I hate stories like this. IMOHO it's folks who don't want to see the cable companies take a dump (this article is from the WSJ), so I always assume there's a conflict of interest. Are there a lot of choices? Yes, and that's actually a good thing. The down side is you have to do a bit of research and you have to use a few different apps instead of having everything right at your fingertips. There are tons of sites out there that will tell you what each service carries.
When I cut the cord two years ago, I spent all of 20 minutes comparing the services out there that carried the channels that I wanted (OTA isn't an option for me since I have a mountain blocking most of the signals not to mention a huge tree). Vue had about 90% of what I wanted, and there were "free" channels (so to speak) for the other content that I wanted to access. Once Hulu has live access for Discovery content, I'll probably make the switch over to them instead.
Folks, it's really not that hard, even for those who aren't familiar with technology. Most people who have cable also subscribe to Netflix and Amazon, so all you're really doing is cutting down your cable/satellite bill. I went from paying almost $250 a month to paying about $100. Good deal for me and many others.
Until Roku, Amazon, Apple, etc come up with a device that can truly interpret all of your subscriptions it's going to be a bit of a hodgepodge but you get some extra $$$ in your pocket. With cable/satellite you're spoon fed the content in an "easy" to consume format. With streaming services you may have to do a bit more work. Is the convenience worth the extra money those companies charge? Well that's up to you. For me, it's easy enough to go to a couple more apps instead of having my experience spoon fed.
I've been working from home for about a year now, and honestly I love it. I am a software developer, so it makes sense for me to have quiet and minimize interruptions. As a result, I'm more productive (because I can just turn slack off when I don't want to be interrupted, harder to do in an office environment) and I get to spend more time with my family instead of an hour or more on the road on a daily basis. We use Zoom constantly and we try to make it a point to turn on our camera's so we can actually see each other and interact. That makes a huge difference to me, since it allows me to feel like I get that daily interaction with folks.
We also make twice yearly homages to HQ and I would be ok with it being quarterly honestly. We go to our HQ for a week and get some stuff worked out that's easier to do in person. The team building aspect of those times actually feel like they mean something as well. Previously, team building events didn't mean much because they were with folks I interacted with in person everyday.. Now I feel like they make a larger impact on myself and my colleagues because that time is so much more valuable.
This kind of stuff drives me nuts. The title of this article is misleading. If you read through you'll find this piece:
"The panel found evidence among studies it reviewed that vaping may prompt teenagers or young adults to try regular cigarettes, putting them at higher risk for addiction, but that any significant linkage between e-cigarettes and long-term smoking has not been established"
From what I read it looks like there is no significant linkage. The article also didn't give any specifics. Based on my reading it sounds like someone may have tried a cigarette after vaping. I bet if you compared those numbers to those who have tried a cigarette without vaping you would probably see a corollary. This article seems to try imply that there is a larger linkage. It feels like folks are trying to slant this towards their own agenda.
I hate how people try to villainize vaping. Here are some facts as someone who has quit smoking by switching to vaping:
I quit smoking because vaping tasted better. One day (when I was alternating between smoking and vaping) I started smoking a cigarette and said to my self, "This tastes like sh** why am I doing this?" I proceeded to switch back to vaping and gave away the remainder of my cigarettes. I have had one cigarette since and it was so unappetizing that it's ridiculous. I haven't wanted another one since.
Vaping can be significantly less expensive than smoking. I spend about $200 a year on e juice (because I buy in bulk), I used to spend that in a month on cigarettes, now it would probably be closer to 300 because of tax increases.
I keep vaping because it's a habit replacement. I still use a little nicotine (3mg/ml), just enough to get a little buzz. I vape ~6 ml per day, so I'm getting ~18mg of nicotine per day. One cigarette is on average 12 mg of nicotine. I can go for hours without vaping without real issue. Smoking I couldn't go more than an hour or so without getting anxious.
After completely switching to vaping for a month, I was able to go up four flights of stairs without getting winded. I used to get winded going up two.
