From http://www.bostoncommonasset.com/Boston Common Asset Management is a full-service, employee-owned social investment firm dedicated to the pursuit of financial return and social change. i.e. they are in the business of asking companies like Cisco stuff like this. It is there unique selling point, it is how they make money.
I have many years experience in the IT industry. I have found illegal activity at several places I've worked. I have with experience learnt this: if you ever ever find any illegal activity going on at the company/government department you work for and it bothers you:
1) The higher management do not need to be made aware, they already know.
2) Destroy any evidence you may have gathered on you own machine(s).
3) Say nothing.
4) Find a new job, contract or go unemployed ASAP.
It's simple really, if (s)he can get on with a little more hardware then that is surely so much cheaper and quicker than a redesign, build, test etc. etc.
That is why things like this happen. Banks are big companies that shift lots of money about and they tend to know quite a bit about how to make money.
So it is reasonable to argue that the reason the banks don't encrypt the data and send it by some system where it will, with a high probability, be "lost" is that the "accident" will in some way make money for them.
You can all be as outraged as you want but until banks stop making money due to identity theft things will not change.
The only way I can see this happening is for the banks to be fined, and the fine must be larger than the amount of money they may make.
One reason for traffic lights is that they split the traffic up into smaller chunks.
If all the cars set off at the same time, and more cars got through, then the people who set the traffic light timings would shorten them so returning to the original chunk size.
When traffic engineers want to keep traffic flowing at a point they put in roundabouts, clover leafs and flyovers/tunnels.
I keep Cockatoos. I never intended to have such large birds as pets, and would most certainly not encourage it. I landed up with them as a "gift" as the previous owner found them too difficult.
I would put their overall intelligence at around the 4 or 5 year human. With the addition that they are the most expert lock pickers.
Imagine if you will the tantrums of a 4/5 year old, add that the 4/5 year can fly, has a set of tools like a combination hammer, ice-pick, file, and nut cracker, and absolutely knows which items dotted about are the most valuable to destroy.
Often one of them imitates the phone ringing as I am about to leave the house. I could swear the blessed things are all sharing the joke.
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From http://www.bostoncommonasset.com/ Boston Common Asset Management is a full-service, employee-owned social investment firm dedicated to the pursuit of financial return and social change.
i.e. they are in the business of asking companies like Cisco stuff like this. It is there unique selling point, it is how they make money.
Ruby on Rails, try it, you won't want to use anything else. Ruby on Rails is just so sweet, just like the original Java alpha was all those years ago.
What's the difference? Are not slashvertisements much older?
Consider: these organised criminal activities are often generating the funds for the terrorists.
I have many years experience in the IT industry. I have found illegal activity at several places I've worked. I have with experience learnt this: if you ever ever find any illegal activity going on at the company/government department you work for and it bothers you:
1) The higher management do not need to be made aware, they already know.
2) Destroy any evidence you may have gathered on you own machine(s).
3) Say nothing.
4) Find a new job, contract or go unemployed ASAP.
It's simple really, if (s)he can get on with a little more hardware then that is surely so much cheaper and quicker than a redesign, build, test etc. etc.
Of course, in a Beowulf cluster.
HTH
That is why things like this happen. Banks are big companies that shift lots of money about and they tend to know quite a bit about how to make money.
So it is reasonable to argue that the reason the banks don't encrypt the data and send it by some system where it will, with a high probability, be "lost" is that the "accident" will in some way make money for them.
You can all be as outraged as you want but until banks stop making money due to identity theft things will not change.
The only way I can see this happening is for the banks to be fined, and the fine must be larger than the amount of money they may make.
Imagine a beowulf cluster of ...
A little advice to any IT student out there: change to Law or Accountantcy NOW.
You will thank me for this advice one day.
Never heard of krak I take it?
You must be a newbie.
Just imagine making a beowulf out of a whole lot of Al Gores strapped together.
One reason for traffic lights is that they split the traffic up into smaller chunks.
If all the cars set off at the same time, and more cars got through, then the people who set the traffic light timings would shorten them so returning to the original chunk size.
When traffic engineers want to keep traffic flowing at a point they put in roundabouts, clover leafs and flyovers/tunnels.
Notice how they tend to go for blue cars to sh1t on?
Or maybe that it just shows up more on blue cars.
Or maybe that is why they go for blue cars.
I keep Cockatoos. I never intended to have such large birds as pets, and would most certainly not encourage it. I landed up with them as a "gift" as the previous owner found them too difficult.
I would put their overall intelligence at around the 4 or 5 year human. With the addition that they are the most expert lock pickers.
Imagine if you will the tantrums of a 4/5 year old, add that the 4/5 year can fly, has a set of tools like a combination hammer, ice-pick, file, and nut cracker, and absolutely knows which items dotted about are the most valuable to destroy.
Often one of them imitates the phone ringing as I am about to leave the house. I could swear the blessed things are all sharing the joke.
I am often left pondering: who here is the pet?
Couldn't you like plug a load of them together and make like a beowulf cluster of them.
Anyone who sets out to study CS with the intention of forging a career from IT wants their head examining.
I live in Denmark and when the Postperson brings me stuff I have ordered from outside the EU he wants money.
Plank.
In Japan, they drive on the otherside of the road.
There's one in most dry cleaning shops 'round here and they all looks to be at least 10-20 years old.
Is this type of machine something new in America?
Who sells that? or Is it an open source project?
According to Microsoft, yes.
The largest product development center Micrsoft has outside the United States is in Vedbaek, Denmark.
Should be interesting following this story...
I have some clients who still use these so I have to keep one going for testing purposes whenever they want a change.
Yes, some do have minds of their own, Robin Cook was one of them. "Was" being the operative word, he's no longer in the government is he.
You'll notice how most New Lie politicons carry pagers around at all times - this is so they can be given instructions on what to do on the fly.