How, exactly, do freezes legitimately cut into their business? No one is supposed to be able to get a credit report on you without your explicit authorization anyway. Any credit reports requested on you without your explicit authorization is a violation of federal law.
The bottom line is that the Big Three credit reporting agencies are sleezebags. If they had their way, they'd have it so that anyone can put anything in your credit file they like, and anyone can request any info they like any time. They don't want you to have any control over what's in your credit file, because ultimately that is the source of their power!
Screw this. I'm gonna go live off the grid somewhere.
Since iPhones don't have any kind of access that makes this "discovery" meaningful, I'm sure that people will just misunderstand the implications of this, and because of the iPhones popularity - and a lot of peoples' desire to tear it down or create any FUD they can to dissuade interested people from possibly buying an iPhone - I'm sure this and related stories will be big news.
And if it does, so what? Unless you have AAPL stock, why should you care?
In any respect, people aren't that security conscious anyhow. Most people who are even moderately computer literate know that Windows is a buggy, insecure POS. Most people use Windows anyways.
Since microsoft is going for ECMA and ISO standardization of thier file format, personally I think it should be approved; once the ECMA and ISO approval is done.
The ECMA and ISO approvals for OOXML are a sham. They're bought and paid for by Microsoft. Microsoft has been bribing the committees and stuffing them with their own people to all but guarantee approval. This, IMHO, just weakens the ECMA and ISO standards bodies to the point that they can no longer be trusted. Thanks, Microsoft! You truly make the world a better place! *cough* *cough* *hack* *puke*
Certs aren't all their cracked up to be. I've been working in this field for many years and I'm near the top of the payscale. Any idea how many certs I have? Zero. As in none. Experience and a degree are far more valuable than certs, IMHO.
I'd make sure I had ample experience in the systems and networking administration arenas. Know multiple flavors of UNIX, know Linux, and know multiple clustering technologies -- everything from shared-memory architectures to high performance clustering to grid computing to high availability systems. Know the systems available from multiple vendors -- IBM, HP, Sun, Red Hat, Veritas. Knowing storage area networking is pretty smart also. Know networks -- understand them at all levels in the OSI and TCP/IP models. Understand application and system-level debugging. Understand how to analyze the performance of a complete system, from the application level all the way to the lowest levels of an individual node.
Oh, and being able to think on your feet, the ability to communicate with engineers and scientists, and being very organized and able to work independently doesn't hurt either.
What's a password? 7 or 8 picks out of, at most, 52 letters, 10 digits, and 22 symbols, right? 7 or 8 picks out 84 possibles. If you want it as secure as a password, you just need 84 possibles, right?
The link at the bottom of the article does... it says that they would use a combination of timing and multiple picks to defeat brute-forcing. Too slow and it looks like an intruder -- too fast and it looks like a computer trying every possible combination.
How about using this as sort of a pictogram password? You draw out, let's say, 7 or 8 different shapes, scan them into uniform-sized pictures. They site shows you, say 50 or so different uniform-sized pictures for each of the 7-8 original shapes, in 7-8 passes. On the first pass, you pick 1 out of 50. On the second pass, you pick 1 out of 50, and so forth. Might take a long time, but you wouldn't have to remember a password, and it would be difficult to brute-force through either automated or non-automated means.
Both. The recording industry hates the Internet precisely because it will eventually eliminate their business model. That much is obvious. I don't think it's like the recording industry wants to eliminate the Internet as a means of music distribution -- they just want to slow it down enough until they can ensure that they will continue to be a relevant part of music distribution.
In the end, I don't think they will... the tide's already turned against them. But watching the show of them going down is going to be spectacular.
We're going through a painful growing stage that's going to be full of 'WTF?' moments but I'd be surprised if in ten years time, the music industry landscape will be drastically different with self-publishing bands, CDs a rarity (or their replacement format) and the licencing juggernaut that we have right now being relegated to history.
Not just self-publishing, but self-publishing and somewhat self-promoting. I mean somewhat because a new market will be created for promoters, whom will be hired directly by bands, much like a publicist today. Except that the promoter will do all the promoting jobs, not just talking to the media -- they'll hire advertisers, they'll buy Google ads, they'll hire the necessary people to setup concerts and gigs. IOW, they'll do a lot of the valuable work the record companies do today.
