thats right; there's just a single password for every user Not any US bank, I wouldn't think. You see (and I work for a bank, so I know a thing or two..), every year, we have a couple of audits. In addition to the SEC stuff, which really doesn't touch much here, FDIC makes sure our procedures are solid. The bigger audit is OCC (Office of the Currency Comptroller). Typically, we have several auditors on-site for a week or a week and a half, poring over standards, guidelines, and procedures. If, and this is a big if, we had anything like a single password for all users, we would be dinged most severely.
Then there's the whold GLBA (Graham Leach Bliley Act) morass. GLBA governs a lot of things for banks, but most importantly for this discussion, that any customer sensitive or confidential data must be protected, access audited, etc. A single password for every user is neither protected nor auditable. Any financial institution found doing such things would be socked with a rather nasty five figure fine, more than likely. That alone is incentive enough not to cut corners on security.
This really shouldn't be terribly surprising. It has been made obvious that the government is not all that swift at securing technology. From the recent FBI email hack to the several times the Department of the Interior has been ordered offline by a federal judge because of their security ineptitude, it seems pretty clear to me that aside from a few pockets, by and large, the government couldn't secure a pop tart, let alone a complex network.
I'm sure it's FBI policy to avoid it, but it's like a bank...how many people do you think send account numbers, SSN's, etc. to a bank via email?
And what makes you think we don't monitor for that type of thing? Heaven help the fool who sends sensitive customer information unencrypted out of here. Re-education with a large wooden mallet usually ensues.
Without digging through court documents, my guess is they didn't "break" PIN to PIN. I'm guessing they simply accessed the backup file, created by the desktop software, of the device. PIN messages are stored in the message store, and if the message store is backed up, they're backed up with it. The backup is stored in CLEAR TEXT. As far as I've seen, there's no way of encrypting, even trivially, the backup file via the destkop software.
You need to put the layers of foil with the SHINY SIDE OUT. If you put the shiny side in, it will actually MULTIPLY the strength by bouncing the waves between the layers, acting as a MASER. It's a scientifically proven fact that Government Mind Control Rays are reflected and dispersed 68% more effectively by the shiny side of foil than the dull side.
I've used them, and they came through for me, believe it or not. Sure, I could have gone out, spent a day doing research, coming up with points to back up my assertions, blah blah blah. I spent a half hour reading and hour talking to an analyst, and I was ready to roll. I had the top two products, relative pros and cons of each, and was able to assign my own weighting to them based on appropriateness to our environment.
Now, the REAL reason Gartner and their ilk exist. In big companies, NO ONE wants to take responsibility. The last thing you want is the finger of blame pointing at you for making The Wrong Choice. With Gartner, you have a ready-made excuse for management when shit meets fan. "We followed industry best practices in making our decision! Just look at the Gartner report!"
Now, as for stock analysts.. The GOOD ones, which not all are, are aware of industry trends, what's going on in a company, who their customers are, how those customers are doing, what this means to revenues, who their suppliers are, whether there are any problems there, etc. You don't have to be an analyst to say "Krispy Kreme is boned in the short term." Where analysts some in is figuring out how boned, for how long they're boned, and whether they'll recover from the boning.
I thought everyone knew.. Santa is a communist. Jovial and caring in his outward appearance, he believes in giving away things, but only to those who follow his social code (ie, naughty vs nice). He's ever watchful, particularly of waking status (admittedly more of a fascist trait, but a necessity in any dictatorship). He has his loyal army of minions surrounding him. On top of all that, he has a RED military uniform that I've never seen him depicted in anything but.
The last thing you want is for judges to have to pander to public opinion in order to secure reelection. It's not good for keeping the judiciary unbiased and focused on the law.
Kent Brockman: Kent Brockman at the Action News desk. A massive oil tanker has run aground on the Central Coastline spilling millions of gallons of oil on Baby Seal Beach. Lisa: Oh no! Homer: It'll be OK honey, there's lots more oil where that came from.
Do the crew members have to be alive, or can you use corpses with a computer for guidance?
"I know I've made some very poor decisions recently, but I can give you my complete assurance that my work will be back to normal. I've still got the greatest enthusiasm and confidence in the mission. And I want to help you."
Work out a real time recording/encryption system so only you or the people with your key can watch the recording. Let me know when you are done with it, I want to buy one.:) I'm pretty sure Windows Media Player SDK allows you to do this, not that you really want THAT Kool-Aid..
