The problem from what I have seen is in the attitude of the people running the websites. Their attitude tends to be that cross-site scripting doesn't directly impact their servers but only impacts the systems viewing the website. Since this doesn't have a direct impact on their server's it's not a high visibility threat to them. Their attitude towards their visitors is "We are secure but it sucks to be you."
Some have argued this is because of a reluctance to share technologies that might be co-opted for military purposes, but others say it is simply down to politics, with space the last bastion of Cold War thinking.
Does anyone really think we are in a space race with China? I know they have managed to launch a man into space but does that really make it a space race?
Jeez, sometimes I feel like I am getting squeezed on the far left by goofy loonies like Lockyer and pushed out of the picture by power hungry neocon fundies on the extreme right. What happened to the middle ground where people of reason and careful thought worked through compromise to help advance progress?*/RANT*
I feel your pain. As a conservative (Classical Liberal) I am squeezed out of the picture by the big government spending, constitutional rewriting current Republican administration. On the other hand I am scared off by the equally big government spending, federal government expanding fringe left.
Both sides want a big government to force their agenda on the citizens.
College is going to be the only time in your life that you will be around that many woman between the ages of 18 and 22. The one thing you will learn is that gravity doesn't apply to college co-ed's. Once your in your 30's and in an I.T. office surrounded by other I.T. workers you will long for your college days. Even the nerdy co-ed's look better in college. Make it last as long as you can.
Ok, good point I thought it was the earth's sun but you are correct. In this case I will say Superman wins the fight. Mainly because if Luke Skywalker can manage to cut off Vader's hand then Superman should be able to use his eyes to burn off Vader's arms. This is such a ridiculous argument yet I cannot stop thinking about it.
That would depend on where the fight takes places. If it took place in the Star Wars galaxy Darth Vader would win because Superman gets his powers from the earths sun. If here on earth Superman would win because Darth Vader would not have the power of the force. The force does not influence anything outside of the Star Wars galaxy. However, he would still have his skills with the light saber but since Superman has his powers its doubtful the lightsaber would effect him.
...like maybe $150 at the MOST - i'll stick with buying the small external USB harddrives. Ok so the hard drives are bigger, but they still fit in most of my pockets *and* I get 80 gig.... for easily less than $100.
I agree why would I want to buy something that only stores 16 gigs for over a $150? Besides what would I store on it, Music? No, I can store more than 16 gigs on my MP3 player. If I need a big portable storage for data I will spend the money on an external USB drive. The 16 gigs is to much for a flash drive right now. It won't be cheap and your better off going with an external USB drive.
It seems to be overkill for anything I normally would use a flash drive for and to small to carry music on. It's an odd duck.
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Why did you reply about relativism and skip the part about this comment below?
I agree with you that science is a better base for public policy than religion. However, your mistake was where you said "there is no god get over it." There is no scientific evidence for that statement. Effectively you were saying "my god (the absence of one) is better than your god."
It really depends on how far you're willing to take a conspiracy theory. Some people do believe that the whole "dumbness" attribute is played up to make Bush more at home with the general public (fancy!), but like I say that's more a matter of opinion than anything else.
If you have ever seen his debates when running for Texas Governor you will notice he is much more eloquent speaking than he is now. What a lot of people don't remember is that G.W.B. put a lot of work into changing his image from a privileged Yale graduate to a down home country boy from Texas. I do believe it is an act.
Dealing with the IBM rep is bad enough but now we will have to deal with them pushing their new products when I just want answers about the product I just bought from them. The only thing worse than this is when they "synergize" their sales force. I recently had a Symantec sales rep come in to discuss their Symantec Security Information Manager product and they sent a sales rep from Veritas. The only thing he could tell me was Veritas would make a great backup system. I had to tell him we already use Tivoli just tell me about the SIM product. Well you know sales people they don't take no for an answer until you kick them out the door. Well I am doing ranting.
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If you choose to make this type of career switch you better make sure you really love this field. The starting pay probably won't be good. The work hours will be demanding and the respect from business management will never shine down on you. More than likely you will not be able to pursue a project that you are passionate about only one that management wants done. Just make sure you really love this field before you make the change. Enjoying technology as a hobby is one thing doing it for a career is whole different story.
I kind of think that's the point. They know this law has no hope of standing up, since it's almost identical but *more restrictive* than COPA. I believe this is election fodder. Call them stupid, but anyone who votes against this will be called a pervert lover come next election. Think of the children...
