It doesn't make much sense, since legally there wasn't much risk to Verizon, only politically and Public Relations wise.
If this is truely Layer2 ISP side I know here in the USA, an ISP is not under any obligation to sell its services to anyone even if they are the only L2 or L3 provider in the area, unless they had a special deal with the government forbidding anyone else to build there (ie: in the US MCI (Verizon Business) has no such deal with the government or Sprint or Level3 or Qwest, etc. Now cable companies currently do and so do telephone companies for POTS telephone service, although this is a bit muddy these days, and with VoIP this is going to change shortly. If they did have an exclusivity clause to be a layer 2 provider, then the Canadian government should step in although I did not see that stated in the article. If they don't then the Canadian people should make them. If neither of them step in then thats life, it sucks, move on. Crappy things happen, they always will, you either stand up to them or live with them.
I currently connect to the internet without a direct connection to a tier1 provider as does almost every broadband user. Officially comcast, adelphia, roadrunner and most Service providers are not Tier1 providers. There are actually very few Tier 1 providers, although alot of them claim they are Tier1. Most are Tier2 or Tier3. Verizon would have had a much harder case telling another ISP that they don't like the customers they have or if they thought any legal issues would be the responsibility of that ISP, they just wouldn't care.
I also don't count so called hosting ISPs as ISPs. If they aren't providing circuits/infrastructure you aren't an ISP in my opinion. From what I can see from Epifora's website all they do is host servers.
Now that you bring up the point that it was through a hosting ISP, I really don't get the point that this somehow put them out of business, when there are millions of hosting ISP in the world that they could have very quickly and easily moved the site to. I have at least 3 hosting ISPs that I use, and it usually only takes 72 hours of DNS propagation to move a site, not counting any administrative issues from the NIC
So either I am missing something here or they either were to dumb to know they could host elsewhere or they couldn't find anyone willing to host them, but I doubt that since there are far worse sites hosted on the internet then what they had on their site.
I am a bit confused about the story now, so maybe I will re-read it again, because if Epifora was hosting the site or providing the circiuts if they do that I am unsure how Verizon could disconnect them. The could disconnect Epifora as that is their direct customer but not someone that wasn't their customer and if they were only providing layer 2 connectivity between the ISP and and the customer I then agree that there is no legal right or worry for Verizon to disconnect the circuit as to the best of my knowledge I have never heard of any case where someone even suggested that layer2 providers should be held responsible for what gets transited on the circuits.
>>...does this mean I can sue the backbone if someone downloads my copyrighted material?
>>Fascinating..
Actually, yes you could. Whether you would be able to win or whether they would bury you in legal jargin or refer you to the TOS which says that you agreed to use it at your own risk is another issue. But there have been court cases over the years where the courts have found the ISP liable. Usually when they acted in an inconsistent manor.
This is also not the first time they have disconnected companies. This has probably happens 1000s of times a year. Usually an ISP will only react in one way as to keep it consistent. If they get N complaints about someone and they investigate and also believe that it violates their TOS or that they just not to do business with that company any longer they will terminate. It has been this way since the beginning of the Internet. Also there is no requirement that you have to be connected to a Tier1 ISP. Any ISP will do, I do find it strange that they preferred to go out of business versus using a Canadian ISP directly. I didn't see anywhere in the article that stated there were no other ISPs, which I would find very strange and backwards if it was.
>>Actually, I was told that MCI is the only tier1 provider in the Montreal area. If you could find a competition to >>the monopoly, I'd be interested to hear it.
Again there is no need to peer with a tier1. Level3 and SBC are also in Canada and transit the border.
>>Actually, all sites on the ISP were porn-free by the ISP's ToS.
>>Unfortunately, that ISP is now dead, having been shut out of business by the selection of the Tier 1 monopoly for the region.
Again, I see no reason they had to peer with a Tier 1 monopoly there are plenty of ISPs in Canada, they chose to choose one that wasn't completely under Canadian law, which I find a suspicious choice to begin with, but as I do not know all the facts here it is just a suspicion. Although, the fact that they did not get another connection makes me even more suspicious that they were using a technicality in Canadian law by using the US based company to provide their access. But again, as I know nothing of the details concerning this, all my suspicions are not worth a cent.
