I find this comment in the article very interesting:
"Where I'd draw the line is putting in your bank account information or credit card number," he said, adding that checking e-mail messages probably is not that risky, but if you want to be cautious, change your password once you are on a secure connection again.
That said, if you gain access to your corporate network through a V.P.N., or virtual private network, you are safer using public hot spots, because your data is encrypted as it travels between Gate 17 and your office's server, where it is decoded before going to its destination.
I found this comment very confusing. Since when does VPN = Encryption?
re-schedule again, but I don't pause my life for it anymore (decided to go to work anyway). Guess what, he forgets to call, and the HR girl who tries to contact me, forgot to press the '+' in '+61' to call my international phone number, so she couldn't get to me.
I've worked in telecommunications for over twenty years, and I have yet to see a phone in North America with a "+" button on it. With all due respect, WTF are you talking about?
I think we're in basic agreement, except for religion. I don't support government funding of religion, but I think religious groups overall have done, and continue to do, so much good for society that we should not be taxing them as if they were businesses.
Of course, my definition of a religion doesn't include any group that charges thousands of dollars for the privilege of learning its teachings, so Scientology wouldn't qualify.
I just can't see the government holding any legitimate position costing even one dollar in any non-critical activity, no matter if it is supposedly for the benefit of the citizens or not, until it has well and truly addressed all of the critical activities that it has been tasked with with regard to its base responsibilities.
So the lunar program, which gave birth to many of the technologies we depend on today, was a waste of time? Isabella's jewels would have been better spent belaying the hunger of a few than funding Columbus? The English have long had a phrase to describe you, my friend: "penny wise and pound foolish".
My wife just purchased a 20" laptop for her work. It cost over $3000 CDN. I suggested she get a
smaller laptop, and purchase 20" LCD monitors for home and office. Much cheaper, and easier to lug around. "Oh no, that's too much trouble." So she wastes the company's money, and is going to have yank around a massive, power-hungry machine. Go figure.
So far, I've used this with Comcast, Verizon, T-Mobile, several banks, my auto insurance company, NVidia, Dell, Western Digital, Linksys, and probably a few that I've forgotten.
I'm in the same situtation as the parent poster: an IT analyst at a business-to-business telemarketing firm. We have four separate sales channels (outbound calls, inbound calls, mail, and web), and outbound TM is by far the largest - about 3 times the other three combined. And it's true - some customers really enjoy it when our agents call. Some agents have had the same accounts for ten years or more, and they have sincere relationships with their customers. (Others can't stand it, and we put them on the Do Not Call list.)
And, when I RTFA, my immediate thought was how to use this to improve our reps' performance. One of our programs only calls customers who haven't bought anything from us in two years or more. These reps will make over 100 calls in a single day, and maybe make one or two sales. If this software could help improve their performance (or help us cull people unlikely to buy from our list), it would make a lot of profit and increase the job satisfaction of these reps at the same time. Sometimes buying signals are so subtle, they get lost; I wonder how much this software can pick up?
Reuters is reporting that Google is equipping its headquarters with a solar panel 'capable of generating 1.6 megawatts of electricity
This is clearly the result of giving a cabal of nerds 130 billion dollars. Also, it's merely an order of magnitude short of the 1.21 gigawatts necessary for time travel.
Nice arithmetic. Try three orders of magnitude. Please surrender your nerd credentials as you exit.
People get sent to jail for challenging the accuracy of the Holocaust figures,
Only in neo-fascist countries like Germany.
Not true. Canada - which I would hardly classify as "neo-fascist" - jailed Holocaust denier Ernst Zundel for two years, before deporting him to Germany.
The PC industry wasn't created by government decree with Bill Gates appointed Head Tyrant. They won and maintain a position of nearly complete dominance in an emergent market over companies like Apple that continue to attempt to compete with them.
