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Lol, that's their own fault. The managers probably said: "code me something that does x" instead of "code me something that we can support" or the sales person offered: we can do your coding project for USD XXXXX which appeared cheaper than what they were paying for the local coders. The long term cost of course, they didn't plan for.
I had something similar happen at one of the companies I used to work for a while ago (precision measurement instruments for industrial processes). They outsourced their lab and prototyping to China as to profit from the cheap scientists. As soon as the branch in China got hold of the blueprints of quite some high tech products (5 and up digit retail value) the whole department literally vanished. Nothing was heard from them for a while until somebody went over just to see an empty building with the offices. All original equipment was still there, the people had started their own little company selling the same product for a lot less down the road, they took all the contacts and copies of plans with them.
That is in case your job title starts with a (capital) C and ends with a (capital) O. This makes it more unlikely to get bedsores from sitting there until the next stock report.
The simplest way would be to use an incremental rsync backup script, encrypt each individual file (or directory) in bulk as well as it's increments and upload the changed files to FTP with a decent syncing script. You'll need a local image of your backup though. Otherwise, find another storage area.
In some localities (like mine) you can't get a TWC cable card because TWC is the only cable provider and thus they can permit refusing to give you anything unless you go along with their plan. I just got TWC because, again, it's the only thing I can get in my rental property for a reasonable price and TWC knows it. They have a butt-ugly modem and a very customer-unfriendly SA box. Anything but the free-to-air channels (regular or HD) are scrambled to any other receiver and no, I can't get anything to decode them from TWC.
Build != Assemble. All those car manufacturers (even the American ones like GM) have their parts imported from all over (Mexico, China,...) and then they assemble them.
I've visited a manufacturers' plant once, they had the all major car parts with all preferences (leather, cloth,...) and colors shipped in in correct order of customers' orders and then the 'local' factory just put them on the line, put the bolts in, programmed the electronics and tested it for defects. Full doors including windows and upholstery came shipped, seats came shipped with everything ready to go, just plug it in for automatic seats and bolt it on, the full dashboard came in on another line including the fans, colored upholstery, just slide it in the frame and bolt it on.
Well, everybody does 'the right thing' according to them to keep a certain image. Google just does what they have to do to keep their standing as 'good company', you do what you have to do to keep your standing as 'good citizen', the hoodrat does what he has to do to keep his standing as 'good dealer'. It's a question of morals, if it would be acceptable to society to turn over all records to everyone that asks, that would be a 'good company' in that case.
Here, the society Google is in is called the Internet where it is acceptable to watch porn openly (as without encryption) but not acceptable to burn somebody's privacy. The government caters to the part of society that doesn't really care, as long as their real-life neighborhoods are supposedly "safe", so they do whatever they have to do (rig elections, illegal wiretap) to keep their image as 'protective government'.
If Google was really good, they would share the wealth (both in financial and informational view) they're obtaining with the people that made them big (open source everything), but that's just my view on society.
It depends on 1) How dumb are the other tech workers? 2) Was this a one-man's show (like my job) where he only has full knowledge of the full architecture. In that case it can be quite difficult to analyze an undocumented network setup. 3) How smart was this guy. I work in an environment where I don't/can't even trust the physical locations of the servers so I take precautions. Even if somebody gains physical access to the server and unplugs it, boots it up with another disk, they still can't get to the directory since they're in an encrypted filevault. It takes some serious analyzing/hacking to get the right keys to unlock access and prevent the directory from resynchronizing itself to it's previous state. 4) How inept are the managers. It seems they weren't all too smart about how they were firing him, so they might not be smart enough to let the right people take a look at it. Especially since it's a government agency, they are probably looking inside first (beware of the unions) to the people that say "I can do it" that have no clue what they're talking about.
I've always wondered, how do you get a yard in your parents' basement? And if you had an hydrophonic yard, wouldn't juveniles be committing burglary when they're there?