(near) unlimited servers spread across the world, making bandwidth a moot point a flexible distributed search engine wide variety, from studio releases to live recordings to fan-inspired mashups.
Stress and pressure, while similarly manifested, are distinctly different. Stress is "the bad stuff" you have to deal with while pressure is the positive. Worry over your job being outsourced is stress. Pressure is needing to make a deadline with a project to support a marketing effort, assuming the deadline is realistic. Stress is having to carry the weight of five coders not getting their job done. Pressure is being responsible for guiding the success of a project by mentoring those five coders.
For myself, I thrive on pressure, withstand stress, but even more importantly, know precisely what my limits are for both. One important point not made in the article (on brief perusal) is that while pressure is beneficial to some, even those who flourish with it have their limits. Eventually, even pressure becomes counter-productive.
Are you smoking crack (and nott the crackberry kind). I'm running a 7280 with 3.7.1.41, and to say it handles folders is a bit of a mis-statement. Yes, it will sync folders. Yes, you can drill down into them. You have to drill to display them, and by default, the main inbox view will show you the contents of everything but your sent items. This alone makes it well-nigh impossible to do anything serious with it as the blackberry inbox != your email inbox.
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thats right; there's just a single password for every user
Not any US bank, I wouldn't think. You see (and I work for a bank, so I know a thing or two..), every year, we have a couple of audits. In addition to the SEC stuff, which really doesn't touch much here, FDIC makes sure our procedures are solid. The bigger audit is OCC (Office of the Currency Comptroller). Typically, we have several auditors on-site for a week or a week and a half, poring over standards, guidelines, and procedures. If, and this is a big if, we had anything like a single password for all users, we would be dinged most severely.
Then there's the whold GLBA (Graham Leach Bliley Act) morass. GLBA governs a lot of things for banks, but most importantly for this discussion, that any customer sensitive or confidential data must be protected, access audited, etc. A single password for every user is neither protected nor auditable. Any financial institution found doing such things would be socked with a rather nasty five figure fine, more than likely. That alone is incentive enough not to cut corners on security.
This really shouldn't be terribly surprising. It has been made obvious that the government is not all that swift at securing technology. From the recent FBI email hack to the several times the Department of the Interior has been ordered offline by a federal judge because of their security ineptitude, it seems pretty clear to me that aside from a few pockets, by and large, the government couldn't secure a pop tart, let alone a complex network.
How many people at Slashdot know the DSM?
I do, but then, that's only because my afterschool job in high school was paying health insurance claims.
On the other hand, the BREST reactor (a Russian lead-bismuth design) is just great.
I, for one, will happily support anything dealing with BRESTs, particularly if we're working to increase their exposure.
I'm sure it's FBI policy to avoid it, but it's like a bank...how many people do you think send account numbers, SSN's, etc. to a bank via email?
And what makes you think we don't monitor for that type of thing? Heaven help the fool who sends sensitive customer information unencrypted out of here. Re-education with a large wooden mallet usually ensues.
Without digging through court documents, my guess is they didn't "break" PIN to PIN. I'm guessing they simply accessed the backup file, created by the desktop software, of the device. PIN messages are stored in the message store, and if the message store is backed up, they're backed up with it. The backup is stored in CLEAR TEXT. As far as I've seen, there's no way of encrypting, even trivially, the backup file via the destkop software.
Volcano insurance. Now I'll need to steal from Lois again. This is not Freakin' Sweet!
You need to put the layers of foil with the SHINY SIDE OUT. If you put the shiny side in, it will actually MULTIPLY the strength by bouncing the waves between the layers, acting as a MASER. It's a scientifically proven fact that Government Mind Control Rays are reflected and dispersed 68% more effectively by the shiny side of foil than the dull side.
an ad-infested world where there were ads on every available surface
Must be talkking about the Olympics.. Either that or an average NASCAR race..
I've used them, and they came through for me, believe it or not. Sure, I could have gone out, spent a day doing research, coming up with points to back up my assertions, blah blah blah. I spent a half hour reading and hour talking to an analyst, and I was ready to roll. I had the top two products, relative pros and cons of each, and was able to assign my own weighting to them based on appropriateness to our environment.
Now, the REAL reason Gartner and their ilk exist. In big companies, NO ONE wants to take responsibility. The last thing you want is the finger of blame pointing at you for making The Wrong Choice. With Gartner, you have a ready-made excuse for management when shit meets fan. "We followed industry best practices in making our decision! Just look at the Gartner report!"
