Some years ago, the president of the company I worked for wrote a book on his management philosophy. In it, he noted that you should always be using your current job to leverage yourself into a better job and that if you were in the same position for more than 2 or 3 years, your career was stagnating. If that's a typical attitude for upper management (and I suspect it is), these folks are not making foolish mistakes. They are maximizing profit to leverage themselves into a better job somewhere else. If, after they move on, their former company craters, it's simply proof of how good they were.
This neither proves nor disproves corruption. If you have no cost to the requestor, there is nothing to prevent malicious requests aimed at wasting police resources (aka our tax dollars). So having a cost to a request could reasonably be considered good public policy. Of course, it could be used to try and limit legitimate access to data. Finding a balance on this issue is not easy.
Exactly. On the surface, body cams appear to be a simple issue - how many of us have GoPros, or the like? - but when you start to think through the policy issues, the logistics, etc, body cams are by no means trivial to implement. If you implement things without thinking them through, you will likely upset many people and create a PR nightmare. Before you implement, you need to think things through and make sure that your policies are well known. that will help to minimize the complaints (you'll never avoid complaints - someone will always be unhappy with what you do).
First off, in this case, the cost is just under $200/hr of footage.
You have to pay someone to retrieve the data and burn it to DVDs. NYPD has roughly 30,000 cops, so it's likely not entirely trivial to track down the correct video. Someone will have to review each hour of the requested footage to ensure that it includes nothing that would violate the privacy or safety of anyone involved in the video. If there's a lot of requests, you'll probably have to hire someone to do this job full time. Otherwise, you're taking a cop away from more useful work.
I cannot tell you whether $200/hr of footage is fair but I would not be the least bit surprised if it barely covers the costs incurred by the NYPD.
For what it's worth, and before you ask, there are definitely privacy and safety issues associated with body cam video. Imagine for a moment the home of one of your local TV anchors (say, the cute chick) is robbed. Police respond to her home, review the scene, take her statement, etc. Video from the police cruiser cam might be useful for a stalker to figure out where she lives. If you've any imagination at all, you can easily come up with other scenarios.
Probably there are no citations. However, if this is a significant factor in global climate and it is not included in current climate models, current climate models would be, at the least, questionable. It would also raise the question as to whether there are other significant unknown factors.
do we always seem to get into the mode of assuming that a large problem will have a single simple solution? In most of the world, solar will do nicely for many homes. In the right circumstances, wind is a useful option. Nuclear, too, has its place, as does hydroelectric. If we are to migrate away from fossil fuels, it would seem highly unlikely that we will move to a single form of power generation, but, rather, will use a group of technologies where they are best suited.
Keep in mind that nothing man-made remains constant. Today, we may have a government run entirely by people we trust, and can trust, without reservation. But we don't know that that will be true next year. Or 10 years from now There will always be people who will seek power for their own benefit.. That is why we ought never to give government any more trust or power than is absolutely necessary.
is "would the recipients of 'free basics' be better off with 'free basics'?" If they would be better off, then I don't see the problem. I'm not a fan of Zuckerburg (or twitter), but he's offering something of value. It may not be the value you'd like to see him offer, but unless someone else if offering something better, good on Zuck. "Half a steak is better than none."
You can. Buy a car. In the past 5 years, I've managed to fly only twice - once for work, once for a vacation that I simply could not accomplish via car. All other trips have been in my car. If enough of us reject air travel, the air lines will notice
This might be useful in the short term. In the long term, India might want to consider putting an electric-car infrastructure in place. By that, I mean taxing gasoline to raise funds for more electric generation plants, installation of electric charging facilities, etc. Once the infrastructure is in place, or starts to be in place, offer discounted charging for electric vehicles.
Combine carrot and stick so that the carrot corresponds to the pain points caused by the stick.
Not necessarily a good idea. Keep in mind that the company likely has only a few hundred customers in total. If you cut off a couple dozen, say, some of them may decide that they don't miss the service and like keeping their money. Potentially, they only need to convince a few friends or family members to do likewise and the company has a financial problem. And people in NWT might actually be more open to that idea than, say, people in more urban areas.
or hacking in general. This is moreso evident on TV or in movies, but so often you'll encounter someone breaking encryption when, barring some earth shaking development in mathematics, it's impossible to do before the universe's death and they do it in scant minutes. Usually when I encounter that, I stop reading the book or watching the TV show. I'll generally stick out a movie because (seriously) I usually attend movies with friends (no, really, I have real, physical friends. Honest).