You could better compare the Mercedes in Europe to the Buick in the USA. Almost everybody can buy one certified pre-owned, middle-class can buy it brand new and it gives you the status symbol that you are a little higher on the income ladder, a little more refined than the rest.
Ford's are and have been for the last few years cheap pieces of junk that barely last until the last payment is complete. Too bad Volvo has been taken over by Ford, their latest models have been degrading in both quality and innovativeness. In Europe you would get a Skoda (which is currently owned by VW), a second grade brand which the owner apparently uses to recycle the less acceptable parts for the premium VW brand QA.
I don't know where you got $50 100Mbit switches, especially in the.com era which I imagine where more than 8 port "switches". What I think you got was a hub (which puts the price more on par with the story) and no, they won't work fast, neither theoretically nor practical since the collisions would slow them down. Unless you got token ring off course.
1) Even landlines get their power from somewhere, in case they go out centrally, you don't have phone at all either 2) If your landline gets physically cut somewhere, your mobile will usually work, VoIP might work depending on what other cables got cut 3) There are emergency power packs available for both your mobile phone and your VoIP installation (UPS or integrated), the fact that your provider doesn't offer them by default is either because they want to save money or because their engineers are ignorant. 4) The only reason your current landline has battery backed power is because they were built in the time of Ma Bell. Engineers would invent all types of things like that just to keep their job and the companies would come up with it because it would guarantee them a bloated government check for it. If you look at new developments or places that have recently renewed their landline system (my girlfriends parents live in such an area) you will notice that during power-outages, the phone will also be down thus nullifying the extra expense for the local telephone line monopoly.
They already do that in a sense with the UAV's. The controller has a screen (or multiple) where he/she can see what the sight is out of the UAV and they have a controller similar to what would be available if you would be sitting in what would be the cockpit for such device. That is fairly cheap and does it's job well, no brain-links necessary.
The problem as mentioned many times before in these applications is that if you make missions more like a simulation/computer game than the real thing, there will become a disconnect between the guy that pulls the trigger and it's targets while pilots currently still have the final control. Another issue would be what happens with something bigger than a UAV if the communication is disrupted (jammed, out of range, technical malfunction...)
I don't think it comes with any software or maps for the GPS. I have a Nokia N800 and there is a commercial package but I hate paying, so I opted to use maemo-mapper. It downloads the maps from Google Maps or Virtual Earth or Yahoo Streets and it has GPS support (with a bluetooth GPS module I picked up for $30) and it is awesome. Much faster than a TomTom (acquires GPS signal in a second or 2) and it has some other cool features. It uses GTK for the interface and the Nokia is ARM-based Linux as well so it might be simple to adapt.
You can also see it the following way: Look at the period before 2007:
-Microsoft Office 2003 Home and Student - $150
-Microsoft subscription model (which would just have been Office 2003) - 4 x 70 = $280
OneCare shouldn't even be bundled. First, there are other solutions (especially for home, there are a few free solutions). Second, they should make their OS more secure so that you wouldn't even need OneCare. I don't see no SimpleCare bundled with any Mac or Linux package nor is there a demand in those markets, not because they're a smaller market so people don't write virusses for it but because the freaking os doesn't do anything behind the scenes without the user knowing about it.
The strength of a chain is only that of it's weakest link. We recently had a proposal to implement NAC and they're constantly tightening policies. Most solutions however are easily circumvented and rendered incapacitated by only one person or device.
As usual, the problem with computer and/or network security is not necessarily the computer (unless you're running Windows) but the people sitting in front of it.
I am earning very well (at least for the area I live in, I could make more in places like SF but don't want to live there) and I am a Systems Analyst/Programmer at a University. I did fail at some things in school just because I was bored and thus didn't study, I understand the value of knowledge and I have been able to catch up on some things while other things I like to find out for myself.
I believe that knowing how to apply all that knowledge and how to think is more valuable than book smarts. I have had my own company for a while, I was making over 80k in an area in Pennsylvania where the average income is 35k. I have missed some opportunities because I didn't have the right 'paperwork' for that career in that type of organization but on the other side, it thought me a lot more working for smaller companies and differentiating.
