environment every day. Man! The hoops we go through...
The Mac + the Quark license would have cost around $3-4000, + setting it all up, etc. And it wouldn't be able to run the old MS-Access application on which the whole business relies.
Well, a Mac Mini for around $700 and the Quark license for $749 puts you in the ballpark of $1449. I'm guessing you could then put the files on a sever for a PC to take over.
If not Parallels is another $80 and, assuming you are site licensed for Windows, you have a solution for a bit over $1500, not the $3-4k you stated. My XP virtual with Parallels runs all my apps just fine (and fast). But it is a Mac Pro quad. I have seen Windows on Parallels on Minis and I was impressed.
In a business environment spending $1600 bux just for file transfers to a server from paying customers is a small price to pay in my eyes.
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Whaoa there, cowboy. It is not our job to snoop. It is managements job to tell us when to snoop. Paper trail in email.
As an admin I don't snoop. I only do what management wants. I keep my systems running. This is my admin role.
I keep the servers up. I keep things rolling. I don't care about what it is I keep rolling. I just keep it going.
If management has issues then I deal with the fallout and my paper trail.
I just make the roads roll.
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I was a kind of disgruntled/gruntled discharged employee once. I just walked away from it. Jail time is not my bag.
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they could show him.
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If you want to be on my network here's the rules. I don't care who owns the computer. I own the network.
Let me repeat myself.
If you want to be on my network here's the rules. I don't care who owns the computer. I own the network.
Those are the rules.
If you don't like them don't connect. If you violate the rules go back and read the fine print you signed.
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But what would work well would be the pre-arranged password?
/. not much.
One would type the first few letters then hesitate.
TYPE THE PASSWORD, OLD MAN!
Then they would type the real password. The hesitation would trigger a warning. The real password would trigger he is still alive.
Boom!
We now have a password that was compromised but the enemy would not know it.
What do I win?
Given this is
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Mine did. The bastids!
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Are you really? Prove it. Prove they are not tracking your IP. Even if it is dynamic there is still a trail for a time. Prove they are not tracking your MAC address. What about those little 1X1 gifs they use? Do you know all the tracking techniques used?
I doubt anyone does.
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I don't mean in the slightest that the south is perfect. Just that, in general, the people are more polite.
I do the same out here in the west. I was raised that way. It is just common courtesy.
The south does not hold a monopoly on politeness. I bet you see plenty of of examples of nonpoliteness too.
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Did they ever know they had esteemed fans on /. ? Have they ever cared? Will they ever care?
/. the be all end all for anyone?
Since when is
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I don't have a cell phone.
Yep! I am maybe the last person in the world without one.
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I bank there and the only time I have ever been asked for my SSN was the form that asked for it. It was never asked for it in the open. All they ever asked for was my card.
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You are running telnet in any shape or form?
Lose points.
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Thank you. That was my point.
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Who owns the music?
If you scanned the book who would come after you, the author or the publisher?
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I have read most of the comments here and the hot new intartubes idea is movies.
They consume lots of bits.
So now it looks like many providers will cap your movie watching and/or charge you for those bits.
So I will be paying for the movie and the bits that gets them to me or be cancelled for said bits?
Sounds like a no win situation here.
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Lucky you! I am still working on my PET.
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WOW! If that is what uga is teaching as an acceptable page the net is in deep trouble.
My eyes are still burning.
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"We compete against AutoMARK around the country all the time," Weisberg said. "Based on the criteria set out by the Commonwealth, we had a fair degree of confidence we'd come out on top, and nothing we heard during the process dissuaded us of that confidence."
Translation: it is the suxors! We lost!
Galvin cited as an important factor in favor of AutoMARK its machine's use of one kind of paper ballot for disabled voters and others.
He said that gave extra privacy to disabled voters.
"If you happened to have only one disabled voter in a precinct, that person's ballot is easily identifiable," he said.
Ouch! A voter is easily identified. I thought that was the whole reason for the paper ballot and punch holes.
And huh? How does this give extra privacy to disabled voters? Oh, I see. There has to be at least two.
I'm uncomfortable with both of them. I am not a Diebold fan by any means but identifying voters by vote is just as bad.
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Yes.
We should really be learning how to write better, rather than forcing spoken English into text. :)
Yes.
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I do, however, require at least one Windows box (currently XP64) for gaming and testing deployment of some of our enterprise applications at home.
Then this:
The only reason I ever need to jump off my solaris, debian or OSX boxes is to play games. Period.
Which is it? Yer confusing me.
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Read TFA:
Apple TV is tiny, just about eight inches square and an inch high, far smaller than a typical DVD player or cable or satellite box, even though it packs in a 40-gigabyte hard disk, an Intel processor and a modified version of the Mac operating system. And it has a carefully limited set of functions.
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Huh? Where I work there is something called an Air Gap(tm). There are no classified systems anywhere near a p2p program or the Intarweb. Classified info on a publically connected net?
Prosecution of the admins and users.
Of course I think TFA is all bullshit. I DO think a site called shadowmonkey that cites this info is legit.
Not. I see no evidence in the article that anything classified has leaked. I work in this environment every day. Man! The hoops we go through...
BZZZT!!!!
Show me the monkey.
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Which would lead to a rise in fuel prices. They sell less, they charge more.
Simple arithmetic.
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Crap! I run my server on dial up. Guess this is going to be a long night.
Thanks a LOT, /.
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Well, a Mac Mini for around $700 and the Quark license for $749 puts you in the ballpark of $1449. I'm guessing you could then put the files on a sever for a PC to take over.
If not Parallels is another $80 and, assuming you are site licensed for Windows, you have a solution for a bit over $1500, not the $3-4k you stated. My XP virtual with Parallels runs all my apps just fine (and fast). But it is a Mac Pro quad. I have seen Windows on Parallels on Minis and I was impressed.
In a business environment spending $1600 bux just for file transfers to a server from paying customers is a small price to pay in my eyes.
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