"Assuming the strip is approximately 50 feet wide and 3 feet thick"
Bad assumption. I'll wager, based on experience of the McClellan AFB runway (used to land *any* plane in the USAF till it was decom'd in the 90's), the runway is likely closer to 12 feet thick (concrete and rebar only), and up to 20 feet when you figure in the foundation strata under the concrete. -nB
Just tell them you upgraded the MB and that's good enough. They'll let you get by with that rough;y once per year (or any time a super cool new feature comes out). -nB
If the selling price is higher than that of the equivilent windows box, but without the OS Tax, you'd think that they would want to sell _more_ of them as the margins should be higher. -nB
Proof of concept, when I worked in retail I could alt-tab between notepad and the POS app (how's that for secure?) No-one thinks twice of a clerk re-swiping a card after hitting a couple keys on the keyboard. To boot the keyboard layout was such that a computer "pro" would likely never have noticed I hit alt-tab because the keymap was all wacky.
I never did anything with the info, never saved it to disk. Simply did it to prove to the DM that the system we were using was flawed and we should call the vendor.
Turns out the reason we never fixed it was that we were using a single 10 seat licence for a company of approx 400 stores.....
Piracy@example.com here I come! (I hated that company anyway). -nB
It is important to note that tape is less reliable than HDD at a consumer level. If you only back up your data (not media) then the web solution means that you are likely to pay only ~$1.80/year for offsite storage of your truely important data (scans of marrige/birth certs, passport, SS card, masters thesis, etc.) -nB
"who doesn't think that the patent system is a joke?"
I think it's more of a farce myself:-)
Really though, there are alrealy analogues to this in the real auction world, so couldn't that be considered prior art? I mean the method can be patentable I suppose, but the concept has been around forever in farm auctions: Bid on equipment at the auction, or "buy it now" by paying the asset holder (the bank) the retail value. -nB
"cut corners wherever possible, including using unshielded cable. "
really? so they use a single wire then? I know you were implicating the lack of a foil wrap around the braid, but technically the braid is still a shield. Compare that to the solid silver stranded core and silver clad copper braid, with 3 foil wraps that I use in some of my instrumentation and it might as well be unsheilded. -nB
Vote for me then. My platform consists of shooting all the corrupt politicians*. The moment I become corrupt I will thus shoot myself:-) -nB
*not really, my platform is actually "constitutional fundamentalist", though shooting the corrupt politicians is a tempting idea to submit as the new national past time.
A much safer method would be to use an app like http://www.truecrypt.org/ with the hidden volume. The keys to the primary volume can be given away to the company and can contain company confidential docks, while your data is on the hidden volume. That is what I do. -nB
For once I don't think this is a tinfoil hat thing either. I think that either: 1) they are stupid and think no one will notice 2) they are really stupid and their marketing and marketing departments don't talk to each other.
"Agreed. But who owns the copyright? Heinlein's been dead for nearly 20 years."
UC Santa Cruz IIRC. He bequethed his literary work to the library. Which means a film would be excellent as (assuming is has a good director and cast and budget) it's a great story and the money would not go to waste. -nB
My vote would be BSD, mostly because of the licence. IF some sub assy vendor wants to keep part or all of their source secret *cough* ATI *cough* Intel then there is no issue with that. Conversly Dell can push for as much openness as possible and make a killing. Heck I would still pay the same price as for a Windows maching (mostly because it has an OS that works already on it). -nB
those tend to have way more issues, least of which is seemingly random assignment of COMx as well as some wierd incompatibilities (like with netstumbler and my GPS) -nB
"If everyone just runs away, we'll end up with a huge country with a huge military and nuclear arsenal, but without any sane people."
[flamebait]you mean like N. Korea?[/flamebait] I've thought of running for office on the platform of either of tow options: Constitutional fundamentalist (seriously) or: The "If you elect me I promise to shoot all the stupid politicians" platform.
I really wonder sometimes which one would get more votes... -nB
I am the draconian net admin asshole for a lab at my company. All ports are labelled in my lab, isolated, production, phone. Color coded too (isolated is a yellow label). When I leave my lab and need connectivity (and can't get the campus WiFi) I sometimes have to take the approach: 1) jack in and look for link 2) dhcp request / view config / determine if the network is a corp. or lab connection 3) go back to 1 till I find a corp drop.
"Sadly enough, too many Americans don't care enough or are too ignorant to distrust their government and think critically about what it is doing"
Which results in frustration for the rest of us that want to change things, but can not due to the voter apathy. Sucks, really. If it wasn't for the rather strong family ties the wife and I have here, we'd likely move to our neighbor in the north. -nB
Note: Some epoxy formulations shrink and/or expand as they cure, others are conductive to various levels. double check what you are using to be sure. -nB
"ISO 9001 compliance (among others) required that you know where your data is going "
9001 really only means you follow your own guidelines. so if you don't have a guideline for data retention or tracking you're fine. Stupid, but fine. -nB
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"Assuming the strip is approximately 50 feet wide and 3 feet thick"
Bad assumption. I'll wager, based on experience of the McClellan AFB runway (used to land *any* plane in the USAF till it was decom'd in the 90's), the runway is likely closer to 12 feet thick (concrete and rebar only), and up to 20 feet when you figure in the foundation strata under the concrete.
-nB
Just tell them you upgraded the MB and that's good enough. They'll let you get by with that rough;y once per year (or any time a super cool new feature comes out).
