Google ought to have something like this.
Oh wait a minute, they already do.
Not the plus extension either. Google simply makes your spam disappear regardless. Even if spammers have your email, it doesn't matter to your Google InBox.
It is true that 'attacking' the ip who infiltrated your network is probably the wrong target but in the article, the suggested counter attack was not an attack, it was an infiltration designed to glean information about who is really behind the attack and what sorts of info they are looking for.
Half of science is useless (but we never know which half until many centuries later.
Far more than half of most other human endeavors are useless so science/math still is our best option.
The managers are the problem but in the government, even tho Congress tries to blame the bureaucrats, it is the waffling and micromgmt of congress critters that causes the issue.
For example, the Dept of Homeland Security consists of 22 Agencies that report to 88 Congressional Subcommittees. Not sure how many different congress critters have interfered with SSA or directly with the spending on computers but I'll bet that's where the 'management problem' lies.
I read an interesting opinion that teaching was better in the 50s and 60s in America because of the limited job opportunities for women, thus the smartest women went into teaching (in a general statistical sense). As women were accepted into the workplace, the intelligence and energy level of teachers as a whole went down because the best and brightest women were siphoned off into other jobs.
For best teaching results, we ought to make teaching one of the most respected (highest-paid) professions like Finland does.
I agree with hiring employees who are smart enough to embrace change. But I work for a Federal Agency and even after we have moved to IBM's Applixware and then to Microsoft's Word and approved OpenOffice for use as needed, we still have to purchase copies of WordPerfect in order to send and receive documents from Congress.
We can't force them to change. They get to add to our costs.
There is a cost of converting from MS stuff, but the cost of staying with MS is prohibitive, especially when Google is willing to provide the services for $50/user/year.
I think another factor besides the cost of converting (how many of the 'systems' are actually needed?) is that they won't need all the folks in the IT department. And guess who's making the decision about the vendor and talking about the high cost of conversion? It ain't the Program or Agency leaders, it is the IT department leaders.
Info whose value is beyond price is essentially the same problem with health care costs and why demand will always exceed supply. We will pay whatever we can to avoid dying. Neither health care nor NSA secrets respond to normal economic incentives.
The Power Law is essentially the inverse of the Bell Curve, another statistical mapping that accurately measures the occurrence of events but doesn't provide any predictive power.
The power law also applies to phase changes of elements.It accurately represents the locations of molecules. The regular old bell curve applies to the locations of molecules when the phase isn't changing. The folks at the Santa Fe Institute think that because Power Laws show up everywhere they are amazing but the SFI folks aren't so amazed at the old bell curve showing up on the perimeter of every place the power law appears.
The brain isn't a digital computer
Check out On Intelligence. It discusses a theory of how the cortex maps to the body and to the outside physical world using the same processes for action and interpretation.
However, check out Greed Corp. ($9.99 download game PS3). It's a strategy move game you play against beginner, skilled, and expert computer players in off-line mode.
I don't think you can save money doing it yourself.
How to save money is forgetting about standardization. That's the big push for a big agency/company AND IS COMPLETELY IMPOSSIBLE TO ATTAIN.
You can buy all new pcs on day one, but when you hire new folks on day 200 or on year 3, you cannot get the same pc even though you wrote specs into the contract that raised the price of the original ones.
I think you're better off buying a bunch of ultra-cheap Dells or whatever and then in 8 or 12 months buy however many more ultracheap NotDells for replacements. This actually makes computer support easier because now the lame user doesn't need to tell you he's got a Dell 2310 with 4G Ram, he can say I've got a Dell or a Rembrandt or Inspiron and you'll _know_ what the configuration is.
And if they're cheap, toss them when they break and get the next version from Best Buy.
The definition of economics is that it is the way we allocate _scarce_ resources. When water is plentiful and cannot even be polluted because of low populations, water is free. Once it can get polluted, then we as a group start charging for it. During droughts, water is valuable. Whether it becomes more valuable than oil is hard to determine--that will vary from place to place depending on the costs of alternatives to oil or the availability of water.
The critical issue is that while there are alternative energy sources, there is no substitute for drinking water.
I saw a grad project at the Colorado School of Mines that basically ground up circuit boards into sand which ends up having a much higher ore content than what we're pulling out of mines. Ramping it up to industrial proportions will take a little while but if the economics change (and it always does), ramp up occurs sooner.
Mastercard sends me a paper bill with a warning that a paper trail is an identity thief's best friend.That may be a true statement but I suspect most identity theft is done electronically, hence my request for the paper bill..
Those crash logs are about as useful to Microsoft as the crash logs of Excel or Word. If they aren't paying attention to those, why should they think they could understand anything else?
The basic crashes of first run viruses are probably readable to the employees so that's why they sort of understand what's going on.
Standardized building codes are what create the mortgage market. If I can't sell mortgages to other investors, then there is not mortgage market which makes it a lot harder to sell (and buy) homes.
I'm not saying it's good; I'm only saying it's how things work. I don't like the Second Law of Thermodynamics either.
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Agreed. There are a lot of volunteers. I don't believe anyone on the Mayflower expected to return to England.
Perfect. Now we just need drivers with brains.
Shutting off internet access in Egypt failed miserably. It forced people to leave their computers and take to the streets.
If Algerians cannot get to the fBook or google up their friends, then they'll have to leave their homes, too.
Google ought to have something like this.
Oh wait a minute, they already do.
Not the plus extension either. Google simply makes your spam disappear regardless. Even if spammers have your email, it doesn't matter to your Google InBox.
