Bing finds LESS malware than Google because it offers up 5 times MORE malware to users than an equivalent Google search. The title may lead one to believe that Microsoft is BETTER at finding malware, but in fact, they suck MORE at it...
If you read the article, the mpm (Malware per Million) is quite low in any case, but because there are billions of searches a day, that makes the odds much more likely to occur than, say winning the Lottery...
Taking a position like this on public voting is as much an admission that there will be voter fraud in this election as anything I've heard at this point.
It is unfortunate, because I live in Texas and hate what this represents about the state (and the image it projects to the rest of the world about America).
If someone is lazy enough not to learn how to correctly form a proper sentence, they are likely lazy enough to do a crappy job at their other responsibilities. As a hiring manager for a global company, I check grammar in resumes and applications as well as speech during interviews. I don't want to have an employee unable to properly communicate with other regional offices or any publicly-facing entity as a representative of the company.
Grammar seems to have become a lost art to an entire generation. Good luck to them, but I'm not hiring any of them.
HR policy may vary from company to company and from personal experience, HR departments tend not to always understand "current times" -- instead adopting more traditional conservative methods and practices.
I recently hired an network engineer with no formal college degree, but because of the level I was bringing him into the organization, HR flatly disagreed with the candidate choice because of the lack of college degree. There's a certain amount of merit to some of this perspective -- the social growth and confidence attending college brings, but in terms of strict qualifications, the position I was hiring for did not require a degree -- just equivalent experience. We had to do a bit of battle with HR to justify the hiring of someone without the degree (but plenty of equivalent experience).
I guess my point is that your mileage may vary -- if you intend to grow within your current organization, work with HR and your manager to understand the policies (they may even pay for some of the cost!). It will help you move your career forward making informed decisions about partaking in the additional education and training you want to pursue.
I suspect the trend in the future might be to see much more of the online certifications in the job market and over time, HR departments in more traditional enterprise verticals may warm up to it...
In preliminary testing, we've been able to get some Android devices connected using Juniper VPN. It does appear there are some variations depending on device and version of Android that is running, but in most cases things do appear to work well. The only issue some of the power users have is that the Pulse client needs to have fairly significant access to the device to install correctly...
My question: Do you feel the security concerns over collected information will trump the leveraging of information in future Internet technologies? Will there be a separate "opt-in" or "opt-out" web to cater to each preference?
Context: There have been many controversies recently regarding the collection of data and the privacy of individual information. As we move forward, I've heard a mixed set of messages regarding the direction we should expect to see.
Consumerism is indeed driving innovation and everything is going mobile these days (there's an app for that I think). One example I heard recently of the benefit of the convergence of information and mobility: a consumer can point their mobile phone at a shelf of groceries, get an active "overlay" of information regarding the products and determine which best suits the customer needs. On the flip side, sensors that track customer behavior are installed at the grocery shelf and based on detected behavior (like stopping for a moment to reminisce about Coco-Puffs even though you know they are bad for you) initiates a coupon for whatever the vendor may feel would provide enough motivation to purchase their product -- in the example a $1 off coupon to the mobile phone of a shopper.
Will this become reality in the future? I think there are benefits to be had, but also am fiercely protective of my personal information and preferences.
Describe the details in a post to http://www.reddit.com/r/programming
There's quite a concentrated community in some of the sub-reddits -- you are bound to find a kindred spirit with a passion for the application that may not realize it is at risk. The community is very interactive and may be helpful in finding a home for the ailing project...
for a 20 person shop, a single or dual (redundant) virtualized system can certainly host any app your business needs, including e-mail, fileserver, databases, applications, web, whatever... You can buy a couple of nice servers with lots of memory, a nice Drobo box or similar NAS for storage and a couple basic licenses for VMWare vSphere (or even go with a free alternative). That would give you enough horsepower to run a business on and scale to meet any modest growth...
Buy a third box and setup a test/dev environment too. You can test patches and updates and roll out new technology without impacting production. You can get your hands dirty with the technology in the test environment and learn a few things while your at it..
I have a QNAP T-209 Pro II -- its just a NAS device (I have 2x 1T drives in it). It does a bunch of things I needed, and a bunch more that I didn't. I love it -- it replaced 2 servers in my closet.