You are so correct. This bill is nothing but red meat being thrown in to polarize the voters. It's an attempt to rally the troops without actually getting anything done. It's just like when congress proposes to make English the official language of the United States. That never gets passed but it gets thrown out there whenever Republican politicians need to rally their base. Then you have the Democrats opening a debate on an immediate withdrawal of troops from Iraq. They know no one will vote for that bill including themselves but it sure helps them center their base. It's a disgusting abuse of the legislation process by politicians on both sides of the aisle.
I have worked with both Bizflow and FileNet. Bizflow does a decent job if your looking at a small to medium size workflow that will not require a lot of transactions with change management. If this is for something like medical claims or AP/AR type stuff Bizflow will probably get the job done. However, if you are willing to spend the money FileNet is the way to go. FileNet is very robust and scalable. It is ideal for a large workflow process.
Once I used to think that MS Word would never overtake WordPerfect; that WordPerfect had too big a lead
Once I used to think that IE would never overtake Netscape; that Netscape had too much mindshare
Once I used to think that WinCE would never overtake Palm; that Palm was the perennial favorite
You took the words right off of my keyboard. I was just talking about WordPerfect yesterday with a co-worker. Whatever happened to WordPerfect? Lotus 123? It seems like MS just opened up the earth and swallowed them.
Now as far as WinCE I remember thinking there was no way Microsoft would be able to compete against the Palm OS. The WinCE OS was a major piece of junk but some how Microsoft managed to overtake the PDA market. Microsoft has the money and power to overtake any competitor out there. Not that they end up building a superior product they just manage to market their products to a point that their competitors are left former shells of themselves. Microsoft just has so much money to outspend their competitors on marketing and strong arming the market in a way their competitors cannot. (Notice I didn't say spends on R&D to develop good quality applications.) They are to the IT industry what Wal-Mart is to retail. "You will not negotiate with me you will just do as I say if you want to do business with me."
Microsoft is a massive force that if you find yourself a target of be prepared to get hit hard.
Now if Google does somehow manage to knockout Microsoft Bill is just going to go back in time to and blow up Google headquarters before they manage to successfully test traveling their first warp drive flight.
Which Virtual Server will require more patches? When you have to patch the host virtual server (VM Server or MS Virtual Server) and reboot that will be production down time for all of those virtual servers running on that host. Which do you think is going to have more patches required? VM Server or MS Virtual Server?
Or am I related to Kevin Bacon?
I do find this a very interesting topic. Now it is even possible to have your DNA tested to find what your ethnic ancestory background is. This area of research can go along way into removing a lot of racial prejudice in our society.
However, the problem isn't the idea, it's going to be the implementation costs vs. the city governments that love dishing out parking tickets and wheel boots (Pittsburgh, for instance) to make the easy revenue. I usually see no less than 4 meter maids at any given time walking down the street and watch them hover near the meters with less than 2 minutes to expire.
This may make paying your parking meter easier but it doesn't guarantee everyone will pay. You are still going to run into issues like forgetting your cell at home or the battery is dead and not having change on you. There are still going to be plenty of chances for the city to fine people for not paying. Now if this results in a less parking tickets the city will be able to lower their overhead by not needing to pay as many meter maids. Either way I think the city is going to get a profit from this.
Very true. I would be happy to pay the extra 30 cents for the convenience of not having to look for change. I never have change on me. Now what I would really like is for vending machines to take debit cards because once again I never have change on me. I am all about convenience which is the reason I pay an extra dollar for milk from Walgreens instead of going to the grocery store.
From what I have seen most guys (sorry girls too...) who are really into the MMORPG games tend to spend most of their time playing one game online. Now I know this is just anecdotal information I am going on but everyone I know who plays MMORPG gets obsessed with 1 game only (Evercrack, Dark Ages of Camelot, etc..) and usually won't play anything else until the next MMORPG comes out. I don't think these type of players will spend their time playing console games. They have no time they have to reach a higher level and find that Golden Axe. So I assume MMORPG players are not leaving the console market. I don't think they were ever really a part of it.
If there was, I'm sure Phil Mickelson would have bought it. Clearly he did not.
It's funny that you wrote that. Phil Mickelson was the person I was thinking of when I wrote about mentally choking. Phil has got the skills but he lacks that mental killer instinct.
They had at least two open goal chances. It came down to old-fashioned skills.
No matter how much technology they use the success of a game at this level will always come down to old-fashion skills. Even if the Australians had some kind of nanotechnology the game will always come down to the will to win. There isn't any technology yet that can keep someone from mentally choking.
The hackers themselves are probably not commiting the corporate espionage. They are merely traders in "Security Tools". They are like arms deals who sell to warlords. So no the hackers probably do not pull of the corporate espionage they just develop the means to do it. Which is probably the smarter thing to do.
