1) Carry a laptop 2) ssh into your home server, or use HTTPS for webmail.
Using your own laptop means nobody is keylogging you, unless they get access to your machine, in which case you're screwed anyway. Sticking to SSH or HTTPS means you're not sending anything worthwhile unencrypted up the pipe.
Also, you'd be amazed at the number of compromised terminals at universities and colleges, too. Better warn your kids before they go off to college not to do any financial transactions, etc., from them, no matter if school policy is to run antivirus and spybot killers. Those are no match for good old fashioned hardware keyloggers, assuming they even use the latest updated programs to check.
Your explanation makes sense. On the other hand, if you get takeout from a restaurant, they don't discount the food, but you don't have a social obligation to tip them. I'm sure these drivers will expect tips.:) So this ends up costing about as much as going to the restaurant, eating the meal there, and tipping the waiter.
I order pizza online (Pizza Hut, it's pretty crappy, but they have free pizzas when you belong to their club and buy stuff, and who doesn't love free food, even if it's crap?), but I pick it up. I'm ordering it online because it's convenient and I'm cheap. I don't want to talk to a delivery guy, have him know where I live, and have to tip him.
Something like US$1.05T? That's why I said our grandkids. Especially after Federal Reserve Governor Edward Gramlich said we can't grow out of our deficit spending. Guess what's left? Raising taxes and/or cutting services. You know the lobbyists won't let them cut much from the military funding. I guess when they stop raiding the Social Security funds, they'll go after Medicare/Medicaid next, then hospitals, schools, roads... oh, wait, they already are. Won't be much left for the surviving soldiers to come home to. Certainly not good jobs or the good health care and benefits they were promised when they signed up.
you will still have to pay US taxes on income you earn outside the USA, even if you become a full-time resident of another country.
That, plus the taxes your host country will most likely make you pay, is a strong monetary disincentive to leave, or at least to leave but continue to be a US citizen.
Are you going to learn how to be a sysadmin and network admin on the clock? Reading a book won't be enough. You'll need plenty of time, especially if you want to effectively secure your hosts and your network. My guess is he's not willing to pay for your time, especially not while your projects stall in the meantime.
There are consultants that just do setups. If he wants it done right, but is too cheap to hire a full or part time guy for just the servers and network, he needs to look at this as the next-best solution. At least, if they screw up, they can be held responsible. And then, as needed, either you or someone else can make minor modifications as situations warrant. Do you want to get blamed if the book you got and the weekend of cramming wasn't thorough enough to stop a scriptkiddie from 0wning j00r cvs server and erasing it, or worse, a competitor rootkitting it and installing a backdoor so they can watch your progress, maybe change some data, a couple months down the road while you're too busy on a real project to track vulnerabilities and new attack types in the 24 minutes a week allotted to this? (less than 5 minutes a day... can you even get through your email that quickly?)
Oh, and I'd say, get your resume ready. If he starts having more unrealistic expectations of his staff, you should probably look to go elsewhere.
...is that it's a rental from Apple. They want the developer box back in 2006. They don't want you to think this is representative of hardware they're going to put in production machines, as far as performance, etc. Which is odd, because developers can't optimize until they know the platform, but that's the way it is. I'm guessing they're just having these out until they can come out with the first production model, and then everyone should build off that.
I really don't think that numbers generated from XBench running on Rosetta running on a developer preview of 10.4.1 for Intel, like ThinkSecret is showing, are truly indicative of the performance we'll get from native apps on Leopard, which will be the first shipping version with the Intel platform.
So if they change all the actors, the writers and the style of the show, is it still Star Trek? Sure, it'll have some of the same races and politics, but these are only ever used as plot devices.
I was bored on the first page, with her current entries. She's full of herself and how she's better than the people she purports to teach, and yet she says she reads "gawker.com" at lunch. Whether that's a wink to them to try to get a deal, or really her idea of entertainment, I can't be sure, but how can I respect someone like that?
