They might have the real-estate... but where the heck are they gonna get the fiber built to these facilities, and electrical infrastructure required to run them reliably?
Huge capital expenditures....
Aren't all the small businesses moving into the cloud?
Is there really an underserved niche for more server farms, all across the country?
I couldn't believe it when I installed some software from Sourceforge a while back and ended up with a malware toolbar in my browser
According to This; it is never
done without the developer opting in.
In July 2013, we launched a pilot version of an opt-in revenue-sharing program called DevShare. DevShare is a partnership program offered to SourceForge developers to turn downloads into a source of revenue for them, by bundling their applications with third parties’ offers.
...
This is a 100% opt-in program for the developer, and we want to reassure you that we will NEVER bundle offers with any project without the developers consent.
The DevShare program has been designed to be fully transparent.
Last but not least, we will only include projects that have opted into our program. Our compliance processes are very strict and, as such, our beta program is going to be invitation-only during this first phase. If you would like to participate in this revenue-sharing program, just drop us an email, we’ll be back to you as soon as possible.
How could the research be "meaningful" if the statistics are crap?
0.049
It is highly suggestive; and if replicated by other scientists -- essentially definitive.
The cost of achieving p
You may require, for example, tens million people participating as subjects in your cancer cure drug study.
Your required sample size may exceed the number of available subjects, or even exceed the number of people in the population under study.
Are you willing to deny approval for a cancer drug that could have the potential to save numerous lives, because the drug companies don't have the budget for ---- or are incapable of recruiting 50 million test subjects, for experimental drug testing?
sfcrazy writes
"Last week Canonical sent a cease and desist letter to EFF staffer Micah F Lee asking him to remove the word Ubuntu from the URL as well as the Ubuntu logo from the site.
Dear sfcrazy: You have used the word Ubuntu in your article. Please be advised that there is a chance now that some crazy folken at Canonical may approach you with a C&D letter, over the use of their 'holy' name;
prithee take care.
You joke, but Westinghouse already is selling TVs that require an activation code before they will receive over the air broadcasts.
I may be exagerating..... but it could be a solution to governments forcing retailers to sell sets below cost
Since the set manufacturer is overseas, and the manufacturer cannot be forced to compy with government pricing rules.
Think of it as.... the manufacturer could offer a differentiating characteristic for their set; that an activation license will be required for the consumer, to use it 60 days after setup, and the retailer is guaranteed revenue from the activation.
It will be clearly disclosed to the consumer.
The revenue share is guaranteed to be enough to repay the retailer for more than the cost of the set --- and every dollar the set is sold for in the store is just to insure against damage, or insure against the set never getting activated, and insure against returns....
The government can send in as many armed guards as they want --- if the retailer GIVES away sets; they still profit when the 30 day period expires, and users have to pay to activate.
If I'm publishing that drug X does not increase the incidence of spontaneous human combustion, there ought to be a lot of zeroes in that P value. If I'm publishing that "As expected, Protein X does job Y in endangered species Z, which is not surprising given that protein X does job Y in every other species tested, and why the hell did we even do this experiment" then maybe you don't need such a high standard.
I will agree to that with one stipulation..... the ability to apply the more lax standard needs to be documented, applied for and approved before the study is undertaken, and it should be approved by a board of peers in the field who are unbiased -- not directly involved with the study, its participants, etc; to make sure someone didn't get to swtich which standard would be used after they gathered the data; e.g. relaxing the standard to make it publishable.
Comes with an activation fee, requiring an online activation of the set involving contacting the manufacturer's
activation partner to purchase a turn-on code, after purchased from the store, payable in Bitcoins.
With a rebate available, upon submisison of the receipt showing the dollar amount actually paid for the set.
Hm... James Cameron is a deep-sea explorer, and film director.... he directed Titanic.
In what way, does that make him a researcher who could be sure of meeting five sigma in all his research; even when infeasible truly massive datasets would be required?
Is executives trying to claim sovereign immunity to IT regulations.
Perhaps.... but this is one of the reasons IT security cannot be built from the bottom up.
IT security inherently requires management buy-in, and management has to be made to understand about leadership by example.
They must be sold on it. If they themselves can't adhere to it, then they sure aren't sold on it! How could they expect their hired help to be sold on it, if they don't even agree with it?
If the manager or their family don't follow the same rules, then they are teaching other people not to follow the rules either.
Just like the family grocery store, that lets the owner's wife do her shopping, and take the goods out the back door without having to pay retail price.
The cost to the store is much higher than the price of the goods; it includes the opportunity cost, lost chances to make up for the cost, lost profit.
Customers will see it. Employees will see it. It will lead to more losses.
It will instill in the manager, their family, and those around them, an attitude that will destroy the business.
(Supported by "If anything does happen, it's your fault anyway.")
