At one time that was the case, but things are changing. These organizations have become well aware of what breaches can cost them from news related to the legal ramifications, and that's what finally gets people motivated to beef up security... the dollars at risk.
The problem is exacerbated by the shoestring budgets that health care orgs run on these days, due to declining reimbursement, an increase in government as payor reimbursement models (but I repeat myself), and ever-increasing levels of unreimbursed care mean that money (and thus, the will) to refresh hardware and legacy systems is not there - particularly when clinical staff will say these older systems "are working just fine".
Things are changing, but government efforts to massively increase the volume of care being given while simultaneously driving down reimbursement does not help security to become better.
But what is implicit in your statement that it makes people "think twice" before having an opinion? It is that they should be compelled by the threat of retaliation in the real world for what their opinion is. There is no purpose to requiring someone share their real name except to hang the threat over them that if they post something another human finds distasteful, they might be found in the real world and made to pay for it. And as we all know, it doesn't take much for someone in the internet to become unhinged. Something more or less innocuous could cause some whackjob to show up at your house.
It stifles the free exchange of ideas, and it's only intended to stifle the free exchange of ideas. There's no other purpose.
This is why I will never post in the comment section of anything that requires your name. You don't even need to be doing anything wrong for someone to become unhinged and start doxxing you or something.
But the trends online are all moving in the opposite direction, to making people attach their real names to comments - the sole purpose for which is to make retribution possible.
Scientists believe there was no darkness before humanity and their CFC pollutants came along. Modeling shows conclusively that temperatures were milder, bowling scores were much higher, golf scores much lower, and waterslides were much more excellent in the pre-Phanerozoic eons.
Bah, we'll just raise taxes on the rich. What's another $100 million transferred from productive people to lobbyists and the coffers of a megacorp?/California
My guess is that the DOJ wanted the precedent - this is the Alinsky way, "never let a crisis go to waste". They thought that if people had the specter of a new terrorist attack hanging over their head's they'd be more malleable. Then they could use it for all sorts of purposes like tax evasion - as Obama clearly stated he wanted to do.
Turns out they were wrong, and the public and the industry didn't go along as easily as they'd hoped. Rather than suffer a judicial defeat which may be counterproductive to their aims, they just "find" an alternative at the 11th hour and move on.
President Obama is being improperly advised and/or technically ignorant at best, and being an enabler to the power-hungry and/or a power-grabber himself. Note that I voted for this man, twice! Wishing I'd not have done so now.
Apple needs to stand it's ground, and cetain people in the FBI need to stand down -- or perhaps be asked to resign.
"Barack Obama has a fine legal mind" (TFA) has never been true, or if it has, he certainly doesn't care much about legal issues that may stand in the way of what he wants to do.
For all the disappointments the Obama administration has brought, the most disappointing has been its lawlessness. Re-writing laws through the EPA, refusing to enforce others, using EOs as a fig leaf for outright lawbreaking, re-writing Obamacare on the fly as if there were no separation of powers at all...
This may be the first time we've had an administration that both sides of the aisle can't wait to see go.
Right. The Obama administration wants the model to generally be proprietary and closed, except open to the government. They don't want everything to be open. They want it closed to everyone but them.
Apple brings people through their stores purposefully in their service model. They don't make disposable devices on lowest-bidder hardware. MSFT is largely old on such devices, so people aren't going to come there and make appointments at the genius bar or for service or whatever.
Apple has foot traffic in its stores every hour of the business day because they control the hardware end of things so they can plausibly answer any question in-store. Therefore, people go there for answers.
They also have built a very strong warranty model with AppleCare, they really do honor it without a fight so people are likely to purchase it, especially repeat purchase it if they've had a good experience before, and that brings people through the stores too.
People in the stores play with devices or see options they'd never see otherwise, it generates more sales. It's self-perpetuating.
The difference is marketing - Apple selling their products as high end goods and Windows largely being marketed as a low-end good-enough.
Even if it were true that the markings had been removed before emailing, THAT in itself warrants a major investigation. And we know there is at least one email where someone was instructed to do just that.
There seems to be almost zero chance that this information wasn't compromised to foreign governments. As if Russia and China didn't know about this and have it breached...
Kids don't understand MSFT's business practices. They just see them as the company that makes keyboards for iPads, and that teaches you to breakdance in its commercials.
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At one time that was the case, but things are changing. These organizations have become well aware of what breaches can cost them from news related to the legal ramifications, and that's what finally gets people motivated to beef up security... the dollars at risk.
The problem is exacerbated by the shoestring budgets that health care orgs run on these days, due to declining reimbursement, an increase in government as payor reimbursement models (but I repeat myself), and ever-increasing levels of unreimbursed care mean that money (and thus, the will) to refresh hardware and legacy systems is not there - particularly when clinical staff will say these older systems "are working just fine".
