Since T-Mobile is a lower-tier provider in the U.S. (although has pretty good customer service from what I recall) perhaps they'd be better to reinvent themselves by partnering with a like-minded company. They should merge with America Online so they can truly jump the shark.
Seriously though, after 8+ years of heavy business use of Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile I'd put them in that order in terms of service coverage. And AT&T and T-Mobile are so far down the pecking order it's a joke...
Or is the English language dying a painful death on/. as time passes. The past day's article summaries and headlines are a blend between Yoda backing off the chronic and the broken English that some toy assembly manuals convey.
Seriously, it took me three passes at reading this article headline to understand what the hell it meant. Maybe that's part of the entertainment value that I'm missing???
Legerov said. For example, he said, “there will be published two years old Realplayer vulnerability soon, which we handled in a responsible way [and] contacted with a vendor.”
I think that apparently the vendors aren't doing a damn thing to patch a good amount of these reported vulnerabilities if they are being reported in a proactive manner. Seems as if once the exploits are running rampant in the wild then the vendors scramble to develop patches. Not the best business practices all the way around, but it's the way it is.
I actually broke down and RTFA. The interviewer must have been in the next stall over or on an elevator with the Oregon State employee. How many questions was that, like 4 or 5? Maybe one of the servers was getting ready to crash because one of the student admins was trying to install Windows...
This is rumor article about a rumored mobile device. This fascinates me and I'd love to know more. While I'm waiting I'll page through my Star magazine to see about Lindsey Lohan's latest escapades...
Developers actually help administer our servers and our network hardware. So far it's been a good experience, even with them administering our firewall/router. I have nothing but g....ATH++ NO CARRIER
1) I lived in Orlando for 4 years and worked on International Drive. Most of the drivers are transplants from (gasp) up North or else tourists who are from foreign countries.
2) Those car heaters take awhile to warm up, ya know?
3) My original comment was kinda tongue in cheek:-)
After having lived my first 30 years in Florida and now living in Ohio the past 10 I have a theory about Northern drivers. Besides the equipment issues like LED traffic lights what do cold temperatures affect? Hmmm...
We know that your bladder shrinks. We also know that your blood vessels constrict. That would include blood vessels feeding the brain. And that's why the drivers around here are so damn bad during the Winter. They are inherently stupider! So please fix the issue with LED traffic lights, as any additional handicaps are adding fuel to the fire!
It's really like comparing an orange car to a blue one of the same model
Not the car analogies! Okay, I'll bite. Let's say MS Office is an orange 2007 Chevy Malibu and OO is a blue 2002 Chevy Malibu. Same make and model, one looking a bit older cosmetically with features located in sometimes-unexpected places.
I am one of the drivers who likes to gauge my gas mileage I'm getting. So I want to reset the trip odometer. Well, I nearly get into an accident because that old 2002 Malibu requires we to open the glove compartment, hit a yellow button inside while my other hand is required to simultaneously push in the wiper lever!
Of course I'm being a smartass, but that's a similar reaction I got from my OO testers trying to perform mail merges. And that's that car analogies are tiring...sigh...
I've recommended OO for a fair amount of home users who are casual users of office productivity software. For those folks it's _okay_ and fits their needs. Albeit the OO suite isn't lickety-split fast in terms of launch and whatnot for "Joe Six Pack" you can't beat free for someone who's looking to type up a quick letter, create a quick budget spreadsheet, or whip up a simple school presentation.
That being said, I've also tried implementing OO for my business users, in cases where their new PC's didn't come pre-loaded with Microsoft Office. I would preface their introduction to OO by mentioning that most of the familar menu commands and navigational elements were practically identical. A few weeks later I had no choice but to ante up and purchase full versions of Microsoft Office. Power users in a business environment required elements outside the scope of "Joe Six Pack." Anything from VBA to macros to other features weren't available or else didn't work as expected. And yeah, having budgeted expense goals had me wanting to purchase more Microsoft Office licenses like I'd want a hole in the head.:-/
And I know there are navigational and feature issues upgrading users from Office 2003 to 2007. I know with a mixed version environment opening documents is a PITA, and saving documents can result in formatting FUBAR's. Frankly I am dreading when I myself have to make the jump. That is almost as daunting as trying to migrate my power users at work to OO. Still all things taken equal it apparently will be awhile until OO is really an equal competitor, although it's closer than it was back in the days with Sun's Staroffice 5.x and whatnot.