Simplistic, mostly wrong, and clearly written by someone who has no understanding of IBM's complete dominance of the US computer industry in the 1980's. When PC's emerged, most corporate IT managers were aghast at the thought of people trying to connect all these different machines to their IBM SNA networks. They gave a huge sigh of relief when IBM introduced its PC; now there was something that was officially sanctioned to not screw up their networks. So even though rival machines, like the Apple II, were less expensive, corporate IT managers bought IBM machines running MS-DOS. Then they bought more. Then more.
It had nothing to do with MS-DOS's abilities vis-a-vis other operating systems, and had everything to do with the FUDge packed by IBM. "Hey, buddy, what if one of your users connects one of those Apples to your cluster controller, and it ends up bringing down your FEP? I wouldn't want to have to explain that to the VP of IS. But our machines are guaranteed to work within your network." As corporate America bought millions of IBM PC's, cheques flowed into Redmond, funding MS so they could copy 1-2-3, WordPerfect, etc., and increase their hold on the desktop. I'll be the first to admit that MS does deserve some kudos for Office; yeah, they copied a lot of ideas from other people, but they did a very good job of it.
But MS wasn't content to do that, so they entered into restrictive contracts, etc., which brought about the DoJ suit. So, most of MS's succcess is a result of piggybacking on IBM's huge installed base, some is a result of their doing some very good progamming, and some is a result of dirty tricks. I'll let you decide the percentages.
figuring a mere 60lbs per person, the 78,838,422,780 pounds landing on one side of the planet should have quite an effect.
Converted to kilograms, your figure works out to 3.5 * 10^10 kgs. Let's triple the weight to 180 lbs, and your figure becomes 1 * 10^11 kgs.
Now, the mass of the earth is approximately 6 * 10^24 kgs. That's 6 * 10^13 bigger. Let's see what a similar ratio would look like applied to a 100 kg (220 lbs) human. Something that is 10^13 smaller would be approximately 1 microgram. The average piece of dust weights about 100 micrograms.
So the effect would be like an exceptionally tiny piece of dust striking you, i.e. no effect at all.
Also, it's worth noting that the upgrade from 15" to 19" didn't do much for my productivity at work.
I had the opposite experience; moving from a 15" to 19" monitor increased my productivity so much that tasks that used to take me all morning and part of the afternoon to finish are now complete by 11:30 - which gives me tons more time to browse/. on slow days, or on days like yesterday, find out about a user problem, do some research, come up with a solution, implement it, tinker with it, and roll it out to a very pleased user base. And that nicely documented bit of help goes into my review file, which should help me get more money at my next review. I love a big screen!
Ironically enough, banks may eventually be nothing more than a data center one day.
ING Direct Bank in Canada has no physical presence (to its customers). It piggybacks off other banks'
ATM's, and lets you bank over the phone or internet. So I'd say it's not much more than a data centre
right now.
Who keeps the backups? Call me paranoid, but if I were, say, a bank, I'd want to make damn sure that I had at least two functioning redundant centres AND an off-site data repository (which may just be tape or disk backup).
It may have been a poorly configured Plasma beside a new Plasma giving off the appearance of a new TV technology.
Yes, some entrepeneurs will push the envelope when trying to introduce something new. I used to work at Mitel Corp, which made business telephone systems. After much pre-announcement, we were supposed to roll out our SX-200 at a major trade show. Unfortunately, the software wasn't fully debugged, and so the thing didn't work properly. So Terry Matthews (that's Sir Terry now, of course) went out, bought a NorTel SL-1, and installed it at the back of the booth behind a curtain. They ran cables out to the SX-200, which was to all intents and purposes an empty shell. Everyone thought the SX-200 was fantastic, we got a lot of pre-orders, and when the software was debugged just a few months later, the SX-200 became one of the most successful PBX's of all time.
So there's certainly precedent for the idea of presenting something as a "done deal" while it's still in development. The question is, will the Laser TV actually appear in the market, as the SX-200 did?
And will we need goggles to watch it? The goggles.. they do nothing!