I don't wake up coughing everyday like I did when I smoked
My sense of taste and smell have improved. My overall health has improved
Now I would like to emphasize that vaping is a habit replacement for me. Habits can be a mother f***er to break. I think it's the habit that is what makes smoking so difficult to quit. Read a great book called, "The Power of Habit" by Charles Duhigg. It was very eye opening. It's habits that are difficult to break. The physical addiction is over fairly quickly, but coming up with a habit replacement is what really made the difference for me quitting smoking and succeeding at it. I smoked for 15 years, tried quitting at least 15 times. I have been smoke free for nearly 3 years thanks to vaping.
Why keep vaping? Well see above. Also, the primary ingredients in most ejuice are vegetable glycerin (VG) and propylene glycol (PG). Both of which have been studied and been found to be safe. PG has been used in fog machines for years with no ill effects found.
Also, most of the studies that find toxins and the such related to vaping are from what's called a dry hit, meaning that you're essentially burning the wicking material because it doesn't have enough liquid, thus causing a different reaction than heating. One generally doesn't like the taste of a dry hit, it's nasty and if it happens you fix the issue by adding more liquid or replacing the atomizer. You still get more carcinogenics and toxic byproducts from a cigarette puff than a dry hit.
Not looking to start an argument, just wanted to put out what I've experienced and why articles like this tend to piss me off. As a rule I don't think anyone should start smoking. I would rather kids not vape too, it's a habit and there are risks of habit formation (even without nicotine, which creates an addiction on top of the habit); however, kids are going to want to rebel and b
Something very like this happened to me during the holidays last year. My manager gave me a $100 gift card, and when I went to use it the card had been drained. A colleague (who reported to the same manager) experienced the same thing. When we contacted the gift card company we were given the run around and didn't get our balances back. Nice of them isn't it? Pro tip: Make sure that they use the card immediately, order it online or give them cash instead:)
I ran into the same issue that is outlined here, went ahead and changed my plan only to get significantly degraded. Most of the shows I wanted to watch didn't record. They said "Oh it's your equipment! Let us roll a truck to you (for 49.99) and we'll fix that problem right away!" It turns out I'm not the only person experiencing the issue. My Grandmother had the same exact issue, and only after Spectrum took over. Wow, I wonder what it could be? Instead of arguing with them, I went ahead and just dumped everything but internet. Signed up for PS Vue and now I'm paying $50 less than I was with 95% of the channels I wanted (the other 5% I can get through on demand apps from those providers). Screw 'em! I just wish there were more high speed options in my area, then I would cut them completely. I have the option of Spectrum (300 Mbps) or 1 Mbps DSL (for almost $50 a month to boot!). Hopefully wireless spectrum internet will come through sooner than later.
Audible is my favorite service, I've been an audible customer for over a dozen years and have over 800 books in my audible library. They're the ones I can't do without.
I also subscribe to Hulu, Netflix, Playstation Vue (cable replacement), HBO Now, and Amazon Prime (also use it for add free music, their free version of music has a pretty wide selection, you don't have to pay extra).
I know my college offers a "free" digital subscription to NYT's. I wonder if they're counting the ones that they give out to schools? I know that's how I get mine...and my college not an ivy league or anything. I would be curious to see how many of the 1 million are paid subscriptions...
When I was in high school, one of my first "computer projects" was upgrading to Windows 95 over the summer. I remember installing RAM to bring it up to 8MB and 250 MB HDD's into old white box computers that were in use at my school. All of them were already 486's with math co-processors. We installed 3COM Ethernet adapters and removed the old BNC cards. There were already Ethernet drops done.
It took about 2 weeks to upgrade 60 computers, all installs done via the network. This was in 1997, and it was an awesome experience to a 15 year old kid who was just realizing that he had a knack for computers:) When I graduated in 2000, we had gotten all Dell work stations running Windows NT 4 with 64MB of RAM and Pentium III's. Ah memories, makes me want to go build a desktop for old times sake!
I'm working on a project to replace a legacy system that runs on Fox DB and is completely DOS based. It's so old that it can't actually be run on desktop systems without a VM because it's 8bit and all of our current systems are 64Bit.
