Every so often I look at one, and since I only see the raw HTML, it's easy to see that the images and whatnot are all being pulled from the real company site, except for the "login" link which goes to some mysterious dotted quad address.
Some companies allow outside contracting companies to send the email and service the customers from their sites. A couple of months ago, I received an email on behalf of some AT&T entity (Universal Card, I think) I do business with that met one of my tests for a phishing scam: URLs to domains having nothing to do with the firm supposedly sending the email. When I "emailed" on a complaint form (from a known good site), they said the email in question was legitimate and pretty much sidestepped my complaint that such emails should come from their own servers and point to their own servers, and that they ought to be digitally signing the emails.
This is why I don't trust email for such stuff and won't agree to terms that make email an official point of contact.
I think it depends on how you kill it. At least it's not the hip joint, or chitterlings.
But seriously, I think you have to eat the item for the rules of kashrut to come into play. I'm sure you'll find at least two or three dissenting opinions.
OTOH, given the historical mechanical reliability of Italian mass-market cars,
the security and stability of Windows will fit right in.
It's not just reliability that made Fiat so infamous. I remember an incident in which an opossum took out a Fiat. The car struck the opossum, and the oil filter was so poorly placed that the animal's body ruptured it. The oil light came on, and it was all over.
gaim doesn't log all my conversations from all networks and store that information in one spot so that my boss can watch what I am sending across the networks.
I don't see this as a replacement for gaim. It sounds to me like it's intended for the corporate environment where secure messaging is needed, but also accountability. In some environments, you need tracking (or the perception of tracking) to keep people honest, even if you are already pretty sure they are honest. I agree, though, that I don't like seeing Microsoft becoming the purveyor of all "secure" instant messaging. I'm sure they will make it a pain in the neck to support under Linux.
If I understand Ayn Rand's philosophy correctly, a vendor may make the terms of the contract any way he wants them to be, and if the buyer accepts them (even having no other choice), the vendor is entitled to enforce the terms of the contract.
If I understand DMCA, it is to help vendors enforce the terms of their contracts with regard to intellectual property, and to make criminals of people who do not respect this property right.
Therefore, I should more expect to see Rand quoted in defense of DMCA than in opposition to it.
I agree with the court. Enforce the law to the fullest. That is the only way people will see it for what it is.
The best way to get a broken system fixed is to use it. The best way to perpetrate a broken system is to do an end run around it.
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The financial incentive was there before 9/11. Several years ago, a college friend who has a B.S. in mechanical engineering let slip the amount of her naval officer's pay. It was about 2/3 what I was getting in private industry with a liberal arts degree. Knowing her personality, she wasn't in it for the money, but out of dedication to the U.S.
It really bugs me that our military personnel get the short end of the stick, financially, when they face risks most of us do not. (After all, did YOUR boss decide to invade Iraq?) I've heard that U.S. soldiers returning from Iraq on leave are responsible for paying their own transportation from wherever the military drops them when they hit the ground. IMHO, they deserve a first class ticket from there back to their families.
Best Buy has been on my dirt list ever since they had the police arrest some guy who was collecting price information (for publication on his web site) in their store in Reston, Virginia, 4-5 years ago. Sure, it's their right to tell him not to come onto their property, but if they're going to prevent people from comparison shopping, they're going to the bottom of my list.
In some environments, making you check your USB watch is perfectly reasonable.
What I find amusing, though, is my own employer's sudden discovery of camera-equipped cell phones. Now, every facility has a sign posted at the door saying no cameras are allowed on premises, and my work group, which generates documentation among other things, can't bring in a camera to use for creating illustrations of equipment. (No one has the intestinal fortitude to seek an exemption for this purpose.) Meanwhile, the employees are allowed to come and go with their cell phones, and no one checks the phones, or their bags, or anything else.
Of course, we all underwent background investigations before we were hired, so one might think maybe we could be trusted not to take pictures of sensitive documents, etc. After all, this office has copiers which are unmonitored, where it would be far simpler and less obtrusive to make bootleg copies.