Perhaps Microsoft is just keeping OO in its rearview mirror to protect its interests. Although the hints of Microsoft's covert infiltration into FOSS circles (while supposedly doing so for collaborative purposes) reeks of insidiousness. Now the cat's out of the bag I wonder how many FOSS projects will welcome them?
Captain James Tiberius Kirk, due to, all of the, commas inserted, into his summary, perhaps to add dramatic, effect. A little tough, to read, but who am I to be, a grammar, Nazi.:-)~
It's funny that one person modded me Flamebait. C'mon, self-deprecating humor is refreshing for one of the world's richest and most recognized people, right? You also mean Bill Gates' last day sucks too?!
Most people think they are _somewhat_ funny. The everybody you are referring to are the Microsoft haters who wouldn't admit they like any Microsoft ads...
Speaking from experience I know that any/all of these older tranmission algorithms are crackable. I was an IT Call Center Manager at a cellular startup company back in 1996. Within the first year after our company launched we had customers is South Florida with their cell phones cloned. We were CDMA-based. And this technology stemmed from the USAF back in the 1970's IIRC.
Figure that GSM has likely been cracked many years ago too. The more sophisticated the hardware that can gain brute-force leverage any of these older algorithms. Who knows, when the vaporware that is currently quantum computing materializes perhaps DES, AES and the like will also be exposed. That's why perhaps the big players in the industry should look to upgrade/overhaul their algorithms every 5 years or so, ya know? Expensive scenario, but necessary if governments, military groups, and tinfoil hatters clamor for it...
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It's enough to make you want to loose your mind...
Since T-Mobile is a lower-tier provider in the U.S. (although has pretty good customer service from what I recall) perhaps they'd be better to reinvent themselves by partnering with a like-minded company. They should merge with America Online so they can truly jump the shark.
Seriously though, after 8+ years of heavy business use of Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile I'd put them in that order in terms of service coverage. And AT&T and T-Mobile are so far down the pecking order it's a joke...
It appears to be on their bug list.
Ahh yes. Eazy E's fucked up and the 8 ball's rolling. Why didn't I consider that?
Swoosh...
So let me get this straight. Slashdot validates their SQL input. But they don't validate their HTML conformance?
Or is the English language dying a painful death on /. as time passes. The past day's article summaries and headlines are a blend between Yoda backing off the chronic and the broken English that some toy assembly manuals convey.
Seriously, it took me three passes at reading this article headline to understand what the hell it meant. Maybe that's part of the entertainment value that I'm missing???
Perhaps the firm is issuing a malicious DROP DATABASE T-SQL command, escaping through some unsanitized web query...
Here's a quote from TFA...
Legerov said. For example, he said, “there will be published two years old Realplayer vulnerability soon, which we handled in a responsible way [and] contacted with a vendor.”
I think that apparently the vendors aren't doing a damn thing to patch a good amount of these reported vulnerabilities if they are being reported in a proactive manner. Seems as if once the exploits are running rampant in the wild then the vendors scramble to develop patches. Not the best business practices all the way around, but it's the way it is.
I don't understand what you're trying to say. Can you please come up with an appropriate pizza analogy???
I actually broke down and RTFA. The interviewer must have been in the next stall over or on an elevator with the Oregon State employee. How many questions was that, like 4 or 5? Maybe one of the servers was getting ready to crash because one of the student admins was trying to install Windows...
Looking at his pic I think he looks like he's put something over on us. Perhaps all of the recent articles on here, eh?
This is rumor article about a rumored mobile device. This fascinates me and I'd love to know more. While I'm waiting I'll page through my Star magazine to see about Lindsey Lohan's latest escapades...
Developers actually help administer our servers and our network hardware. So far it's been a good experience, even with them administering our firewall/router. I have nothing but g....ATH++ NO CARRIER
Here goes:
1) I lived in Orlando for 4 years and worked on International Drive. Most of the drivers are transplants from (gasp) up North or else tourists who are from foreign countries.
2) Those car heaters take awhile to warm up, ya know?