I am also an immigrant into the US as of 3 years now and haven't had 2 consecutive months of unemployment (the fact that I can't benefit from unemployment and social security might have helped that part). Yes, I can't become something I don't want to be in the first place (having a job based on your papers that is) but on the other hand, I get enjoyment out of my work and any company willing to look into the value of my work history instead of the smaller 'educational' section of my resume has been better off. Working in those environments, especially PA and upstate NY 'small family businesses' showed me where I have to have my priorities in life. Yes I can make the big bucks as I did in my home country (where my income was equivalent to that of many a civil engineer), but at the expense of family and friends but I rather have a loving wife and maybe later some mini-me's running around whilst not be able to afford the latest Lexus (although I'm coming pretty close at being able to afford a used Lexus).
Actually, you might want to look at the population of subjects they used. Especially for brain scanner studies, those populations tend to be small because time in a scanner is expensive and the scans itself relatively slow. They also have to be made up of an equal number of left-handed or ambidextrous and right handed people and things like strokes, head injury and epilepsy can mess up a lot of stuff in the brain, those selections, again, take up time and money (also reimbursements grow for more specific subgroups of human subjects).
It is not very uncommon to hear in presentations about brain studies that certain findings from other studies cannot be used because the number of subjects was small or not very well put together and the conclusions based on statistical data were thus skewed. Even simple things like tasks are not put together well or parts are easily forgotten which could change the results since a lot goes on in that gray mass. For example if you present somebody with a certain audiovisual stimulus like a kitten and a dog bark, all kinds of parts of the brain might or might not light up depending on memories and experiences while other researchers claim that instead you should use something totally weird like a random color-pattern and noise.
I didn't read this study, but I am pretty sure the population was 10 which is not very representative for all humankind and their 70% claim might be off.
Tell your kid to reach higher than they are already doing. I have an IQ of 130 myself and I barely got my high school diploma and I didn't continue with college or university because I went to their "open enrollment" before and I thought the subjects were a bit too simple for me (I've apparently read through some of the textbooks they showed me on my own when I was in 10th grade).
So I just started my career as a tech support, built up, now I'm an Systems Analyst/Programmer in a University managing the IT for 3 departments and earning a fairly decent salary (for being in a non-profit, research-only department) and I like my job (that might also have to do with the ultimate freedom to do whatever I want with a computing cluster and an electronics lab)
There is a difference between QoS and Traffic Shaping. On a big gigabit network you can permit just using QoS to set preferred priorities which certain routers and level 3 switches can follow. That is most likely what the router does, just tag the packets that are passing through which might not always work.
You also have Traffic Shaping (in Linux this is very simple to set up look up tc) where you reserve pipes of your total guaranteed bandwidth which are reserved for certain traffic (packet-based, port-based or ip-based). Now before you go ahead and set these up: what is your guaranteed bandwidth? If you have a home internet connection, this could be as low as 64kbit/s for cable/dsl to 16k for dial-up or wireless. Of course, traffic shaping so that you'll ALWAYS have that available is not possible unless you want to have that low of a bandwidth. So try to figure out what your minimum practical bandwidth is throughout the day and see if you're happy with that (that's why businesses have contracts and expensive pipes for VoIP).
The other issue is: what happens with the traffic that can't pass through the pipe at a certain moment? Does the router drop it? Technically you should traffic shape on the host that is sending the packets because that is the only one that can shape without having to drop packets and all overhead associated with that.
Read up on the traffic shaping (tc) documentation for linux to find out more about it and find out about how some practical shaping implementations work
That would actually be true if gas prices were somewhere near the reality.