Call me naive, call me a dreamer -- but the more I look it at it from the perspective of a musical artist, it just seems to be going in that direction.
And if Microsoft shuts off your XP CD Key for WindowsUpdate? Say bye, bye security updates. Plus there's the activation issue, unless you have an OEM or Corporate copy of XP.
Mod parent up! EVDO = 3G, EDGE = 2.5G EVDO networks have been rolled out by Verizon, Sprint and Alltel all over the country. Sprint Mobile Broadband uses EVDO. It's nice and it's fast; not quite WiFi but it's fast. EDGE is slow. That's my whole point.
Gotta love/. moderation. I'll get moded Stupid for pointing out that you get modded Informative for pointing out the ridiculousness of the parent, who pointed out that the parent got modded Redundant for repeating the parents point that the parent was modded Funny for pointing out the parent got modded Flamebait for correcting the spelling in his own post, which eventually got modded +2, informative!
Well, right. Sprint, Verizon and Alltel. AT&T/Cingular and T-Mobile are the ones with limited 3G capabilities. Sprint and Verizon have it in most major cities.
People don't need to WTF that is. All they need to do is try surfing the Net with Smartphone A vs. Smartphone B. If Smartphone B is faster because it's on a 3G network, then people who care about the performance of their Net connectivity won't be going with Smartphone A, no matter who is pushing it and no matter how 'cool' it looks.
Most people will get it for it's look.
Here let me fix that for you:
Most teenage and some 20-something people will get it for it's look.
You had a commercially available computer before 1984 that had a mouse and a bit-map display and folders and icons? Or you got one in 1984 that wasn't from Apple?
Minor nit: You got halfway through Jobs' second sentence. You reproduced his first sentence in your post in its entirety.
I'm not sure that iPhone's interface is revolutionary, though. It seems to be an evolutionary step, though a logical one, over existing mobile interfaces. What we're seeing is that 'Steve Jobs Reality Distortion Field' again at its finest.
Simply put: it ain't 3G. That's going to be one of the biggest stumbling blocks for iPhone. It's one of the reasons why I won't be buying one, despite the fact that I drooled over the iPhone initially.
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The freeze laws require that the credit card agencies setup a secret password that only you know. The password is never to be revealed to anyone.
How, exactly, do freezes legitimately cut into their business? No one is supposed to be able to get a credit report on you without your explicit authorization anyway. Any credit reports requested on you without your explicit authorization is a violation of federal law.
The bottom line is that the Big Three credit reporting agencies are sleezebags. If they had their way, they'd have it so that anyone can put anything in your credit file they like, and anyone can request any info they like any time. They don't want you to have any control over what's in your credit file, because ultimately that is the source of their power!
Screw this. I'm gonna go live off the grid somewhere.
And if it does, so what? Unless you have AAPL stock, why should you care?
In any respect, people aren't that security conscious anyhow. Most people who are even moderately computer literate know that Windows is a buggy, insecure POS. Most people use Windows anyways.
The ECMA and ISO approvals for OOXML are a sham. They're bought and paid for by Microsoft. Microsoft has been bribing the committees and stuffing them with their own people to all but guarantee approval. This, IMHO, just weakens the ECMA and ISO standards bodies to the point that they can no longer be trusted. Thanks, Microsoft! You truly make the world a better place! *cough* *cough* *hack* *puke*
Can anyone say RICO? I can't wait for the new head of the DOJ coming in January 2009. Let's just hope for a Democrat in the White House.
... Hillary throws a chair: "I'm gonna F***ING KILL Microsoft!"
I can see it now
Certs aren't all their cracked up to be. I've been working in this field for many years and I'm near the top of the payscale. Any idea how many certs I have? Zero. As in none. Experience and a degree are far more valuable than certs, IMHO.
