In fact, I'd go so far as to say that the cable techs are incompetent with respect to setting up HD equipment. The last time I had a tech actually touch any of my stuff, he ended up misconfiguring the outputs of the box such that I couldn't actually get any HD content to my TV.
When my dad had HD installed (bought a 42" LCD), the installer told him that he:
1) Needed the component video cable.
2) Could only hook the STP directly to the monitor.
This, despite the fact that the original (non-HD) STB was hooked (S-VHS video and digital optical audio) to the receiver and working fine.
Dad ordered the requisite cable and rescheduled.
When the tech came out, after making the same claims, Dad called me. I told him to tell the tech to:
1) Unplug the S-VHS and optical cables from the existing box.
2) Plug the S-VHS and optical cables into the new box.
After doing so, the tech brought up "I Love Lucy" (I kid you not) and told Dad "See, you are not receiving HD-TV". Once he was told to actually tune a High Definition channel, everything was fine.
That is, until the "upgraded" STB they brought out 3 months later refused to display the channel guide/none of the remote control "advanced" functions/PVR could not be programmed (but that is another story).
My next "fun" project is to remind my cable operator (TW) of the following:
FCC mandate Title 47, Chapter 1, Subchapter C, Part 76, Subpart K requires that all cable operators that have not received an explicit exemption from the FCC offer any customer who requests it a high-definition cable box with an operational firewire port.
"However at no time is the sharing of material, which has a copyright notice on it clearly denying you permission to share, legal." Not necessarily.
followed by:
but still, its theoretically possible for sharing to not violate copyright.
A library makes books available for checkout. Most also contain copying machines.
This would consititute making available to be shared without at the same time involving the library in infringing copyright
If the RIAA wins this motion, it could theoretically mean that all libraries must remove access to their copy machines or be at risk of liablity for copyright infringement/violation
Built and Demonstrated != Certified, Accredited and Deployed.
Much of the cost is not just making the system secure, but in formally proving that it is so. This is the level of requirement for EAL 1 / TCSEC A1.
Yes, but the first step is getting DSS to agree to the possibility. Prior to the demo, their answer was not only no, but hell no. After the demo, they said to proceed with the project.
Declassification is difficult, too:
-If you say document X is classified and it really should be unclassified, you create an administrative problem.
-If you say document X is unclassified and it really should be classified, you can go to jail (or people die or a war is lost, etc.)
Which side do you think people are going to err on?
Unfortunately, my experience at that particular company (a major defense contractor) was that they routinely erred in the second way, to the point that three of us on the team were told that we could only pass information to the company's Information Security department with prior management approval.
Implementations of Multilevel Security [wikipedia.org] exist, but they are not easy to use and are expensive to develop and operate. This is why systems processing different classification levels are on separate (air-gapped) networks. Off-the-shelf hardware and software can be used with physical security measures preventing information compromises. [Of course, an ID10T sneaker-netting data between the security domains is always a potential problem. The weak point is always people...]
The implementation is not only inexpensive, but relatively easy. I have built and demonstrated just such an automated RED->BLACK system to the DSS (Defense Security Service - the folks who have to sign off on all DOD related classified networks). That prototype cost less than $2000 and took less than 30 days from conception to implementation.
The problem comes in when you have to rely on the carbon-based life forms involved to certify that the data is unclassified. Many times, I have seen people with TS/S/Confidential clearances say "I didn't know".
When we performed the demonstration, the main issue stressed was that the machine could securely interface RED and BLACK networks, but the system would fail if the parties involved did not pay attention to the classification of information transferred.
This is the same reason that MS-Office products (which do not always show hidden data) are always a problem (witness the recent disclosure of the intelligence budget - including Black programs - due to the presenter not sanitizing the background information in a Power Point presentation).
Touche on the high school part, forgot about that.:) The main customers are of course still enterprises. I still think the default argument should be radians.
Who cares whether the default argument is degrees or radians. Two things are missing from the quoted "specification" document:
1: What is the default argument
2: Is the specification consistent across all functions which use this type of value as an argument
A specification which conforms to neither proper or common usage is worse than no specification at all
Don't use their software. I use Gimp and Ghostscript. Check the hardware compatibility list. All in one units and many scanners are doorstops as in the days of Winmodems.
Checkout HPLIP on Sourceforge (HP drivers for printers/scanners/all-in-ones). Developed by HP Research Labs. Works on all but the most cutting edge printers (yes including the printer/scanner/fax/copier models).
