As long as I don't have to pay with checks I'm good. I don't have checks and don't expect to need any either.
Anyway - it depends on who I'm paying, but the insurance is paid by permission monthly. A fixed sum that always goes the same way so it's no big problem.
Other bills are paid through the bank service internet page into their account. Signed with a challenge/response token to make sure that the recipient and amount are right.
Threat of legal action - groundless or not - can always be used to try to cap the information.
I would say that if this is considered easy by the Mythbuster gang the whole RFID business are on a loose soil. And even disclosing the fact that it's possible even without showing how could be a cause for the lawyers to go for a hunt.
I sure hope that this won't have an impact on the show. It's a credible show even if they do take a few shortcuts sometimes. This also means that any statement like this is going to be taken seriously by the audience and we will see a lot of RFID hacks soon. Cucumbers listed as birth control at the counter would be the least of our problems.
Crocodile Dundee comes to mind here! I suspect that there are mates with a dialect even worse.
Just consider places like Wales and Scotland too. Gaelic as a second language could be a nice party trick, even if it's a bit limited outside the native region.
Basque or Breton if you are in France. Flemish in Belgium... Sami in Sweden/Finland/Norway...
A lot of languages to learn, but not all are useful outside the region they are spoken.
Nah... Just expect the usual irony over the cup of coffee in the morning along with the usual jokes about American coffee...
Unless you want to work in countries that has been battered by the US recently like Serbia the worst thing you probably have to stand are comments about the US in general.
That will generally work. Ericsson is multinational and if you can get in there you may get a new position internally without too much fuzz. Only downside is that Ericsson is trying to get leaner, which means that there may be some problems to find useful positions.
You can also get into an international US company like HP or IBM.
It's as hard to get a Janitorial job over here as it is to get a Programmer's job if you are going to get it legally.
And most (at least all I have seen the last 20 years) software companies outsources their cleaning to a different company so that won't work at all.
And as a general rule - if you have good grades and an employer willing to take you on board it shouldn't be a big deal getting all paperwork through. Sometimes I have the feeling that the US starts to surpass Europe on that point, especially after 9/11.
As for being an American in Sweden it's no big deal. I have a workmate from Vancouver that has moved here. And on an earlier place there were a few too. Most people in Sweden speaks English too, so the language barrier isn't huge, and the cultural barrier is relatively small too. In fact small enough that some companies tests their new brands and products in Sweden before they release them in the US.
As for computer related work you do have a few of the international businesses like Accenture, IBM, HP, Logica over here too, but also a few local ones like Ã...F, Cybercom Group, Epsilon, Semcon, Sigma.
So there are a few to pick from. But the use for Swedish outside Scandinavia is very small, so if you want to do this for learning a new language it may be better to pick one of the bigger languages like German, Spanish, Italian or French. Maybe Switzerland is a good place, since they have four different languages in that country.
Just be aware that people in some countries or areas of countries are less welcoming to Americans and that you will have to expect them trying to get you into heated discussions about American presidents, especially Bush...
So if an event is expected it may pay off to monitor the Wikipedia traffic to the related pages and by that forgo the official announcement.
This poses some interesting prospects. Like if it was possible for party A to beforehand predict that a certain alternative was going to be selected by party B and therefore making that selection problematic.
Only way around this is of course to make sure that the inner circle doesn't use the web for a while before official announcements are done.
And this does of not only apply to politics but also to a lot of other events. Like potential inside affairs when it comes to buying/selling on the stock market. Pattern analysis evolves, and it may not even be necessary to actually listen in to a certain message, just measure the amount of traffic to a certain node to make a statistically based deduction. So even if you encrypt your information it may be traced and therefore provide valuable information.
Still - there is a general failure on a higher level where there are expectations that systems written entirely out of script languages are better than systems written in a compiling language.
It may work from the beginning, but as soon as maintenance starts on the system there will sooner or later be problems. Especially if you have different people doing the maintenance compared to the people developing.
Replace it with Consumers. All the DVD:s with the non-skippable FBI warnings that nobody ever wants to see and which destroys the experience of the movie.
If he hadn't been able to produce the body of his wife then there could have been some uncertainty of his guilt. But since he did he must have been guilty, at least enough guilty for imprisonment.
If the evidence in itself was enough or not - it's another question but the court decided it was.
So in this case we should be able to call this a closed case. What we then think of the legal system is a different issue.
$30 is about 30 minutes work for an ordinary consultant. For a Geek Squad it may be an hour's work worth, all depending on the salary of that person.
Just do the math and see if it's worth it to provide the service. It may be that it's a bit subsidized, but not much. They probably have automated a lot of the cleaning so it should be a cost that's reasonable for that service.
What they really want is to sell things. Returning customers with problems is a cost, returning customers that buys more devices like an extra mouse is a bonus.
And there are still things that you can't do with a laptop.
A desktop is always ahead of a laptop when it comes to performance and extendability. Few laptops are able to support 3 monitors (as I use at home) at the same time.
And maybe that also explains the unwillingness for PC manufacturers to provide you with uninstalled PC which means that you have to pay the Microsoft tax even if you are going to run Linux, AROS or whatever on it.