-nB
If the selling price is higher than that of the equivilent windows box, but without the OS Tax, you'd think that they would want to sell _more_ of them as the margins should be higher.
-nB
Proof of concept, when I worked in retail I could alt-tab between notepad and the POS app (how's that for secure?)
No-one thinks twice of a clerk re-swiping a card after hitting a couple keys on the keyboard. To boot the keyboard layout was such that a computer "pro" would likely never have noticed I hit alt-tab because the keymap was all wacky.
I never did anything with the info, never saved it to disk. Simply did it to prove to the DM that the system we were using was flawed and we should call the vendor.
Turns out the reason we never fixed it was that we were using a single 10 seat licence for a company of approx 400 stores.....
Piracy@example.com here I come! (I hated that company anyway).
-nB
spelling _is_ important. Letter letter is not, thus if you are dislexic and invert letters you're likely A-OK
-nB
Or Finance ;)
-nB
See you in court :-)
-nB
It is important to note that tape is less reliable than HDD at a consumer level. If you only back up your data (not media) then the web solution means that you are likely to pay only ~$1.80/year for offsite storage of your truely important data (scans of marrige/birth certs, passport, SS card, masters thesis, etc.)
-nB
"who doesn't think that the patent system is a joke?"
:-)
I think it's more of a farce myself
Really though, there are alrealy analogues to this in the real auction world, so couldn't that be considered prior art? I mean the method can be patentable I suppose, but the concept has been around forever in farm auctions:
Bid on equipment at the auction, or "buy it now" by paying the asset holder (the bank) the retail value.
-nB
-1 nitpick, but:
"cut corners wherever possible, including using unshielded cable. "
really? so they use a single wire then?
I know you were implicating the lack of a foil wrap around the braid, but technically the braid is still a shield.
Compare that to the solid silver stranded core and silver clad copper braid, with 3 foil wraps that I use in some of my instrumentation and it might as well be unsheilded.
-nB
Vote for me then. :-)
My platform consists of shooting all the corrupt politicians*. The moment I become corrupt I will thus shoot myself
-nB
*not really, my platform is actually "constitutional fundamentalist", though shooting the corrupt politicians is a tempting idea to submit as the new national past time.
A much safer method would be to use an app like http://www.truecrypt.org/ with the hidden volume. The keys to the primary volume can be given away to the company and can contain company confidential docks, while your data is on the hidden volume. That is what I do.
-nB
For once I don't think this is a tinfoil hat thing either. I think that either:
1) they are stupid and think no one will notice
2) they are really stupid and their marketing and marketing departments don't talk to each other.
Either way, they are stupid.
-nB
the only thing that movie had in common with the book was the title *just like "I Robot"*
-nB
"Agreed. But who owns the copyright? Heinlein's been dead for nearly 20 years."
UC Santa Cruz IIRC. He bequethed his literary work to the library. Which means a film would be excellent as (assuming is has a good director and cast and budget) it's a great story and the money would not go to waste.
-nB
My vote would be BSD, mostly because of the licence. IF some sub assy vendor wants to keep part or all of their source secret *cough* ATI *cough* Intel then there is no issue with that. Conversly Dell can push for as much openness as possible and make a killing. Heck I would still pay the same price as for a Windows maching (mostly because it has an OS that works already on it).
-nB
those tend to have way more issues, least of which is seemingly random assignment of COMx as well as some wierd incompatibilities (like with netstumbler and my GPS)
-nB
Any sort of serial port* would be nice though...
-nB
*by any serial port I mean RS-232 std with possibly a non std connector and a dongle or how 'bout another RJ?
I've had excellent results with my T40 and T42 notebooks. Why not IB^H^H Lenovo?
-nB
"If everyone just runs away, we'll end up with a huge country with a huge military and nuclear arsenal, but without any sane people."
[flamebait]you mean like N. Korea?[/flamebait]
I've thought of running for office on the platform of either of tow options:
Constitutional fundamentalist (seriously)
or:
The "If you elect me I promise to shoot all the stupid politicians" platform.
I really wonder sometimes which one would get more votes...
-nB
I am the draconian net admin asshole for a lab at my company.
All ports are labelled in my lab, isolated, production, phone. Color coded too (isolated is a yellow label). When I leave my lab and need connectivity (and can't get the campus WiFi) I sometimes have to take the approach:
1) jack in and look for link
2) dhcp request / view config / determine if the network is a corp. or lab connection
3) go back to 1 till I find a corp drop.
really pisses me off...
-nB
"Sadly enough, too many Americans don't care enough or are too ignorant to distrust their government and think critically about what it is doing"
Which results in frustration for the rest of us that want to change things, but can not due to the voter apathy. Sucks, really. If it wasn't for the rather strong family ties the wife and I have here, we'd likely move to our neighbor in the north.
-nB
For this to happen it must be in the right order:
1) OSS proponent founds business
2) business grows and stayes with OSS
3) Lower expense in IT infrastructure
4) 1/profit!
Really though, the hard part is winning over an existing business. Starting up with OSS would be magnatudes easier than converting.
-nB
Note:
Some epoxy formulations shrink and/or expand as they cure, others are conductive to various levels.
double check what you are using to be sure.
-nB
"ISO 9001 compliance (among others) required that you know where your data is going "
9001 really only means you follow your own guidelines. so if you don't have a guideline for data retention or tracking you're fine. Stupid, but fine.
-nB