At my brother's school, someone (they think it was a student) set up a wireless access point designed to act and look like an official University AP. Unfortunately, it was NOT official - which meant that it did a great job of pulling down all the data that had gone through it. Like passwords, emails, and credit card numbers.
I understand their move, even if I don't agree with it. I just think maybe they went about it the wrong way.
My wife uses a licensed copy of XP that she bought in college. She's still a grad student, but how would they know? Are they basically looking for commonly duplicated license keys?
If you're thinking about modding this comment up, this is the part you should consider insightful: "I haven't RTFA. Maybe I should read first and comment later."
Works quite well.. now I've got to go back and rework some code! *sigh*
Just out of curiosity, did you write that source tree viewer "NASTV" app? If so, I would suggest that you let the app send filename headers when you "view" items; opening a.jpg forces my machine to download the file as a.php document. I think it would be nice to have the option of opening it within the browser.
Not sure what's supposed to happen. Page appears completely empty save for the top nav and a couple of items on the right. No working links or clickable areas that I can find.
I think I understand your intent, but it looks like it's not quite working.
When I've used the display:block - display:none, Firefox simply removes the content but takes up the same space as if the DIV was still there. IE pretends the DIV went away completely. Now I realize that there are ways to hack this up, including maybe moving the DIV way off the screen, but I haven't seen an example that works in both.
The first place I ever saw it was on Microsoft's FAQ site - I also noticed that they use a completely different display method for non-IE browsers. Strange.
I'm secretly hoping that there's a way to do this that does work properly in the major browsers and that I'm just unaware of it. If you get it working, please let me know!
I always wondered about that... in Firefox.10PR (and in previous version I used) Slashdot's main content area overlaps or runs flush with the left nav. No padding, no margin, whatever. I remember reading articles on A List Apart about redoing Slashdot, which made me wonder why this was still happening.
Is this a problem with Firefox or with Slashdot?
As for Firefox taking the #1 spot, I would love to see that. There are a few things I've had difficulty achieving in Firefox that work in IE, but none of them are necessary (collapsing DIV when display set to none, for example).
One day, my boss will choke on his "we should just design for Microsoft IE and if it doesn't work in your Mozilla then maybe you shouldn't use it." Bastard.
Since the only thing that really pushes my system is gaming, and all of my games are Windows (though I could probably get some to run via Wine) I guess maybe I wasn't using Linux enough to experience that.
Upon returning the memory and getting a replacement, one of the sticks worked fine and the other still had problems. Go figure.
I saw this on Google Blog a few weeks ago and decided to try it out. Like nearly every problem I encounter, I also check Google for a solution and came up with it right quick. So I'm a little surprised it took so long to make it onto Slashdot.
Anyway, I guess I wasn't paying that close of attention during the IPO thing -
From the Wikipedia article: "In the IPO filing for Google, Inc., in 2004, rather than a typical round-number amount of money, the company announced its intention to raise $2,718,281,828, which is, of course, e billion dollars to the nearest integer."
I wonder what else might factor into that failure rate... installing a Windows Update patch (or any other software, for that matter) that requires a reboot... also, how many of those failures are due to hardware problems?
I probably restarted 50 times on XP before I figured out that the problem was my stupid discount DDR chip. I had ruled out hardware because I never had a problem in Linux. Turns out Mandrake wasn't using that part of the memory. Hmm.
You're the kind of client that I really enjoy working with.
"Work for a boss that respects your opinion - it's rather nice."
It's kind of funny you say that... I'm just about to quit my job and work full time for my own company. I'm finding it rare that a boss really understands what you do and how valuable you are.
They know that. Of course, you're going to have to explain it to a client one day and realize that when the client hears "it's not 100% secure," they will start looking for something that is. When some PR guy comes along and claims it's 100% secure, we snicker and the PR guy wins the project and gets a Porsche.
I've spent a lot of time educating clients regarding the "nature of things" as you described. However, when the client isn't at that level of interest/ability to understand/etc., I simply say "SSL is the same level of encryption that banks and credit card companies rely on . Your data will be safe." Sometimes I also use the "it would take sixty million years or so to brute force the encryption. I doubt you'll be worried about your 2004 data in sixty million years."
"It's early, and my tinfoil hat kept poking me in the head as I slept last night, I think."
