When you are a primary target like the DHS, I would imagine that the attacks they face are probably harder and longer than most possible victims. I would be interested to know how many hack attempts failed to see what kind of success rate such a high profile agency has. No security is perfect.
""What the department is doing on its own networks speaks so loudly that the message is not getting across," Thompson said."
Meh, whatever. This seems to me to dismiss the high profile nature of the DHS. Most other businesses might not even survive the onslaught faced by the DHS and other government sites.
Could they do more? Sure. There is ALWAYS more that can be done from the user level up to systems and network admin.
"All the problems involved the department's unclassified computer networks..."
I would think that providing support for a business would be easier than a consumer. One point of contact, someone hopefully an experienced tech who understand the Support Drone's support-by-script, instead of Consumer who has to look at their mouse to click it.
They are trying to indemnify their own bottom line. I learned with WinNT to wait for SP1 and beyond. When Win2k was released, my company wouldn't touch it until SP1 was released. Same for WinXP. Most of my tech buddies and their companies were of the same idea.
I don't know about some other company, but my users are MY guinea pigs, not Microsoft's.
I read the patent, but I guess I don't get it. How is what Microsoft claiming to do different from existing voice recognition systems?
You have to train current voice systems so they recognize your voice pattern (or, acoustic ID) and translate it to text or action. Take that and add a system that keeps profiles for a more advanced version of caller ID. It seems like a natural evolution of the technology.
Chandon wrote, ""Every tool is just as good as every other tool" is just as wrong as "my tool is always better than your tool""
No, do not add interpretation where none is needed. My statement was, "Which ever tool provides the result." In one situation, a set of tools may work very well. In another situation, a different set of tools may be needed. Visual design tools. Text Editor + Compiler. Whatever. There is no one single tool that can provide all solutions optimally.
Some programmers have no choice with their tools and must use what they are given. Some have a lot of choice. For these programmers, hopefully they will keep an open mind and not be blinded by zealous loyalty to one way for all solutions. The plethora of software for Linux is proof that there are many ways of doing the same thing.
"...While the Windows programmers are used to taking deceptive comfort within the cozy confines of a Visual IDE,..."
Deceptive comfort? And here I thought the visual IDE to be just as valid a tool as anything else, that being the one that solves the need of the programmer. Silly me. I guess I need to overdevelop my zealousy in computing.
Did G.U.R.P.S. have a Star Wars version or am I remembering wrong? You are remembering wrong. SJ Games has never held a license to produce Star Wars. Maybe you are thinking if Star Trek? Which, I believe, is printed by someone else, but is simply using GURPS.
Modded as a troll? Why? I was answering the posters question. Unless, of course, I was moderated down by a sysadmin of an IIS server.
Geesh. Some people have no clue how to use mod points.
It is a combination of both Windows and IIS for being at fault. Microsoft releases patches for both, and neither are apparently being applied by the servers in question.
There is more than just price to consider. Desired Function should be the primary shopping goal, then you find a product with a reasonable price. If a desired application does not run on MacOS, then that option is pretty much buggered, now isn't it?
Ugh, I am always annoyed when I see comparisons by price alone, as if that tells the whole story.
And yes, the DNA of most animals in the area is pretty effed up, but surprisingly most of them appear healthy and reproduce normally. Only goes to show how much redundancy and resilience is built into the DNA / replicating mechanisms we use.
Truth is, even with a sufficient number of a-bombs accross the world, we'll have a very hard time wijping all of humanity and wild life. Life's a tough mother f*cker, hard to destroy. I believe the word "adaptation" would describe this well.
Mr. Sheehan has a good chance of winning in small claims court, because of the lack of lawyers. Gateway should be scared of this precedent. Some from Gateway, who isn't a lawyer, is now going to have to trek down to that court room and try to explain to the judge exactly why Gateway shouldn't have to replace the broken system they sold him.
