No it isn't - GMail lost 40-50 of my e-mails, and said they could basically do nothing about it. So much for storing all data!
Now, all of my GMail accounts get periodically - every 5-15 min. - fetchmailed to my backup server. And I find myself using GMail less and less now since it's easier to just fire up Thunderbird, pull POP off the backup server (my laptop automatically opens an SSH tunnel to my office network) and be able to read/write messages without waiting for a web site to update.
And GMail's POP implementation is horribly broken for use with more than one client. Recent mode is great, but not if you haven't used a given client for > 30 days. Give us a "normal" POP3 option, please, GMail!
I do too, but I have to admit that I'm very worried about how catastrophic it would be if my gmail account were accidentally deleted or compromised.
I have a fetchmail process that fetches mail from GMail automatically every 15 min, and GMail is set not to delete fetched messages from the server (the client MUST flush them to download more than the first approx. 400 messages). Why not just forward? -- then you don't get all the messages that you *sent* from GMail AFAIK.
But I still use my own mail server for sensitive client communications, etc. Not comfortable with keeping those on a public server, encrypted or not (and most of my clients wouldn't know HOW to encrypt mail...)
In October 2001, I was at a university concert in a certain small town in Pennsylvania, put on as a benefit to the Red Cross/9-11 victims. The cops came in and busted the show on a noise complaint. One of the cops, who was notorious in the town for handing out unjustified traffic tickets and being a general scumbag backhanded a girl who wasn't doing anything wrong in the face.
As everyone was walking out, I talked to the asshole and said "You fucking pig, shouldn't you be helping in NYC, not fucking harassing innocent students who are trying to make a difference?" I got arrested, charged with felony riot, disobeying a peace officer, summary harassment, and disorderly conduct. The two most serious charges (riot and disobeying...) were dropped the next day. The two other ones, I plead no contest to in exchange for 48 hrs. community service and a year's probation with the informal understanding that I leave the state after graduating that spring and completing the 48 hrs. In retrospect, I should have fought it and plead not guilty, but I was young, naive, and had a stupid attorney.
Anyway, after two years, my record was expunged. However, the original newspaper article; written before I was interviewed but NOT before the police chief was interviewed, remained the first thing that appeared under a Google search of my name for another year or two. Was kind of interesting to explain when I was interviewing for jobs!
For some reason, this no longer appears at all when you search for my name (I think the campus and local newspapers have put up a robots.txt file, and, anyway, there's more recent stuff by me and my business website on the web).
One other proof of this is that all of the unfortunate flights on 9/11/2001 had callers calling loved ones, etc. I'm not a tin foil hat kind of person, but if GSM didn't work, do you think the Gov't made it all up???
Were the phones used on 9/11 even GSM? Not sure if GSM was even used in the USA in 2001 - in fact, they may have been analogue (AMPS) phones that have a theoretical range of something like 10 miles.
There's a difference between altitude above ground level and above sea level. Presumably, the cell tower is located at some non-zero altitude above sea level, so the altitude difference may well be less than ~2000ft.
1-I doubt business class service has this problem (You know? The service that most 'cheapskate' abusers usually don't have.)
A lot of businesses that I consult for don't have "business" service for their employees. Besides, what happens when an employee goes away for a week to his sister's place and can't get on his work network...? Actually, even I don't have business service at my home-office (which contains a mail backup server), but Verizon is nice enough not to even block port 25.
... which is exactly what businesses want. This whole "interactivity" thing is mighty inconvenient.
I wish that Slashdotters would stop their blanket bashing of "businesses." Yes, large corps. are often sterile and intransigent, and use unfair means to compete. But most businesses in the US are still pretty small, and (like my IT/soon-to-be-engineering-design) business, are just owned by working Joes out to make a decent living for themselves without the annoyances of working for someone else. And, believe me, it's hard work; though rewarding at the end of the day.
Besides, what about their employees? It would be mighty inconvenient if sales employees couldn't work from the road, etc.
Well, there is Outlook Web Access (Exchange webmail) which easily runs over SSL.
That's encrypted, so won't it be throttled, too? And OWA is slow as hell on the best of days - I hate to think how bad it would be if throttled.
And if you're using outlook 2003 or later with exchange 2003 or later, you can use RPC-over-HTTPS to connect using SSL to connect with strong encryption without a VPN.
Does this require a key from the employer, or does it use a key-transfer protocol like SSH? If it's the latter, it's only as strong as the weakest password chosen by an employee. Much better to channel all traffic over something like OpenVPN and set up long keys for each client computer - essentially, make the comp with the key on it a "dongle" in addition to the usual password protection.
This is offtopic, and no relation to the devs, but OpenVPN rocks! Almost painless to set up compared to anything else, fast as hell, infinitely configurable, and can run over a single open UDP port. All in all, a beautiful little piece of software.
My ISP seems to simply cut off the connection until midnight if you download more than (right around) 5 gig a day or something like 20 gig in a week.
That's evil - why not just gradually throttle back to 128kbps as your download amount approaches some cap? Disconnecting people's 'net connections which they may need for work or even phone service == not good!
