I've gotten lots of those calls, and I don't think "on the his pc" is a typo. The speech patterns are definitely "lccnglish". (Pidgen english spoken by phone workers from a Least Cost Country.)
"Hello we are from the microsoft (or sometimes, "the internet") and we are calling you because that we have noticed your pc is infested with the viruses."
What's chilling is that they used to start in on their spiel to the first person to answer (daughter would listen a few seconds hand it to me "it's for you"....gee thanks...), but lately they ask for me by name.
unfortunately you need to run cables to the access points. Wifi for large numbers is not the same as just plonking a single access point next to your phone/cable socket.
It's a matter of numbers. Enterprise grade wifi access points can support up to 200 users. A single hard wired connection is typically single user. (You could expand with switches, but then you've got exposed equipment and wires and are essentially making the teacher act as network administrator.)
With a physical wire difference of 200:1, wiring access points is a lot less intrusive.
wifi for a large population say 600+ for a high school is going to be far more costly than a structured cabling roll out which is only $25/30$ per port
Depends on the building. Consider that many schools were built long before anyone thought you'd need to run wires for some new purpose that nobody had thought of at the time of construction.
Not if you're installing the wiring in a school built in the 20's with masonry walls, no dropped ceilings, and flat arch clay tile floors.
Yes, exactly. Case in point, my daughter's arts and communications school (6 through 12) is a very old grade school (still has steam heat) that was repurposed as a charter school, and to wire the school for internet would require tearing so much down that it would have to be rebuilt anyway.
The thing about wifi is that it can be retrofitted with very little construction. In an older building, this matters.
Actually, Wi-Fi is cheaper at delivering Internet access to teacher and lab computers than wired connections. While slower, there is only a need for one PoE port to cover many computers. For schools with older wiring, this is probably a more cost effective methods of providing that access.
It's been true for hotels. Although this at first seems counterintuitive, for awhile, newer hotels, which had been built with Cat 5 to the room, had wired internet but no wireless, while older hotels, who couldn't retrofit wired but *could* put in access points, had wireless but no wired. Now pretty much everyone has wireless. In the near future, you may be able to guess within a few years when a hotel was built by whether or not there's a RJ45 socket in the wall.
Seems to me this would be more accurately described as a Century-based computer error.
At first I was amazed that we're still running into these things. But I shouldn't be surprised -- often problems like this aren't fixed until they cause some inconvenience for the people responsible for fixing them.
She should at least sue Al Gore, since he invented the damn thing!
Before someone else jumps on this, the actual quote was "I took the initiative in creating the internet".
So, it's "created", not "invented". Pedants will take one to task for getting that wrong.
Yea, about that...
Ok, right. I was excoriated once for using "invented", and it drove me to research the quote and the original context, (and it turns out both sides of the argument are partially correct) the content of which I keep along with references in a file called al_gore_invented_the_internet. When the subject comes up (as it still does periodically) I have actual quotes and references on tap.:-)
Incidentally, I believed at the time that he simply blew his lines in the heat of the moment, and meant to say "I took the initiative in co-authoring legislation that helped create the internet as it is today". Which would have been true and really was a good thing. But Gore has displayed arrogance to such a degree since then that I'm tipping back to "he exaggerated and hoped Blitzer would call him on it".
Wait, I was alive during that time -- the smallpox vaccine wasn't made from smallpox, it was made from cowpox. So samples of the vaccine would not be smallpox, dead or otherwise. Samples of smallpox would be from labs specifically testing the disease. (Hopefully, testing for means to eradicate it.)
And only a decade or so ago, smallpox was effectively eradicated from the world - a win for vaccinations.
Of course, then we had the whole anti-vaxxer thing and now, smallpox is back and as infectious as ever. And you thought whooping cough was bad. All these controlled diseases are now rampaging communities again, except instead of in poorer nations in Africa and the like where the lack of medical care derives from corrupt governments and poverty, it's in first-world nations with access to clean water, medical aid, education, etc.