Theoretically, perhaps, you are correct. However, to do so on very short order, you need to build a vast quantity of infrastructure:
Replace gas-stations with charging stations
Replace existing non-carbon-neutral power stations with carbon-neutral power stations
Update the power grid
Replace all of the hydro-carbon-based vehicles with electric vehicles
All of those things require a great deal of money. All of those things required time. All of those things will pollute. And it all assumes that Joe Average can afford to replace his car and his natural-gas (or whatever) furnace. And it assumes that Joe Politician believes he can get re-elected pushing all of these things on his electorate. Given how hard it is for my government to accomplish far simpler tasks, I don't see it happening.
On the other hand, when potential students see such terms, they may rethink getting that philosophy degree and opt for, say, a nursing degree. No offense intended to folks who want to study topics that really don't make them employable (other than at Fourbucks Coffee), but getting yourself deep in debt without a strong expectation of being able to earn the money to repay the debt is not realistic.
You don't (usually) use the urinal for work purposes. You do use your employer's computer for work purposes. Personally, I use my employer's resources for absolutely nothing personal. I use my resources for absolutely nothing work-related. I keep a very strict separation between personal and work resources to minimize my employer's claim to anything I do outside of work. Certainly not an iron-clad guarantee, but it should help.
... consider the effect on your existing client base. Very likely, the people who use your product heavily really know the UI very well and have very well developed muscle memory. If you make significant changes to the UI, their knowledge and muscle memory won't work. They'll be very unhappy and will complain to their management. I'm not saying you shouldn't make changes, just that you really want to be sure that the benefits will outweigh the costs.
At my place of employment, we have several dozen people who spend their entire work day deep in our records management system. They can navigate through the system, accomplishing their tasks like they were jet powered. Significant changes to the UI would be like chopping off their fingers.
Also depends on the degree you receive. A degree in philosophy or polysci or whatever is not likely going to make you highly marketable. Normally, I would say that you're pretty safe with an STEM degree. However, I attended a conference this weekend that leaves me wondering. One of the speakers was a comp sci prof from my alma mater. The stuff she said sounded more like something I'd expect from a sociology prof. If that's what's passing for comp sci these days, I'd have to question the value of a comp sci degree.
For the record, I'm not a misanthrope. I just dislike people.
I've had a couple of jobs where we happily used OSS. Now, we used it in the IT department, where we all understood what we were and were not getting. Using OSS outside IT might possibly put it where those who don't understand would see it. Depends on who's using it.
Sorry if I'm a bit grumpy. Had a rough week dealing with end users and I'm feeling a bit BOfH.
Personal email, I don't much care to keep. Business email, OTOH, is very useful. I use it as a paper trail. If I need to recall something, it's probably in my email. When a damager, um, sorry, manager, asks why I didn't do X (or why I did do X or, well, you get the idea) when in fact I did it, I usually just forward him the email I'd sent him N months ago detailing that his request is complete. Don't do that a lot, but every time I get to do it, it makes my week. Since corporate email servers are supposed to be secure, particularly from internal tampering, they are a good storage facility. That said, if the email is something that worries me, I archive it locally.
I used to be the paranoid weirdo until Snowdon. Now I'm smarter than most.
Sounds like buying your mobile device directly from the manufacturer, such as Apple, might be preferable to buying it from the service provider (albeit having to front the full cost of the device). I'll have to consider that if/when I upgrade from my 4S.
... to sell any particular product? If someone complains, will Apple be obligated to sell Chromecast devices on their website? When I walk into Safeway, I cannot find any of the Loblaws house brands on sale. Likewise, when I walk into Loblaws, I cannot find any of the Safeway house brands on sale. Yet, in neither case does anyone complain that these companies are being anticompetitive.
No retailer should be obligated to sell any particular product. Apple has both its own website and physical stores. Chromecast is available for sale online and at multiple physical retailers. Amazon prevents me from buying neither by not selling them. By not carrying these products, all that Amazon does it to deprive itself of part of the price I pay.
You can hide files in a hidden container, you can encrypt files and give the key to someone in a different jurisdiction. But, in the end, if they have you and they have the computer, they will probably get what they want. We used to call it "rubber hose crypto".
