Amazon has been terrible at supporting their "premium" product lines, because of the comparatively low userbases. For example, while corresponding Kindle "Keyboard" 3rd generation is now at firmware version 3.3, Kindle DX "Graphite" 3rd generation has been stuck in 2.5.8, with a horrible browser, no support for international fonts and no pictures in paid magazine and newspaper subscriptions (ridiculous). Now in the case of Fire - it is unlikely to see huge adoption as compared to smaller 4th generation devices (due to it not being an eInk eBook reader and its future as a tablet is being threatened by iPad). Therefore eventual support efforts are not going to be focused on the Fire, resulting in experience similar to that of DX customers (which yours truly is one of; needless to say I am never buying an Amazon product ever again, especially a "premium" model). [/rant]
While I would love to wave this article at my management and say "hire more gurus", I find it somewhat disconnected from reality. This concept would only work if you had a department dedicated to in-house development, with unlimited permanent headcounts all of whom would be flawless in developing, documenting and supporting their respective applications in a uniform, regulatory-compliance friendly manner and who would never, ever move on to the greener pastures. In reality, you have self-proclaimed "developers" from various departments, writing spaghetti code designed to address their specific problems, then eventually quitting and leaving IT to struggle with supporting the uncommented, undocumented application that now cannot be replaced because it contains "all customer data". And when your friendly neighborhood ISO 27001 auditor comes along, you end up hiring 3 more people to fix every missing data validation, credential management and change control problem in this irreplaceable creation, and then, maybe, it becomes that wonderful application the author is hoping to push for.
On the other hand, if you get a third party vendor to provide you with a solution - your upfront costs will seem higher, but chances are - unlike your departed headcount, that vendor exists for the sole purpose of supporting their solution. Their features, functionality, security and regulatory requirements have either already been hashed out by other customers, or will be hashed out for your if you ask for them. And unless they're a small enough vendor to go out of business without selling their assets to someone else who will take over, they will be there to support that application and provide feature updates while your in-house developers come and go...
No, it's not illegal to sniff traffic on your own network, and companies can have acceptable use policies that set "no expectation of privacy" for the employees, but if you are going to be running the risk of looking at someone's private information and/or using that information as basis for termination, you definitely want to get HR and Legal on-board before you run into disclosure and/or wrongful dismissal lawsuits.
Depends on the country I guess. In Canada you would also need HR and Legal approval before you violate someone's privacy like that. If this guy was looking at an Xray of his brain tumor and you sniffed that traffic and glanced at his PHI record, you would be in a heap of trouble for violating HIPAA and PIPEDA at the same time... you want Legal to be prepared for the lawsuit.
So, my computer does not take screenshots 6 times an hour, therefore I took the time to calculate how much this is, exactly. Quick Gooogle search showed that you can buy boxes of 3,000 paper packets online for about $16, making the cost of one paper packet roughly $0.005. That same ordering page lists package weight as 5.5 lbs, so taking the average male weight of 190.9 pounds, it equals roughly 104,127 pepper packets and therefore about $521 dollars. Now that is one low-cost manager.
Ok, I can suggest a solution - make a slightly imperfect computer model. I suspect that this isn't going to please "advertising watchdogs" however, since it will still eat into the cut of whatever modelling agency's payroll they're on. Besides, when was the last time an actual model looked "realistic" as compared to majority of population?
You seem to be making a direct connection between "hero worship" and getting paid millions of dollars for some reason. Knighthood does not come with millions of dollars (in fact, you pretty much have to have made at least one on your own before you get knighted)... Nobel prizes do on the other hand - maybe she can win one of those.
Yes, but private messages won't be provided to the congress. I think the problem here is in the fact that you can delete your Twitter posts and they will be gone from internet and Twitter database (in 30 days), but a copy that congress has, they will have forever. Don't know about you, but I deleted all my tweets when I read that announcement. Just in case. Let's hope they didn't get archived yet.
What happens when flightless female offspring continue to reproduce? Looking forward to being afraid of lying down on the ground out of fear of being attacked by millions ground-dwelling blood sucking parasites, who have developed supernatural running speeds to compensate for their inability to fly:)
Yes, but now it's at 5, and yours is at 3. So it seems collective thinking isn't as broken as Google claims it could be. In my opinion, 1,000 random users are a lot more likely to crowdsource a diverse, accurate judgement than 10 "trusted" moderators with 20 "trusted" delegates. If half of those "trusted" users are "fanboying" for or against that particular topic, you have 50% of votes being assigned based on personal preference instead of being objective... within 1,000 users impact of 15 users' subjectivity will be a lot lower and has a chance of being offset by subjectivity of the users from an opposing camp.
