Actually that is the summary the Jepsen press release contained rather than the actual guidelines. Regardless, it is pretty appalling since it is likely most people will not bother to follow the link to the real guidelines.
The actual consortium guidelines (http://www.onguardonline.gov/topics/wireless-security.aspx, linked from the PDF in the article) has the following list:
Use encryption to scramble communications over the network. If you have a choice, WiFi Protected Access (especially WPA2) is stronger than Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP).
Use anti-virus and anti-spyware software, and a firewall.
Most wireless routers have a mechanism called identifier broadcasting. Turn it off so your computer won't send a signal to any device in the vicinity announcing its presence.
Change the identifier on your router from the default so a hacker can't use the manufacturer's default identifier to try to access your network.
Change your router's pre-set password for administration to something only you know. The longer the password, the tougher it is to crack.
Allow only specific computers to access your wireless network.
Turn off your wireless network when you know you won't use it.
Don't assume that public "hot spots" are secure. You may want to assume that other people can access any information you see or send over a public wireless network.
"Much of the world" prefers miles per gallon. I know how big my tank is. I know my car does 58 mpg (imperial). I know that the orange light comes on at about 1 imperial gallon remaining, therefore I know I have approximately 50 miles of normal driving before I run out of fuel. I also know that on a 10 gallon top up I can go roughly 500 miles. How does knowing that I can go 100km using 21.25 litres of fuel help me here?
I find a 1L/100km quote about as intuitive as the Office ribbon, but 235 miles per gallon makes an awful lot of sense - but then I'm used to miles per gallon.
At the end of the day, who cares ?:)
Your point about body temperature is great though! As you clearly know, the 37 Celsius came about by a scientist, using Celsius measurements, taking the temperatures of a large number of people and taking their mean. He rounded. This has since been converted, by morons, to 98.6 Fahrenheit, and gets quoted as definitive! http://jama.ama-assn.org/content/268/12/1578.abstract
"Another strategy is buy-to-build. The first three trains were imported as a whole; the second three were assembled with imported parts; subsequent trains contain more and more Chinese made parts."
In other words, the first were imported. The next were partially imported. The last are clones, without paying patent royalties. Nice.
Surely this adds to the case for Android device manufacturers should be working together on a standard Android distribution, rather than on their own fragmented and mangled versions.
They should accept they are just producing hardware, and that the Android customisations are irrelavent (much as it is with Windows laptops and vendor supplied crapware). Because they all produce customised versions of everything and stop supporting them as soon as the new hardware is released these bugs are going to exist in existing Android handsets for a long time, potentially forever.
This is why I shop at Waitrose rather than Sainsburys, Tesco, Morrisons or ASDA (in that order).
The queues in Waitrose are almost always very short or non existant (because they have enough staff on to maintain short queues), the staff are all helpful and courteous. Of course, one has to pay slightly more for the privilege - but not as much as some people claim.
I'm not sure if you are trying to be clever or not, so I'll bite anyway...
Before the new fangled internet came along, we had a thing called a telephone directory which provided a lookup between name and number, somewhat like DNS. Even better, you could call the operator (or a directory enquiries service) and get them to look up the number for a name if you knew their rough address.
Of course, you could be ex-directory, and this would be like an IP address with no DNS.
Most enterprise "LAN" switches are protocol aware, however. Ever heard of a VLAN? QoS?
More to the point, routers are protocol aware and I'd wager that most are not IPv6 capable, and if they are, they are not part of an IPv6 enabled environment (which might require considerable expense to make it IPv6 enabled, or at least a lot of planning).
I'm sure they could, but maybe this is the cheapest and potentially safest way. I doubt that they can guarantee all the compounds are labelled properly and reuse them for anything, so all they could do is transport them somewhere else and dispose of them there, assuming they are stable enough to be transported.
If it does go wrong, this could be one incredible fireworks display though!
PageRank is well documented, and scores for pages are available (or were) through the Google Toolbar, but you are correct in that to be effective the actual algorithms Google use to rank results need to be fairly closed (to avoid exploitation).
Nowhere in the linked blog post does Google mention PageRank - this is a poor summary.
I've been at technical events where Google engineers have given talks and explained that PageRank is now used for less that 0.1% of all queries. Clearly graph algorithms are still used, but I don't see what the big fascination with PageRank is still - especially given how vulnerable it is to attacks (link farms etc).
Having been burnt many times by Amazon "stores" I'll quite happily take my chances with stores I find on a search engine that appear reputable to me. And over all those I'll try and source things locally first, even if it costs a bit more.
