What's an order of magnitude? I hear the term all the time...but it seems to have various disparaging values. Is this just a nice way of saying "buttload?"
10 times. 2 orders of magnitude - 100 times, etc. As in 10^1, 10^2 etc. I don't know whether base-2 (or other) orders of magnitude are in use.
Next time someone says "if you have nothing to hide, why do you care", they might actually have more of a clue than you do (ie they're not paranoid).
First things first, I'm not a tin-foil hat wearer. Now, whereas I'm not doing anything openly illegal, I'd certainly not want to see anybody recording my calls as they're private. P-R-I-V-A-T-E. I might be talking to my girlfriend, to my doctor, heck, enter my bank PIN code. This is 100% legal but I'd still prefer to keep it to myself.
One fair way to enforce call recording would be an announcement (played to both legs of a call) saying "this call may be recorded, if you don't agree, please hang up" (I get it in my bank if I ask for a live person to speak with). Now this might have a negative effect on a company's bottom line (less calls due to paranoid people) so it's unlikely it ever gets implemented. Oh well.
Yes, funding is quite a problem in Polish education, from primary schools to universities. From my experience (studying something between EE and CS) the university library is really rich (in books, not necessarily money although the university overall doesn't seem poor) and finding the right book is mostly a matter of time. Of course not everything is there but there are at least two other *huge* libraries (and several smaller ones), where you can find just about every book you need. So I guess my experience is quite similar - if you can't find a book in one library, try another. They've recently set up a nice web interface where you can order any book you like from most of the libraries and fetch it when you get there.
I encourage you to study in Poland, the universities here are really good (except for many of the private ones) but if I were you, I'd not consider Warsaw. Most of my friends who study there say that there's a constant rat race among the students. Check out Cracow instead (the Jagiellonian University, 2nd oldest in Europe IIRC - it's the most renowned one in Poland I think) - it's really friendly here:)
They can't even figure out how to let faxes go through properly.
I'm not sure what codec they use but I don't think it's raw g.711 (64kbps of latency-sensitive data in a large network isn't exactly fun to work with), I'd suspect something along the lines of g.729 (8 kbps IIRC), which no way in hell can give you reliable fax or modem transmission
Well in Poland ISPs are (I'm not 100% sure whether this became law or is it exactly like this) legally required to provide access to all traffic that passes through their servers, unencrypted, for at least 7 days IIRC.
Of course nobody gives a f**k about those stupid regulations (yay, let's buy a whole bunch of servers just for killing disks plus some out-of-this-world machines to break ssl, pgp and whatnot, we've got money to burn) and life just goes on.
Somewhat OT, during some recent anti-terrorist frenzy the parliament wanted to pass a law requiring you to present your national ID card while creating a free e-mail account. Thankfully, someone apparently explained those morons that driving up to 1000km (if you're out of luck) just for a freakin' mail account is insane and it got rejected.
The United States schools are just considered the best in the world, especially for the hard sciences.
I call BS. Ever been to a Polish technical university? I've seen many papers written by American tech students (CS et al.) and they make me laugh. No, I'm not generalising, there are good univs and good students but calling America's schools considered the best is an overstatement to say the least. Oh, and Polish univs are free (most of them, especially technical ones).
I wish the comedian I went to go see last week was funnier but I wouldn't start lobbying the government to force comedians to take a humor exam. Maybe he'll become funnier in the future as he learns from other comedians.
Now reread your post s/comedian/engineer/. Bad comedians don't risk people's lives. Be it electric cables, bridges or computers (think hospitals), I'd rather not put my life into hands of somebody who "may become more skilled as he learns from other engineers".