No... this is when you bring them a paper; "Please sign here that you agree that you will have exclusive responsibility for the security of this workstation which will be excluded from the security rules --- you understand the risk, and the concerns of the IT department, attempting to maintain due care with regards' to the security of the organization's assets and proprietary and sensitive information."
Copy in triplicate; keep a copy for your personal files.
There is a reason us IT folks tell people not to do these things at work.
PERHAPS; it would be more credible if IT folks would actually explain a plausible reason, every time they tell people not to do something.
People will assume you're telling them not to surf porn, because it's against the rules, or because you in IT feel that is immoral, and maybe you warn them about "malware" as a scare tactic to try and keep them doing what you want them to do, instead of what they want to do.
'I don't need a slow virus scanner' was more likely the cause.
Wait... that's a true statement. Nobody needs a slow virus scanner. Go get an application whitelisting solution such as Bitlocker, Lumension, or Bit9.
The slowest/most user-annoying of signature-based av such as Mcafee or Symantec have piss-poor detection rates anyways ---- I find possibly 90% of scans of malware yield false negatives (failure to detect). Often, virus signatures will never recognize the malware variant you happened to have gotten, OR.... by the time they're updated; the malware is still there, but no longer detectable.
Agreed. I'm one of the fortunate ones - my boss actually follows the rules, but I've worked in places where the boss is exempt from basic network security. One was a small business where the boss 'pays the bills', so he got to 'make the rules'.
This is when you need to have a discussion with that 'boss'.
Come pre-armed with material to show him/her how he/she is the primary target of hackers,
and how extra paranoid security for his/her workstations, is necessary for the organization's success in the long run,
and help ensure the computers run smoothly.
Including plans for super hard drive encryption, backups, and software restriction policies, to ensure that only software that's been investigated, will be able to run.
"As a new developer at a young-ish software company, I've been told my communication skills need some work. I'm not painfully introverted or socially inept, but I get lost in my work and only contact people if I need something from them or they ask me a question. "
This is what you are supposed to be doing as a programmer --- working. You need to get "lost" in your work; you need an uninterrupted stream of thought to reach any reasonable level of effectiveness as a programmer.
Disturbing other developers when you don't really need something from them, or to ask a question is another bad thing.
Ocassionally as a developer, about 5 or 10% of the time: you do need to communicate with people in order for the team to successfully collaborate, and be working on the right thing.
But during most of the day; programmers absolutely require privacy and uninterrupted concentration on the programming task to be effective -- and frequent communication is mutually exclusive.
If you want to communicate often; then go into customer service, management, or project leadership, and not programming.
There is little to be done when you pierce a Lithium battery. It pretty much going to burn, if not explode.
The point is This will alert the driver that something is very very wrong, and they need to get themselves and their passengers out of the car, right now
It should light up driver and passenger side lamps that say "EMERGENCY STOP; BATTERY EXPLOSION HAZARD"
The thermal overrun of a lithium battery is slow enough, that meaningful warning can be given which can save lives.
In addition, this accident was not caused by a car malfunction, it was caused by an external event.
Except, these vehicles are being held to the high standard of --- will not explode or be dramatically less safe, after a minor accident, than an ordinary gasoline-fueled vehicle.
Only if that warning came up by itself, but this guy had just hit a serious chunk of iron in the road. I would have stopped straight away, even without the warning. Yet he carried on even after a warning as well.
He probably expected there would be minor damage to some system.
There should probably be a sensor to detect the body of the car, and in particular, the battery stack being pierced; tied to a safety shutdown mechanism.
The British spy agency GCHQ generated and sent fraudulent messages over the telecommunications network purporting to be from Linkedin and Slashdot to targeted employees' computers, through their internet connection; in order to deceive their targets and their computers' in order to exploit security vulnerabilities causing their computers to execute covertly planted software with a malicious intent.
After targets were defrauded into having covert malware planted on their computers; the software would then cause targets' computers to transmit their most private and sensitive information, against their will, without their permission or knowledge.
Loss-aversiveness: a strong desire to avoid harm or loss, so much so, that we will undergo self-destructive behavior to avoid the remotest of risks of of death, harm, or loss.
The reality of the situation we live in: The inherent Uncertainties and risks that we all face throughout life.
Reminders of Uncertainty, such as natural disasters, 9/11, etc
Political figures reminding us, that we are at risk, and they need to do things to protect us
One way is to keep the first kWh cheap and have a rising block price per kWh against usage: if you're not running a McMansion with the windows wide open in winter you need never hit the punitive tariff bands. Just for example.
*Cough* Watch us buy up an "apartment complex"; to populate with virtual tenants, tally up, and resell all 100000 of their unused 1kwH blocks, to the owners of the rows of McMansions down the street.
Slashdot Mirror
Do they have a clue what they're getting into?