And since the M$ tax exists it's no wonder that some people runs "illegal" versions of Windows on their machines - since they have already paid Microsoft.
And yet another issue with the M$ tax is that many large companies buys these PC:s and then have a volume license agreement too, which means that they pay M$ twice. Not all companies consider it to be worth it to try to reclaim the double license fee.
Like Ryanair where you have to pay extra for everything, even the permission to bring luggage - and then they dump you at some rural airport with limited connections which means that you will pay the price anyway, but on the ground.
Air France is a "no go" on my list. Rude behavior, bad timing, sleepover at hotel rooms that looks like they are rented per hour etc.
Iceland Air and Virgin Atlantic are currently on my positive list.
Reasonable service is also a factor when buying ticket...
Flying is like sitting on a collective toilet for several hours. And considering all security measures etc. today you start to be willing to pay at least for some comfort in the chair. Maybe the security measures are promoted by the airline industry to make people more willing to pay for comfort?
As for bloatware - I always nuke the standard installation and make a clean installation of Windows whenever necessary. The security risks and performance issues with bloatware makes it worthwhile.
There is always a risk that this will kick back on people like this. Death threats are something that will pop up on the radar of several agencies in several countries.
The ordinary Nigeria scams are just stupid and foolish.
"Dear fool I want to give you money but you will have to pay me first..." is just so simple compared to "Dear fool, provide me with some more information so I can kill you or some close relative unless you pay me"
Now - the claim I made was not if he was guilty or not, I just claimed that if the security measures had been taken correctly then he wouldn't have succeeded.
It's more that it indicates to us all that the security of the computer systems in many places are way too weak.
If they had sufficient security measures they would just have recognized that there was an attempt in just the same mood that we recognize that it rains. "OK, it rains, time to close the windows."
And if a defense organization is cracked, what does this tell us about how easy it is to crack commercial systems? Some hobbyists probably have better security!
Probably some kid that tries to get some attention, and thinks that he will get it, but by posting as an AC he won't ever get the infamous OMG Ponies styling of/. which I think is rather cute!
Just ignore him - he'll get tired of it or end up as cannon fodder somewhere.
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As long as I don't have to pay with checks I'm good. I don't have checks and don't expect to need any either.
Anyway - it depends on who I'm paying, but the insurance is paid by permission monthly. A fixed sum that always goes the same way so it's no big problem.
Other bills are paid through the bank service internet page into their account. Signed with a challenge/response token to make sure that the recipient and amount are right.
Organized criminals are the ones that will utilize this flaw.
It could be a heaven for smugglers if the customs relies on RFID for identification of packages.
For the small time criminal it's not worth it, but if you scale it to an enterprise business that the organized crime is then you get a profit.
Threat of legal action - groundless or not - can always be used to try to cap the information.
I would say that if this is considered easy by the Mythbuster gang the whole RFID business are on a loose soil. And even disclosing the fact that it's possible even without showing how could be a cause for the lawyers to go for a hunt.
I sure hope that this won't have an impact on the show. It's a credible show even if they do take a few shortcuts sometimes. This also means that any statement like this is going to be taken seriously by the audience and we will see a lot of RFID hacks soon. Cucumbers listed as birth control at the counter would be the least of our problems.
Crocodile Dundee comes to mind here! I suspect that there are mates with a dialect even worse.
Just consider places like Wales and Scotland too. Gaelic as a second language could be a nice party trick, even if it's a bit limited outside the native region.
Basque or Breton if you are in France. Flemish in Belgium... Sami in Sweden/Finland/Norway...
A lot of languages to learn, but not all are useful outside the region they are spoken.
Nah... Just expect the usual irony over the cup of coffee in the morning along with the usual jokes about American coffee...
Unless you want to work in countries that has been battered by the US recently like Serbia the worst thing you probably have to stand are comments about the US in general.
That will generally work. Ericsson is multinational and if you can get in there you may get a new position internally without too much fuzz. Only downside is that Ericsson is trying to get leaner, which means that there may be some problems to find useful positions.
You can also get into an international US company like HP or IBM.
It's as hard to get a Janitorial job over here as it is to get a Programmer's job if you are going to get it legally.
And most (at least all I have seen the last 20 years) software companies outsources their cleaning to a different company so that won't work at all.
And as a general rule - if you have good grades and an employer willing to take you on board it shouldn't be a big deal getting all paperwork through. Sometimes I have the feeling that the US starts to surpass Europe on that point, especially after 9/11.
For Sweden you have the official job agency ArbetsfÃrmedlingen.
As for being an American in Sweden it's no big deal. I have a workmate from Vancouver that has moved here. And on an earlier place there were a few too. Most people in Sweden speaks English too, so the language barrier isn't huge, and the cultural barrier is relatively small too. In fact small enough that some companies tests their new brands and products in Sweden before they release them in the US.
As for computer related work you do have a few of the international businesses like Accenture, IBM, HP, Logica over here too, but also a few local ones like Ã...F, Cybercom Group, Epsilon, Semcon, Sigma.
