If they read blogs they are accessing public information. So it is at least not invasion of privacy as it is whenever email is read/filtered.
If the reading of blogs can help to improve the service that essentially means that the ISP in question has an internal problem with their customer satisfaction tracking. But reading blogs can of course provide more meat on the bone that any issue tracking system can't resolve.
More problematic is the cases where ISP:s are reading your web habits and are injecting or replacing information in the web pages you visit. Sometimes resulting in data corruption.
Now - it is also important to understand that the IT department isn't some fringe function of a company that can be handled and accessed at will, it is today the backbone of many organizations and as important as the accounting division but much more complex.
This means that you must have a reasonable way of handling the IT department. But it is also necessary to check that a single person can block the whole solution. The latter is virtually impossible to resolve since physical access to servers will allow any individual to obtain full control over that server.
And don't forget that it doesn't help to reassign functionality to a security department, that will only move the problem.
The best solution is to keep the IT department content and be in tight cooperation with them. Dictating orders and hard central management will result in less than happy IT personnel.
Central administration of a company may on the paper look like it's efficient, but unfortunately this also means that instead of disturbances at a single office the whole company will be at risk of total standstill.
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The bank I use Swedbank uses a security token with a challenge/response for several stages:
At log in to authenticate.
Whenever a new payable account is registered.
The total sum to pay of all bills registered at that session.
This means that it's hard for any intruder to actually do something even if they are able to crack the encrypted channel between me and my bank.
The use of username/password or a non challenge/response technology are definitely insufficient since they are open for man in the middle attacks and other attacks.
And it may or may not be useful to actually rune more than one thread per kernel. It depends on the encoder and application how many threads you shall run, so the best is to test with 1, 2 and 4 threads per kernel.
The price doesn't really matter, it is if they are HF (high frequency) or LF (low frequency) that matters.
The LF version flickers with 50 or 60 Hz (depending on where you live) while the HF version has a lot higher frequency and will be almost flicker-free.
LED:s also suffers from flickering if you feed them with AC, but if you use DC and a low-pass filter you will get rid of the flickering.
The color spectrum is also different depending on the type of light source.
Members of the British Government will now be expecting an increased amount of spam and unsolicited phone salesmen calling to offer V1agra and other products.
Not if you are doing some kind of real time application where the device is battery powered. Then you don't want to waste time that could have been used better. If you can cut your battery package into half the size or double the lifetime of the box then it's worth the work on improving the boot time.
May or may not work well with virtualization. The problem is the usage profile! Is all instances used simultaneously or is it a random distribution of usage over time?
I can very well understand the need for quick booting of a system, and re-using old hardware is not a bad idea. It's a way of keeping the cost down. Both from hardware perspective and energy consumption perspective. (cost in both the factor of money and the factor of available power).
MS-DOS is relatively fast to boot, but the BIOS part eats up a lot of time during the boot phase. But the disadvantage of MS-DOS is that it's a bit old now. A monolithic Linux kernel may do the trick, since it's in itself relatively fast to boot. The parts that cost time are the startup of various services, but it is possible to optimize those to do a tree-branched start instead of a sequential processing. This can be achieved using the command 'make' normally used in software development.
But of course - there are other operating systems that may be even better suited for the task. Like eCos.
The basic format wouldn't make any difference. The problem is with formats that are incorporating extra features and functionality. If it's MP3 or OGG that's encapsulated is really not an issue.
We are moving into darker and darker times when it comes to malware. It seems to me that they are trying every evil alternative to make us and our computers to zombies.
How to remember the good old days when we could get the "Your computer is now stoned" or an east german ambulance with sound passing over the screen. Pretty annoying but relatively harmless.
The big problem here was the intermittent function and that can happen anywhere in the lifecycle. Just replacing things won't help much and can cause a bigger problem.
What has to be improved is the redundancy system solution that has to be able to detect intermittent function and therefore do a complete failover.
And this isn't the first time this kind of problem have happened, and it's probably not the last time either. But in this case it was on a mission critical system.
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If they read blogs they are accessing public information. So it is at least not invasion of privacy as it is whenever email is read/filtered.
