i have a co worker who is on his 4th palm pre.. he got it because they where offering free tethering if you got one.. but the damn thing keeps dieing on him.
it isn't that bad of a device.. but by god is it lacking n some of the more basic user interface bits.
actually it isn't that hard.. you aren't required to have an SSN.. but once you sign up for it you can't get rid of it.. i have a friend whose parents didn't bother filling out the forms so he doesn't have an SSN - sure it made life more difficult.. but at the same time he doesn't have to pay into SS which is nice..
if it can give actual depth.. then just don't except any readings less than 1ft... but then we can defeat it with a cardboard cutout (which would be funny to see really)
could always add.. where my mom works if you don't have your ID on you and you are in the building you are fired. no 3 strikes no questions no excuses.
always keep a piece of fiber in your pocket, that way if you get lost or stranded you can just bury it. then when the backhoe comes to dig it up ask the driver for directions/help.
but still for the amount of money you are pouring out for a DS3 it's 100$ a year maintenance cost for an AS record.. and and once you have BGP setup on your router and the routes with your providers it is very very seamless and nice.. i bet if you did a time cost look at your last outage - just the money spent on the phone with your outside workers tell them what is going on and to wait for a DNS change and all that jazz you will see that going with an AS record and doing it right isn't every expensive if you ever use it.
and i understand that you didn't have an outage for 5 years.. so do the math for having one outage every 5 years with a span of 3 days (as in your last one) and then do it again with 5 years over 1 day (more normal) and both will show that it is cheaper to do it right.
but that is just it - what apple want is 30% if and only if you subscribe from inside the application on the idevice.. which then uses apple for payment proccessing (where they take their 30%)
in the past things like pandora you could download but to sign up and pay you had to go online and pay them that way - there was no option to do it from inside the application in Apples frame work.
Apple has now said that if your going to play in my sand box you have to at least give customers the option of paying from inside the app through apple..
hell last.fm or pandora or amazon they could have the same item for 30% more on the apple side and still have it as they do now on their side.. would be zero diffrence to them or apple.. as long as apple can get their 30% on what comes from them.. in the end it is the consumer that is getting fucked (as normal)
while i don't see this as anti trust material - i do find it very much bait and switch from the end users..
you should look at a new laptop with a real docking station - both Lenovo and Dell are offering docks with dual DVI now.. that is what we use at work. given the speed at which things move - the reduction in price points for powerful laptops - and then the reduction of actual local storage and power needed.. laptops are perfect for us - and we issue them to everyone.. one by one removing all desktops from our office. (i note that there are a few instances where we are using atom based desktop units ~lenovo q510 as thin clients at specific places in the office - but they are not tied to a specific user, each user has or will get a laptop)
more than once company.. Lenovo sells them - i have one that is Averatec brand (MSI orginaly now Trigem?) and i seem to remember NEC used to offer one.
In any case, this is a certificate/security issue and not a language/platform issue which was the original point I was trying to make.
It started as a "certificate/security" issue and became a "language" issue when they forced a change in what was expectable commands without recourse.
and sorry i do not believe in "don't upgrade" as a viable recourse as you are just leaving that user wide open for future problems.
they need the ability for the USER not the application to request that that the program or app be run in a specific version of the JVM so that you can allow proper backwards compatibility while allowing the user to keep up todate
but unless Google is updating Flash whenever Adobe issues an update, it's less secure than the versions that use a standalone plugin.
except that Google's version is Sandboxed where the standalone plugin isn't.. so while the flash part might be exploitable - too what ends is far different.
forced disabled on MD2withRSA - now i understand you shouldn't be using it BUT alot of older apps used it including a lot of embedded web services that used SSL (aka switches, routers, printers)
they gave zero option to enable it's usage in any case starting with that update. that broke a lot of shit right there.
i would say having a random number generator spit out the same (not so random) value each time in each unit for the seed for the keys.. qualifies as a "security hole"
Imagine if all the car companies started putting 1000hp engines in the cars they sell and advertising their top speed at 200mph all without ever upgrading any of the other components in the car. Then when peoples transmissions failed a week after they bought the car the car company stated that a shameful 5% of their customers were abusing the 1000hp engine and they were going to have to put a strict limit of 25miles of travel per day on the car or the warranty were void. The other 95% of their customers would not be affected by this policy because they'd simply never find out they had been ripped off.
not to the extreme of 1k hp and 200 mph.. but they already do that.
last car i owned had a "top speed" of 183 but was "chipped" at 120mph for the US.. found that out on a track day..
he shouldn't have to pay a PE to sign off before he can express his opinion to the DOT.. if the DOT wants a PE to review it then either they can contract it out to a PE or they could review it as most of them are PE's.