You sleep wearing your tinfoil hat? I find that a tinfoil nightcap works well. I also use a tinfoil blanket on my bed, so when it gets cold I can just pull that up over my head and sleep well knowing that I'll be warm and my thoughts protected.
Huzzah! Interest has been loosed upon the internet by phyl0x, the great emancipator. No longer shall interest be bound and forced to live and work as a slave to...well...ummm....
Oh, I see... It looks like you meant to use the word "losing," as in "lose, losing, lost." Good luck with that next time./petpeeve
...for those of us lucky enough to live close to Chicago (I'm just over 100 miles away), we can continue to experience the wonderful long-range AM radio while we listen to Pat Hughes and Ron Santo cover the Cubs game on radio 720.
It comes in great on my car, but hardly at all on any of my other radios. Of course, there are a few spots I avoid because they kill the reception. I'll even drive five miles out of the way just to avoid that patch.
In America, anyway, you're likely to face charges if the person is fleeing. That means that you shot them (even on your property, armed, and threatening you) while fleeing. It's no longer self-defense. It's murder.
The classic example is the robber that enters, gets shot by the homeowner, and drags himself outside to die. If the guy dies in the house (or maybe just on the property) then it's clearly a case of defense. If he dies outside, it can be construed that he was fleeing. Big fat gray/grey area.
IANAL, blah blah. Maybe one could shed some light on this. I'm only posting it because you seem to consider it highly unfair that he is being charged. Replies to your post seem to argue that the shopkeeper is a heartless murderer. I think it's somewhere in between, depending on all those circumstances that I don't know (because I'm going off your story alone).
I agree with you that part of your payment is the overhead... and if Tivo and Netflix have lower costs, I expect to pay less. In fact, the only reasons they'd charge less would be 1) because there's some disadvantage to using their service or 2) people already pay $X/rental, so charging less would bring more business.
The way they'd see it is likely that we're already paying $3 or $4 a rental. So dropping it to $2 means people like me are more likely to use them. At the same time, they might consider the fact that a lower price often means less product (you get what you pay for)... and they add more restrictions.
Honestly, I think they could wipe out video/DVD rental in the next ten years if they kept prices low and limitations small. Since Netflix and Tivo are both companies that have built their businesses on a pretty risky product/service, I hope they'd do this right and we'd both win.
Not entirely sure where you're going with that, but let me pose an utterly ridiculous claim with a fairly logical conclusion:
A person works hard, benefits from his own work. By employing others, he is passing those benefits to them as well. Let's assume they're great employees and he's a great boss. They work their tails off and make the company a ton of money. He works his tail off and makes the company a ton of money. Because of their dedication, he pays them extremely well (better than that job would normally pay, but their company is thriving as a result of their work). The harder everyone works, the more everyone makes.
Now I think this is where the general idea of capitalism and socialism would diverge for most people. Realist: In a capitalist society, the boss won't pay them that well. As a result, the employees simply won't work that hard. The boss considers them dispensable and treats them as such. They realize that they won't benefit from the extra work, so they work only as hard as they need to in order to avoid being fired (Office Space). In a socialist society, it's the exact same way - the "boss" gets away with more and the employees work the minimum.
The idealist in me sees that the two are nearly the same (for this discussion, ignore the need-based component of a typical socialist framework). The harder everyone works, the more everyone benefits. Again, this assumes that the participants are benevolent and honest. That everyone gives their best and that they are rewarded for it.
So back to my situation: I am willing to give my all, work insanely hard and dedicate myself to the success of the company. I have done so in the past, but with no reward or even the promise of one it becomes harder to dedicate myself to someone else's success. Simply put, I'm not in business to make someone else rich. If that's a by-product of my success, then so be it.
My bosses are not businesspeople. They hate the business aspect. Furthermore, they have no experience (or talent) for managing employees. My salary is an insult to my education, experience, and abilities. It's an insult to my contribution to the company. The way they treat me, my projects, and some of our clients is a danger to the future of the company. They're terrible bosses. They do a good job of emulating the PHB from Dilbert.
If I had to work for a company, I'd love to work for Google or Pixar. They seem to treat their employees well and appreciate (and reward) excellence.
I appreciate the advice. One of the reasons I'm confident in my company is the fact that my weaknesses are made up for by my partner, who loves business/selling and brings his own set of talents. We complement each other's abilities quite nicely.