If the reading of blogs can help to improve the service that essentially means that the ISP in question has an internal problem with their customer satisfaction tracking. But reading blogs can of course provide more meat on the bone that any issue tracking system can't resolve.
More problematic is the cases where ISP:s are reading your web habits and are injecting or replacing information in the web pages you visit. Sometimes resulting in data corruption.
about:blank is the best page ever to start with.
Opt-out should be replaced by opt-in, always!
Now - it is also important to understand that the IT department isn't some fringe function of a company that can be handled and accessed at will, it is today the backbone of many organizations and as important as the accounting division but much more complex.
This means that you must have a reasonable way of handling the IT department. But it is also necessary to check that a single person can block the whole solution. The latter is virtually impossible to resolve since physical access to servers will allow any individual to obtain full control over that server.
And don't forget that it doesn't help to reassign functionality to a security department, that will only move the problem.
The best solution is to keep the IT department content and be in tight cooperation with them. Dictating orders and hard central management will result in less than happy IT personnel.
Central administration of a company may on the paper look like it's efficient, but unfortunately this also means that instead of disturbances at a single office the whole company will be at risk of total standstill.
And that's why /. has the moderation system.
Allowing moderation from other users may help the problem.
You mean James J. Bulger I presume.
Dearest,
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My name is Edward Davidson and I have substantial funds and assets to a value of US$ 1 billion within the United States of America that I need to have transferred out of the country in the form of cash or other high-value items. Please send an email to eddie@spamk1ng.org if you are interested in helping me. You will get a share of 30 percent if you are successful in helping me with this!
Please keep this confidential!
He's just planning to get to the 10 most wanted list of FBI before getting into prison.
This means that it's hard for any intruder to actually do something even if they are able to crack the encrypted channel between me and my bank.
The use of username/password or a non challenge/response technology are definitely insufficient since they are open for man in the middle attacks and other attacks.
Of course... Not my best day today! Maybe I shall think more of that pillow...
And it may or may not be useful to actually rune more than one thread per kernel. It depends on the encoder and application how many threads you shall run, so the best is to test with 1, 2 and 4 threads per kernel.
C can get you into really weird problems due to the nature of the language with pointers.
Learning a language that's simple to read and use is a blessing in the future.
So maybe the whole question if it's valid or not is completely off the mark.
So the mouse will probably remain for the foreseeable future.
The LF version flickers with 50 or 60 Hz (depending on where you live) while the HF version has a lot higher frequency and will be almost flicker-free.
LED:s also suffers from flickering if you feed them with AC, but if you use DC and a low-pass filter you will get rid of the flickering.
The color spectrum is also different depending on the type of light source.
Members of the British Government will now be expecting an increased amount of spam and unsolicited phone salesmen calling to offer V1agra and other products.
Not if you are doing some kind of real time application where the device is battery powered. Then you don't want to waste time that could have been used better. If you can cut your battery package into half the size or double the lifetime of the box then it's worth the work on improving the boot time.
And it may also be some other kind of event logging that is done.
Virtualization is useful, but not in all cases.
And build a monolithic kernel without loadable modules. This will speed up things even more.
I would continue with AROS if I was into the Amiga world.
MS-DOS is relatively fast to boot, but the BIOS part eats up a lot of time during the boot phase. But the disadvantage of MS-DOS is that it's a bit old now. A monolithic Linux kernel may do the trick, since it's in itself relatively fast to boot. The parts that cost time are the startup of various services, but it is possible to optimize those to do a tree-branched start instead of a sequential processing. This can be achieved using the command 'make' normally used in software development.
But of course - there are other operating systems that may be even better suited for the task. Like eCos.
We are moving into darker and darker times when it comes to malware. It seems to me that they are trying every evil alternative to make us and our computers to zombies.
How to remember the good old days when we could get the "Your computer is now stoned" or an east german ambulance with sound passing over the screen. Pretty annoying but relatively harmless.
Maybe it's the RIAA that wants us to get rid of all our MP3:s downloaded from various sources?
What has to be improved is the redundancy system solution that has to be able to detect intermittent function and therefore do a complete failover.
And this isn't the first time this kind of problem have happened, and it's probably not the last time either. But in this case it was on a mission critical system.