Ah ha, it came from the second link rather than the PDF it appeared to be linked to. Come on guys, at least link silly quotes like that to the right article.
---- http://www.informationweek.com/news/healthcare/security-privacy/231700161 Tricare did not indicate whether SAIC encrypted the information on the stolen tapes, but Raley said, "It's very hard to encrypt a backup tape." Tricare did not respond to a request for comment on the HIPAA issues. ---
"The constant barrage of updates for Firefox".... "I switched to Chrome and have progressed through 8 whole versions"
Really? Is the release cycle really the problem for you or something vague about extensions? I find the release cycle of Firefox rather awkward but I'd never switch to Chrome if that was really my problem.
Further, it doesn't really need to measure user experience as that is going to vary based on the audience. You can take this benchmark and then compare that with your own user experience to decide if the wins for Firefox are worth the user experience.
Microsoft is implying that it will sue and extorting money to protect against that possibility.
"Hey Johnny... You wanna do business on this block, just remember that windows get broken from time to time by... well.. let's just say people. Pay us and we'll make sure you personally don't have a rock thrown through your window."
I don't believe Raspberry Pi is available yet (see http://www.raspberrypi.org/faqs/, first line), but I'm seriously considering picking one up when it's available. Arduino is definitely an amazing platform, but I just don't need something quite that low level. I'm currently toying with turning one of those cheap $10 "cameras" into a wireless surveillance cam. As far as ARM goes, I'm not deep enough into the hardware to care either way anyway.
That's a little naive. I can promise you PLCs running unpatched versions of software are running accessible from the internet and no amount of "You shouldn't have done that, dummy" is going to magically secure them overnight. The reality is that our industry simply isn't as security conscious as it needs to be and while some of us recognize the PLC systems should be air-gapped anyway, I doubt that's the norm.
If your power goes out tonight, I'm going to smile a little inside. Deserved?
The problem I have with this is that establishing a clean "reputation" is as easy as creating a new identity. In effect, I can only record trust but I cannot reliably track distrust. I'm glad that we do have anonymous environments and mechanisms for those that are oppressed to speak freely, but I would also like to have an environment where reputation actually matters. The ability to choose between the two is ideal.
This is a social media environment that I might actually join and one I may let my children join. Linkedin is the only other "social media" account I have and I will never have a Facebook account and shunned MySpace when it was introduced. For me, the lack of any social decency that stems from anonymity is simply not worth it. If I'm going to build relationships with people (isn't that the point of social media?), I'd like to have reputation as collateral for bad behavior.
Perhaps we will return to a point where people think before they speak/post and self censor out of respect for their fellow man. For my tastes, the streets of the Bazaar are pretty filthy but to each his own.
That's cause you had a GUN, Mr. Wyatt Earp!! I'm pretty sure the school experience is wildly different depending on where you fall in the social pecking order. I seriously doubt my school was unique and it's not a place I'd go back to on purpose.
Not terribly interested in watching a video of OS upgrades (I get quite enough of that on my own) so a text write-up of the results would be dandy. Since the submitter didn't bother, perhaps it's time for an industrious reader to do a proper "review."
If you're really concerned about government observing your web browsing habits, use Tor (http://www.torproject.org/) for any browsing where personally identifying user information is not present and ensure you're using https over Tor for the cases where you pass user names/etc or information about you is being passed back. Tor and Firefox play quite nicely together as long as you're smart about it.
Utorrent would probably get some benefit out of Tor as well, but I don't really know how Utorrent works. If it provides some sort of "node identifier" when it downloads a file, encryption of Utorrent would be necessary to hide that node identifier. If it doesn't ship a node identifier across the network when it downloads a file, I suspect Tor by itself would be enough to mask what you are doing.
If you decide to use Tor, please fully understand how it works before trusting that you are truly anonymous. This is especially true if you're running a service over Tor that you do not fully understand (aka, Utorrent). If you don't eliminate user identifiable data, Tor can't help you.
