...along with the deinfestation, a little education might go a long way. If employees could be paid to attend a (mandatory) presentation on just how a botnet gets set up, I bet this would reduce the instances of infections by an appreciable amount. (Yeah, not 100%, I know.)
Make it interesting. Start out asking for people's opinions on spam. Get 'em good and worked up. Then set up some network monitor with a nice, easy-to-see graphic interface (maybe write one) and demonstrate how a workstation gets infected by the user running a compromised app. Once it takes hold (pick a good one), pull out the stopwatch, tick off 5-10 seconds, then show how many mails it sent. Then do the math; multiply those ten seconds by 6 to get minutes, then 60, to get hours, then 24. I bet even the math-challenged will get the point quickly, looking at those really large numbers.
The problem is, they didn't have Scotty working on the engines. Had he been available to help, they'd have made orbit for sure -- and then some.
I'm within a year of finishing up my Engineering Technology degree. I know for a fact that Doohan's "Scotty" had a lot to do with my interest in Engineering, even though I'm not a hardcore Trekkie. (I just think it's a good sci-fi TV show.)
Here's to a job well done, Mr. Scott -- we miss you.
Maybe I'm a dinosaur (OK, I like BASIC and assembly, so that's a given) -- but I don't see the benefit to putting applications on the Web. I'm no paranoid tinfoil-hat cypherpunk, but I don't trust the reliability and security of running my applications via a connection to the great Out There. Downloading open-source solutions, compiling them, and running them over a LAN, perhaps, but I don't see the venerable hard drive (read: fast local storage) going away anytime soon.
I can see inherently Web-centric applications (email, searches, etc) as migrating to the Web -- but for things like word processing, circuit simulation, and (most dramatically) video editing, I can't imagine how running these over the Internet is going to work, let alone make them Better. Even with the new fiber-optic cable they just finished burying here.
Do I just not "get" it? Why should I use Web-based applications when OpenOffice works just as well? Why complicate things by introducing more points of failure (the whole Internet connection chain of devices, software, and protocols) into the mix?
I'm a Vonage subscriber. If they go (and nothing replaces them), big deal. So I lose VoIP phone service. I might not bother to renew it anyway, as little as I use it.
A decent Sudoku implementation,
A really good (dedicated) Chess game, with WiFi connectivity and ratings,
Civilization (again, WiFi connectivity would make this ROCK),
Syberia I and II,
Magic: the Gathering (yeah, yeah -- but it's good addictive fun sometimes),
The entire Ultima series,
The Frontier/Elite series (Frontier First Encounters, etc),
The Might and Magic series,
Starflight I and II,
Flight Simulator,
Zork etc (with graphical updates -- keypad for directions etc),
The DS is an interesting concept -- WiFi connectivity really adds another dimension to the genre. I still don't get why they added a microphone, though...
It has to be ironic. Otherwise, we'll just annoy the Anti-Soviet-Russia-Meme mods (and there are a LOT of them, trust me!) I wanted to mod you up, just to promote the Soviet Russia Meme. Really I did. But first of all, you're an AC, so what's the use? Also, (more importantly), where's the irony, comrade?
In Soviet Russia, Beowulf clusters of Anonymous Cowards imagine *you*!
Please tell me again why we *need* labels? It's reasonably straightforward for an artist to record, mix, produce, and market a song, album, ringtone, or whatever. Even I could do a reasonable job, and I'm certainly not even a "prosumer."
For movies, with the big production budgets, I can see how Big Business still needs to be involved (for a few years yet, anyway). For music, though -- I just don't see how RIAA et al benefit the artists.
I really don't like Apple's method of tying everything into iTunes. Other mp3 players I've seen have a very simple way of organizing things. When you connect it to your computer, it's a *drive*. You then copy mp3s across (generally, folders and all) and then navigate these on the device. Quick, easy, and no clunky, proprietary software needed.
If I have to choose between a solution that all but requires iTunes (or any other such interface), and one that uses open standards like mp3 and USB drive connectivity, I'll go for the generic mp3 option. Even if it costs more, isn't integrated with a phone, and/or is only available in retro 1970s Harvest Gold color.
