True. They make corporate AV, which jams my work computer into PARK for about 5 minutes once a day while it updates. Preventing me from doing useful work.
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The number of autorun or other viruses that travel around on USB flash drives at work is amazing. Of course Corporate McAfee is willing to sit idly by, but placed in my personal machine running Avira it will suddenly alert.
The intend on it being used for home use only and the EULA says
"Use. You may install and use any number of copies of the software on your devices in your household for use by people who reside there or for use in your home-based small business."
Whether that's enforceable I don't know, but it also lacks central management tools that Forefront has which corporations would look for.
Microsoft's security products have a good track record for detection, low overhead, and it's a relatively "trusted" brand. Free offerings like Avira or Avast! are good, but some people are afraid of them because they've never heard of the company before.
Unfortunately antitrust stuff prevents them from bundling it with the base OS, so we'll continue to see demos bloating up preinstalls, demos which will expire and provide no protection.
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I'd rather work with someone who has a Facebook page full of comments, a selection of interests and some drunk pictures than the antisocial guy with no life.
Who'd be easier to convince to work overtime on evenings and weekends?
If a terminated employee takes copies of "confidential" documents home, his former employer still has those documents. There's no actual loss to the former employer unless they are actually used by a competitor, or otherwise take away the competitive advantage (or if they blackmail the employer or something). Sitting unused on a hard drive at home, they don't cause any actual loss.
A pirated music CD represents a potential loss of $20. The person may or may not have bought the CD otherwise. The difference is a trade secret has a RISK of causing loss potentially much higher (into the millions) IF it's used. Sitting on a DVD at a former employee's home, it doesn't cause any actual loss.
Indeed. The article makes it sound like contact lists were being stolen to steal customers away, trade secrets were being stolen to be sent so a direct competitor, etc.
A lot of times people bounce between companies that aren't even competitors, so one company's information isn't even a competitive advantage.
I wonder how much of it is just for personal interest or pride "Wow that was a good project I worked on", contact list of people in the industry, not to steal away, but for use in future projects under a completely different capacity (perhaps as a client of the client). And how much of it is stuff with no real value. Eg: "We did up reports in a format like this". "This VBA script can generate nice reports". These aren't products that the first company sells, in some cases you're the only one that used them, and they stop being used when you're no longer there, and some of this procedural knowledge is already in your head, you just save on the re-implementation.
Some industries are very fast paced, and any competitive advantage will be gone in a short period of time.
A lot of companies buy the cheapest office supplies they can find. Pens that stop working after half a page, hole punches that only go through three pages. Whiteout tape that doesn't stick. They can keep it!
But the employer still has the original copy of the data. You aren't "taking" it from them, preventing it from being used. The problem comes if you misuse the data you take.
That's why you should do weekly offsite backups. Also, I've found it easier to restore an accidentally deleted file from personal backups than trying to get IT to restore from an "official" backup.
I've heard people write or say "LOL" in place of normal punctuation. Even when something isn't even mildy amusing, or perhaps it's even horrific, it's used in place of periods. "OMG I got beat up @ school today LOL it was awful LOL I cried for hours LOL"
I cannot, however, see any point whatsoever in foursquare.
Do you also avoid consumer reviews of products when you go to buy something?
That seems like a bad idea. It seems equally silly to refuse to look at ratings of something like a restaurant you might want to try for the first time.
Even just the fact a lot of people have checked into a place means it must be decent.
But it's not the first or only venue to post reviews of restaurants.
While I've always thought, and still think Twitter is generally useless, I can see some marginally useful applications of it. I cannot, however, see any point whatsoever in foursquare.
..or you could simply add "127.0.0.1 facebook.com" to your hosts file - one little tweak, works on every OS, on every browser. The cleanest way for all those who just don't care much for it.
(Btw if you're using localhost as a webserver it's probably better to use 0.0.0.0 for all you annoyance blocking needs instead)
There's some user her that rabidly points out that 0.0.0.0 will always outperform 127.0.0.1 even if you don't have a local web server as it's always not routable, and 2 characters shorter to parse.
Not just find a copy, not just install it, but run it.
And try to get more than 5 minutes before "Netscape. This program performed an illegal operation and will be shut down"
IE crashed maybe a tenth as much. And most of the time you could move the illegal operation error to the side and keep going. All browsers are rock solid today in comparison. Of course the fact that that was back in the Win9X days didn't help anything.
is to get American car companies to produce more fuel-efficient cars, either with diesels or a petrol. Whatever works, otherwise, it's all gimmicks.
To get that you need American consumers to prefer fuel-efficient cars over "higher horsepower" or "larger" cars (or trucks). Many of the same cars (from all makes) are sold in multiple markets and have larger engine sizes in the North American market than elsewhere. Of course jacking up fuel-tax has helped encourage buyers to look at fuel efficiency elsewhere, but Americans don't want such socialist actions.
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McAfee does a lot more than consumer AV,
True. They make corporate AV, which jams my work computer into PARK for about 5 minutes once a day while it updates. Preventing me from doing useful work.
The number of autorun or other viruses that travel around on USB flash drives at work is amazing. Of course Corporate McAfee is willing to sit idly by, but placed in my personal machine running Avira it will suddenly alert.
How many cross country railroads does it cost to buy a library of congress?
"Use. You may install and use any number of copies of the software on your devices in your household for use by people who reside there or for use in your home-based small business."
Whether that's enforceable I don't know, but it also lacks central management tools that Forefront has which corporations would look for.