Well, FF works fine for all my other sites. I haven't loaded a single extension into it.
I'm running 1.5.0.7 on Windows XP. As suggested, I checked the options, and SSL 3.0 and TSL
1.0 are both set. SSL 2.0 was set as well, but I checked another poster's link, which suggested
I disable SSL 2.0, so I did.
The error message I get is "Unable to connect. Firefox can't establish a connection to the server at login.yahoo.com." It then suggests three options: Try again in a few minutes (never works), or if I can't load any pages, check my net connection (but I can download tons of pages, just not these few), and see if FF is behind a firewall and allowed to access the net (since I can download many pages, I don't think this is it either).
So now you've scared the crap out of me. If I run netstat, will that help me find if option 3 is the culprit? What should I look for?
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I found this comment very confusing. Since when does VPN = Encryption?
I've worked in telecommunications for over twenty years, and I have yet to see a phone in North America with a "+" button on it. With all due respect, WTF are you talking about?
I'm not normally a spelling Nazi, but this was too rich to pass up. It's "simultaneously", my good man.
Of course, my definition of a religion doesn't include any group that charges thousands of dollars for the privilege of learning its teachings, so Scientology wouldn't qualify.
So the lunar program, which gave birth to many of the technologies we depend on today, was a waste of time? Isabella's jewels would have been better spent belaying the hunger of a few than funding Columbus? The English have long had a phrase to describe you, my friend: "penny wise and pound foolish".
My wife just purchased a 20" laptop for her work. It cost over $3000 CDN. I suggested she get a smaller laptop, and purchase 20" LCD monitors for home and office. Much cheaper, and easier to lug around. "Oh no, that's too much trouble." So she wastes the company's money, and is going to have yank around a massive, power-hungry machine. Go figure.
You seem to get angry a lot.
And, when I RTFA, my immediate thought was how to use this to improve our reps' performance. One of our programs only calls customers who haven't bought anything from us in two years or more. These reps will make over 100 calls in a single day, and maybe make one or two sales. If this software could help improve their performance (or help us cull people unlikely to buy from our list), it would make a lot of profit and increase the job satisfaction of these reps at the same time. Sometimes buying signals are so subtle, they get lost; I wonder how much this software can pick up?
Maybe it's Soylent Green. Yum!!
Oh yes. Suicide bombers were totally unheard of before Bush invaded Iraq. Do you have any other non-cogent points to make?
This is clearly the result of giving a cabal of nerds 130 billion dollars. Also, it's merely an order of magnitude short of the 1.21 gigawatts necessary for time travel.
Nice arithmetic. Try three orders of magnitude. Please surrender your nerd credentials as you exit.
Primes were mini-computers, not micros. They were competing with Digital and Data General, among others, for the small enterprise market.
Not true. Canada - which I would hardly classify as "neo-fascist" - jailed Holocaust denier Ernst Zundel for two years, before deporting him to Germany.
The "Zune" is MS's iPod wannabe.
Simplistic, mostly wrong, and clearly written by someone who has no understanding of IBM's complete dominance of the US computer industry in the 1980's. When PC's emerged, most corporate IT managers were aghast at the thought of people trying to connect all these different machines to their IBM SNA networks. They gave a huge sigh of relief when IBM introduced its PC; now there was something that was officially sanctioned to not screw up their networks. So even though rival machines, like the Apple II, were less expensive, corporate IT managers bought IBM machines running MS-DOS. Then they bought more. Then more.
It had nothing to do with MS-DOS's abilities vis-a-vis other operating systems, and had everything to do with the FUDge packed by IBM. "Hey, buddy, what if one of your users connects one of those Apples to your cluster controller, and it ends up bringing down your FEP? I wouldn't want to have to explain that to the VP of IS. But our machines are guaranteed to work within your network." As corporate America bought millions of IBM PC's, cheques flowed into Redmond, funding MS so they could copy 1-2-3, WordPerfect, etc., and increase their hold on the desktop. I'll be the first to admit that MS does deserve some kudos for Office; yeah, they copied a lot of ideas from other people, but they did a very good job of it.
