As someone with severe allergies I enthusiastically agree! Presumably, if they can give instructions to attack then they can give instructions to stand down.
Are you joking? Turn on any 24 hour news channel and eventually you'll see it. CNN even lets anyone post their own news to their site. Average visitors don't consider if it's validated by CNN. Remember incorrect reports of Steve Jobs' health causing the stock price to drop?
I don't disagree at all. But the fact remains that most people blindly trust mainstream media, and there are some mainstream organizations that report what's found on blogs with no corroborating evidence.
I'm sure news agencies and bloggers watch twitter accounts of famous people. Putting in messages (that aren't obviously defacements or spam) could cause incorrect information to spread to "reputable" sources. We've seen bloggers post incorrect information that gets spread around until newspapers pick it up. The same could happen here.
The popular library for PHP is poorly documented. The API has each function documented (phpdoc), but nothing to actually get you started using the API. When we needed to do something other than the rudimentary sample code, it turned into a huge hassle. The API seems far more complicated than it needs to be.
Developers aren't going to adopt it much if they have to keep re-implementing the standard from scratch. OpenID needs to publish a well documented API for each popular language that might need it. That'll get the ball rolling faster.
Corporate training costs far more than one IT guy and a little face time. There's materials, conference rooms, continued support, etc. One IT guy would get very tired talking to tens of thousands of people, so a few would be required. Then every employee must commit at least a few hours, which drops productivity. And I'm sure the IT guys would want to implement some related systems, like testing for weak passwords.
Right, which is why I said "slowly creeping into it". By targeting smaller businesses first they can slowly grow into enterprise-level offerings and mindshare.
With increased layoffs and economic hardships I would expect these numbers to go up again this year. On top of the individual motivations for just attempting it, it's unlikely corporations or governments are going to drastically increase security spending this year.
Why does everybody think that Apple wants to deal with Enterprise issues?
Because they're slowly creeping into it with online office apps, a Blackberry competitor, and server software. The iPhone is primarily targeted at the consumer. But the office apps and server software are completely targeted at small business.
The only reason this keeps coming up is because so many remember the years when Jobs was not heading the company. I don't know about you, but I definitely don't want my future Apple computers looking like children's toys again.
Unfortunately, The United States is not taking part in Phobos-Grunt.
Why is that unfortunate? We get all of the results with none of the investment. Sounds great to me if other nations and organizations want to make the commitments independent from the US while still sharing the results.
What makes software and IT so special that it can be cut before everything else? Businesses of all types and sizes are more reliant on computers than ever before, and those needs don't disappear during a slow economy.
Logically, of course, this makes sense. But IT departments at most companies are seen as pure expense since they don't deliver any direct profit. Yes, they make the company more efficient and therefore help reduce cost, but it's all seen as long term and hard to quantify. Since it's looked at as pure expense it's usually the first department to get budget cuts. It's usually much harder to cut HR, accounting, sales, etc. than to cut long term software projects and systems upgrades.
so all you are left with is the added overhead of supporting two frameworks
And that's often much better than supporting one framework plus your own customizations. Once you customize it's often extremely difficult to upgrade the framework and have your patches still work. So there can be a lot of extra development time involved. Plus just the learning curve to get intimately familiar with the internals of the framework when that's often not necessary.
The best option is to not use one single framework for all situations unless it's appropriate. Too many developers put blinders on, picking one framework and using it for every project.
My company has a flexible custom framework that we use for the majority of projects. But before we start on any project we discuss the options to see if another framework or open source app would be a better fit. Along with picking the best language for a task, the same should be applied to frameworks.
No need to use Rails or any other particular framework if it doesn't fit the project.
My last two employers were big financial firms with Microsoft support contracts. Every support call was first handled with useless canned responses. It took an immense amount of time to get to speak to a developer who could actually admit we found real bugs in their software. Once we got to communicate with a real developer at Microsoft the issues were handled well, but it was incredibly frustrating to get to the point where Microsoft provided any satisfactory support.
In a corporation that would be a manager or business analyst. Since you're looking for a job, you can start as a business analyst, helping the business side of a company determine what software should be built and help run the project. At an entry-level position you'd basically help with communication and project management between the IT department and rest of the company.
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As someone with severe allergies I enthusiastically agree! Presumably, if they can give instructions to attack then they can give instructions to stand down.
I also wonder if this should really be teached in class...
Like English? ;)
Are you joking? Turn on any 24 hour news channel and eventually you'll see it. CNN even lets anyone post their own news to their site. Average visitors don't consider if it's validated by CNN. Remember incorrect reports of Steve Jobs' health causing the stock price to drop?