Completely agree. Most companies are looking for the purple cow. They are less and less willing to invest the money in developing resources so they can obtain the experience needed to succeed and fill those important positions later. They continually complain about the lack of graduates; however, they would not spend the capital to invest in new graduates anyways.
I just did a very simple litmus test. I went to indeed and searched for:
Jr Developer in San Diego. Results: 82 Sr Developer in San Diego. Results:536
Does anyone else see a problem here? We are getting to a point of diminishing returns here!
I would not relish anyone trying to gain experience in today's market. I was fortunate 14 years ago to be at a rapidly growing company who was willing to take a chance on a pretty good tech support agent whom preformed pretty well and tried out new things. I doubt such a thing would happen in today's job market.
It scares the hell out of me to think what kind of troubles my daughter will have if she decides to follow in my foot steps. I honestly hope she follows in my wife's (she's a nurse) because that's an industry that is still grudgingly willing to take recent grad's.
I generally loath government interference in business; however, I think a nice tax credit to companies whom hire new grad's might be in order. It might help with the default rates of student loans at the very least, and it would also help increase the pool of experienced candidates in a few years and maybe make us less dependent on H1B (which generally are not much better than recent grads in my experience).
I have interviewed and worked with several H1B's, and one thing that I have noticed is that while they're slightly cheaper, there is a cultural problem that is endemic. A lot of these folks are not able to innovate or thinking outside of the box. These are essential qualities in a good software developer (at least in my opinion). I have worked with one H1B whom is VERY good, and is able to think in addition to work.
I do believe that they are hard workers and that they try, I don't know how successful they will be in the long run. Most of the candidates I have interviewed have generally been hard-put to think through problems. For example, I would ask them how would they generally approach a problem (e.g. your users need to do x, tell me how you would do this). Most were stumped by this. I would even try to lob easy questions such as database normalization (You have a table that repeats the same fields like reference name 1, reference name 2, is this correct and if not why?).
There is also another problem, they aren't really that much cheaper ! The U.S. is an expensive place to live, and you can not really cut corners that much. We are talking about a difference of maybe 10-15k a year (at least in the ones I've spoken to). Most of the time, if you take the additional meetings that need to take place to re-review the requirements due to a little hiccup (see point about not being able to think though problems) and the costs could actually go UP. If you have to have an additional hour of meeting per week (very generous) with a PM, 3xDevelopers, BA (average if you have multiple dev streams). That's 52*5=260 hours. Average of $55/hour across all three roles, that is $14,300 for a single meeting hour long weekly meeting for the year. So the potential savings you got from one of the developers could be a wash. I have also noticed that non H1B programmers tend to work faster (again see point about working more independently).
So my point is that this maybe a situation of self correction. The trend might re-balance itself as more companies realize some of these realities; however, that would assume that the companies take such things into account instead of being penny wise and pound foolish.
I'm a Salesforce.com developer, which uses Salesforce's custom language "Apex" as well as "VisuaForce". These two languages are bastardized versions of Java and JSP respectively. They are highly in demand because Salesforce enforces governor limits which enforces "best practices" to be followed. For example, you can only have 100 queries in a single run so you can't do a loop and query the datbase. I make mid 100k a year in southern California, but can demand more, especially if I wanted to do full time consulting. Consultants can make $100-200 an hour.
I'm a Salesforce.com developer and am constantly getting hit by recruiter spam. In the last week I have gotten 15 requests, only 5 of which are in my area. The rest? Over 500 miles away at the very least!
Whenever you are working with a popular technology set, you are going to get hit up by non stop recruiters. The part that drives me nuts is the non intelligent ways that they shotgun blast. In my current position (I work for a major non IT recruiting company), I'm working with a Salesforce based recruitment engine. I KNOW what options are available to many of these systems. It seems like they do not utilize any intelligence beyond a keyword search. In the engine that I've aided in developing, we have many different options available to better target appropriate candidates. For example, something simple, like a zip code radius! Heck we even incorporate state based filters if you don't have zip codes.
Unfortunately, there is not much that I can think of to combat this other than unsubscribe. The only issue there is you might later miss out on a legitimate job opportunities. I mean heck even terrorists manage to get lucky at times in action movies, and these folks might get one in 200 right:P
If I were you, I would try implementing MAC Address filtering (basically you white list MAC Addresses that should be allowed to connect). This can be a pain when connecting new devices, but worth it from a security standpoint.
