Exactly!
Go to http://www.wachovia.com/
There's a login on the front page.
Just because the login page is not secured does not mean it's not posted to a secure site.
I use to work for Wachovia; believe me when I say they are quite serious about their IT security, both internally and customer facing.
Some of my co-workers have personal webcams attached to their PCs that record 24x7. I did that for a while. It used motion-sensor software that was included with the Logitech camera and worked really well.
I never had anything stolen, but it was amazing the number of people that would pop into my cube and look around
for a pen or something.
I eventually ended up taking my laptop home every night, and leaving a tower in my cube I could remote into if necessary.
I had a similar problem with several of my CS professors (I was a CS major.)
I complained to my adviser I couldn't understand them, but he said that I should basically be more sympathetic since they probably
had a tough time understanding me as well. I was shocked by this; I'm the student... if I don't
understand what the prof is saying, I fail. Plus, I'm PAYING FOR THIS CLASS. A LOT!!
One of the things that always pissed me off about academia is the sense of entitlement the professors have.
How much time does your drinking water spend "topically applying" its contents on your teeth? Really fluoride in the water is asinine. Uh...no.
This has been heavily and thoroughly studied since the 50's. Fluoride in drinking water helps strengthen teeth. Period.
My dental hygienist formerly worked in a town where no fluoride was added to the water and she said the teeth there were awful.
Anecdotes aside:
In 1978 Consumer Reports magazine summed up the situation well: "The simple truth is that there's no 'scientific controversy' over the safety of fluoridation. The practice is safe, economical, and beneficial. The survival of this fake controversy represents, in our opinion, one of the major triumphs of quackery over science in our generation." From: fluorideinfo.org
Aside from the problem "fiduciary duty", it's also pointless.
True, most traffic is not encrypted, but with encryption technology more accessible than ever
I think that the whole effort will be a waste of resources.
I can imagine whole sub-networks cropping up that uses VPN, exchanging traffic with immunity to AT&T's traffic analysis.
I agree it's a little heavy handed (and an awful story summary) but it's a legal slippery-slope if you start letting your trademarks relax.
For those of you that still don't get it:
Imagine if some college football fans started publishing a calendar of their favorite team.
You think the university and the NCAA wouldn't stop that? Apply the same logic to NASCAR, Coca-Cola,
Microsoft, or Playboy and you see the position Ford is in.
When Democrats do it to fellow Democrats, like Hillary's campaign is doing to Obama, it's called taking off the kid gloves. You really believe that this was coordinated from inside Hillary's campaign??
...remember the saying...you don't need a conspiracy when incompetency will suffice.
All that happened was a few volunteers (I think it was three different people in separate instances) in Iowa were DUMB ENOUGH to forward a hoax email.
Its crunch time for the candidates in Iowa and they'll take pretty much any idiot off the street as a volunteer.
I'm surprised stuff like this doesn't happen more often.
Wow, talk about over-simplifying a complex issue.
So basically what you're saying is that if you're in an environment that doesn't allow you to write good code its your fault?
Not everyone can quit a good job just because the IT management has their head up their ass.
I've written plenty of crappy code because of arbitrary deadlines my group had no control over. In large companies (that aren't tech oriented), the IT department ALWAYS have deadlines dictated to them by the business unit, not the other way around.
I owned one about 6 years ago but sold it on eBay. It was very light and small, but easy to type on and great battery life.
I wish it had a bigger screen but that was really my only complaint.
It didn't have half the features of OLPC and retailed for over $1k, but it came out in '98 when laptops
and anything small was still pretty expensive. Plus it was built by IBM.
Because you don't launch a music player without the accompanied web site.
MS has a US site selling DRM-laden music for it's player. But that site wont appeal to Brits...they have different tastes.
So do the French and Germans.
The EU is a huge market but each country pretty much requires it's own unique web site set up to
the tastes of each country.