Windows PPTP connections are, by default, set up server-side to send ALL of the user's traffic via the tunnel - not just traffic to the employer's subnet. So this is going to be a lot of fun - if you're on the VPN, you'll need to log off just to pull up a web site or whatever.
Is it in english (or other recognizable language) or does it look like KLSDUI(K*$FVGK)kjsd73fl)&*43TO#8G
Bit more complex than that, since unencrypted graphics files DO look like your example above. Next thing will be SSL that runs over port 80 and makes it look like you're sending a bunch of.jpgs back and forth.
Even the largest blasting cap developed wouldn't compare to the energy of a ton of dynamite. This is "setting off" an explosion, not a comparable event.
Gases involved during a burn are already easily detectable, they do it for stars with prisms, and I am fairly certain that gun powder would have a specific signature. If not a marker gas could easily be added.
That would be assuming that the burn isn't in a covered area, it isn't cloudy, etc. Also, things other than guns use gunpowder. Explosive-powered nail guns for only one possible example.
Or are their phones just programmed not to allow the running of 3rd party applications? The article seems to imply that phones not bought from T-Mobile will allow running of 3rd-party apps - so it's not a network issue, it's just that the phones that they provide with their plans are locked down tight. Probably hackable. Besides, there are many places where you can buy unlocked GSM phones if you're willing to pay for your phone rather than getting it "free with contract."
I've haven't heard of anyone else offering to unlock phones just by requesting them to.
Actually, once your contract finishes and you move to a month-to-month plan, the phone is legally yours. If you request it, the carrier is legally obligated to give you an unlock code.
Think about it, if the cameras are trusted to interpret what they see, then security guards stop being employed and noone is watching the video screens.
Well, they'll act as a filter for the security guards, anyway. A filter can be a blinder as well as an aid to the guards and cops, since if the behavior of the cameras becomes known, perps will learn to act in ways that are ignored by the cameras.
But the joke's partly on them, one of them was waiting to be junked, brakes shot, chain twisted, chainrings bent, tyres bald, bottom bracket does a very loud SKREEEEEEEE sound when you try and pedal and it weighed half a ton.
Heh. That might be the best security - leave an obvious bike that's somehow dangerous for the yobs to steal and put the GOOD bikes somewhere else. Then just look at hospital records for someone who pranged face first into a lamppost.
I want to know how far out it is until we start seeing this type of technology like this on satellites. Imagine the government being able to watch a whole city from space for gun shots.
I assume (hope) that you're joking! How are you going to detect sound in the vacuum of space? "In space, no one can hear you scream."
Except that video detection has problems with light changing conditions and are not AS reliable as loop detectors.
Loop detectors are unreliable when dealing with small vehicles and bicycles, too, especially if not kept in tune. BTW, what about other motion sensing technology combined with visible-range cameras? Maybe ultrasonic or infrared sensors for dark times.
The problem was that the intersection didn't have a crosswalk button so someone on a bike would be out of luck, especially at 5am going to work
Even *with* a crosswalk button, it would be a PITA for an undetected motorcyclist. Stop engine. Get off bike. Run to light. Press button. Restart. Move off. Hope that some sleep-addled caffeine-deficient cager hasn't come and smashed your bike in the meantime:)
We already have traffic lights that respond to motion / induction loops in the ground in the UK, surely this started state-side?
Induction loops suck. 95% of them aren't tuned to be sensitive enough to detect bikers (either the motorized or the human-powered variety). Bring on the cameras, please!
I could be wrong but can't you vote the current "king" out of office?
Certainly. But we're stuck with him for another 2 years before the next election. Personally, I'd prefer if there was a constitutional provision for popular recall (or vote of no-confidence) of a president, but, sadly, without a Congressional impeachment, there's no way to get the guy out NOW, rather than letting him do more damage over the next two years.
BUT, I am still obligated to pay 15.3% in SE tax. So, on that $5000 amount, that's a $750 bite. If I earned that same amount working a p/t "job," I would be home-free.
Um, no, you'd still have to pay half of that amount in social security taxes. The other half would be paid by your employer. Self-employment tax is just your and your employer's (yours again) half of the social security taxes. With a "normal" job, it still needs to be paid - you just don't see half of it.
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No it isn't - GMail lost 40-50 of my e-mails, and said they could basically do nothing about it. So much for storing all data!
Now, all of my GMail accounts get periodically - every 5-15 min. - fetchmailed to my backup server. And I find myself using GMail less and less now since it's easier to just fire up Thunderbird, pull POP off the backup server (my laptop automatically opens an SSH tunnel to my office network) and be able to read/write messages without waiting for a web site to update.
And GMail's POP implementation is horribly broken for use with more than one client. Recent mode is great, but not if you haven't used a given client for > 30 days. Give us a "normal" POP3 option, please, GMail!
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I have a fetchmail process that fetches mail from GMail automatically every 15 min, and GMail is set not to delete fetched messages from the server (the client MUST flush them to download more than the first approx. 400 messages). Why not just forward? -- then you don't get all the messages that you *sent* from GMail AFAIK.