Of course, my idea of entertainment is slashdot, so I really shouldn't point fingers... oh, yes, I'm a student at SMU, too. But at the geek campus:)
If your credit union isn't based in a state that has a law requiring disclosure, like California, you may not hear anything if your account security gets breached. Most states have no requirement for notification, as far as I know.
Now that it's been revealed as having a physical origin, comedy clubs will probably be required to provide special accommodation and parking for the humor-impaired.
I like to rent out some British comedies but I couldn't find them on NF. I also couldn't find a good foreign selection so far.
Weird. You missed this and this and this? I got those by searching for "To the Manor Born" and clicking on the lists/genres on the side:) Many britcoms never make it to the US, at least not released as DVDs. So you have to look for one you know is a DVD, first. Here's a link to the genre at GC, too.
I'm not going to start posting links to foreign films:) You should try to spend a little more time looking. For me, overall, GC has a better selection of both categories. But Netflix has much better availability of most of the titles it carries, and they're faster for people who don't live right near GC. I'd say if you can have only one subscription, start with NF, unless you know the films you want to see are only carried at GC.
Hey, I'm glad to hear you had a good experience! Maybe you got in after I left, or maybe the west coast crew just had its act together better than the Bentonville crew. Your experience was much different from mine. Will you stick around for Netflix?
Sucks to be you. I think you'll check out NF's offerings in a couple months, though. I've posted elsewhere in this storyline how bad BB is:) I like NF and GC the best.
When I had service with them, I didn't see any evidence of censorship. I think that the unit was entirely separate from the retail unit, and got its inventory independently. However, they sucked for other reasons, which I've detailed elsewhere here:)
WalMart shipped from Arkansas, so you can imagine how long it took for disks to travel back and forth to the rest of the country. It was usually a 2-3 day trip each way here to Dallas, Texas, for example. And the selection was even worse than Blockbuster's online service, if you can believe it.
I've belonged to 4 rental services, and this is the order I rank them:
customer service: 1) Greencine (usually a few hours for email reply during the day, some of the staff seem to remember you by name, and they also often show up in the discussion boards), 2) Netflix (known for throttling service sometimes (less often these days), and takes a couple days to answer emails) 3) WalMart 4) Blockbuster far behind. 3-4 days to answer emails, empty slots when I had a queue of hundreds for a couple days at a time and each of them was supposedly "available now" - and I live within 30 miles of the national headquarters and the main distribution center.
selection: 1&2) Netflix, Greencine. GC has a better anime selection for now, as well as more hard to find foreign titles. Netflix has much better availability on almost every title it actually stocks, and is edging up on the anime. But it's still not there with foreign titles, either. Best selection for most people, however. 3) Blockbuster had mostly the same titles you'd see in its stores. But as I said earlier, a lot of them weren't really available when they claimed they were. 4) WalMart basically had a subset of what Blockbuster did. They did keep the slots full, however.
speed: 1) Netflix! They win by a landslide, having dozens of distribution centers, so there's probably one near you. However, they have been known to throttle customers after the grace period, and some of those "shipping tomorrow" or "shipping in [two days]" messages look suspicious. They don't do shipping or receiving on Saturdays, unfortunately. 2) Blockbuster. They have a number of distribution centers, but they are slower to process returns and mailing out. Not to mention that I had empty slots for days, several times. I think I may have seen them ship/receive on Saturdays, though. 3) Greencine. Unfortunately, their one center in California is their Achille's heel, as it takes days for anyone outside the region to get DVDs or send them back. It usually takes 2-3 days for a disc to get to Dallas, and 4-5 days to get back to California. The postal service seems spotty in this regard. Note, they DEFINITELY work on Saturdays as well, which is very important in their case. 4) Walmart's center is in Arkansas. They're about as slow as Greencine. No, I don't think they work on Saturdays. Sometimes I wondered if they worked on Mondays and/or Fridays, either...