The new 110 draws 36W and allows you to throw in a single drive (200-series houses 2 drives, etc):
Your buttons may not be working because of your X11 configuration for your pointer device. Try looking up the ZaxisMapping parameter and adding "4 5 6 7" to see if your non-functioning buttons can be mapped and used.
I'm not sure I can explain the non-Bluetooth Bluetooth though...
Okay, the REAL reason why Microsoft has posted such gains is that it is no longer supporting the NT4 operating system. Enterprises that want to have continued support have been forced to purchase Windows 2003 Server upgrades to maintain support.
Microsoft touts this as "high demand" for their server platform, when in reality, its a strong-arm move to keep their customers locked in to their platform, support and licensing model.
Most enterprises likely had little choice but to upgrade. It was the easier choice in my company, despite my loathing of the Microsoft business model (NOTE: I said *easier* choice, not the *right* choice). It would be far more difficult to migrate to a non-Microsoft platform when there are well known dependencies on MS technology.
Unfortunatly, the closest thing related to an IT architecture strategy around my company looks remarkably like the Microsoft technology roadmap.
Not only is it designed to be a great browser, it has extensive plug-in support so you can make browsing what you want it to be, not what some Redmond-based empire tells you it should be...;) ------
This probably won't happen because there are other laws { Graham-Leach-Bliley (GLB), etc.} that require the organization to take reasonable measures to comply. That means that if you play dumb and cut your security budget, you'll likely lose a legal battle if your organization gets sued for disseminating CA resident non-public information. Regulated industries like Financials or Healthcare (read HIPAA) also have yearly audit requirements that could go badly if basic steps requirements are not met.
You can also bet that this isn't going to be the last bit of privacy legislation to hit. The potential for bad publicity and executive-level penaties (like jailtime for Mr. CEO, et.al -- Sarbane-Oxley Act of 2002) alone should keep the money in the security department flowing.
For less than $60/mo (in my case), I have 640 DSL, a P90 Linux firewall, and a webserver in my DMZ. I get 8 (5) static IP addresses, priority packets, several e-mail addresses, no metering or content filtering. My ISP is purely Linux based and promotes this type of independence because its less for them to manage when I can manage it myself.
I find it discouraging to see that one can't even invent something, drive outside the lines, shoot their neighbor's dog, etc. without the legal system getting involved! (I was kidding about that last one...) The world is digressing into legal mayhem where lawyers are pitting one against the other and coming out ahead regardless of the outcome. People seem to be more self centered and gullible than I thought -- I should have been a lawyer so I can take advantage of stupid people...
I do have to comment that this bill is an effort by the private sector to loosen the government's restriction on the export of encryption technology. Previously, the government classified any encryption technology as a munition and therefore subject to the rules governing military communications. Recently, the government has relaxed its export restrictions to allow the equivalent of 64-bit encryption to be exported without the permission of the Department of Commerce. Businesses can still file for stronger encryption export, but getting approval heavily depended upon the industry that was applying (and in any case, getting approval was like pulling teeth)... The private sector and now bipartisan support voicing to the government that a separation between business commerce and a military munition seems to finally be getting through. Certain government agencies critical to National Security (NSA, CIA, FBI, other law enforcement agencies) are obviously going to have problems with this -- it is their objectives to maintain the means to obtain any and all information. These agencies need to be forced to follow a legal procedure to obtain evidence like those of us in the private sector having to do the same type of investigations. I think it is about time!!! The general public stands to benefit the most from this. Data integrity and confidentiality will have the capability to expand across international boundaries using stronger encryption mechanisms. After all, the internet knows no boundaries, so it stands to reason that the information contained within one country on the internet is basically fair game to anyone in the world. This bill will not solve all of our problems. It is a step up to the realization that the internet and its content cannot be restricted and that when the need for secure communications via public networks is vital, beauracracy and red tape cannot stop it.
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I think GIMP adoption is set to rise significantly after this...
http://www.gimp.org
Bing finds LESS malware than Google because it offers up 5 times MORE malware to users than an equivalent Google search. The title may lead one to believe that Microsoft is BETTER at finding malware, but in fact, they suck MORE at it...