The biggest problem is people speculating on oil prices, buying oil that they're never going to use and might not even have been produced thus somebody is stockpiling something somewhere only to keep the prices up at the pump (which is largely consisting of taxes and national profit markups). What would be great if is the companies that are stockpiling and raking in billions more are hit hard by this (I'm looking at you Exxon)
As we see, the production and demand ratios will eventually regulate it, Saudi-Arabia notices that their biggest clients are taking less and less oil in and the value of the dollar was already low so all of a sudden they can produce a few hundreds of thousand barrels more and drill some more oil fields so they can maintain their income? And the US all of a sudden sees that huge amounts of oil are still untouched within their own borders?
they can't keep my clothing for drug residue testing in a lab
Yes they can. Just let somebody else tell them or imply (this could be anyone, even a 'scientific' or military report you never heard off and you seem to fit the profile) that you might have a drug or bomb residue on your clothes that they can't test for on site and see how fast you'll be entering the States with literally nothing.
The problem is, some of use require that ARDAgent to work as it is supposed to. I am using Apple Remote Desktop to manage workstations and it does a darn good job. I can send root commands like softwareupdate -i -a to all agents and they do their work and report back to me.
Apple needs to fix this although I think the problem would only exhibit itself when somebody has gained access to the local network. As for the other one, that is not a trojan, just a script and a virus scanner wouldn't help either since I could write the following script:
if [ -f "/Library/StartupItems/NortonAutoProtect" ]; then/Library/StartupItems/NortonAutoProtect/NortonAutoProtect stop fi if [ -f "/Library/StartupItems/ClamXAv" ]; then/Library/StartupItems/ClamXAv/ClamXAv stop fi etc. etc. then install something nasty
Nonetheless, it does happen. Usually with wildcard certificates. I used to work for a couple of hosting company and they usually have a wildcard certificate for *.hostingdomain.com. So the spammers get a (usually free trial) package with free SSL certificate and some type of bogus domain like paypal.com.hostingdomain.com and they have a somewhat valid SSL enabled site. And people that click and follow phishing sites are dumb enough to say: it has a keylock in the address bar, it is safe.
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Lol, that's their own fault. The managers probably said: "code me something that does x" instead of "code me something that we can support" or the sales person offered: we can do your coding project for USD XXXXX which appeared cheaper than what they were paying for the local coders. The long term cost of course, they didn't plan for.
I had something similar happen at one of the companies I used to work for a while ago (precision measurement instruments for industrial processes). They outsourced their lab and prototyping to China as to profit from the cheap scientists. As soon as the branch in China got hold of the blueprints of quite some high tech products (5 and up digit retail value) the whole department literally vanished. Nothing was heard from them for a while until somebody went over just to see an empty building with the offices. All original equipment was still there, the people had started their own little company selling the same product for a lot less down the road, they took all the contacts and copies of plans with them.
That is in case your job title starts with a (capital) C and ends with a (capital) O. This makes it more unlikely to get bedsores from sitting there until the next stock report.
The simplest way would be to use an incremental rsync backup script, encrypt each individual file (or directory) in bulk as well as it's increments and upload the changed files to FTP with a decent syncing script. You'll need a local image of your backup though. Otherwise, find another storage area.
In some localities (like mine) you can't get a TWC cable card because TWC is the only cable provider and thus they can permit refusing to give you anything unless you go along with their plan. I just got TWC because, again, it's the only thing I can get in my rental property for a reasonable price and TWC knows it. They have a butt-ugly modem and a very customer-unfriendly SA box. Anything but the free-to-air channels (regular or HD) are scrambled to any other receiver and no, I can't get anything to decode them from TWC.
I don't think a game based on Hobbits would do that well.
Build != Assemble. All those car manufacturers (even the American ones like GM) have their parts imported from all over (Mexico, China, ...) and then they assemble them.
I've visited a manufacturers' plant once, they had the all major car parts with all preferences (leather, cloth, ...) and colors shipped in in correct order of customers' orders and then the 'local' factory just put them on the line, put the bolts in, programmed the electronics and tested it for defects. Full doors including windows and upholstery came shipped, seats came shipped with everything ready to go, just plug it in for automatic seats and bolt it on, the full dashboard came in on another line including the fans, colored upholstery, just slide it in the frame and bolt it on.