That last part is exactly why I try hard not to procrastinate. First, I enjoy the luxury of having that extra time "just in case." Second, I never really enjoy my procrastination time when I've got the work still looming over my head.
Reminds me of a Calvin and Hobbes, something to the effect of: "I can never really enjoy Sundays. I always know that I have school the next day."
First, can you still pull that content off your Tivo/ReplayTV and put it on something else? Yes.
Second, is the time limit as long/longer than a rental? I tend to look at this service as a replacement for going to my neighborhood video rental store. Is the quality, price, rental time limit, etc. comparable? If so, and it removes the hassle of driving out to the store, plus finding a movie that's actually in stock, then it sounds like a great deal to me.
What fair use rights are being eroded when you rent a movie for the night and return it the next day?
Being a slave driver doesn't require being an idiot.
I work myself harder than any boss ever has... including 18 hour days for the last few weeks as I get my company's site up and new projects underway.
But that's a very good point... I guess I misrepresented the reason why I was going out on my own. Not to work less, but to work under my own terms (not the arbitrary ones set by my bosses) and to benefit from my work (not to make my bosses richer).
In college, I wavered between procrastination and being insanely ahead of schedule.
I find that my life is better when I beat my deadlines way ahead of time. I'd write papers as soon as they were assigned... I was taking a self-directed course where I was teaching myself some new (to me) programming languages. It was Spring semester, and in the first week I finished my entire semester's worth of work.
Which meant that I spent a lot of time studing how fast I could beat NES Super Mario Bros. Level 1-1... with varying levels of intoxication.
Seriously, though - in the working world, I find that the more ahead of schedule, the more work my bosses will pile on me. The faster I perform, the less they will quote next time. Which boils down to the better I am, the less I am paid. So now I just work slow and take my sweet ass time or get it done fast and lie about how long it's taking.
Oh, and I'm starting my own company so I won't have to put up with this shit anymore.
Slashdot Mirror
At my brother's school, someone (they think it was a student) set up a wireless access point designed to act and look like an official University AP. Unfortunately, it was NOT official - which meant that it did a great job of pulling down all the data that had gone through it. Like passwords, emails, and credit card numbers.
I understand their move, even if I don't agree with it. I just think maybe they went about it the wrong way.
My wife uses a licensed copy of XP that she bought in college. She's still a grad student, but how would they know? Are they basically looking for commonly duplicated license keys?
If you're thinking about modding this comment up, this is the part you should consider insightful: "I haven't RTFA. Maybe I should read first and comment later."
Works quite well.. now I've got to go back and rework some code! *sigh*
.jpg forces my machine to download the file as a .php document. I think it would be nice to have the option of opening it within the browser.
Just out of curiosity, did you write that source tree viewer "NASTV" app? If so, I would suggest that you let the app send filename headers when you "view" items; opening a
Nice code. Thanks for the help!
Not sure what's supposed to happen. Page appears completely empty save for the top nav and a couple of items on the right. No working links or clickable areas that I can find.
I think I understand your intent, but it looks like it's not quite working.
When I've used the display:block - display:none, Firefox simply removes the content but takes up the same space as if the DIV was still there. IE pretends the DIV went away completely. Now I realize that there are ways to hack this up, including maybe moving the DIV way off the screen, but I haven't seen an example that works in both.
The first place I ever saw it was on Microsoft's FAQ site - I also noticed that they use a completely different display method for non-IE browsers. Strange.
I'm secretly hoping that there's a way to do this that does work properly in the major browsers and that I'm just unaware of it. If you get it working, please let me know!
I always wondered about that... in Firefox .10PR (and in previous version I used) Slashdot's main content area overlaps or runs flush with the left nav. No padding, no margin, whatever. I remember reading articles on A List Apart about redoing Slashdot, which made me wonder why this was still happening.
Is this a problem with Firefox or with Slashdot?
As for Firefox taking the #1 spot, I would love to see that. There are a few things I've had difficulty achieving in Firefox that work in IE, but none of them are necessary (collapsing DIV when display set to none, for example).
One day, my boss will choke on his "we should just design for Microsoft IE and if it doesn't work in your Mozilla then maybe you shouldn't use it." Bastard.