If you read the article, the mpm (Malware per Million) is quite low in any case, but because there are billions of searches a day, that makes the odds much more likely to occur than, say winning the Lottery...
Taking a position like this on public voting is as much an admission that there will be voter fraud in this election as anything I've heard at this point.
It is unfortunate, because I live in Texas and hate what this represents about the state (and the image it projects to the rest of the world about America).
If someone is lazy enough not to learn how to correctly form a proper sentence, they are likely lazy enough to do a crappy job at their other responsibilities. As a hiring manager for a global company, I check grammar in resumes and applications as well as speech during interviews. I don't want to have an employee unable to properly communicate with other regional offices or any publicly-facing entity as a representative of the company.
Grammar seems to have become a lost art to an entire generation. Good luck to them, but I'm not hiring any of them.
HR policy may vary from company to company and from personal experience, HR departments tend not to always understand "current times" -- instead adopting more traditional conservative methods and practices.
I recently hired an network engineer with no formal college degree, but because of the level I was bringing him into the organization, HR flatly disagreed with the candidate choice because of the lack of college degree. There's a certain amount of merit to some of this perspective -- the social growth and confidence attending college brings, but in terms of strict qualifications, the position I was hiring for did not require a degree -- just equivalent experience. We had to do a bit of battle with HR to justify the hiring of someone without the degree (but plenty of equivalent experience).
I guess my point is that your mileage may vary -- if you intend to grow within your current organization, work with HR and your manager to understand the policies (they may even pay for some of the cost!). It will help you move your career forward making informed decisions about partaking in the additional education and training you want to pursue.
I suspect the trend in the future might be to see much more of the online certifications in the job market and over time, HR departments in more traditional enterprise verticals may warm up to it...
In preliminary testing, we've been able to get some Android devices connected using Juniper VPN. It does appear there are some variations depending on device and version of Android that is running, but in most cases things do appear to work well. The only issue some of the power users have is that the Pulse client needs to have fairly significant access to the device to install correctly...
My question: Do you feel the security concerns over collected information will trump the leveraging of information in future Internet technologies? Will there be a separate "opt-in" or "opt-out" web to cater to each preference?
Context: There have been many controversies recently regarding the collection of data and the privacy of individual information. As we move forward, I've heard a mixed set of messages regarding the direction we should expect to see.
Consumerism is indeed driving innovation and everything is going mobile these days (there's an app for that I think). One example I heard recently of the benefit of the convergence of information and mobility: a consumer can point their mobile phone at a shelf of groceries, get an active "overlay" of information regarding the products and determine which best suits the customer needs. On the flip side, sensors that track customer behavior are installed at the grocery shelf and based on detected behavior (like stopping for a moment to reminisce about Coco-Puffs even though you know they are bad for you) initiates a coupon for whatever the vendor may feel would provide enough motivation to purchase their product -- in the example a $1 off coupon to the mobile phone of a shopper.
Will this become reality in the future? I think there are benefits to be had, but also am fiercely protective of my personal information and preferences.
Describe the details in a post to http://www.reddit.com/r/programming
There's quite a concentrated community in some of the sub-reddits -- you are bound to find a kindred spirit with a passion for the application that may not realize it is at risk. The community is very interactive and may be helpful in finding a home for the ailing project...
Demonoid.com moved themselves over to Demonoid.me precisely for this purpose...
for a 20 person shop, a single or dual (redundant) virtualized system can certainly host any app your business needs, including e-mail, fileserver, databases, applications, web, whatever... You can buy a couple of nice servers with lots of memory, a nice Drobo box or similar NAS for storage and a couple basic licenses for VMWare vSphere (or even go with a free alternative). That would give you enough horsepower to run a business on and scale to meet any modest growth...
Buy a third box and setup a test/dev environment too. You can test patches and updates and roll out new technology without impacting production. You can get your hands dirty with the technology in the test environment and learn a few things while your at it..
I have a QNAP T-209 Pro II -- its just a NAS device (I have 2x 1T drives in it). It does a bunch of things I needed, and a bunch more that I didn't. I love it -- it replaced 2 servers in my closet.
