I have 3 classes accounts. work accounts, important personal accounts, and junk accounts. I use an easy to remember 8 to 12 word phrase that describes the 'class' of account (Longer phrase where I deem more security is needed). I take one of the letters from each word in the phrase (all first letters, or 2nd, or 3rd, . ..), use "special character substitution" (like 3 for e, @ for a, etc.). This becomes the 'class password'. I then add a two character description for the specific account or computer I am using. I either wrap the 'class password' in these two leters, or stick them both at the front or end. I change the class passwords around every 6 months. Sometimes up to a year for "junk" acounts (FB, Twiter, et. al.) I have around 40 different accounts, in three 'classes', that I remember easily, and for long periods of time. Because I only have to remember very little. I never tell anyone any of my passwords, and never let them use my machines. And I don't obsess about the passwords. Physical access & "social engineering" are the easiest ways into a system, anyway.
In the '70s they were "IT" because Lafayette Radio went under and Radio Shack BOUGHT Allied Radio. The two stores that made the Shack LOOK like a Friggin Shack. The only thing RS was good for was the free batteries they used to have (Battery of the Month Club), AND they ALWAYS had GOOD Antennas! Now, however, they actually have decent parts, good cables, and still good antennas. Too bad DIY is Done & Gone. Nobody would have a clue what to do with "parts".
You are correct. Mostly because there is no "Jeopardy time slot" across the nation. It airs at different times in different places. 'Live" would be well nigh impossible.
YES !! It was originally that way. An ART form. Managers FINALLY figured out how to cram programming into a 'form' (cookie cutter), and used all the early idiotic "Design Methods" to corral programmers & designers into lower paying, easily replaceable "jobs". The "systems programmers" at CNA (early 1980s) would wear flannel shirts while everyone else got sent home if not wearing a suit. That kind of power could not go unpunished. (I.E.: we helped in our own demise.)
vlm: By all means, count your grandfather's records ! But think, or listen again. A great many reference the human condition, not just the times. Plus, you can find a lot of sounds and themes that appear in modern music that happened the first time with them. Taxman, Because, Something, Dear Prudence, (and others) are mostly timeless. BUT, you are correct. I, who grew up while The Beatles created, will identify closer to them than any other generation will. You have your "music", too, I'm sure.
Because it is cheaper for the manufacturers to standardize, no matter what the real needs/wants of the consumer are. Laptops will not give you any better vertical resolution than 1200. The Apple 30 inch Cinema display is your only choice for the desktop. Assuming you want higher than "HD" resolutions. Last year Samsung had a 24" 2048×1536 LCD screen. It is no longer made.
You are absolutely correct. I worked for "Ma Bell" in the late 1970s. What you didn't mention was that in big cities, and some rural areas, some of the existing wire was laid down in the 1920s. The MAX DSL speed I can get to my house is 768 Kbits (down) because of these OLD wires. I live near, but not IN, downtown Chicago, IL. My neighborhood is one of the oldest surviving in Chicago.
I'm sorry, but this has been understated everywhere in these replies. Get *SERIOUS* sound deadening installed. You will not go nuts, you will go *DEAF* !!!! As someone who HAS Tinnitis, from many years of sitting / working in server rooms (data centers), I cannot stress this enough.
OUCH ! I guess I'd have to ask you what TIME you registered ! Since I must have been only an hour or two AFTER you (CDT) ! I no longer even remember when I registered. Sometime in late spring/early summer 1998 or thereabouts. I was working as a UNIX admin at 'cars.com'.
Good advice, with one exception. You cannot use a 30-ought-6 on a spammer. It won't work well enough. What you want is something that can make them suffer a measurable percentage of the grief they have 'spawned'. "The death of a thousand cuts" springs to mind. Or a.22 short working from the extremities inward, but stopping before you get to the torso or head. Stuff like that.:>D I cannot think of anything or anyone that I HATE. But spammers have a special place in my heart. When I remember what email, and Usenet, was like in the eighties and early nineties, I realize that the punishment they deserve is far beyond my ability to mete out.:>D
I do not agree. Scientists, by the very nature of the vocation, MUST be deemed "well behaved". Or their jobs disappear, they cannot get grants to fund their research, cannot publish, and can easily wind up without a "Scientist's Job". [Teaching at a good school, Research, publication (to popular, welll paid venues), etc..]
