I'm just saying a determined thief can and will take down your information. Tin foil around your passport won't do the trick.
That is the most... werid... non-argument against RFID I've ever seen. How is RFID facilitating this? Theives can do this with current passports. The statement about the sense of security lies in the screening/authentication of people - NOT in the physical security of the passport.
And I have never had to present ID for boarding the plane - just slide the e-ticket in the reader as I'm walking aboard. The biggest slowdown is security screening. That is where I've had to show my boarding pass and ID. This is meant to help speed up the process.
Actually, XP=NT 5.1. There were only incremental changes over 2000. Most of it cosmetic. 2k3=NT 5.2. I think Longhorn is what is slated to use version 6 of the NT kernel.
Ok, I'm scaring the bejesus out of myself for knowing this since I don't even run these at home (suse for the desktop - Fedora for experimenting). Well, I guess I do have to know some of this stuff from work, but only in a tangental way...
Well, I never claimed Win2000 did not use the NT kernel. It does. Win 2000 uses version 5 and XP uses version 5.1. I was talking about the home versions available to comsumers. Up until XP Home, the versions available (95/98/ME) were simply shelacked on top of good old MS DOS.
The simple fact is that 95/98/ME needed DOS to load itself. I will admit I do not know if it was necessary after the environment was fully loaded (although if you were in a command window or ran.cmd,.bat, or.com [remember those?] files you were using DOS). I do know that MS wanted break the chains of an hideously ancient and obsolete DOS and finally made the cut over to an NT based OS for the home user.
All the consumer-level (read: home user) products up to XP were DOS based. In other words, DOS was the framework and the GUI's were slapped on top(95 beta actually used 7.0 as a version on boot disks made with it). This includes 3.x, 95, 98, and (shudder) ME. XP Home is the first consumer-level OS from Microsoft that is NOT based on DOS - it uses the NT kernel. IIRC, MS made a BIG deal about the fact that XP home was the first non DOS-based OS for home users they've released (a goal for a LONG time).
I wouldn't go after flash memeory on this one. On the whole the flash memeory will probably last longer than the mini-drives. Newer algorithms for writing to flash has signigicantly increased the product life (so it's not so much the memory but the controller accessing the memeory). Flash memory life is pretty much a non-issue these days.
I do, however, agree that the battery life is the major issue. While they can be replaced, it can be pretty expensive to do so.
No indication as to how many cars are backed up at each light.
Actually, I live in the Chicago 'burbs and many of the intersections have multiple plates (anything from 3 to 5 deep). When there are more cars waiting on any one way, the lights cycle to green faster for those cars. The only exception I've noticed is during rush hour when the lights move to a timed interval pretty much ignoring the inductance plates.
He cites "two senior administration officials", but then doesn't name them (and still hasn't AFAIK) with nothing else to back it up. At least Woodward and Bernstein had documentation to back them up and not just Deep Throat.
And I don't think its a "left-wing" conspiracy at all. I just see a lot of comments with no concrete evidence. Citing anonymous sources is not evidence... I am not out to attack the "left" - I despise both the left and the right for destroying the US. I simply see a whole lot more "theories" with a high weirdness quotient coming from the left (really. read some threads on the democratic underground - you'll split a gut laughing). So I tend to be a little more dubious of their claims
And I know this will be modded troll(even though I really want to see some evidence - I guess trying to find the truth is threatening to some of the moderators) just like my last previous comment:)
Do you have evidence to back your opinion up? I would seriously be interested in seeing anything that shows the administration outed Plame.
What I would NOT accept as evidence would be unamed sources, tin-foil hat sites (like democratic underground), or Op-Ed pieces (such as Ted Rall)..
Got anything? And I'm serious... People in the US (including the president)are innocent until proven guilty. If you have access to some concrete evidence, I would be more than willing to concede your point.
To tell you the truth, however, all I'm expecting is some links to dicussion forums, ad hominem attacks, straw-man arguments and the like.
Yeah, I was wondering the same thing. I work with some security modules that have tamper-resistant casing. If you try to force the locks or pry/cut the case, It zeros itself out. The difference here is that everything is solid state and stored in RAM and Flash memory. For the hard drive perhaps somekind of deadman switch on an electromagnet or something. But that would make for a damn big (and HEAVY) laptop (At least going by the size of our DeGaussers here at work).
Anyone know what could be small and light (fit in a laptop case with all the other stuff) and still be able to wipe a drive isntantly (or near instantly)? Preferably without killing anyone (so no explosives or what-not!)