You're correct about all the dark fiber out there, but lighting it up won't be cheap... the mega-routers on each end cost six figures easy. It's also worth noting that I don't think the article was talking about the actual backbone infrastructure, but rather what exists between the back bone and the last mile. ie. Verizon can run fiber to everyones' house, but I'm sure their CO doesn't have the connection speed to handle the aggregated bandwidth.
Of course there are always security concerns... but as successful as the web browser has been, I'm eager to see a new standard
framework for internet based applications (notice I didn't say web-based.) JavaScript is too clunky to be a good language to program in
and the whole html/css/javascript paradigm is something of a mess when it comes to implementing an application that's suppose to "feel" like
a desktop app. I know java was suppose to help this but that fell flat and asp.net (which I do a lot of programming in...) is a mess.
I love the idea of a new app that can fully utilize the capabilities of my computer (3d, storage, etc), but I think sticking
with the html/web model is probably not the way to do it.
This wouldn't exactly do the torrent community any favors, but if I were running a torrent client from a campus LAN, I'd block inbound connections from IPs not on my campus. If they cant see me sharing, they cant sue me.
Kinda find it interesting that one of the best law schools in the country isn't receiving these threats.
Just how does that work? The photographer takes a picture, posts it on Flickr with a license that allows for commercial use. Once someone uses it commercially he/she sues the commercial user and the author of the license? IANAL, but there's a high-profile suite in my area that's just like this. The laws vary from state to state but
the common factor is "commercial/advertising use".
In VA where I live, if you take a picture of someone and then use it in advertising or any other commercial use (other than reporting) then
you MUST MUST MUST have written consent of anyone recognizable in the picture. Period.
So, regardless of the license the picture is published under, you must have consent depending on the state.
if two things need to appear in the frame, but it's not possible to have them both in focus, they'll be filmed separately and stitched together so absolutely everything is sharp and crisp...
This is EXACTLY how several shots in Citizen Kane were done where deep focus with one camera wasn't possible. I don't remember the name of the technique used to accomplish this in 1939, but it worked seamlessly and they didn't need CGI.
For an excellent discussion on the topic of space-time, pick up Brian Greene's The Fabric of the Cosmos. Great read for the technically adept layman on what space-time is and how it "works".
...and the Judge used one of my favorite words, Quixotic,
which is a flat-out perfect description of Jack Thompson:
....a person or an act that is caught up in the romance of noble deeds and the pursuit of unreachable goals. It also serves to describe an idealism without regard to practicality.
This, of course, comes with a huge disclaimer to the effect that I have no inside information as to the structure of the Vista kernel, and might be completely making all of this up. Yeah, I think that might be Microsoft's problem as well.
Actually, we didn't have an AV club in high school, but in college (and I swear I'm not making this up...)
I was a part-time pro-sound engineer. ie. I ran the mixing board for live bands, hooked up the mics, amps, speakers, etc.
I didn't get into Chess until a few years later....
From Bart of Darkness:
Bart dials phone...
"Thank you for calling the Springfield police department... if you know the code for the crime being committed, PRESS ONE!!"
Bart mashes keys down creating a cacophony of DTMFs.
"You have selected Regicide! If you know the name of the King or Queen being murdered, PRESS ONE!!"
I probably didn't get that exactly right but... still funny, reality imitating satire.
No I haven't read TFA but I'm willing to bet some of the majors are the equivalent of metal shop.
Actually I see many downsides....
I was interested in CS all through high school and took every programming course (all 3...it was the mid-80s) that my school
had to offer. But I also marched in the band.
What if this new major program prevented (via scheduling, resource, and location conflicts) the students ability to be engaged in multiple interests?
If I were back in high school and confronted with this, I probably would have chosen band over CS courses simply because that was where all my friends were.
...missions to improve standards in accordance with self-determined metrics... ....based on a variety of factors subservient to aforementioned goals... ...work areas include inter-agency provision... ...with the ultimate objective of improving standards... Hey!
I recognize that writing....
