Hell, in an ideal world...make the contractors more cautious when promising stuff because what they'd say could be held against them later on.
All I can say is that I have dealt with sales people who are very, very good about carefully wording what they will and won't do. If you think that won't just get more in-house lawyers writing memos about "better" double-speak, well I think you'd be the one rudely surprised.
I'm currently working for a fairly large 2500+ employee multi-national that regularly handles confidential information belonging to other businesses. I can safely tell you that we have scaled back all of our efforts to move things to the cloud and have actually reversed the trend by bringing more and more things in house over the past year. This orignally started with several data privacy laws enacted in the EU that made farming things out prohibitively expensive but perhaps the most interesting part of this is that since the various leaks this year, we've been getting more scrutiny from foreign companies about what we could have any hope of keeping from the government if asked.
Until someone picks up the old, powered down and presumably discarded box with tons of sensitive data on it, and puts it in the recycle bin where it is trash picked by someone looking for spare parts...
If by consequences you mean that no one is being taken to task for this massive invasion of privacy even though it doesn't take a legal eye to see that the mad grab of Kim's assets was retarded. They basically were able to take his stuff for months and their penalty was to... give copies of it back? Awesome.
You do realize, that they already sent copies of the hard drives across the ocean to the States. And no matter what that NZ judge says... Kim is already guilty according to our most important citizens - business. This is data they had no right (literally) to take. He's a dick - but they're worse.
That's a great point. There were always other options, just we never considered them competitors so they weren't counted. Frankly, I would still define a computer as something that sits on or under my desk because that's what I grew up with so I would never consider my Galaxy's Android OS among my most used OSes.
What I would really like to see is a OS usage on a per hour basis. I bet we would see Windows (due to being used for business and on most home pcs) pull even farther ahead, simply because there's no way I'm on my phone or my iPad as much as my work laptop.
You underestimate the power of Netflix and the demand that customers have for it. Networks will adapt, or die. Sure, they might adapt in a way we don't like (I.E. putting out their own slightly worse version where they can still sell advert space like Hulu) but video streaming, on demand, is here to stay.
I blame the Internet for raising me from a young age to not be surprsed that a such thing as a 'Cousin-dating-law-colored-map-of-Oregon' even exists, let alone that you were able to Google it in 30 seconds.
(I wonder at what stage in the dating/relationship procedure the phone tapping takes place -- you don't want to leave it too late, nor be in a rush and tap too early...)
Here in the US I usually tap it after 3 good dinner dates.
Even SSD drives couldn't send data fast enough for this. Most of my customers still use 100baseT. Some have upgraded to gigabit. I see very little use for this outside of large data centers,
1) Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons. - Popular Mechanics, 1949
2) I have traveled the length and breadth of this country and talked with the best people, and I can assure you that data processing is a fad that won’t last out the year. - Editor of Prentice Hall business books, 1957
3) There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home. - Ken Olsen, 1977
4) We will never make a 32-bit operating system. - Bill Gates, 1989*
5) I believe OS/2 is destined to be the most important operating system, and possibly program, of all time. - Bill Gates, 1987
Don't be obtuse, do you know what the I in IED even stands for? Improvised. Where there's a will, there's a way.
Estes model rockets could be modified to carry a payload.
Explosives are still made often enough that you know it's possible.
For the record, I'm not advocating any of this, I think people talking about that kind of conflict not as a hypothetical scenario are harmless crackpots at best and dangerous at worst. But there's no need to be illogical about any of it.
You don't like the way they use guerrilla tactics. And they haven't won a single "strategic or tactical battle." Lastly, the reason that the US is withdrawing is because we want to. Let's dissect this, point by point for giggles and because I have nothing better to do at the moment.
(1) And the reason they're lasting for that long is because they do not engage the military in battle. (2)Every time the Taliban have openly engaged the troops in anything resembling large-scale combat, they lost. They haven't won a single strategic or tactical battle, and the only reason we're getting out of there is because (3) we have no reason to be there.
(4)If the US military turns against its own population, it will be much more like Syria or Libya.