In the US, a business can stop doing business with you just because it doesn't feel like doing business with you. Usually businesses only do it when there is a risk of lawsuit from others or when you are just plain causing them more hassle then you are worth. If you only bring in N dollars and it cost N+1 to have you because of legal, political, or publicity then you are a liability and it is in the best interest of the company to ask you to go somewhere else. There are a few exceptions to this, like if it was racially motivated but that is usually hard to prove.
This was originally a MCI internet peering connection. This makes it part of Verizon Business, which is a 272 legal entity. Therefore, it is not subject to the common carrier ruling. General Tier1 Providers always have provided at their discretion peering with other providers usually free to other Tier1 providers and at a cost to non Tier1 providers, although the free part seems to be going away. If this provider had no other choice but to peer with Verizon Business this may be an issue but as alot of other providers have peering between the US and Canada this isn't. If they cannot get a Canadian provider to peer with them because of their content then that is their problem. Not knowing what is on their website, I am only guessing here, but since alot of porn of even US legal type is illegal in Canada, my guess is that that is why they aren't going through them.
Yes, but since the ISP side doesn't fall under the common carrier rules. Having something in you TOS that basically says we can cancel your connection giving N days notice without cause is completely legal and common business practice.
But I agree that there are usually lots of things in a TOS that are ridiculous and not enforceable.
1. You are confusing the telecom side with the isp side. There have been exemptions made for the isp side that fall outside of the rulings for the telecom 'common carrier' side provided by the govt.
2. Every customer signs a terms of service. I bet if you read the terms of service, which usually allows the provider to drop you for any or no reason, that there is an out here for Verizon.
The point of this tax is to only tax those voip services who use land lines. It is the same as when telcos tried to backhaul all their long distance calls across their backbone and circumvent charges and taxes. If you use point to point voip w/o using land lines or a service that uses land lines then you won't or shouldn't be taxed. But if you use Vonage or such who do use land lines to make calls then you will be taxed.
The only part of the argument that is weak is that Kinko's took a known copyrighted material and made a decision that although they knew they didn't have permission from the owner to copyright, that it was covered under fair use. In Googles case, Google took copyrighted material from a sight which was illegally portraying the image as their copyrighted work, and then made copies of it, which at this point is completely legal. Now if their was an obvious way or means that Google could have known it wasn't their work or if they had been notified and took no action after it was obvious(definition for a court to decide), then Google is at fault. Up until that point Google has acted in good faith.
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In America it depends where you live. If you have cable available to you the pricing and bandwidth is usually 6M/1M or 2M/768k with about 200 digital channels including all the video on demand and pay channels like HBO, HBO-EAST, west etc etc ect, Cinemax, etc. runs about $120-140 US. They could just as well offer 10M/1M but the reality is with oversubscription they would probably get into a lawsuite because only N number of users would ever be able actually achieve that. The face of the matter is if you have cable access there is only usually 100M avail to the PON and it usually will have 600 to a few 1000 users on it. The internet is about 34.99-39.99 for cable internet access. It is the cable channels that kill you they are the only game in town and you are stuck with the pricing. The places that don't have it usually are because of the cost issue. It isn't cost effective to run a fiber line down a 1 mile driveway to 1 persons house. If you live in a community where there are other houses around you usually no more than 2-6 acre lots then you will probably have cable, but if you are a mile from another house then well you probably aren't going to get it. There are alot of houses in the US that are alot more than a mile away from another house. With the new Verizon FiOS things are starting to change. 1M service is about $20. Cable, video on demand, 30M/5M Data, & voice service is about $120. Something I would be willing to pay for those speeds. Also available shortly are 50M and 70M service at a much higher cost of course. The cable is also no longer limited in the number of channels so in the long run it will be thousands of channels plus integrated phone, im, address books etc into the TV or computer. The data pricing really comes down to cost per port of the equipment and lines. The bulk of cable TV costs are price gauging and DRM.
