A bigger problem is when you can't provide a decent, random string for the "security question". I opened a bank account online last week, but had to go to a branch to prove my identity (fair enough). The banker didn't like where her PC said I'd put "438@@/arcCHK" as my mother's maiden name, and asked for a real name. I'm waiting for the online banking activation codes to come through, I hope it doesn't depend on this value.
I'd rather give my SSN then some stupid weak question like that.
The only reason I'm with Bank of America is because to login to my bank account you have to put in a six digit code that gets text messaged to your phone. I prefer this over "What is your home town?" or something that isn't randomly generated.
I'm not surprised. With how awful the UK has been with keeping a hold on our data, why should the US be any better at it? Just because we're not leaving it on subway cars or recycling computers without shredding the hard drives doesn't mean there isn't a fault somewhere else.
Let this be a lesson to anyone... just because someone is looking the other way when seeing you do something doesn't mean that it wasn't illegal or criminal in the first place.
What if a crime didn't happen in the first place but the charges were made and brought to the public? See: Duke Lacrosse Team Scandal.
When I purchased my 360 during the summer, I asked the salesperson at EB Games if I should know anything obscure about it. He told me that setting it on it's side is a bad idea anyway because if there is any shaking in the house it can wobble the system and have the disc rub against the lense. Live in an old house like me where if kids are running around while you're playing (Common during the holidays) and you can scratch it. I've had many portable CD players and have never had the disc come out scratched from movement, even when I used it as I mountain biked 2 hours straight. My laptop doesn't have this problem, I've walked with my laptop as I am reading from the CD and have never heard a scratching noise or anything out of the norm. Sounds like you're just jumping to conclusions and making backhanded remarks at the target audience.
And in other news, Grand Theft Auto IV online game play has been plagued in the recent weeks by new players who sit in the left lane with their blinker on for 30 miles, require 5 tries to parallel park, and request you to repeat your sentences because they are hard of hearing. More at 10.
No no. I think you took my comment in the wrong tone. I was not knocking the idea of shutting machines down to save money. I was referring to the $279 dollar report.
I didn't look at it in the wrong tone (I think). I meant to make a point that the $279 report would possibly 'woo' the PHB into letting you enact a plan like that.
With all that money saved from powering down the computer, you can buy the report.
It may not be cost effective for the average user or small business of 1-100 people, but in an organization like the school district I work for with 2500+ desktops, this would be a huge benefit.
My favorite line from TFA is the last one:
"The Forrester report "How Much Monday are Your Idle PCs Wasting?" is available for $279."
Please raise your hands if you know someone who would buy that!
That $279 may be enough to show the committee for whatever corporation or organization you work for that it's beneficial to take these steps. $279 immediately, thousands saved in the long run.
"I am the only student to ever be charged or brought to the judiciary and charged with violating the university's Network Acceptable Use Policy, and that raises questions for me. I can't imagine that this is the test case for the university given the vast amount of file sharing and hacking that goes on around campus," Spencer said.
Is she really the _only_ one to be charged? Does she have documented proof of this? I guarantee someone has gotten in trouble in the past or else they have upstanding students or piss poor admins.
This is a good point, too. Ed Rendell (PA Governor) put out a grant to every school district to help put more technology in the classrooms. This is great in a way, but annoying in another. The way it's annoying is because 4 years down the road when the time comes to replace this equipment, there may be a whole other person in his position and no plans to replace the previously state-purchased gear.
A few weeks ago on NPR they were giving away a computer lab for free if you called in when they called your name on the radio. I imagine that if we won it, we would look at it as a burden. Most cases it's not going to be the brand that we work with specifically and have designed our entire infrastructure with.
Disclaimer: I'm a grunt in the IT department of a school district.
Look for old computers on freecycle/craigslist that you can put Edubuntu on and what-not. CRTs are hard to get rid of so I've found them being given away for free.
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Seriously there guys, why would Mr. HUB Computer Solutions let something as embarrassing as that hit the press?
Perhaps he's now offering super-low-discount services and this is just an elaborate advertising campaign?
A bigger problem is when you can't provide a decent, random string for the "security question". I opened a bank account online last week, but had to go to a branch to prove my identity (fair enough). The banker didn't like where her PC said I'd put "438@@/arcCHK" as my mother's maiden name, and asked for a real name. I'm waiting for the online banking activation codes to come through, I hope it doesn't depend on this value.
I'd rather give my SSN then some stupid weak question like that.
The only reason I'm with Bank of America is because to login to my bank account you have to put in a six digit code that gets text messaged to your phone. I prefer this over "What is your home town?" or something that isn't randomly generated.
this is like the razor wars (double blade! triple blade! quad blade! pento blade!).
Clearly you don't value a close shave.
I'm not surprised. With how awful the UK has been with keeping a hold on our data, why should the US be any better at it? Just because we're not leaving it on subway cars or recycling computers without shredding the hard drives doesn't mean there isn't a fault somewhere else.
