Yeah, but his contract is for 1000000 stocks that AT THE MOMENT cost $383 apiece. The price will be something else by the time you will have a $383 million contract.
I have used several streaming and local media players. Most of them had some shortcomings and the firmware updates with the features that i wanted just did not come in a timely manner. Finally i bought a mac mini, connected it to my TV and have never looked back. Games consoles or streaming players just can not compete with the versatility of a pc.
Just to elaborate a bit: during the years i have installed hundreds (if not thousands) of instances of Windows, Linux as well as OSX. The amount of questions i have had related to the ability to make bootable disks on OSX vs Linux and Win is comparable to the relative national debt of Vatican vs USA
Well, the logs are usually accurate enough to identify the *suspect* (you know - innocent until proven guilty etc). Gathering of forensic evidence for court proceedings should follow. I never said this should be used as sole proof in court.
Well, if you have ISP logs on whose router the ip was assigned to at a given time, identification works. Just as a phone number is not a unique identification per se. But police knows it was assigned to someone at the time they are interested in. Ok, phone number assignment to a particular customer is much longer than an ip, but the principle is the same.
Version check does not help much, because the fix has not been issued yet. "The company plans to have a patch for the affected products ready by next week for all platforms"
Another protection would be IMEI locking with the carrier so the SIM couldn't be used elsewhere.
Just for information: IMEI identifies the phone, not the SIM. You can not lock the IMEI to the carrier and even if you could, it wouldn't have anything to do with using SIM.
And SIM is always locked to a carrier. You can only get on one carrier's network or its roaming partner's network.
Those prices you quote are for a person (notice the article) with one phone. I guess the even prices in the US will be different if you buy it bulk (hundreds of traffic lights). And - in the rest of the world, the prices are A LOT better - i (in Estonia, EU) pay about 6$ per month for unlimited traffic on my cell phone - only the speed is capped at 2mbit - and i am not buying bulk and the traffic lights do not need unlimited traffic.
Posting some rants on someone's wall is highly ineffective. I had an idea to modify the extension so that it changes everyone's relationship status (married->its complicated, etc) . That would get the targets to secure up in no time.
However the time and effort that I have spent installing Samba 4 would have cost this organisation a fair bit more than the cost of a Windows Server 2008 Standard license
Perhaps. But imagine that you ditch windows servers altogether and save quite a bit from server CALs. Depending on the network size and configuration that could save a significant amount.
When i drove a car without a license as a youngster i used the following trick - when i saw a policeman at the side of the road making random stops, i stopped beside him to "ask directions" from him. Foolproof. They invariably thought that this guys papers are surely in order if he asks directions from a police officer. Despite the slightly crashed front of his 200$ car.
It is like card counting. All you do is take play a game according to THEIR rules and be just a bit better at it than an average joe. Use of your memory in a card game is something that the casinos do not like and therefore it is banned.
It is strange how stone age law enforcement can be. Wouldn't it be easier (and give more results - as the cellphone travels in your pocket even on foot) to track his cellphone location. Getting this informations from the carrier might need a warrant and that's it - but oh no - they prefer to crawl under a greasy car and attach something physical and "expensive" to it.
The trouble with Skype is that the thing they are calling an "API" is not really an API to the Skype network. It is an interface to a running Skype process. That makes it quite hard for other networks to communicate with Skype network - the protocol is not open and there is no proper API.
5 years ago, when Google announced Google Talk (which is based on open protocol Jabber/XMPP), Skype soiled its collective pants, and without much thought, promised a proper api which they called SkypeNET API - http://blogs.skype.com/devzone/2005/08/skype_opens_im_and_presence_to_1.html That promise was never delivered. As time went by Skype saw that Google Talk was not gaining enough momentum and they silently dropped the plan.
There is still no proper way to communicate with the Skype network - not even IM, much less voice or video. The way Fring and other such services do it, is by running a Skype process for every user and transferring data between that process and their own network, be it XMPP or something else.
I call for Skype to open up its protocol or deliver a proper API. Imagine that you could not send e-mail to a user of a different network - how much less useful tool it would be. Or that you couldn't call people from another telephone network from your phone. This is unfortunately the situation with Skype - you can not IM or call people in other networks. In the long run the only viable option is to make communication networks interoperable - telephone, e-mail etc has taught us that. It is inevitably the only viable solution. Skype has damaged the progress towards that direction seriously.
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Yeah, but his contract is for 1000000 stocks that AT THE MOMENT cost $383 apiece. The price will be something else by the time you will have a $383 million contract.
I have used several streaming and local media players. Most of them had some shortcomings and the firmware updates with the features that i wanted just did not come in a timely manner. Finally i bought a mac mini, connected it to my TV and have never looked back. Games consoles or streaming players just can not compete with the versatility of a pc.
The fad has already passed for me.
