This was an account with the Swiss Postal service (which also operates as a bank in Switzerland). Since he does not live (permanently) in Switzerland he should not have had an account to begin with so they closed it. He still has access to the funds he just can not accept anymore payments or transfers. I've taken and extended vacation in Switzerland and when I tried to open account (to avoid credit card fees from my US bank) I was told the exact same thing. I'm sure he can walk down to any of the commercial banks and open an account provided he meets the balance requirements.
I see your point... however:
"How about sharing it quietly with a number of the most reputable meia organisations in the Western world."
That's not exactly what they did. They withheld information from all sources so they would have a "bombshell" to deliver.
And, again, they didn't have to announce they had this information before release.
"The fact is that their job is to get as much attention as possible..."
That's not their stated mission... it's to release this information to as many people as possible. There is a *huge* difference.
I don't take issue with him being in the lime light... but he purposefully stretches it out. He doesn't just release information... he announces the release ahead of time so he can create a sensation.
If they were really concerned about access to the information and not publicity the would "soft release" to trusted groups on BitTorrent a few days/weeks before they announced it. That way the data is well seeded and a DDoS would be very difficult.
That's why I'm accusing them of attention wh0ring... there are very easy ways of preventing this DDoS and they are smart enough to know that.
I'm not vindicating the American government in anyway. They (and by proxy I) do their fair share of very despicable things.
That's all I'm going to say. The volumes of evidence against the Chinese government, from multiple sources outside the US, speaks for itself.
The Chinese government has proven that they'll do anything to stop distribution of negative information about them. If they're behind the DDoS the goal probably isn't blacking out WikiLeaks... just suppressing it long enough that they can configure the "Great Firewall" to block it (content filters, etc).
It makes sense for a few reasons:
1. The Chinese government has already proven they're not above this.
2. As inept as the US government can be I think they know they can't stop the spread of this information.
3. To public knowledge, the US government hasn't initiated a DDoS. Why show your hand and capabilities on something like this? It's a waste.
There's also a good chance it's another party or that WikiLeaks is just making it up b/c the guys are complete attention wh0res (don't think for a second they're doing it for a "greater good"... the founder _loves_ the spotlight.
Well, maybe not 100% but it's established that the bulk of US traffic is trunked off to closets in AT&T (and other) switch rooms. This is going to include any communications going to points outside the US and (more importantly) any traffic that happens to be routed through the US while going between two points outside the US.
Everyone is focusing on the sexual aspects of this. If you read through HP's statements, they fired him because he falsified expense reports (lied) so he could give money to the woman involved for *consulting* services that appeared to have either never been performed or were done so poorly as to be worthless (stole).
HP canned his butt for stealing, plan and simple. It would be idiotic to keep a thief on as your CEO, especially in this political, companies are the root of all evil climate. HP's board did their job in this case.
Solar power is promising in that it's abundant... however it's not efficient and it's not "clean".
The biggest problem is consistent production. You get less power when it's cloudy and none at night.
You can fix this by:
1. Building huge batteries which use all sorts of expensive (if you want efficiency) and toxic chemicals.
2. Putting in super conducting lines so power can be shared across regions (but this is expensive and can't scale to address the loss of power at night)
Right now the cleanest forms of consistent power are geothermal and (despite the stigma) nuclear. That's where we need to be investing our money.
The Internet has always had the reputation of being "free", when it never has been. In the past it was supported by academic and government (military) sources whose realized value in the either the free flow of information and/or an uninterpretable flow of information.
It has since moved on to be maintained by businesses that what want to generate revenue from supporting it. There's nothing inherently evil in this, they provide a service and you pay for it one way or another. It used to be in taxes, tuition, etc... now it's in subscriptions, advertising hits, etc.
The problem is the myth that the internet is "free" is still very much ingrained and people will use all sorts of sites and provide a ridiculous amount of information without ever stopping to thing that these sites are (generally) not run out of charity and will extract their pound of flesh in some manner.
For any number of reasons, especially when it comes to deals like this. Saying "Honey, I wasn't sleeping with her in our bed." doesn't mean you weren't cheating.
True "optimization" on most newer machines is simply removing the bloatware that infests almost every machine out there. Technically abilities aside, software vendors will freak if they find out BestBuy is ripping out all the software they paid to have pre-loaded.
I "fixed" three new laptops for family and friends over the holidays and in each case it was faster just to nuke it from orbit and install Windows 7 fresh (and not from the restore partition, which invariably puts all the crap back on there).
Read the review carefully. While memory performance improved substantially, cpu multimedia gains were marginal and integer performance actually degrade (although just a hair).
The platform is not meant to be a processing powerhouse but to say it showed "a nice performance gain" (implying overall) is a little misleading.
