How many times has MS come out with a junk version 1, and managed to push out incumbents by version 3, through product improvement and unholy tie-ins ?
The guy is putting the responsibility for his marriage on his kids. As in "I stay married because I have kids". Not "because I love my wife", not "because I made a commitment", but "because I have kids".
Notwithstanding the question of whether, if the marriage turns sour, it's better for the kids if the parents go find happiness somewhere else, putting the whole onus of justifying one's marriage with "it's better for the kids" is one hell of an external locus of control.
Regarding physical safety, you *must* do something right now. I've had clients go bankrupt after a fire, not because they lost their facilities, but because they lost their files.
Regarding confidentiality, strong encryption does work, at least as a delaying tactics so you have time to.. lawyer up... Both for tapes, online backups, removable HDs... If you go for online backups, don't trust the supplier's encryption, and contract several (several companies, hosted at different sites) so that if one goes down, you still have the other (s). And keep doing tapes. I'd to the monthly (full)+weekly (full)+daily (incremental) backup dance, with at least the monthlies stored long term, in 2 different safe locations.
Regarding paralegals: you can lock down machines so employees can't install stuff on them. You can also re-image them daily as an extra precaution. And disable USB ports both in hardware and at the OS level. For a legal firm, with the confidentiality constraints you have and the risk of a paralegal ending up at a competitor's/litigant's/law enforcement/... those don't sound over the top.
That's why you get *at least 2* offline backup contracts, from unrelated companies with facilities in different locations. And strongly encrypt everything ^^
I have no clue why everyone is rushing to have you put scripts on a smartphone, which can be lost, stolen, run out of battery...
You do your scripting on a PC at work, and only receive reports on, or do *emergency* remoting from, your phone. At most you tweak your phone so that if it receives an email/text with keyword "ALERT" from sender my.scripts.at.work, it does something noisy.
Any phone can do that, it's a matter of finding the right size/features balance. I'd go for a big screen, and maybe a hardware keyboard if you think you'll be doing a lot of remote editing, though the best phone keyboard is a lot worse than any laptop's, so don't plan on using it too much.
If you just want networked storage, anything will do. Don't forget backups (several of those, some offline, some in a safe place), access control, intrusion detection... Probably get RAID too (RAID is *NOT* a backup) for higher availability and uptime.
You mention stuff your server doesn't do. Does it mean you'd like to do it ? Are you doing it another way ?
If you work in a law office (you said you're a lawyer, not that you're in a law office ?) are there specific legal requirements regarding auditing, security, confidentiality... ?
Are you OK with people making backups of files and leaving with them when they are fired or resign ?...
You do realize that once all guns are illegal, getting a gun, keeping it, supplying it... are way harder even for criminals ? Tht on the other hand spotting illegal guns is much easier ?
And that the transition period with only "good people" getting rid of their gun will at least lower accidents ?
I know, cars, bathtubs, yada yada.. except we can't leave without those.
Either arming everyone is good, and everyone should have access to any weapon, or giving weapons to almost everyone is bad, and nobody should have them. Artificial differences between automatic, number of rounds... just serve to emphasize that even guns advocates don't believe their own discourse.
That's why banning all guns is important: you make it much harder even for criminals to get them, because you get rid off all the loopholes and checks about whether such and such gun in such and such place carried by such and such is legal or not. Gun = illegal, that's it.
All those guns floating around in the US didn't help these poor people much, did they ?
Also, this is comparing Apples to Oranges. France's guns are almost exclusively 2-shot shotguns for hunting, owning and carrying any other weapon os mostly illegal, and even shotguns are heavily regulated.
0- you need to back up your claim. 1- knives have other uses than killing things. Guns don't 2- knives kill a lot less than guns 3- knives kill a lot less per spree than guns
Guns act as substitute penises and emblems of one's might or whatever. The point is, if he wanted to kill people, he could have killed a lot more, for cheaper, quicker, probably w/o getting caught. But like all the gun psychos out there, including the ones that just need to hold one, not use it: he didn't want to kill people, he wanted to GUN THEM DOWN.
