This is nothing new. Pigeon (not Pidgin) carriers have existence since...forever. They're still used in some limited cases today. I don't see anything terribly different done by these folks; heck, the pigeons don't even come back, so it's not full TCP...
So you think that people are "stupid" because they don't know how to effectively secure their digital assets? This is akin to a security analyst calling you stupid for lacking knowledge of 0-day vuln's...and then rooting your box to exploit that lack of knowledge. (Maybe you do, but there are plenty of tech professionals that don't.)
i.e. the script kiddies (or criminals) that drop trojans and other nefarious oddities and do massive damage to people's computers daily.
NOTE: If that PC is a Pentium IV, it should run extremely well with those specs...unless their applications are somewhat resource-intensive. I used Photoshop on a machine spec'ed out like that with no problems.
Actually it is usually the children that install Limewire to get free music and video games. Most parents don't know what Limewire is, and share the computer with their children. When they notice a slow down on the Internet they think it is a virus or just Windows as usual.
No, it's even worse than that. Some parents, as the article explains, don't even know that it's *there.* While some see the program glaringly in front of them and ignore it as fodder, there are kids that install it *against* their parent's will. While they might not know *exactly* what it is, they do know about the illegality of downloading media from the Internet.
Frankly, I don't even tell the clients I've worked with that this is an option. I'd rather not promote software I'm vehemently against. Not that I have anything against P2P; I just hate LimeWire and it's ilk.
It's funny that you mention that. It's been historically recorded that fatter women were actually very much sought after in Victorian times precisely for this reason. Bigger women usually indicated higher status and were more closely associated with "natural" feminine beauty.
Thanks to the 60's and skinny models, now the general idea of "beauty," at least in the US, is a twig-thin, blonde-haired and short woman with at least 34C's and a "decently"-sized ass to match. Or maybe it's Asian women now.
All I know is that I still like my women big. Don't know why.
That's weird; wouldn't it be beneficial for non-athletes to have fat stored around the extremities solely because most body heat dissipates through them?
I second this. As a potential employee, I would want to get a feel for what my manager would be like on the job, as well as what the job would be like as a whole. The only way to catch a feel for those is to ask the interviewer, and hope he/she's honest. Employeers whose "passion" for the company and/or line of work they're in extends to "feeding the family" probably don't enjoy what they're doing.
The kind of "education" that Apple is promoting is not only a disservice to the cell phone industry, but is an irresponsible way to describe questionable practices to their own customers.
Let's think about the implications news like this would have should it have been discussed on somewhere like CNN. Most customers who know what jailbreaking is already understand that it is strictly unsupported by Apple, but scaring the public to thinking that this practice turns the iPhone into a terrorist weapon of sorts could be devastating.
Let's not even mention the fact that it's super DUPER hyped up, since A) Smartphones are inherently capable of unleashing incredible amounts of damage and chaos, B) Terrorists or most savvy criminals wouldn't find their tools on Cydia or the like and C) There are few historical examples of cell phones causing damage to cell phone towers or even other cell phones, and those that exist support this logic weakly at best.
All spammers have to do is change the characteristics of the message. It's always going to be a cat and mouse game, just like antivirus and antispyware, so saying that they've found THE solution to blocking spam from hitting the server is slightly irresponsible.
If we're following this logic, then it really depends on the job function. Personally, I think that the typical desktop tech is veering closer to a blue-collar position as computers increasingly become low-priced commodity items. We're already at the point where people can land "PC tech" and even sysadmin jobs if they simply get certificates from specialized trade schools. This is the same process that mechanics, plumbers and electricians can follow to get farther along in their career paths.
That's not to say that these vocations are poorly paid, though! Have you seen the prices plumbers command for simple work? God forbid if I didn't know how to change my toilet bowl; they'd gut my wallet! (Pun intended.) They're respected less than the lawyers and doctors of the world, but some of them can make just as much.
However, I think that jobs "higher" on the IT scale still demand a college degree simply for company executives to make their companies look good, even though the general responsibilities these positions required can literally be learned on the job. You don't need to be a computer science graduate from NYU to know how to use dcpromo or learn how to maintain some C++ projects, for example, but bigger, more reputable, companies and boutique hedge funds/investment banks around here require that for server admins, software developers and such.