I don't disagree at all. But the fact remains that most people blindly trust mainstream media, and there are some mainstream organizations that report what's found on blogs with no corroborating evidence.
I'm sure news agencies and bloggers watch twitter accounts of famous people. Putting in messages (that aren't obviously defacements or spam) could cause incorrect information to spread to "reputable" sources. We've seen bloggers post incorrect information that gets spread around until newspapers pick it up. The same could happen here.
How is it more work to enter your username and password on one page instead of another?
The popular library for PHP is poorly documented. The API has each function documented (phpdoc), but nothing to actually get you started using the API. When we needed to do something other than the rudimentary sample code, it turned into a huge hassle. The API seems far more complicated than it needs to be.
Developers aren't going to adopt it much if they have to keep re-implementing the standard from scratch. OpenID needs to publish a well documented API for each popular language that might need it. That'll get the ball rolling faster.
Corporate training costs far more than one IT guy and a little face time. There's materials, conference rooms, continued support, etc. One IT guy would get very tired talking to tens of thousands of people, so a few would be required. Then every employee must commit at least a few hours, which drops productivity. And I'm sure the IT guys would want to implement some related systems, like testing for weak passwords.
Right, which is why I said "slowly creeping into it". By targeting smaller businesses first they can slowly grow into enterprise-level offerings and mindshare.
With increased layoffs and economic hardships I would expect these numbers to go up again this year. On top of the individual motivations for just attempting it, it's unlikely corporations or governments are going to drastically increase security spending this year.
Why does everybody think that Apple wants to deal with Enterprise issues?
Because they're slowly creeping into it with online office apps, a Blackberry competitor, and server software. The iPhone is primarily targeted at the consumer. But the office apps and server software are completely targeted at small business.
The only reason this keeps coming up is because so many remember the years when Jobs was not heading the company. I don't know about you, but I definitely don't want my future Apple computers looking like children's toys again.
Unfortunately, The United States is not taking part in Phobos-Grunt.
Why is that unfortunate? We get all of the results with none of the investment. Sounds great to me if other nations and organizations want to make the commitments independent from the US while still sharing the results.
George W. Bush:
Great president?
Or greatest president?
Ok, I'll put you down for "great'.
Why not? Wikipedia is infallible. It's not like just anyone can go and edit it.
Solar + battery = usually power. Solar + battery + grid = 24/7 power. Who's being the dense one?
Three-headed fish coming to a pond near you!
In honor of The Simpsons I'm calling mine Blinky.
What makes software and IT so special that it can be cut before everything else? Businesses of all types and sizes are more reliant on computers than ever before, and those needs don't disappear during a slow economy.
Logically, of course, this makes sense. But IT departments at most companies are seen as pure expense since they don't deliver any direct profit. Yes, they make the company more efficient and therefore help reduce cost, but it's all seen as long term and hard to quantify. Since it's looked at as pure expense it's usually the first department to get budget cuts. It's usually much harder to cut HR, accounting, sales, etc. than to cut long term software projects and systems upgrades.
so all you are left with is the added overhead of supporting two frameworks
And that's often much better than supporting one framework plus your own customizations. Once you customize it's often extremely difficult to upgrade the framework and have your patches still work. So there can be a lot of extra development time involved. Plus just the learning curve to get intimately familiar with the internals of the framework when that's often not necessary.
The best option is to not use one single framework for all situations unless it's appropriate. Too many developers put blinders on, picking one framework and using it for every project.
My company has a flexible custom framework that we use for the majority of projects. But before we start on any project we discuss the options to see if another framework or open source app would be a better fit. Along with picking the best language for a task, the same should be applied to frameworks.
No need to use Rails or any other particular framework if it doesn't fit the project.
I see your point. However, maybe the fact that there is a rumor is news itself.
Of course then we have the paradox that you can't report on a rumor without helping to spread it.
My last two employers were big financial firms with Microsoft support contracts. Every support call was first handled with useless canned responses. It took an immense amount of time to get to speak to a developer who could actually admit we found real bugs in their software. Once we got to communicate with a real developer at Microsoft the issues were handled well, but it was incredibly frustrating to get to the point where Microsoft provided any satisfactory support.
In a corporation that would be a manager or business analyst. Since you're looking for a job, you can start as a business analyst, helping the business side of a company determine what software should be built and help run the project. At an entry-level position you'd basically help with communication and project management between the IT department and rest of the company.
It's obviously a slow news day here, and I'd much rather see rumors than more idle.
If you come here for the quality journalism, well... I've got some bad news for you...
You mean a journalist whose sole job is to report on Microsoft is making a baseless claim to get attention and traffic to her website? I'm shocked!