I am surprised that Google would be peddling this, it seems to go against their net neutrality principle. If you have everyone generating content, everyone should be allowed to use and provide feedback on that content. Even Slashdot's selective moderation system is too restrictive - how often do you see a great comment that you wish you could mod up, but have no points, or vice versa?
And if you're worried about bury brigades and want an absolutely, 100% real content and ratings, make a system that prohibits anonymous users (I mean verifying identities via credit cards and social security numbers and all). Then you will have a perfectly accurate system. Except that not many people will want to use it.
people who feel it would be better to kill themselves, rather than go to a job that is so bad, they really would prefer to be dead
I don't know, I would imagine that someone's options at this point would be 1) find a different job 2) become unemployed 3) kill yourself, no? I think the "whacking" by overzealous corporate loss prevention team theory is indeed more likely here.
For every hot woman on the planet, there is a guy who is sick and tired of banging her. It's not the fact that his wife may be ugly, it's just that she's his wife man.
That problem has been addressed many times already... sandboxing. The runtime/VM will still have full access, of course, but can control exactly what resources the sandboxed apps can access. That's the one of the major goals of Java,.Net, Flash, DHTML/Javascript, etc.
Sure, sure, except someone forgot to tell the bad guys that they're supposed to stay inside of them sandboxes.
P.S. And on the notion of Anti-trusts - Apple has a built-in antivirus. Should we go after them too?
Hm, I wonder does plausible deniability clause with encryption/password still apply? "Sorry officer, my phone is locked and encrypted and in all the stress of getting arrested, I completely forgot what the password was". Would that work, or would you just get beaten with a wrench until you remember the password.
I'd tell you to watch the New York videos, but the media blackout was quite effective.
I thought this was the protest of the iPhone-toting unemployed... are you telling me that the media blackout somehow extended to removing smartphone videos from YouTube?
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Amazon has been terrible at supporting their "premium" product lines, because of the comparatively low userbases. For example, while corresponding Kindle "Keyboard" 3rd generation is now at firmware version 3.3, Kindle DX "Graphite" 3rd generation has been stuck in 2.5.8, with a horrible browser, no support for international fonts and no pictures in paid magazine and newspaper subscriptions (ridiculous). Now in the case of Fire - it is unlikely to see huge adoption as compared to smaller 4th generation devices (due to it not being an eInk eBook reader and its future as a tablet is being threatened by iPad). Therefore eventual support efforts are not going to be focused on the Fire, resulting in experience similar to that of DX customers (which yours truly is one of; needless to say I am never buying an Amazon product ever again, especially a "premium" model). [/rant]
While I would love to wave this article at my management and say "hire more gurus", I find it somewhat disconnected from reality. This concept would only work if you had a department dedicated to in-house development, with unlimited permanent headcounts all of whom would be flawless in developing, documenting and supporting their respective applications in a uniform, regulatory-compliance friendly manner and who would never, ever move on to the greener pastures. In reality, you have self-proclaimed "developers" from various departments, writing spaghetti code designed to address their specific problems, then eventually quitting and leaving IT to struggle with supporting the uncommented, undocumented application that now cannot be replaced because it contains "all customer data". And when your friendly neighborhood ISO 27001 auditor comes along, you end up hiring 3 more people to fix every missing data validation, credential management and change control problem in this irreplaceable creation, and then, maybe, it becomes that wonderful application the author is hoping to push for.
On the other hand, if you get a third party vendor to provide you with a solution - your upfront costs will seem higher, but chances are - unlike your departed headcount, that vendor exists for the sole purpose of supporting their solution. Their features, functionality, security and regulatory requirements have either already been hashed out by other customers, or will be hashed out for your if you ask for them. And unless they're a small enough vendor to go out of business without selling their assets to someone else who will take over, they will be there to support that application and provide feature updates while your in-house developers come and go...
No, it's not illegal to sniff traffic on your own network, and companies can have acceptable use policies that set "no expectation of privacy" for the employees, but if you are going to be running the risk of looking at someone's private information and/or using that information as basis for termination, you definitely want to get HR and Legal on-board before you run into disclosure and/or wrongful dismissal lawsuits.
Depends on the country I guess. In Canada you would also need HR and Legal approval before you violate someone's privacy like that. If this guy was looking at an Xray of his brain tumor and you sniffed that traffic and glanced at his PHI record, you would be in a heap of trouble for violating HIPAA and PIPEDA at the same time... you want Legal to be prepared for the lawsuit.
any manager worth his weight in pepper packets
So, my computer does not take screenshots 6 times an hour, therefore I took the time to calculate how much this is, exactly. Quick Gooogle search showed that you can buy boxes of 3,000 paper packets online for about $16, making the cost of one paper packet roughly $0.005. That same ordering page lists package weight as 5.5 lbs, so taking the average male weight of 190.9 pounds, it equals roughly 104,127 pepper packets and therefore about $521 dollars. Now that is one low-cost manager.