Well, everybody does 'the right thing' according to them to keep a certain image. Google just does what they have to do to keep their standing as 'good company', you do what you have to do to keep your standing as 'good citizen', the hoodrat does what he has to do to keep his standing as 'good dealer'. It's a question of morals, if it would be acceptable to society to turn over all records to everyone that asks, that would be a 'good company' in that case.
Here, the society Google is in is called the Internet where it is acceptable to watch porn openly (as without encryption) but not acceptable to burn somebody's privacy. The government caters to the part of society that doesn't really care, as long as their real-life neighborhoods are supposedly "safe", so they do whatever they have to do (rig elections, illegal wiretap) to keep their image as 'protective government'.
If Google was really good, they would share the wealth (both in financial and informational view) they're obtaining with the people that made them big (open source everything), but that's just my view on society.
It depends on
1) How dumb are the other tech workers?
2) Was this a one-man's show (like my job) where he only has full knowledge of the full architecture. In that case it can be quite difficult to analyze an undocumented network setup.
3) How smart was this guy. I work in an environment where I don't/can't even trust the physical locations of the servers so I take precautions. Even if somebody gains physical access to the server and unplugs it, boots it up with another disk, they still can't get to the directory since they're in an encrypted filevault. It takes some serious analyzing/hacking to get the right keys to unlock access and prevent the directory from resynchronizing itself to it's previous state.
4) How inept are the managers. It seems they weren't all too smart about how they were firing him, so they might not be smart enough to let the right people take a look at it. Especially since it's a government agency, they are probably looking inside first (beware of the unions) to the people that say "I can do it" that have no clue what they're talking about.
Or for the same price, you could just buy a new CD-ROM drive that DOES read copied CD's
I've always wondered, how do you get a yard in your parents' basement? And if you had an hydrophonic yard, wouldn't juveniles be committing burglary when they're there?
You could better compare the Mercedes in Europe to the Buick in the USA. Almost everybody can buy one certified pre-owned, middle-class can buy it brand new and it gives you the status symbol that you are a little higher on the income ladder, a little more refined than the rest.
Ford's are and have been for the last few years cheap pieces of junk that barely last until the last payment is complete. Too bad Volvo has been taken over by Ford, their latest models have been degrading in both quality and innovativeness. In Europe you would get a Skoda (which is currently owned by VW), a second grade brand which the owner apparently uses to recycle the less acceptable parts for the premium VW brand QA.
I don't know where you got $50 100Mbit switches, especially in the .com era which I imagine where more than 8 port "switches". What I think you got was a hub (which puts the price more on par with the story) and no, they won't work fast, neither theoretically nor practical since the collisions would slow them down. Unless you got token ring off course.
1) Even landlines get their power from somewhere, in case they go out centrally, you don't have phone at all either
2) If your landline gets physically cut somewhere, your mobile will usually work, VoIP might work depending on what other cables got cut
3) There are emergency power packs available for both your mobile phone and your VoIP installation (UPS or integrated), the fact that your provider doesn't offer them by default is either because they want to save money or because their engineers are ignorant.
4) The only reason your current landline has battery backed power is because they were built in the time of Ma Bell. Engineers would invent all types of things like that just to keep their job and the companies would come up with it because it would guarantee them a bloated government check for it. If you look at new developments or places that have recently renewed their landline system (my girlfriends parents live in such an area) you will notice that during power-outages, the phone will also be down thus nullifying the extra expense for the local telephone line monopoly.
They already do that in a sense with the UAV's. The controller has a screen (or multiple) where he/she can see what the sight is out of the UAV and they have a controller similar to what would be available if you would be sitting in what would be the cockpit for such device. That is fairly cheap and does it's job well, no brain-links necessary.
