Could we have done it? Sure we could have. But it would have cost us some serious money, and the corporate offices were not willing to pay for it, even if the engineers and scientists on the floor were ready for or even begging for it.
Engineers and scientists fixed that. We draw our plans up in metric. Then we ship them overseas for manufacturing. Financing comes from the offshore money parked in Ireland or the Channel Islands. American corporate offices are increasingly meaningless. They can just sell each other paper.
Bypassing all that is trivial with DNS tunneling apps
Maybe. My local coffee shop has a 1 hour free WiFi service. Just go to the service 'logon' page and acknowledge the usage rules. But you can't get around the router, even if you have an IP address. It routes traffic based on your MAC address and won't let traffic through without a visit to the 'I Agree' button. Or after your 1 hour session has expired.
I have observed numerous users pound on keys and swear at the service. One day, the shop owner asked me to put together a set of instructions that she could give to the other customers. It was a simple matter of telling people to open a browser and visit a non secure HTTP URL. The redirect wasn't working when they opened a secure site initially (like a home page of Google, Slashdot, etc.). Easy fix, but not something that was obvious to non technical savvy people even in the home town of Microsoft.
I'd venture a guess that some default security setting was probably blocking the Pyongyang airport login site. And it might be something that you'd think twice about switching off, as that would result in your device being infected by spyware. But I'd guess that even turning a phone on in North Korea would get it hosed. So you made plans to use a disposable one on your trip. And send nothing more suspicious than a "Hi Mom. I'm here" message while in that country.
I can only imagine what the Nork government are doing to her and 3 generations of her family right now because they interpret the incident to be that she caused a westerner.to see that North Korean infrastructure is anything less than perfect.
I have a fiend who used to run a primarily cash business. He could easily do $10K or $15K of sales a day. And he didn't like having that much cash on hand. So he'd send the store manager to the bank a couple times a day with a $5K deposit. Until some federal agents paid him a visit. Multiple daily deposits under the reporting limit triggered a "money laundering" investigation. Never mind that he had a legitimate business, documented his receipts and he didn't really care if the bank made the requisite reports based on his daily total receipts. It was cash and an excuse to hassle a business into cutting back on cash.
Cash has gone from legal tender to probable cause of criminal activity in this country. And in some cases, just having too much cash is a crime in and of itself. No more 'innocent until proven guilty'. The feds will just make your life hell if you look 'wrong'.
It's a bit of both, actually. There's the need to fit in to the company culture. And then there's technical ability. If you have only the former, you will run projects and climb the organizational ladder. If you have the latter, you will be the wizard, locked in the broom closet, that others come to in order to get the work done (but they'll get the credit).
One of the problems that Teledesic had to solve (not sure if they ever did) was handling the fear on the part of totalitarian governments that it's broadband service could bypass their surveillance and firewalls. How could you convince China or Comcast that you were not encroaching on their exclusive territories?
Not really. Because from my computer's point of view, both sites do much of the same thing. They set and read cookies, upload images to my cache (so visits to other sites using the same image can deduce whether I've visited before), set values in HTML5 local storage and all sorts of similar things. So if someone can come up with a characteristic specific to tracking, I can block only those pages and allow the ads that support my favorite web sites. Instead of having to block everything.
So what's the difference between an advertising site and a tracking site? And what's to stop an advertiser/tracker from throwing some more obfuscation into their system?
Slashdot Mirror
Since the OS numbers only total up to 45.15%, where did the other 54.85% come from?
Could we have done it? Sure we could have. But it would have cost us some serious money, and the corporate offices were not willing to pay for it, even if the engineers and scientists on the floor were ready for or even begging for it.
Engineers and scientists fixed that. We draw our plans up in metric. Then we ship them overseas for manufacturing. Financing comes from the offshore money parked in Ireland or the Channel Islands. American corporate offices are increasingly meaningless. They can just sell each other paper.
high roaming fees
They can go ahead and name me as a sponsor of their next missile test.
