AdamD
join:2002-01-09
Maspeth, NY
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Re: spam
I'm Polish and visit Poland every couple of years. I think people are pretty clueless there when it comes to security. So called IT professionals never heard of ZoneAlarm and Firefox. I talked to one of those briefly and asked him why he still uses IE, he was like "why not?". They believe that as long a machine has some sort of antivirus it's safe, no idea of worms and trojans. They don't patch Windows because MS is evil so they happily run unpatched XP SP1 without firewalls. It's a wild east of IT, a total mess. Plus, most Poles have the attitude that they know everything: everyone of them is a pro-mechanic, smith, carpenter, doctor and IT pro just because he is. IT shops are run by people who got their IT education from web and computer magazines. It's not to say there are no real pros there but they either work for a foreign corporation or already migrated to the west. |
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AdamD
join:2002-01-09
Maspeth, NY | By the way, tpnet.pl is the Polish Telcom (Telekomunikacja Polska - TP), largest in the country. I think it's still owned by the govt so good luck getting anywhere with them:)
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Doctor Four
My other vehicle is a TARDIS
Premium
join:2000-09-05
Dallas, TX
 ·AT&T U-Verse
| reply to AdamD
That's sad - so called IT Professionals being totally
clueless about security. Sounds like they have a major
PEBKAC problem.
So what will it take for Polish Telecom to get its
customers (and them, since they are responsible for
their network) to clean up their act? Blackholing by
their upstream?
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"The trouble with computers, of course, is that they are very sophisticated idiots." - Doctor Who (from Robot) |
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AdamD
join:2002-01-09
Maspeth, NY | I don't know but the country is quite a political mess and IT security is probably way down on the priority list. Laws are inadequate and/or unenforceable. I guess blocking them would cause some reaction though.
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EO50
join:2005-01-23
united state
| reply to AdamD
It is actually a private company now. A good percentage of it is actually owned by France Télécom.
»en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telekomunikacja_Polska |
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AdamD
join:2002-01-09
Maspeth, NY | Yeah, I wasn't sure of that. A. |
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RonKid
@mindspring.com
| reply to AdamD
think about it
Please read this so you may change your opinion a bit as to who's the best  )
Warsaw U Wins World Collegiate Programming Contest
3/20/2007
By Paul McCloskey
Three students from Poland's Warsaw University won the 31st-annual International Collegiate Programming Contest, dubbed the Olympics of computer programming. The Polish team vanquished 6,099 teams from 1,756 universities in 82 countries on six continents that began with regional contests last fall.
Tsinghua University in China, St. Petersburg University of IT, Mechanics and Optics in Russia, and MIT in the U.S., finished competition in second, third, and fourth places, respectively. Cal Tech's was the only other U.S. team among the top 12 finishers. The contest is sponsored by the Association of Computing Machinery and IBM Corp.
The Polish team--Filip Wolski, Marcin Pilipczuk, and Marek Cygan--was led by coach Jan Madey.
The competition, which wound up last week in Tokyo, challenged students to solve a semester's worth of programming problems in five hours. The problems were modeled on real-world business challenges, such as improving airport baggage claim process, and decreasing the time it takes to load cargo ships. |
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Jerry Boy
@tpnet.pl
| reply to AdamD
Re: spam
It should be call French Telecom becouse it's in french hands.
Don't make all polish computer users stupid. I'm polish, I use Opera 9.20 & NOD32 antivirus (perfectly fast becouse it has been written in assembeler). I recive about 30 spam e-mail per day and most of them is US, western european or russian.. 5% means about 2 letters in my case. it's not a serious problem when you compare to number of 30...:P |
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