True in standby mode this is probably true. But definitely can heat a room when playing games, considering the internal temperature of my case with case open and fan blowing in adn 10 fans in case usually runs at 120-180F depending on the intensity of the graphics.
Also not sure if not having standby works for everyone, if I didn't leave my computer on standby I would have no way of communicating with my home computer when I was away and and those who run a website on their home computers would have their website down when they weren't using it.
Yes, this is true that the life cycle is less but for most of the people out there that are using these CFs 10,000 write/erases are more than good enough. I currently use them because they are usually cheaper and still provide me with the throughput I need. I use them for photography, so if it last me 2-3 years thats all I need out of it, but I would suspect that I wouldn't use anywhere near 10,000 writes and reads. I will have burned out the camera by then and will need to get a new camera with a higher speed/more storage CF by then anyway.
It's similiar to the reason that most auto insurance companies do a credit check on you these days. In the auto insurance industry if you have bad credit the statistics prove that you are more likely to get into an accident. Some believe this is because you don't have the best equipment to avoid accidents, some believe this is because you are just not responsible. Most companies I have worked for do 2 things. Drug test (legal & insurance rates reasons) & Background investigation (previous job verification, criminal activity, and credit check). They use it to try to assess who they are hiring. If you lied about a previous job or a previous criminal history then they probably don't want to hire you, because if you can't even cover up your lies then you will never make it in management:). If your credit is bad they may not want to let you handle there money. All a bit invansive but since it is not so easy to fire someone in most states especially if the person being fired is a minority, I can't really blame them.
I agree the stolen/lost case would really be bad. Especially if you didn't realize it at first. Just to note the exact scenario I am talking about is done today with stolen cards. Alot of the companies that commit fraud online are based outside this country but alot of them are run by people inside this country. I use to know a person who used stolen credit cards to do just this scenario. Luckily he finally got caught, but not before several years of making hundreds of thousands of dollars. I am not as concerned about being reimbursed as I am about being inconvenienced by something they think is suppose to provide me more convience.
I always call for a manager if a clerk doesn't ask me for ID when using a credit card, when I have written on the back PLEASE ASK FOR ID on the back. People are too worried about making things easy, instead of secure.
Unfortunately, the truth of the matter is, no matter what we do we will always have people that will get around the system to steal your money, I would just prefer to make it harder for them, than to just have them walk past me.
The post you refer to talks about copying cards. I am talking about just using it to make charges to the card without the person knowing because they think it is safe in their pocket. You aren't unecrypting anything you are just making transactions with the persons card, just like any business would do. It takes very little to get a business account with mastercard. It takes about 24hrs to receive a unit and account from them after submitting a web form. You just need a valid business license which anyone can get quite easily by walking down to the courthouse with fake ID and a bank account number. And opening the bank account in a foreign country was just because in some foreign countries it is easier to get an account w/o proper id. You could do it in the US, almost as easily, a good fake id, passports, driver license, social security cards, shouldn't cost you more than ~$600-$2000. By the time anyone could catch on, you are changing them anyway so no biggy. People steal peoples credit cards now...produce fake id's setup bank accounts, steal money and move on to the next person. Heck online companys are setup every day that charge you for stuff you didn't buy and close down overnight. This isn't really hard to do and is done all the time. Will they eventually be caught....yeah if they keep doing it, but they aren't concerned with being caught. In the meantime you suffer the hassle.
The point I am trying to make is that it seems silly to make a card that can transact without human interaction or direct contact. At least put a pin on it or biometrics or I think someone suggested using contact leads on both sides of the card so that it only works when you connect the leads by holding it with two fingers on each side of the card.
lol, yes.
How can you prevent this? I setup a passthru company and get an account with mastercard. I have a credit card unit and randomly charge $20 to everyone as I walk down the street. How does the credit card know this is not a valid charge. I do this for a week close up shop, close the business bank account, preferably opened overseas, and start again with a new company next week.
