You claim to live in NYC, so you can't really bitch about radio. Sure the big stations suck, but there's a bunch of great college stations, as well as free form stations that a small market could never support. And let's not forget WNYC (NPR).
And before anyone say just press the delete key how do you do that on that average 3000 spams I get a month?
By that number we're talking ~100 spams a day. You either need a new email address, or some better filtering. If you're hitting delete on 100 mails a day, you're wasting your own time.
Fraud is not a problem in the US if you follow my suggestions. Money orders are supposed to only be cashed with proper identification. Therefore, if the information doesn't match up with your driver's licence (or other ID), you don't get the money. This makes it very difficult to cash a money order and not be easily traced. Of course, there is still the problem of law enforcement involvement.
While this does shut out the rest of the world, quite simply: better safe than sorry. Until there is another system in place, it just isn't worth the risk doing anonymous transactions like eBay internationally.
US companies are a different matter. They can be held to higher standards much more easily than an anonymous seller on eBay. There is no reason a company should not be doing international business, unless it violates export laws (such as crytographic software).
Typical American attitude, you see the rest of the world as a threat not an oppertunity...Or perhaps such a system would be better left to Europeans who seem to understand that people on the other side of an international border often want the same thing you do. Right.
As pointed out, that would not cause a cascade failure. Also, the 'nitwit' would not have to read a sign. If you're digging with a backhoe, it is your legal responsiblity to call One-Call a few days ahead of time.
One-Call is a free system which will come by and mark out all known utilities on an area of land prior to any earthwork.
Long range power transmission is not done at 110 or 220 volts. That change is done at the transformers on the poles. The highest power lines on the poles in my area are at ~720 volts, and are stepped down to 120 at the transformers. For long-range transmission, we're talking tens of thousands of volts.
I think that statement says more about poor hiring practices based on buzzwords than an epidemic of people wanting to do the least amount of work. Although you could say that the "least work" ethic had spread to the HR dep't, causing them to hire the person that just "sounded the best" rather than actually investigating their skills.
In any case, if he was able to perform the duties of the position, it shouldn't matter if he actually had the knowledge beforehand.
If most ebay scammer stories are anything to go by, sellers with no feedback are not scammers. Scammers generally will perform legit tasks or use dummy accounts to raise their feedback before scamming.
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eBay needs to find some way of beating the scammers to survive.
EBay already has a system. Don't sell internationally, and use ONLY USPS money orders. That way, if you have a problem, you have a real address to go off of, though this still may not be much help.
If you want to play the "I've seen.." game, where I work, users are *not* administrators, and the IT department is very wary at giving admin rights out, to the point of frustration. At least XP lets you change your own resolution without rights.
Several people on here have talked about their private networks being secure until a 'road warrior' came and docked up. Technically, though, one would probably no longer classify the network as 'private' (especially if it was a porthole for worms and virii). But it does raise some interesting points wrt private networks and laptops.
There is no reason the machine could not be on a private network and still be infected. I believe you are making too grand of an assumption to say it is on a public network.
They aren't above sabotaging a competitors product so why would you possibly trust them to automatically install updates?
Well that wasn't the original situation. The original situation was a Windows Update patch that performed some other, possibly unwanted, tasks. Furthermore, it's clearly in their interest to sabotage a competitor, but it is not in their interest to sabotage themselves.
Well then you've got a chicken and the egg problem. I wouldn't start a GnuCash support company without potential clients, and businesses won't use GnuCash until there are support shops for it.
While I suppose that border businesses do operate in two currencies, I still don't see how this is really a major drawback of the accounting software. WRT to the internet, internet transactions are almost always done using electronic monies, and the conversion is done automatically. I.E., if I buy something from Britain, it pulls US dollars out of my account, and provides the merchant with GBP (applying the exchange rate, obviously).
