We have decided in America that we want our elderly people to have a modicum of dignity in their old age. Until we're willing to let the elderly wallow in their own filth and die in the streets of hunger and disease that's not changing. While I'm definitely on the side of improving efficiency and reducing fraud in the system I don't really have a problem with pitching in so old people can eat a decent meal occasionally. One of these days I'm going to be old too and my faith in the stock market/401k system is not much greater than my faith in SS.
I live in a medium-large sized city. IT unemployment here is like 2% and we can't fill our open head count. I'm sure a lot of people are upset that improvements in technology have made it so that lower skilled workers can do their work for less money, but that's certainly not unique to IT (manufacturing is an obvious example). At the same time, while I'm not seeing the wage growth I was accustomed to there's plenty of work for the foreseeable future.
While your premise is true, it's at least valuable to determine cost as well. Even if the benefit is small if the cost is zero then it might be worth doing.
While the snow is on your roof it acts in an endothermic capacity, keeping heat inside your home. The snow is melted by the heat of your house escaping through the roof much more-so than the sun melting it from above.
It could be clueless people like me who have a separate secured and open wifi network. If you only scanned my house you'd see 50% of the world is unsecured wireless!
This one always gets me. People may be smart enough to have a strong password for their bank, but will have a weak password for their e-mail where the password recovery details will be sent to.
If you are lucky they don't store your password in their database in plaintext
If you're really lucky they run your password through a one-way hash and store *that* into the database. Then, theoretically, anyone who gets access to your hash can come up with a password that will get them into the compromised system.. that is a password that happens to have the same hash, but not necessarily your actual password.
It doesn't work that way. Have you ever noticed that a huge amount of websites have that little icon about "like this page on facebook" or whatever? Many sites also allow you to log in using your facebook account as a sort of single-sign on. Anyways, any site you go to that has the Facebook icon? Facebook can see the referrer for the icon image and therefore knows the URL for the site you went to. It's the same for Twitter and all the other similar type things where you see their little icon littered throughout the internet.
Facebook has on at least one occasion changed the privacy options available, wiped out your previous privacy settings, and defaulted everything to shared.
I understand the risks, but I personally find this level of security a pita for a home network. I use WPA2 and my password is non-trivial but still probably dictionary-able (words with character substitutions such as a $ for an s in the word...) Anyways, I do this specifically because I got tired of everybody and their brother with an iphone wanting to get on my network and having to add their MAC and provide them with a card with the complex key written on it. I realize that some people run businesses at their homes so it makes sense in that case to be a little extra paranoid, but I think many people around here are overly paranoid. I don't mean that part to be specifically about you, I'm sure many people have good reasons to want their home networks secure. In my case, I treat it like locking the door... it's just enough to keep the honest people out.
I know what happens when you have a duplicate MAC on a wired network... confuses the routing. Is there a similar collision on a broadcast/wifi system? If so, even if he spoofs a MAC he has to wait until yours is offline, otherwise it's just a DOS. In my house all the networked devices are on 24/7 except my cell phone which obviously travels with me.
And the lesson here to all "hackers" out there, is not to overdo it. He probably would've gotten even and not be doing jail time if he hadn't gone over the top with threatening e-mails to the VP.
I recommend looking into Redbox. They generally only have newer DVDs but it's only $1/day to rent a physical disk. In my case the boxes are abundant. Hop online or on my phone, figure out which box within a 5 mile radius of my house has the movie I want, reserve and pick it up on the way home. In my house we're dropping cable and getting Netflix and Hulu+, with the occasional Redbox for when we want to rent recently released movies.
Netflix is for movies. Hulu+ is for whatever random show you like to watch in "real time" (aka, not waiting for the season DVDs). For my wife, she enjoys watching The Voice on Hulu (reality show about singers). Part of the draw of reality shows for many people is talking to friends about what happened on the show. Netflix is a fail in that case.
Check out redbox for your individual/specific movie rental needs. Yeah, it's not quite as convenient as having stuff magically show you up at your door, but you get immediate gratification of picking out the movie you feel like seeing on that particular day and it's only $1. IMHO Netflix has the streaming right and Redbox has the physical media right.
My personal experience is that upgrading Ubuntu via that button is a bit like using a Windows upgrade CD. It technically works, but winds up being more trouble than it's worth and you're better off doing a complete system rebuild.
You expect the hardware to be outdated by the time it makes it to the store. It's reasonable to be disappointed if the operating system is outdated within a few months.
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We have decided in America that we want our elderly people to have a modicum of dignity in their old age. Until we're willing to let the elderly wallow in their own filth and die in the streets of hunger and disease that's not changing. While I'm definitely on the side of improving efficiency and reducing fraud in the system I don't really have a problem with pitching in so old people can eat a decent meal occasionally. One of these days I'm going to be old too and my faith in the stock market/401k system is not much greater than my faith in SS.