Well, it's a device sold for a purpose. As long as its satisfies that purpose, it's all good. Console are the epitome of hardware that's not frequently updated, because the goal is to play games, and good games don't need bleeding-edge hardware.
If the console can play good games when you buy it, it will still play good games 4yrs later. No need to obsess about specs.
I'm unconvinced. Who's supposed to look for new evidence ? the guy from his prison cell, or the army of lawyers working for him for free ? Or the police/prosecution trying to undermine their own work ?
Also, you often don't have due process, with the justice system banging on you then offering a deal.No due process here. Or you can get a free lawyer, he'll certainly do well against a full team from the DA, especially because there are never any connections between DA office and judges
Remember the cases of those kids that were sent to juvie by a judge who was taking kickbacks from the juvie's operator ? Of all those death sentences in TX that turned out to be wrong, and TX still has the gall to deny re-examining DNA evidence sometimes ?
in any field: the early adopter are intelligent, motivated people who know what they're doing and understand how the new method is supposed to work. Later adopters are mediocre hacks who don't perform well to start with, and are probably looking for a way to obfuscate their lack of skill and motivation, or, at best, don't get how the new method is supposed to work.
Just as the way you dress, the way you write conveys info about your education and upbringing.It cuts both ways though: I'm very distracted by grammar/spelling mistakes, to the point of paying significantly less attention to the message. But I'm sure others liken that to being "precious" and tune me out for being a pompous ass. In WoW, I had a few tell me they actually don't understand what I'm saying.
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How many times has MS come out with a junk version 1, and managed to push out incumbents by version 3, through product improvement and unholy tie-ins ?
Oh yes. Every time.
Learn to read: "Notwithstanding the question of whether, if the marriage turns sour, it's better for the kids "
Or stop willfully misquoting.
The guy is putting the responsibility for his marriage on his kids. As in "I stay married because I have kids". Not "because I love my wife", not "because I made a commitment", but "because I have kids".
Notwithstanding the question of whether, if the marriage turns sour, it's better for the kids if the parents go find happiness somewhere else, putting the whole onus of justifying one's marriage with "it's better for the kids" is one hell of an external locus of control.
"I do take my wedding vows seriously as they are the foundation of my children's whole world and existence".
This sounds all kinds of weird.
Steam is an appstore, Windows 8 too.
Yep, it's a catastrophe. For Steam.
Regarding physical safety, you *must* do something right now. I've had clients go bankrupt after a fire, not because they lost their facilities, but because they lost their files.
Regarding confidentiality, strong encryption does work, at least as a delaying tactics so you have time to.. lawyer up... Both for tapes, online backups, removable HDs... If you go for online backups, don't trust the supplier's encryption, and contract several (several companies, hosted at different sites) so that if one goes down, you still have the other (s). And keep doing tapes. I'd to the monthly (full)+weekly (full)+daily (incremental) backup dance, with at least the monthlies stored long term, in 2 different safe locations.
Regarding paralegals: you can lock down machines so employees can't install stuff on them. You can also re-image them daily as an extra precaution. And disable USB ports both in hardware and at the OS level. For a legal firm, with the confidentiality constraints you have and the risk of a paralegal ending up at a competitor's/litigant's/law enforcement/... those don't sound over the top.
That's why you get *at least 2* offline backup contracts, from unrelated companies with facilities in different locations. And strongly encrypt everything ^^
I have no clue why everyone is rushing to have you put scripts on a smartphone, which can be lost, stolen, run out of battery...
You do your scripting on a PC at work, and only receive reports on, or do *emergency* remoting from, your phone. At most you tweak your phone so that if it receives an email/text with keyword "ALERT" from sender my.scripts.at.work, it does something noisy.
Any phone can do that, it's a matter of finding the right size/features balance. I'd go for a big screen, and maybe a hardware keyboard if you think you'll be doing a lot of remote editing, though the best phone keyboard is a lot worse than any laptop's, so don't plan on using it too much.
If you just want networked storage, anything will do. Don't forget backups (several of those, some offline, some in a safe place), access control, intrusion detection... Probably get RAID too (RAID is *NOT* a backup) for higher availability and uptime.