Note: This doesn't excuse or compare to what is alleged to have happened to Mr. Watts
I'm a US citizen and out of four times I've been to Canada for work, I've been "held" for almost 9 hours, flat out threatened with official detainment and denial of entry. I have no criminal record, no arrest record, I have never had any problems with entry into any other countries and I'm always exceedingly polite and patient b/c I know how frustrating it can be to deal with the same headaches day in, day out (and it pays... can't count how many times I've gotten free hotel/car upgrades or even just drinks on the plane just by being nice instead of an a**).
In every case I was told that I did not have the proper paperwork and that I was coming in to "steal" jobs from Canadians. The hell it was I was coming in to do contract work for the Canadian Revenue Agency (CCRA) and all my paperwork was from the CCRA. In the worst case they tried to deny entry b/c I did not have my hotel reservations on me (they were in my luggage that Air Canada misplaced) but did have my papers from CCRA. They wouldn't allow me to pull up the hotel reservations up on my laptop b/c it was "illegal" to use it until I had cleared customs. They finally agreed but only with a official watching everything over my shoulder and insisting I provide them with the password(s) for my laptop just in case they needed it for "evidence" (and that took an hour of reasoning and me asking for a written explanation of why I was being denied entry).
It's a shocking contrast to the people you meet and work with once your past the gates.
Sorry... distracted by the getting AppleTV to work with WPA post. I actually had a few OSX fanatics tell me it couldn't be done (and experience backed this up).
So... short answer... no I didn't read your entire post. Sorry.
T
Hmm... I tried it on two different networks and it would not recognize either. One was a Belkin and the other was a Linksys WRT54GL running OpenWRT. Both were broadcasting their ESSID and neither were MAC-filtering.
The AppleTV was running the lastest firmware.
The only difference I see from your link was that both were running WPA/WPA2 and not just bog standard WPA (though that's what they may have meant).
T
My point was the *default* protection. Not sure if you mean a BIOS/Firmware password or physically securing your laptop but neither are "default" or even openly recommend by Apple.
As a recent convert to Apple (short story OS X is a nice balance between Unix and applications I need to use for my client base) I was a little shocked by how nonchalant Apple seems to take user security.
1. MacBook's default to no user authentication which is unacceptable for a portable device that can be stolen or misplaced.
2. The OS X Firewall is disabled by default. Let's assume every OS X component is 100% secure, there's no way that every OS X app is.
3. And as a completely random example... AppleTV only supports WEP. I know this is a nit-picky thing but it shows Apple's indifference. WEP has been thoroughly and completely broken... yet one of Apple's primary devices will not support a more secure protocol. You want to use your new toy you have to downgrade your security.
I like OS X and the new unibody MacBooks just rock... but Apple's shwarmy and basically indifferent attitude to security is going to end up biting them in the arse.
/I've strapped on my fire-proof britches... fire away:)
I'm curious if certain psychiatric drugs would mitigate this effect. My friend takes valium before he flies, I would imagine that a benzo or even paxil would have a similar "masking" effect.
I've also heard that paxil can turn a small segment of the population into cannibals if pumped into the atmosphere.
The author seems to imply that computers can't do simple base 10 math without errors. That's not entirely true if you have a fixed precision. You use an integer and shift it so there is no decimal portion, in this case you would make your base a 1/10th of second instead of 1 second. Addition, subtraction and multiplication will be error free. You'll still have a problem with division and other operations but in this case that doesn't sound like their primary issue.
It wasn't the computer's fault that the designers did not account for the fact that 2.0/2.0 != 1 on almost all FPU's today. It usually just equals a really good approximation of 1 that's "close enough".
You can use what every euphemism you want... doctoring, massaging, fluffing, polishing, etc the resume (they're all as dirty as they sound). Potential employers all call it *lying*. There are several things you need to keep in mind here.
1. You probably just killed any chance of getting hired with that company, ever. If you walk into an interview and impress them, they'll usually keep you on a short list and even try to find appropriate matches for you. If you lie (doesn't matter if it was you or the headhunter), you go on the black list.
2. HR departments may not talk to each other but technical staff certainly do. I'm originally from the DFW area and it's basically six degrees of telecom employment. If you make a substantial impression, good or bad, other people are going to find out about it.
3. Ultimately... represent yourself. It's a lot more work, but you pick who you engage and how you engage them. You're going to pick engagements that benefit you. Headhunters don't care... the want their cut and then they move on. If you're serious about contracting you need to build personal relationships and trade on that reputation.
Finally, I'd report these clowns to the BBB. If you have a good relationship with a lawyer you might want to get their opinion on this. The headhunter is acting as an agent on your behalf and if they doctored your resume you may actually have some legal recourse (IANAL).