I would also change your SSID and disable broadcast. Reducing transmit power may also help. If you don't have enough coverage with the reduced power, you could also go with power line adapter and setup another AP in the weak area.
Oh and you can also try reducing your key regen time too. If you leave at the default 3600 seconds, then you're also giving him a longer time to try to breakin if he spoofs your mac.
Finally, you can always go with static IP's or if your router is capable, setup DHCP to assign specific IP's to specific MAC Addresses.
The storage you're talking about is cheaper. The 3000 per year number is for Data Storage not File Storage. They're calculated differently by Salesforce.
It's correct to an extent, but with Salesforce you also get (depending on your edition, but for Enterprise Edition and Unlimited Edition) 20MB per user once you get to the 1GB minimum (basically after 50 users you start accruing 20MB per user). Keep in mind that this is for data storage on the DB (First Name->John...etc), not "file storage" (e.g. word docs, PDF's, etc). Those are still pricey, but less expensive.The "file storage" as they call it comes with a baseline 11GB and 600MB per user. You can purchase 10GB for about $40/month.
Wow they actually forgot to include the XBox 360's tile system which does the same thing...Still, I can't believe this kind of obvious stuff is still getting getting patented! "Box Ads" have been around for years, I'm shocked they're targeting Microsoft. Google would have made a much bigger target with Google IG, and Google has a lot more $$ than Microsoft at the moment. Also, this Patent was granted in 2004 and Google IG came along shortly there after (2006 or so?)...wow this is ridiculous.
Or if another space faring nation like Russia or China decide to pop something special into space (granted not likely, but also not outside the realm of probability) to block signals or intercept them?
PS3 may be a bad example, but hey Iran has physical access to one of our drones. Who's to say that they couldn't figure some one of getting access to the machine or the broadcasting equipment? When you have something that has the ability to bring death and destruction on a massive scale, you don't remote control it. Even the ICBM's we used to have weren't remote controlled, you programmed the things to go where they were going to go and push the button. That's it no fuss no muss, no chance of an enemy getting control of it and turning it around (not to mention the physics involved, but my point is still valid)
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I hate stories like this. IMOHO it's folks who don't want to see the cable companies take a dump (this article is from the WSJ), so I always assume there's a conflict of interest. Are there a lot of choices? Yes, and that's actually a good thing. The down side is you have to do a bit of research and you have to use a few different apps instead of having everything right at your fingertips. There are tons of sites out there that will tell you what each service carries.
When I cut the cord two years ago, I spent all of 20 minutes comparing the services out there that carried the channels that I wanted (OTA isn't an option for me since I have a mountain blocking most of the signals not to mention a huge tree). Vue had about 90% of what I wanted, and there were "free" channels (so to speak) for the other content that I wanted to access. Once Hulu has live access for Discovery content, I'll probably make the switch over to them instead.
Folks, it's really not that hard, even for those who aren't familiar with technology. Most people who have cable also subscribe to Netflix and Amazon, so all you're really doing is cutting down your cable/satellite bill. I went from paying almost $250 a month to paying about $100. Good deal for me and many others.
Until Roku, Amazon, Apple, etc come up with a device that can truly interpret all of your subscriptions it's going to be a bit of a hodgepodge but you get some extra $$$ in your pocket. With cable/satellite you're spoon fed the content in an "easy" to consume format. With streaming services you may have to do a bit more work. Is the convenience worth the extra money those companies charge? Well that's up to you. For me, it's easy enough to go to a couple more apps instead of having my experience spoon fed.
I've been working from home for about a year now, and honestly I love it. I am a software developer, so it makes sense for me to have quiet and minimize interruptions. As a result, I'm more productive (because I can just turn slack off when I don't want to be interrupted, harder to do in an office environment) and I get to spend more time with my family instead of an hour or more on the road on a daily basis. We use Zoom constantly and we try to make it a point to turn on our camera's so we can actually see each other and interact. That makes a huge difference to me, since it allows me to feel like I get that daily interaction with folks.