It's the subsurface cannon barrel they used to fire their cylinders to invade Earth in 1898, 1938, and 1953. They may be readying for another attempt! When is the next opposition? It could also be a wave motion cannon.
You're never getting laid. Which explains the need for a wearable computer and LCD-monitor eye glasses. Just add the tactile glove that was advertised a few months ago and voila! Second Life can take on a whole new level of addiction.
The mandate says only to 'consider', it doesn't say to 'require'. So, as long as lip service is given to the mandate, then all will be as before, but the department will be given some good PR in the press.
I am thinking the writer of the article lacks much technical experience at building a desktop or laptop up from a blank hard drive. All of these things he talks about are simple tasks. Any good tech worth their weight in silicon would already have the appropriate CDs in one place, or on the network. No PC has ever taken me DAYS to build. Maybe an extra hour for a rare driver, but a naked PC to usable workstation in less than 4 hours, including all updates from Microsoft. That is on par with the last install I did of Ubuntu.
Sure, the Linux CD has all sorts of nifty things already installed, but also installs a lot of things that company policy would dictate that I uninstall. I rather prefer just the OS load, and then I can choose what installs. The last time I used the Ubuntu 7.04 install, I did not see an option for a naked load. Maybe I should e-mail them and ask for that option to be added?
Still no 3D support without having to use a proprietary (closed) driver.
Wake me up when that changes. What is wrong with a closed-source driver? We are not talking about a business application or web browser client.
Meh. I do not like the interface on OS X. I don't like Vista interface, either. For that matter, I put XP back into classic interface because it is less ugly. I have not found a GUI, yet, that I have found pleasant to look upon or use. And the newer they are, the more computer resources they waste.
This is going to show my age, but I thought the Windows 3.1 interface to be sufficient. It was lightweight and fast.
I don't want my computer to be pretty, I just want it to accomplish my task at hand.
They know their standing in the community is going to take a hit. So, how much was it worth to them? And this his Microsoft is showing how smart it is. It is using the very divisiveness that exists in the open-source community against to attack Linux. The SCO lawsuits have failed. The patents threats are being laughed at. So, pay someone a bunch of money, give them a promise of lawsuit protection and voila, watch a small portion of the community shut that vendor out. Then, target the next distro. Even if this isn't Microsoft's plan, it is working out this way. The Microsoft community shows more cohesiveness than this, which is their strength.
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I, for one, welcome our new horticultural overlords.
The article does state in the last sentence a reference to failures in security on the classified network.
When you are a primary target like the DHS, I would imagine that the attacks they face are probably harder and longer than most possible victims. I would be interested to know how many hack attempts failed to see what kind of success rate such a high profile agency has. No security is perfect.
""What the department is doing on its own networks speaks so loudly that the message is not getting across," Thompson said."
Meh, whatever. This seems to me to dismiss the high profile nature of the DHS. Most other businesses might not even survive the onslaught faced by the DHS and other government sites.
Could they do more? Sure. There is ALWAYS more that can be done from the user level up to systems and network admin.
"All the problems involved the department's unclassified computer networks..."
That is good to know.
I would think that providing support for a business would be easier than a consumer. One point of contact, someone hopefully an experienced tech who understand the Support Drone's support-by-script, instead of Consumer who has to look at their mouse to click it.
They are trying to indemnify their own bottom line. I learned with WinNT to wait for SP1 and beyond. When Win2k was released, my company wouldn't touch it until SP1 was released. Same for WinXP. Most of my tech buddies and their companies were of the same idea.
I don't know about some other company, but my users are MY guinea pigs, not Microsoft's.
I read the patent, but I guess I don't get it. How is what Microsoft claiming to do different from existing voice recognition systems?
You have to train current voice systems so they recognize your voice pattern (or, acoustic ID) and translate it to text or action. Take that and add a system that keeps profiles for a more advanced version of caller ID. It seems like a natural evolution of the technology.