(1) Why would they? Head on, they'd get railroaded. Pot shots, IEDs and perhaps most importantly, propaganda are far and away more effective for their purposes. To assume that because they won't willingly throw themselves into a barely metaphorical meat-grinder they're somehow completely beaten is a logical leap of faith that is easily provable to be false. They're willing to fight, as much as they can without risking losing. Frankly, I respect the way they defend their ideals and home as much as I hate what that means - this from a former US soldier by the way. It's a grudging respect.
(3) Simply put... did we ever? Sure, it was more legitimate than Iraq, but that's not saying much. They've definitely made the cost of staying too high to be worth it. So we killed one guy - now we're leaving, and they're not gone. Their influence has waned, but it hasn't completely evaporated.
(4) I'm not sure what point you're trying to make. Is it that regular citizens will have a better chance against the US Government than the Taliban did? Then I want to disagree... Afghani Taliban have been in a constant struggle with $SOMEONE since the 70s. They've had a lot of experience and until the mid-90s, a lot of success. But I digress - if it will be more like Libya or Syria... isn't that what we want? A better fighting chance from having comparable weapons?
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Spoken like a true Canadian, with the apology for the burn at the end.
Alcohol... the cause of and solution to all of life's problems
Hell, in an ideal world...make the contractors more cautious when promising stuff because what they'd say could be held against them later on.
All I can say is that I have dealt with sales people who are very, very good about carefully wording what they will and won't do. If you think that won't just get more in-house lawyers writing memos about "better" double-speak, well I think you'd be the one rudely surprised.
I'm currently working for a fairly large 2500+ employee multi-national that regularly handles confidential information belonging to other businesses. I can safely tell you that we have scaled back all of our efforts to move things to the cloud and have actually reversed the trend by bringing more and more things in house over the past year. This orignally started with several data privacy laws enacted in the EU that made farming things out prohibitively expensive but perhaps the most interesting part of this is that since the various leaks this year, we've been getting more scrutiny from foreign companies about what we could have any hope of keeping from the government if asked.
In space, no one can hear the woosh.
Oh. God. No. http://theinfosphere.org/images/2/29/Robo_Nixon.png
Until someone picks up the old, powered down and presumably discarded box with tons of sensitive data on it, and puts it in the recycle bin where it is trash picked by someone looking for spare parts...
Fire. Kill it with fire.
Is it slashdotted? Or is it someone didn't want it too easily accessible?
I intended this comment to get Funny upvotes... then I read it back and wanted to put Insightful. That's a sad commentary on our system.
If by consequences you mean that no one is being taken to task for this massive invasion of privacy even though it doesn't take a legal eye to see that the mad grab of Kim's assets was retarded. They basically were able to take his stuff for months and their penalty was to... give copies of it back? Awesome.
You do realize, that they already sent copies of the hard drives across the ocean to the States. And no matter what that NZ judge says... Kim is already guilty according to our most important citizens - business. This is data they had no right (literally) to take. He's a dick - but they're worse.
That's a great point. There were always other options, just we never considered them competitors so they weren't counted. Frankly, I would still define a computer as something that sits on or under my desk because that's what I grew up with so I would never consider my Galaxy's Android OS among my most used OSes.
What I would really like to see is a OS usage on a per hour basis. I bet we would see Windows (due to being used for business and on most home pcs) pull even farther ahead, simply because there's no way I'm on my phone or my iPad as much as my work laptop.
You forgot their other Bug Reporting Tool: www.microsoft.com/en-us/kinectforwindows
It can accurately report when people are watching programs for free - which is apparently an unintended side effect of home entertainment.
...and the ratio of the likely phones/tablets at (what I'm assuming) is a white-collar job would be similar to global market share... so add in:
400 Androids (seems high... might be less in the US, I was lazy)
130 iPhones running iOS
a handful of feature phones and a smattering of MS Phones
And you'll find your ratios balanace out *much* more than they used to.
Source:Hint: It didn't always look like this.
The hell? what about...
NASA
1st man on the moon...
You are dead to me, ArcadeMan. Dead to me.
Which is the LHC equivalent of saying: you're the other muon in a Bs meson. Or something.
Sparta was a city-state of Greece. Thanks for playing.
