For Retailers and Credit card providers both, it appears their ability to understand the validity of robust security testing and practices revolves around cost. Not having to pay any perceived penalty due to a data breach means these corporate types can assign a relatively low risk to data breaches. Low risk usually means low test efforts as well. And this is what we as consumers appear to be satisfied with. I'm more of the opinion that if you have a data breach, it should cost you as a company X dollars per person affected...and start X somewhere above 5 figures. Each person would get that payout. How serious then would corporations take data security?
No one device is the future of education. In today's classroom, with the various programs the Feds have put in place (No Child left Behind, etc.) what a device like this will do is make it so very easy to define each student on how well/poorly they do in "learning" mandated curriculum by how well they do on "standardized" testing. One size does NOT fit all when it comes to being able to learn, and, as importantly, being able to apply that learned knowledge in a productive manner. Simply being able to regurgitate what you have been taught doesn't give a student the skill-set and tools needed needed to make it in the world we live in today. Take a look at the current problems with College "educated" folks who have graduated and are upset because their perfect 4.0 GPA doesn't translate to a well-paying tech job. A 4.0 GPA means you've learned how to excel in the environment known as college. That ain't what the real world is all about.
When you went on your little tirade back around 1984 regarding Jerry Pournelle & David Drake's writings and comparing them to Pornography, (I believe you used the term war-porn) we as a country were but 9 years past the Vietnam Debacle. Your intense dislike...one might use the word Hatred of these two authors in particular and anything having to do with the Military in general was something I never understood. Flash-forward to 2013...With over 2.5 Million Americans having been deployed to Afghanistan and/or Iraq (over 400,000 deployed three or more times and 37,000 of those deploying 5 times or more), are you still of the belief that Science Fiction stories written by veterans depicting combat are nothing more than "war porn?" For someone who has never served in the military, why do you believe you are an expert on what constitutes "war Porn" vs Military Science Fiction?
not...somuch. The Marines in particular, and others (Army comes to mind) recently have used various games and other "Newsworthy" events as stealth recruiting. Makes a lot of sense, especially given how much access the feds have already taken for granted in us...the civilians, they already have. Look beyond the knee-jerk reactions.
The US military will provide a baseline. Successful "affiliations" (Read: Gangs) Will adapt and overcome. Anywhere from 1 to several to many will develop a "base instinct" and a portion of those will wind up serving our country, in one of the several branches, whether or not they are colored as "Military" because its the Army, Navy, Marines, Air Force, or other Nun-such.
This isn't stating that the Military and the supporting organizations are "good" or "Bad", it's recognizing that this is a viable recruiting method, and it will have results that are looked upon as positive. Folks with talent get recruited.
If you are going to be successful for the long-term, you look for talent, and adapt that talent any way you can. Ironic isn't it, that Google walks away from one thing. http://mashable.com/2013/06/20/google-stopped-asking-brainteasers/ Makes you wonder what they moved on to?
More to the point...what is the criticality in your life that Montana has been over-run. As In: Montana has been over-run by a Zombie Apocalypse. This affects your life exactly...HOW?
Well, Typically a Hurricane leaves a larger footprint than a Tornado, in that a larger area is affected, and also the duration of a Hurricane is much longer than that of a Tornado. Yes, an F5 tornado is much more powerful and destructive than a Cat 5 Hurricane, but given how much longer a hurricane will be over a given area, it's likely that damage will be roughly equal. Bad news either way you slice it.
If you look at it with a jaundiced eye, what happens when you are outsourcing stuff...the contractor/company that you've our-sourced the work to has folks working there...what happens to their contacts? I think the pendulum will swing in extremes to both sides before we see a satisfactory middle ground.
