Do you really want to support a company that requires IE to view their product page? Just look at the 32gb SSD product page in IE and Firefox. It is almost impossible to browse with Firefox, but it does look great in IE!!!
Of course you are also wrong Hotdiggitydawg, profit for the next 1 million units may have been $175. BUT that does NOT mean that the profits for the first million units was $175. It easily may have been a LOSS, but once you build the machines that build the units. Your cost per unit goes down for each unit you produce.
Anyway, the point is I'm glad you(Hotdiggitydawg) are not my accountant.
EXACTLY!!! They already pay for my high speed net and pay for some 60% of my phone, in addition to the blackberry(to be replaced with something else if BB is shutdown) Why not just let me work from home a few days a week, the only time I have to be in the office is for tuesday meetings! As the parent said, I'd be happy with saving the travel expenses. I would stay on IM all day so the boss can "check up" on me anytime he feels like, if they felt the need to.
Cable cards are often have a much lower price for the hardware rental, vs a cable box. Also the card would NOT be needed for some HD channels. The neatest HD channel in my area PBS HD is not encrypted and only requires basic cable and of course a tuner that can "see" the signal. The cards and/or cable box is only needed for pay HD channels, which are also nice, HBO HD anyone?
If your SOX assumption is correct, that would be the BEST thing I have ever heard about SOX. Every time the auditors come by us, all we do is take raw data and polish it into report form for them! So I suspect they sit in the corner and play solitare, you would think that auditors would WANT the raw data so that we could not fudge any facts. Everything I have seen tells me SOX is a joke and does nothing for real security.(with the exception of your statement)
So your saying with 1200 servers it took WORK to become part of their program? Right now I can't order a 2nd processor for a ~3 ghz box from Dell because one of the parts (heat sink?) is out of stock, I've been fighting the battle with Dell for 2 months!! Thats right they don't want to sell me a ~$1200 part!! This is for a newer P4 unit that has one CPU and is still under warrenty. And no I can't order the 2nd cpu from joesmuck.com because that would void the warrenty. Take with the grain of salt we are a Dell shop, and that is still our preferred vendor.
Well according to the letter of the law, this law was not broken by this student. First of all it says "Person" well in order to actually make this happen serveral people would have to be involved. So this law does not apply, period.
Well OK, you say it does, then they must arrest EVERY person that is using a compter to disrupt the server. Which with out reading the article, does not say that this one student actually did any refreshing, and if they can not prove he did, the law does not apply.
I suspect that any employee/customer, that calls/writes to get the exact details of what was lost will be given nothing additional. That is what is wrong, now that they have announced these few facts that is all they will say. Basically here is a little credit monitoring and now F#$$%#@off. I feel that this situation is wrong, and the number of times that it has happened is scary.
For me and I suspect the main poster it is not about security from other admins. I work with 2-4 others(depending on if you count the entry level guy and the boss who is the most IT savvy) I don't worry about them getting into any of my stuff or over hearing/seeing anything I do all day long. I worry about the out siders, we have a cube with 7ft walls BUT I can easily hear the person on the other side of the cube, even though I can't see her. I suspect that a person in the walk way could hear me say a password over the phone just as easy. (don't say anything about saying passwords over the phone that is OT)
Exactly I've gotten so feed up with the whole situation I'm just NOT buying anything. Crappy CD's with one or two OK songs, that or download singles that cost as much as a CD if I download all the songs but have crappy bit rates and usually a bunch of copy protection on them. (funny thing copy protection but it doesn't seem to actually protect me?) I've even taken a bunch of road trips and all I have done for the last year or two is listen to 'free' FM radio. RIAA your profits are down because you have LOST CUSTOMERS period.
Um, the frayed Cable TV wire was broadcasting on frequencies that are in the range of planes and other bands. That is why every year cable companies must test for this condition, which is frequently called, no joke, "leakage" Which is when the signal "leaks" out of the wire. A small amount is normal, and legal, but over a certain amount throws up flags. However I suspect it was not actually the FCC raiding his house, more likely the cable Co. came to the door and said lets us fix it or we shut off your cable.
What about employee data loss. Iron Mountain lost the backup tapes of Time Warner and data on every employee for the last 15 years, including SSN!!! Employees should have the same protections/requirements to be informed as customers. They are offering credit monitoring for a year, because everyone's SSN changes after a year of course(sarcasm included) Not that/. Would care, tried submitting it and it gets rejected!
If the 911 center could get at least your home address, where the VIOP phone has a good chance to be, its a start. For those that keep the phone at a different place than the bill goes to, perhaps a spot in the telco computers for that? I know that there is a good chance that if I have to call 911 over my VIOP phone I'm at my primary residence.
Ok so IANAElectricalEngineer but the card does the decrypting, so you have to be able to talk with the card. For more correct information milwaukeehdtv.org the site is pretty good, and most of the people on the forums know whats going on. Well more than slashdot anyway.
Why should any company promote a product that is not ready for mass use? It is still a bleading edge product. Also the point of the cable card is to provide the level of control and access that the cable companies are required to have over certain content. So I suspect your statment about that is due to lack of info on your part.