Case in point - I just bought a new thermostatic mixer shower (and fitted it at yesterday) from a local supplier rather than Amazon or eBay because the local supplier has been here for donkeys years and it is easy to deal with them for returns / warrantee issues. Too many Amazon stores disappear or are a nightmare WRT warrantee or returns.
If you think it is acceptable to have maps and large maps on your dash board or for reference to pick up and read while you are driving your car and it is moving you are a complete moron and should not be allowed to drive.
You should memorise part of the route, and then pull over once you are no longer confident of the next stage of your journey. You can then read the directions, maps, etc.
And lets say the mechanism for disabling the scrambling device goes wrong, or the car still thinks it is moving. And the driver has crashed, and can't get out of the car (either trapped, or injury, or otherwise). Then what?
Someone in the car is also looking out of the windscreen and is aware of the traffic situation. Someone on the phone is not. The person in the car will stop distracting the driver in an awkward situation. The person on the phone will not know to.
Yep, cos the airbags go off in all kinds of accidents. What about the passenger of a moving car reporting a massive crash in front of them? Or someone on a bus?
No, Sun (now Oracle) defines Java and licences the trademarks and compatibility kit (ie the tests that you must pass in order to declare you are Java).
At the moment at least, nobody cares if you are a 100% complete Java implementation if you can't call yourself Java. You will not be adopted by most businesses, wont gather a large user base.
BEA don't have (didn't have?) an implementation of Java either...
No, it is an attempt at an open source implementation of.NET (which as you say, is a solid framework, despite all the COM crap) - which isn't much different that GCJ or Harmony - neither of which anyone that uses Java takes seriously as alternatives to parts of the Java stack (though they definitely respect the efforts and intents of the developers).
Mono is definitely NOT a.NET implementation, and nobody can use it as such in "business". And like GCJ or Harmony, no.NET developers really take it seriously for the same reasons, and the fact that most.NET developers are Windows people and couldn't care less about Linux.
However, mono though it can be used as "mono" in its own right if everyone understands the implications that brings. Many people prefer other offerings given that scenario however.
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Actually that is the summary the Jepsen press release contained rather than the actual guidelines. Regardless, it is pretty appalling since it is likely most people will not bother to follow the link to the real guidelines.
The actual consortium guidelines (http://www.onguardonline.gov/topics/wireless-security.aspx, linked from the PDF in the article) has the following list:
Use encryption to scramble communications over the network. If you have a choice, WiFi Protected Access (especially WPA2) is stronger than Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP).
Use anti-virus and anti-spyware software, and a firewall.
Most wireless routers have a mechanism called identifier broadcasting. Turn it off so your computer won't send a signal to any device in the vicinity announcing its presence.
Change the identifier on your router from the default so a hacker can't use the manufacturer's default identifier to try to access your network.
Change your router's pre-set password for administration to something only you know. The longer the password, the tougher it is to crack.
Allow only specific computers to access your wireless network.
Turn off your wireless network when you know you won't use it.
Don't assume that public "hot spots" are secure. You may want to assume that other people can access any information you see or send over a public wireless network.
"Much of the world" prefers miles per gallon. I know how big my tank is. I know my car does 58 mpg (imperial). I know that the orange light comes on at about 1 imperial gallon remaining, therefore I know I have approximately 50 miles of normal driving before I run out of fuel. I also know that on a 10 gallon top up I can go roughly 500 miles. How does knowing that I can go 100km using 21.25 litres of fuel help me here?
I find a 1L/100km quote about as intuitive as the Office ribbon, but 235 miles per gallon makes an awful lot of sense - but then I'm used to miles per gallon.
At the end of the day, who cares ? :)
Your point about body temperature is great though! As you clearly know, the 37 Celsius came about by a scientist, using Celsius measurements, taking the temperatures of a large number of people and taking their mean. He rounded. This has since been converted, by morons, to 98.6 Fahrenheit, and gets quoted as definitive! http://jama.ama-assn.org/content/268/12/1578.abstract
"Another strategy is buy-to-build. The first three trains were imported as a whole; the second three were assembled with imported parts; subsequent trains contain more and more Chinese made parts."
In other words, the first were imported. The next were partially imported. The last are clones, without paying patent royalties. Nice.
Surely this adds to the case for Android device manufacturers should be working together on a standard Android distribution, rather than on their own fragmented and mangled versions.
They should accept they are just producing hardware, and that the Android customisations are irrelavent (much as it is with Windows laptops and vendor supplied crapware). Because they all produce customised versions of everything and stop supporting them as soon as the new hardware is released these bugs are going to exist in existing Android handsets for a long time, potentially forever.
No, they aren't using Java. This is a bad article.
This is why I shop at Waitrose rather than Sainsburys, Tesco, Morrisons or ASDA (in that order).