After RTFA, it appears as if the bloke in question set up his linkdin several weeks prior to him leaving. Of a more interesting nature, in my mind, is, at what point does an employer here in the States 'own' your contacts? Think about it. You've been on a site like the one mentioned in the article for lets say 5 years. You accept a position at a new company. Over the course of your 2 years being employed there, you add lets say 5 contacts. You then accept another position at another company, perhaps because you received a better job offer through this service. Can the comapny you are now leaving sue you in the US and obtain all of your contacts, even those prior to when you joined? Another question is, are you now in the position of having to list out any and all personal and professional contacts you have on various internet sites as a part of your disclosure when filling out your paperwork for a new company? Sort of like having to list patents, websites and other works you might already have prior to working somehwere? Time will tell I guess. this case seems pretty straightforward based on the limited article...but it sure will muddy up quick.
Oh, now that would just be *wrong* on so many levels. Lets see, there is the Wii and now the eee...lets hope it doesn't turn out to be a shiii(t)eeee stick.
Wow, if this is a COBOL system, you mean no one took the time and energy to document the system and all of its glorious parameters during the ramp-up to Y2K? I'm shocked...SHOCKED to hear that a bureaucracy would waste such a golden opportunity as the Y2K scare to look long-term and decide that hey, as long as we're in the process of vetting code, why don't we document it as well? And yes, there are already those out there jumping up and down pointing out that fixing a year from a two digit to a four digit format is way different than figuring out how to reprogram an ancient computer language. Gotta love the State Government, home to Silicon Valley, too myopic to even consider upgrading something as non-essential as a payroll system. This is hilarious! Oh, not for the folks stuck with having to deal with the fall-out, to the rest of the country, OMFG is this funny!
Yeah...question for you there scooter...how many music and especially video thieves are using their FRIGGING CELL PHONES for P2P File-sharing?
I could also ask why, when AT&T first developed and rolled the network out they didn't stop to think AHEAD of time on how to keep scads of music and video thieves off of their precious networks PRIOR to launching this. Hmmm...myopic strategic vision?
I've been in IT for 27 years, having started out by learning Keypunching via the Military. Branched out to PC's in 1982, taught myself whatever was needed to perform the various jobs I've held over the years. Now I find myself working as a Software QA lead...and interviewing folks who are out of college who have no idea how to configure an XP system to set up two different printers on a network. And these fools have Bachelor Degrees? So, having a degree is worth what? It doesn't appear its worth the paper its printed on. These same folks outsourcing their coursework are the next generation of Enron II...no ethics, no sense of pride in a job well done as they havn't even done it. Nice to see the Secondary skills I've maintained in the Construction and Plumbing trades will still be needed...these fools will probably be the ones trying to cut a sheet of plywood using their leg as a saw-horse...assuming they can figure out how to USE the saw. At least the good news is they'll have a good rapport with the Tech support folks, having dealt with so many of them during college.
As quoted in the article "then be used by the Beijing municipal government's data storage and emergency-response command." Really!? Like...that conjures up all kinds of thoughts in a paranoid mind. That is quite a lot of computing power for a major city to use by itself. (wink wink). Imagine all of the data connections that were once used for sporting news now being utilized for...GTA? Well, Buick and Cadillac sell some serious iron in China as well.
A follow-on story after the games would be quite interesting to read.
It's interesting to see folks "going after" off-shore products and the "level" of quality. Quality isn't just a part of the software, it is an overall approach to any project. I find it a cop-out when folks blithly trash off-shore products with snippets like the one above. As one who has extensive experience in IT and in the Construction business, the parallels are many. Without a solid foundation in either field, anything else you build on top of it will be crap, REGARDLESS of whether its "off-shore" "on-shore" or anything in between.
Go out to http://www.baen.com./ They have the Baen Free Library project, links to many Authors web-sites, a very good online "baens Bar" where you can interact with authors, and the right approach (IMO) on how to deal with free content.
Do some leg-work! As others have pointed out, go visit a local book-store, and not just one of the chains. Find a used book-store, or two.