They might have the real-estate... but where the heck are they gonna get the fiber built to these facilities, and electrical infrastructure required to run them reliably? Huge capital expenditures....
Aren't all the small businesses moving into the cloud?
Is there really an underserved niche for more server farms, all across the country?
I am glad the court found in Google's favor.
However.... I liked the settlement idea better.
It would have enabled Google to allow me to read entire books online without DRM, directly from a Google search, with a small payment....
I couldn't believe it when I installed some software from Sourceforge a while back and ended up with a malware toolbar in my browser
According to This; it is never done without the developer opting in.
Per the Sourceforge blog article:
How could the research be "meaningful" if the statistics are crap?
0.049
It is highly suggestive; and if replicated by other scientists -- essentially definitive.
The cost of achieving p
You may require, for example, tens million people participating as subjects in your cancer cure drug study.
Your required sample size may exceed the number of available subjects, or even exceed the number of people in the population under study.
Are you willing to deny approval for a cancer drug that could have the potential to save numerous lives, because the drug companies don't have the budget for ---- or are incapable of recruiting 50 million test subjects, for experimental drug testing?
sfcrazy writes "Last week Canonical sent a cease and desist letter to EFF staffer Micah F Lee asking him to remove the word Ubuntu from the URL as well as the Ubuntu logo from the site.
Dear sfcrazy: You have used the word Ubuntu in your article. Please be advised that there is a chance now that some crazy folken at Canonical may approach you with a C&D letter, over the use of their 'holy' name; prithee take care.
You joke, but Westinghouse already is selling TVs that require an activation code before they will receive over the air broadcasts.
I may be exagerating..... but it could be a solution to governments forcing retailers to sell sets below cost Since the set manufacturer is overseas, and the manufacturer cannot be forced to compy with government pricing rules.
Think of it as.... the manufacturer could offer a differentiating characteristic for their set; that an activation license will be required for the consumer, to use it 60 days after setup, and the retailer is guaranteed revenue from the activation. It will be clearly disclosed to the consumer.
The revenue share is guaranteed to be enough to repay the retailer for more than the cost of the set --- and every dollar the set is sold for in the store is just to insure against damage, or insure against the set never getting activated, and insure against returns....
The government can send in as many armed guards as they want --- if the retailer GIVES away sets; they still profit when the 30 day period expires, and users have to pay to activate.
If I'm publishing that drug X does not increase the incidence of spontaneous human combustion, there ought to be a lot of zeroes in that P value. If I'm publishing that "As expected, Protein X does job Y in endangered species Z, which is not surprising given that protein X does job Y in every other species tested, and why the hell did we even do this experiment" then maybe you don't need such a high standard.
I will agree to that with one stipulation..... the ability to apply the more lax standard needs to be documented, applied for and approved before the study is undertaken, and it should be approved by a board of peers in the field who are unbiased -- not directly involved with the study, its participants, etc; to make sure someone didn't get to swtich which standard would be used after they gathered the data; e.g. relaxing the standard to make it publishable.
Comes with an activation fee, requiring an online activation of the set involving contacting the manufacturer's activation partner to purchase a turn-on code, after purchased from the store, payable in Bitcoins.
With a rebate available, upon submisison of the receipt showing the dollar amount actually paid for the set.
James Cameron could reach the bar.
Hm... James Cameron is a deep-sea explorer, and film director.... he directed Titanic.
In what way, does that make him a researcher who could be sure of meeting five sigma in all his research; even when infeasible truly massive datasets would be required?
Is executives trying to claim sovereign immunity to IT regulations.
Perhaps.... but this is one of the reasons IT security cannot be built from the bottom up.
IT security inherently requires management buy-in, and management has to be made to understand about leadership by example. They must be sold on it. If they themselves can't adhere to it, then they sure aren't sold on it! How could they expect their hired help to be sold on it, if they don't even agree with it?
If the manager or their family don't follow the same rules, then they are teaching other people not to follow the rules either.
Just like the family grocery store, that lets the owner's wife do her shopping, and take the goods out the back door without having to pay retail price.
The cost to the store is much higher than the price of the goods; it includes the opportunity cost, lost chances to make up for the cost, lost profit.
Customers will see it. Employees will see it. It will lead to more losses.
It will instill in the manager, their family, and those around them, an attitude that will destroy the business.
(Supported by "If anything does happen, it's your fault anyway.")
No... this is when you bring them a paper; "Please sign here that you agree that you will have exclusive responsibility for the security of this workstation which will be excluded from the security rules --- you understand the risk, and the concerns of the IT department, attempting to maintain due care with regards' to the security of the organization's assets and proprietary and sensitive information."
Copy in triplicate; keep a copy for your personal files.
There is a reason us IT folks tell people not to do these things at work.
PERHAPS; it would be more credible if IT folks would actually explain a plausible reason, every time they tell people not to do something.