The queues in Waitrose are almost always very short or non existant (because they have enough staff on to maintain short queues), the staff are all helpful and courteous. Of course, one has to pay slightly more for the privilege - but not as much as some people claim.
I'm not sure if you are trying to be clever or not, so I'll bite anyway...
Before the new fangled internet came along, we had a thing called a telephone directory which provided a lookup between name and number, somewhat like DNS. Even better, you could call the operator (or a directory enquiries service) and get them to look up the number for a name if you knew their rough address.
Of course, you could be ex-directory, and this would be like an IP address with no DNS.
Your sig is missing a closing parenthesis.
Most enterprise "LAN" switches are protocol aware, however. Ever heard of a VLAN? QoS?
More to the point, routers are protocol aware and I'd wager that most are not IPv6 capable, and if they are, they are not part of an IPv6 enabled environment (which might require considerable expense to make it IPv6 enabled, or at least a lot of planning).
I'm sure they could, but maybe this is the cheapest and potentially safest way. I doubt that they can guarantee all the compounds are labelled properly and reuse them for anything, so all they could do is transport them somewhere else and dispose of them there, assuming they are stable enough to be transported.
If it does go wrong, this could be one incredible fireworks display though!
PageRank is well documented, and scores for pages are available (or were) through the Google Toolbar, but you are correct in that to be effective the actual algorithms Google use to rank results need to be fairly closed (to avoid exploitation).
Nowhere in the linked blog post does Google mention PageRank - this is a poor summary.
I've been at technical events where Google engineers have given talks and explained that PageRank is now used for less that 0.1% of all queries. Clearly graph algorithms are still used, but I don't see what the big fascination with PageRank is still - especially given how vulnerable it is to attacks (link farms etc).
Having been burnt many times by Amazon "stores" I'll quite happily take my chances with stores I find on a search engine that appear reputable to me. And over all those I'll try and source things locally first, even if it costs a bit more.
Case in point - I just bought a new thermostatic mixer shower (and fitted it at yesterday) from a local supplier rather than Amazon or eBay because the local supplier has been here for donkeys years and it is easy to deal with them for returns / warrantee issues. Too many Amazon stores disappear or are a nightmare WRT warrantee or returns.
Except PageRank barely features in Google search results these days. But hey ho!
Supposedly Google only use PageRank in less than about 0.1% of queries now (from a Google Engineer that presented at a previous employer of mine)
http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/apple/2010/07/01/mac-ssd-performance-trim-in-osx/7
Maybe it does not need it?
It makes people less safe - the passenger can no longer report an accident involving other cars, or a fire, or a rape, or ...
If you think it is acceptable to have maps and large maps on your dash board or for reference to pick up and read while you are driving your car and it is moving you are a complete moron and should not be allowed to drive.
You should memorise part of the route, and then pull over once you are no longer confident of the next stage of your journey. You can then read the directions, maps, etc.
And lets say the mechanism for disabling the scrambling device goes wrong, or the car still thinks it is moving. And the driver has crashed, and can't get out of the car (either trapped, or injury, or otherwise). Then what?
Someone in the car is also looking out of the windscreen and is aware of the traffic situation. Someone on the phone is not. The person in the car will stop distracting the driver in an awkward situation. The person on the phone will not know to.
Yep, cos the airbags go off in all kinds of accidents. What about the passenger of a moving car reporting a massive crash in front of them? Or someone on a bus?
What has this got to do with Communism? I don't follow?
There are COBOL implementations that run on JEE servers too - double whammy if you are a COBOL *and* Java expert!
Most Java programmers can't program Java either, so it doesn't surprise me that books on Csharp get it wrong either!
No, Sun (now Oracle) defines Java and licences the trademarks and compatibility kit (ie the tests that you must pass in order to declare you are Java).
At the moment at least, nobody cares if you are a 100% complete Java implementation if you can't call yourself Java. You will not be adopted by most businesses, wont gather a large user base.
BEA don't have (didn't have?) an implementation of Java either...
And the BSD one is Sun's anyway.
No, it is an attempt at an open source implementation of .NET (which as you say, is a solid framework, despite all the COM crap) - which isn't much different that GCJ or Harmony - neither of which anyone that uses Java takes seriously as alternatives to parts of the Java stack (though they definitely respect the efforts and intents of the developers).
Mono is definitely NOT a .NET implementation, and nobody can use it as such in "business". And like GCJ or Harmony, no .NET developers really take it seriously for the same reasons, and the fact that most .NET developers are Windows people and couldn't care less about Linux.
However, mono though it can be used as "mono" in its own right if everyone understands the implications that brings. Many people prefer other offerings given that scenario however.