There are several companies working on UAV's. Some of the more interesting are the "ultra-light UAV's, ones that can fit in the palm of ones hand. The Marines were very interested in a concept of one that weighed about a pound, could carry a color camera, range of about 200-300 yards, and entire system was man-portable. When your in the middle of Urban combat, having something able to look around the corner, or over the roof into the next block is WAY more useful than something flying 9 times the speed of sound. Its the sniper in the building across the street that will whack you unless you supress/whack him first. Tactical Intel that is real-time is the most precious intel there is for the folks in the line of fire. Something the Air Force still can't grasp. Right behind tactical intel is fire support. When the air Force made noises about "retiring" the A-10, the Marines were all over wanting to take them over. Interesting that most of the news seems to be about the technology. There's a little company that has been thumbing its nose at the "procurement" process of the pentagon, and building what troops can actually use now. General Atomics. http://www.uav.com/home/index.html
As long as I can stop and have a quick Horizon Pop before I take the reentry plunge....SIGN ME UP! That should be the next big goal. Open the first Bar in space. Perhaps one could get a bit of Duty free shopping done. Hmmm...and about income tax...well, seeing as you are literally out of this rold...tax? What tax?
Rob, do you see in the near or even far future, the many different flavors of Unix (Sun Solaris, IBM AIX, etc) morphing back together? Second part of the question, do you think that the different flaovrs "should" morph back together, or continue to grow apart?
The article referenced does a fair job of displaying the info used. References are linked to, explanations are provided (I.e. the difference between "all sites polled" and "inactive vs active" sites when talking about market share). All in all, an article that raises many good points. Useful, from my perspective.
Interesting point that it cannot spread on its own. It appears to be following similar paths to viruses for other OS...start simple, move up in complexity and sneakiness. Greaaaaaat.
Assuming that some sort of treaty is arranged and signed by folks regarding property rights, how and where would these get litigated? Right now there are 100's of court jurisdictions, and one could pick and choose. Would this carry over? Oh my, what a mess that would make.
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For Retailers and Credit card providers both, it appears their ability to understand the validity of robust security testing and practices revolves around cost. Not having to pay any perceived penalty due to a data breach means these corporate types can assign a relatively low risk to data breaches. Low risk usually means low test efforts as well. And this is what we as consumers appear to be satisfied with. I'm more of the opinion that if you have a data breach, it should cost you as a company X dollars per person affected...and start X somewhere above 5 figures. Each person would get that payout. How serious then would corporations take data security?
No one device is the future of education. In today's classroom, with the various programs the Feds have put in place (No Child left Behind, etc.) what a device like this will do is make it so very easy to define each student on how well/poorly they do in "learning" mandated curriculum by how well they do on "standardized" testing. One size does NOT fit all when it comes to being able to learn, and, as importantly, being able to apply that learned knowledge in a productive manner. Simply being able to regurgitate what you have been taught doesn't give a student the skill-set and tools needed needed to make it in the world we live in today. Take a look at the current problems with College "educated" folks who have graduated and are upset because their perfect 4.0 GPA doesn't translate to a well-paying tech job. A 4.0 GPA means you've learned how to excel in the environment known as college. That ain't what the real world is all about.
When you went on your little tirade back around 1984 regarding Jerry Pournelle & David Drake's writings and comparing them to Pornography, (I believe you used the term war-porn) we as a country were but 9 years past the Vietnam Debacle. Your intense dislike...one might use the word Hatred of these two authors in particular and anything having to do with the Military in general was something I never understood. Flash-forward to 2013...With over 2.5 Million Americans having been deployed to Afghanistan and/or Iraq (over 400,000 deployed three or more times and 37,000 of those deploying 5 times or more), are you still of the belief that Science Fiction stories written by veterans depicting combat are nothing more than "war porn?" For someone who has never served in the military, why do you believe you are an expert on what constitutes "war Porn" vs Military Science Fiction?
Nope...It allowed you to post.
not...somuch. The Marines in particular, and others (Army comes to mind) recently have used various games and other "Newsworthy" events as stealth recruiting. Makes a lot of sense, especially given how much access the feds have already taken for granted in us...the civilians, they already have. Look beyond the knee-jerk reactions.