Viola, I have a quick way to make money with very little effort.
ummm, since every card reader in every store will have to be allowed to read it, all you have to do is buy a credit card reader, very easy to do, and hook it up to a transmitter/receiver and snoop away. Send out with a lot of power and receive with a sensitive receiver. Walk down a city street and poof you got yourself some credit cards.
If he signed an IP rights contract as part of his job then he may be in violation of an IP rights contract signed with ISS and ISS can sue him. I do agree that Cisco may have no direct ability to sue him but they can sue ISS for there employee violating an agreement to supress the information for a given period of time. Which would then also allow ISS to try and recover those damages from the employee who violated there IP contract.
It is more likely that he had to sign an agreement with ISS about disclosure issues related to work at ISS to even work there. I would find it hard to believe that ISS doesn't have such a policy. If ISS and Cisco came to an agreement and he was told not to disclose the information and he did it anyway then he is violation of a contract he signed, thereby making him liable and making it very likely he will lose any lawsuit filed against him.
Not sure what you mean all 3 of my cars A/C is usually too cold to leave on high, after it cools the car off I always have to turn it down. Now my older 2 cars I admit aren't as cold as the old freon A/C's use to get but my new one I would have to say is just as cold as the old freons, which is way too cold anyway. I don't really need the inside of my car at 50F.
Wouldn't the best test to see if this was a directed at AMD or just for any non-Intel chip to set/have a chip that is set to report as neither AMD or Intel and if it works better than AMD then it is most likely illegal, but if it is the same then I wouldn't believe it wouldn't be illegal to use optimized code that you know works on your chipset and set any others to default unless the user purposely chose to use it (ie: command line flags).
I agree 100%. In the tech world trivial details really mean nothing. I think it is a good idea to ask questions but whether or not the person actually answers the question correctly isn't important.
What is important is how they handle answering things they don't know. What have they done in the past? Not what is on there resume, but what actually did they do and does that skill set indicate that they might be able to handle the job for which you are hiring. How fast do they grasp concepts of things that they don't have experience with? If it is fast, then you may not need to worry if they know everything you want them to know.
Although, you can gleem some of this from a phone conversation, I feel it is always better to be face to face. You can feel what a person is all about and who they are face to face. If you can't, then you should not be interviewing canidates for jobs.
Another biggy is, How will this person fit in with the rest of the staff? Is this person a good mesh or will they cause issues to arise in the group that would be couterproductive? Again, if you don't have the ability to feel people and know when they are bullsh*tting, then again you should not be interviewing the person for a job. Knowing how to read people is the most important skill to have if you are hiring a person. Actually, it is one of the most important skill to have in life.
End all is look at the resume's for what they are basic info. You read the jobs they had, try to interpret what exactly they have done and the range of skillsets the person may actually have. If you have questions I think a phone call is a great way to ask more about the actual experience the person says they have. Not interview, per say, but just a fact finding info. If you don't have the time to do this then you don't have the time to hire a good person, and you really don't care all that much. A hiring manager must take the time to find the right person, not just fill the slot. One bad apple can destroy an entire team.
Anway, you get the idea. Our current system is broken. We have moved away from taking the time to hire the right person and if you we aren't going to take the time to hire the right person then we have no right complaining we can't find good staff.
Hmmm...in the old days I use to have this problem alot..but these days X and everything else tend to just install properly.
In the old days it was my fault...I didn't check to see what hardware was supported or I was trying to install on some oddball proprietary hardware from HP or something.
Also these days most of the distributions I have dealt with do install with a gui and most of the time there is no real reason to go to the command prompt to do anything...although you do have to know how to use each different gui for each different OS.
Biggest problem I see is people lump all Linux flavors together...Redhat != Debian != Suse != Lindows(or whatever there name is now) etc etc etc.
Also I have recently reinstalled 3 of my windows machines and let me tell you although after install they functioned...I spent hours downloading driver after driver to get specific hardware to work right or to get the system to recognize them at all. (This was with XP and 2000).
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It doesn't make much sense, since legally there wasn't much risk to Verizon, only politically and Public Relations wise.