I for one found this article useful. Until now I was convinced that SOPA stood for "Stop Online Privacy Act"... who knew.
Ok, I can suggest a solution - make a slightly imperfect computer model. I suspect that this isn't going to please "advertising watchdogs" however, since it will still eat into the cut of whatever modelling agency's payroll they're on. Besides, when was the last time an actual model looked "realistic" as compared to majority of population?
It's doubtful anyone will come up with a "silver bullet" that will cure all...
I can't help but wonder if similar words were uttered before the invention of penicillin.
You seem to be making a direct connection between "hero worship" and getting paid millions of dollars for some reason. Knighthood does not come with millions of dollars (in fact, you pretty much have to have made at least one on your own before you get knighted)... Nobel prizes do on the other hand - maybe she can win one of those.
they will be gone from internet
Ok, in retrospect, that was a stupid statement :) what I meant was, they will be gone from search.twitter.com
Yes, but private messages won't be provided to the congress. I think the problem here is in the fact that you can delete your Twitter posts and they will be gone from internet and Twitter database (in 30 days), but a copy that congress has, they will have forever. Don't know about you, but I deleted all my tweets when I read that announcement. Just in case. Let's hope they didn't get archived yet.
So then we are looking at the explosion in population for ants, ground dwelling spiders, and predatory beetle species as a result of this? Awesome.
What happens when flightless female offspring continue to reproduce? Looking forward to being afraid of lying down on the ground out of fear of being attacked by millions ground-dwelling blood sucking parasites, who have developed supernatural running speeds to compensate for their inability to fly :)
Yes, but now it's at 5, and yours is at 3. So it seems collective thinking isn't as broken as Google claims it could be. In my opinion, 1,000 random users are a lot more likely to crowdsource a diverse, accurate judgement than 10 "trusted" moderators with 20 "trusted" delegates. If half of those "trusted" users are "fanboying" for or against that particular topic, you have 50% of votes being assigned based on personal preference instead of being objective... within 1,000 users impact of 15 users' subjectivity will be a lot lower and has a chance of being offset by subjectivity of the users from an opposing camp.
I am surprised that Google would be peddling this, it seems to go against their net neutrality principle. If you have everyone generating content, everyone should be allowed to use and provide feedback on that content. Even Slashdot's selective moderation system is too restrictive - how often do you see a great comment that you wish you could mod up, but have no points, or vice versa?
And if you're worried about bury brigades and want an absolutely, 100% real content and ratings, make a system that prohibits anonymous users (I mean verifying identities via credit cards and social security numbers and all). Then you will have a perfectly accurate system. Except that not many people will want to use it.
people who feel it would be better to kill themselves, rather than go to a job that is so bad, they really would prefer to be dead
I don't know, I would imagine that someone's options at this point would be 1) find a different job 2) become unemployed 3) kill yourself, no? I think the "whacking" by overzealous corporate loss prevention team theory is indeed more likely here.
Now that is hilarious. Irony? I think so.
Yeah, they laid off a good chunk of their employees and closed a bunch of offices since then.
Panasonic Lumix LX5
Or it could be the government's attempt to offset the costs associated with outbreaks of mumps amongst non-immunized children.
We'll always have uranium.
Yeah, but that would prevent them from collecting whatever it is they've found on Mars.
For every hot woman on the planet, there is a guy who is sick and tired of banging her. It's not the fact that his wife may be ugly, it's just that she's his wife man.
That problem has been addressed many times already... sandboxing. The runtime/VM will still have full access, of course, but can control exactly what resources the sandboxed apps can access. That's the one of the major goals of Java, .Net, Flash, DHTML/Javascript, etc.
Sure, sure, except someone forgot to tell the bad guys that they're supposed to stay inside of them sandboxes.
P.S. And on the notion of Anti-trusts - Apple has a built-in antivirus. Should we go after them too?
Hm, I wonder does plausible deniability clause with encryption/password still apply? "Sorry officer, my phone is locked and encrypted and in all the stress of getting arrested, I completely forgot what the password was". Would that work, or would you just get beaten with a wrench until you remember the password.
I'd tell you to watch the New York videos, but the media blackout was quite effective.
I thought this was the protest of the iPhone-toting unemployed... are you telling me that the media blackout somehow extended to removing smartphone videos from YouTube?