So what will keep someone with an internal wireless (cellular) broadband card in their laptop from using it, and claiming they are on the planes wi-fi network? To the passive observer, there would really be no way to tell the difference. Using cellular in a plane makes it explode or something, right?
Indeed. Why not take a $4K Thinkpad and dip in to gold, and then take that and dip it in platinum, and then take the whole thing and roll in spotted-owl feathers?
At my last job I was the textbook integrator. I kept on top of email from home, preformed server admin stuff at all hours via VPN, and would even come in after hours when a got a server alert that needed attention. One day, I decided to add up all these extra hours. I was a salary employee, so it's not like I was getting paid extra to work overtime. I was shocked with the totals.
During one calender year, I had worked over 200 unpaid hours. And, since they would have all been considered overtime hours and worth 1.5 regular hours, it totaled 300 hours' worth of lost wages. That's nearly two months worth of time!
So I quit that job after 10 years (I'm kinda a slow learner), and found a company that insists I work no more than 40 hours a week. If I am called on work more, I get to make it up later. So now I am a segmentor. Work is work, home is home, and never the twain shall meet.
No Vista application will be able to be sold to federal agencies
What!!?? You mean that my local Social Security office will not be upgrading?
I was there a few weeks ago and they all were using what looked like Windows 98 still. I don't think 'Vista' and 'federal agency' will be in the same sentence again for many, many years.
I work for a IT cooperative in Washington state as a sysadmin. I make about $70K/year, and I thought that was pretty good. But then I took a look at the 'pay band' sheet and see that the payscale for DBA is nearly double what mine is. And Citrix engineers are always in high demand in the medical industry, or so I'm told.
Point one: "This part about you doing labor for free is what makes the numbers work out." The nearest bank is 8 minutes away. And I (and most enterprise-level IT folks) am salaried. So it would not be free, and it certainly would not be labor. Some IT types have a vested interest in making things function as slowly as possible to justify their bloated departments.
Point two: "Last I checked, safe deposit boxes aren't guaranteed to maintain stable temperature, humidity, etc." I would say check again. Most (if not all) bank doing business in the US are federally mandated to do exactly that.
Point three: "And once you are doing this in full rotation, buying lots of hard drives, getting a larger safe deposit box, etc., the price is going to get quite steep." I've been doing it in full rotation for over 8 years. And the time saved during the last server/database restore (less than 8 man hours) more than pays for the cost.
Well, for one, I can put a box-worth (or two) of tape data on a single external HD and take it to our companies safe-deposit box. The drives are $300 each and the safe-deposit box is like $100/year. So there you go. Offsite storage, exponentially faster restore time, and massive data redundancy (if you get a few hard drives).
I work for an IT organization and we pay a company called Iron Mountain $100's monthly to schlep our boxes and boxes of backup tapes to their offsite storage facility.
And remember there is a difference between making 'backups' (store my important files somewhere else so I can get them in case of a system failure) and preparing for 'disaster recovery' (store everyones files somewhere else so we can rebuild the entire infrastructure in case the building burns to the ground).
Indeed. For super-critical, but not super-massive, data like this especially. I use a couple of external 250GB hard drives to back up my data fast. Then I take one of the HD's home with me for off-site storage. The best part is, there's never a 'restore' period! Just plug the external into the PC and a 'removable device' appears in 'my computer'.
Of course, if you need to store terabytes upon terabytes of data, tape may still by the only option....
Yeah, and this from TA was not really accurate: "CompUSA competes with Best Buy and Circuit City."
When I need a 1U, rack-mountable, 8 port, KVM (or some other piece of professional networking equipment) I don't even think of going to Best Buy or Circuit City.
Does anyone know if the ones in Washington State are staying open?
Between 1990 and 2000 I bet I got over 100 AOL ads (CD's included) in the mail. I might have received half a dozen Compuserve ads (including the ill-fated WOW! service) during the same time.
And regarding Macs, they have had a few memorable ad campaigns over the years. But I don't think they even slightly compare with the gazillon PC computers I am encouraged to buy in emails, snail mails, tv ads, newspaper inserts, ad nauseum.