We also make twice yearly homages to HQ and I would be ok with it being quarterly honestly. We go to our HQ for a week and get some stuff worked out that's easier to do in person. The team building aspect of those times actually feel like they mean something as well. Previously, team building events didn't mean much because they were with folks I interacted with in person everyday.. Now I feel like they make a larger impact on myself and my colleagues because that time is so much more valuable.
Just my two cents
This kind of stuff drives me nuts. The title of this article is misleading. If you read through you'll find this piece:
"The panel found evidence among studies it reviewed that vaping may prompt teenagers or young adults to try regular cigarettes, putting them at higher risk for addiction, but that any significant linkage between e-cigarettes and long-term smoking has not been established"
From what I read it looks like there is no significant linkage. The article also didn't give any specifics. Based on my reading it sounds like someone may have tried a cigarette after vaping. I bet if you compared those numbers to those who have tried a cigarette without vaping you would probably see a corollary. This article seems to try imply that there is a larger linkage. It feels like folks are trying to slant this towards their own agenda.
I hate how people try to villainize vaping. Here are some facts as someone who has quit smoking by switching to vaping:
Now I would like to emphasize that vaping is a habit replacement for me. Habits can be a mother f***er to break. I think it's the habit that is what makes smoking so difficult to quit. Read a great book called, "The Power of Habit" by Charles Duhigg. It was very eye opening. It's habits that are difficult to break. The physical addiction is over fairly quickly, but coming up with a habit replacement is what really made the difference for me quitting smoking and succeeding at it. I smoked for 15 years, tried quitting at least 15 times. I have been smoke free for nearly 3 years thanks to vaping.
Why keep vaping? Well see above. Also, the primary ingredients in most ejuice are vegetable glycerin (VG) and propylene glycol (PG). Both of which have been studied and been found to be safe. PG has been used in fog machines for years with no ill effects found.
Also, most of the studies that find toxins and the such related to vaping are from what's called a dry hit, meaning that you're essentially burning the wicking material because it doesn't have enough liquid, thus causing a different reaction than heating. One generally doesn't like the taste of a dry hit, it's nasty and if it happens you fix the issue by adding more liquid or replacing the atomizer. You still get more carcinogenics and toxic byproducts from a cigarette puff than a dry hit.
Not looking to start an argument, just wanted to put out what I've experienced and why articles like this tend to piss me off. As a rule I don't think anyone should start smoking. I would rather kids not vape too, it's a habit and there are risks of habit formation (even without nicotine, which creates an addiction on top of the habit); however, kids are going to want to rebel and b
Something very like this happened to me during the holidays last year. My manager gave me a $100 gift card, and when I went to use it the card had been drained. A colleague (who reported to the same manager) experienced the same thing. When we contacted the gift card company we were given the run around and didn't get our balances back. Nice of them isn't it? Pro tip: Make sure that they use the card immediately, order it online or give them cash instead :)
Many Southpark episodes are available on South Park Studio's website, and new ones are available on Hulu (which is relatively inexpensive at 7.99/mo)
I ran into the same issue that is outlined here, went ahead and changed my plan only to get significantly degraded. Most of the shows I wanted to watch didn't record. They said "Oh it's your equipment! Let us roll a truck to you (for 49.99) and we'll fix that problem right away!" It turns out I'm not the only person experiencing the issue. My Grandmother had the same exact issue, and only after Spectrum took over. Wow, I wonder what it could be? Instead of arguing with them, I went ahead and just dumped everything but internet. Signed up for PS Vue and now I'm paying $50 less than I was with 95% of the channels I wanted (the other 5% I can get through on demand apps from those providers). Screw 'em! I just wish there were more high speed options in my area, then I would cut them completely. I have the option of Spectrum (300 Mbps) or 1 Mbps DSL (for almost $50 a month to boot!). Hopefully wireless spectrum internet will come through sooner than later.
Audible is my favorite service, I've been an audible customer for over a dozen years and have over 800 books in my audible library. They're the ones I can't do without.