Wait a minute. People haven't been regularly vaccinated for Smallpox since 1971. (Don't take my word for it, check the Journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics.) Not because of "the anti-vaxxer thing" but because the disease was eradicated. *Four* decades ago. This is why you don't see people in civilized countries with smallpox vaccination scars who aren't old enough to be grandparents.
According to the CDC, the last known case in the US was 1945 and the last naturally occurring case in the world was in Somalia in 1977. (This is really easy to look up...)
So, I have to ask, is someone telling you that smallpox is raging through the world population because some former playmate is against vaccination? Is that the story they're telling now? Or have you confused smallpox with some other disease, perhaps?
Considering how many doctors used to inoculate for smallpox, a lot. There's probably envelopes containing spores in old collections. Hope they're dead.
Wait, I was alive during that time -- the smallpox vaccine wasn't made from smallpox, it was made from cowpox. So samples of the vaccine would not be smallpox, dead or otherwise. Samples of smallpox would be from labs specifically testing the disease. (Hopefully, testing for means to eradicate it.)
> And, apparently, in a dusty cardboard box in an old storage room in Maryland.
And, who knows? Maybe a dozen other places. How did that rule of thumb go? For every security breach you find, there's probably several you didn't find.
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I've gotten lots of those calls, and I don't think "on the his pc" is a typo. The speech patterns are definitely "lccnglish". (Pidgen english spoken by phone workers from a Least Cost Country.)
"Hello we are from the microsoft (or sometimes, "the internet") and we are calling you because that we have noticed your pc is infested with the viruses."
What's chilling is that they used to start in on their spiel to the first person to answer (daughter would listen a few seconds hand it to me "it's for you"....gee thanks...), but lately they ask for me by name.
Exactly. My first impression reading TFA is that the headline is wrong. It should read: "Red Light Cameras Issue Thousands of Bogus Tickets"
Although, put that way, it's probably a couple orders of magnitude higher.
(And yes, officials were caught shortening the yellows in our town as well. It appears to be standard practice when putting in red light cameras.)
Unfortunate that respecting privacy to the extent the law permits is the exception, not the norm...
Yes. Sadly, that's why it's news. Were it the norm, it would not be news...
In my day, the response was "I'm tho thor I can hardly pith."
People have to eat. Plan for migration into servicing food service machines at some future time. And then servicing food service servicing machines.
unfortunately you need to run cables to the access points. Wifi for large numbers is not the same as just plonking a single access point next to your phone/cable socket.
It's a matter of numbers. Enterprise grade wifi access points can support up to 200 users. A single hard wired connection is typically single user. (You could expand with switches, but then you've got exposed equipment and wires and are essentially making the teacher act as network administrator.)
With a physical wire difference of 200:1, wiring access points is a lot less intrusive.
wifi for a large population say 600+ for a high school is going to be far more costly than a structured cabling roll out which is only $25/30$ per port
Depends on the building. Consider that many schools were built long before anyone thought you'd need to run wires for some new purpose that nobody had thought of at the time of construction.
Not if you're installing the wiring in a school built in the 20's with masonry walls, no dropped ceilings, and flat arch clay tile floors.
Yes, exactly. Case in point, my daughter's arts and communications school (6 through 12) is a very old grade school (still has steam heat) that was repurposed as a charter school, and to wire the school for internet would require tearing so much down that it would have to be rebuilt anyway.
The thing about wifi is that it can be retrofitted with very little construction. In an older building, this matters.
Doesn't someone have COBOL running in a browser now? :-)
Actually, Wi-Fi is cheaper at delivering Internet access to teacher and lab computers than wired connections. While slower, there is only a need for one PoE port to cover many computers. For schools with older wiring, this is probably a more cost effective methods of providing that access.
It's been true for hotels. Although this at first seems counterintuitive, for awhile, newer hotels, which had been built with Cat 5 to the room, had wired internet but no wireless, while older hotels, who couldn't retrofit wired but *could* put in access points, had wireless but no wired. Now pretty much everyone has wireless. In the near future, you may be able to guess within a few years when a hotel was built by whether or not there's a RJ45 socket in the wall.