People will assume you're telling them not to surf porn, because it's against the rules, or because you in IT feel that is immoral, and maybe you warn them about "malware" as a scare tactic to try and keep them doing what you want them to do, instead of what they want to do.
So the majority of experts agree the existing solutions are ineffective. And yet the solution remains the same: Buy more of it.
Was the research study funded by security companies, that may be involved some way in the antimalware business?
'I don't need a slow virus scanner' was more likely the cause.
Wait... that's a true statement. Nobody needs a slow virus scanner. Go get an application whitelisting solution such as Bitlocker, Lumension, or Bit9.
The slowest/most user-annoying of signature-based av such as Mcafee or Symantec have piss-poor detection rates anyways ---- I find possibly 90% of scans of malware yield false negatives (failure to detect). Often, virus signatures will never recognize the malware variant you happened to have gotten, OR.... by the time they're updated; the malware is still there, but no longer detectable.
Agreed. I'm one of the fortunate ones - my boss actually follows the rules, but I've worked in places where the boss is exempt from basic network security. One was a small business where the boss 'pays the bills', so he got to 'make the rules'.
This is when you need to have a discussion with that 'boss'.
Come pre-armed with material to show him/her how he/she is the primary target of hackers, and how extra paranoid security for his/her workstations, is necessary for the organization's success in the long run, and help ensure the computers run smoothly.
Including plans for super hard drive encryption, backups, and software restriction policies, to ensure that only software that's been investigated, will be able to run.
Five sigma is the standard of proof in Physics. The probability of a background fluctuation is a p-value of something like 0.0000006.
Of proof yes... that makes sense.
Other fields should probably use a threshold of 0.005 or 0.001.
If they use move to five sigma....... 2013 might be the last year that scientists get to keep their jobs.
What are you supposed to do; if no research in any field is admissable, because the bar is so high noone can meet it, even with meaningful research?
"As a new developer at a young-ish software company, I've been told my communication skills need some work. I'm not painfully introverted or socially inept, but I get lost in my work and only contact people if I need something from them or they ask me a question. "
This is what you are supposed to be doing as a programmer --- working. You need to get "lost" in your work; you need an uninterrupted stream of thought to reach any reasonable level of effectiveness as a programmer.
Disturbing other developers when you don't really need something from them, or to ask a question is another bad thing.
Ocassionally as a developer, about 5 or 10% of the time: you do need to communicate with people in order for the team to successfully collaborate, and be working on the right thing.
But during most of the day; programmers absolutely require privacy and uninterrupted concentration on the programming task to be effective -- and frequent communication is mutually exclusive.
If you want to communicate often; then go into customer service, management, or project leadership, and not programming.
There is little to be done when you pierce a Lithium battery. It pretty much going to burn, if not explode.
The point is This will alert the driver that something is very very wrong, and they need to get themselves and their passengers out of the car, right now
It should light up driver and passenger side lamps that say "EMERGENCY STOP; BATTERY EXPLOSION HAZARD"
The thermal overrun of a lithium battery is slow enough, that meaningful warning can be given which can save lives.
In addition, this accident was not caused by a car malfunction, it was caused by an external event.
Except, these vehicles are being held to the high standard of --- will not explode or be dramatically less safe, after a minor accident, than an ordinary gasoline-fueled vehicle.
Only if that warning came up by itself, but this guy had just hit a serious chunk of iron in the road. I would have stopped straight away, even without the warning. Yet he carried on even after a warning as well.
He probably expected there would be minor damage to some system.
There should probably be a sensor to detect the body of the car, and in particular, the battery stack being pierced; tied to a safety shutdown mechanism.
"Please pull over safely and evacuate the vehicle immediately."
"Thank you for pressing the self-destruct button. This ship will self-destruct in 3 minutes"
This is a proxy for what marketers call "reach". The more followers you have, the more people will read your posts.
I see... so they feel better, if they have 10000 fake followers who pretend to read their posts, and sometimes hit like.
OK
The British spy agency GCHQ generated and sent fraudulent messages over the telecommunications network purporting to be from Linkedin and Slashdot to targeted employees' computers, through their internet connection; in order to deceive their targets and their computers' in order to exploit security vulnerabilities causing their computers to execute covertly planted software with a malicious intent.
After targets were defrauded into having covert malware planted on their computers; the software would then cause targets' computers to transmit their most private and sensitive information, against their will, without their permission or knowledge.
One way is to keep the first kWh cheap and have a rising block price per kWh against usage: if you're not running a McMansion with the windows wide open in winter you need never hit the punitive tariff bands. Just for example.
*Cough* Watch us buy up an "apartment complex"; to populate with virtual tenants, tally up, and resell all 100000 of their unused 1kwH blocks, to the owners of the rows of McMansions down the street.