The problem as mentioned many times before in these applications is that if you make missions more like a simulation/computer game than the real thing, there will become a disconnect between the guy that pulls the trigger and it's targets while pilots currently still have the final control. Another issue would be what happens with something bigger than a UAV if the communication is disrupted (jammed, out of range, technical malfunction...)
I don't think it comes with any software or maps for the GPS. I have a Nokia N800 and there is a commercial package but I hate paying, so I opted to use maemo-mapper. It downloads the maps from Google Maps or Virtual Earth or Yahoo Streets and it has GPS support (with a bluetooth GPS module I picked up for $30) and it is awesome. Much faster than a TomTom (acquires GPS signal in a second or 2) and it has some other cool features. It uses GTK for the interface and the Nokia is ARM-based Linux as well so it might be simple to adapt.
You can also see it the following way: Look at the period before 2007:
-Microsoft Office 2003 Home and Student - $150
-Microsoft subscription model (which would just have been Office 2003) - 4 x 70 = $280
OneCare shouldn't even be bundled. First, there are other solutions (especially for home, there are a few free solutions). Second, they should make their OS more secure so that you wouldn't even need OneCare. I don't see no SimpleCare bundled with any Mac or Linux package nor is there a demand in those markets, not because they're a smaller market so people don't write virusses for it but because the freaking os doesn't do anything behind the scenes without the user knowing about it.
The strength of a chain is only that of it's weakest link. We recently had a proposal to implement NAC and they're constantly tightening policies. Most solutions however are easily circumvented and rendered incapacitated by only one person or device.
As usual, the problem with computer and/or network security is not necessarily the computer (unless you're running Windows) but the people sitting in front of it.
I am earning very well (at least for the area I live in, I could make more in places like SF but don't want to live there) and I am a Systems Analyst/Programmer at a University. I did fail at some things in school just because I was bored and thus didn't study, I understand the value of knowledge and I have been able to catch up on some things while other things I like to find out for myself.
I believe that knowing how to apply all that knowledge and how to think is more valuable than book smarts. I have had my own company for a while, I was making over 80k in an area in Pennsylvania where the average income is 35k. I have missed some opportunities because I didn't have the right 'paperwork' for that career in that type of organization but on the other side, it thought me a lot more working for smaller companies and differentiating.
I am also an immigrant into the US as of 3 years now and haven't had 2 consecutive months of unemployment (the fact that I can't benefit from unemployment and social security might have helped that part). Yes, I can't become something I don't want to be in the first place (having a job based on your papers that is) but on the other hand, I get enjoyment out of my work and any company willing to look into the value of my work history instead of the smaller 'educational' section of my resume has been better off. Working in those environments, especially PA and upstate NY 'small family businesses' showed me where I have to have my priorities in life. Yes I can make the big bucks as I did in my home country (where my income was equivalent to that of many a civil engineer), but at the expense of family and friends but I rather have a loving wife and maybe later some mini-me's running around whilst not be able to afford the latest Lexus (although I'm coming pretty close at being able to afford a used Lexus).
Actually, you might want to look at the population of subjects they used. Especially for brain scanner studies, those populations tend to be small because time in a scanner is expensive and the scans itself relatively slow. They also have to be made up of an equal number of left-handed or ambidextrous and right handed people and things like strokes, head injury and epilepsy can mess up a lot of stuff in the brain, those selections, again, take up time and money (also reimbursements grow for more specific subgroups of human subjects).
It is not very uncommon to hear in presentations about brain studies that certain findings from other studies cannot be used because the number of subjects was small or not very well put together and the conclusions based on statistical data were thus skewed. Even simple things like tasks are not put together well or parts are easily forgotten which could change the results since a lot goes on in that gray mass. For example if you present somebody with a certain audiovisual stimulus like a kitten and a dog bark, all kinds of parts of the brain might or might not light up depending on memories and experiences while other researchers claim that instead you should use something totally weird like a random color-pattern and noise.
I didn't read this study, but I am pretty sure the population was 10 which is not very representative for all humankind and their 70% claim might be off.