Not only that, but the messengers shouldn't give up so easily. They have a responsibility to disclose their findings instead of letting people rely on insecure solutions, or letting them fall victim to losing control of what their PC can/can't do.
Will this prompt the big manufacturers to ship more Linux PCs?
Sooner or later, I suspect, you will see one of the big names (possibly Dell) ship a series of machines with Linux pre-loaded and WinXXX as an option (not pre-loaded - maybe a restore disk). The system will have been tested and burned in, with all of the peripherals working. If the customer wishes (and has paid for the *cough*cough* upgrade), they can insert the WinXXX restore disk and have at it. This would make even MS sit up and take notice.
A website funded mostly by advertisements that is therefore immune to the temptation to sensationalize stories is reporting that a sports talk show host from WSHT was recently ejected from a meaningless sports event for calling the game with a HAM radio.
That can and should result in revocation of his HAM licence (if he has one) or federal criminal charges (if he doesn't).
The fine print though caps you at 5 gigabytes a month. Go over it and its a $250 fee per additional 5G.
Then you a) got it at the wrong time; b) didn't look or c) went with the wrong carrier. I use Sprint (mainly because their is on location I am at a lot where Sprint is the only game in town). My EVDO works at bet 500k and 750k unlimited usage. The card also works seamlessly with Linux.
Oh well, at least their RoadRunner service never let me down. It's always fast and reliable, but I digress
Then you never hooked up a router to their cable box (at least in So. CA). When TW/RR took over from Adelphia, the speeds on my dad's connection (and ping response to the TW/RR gateway went into the toilet. In troubleshooting w/RR tech support, I noticed that the IP address assigned to the router was on a totally different subnet then that assigned when I hooked up my laptop direct. I then did a series of tests using the router:
1) Router with native MAC address: one address/subnet/gateway : +1 second ping response to gateway
2) Laptop with native MAC address: different address/subnet/gateway : less than 25ms ping response to gateway
3) Laptop with MAC address cloned from router in step #1: same address/subnet/gateway as in #1 above : +1 second ping response to gateway
4) Laptop with MAC address cloned from different router: different address/same subnet/gateway as in #1 above : +1 second ping response to gateway
5) Router with MAC address cloned from a spare 100Tx card: different address/same subnet/gateway as in #2 above : less than 25ms ping response to gateway
This was an unadvertised change in service from what was contracted with for the 5+ years of Adelphia service. In addition, TW/RR did not offer the same level of service (home wireless router) that Adelphia always had although they later decided to provide it for an additional fee.
It looks like this company is actually helping the community. They're eliminating the fear that if their product is used, they, the customer, won't have to worry about the big bad MS coming after them.
You are exactly right. The customer won't have to fear that MS is coming after them, they will know it for a fact
They did have to stop letting people return big screen TVs and video cameras because to many people were returning the TVs after the big football games and the camera after their vacation. but other than that it "30 dyas no questions return for refund"
Its return policy for consumer electronics was cut to 90 days in California. The policy will take effect nationwide over the next month. The changes come as many in the industry are rethinking return policies.
Customer reaction was mixed.
The policy change was no surprise to Mike Lopez, a police officer shopping at Costco's Atwater Village store Tuesday. When a plasma TV he bought in 2004 started losing color last year, the Glendale resident returned it with "no questions asked.". "It was awesome. It was great," Lopez said. "It didn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that someone was going to abuse it eventually."
Others were annoyed. Glendale resident Ofelia Ayvazyan said Tuesday that Costco staff made her wait more than 20 minutes before letting her return a 42-inch flat-screen television she bought three years ago
She said she would shop for electronics elsewhere from now on -- after she spent the store credit worth $2,932.72. "I'm not happy with the new policy," Ayvazyan said, but "at least I got my money back to buy a new one."
These merchants, Netflix, Blockbuster and others signed with people with very low ethical standards.
Where did I see that Netflix or Blockbuster signed with them?. The only given is that these were the companies that Mr. Edleman was checking in his study. There is NO evidence that these were the only companies targeted by the spyware referred to in the article, only that they were indeed victims.
I suspect that Mr. Edleman could have selected many other popular sites and found the same behavior, however this was not intended to be an exhaustive search.
(Aside to Mr. Edleman): You might think about marketing this search method to other companies, as well as to Netflix and Blockbuster (since you *already* have proven them to be at risk).