If this is truely Layer2 ISP side I know here in the USA, an ISP is not under any obligation to sell its services to anyone even if they are the only L2 or L3 provider in the area, unless they had a special deal with the government forbidding anyone else to build there (ie: in the US MCI (Verizon Business) has no such deal with the government or Sprint or Level3 or Qwest, etc. Now cable companies currently do and so do telephone companies for POTS telephone service, although this is a bit muddy these days, and with VoIP this is going to change shortly. If they did have an exclusivity clause to be a layer 2 provider, then the Canadian government should step in although I did not see that stated in the article. If they don't then the Canadian people should make them. If neither of them step in then thats life, it sucks, move on. Crappy things happen, they always will, you either stand up to them or live with them.
I currently connect to the internet without a direct connection to a tier1 provider as does almost every broadband user. Officially comcast, adelphia, roadrunner and most Service providers are not Tier1 providers. There are actually very few Tier 1 providers, although alot of them claim they are Tier1. Most are Tier2 or Tier3. Verizon would have had a much harder case telling another ISP that they don't like the customers they have or if they thought any legal issues would be the responsibility of that ISP, they just wouldn't care.
I also don't count so called hosting ISPs as ISPs. If they aren't providing circuits/infrastructure you aren't an ISP in my opinion. From what I can see from Epifora's website all they do is host servers.
Now that you bring up the point that it was through a hosting ISP, I really don't get the point that this somehow put them out of business, when there are millions of hosting ISP in the world that they could have very quickly and easily moved the site to. I have at least 3 hosting ISPs that I use, and it usually only takes 72 hours of DNS propagation to move a site, not counting any administrative issues from the NIC
So either I am missing something here or they either were to dumb to know they could host elsewhere or they couldn't find anyone willing to host them, but I doubt that since there are far worse sites hosted on the internet then what they had on their site.
I am a bit confused about the story now, so maybe I will re-read it again, because if Epifora was hosting the site or providing the circiuts if they do that I am unsure how Verizon could disconnect them. The could disconnect Epifora as that is their direct customer but not someone that wasn't their customer and if they were only providing layer 2 connectivity between the ISP and and the customer I then agree that there is no legal right or worry for Verizon to disconnect the circuit as to the best of my knowledge I have never heard of any case where someone even suggested that layer2 providers should be held responsible for what gets transited on the circuits.
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>>...does this mean I can sue the backbone if someone downloads my copyrighted material? >>Fascinating.. Actually, yes you could. Whether you would be able to win or whether they would bury you in legal jargin or refer you to the TOS which says that you agreed to use it at your own risk is another issue. But there have been court cases over the years where the courts have found the ISP liable. Usually when they acted in an inconsistent manor. This is also not the first time they have disconnected companies. This has probably happens 1000s of times a year. Usually an ISP will only react in one way as to keep it consistent. If they get N complaints about someone and they investigate and also believe that it violates their TOS or that they just not to do business with that company any longer they will terminate. It has been this way since the beginning of the Internet. Also there is no requirement that you have to be connected to a Tier1 ISP. Any ISP will do, I do find it strange that they preferred to go out of business versus using a Canadian ISP directly. I didn't see anywhere in the article that stated there were no other ISPs, which I would find very strange and backwards if it was. >>Actually, I was told that MCI is the only tier1 provider in the Montreal area. If you could find a competition to >>the monopoly, I'd be interested to hear it. Again there is no need to peer with a tier1. Level3 and SBC are also in Canada and transit the border. >>Actually, all sites on the ISP were porn-free by the ISP's ToS. >>Unfortunately, that ISP is now dead, having been shut out of business by the selection of the Tier 1 monopoly for the region. Again, I see no reason they had to peer with a Tier 1 monopoly there are plenty of ISPs in Canada, they chose to choose one that wasn't completely under Canadian law, which I find a suspicious choice to begin with, but as I do not know all the facts here it is just a suspicion. Although, the fact that they did not get another connection makes me even more suspicious that they were using a technicality in Canadian law by using the US based company to provide their access. But again, as I know nothing of the details concerning this, all my suspicions are not worth a cent. In the US, a business can stop doing business with you just because it doesn't feel like doing business with you. Usually businesses only do it when there is a risk of lawsuit from others or when you are just plain causing them more hassle then you are worth. If you only bring in N dollars and it cost N+1 to have you because of legal, political, or publicity then you are a liability and it is in the best interest of the company to ask you to go somewhere else. There are a few exceptions to this, like if it was racially motivated but that is usually hard to prove.