This is partially the reason why I'm not too fond of the college model as it stands today. A lot of the goals that us college students are supposedly working for can be learned on-the-job, and are most definitely not required to graduate to management and executive positions. But that rant's for another post.
IT can get as business-like as it wants, but I want to see a large company *try* and axe the desktop/PC tech teams. Because we all know that Windows Vista is the first operating system that can fix itself...
The only people that suffer from these vertical moves are those at the lowest ends of the totem pole (i.e. help desk). Techs and admins were needed when computers were the size of small datacenters. Techs and admins were needed when the first desktop PCs became big. Techs and admins are still needed today, and will probably be needed tomorrow too.
So under that same paradigm, I should learn how to self-diagnose myself should I get sick, or learn how to swap out a head gasket in my car when it starts overheating.
Most mechanics are paid lower than they deserve, and work in conditions that suck horribly. Doctors and mechanics are the most prevalent examples. How many times have doctors committed a small "oopsie" in their diagnosis that led to devastating effects on the patient? How many times do people go to mechanic shops with one problem, only to be out a couple thousand bucks and have more problems than they started out with?
A lot of independent computer techs/consultants out there can tell stories of how most of their work is a product of *other* people's fuck-ups, where most of these *other* people claimed to be the real deal. It kind of sucks being ripped off.
Finding good mechanics who can solve your problem takes time, effort and connections. In my experience, most of these guys are well-educated and way different then their counterparts. Doctors might be an exception to this, as most of them are equally well-educated, but even finding ones that are *consistently* good usually come down to "knowing someone."
It's not that Asian work culture is broken; it's just very, very different from what we in Western cultures are accustomed to. Let's take Japan as a (very overused, but perfect) example. Japanese students begin training for an entrance exam from the 5th grade. The grade on that entrance exam is, for all intents and purposes, the difference between a Japanese student landing a decent job and living a very difficult life.
On top of that, the Japanese hold very high regards to their workmanship, and many employees will sacrifice everything for their job. Death from overwork has been a major problem in Japan that's slowing down somewhat, but is still prevalent today. There is an insurmountable amount of pressure placed on Japanese individuals from family and loved ones to suceed in career and education, and this mentality just continues down the chain.
I believe that this is, pretty much, the reason why a good number of old-school Asian families will literally cut their children off if they don't make it into a big-time Ivy league school and/or take up law, medicine or any other respectable, high-paying career path.
Does this seem broken? Yes, considering that education and employment is significantly more lax here. Hell, I've met some people in companies I've worked for that got certifications and still landed good jobs.
I'm interested in hearing people's thoughts on the morality of this sale. Sales like these are completely non-unique, with one prominent example being the credit score business in the United States. As far as I know, Americans are only entitled to know their credit score for free twice a year, and no more. Additionally, lenders don't provide any fair warning that a person's credit score is at risk; in fact, younger credit card owners are encouraged to use their credit cards as primary spending sources with sign-up incentives and looser overall operating conditions.
Personally, I think that it's completely immoral to charge people for knowing whether their most treasured assets are at risk. Just don't let CNN know about it; I really don't want to deal with a full work day of them discussing privacy breaches, credit card fraud and how this all impacts Obama and Michael Jackson. (He's still dead.)
It has everything to do with the story, since he could have easily seen this coming all along...
One of the guards described him as "enigmatic," so it could be possible that he didn't mind spending 14 years in prison. I guess when you're that old and life holds little benefit, there's really nothing to lose.
While I agree with you, the website seems to be attempting to market this authentication mechanism directly to banks and other areas that handle "sensitive" information.
I am not a security analyst, but the fact that this seems very guessable and that it's used for Internet security makes me very wary of replacing this with a PIN and passphrase.
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Research in the sciences usually requires a Ph.D level education. We (US) don't have nearly enough Ph.Ds to answer that challenge.
Plus, people who hold a Ph.D in the sciences aren't exactly unemployable, even in "this economy..."
This is nothing new. Pigeon (not Pidgin) carriers have existence since...forever. They're still used in some limited cases today. I don't see anything terribly different done by these folks; heck, the pigeons don't even come back, so it's not full TCP...