No it isn't. Seriously. While it would certainly inconvenience you if the ATM were to crash while you're using it (including up to a lost card, if it's an older machine that still "takes" the card instead of swiping it), the transaction model should ensure that even if a machine were to crash or be disconnected in the middle of a transaction, the transaction will be completely unrolled. That's the point of transactions, and these machines are designed to deal with failures. This is just one more failure.
Anyone who says that "Linux isn't ready for your Grandma" or whatever, should be forced to do community service for a week fixing this crap.
Fine with me, so long as you're ready to help my grandparents (and parents, and uncles, and..) install and setup Linux!
If you're one of the people that uses Linux as an excuse to not help people with Windows, guess what, you *don't* want normal people moving to Linux! You will suddenly be the tech support go-to guy again. Except this time you'll have to explain how to setup IPTables. Good luck!
This bug doesn't change the fact that Linux isn't ready for our grandparents.
What recourse does a person running an older version of windows have if their "obsolete" operating system becomes completely unusable due to prominent exploits?
Well, mostly none, but I don't think it's that different in *nix either. When new versions get released, very frequently, the old versions are put away. True, with OSS you could read exactly what was changed and try to go back and change it in your old version of the source code, but this would be very dangerous.
Also, obsolete should not be in quotes. Operating systems built on Windows 3.1 and 95 are obsolete. No one should be using them in a serious environment. The only situation you would use those systems is on an older machine whose hardware is not up to par for 2000 or XP. This should only happen in a hand-me-down non-serious application, or in the off chance that your software does not run on the new version, in which case it's time to find (or write) new software.
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What?! You mean the government will give me a number and keep track of how much money I make, how many kids I have, and what money they are giving me?
Idiot. We're not next, we were first.
What!! You mean the government will give me a number and keep track of how much money I make, how many kids I have, and what money they are giving me?
Idiot. We're not next, we were first.
You claim to live in NYC, so you can't really bitch about radio. Sure the big stations suck, but there's a bunch of great college stations, as well as free form stations that a small market could never support. And let's not forget WNYC (NPR).
Last I checked, Outlook's default setting included execution of code.... of course, it's been a while since I've been willing to put up with that.
Check again, at least for this worm. According to other posts, if you patched in the last 9 months you're safe.
Dictionary be damned. Zealot has a very negative connotation in today's society.
Just an addendum: Bush is already campaigning. He has not stopped since around 1997.
Why wasn't this tidbit of info in the original post?
What? A post which includes all sides of the story? You must be new.
And before anyone say just press the delete key how do you do that on that average 3000 spams I get a month?
By that number we're talking ~100 spams a day. You either need a new email address, or some better filtering. If you're hitting delete on 100 mails a day, you're wasting your own time.
Fraud is not a problem in the US if you follow my suggestions. Money orders are supposed to only be cashed with proper identification. Therefore, if the information doesn't match up with your driver's licence (or other ID), you don't get the money. This makes it very difficult to cash a money order and not be easily traced. Of course, there is still the problem of law enforcement involvement.
While this does shut out the rest of the world, quite simply: better safe than sorry. Until there is another system in place, it just isn't worth the risk doing anonymous transactions like eBay internationally.
US companies are a different matter. They can be held to higher standards much more easily than an anonymous seller on eBay. There is no reason a company should not be doing international business, unless it violates export laws (such as crytographic software).
Typical American attitude, you see the rest of the world as a threat not an oppertunity...Or perhaps such a system would be better left to Europeans who seem to understand that people on the other side of an international border often want the same thing you do. Right.
USPS Manual: Money Orders
As pointed out, that would not cause a cascade failure. Also, the 'nitwit' would not have to read a sign. If you're digging with a backhoe, it is your legal responsiblity to call One-Call a few days ahead of time.
One-Call is a free system which will come by and mark out all known utilities on an area of land prior to any earthwork.
Information on New Jersey's One-Call program
Long range power transmission is not done at 110 or 220 volts. That change is done at the transformers on the poles. The highest power lines on the poles in my area are at ~720 volts, and are stepped down to 120 at the transformers. For long-range transmission, we're talking tens of thousands of volts.