Which, of course, holds a certain amount of FEAR for them ! So Scientists will not usually "Openly Oppose" the "Status Quo" on POLITICALLY CHARGED topics. Specifically because of this ostracizing.
So there are quite a few scientists who would disagree with the some of the methods used by the "Global Warming Cadre" and some of their results, but they DARE NOT express an opposing opinion. [See: "Testimony of Michael Crichton before the United States Senate" on this page: http://www.michaelcrichton.net/speeches/index.html ]
I would not like to be too hasty in placing blame OR congratulations. After 10 years of "negotiated salaries", the price for a series can get quite out of hand. Having a "record-breaking" show can lead a studio to think they have a REAL "gold mine" on their hands. To top THAT off, having Comcast moving Stargate SG-1 to their "Digital Cable" offering, and REMOVING it from "Regular Cable" cut the number of folks who could watch the show.
That VP of programming at Sci-Fi came out and said that there will be NO TV show, anywhere with the name of "Stargate SG-1", because THEY (Sci-Fi) had a contract giving them rights to a show with that name. So he is either an ASS, or someone insulted him by asking FAR TOO MUCH money for renewal for season 11. We don't really know which one is true.
I actually thought the writing had improved quite a bit in the last two years. Each character was more "filled in", Daniel wasn't the "Whiny Bitch", Sam cound be "hot" AND an extremely intelligent woman, Teal'c actually voiced his opinions and took the lead on occasion, and the two new folks were good, strong, additions to the cast. It should have run for a couple of more years. Somehow, that got screwed up.
Is, of course, produced by SONY, so it has a slant, but there are TONS of stories about this company and its products. Quite a few of them seem to be written WITH the folks who actually worked on whatever product they are describing. Very interesting.
Oh, Cowboyneal: A few more 'headlines' like that, and we will start believing you went to the Dan Rather School of Journalism.
According to the American Institute for Economic Research [ http://www.aier.org/cgi-aier/colcalculator.cgi ], 40 dollars in 1984 is worth $ 76.34 today. In 1984 I was paying $ 40.00 per month for telephone service. I had a "Call-Pak Unlimited" which meant that I had UNLIMITED calling for the Chicagoland area. What used to be the 847, 708, 312, 773, and part of the 815 area codes. PLUS this service came with 20 minutes of "Continental United States Long Distance".
Match THAT today in a "land-Line" service package. Then throw in the FANTASTIC service they USED to have and tell me how much better off we are !! [Yes, I can, and *DO* beat that price with my Cingular Phone. Which is why I do NOT have a Land-Line.]
Bell South does have quite a bit of plant and infrastructure in South america. *Maybe* that is worth something (sa a revenue base?).
Your "lay-off" tale is not new. I know a guy at Lucent who was early retired. the only difference fro your story is that Lucent realized that all their best people "took the retirement option". He (and TEN other local guys) NOW work as consultants for Lucent. Making 150% of their former salaries, and still in posession of ALL their retirement benefits. I wish your mother well. She got "worked-over" good.
The trick is that AT&T was broken up BECAUSE of the TYPE of regulation they were under. When AT&T created a "phone system" (Panel, Crossbar, ESS), they designed it for at LEAST 20 years. 20 years ago we were amazed by the "New 386". This was mostly the result of the regulated ROI. Yes they made things to LAST, but they HAD to. They NEED to have a good incentive for FASTER turnover, MORE innovation. MCI and Sprint came along and sold only to the lucrative long distance market, AT&T's bread & buttter. The Long distance market used to help PAY FOR local service. It was set up that way. When the lawsuits started piling up against AT&T, Charlie Brown decided "forget it". He took the chance that the "Bell Children" would be profitable because they would be mostly deregulated. He was right.
This does not mean that "the New AT&T" will do us any good. Without SOME sort of regulation, we're done for. ALSO, you all forget that Verizon *IS* the other "BIG" comprtitior --> GTE. And YES, they are "fated" to merge. Eliminating ALL "big" phone companies, and getting back to one. But we NEED them to be REGULATED. SERVICE was ALL the old AT&T cared about. It was 1,2, & 3 of the top five things they worked toward. We also have to let them make money off their inventions. The old rules did not allow that.