Hence why this was meant to be funny...
So you think that people are "stupid" because they don't know how to effectively secure their digital assets? This is akin to a security analyst calling you stupid for lacking knowledge of 0-day vuln's...and then rooting your box to exploit that lack of knowledge. (Maybe you do, but there are plenty of tech professionals that don't.)
i.e. the script kiddies (or criminals) that drop trojans and other nefarious oddities and do massive damage to people's computers daily.
Just sayin'.
NOTE: If that PC is a Pentium IV, it should run extremely well with those specs...unless their applications are somewhat resource-intensive. I used Photoshop on a machine spec'ed out like that with no problems.
Actually it is usually the children that install Limewire to get free music and video games. Most parents don't know what Limewire is, and share the computer with their children. When they notice a slow down on the Internet they think it is a virus or just Windows as usual.
No, it's even worse than that. Some parents, as the article explains, don't even know that it's *there.* While some see the program glaringly in front of them and ignore it as fodder, there are kids that install it *against* their parent's will. While they might not know *exactly* what it is, they do know about the illegality of downloading media from the Internet.
Frankly, I don't even tell the clients I've worked with that this is an option. I'd rather not promote software I'm vehemently against. Not that I have anything against P2P; I just hate LimeWire and it's ilk.
It's funny that you mention that. It's been historically recorded that fatter women were actually very much sought after in Victorian times precisely for this reason. Bigger women usually indicated higher status and were more closely associated with "natural" feminine beauty.
Thanks to the 60's and skinny models, now the general idea of "beauty," at least in the US, is a twig-thin, blonde-haired and short woman with at least 34C's and a "decently"-sized ass to match. Or maybe it's Asian women now.
All I know is that I still like my women big. Don't know why.
Sorry to double post, but I also think that fat gravitates to those areas for women to increase their sex and reproductive appeal.
That's weird; wouldn't it be beneficial for non-athletes to have fat stored around the extremities solely because most body heat dissipates through them?
I second this. As a potential employee, I would want to get a feel for what my manager would be like on the job, as well as what the job would be like as a whole. The only way to catch a feel for those is to ask the interviewer, and hope he/she's honest. Employeers whose "passion" for the company and/or line of work they're in extends to "feeding the family" probably don't enjoy what they're doing.
Don't forget the Pulitzer-worthy YouTube coverage!
On another note, when will they let Michael Jackson rest in peace? They are STILL covering him.
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C4 on the outside of the firewall. That might remove more than expected...but it works!
The kind of "education" that Apple is promoting is not only a disservice to the cell phone industry, but is an irresponsible way to describe questionable practices to their own customers.
Let's think about the implications news like this would have should it have been discussed on somewhere like CNN. Most customers who know what jailbreaking is already understand that it is strictly unsupported by Apple, but scaring the public to thinking that this practice turns the iPhone into a terrorist weapon of sorts could be devastating.
Let's not even mention the fact that it's super DUPER hyped up, since A) Smartphones are inherently capable of unleashing incredible amounts of damage and chaos, B) Terrorists or most savvy criminals wouldn't find their tools on Cydia or the like and C) There are few historical examples of cell phones causing damage to cell phone towers or even other cell phones, and those that exist support this logic weakly at best.
I'll go first.
All spammers have to do is change the characteristics of the message. It's always going to be a cat and mouse game, just like antivirus and antispyware, so saying that they've found THE solution to blocking spam from hitting the server is slightly irresponsible.
So...is this the extend step? If so, then let's just assume that it's dead now.
If we're following this logic, then it really depends on the job function. Personally, I think that the typical desktop tech is veering closer to a blue-collar position as computers increasingly become low-priced commodity items. We're already at the point where people can land "PC tech" and even sysadmin jobs if they simply get certificates from specialized trade schools. This is the same process that mechanics, plumbers and electricians can follow to get farther along in their career paths.
That's not to say that these vocations are poorly paid, though! Have you seen the prices plumbers command for simple work? God forbid if I didn't know how to change my toilet bowl; they'd gut my wallet! (Pun intended.) They're respected less than the lawyers and doctors of the world, but some of them can make just as much.