Now they'll bump up the release date on the PS3.
Doubtful. They were already going to release the PS3 as soon as it's ready.
I think that statement says more about poor hiring practices based on buzzwords than an epidemic of people wanting to do the least amount of work. Although you could say that the "least work" ethic had spread to the HR dep't, causing them to hire the person that just "sounded the best" rather than actually investigating their skills.
In any case, if he was able to perform the duties of the position, it shouldn't matter if he actually had the knowledge beforehand.
If most ebay scammer stories are anything to go by, sellers with no feedback are not scammers. Scammers generally will perform legit tasks or use dummy accounts to raise their feedback before scamming.
eBay needs to find some way of beating the scammers to survive.
EBay already has a system. Don't sell internationally, and use ONLY USPS money orders. That way, if you have a problem, you have a real address to go off of, though this still may not be much help.
If you want to play the "I've seen.." game, where I work, users are *not* administrators, and the IT department is very wary at giving admin rights out, to the point of frustration. At least XP lets you change your own resolution without rights.
afaik it has never had a security bug found
Ha. Go read the first line in any software engineering book.
Several people on here have talked about their private networks being secure until a 'road warrior' came and docked up. Technically, though, one would probably no longer classify the network as 'private' (especially if it was a porthole for worms and virii). But it does raise some interesting points wrt private networks and laptops.
There is no reason the machine could not be on a private network and still be infected. I believe you are making too grand of an assumption to say it is on a public network.
They aren't above sabotaging a competitors product so why would you possibly trust them to automatically install updates?
Well that wasn't the original situation. The original situation was a Windows Update patch that performed some other, possibly unwanted, tasks. Furthermore, it's clearly in their interest to sabotage a competitor, but it is not in their interest to sabotage themselves.
Well then you've got a chicken and the egg problem. I wouldn't start a GnuCash support company without potential clients, and businesses won't use GnuCash until there are support shops for it.
I'll reply to the one non-smartass answer.
While I suppose that border businesses do operate in two currencies, I still don't see how this is really a major drawback of the accounting software. WRT to the internet, internet transactions are almost always done using electronic monies, and the conversion is done automatically. I.E., if I buy something from Britain, it pulls US dollars out of my account, and provides the merchant with GBP (applying the exchange rate, obviously).
No it isn't. Seriously. While it would certainly inconvenience you if the ATM were to crash while you're using it (including up to a lost card, if it's an older machine that still "takes" the card instead of swiping it), the transaction model should ensure that even if a machine were to crash or be disconnected in the middle of a transaction, the transaction will be completely unrolled. That's the point of transactions, and these machines are designed to deal with failures. This is just one more failure.
Anyone who says that "Linux isn't ready for your Grandma" or whatever, should be forced to do community service for a week fixing this crap.
Fine with me, so long as you're ready to help my grandparents (and parents, and uncles, and..) install and setup Linux!
If you're one of the people that uses Linux as an excuse to not help people with Windows, guess what, you *don't* want normal people moving to Linux! You will suddenly be the tech support go-to guy again. Except this time you'll have to explain how to setup IPTables. Good luck!
This bug doesn't change the fact that Linux isn't ready for our grandparents.
What recourse does a person running an older version of windows have if their "obsolete" operating system becomes completely unusable due to prominent exploits?
Well, mostly none, but I don't think it's that different in *nix either. When new versions get released, very frequently, the old versions are put away. True, with OSS you could read exactly what was changed and try to go back and change it in your old version of the source code, but this would be very dangerous.
Also, obsolete should not be in quotes. Operating systems built on Windows 3.1 and 95 are obsolete. No one should be using them in a serious environment. The only situation you would use those systems is on an older machine whose hardware is not up to par for 2000 or XP. This should only happen in a hand-me-down non-serious application, or in the off chance that your software does not run on the new version, in which case it's time to find (or write) new software.