Hmm, not to be a flamebait (yes, I know my nick, I'll get modded down anyway;) but look at the difference in clock speed - it's oscillating around 10% and I can bet you'll never even notice the difference (except maybe in FPS counters - if it doesn't get lost in statistic variations), especially given that CPU speed isn't the only performance determinant. It looks kinda funny when you call the 3.2GHz CPU a "slowpoke":)
For the record, I have a 450MHz desktop and a 300MHz laptop, so if you have a "slowpoke" to waste, gimme a call;)
I'd actually expect fedora to include the very-latest-only-we-have-it thunderbird 1.0-pre-doesn't-really-work-cvs in the standard install. what's up with these guys? come on, they should keep their standards:P
(disclaimer: i had a client install fc1 and i call it crap, never bothered to look at fc2, heck, even mandrake is more stable and polished. i use debian on my systems exclusively but some people just like the niceties of plugging in a pendrive and seeing it on the desktop - that's 100% fine with an office box although i'd never set up a fedora/mandrake/... server... brr)
I guess I'm lucky that English is not my native language then. I almost never get mail with English subjects that are not spam (except from clearly marked mailing list messages).
Still, I don't really have the spam problem (several spams a week, at most, 99% neatly filtered into trash)
And now s/JIT [\w]+/malicious code/g. Where's the protection? IMHO this should be set on a case-by-case basis (a'la chpax), so that you *know* you get executable data.
Yeah, I sure do understand that technology is only one of the factors in any real world environment and I also met clueless windows admins. And bootable CDs aren't a bad way in some cases, too. (I've used them to reimage PCs in an internet cafe - daily). If you have enough horsepower on the server(s), why not move everything there and export with SMB/NFS/whatever from an encrypted FS? And throw IPSEC in there just to be sure;) You'd get the benefits of centralisation:
simpler backups
smaller "area" to secure (deny write access to local disks and store profile and documents on the server)
single point of failure <g>
It should also be more difficult to boot a server off a live CD without being noticed:)
Given unrestricted physical access to a machine (like booting from a CD requires - it should be disabled in setup anyway), no operating system is secure. Your only way to protect data is to encrypt it (e.g. using an encrypted loopback) using passwords typed in by hand or taken from some removable media (otherwise it will have to be present on the disk, defating security).
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What's an order of magnitude? I hear the term all the time...but it seems to have various disparaging values. Is this just a nice way of saying "buttload?"
10 times. 2 orders of magnitude - 100 times, etc. As in 10^1, 10^2 etc. I don't know whether base-2 (or other) orders of magnitude are in use.
Even if he didn't, there are more appropriate ways to inform about it than throwing errors around
Next time someone says "if you have nothing to hide, why do you care", they might actually have more of a clue than you do (ie they're not paranoid).
First things first, I'm not a tin-foil hat wearer. Now, whereas I'm not doing anything openly illegal, I'd certainly not want to see anybody recording my calls as they're private. P-R-I-V-A-T-E. I might be talking to my girlfriend, to my doctor, heck, enter my bank PIN code. This is 100% legal but I'd still prefer to keep it to myself.
One fair way to enforce call recording would be an announcement (played to both legs of a call) saying "this call may be recorded, if you don't agree, please hang up" (I get it in my bank if I ask for a live person to speak with). Now this might have a negative effect on a company's bottom line (less calls due to paranoid people) so it's unlikely it ever gets implemented. Oh well.
Yes, funding is quite a problem in Polish education, from primary schools to universities. From my experience (studying something between EE and CS) the university library is really rich (in books, not necessarily money although the university overall doesn't seem poor) and finding the right book is mostly a matter of time. Of course not everything is there but there are at least two other *huge* libraries (and several smaller ones), where you can find just about every book you need. So I guess my experience is quite similar - if you can't find a book in one library, try another. They've recently set up a nice web interface where you can order any book you like from most of the libraries and fetch it when you get there.
:)
I encourage you to study in Poland, the universities here are really good (except for many of the private ones) but if I were you, I'd not consider Warsaw. Most of my friends who study there say that there's a constant rat race among the students. Check out Cracow instead (the Jagiellonian University, 2nd oldest in Europe IIRC - it's the most renowned one in Poland I think) - it's really friendly here
They can't even figure out how to let faxes go through properly.
I'm not sure what codec they use but I don't think it's raw g.711 (64kbps of latency-sensitive data in a large network isn't exactly fun to work with), I'd suspect something along the lines of g.729 (8 kbps IIRC), which no way in hell can give you reliable fax or modem transmission
Well in Poland ISPs are (I'm not 100% sure whether this became law or is it exactly like this) legally required to provide access to all traffic that passes through their servers, unencrypted, for at least 7 days IIRC.
