My bank - which shall remain unnamed - in Australia has what I think is a very secure way of handling account transfers. For each transfer to another account, they send me via SMS a unique, one use only verification code that can only be used for that transaction. Seems pretty foolproof to me.
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I'm reading a lot of negative comments about this book, maybe that's to be expected due to the technical nature of/. readership.
However, as a DBA and DB dev myself, I know one person that I am personally going to buy this book for, maybe as a Christmas present.
My boss, of course! I spend hours per week trying to explain to him why I do things certain ways. This is because he has a slight technical background in SAP, and has just enough knowledge to be dangerous. I would love for him to read this book, it may save me some agro.
This reminds me so much of the ep where the Simpsons are Christmas caroling to various neighbours, and they come across Burns's lawyer. He informs that they can't sing certain carols due to copyright by Disney. Homer promptly goes "D'oh!", as he does. The lawyer says "That was D flat, also copyright Disney. You may use any other note you like. "D'oh!" in C#. It would be funny if it wasn't so completely ridiculous.
Let me tell you what companies actually care about: Money I worked for HP between 1979-1989. When I did my "induction", one of the things I was introduced to was the "HP Way". This was basically the 10 commandments as spelled out by Bill and Dave.
There were lots of things in there about customer satisfaction and quality and stuff, but guess what was number 1? MAKE A PROFIT I don't know if this has changed at all, but I guess it's still a valid way to run a business.
OK, here goes any karma I may have. First off, I am an Australian. Secondly, I hate our current government, John Howard is George Bushs' lapdog. Thirdly, I totally agree with these measures, if indeed they become law.
Why, I hear you ask? Simple, really. People, there are serious NUTJOBS running around, not only in Oz, but all over the world. Why should we as a community fan the flames of their insanity by providing them with inflammatory video material? I see absolutely no redeeming qualities in any pro-terrorist video or book. If somebody, anybody, wants to study this garbage for some obscure reason, I'm pretty sure it wouldn't be difficult to import a copy or whatever.
Free speech is all fine and dandy in the abstract, but when that extends to exhorting terrorism or violence or jihad, well, fuck off, I prefer that it is not allowed.
I am serious.
Yeah, those "speeding cameras" can be really, really dangerous. I saw one doing 160Kph down the freeway the other day. Could have killed someone.....
(Just kidding...)
Whilst I agree with your opinion up to a certain point, there are always exceptions. For instance, I own a collection of vinyl records dating back to the mid 60's or so. Most of these records are not available on CD, or more to the point, even if they were, I have ALREADY bought the music, I shouldn't have to buy it again. So, I teach my kids that it is OK to download something as long as they are sure they "own" it. So, yes, I personally think it is dishonest to steal music, but I draw the line at any type of DRM (or is it ARM for analog music?) that prevents me from legitimately, in my opinion, using something I HAVE ALREADY BOUGHT.
it seems to me that a lot of them relate to specific social conditions causing / allowing our kids to become something less than what we expect. Maybe this is true in some societies (USA, I'm pointing at you.... but not exclusively). I have two extremely active teenagers, one a state basketball player, plays 4 times a week, the other into jazz dancing at least three times a week. Both are fit, intelligent, and have an active social life. They also play computer games, and have since they were very young. It's a matter of balance. Oh, and living in a relatively "safe" society, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
That's all, it's simple.
As an individual,I couldn't agree more. As part of an IT group that develops apps for upwards of 180,000 users (Queensland State Government, Aus), this has even more relevance. As it stands now, we have just reached the point where nearly everyone is using XP, although a lot of those are SP1, not even SP2. The reason is simple. Big IT departments will not install ANYTHING unless it is thoroughly tested and proved suitable for use with the multitude of apps that are being used.
Hence, I would hazard a guess that we probably wouldn't even consider Vista until after SP1. This is just good business sense, tempered with a little good old fashioned scepticism.
My 2c.
I truly do not understand the legal system in the US of A. I live in Australia, and I'm sure that this situation could not happen here. I'm sure that 'destruction of evidence' is indictable here, but I cannot see how that something that is not there (ie the data in question) can be construed as destruction of evidence. If it was 'there', then it's evidence, if it's 'gone', then who knows what the evidence was?