This was originally a MCI internet peering connection. This makes it part of Verizon Business, which is a 272 legal entity. Therefore, it is not subject to the common carrier ruling. General Tier1 Providers always have provided at their discretion peering with other providers usually free to other Tier1 providers and at a cost to non Tier1 providers, although the free part seems to be going away. If this provider had no other choice but to peer with Verizon Business this may be an issue but as alot of other providers have peering between the US and Canada this isn't. If they cannot get a Canadian provider to peer with them because of their content then that is their problem. Not knowing what is on their website, I am only guessing here, but since alot of porn of even US legal type is illegal in Canada, my guess is that that is why they aren't going through them.
Yes, but since the ISP side doesn't fall under the common carrier rules. Having something in you TOS that basically says we can cancel your connection giving N days notice without cause is completely legal and common business practice.
But I agree that there are usually lots of things in a TOS that are ridiculous and not enforceable.
1. You are confusing the telecom side with the isp side. There have been exemptions made for the isp side that fall outside of the rulings for the telecom 'common carrier' side provided by the govt. 2. Every customer signs a terms of service. I bet if you read the terms of service, which usually allows the provider to drop you for any or no reason, that there is an out here for Verizon.
The point of this tax is to only tax those voip services who use land lines. It is the same as when telcos tried to backhaul all their long distance calls across their backbone and circumvent charges and taxes. If you use point to point voip w/o using land lines or a service that uses land lines then you won't or shouldn't be taxed. But if you use Vonage or such who do use land lines to make calls then you will be taxed.
The only part of the argument that is weak is that Kinko's took a known copyrighted material and made a decision that although they knew they didn't have permission from the owner to copyright, that it was covered under fair use. In Googles case, Google took copyrighted material from a sight which was illegally portraying the image as their copyrighted work, and then made copies of it, which at this point is completely legal. Now if their was an obvious way or means that Google could have known it wasn't their work or if they had been notified and took no action after it was obvious(definition for a court to decide), then Google is at fault. Up until that point Google has acted in good faith.
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In America it depends where you live. If you have cable available to you the pricing and bandwidth is usually 6M/1M or 2M/768k with about 200 digital channels including all the video on demand and pay channels like HBO, HBO-EAST, west etc etc ect, Cinemax, etc. runs about $120-140 US. They could just as well offer 10M/1M but the reality is with oversubscription they would probably get into a lawsuite because only N number of users would ever be able actually achieve that. The face of the matter is if you have cable access there is only usually 100M avail to the PON and it usually will have 600 to a few 1000 users on it. The internet is about 34.99-39.99 for cable internet access. It is the cable channels that kill you they are the only game in town and you are stuck with the pricing. The places that don't have it usually are because of the cost issue. It isn't cost effective to run a fiber line down a 1 mile driveway to 1 persons house. If you live in a community where there are other houses around you usually no more than 2-6 acre lots then you will probably have cable, but if you are a mile from another house then well you probably aren't going to get it. There are alot of houses in the US that are alot more than a mile away from another house. With the new Verizon FiOS things are starting to change. 1M service is about $20. Cable, video on demand, 30M/5M Data, & voice service is about $120. Something I would be willing to pay for those speeds. Also available shortly are 50M and 70M service at a much higher cost of course. The cable is also no longer limited in the number of channels so in the long run it will be thousands of channels plus integrated phone, im, address books etc into the TV or computer. The data pricing really comes down to cost per port of the equipment and lines. The bulk of cable TV costs are price gauging and DRM.