How would the merchants detect that Zango or other spyware makers have hijacked organic traffic or a legitimate affiliates cookie?
Answer:
By:
1: RTFA (and Mr. Edleman's reply to you question)
2: Duplicating his methodology.
If you (as a merchant) find that the same thing is happening, contact the FTC (among others), as well as a competent (and hopefully trustworthy) attorney.
It is your responsibility to ensure that your ad vendors are living up to their part of the bargain before paying them
We seem to be missing one important part: Who gets the $50K for doing the certification, and how do we know we can trust them?. Surely, F-Secure would love to be the one providing this necessary service (naturally, they would do this free since this is for the consumer
It's nothing to do with that; it's just regulating what the cable/phone companies can claim actually IS broadband; as it stands they screw a lot of people who don't know any better by selling them "broadband" which is no such thing by modern standards.
I think it's definitely a good step in the "truth in advertising" department...I'm tired of sneering at the commercials where the broadband companies are comparing their download speeds to 28.8 modems and other such crap.
Just look at some of the offerings. One that I am familiar with advertises 3 different wireless services (768k MIR for $59, 1M MIR for $99, 3M MIR for $139). MIR stands for Maximum Information Rate as in "Up to 3Mb/sec". However, each of the services also specifies a CIR (Committed Information Rate) of 512k. This means that, until your rate drops below 512k/sec, you cannot complain that they are not adhering to their part of the contract.
Remember that and always ask for both the CIR and MIR when talking to a sales person. If they will not specify a CIR (or don't know what it is), RUN, don't walk for the nearest exit.
It doesn't cost anything, but among the things it must contain is your contact info as well as:
(C) A statement under penalty of perjury that the subscriber has a good faith belief that the material was removed or disabled as a result of mistake or misidentification of the material to be removed or disabled.
How about:
(C) A statement under penalty of perjury that the subscriber has a good faith belief that the material NEVER EXISTED ON THE COMPUTER IN QUESTION IN THE FIRST PLACE.
You gotta love it. Stone age solutions to modern problems. Turn OFF the cell towers as needed. No jamming, no muss, no fuss. Unless the jamming equipment is really wide spectrum (DC to Light as we say in Ham Radio), this handles the problem nicely.
Second off I don't really see the difference, instead of removing every attorney at the beginning of the term, why not wait til you see that their politics don't jive with your politics.
1: He did fire most (if not all) at the beginning of his first term. The eight he fired in 2006 were ones he appointed.
2: He (and his staff) lied about the reasons for the terminations/resignations.
3: The apparent reason was to stall current investigations into actions of members of his party and/or to punish others for not pursuing investigations against members of the other party. This interferes with the independence of the Justice Department and gives the significant impression that political considerations are more important than the law of the land.
I dislike Clinton's approach of firing everyone immediately no matter what their politics, the fact he removed them all tells that either he was doing favors for those who got in or only wanted people who agreed with him, either way I disagree with that policy.
This is tradition. All presidents have made wholesale changes in the upper level staff of the Justice Department. What breaks with tradition (and has raised the hackles of members of ALL parties) is the mid-term changes apparently based on #3 above.
But... this law probably doesn't specifically ban "text messaging on a hand-held cellular telephone using a numberpad based text input method", instead it probably bans all text messaging while driving.
My friends (law enforcement/public safety) and I were discussing this. My question is: Does this prohibit the use of mobile data terminals by law enforcement, public safety (fire), taxis and/or delivery personnel?
A really good admin loves what he (she) does, and usually loves to pass that knowledge on to others -- and that's good for the experienced admin, the noob and the company.
I have found that the absolute best way to become an SME on any operating system is to teach admin on that system to others.
I have found that the absolute worst way is to try to do so while troubleshooting
While I prefer that someone I am supporting is learning, it breaks any process flow to stop and say "why did I want to do this". Most admins (and techs - I have done 2nd, 3rd and national support in both hardware and systems) who wish to learn to accept this (and succeed). Those who insist that "I want to know now" tend not to last.
While I believe that having no one immediately at hand to turn to is a great way of building self-reliance and honing your own troubleshooting and problem solving skills, there are a lot of tips, tricks and best practices that seasoned admins know that can make all the difference between being a decent and an outstanding sys admin.
After action reviews - preferably over a pint and shot - apologies to those who despise one or both (can you be a sysadmin or BOFH if this is the case?) - tend to go a long way to "furtherance of the art".