Tell your kid to reach higher than they are already doing. I have an IQ of 130 myself and I barely got my high school diploma and I didn't continue with college or university because I went to their "open enrollment" before and I thought the subjects were a bit too simple for me (I've apparently read through some of the textbooks they showed me on my own when I was in 10th grade).
So I just started my career as a tech support, built up, now I'm an Systems Analyst/Programmer in a University managing the IT for 3 departments and earning a fairly decent salary (for being in a non-profit, research-only department) and I like my job (that might also have to do with the ultimate freedom to do whatever I want with a computing cluster and an electronics lab)
There is a difference between QoS and Traffic Shaping. On a big gigabit network you can permit just using QoS to set preferred priorities which certain routers and level 3 switches can follow. That is most likely what the router does, just tag the packets that are passing through which might not always work.
You also have Traffic Shaping (in Linux this is very simple to set up look up tc) where you reserve pipes of your total guaranteed bandwidth which are reserved for certain traffic (packet-based, port-based or ip-based). Now before you go ahead and set these up: what is your guaranteed bandwidth? If you have a home internet connection, this could be as low as 64kbit/s for cable/dsl to 16k for dial-up or wireless. Of course, traffic shaping so that you'll ALWAYS have that available is not possible unless you want to have that low of a bandwidth. So try to figure out what your minimum practical bandwidth is throughout the day and see if you're happy with that (that's why businesses have contracts and expensive pipes for VoIP).
The other issue is: what happens with the traffic that can't pass through the pipe at a certain moment? Does the router drop it? Technically you should traffic shape on the host that is sending the packets because that is the only one that can shape without having to drop packets and all overhead associated with that.
Read up on the traffic shaping (tc) documentation for linux to find out more about it and find out about how some practical shaping implementations work
That would actually be true if gas prices were somewhere near the reality.
The biggest problem is people speculating on oil prices, buying oil that they're never going to use and might not even have been produced thus somebody is stockpiling something somewhere only to keep the prices up at the pump (which is largely consisting of taxes and national profit markups). What would be great if is the companies that are stockpiling and raking in billions more are hit hard by this (I'm looking at you Exxon)
As we see, the production and demand ratios will eventually regulate it, Saudi-Arabia notices that their biggest clients are taking less and less oil in and the value of the dollar was already low so all of a sudden they can produce a few hundreds of thousand barrels more and drill some more oil fields so they can maintain their income? And the US all of a sudden sees that huge amounts of oil are still untouched within their own borders?
they can't keep my clothing for drug residue testing in a lab
Yes they can. Just let somebody else tell them or imply (this could be anyone, even a 'scientific' or military report you never heard off and you seem to fit the profile) that you might have a drug or bomb residue on your clothes that they can't test for on site and see how fast you'll be entering the States with literally nothing.
The problem is, some of use require that ARDAgent to work as it is supposed to. I am using Apple Remote Desktop to manage workstations and it does a darn good job. I can send root commands like softwareupdate -i -a to all agents and they do their work and report back to me.
Apple needs to fix this although I think the problem would only exhibit itself when somebody has gained access to the local network. As for the other one, that is not a trojan, just a script and a virus scanner wouldn't help either since I could write the following script:
if [ -f "/Library/StartupItems/NortonAutoProtect" ]; then /Library/StartupItems/NortonAutoProtect/NortonAutoProtect stop /Library/StartupItems/ClamXAv/ClamXAv stop
fi
if [ -f "/Library/StartupItems/ClamXAv" ]; then
fi
etc. etc.
then install something nasty
Nonetheless, it does happen. Usually with wildcard certificates. I used to work for a couple of hosting company and they usually have a wildcard certificate for *.hostingdomain.com. So the spammers get a (usually free trial) package with free SSL certificate and some type of bogus domain like paypal.com.hostingdomain.com and they have a somewhat valid SSL enabled site. And people that click and follow phishing sites are dumb enough to say: it has a keylock in the address bar, it is safe.