Since the only thing that really pushes my system is gaming, and all of my games are Windows (though I could probably get some to run via Wine) I guess maybe I wasn't using Linux enough to experience that.
Upon returning the memory and getting a replacement, one of the sticks worked fine and the other still had problems. Go figure.
I saw this on Google Blog a few weeks ago and decided to try it out. Like nearly every problem I encounter, I also check Google for a solution and came up with it right quick. So I'm a little surprised it took so long to make it onto Slashdot.
Anyway, I guess I wasn't paying that close of attention during the IPO thing -
From the Wikipedia article: "In the IPO filing for Google, Inc., in 2004, rather than a typical round-number amount of money, the company announced its intention to raise $2,718,281,828, which is, of course, e billion dollars to the nearest integer."
I wonder what else might factor into that failure rate... installing a Windows Update patch (or any other software, for that matter) that requires a reboot... also, how many of those failures are due to hardware problems?
I probably restarted 50 times on XP before I figured out that the problem was my stupid discount DDR chip. I had ruled out hardware because I never had a problem in Linux. Turns out Mandrake wasn't using that part of the memory. Hmm.
You're the kind of client that I really enjoy working with.
"Work for a boss that respects your opinion - it's rather nice."
It's kind of funny you say that... I'm just about to quit my job and work full time for my own company. I'm finding it rare that a boss really understands what you do and how valuable you are.
They know that. Of course, you're going to have to explain it to a client one day and realize that when the client hears "it's not 100% secure," they will start looking for something that is. When some PR guy comes along and claims it's 100% secure, we snicker and the PR guy wins the project and gets a Porsche.
I've spent a lot of time educating clients regarding the "nature of things" as you described. However, when the client isn't at that level of interest/ability to understand/etc., I simply say "SSL is the same level of encryption that banks and credit card companies rely on . Your data will be safe." Sometimes I also use the "it would take sixty million years or so to brute force the encryption. I doubt you'll be worried about your 2004 data in sixty million years."
"It's early, and my tinfoil hat kept poking me in the head as I slept last night, I think."
You sleep wearing your tinfoil hat? I find that a tinfoil nightcap works well. I also use a tinfoil blanket on my bed, so when it gets cold I can just pull that up over my head and sleep well knowing that I'll be warm and my thoughts protected.
Huzzah! Interest has been loosed upon the internet by phyl0x, the great emancipator. No longer shall interest be bound and forced to live and work as a slave to...well...ummm....
/petpeeve
Oh, I see... It looks like you meant to use the word "losing," as in "lose, losing, lost." Good luck with that next time.
...for those of us lucky enough to live close to Chicago (I'm just over 100 miles away), we can continue to experience the wonderful long-range AM radio while we listen to Pat Hughes and Ron Santo cover the Cubs game on radio 720.
It comes in great on my car, but hardly at all on any of my other radios. Of course, there are a few spots I avoid because they kill the reception. I'll even drive five miles out of the way just to avoid that patch.
I believe he's referring to licensing fees for the hardware and software encoding/decoding.
And you demonstrate so little understanding of copyright law, your response reeks of flamebait.
"I don't buy from people who exploit me."
Now leaving Capitalism. Welcome to denial.
If you do, I've got a machete waiting just for you.
Barney.... *shudder*
In America, anyway, you're likely to face charges if the person is fleeing. That means that you shot them (even on your property, armed, and threatening you) while fleeing. It's no longer self-defense. It's murder.
The classic example is the robber that enters, gets shot by the homeowner, and drags himself outside to die. If the guy dies in the house (or maybe just on the property) then it's clearly a case of defense. If he dies outside, it can be construed that he was fleeing. Big fat gray/grey area.
IANAL, blah blah. Maybe one could shed some light on this. I'm only posting it because you seem to consider it highly unfair that he is being charged. Replies to your post seem to argue that the shopkeeper is a heartless murderer. I think it's somewhere in between, depending on all those circumstances that I don't know (because I'm going off your story alone).
Baxter? I barely even know her!
I agree with you that part of your payment is the overhead... and if Tivo and Netflix have lower costs, I expect to pay less. In fact, the only reasons they'd charge less would be 1) because there's some disadvantage to using their service or 2) people already pay $X/rental, so charging less would bring more business.