Although you're right that one can install the companion disc (and then go to sunfreeware.com to pick up the stuff that's missing or out of date) it still remains the case that, e.g., if I log in as root on one of the random Solaris systems at work (where I have superuser privileges but not unilateral control over what root's environment looks like) I get a nasty old Bourne shell with no history, no completion, etc. If I were to change root's shell to bash or zsh, I'd run the risk of breaking system admin scripts that assume I'm using the default shell.
When I taught Solaris administration to my admins who had *some* *nix (though not Solaris) experience, the first exercise for those who changed the root entry in the passwd file (to use csh or tcsh) was to comment out the/usr mount entry in/etc/vfstab (hint:/bin/sh is statically linked -/usr/bin/bash,/usr/bin/csh... are dynamically linked and require libraries in/usr/lib). All of them were unable to repair the problem without a lot of pain. In the same tone,/bin/vi is statically linked,/usr/bin/vi is dynamic. The problem only multiplies in magnitude depending on whether or not you have to not only maintain Solaris platforms, but whether you need to support SunOS, AIX, HP-UX, DEC UNIX, Ultrix and all of the other flavors of *nix that are out there.
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1) Needed the component video cable.
2) Could only hook the STP directly to the monitor.
This, despite the fact that the original (non-HD) STB was hooked (S-VHS video and digital optical audio) to the receiver and working fine.
Dad ordered the requisite cable and rescheduled.
When the tech came out, after making the same claims, Dad called me. I told him to tell the tech to:
1) Unplug the S-VHS and optical cables from the existing box.
2) Plug the S-VHS and optical cables into the new box.
After doing so, the tech brought up "I Love Lucy" (I kid you not) and told Dad "See, you are not receiving HD-TV". Once he was told to actually tune a High Definition channel, everything was fine.
That is, until the "upgraded" STB they brought out 3 months later refused to display the channel guide/none of the remote control "advanced" functions/PVR could not be programmed (but that is another story).
My next "fun" project is to remind my cable operator (TW) of the following:
A library makes books available for checkout. Most also contain copying machines.
This would consititute making available to be shared without at the same time involving the library in infringing copyright
If the RIAA wins this motion, it could theoretically mean that all libraries must remove access to their copy machines or be at risk of liablity for copyright infringement/violation
Yes, but the first step is getting DSS to agree to the possibility. Prior to the demo, their answer was not only no, but hell no. After the demo, they said to proceed with the project.
Unfortunately, my experience at that particular company (a major defense contractor) was that they routinely erred in the second way, to the point that three of us on the team were told that we could only pass information to the company's Information Security department with prior management approval.
The implementation is not only inexpensive, but relatively easy. I have built and demonstrated just such an automated RED->BLACK system to the DSS (Defense Security Service - the folks who have to sign off on all DOD related classified networks). That prototype cost less than $2000 and took less than 30 days from conception to implementation.
The problem comes in when you have to rely on the carbon-based life forms involved to certify that the data is unclassified. Many times, I have seen people with TS/S/Confidential clearances say "I didn't know".
When we performed the demonstration, the main issue stressed was that the machine could securely interface RED and BLACK networks, but the system would fail if the parties involved did not pay attention to the classification of information transferred.
This is the same reason that MS-Office products (which do not always show hidden data) are always a problem (witness the recent disclosure of the intelligence budget - including Black programs - due to the presenter not sanitizing the background information in a Power Point presentation).
1: What is the default argument
2: Is the specification consistent across all functions which use this type of value as an argument
A specification which conforms to neither proper or common usage is worse than no specification at all
This is what Rob Weir was saying.
Three more words (sans link):
BLACK BOX VOTING
This was an unadvertised change in service from what was contracted with for the 5+ years of Adelphia service. In addition, TW/RR did not offer the same level of service (home wireless router) that Adelphia always had although they later decided to provide it for an additional fee.
TW/RR "never let you down"?? You were LUCKYWe seem to be missing one important part: Who gets the $50K for doing the certification, and how do we know we can trust them?. Surely, F-Secure would love to be the one providing this necessary service (naturally, they would do this free since this is for the consumer
You gotta love it. Stone age solutions to modern problems. Turn OFF the cell towers as needed. No jamming, no muss, no fuss. Unless the jamming equipment is really wide spectrum (DC to Light as we say in Ham Radio), this handles the problem nicely.