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How To Stretch Your Security Dollar
itwbennett writes "Taking an aspirin a day will keep you headache-free but it can also reduce your risk of heart attack. You're definitely getting your money's worth out of that bitter little pill. But experts say you can also get additional ROI from security, business continuity, disaster recovery and compliance investments, writes Daniel Dern in a recent article. In fact, you can get 'double or triple the value from "side effects,"' observes Jim Cuff, VP of strategy, Iron Mountain Digital. For example, tools purchased for compliance management can also help identify redundancies and other inefficiencies. Security appliances don't just provide security; they can also be used for performance and bandwidth management, and enforcing acceptable use policies. Or take the next step and use disaster recovery resources 'for part of your active environment, like load balancing, test and develop and QA, and backup, not something you have just in case,' urges Greg Schulz, founder and senior analyst of the StorageIO Group. And for the ultimate bang for your buck, take your facilities and knowledge and turn them into an external business offering."
Actually, daily doses of aspirin can be harmful to many different sorts of individuals, though the parallel still stands, I suppose: just as many industry-prescribed security policies can have beneficial "side effects" for your business, they can also yield unintended consequences that generate more cost--and real risks (the feeling of security often leads to less of it!)--due to lack of careful planning or proper implementation.
Taking an aspirin a day will keep you headache-free
Dear submitter,
Since you insist on doling out pharmaceutical advice be aware that your statement is utterly false. Fortunately you won't be held as accountable as we practitioners are. Lucky you. I could lose my house because of something like this.
You obviously have never heard of analgesic rebound headaches.
Just in case you don't believe me. There, I'm bored. You look for the rest.
A tip - if you have constant headaches, see your doctor instead of taking aspirin or some other analgesic every day.
Love,
A physician.
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That's kinda why I said, "if the 'cheap gas' doesn't cause pinging". Detonation is a real bitch and can crack pistons, thrash pins and rod bearings, and just generally be a real pain in the wallet come repair time. But a broken piston is a good excuse to increase the bore... :-) Still, if you're not getting detonation, all you get from high octane gasoline is expensive exhaust gas.
If you get pinging only on hot days or only at high altitude, try curing it the same way you'd cure vapor lock on a carbureted engine -- I don't mean clamping wooden clothespins on the fuel lines and leaving them there forever, but that's a good way to prove whether or not that's your problem. If it is, just reroute the fuel lines away from the heat sources and call it good. Sometimes the heat source is the automatic transmission or the exhaust pipes so you have to look all the way back to the tank to find the likely suspects, but if you're doing it yourself the one-time expense of rerouting is a lot less than the every fill-up expense of higher octane fuel.
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Now, why in the world is this modded as "troll"?
In Europe, the most medical doctors scoff at the notion of taking medicine "just in case", "even" if it's an aspirin. If there is no medical reason to apply medications to your body, then DON'T DO IT. That is the widely spread and accepted attitude.
Now, of course you can choose not to believe MDs and rather to design your own medication programs instead, but you should not mod a person down saying this would be a dangerous and a stupid thing to do. Disagree != Troll!
Any vehicle built in the last 15 years will have a knock sensor to prevent detonation, so it's a tricky business to determine whether you are getting anything out of premium fuel. The lower gas mileage (caused be the ignition being retarded by the knock sensor) from running on regular gas in a vehicle designed for premium can sometimes outstrip the cost savings of using regular gas. This has to be evaluated on a case-by-case basis... there is no hard and fast rule. The compression ratio and head material (aluminum is less likely to knock than iron) need to be considered.
As for pinging at high altitude, that's unlikely... octane requirement decreases with increases in altitude as their intake charge is less dense, so the baseline fuel map will be richer compared to sea level. Many cars advertise the ability to compensate for altitude change, but that is highly dependent on having a correctly working oxygen sensor.
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