overall value: Netflix is the best overall value for most people; I usually get 15 discs a month on the standard 3-out plan. I get 9 discs from Greencine on average with their 3-out plan, but I'm a foreign film fan who sometimes watches anime, so I'm keeping them around. I will say that last fall I dropped NF and kept GC, but GC had some customer service and shipping problems in January and February, so I restarted NF to supplement. Blockbuster shipped somewhere between Netflix's average and Greencine's, but their selection and customer service makes them not worth the trouble. Seriously. I canceled at the end of last year. And WalMart shipped about as many as GC, so they'd have been a nonstarter even if they weren't shutting down, now. I cancelled within 2 or 3 months, I think:)
This will be about as desired in the market as the DVDs designed to cloud over in 24 hours after being unsealed, or DIVX. There's no compelling reason for consumers to agree to even more useless encumberance than we already face with CSS, Macrovision and region coding.
He forgot to make it animal style, so he could get the whole thing cooked with mustard, then have pickles, more spread, and grilled onions all over it. I can't imagine not ordering it animal style, unless you also wanted it to be protein style or flying dutchman style, either of which would be too messy of a combo.
As for the one-time use numbers, how do they offer you any protection?
The bank knows the original card number, of course. AFAIK they're subject to the same (waived) limits. One-time numbers are usually set up with a max credit line, as well. So you can say, okay, I think I'm going to spend $100 online for Mother's Day at Amazon and some gourmet food place, and you generate the number, and regardless of whether only the authorized merchants or Harry the Hacker gets the number, no more than $100 total can be charged. Anything less, of course, stays in your account.
Thing is, this is really a marketing tool. If he reads his account agreement carefully, he'll probably discover that it doesn't matter if someone grabs his real credit card number from a hacked server, or is listening in on his cordless phone call. His liability should still be the (waived) limit. He's just working a little harder to make it less likely it'll get out, to save the hassle of having to call and dispute and get a new number and change his auto-bills, is all.
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1) Carry a laptop
2) ssh into your home server, or use HTTPS for webmail.
Using your own laptop means nobody is keylogging you, unless they get access to your machine, in which case you're screwed anyway. Sticking to SSH or HTTPS means you're not sending anything worthwhile unencrypted up the pipe.
Also, you'd be amazed at the number of compromised terminals at universities and colleges, too. Better warn your kids before they go off to college not to do any financial transactions, etc., from them, no matter if school policy is to run antivirus and spybot killers. Those are no match for good old fashioned hardware keyloggers, assuming they even use the latest updated programs to check.
Your explanation makes sense. On the other hand, if you get takeout from a restaurant, they don't discount the food, but you don't have a social obligation to tip them. I'm sure these drivers will expect tips. :) So this ends up costing about as much as going to the restaurant, eating the meal there, and tipping the waiter.
I order pizza online (Pizza Hut, it's pretty crappy, but they have free pizzas when you belong to their club and buy stuff, and who doesn't love free food, even if it's crap?), but I pick it up. I'm ordering it online because it's convenient and I'm cheap. I don't want to talk to a delivery guy, have him know where I live, and have to tip him.
Something like US$1.05T? That's why I said our grandkids.
Especially after Federal Reserve Governor Edward Gramlich said we can't grow out of our deficit spending.
Guess what's left? Raising taxes and/or cutting services. You know the lobbyists won't let them cut much from the military funding. I guess when they stop raiding the Social Security funds, they'll go after Medicare/Medicaid next, then hospitals, schools, roads... oh, wait, they already are. Won't be much left for the surviving soldiers to come home to. Certainly not good jobs or the good health care and benefits they were promised when they signed up.
you will still have to pay US taxes on income you earn outside the USA, even if you become a full-time resident of another country.
That, plus the taxes your host country will most likely make you pay, is a strong monetary disincentive to leave, or at least to leave but continue to be a US citizen.
Are you going to learn how to be a sysadmin and network admin on the clock? Reading a book won't be enough. You'll need plenty of time, especially if you want to effectively secure your hosts and your network. My guess is he's not willing to pay for your time, especially not while your projects stall in the meantime.