You're the CTO/CIO for my company, aren't you??
This is precisely why I won't buy video from iTunes.
Unless I can burn it to a standard DVD, I will never buy DRM'd video from anyone!.
I do buy music from iTunes since they openly allow you to burn it to disc, therefore making it usable even if I run out of "authorized computers" or Apple decides to deprecate their DRM.
I'm in the process of looking at eMusic too, but they won't show you their whole catalog unless you sign up (ie. give them a credit card number) for their free trial. I'm guessing their catalog is, uh, limited since they don't want you to see it before you sign up.
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Exactly!
Go to http://www.wachovia.com/
There's a login on the front page.
Just because the login page is not secured does not mean it's not posted to a secure site.
I use to work for Wachovia; believe me when I say they are quite serious about their IT security, both internally and customer facing.
I never had anything stolen, but it was amazing the number of people that would pop into my cube and look around for a pen or something.
I eventually ended up taking my laptop home every night, and leaving a tower in my cube I could remote into if necessary.
I had a similar problem with several of my CS professors (I was a CS major.)
I complained to my adviser I couldn't understand them, but he said that I should basically be more sympathetic since they probably
had a tough time understanding me as well. I was shocked by this; I'm the student... if I don't
understand what the prof is saying, I fail. Plus, I'm PAYING FOR THIS CLASS. A LOT!!
One of the things that always pissed me off about academia is the sense of entitlement the professors have.
This has been heavily and thoroughly studied since the 50's. Fluoride in drinking water helps strengthen teeth. Period.
My dental hygienist formerly worked in a town where no fluoride was added to the water and she said the teeth there were awful. Anecdotes aside: In 1978 Consumer Reports magazine summed up the situation well: "The simple truth is that there's no 'scientific controversy' over the safety of fluoridation. The practice is safe, economical, and beneficial. The survival of this fake controversy represents, in our opinion, one of the major triumphs of quackery over science in our generation." From: fluorideinfo.org
So it sounds like that in addition to AdBlock, you should also use NoScript when reading Snopes.
Aside from the problem "fiduciary duty", it's also pointless.
True, most traffic is not encrypted, but with encryption technology more accessible than ever I think that the whole effort will be a waste of resources.
I can imagine whole sub-networks cropping up that uses VPN, exchanging traffic with immunity to AT&T's traffic analysis.
I agree it's a little heavy handed (and an awful story summary) but it's a legal slippery-slope if you start letting your trademarks relax.
For those of you that still don't get it:
Imagine if some college football fans started publishing a calendar of their favorite team.
You think the university and the NCAA wouldn't stop that? Apply the same logic to NASCAR, Coca-Cola,
Microsoft, or Playboy and you see the position Ford is in.
...remember the saying...you don't need a conspiracy when incompetency will suffice.
All that happened was a few volunteers (I think it was three different people in separate instances) in Iowa were DUMB ENOUGH to forward a hoax email.
Its crunch time for the candidates in Iowa and they'll take pretty much any idiot off the street as a volunteer.
I'm surprised stuff like this doesn't happen more often.
Wow, talk about over-simplifying a complex issue.
So basically what you're saying is that if you're in an environment that doesn't allow you to write good code its your fault?
Not everyone can quit a good job just because the IT management has their head up their ass.
I've written plenty of crappy code because of arbitrary deadlines my group had no control over.
In large companies (that aren't tech oriented), the IT department ALWAYS have deadlines
dictated to them by the business unit, not the other way around.
If you want to look at a kind-of, sort-of OLPC machine running winCE, check out the IBM Workpad:
http://www.hpcfactor.com/reviews/hardware/ibm/workpad-z50/
I owned one about 6 years ago but sold it on eBay. It was very light and small, but easy to type on and great battery life.
I wish it had a bigger screen but that was really my only complaint.
It didn't have half the features of OLPC and retailed for over $1k, but it came out in '98 when laptops and anything small was still pretty expensive. Plus it was built by IBM.