I agree. If one company sold an awesome product/service/format, but marketed it only modestly (i.e Macs/Compuserve/BetaMax); and another product/service/format was clearly inferior, but marketed very aggressively (i.e. Windows/AOL/VHS) the latter will always win. Welcome to a capitalist economy folks:)
So I guess those of use with very common names are just screwed then. Or I suppose I could get my name leagally changed to john_smith_no_not_that_one_the_other_one....
I am an online merchant and I use both Google Checkout (in the foreground) and Paypal Payments Pro (in the background) to process CC transactions. Both of those providers will (and have for me in the past) eat the fraudulent charges as long as I had taken all required steps to ensure the transaction was genuine.
For example, I had one $100 sale that, a few months ago, came back as 'fraudulent'. Paypal asked me to provided documentation to show the steps I took to verify the buyers information. I keep all these records, so I sent Paypal address verification, proof of delivery, etc. After about a week they contacted me, told me that I followed their verification process properly, and that they would absorb the cost of the disputed transaction.
1: Retail stores are not required to (and usually do not) accept open-box software returns
2: In order to actually read the EULA, you must open the software box
3: You must accept the EULA to use the software
4: If you do not agree to the EULA, you are instructed to promptly return the software to the store
5: See 1
Well, one can only assume that banning people in Georgia from reproducing could do nothing but help the situation. Because everyone knows that everyone from Georgia is a dim-witted, incestuous, bigot. I mean it has to be true; there are like millions of sitcoms about little else.
Staton said the bill does not tell the companies exactly how to ensure that minors don't log on without parental permission. The companies can figure that out on their own, he said.
1) John Law says 'companies, make this happen'
2) Companies say, 'wait...what?'
3) ???
4) Safety for children everywhere!
Physicists said the new approach to taming light could hasten the arrival of a futuristic era
I hate statements like this. How does a 'futuristic era' arrive? Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't it impossible to hasten the arrival of the future? And when the future does indeed arrive, will it not then be simply 'the present'?
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So what will keep someone with an internal wireless (cellular) broadband card in their laptop from using it, and claiming they are on the planes wi-fi network? To the passive observer, there would really be no way to tell the difference. Using cellular in a plane makes it explode or something, right?
Indeed. Why not take a $4K Thinkpad and dip in to gold, and then take that and dip it in platinum, and then take the whole thing and roll in spotted-owl feathers?
Better yet, just tape a check for $996,000 to it?
Just to summarize, there are only two possible reasons for his behavoir:
1) He is a a serial killer
2) You are dicks
No other possible explanations that I can think of....
At my last job I was the textbook integrator. I kept on top of email from home, preformed server admin stuff at all hours via VPN, and would even come in after hours when a got a server alert that needed attention. One day, I decided to add up all these extra hours. I was a salary employee, so it's not like I was getting paid extra to work overtime. I was shocked with the totals.
During one calender year, I had worked over 200 unpaid hours. And, since they would have all been considered overtime hours and worth 1.5 regular hours, it totaled 300 hours' worth of lost wages. That's nearly two months worth of time!
So I quit that job after 10 years (I'm kinda a slow learner), and found a company that insists I work no more than 40 hours a week. If I am called on work more, I get to make it up later. So now I am a segmentor. Work is work, home is home, and never the twain shall meet.
"Microsoft. Reinventing the wheel since 1989" That's why!
I was there a few weeks ago and they all were using what looked like Windows 98 still. I don't think 'Vista' and 'federal agency' will be in the same sentence again for many, many years.
I work for a IT cooperative in Washington state as a sysadmin. I make about $70K/year, and I thought that was pretty good. But then I took a look at the 'pay band' sheet and see that the payscale for DBA is nearly double what mine is. And Citrix engineers are always in high demand in the medical industry, or so I'm told.
Welcome to a capitalist economy.
But the UK is all metric system, so everything looks heavier on paper.
Point one: "This part about you doing labor for free is what makes the numbers work out."
The nearest bank is 8 minutes away. And I (and most enterprise-level IT folks) am salaried. So it would not be free, and it certainly would not be labor. Some IT types have a vested interest in making things function as slowly as possible to justify their bloated departments.