There are consultants that just do setups. If he wants it done right, but is too cheap to hire a full or part time guy for just the servers and network, he needs to look at this as the next-best solution. At least, if they screw up, they can be held responsible. And then, as needed, either you or someone else can make minor modifications as situations warrant. Do you want to get blamed if the book you got and the weekend of cramming wasn't thorough enough to stop a scriptkiddie from 0wning j00r cvs server and erasing it, or worse, a competitor rootkitting it and installing a backdoor so they can watch your progress, maybe change some data, a couple months down the road while you're too busy on a real project to track vulnerabilities and new attack types in the 24 minutes a week allotted to this? (less than 5 minutes a day... can you even get through your email that quickly?)
Oh, and I'd say, get your resume ready. If he starts having more unrealistic expectations of his staff, you should probably look to go elsewhere.
Especially if it can't be locked out.
You won't be hiring Maureen O'Gara, right? Hope not.
...is that it's a rental from Apple. They want the developer box back in 2006. They don't want you to think this is representative of hardware they're going to put in production machines, as far as performance, etc. Which is odd, because developers can't optimize until they know the platform, but that's the way it is. I'm guessing they're just having these out until they can come out with the first production model, and then everyone should build off that.
I really don't think that numbers generated from XBench running on Rosetta running on a developer preview of 10.4.1 for Intel, like ThinkSecret is showing, are truly indicative of the performance we'll get from native apps on Leopard, which will be the first shipping version with the Intel platform.
I don't know, did it work for Battlestar Galactica? Most people seem to think so, though not all.
I was bored on the first page, with her current entries. She's full of herself and how she's better than the people she purports to teach, and yet she says she reads "gawker.com" at lunch. Whether that's a wink to them to try to get a deal, or really her idea of entertainment, I can't be sure, but how can I respect someone like that?
:)
Of course, my idea of entertainment is slashdot, so I really shouldn't point fingers... oh, yes, I'm a student at SMU, too. But at the geek campus
It's a sheep. Shaun the Sheep, more precisely.
:)
Or maybe I just need some sleep. Well, I know I can count on Shaun to help me!
If your credit union isn't based in a state that has a law requiring disclosure, like California, you may not hear anything if your account security gets breached.
Most states have no requirement for notification, as far as I know.
Now that it's been revealed as having a physical origin, comedy clubs will probably be required to provide special accommodation and parking for the humor-impaired.
Weird. You missed this and this and this? I got those by searching for "To the Manor Born" and clicking on the lists/genres on the side
Here's a link to the genre at GC, too.
I'm not going to start posting links to foreign films
Hey, I'm glad to hear you had a good experience! Maybe you got in after I left, or maybe the west coast crew just had its act together better than the Bentonville crew. Your experience was much different from mine. Will you stick around for Netflix?
Obviously "let's" works in that context, but not in the context to which I was referring.
Sucks to be you. I think you'll check out NF's offerings in a couple months, though. I've posted elsewhere in this storyline how bad BB is :) I like NF and GC the best.
When I had service with them, I didn't see any evidence of censorship. I think that the unit was entirely separate from the retail unit, and got its inventory independently. However, they sucked for other reasons, which I've detailed elsewhere here :)
WalMart shipped from Arkansas, so you can imagine how long it took for disks to travel back and forth to the rest of the country. It was usually a 2-3 day trip each way here to Dallas, Texas, for example. And the selection was even worse than Blockbuster's online service, if you can believe it.