Things are changing, but government efforts to massively increase the volume of care being given while simultaneously driving down reimbursement does not help security to become better.
It's The Year of Linux on Windows (TM)
But what is implicit in your statement that it makes people "think twice" before having an opinion? It is that they should be compelled by the threat of retaliation in the real world for what their opinion is. There is no purpose to requiring someone share their real name except to hang the threat over them that if they post something another human finds distasteful, they might be found in the real world and made to pay for it. And as we all know, it doesn't take much for someone in the internet to become unhinged. Something more or less innocuous could cause some whackjob to show up at your house.
It stifles the free exchange of ideas, and it's only intended to stifle the free exchange of ideas. There's no other purpose.
This is why I will never post in the comment section of anything that requires your name. You don't even need to be doing anything wrong for someone to become unhinged and start doxxing you or something.
But the trends online are all moving in the opposite direction, to making people attach their real names to comments - the sole purpose for which is to make retribution possible.
"Scientists unsure if correlation equals causation."
Scientists believe there was no darkness before humanity and their CFC pollutants came along. Modeling shows conclusively that temperatures were milder, bowling scores were much higher, golf scores much lower, and waterslides were much more excellent in the pre-Phanerozoic eons.
Don't worry, you can just call Volvo to have them unlock the car so you can charge the phone.
Bah, we'll just raise taxes on the rich. What's another $100 million transferred from productive people to lobbyists and the coffers of a megacorp? /California
Meh, it's California. Nothing a few newly-created taxes can't fix.
Don't you clods understand that it's finally here - the Year of Linux on the Tablet?
It's a bit like asking the bum in the alleyway to hold the keys to your business for you over nights, instead of carrying them in your own pocket.
What we really need is the barriers to coding to be higher.
Don't shoot, I'll get off your lawn now.
My guess is that the DOJ wanted the precedent - this is the Alinsky way, "never let a crisis go to waste". They thought that if people had the specter of a new terrorist attack hanging over their head's they'd be more malleable. Then they could use it for all sorts of purposes like tax evasion - as Obama clearly stated he wanted to do.
Turns out they were wrong, and the public and the industry didn't go along as easily as they'd hoped. Rather than suffer a judicial defeat which may be counterproductive to their aims, they just "find" an alternative at the 11th hour and move on.
Let's face it, the government doesn't REALLY need a sound reason to monitor you anyway.
President Obama is being improperly advised and/or technically ignorant at best, and being an enabler to the power-hungry and/or a power-grabber himself. Note that I voted for this man, twice! Wishing I'd not have done so now.
Apple needs to stand it's ground, and cetain people in the FBI need to stand down -- or perhaps be asked to resign.
"Barack Obama has a fine legal mind" (TFA) has never been true, or if it has, he certainly doesn't care much about legal issues that may stand in the way of what he wants to do.
For all the disappointments the Obama administration has brought, the most disappointing has been its lawlessness. Re-writing laws through the EPA, refusing to enforce others, using EOs as a fig leaf for outright lawbreaking, re-writing Obamacare on the fly as if there were no separation of powers at all...
This may be the first time we've had an administration that both sides of the aisle can't wait to see go.
At SXSW, motion captures you!
Right. The Obama administration wants the model to generally be proprietary and closed, except open to the government. They don't want everything to be open. They want it closed to everyone but them.
Apple brings people through their stores purposefully in their service model. They don't make disposable devices on lowest-bidder hardware. MSFT is largely old on such devices, so people aren't going to come there and make appointments at the genius bar or for service or whatever.
Apple has foot traffic in its stores every hour of the business day because they control the hardware end of things so they can plausibly answer any question in-store. Therefore, people go there for answers.
They also have built a very strong warranty model with AppleCare, they really do honor it without a fight so people are likely to purchase it, especially repeat purchase it if they've had a good experience before, and that brings people through the stores too.
People in the stores play with devices or see options they'd never see otherwise, it generates more sales. It's self-perpetuating.
The difference is marketing - Apple selling their products as high end goods and Windows largely being marketed as a low-end good-enough.
Even if it were true that the markings had been removed before emailing, THAT in itself warrants a major investigation. And we know there is at least one email where someone was instructed to do just that.
There seems to be almost zero chance that this information wasn't compromised to foreign governments. As if Russia and China didn't know about this and have it breached...
Moreover, TFA describes people getting 90 days of working notice, 30 days of severance, and $2,500 to GTFO.
How would you like for IBM to be your vendor and some of these 90 day people to be working on your project?
What could possibly go wrong?
I agree. He's worn out his welcome by being such a snob all the time.
Kids don't understand MSFT's business practices. They just see them as the company that makes keyboards for iPads, and that teaches you to breakdance in its commercials.
The birds might be angry about the word "transposition" being used incorrectly in the summary. They hate that.
"76,860 kg" autocorrected to "Settings thousand ate sexy cardiograms"