I also subscribe to Hulu, Netflix, Playstation Vue (cable replacement), HBO Now, and Amazon Prime (also use it for add free music, their free version of music has a pretty wide selection, you don't have to pay extra).
I know my college offers a "free" digital subscription to NYT's. I wonder if they're counting the ones that they give out to schools? I know that's how I get mine...and my college not an ivy league or anything. I would be curious to see how many of the 1 million are paid subscriptions...
When I was in high school, one of my first "computer projects" was upgrading to Windows 95 over the summer. I remember installing RAM to bring it up to 8MB and 250 MB HDD's into old white box computers that were in use at my school. All of them were already 486's with math co-processors. We installed 3COM Ethernet adapters and removed the old BNC cards. There were already Ethernet drops done.
:) When I graduated in 2000, we had gotten all Dell work stations running Windows NT 4 with 64MB of RAM and Pentium III's. Ah memories, makes me want to go build a desktop for old times sake!
It took about 2 weeks to upgrade 60 computers, all installs done via the network. This was in 1997, and it was an awesome experience to a 15 year old kid who was just realizing that he had a knack for computers
Whoops I did mean 16 bit LOL
I'm working on a project to replace a legacy system that runs on Fox DB and is completely DOS based. It's so old that it can't actually be run on desktop systems without a VM because it's 8bit and all of our current systems are 64Bit.
Completely agree. Most companies are looking for the purple cow. They are less and less willing to invest the money in developing resources so they can obtain the experience needed to succeed and fill those important positions later. They continually complain about the lack of graduates; however, they would not spend the capital to invest in new graduates anyways.
I just did a very simple litmus test. I went to indeed and searched for:
Jr Developer in San Diego. Results: 82
Sr Developer in San Diego. Results: 536
Does anyone else see a problem here? We are getting to a point of diminishing returns here!
I would not relish anyone trying to gain experience in today's market. I was fortunate 14 years ago to be at a rapidly growing company who was willing to take a chance on a pretty good tech support agent whom preformed pretty well and tried out new things. I doubt such a thing would happen in today's job market.
It scares the hell out of me to think what kind of troubles my daughter will have if she decides to follow in my foot steps. I honestly hope she follows in my wife's (she's a nurse) because that's an industry that is still grudgingly willing to take recent grad's.
I generally loath government interference in business; however, I think a nice tax credit to companies whom hire new grad's might be in order. It might help with the default rates of student loans at the very least, and it would also help increase the pool of experienced candidates in a few years and maybe make us less dependent on H1B (which generally are not much better than recent grads in my experience).
I have interviewed and worked with several H1B's, and one thing that I have noticed is that while they're slightly cheaper, there is a cultural problem that is endemic. A lot of these folks are not able to innovate or thinking outside of the box. These are essential qualities in a good software developer (at least in my opinion). I have worked with one H1B whom is VERY good, and is able to think in addition to work.
I do believe that they are hard workers and that they try, I don't know how successful they will be in the long run. Most of the candidates I have interviewed have generally been hard-put to think through problems. For example, I would ask them how would they generally approach a problem (e.g. your users need to do x, tell me how you would do this). Most were stumped by this. I would even try to lob easy questions such as database normalization (You have a table that repeats the same fields like reference name 1, reference name 2, is this correct and if not why?).
There is also another problem, they aren't really that much cheaper ! The U.S. is an expensive place to live, and you can not really cut corners that much. We are talking about a difference of maybe 10-15k a year (at least in the ones I've spoken to). Most of the time, if you take the additional meetings that need to take place to re-review the requirements due to a little hiccup (see point about not being able to think though problems) and the costs could actually go UP. If you have to have an additional hour of meeting per week (very generous) with a PM, 3xDevelopers, BA (average if you have multiple dev streams). That's 52*5=260 hours. Average of $55/hour across all three roles, that is $14,300 for a single meeting hour long weekly meeting for the year. So the potential savings you got from one of the developers could be a wash. I have also noticed that non H1B programmers tend to work faster (again see point about working more independently).
So my point is that this maybe a situation of self correction. The trend might re-balance itself as more companies realize some of these realities; however, that would assume that the companies take such things into account instead of being penny wise and pound foolish.
