No they don't, they just want paid for every single copy of every single media file ever transmitted over the internet, and figure a way to make the net bulletproof so they can continue to charge for every single copy of every single media file that will ever be sent over the net. And if they can get things situated so that if you want to use that media file again, they get paid again, then even better.
Who would I have to shoot for 250/month T1? Around here (NW Arizona Desert, about 100 miles from Vegas), T1 is a dream, not available at any price. They didn't even admit to any fiber running up the highway until a year ago when they started offering severely capped DSL at 50/month.
You'll need those guards to protect the cable after it's buried too, or the local "entrepreneurs" will just dig it up and sell it.
Fiber optic cable isn't inherently resellable. They won't bother digging it up.
On the other tentacle, the way the local warlords in Africa play politics with food and food delivery, the local 'entrepeneurs' cutting the fiber is a very high probability, almost a no-brainer.
Africa has some serious problems, and I don't even pretend to be an expert. They've got an AIDS epidemic eating its way through the entire continent, rampant famine and drought conditions since just this side of forever, practically no infrastructure over the level of a mud hut north of Johanesburg and south of Cairo, and anyone with an axe to grind (which is just about everybody there) is out to kill their neighbor for fun, profit, or something to do on a slow Saturday night. Will this fix things in Africa? No. Will it hurt things in Africa? Possibly, by draining what little is left of the available capital still there. Will it help things in Africa? Maybe. It's a start, anyways. Change for the better has to start someplace, and this just might help.
Embryonic stem cell research was never needed, and has yielded no cures for anything.
Yeah, because adding a dozen or so steps to the front end of a process involving stem cells makes things SOOOOOOOO much easier, simpler, and cheaper than using harvested embryonic stem cells.
High speed bandwidth without anything to put in it is useless. Remember, Congress is the opposite of progress in that the Senate has passed a restrictive 'IP protection' bill and sent it back to the House for another vote since they had to peel out the IP cops provision when the Justice Department told them it wouldn't fly cause it would cut into Defense's budget.
Of course we'll never see that kind of high speed internet here in the US. The Senator from Disney would have a fit if we could pirate their old tired 'product' in seconds and get offline before they could slap a warrant at our ISP to get our names.
Um, in both cases, you, the consumer, are the product in that you're using a product/service that's ultimately for someone else's good. In Google's case, it's the advertisers. In Microsoft's case, it's themselves and with the introduction of Vista, it's also the media companies vis a vis the DRM built into it.
Reboot them into single user mode (aka Runlevel 1). Reset the root password. Reboot them into normal mode. Log into a tty on them, and look it over and see what it does.
Comrade, you are under arrest. Come along with me to our new holding facility at Camp Xray. You do not get a lawyer. You do not get to show up in court to ask why you are here. We'll give you a show trial when we remember to do so, There is a long line of non-white non-Christian people queued in front of you for their show trials.
A few hundred more of these should set the example to not diss our Glorious Leader. And take your bitching to a Free Speech zone where nobody will pay attention to you. Hail the Glorious Leader!
A lot of that might be true, but at the same time, counter-terrorism efforts involve trying to prevent any terrorist act from occurring, not just Islamic jihad-type attacks. You know, Timothy McVeigh types...
You can't rely on profiling in cases like this. Once the people plotting a terrorist act find out the DHS is doing racial/ethnic profiling, they would just go out of their way to not fit the profile.
Problem is, any time the government pisses somebody off, they've just created another potential terrorist.
Now there's a Ubuntu knockoff that developers will like because of the totally free software basis of this distro. But as the article says, it's not for everybody. Who wants to give up their wireless networking capability on a notebook? Not me. Who wants to give up 3D capability in X? Not me.
The card is still tied to the invoice, yes? Search the card, you can get the invoice numbers. Pull up the invoice, you now have some information on the cardholder's buying habits. Get enough invoices, you have a clear cut idea of their buying habits.
At least you can put on record that you tried to implement more security, and it was rejected, so therefore beyond your control.
It may be beyond your control, but it'll still be your responsibility if that's the way they wrote up your job description. Plus, it's a good way to get rid of somebody in the IT department. Doesn't matter if you don't have the authority to do the job, you're still stuck with the responsibility to get it done, and complaining to Those On High about said lack of authority will just get you a reputation as a whiner, and thus, the first guy out the door the next time there's a security breach.
Hey, it's cheaper to ignore any breaches than it is to fix them.
TJX not only kept CC numbers long after they had any use for the information, they also kept transactional CC data that was not supposed to be kept after a transaction was done.
Um, isn't this what the US government wants done with the new regulations? As well as sharing this info with the gov, of course...
all the work that went into the mission so far that made this look easy. It wasn't. But they did a helluva job on the prep work to make it look like business as usual.