The key to all of this is creating regulation that REWARDS innovation. Bell labs did the transistor, the first work on disk drives, the LASER (independently, but later than Gordon Gould), TELSTAR, and on and on. Without the proper fiscal incentives, innovation will "not be worth it", from THEIR point of view. Without innovation, we ALL lose, BIG-TIME.
I think this can be a good thing, if we do it right. I also think it is inevitable. The ONE thing we have to LOSE if the 1980's mentality. Greed is NOT good. If we have a single Bell system, and pay the CEO $100 MILLION a year, we are done for. [By modern scales the CEO of the largest company in the world is worth $100 Mil. We cannot have that kind of thinking.]
Actually, Steve Jobs has one of the early "prior art" software "packages": Enterprise Objects. This was originally running on a NeXT computer (NeXTStep). It was written in Objective-C (before they converted it to Java and called it Web Objects). I think a certain "Sir Tim" used it to CREATE the web. By 1996 it was already "Web Objects". Thus being a 'prior' to *almost* everything else. Don't forget, with NeXTStep, you could run an application on some machine, and bring the 'window' up on ANY network attached machine that 'reachable'. [Unlike MacOS X.] This is a (LOST) lawsuit waiting to happen. Period. [And YES, it is a shame.]
I am NOT arguing with 'cubicledrone'. I agree with him(?). I have ONE question to ask ANYONE who is 'casting aspersions' on his opinion:
"If Penzias & Wilson were doing satellite communication experiments in 2003, How much time would they be given to explain why their instrument was 2% off in it's readings ????"
The ovvious answer, which we all know would be: "Put a damned resistor in there and force it to zero and get on with your work !"
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I remember Netscape not running on Windows, but I don't remember any problems on SunOS. Can you remember details (please)?
I have 3 classes accounts. work accounts, important personal accounts, and junk accounts. I use an easy to remember 8 to 12 word phrase that describes the 'class' of account (Longer phrase where I deem more security is needed). I take one of the letters from each word in the phrase (all first letters, or 2nd, or 3rd, . . .), use "special character substitution" (like 3 for e, @ for a, etc.). This becomes the 'class password'. I then add a two character description for the specific account or computer I am using. I either wrap the 'class password' in these two leters, or stick them both at the front or end. I change the class passwords around every 6 months. Sometimes up to a year for "junk" acounts (FB, Twiter, et. al.) I have around 40 different accounts, in three 'classes', that I remember easily, and for long periods of time. Because I only have to remember very little. I never tell anyone any of my passwords, and never let them use my machines. And I don't obsess about the passwords. Physical access & "social engineering" are the easiest ways into a system, anyway.
In the '70s they were "IT" because Lafayette Radio went under and Radio Shack BOUGHT Allied Radio. The two stores that made the Shack LOOK like a Friggin Shack. The only thing RS was good for was the free batteries they used to have (Battery of the Month Club), AND they ALWAYS had GOOD Antennas! Now, however, they actually have decent parts, good cables, and still good antennas. Too bad DIY is Done & Gone. Nobody would have a clue what to do with "parts".
FINALLY ! I am so tired of the first three or four pages of Google results being heavily populated with links to OTHER search engines. Fan-Tas-Tic !
You are correct. Mostly because there is no "Jeopardy time slot" across the nation. It airs at different times in different places. 'Live" would be well nigh impossible.
YES !! It was originally that way. An ART form. Managers FINALLY figured out how to cram programming into a 'form' (cookie cutter), and used all the early idiotic "Design Methods" to corral programmers & designers into lower paying, easily replaceable "jobs". The "systems programmers" at CNA (early 1980s) would wear flannel shirts while everyone else got sent home if not wearing a suit. That kind of power could not go unpunished. (I.E.: we helped in our own demise.)
vlm: By all means, count your grandfather's records ! But think, or listen again. A great many reference the human condition, not just the times. Plus, you can find a lot of sounds and themes that appear in modern music that happened the first time with them. Taxman, Because, Something, Dear Prudence, (and others) are mostly timeless. BUT, you are correct. I, who grew up while The Beatles created, will identify closer to them than any other generation will. You have your "music", too, I'm sure.
But how is Chase's App on iPhone "insecure" when it is the user's responsibility to not leave their username laying around ?