And we all know that computers are ALWAYS rational :P
I'm a Salesforce.com developer, which uses Salesforce's custom language "Apex" as well as "VisuaForce". These two languages are bastardized versions of Java and JSP respectively. They are highly in demand because Salesforce enforces governor limits which enforces "best practices" to be followed. For example, you can only have 100 queries in a single run so you can't do a loop and query the datbase. I make mid 100k a year in southern California, but can demand more, especially if I wanted to do full time consulting. Consultants can make $100-200 an hour.
I'm a Salesforce.com developer and am constantly getting hit by recruiter spam. In the last week I have gotten 15 requests, only 5 of which are in my area. The rest? Over 500 miles away at the very least!
Whenever you are working with a popular technology set, you are going to get hit up by non stop recruiters. The part that drives me nuts is the non intelligent ways that they shotgun blast. In my current position (I work for a major non IT recruiting company), I'm working with a Salesforce based recruitment engine. I KNOW what options are available to many of these systems. It seems like they do not utilize any intelligence beyond a keyword search. In the engine that I've aided in developing, we have many different options available to better target appropriate candidates. For example, something simple, like a zip code radius! Heck we even incorporate state based filters if you don't have zip codes.
Unfortunately, there is not much that I can think of to combat this other than unsubscribe. The only issue there is you might later miss out on a legitimate job opportunities. I mean heck even terrorists manage to get lucky at times in action movies, and these folks might get one in 200 right :P
If I were you, I would try implementing MAC Address filtering (basically you white list MAC Addresses that should be allowed to connect). This can be a pain when connecting new devices, but worth it from a security standpoint.
I would also change your SSID and disable broadcast. Reducing transmit power may also help. If you don't have enough coverage with the reduced power, you could also go with power line adapter and setup another AP in the weak area.
Oh and you can also try reducing your key regen time too. If you leave at the default 3600 seconds, then you're also giving him a longer time to try to breakin if he spoofs your mac.
Finally, you can always go with static IP's or if your router is capable, setup DHCP to assign specific IP's to specific MAC Addresses.
Hope this helps!
Actually you start off with 11GB for file storage and get 612MB/User :)
The storage you're talking about is cheaper. The 3000 per year number is for Data Storage not File Storage. They're calculated differently by Salesforce.
It's correct to an extent, but with Salesforce you also get (depending on your edition, but for Enterprise Edition and Unlimited Edition) 20MB per user once you get to the 1GB minimum (basically after 50 users you start accruing 20MB per user). Keep in mind that this is for data storage on the DB (First Name->John...etc), not "file storage" (e.g. word docs, PDF's, etc). Those are still pricey, but less expensive.The "file storage" as they call it comes with a baseline 11GB and 600MB per user. You can purchase 10GB for about $40/month.
Wow they actually forgot to include the XBox 360's tile system which does the same thing...Still, I can't believe this kind of obvious stuff is still getting getting patented! "Box Ads" have been around for years, I'm shocked they're targeting Microsoft. Google would have made a much bigger target with Google IG, and Google has a lot more $$ than Microsoft at the moment. Also, this Patent was granted in 2004 and Google IG came along shortly there after (2006 or so?)...wow this is ridiculous.
Or if another space faring nation like Russia or China decide to pop something special into space (granted not likely, but also not outside the realm of probability) to block signals or intercept them?
PS3 may be a bad example, but hey Iran has physical access to one of our drones. Who's to say that they couldn't figure some one of getting access to the machine or the broadcasting equipment? When you have something that has the ability to bring death and destruction on a massive scale, you don't remote control it. Even the ICBM's we used to have weren't remote controlled, you programmed the things to go where they were going to go and push the button. That's it no fuss no muss, no chance of an enemy getting control of it and turning it around (not to mention the physics involved, but my point is still valid)
Remember that the Predator drones broadcast their signals in the clear at first.
Military grade doesn't always mean smart.
I was using the PS3 as a general example not as a good one lol.
Here's an example of the problem with unmanned drones that don't always carry weapons.
Or figure out where it's being controlled from and monitor it there...