Meh. My copy of Master of Orion 2 still freezes with a hung cursor within seconds of starting it. Still haven't figured out the magic words to fix it yet.
There's an easy way to get around that. Click on the 'Older Versions' link, then just save to the desktop. I do it by highlighting the hard link to the extension and wget'ing it.
Then, to install it, just open up the Tools>AddOns box and drag the extension into it.
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No they don't, they just want paid for every single copy of every single media file ever transmitted over the internet, and figure a way to make the net bulletproof so they can continue to charge for every single copy of every single media file that will ever be sent over the net. And if they can get things situated so that if you want to use that media file again, they get paid again, then even better.
Depends on what cup size they wear.
Who would I have to shoot for 250/month T1? Around here (NW Arizona Desert, about 100 miles from Vegas), T1 is a dream, not available at any price. They didn't even admit to any fiber running up the highway until a year ago when they started offering severely capped DSL at 50/month.
Fiber optic cable isn't inherently resellable. They won't bother digging it up.
On the other tentacle, the way the local warlords in Africa play politics with food and food delivery, the local 'entrepeneurs' cutting the fiber is a very high probability, almost a no-brainer.
Africa has some serious problems, and I don't even pretend to be an expert. They've got an AIDS epidemic eating its way through the entire continent, rampant famine and drought conditions since just this side of forever, practically no infrastructure over the level of a mud hut north of Johanesburg and south of Cairo, and anyone with an axe to grind (which is just about everybody there) is out to kill their neighbor for fun, profit, or something to do on a slow Saturday night. Will this fix things in Africa? No. Will it hurt things in Africa? Possibly, by draining what little is left of the available capital still there. Will it help things in Africa? Maybe. It's a start, anyways. Change for the better has to start someplace, and this just might help.
Yeah, because adding a dozen or so steps to the front end of a process involving stem cells makes things SOOOOOOOO much easier, simpler, and cheaper than using harvested embryonic stem cells.
What happens if I'M the evil clone?
Of course we'll never see that kind of high speed internet here in the US. The Senator from Disney would have a fit if we could pirate their old tired 'product' in seconds and get offline before they could slap a warrant at our ISP to get our names.
Um, in both cases, you, the consumer, are the product in that you're using a product/service that's ultimately for someone else's good. In Google's case, it's the advertisers. In Microsoft's case, it's themselves and with the introduction of Vista, it's also the media companies vis a vis the DRM built into it.
Now that's entertainment!
Somebody once said there's a website for anything you can think of and anything you'd rather not think of. This might be one of those cases.
Reboot them into single user mode (aka Runlevel 1). Reset the root password. Reboot them into normal mode. Log into a tty on them, and look it over and see what it does.
Comrade, you are under arrest. Come along with me to our new holding facility at Camp Xray. You do not get a lawyer. You do not get to show up in court to ask why you are here. We'll give you a show trial when we remember to do so, There is a long line of non-white non-Christian people queued in front of you for their show trials.
A few hundred more of these should set the example to not diss our Glorious Leader. And take your bitching to a Free Speech zone where nobody will pay attention to you. Hail the Glorious Leader!
Problem is, any time the government pisses somebody off, they've just created another potential terrorist.
Now there's a Ubuntu knockoff that developers will like because of the totally free software basis of this distro. But as the article says, it's not for everybody. Who wants to give up their wireless networking capability on a notebook? Not me. Who wants to give up 3D capability in X? Not me.
Alright, that's it. We're switching you to decaf. Now put the Jolt Cola can down and back away.
Can't have that...
Wake me up when 4.1 is stable.
The card is still tied to the invoice, yes? Search the card, you can get the invoice numbers. Pull up the invoice, you now have some information on the cardholder's buying habits. Get enough invoices, you have a clear cut idea of their buying habits.
It may be beyond your control, but it'll still be your responsibility if that's the way they wrote up your job description. Plus, it's a good way to get rid of somebody in the IT department. Doesn't matter if you don't have the authority to do the job, you're still stuck with the responsibility to get it done, and complaining to Those On High about said lack of authority will just get you a reputation as a whiner, and thus, the first guy out the door the next time there's a security breach.
Hey, it's cheaper to ignore any breaches than it is to fix them.
Um, isn't this what the US government wants done with the new regulations? As well as sharing this info with the gov, of course...
They already do, here in the US.
Great job, JPL & Arizona!
Meh. My copy of Master of Orion 2 still freezes with a hung cursor within seconds of starting it. Still haven't figured out the magic words to fix it yet.
Particularly if they somehow develop a workable method of bending the speed of light. I say, crank 'em up, let's see what happens...
There's an easy way to get around that. Click on the 'Older Versions' link, then just save to the desktop. I do it by highlighting the hard link to the extension and wget'ing it.
Then, to install it, just open up the Tools>AddOns box and drag the extension into it.