Microsoft's security products have a good track record for detection, low overhead, and it's a relatively "trusted" brand. Free offerings like Avira or Avast! are good, but some people are afraid of them because they've never heard of the company before.
Unfortunately antitrust stuff prevents them from bundling it with the base OS, so we'll continue to see demos bloating up preinstalls, demos which will expire and provide no protection.
Yeah. No unnecessary SVChost.exe http://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/04/21/1735211/McAfee-Kills-SVCHostexe-Sets-Off-Reboot-Loops-For-Win-XP-Win-2000
Given that McAfee "Oopsie" actually shutdown Intel operations for a day, maybe they do want to take it out back, and put it out of its misery?
I'd rather work with someone who has a Facebook page full of comments, a selection of interests and some drunk pictures than the antisocial guy with no life.
Who'd be easier to convince to work overtime on evenings and weekends?
If a terminated employee takes copies of "confidential" documents home, his former employer still has those documents. There's no actual loss to the former employer unless they are actually used by a competitor, or otherwise take away the competitive advantage (or if they blackmail the employer or something). Sitting unused on a hard drive at home, they don't cause any actual loss.
A pirated music CD represents a potential loss of $20. The person may or may not have bought the CD otherwise. The difference is a trade secret has a RISK of causing loss potentially much higher (into the millions) IF it's used. Sitting on a DVD at a former employee's home, it doesn't cause any actual loss.
Indeed. The article makes it sound like contact lists were being stolen to steal customers away, trade secrets were being stolen to be sent so a direct competitor, etc.
A lot of times people bounce between companies that aren't even competitors, so one company's information isn't even a competitive advantage.
I wonder how much of it is just for personal interest or pride "Wow that was a good project I worked on", contact list of people in the industry, not to steal away, but for use in future projects under a completely different capacity (perhaps as a client of the client). And how much of it is stuff with no real value. Eg: "We did up reports in a format like this". "This VBA script can generate nice reports". These aren't products that the first company sells, in some cases you're the only one that used them, and they stop being used when you're no longer there, and some of this procedural knowledge is already in your head, you just save on the re-implementation.
Some industries are very fast paced, and any competitive advantage will be gone in a short period of time.
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Hopefully they don't want to fire you because you "do a good job" and "know everything", not because you're holding the company hostage.
A lot of companies buy the cheapest office supplies they can find. Pens that stop working after half a page, hole punches that only go through three pages. Whiteout tape that doesn't stick. They can keep it!
But the employer still has the original copy of the data. You aren't "taking" it from them, preventing it from being used. The problem comes if you misuse the data you take.
That's why you should do weekly offsite backups. Also, I've found it easier to restore an accidentally deleted file from personal backups than trying to get IT to restore from an "official" backup.
So much for the FUD saying ADHD drugs cause kids to become "zombies". How dare you have happy, focused zombies.
I've heard people write or say "LOL" in place of normal punctuation. Even when something isn't even mildy amusing, or perhaps it's even horrific, it's used in place of periods. "OMG I got beat up @ school today LOL it was awful LOL I cried for hours LOL"
I cannot, however, see any point whatsoever in foursquare.
Do you also avoid consumer reviews of products when you go to buy something?
That seems like a bad idea. It seems equally silly to refuse to look at ratings of something like a restaurant you might want to try for the first time.
Even just the fact a lot of people have checked into a place means it must be decent.
But it's not the first or only venue to post reviews of restaurants.
While I've always thought, and still think Twitter is generally useless, I can see some marginally useful applications of it. I cannot, however, see any point whatsoever in foursquare.
This guy is crazier than I thought. http://www.google.com/search?q=Alexander+Peter+Kowalski
Thank-you for that. Apparently he's been going for at least a decade.
The user (an AC that tags posts APK) seems to talk mostly in the context of Windows. http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1743902&cid=33147274
..or you could simply add "127.0.0.1 facebook.com" to your hosts file - one little tweak, works on every OS, on every browser. The cleanest way for all those who just don't care much for it. (Btw if you're using localhost as a webserver it's probably better to use 0.0.0.0 for all you annoyance blocking needs instead)
There's some user her that rabidly points out that 0.0.0.0 will always outperform 127.0.0.1 even if you don't have a local web server as it's always not routable, and 2 characters shorter to parse.
(Remember the old antivirus popups on websites?)
Old? Those started becoming popular what? 2-3 years ago? And they are STILL popular, and STILL very nasty.
Not just find a copy, not just install it, but run it.
And try to get more than 5 minutes before "Netscape. This program performed an illegal operation and will be shut down"
IE crashed maybe a tenth as much. And most of the time you could move the illegal operation error to the side and keep going. All browsers are rock solid today in comparison. Of course the fact that that was back in the Win9X days didn't help anything.
is to get American car companies to produce more fuel-efficient cars, either with diesels or a petrol. Whatever works, otherwise, it's all gimmicks.
To get that you need American consumers to prefer fuel-efficient cars over "higher horsepower" or "larger" cars (or trucks). Many of the same cars (from all makes) are sold in multiple markets and have larger engine sizes in the North American market than elsewhere. Of course jacking up fuel-tax has helped encourage buyers to look at fuel efficiency elsewhere, but Americans don't want such socialist actions.
Whoa - hold on there cowboy. That's only if you're uploading heavy bits.
It depends on the Endianness
But you won't be protected from people coming up with confusing uses for volume buttons! http://gizmodo.com/5610183/camera%252B-app-hides-hardware-shutter-from-apple