The new 110 draws 36W and allows you to throw in a single drive (200-series houses 2 drives, etc):
http://www.qnap.com/pro_detail_feature.asp?p_id=136
With the standard free QPKG add-ons it can do everything you listed and more...
Your buttons may not be working because of your X11 configuration for your pointer device. Try looking up the ZaxisMapping parameter and adding "4 5 6 7" to see if your non-functioning buttons can be mapped and used.
I'm not sure I can explain the non-Bluetooth Bluetooth though...
Okay, the REAL reason why Microsoft has posted such gains is that it is no longer supporting the NT4 operating system. Enterprises that want to have continued support have been forced to purchase Windows 2003 Server upgrades to maintain support.
Microsoft touts this as "high demand" for their server platform, when in reality, its a strong-arm move to keep their customers locked in to their platform, support and licensing model.
Most enterprises likely had little choice but to upgrade. It was the easier choice in my company, despite my loathing of the Microsoft business model (NOTE: I said *easier* choice, not the *right* choice). It would be far more difficult to migrate to a non-Microsoft platform when there are well known dependencies on MS technology.
Unfortunatly, the closest thing related to an IT architecture strategy around my company looks remarkably like the Microsoft technology roadmap.
I need a new job...
Not only is it designed to be a great browser, it has extensive plug-in support so you can make browsing what you want it to be, not what some Redmond-based empire tells you it should be... ;)
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Yep -- its done through the RPC/DCOM services that M$ claims is a "secure communication transport" for Windows.
Nice. And ironic.
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This probably won't happen because there are other laws { Graham-Leach-Bliley (GLB), etc.} that require the organization to take reasonable measures to comply. That means that if you play dumb and cut your security budget, you'll likely lose a legal battle if your organization gets sued for disseminating CA resident non-public information. Regulated industries like Financials or Healthcare (read HIPAA) also have yearly audit requirements that could go badly if basic steps requirements are not met.
You can also bet that this isn't going to be the last bit of privacy legislation to hit. The potential for bad publicity and executive-level penaties (like jailtime for Mr. CEO, et.al -- Sarbane-Oxley Act of 2002) alone should keep the money in the security department flowing.
For less than $60/mo (in my case), I have 640 DSL, a P90 Linux firewall, and a webserver in my DMZ. I get 8 (5) static IP addresses, priority packets, several e-mail addresses, no metering or content filtering. My ISP is purely Linux based and promotes this type of independence because its less for them to manage when I can manage it myself.
-H
I find it discouraging to see that one can't even invent something, drive outside the lines, shoot their neighbor's dog, etc. without the legal system getting involved! (I was kidding about that last one...) The world is digressing into legal mayhem where lawyers are pitting one against the other and coming out ahead regardless of the outcome. People seem to be more self centered and gullible than I thought -- I should have been a lawyer so I can take advantage of stupid people...
I do have to comment that this bill is an effort by the private sector to loosen the government's restriction on the export of encryption technology. Previously, the government classified any encryption technology as a munition and therefore subject to the rules governing military communications. Recently, the government has relaxed its export restrictions to allow the equivalent of 64-bit encryption to be exported without the permission of the Department of Commerce. Businesses can still file for stronger encryption export, but getting approval heavily depended upon the industry that was applying (and in any case, getting approval was like pulling teeth)...
The private sector and now bipartisan support voicing to the government that a separation between business commerce and a military munition seems to finally be getting through.
Certain government agencies critical to National Security (NSA, CIA, FBI, other law enforcement agencies) are obviously going to have problems with this -- it is their objectives to maintain the means to obtain any and all information. These agencies need to be forced to follow a legal procedure to obtain evidence like those of us in the private sector having to do the same type of investigations. I think it is about time!!!
The general public stands to benefit the most from this. Data integrity and confidentiality will have the capability to expand across international boundaries using stronger encryption mechanisms. After all, the internet knows no boundaries, so it stands to reason that the information contained within one country on the internet is basically fair game to anyone in the world.
This bill will not solve all of our problems. It is a step up to the realization that the internet and its content cannot be restricted and that when the need for secure communications via public networks is vital, beauracracy and red tape cannot stop it.
Just my $0.02...
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