Because it is cheaper for the manufacturers to standardize, no matter what the real needs/wants of the consumer are. Laptops will not give you any better vertical resolution than 1200. The Apple 30 inch Cinema display is your only choice for the desktop. Assuming you want higher than "HD" resolutions. Last year Samsung had a 24" 2048×1536 LCD screen. It is no longer made.
You are absolutely correct. I worked for "Ma Bell" in the late 1970s. What you didn't mention was that in big cities, and some rural areas, some of the existing wire was laid down in the 1920s. The MAX DSL speed I can get to my house is 768 Kbits (down) because of these OLD wires. I live near, but not IN, downtown Chicago, IL. My neighborhood is one of the oldest surviving in Chicago.
I thought it was one word. You didn't mention that Lawrence Robertson would ALSO be proud.
I'm sorry, but this has been understated everywhere in these replies. Get *SERIOUS* sound deadening installed. You will not go nuts, you will go *DEAF* !!!! As someone who HAS Tinnitis, from many years of sitting / working in server rooms (data centers), I cannot stress this enough.
OUCH ! I guess I'd have to ask you what TIME you registered ! Since I must have been only an hour or two AFTER you (CDT) ! I no longer even remember when I registered. Sometime in late spring/early summer 1998 or thereabouts. I was working as a UNIX admin at 'cars.com'.
Good advice, with one exception. You cannot use a 30-ought-6 on a spammer. It won't work well enough. What you want is something that can make them suffer a measurable percentage of the grief they have 'spawned'. "The death of a thousand cuts" springs to mind. Or a .22 short working from the extremities inward, but stopping before you get to the torso or head. Stuff like that. :>D :>D
I cannot think of anything or anyone that I HATE. But spammers have a special place in my heart.
When I remember what email, and Usenet, was like in the eighties and early nineties, I realize that the punishment they deserve is far beyond my ability to mete out.
I do not agree. Scientists, by the very nature of the vocation, MUST be deemed "well behaved". Or their jobs disappear, they cannot get grants to fund their research, cannot publish, and can easily wind up without a "Scientist's Job". [Teaching at a good school, Research, publication (to popular, welll paid venues), etc..]
l ]
Which, of course, holds a certain amount of FEAR for them ! So Scientists will not usually "Openly Oppose" the "Status Quo" on POLITICALLY CHARGED topics. Specifically because of this ostracizing.
So there are quite a few scientists who would disagree with the some of the methods used by the "Global Warming Cadre" and some of their results, but they DARE NOT express an opposing opinion.
[See: "Testimony of Michael Crichton before the United States Senate" on this page: http://www.michaelcrichton.net/speeches/index.htm
I would not like to be too hasty in placing blame OR congratulations. After 10 years of "negotiated salaries", the price for a series can get quite out of hand. Having a "record-breaking" show can lead a studio to think they have a REAL "gold mine" on their hands. To top THAT off, having Comcast moving Stargate SG-1 to their "Digital Cable" offering, and REMOVING it from "Regular Cable" cut the number of folks who could watch the show.
That VP of programming at Sci-Fi came out and said that there will be NO TV show, anywhere with the name of "Stargate SG-1", because THEY (Sci-Fi) had a contract giving them rights to a show with that name. So he is either an ASS, or someone insulted him by asking FAR TOO MUCH money for renewal for season 11. We don't really know which one is true.
I actually thought the writing had improved quite a bit in the last two years. Each character was more "filled in", Daniel wasn't the "Whiny Bitch", Sam cound be "hot" AND an extremely intelligent woman, Teal'c actually voiced his opinions and took the lead on occasion, and the two new folks were good, strong, additions to the cast. It should have run for a couple of more years. Somehow, that got screwed up.
That, I was very sorry to hear.
Check Gateworld, before you believe anyone else.
http://www.gateworld.net/sg1/s10/index.shtml
They usually (but not always) have it right.
[Not always because the back-half of this year's Atlantis are out of order.]
http://www.sony.net/Fun/SH/index.html
Is, of course, produced by SONY, so it has a slant, but there are TONS of stories about this company and its products. Quite a few of them seem to be written WITH the folks who actually worked on whatever product they are describing. Very interesting.
Oh, Cowboyneal: A few more 'headlines' like that, and we will start believing you went to the Dan Rather School of Journalism.
Son, you have *NO* idea who you are talking about. You should learn to think first. I personally know these guys and would trust them with my life.