Let this be a lesson to anyone... just because someone is looking the other way when seeing you do something doesn't mean that it wasn't illegal or criminal in the first place.
What if a crime didn't happen in the first place but the charges were made and brought to the public? See: Duke Lacrosse Team Scandal.
When I purchased my 360 during the summer, I asked the salesperson at EB Games if I should know anything obscure about it. He told me that setting it on it's side is a bad idea anyway because if there is any shaking in the house it can wobble the system and have the disc rub against the lense. Live in an old house like me where if kids are running around while you're playing (Common during the holidays) and you can scratch it. I've had many portable CD players and have never had the disc come out scratched from movement, even when I used it as I mountain biked 2 hours straight. My laptop doesn't have this problem, I've walked with my laptop as I am reading from the CD and have never heard a scratching noise or anything out of the norm. Sounds like you're just jumping to conclusions and making backhanded remarks at the target audience.
And in other news, Grand Theft Auto IV online game play has been plagued in the recent weeks by new players who sit in the left lane with their blinker on for 30 miles, require 5 tries to parallel park, and request you to repeat your sentences because they are hard of hearing. More at 10.
There's this totally hot teacher that I want to bone, do you think I should suggest installing Linux on her computer?
I don't know... she may need some assistance compiling her kernel.
No no. I think you took my comment in the wrong tone. I was not knocking the idea of shutting machines down to save money. I was referring to the $279 dollar report.
I didn't look at it in the wrong tone (I think). I meant to make a point that the $279 report would possibly 'woo' the PHB into letting you enact a plan like that.
When traveling, only do so in a faraday cage.
With all that money saved from powering down the computer, you can buy the report.
It may not be cost effective for the average user or small business of 1-100 people, but in an organization like the school district I work for with 2500+ desktops, this would be a huge benefit.
My favorite line from TFA is the last one: "The Forrester report "How Much Monday are Your Idle PCs Wasting?" is available for $279." Please raise your hands if you know someone who would buy that!
That $279 may be enough to show the committee for whatever corporation or organization you work for that it's beneficial to take these steps. $279 immediately, thousands saved in the long run.
1,986 questions from 3,255 people
Either a couple thousand people asked the exact same question or some questions are being "lost".
I skimmed through and saw _many_ duplicate questions, most involving the executive powers that have been abused.
"I am the only student to ever be charged or brought to the judiciary and charged with violating the university's Network Acceptable Use Policy, and that raises questions for me. I can't imagine that this is the test case for the university given the vast amount of file sharing and hacking that goes on around campus," Spencer said.
Is she really the _only_ one to be charged? Does she have documented proof of this? I guarantee someone has gotten in trouble in the past or else they have upstanding students or piss poor admins.
Maybe I should just start a toon in the Hello Kitty MMO.
At least there you'll be accepted for wanting to play casually.
It would be great if the local cable or phone company could run their lines just 1 block further from my nearest neighbor so I could get broadband.
Maybe Obama can make it happen!
Or Obama can help find where that 200 billion dollars went.
http://www.newnetworks.com/ShortSCANDALSummary.htm
With the economy this bad I guess movies that show crime are going to be more profitable then usual.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correlation_does_not_imply_causation
Dude, I am so spending tonight checking /dev/random to see if Half Life 7 has been releasd yet :)
So that's how they're making Duke Nukem Forever?
This is a good point, too. Ed Rendell (PA Governor) put out a grant to every school district to help put more technology in the classrooms. This is great in a way, but annoying in another. The way it's annoying is because 4 years down the road when the time comes to replace this equipment, there may be a whole other person in his position and no plans to replace the previously state-purchased gear.
A few weeks ago on NPR they were giving away a computer lab for free if you called in when they called your name on the radio. I imagine that if we won it, we would look at it as a burden. Most cases it's not going to be the brand that we work with specifically and have designed our entire infrastructure with.
Disclaimer: I'm a grunt in the IT department of a school district.
Look for old computers on freecycle/craigslist that you can put Edubuntu on and what-not. CRTs are hard to get rid of so I've found them being given away for free.
This is someone trying to score political points and has nothing to do with integrity.
It's called zero-tolerance, that way they have an excuse for suspending someone or something rather then having the fortitude to make a stand.
How long until some person interjects claiming that this will increase the amount of child abductions that are caused by online relationships?
The real question is "Why is the word "quotes" in quotes in your subject?".
P.S.: hmmm, do you \" the quotes inside other quotes in real english? Or just the programming one.
I put quotes in "quotes" to give an example of how it seems out of place to put shaping into quotes in that sentence.
Traffic shaping is a common word in the IT world.
But what if I want to know what an application would look like, not how it will like look, after it will have been installed?
I had to read that four times and each time it hurt my head even more.