thats just silly. Any aliens that come have plenty of energy reservres. How else did they get here. Now WATEr....thats a different story. If you remember, the rsouse being stolen in 'V' was water.
The answer to your question is in the question itself. The REASON we can deny it is that we have shown over the past 50 years that reason and rationality win out in nuclear discussions in the US. Now, imagine the same arguement going on in Iran...
PS, nothing in world politics is fair. Those with power try to maintain it. those without try to acquire it. Be that military, political, social or economic. The battlefield changes, the rules dont. Ask Sun Tzu.
Cloud=bad data management Cloud=Marketing crap Cloud= Software as a a service
If you really like that service, great, but any business with trade secret and data management issues will resist moving to any SAAS system beyond gateway functionality (web, EDI, anti-spam, etc). There is a reason email, ERP, and file management have always been handled in house. For some (schools are a good example) SAAS email works fine. For most not so much.
I cant speak to anyone but SBC/ATT and comcast (my 'choices'). Both of them publish their port restrictions, and as far as I know they abide by them.
Comcast has other issues which hopefully are being dealt with by the FCC. If a company is not publishing these things then I would think there is fraud involved and that you would have a breech of contract.
Actually I do understand thats the purpose behind the SOX audit. What I was/am saying though is that they lack the skill to fully understand how to implement that best practices.
Software interaction, especially with ERP software,l is incredibly complesx. The idea that someone can come in for 2 weeks, look at your system, and even BEGIN to know what questions to ask is absurb.
We are not even that big a company and the audits mean effectively nothing. they come in and check their little check box saying we met a standard for secueity or reporting. But they cant ever really know that we have.
And management has no real interest in actually increasing security, they simply want to have the audit come back clean.
Thus 'security theatre'.
If they were really interwested in security the costs would be prohibative, especially for smaller companies.
thus my assertion that SOX, especially the security end of it, are pointless. (the financial reporting and reviews I cant comment on for lack of expertise).
Im all for net neutrality, but you are missing a point.
If I have a service which clearly dictates what ports I can use, I have no problem with it. Then again if that occurs I think that the company involved should lose any exclusivity they may have and be forced to allow other carriers on their lines. The problem is for the vast majority of users this is not an issue so it will never become part of the cannon.
As for hosting pics on Fark using an alternate port for such things works most of the time.
It would be unbelieveably easy to fool an auditor in out S-Ox Audits. Heck, we could fool anyone brought in to audit the auditors if we liked. They dont have the time or technicalknowledge to understand the systems they are auditing. They ask for information which is pointless and easily faked ('can we have a screen shot of you AD domain security policies') and frankly they just dont care. These guys make the TSa look like experts.
This is my primary issue with S-Ox as a regulation. It doesnt work. Its security theatre at its best(worst).
so even though my boss/company follows the rules, we could easily not do so and still have our CEO/CFO sign off with noone the wiser.
I was born in the early 80s, and some of these things hold true for me, which is somehow reassuring
Christopher Columbus has always been getting a bad rap.
I imagine this has been true since the 60s, at least.
Im not a huge fan of this kind of drivel, but I did find this interesting:
Im turning 40 in a month, and I can say for sure the Columbus was revered as an almost mythical hero who braved the ignorance of his time to find the east indies. This was in the late 70's.
He was not vilified as the person who destroyed entire civilizations until the early 90's.
What I was taught was crap, but so is the pseudo modern viewpoint. What I really dont get is why schools refuse to teach younger kids real facts. complexity exists in the world, there is no need to sugar coat it. Teach them the truth from the start and they will learn critical thinking at a far earlier age.
then again to do this we would have to spend more time than we do now, and most people seem to dislike that idea.
If I had my druthers, it would be fun to revive the old Gold box Neverwinter Nights. The guys over @ http://www.forgottenworld.com/ have faithfully recreated it, and while it only runs on windows, the main thing holding me back is the lack of any player base.
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thats just silly. Any aliens that come have plenty of energy reservres. How else did they get here. Now WATEr....thats a different story. If you remember, the rsouse being stolen in 'V' was water.