It's not because I'm a pirate or anything -- the kind of music I like is readily available for a very reasonable price (eMusic, Magnatune etc). Having to go through iTunes and put up with its interface and invasive practices is a PITA. If I buy an mp3 player, I want to load my songs into it, disconnect it, and not have to bother with buying into anybody's "better" way of doing things.
My grandparents, for one. We've tried a Mailstation (thinking it was the easiest way to at least get them email.) We tried a very simple Windows installation (Win98 is actually pretty reliable if you only use it with IE). For some reason, they just don't see the importance of the 'Net -- at least not for them personally. At least they live reasonably nearby, so it's easy to go see them once in a while. It would be nice to be able to send them pictures or the occasional YouTube link, though.
We're about to try giving them a DVD player. Bets, anyone? (Hey, we *did* get them off the 8-track back in the late '90s!)
Fortunately, my parents are now so totally hooked that they're at the other end -- they buy cool new shiny gadgets before (or despite) checking whether they'll cause configuration headaches. And I can't remember how many times I've given them the "I-can't-fix-your-ping-time-because-you're-on-a-sa tellite-connection" lecture...
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...I'm hoping we can get some of those cool Blu-Ray laser pointers for cheap!
...along with the deinfestation, a little education might go a long way. If employees could be paid to attend a (mandatory) presentation on just how a botnet gets set up, I bet this would reduce the instances of infections by an appreciable amount. (Yeah, not 100%, I know.)
Make it interesting. Start out asking for people's opinions on spam. Get 'em good and worked up. Then set up some network monitor with a nice, easy-to-see graphic interface (maybe write one) and demonstrate how a workstation gets infected by the user running a compromised app. Once it takes hold (pick a good one), pull out the stopwatch, tick off 5-10 seconds, then show how many mails it sent. Then do the math; multiply those ten seconds by 6 to get minutes, then 60, to get hours, then 24. I bet even the math-challenged will get the point quickly, looking at those really large numbers.
The problem is, they didn't have Scotty working on the engines. Had he been available to help, they'd have made orbit for sure -- and then some.
I'm within a year of finishing up my Engineering Technology degree. I know for a fact that Doohan's "Scotty" had a lot to do with my interest in Engineering, even though I'm not a hardcore Trekkie. (I just think it's a good sci-fi TV show.)
Here's to a job well done, Mr. Scott -- we miss you.
Guess I *won't* be doing that automated WiFi stumbler as a senior project...
...you don't feed trolls, you mod them down!
Yeah -- isn't that a bit like Hawai'i exporting ice?
...does exposing 30,000 SSNs affect 100,000 to 150,000 people?
Oh, I get it. The original SSN recipient and the 3-4 ID thieves. Never mind.
...that with all the pr0n out there, the West could come up with a few good dominatrices if we felt our dominance was slipping...
Even if it had great security, why pay that much when software encryption is Free (and apparently a whole lot more reliable)?
Science *is* cool. Sometimes literally!
I go out shopping, and a whole THREAD dedicated to the Soviet Russia meme comes along! Tanj, as Larry Niven would say.
Well, better late than never.
In Soviet Russia, the government monitors the blogs!
Maybe I'm a dinosaur (OK, I like BASIC and assembly, so that's a given) -- but I don't see the benefit to putting applications on the Web. I'm no paranoid tinfoil-hat cypherpunk, but I don't trust the reliability and security of running my applications via a connection to the great Out There. Downloading open-source solutions, compiling them, and running them over a LAN, perhaps, but I don't see the venerable hard drive (read: fast local storage) going away anytime soon.
I can see inherently Web-centric applications (email, searches, etc) as migrating to the Web -- but for things like word processing, circuit simulation, and (most dramatically) video editing, I can't imagine how running these over the Internet is going to work, let alone make them Better. Even with the new fiber-optic cable they just finished burying here.
Do I just not "get" it? Why should I use Web-based applications when OpenOffice works just as well? Why complicate things by introducing more points of failure (the whole Internet connection chain of devices, software, and protocols) into the mix?
