telephone services like tell me (18005558355), and my bank (USAA) work fairly well. my old bank had a touch tone system which was hard to use while driving. the error rate of my new bank's system is fairly low.
but agreeing with you, the voice system in my cell phone sucks.
the real problem is they don't have any competition. we did so well with the moon rush because we wanted to beat the russians. now we have no challengers.
I mean we have been doing very basic stuff and failing horribly
Could you fly to mars? Hold your breath and flap your arms? nasa is doing a decient job. also remember that their feedback loop is something like 18 months (from launch to mars) (somebody check that). how pissed off would you be if gcc took 18 months to compile your code?
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i made a rant about this a while ago, that survived to the backslash the next day. thought it would be good to pull out. its not really about security as much as it was about the functionality of the old machines. yes they were big, and had levers, and were hard to maintain, but they still worked, and everyone knew how they worked, and voting was much easier:
isn't there an inherent flaw in net neutrality? my isp (road runner) offers trailers of the movies they have on the on-demand chanel. if i wanted those same trailers off imdb for example, it is slower then downloading them off the road runner servers. under this law, wouldn't road runner be required to throtle bandwidth to their own server to match the speed to imdb? or am i just way off.
ditto, when i signed up for time warner road runner, the website said ~40.00. when i was on the phone with the rep, i asked how much it came to on average a month, and was surprised when he said that was it. now if only the cell phone carriers would start doing that. my plan is $39.99 by the time i pay my bill its $60, and i only have a $5/mo text messaging plan.
even better: when my mom got her computer (this was in the days before xp sp1) i had made the administrator account visable, and made the rest of the accounts restricted. when we went to install msn dialup (we didn't have cable and dsl was still 3 years out from our house) it couldn't use the modem. msn's help(less) desk (based in salt lake) said that i had to use an administrator account. so i had to convert the four user accounts to administrator.
i didn't say that i would be happy if i was pulled over for something stupid as an excuse, and i am not saying cops should have unrestricted power. there are still laws, and should be. Everybody knows that their bags are subject to search when you fly, and if they don't agree with that, then they can take another method of transportation.
flying an airplane is a privlege, like driving. in my state, if you get pulled over under a suspision of dwi, and you refuse an alchohol test, you lose your privlege to drive. if you don't want your bag searched on an airplane, don't fly.
and personally, i don't care if bush is listening to my phone calls. he would probably be bored to tears.
and i'm not touching the last part, because i agree with that one. there was a study that said (don't ask me where it was, i heard it on the radio) that people decide if someone is trustworthy with in the first.1 second. i don't think it's right, but i find my self doing it too. some of the brightest people on earth aren't american, or western european, or white, etc.
you don't ever take screen shots? yes, i use snagit if i really care, but it is still faster to hit print screen, paste then running a 3rd party screen grabber. and the break key is still used by the command prompt and VB.
(yes i know i am being a windows specific troll, but i am at work where its the microshaft way or the high way)
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my district switched to electronic from lever based. in 2004, at 715 when i voted on lever machines, there was no line, and just about as many signatures in the book. in 2005, the line was out the door and around the corner at the same time. the person in front of me took 5 minutes to use the electronic machine. people knew how to use the old machines, and they were reliable. these new things take the old people for ever to use, and then they complain that they were hard to read...
or they could have just used the student info on the mag stripe as the identifier to the account. at the resturant i used to work at, we had added access control for the registers through the swipe reader we had for the credit cards. the company sent us 5 cards, but the owner was too lazy and cheap to buy more, so we used our own mag stripe cards for access (i used my grocery store card, one of my coworkers used his credit card...). it didn't write new data to the card, it just memorized what was already there. lots of fun for discovering whats on your bank cards...
also there are credit card standards. the big 3 credit card brands (Visa/MC, Novus, AmEx) all use checksums on the number so that the POS can check to see if the card could exist before it dials in (because some people still use dialup for credit cards).
ge's exchange is on the department level. each department has its own subdomain (Power systems for ex is ps.ge.com) with its own exchange server. if someone in power systems was to send an email to someone in capital it goes out of the intranet and back in at the capital head office.
VZ dsl blocks port 80 inbound. big whoop. just change the Listen directive to another port. big whoop. i still get a perfectly fine upload, and no nice lawyers knocking at my door.
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telephone services like tell me (18005558355), and my bank (USAA) work fairly well. my old bank had a touch tone system which was hard to use while driving. the error rate of my new bank's system is fairly low.
but agreeing with you, the voice system in my cell phone sucks.
the real problem is they don't have any competition. we did so well with the moon rush because we wanted to beat the russians. now we have no challengers.
Could you fly to mars? Hold your breath and flap your arms? nasa is doing a decient job. also remember that their feedback loop is something like 18 months (from launch to mars) (somebody check that). how pissed off would you be if gcc took 18 months to compile your code?
