Virtual disk/containers/whatever have been around for a long time; almost certainly before this damned company even existed. (It's hard to describe the intensity of the hate I have for companies like this.)
We used to manage/store datasets in virtual disks (mounting them in a way akin to using Linux's loopback device) on RSX-11 fer gawd's sake.
...no longer include on-disk help files any more. Click on "About->Help" (or whatever) and you wind up directed to an external web page. I suppose it saved some disk space when the application was installed but pretty annoying if you hit a snag while using the software, need to access a reference, and internet access isn't available.
It's not frequent, though. (At least I don't hear about it often.) Last Fall there was a fairly sizable Comcast outage and the project I was working on lost contact with the segment of our team located in TX. They were all using Comcast as their ISP and it took the better part of a day for them to resume work by driving around to various coffee shops until they found one not using Comcast. (That outage hit our area, too, as well but I wasn't using Comcast.)
... someone outside your company could be reading the company's confidential data then maybe you shouldn't be putting it on someone else's computers. Just sayin'.
... isn't that some of the articles are too technical---some are by necessity. My complaint is the references found at the bottom of the articles. Authors lard up the article with links to other external web sites/pages and that's great---you tend to want to read references to help clarify articles. (Okay... I do). The problem arises when you try and follow the supporting links and they are simply not available any more. You wouldn't lose a lot of bets about citations in newspapers or other "popular" press not being available---or, almost as bad, now being behind a paywall. Maybe those links were "live" at the time of the initial appearance on Wikipedia but would it kill authors who are actively checking articles and backing out other peoples' changes to check if the references are still available and fix the articles when they're not?
At this point you have to wonder if it isn't time to revive the idea of a corporate death penalty.
How long would anyone keep doing business with an armored car company that keeps forgetting to lock the doors? What's Equifax's excuse going to be this time?
Should I be worried that the Russians will get their hands on Microsoft product and learn where it's vulnerable and come up with ways to bring down the West's businesses? Or should I be comforted to know that the Russians will soon find their computing infrastructure subject to all the virii and worms that the West has to deal with?
``Mr. Rosenstein's speech was intended to spur public awareness and discussion of the issue because companies `have no incentive to address this on their own.' ''
Ha! I think the public--much of it, anyway--is already very aware that companies are resisting government intrusion into the content of their ``personal devices'' or providing back doors that allow the government to waltz right into their phones and/or computers. What the public is largely unaware of is how many of these tech companies don't bother to stick up for their users/customers at all and just bend over and take it when the government sends them a request; it's only news when a company doesn't. I, for one, am happy to see them resist letting us become targets of government fishing expeditions. A pox on Mr. Rosenstein for playing the fear card in attempting to drum up support for increased domestic spying.
"I'm sorry, Dave. I just don't find that a police officer beating that [ black | hispanic | homeless ] person would make a very interesting photograph."
The card I received from them decades ago says it's not to be used for identification. Right there plain as day. But... some time between when I got my card and my daughters got theirs, the SS cards stopped saying that. How long before this new ID will get commandeered for use by businesses and we start the whole game over again?
It's required that Americans pay for the results of their research dollars twice: once to do the basic research in public Universities and a second time to the (mostly) Big Pharma companies that use the research that we paid for. If you're asking why then you just don't understand American-style capitalism.
GPS satellites aren't easily reprogrammable communications satellites with spare "channels" available for nifty new purposes. (Not that future ones couldn't have those capabilities.) Then there's the "installed base" problem. Untold number of GPS receivers would be expensive paperweights if you start encrypting the C/A data.
What's staggering to me about network infrastructure in the U.S. is how pitifully small the investment is that's being made by companies like AT&T. The Net Neutrality decision has only been in effect since, what, 2-3 years ago? Maybe if AT&T had been making infrastructure investments for years and years before the Net Neutrality regulation came into being--instead of spending a mountain of money buying politicians^W^Wlobbying for changes to laws that let them kill off all their competition--the infrastructure in the U.S. wouldn't be so far behind the rest of the world.
Not really. Once all your company data is stashed on someone else's computers what's your DR plan if those computers go down? Having a local copy might be handy, eh? It doesn't matter if the company's got the sharpest lawyers on the planet, they aren't going to be able to perform a bare-metal restore and get the business back online---despite what it says in that iron-clad language they insisted had to be in the contract.
Wisconsin gave a multi-Billion incentive to Foxconn to locate there. That doesn't include the pass they'll receive in environmental regulations so the vicinity can expect some local pollution. Sweet deal. For Foxconn.
What will Amazon be demanding once they select some sucker^Wcity to be their second headquarters?
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It's the freaking saturation of football on TV:
And that's for us folks who don't have cable TV subscriptions and access to N channels of ESPN football shows.
I'm guessing that their problem is that the public is getting pretty darned sick and tired of football on TV.
Just helping to cull the herd.
Virtual disk/containers/whatever have been around for a long time; almost certainly before this damned company even existed. (It's hard to describe the intensity of the hate I have for companies like this.)