I'm a Vonage subscriber. If they go (and nothing replaces them), big deal. So I lose VoIP phone service. I might not bother to renew it anyway, as little as I use it.
Now losing 'Net connectivity? THAT would be bad.
...YOU program COMPUTERS!
*sigh*
A decent Sudoku implementation,
A really good (dedicated) Chess game, with WiFi connectivity and ratings,
Civilization (again, WiFi connectivity would make this ROCK),
Syberia I and II,
Magic: the Gathering (yeah, yeah -- but it's good addictive fun sometimes),
The entire Ultima series,
The Frontier/Elite series (Frontier First Encounters, etc),
The Might and Magic series,
Starflight I and II,
Flight Simulator,
Zork etc (with graphical updates -- keypad for directions etc),
The DS is an interesting concept -- WiFi connectivity really adds another dimension to the genre. I still don't get why they added a microphone, though...
...the snakes install YOU on the plains!
Can someone please explain how a 340 pilot can see 5nm *behind* the aircraft? They don't exactly have rear-view mirrors, ya know...
No, no, no.
It has to be ironic. Otherwise, we'll just annoy the Anti-Soviet-Russia-Meme mods (and there are a LOT of them, trust me!) I wanted to mod you up, just to promote the Soviet Russia Meme. Really I did. But first of all, you're an AC, so what's the use? Also, (more importantly), where's the irony, comrade?
In Soviet Russia, Beowulf clusters of Anonymous Cowards imagine *you*!
Please tell me again why we *need* labels? It's reasonably straightforward for an artist to record, mix, produce, and market a song, album, ringtone, or whatever. Even I could do a reasonable job, and I'm certainly not even a "prosumer."
For movies, with the big production budgets, I can see how Big Business still needs to be involved (for a few years yet, anyway). For music, though -- I just don't see how RIAA et al benefit the artists.
So do I. I find that it's easy if you organize it into, for instance, mp3/instrumental/classical/Bach/Well_Tempered_Clav ier etc.
I really don't like Apple's method of tying everything into iTunes. Other mp3 players I've seen have a very simple way of organizing things. When you connect it to your computer, it's a *drive*. You then copy mp3s across (generally, folders and all) and then navigate these on the device. Quick, easy, and no clunky, proprietary software needed.
If I have to choose between a solution that all but requires iTunes (or any other such interface), and one that uses open standards like mp3 and USB drive connectivity, I'll go for the generic mp3 option. Even if it costs more, isn't integrated with a phone, and/or is only available in retro 1970s Harvest Gold color.
It's not because I'm a pirate or anything -- the kind of music I like is readily available for a very reasonable price (eMusic, Magnatune etc). Having to go through iTunes and put up with its interface and invasive practices is a PITA. If I buy an mp3 player, I want to load my songs into it, disconnect it, and not have to bother with buying into anybody's "better" way of doing things.
OK, that was bizarre -- even coming from an AC...
http://www.missoulian.com/articles/2007/03/24/news /local/news04.txt
Man -- and I thought *I* was lazy. But too lazy to Google it? Wow.
My grandparents, for one. We've tried a Mailstation (thinking it was the easiest way to at least get them email.) We tried a very simple Windows installation (Win98 is actually pretty reliable if you only use it with IE). For some reason, they just don't see the importance of the 'Net -- at least not for them personally. At least they live reasonably nearby, so it's easy to go see them once in a while. It would be nice to be able to send them pictures or the occasional YouTube link, though.
a tellite-connection" lecture...
We're about to try giving them a DVD player. Bets, anyone? (Hey, we *did* get them off the 8-track back in the late '90s!)
Fortunately, my parents are now so totally hooked that they're at the other end -- they buy cool new shiny gadgets before (or despite) checking whether they'll cause configuration headaches. And I can't remember how many times I've given them the "I-can't-fix-your-ping-time-because-you're-on-a-s
Oh, what the hell. I haven't been modded flamebait in a while...
In Christian America, the Assembly programs *you*!