The way they'd see it is likely that we're already paying $3 or $4 a rental. So dropping it to $2 means people like me are more likely to use them. At the same time, they might consider the fact that a lower price often means less product (you get what you pay for)... and they add more restrictions.
Honestly, I think they could wipe out video/DVD rental in the next ten years if they kept prices low and limitations small. Since Netflix and Tivo are both companies that have built their businesses on a pretty risky product/service, I hope they'd do this right and we'd both win.
Not entirely sure where you're going with that, but let me pose an utterly ridiculous claim with a fairly logical conclusion:
A person works hard, benefits from his own work. By employing others, he is passing those benefits to them as well. Let's assume they're great employees and he's a great boss. They work their tails off and make the company a ton of money. He works his tail off and makes the company a ton of money. Because of their dedication, he pays them extremely well (better than that job would normally pay, but their company is thriving as a result of their work). The harder everyone works, the more everyone makes.
Now I think this is where the general idea of capitalism and socialism would diverge for most people. Realist: In a capitalist society, the boss won't pay them that well. As a result, the employees simply won't work that hard. The boss considers them dispensable and treats them as such. They realize that they won't benefit from the extra work, so they work only as hard as they need to in order to avoid being fired (Office Space). In a socialist society, it's the exact same way - the "boss" gets away with more and the employees work the minimum.
The idealist in me sees that the two are nearly the same (for this discussion, ignore the need-based component of a typical socialist framework). The harder everyone works, the more everyone benefits. Again, this assumes that the participants are benevolent and honest. That everyone gives their best and that they are rewarded for it.
So back to my situation: I am willing to give my all, work insanely hard and dedicate myself to the success of the company. I have done so in the past, but with no reward or even the promise of one it becomes harder to dedicate myself to someone else's success. Simply put, I'm not in business to make someone else rich. If that's a by-product of my success, then so be it.
My bosses are not businesspeople. They hate the business aspect. Furthermore, they have no experience (or talent) for managing employees. My salary is an insult to my education, experience, and abilities. It's an insult to my contribution to the company. The way they treat me, my projects, and some of our clients is a danger to the future of the company. They're terrible bosses. They do a good job of emulating the PHB from Dilbert.
If I had to work for a company, I'd love to work for Google or Pixar. They seem to treat their employees well and appreciate (and reward) excellence.
I appreciate the advice. One of the reasons I'm confident in my company is the fact that my weaknesses are made up for by my partner, who loves business/selling and brings his own set of talents. We complement each other's abilities quite nicely.
That last part is exactly why I try hard not to procrastinate. First, I enjoy the luxury of having that extra time "just in case." Second, I never really enjoy my procrastination time when I've got the work still looming over my head.
Reminds me of a Calvin and Hobbes, something to the effect of: "I can never really enjoy Sundays. I always know that I have school the next day."
First, can you still pull that content off your Tivo/ReplayTV and put it on something else? Yes.
Second, is the time limit as long/longer than a rental? I tend to look at this service as a replacement for going to my neighborhood video rental store. Is the quality, price, rental time limit, etc. comparable? If so, and it removes the hassle of driving out to the store, plus finding a movie that's actually in stock, then it sounds like a great deal to me.
What fair use rights are being eroded when you rent a movie for the night and return it the next day?
Being a slave driver doesn't require being an idiot.
I work myself harder than any boss ever has... including 18 hour days for the last few weeks as I get my company's site up and new projects underway.
But that's a very good point... I guess I misrepresented the reason why I was going out on my own. Not to work less, but to work under my own terms (not the arbitrary ones set by my bosses) and to benefit from my work (not to make my bosses richer).
In college, I wavered between procrastination and being insanely ahead of schedule.
I find that my life is better when I beat my deadlines way ahead of time. I'd write papers as soon as they were assigned... I was taking a self-directed course where I was teaching myself some new (to me) programming languages. It was Spring semester, and in the first week I finished my entire semester's worth of work.
Which meant that I spent a lot of time studing how fast I could beat NES Super Mario Bros. Level 1-1... with varying levels of intoxication.
Seriously, though - in the working world, I find that the more ahead of schedule, the more work my bosses will pile on me. The faster I perform, the less they will quote next time. Which boils down to the better I am, the less I am paid. So now I just work slow and take my sweet ass time or get it done fast and lie about how long it's taking.
Oh, and I'm starting my own company so I won't have to put up with this shit anymore.