Now, as for stock analysts.. The GOOD ones, which not all are, are aware of industry trends, what's going on in a company, who their customers are, how those customers are doing, what this means to revenues, who their suppliers are, whether there are any problems there, etc. You don't have to be an analyst to say "Krispy Kreme is boned in the short term." Where analysts some in is figuring out how boned, for how long they're boned, and whether they'll recover from the boning.
I don't think ANY bookie in his right mind would ever take a bet in which the bettor was a principal capable of affecting the outcome. No FSCKING way.
Enough about the poor unfortunate Mr. Floyd, let's talk about the rich and prosperous Mr. Butch.
Ahhhhhhh...Coke is communist then eh??
Well duh! Coke is only one step removed from Soma..
I thought everyone knew.. Santa is a communist. Jovial and caring in his outward appearance, he believes in giving away things, but only to those who follow his social code (ie, naughty vs nice). He's ever watchful, particularly of waking status (admittedly more of a fascist trait, but a necessity in any dictatorship). He has his loyal army of minions surrounding him. On top of all that, he has a RED military uniform that I've never seen him depicted in anything but.
The last thing you want is for judges to have to pander to public opinion in order to secure reelection. It's not good for keeping the judiciary unbiased and focused on the law.
Thank goodness we have judges who don't play politics.
Kent Brockman: Kent Brockman at the Action News desk. A massive oil tanker has run aground on the Central Coastline spilling millions of gallons of oil on Baby Seal Beach.
Lisa: Oh no!
Homer: It'll be OK honey, there's lots more oil where that came from.
Do the crew members have to be alive, or can you use corpses with a computer for guidance?
"I know I've made some very poor decisions recently, but I can give you my complete assurance that my work will be back to normal. I've still got the greatest enthusiasm and confidence in the mission. And I want to help you."
Work out a real time recording/encryption system so only you or the people with your key can watch the recording. Let me know when you are done with it, I want to buy one. :)
I'm pretty sure Windows Media Player SDK allows you to do this, not that you really want THAT Kool-Aid..
a call to customer service tomorrow should clear things up
Have you tried looking for a customer service number on their site? Once it's back up, I dare you to find one..
John Bender, that is. Not the robot Bender.
"Screws fall out all the time, the world's an imperfect place."
(near) unlimited servers spread across the world, making bandwidth a moot point
:)
a flexible distributed search engine
wide variety, from studio releases to live recordings to fan-inspired mashups.
Hmm, sounds like an average p2p network.
Stress and pressure, while similarly manifested, are distinctly different. Stress is "the bad stuff" you have to deal with while pressure is the positive. Worry over your job being outsourced is stress. Pressure is needing to make a deadline with a project to support a marketing effort, assuming the deadline is realistic. Stress is having to carry the weight of five coders not getting their job done. Pressure is being responsible for guiding the success of a project by mentoring those five coders.
For myself, I thrive on pressure, withstand stress, but even more importantly, know precisely what my limits are for both. One important point not made in the article (on brief perusal) is that while pressure is beneficial to some, even those who flourish with it have their limits. Eventually, even pressure becomes counter-productive.
Talking on it without the earpiece sucks
Fair enough.. It's like talking into a pop-tart.
Sometimes the keyboard lock unlocks without my input
Try a password. This will guarantee it won't unlock itself. "lock on holstering" is also your friend as well.
Deleting email on the Blackberry doesn't delete it in my mailbox
wireless sync, wireless reconcile, delete on handheld and mailbox. This will automatically delete items in both places when deleted in either.
It thinks all 10 digit calls nees a 1
I dial with only ten digits all the time.
The keypad letters are wrong for the number pad, which makes it highly annoying to dial a number by name (1-800-get-a-clue)
Use the crescent/number key and hit the letter. Not only will it send the appropriate tone, but it will display the letter on the screen.
(because it handles folders, etc in a better way)
Are you smoking crack (and nott the crackberry kind). I'm running a 7280 with 3.7.1.41, and to say it handles folders is a bit of a mis-statement. Yes, it will sync folders. Yes, you can drill down into them. You have to drill to display them, and by default, the main inbox view will show you the contents of everything but your sent items. This alone makes it well-nigh impossible to do anything serious with it as the blackberry inbox != your email inbox.
I heard Sir Isaac Newton is wanted for questioning..
This is why, in the modern age, we have the Aluminum Foil Deflector Beanie.