If you don't have to bring the data with you, don't. Put the encrypted data somewhere in the cloud and pull it down when you need it. Then purge it from your computer.
SD cards are small and might pass if you are not subject to intense scrutiny. But if they are really looking at you, they will be found. If you don't have a lot of data, consider encrypting it and then use steganography to hide it in some of the files in you iPod.
Assuming you do not keep data on the computer, what you need to do is install apps that will:
securely delete files
securely clear swap space
Make sure to clear history, etc.
The best way to store data securely is in your own head.
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Some years ago, the president of the company I worked for wrote a book on his management philosophy. In it, he noted that you should always be using your current job to leverage yourself into a better job and that if you were in the same position for more than 2 or 3 years, your career was stagnating. If that's a typical attitude for upper management (and I suspect it is), these folks are not making foolish mistakes. They are maximizing profit to leverage themselves into a better job somewhere else. If, after they move on, their former company craters, it's simply proof of how good they were.
This neither proves nor disproves corruption. If you have no cost to the requestor, there is nothing to prevent malicious requests aimed at wasting police resources (aka our tax dollars). So having a cost to a request could reasonably be considered good public policy. Of course, it could be used to try and limit legitimate access to data. Finding a balance on this issue is not easy.
Exactly. On the surface, body cams appear to be a simple issue - how many of us have GoPros, or the like? - but when you start to think through the policy issues, the logistics, etc, body cams are by no means trivial to implement. If you implement things without thinking them through, you will likely upset many people and create a PR nightmare. Before you implement, you need to think things through and make sure that your policies are well known. that will help to minimize the complaints (you'll never avoid complaints - someone will always be unhappy with what you do).
First off, in this case, the cost is just under $200/hr of footage.
You have to pay someone to retrieve the data and burn it to DVDs. NYPD has roughly 30,000 cops, so it's likely not entirely trivial to track down the correct video. Someone will have to review each hour of the requested footage to ensure that it includes nothing that would violate the privacy or safety of anyone involved in the video. If there's a lot of requests, you'll probably have to hire someone to do this job full time. Otherwise, you're taking a cop away from more useful work.
I cannot tell you whether $200/hr of footage is fair but I would not be the least bit surprised if it barely covers the costs incurred by the NYPD.
For what it's worth, and before you ask, there are definitely privacy and safety issues associated with body cam video. Imagine for a moment the home of one of your local TV anchors (say, the cute chick) is robbed. Police respond to her home, review the scene, take her statement, etc. Video from the police cruiser cam might be useful for a stalker to figure out where she lives. If you've any imagination at all, you can easily come up with other scenarios.
Probably there are no citations. However, if this is a significant factor in global climate and it is not included in current climate models, current climate models would be, at the least, questionable. It would also raise the question as to whether there are other significant unknown factors.
do we always seem to get into the mode of assuming that a large problem will have a single simple solution? In most of the world, solar will do nicely for many homes. In the right circumstances, wind is a useful option. Nuclear, too, has its place, as does hydroelectric. If we are to migrate away from fossil fuels, it would seem highly unlikely that we will move to a single form of power generation, but, rather, will use a group of technologies where they are best suited.
Nice sig.
Keep in mind that nothing man-made remains constant. Today, we may have a government run entirely by people we trust, and can trust, without reservation. But we don't know that that will be true next year. Or 10 years from now There will always be people who will seek power for their own benefit.. That is why we ought never to give government any more trust or power than is absolutely necessary.
is "would the recipients of 'free basics' be better off with 'free basics'?" If they would be better off, then I don't see the problem. I'm not a fan of Zuckerburg (or twitter), but he's offering something of value. It may not be the value you'd like to see him offer, but unless someone else if offering something better, good on Zuck. "Half a steak is better than none."
You can. Buy a car. In the past 5 years, I've managed to fly only twice - once for work, once for a vacation that I simply could not accomplish via car. All other trips have been in my car. If enough of us reject air travel, the air lines will notice
Yes, please. As soon as possible, please.
Combine carrot and stick so that the carrot corresponds to the pain points caused by the stick.