We used to manage/store datasets in virtual disks (mounting them in a way akin to using Linux's loopback device) on RSX-11 fer gawd's sake.
...no longer include on-disk help files any more. Click on "About->Help" (or whatever) and you wind up directed to an external web page. I suppose it saved some disk space when the application was installed but pretty annoying if you hit a snag while using the software, need to access a reference, and internet access isn't available.
Ah... but do you know of a real place that's done this? Fictional places don't make very good examples. I hope you were kidding around.
... why is it going to be located in a place with virtually no water?
I can easily imagine such a retaliatory attack to go awry in a big way with all kinds of collateral damage.
It's not frequent, though. (At least I don't hear about it often.) Last Fall there was a fairly sizable Comcast outage and the project I was working on lost contact with the segment of our team located in TX. They were all using Comcast as their ISP and it took the better part of a day for them to resume work by driving around to various coffee shops until they found one not using Comcast. (That outage hit our area, too, as well but I wasn't using Comcast.)
... someone outside your company could be reading the company's confidential data then maybe you shouldn't be putting it on someone else's computers. Just sayin'.
...and both are way better than `The Free Software Song'.
... isn't that some of the articles are too technical---some are by necessity. My complaint is the references found at the bottom of the articles. Authors lard up the article with links to other external web sites/pages and that's great---you tend to want to read references to help clarify articles. (Okay... I do). The problem arises when you try and follow the supporting links and they are simply not available any more. You wouldn't lose a lot of bets about citations in newspapers or other "popular" press not being available---or, almost as bad, now being behind a paywall. Maybe those links were "live" at the time of the initial appearance on Wikipedia but would it kill authors who are actively checking articles and backing out other peoples' changes to check if the references are still available and fix the articles when they're not?
At this point you have to wonder if it isn't time to revive the idea of a corporate death penalty.
How long would anyone keep doing business with an armored car company that keeps forgetting to lock the doors? What's Equifax's excuse going to be this time?
Should I be worried that the Russians will get their hands on Microsoft product and learn where it's vulnerable and come up with ways to bring down the West's businesses? Or should I be comforted to know that the Russians will soon find their computing infrastructure subject to all the virii and worms that the West has to deal with?
Ha! I think the public--much of it, anyway--is already very aware that companies are resisting government intrusion into the content of their ``personal devices'' or providing back doors that allow the government to waltz right into their phones and/or computers. What the public is largely unaware of is how many of these tech companies don't bother to stick up for their users/customers at all and just bend over and take it when the government sends them a request; it's only news when a company doesn't. I, for one, am happy to see them resist letting us become targets of government fishing expeditions. A pox on Mr. Rosenstein for playing the fear card in attempting to drum up support for increased domestic spying.
The courts have, in the past, allowed Fox to lie like a rug over the airwaves.
"I'm sorry, Dave. I just don't find that a police officer beating that [ black | hispanic | homeless ] person would make a very interesting photograph."
I went away for a weekend right after the user IDs were being assigned, didn't sign up until the following Monday, and got this UID.
The card I received from them decades ago says it's not to be used for identification. Right there plain as day. But... some time between when I got my card and my daughters got theirs, the SS cards stopped saying that. How long before this new ID will get commandeered for use by businesses and we start the whole game over again?
It's required that Americans pay for the results of their research dollars twice: once to do the basic research in public Universities and a second time to the (mostly) Big Pharma companies that use the research that we paid for. If you're asking why then you just don't understand American-style capitalism.
How long will it be before the geniuses at the too-big-to-fail banks can find a way to totally screw up bitcoin?
GPS satellites aren't easily reprogrammable communications satellites with spare "channels" available for nifty new purposes. (Not that future ones couldn't have those capabilities.) Then there's the "installed base" problem. Untold number of GPS receivers would be expensive paperweights if you start encrypting the C/A data.
What does this even mean? It seem to indicate that the poster thinks GPS is some sort of tracking system.
What's staggering to me about network infrastructure in the U.S. is how pitifully small the investment is that's being made by companies like AT&T. The Net Neutrality decision has only been in effect since, what, 2-3 years ago? Maybe if AT&T had been making infrastructure investments for years and years before the Net Neutrality regulation came into being--instead of spending a mountain of money buying politicians^W^Wlobbying for changes to laws that let them kill off all their competition--the infrastructure in the U.S. wouldn't be so far behind the rest of the world.
Not really. Once all your company data is stashed on someone else's computers what's your DR plan if those computers go down? Having a local copy might be handy, eh? It doesn't matter if the company's got the sharpest lawyers on the planet, they aren't going to be able to perform a bare-metal restore and get the business back online---despite what it says in that iron-clad language they insisted had to be in the contract.
Like they need them.
Wisconsin gave a multi-Billion incentive to Foxconn to locate there. That doesn't include the pass they'll receive in environmental regulations so the vicinity can expect some local pollution. Sweet deal. For Foxconn.
What will Amazon be demanding once they select some sucker^Wcity to be their second headquarters?