But I still use my own mail server for sensitive client communications, etc. Not comfortable with keeping those on a public server, encrypted or not (and most of my clients wouldn't know HOW to encrypt mail...)
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As everyone was walking out, I talked to the asshole and said "You fucking pig, shouldn't you be helping in NYC, not fucking harassing innocent students who are trying to make a difference?" I got arrested, charged with felony riot, disobeying a peace officer, summary harassment, and disorderly conduct. The two most serious charges (riot and disobeying...) were dropped the next day. The two other ones, I plead no contest to in exchange for 48 hrs. community service and a year's probation with the informal understanding that I leave the state after graduating that spring and completing the 48 hrs. In retrospect, I should have fought it and plead not guilty, but I was young, naive, and had a stupid attorney.
Anyway, after two years, my record was expunged. However, the original newspaper article; written before I was interviewed but NOT before the police chief was interviewed, remained the first thing that appeared under a Google search of my name for another year or two. Was kind of interesting to explain when I was interviewing for jobs!
For some reason, this no longer appears at all when you search for my name (I think the campus and local newspapers have put up a robots.txt file, and, anyway, there's more recent stuff by me and my business website on the web).
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Were the phones used on 9/11 even GSM? Not sure if GSM was even used in the USA in 2001 - in fact, they may have been analogue (AMPS) phones that have a theoretical range of something like 10 miles.
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A lot of businesses that I consult for don't have "business" service for their employees. Besides, what happens when an employee goes away for a week to his sister's place and can't get on his work network...? Actually, even I don't have business service at my home-office (which contains a mail backup server), but Verizon is nice enough not to even block port 25.
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I wish that Slashdotters would stop their blanket bashing of "businesses." Yes, large corps. are often sterile and intransigent, and use unfair means to compete. But most businesses in the US are still pretty small, and (like my IT/soon-to-be-engineering-design) business, are just owned by working Joes out to make a decent living for themselves without the annoyances of working for someone else. And, believe me, it's hard work; though rewarding at the end of the day.
Besides, what about their employees? It would be mighty inconvenient if sales employees couldn't work from the road, etc.
Regards,
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How about "emasculation?"
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That's encrypted, so won't it be throttled, too? And OWA is slow as hell on the best of days - I hate to think how bad it would be if throttled.
And if you're using outlook 2003 or later with exchange 2003 or later, you can use RPC-over-HTTPS to connect using SSL to connect with strong encryption without a VPN.
Does this require a key from the employer, or does it use a key-transfer protocol like SSH? If it's the latter, it's only as strong as the weakest password chosen by an employee. Much better to channel all traffic over something like OpenVPN and set up long keys for each client computer - essentially, make the comp with the key on it a "dongle" in addition to the usual password protection.
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That's evil - why not just gradually throttle back to 128kbps as your download amount approaches some cap? Disconnecting people's 'net connections which they may need for work or even phone service == not good!
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Bit more complex than that, since unencrypted graphics files DO look like your example above. Next thing will be SSL that runs over port 80 and makes it look like you're sending a bunch of
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That would be assuming that the burn isn't in a covered area, it isn't cloudy, etc. Also, things other than guns use gunpowder. Explosive-powered nail guns for only one possible example.
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Best,
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Actually, once your contract finishes and you move to a month-to-month plan, the phone is legally yours. If you request it, the carrier is legally obligated to give you an unlock code.
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Well, they'll act as a filter for the security guards, anyway. A filter can be a blinder as well as an aid to the guards and cops, since if the behavior of the cameras becomes known, perps will learn to act in ways that are ignored by the cameras.
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Heh. That might be the best security - leave an obvious bike that's somehow dangerous for the yobs to steal and put the GOOD bikes somewhere else. Then just look at hospital records for someone who pranged face first into a lamppost.
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I assume (hope) that you're joking! How are you going to detect sound in the vacuum of space? "In space, no one can hear you scream."
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Loop detectors are unreliable when dealing with small vehicles and bicycles, too, especially if not kept in tune. BTW, what about other motion sensing technology combined with visible-range cameras? Maybe ultrasonic or infrared sensors for dark times.
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Even *with* a crosswalk button, it would be a PITA for an undetected motorcyclist. Stop engine. Get off bike. Run to light. Press button. Restart. Move off. Hope that some sleep-addled caffeine-deficient cager hasn't come and smashed your bike in the meantime :)
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Induction loops suck. 95% of them aren't tuned to be sensitive enough to detect bikers (either the motorized or the human-powered variety). Bring on the cameras, please!
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Certainly. But we're stuck with him for another 2 years before the next election. Personally, I'd prefer if there was a constitutional provision for popular recall (or vote of no-confidence) of a president, but, sadly, without a Congressional impeachment, there's no way to get the guy out NOW, rather than letting him do more damage over the next two years.
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Um, no, you'd still have to pay half of that amount in social security taxes. The other half would be paid by your employer. Self-employment tax is just your and your employer's (yours again) half of the social security taxes. With a "normal" job, it still needs to be paid - you just don't see half of it.
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