However, I think that jobs "higher" on the IT scale still demand a college degree simply for company executives to make their companies look good, even though the general responsibilities these positions required can literally be learned on the job. You don't need to be a computer science graduate from NYU to know how to use dcpromo or learn how to maintain some C++ projects, for example, but bigger, more reputable, companies and boutique hedge funds/investment banks around here require that for server admins, software developers and such.
This is partially the reason why I'm not too fond of the college model as it stands today. A lot of the goals that us college students are supposedly working for can be learned on-the-job, and are most definitely not required to graduate to management and executive positions. But that rant's for another post.
IT can get as business-like as it wants, but I want to see a large company *try* and axe the desktop/PC tech teams. Because we all know that Windows Vista is the first operating system that can fix itself...
The only people that suffer from these vertical moves are those at the lowest ends of the totem pole (i.e. help desk). Techs and admins were needed when computers were the size of small datacenters. Techs and admins were needed when the first desktop PCs became big. Techs and admins are still needed today, and will probably be needed tomorrow too.
So under that same paradigm, I should learn how to self-diagnose myself should I get sick, or learn how to swap out a head gasket in my car when it starts overheating.
Most mechanics are paid lower than they deserve, and work in conditions that suck horribly. Doctors and mechanics are the most prevalent examples. How many times have doctors committed a small "oopsie" in their diagnosis that led to devastating effects on the patient? How many times do people go to mechanic shops with one problem, only to be out a couple thousand bucks and have more problems than they started out with?
A lot of independent computer techs/consultants out there can tell stories of how most of their work is a product of *other* people's fuck-ups, where most of these *other* people claimed to be the real deal. It kind of sucks being ripped off.
Finding good mechanics who can solve your problem takes time, effort and connections. In my experience, most of these guys are well-educated and way different then their counterparts. Doctors might be an exception to this, as most of them are equally well-educated, but even finding ones that are *consistently* good usually come down to "knowing someone."
That's what I meant. I didn't realize you were referencing the fact that Lithuania has the highest suicide rate going now. Sorry about that.
If you're serious, maybe it has something to do with being forced to have ONE child, if any at all...
It's not that Asian work culture is broken; it's just very, very different from what we in Western cultures are accustomed to. Let's take Japan as a (very overused, but perfect) example. Japanese students begin training for an entrance exam from the 5th grade. The grade on that entrance exam is, for all intents and purposes, the difference between a Japanese student landing a decent job and living a very difficult life.
On top of that, the Japanese hold very high regards to their workmanship, and many employees will sacrifice everything for their job. Death from overwork has been a major problem in Japan that's slowing down somewhat, but is still prevalent today. There is an insurmountable amount of pressure placed on Japanese individuals from family and loved ones to suceed in career and education, and this mentality just continues down the chain.
I believe that this is, pretty much, the reason why a good number of old-school Asian families will literally cut their children off if they don't make it into a big-time Ivy league school and/or take up law, medicine or any other respectable, high-paying career path.
Does this seem broken? Yes, considering that education and employment is significantly more lax here. Hell, I've met some people in companies I've worked for that got certifications and still landed good jobs.
I'm interested in hearing people's thoughts on the morality of this sale. Sales like these are completely non-unique, with one prominent example being the credit score business in the United States. As far as I know, Americans are only entitled to know their credit score for free twice a year, and no more. Additionally, lenders don't provide any fair warning that a person's credit score is at risk; in fact, younger credit card owners are encouraged to use their credit cards as primary spending sources with sign-up incentives and looser overall operating conditions.
Personally, I think that it's completely immoral to charge people for knowing whether their most treasured assets are at risk. Just don't let CNN know about it; I really don't want to deal with a full work day of them discussing privacy breaches, credit card fraud and how this all impacts Obama and Michael Jackson. (He's still dead.)
It has everything to do with the story, since he could have easily seen this coming all along...
One of the guards described him as "enigmatic," so it could be possible that he didn't mind spending 14 years in prison. I guess when you're that old and life holds little benefit, there's really nothing to lose.
While I agree with you, the website seems to be attempting to market this authentication mechanism directly to banks and other areas that handle "sensitive" information.
I am not a security analyst, but the fact that this seems very guessable and that it's used for Internet security makes me very wary of replacing this with a PIN and passphrase.