As Bruce Schneier says, some security counter measures are simply to provide the illusion of security.
1989 VW Golf is rated for 23 city, 28 hwy, 25 combined. It's a basic model, with a straight drive. When I used to drive it almost exclusively on the highway, I could count on 32 MPG, even with bikes on the roof. Now it hauls me 3 miles to the park and ride and rarely gets out of 3rd gear; I get around 25 MPG in the winter months and closer to 30 in the summer.
1998 Ford Windstar is rated for 17 city, 24 hwy, and 20 combined. It is used almost exclusively for long trips, does most of them with 3-4 bikes on the roof, and consistently turns in 22 mpg.
Two bikes on the roof cost me about a 10% penalty when I calculated it on a previous automobile. I believe that I am a pretty conservative driver. I usually accelerate slowly and tend not to use the brakes very much. (For example, the VW, with 130-140,000 miles on it, is still running its second set of pads and passed Virginia's safety inspection, where they pull two wheels and look at them, earlier this month.)
CAPS LOCK has been around a while, in the form of SHIFT LOCK, which was on the Underwood I learned to type on. (That Underwood, by the way, was older than my dad, who is moving from old-fartdom to geezerhood.) IMHO, CAPS LOCK is a vast improvement; at least with CAPS LOCK, you don't get the punctuation marks when you type a number.
My only complaint is that he didn't give us an "Any" key, so I am never able to continue.
This is a good point, but the question then arises of whether the information is transmitted from the heart to the monitor, or whether the information is simply being transmitted from the skin to the monitor. And is the pulsing of the heart comparable to much more complex data?
I wonder what kind of interference there will be between this and pacemakers or cochlear implants. (Or are cochlear implants oblivious to the body's electrical currents?)
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I'll give five bucks to put Darl McBride on the first flight.
Oh, all right. I'll get something. Let me see if the bum on the park bench will sell me his T-shirt.
Every so often I look at one, and since I only see the raw HTML, it's easy to see that the images and whatnot are all being pulled from the real company site, except for the "login" link which goes to some mysterious dotted quad address.
Some companies allow outside contracting companies to send the email and service the customers from their sites. A couple of months ago, I received an email on behalf of some AT&T entity (Universal Card, I think) I do business with that met one of my tests for a phishing scam: URLs to domains having nothing to do with the firm supposedly sending the email. When I "emailed" on a complaint form (from a known good site), they said the email in question was legitimate and pretty much sidestepped my complaint that such emails should come from their own servers and point to their own servers, and that they ought to be digitally signing the emails.
This is why I don't trust email for such stuff and won't agree to terms that make email an official point of contact.
For those of you using lynx: it's a segway with huge spiked tires on a sled hitched to the back of a Hummer H2. Go figure. ;)
I could get into that concept if you would take away the sled.
... will they find WMD? Or my missing socks?
I think it depends on how you kill it. At least it's not the hip joint, or chitterlings.
But seriously, I think you have to eat the item for the rules of kashrut to come into play. I'm sure you'll find at least two or three dissenting opinions.
Does this mean that in addition to having some script kiddie scramble my storage, I'm going to have to worry about mad cow disease, too?
Forget it, I'm becoming a vegetarian again!
OTOH, given the historical mechanical reliability of Italian mass-market cars, the security and stability of Windows will fit right in.
It's not just reliability that made Fiat so infamous. I remember an incident in which an opossum took out a Fiat. The car struck the opossum, and the oil filter was so poorly placed that the animal's body ruptured it. The oil light came on, and it was all over.
That's not bad mechanics, that's poor design!
gaim doesn't log all my conversations from all networks and store that information in one spot so that my boss can watch what I am sending across the networks.
I don't see this as a replacement for gaim. It sounds to me like it's intended for the corporate environment where secure messaging is needed, but also accountability. In some environments, you need tracking (or the perception of tracking) to keep people honest, even if you are already pretty sure they are honest. I agree, though, that I don't like seeing Microsoft becoming the purveyor of all "secure" instant messaging. I'm sure they will make it a pain in the neck to support under Linux.