3) My original comment was kinda tongue in cheek :-)
After having lived my first 30 years in Florida and now living in Ohio the past 10 I have a theory about Northern drivers. Besides the equipment issues like LED traffic lights what do cold temperatures affect? Hmmm...
We know that your bladder shrinks. We also know that your blood vessels constrict. That would include blood vessels feeding the brain. And that's why the drivers around here are so damn bad during the Winter. They are inherently stupider! So please fix the issue with LED traffic lights, as any additional handicaps are adding fuel to the fire!
It's really like comparing an orange car to a blue one of the same model
Not the car analogies! Okay, I'll bite. Let's say MS Office is an orange 2007 Chevy Malibu and OO is a blue 2002 Chevy Malibu. Same make and model, one looking a bit older cosmetically with features located in sometimes-unexpected places.
I am one of the drivers who likes to gauge my gas mileage I'm getting. So I want to reset the trip odometer. Well, I nearly get into an accident because that old 2002 Malibu requires we to open the glove compartment, hit a yellow button inside while my other hand is required to simultaneously push in the wiper lever!
Of course I'm being a smartass, but that's a similar reaction I got from my OO testers trying to perform mail merges. And that's that car analogies are tiring...sigh...
I've recommended OO for a fair amount of home users who are casual users of office productivity software. For those folks it's _okay_ and fits their needs. Albeit the OO suite isn't lickety-split fast in terms of launch and whatnot for "Joe Six Pack" you can't beat free for someone who's looking to type up a quick letter, create a quick budget spreadsheet, or whip up a simple school presentation.
That being said, I've also tried implementing OO for my business users, in cases where their new PC's didn't come pre-loaded with Microsoft Office. I would preface their introduction to OO by mentioning that most of the familar menu commands and navigational elements were practically identical. A few weeks later I had no choice but to ante up and purchase full versions of Microsoft Office. Power users in a business environment required elements outside the scope of "Joe Six Pack." Anything from VBA to macros to other features weren't available or else didn't work as expected. And yeah, having budgeted expense goals had me wanting to purchase more Microsoft Office licenses like I'd want a hole in the head. :-/
And I know there are navigational and feature issues upgrading users from Office 2003 to 2007. I know with a mixed version environment opening documents is a PITA, and saving documents can result in formatting FUBAR's. Frankly I am dreading when I myself have to make the jump. That is almost as daunting as trying to migrate my power users at work to OO. Still all things taken equal it apparently will be awhile until OO is really an equal competitor, although it's closer than it was back in the days with Sun's Staroffice 5.x and whatnot.
Perhaps Microsoft is just keeping OO in its rearview mirror to protect its interests. Although the hints of Microsoft's covert infiltration into FOSS circles (while supposedly doing so for collaborative purposes) reeks of insidiousness. Now the cat's out of the bag I wonder how many FOSS projects will welcome them?
Captain James Tiberius Kirk, due to, all of the, commas inserted, into his summary, perhaps to add dramatic, effect. A little tough, to read, but who am I to be, a grammar, Nazi. :-)~
I remember that one! Here it is.
Here he is.
It's funny that one person modded me Flamebait. C'mon, self-deprecating humor is refreshing for one of the world's richest and most recognized people, right? You also mean Bill Gates' last day sucks too?!
I don't know why everybody hates them.
Most people think they are _somewhat_ funny. The everybody you are referring to are the Microsoft haters who wouldn't admit they like any Microsoft ads...
Actually was cracked ten years ago.
Speaking from experience I know that any/all of these older tranmission algorithms are crackable. I was an IT Call Center Manager at a cellular startup company back in 1996. Within the first year after our company launched we had customers is South Florida with their cell phones cloned. We were CDMA-based. And this technology stemmed from the USAF back in the 1970's IIRC.
Figure that GSM has likely been cracked many years ago too. The more sophisticated the hardware that can gain brute-force leverage any of these older algorithms. Who knows, when the vaporware that is currently quantum computing materializes perhaps DES, AES and the like will also be exposed. That's why perhaps the big players in the industry should look to upgrade/overhaul their algorithms every 5 years or so, ya know? Expensive scenario, but necessary if governments, military groups, and tinfoil hatters clamor for it...