Of course nobody gives a f**k about those stupid regulations (yay, let's buy a whole bunch of servers just for killing disks plus some out-of-this-world machines to break ssl, pgp and whatnot, we've got money to burn) and life just goes on.
Somewhat OT, during some recent anti-terrorist frenzy the parliament wanted to pass a law requiring you to present your national ID card while creating a free e-mail account. Thankfully, someone apparently explained those morons that driving up to 1000km (if you're out of luck) just for a freakin' mail account is insane and it got rejected.
The United States schools are just considered the best in the world, especially for the hard sciences.
I call BS. Ever been to a Polish technical university? I've seen many papers written by American tech students (CS et al.) and they make me laugh. No, I'm not generalising, there are good univs and good students but calling America's schools considered the best is an overstatement to say the least. Oh, and Polish univs are free (most of them, especially technical ones).
I feel another -1 coming...
I wish the comedian I went to go see last week was funnier but I wouldn't start lobbying the government to force comedians to take a humor exam. Maybe he'll become funnier in the future as he learns from other comedians.
Now reread your post s/comedian/engineer/. Bad comedians don't risk people's lives. Be it electric cables, bridges or computers (think hospitals), I'd rather not put my life into hands of somebody who "may become more skilled as he learns from other engineers".
Apparently the MS minions are assuming that if they say it enough times, people will believe it. (A tried and true axiom, after all.)
;)
This axiom has been repeated so many times, it must be believed
Hmm, not to be a flamebait (yes, I know my nick, I'll get modded down anyway ;) but look at the difference in clock speed - it's oscillating around 10% and I can bet you'll never even notice the difference (except maybe in FPS counters - if it doesn't get lost in statistic variations), especially given that CPU speed isn't the only performance determinant. It looks kinda funny when you call the 3.2GHz CPU a "slowpoke" :)
;)
For the record, I have a 450MHz desktop and a 300MHz laptop, so if you have a "slowpoke" to waste, gimme a call
So they effectively have open source lawyers? Oh, the irony.
or throw away the whole mobo, including the rest of the perfectly good components on it[*].
So I guess it's time for chipsets in sockets, too.
because their old one is too spyware infected and they don't really know any better?
does it run on Linux? :P
I'd actually expect fedora to include the very-latest-only-we-have-it thunderbird 1.0-pre-doesn't-really-work-cvs in the standard install. what's up with these guys? come on, they should keep their standards :P
(disclaimer: i had a client install fc1 and i call it crap, never bothered to look at fc2, heck, even mandrake is more stable and polished. i use debian on my systems exclusively but some people just like the niceties of plugging in a pendrive and seeing it on the desktop - that's 100% fine with an office box although i'd never set up a fedora/mandrake/... server... brr)
it does, at least for me (fb0.7 on linux and ff0.8 on w2k). in fact, that's how i replied to your post
I guess I'm lucky that English is not my native language then. I almost never get mail with English subjects that are not spam (except from clearly marked mailing list messages).
Still, I don't really have the spam problem (several spams a week, at most, 99% neatly filtered into trash)
And now s/JIT [\w]+/malicious code/g. Where's the protection? IMHO this should be set on a case-by-case basis (a'la chpax), so that you *know* you get executable data.
- simpler backups
- smaller "area" to secure (deny write access to local disks and store profile and documents on the server)
- single point of failure <g>
It should also be more difficult to boot a server off a live CD without being noticedGiven unrestricted physical access to a machine (like booting from a CD requires - it should be disabled in setup anyway), no operating system is secure. Your only way to protect data is to encrypt it (e.g. using an encrypted loopback) using passwords typed in by hand or taken from some removable media (otherwise it will have to be present on the disk, defating security).
This came up as the fortune cookie at the bottom of the page when I browsed the thread. How appropriate.
Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon. -- Susan Ertz
except on /., it goes like this:
;P
food, pr0n, food, pr0n etc.