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..(A guy can dream, can't he?)
wrong brain
http://www.amishnews.com/amisharticles/amishss.htm
third to the last paragraph..
the IRS doesn't require you to have an SSN to file taxes - instead you can request a ITIN and your employer can use that instead.
i have a co worker who is on his 4th palm pre.. he got it because they where offering free tethering if you got one.. but the damn thing keeps dieing on him.
it isn't that bad of a device.. but by god is it lacking n some of the more basic user interface bits.
first line in your link has "Unless specifically exempt by law" which happens to include a lot of things like
the Amish, part time students in CA, and government retirees in CT
and i believe if you don't have an SSN you are exempt from FICA too..
actually it isn't that hard.. you aren't required to have an SSN .. but once you sign up for it you can't get rid of it.. i have a friend whose parents didn't bother filling out the forms so he doesn't have an SSN - sure it made life more difficult.. but at the same time he doesn't have to pay into SS which is nice..
if it can give actual depth.. then just don't except any readings less than 1ft ... but then we can defeat it with a cardboard cutout (which would be funny to see really)
could always add .. where my mom works if you don't have your ID on you and you are in the building you are fired. no 3 strikes no questions no excuses.
always keep a piece of fiber in your pocket, that way if you get lost or stranded you can just bury it. then when the backhoe comes to dig it up ask the driver for directions/help.
ok then i missed the first bit..
but still for the amount of money you are pouring out for a DS3 it's 100$ a year maintenance cost for an AS record.. and and once you have BGP setup on your router and the routes with your providers it is very very seamless and nice.. i bet if you did a time cost look at your last outage - just the money spent on the phone with your outside workers tell them what is going on and to wait for a DNS change and all that jazz you will see that going with an AS record and doing it right isn't every expensive if you ever use it.
and i understand that you didn't have an outage for 5 years.. so do the math for having one outage every 5 years with a span of 3 days (as in your last one) and then do it again with 5 years over 1 day (more normal) and both will show that it is cheaper to do it right.
ok wait a sec.. you have a DS3.. and you tried to "back" it up with a TW cable modem?
you have a DS3 and had a TW fiber line installed - and your going to do DNS change for fail-over?
if have a DS3 you can afford to do things right.. get an AS record and your own block - don't mess with changing DNS for fail-over..
and whom ever thought it was a good idea to use a cable modem as a backup for a DS3 needs a talking to about how to do redundancy correctly.
ok i didn't read it that way the other day - ok now enter the lawyers.. if nothing for the bait and switch
but that is just it - what apple want is 30% if and only if you subscribe from inside the application on the idevice.. which then uses apple for payment proccessing (where they take their 30%)
in the past things like pandora you could download but to sign up and pay you had to go online and pay them that way - there was no option to do it from inside the application in Apples frame work.
Apple has now said that if your going to play in my sand box you have to at least give customers the option of paying from inside the app through apple..
hell last.fm or pandora or amazon they could have the same item for 30% more on the apple side and still have it as they do now on their side.. would be zero diffrence to them or apple.. as long as apple can get their 30% on what comes from them.. in the end it is the consumer that is getting fucked (as normal)
while i don't see this as anti trust material - i do find it very much bait and switch from the end users..
you should look at a new laptop with a real docking station - both Lenovo and Dell are offering docks with dual DVI now.. that is what we use at work. given the speed at which things move - the reduction in price points for powerful laptops - and then the reduction of actual local storage and power needed.. laptops are perfect for us - and we issue them to everyone.. one by one removing all desktops from our office. (i note that there are a few instances where we are using atom based desktop units ~lenovo q510 as thin clients at specific places in the office - but they are not tied to a specific user, each user has or will get a laptop)
except for 1 company.
Yay patents.
more than once company.. Lenovo sells them - i have one that is Averatec brand (MSI orginaly now Trigem?) and i seem to remember NEC used to offer one.
In any case, this is a certificate/security issue and not a language/platform issue which was the original point I was trying to make.
It started as a "certificate/security" issue and became a "language" issue when they forced a change in what was expectable commands without recourse.
and sorry i do not believe in "don't upgrade" as a viable recourse as you are just leaving that user wide open for future problems.
they need the ability for the USER not the application to request that that the program or app be run in a specific version of the JVM so that you can allow proper backwards compatibility while allowing the user to keep up todate
but unless Google is updating Flash whenever Adobe issues an update, it's less secure than the versions that use a standalone plugin.
except that Google's version is Sandboxed where the standalone plugin isn't.. so while the flash part might be exploitable - too what ends is far different.
lets see
JRE 1.6 Build 17
forced disabled on MD2withRSA - now i understand you shouldn't be using it BUT alot of older apps used it including a lot of embedded web services that used SSL (aka switches, routers, printers)
they gave zero option to enable it's usage in any case starting with that update. that broke a lot of shit right there.
"you can't fix stupid" - Ron White
i would say having a random number generator spit out the same (not so random) value each time in each unit for the seed for the keys.. qualifies as a "security hole"
you know.. a fun way around that is to grant the detainees US citizenship via refugee status then move them.
http://www.heartland.org/policybot/results/25591/Maryland_Gov_OMalley_Wants_to_Jam_Prison_Cell_Phones.html
quick search - the FCC has denied requests for a waiver so far.
or you take it to a tack day and find out that it's chipped well below the its advertised max.. for me it was 183 max and 120 chipped.
Imagine if all the car companies started putting 1000hp engines in the cars they sell and advertising their top speed at 200mph all without ever upgrading any of the other components in the car. Then when peoples transmissions failed a week after they bought the car the car company stated that a shameful 5% of their customers were abusing the 1000hp engine and they were going to have to put a strict limit of 25miles of travel per day on the car or the warranty were void. The other 95% of their customers would not be affected by this policy because they'd simply never find out they had been ripped off.
not to the extreme of 1k hp and 200 mph.. but they already do that.
last car i owned had a "top speed" of 183 but was "chipped" at 120mph for the US.. found that out on a track day..
he shouldn't have to pay a PE to sign off before he can express his opinion to the DOT.. if the DOT wants a PE to review it then either they can contract it out to a PE or they could review it as most of them are PE's.