Not necessarily a good idea. Keep in mind that the company likely has only a few hundred customers in total. If you cut off a couple dozen, say, some of them may decide that they don't miss the service and like keeping their money. Potentially, they only need to convince a few friends or family members to do likewise and the company has a financial problem. And people in NWT might actually be more open to that idea than, say, people in more urban areas.
or hacking in general. This is moreso evident on TV or in movies, but so often you'll encounter someone breaking encryption when, barring some earth shaking development in mathematics, it's impossible to do before the universe's death and they do it in scant minutes. Usually when I encounter that, I stop reading the book or watching the TV show. I'll generally stick out a movie because (seriously) I usually attend movies with friends (no, really, I have real, physical friends. Honest).
All of those things require a great deal of money. All of those things required time. All of those things will pollute. And it all assumes that Joe Average can afford to replace his car and his natural-gas (or whatever) furnace. And it assumes that Joe Politician believes he can get re-elected pushing all of these things on his electorate. Given how hard it is for my government to accomplish far simpler tasks, I don't see it happening.
On the other hand, when potential students see such terms, they may rethink getting that philosophy degree and opt for, say, a nursing degree. No offense intended to folks who want to study topics that really don't make them employable (other than at Fourbucks Coffee), but getting yourself deep in debt without a strong expectation of being able to earn the money to repay the debt is not realistic.
You don't (usually) use the urinal for work purposes. You do use your employer's computer for work purposes. Personally, I use my employer's resources for absolutely nothing personal. I use my resources for absolutely nothing work-related. I keep a very strict separation between personal and work resources to minimize my employer's claim to anything I do outside of work. Certainly not an iron-clad guarantee, but it should help.
... consider the effect on your existing client base. Very likely, the people who use your product heavily really know the UI very well and have very well developed muscle memory. If you make significant changes to the UI, their knowledge and muscle memory won't work. They'll be very unhappy and will complain to their management. I'm not saying you shouldn't make changes, just that you really want to be sure that the benefits will outweigh the costs.
At my place of employment, we have several dozen people who spend their entire work day deep in our records management system. They can navigate through the system, accomplishing their tasks like they were jet powered. Significant changes to the UI would be like chopping off their fingers.
Also depends on the degree you receive. A degree in philosophy or polysci or whatever is not likely going to make you highly marketable. Normally, I would say that you're pretty safe with an STEM degree. However, I attended a conference this weekend that leaves me wondering. One of the speakers was a comp sci prof from my alma mater. The stuff she said sounded more like something I'd expect from a sociology prof. If that's what's passing for comp sci these days, I'd have to question the value of a comp sci degree.
For the record, I'm not a misanthrope. I just dislike people.
Sorry if I'm a bit grumpy. Had a rough week dealing with end users and I'm feeling a bit BOfH.
I used to be the paranoid weirdo until Snowdon. Now I'm smarter than most.
Sounds like buying your mobile device directly from the manufacturer, such as Apple, might be preferable to buying it from the service provider (albeit having to front the full cost of the device). I'll have to consider that if/when I upgrade from my 4S.
... to sell any particular product? If someone complains, will Apple be obligated to sell Chromecast devices on their website? When I walk into Safeway, I cannot find any of the Loblaws house brands on sale. Likewise, when I walk into Loblaws, I cannot find any of the Safeway house brands on sale. Yet, in neither case does anyone complain that these companies are being anticompetitive.
No retailer should be obligated to sell any particular product. Apple has both its own website and physical stores. Chromecast is available for sale online and at multiple physical retailers. Amazon prevents me from buying neither by not selling them. By not carrying these products, all that Amazon does it to deprive itself of part of the price I pay.
With all due respect, Wikipedia is probably not the best source to cite on this matter.
to what you can actually do.
You can hide files in a hidden container, you can encrypt files and give the key to someone in a different jurisdiction. But, in the end, if they have you and they have the computer, they will probably get what they want. We used to call it "rubber hose crypto".
If you don't have to bring the data with you, don't. Put the encrypted data somewhere in the cloud and pull it down when you need it. Then purge it from your computer.
SD cards are small and might pass if you are not subject to intense scrutiny. But if they are really looking at you, they will be found. If you don't have a lot of data, consider encrypting it and then use steganography to hide it in some of the files in you iPod.
Assuming you do not keep data on the computer, what you need to do is install apps that will:
Make sure to clear history, etc.
The best way to store data securely is in your own head.