You realize you're talking about Grecian society that quite literally gave us those things, right?
You underestimate the power of Netflix and the demand that customers have for it. Networks will adapt, or die. Sure, they might adapt in a way we don't like (I.E. putting out their own slightly worse version where they can still sell advert space like Hulu) but video streaming, on demand, is here to stay.
"You can't stop the signal." ~ Mr. Universe.
Are you suggesting that Virgin Galactic invade Somalia?
I don't know how you can make a Galactic Empire invading a hive of scum and villainy without getting a +5 Awesome. For shame Slashdot, for shame.
Thank god, because if that pig sitting next to me keeps managing his auto insurance it's going to send this rocket straight into the sun.
I blame the Internet for raising me from a young age to not be surprsed that a such thing as a 'Cousin-dating-law-colored-map-of-Oregon' even exists, let alone that you were able to Google it in 30 seconds.
Internet, what have you done?
(I wonder at what stage in the dating/relationship procedure the phone tapping takes place -- you don't want to leave it too late, nor be in a rush and tap too early...)
Here in the US I usually tap it after 3 good dinner dates.
Even SSD drives couldn't send data fast enough for this. Most of my customers still use 100baseT. Some have upgraded to gigabit. I see very little use for this outside of large data centers,
1) Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons. - Popular Mechanics, 1949
2) I have traveled the length and breadth of this country and talked with the best people, and I can assure you that data processing is a fad that won’t last out the year. - Editor of Prentice Hall business books, 1957
3) There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home. - Ken Olsen, 1977
4) We will never make a 32-bit operating system. - Bill Gates, 1989*
5) I believe OS/2 is destined to be the most important operating system, and possibly program, of all time. - Bill Gates, 1987
So... where do you think you rank? Source.
*Of course, you could argue that they didn't "make" it.
This is the first time that I've really had a good laugh at one of these posts. Thank you, sir.
Don't be obtuse, do you know what the I in IED even stands for? Improvised. Where there's a will, there's a way.
Estes model rockets could be modified to carry a payload.
Explosives are still made often enough that you know it's possible.
For the record, I'm not advocating any of this, I think people talking about that kind of conflict not as a hypothetical scenario are harmless crackpots at best and dangerous at worst. But there's no need to be illogical about any of it.
You don't like the way they use guerrilla tactics. And they haven't won a single "strategic or tactical battle." Lastly, the reason that the US is withdrawing is because we want to. Let's dissect this, point by point for giggles and because I have nothing better to do at the moment.
(1) And the reason they're lasting for that long is because they do not engage the military in battle. (2)Every time the Taliban have openly engaged the troops in anything resembling large-scale combat, they lost. They haven't won a single strategic or tactical battle, and the only reason we're getting out of there is because (3) we have no reason to be there.
(4)If the US military turns against its own population, it will be much more like Syria or Libya.
(1) Why would they? Head on, they'd get railroaded. Pot shots, IEDs and perhaps most importantly, propaganda are far and away more effective for their purposes. To assume that because they won't willingly throw themselves into a barely metaphorical meat-grinder they're somehow completely beaten is a logical leap of faith that is easily provable to be false. They're willing to fight, as much as they can without risking losing. Frankly, I respect the way they defend their ideals and home as much as I hate what that means - this from a former US soldier by the way. It's a grudging respect.
(2) For your reading pleasure, Afghani Taliban Victories: Uzbin Valley., Battle of Wanat, and while in Pakistan South Waziristan.
(3) Simply put... did we ever? Sure, it was more legitimate than Iraq, but that's not saying much. They've definitely made the cost of staying too high to be worth it. So we killed one guy - now we're leaving, and they're not gone. Their influence has waned, but it hasn't completely evaporated.
(4) I'm not sure what point you're trying to make. Is it that regular citizens will have a better chance against the US Government than the Taliban did? Then I want to disagree... Afghani Taliban have been in a constant struggle with $SOMEONE since the 70s. They've had a lot of experience and until the mid-90s, a lot of success. But I digress - if it will be more like Libya or Syria... isn't that what we want? A better fighting chance from having comparable weapons?