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This was an account with the Swiss Postal service (which also operates as a bank in Switzerland). Since he does not live (permanently) in Switzerland he should not have had an account to begin with so they closed it. He still has access to the funds he just can not accept anymore payments or transfers. I've taken and extended vacation in Switzerland and when I tried to open account (to avoid credit card fees from my US bank) I was told the exact same thing. I'm sure he can walk down to any of the commercial banks and open an account provided he meets the balance requirements.
I see your point... however:
"How about sharing it quietly with a number of the most reputable meia organisations in the Western world."
That's not exactly what they did. They withheld information from all sources so they would have a "bombshell" to deliver.
And, again, they didn't have to announce they had this information before release.
"The fact is that their job is to get as much attention as possible..."
That's not their stated mission... it's to release this information to as many people as possible. There is a *huge* difference.
I don't take issue with him being in the lime light... but he purposefully stretches it out. He doesn't just release information... he announces the release ahead of time so he can create a sensation. If they were really concerned about access to the information and not publicity the would "soft release" to trusted groups on BitTorrent a few days/weeks before they announced it. That way the data is well seeded and a DDoS would be very difficult. That's why I'm accusing them of attention wh0ring... there are very easy ways of preventing this DDoS and they are smart enough to know that.
I'll freely admit this is a WAG (Wild Ass Guess).
Is there anyone who _loves_ to appear stupid?
I'm not vindicating the American government in anyway. They (and by proxy I) do their fair share of very despicable things. That's all I'm going to say. The volumes of evidence against the Chinese government, from multiple sources outside the US, speaks for itself.
The Chinese government has proven that they'll do anything to stop distribution of negative information about them. If they're behind the DDoS the goal probably isn't blacking out WikiLeaks... just suppressing it long enough that they can configure the "Great Firewall" to block it (content filters, etc).
It makes sense for a few reasons:
1. The Chinese government has already proven they're not above this.
2. As inept as the US government can be I think they know they can't stop the spread of this information.
3. To public knowledge, the US government hasn't initiated a DDoS. Why show your hand and capabilities on something like this? It's a waste.
There's also a good chance it's another party or that WikiLeaks is just making it up b/c the guys are complete attention wh0res (don't think for a second they're doing it for a "greater good"... the founder _loves_ the spotlight.
http://www.eff.org/nsa/
Well, maybe not 100% but it's established that the bulk of US traffic is trunked off to closets in AT&T (and other) switch rooms. This is going to include any communications going to points outside the US and (more importantly) any traffic that happens to be routed through the US while going between two points outside the US.
If you insist on littering the internet with every minutiae of your life, you should have to pay a fine.
Everyone is focusing on the sexual aspects of this. If you read through HP's statements, they fired him because he falsified expense reports (lied) so he could give money to the woman involved for *consulting* services that appeared to have either never been performed or were done so poorly as to be worthless (stole).
HP canned his butt for stealing, plan and simple. It would be idiotic to keep a thief on as your CEO, especially in this political, companies are the root of all evil climate. HP's board did their job in this case.
We're going to need a bigger shark.
Solar power is promising in that it's abundant... however it's not efficient and it's not "clean".
The biggest problem is consistent production. You get less power when it's cloudy and none at night.
You can fix this by:
1. Building huge batteries which use all sorts of expensive (if you want efficiency) and toxic chemicals.
2. Putting in super conducting lines so power can be shared across regions (but this is expensive and can't scale to address the loss of power at night)
Right now the cleanest forms of consistent power are geothermal and (despite the stigma) nuclear. That's where we need to be investing our money.
The Internet has always had the reputation of being "free", when it never has been. In the past it was supported by academic and government (military) sources whose realized value in the either the free flow of information and/or an uninterpretable flow of information. It has since moved on to be maintained by businesses that what want to generate revenue from supporting it. There's nothing inherently evil in this, they provide a service and you pay for it one way or another. It used to be in taxes, tuition, etc... now it's in subscriptions, advertising hits, etc. The problem is the myth that the internet is "free" is still very much ingrained and people will use all sorts of sites and provide a ridiculous amount of information without ever stopping to thing that these sites are (generally) not run out of charity and will extract their pound of flesh in some manner.
For any number of reasons, especially when it comes to deals like this. Saying "Honey, I wasn't sleeping with her in our bed." doesn't mean you weren't cheating.
True "optimization" on most newer machines is simply removing the bloatware that infests almost every machine out there. Technically abilities aside, software vendors will freak if they find out BestBuy is ripping out all the software they paid to have pre-loaded. I "fixed" three new laptops for family and friends over the holidays and in each case it was faster just to nuke it from orbit and install Windows 7 fresh (and not from the restore partition, which invariably puts all the crap back on there).
Read the review carefully. While memory performance improved substantially, cpu multimedia gains were marginal and integer performance actually degrade (although just a hair).