Bypassing all that is trivial with DNS tunneling apps
Maybe. My local coffee shop has a 1 hour free WiFi service. Just go to the service 'logon' page and acknowledge the usage rules. But you can't get around the router, even if you have an IP address. It routes traffic based on your MAC address and won't let traffic through without a visit to the 'I Agree' button. Or after your 1 hour session has expired.
I have observed numerous users pound on keys and swear at the service. One day, the shop owner asked me to put together a set of instructions that she could give to the other customers. It was a simple matter of telling people to open a browser and visit a non secure HTTP URL. The redirect wasn't working when they opened a secure site initially (like a home page of Google, Slashdot, etc.). Easy fix, but not something that was obvious to non technical savvy people even in the home town of Microsoft.
I'd venture a guess that some default security setting was probably blocking the Pyongyang airport login site. And it might be something that you'd think twice about switching off, as that would result in your device being infected by spyware. But I'd guess that even turning a phone on in North Korea would get it hosed. So you made plans to use a disposable one on your trip. And send nothing more suspicious than a "Hi Mom. I'm here" message while in that country.
I can only imagine what the Nork government are doing to her and 3 generations of her family right now because they interpret the incident to be that she caused a westerner.to see that North Korean infrastructure is anything less than perfect.
And why can't we do that to Comcast?
What is the optimal number of spouses?
Two. Each will think I'm with the other. While I'm actually in the shop getting some work done.
Somebody screaming at the top of their lungs might be noticeable.
Not at a few companies I've seen.
What about Santa Claus? Only one polar flight per year. And he spends the rest of his time as a mercenary fighting in Somalia.
Unless you run to the bank daily,
This is a major issue.
I have a fiend who used to run a primarily cash business. He could easily do $10K or $15K of sales a day. And he didn't like having that much cash on hand. So he'd send the store manager to the bank a couple times a day with a $5K deposit. Until some federal agents paid him a visit. Multiple daily deposits under the reporting limit triggered a "money laundering" investigation. Never mind that he had a legitimate business, documented his receipts and he didn't really care if the bank made the requisite reports based on his daily total receipts. It was cash and an excuse to hassle a business into cutting back on cash.
Cash has gone from legal tender to probable cause of criminal activity in this country. And in some cases, just having too much cash is a crime in and of itself. No more 'innocent until proven guilty'. The feds will just make your life hell if you look 'wrong'.
911 will still get you the ambulance straight to ER
Not for long.
armored cars, theft, counting, sorting, supervising and paying extra wages for less untrustworthy cashiers and managers.
Welcome to New York.
People from New York City are erudite and cosmopolitan
My sides! Please stop!
Why do Americans use credit cards instead of debit cards?
Better protection against losses. Rewards points. Maintain a good credit score (if you pay them off).
Well, he is upper management.
QED.
But she can operate a spell checker.
It's a bit of both, actually. There's the need to fit in to the company culture. And then there's technical ability. If you have only the former, you will run projects and climb the organizational ladder. If you have the latter, you will be the wizard, locked in the broom closet, that others come to in order to get the work done (but they'll get the credit).
Not reading it is even better. Just blindly hit 'Post'.
One of the problems that Teledesic had to solve (not sure if they ever did) was handling the fear on the part of totalitarian governments that it's broadband service could bypass their surveillance and firewalls. How could you convince China or Comcast that you were not encroaching on their exclusive territories?
Does this help?
Not really. Because from my computer's point of view, both sites do much of the same thing. They set and read cookies, upload images to my cache (so visits to other sites using the same image can deduce whether I've visited before), set values in HTML5 local storage and all sorts of similar things. So if someone can come up with a characteristic specific to tracking, I can block only those pages and allow the ads that support my favorite web sites. Instead of having to block everything.
So what's the difference between an advertising site and a tracking site? And what's to stop an advertiser/tracker from throwing some more obfuscation into their system?
Who is General Failure and what is he doing reading my hard drive?
I thought this was going to be an article about how easy it is to break all those Harbor Freight tools made out of Chineseum.