"Darwin Awards aside, what made people think that evolution stopped with the modern era?"
DUH ! Simply (and extreme) human Arrogance !! THAT is what generally makes us assume that evolution had stopped !! We are at our "pinnacle", NO ??
According to the American Institute for Economic Research [ http://www.aier.org/cgi-aier/colcalculator.cgi ],
40 dollars in 1984 is worth $ 76.34 today. In 1984 I was paying $ 40.00 per month for telephone service. I had a "Call-Pak Unlimited" which meant that I had UNLIMITED calling for the Chicagoland area. What used to be the 847, 708, 312, 773, and part of the 815 area codes. PLUS this service came with 20 minutes of "Continental United States Long Distance".
Match THAT today in a "land-Line" service package. Then throw in the FANTASTIC service they USED to have and tell me how much better off we are !!
[Yes, I can, and *DO* beat that price with my Cingular Phone. Which is why I do NOT have a Land-Line.]
Bell South does have quite a bit of plant and infrastructure in South america. *Maybe* that is worth something (sa a revenue base?).
Your "lay-off" tale is not new. I know a guy at Lucent who was early retired. the only difference fro your story is that Lucent realized that all their best people "took the retirement option". He (and TEN other local guys) NOW work as consultants for Lucent. Making 150% of their former salaries, and still in posession of ALL their retirement benefits. I wish your mother well. She got "worked-over" good.
The trick is that AT&T was broken up BECAUSE of the TYPE of regulation they were under. When AT&T created a "phone system" (Panel, Crossbar, ESS), they designed it for at LEAST 20 years. 20 years ago we were amazed by the "New 386". This was mostly the result of the regulated ROI. Yes they made things to LAST, but they HAD to. They NEED to have a good incentive for FASTER turnover, MORE innovation. MCI and Sprint came along and sold only to the lucrative long distance market, AT&T's bread & buttter. The Long distance market used to help PAY FOR local service. It was set up that way. When the lawsuits started piling up against AT&T, Charlie Brown decided "forget it". He took the chance that the "Bell Children" would be profitable because they would be mostly deregulated. He was right.
This does not mean that "the New AT&T" will do us any good. Without SOME sort of regulation, we're done for. ALSO, you all forget that Verizon *IS* the other "BIG" comprtitior --> GTE. And YES, they are "fated" to merge. Eliminating ALL "big" phone companies, and getting back to one. But we NEED them to be REGULATED. SERVICE was ALL the old AT&T cared about. It was 1,2, & 3 of the top five things they worked toward. We also have to let them make money off their inventions. The old rules did not allow that.
The key to all of this is creating regulation that REWARDS innovation. Bell labs did the transistor, the first work on disk drives, the LASER (independently, but later than Gordon Gould), TELSTAR, and on and on. Without the proper fiscal incentives, innovation will "not be worth it", from THEIR point of view.
Without innovation, we ALL lose, BIG-TIME.
I think this can be a good thing, if we do it right. I also think it is inevitable. The ONE thing we have to LOSE if the 1980's mentality. Greed is NOT good. If we have a single Bell system, and pay the CEO $100 MILLION a year, we are done for. [By modern scales the CEO of the largest company in the world is worth $100 Mil. We cannot have that kind of thinking.]
Actually, Steve Jobs has one of the early "prior art" software "packages":
Enterprise Objects. This was originally running on a NeXT computer (NeXTStep). It was written in Objective-C (before they converted it to Java and called it Web Objects). I think a certain "Sir Tim" used it to CREATE the web. By 1996 it was already "Web Objects". Thus being a 'prior' to *almost* everything else. Don't forget, with NeXTStep, you could run an application on some machine, and bring the 'window' up on ANY network attached machine that 'reachable'. [Unlike MacOS X.]
This is a (LOST) lawsuit waiting to happen. Period. [And YES, it is a shame.]
I am NOT arguing with 'cubicledrone'. I agree with him(?). I have ONE question to ask ANYONE who is 'casting aspersions' on his opinion:
"If Penzias & Wilson were doing satellite communication experiments in 2003, How much time would they be given to explain why their instrument was 2% off in it's readings ????"
The ovvious answer, which we all know would be: "Put a damned resistor in there and force it to zero and get on with your work !"