:)
I've belonged to 4 rental services, and this is the order I rank them:
customer service:
1) Greencine (usually a few hours for email reply during the day, some of the staff seem to remember you by name, and they also often show up in the discussion boards),
2) Netflix (known for throttling service sometimes (less often these days), and takes a couple days to answer emails)
3) WalMart
4) Blockbuster far behind. 3-4 days to answer emails, empty slots when I had a queue of hundreds for a couple days at a time and each of them was supposedly "available now" - and I live within 30 miles of the national headquarters and the main distribution center.
selection:
1&2) Netflix, Greencine. GC has a better anime selection for now, as well as more hard to find foreign titles. Netflix has much better availability on almost every title it actually stocks, and is edging up on the anime. But it's still not there with foreign titles, either. Best selection for most people, however.
3) Blockbuster had mostly the same titles you'd see in its stores. But as I said earlier, a lot of them weren't really available when they claimed they were.
4) WalMart basically had a subset of what Blockbuster did. They did keep the slots full, however.
speed:
1) Netflix! They win by a landslide, having dozens of distribution centers, so there's probably one near you. However, they have been known to throttle customers after the grace period, and some of those "shipping tomorrow" or "shipping in [two days]" messages look suspicious. They don't do shipping or receiving on Saturdays, unfortunately.
2) Blockbuster. They have a number of distribution centers, but they are slower to process returns and mailing out. Not to mention that I had empty slots for days, several times. I think I may have seen them ship/receive on Saturdays, though.
3) Greencine. Unfortunately, their one center in California is their Achille's heel, as it takes days for anyone outside the region to get DVDs or send them back. It usually takes 2-3 days for a disc to get to Dallas, and 4-5 days to get back to California. The postal service seems spotty in this regard. Note, they DEFINITELY work on Saturdays as well, which is very important in their case.
4) Walmart's center is in Arkansas. They're about as slow as Greencine. No, I don't think they work on Saturdays. Sometimes I wondered if they worked on Mondays and/or Fridays, either...
overall value:
Netflix is the best overall value for most people; I usually get 15 discs a month on the standard 3-out plan. I get 9 discs from Greencine on average with their 3-out plan, but I'm a foreign film fan who sometimes watches anime, so I'm keeping them around. I will say that last fall I dropped NF and kept GC, but GC had some customer service and shipping problems in January and February, so I restarted NF to supplement. Blockbuster shipped somewhere between Netflix's average and Greencine's, but their selection and customer service makes them not worth the trouble. Seriously. I canceled at the end of last year. And WalMart shipped about as many as GC, so they'd have been a nonstarter even if they weren't shutting down, now. I cancelled within 2 or 3 months, I think
This will be about as desired in the market as the DVDs designed to cloud over in 24 hours after being unsealed, or DIVX.
There's no compelling reason for consumers to agree to even more useless encumberance than we already face with CSS, Macrovision and region coding.
Not only did it tell me that also, but when I finally got to the front page, I saw an ad:
Is it just me, or is adding IE to the mix a scary thought? And how careful and meticulous can they be, really, if their advertising says "let's you?"
Try bits of stinky cheese with mayonnaise. After a couple of weeks, it'll stink so bad you'll want to toss it.
He forgot to make it animal style, so he could get the whole thing cooked with mustard, then have pickles, more spread, and grilled onions all over it. I can't imagine not ordering it animal style, unless you also wanted it to be protein style or flying dutchman style, either of which would be too messy of a combo.
not quite
(and the fact that I'm writing this means I didn't do the modding, or it'd be undone, of course)
The bank knows the original card number, of course. AFAIK they're subject to the same (waived) limits. One-time numbers are usually set up with a max credit line, as well. So you can say, okay, I think I'm going to spend $100 online for Mother's Day at Amazon and some gourmet food place, and you generate the number, and regardless of whether only the authorized merchants or Harry the Hacker gets the number, no more than $100 total can be charged. Anything less, of course, stays in your account.
Thing is, this is really a marketing tool. If he reads his account agreement carefully, he'll probably discover that it doesn't matter if someone grabs his real credit card number from a hacked server, or is listening in on his cordless phone call. His liability should still be the (waived) limit. He's just working a little harder to make it less likely it'll get out, to save the hassle of having to call and dispute and get a new number and change his auto-bills, is all.