The US military will provide a baseline. Successful "affiliations" (Read: Gangs) Will adapt and overcome. Anywhere from 1 to several to many will develop a "base instinct" and a portion of those will wind up serving our country, in one of the several branches, whether or not they are colored as "Military" because its the Army, Navy, Marines, Air Force, or other Nun-such.
This isn't stating that the Military and the supporting organizations are "good" or "Bad", it's recognizing that this is a viable recruiting method, and it will have results that are looked upon as positive. Folks with talent get recruited.
If you are going to be successful for the long-term, you look for talent, and adapt that talent any way you can. Ironic isn't it, that Google walks away from one thing. http://mashable.com/2013/06/20/google-stopped-asking-brainteasers/
Makes you wonder what they moved on to?
More to the point...what is the criticality in your life that Montana has been over-run. As In: Montana has been over-run by a Zombie Apocalypse. This affects your life exactly...HOW?
Well, Typically a Hurricane leaves a larger footprint than a Tornado, in that a larger area is affected, and also the duration of a Hurricane is much longer than that of a Tornado. Yes, an F5 tornado is much more powerful and destructive than a Cat 5 Hurricane, but given how much longer a hurricane will be over a given area, it's likely that damage will be roughly equal.
Bad news either way you slice it.
If you look at it with a jaundiced eye, what happens when you are outsourcing stuff...the contractor/company that you've our-sourced the work to has folks working there...what happens to their contacts? I think the pendulum will swing in extremes to both sides before we see a satisfactory middle ground.
After RTFA, it appears as if the bloke in question set up his linkdin several weeks prior to him leaving. Of a more interesting nature, in my mind, is, at what point does an employer here in the States 'own' your contacts? Think about it. You've been on a site like the one mentioned in the article for lets say 5 years. You accept a position at a new company. Over the course of your 2 years being employed there, you add lets say 5 contacts. You then accept another position at another company, perhaps because you received a better job offer through this service. Can the comapny you are now leaving sue you in the US and obtain all of your contacts, even those prior to when you joined?
Another question is, are you now in the position of having to list out any and all personal and professional contacts you have on various internet sites as a part of your disclosure when filling out your paperwork for a new company? Sort of like having to list patents, websites and other works you might already have prior to working somehwere?
Time will tell I guess. this case seems pretty straightforward based on the limited article...but it sure will muddy up quick.
Oh, now that would just be *wrong* on so many levels.
Lets see, there is the Wii and now the eee...lets hope it doesn't turn out to be a shiii(t)eeee stick.
Wow, if this is a COBOL system, you mean no one took the time and energy to document the system and all of its glorious parameters during the ramp-up to Y2K? I'm shocked...SHOCKED to hear that a bureaucracy would waste such a golden opportunity as the Y2K scare to look long-term and decide that hey, as long as we're in the process of vetting code, why don't we document it as well?
And yes, there are already those out there jumping up and down pointing out that fixing a year from a two digit to a four digit format is way different than figuring out how to reprogram an ancient computer language. Gotta love the State Government, home to Silicon Valley, too myopic to even consider upgrading something as non-essential as a payroll system.
This is hilarious! Oh, not for the folks stuck with having to deal with the fall-out, to the rest of the country, OMFG is this funny!
Yeah...question for you there scooter...how many music and especially video thieves are using their FRIGGING CELL PHONES for P2P File-sharing?
I could also ask why, when AT&T first developed and rolled the network out they didn't stop to think AHEAD of time on how to keep scads of music and video thieves off of their precious networks PRIOR to launching this. Hmmm...myopic strategic vision?
YMMV
I've been in IT for 27 years, having started out by learning Keypunching via the Military. Branched out to PC's in 1982, taught myself whatever was needed to perform the various jobs I've held over the years. Now I find myself working as a Software QA lead...and interviewing folks who are out of college who have no idea how to configure an XP system to set up two different printers on a network. And these fools have Bachelor Degrees?