Because you don't launch a music player without the accompanied web site.
MS has a US site selling DRM-laden music for it's player. But that site wont appeal to Brits...they have different tastes. So do the French and Germans.
The EU is a huge market but each country pretty much requires it's own unique web site set up to the tastes of each country.
You're correct about all the dark fiber out there, but lighting it up won't be cheap... the mega-routers on each end cost six figures easy. It's also worth noting that I don't think the article was talking about the actual backbone infrastructure, but rather what exists between the back bone and the last mile. ie. Verizon can run fiber to everyones' house, but I'm sure their CO doesn't have the connection speed to handle the aggregated bandwidth.
I'll be happy to sell someone a wooden knob for $500.
Of course there are always security concerns... but as successful as the web browser has been, I'm eager to see a new standard framework for internet based applications (notice I didn't say web-based.) JavaScript is too clunky to be a good language to program in and the whole html/css/javascript paradigm is something of a mess when it comes to implementing an application that's suppose to "feel" like a desktop app. I know java was suppose to help this but that fell flat and asp.net (which I do a lot of programming in...) is a mess.
I love the idea of a new app that can fully utilize the capabilities of my computer (3d, storage, etc), but I think sticking with the html/web model is probably not the way to do it.
This wouldn't exactly do the torrent community any favors, but if I were running a torrent client from a campus LAN, I'd block inbound connections from IPs not on my campus. If they cant see me sharing, they cant sue me.
Kinda find it interesting that one of the best law schools in the country isn't receiving these threats.
In VA where I live, if you take a picture of someone and then use it in advertising or any other commercial use (other than reporting) then you MUST MUST MUST have written consent of anyone recognizable in the picture. Period.
So, regardless of the license the picture is published under, you must have consent depending on the state.
This is EXACTLY how several shots in Citizen Kane were done where deep focus with one camera wasn't possible. I don't remember the name of the technique used to accomplish this in 1939, but it worked seamlessly and they didn't need CGI.
For an excellent discussion on the topic of space-time, pick up Brian Greene's The Fabric of the Cosmos.
Great read for the technically adept layman on what space-time is and how it "works".
which is a flat-out perfect description of Jack Thompson:
Actually, we didn't have an AV club in high school, but in college (and I swear I'm not making this up...) I was a part-time pro-sound engineer.
ie. I ran the mixing board for live bands, hooked up the mics, amps, speakers, etc.
I didn't get into Chess until a few years later....
From Bart of Darkness:
Bart dials phone...
"Thank you for calling the Springfield police department... if you know the code for the crime being committed, PRESS ONE!!"
Bart mashes keys down creating a cacophony of DTMFs.
"You have selected Regicide! If you know the name of the King or Queen being murdered, PRESS ONE!!"
I probably didn't get that exactly right but... still funny, reality imitating satire.
No I haven't read TFA but I'm willing to bet some of the majors are the equivalent of metal shop.
Actually I see many downsides....
I was interested in CS all through high school and took every programming course (all 3...it was the mid-80s) that my school had to offer. But I also marched in the band.
What if this new major program prevented (via scheduling, resource, and location conflicts) the students ability to be engaged in multiple interests?
If I were back in high school and confronted with this, I probably would have chosen band over CS courses simply because that was where all my friends were.
...missions to improve standards in accordance with self-determined metrics...Hey!
I recognize that writing....
You're the CTO/CIO for my company, aren't you??
This is precisely why I won't buy video from iTunes.
Unless I can burn it to a standard DVD, I will never buy DRM'd video from anyone!.
I do buy music from iTunes since they openly allow you to burn it to disc, therefore making it usable even if I run out of "authorized computers" or Apple decides to deprecate their DRM.
I'm in the process of looking at eMusic too, but they won't show you their whole catalog unless you sign up (ie. give them a credit card number) for their free trial. I'm guessing their catalog is, uh, limited since they don't want you to see it before you sign up.