I'd have to agree that the education is primo. However, I am under the impression it may be best to work on your masters while being employed. Find a school where you want to study, and look for a marginally affiliated programming job while finishing up. From my experience, most companies will pay for masters, but not all for your Ph.D. And what better way to alleviate debt by not adding more debt (tuition)?
Pay some debts, then go full bore for the Ph.D. in grad school.
I have a great idea: make it use a free source for TV program info so we can drop the subscription!
Give it the ability to play back audio (mp3, etc) and DVDs, and we'll call it a day.
There used to be a rumor (perhaps urban legend) that Listerine and Listermint (or maybe some other brand-- I was kid in the 80s) were products of the same company: one marketted towards upperclass consumers geared towards buying the best hygiene products, the other towards the low-end consumer who just wanted mouthwash.
What can be applied to the MPAA you ask? Simple: perhaps they don't go after the people selling their wares because they're getting the profits from them... i.e. that's their low-end consumer version!
Remote connectivity to manage a neighbor's,
ahem, family member's machine? Simple. Tell them they don't need those software update thingies. Then overflow their buffer with say the MS04-011 or something of the like, appending desired code to make desired changes, and... Presto Change-o. It works.
Finally... now maybe health care systems won't rely on dial-up as their primary method of sharing information from facility to facility.
Amazingly enough, health care is probably 5-10 years behind in IT. The optimistic note: Health Care IT can learn from the mistakes of the 90s (which they were thinking about implementing next quarter- honest) and with movements like this, perhaps they can finally adopt proven standards.
You should look at TrueCrypt. Many ciphers, even combinations of ciphers, plus ease of use, key management, and of course (the coup de gras) Plausible Deniability. Not to mention, it works on an existing file system or to an entire device. And don't forget the hidden volumes!
Cheshire's right... I personally use it in a MS environment where I just needed a DB & perl for a small home grown app. I, however, run it without allowing connections from anywhere but localhost.
But supposing we have a recession and the mice lose their jobs... Does that mean I will have to see mice on street corners with "will work for cheese" signs?
Or maybe they'll never lose their jobs... think of how they'll be in the rat race... building the better mouse trap to cannibalistically catch their stupid (non-human-brained) cousins. I'll bet they make good engineers.
Thanks.
The goal here is not to create the end-all solution, but to work in the current environment while things are imperfect. I agree that ideally we would just choose one browser and change the web apps that require something else, but in the interest of migrating to that point, I think an interim solution is needed to:
+ hijack any all all URLs
+ compare to whitelist
+ open in an appropriate browser
+ be scalable and deployable... not just for my laziness as some would suggest, but for a slew of end-users who haven't a clue... it just works.
Now I heard of an old project where a company wanted to rewrite URLs, so they hijacked them at the http level. Anyone familiar with this?
I would generally agree with your remarks. However, my comments were edited. I meant it to inlcude a sense of sarcasm as to why no one has yet built it.
How about hijacking the http calls by [insert browser] and then if browser source != whitelisted browser for this URL, send back html "This URL will be entered in [browser name] momentarily" and pass the URL to the correct browser....
That way it's not tied to the initial call but could happen during the entire http session.
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It's like unplugging Galaga, wiping the all-time high scores list and starting all over:
Make a new account and start your karma at 0!
I'd have to agree that the education is primo. However, I am under the impression it may be best to work on your masters while being employed. Find a school where you want to study, and look for a marginally affiliated programming job while finishing up. From my experience, most companies will pay for masters, but not all for your Ph.D. And what better way to alleviate debt by not adding more debt (tuition)?
Pay some debts, then go full bore for the Ph.D. in grad school.
I have a great idea: make it use a free source for TV program info so we can drop the subscription! Give it the ability to play back audio (mp3, etc) and DVDs, and we'll call it a day.
Isn't anyone going to mention how Gates relieving the CEO spot to Steve Ballmer had an effect on this?
I have seen way too many IT folks do the same but never admit they didn't have the background or knowledge. Admitting is the first step to recovery ...
And 33.23456% are made up right there on the spot.
"Nya, what's up, Doc? Must of taken a wrong turn at Andromeda."
I buy #3. The others are so-so, but #3 hits the nail on the head.
"Son, what is all this crap that program found? ... You mean you can download entire movies? Pull up a chair and show your father how to do that."
There used to be a rumor (perhaps urban legend) that Listerine and Listermint (or maybe some other brand-- I was kid in the 80s) were products of the same company: one marketted towards upperclass consumers geared towards buying the best hygiene products, the other towards the low-end consumer who just wanted mouthwash.
... i.e. that's their low-end consumer version!
What can be applied to the MPAA you ask? Simple: perhaps they don't go after the people selling their wares because they're getting the profits from them
So, it's going to cost $MILLIONS to find out my cell phone is keeping me from having kids?!?!?
It's located at www.theWholeDangInternet.com
. For an older copy try the Internet Archive.
Finally ... now maybe health care systems won't rely on dial-up as their primary method of sharing information from facility to facility.
Amazingly enough, health care is probably 5-10 years behind in IT. The optimistic note: Health Care IT can learn from the mistakes of the 90s (which they were thinking about implementing next quarter- honest) and with movements like this, perhaps they can finally adopt proven standards.
You should look at TrueCrypt. Many ciphers, even combinations of ciphers, plus ease of use, key management, and of course (the coup de gras) Plausible Deniability.
Not to mention, it works on an existing file system or to an entire device. And don't forget the hidden volumes!
Zimmerman's great and all, but in this scenario we need a simple symmetric algorithm. Have Bruce Schneier implement his patent-free 448 bit key, 64 bit block Blowfish or 256 bit key, 128 bit block Twofish.
Cheshire's right ... I personally use it in a MS environment where I just needed a DB & perl for a small home grown app. I, however, run it without allowing connections from anywhere but localhost.
But supposing we have a recession and the mice lose their jobs ... Does that mean I will have to see mice on street corners with "will work for cheese" signs?
Or maybe they'll never lose their jobs ... think of how they'll be in the rat race ... building the better mouse trap to cannibalistically catch their stupid (non-human-brained) cousins. I'll bet they make good engineers.
That would come in handy at Disney World ... Dang that Mickey Mouse taking my family's picture and making me pay $50 for it!
Can't wait until MS releases win 3.1 source! Sorry, just wanted to see if my new sig worked properly ...
Thanks. The goal here is not to create the end-all solution, but to work in the current environment while things are imperfect. I agree that ideally we would just choose one browser and change the web apps that require something else, but in the interest of migrating to that point, I think an interim solution is needed to: + hijack any all all URLs + compare to whitelist + open in an appropriate browser + be scalable and deployable ... not just for my laziness as some would suggest, but for a slew of end-users who haven't a clue ... it just works.
Now I heard of an old project where a company wanted to rewrite URLs, so they hijacked them at the http level. Anyone familiar with this?
I would generally agree with your remarks. However, my comments were edited. I meant it to inlcude a sense of sarcasm as to why no one has yet built it.
How about hijacking the http calls by [insert browser] and then if browser source != whitelisted browser for this URL, send back html "This URL will be entered in [browser name] momentarily" and pass the URL to the correct browser ....
That way it's not tied to the initial call but could happen during the entire http session.