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i made a rant about this a while ago, that survived to the backslash the next day. thought it would be good to pull out. its not really about security as much as it was about the functionality of the old machines. yes they were big, and had levers, and were hard to maintain, but they still worked, and everyone knew how they worked, and voting was much easier:
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don't bother up moding this, that would make me a karma whore.
it came out as a featured item in this week's think geek email. from the pictures it looks like it doesn't have anything but analog
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http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/drives/89ed/?c
isn't there an inherent flaw in net neutrality? my isp (road runner) offers trailers of the movies they have on the on-demand chanel. if i wanted those same trailers off imdb for example, it is slower then downloading them off the road runner servers. under this law, wouldn't road runner be required to throtle bandwidth to their own server to match the speed to imdb? or am i just way off.
ditto, when i signed up for time warner road runner, the website said ~40.00. when i was on the phone with the rep, i asked how much it came to on average a month, and was surprised when he said that was it. now if only the cell phone carriers would start doing that. my plan is $39.99 by the time i pay my bill its $60, and i only have a $5/mo text messaging plan.
even better: when my mom got her computer (this was in the days before xp sp1) i had made the administrator account visable, and made the rest of the accounts restricted. when we went to install msn dialup (we didn't have cable and dsl was still 3 years out from our house) it couldn't use the modem. msn's help(less) desk (based in salt lake) said that i had to use an administrator account. so i had to convert the four user accounts to administrator.
maybe. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071494/
i haven't seen either, but i googled fer de lance for the ballmer comment below, and this hit came up.
mod me down. i'm on a bad streak anyways.
i didn't say that i would be happy if i was pulled over for something stupid as an excuse, and i am not saying cops should have unrestricted power. there are still laws, and should be. Everybody knows that their bags are subject to search when you fly, and if they don't agree with that, then they can take another method of transportation.
flying an airplane is a privlege, like driving. in my state, if you get pulled over under a suspision of dwi, and you refuse an alchohol test, you lose your privlege to drive. if you don't want your bag searched on an airplane, don't fly.
.1 second. i don't think it's right, but i find my self doing it too. some of the brightest people on earth aren't american, or western european, or white, etc.
and personally, i don't care if bush is listening to my phone calls. he would probably be bored to tears.
and i'm not touching the last part, because i agree with that one. there was a study that said (don't ask me where it was, i heard it on the radio) that people decide if someone is trustworthy with in the first
*puts soap box away*
RTFA. 11 comments and none about Internet Security Systems
you don't ever take screen shots? yes, i use snagit if i really care, but it is still faster to hit print screen, paste then running a 3rd party screen grabber. and the break key is still used by the command prompt and VB.
(yes i know i am being a windows specific troll, but i am at work where its the microshaft way or the high way)
why colorado? there is good skiing there. why not something like south dakota? what the hell is in south dakota anyways.
(here goes my karma down the tube)
At myHOSTCAMP.com the reliablility of our servers is unmatched (99.9% uptime), the expertise of our staff is second to none and our online support team is always ready to help.
ask the cia
my district switched to electronic from lever based. in 2004, at 715 when i voted on lever machines, there was no line, and just about as many signatures in the book. in 2005, the line was out the door and around the corner at the same time. the person in front of me took 5 minutes to use the electronic machine. people knew how to use the old machines, and they were reliable. these new things take the old people for ever to use, and then they complain that they were hard to read...
or they could have just used the student info on the mag stripe as the identifier to the account. at the resturant i used to work at, we had added access control for the registers through the swipe reader we had for the credit cards. the company sent us 5 cards, but the owner was too lazy and cheap to buy more, so we used our own mag stripe cards for access (i used my grocery store card, one of my coworkers used his credit card...). it didn't write new data to the card, it just memorized what was already there. lots of fun for discovering whats on your bank cards... also there are credit card standards. the big 3 credit card brands (Visa/MC, Novus, AmEx) all use checksums on the number so that the POS can check to see if the card could exist before it dials in (because some people still use dialup for credit cards).
and then your crotch will be on fire. and don't put it on a bean bag either. those catch fire.
you can. if you buy from small business. or you can open that brown and blue box, pop in the first cd of your favorite distro and install away.
but not on ebay. just look at any bidder's history
treu, but until we get off our butts and write it, we have to use something
in the meantime, you could use a got-it-all client like trillian
how many cassete tapes is that going to use?
ge's exchange is on the department level. each department has its own subdomain (Power systems for ex is ps.ge.com) with its own exchange server. if someone in power systems was to send an email to someone in capital it goes out of the intranet and back in at the capital head office.
VZ dsl blocks port 80 inbound. big whoop. just change the Listen directive to another port. big whoop. i still get a perfectly fine upload, and no nice lawyers knocking at my door.