Great. Glad to know I'm an 'old fogey' at 34. :(
I'd make sure I had ample experience in the systems and networking administration arenas. Know multiple flavors of UNIX, know Linux, and know multiple clustering technologies -- everything from shared-memory architectures to high performance clustering to grid computing to high availability systems. Know the systems available from multiple vendors -- IBM, HP, Sun, Red Hat, Veritas. Knowing storage area networking is pretty smart also. Know networks -- understand them at all levels in the OSI and TCP/IP models. Understand application and system-level debugging. Understand how to analyze the performance of a complete system, from the application level all the way to the lowest levels of an individual node.
Oh, and being able to think on your feet, the ability to communicate with engineers and scientists, and being very organized and able to work independently doesn't hurt either.
What's a password? 7 or 8 picks out of, at most, 52 letters, 10 digits, and 22 symbols, right? 7 or 8 picks out 84 possibles. If you want it as secure as a password, you just need 84 possibles, right?
The link at the bottom of the article does ... it says that they would use a combination of timing and multiple picks to defeat brute-forcing. Too slow and it looks like an intruder -- too fast and it looks like a computer trying every possible combination.
How about using this as sort of a pictogram password? You draw out, let's say, 7 or 8 different shapes, scan them into uniform-sized pictures. They site shows you, say 50 or so different uniform-sized pictures for each of the 7-8 original shapes, in 7-8 passes. On the first pass, you pick 1 out of 50. On the second pass, you pick 1 out of 50, and so forth. Might take a long time, but you wouldn't have to remember a password, and it would be difficult to brute-force through either automated or non-automated means.
Both. The recording industry hates the Internet precisely because it will eventually eliminate their business model. That much is obvious. I don't think it's like the recording industry wants to eliminate the Internet as a means of music distribution -- they just want to slow it down enough until they can ensure that they will continue to be a relevant part of music distribution.
... the tide's already turned against them. But watching the show of them going down is going to be spectacular.
In the end, I don't think they will
Goose you stupid freak!
Not just self-publishing, but self-publishing and somewhat self-promoting. I mean somewhat because a new market will be created for promoters, whom will be hired directly by bands, much like a publicist today. Except that the promoter will do all the promoting jobs, not just talking to the media -- they'll hire advertisers, they'll buy Google ads, they'll hire the necessary people to setup concerts and gigs. IOW, they'll do a lot of the valuable work the record companies do today.
Call me naive, call me a dreamer -- but the more I look it at it from the perspective of a musical artist, it just seems to be going in that direction.
And if Microsoft shuts off your XP CD Key for WindowsUpdate? Say bye, bye security updates. Plus there's the activation issue, unless you have an OEM or Corporate copy of XP.
There's a link to a coverage map elsewhere in this thread. It is in most major cities.
Mod parent up! EVDO = 3G, EDGE = 2.5G EVDO networks have been rolled out by Verizon, Sprint and Alltel all over the country. Sprint Mobile Broadband uses EVDO. It's nice and it's fast; not quite WiFi but it's fast. EDGE is slow. That's my whole point.
Gotta love /. moderation. I'll get moded Stupid for pointing out that you get modded Informative for pointing out the ridiculousness of the parent, who pointed out that the parent got modded Redundant for repeating the parents point that the parent was modded Funny for pointing out the parent got modded Flamebait for correcting the spelling in his own post, which eventually got modded +2, informative!
GEM was previewed in 1983 at COMDEX and released in 1984.
Well, right. Sprint, Verizon and Alltel. AT&T/Cingular and T-Mobile are the ones with limited 3G capabilities. Sprint and Verizon have it in most major cities.
Tell that to Sprint.
Here let me fix that for you:
Yes.
Um, not to burst your bubble there, but the existing iPhone is EDGE capable.
Minor nit: You got halfway through Jobs' second sentence. You reproduced his first sentence in your post in its entirety.
I'm not sure that iPhone's interface is revolutionary, though. It seems to be an evolutionary step, though a logical one, over existing mobile interfaces. What we're seeing is that 'Steve Jobs Reality Distortion Field' again at its finest.
Simply put: it ain't 3G. That's going to be one of the biggest stumbling blocks for iPhone. It's one of the reasons why I won't be buying one, despite the fact that I drooled over the iPhone initially.