Just did. Turns out they're looking for H1-B applications.
Unfortunately, we didn't have any openings for reactionless engine technicians or 4th order energy engineers.
We can't have the police lying on reports.
Thanks for that. I needed a good laugh today.
Cops can't drive mosnster trucks over everything just because they are investigating something suspicious.
Give them time. They seem to be gearing up to do just that.
Seems to me this would be more accurately described as a Century-based computer error.
At first I was amazed that we're still running into these things. But I shouldn't be surprised -- often problems like this aren't fixed until they cause some inconvenience for the people responsible for fixing them.
but needs UFO aliens, not Arabs.
I think it's already been done.
That's... actually a really good point. Let's hope the lessons are shared.
You say that but that's exactly it's intention. To seperate the rich from the slaves.
And this is a new thing? Cities everywhere tend to do this.
s/Blitzer would/Blitzer wouldn't/g
She should at least sue Al Gore, since he invented the damn thing!
Before someone else jumps on this, the actual quote was "I took the initiative in creating the internet".
So, it's "created", not "invented". Pedants will take one to task for getting that wrong.
Yea, about that...
Ok, right. I was excoriated once for using "invented", and it drove me to research the quote and the original context, (and it turns out both sides of the argument are partially correct) the content of which I keep along with references in a file called al_gore_invented_the_internet. When the subject comes up (as it still does periodically) I have actual quotes and references on tap. :-)
Incidentally, I believed at the time that he simply blew his lines in the heat of the moment, and meant to say "I took the initiative in co-authoring legislation that helped create the internet as it is today". Which would have been true and really was a good thing. But Gore has displayed arrogance to such a degree since then that I'm tipping back to "he exaggerated and hoped Blitzer would call him on it".
She should at least sue Al Gore, since he invented the damn thing!
Before someone else jumps on this, the actual quote was "I took the initiative in creating the internet".
So, it's "created", not "invented". Pedants will take one to task for getting that wrong.
But should such a lawsuit ever take place, I'd be in the front row, with popcorn.
Or is that next?
This seems a little like suing a typewriter manufacturer because their product defeats handwriting analysis.
And only a decade or so ago, smallpox was effectively eradicated from the world - a win for vaccinations.
Of course, then we had the whole anti-vaxxer thing and now, smallpox is back and as infectious as ever. And you thought whooping cough was bad. All these controlled diseases are now rampaging communities again, except instead of in poorer nations in Africa and the like where the lack of medical care derives from corrupt governments and poverty, it's in first-world nations with access to clean water, medical aid, education, etc.
Wait a minute. People haven't been regularly vaccinated for Smallpox since 1971. (Don't take my word for it, check the Journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics.) Not because of "the anti-vaxxer thing" but because the disease was eradicated. *Four* decades ago. This is why you don't see people in civilized countries with smallpox vaccination scars who aren't old enough to be grandparents.
According to the CDC, the last known case in the US was 1945 and the last naturally occurring case in the world was in Somalia in 1977. (This is really easy to look up...)
So, I have to ask, is someone telling you that smallpox is raging through the world population because some former playmate is against vaccination? Is that the story they're telling now? Or have you confused smallpox with some other disease, perhaps?
And in your heart of hearts, do you really think they will actually accomplish this?
Considering how many doctors used to inoculate for smallpox, a lot. There's probably envelopes containing spores in old collections. Hope they're dead.
Wait, I was alive during that time -- the smallpox vaccine wasn't made from smallpox, it was made from cowpox. So samples of the vaccine would not be smallpox, dead or otherwise. Samples of smallpox would be from labs specifically testing the disease. (Hopefully, testing for means to eradicate it.)
> And, apparently, in a dusty cardboard box in an old storage room in Maryland.
And, who knows? Maybe a dozen other places. How did that rule of thumb go? For every security breach you find, there's probably several you didn't find.