If I understand Ayn Rand's philosophy correctly, a vendor may make the terms of the contract any way he wants them to be, and if the buyer accepts them (even having no other choice), the vendor is entitled to enforce the terms of the contract.
If I understand DMCA, it is to help vendors enforce the terms of their contracts with regard to intellectual property, and to make criminals of people who do not respect this property right.
Therefore, I should more expect to see Rand quoted in defense of DMCA than in opposition to it.
I agree with the court. Enforce the law to the fullest. That is the only way people will see it for what it is.
The best way to get a broken system fixed is to use it. The best way to perpetrate a broken system is to do an end run around it.
The financial incentive was there before 9/11. Several years ago, a college friend who has a B.S. in mechanical engineering let slip the amount of her naval officer's pay. It was about 2/3 what I was getting in private industry with a liberal arts degree. Knowing her personality, she wasn't in it for the money, but out of dedication to the U.S.
It really bugs me that our military personnel get the short end of the stick, financially, when they face risks most of us do not. (After all, did YOUR boss decide to invade Iraq?) I've heard that U.S. soldiers returning from Iraq on leave are responsible for paying their own transportation from wherever the military drops them when they hit the ground. IMHO, they deserve a first class ticket from there back to their families.
. . . and my wife wrote his sonnets!
Best Buy has been on my dirt list ever since they had the police arrest some guy who was collecting price information (for publication on his web site) in their store in Reston, Virginia, 4-5 years ago. Sure, it's their right to tell him not to come onto their property, but if they're going to prevent people from comparison shopping, they're going to the bottom of my list.
What I find amusing, though, is my own employer's sudden discovery of camera-equipped cell phones. Now, every facility has a sign posted at the door saying no cameras are allowed on premises, and my work group, which generates documentation among other things, can't bring in a camera to use for creating illustrations of equipment. (No one has the intestinal fortitude to seek an exemption for this purpose.) Meanwhile, the employees are allowed to come and go with their cell phones, and no one checks the phones, or their bags, or anything else.
Of course, we all underwent background investigations before we were hired, so one might think maybe we could be trusted not to take pictures of sensitive documents, etc. After all, this office has copiers which are unmonitored, where it would be far simpler and less obtrusive to make bootleg copies.
As Bruce Schneier says, some security counter measures are simply to provide the illusion of security.
...for the disavowal that comes out after Tom Ridge is taken to the wood shed.
I was thinking that hammering a railroad spike through the motherboard would do it.
and... uhm... slashdot...
No way am I letting my kid read slashdot. She'll think I'm a moron.
Wait.... Too late. She already figured it out.
The last thing I want is some moron rushing through a $3000 laptop repair, losing parts and breaking things in the process!
Me, either! I prefer to break it myself, slowly and with utmost care.
FWIW, UPS has never bollixed any of my shipments. <disclosure>I own a small amount of UPS stock</disclosure> because they're so good at what they do.
Two bikes on the roof cost me about a 10% penalty when I calculated it on a previous automobile. I believe that I am a pretty conservative driver. I usually accelerate slowly and tend not to use the brakes very much. (For example, the VW, with 130-140,000 miles on it, is still running its second set of pads and passed Virginia's safety inspection, where they pull two wheels and look at them, earlier this month.)
450w / 746 = 0.6 hp
Granted, that's more horsepower than my table saw, but only just barely.
CAPS LOCK has been around a while, in the form of SHIFT LOCK, which was on the Underwood I learned to type on. (That Underwood, by the way, was older than my dad, who is moving from old-fartdom to geezerhood.) IMHO, CAPS LOCK is a vast improvement; at least with CAPS LOCK, you don't get the punctuation marks when you type a number.
My only complaint is that he didn't give us an "Any" key, so I am never able to continue.
... that he knows I'm a bull!
RMS == Richard Stallings?
I wonder what kind of interference there will be between this and pacemakers or cochlear implants. (Or are cochlear implants oblivious to the body's electrical currents?)