Our purchase flow software at work has an IE limitation...sorta. Whenever I want to requisition something, I fire up Firefox and go to our purchasing page. When I click on the link, it pops a window up saying "You need IE 5.5 or greater to run this app" and will not proceed to the application page.
HOWEVER... when I right click and select "Open Link in New Tab", the it opens and runs/renders perfectly in Firefox (and I do not have any extensions other than Adblock and Tabbrowser Extensions in Firefox). Don't know how this constitutes needing IE...
1. your contact list is stored per machine, not on the server.
Fortunately, I haven't had my laptop stolen (at least not the one with which I currently use Skype), but on the whole I agree that they should store the contact list on the server. This helps not only in recovery, but also if you have multiple installations (I also have it on my workstation at work).
2. tone generation dubious.
3. no caller ID.
I haven't used the Skype-to-land-line feature yet, so I cannot comment on these.
4. the credit expires if you dont use it.
I just read on the site (I was installing for a friend) that they revised the credit expiry policy. Now, instead of the credit expiring after six months of purchase, it expires after six months of account inactivity. As long as you make a Skype-to-land-line call once every six months, your credit will always be there. While not perfect (I'd like the inactivity to go up to at least 2 yrs), this is a definite improvement.
I have a feeling that point 4 changed because people were complaining. Perhaps if issues 1-3 were raised with the Skype team, those may be addressed as well.
Exactly, I don't know what companies the grand-parent post is talking about, but I beleive they may be breaking the law.
They do post the H1-Bs (hire and renewal) where I work. I can tell you that they pay the same to H1-Bs as domestic hires (pretty damn well, too).
Unfortunately, a lot of the domestic prospects seem to want to blow smoke up your ass regarding job skills. I do peer interviews (after management has interviewed the person) to test the applicants skill-set. I just had one a couple months ago that couldn't define technical concepts he had listed as being proficient in on his damn resume! We did not go H1-B on that one, but if someone with an H1-B had been the only one qualified, you bet we would have hired him/her. And paid the same, too.
I just want to let you know I agree with ya. I am fortunate that I work at a company that realizes that. In fact we just had a division meeting that emphasized Work/Life balance. The pervading philosophy at work seems to be if you can't get the job done that you were hired for within a regular work hours somethings seriously wrong. Now, emergencies happen and every now and then you have to do some extra hours to meet a deadline, but I'm talking days not weeks.
This is the first European based company I've worked for, and let me tell you the way they treat employees is WWAAAYY different than US based ones (in my experience). And the benefits rock, too! I count my blessings every day that I landed this job.
Disclaimer: Of course if I were hourly instead of salaried you bet your ass I'd be working long hours:)
Some of those cute screensavers (with spyware) chew up bandwidth on local segments regardless of whether they're blocked with a firewall from phoning home.
Normal users shouldn't be able to install ANYTHING, but some companies will sacrifice security because employees grumble (neither here nor there, but still the wrong stance - No install rights should ever be given to standard users). If he were my "IT Manager type" and NOT caring about any 3rd party software(screensavers included) installed out of band, he would be out on his ass. That said, part of IT's mission should be to educate and inform users (at least at a comapny which is serious about IT). We have regular Lunch-and-Learns about security, spyware, browsing, computer usage, network info, etc...
User education is always the best route (and most painful with certain users). If that doesn't work, then you need to enforce penalties. With comprehensive IT policies and practices (and I do mean comrehensive) IT should never need to get into an adversarial mode with the users. I have seen techs/admins who don't like to work with users, be pretty atagonistic and then be all surprised when a round of layoffs occurr and they're on the list. However you want to look at it, at the end of the day users are the whole reason for our career.
It sounds like this guy is trying to educate users rather than make them enemies.
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I'm just saying a determined thief can and will take down your information. Tin foil around your passport won't do the trick.
That is the most... werid... non-argument against RFID I've ever seen. How is RFID facilitating this? Theives can do this with current passports. The statement about the sense of security lies in the screening/authentication of people - NOT in the physical security of the passport.
And I have never had to present ID for boarding the plane - just slide the e-ticket in the reader as I'm walking aboard. The biggest slowdown is security screening. That is where I've had to show my boarding pass and ID. This is meant to help speed up the process.
Actually, I was thinking it was you...
Sorry, THEY made me say it!!! Get Help! Ge...
Please, disregard the previous statement. Move along. There is no such thing as MK-Ultra. Forget I said anything. It's nothing.
Really.
NASA probably should have...(blah blah blah)... Instead of ruining the kid's future.
I hate to shine the harsh light of reality on your post, but NASA didn't ruin this kid's future. He ruined it all by himself.
I have 10,000 monkeys with MFAs. They're working on a novel right now.
/.