Just to elaborate a bit: during the years i have installed hundreds (if not thousands) of instances of Windows, Linux as well as OSX. The amount of questions i have had related to the ability to make bootable disks on OSX vs Linux and Win is comparable to the relative national debt of Vatican vs USA
"A lot of questions surrounding this related to the ability to make bootable disks."
You should really try a mac sometimes.
Well, the logs are usually accurate enough to identify the *suspect* (you know - innocent until proven guilty etc). Gathering of forensic evidence for court proceedings should follow. I never said this should be used as sole proof in court.
Well, if you have ISP logs on whose router the ip was assigned to at a given time, identification works. Just as a phone number is not a unique identification per se. But police knows it was assigned to someone at the time they are interested in. Ok, phone number assignment to a particular customer is much longer than an ip, but the principle is the same.
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Version check does not help much, because the fix has not been issued yet. "The company plans to have a patch for the affected products ready by next week for all platforms"
foxit is not exactly open source, is it
Another protection would be IMEI locking with the carrier so the SIM couldn't be used elsewhere.
Just for information:
IMEI identifies the phone, not the SIM. You can not lock the IMEI to the carrier and even if you could, it wouldn't have anything to do with using SIM.
And SIM is always locked to a carrier. You can only get on one carrier's network or its roaming partner's network.
There is no such thing as a "data only sim". The GSM data vs voice lockup happens on the mobile operator's network side not on the sim card.
Those prices you quote are for a person (notice the article) with one phone. I guess the even prices in the US will be different if you buy it bulk (hundreds of traffic lights). And - in the rest of the world, the prices are A LOT better - i (in Estonia, EU) pay about 6$ per month for unlimited traffic on my cell phone - only the speed is capped at 2mbit - and i am not buying bulk and the traffic lights do not need unlimited traffic.
Posting some rants on someone's wall is highly ineffective. I had an idea to modify the extension so that it changes everyone's relationship status (married->its complicated, etc) . That would get the targets to secure up in no time.
I usually ssh to my phone while its on a wifi. The need to ssh to it over the cell network has not come up.
at least my cellphone gets an address that is in the NATted private 10.x.x.x range so my provider does not really waste ipv4 public address space.
in no time these confidential reasons will be published on wikileaks
However the time and effort that I have spent installing Samba 4 would have cost this organisation a fair bit more than the cost of a Windows Server 2008 Standard license
Perhaps. But imagine that you ditch windows servers altogether and save quite a bit from server CALs. Depending on the network size and configuration that could save a significant amount.
When i drove a car without a license as a youngster i used the following trick - when i saw a policeman at the side of the road making random stops, i stopped beside him to "ask directions" from him. Foolproof. They invariably thought that this guys papers are surely in order if he asks directions from a police officer. Despite the slightly crashed front of his 200$ car.
Perhaps move to fiber should be considered
The logic fails, because the "gun" in question was not in their hands and they did not even directly trigger it.
It is like card counting. All you do is take play a game according to THEIR rules and be just a bit better at it than an average joe. Use of your memory in a card game is something that the casinos do not like and therefore it is banned.
It is strange how stone age law enforcement can be. Wouldn't it be easier (and give more results - as the cellphone travels in your pocket even on foot) to track his cellphone location. Getting this informations from the carrier might need a warrant and that's it - but oh no - they prefer to crawl under a greasy car and attach something physical and "expensive" to it.
It really doesn't matter if the contract makes sense. If he signed a contract that did not make sense, whe else is there to blame except himself?
And - shouldn't the current owners be footing the legal fees, not Facebook itself?
The trouble with Skype is that the thing they are calling an "API" is not really an API to the Skype network. It is an interface to a running Skype process. That makes it quite hard for other networks to communicate with Skype network - the protocol is not open and there is no proper API.
5 years ago, when Google announced Google Talk (which is based on open protocol Jabber/XMPP), Skype soiled its collective pants, and without much thought, promised a proper api which they called SkypeNET API - http://blogs.skype.com/devzone/2005/08/skype_opens_im_and_presence_to_1.html
That promise was never delivered. As time went by Skype saw that Google Talk was not gaining enough momentum and they silently dropped the plan.
There is still no proper way to communicate with the Skype network - not even IM, much less voice or video. The way Fring and other such services do it, is by running a Skype process for every user and transferring data between that process and their own network, be it XMPP or something else.
I call for Skype to open up its protocol or deliver a proper API. Imagine that you could not send e-mail to a user of a different network - how much less useful tool it would be. Or that you couldn't call people from another telephone network from your phone. This is unfortunately the situation with Skype - you can not IM or call people in other networks. In the long run the only viable option is to make communication networks interoperable - telephone, e-mail etc has taught us that. It is inevitably the only viable solution. Skype has damaged the progress towards that direction seriously.
Paper money is real - you can touch it. The guarantee is virtual.