The reason that they are not promoted by cable co. Is that the TV and card manufactures all released a product before they had it working correctly. The cable co has ZERO power over the manufactures. Despite what you want to think the cable people have nothing to do with the card working in the TV or not. The only thing they can do is make sure the signal is good to the back of the TV. Almost all problems are the fault of the TV manufacture. So watch where you place your blame.
First, Built in DVRs do NOT require 2 way, there are at least 3 models now that 'work' with 1 way CC. I say work with quotes becuase the DVR funtions are VERY poorly implemnted in these TVs, but they do exist.
Second the 2 way spec is done/almost done and will be out vers soon.
Not sure what your talking about when you say vendor/operator/switching cost. please explain.
Digital TV does require more bandwidth, for whatever reason people want digital TV. You and I may not agree. Some want it because dish is 'all digital' there is a small difference in the picture quality.
Parent complains about 'the set-top box that decoded the scrambled channels couldn't be made to work with a programmed VCR.' Not sure what kind of STB you have but all of mine can be set to tune to any show so that a connected VCR can record it at that time. They even include an idiot feature so that during that show if you happen to be home you CAN't change the channel or otherwise mess up the recording. With the remote anyway, you have to get up to fix it then you see the front of the box says REC for recording.
Parent is a bit over the top in wanting open protocols for third party companies. First of all the spec is public, as another person posted. So your point is N/A. Also, I would argue that all cable card sets are made by a third party. Party one cable Co. Party two card manufacture(there are currently to companies making the cards.) The 3rd party is any one of a half dozen diffent manufactures that make cable card ready equipment/TVs.
Parent said '...you don't need them {cable cards} for premium and other scrabled channels.' First of all I assume you meant '...you DO need...' because other wise the statement makes no sense at all. Second the channels are not scrabled (what would that mean?) Also they are not scrambled. Digital channels like the CC is for are for encrypted channels, and the card provides the decryption.
Your last statment about the only viable option for and HD DVR is part of a cable box is correct. It should be noted that there are at least 3 models of HD DVR TV's, that are TVs with HD and cable card and hard drive recording. BUT they function much much worse than any tivo or cable company DVR, and worse than many computer or home brew DVRs.
I'm waiting on a laptop to come back from repair, its been months!!! I have 'obtained' another laptop from someone who left the department, to use in the meantime and the HD died on this one!? I'm actually scared to turn this one over to IT to get fixed. Thank goodness for MDK move.
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Do you really want to support a company that requires IE to view their product page? Just look at the 32gb SSD product page in IE and Firefox. It is almost impossible to browse with Firefox, but it does look great in IE!!!
Can someone please explain how that will even begin to help a Telco deliver TV?
Of course you are also wrong Hotdiggitydawg, profit for the next 1 million units may have been $175. BUT that does NOT mean that the profits for the first million units was $175. It easily may have been a LOSS, but once you build the machines that build the units. Your cost per unit goes down for each unit you produce.
Anyway, the point is I'm glad you(Hotdiggitydawg) are not my accountant.
EXACTLY!!! They already pay for my high speed net and pay for some 60% of my phone, in addition to the blackberry(to be replaced with something else if BB is shutdown) Why not just let me work from home a few days a week, the only time I have to be in the office is for tuesday meetings! As the parent said, I'd be happy with saving the travel expenses. I would stay on IM all day so the boss can "check up" on me anytime he feels like, if they felt the need to.
Cable cards are often have a much lower price for the hardware rental, vs a cable box. Also the card would NOT be needed for some HD channels. The neatest HD channel in my area PBS HD is not encrypted and only requires basic cable and of course a tuner that can "see" the signal. The cards and/or cable box is only needed for pay HD channels, which are also nice, HBO HD anyone?
If your SOX assumption is correct, that would be the BEST thing I have ever heard about SOX. Every time the auditors come by us, all we do is take raw data and polish it into report form for them! So I suspect they sit in the corner and play solitare, you would think that auditors would WANT the raw data so that we could not fudge any facts. Everything I have seen tells me SOX is a joke and does nothing for real security.(with the exception of your statement)
So your saying with 1200 servers it took WORK to become part of their program? Right now I can't order a 2nd processor for a ~3 ghz box from Dell because one of the parts (heat sink?) is out of stock, I've been fighting the battle with Dell for 2 months!! Thats right they don't want to sell me a ~$1200 part!! This is for a newer P4 unit that has one CPU and is still under warrenty. And no I can't order the 2nd cpu from joesmuck.com because that would void the warrenty. Take with the grain of salt we are a Dell shop, and that is still our preferred vendor.
Well according to the letter of the law, this law was not broken by this student. First of all it says "Person" well in order to actually make this happen serveral people would have to be involved. So this law does not apply, period. Well OK, you say it does, then they must arrest EVERY person that is using a compter to disrupt the server. Which with out reading the article, does not say that this one student actually did any refreshing, and if they can not prove he did, the law does not apply.
I suspect that any employee/customer, that calls/writes to get the exact details of what was lost will be given nothing additional. That is what is wrong, now that they have announced these few facts that is all they will say. Basically here is a little credit monitoring and now F#$$%#@off. I feel that this situation is wrong, and the number of times that it has happened is scary.