Point two: "Last I checked, safe deposit boxes aren't guaranteed to maintain stable temperature, humidity, etc."
I would say check again. Most (if not all) bank doing business in the US are federally mandated to do exactly that.
Point three: "And once you are doing this in full rotation, buying lots of hard drives, getting a larger safe deposit box, etc., the price is going to get quite steep."
I've been doing it in full rotation for over 8 years. And the time saved during the last server/database restore (less than 8 man hours) more than pays for the cost.
Well, for one, I can put a box-worth (or two) of tape data on a single external HD and take it to our companies safe-deposit box. The drives are $300 each and the safe-deposit box is like $100/year. So there you go. Offsite storage, exponentially faster restore time, and massive data redundancy (if you get a few hard drives).
There' this cool new thing out there. It's called data encryption. You should look it up.
Easy to offsite???
I work for an IT organization and we pay a company called Iron Mountain $100's monthly to schlep our boxes and boxes of backup tapes to their offsite storage facility.
And remember there is a difference between making 'backups' (store my important files somewhere else so I can get them in case of a system failure) and preparing for 'disaster recovery' (store everyones files somewhere else so we can rebuild the entire infrastructure in case the building burns to the ground).
Indeed. For super-critical, but not super-massive, data like this especially. I use a couple of external 250GB hard drives to back up my data fast. Then I take one of the HD's home with me for off-site storage. The best part is, there's never a 'restore' period! Just plug the external into the PC and a 'removable device' appears in 'my computer'.
Of course, if you need to store terabytes upon terabytes of data, tape may still by the only option....
Yeah, and this from TA was not really accurate: "CompUSA competes with Best Buy and Circuit City."
When I need a 1U, rack-mountable, 8 port, KVM (or some other piece of professional networking equipment) I don't even think of going to Best Buy or Circuit City.
Does anyone know if the ones in Washington State are staying open?
Between 1990 and 2000 I bet I got over 100 AOL ads (CD's included) in the mail. I might have received half a dozen Compuserve ads (including the ill-fated WOW! service) during the same time.
And regarding Macs, they have had a few memorable ad campaigns over the years. But I don't think they even slightly compare with the gazillon PC computers I am encouraged to buy in emails, snail mails, tv ads, newspaper inserts, ad nauseum.
I agree. If one company sold an awesome product/service/format, but marketed it only modestly (i.e Macs/Compuserve/BetaMax); and another product/service/format was clearly inferior, but marketed very aggressively (i.e. Windows/AOL/VHS) the latter will always win. Welcome to a capitalist economy folks :)
At first I thought is said "Digital Credentials Offer Enhanced Piracy"
"Me SmartCard an' Biometrics allow en' more booty to be plundered, yarhhh!"
So I guess those of use with very common names are just screwed then. Or I suppose I could get my name leagally changed to john_smith_no_not_that_one_the_other_one....
I am an online merchant and I use both Google Checkout (in the foreground) and Paypal Payments Pro (in the background) to process CC transactions. Both of those providers will (and have for me in the past) eat the fraudulent charges as long as I had taken all required steps to ensure the transaction was genuine.
For example, I had one $100 sale that, a few months ago, came back as 'fraudulent'. Paypal asked me to provided documentation to show the steps I took to verify the buyers information. I keep all these records, so I sent Paypal address verification, proof of delivery, etc. After about a week they contacted me, told me that I followed their verification process properly, and that they would absorb the cost of the disputed transaction.
EULA logic:
1: Retail stores are not required to (and usually do not) accept open-box software returns
2: In order to actually read the EULA, you must open the software box
3: You must accept the EULA to use the software
4: If you do not agree to the EULA, you are instructed to promptly return the software to the store
5: See 1
Well, one can only assume that banning people in Georgia from reproducing could do nothing but help the situation. Because everyone knows that everyone from Georgia is a dim-witted, incestuous, bigot. I mean it has to be true; there are like millions of sitcoms about little else.
2) Companies say, 'wait...what?'
3) ???
4) Safety for children everywhere!