You seem to be using only 10,000 monkeys, while the IMPS protocol clearly calls for an infinite number.
Obviously, you are not conforming with RFC 2795. Please rectify this or you may become a pariah on
Actually, XP=NT 5.1. There were only incremental changes over 2000. Most of it cosmetic. 2k3=NT 5.2. I think Longhorn is what is slated to use version 6 of the NT kernel.
Ok, I'm scaring the bejesus out of myself for knowing this since I don't even run these at home (suse for the desktop - Fedora for experimenting). Well, I guess I do have to know some of this stuff from work, but only in a tangental way...
Well, I never claimed Win2000 did not use the NT kernel. It does. Win 2000 uses version 5 and XP uses version 5.1. I was talking about the home versions available to comsumers. Up until XP Home, the versions available (95/98/ME) were simply shelacked on top of good old MS DOS.
.cmd, .bat, or .com [remember those?] files you were using DOS). I do know that MS wanted break the chains of an hideously ancient and obsolete DOS and finally made the cut over to an NT based OS for the home user.
The simple fact is that 95/98/ME needed DOS to load itself. I will admit I do not know if it was necessary after the environment was fully loaded (although if you were in a command window or ran
the roads down there can't be built or even maintained fast enough. The congestion down there at times in some areas can be overwhelming
I will not argue with you. Just thinking about the Strangler on the Eisenhower Expressway makes me shudder!
There's a joke that Chicago has two seasons - Winter and Road Construction : )
All the consumer-level (read: home user) products up to XP were DOS based. In other words, DOS was the framework and the GUI's were slapped on top(95 beta actually used 7.0 as a version on boot disks made with it). This includes 3.x, 95, 98, and (shudder) ME. XP Home is the first consumer-level OS from Microsoft that is NOT based on DOS - it uses the NT kernel. IIRC, MS made a BIG deal about the fact that XP home was the first non DOS-based OS for home users they've released (a goal for a LONG time).
I wouldn't go after flash memeory on this one. On the whole the flash memeory will probably last longer than the mini-drives. Newer algorithms for writing to flash has signigicantly increased the product life (so it's not so much the memory but the controller accessing the memeory). Flash memory life is pretty much a non-issue these days.
I do, however, agree that the battery life is the major issue. While they can be replaced, it can be pretty expensive to do so.
No indication as to how many cars are backed up at each light.
Actually, I live in the Chicago 'burbs and many of the intersections have multiple plates (anything from 3 to 5 deep). When there are more cars waiting on any one way, the lights cycle to green faster for those cars. The only exception I've noticed is during rush hour when the lights move to a timed interval pretty much ignoring the inductance plates.
You see this is what I'm talking about...
:)
He cites "two senior administration officials", but then doesn't name them (and still hasn't AFAIK) with nothing else to back it up. At least Woodward and Bernstein had documentation to back them up and not just Deep Throat.
And I don't think its a "left-wing" conspiracy at all. I just see a lot of comments with no concrete evidence. Citing anonymous sources is not evidence... I am not out to attack the "left" - I despise both the left and the right for destroying the US. I simply see a whole lot more "theories" with a high weirdness quotient coming from the left (really. read some threads on the democratic underground - you'll split a gut laughing). So I tend to be a little more dubious of their claims
And I know this will be modded troll(even though I really want to see some evidence - I guess trying to find the truth is threatening to some of the moderators) just like my last previous comment
You forgot oligarchs :)
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Do you have evidence to back your opinion up? I would seriously be interested in seeing anything that shows the administration outed Plame.
What I would NOT accept as evidence would be unamed sources, tin-foil hat sites (like democratic underground), or Op-Ed pieces (such as Ted Rall)..
Got anything? And I'm serious... People in the US (including the president)are innocent until proven guilty. If you have access to some concrete evidence, I would be more than willing to concede your point.
To tell you the truth, however, all I'm expecting is some links to dicussion forums, ad hominem attacks, straw-man arguments and the like.
Yeah, I was wondering the same thing. I work with some security modules that have tamper-resistant casing. If you try to force the locks or pry/cut the case, It zeros itself out. The difference here is that everything is solid state and stored in RAM and Flash memory. For the hard drive perhaps somekind of deadman switch on an electromagnet or something. But that would make for a damn big (and HEAVY) laptop (At least going by the size of our DeGaussers here at work).
Anyone know what could be small and light (fit in a laptop case with all the other stuff) and still be able to wipe a drive isntantly (or near instantly)? Preferably without killing anyone (so no explosives or what-not!)
Dude, this is one of the more insightful things I've read on /. I never seen the means of change stated so succinctly.
/.