Nine page NYTimes article on how they handled wikileaks and Assange.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/30/magazine/30Wikileaks-t.html?ref=world
It is true that 'attacking' the ip who infiltrated your network is probably the wrong target but in the article, the suggested counter attack was not an attack, it was an infiltration designed to glean information about who is really behind the attack and what sorts of info they are looking for.
RTFA
Half of science is useless (but we never know which half until many centuries later. Far more than half of most other human endeavors are useless so science/math still is our best option.
The managers are the problem but in the government, even tho Congress tries to blame the bureaucrats, it is the waffling and micromgmt of congress critters that causes the issue.
For example, the Dept of Homeland Security consists of 22 Agencies that report to 88 Congressional Subcommittees. Not sure how many different congress critters have interfered with SSA or directly with the spending on computers but I'll bet that's where the 'management problem' lies.
I read an interesting opinion that teaching was better in the 50s and 60s in America because of the limited job opportunities for women, thus the smartest women went into teaching (in a general statistical sense). As women were accepted into the workplace, the intelligence and energy level of teachers as a whole went down because the best and brightest women were siphoned off into other jobs.
For best teaching results, we ought to make teaching one of the most respected (highest-paid) professions like Finland does.
I agree with hiring employees who are smart enough to embrace change. But I work for a Federal Agency and even after we have moved to IBM's Applixware and then to Microsoft's Word and approved OpenOffice for use as needed, we still have to purchase copies of WordPerfect in order to send and receive documents from Congress.
We can't force them to change. They get to add to our costs.
There is a cost of converting from MS stuff, but the cost of staying with MS is prohibitive, especially when Google is willing to provide the services for $50/user/year.
I think another factor besides the cost of converting (how many of the 'systems' are actually needed?) is that they won't need all the folks in the IT department. And guess who's making the decision about the vendor and talking about the high cost of conversion? It ain't the Program or Agency leaders, it is the IT department leaders.
Info whose value is beyond price is essentially the same problem with health care costs and why demand will always exceed supply. We will pay whatever we can to avoid dying. Neither health care nor NSA secrets respond to normal economic incentives.
Why would any sane person possibly give McDonald's all their personal information in the first place?
For a free burger. All I gotta do is fill out this form and I get a burger on my birthday. Yippeeeeeeeeee.
The Power Law is essentially the inverse of the Bell Curve, another statistical mapping that accurately measures the occurrence of events but doesn't provide any predictive power.
The power law also applies to phase changes of elements.It accurately represents the locations of molecules. The regular old bell curve applies to the locations of molecules when the phase isn't changing. The folks at the Santa Fe Institute think that because Power Laws show up everywhere they are amazing but the SFI folks aren't so amazed at the old bell curve showing up on the perimeter of every place the power law appears.
It is descriptive, not predictive.
The brain isn't a digital computer
Check out On Intelligence. It discusses a theory of how the cortex maps to the body and to the outside physical world using the same processes for action and interpretation.
I think we need to learn how to colonize Space, not planets with atmospheres.
Dig some tunnels on the moon and learn how to live inside them to start.
I tend to agree about the AI.
However, check out Greed Corp. ($9.99 download game PS3). It's a strategy move game you play against beginner, skilled, and expert computer players in off-line mode.
Didn't I read this same article last week?
I don't think you can save money doing it yourself.
How to save money is forgetting about standardization. That's the big push for a big agency/company AND IS COMPLETELY IMPOSSIBLE TO ATTAIN.
You can buy all new pcs on day one, but when you hire new folks on day 200 or on year 3, you cannot get the same pc even though you wrote specs into the contract that raised the price of the original ones.
I think you're better off buying a bunch of ultra-cheap Dells or whatever and then in 8 or 12 months buy however many more ultracheap NotDells for replacements. This actually makes computer support easier because now the lame user doesn't need to tell you he's got a Dell 2310 with 4G Ram, he can say I've got a Dell or a Rembrandt or Inspiron and you'll _know_ what the configuration is. And if they're cheap, toss them when they break and get the next version from Best Buy.
The definition of economics is that it is the way we allocate _scarce_ resources. When water is plentiful and cannot even be polluted because of low populations, water is free. Once it can get polluted, then we as a group start charging for it. During droughts, water is valuable. Whether it becomes more valuable than oil is hard to determine--that will vary from place to place depending on the costs of alternatives to oil or the availability of water.
The critical issue is that while there are alternative energy sources, there is no substitute for drinking water.
I saw a grad project at the Colorado School of Mines that basically ground up circuit boards into sand which ends up having a much higher ore content than what we're pulling out of mines. Ramping it up to industrial proportions will take a little while but if the economics change (and it always does), ramp up occurs sooner.
Consider the cost of governing a nation of 330 million people. Costs expand quickly even tho 'common sense' says it shouldn't.
Mastercard sends me a paper bill with a warning that a paper trail is an identity thief's best friend.That may be a true statement but I suspect most identity theft is done electronically, hence my request for the paper bill..
Those crash logs are about as useful to Microsoft as the crash logs of Excel or Word. If they aren't paying attention to those, why should they think they could understand anything else?
The basic crashes of first run viruses are probably readable to the employees so that's why they sort of understand what's going on.
Standardized building codes are what create the mortgage market. If I can't sell mortgages to other investors, then there is not mortgage market which makes it a lot harder to sell (and buy) homes.
I'm not saying it's good; I'm only saying it's how things work. I don't like the Second Law of Thermodynamics either.