True in standby mode this is probably true. But definitely can heat a room when playing games, considering the internal temperature of my case with case open and fan blowing in adn 10 fans in case usually runs at 120-180F depending on the intensity of the graphics. Also not sure if not having standby works for everyone, if I didn't leave my computer on standby I would have no way of communicating with my home computer when I was away and and those who run a website on their home computers would have their website down when they weren't using it.
Yes, this is true that the life cycle is less but for most of the people out there that are using these CFs 10,000 write/erases are more than good enough. I currently use them because they are usually cheaper and still provide me with the throughput I need. I use them for photography, so if it last me 2-3 years thats all I need out of it, but I would suspect that I wouldn't use anywhere near 10,000 writes and reads. I will have burned out the camera by then and will need to get a new camera with a higher speed/more storage CF by then anyway.
It's similiar to the reason that most auto insurance companies do a credit check on you these days. In the auto insurance industry if you have bad credit the statistics prove that you are more likely to get into an accident. Some believe this is because you don't have the best equipment to avoid accidents, some believe this is because you are just not responsible. Most companies I have worked for do 2 things. Drug test (legal & insurance rates reasons) & Background investigation (previous job verification, criminal activity, and credit check). They use it to try to assess who they are hiring. If you lied about a previous job or a previous criminal history then they probably don't want to hire you, because if you can't even cover up your lies then you will never make it in management :). If your credit is bad they may not want to let you handle there money. All a bit invansive but since it is not so easy to fire someone in most states especially if the person being fired is a minority, I can't really blame them.
I agree the stolen/lost case would really be bad. Especially if you didn't realize it at first. Just to note the exact scenario I am talking about is done today with stolen cards. Alot of the companies that commit fraud online are based outside this country but alot of them are run by people inside this country. I use to know a person who used stolen credit cards to do just this scenario. Luckily he finally got caught, but not before several years of making hundreds of thousands of dollars. I am not as concerned about being reimbursed as I am about being inconvenienced by something they think is suppose to provide me more convience. I always call for a manager if a clerk doesn't ask me for ID when using a credit card, when I have written on the back PLEASE ASK FOR ID on the back. People are too worried about making things easy, instead of secure. Unfortunately, the truth of the matter is, no matter what we do we will always have people that will get around the system to steal your money, I would just prefer to make it harder for them, than to just have them walk past me.
The post you refer to talks about copying cards. I am talking about just using it to make charges to the card without the person knowing because they think it is safe in their pocket. You aren't unecrypting anything you are just making transactions with the persons card, just like any business would do. It takes very little to get a business account with mastercard. It takes about 24hrs to receive a unit and account from them after submitting a web form. You just need a valid business license which anyone can get quite easily by walking down to the courthouse with fake ID and a bank account number. And opening the bank account in a foreign country was just because in some foreign countries it is easier to get an account w/o proper id. You could do it in the US, almost as easily, a good fake id, passports, driver license, social security cards, shouldn't cost you more than ~$600-$2000. By the time anyone could catch on, you are changing them anyway so no biggy. People steal peoples credit cards now...produce fake id's setup bank accounts, steal money and move on to the next person. Heck online companys are setup every day that charge you for stuff you didn't buy and close down overnight. This isn't really hard to do and is done all the time. Will they eventually be caught....yeah if they keep doing it, but they aren't concerned with being caught. In the meantime you suffer the hassle. The point I am trying to make is that it seems silly to make a card that can transact without human interaction or direct contact. At least put a pin on it or biometrics or I think someone suggested using contact leads on both sides of the card so that it only works when you connect the leads by holding it with two fingers on each side of the card.
lol, yes. How can you prevent this? I setup a passthru company and get an account with mastercard. I have a credit card unit and randomly charge $20 to everyone as I walk down the street. How does the credit card know this is not a valid charge. I do this for a week close up shop, close the business bank account, preferably opened overseas, and start again with a new company next week. Viola, I have a quick way to make money with very little effort.
ummm, since every card reader in every store will have to be allowed to read it, all you have to do is buy a credit card reader, very easy to do, and hook it up to a transmitter/receiver and snoop away. Send out with a lot of power and receive with a sensitive receiver. Walk down a city street and poof you got yourself some credit cards.