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My bank - which shall remain unnamed - in Australia has what I think is a very secure way of handling account transfers. For each transfer to another account, they send me via SMS a unique, one use only verification code that can only be used for that transaction. Seems pretty foolproof to me.
However, as a DBA and DB dev myself, I know one person that I am personally going to buy this book for, maybe as a Christmas present.
My boss, of course! I spend hours per week trying to explain to him why I do things certain ways. This is because he has a slight technical background in SAP, and has just enough knowledge to be dangerous. I would love for him to read this book, it may save me some agro.
"Impersonating statues", definitely a criminal offense.
Well done!
This reminds me so much of the ep where the Simpsons are Christmas caroling to various neighbours, and they come across Burns's lawyer. He informs that they can't sing certain carols due to copyright by Disney. Homer promptly goes "D'oh!", as he does. The lawyer says "That was D flat, also copyright Disney. You may use any other note you like. "D'oh!" in C#. It would be funny if it wasn't so completely ridiculous.
I worked for HP between 1979-1989. When I did my "induction", one of the things I was introduced to was the "HP Way". This was basically the 10 commandments as spelled out by Bill and Dave.
There were lots of things in there about customer satisfaction and quality and stuff, but guess what was number 1?
MAKE A PROFIT
I don't know if this has changed at all, but I guess it's still a valid way to run a business.
OK, here goes any karma I may have. First off, I am an Australian. Secondly, I hate our current government, John Howard is George Bushs' lapdog. Thirdly, I totally agree with these measures, if indeed they become law. Why, I hear you ask? Simple, really. People, there are serious NUTJOBS running around, not only in Oz, but all over the world. Why should we as a community fan the flames of their insanity by providing them with inflammatory video material? I see absolutely no redeeming qualities in any pro-terrorist video or book. If somebody, anybody, wants to study this garbage for some obscure reason, I'm pretty sure it wouldn't be difficult to import a copy or whatever. Free speech is all fine and dandy in the abstract, but when that extends to exhorting terrorism or violence or jihad, well, fuck off, I prefer that it is not allowed. I am serious.
Just wanted to say your opinion was OK, but your SIG rocks! GO TMBG!
Yeah, those "speeding cameras" can be really, really dangerous. I saw one doing 160Kph down the freeway the other day. Could have killed someone.....
(Just kidding...)
Whilst I agree with your opinion up to a certain point, there are always exceptions.
For instance, I own a collection of vinyl records dating back to the mid 60's or so. Most of these records are not available on CD, or more to the point, even if they were, I have ALREADY bought the music, I shouldn't have to buy it again.
So, I teach my kids that it is OK to download something as long as they are sure they "own" it.
So, yes, I personally think it is dishonest to steal music, but I draw the line at any type of DRM (or is it ARM for analog music?) that prevents me from legitimately, in my opinion, using something I HAVE ALREADY BOUGHT.
Will this make my dial up connection faster?
it seems to me that a lot of them relate to specific social conditions causing / allowing our kids to become something less than what we expect. Maybe this is true in some societies (USA, I'm pointing at you.... but not exclusively). I have two extremely active teenagers, one a state basketball player, plays 4 times a week, the other into jazz dancing at least three times a week. Both are fit, intelligent, and have an active social life. They also play computer games, and have since they were very young. It's a matter of balance. Oh, and living in a relatively "safe" society, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. That's all, it's simple.
As an individual,I couldn't agree more. As part of an IT group that develops apps for upwards of 180,000 users (Queensland State Government, Aus), this has even more relevance. As it stands now, we have just reached the point where nearly everyone is using XP, although a lot of those are SP1, not even SP2. The reason is simple. Big IT departments will not install ANYTHING unless it is thoroughly tested and proved suitable for use with the multitude of apps that are being used. Hence, I would hazard a guess that we probably wouldn't even consider Vista until after SP1. This is just good business sense, tempered with a little good old fashioned scepticism. My 2c.
I truly do not understand the legal system in the US of A. I live in Australia, and I'm sure that this situation could not happen here. I'm sure that 'destruction of evidence' is indictable here, but I cannot see how that something that is not there (ie the data in question) can be construed as destruction of evidence. If it was 'there', then it's evidence, if it's 'gone', then who knows what the evidence was?
If they rule out Neptune, then the solar sytem ends at Uranus. Scary thought.