So there are a few to pick from. But the use for Swedish outside Scandinavia is very small, so if you want to do this for learning a new language it may be better to pick one of the bigger languages like German, Spanish, Italian or French. Maybe Switzerland is a good place, since they have four different languages in that country.
Just be aware that people in some countries or areas of countries are less welcoming to Americans and that you will have to expect them trying to get you into heated discussions about American presidents, especially Bush...
To where?
Almost any other place in the world have higher taxes than the US, so unless the taxes goes over 50% in total you can forget that argument.
So if an event is expected it may pay off to monitor the Wikipedia traffic to the related pages and by that forgo the official announcement.
This poses some interesting prospects. Like if it was possible for party A to beforehand predict that a certain alternative was going to be selected by party B and therefore making that selection problematic.
Only way around this is of course to make sure that the inner circle doesn't use the web for a while before official announcements are done.
And this does of not only apply to politics but also to a lot of other events. Like potential inside affairs when it comes to buying/selling on the stock market. Pattern analysis evolves, and it may not even be necessary to actually listen in to a certain message, just measure the amount of traffic to a certain node to make a statistically based deduction. So even if you encrypt your information it may be traced and therefore provide valuable information.
At least we do live in interesting times!
Still - there is a general failure on a higher level where there are expectations that systems written entirely out of script languages are better than systems written in a compiling language.
It may work from the beginning, but as soon as maintenance starts on the system there will sooner or later be problems. Especially if you have different people doing the maintenance compared to the people developing.
Why only gamers?
Replace it with Consumers. All the DVD:s with the non-skippable FBI warnings that nobody ever wants to see and which destroys the experience of the movie.
If he hadn't been able to produce the body of his wife then there could have been some uncertainty of his guilt. But since he did he must have been guilty, at least enough guilty for imprisonment.
If the evidence in itself was enough or not - it's another question but the court decided it was.
So in this case we should be able to call this a closed case. What we then think of the legal system is a different issue.
They COSTS $30 for the company, it's not what they are paid.
I'm only talking of the system security and not about McKinnon.
$30 is about 30 minutes work for an ordinary consultant. For a Geek Squad it may be an hour's work worth, all depending on the salary of that person.
Just do the math and see if it's worth it to provide the service. It may be that it's a bit subsidized, but not much. They probably have automated a lot of the cleaning so it should be a cost that's reasonable for that service.
What they really want is to sell things. Returning customers with problems is a cost, returning customers that buys more devices like an extra mouse is a bonus.
And there are still things that you can't do with a laptop.
A desktop is always ahead of a laptop when it comes to performance and extendability. Few laptops are able to support 3 monitors (as I use at home) at the same time.
And maybe that also explains the unwillingness for PC manufacturers to provide you with uninstalled PC which means that you have to pay the Microsoft tax even if you are going to run Linux, AROS or whatever on it.
And since the M$ tax exists it's no wonder that some people runs "illegal" versions of Windows on their machines - since they have already paid Microsoft.
And yet another issue with the M$ tax is that many large companies buys these PC:s and then have a volume license agreement too, which means that they pay M$ twice. Not all companies consider it to be worth it to try to reclaim the double license fee.
Like Ryanair where you have to pay extra for everything, even the permission to bring luggage - and then they dump you at some rural airport with limited connections which means that you will pay the price anyway, but on the ground.
Air France is a "no go" on my list. Rude behavior, bad timing, sleepover at hotel rooms that looks like they are rented per hour etc.
Iceland Air and Virgin Atlantic are currently on my positive list.
SAS is somewhere in between right now.
Reasonable service is also a factor when buying ticket...
Flying is like sitting on a collective toilet for several hours. And considering all security measures etc. today you start to be willing to pay at least for some comfort in the chair. Maybe the security measures are promoted by the airline industry to make people more willing to pay for comfort?
As for bloatware - I always nuke the standard installation and make a clean installation of Windows whenever necessary. The security risks and performance issues with bloatware makes it worthwhile.
There is always a risk that this will kick back on people like this. Death threats are something that will pop up on the radar of several agencies in several countries.
The ordinary Nigeria scams are just stupid and foolish.
"Dear fool I want to give you money but you will have to pay me first..."
is just so simple compared to
"Dear fool, provide me with some more information so I can kill you or some close relative unless you pay me"
Now - the claim I made was not if he was guilty or not, I just claimed that if the security measures had been taken correctly then he wouldn't have succeeded.
It's more that it indicates to us all that the security of the computer systems in many places are way too weak.
If they had sufficient security measures they would just have recognized that there was an attempt in just the same mood that we recognize that it rains. "OK, it rains, time to close the windows."
And if a defense organization is cracked, what does this tell us about how easy it is to crack commercial systems? Some hobbyists probably have better security!
What the US want is to scare everybody off regardless of possible intent or not.
Today stupidity is criminal unless you are a president or vice president of the US.
But the real problem is that true terrorists are keeping themselves under the radar and will strike unexpectedly.
Just waiting for the next event...
Probably some kid that tries to get some attention, and thinks that he will get it, but by posting as an AC he won't ever get the infamous OMG Ponies styling of /. which I think is rather cute!
Just ignore him - he'll get tired of it or end up as cannon fodder somewhere.