Chandon wrote, ""Every tool is just as good as every other tool" is just as wrong as "my tool is always better than your tool""
No, do not add interpretation where none is needed. My statement was, "Which ever tool provides the result." In one situation, a set of tools may work very well. In another situation, a different set of tools may be needed. Visual design tools. Text Editor + Compiler. Whatever. There is no one single tool that can provide all solutions optimally.
Some programmers have no choice with their tools and must use what they are given. Some have a lot of choice. For these programmers, hopefully they will keep an open mind and not be blinded by zealous loyalty to one way for all solutions. The plethora of software for Linux is proof that there are many ways of doing the same thing.
"...While the Windows programmers are used to taking deceptive comfort within the cozy confines of a Visual IDE,..."
Deceptive comfort? And here I thought the visual IDE to be just as valid a tool as anything else, that being the one that solves the need of the programmer. Silly me. I guess I need to overdevelop my zealousy in computing.
Modded as a troll? Why? I was answering the posters question. Unless, of course, I was moderated down by a sysadmin of an IIS server. Geesh. Some people have no clue how to use mod points.
Leelee Sobieski...
That was all I needed to read. I would watch her reading the phone book.
It is a combination of both Windows and IIS for being at fault. Microsoft releases patches for both, and neither are apparently being applied by the servers in question.
There is more than just price to consider. Desired Function should be the primary shopping goal, then you find a product with a reasonable price. If a desired application does not run on MacOS, then that option is pretty much buggered, now isn't it?
Ugh, I am always annoyed when I see comparisons by price alone, as if that tells the whole story.
And yes, the DNA of most animals in the area is pretty effed up, but surprisingly most of them appear healthy and reproduce normally. Only goes to show how much redundancy and resilience is built into the DNA / replicating mechanisms we use.
Truth is, even with a sufficient number of a-bombs accross the world, we'll have a very hard time wijping all of humanity and wild life. Life's a tough mother f*cker, hard to destroy. I believe the word "adaptation" would describe this well.
Mr. Sheehan has a good chance of winning in small claims court, because of the lack of lawyers. Gateway should be scared of this precedent. Some from Gateway, who isn't a lawyer, is now going to have to trek down to that court room and try to explain to the judge exactly why Gateway shouldn't have to replace the broken system they sold him.
...or are you just happy to see me?
The mandate says only to 'consider', it doesn't say to 'require'. So, as long as lip service is given to the mandate, then all will be as before, but the department will be given some good PR in the press.
I am thinking the writer of the article lacks much technical experience at building a desktop or laptop up from a blank hard drive. All of these things he talks about are simple tasks. Any good tech worth their weight in silicon would already have the appropriate CDs in one place, or on the network. No PC has ever taken me DAYS to build. Maybe an extra hour for a rare driver, but a naked PC to usable workstation in less than 4 hours, including all updates from Microsoft. That is on par with the last install I did of Ubuntu.
Sure, the Linux CD has all sorts of nifty things already installed, but also installs a lot of things that company policy would dictate that I uninstall. I rather prefer just the OS load, and then I can choose what installs. The last time I used the Ubuntu 7.04 install, I did not see an option for a naked load. Maybe I should e-mail them and ask for that option to be added?
I have run an install of Xubuntu and I liked it. It was more responsive than GNOME or KDE.
Meh. I do not like the interface on OS X. I don't like Vista interface, either. For that matter, I put XP back into classic interface because it is less ugly. I have not found a GUI, yet, that I have found pleasant to look upon or use. And the newer they are, the more computer resources they waste.
This is going to show my age, but I thought the Windows 3.1 interface to be sufficient. It was lightweight and fast.
I don't want my computer to be pretty, I just want it to accomplish my task at hand.
"...would force Moscow to target its weapons against Europe."
I am still trying to figure out how this is a Bad Thing (tm). Russia needs to take the European Bloc more seriously.