I can only hope this stands out among all the reactionary, conspiratory, knee-jerk, HS-level political analysis that makes up 95% of the bullshit on
Thank You
Our purchase flow software at work has an IE limitation...sorta. Whenever I want to requisition something, I fire up Firefox and go to our purchasing page. When I click on the link, it pops a window up saying "You need IE 5.5 or greater to run this app" and will not proceed to the application page.
HOWEVER... when I right click and select "Open Link in New Tab", the it opens and runs/renders perfectly in Firefox (and I do not have any extensions other than Adblock and Tabbrowser Extensions in Firefox). Don't know how this constitutes needing IE...
Man. Someone needs his coffee this morning :)
1. your contact list is stored per machine, not on the server.
Fortunately, I haven't had my laptop stolen (at least not the one with which I currently use Skype), but on the whole I agree that they should store the contact list on the server. This helps not only in recovery, but also if you have multiple installations (I also have it on my workstation at work).
2. tone generation dubious.
3. no caller ID.
I haven't used the Skype-to-land-line feature yet, so I cannot comment on these.
4. the credit expires if you dont use it.
I just read on the site (I was installing for a friend) that they revised the credit expiry policy. Now, instead of the credit expiring after six months of purchase, it expires after six months of account inactivity. As long as you make a Skype-to-land-line call once every six months, your credit will always be there. While not perfect (I'd like the inactivity to go up to at least 2 yrs), this is a definite improvement.
I have a feeling that point 4 changed because people were complaining. Perhaps if issues 1-3 were raised with the Skype team, those may be addressed as well.
the black market doesn't exist in US
You did read the article, right? Especially the part about them planning to sell to an unamed company in California?
Article makes no mention of Ballmer
Did you even read it?
Granted, Balmer is not endorsing these, but the article does specifically mention him.
From TFA
"...response to last month's challenge by Microsoft's Steve Ballmer for the computer industry to build a $100 PC."
Exactly, I don't know what companies the grand-parent post is talking about, but I beleive they may be breaking the law.
They do post the H1-Bs (hire and renewal) where I work. I can tell you that they pay the same to H1-Bs as domestic hires (pretty damn well, too).
Unfortunately, a lot of the domestic prospects seem to want to blow smoke up your ass regarding job skills. I do peer interviews (after management has interviewed the person) to test the applicants skill-set. I just had one a couple months ago that couldn't define technical concepts he had listed as being proficient in on his damn resume! We did not go H1-B on that one, but if someone with an H1-B had been the only one qualified, you bet we would have hired him/her. And paid the same, too.
I just want to let you know I agree with ya. I am fortunate that I work at a company that realizes that. In fact we just had a division meeting that emphasized Work/Life balance. The pervading philosophy at work seems to be if you can't get the job done that you were hired for within a regular work hours somethings seriously wrong. Now, emergencies happen and every now and then you have to do some extra hours to meet a deadline, but I'm talking days not weeks.
:)
This is the first European based company I've worked for, and let me tell you the way they treat employees is WWAAAYY different than US based ones (in my experience). And the benefits rock, too! I count my blessings every day that I landed this job.
Disclaimer: Of course if I were hourly instead of salaried you bet your ass I'd be working long hours
Yeah, he shouldn't be concerned at all about screensavers... especially the ones listed here:
Known Spyware
Some of those cute screensavers (with spyware) chew up bandwidth on local segments regardless of whether they're blocked with a firewall from phoning home.
Normal users shouldn't be able to install ANYTHING, but some companies will sacrifice security because employees grumble (neither here nor there, but still the wrong stance - No install rights should ever be given to standard users). If he were my "IT Manager type" and NOT caring about any 3rd party software(screensavers included) installed out of band, he would be out on his ass. That said, part of IT's mission should be to educate and inform users (at least at a comapny which is serious about IT). We have regular Lunch-and-Learns about security, spyware, browsing, computer usage, network info, etc...
User education is always the best route (and most painful with certain users). If that doesn't work, then you need to enforce penalties. With comprehensive IT policies and practices (and I do mean comrehensive) IT should never need to get into an adversarial mode with the users. I have seen techs/admins who don't like to work with users, be pretty atagonistic and then be all surprised when a round of layoffs occurr and they're on the list. However you want to look at it, at the end of the day users are the whole reason for our career.
It sounds like this guy is trying to educate users rather than make them enemies.
Disney is their distributor. Pixar did all of the movies from concept to final execution.
I think the word you are serching for is niche
From WordNet 2.0:
niche- a position particularly well suited to the person who occupies it; "he found his niche in the academic world"
"nitch" = Sorry, word not found