I live in a medium-large sized city. IT unemployment here is like 2% and we can't fill our open head count. I'm sure a lot of people are upset that improvements in technology have made it so that lower skilled workers can do their work for less money, but that's certainly not unique to IT (manufacturing is an obvious example). At the same time, while I'm not seeing the wage growth I was accustomed to there's plenty of work for the foreseeable future.
While your premise is true, it's at least valuable to determine cost as well. Even if the benefit is small if the cost is zero then it might be worth doing.
While the snow is on your roof it acts in an endothermic capacity, keeping heat inside your home. The snow is melted by the heat of your house escaping through the roof much more-so than the sun melting it from above.
I would like to buy this electromagnetic spectrum/island from you for this small bag of beads.
You are free to build a Faraday cage around your personal property.
$10 Billion is a small price to pay for an oligopoly on mobile services. IMHO the price is paid in order to stop others from entering the market.
I have a hard time believing that anyone references more than 10% of their undergrad texts after graduation.
That's what she said.
It could be clueless people like me who have a separate secured and open wifi network. If you only scanned my house you'd see 50% of the world is unsecured wireless!
This one always gets me. People may be smart enough to have a strong password for their bank, but will have a weak password for their e-mail where the password recovery details will be sent to.
If you are lucky they don't store your password in their database in plaintext
If you're really lucky they run your password through a one-way hash and store *that* into the database. Then, theoretically, anyone who gets access to your hash can come up with a password that will get them into the compromised system.. that is a password that happens to have the same hash, but not necessarily your actual password.
Of those, Windows 7 is a perfectly fine name.
It doesn't work that way. Have you ever noticed that a huge amount of websites have that little icon about "like this page on facebook" or whatever? Many sites also allow you to log in using your facebook account as a sort of single-sign on. Anyways, any site you go to that has the Facebook icon? Facebook can see the referrer for the icon image and therefore knows the URL for the site you went to. It's the same for Twitter and all the other similar type things where you see their little icon littered throughout the internet.
Facebook has on at least one occasion changed the privacy options available, wiped out your previous privacy settings, and defaulted everything to shared.
I understand the risks, but I personally find this level of security a pita for a home network. I use WPA2 and my password is non-trivial but still probably dictionary-able (words with character substitutions such as a $ for an s in the word...) Anyways, I do this specifically because I got tired of everybody and their brother with an iphone wanting to get on my network and having to add their MAC and provide them with a card with the complex key written on it. I realize that some people run businesses at their homes so it makes sense in that case to be a little extra paranoid, but I think many people around here are overly paranoid. I don't mean that part to be specifically about you, I'm sure many people have good reasons to want their home networks secure. In my case, I treat it like locking the door... it's just enough to keep the honest people out.
It's surprising how many companies have open relays.
I know what happens when you have a duplicate MAC on a wired network... confuses the routing. Is there a similar collision on a broadcast/wifi system? If so, even if he spoofs a MAC he has to wait until yours is offline, otherwise it's just a DOS. In my house all the networked devices are on 24/7 except my cell phone which obviously travels with me.
And the lesson here to all "hackers" out there, is not to overdo it. He probably would've gotten even and not be doing jail time if he hadn't gone over the top with threatening e-mails to the VP.
Depends, does the time estimate include removing the multiple viruses/malware that came along for the ride with the WEP cracker?
I recommend looking into Redbox. They generally only have newer DVDs but it's only $1/day to rent a physical disk. In my case the boxes are abundant. Hop online or on my phone, figure out which box within a 5 mile radius of my house has the movie I want, reserve and pick it up on the way home. In my house we're dropping cable and getting Netflix and Hulu+, with the occasional Redbox for when we want to rent recently released movies.
Netflix is for movies. Hulu+ is for whatever random show you like to watch in "real time" (aka, not waiting for the season DVDs). For my wife, she enjoys watching The Voice on Hulu (reality show about singers). Part of the draw of reality shows for many people is talking to friends about what happened on the show. Netflix is a fail in that case.
Check out redbox for your individual/specific movie rental needs. Yeah, it's not quite as convenient as having stuff magically show you up at your door, but you get immediate gratification of picking out the movie you feel like seeing on that particular day and it's only $1. IMHO Netflix has the streaming right and Redbox has the physical media right.
My personal experience is that upgrading Ubuntu via that button is a bit like using a Windows upgrade CD. It technically works, but winds up being more trouble than it's worth and you're better off doing a complete system rebuild.
You expect the hardware to be outdated by the time it makes it to the store. It's reasonable to be disappointed if the operating system is outdated within a few months.