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The problem from what I have seen is in the attitude of the people running the websites. Their attitude tends to be that cross-site scripting doesn't directly impact their servers but only impacts the systems viewing the website. Since this doesn't have a direct impact on their server's it's not a high visibility threat to them. Their attitude towards their visitors is "We are secure but it sucks to be you."
College is going to be the only time in your life that you will be around that many woman between the ages of 18 and 22. The one thing you will learn is that gravity doesn't apply to college co-ed's. Once your in your 30's and in an I.T. office surrounded by other I.T. workers you will long for your college days. Even the nerdy co-ed's look better in college. Make it last as long as you can.
Ok, good point I thought it was the earth's sun but you are correct. In this case I will say Superman wins the fight. Mainly because if Luke Skywalker can manage to cut off Vader's hand then Superman should be able to use his eyes to burn off Vader's arms. This is such a ridiculous argument yet I cannot stop thinking about it.
That would depend on where the fight takes places. If it took place in the Star Wars galaxy Darth Vader would win because Superman gets his powers from the earths sun. If here on earth Superman would win because Darth Vader would not have the power of the force. The force does not influence anything outside of the Star Wars galaxy. However, he would still have his skills with the light saber but since Superman has his powers its doubtful the lightsaber would effect him.
I agree why would I want to buy something that only stores 16 gigs for over a $150? Besides what would I store on it, Music? No, I can store more than 16 gigs on my MP3 player. If I need a big portable storage for data I will spend the money on an external USB drive. The 16 gigs is to much for a flash drive right now. It won't be cheap and your better off going with an external USB drive.
It seems to be overkill for anything I normally would use a flash drive for and to small to carry music on. It's an odd duck.
Dealing with the IBM rep is bad enough but now we will have to deal with them pushing their new products when I just want answers about the product I just bought from them. The only thing worse than this is when they "synergize" their sales force. I recently had a Symantec sales rep come in to discuss their Symantec Security Information Manager product and they sent a sales rep from Veritas. The only thing he could tell me was Veritas would make a great backup system. I had to tell him we already use Tivoli just tell me about the SIM product. Well you know sales people they don't take no for an answer until you kick them out the door. Well I am doing ranting.
If you choose to make this type of career switch you better make sure you really love this field. The starting pay probably won't be good. The work hours will be demanding and the respect from business management will never shine down on you. More than likely you will not be able to pursue a project that you are passionate about only one that management wants done. Just make sure you really love this field before you make the change. Enjoying technology as a hobby is one thing doing it for a career is whole different story.
Skype is encrypted with 256-bit AES which is pretty darn good. However, does one think that the NSA, CIA, FBI, etc.. cannot break the encryption?
I have worked with both Bizflow and FileNet. Bizflow does a decent job if your looking at a small to medium size workflow that will not require a lot of transactions with change management. If this is for something like medical claims or AP/AR type stuff Bizflow will probably get the job done. However, if you are willing to spend the money FileNet is the way to go. FileNet is very robust and scalable. It is ideal for a large workflow process.
Which Virtual Server will require more patches? When you have to patch the host virtual server (VM Server or MS Virtual Server) and reboot that will be production down time for all of those virtual servers running on that host. Which do you think is going to have more patches required? VM Server or MS Virtual Server?
Or am I related to Kevin Bacon? I do find this a very interesting topic. Now it is even possible to have your DNA tested to find what your ethnic ancestory background is. This area of research can go along way into removing a lot of racial prejudice in our society.
Very true. I would be happy to pay the extra 30 cents for the convenience of not having to look for change. I never have change on me. Now what I would really like is for vending machines to take debit cards because once again I never have change on me. I am all about convenience which is the reason I pay an extra dollar for milk from Walgreens instead of going to the grocery store.
From what I have seen most guys (sorry girls too...) who are really into the MMORPG games tend to spend most of their time playing one game online. Now I know this is just anecdotal information I am going on but everyone I know who plays MMORPG gets obsessed with 1 game only (Evercrack, Dark Ages of Camelot, etc..) and usually won't play anything else until the next MMORPG comes out. I don't think these type of players will spend their time playing console games. They have no time they have to reach a higher level and find that Golden Axe. So I assume MMORPG players are not leaving the console market. I don't think they were ever really a part of it.
The hackers themselves are probably not commiting the corporate espionage. They are merely traders in "Security Tools". They are like arms deals who sell to warlords. So no the hackers probably do not pull of the corporate espionage they just develop the means to do it. Which is probably the smarter thing to do.