So, having a degree is worth what? It doesn't appear its worth the paper its printed on. These same folks outsourcing their coursework are the next generation of Enron II...no ethics, no sense of pride in a job well done as they havn't even done it.
Nice to see the Secondary skills I've maintained in the Construction and Plumbing trades will still be needed...these fools will probably be the ones trying to cut a sheet of plywood using their leg as a saw-horse...assuming they can figure out how to USE the saw.
At least the good news is they'll have a good rapport with the Tech support folks, having dealt with so many of them during college.
As quoted in the article "then be used by the Beijing municipal government's data storage and emergency-response command."
Really!? Like...that conjures up all kinds of thoughts in a paranoid mind. That is quite a lot of computing power for a major city to use by itself. (wink wink). Imagine all of the data connections that were once used for sporting news now being utilized for...GTA? Well, Buick and Cadillac sell some serious iron in China as well.
A follow-on story after the games would be quite interesting to read.
It's interesting to see folks "going after" off-shore products and the "level" of quality. Quality isn't just a part of the software, it is an overall approach to any project. I find it a cop-out when folks blithly trash off-shore products with snippets like the one above. As one who has extensive experience in IT and in the Construction business, the parallels are many. Without a solid foundation in either field, anything else you build on top of it will be crap, REGARDLESS of whether its "off-shore" "on-shore" or anything in between.
Go out to http://www.baen.com./ They have the Baen Free Library project, links to many Authors web-sites, a very good online "baens Bar" where you can interact with authors, and the right approach (IMO) on how to deal with free content.
Do some leg-work! As others have pointed out, go visit a local book-store, and not just one of the chains. Find a used book-store, or two.
There are several companies working on UAV's. Some of the more interesting are the "ultra-light UAV's, ones that can fit in the palm of ones hand. The Marines were very interested in a concept of one that weighed about a pound, could carry a color camera, range of about 200-300 yards, and entire system was man-portable. When your in the middle of Urban combat, having something able to look around the corner, or over the roof into the next block is WAY more useful than something flying 9 times the speed of sound. Its the sniper in the building across the street that will whack you unless you supress/whack him first. Tactical Intel that is real-time is the most precious intel there is for the folks in the line of fire. Something the Air Force still can't grasp. Right behind tactical intel is fire support. When the air Force made noises about "retiring" the A-10, the Marines were all over wanting to take them over.
Interesting that most of the news seems to be about the technology. There's a little company that has been thumbing its nose at the "procurement" process of the pentagon, and building what troops can actually use now. General Atomics. http://www.uav.com/home/index.html
Well, Businessweek http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/content/feb20 06/id20060201_359519.htm ran a story on 1 Feb about Star Gate becoming a MMOG. Interesting that James Cameron is now being interviewed. Wonder if the Sci-Fi Channel might be jumping into the fray at some point?
As long as I can stop and have a quick Horizon Pop before I take the reentry plunge....SIGN ME UP!
That should be the next big goal. Open the first Bar in space. Perhaps one could get a bit of Duty free shopping done. Hmmm...and about income tax...well, seeing as you are literally out of this rold...tax? What tax?
Rob, do you see in the near or even far future, the many different flavors of Unix (Sun Solaris, IBM AIX, etc) morphing back together?
Second part of the question, do you think that the different flaovrs "should" morph back together, or continue to grow apart?
The article referenced does a fair job of displaying the info used. References are linked to, explanations are provided (I.e. the difference between "all sites polled" and "inactive vs active" sites when talking about market share). All in all, an article that raises many good points. Useful, from my perspective.
Folks remember the pics back in the 80's of one of the prototypes sitting bogged in mud at the end of a runway taxi test?
Interesting point that it cannot spread on its own. It appears to be following similar paths to viruses for other OS...start simple, move up in complexity and sneakiness.
Greaaaaaat.
Assuming that some sort of treaty is arranged and signed by folks regarding property rights, how and where would these get litigated? Right now there are 100's of court jurisdictions, and one could pick and choose. Would this carry over? Oh my, what a mess that would make.