The platform is not meant to be a processing powerhouse but to say it showed "a nice performance gain" (implying overall) is a little misleading.
Note: This doesn't excuse or compare to what is alleged to have happened to Mr. Watts
I'm a US citizen and out of four times I've been to Canada for work, I've been "held" for almost 9 hours, flat out threatened with official detainment and denial of entry. I have no criminal record, no arrest record, I have never had any problems with entry into any other countries and I'm always exceedingly polite and patient b/c I know how frustrating it can be to deal with the same headaches day in, day out (and it pays... can't count how many times I've gotten free hotel/car upgrades or even just drinks on the plane just by being nice instead of an a**).
In every case I was told that I did not have the proper paperwork and that I was coming in to "steal" jobs from Canadians. The hell it was I was coming in to do contract work for the Canadian Revenue Agency (CCRA) and all my paperwork was from the CCRA. In the worst case they tried to deny entry b/c I did not have my hotel reservations on me (they were in my luggage that Air Canada misplaced) but did have my papers from CCRA. They wouldn't allow me to pull up the hotel reservations up on my laptop b/c it was "illegal" to use it until I had cleared customs. They finally agreed but only with a official watching everything over my shoulder and insisting I provide them with the password(s) for my laptop just in case they needed it for "evidence" (and that took an hour of reasoning and me asking for a written explanation of why I was being denied entry).
It's a shocking contrast to the people you meet and work with once your past the gates.
Sorry... distracted by the getting AppleTV to work with WPA post. I actually had a few OSX fanatics tell me it couldn't be done (and experience backed this up). So... short answer... no I didn't read your entire post. Sorry. T
Hmm... I tried it on two different networks and it would not recognize either. One was a Belkin and the other was a Linksys WRT54GL running OpenWRT. Both were broadcasting their ESSID and neither were MAC-filtering. The AppleTV was running the lastest firmware. The only difference I see from your link was that both were running WPA/WPA2 and not just bog standard WPA (though that's what they may have meant). T
My point was the *default* protection. Not sure if you mean a BIOS/Firmware password or physically securing your laptop but neither are "default" or even openly recommend by Apple.
As a recent convert to Apple (short story OS X is a nice balance between Unix and applications I need to use for my client base) I was a little shocked by how nonchalant Apple seems to take user security.
/I've strapped on my fire-proof britches... fire away :)
1. MacBook's default to no user authentication which is unacceptable for a portable device that can be stolen or misplaced.
2. The OS X Firewall is disabled by default. Let's assume every OS X component is 100% secure, there's no way that every OS X app is.
3. And as a completely random example... AppleTV only supports WEP. I know this is a nit-picky thing but it shows Apple's indifference. WEP has been thoroughly and completely broken... yet one of Apple's primary devices will not support a more secure protocol. You want to use your new toy you have to downgrade your security.
I like OS X and the new unibody MacBooks just rock... but Apple's shwarmy and basically indifferent attitude to security is going to end up biting them in the arse.
I'm curious if certain psychiatric drugs would mitigate this effect. My friend takes valium before he flies, I would imagine that a benzo or even paxil would have a similar "masking" effect.
I've also heard that paxil can turn a small segment of the population into cannibals if pumped into the atmosphere.
The author seems to imply that computers can't do simple base 10 math without errors. That's not entirely true if you have a fixed precision. You use an integer and shift it so there is no decimal portion, in this case you would make your base a 1/10th of second instead of 1 second. Addition, subtraction and multiplication will be error free. You'll still have a problem with division and other operations but in this case that doesn't sound like their primary issue. It wasn't the computer's fault that the designers did not account for the fact that 2.0/2.0 != 1 on almost all FPU's today. It usually just equals a really good approximation of 1 that's "close enough".
You can use what every euphemism you want... doctoring, massaging, fluffing, polishing, etc the resume (they're all as dirty as they sound). Potential employers all call it *lying*. There are several things you need to keep in mind here.
1. You probably just killed any chance of getting hired with that company, ever. If you walk into an interview and impress them, they'll usually keep you on a short list and even try to find appropriate matches for you. If you lie (doesn't matter if it was you or the headhunter), you go on the black list.
2. HR departments may not talk to each other but technical staff certainly do. I'm originally from the DFW area and it's basically six degrees of telecom employment. If you make a substantial impression, good or bad, other people are going to find out about it.
3. Ultimately... represent yourself. It's a lot more work, but you pick who you engage and how you engage them. You're going to pick engagements that benefit you. Headhunters don't care... the want their cut and then they move on. If you're serious about contracting you need to build personal relationships and trade on that reputation.
Finally, I'd report these clowns to the BBB. If you have a good relationship with a lawyer you might want to get their opinion on this. The headhunter is acting as an agent on your behalf and if they doctored your resume you may actually have some legal recourse (IANAL).