The answer to your question is in the question itself. The REASON we can deny it is that we have shown over the past 50 years that reason and rationality win out in nuclear discussions in the US. Now, imagine the same arguement going on in Iran...
PS, nothing in world politics is fair. Those with power try to maintain it. those without try to acquire it. Be that military, political, social or economic. The battlefield changes, the rules dont. Ask Sun Tzu.
Cloud=bad data management
Cloud=Marketing crap
Cloud= Software as a a service
If you really like that service, great, but any business with trade secret and data management issues will resist moving to any SAAS system beyond gateway functionality (web, EDI, anti-spam, etc). There is a reason email, ERP, and file management have always been handled in house. For some (schools are a good example) SAAS email works fine. For most not so much.
I cant speak to anyone but SBC/ATT and comcast (my 'choices'). Both of them publish their port restrictions, and as far as I know they abide by them. Comcast has other issues which hopefully are being dealt with by the FCC. If a company is not publishing these things then I would think there is fraud involved and that you would have a breech of contract.
Actually I do understand thats the purpose behind the SOX audit. What I was/am saying though is that they lack the skill to fully understand how to implement that best practices. Software interaction, especially with ERP software,l is incredibly complesx. The idea that someone can come in for 2 weeks, look at your system, and even BEGIN to know what questions to ask is absurb. We are not even that big a company and the audits mean effectively nothing. they come in and check their little check box saying we met a standard for secueity or reporting. But they cant ever really know that we have. And management has no real interest in actually increasing security, they simply want to have the audit come back clean. Thus 'security theatre'. If they were really interwested in security the costs would be prohibative, especially for smaller companies. thus my assertion that SOX, especially the security end of it, are pointless. (the financial reporting and reviews I cant comment on for lack of expertise).
Im all for net neutrality, but you are missing a point. If I have a service which clearly dictates what ports I can use, I have no problem with it. Then again if that occurs I think that the company involved should lose any exclusivity they may have and be forced to allow other carriers on their lines. The problem is for the vast majority of users this is not an issue so it will never become part of the cannon. As for hosting pics on Fark using an alternate port for such things works most of the time.
It would be unbelieveably easy to fool an auditor in out S-Ox Audits. Heck, we could fool anyone brought in to audit the auditors if we liked. They dont have the time or technicalknowledge to understand the systems they are auditing. They ask for information which is pointless and easily faked ('can we have a screen shot of you AD domain security policies') and frankly they just dont care. These guys make the TSa look like experts. This is my primary issue with S-Ox as a regulation. It doesnt work. Its security theatre at its best(worst). so even though my boss/company follows the rules, we could easily not do so and still have our CEO/CFO sign off with noone the wiser.
Luckily you dont have to go to a thrift store for an 8 track player http://shop.ebay.com/?_from=R40&_trksid=p3907.m38.l1313&_nkw=8+track+player&_sacat=See-All-Categories that took 20 seconds. Also, 8 tracks were popular when I was a child, in the early-late 70's. Thats 30 years, not 16. In 17 years a DVD player or blu Ray will be fine. Get some archival quality discs and go to town.
I was born in the early 80s, and some of these things hold true for me, which is somehow reassuring
Christopher Columbus has always been getting a bad rap.
I imagine this has been true since the 60s, at least.
Im not a huge fan of this kind of drivel, but I did find this interesting: Im turning 40 in a month, and I can say for sure the Columbus was revered as an almost mythical hero who braved the ignorance of his time to find the east indies. This was in the late 70's. He was not vilified as the person who destroyed entire civilizations until the early 90's. What I was taught was crap, but so is the pseudo modern viewpoint. What I really dont get is why schools refuse to teach younger kids real facts. complexity exists in the world, there is no need to sugar coat it. Teach them the truth from the start and they will learn critical thinking at a far earlier age. then again to do this we would have to spend more time than we do now, and most people seem to dislike that idea.
If I had my druthers, it would be fun to revive the old Gold box Neverwinter Nights. The guys over @ http://www.forgottenworld.com/ have faithfully recreated it, and while it only runs on windows, the main thing holding me back is the lack of any player base.