You mention stuff your server doesn't do. Does it mean you'd like to do it ? Are you doing it another way ?
If you work in a law office (you said you're a lawyer, not that you're in a law office ?) are there specific legal requirements regarding auditing, security, confidentiality ... ?
Are you OK with people making backups of files and leaving with them when they are fired or resign ? ...
You do realize that once all guns are illegal, getting a gun, keeping it, supplying it... are way harder even for criminals ? Tht on the other hand spotting illegal guns is much easier ?
And that the transition period with only "good people" getting rid of their gun will at least lower accidents ?
I know, cars, bathtubs, yada yada.. except we can't leave without those.
Good thing nobody said that then.
What I actually said was: the more guns, the more guns accidents and crimes. The more guns, the more loopholes for guns to get into the wrong hands.
Time to get rid of guns. It will take a while.
Nope, because I can't walk the street knowing the guy next to me had a bad day and has a gun.
Yep, gun cleaning is the major reason why guns should be allowed everywhere.
So they can leave their guns at the range, then.
Either arming everyone is good, and everyone should have access to any weapon, or giving weapons to almost everyone is bad, and nobody should have them. Artificial differences between automatic, number of rounds... just serve to emphasize that even guns advocates don't believe their own discourse.
When I carry a gun, I don't have to deal with you by reason. I can just shoot your face off, sucker.
That's why banning all guns is important: you make it much harder even for criminals to get them, because you get rid off all the loopholes and checks about whether such and such gun in such and such place carried by such and such is legal or not. Gun = illegal, that's it.
All those guns floating around in the US didn't help these poor people much, did they ?
You forget that cars' sole purpose is not to kill. Guns' is.
Also, this is comparing Apples to Oranges. France's guns are almost exclusively 2-shot shotguns for hunting, owning and carrying any other weapon os mostly illegal, and even shotguns are heavily regulated.
And still involved in too many "incidents"
0- you need to back up your claim.
1- knives have other uses than killing things. Guns don't
2- knives kill a lot less than guns
3- knives kill a lot less per spree than guns
The point is, he didn't.
Guns act as substitute penises and emblems of one's might or whatever. The point is, if he wanted to kill people, he could have killed a lot more, for cheaper, quicker, probably w/o getting caught. But like all the gun psychos out there, including the ones that just need to hold one, not use it: he didn't want to kill people, he wanted to GUN THEM DOWN.
Guns incite specific kind of loonery.
No, the guy was not a foreigner. This one doesn't count.
Well, it's a device sold for a purpose. As long as its satisfies that purpose, it's all good. Console are the epitome of hardware that's not frequently updated, because the goal is to play games, and good games don't need bleeding-edge hardware.
If the console can play good games when you buy it, it will still play good games 4yrs later. No need to obsess about specs.
I'm unconvinced. Who's supposed to look for new evidence ? the guy from his prison cell, or the army of lawyers working for him for free ? Or the police/prosecution trying to undermine their own work ?
Also, you often don't have due process, with the justice system banging on you then offering a deal.No due process here.
Or you can get a free lawyer, he'll certainly do well against a full team from the DA, especially because there are never any connections between DA office and judges
Remember the cases of those kids that were sent to juvie by a judge who was taking kickbacks from the juvie's operator ? Of all those death sentences in TX that turned out to be wrong, and TX still has the gall to deny re-examining DNA evidence sometimes ?
in any field: the early adopter are intelligent, motivated people who know what they're doing and understand how the new method is supposed to work. Later adopters are mediocre hacks who don't perform well to start with, and are probably looking for a way to obfuscate their lack of skill and motivation, or, at best, don't get how the new method is supposed to work.
Just as the way you dress, the way you write conveys info about your education and upbringing.It cuts both ways though: I'm very distracted by grammar/spelling mistakes, to the point of paying significantly less attention to the message. But I'm sure others liken that to being "precious" and tune me out for being a pompous ass. In WoW, I had a few tell me they actually don't understand what I'm saying.