But MS wasn't content to do that, so they entered into restrictive contracts, etc., which brought about the DoJ suit. So, most of MS's succcess is a result of piggybacking on IBM's huge installed base, some is a result of their doing some very good progamming, and some is a result of dirty tricks. I'll let you decide the percentages.
tangible: capable of being perceived by the senses or the mind; especially capable of being handled or touched or felt
So these homeless guys drink virtual alchohol and smoke virtual cigarettes?
Um, the last time I recorded a macro in Excel?
Converted to kilograms, your figure works out to 3.5 * 10^10 kgs. Let's triple the weight to 180 lbs, and your figure becomes 1 * 10^11 kgs.
Now, the mass of the earth is approximately 6 * 10^24 kgs. That's 6 * 10^13 bigger. Let's see what a similar ratio would look like applied to a 100 kg (220 lbs) human. Something that is 10^13 smaller would be approximately 1 microgram. The average piece of dust weights about 100 micrograms.
So the effect would be like an exceptionally tiny piece of dust striking you, i.e. no effect at all.
I had the opposite experience; moving from a 15" to 19" monitor increased my productivity so much that tasks that used to take me all morning and part of the afternoon to finish are now complete by 11:30 - which gives me tons more time to browse /. on slow days, or on days like yesterday, find out about a user problem, do some research, come up with a solution, implement it, tinker with it, and roll it out to a very pleased user base. And that nicely documented bit of help goes into my review file, which should help me get more money at my next review. I love a big screen!
The two usually go together don't they?
Not necessarily. He was talking about his experience with paper data trails, as opposed to electronic ones.
I'm over 50 but I have zero combat experience, zero homosexual experience, and far too much living in my mom's basement experience.
ING Direct Bank in Canada has no physical presence (to its customers). It piggybacks off other banks' ATM's, and lets you bank over the phone or internet. So I'd say it's not much more than a data centre right now.
Who keeps the backups? Call me paranoid, but if I were, say, a bank, I'd want to make damn sure that I had at least two functioning redundant centres AND an off-site data repository (which may just be tape or disk backup).
Yes, some entrepeneurs will push the envelope when trying to introduce something new. I used to work at Mitel Corp, which made business telephone systems. After much pre-announcement, we were supposed to roll out our SX-200 at a major trade show. Unfortunately, the software wasn't fully debugged, and so the thing didn't work properly. So Terry Matthews (that's Sir Terry now, of course) went out, bought a NorTel SL-1, and installed it at the back of the booth behind a curtain. They ran cables out to the SX-200, which was to all intents and purposes an empty shell. Everyone thought the SX-200 was fantastic, we got a lot of pre-orders, and when the software was debugged just a few months later, the SX-200 became one of the most successful PBX's of all time.
So there's certainly precedent for the idea of presenting something as a "done deal" while it's still in development. The question is, will the Laser TV actually appear in the market, as the SX-200 did?
And will we need goggles to watch it? The goggles.. they do nothing!
Well, FF works fine for all my other sites. I haven't loaded a single extension into it. I'm running 1.5.0.7 on Windows XP. As suggested, I checked the options, and SSL 3.0 and TSL 1.0 are both set. SSL 2.0 was set as well, but I checked another poster's link, which suggested I disable SSL 2.0, so I did. The error message I get is "Unable to connect. Firefox can't establish a connection to the server at login.yahoo.com." It then suggests three options: Try again in a few minutes (never works), or if I can't load any pages, check my net connection (but I can download tons of pages, just not these few), and see if FF is behind a firewall and allowed to access the net (since I can download many pages, I don't think this is it either). So now you've scared the crap out of me. If I run netstat, will that help me find if option 3 is the culprit? What should I look for?
Wow! Recursive blacklisting...