For me and I suspect the main poster it is not about security from other admins. I work with 2-4 others(depending on if you count the entry level guy and the boss who is the most IT savvy) I don't worry about them getting into any of my stuff or over hearing/seeing anything I do all day long. I worry about the out siders, we have a cube with 7ft walls BUT I can easily hear the person on the other side of the cube, even though I can't see her. I suspect that a person in the walk way could hear me say a password over the phone just as easy. (don't say anything about saying passwords over the phone that is OT)
Exactly I've gotten so feed up with the whole situation I'm just NOT buying anything. Crappy CD's with one or two OK songs, that or download singles that cost as much as a CD if I download all the songs but have crappy bit rates and usually a bunch of copy protection on them. (funny thing copy protection but it doesn't seem to actually protect me?) I've even taken a bunch of road trips and all I have done for the last year or two is listen to 'free' FM radio. RIAA your profits are down because you have LOST CUSTOMERS period.
Um, the frayed Cable TV wire was broadcasting on frequencies that are in the range of planes and other bands. That is why every year cable companies must test for this condition, which is frequently called, no joke, "leakage" Which is when the signal "leaks" out of the wire. A small amount is normal, and legal, but over a certain amount throws up flags. However I suspect it was not actually the FCC raiding his house, more likely the cable Co. came to the door and said lets us fix it or we shut off your cable.
What about employee data loss. Iron Mountain lost the backup tapes of Time Warner and data on every employee for the last 15 years, including SSN!!! Employees should have the same protections/requirements to be informed as customers. They are offering credit monitoring for a year, because everyone's SSN changes after a year of course(sarcasm included) Not that /. Would care, tried submitting it and it gets rejected!
If the 911 center could get at least your home address, where the VIOP phone has a good chance to be, its a start. For those that keep the phone at a different place than the bill goes to, perhaps a spot in the telco computers for that? I know that there is a good chance that if I have to call 911 over my VIOP phone I'm at my primary residence.
you must live in wisconsin, true or not?
Ok so IANAElectricalEngineer but the card does the decrypting, so you have to be able to talk with the card. For more correct information milwaukeehdtv.org the site is pretty good, and most of the people on the forums know whats going on. Well more than slashdot anyway.
... respect to many details. Take all info on this from http://www.hdtvexpert.com with a grain of salt.
Why should any company promote a product that is not ready for mass use? It is still a bleading edge product. Also the point of the cable card is to provide the level of control and access that the cable companies are required to have over certain content. So I suspect your statment about that is due to lack of info on your part.
The reason that they are not promoted by cable co. Is that the TV and card manufactures all released a product before they had it working correctly. The cable co has ZERO power over the manufactures. Despite what you want to think the cable people have nothing to do with the card working in the TV or not. The only thing they can do is make sure the signal is good to the back of the TV. Almost all problems are the fault of the TV manufacture. So watch where you place your blame.
Never will work. The card has to be bonded to the TV on the cable co end. That allows it to work at all. So to answer your post in one word, no.
First, Built in DVRs do NOT require 2 way, there are at least 3 models now that 'work' with 1 way CC. I say work with quotes becuase the DVR funtions are VERY poorly implemnted in these TVs, but they do exist.
Second the 2 way spec is done/almost done and will be out vers soon.
Not sure what your talking about when you say vendor/operator/switching cost. please explain.
Digital TV does require more bandwidth, for whatever reason people want digital TV. You and I may not agree. Some want it because dish is 'all digital' there is a small difference in the picture quality.
Parent complains about 'the set-top box that decoded the scrambled channels couldn't be made to work with a programmed VCR.' Not sure what kind of STB you have but all of mine can be set to tune to any show so that a connected VCR can record it at that time. They even include an idiot feature so that during that show if you happen to be home you CAN't change the channel or otherwise mess up the recording. With the remote anyway, you have to get up to fix it then you see the front of the box says REC for recording.
Parent is a bit over the top in wanting open protocols for third party companies. First of all the spec is public, as another person posted. So your point is N/A. Also, I would argue that all cable card sets are made by a third party. Party one cable Co. Party two card manufacture(there are currently to companies making the cards.) The 3rd party is any one of a half dozen diffent manufactures that make cable card ready equipment/TVs.
Parent said '...you don't need them {cable cards} for premium and other scrabled channels.' First of all I assume you meant '...you DO need...' because other wise the statement makes no sense at all. Second the channels are not scrabled (what would that mean?) Also they are not scrambled. Digital channels like the CC is for are for encrypted channels, and the card provides the decryption.
Your last statment about the only viable option for and HD DVR is part of a cable box is correct. It should be noted that there are at least 3 models of HD DVR TV's, that are TVs with HD and cable card and hard drive recording. BUT they function much much worse than any tivo or cable company DVR, and worse than many computer or home brew DVRs.
I'm waiting on a laptop to come back from repair, its been months!!! I have 'obtained' another laptop from someone who left the department, to use in the meantime and the HD died on this one!? I'm actually scared to turn this one over to IT to get fixed. Thank goodness for MDK move.