If he signed an IP rights contract as part of his job then he may be in violation of an IP rights contract signed with ISS and ISS can sue him. I do agree that Cisco may have no direct ability to sue him but they can sue ISS for there employee violating an agreement to supress the information for a given period of time. Which would then also allow ISS to try and recover those damages from the employee who violated there IP contract.
It is more likely that he had to sign an agreement with ISS about disclosure issues related to work at ISS to even work there. I would find it hard to believe that ISS doesn't have such a policy. If ISS and Cisco came to an agreement and he was told not to disclose the information and he did it anyway then he is violation of a contract he signed, thereby making him liable and making it very likely he will lose any lawsuit filed against him.
Not sure what you mean all 3 of my cars A/C is usually too cold to leave on high, after it cools the car off I always have to turn it down. Now my older 2 cars I admit aren't as cold as the old freon A/C's use to get but my new one I would have to say is just as cold as the old freons, which is way too cold anyway. I don't really need the inside of my car at 50F.
Wouldn't the best test to see if this was a directed at AMD or just for any non-Intel chip to set/have a chip that is set to report as neither AMD or Intel and if it works better than AMD then it is most likely illegal, but if it is the same then I wouldn't believe it wouldn't be illegal to use optimized code that you know works on your chipset and set any others to default unless the user purposely chose to use it (ie: command line flags).
I agree 100%. In the tech world trivial details really mean nothing. I think it is a good idea to ask questions but whether or not the person actually answers the question correctly isn't important.
What is important is how they handle answering things they don't know. What have they done in the past? Not what is on there resume, but what actually did they do and does that skill set indicate that they might be able to handle the job for which you are hiring. How fast do they grasp concepts of things that they don't have experience with? If it is fast, then you may not need to worry if they know everything you want them to know.
Although, you can gleem some of this from a phone conversation, I feel it is always better to be face to face. You can feel what a person is all about and who they are face to face. If you can't, then you should not be interviewing canidates for jobs.
Another biggy is, How will this person fit in with the rest of the staff? Is this person a good mesh or will they cause issues to arise in the group that would be couterproductive? Again, if you don't have the ability to feel people and know when they are bullsh*tting, then again you should not be interviewing the person for a job. Knowing how to read people is the most important skill to have if you are hiring a person. Actually, it is one of the most important skill to have in life.
End all is look at the resume's for what they are basic info. You read the jobs they had, try to interpret what exactly they have done and the range of skillsets the person may actually have. If you have questions I think a phone call is a great way to ask more about the actual experience the person says they have. Not interview, per say, but just a fact finding info. If you don't have the time to do this then you don't have the time to hire a good person, and you really don't care all that much. A hiring manager must take the time to find the right person, not just fill the slot. One bad apple can destroy an entire team.
Anway, you get the idea. Our current system is broken. We have moved away from taking the time to hire the right person and if you we aren't going to take the time to hire the right person then we have no right complaining we can't find good staff.
http,ftp,smtp,scp,nntp, IM, realaudio, etc etc etc etc etc... Not hard considering that pretty much all of the internet is based off of P2P.
Hmmm...in the old days I use to have this problem alot..but these days X and everything else tend to just install properly. In the old days it was my fault...I didn't check to see what hardware was supported or I was trying to install on some oddball proprietary hardware from HP or something. Also these days most of the distributions I have dealt with do install with a gui and most of the time there is no real reason to go to the command prompt to do anything...although you do have to know how to use each different gui for each different OS. Biggest problem I see is people lump all Linux flavors together...Redhat != Debian != Suse != Lindows(or whatever there name is now) etc etc etc. Also I have recently reinstalled 3 of my windows machines and let me tell you although after install they functioned...I spent hours downloading driver after driver to get specific hardware to work right or to get the system to recognize them at all. (This was with XP and 2000).
AMEN to that...heck and I wish my cable bill was $40/mth instead it is $130/mth.