It is less flawed than the current methods mentioned in the summary. In fact, it does MORE to measure the team effort than a metric like goals scored. This is what we might call an incremental improvement./facepalm
Why use Open Office when the university installs Windows and MS Office on your PC for you and everyone you work with uses MS Office except for that weird guy over in IT? The reality is that short of a university wide switch to Open Office, I will continue to be that weird guy in IT running Linux and using that Open Office thingy.
Any feature that allows me to work with MS Office easier is wonderful from my perspective.
As the data warehouse guy here, I fight the export to Excel battle regularly and that has nothing to do with my comment. I was talking specifically about Word documents that OO won't open correctly with the version I'm using.
Yay! I think people were beginning to dislike me a little when I'd ask them to convert and resend an attachment that I couldn't open. Looks like I'll have to hunt around for some other subtle way to annoy my co-workers:)
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The actual statement that you make is that "x is UNLIKELY to case y" along with a degree of confidence. artor3's comment is stated as an absolute so don't bother tossing stats into the discussion. Stats deals with estimation, likelyhood, probability, forecasting, etc. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confidence_intervals and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statistical_significance
artor3's comment is also stated without citation. Not a good start :(
Ah ha, it came from the second link rather than the PDF it appeared to be linked to. Come on guys, at least link silly quotes like that to the right article.
---- http://www.informationweek.com/news/healthcare/security-privacy/231700161
Tricare did not indicate whether SAIC encrypted the information on the stolen tapes, but Raley said, "It's very hard to encrypt a backup tape." Tricare did not respond to a request for comment on the HIPAA issues.
---
Brilliant :(
I didn't see any mention of encryption in the PDF linked off of that quote either. Wonder where it came from?
"The constant barrage of updates for Firefox"....
"I switched to Chrome and have progressed through 8 whole versions"
Really? Is the release cycle really the problem for you or something vague about extensions? I find the release cycle of Firefox rather awkward but I'd never switch to Chrome if that was really my problem.
Further, it doesn't really need to measure user experience as that is going to vary based on the audience. You can take this benchmark and then compare that with your own user experience to decide if the wins for Firefox are worth the user experience.
I used to have nightmares that played out almost exactly that way. Also, who's going to test this and tell us they had a good time?
I think it's the lawful owner part that's in question.
Microsoft is implying that it will sue and extorting money to protect against that possibility.
"Hey Johnny... You wanna do business on this block, just remember that windows get broken from time to time by... well.. let's just say people. Pay us and we'll make sure you personally don't have a rock thrown through your window."
Pretend I did a mobster impression.
I don't believe Raspberry Pi is available yet (see http://www.raspberrypi.org/faqs/, first line), but I'm seriously considering picking one up when it's available. Arduino is definitely an amazing platform, but I just don't need something quite that low level. I'm currently toying with turning one of those cheap $10 "cameras" into a wireless surveillance cam. As far as ARM goes, I'm not deep enough into the hardware to care either way anyway.
That's a little naive. I can promise you PLCs running unpatched versions of software are running accessible from the internet and no amount of "You shouldn't have done that, dummy" is going to magically secure them overnight. The reality is that our industry simply isn't as security conscious as it needs to be and while some of us recognize the PLC systems should be air-gapped anyway, I doubt that's the norm.
If your power goes out tonight, I'm going to smile a little inside. Deserved?
Read the article and note the increased support and hardware costs.
The problem I have with this is that establishing a clean "reputation" is as easy as creating a new identity. In effect, I can only record trust but I cannot reliably track distrust. I'm glad that we do have anonymous environments and mechanisms for those that are oppressed to speak freely, but I would also like to have an environment where reputation actually matters. The ability to choose between the two is ideal.
This is a social media environment that I might actually join and one I may let my children join. Linkedin is the only other "social media" account I have and I will never have a Facebook account and shunned MySpace when it was introduced. For me, the lack of any social decency that stems from anonymity is simply not worth it. If I'm going to build relationships with people (isn't that the point of social media?), I'd like to have reputation as collateral for bad behavior.
Perhaps we will return to a point where people think before they speak/post and self censor out of respect for their fellow man. For my tastes, the streets of the Bazaar are pretty filthy but to each his own.
Yeah, that's a mighty good point. C'est la vie
And posters need to be held accountable for forgetting to login. Let the mocking and sneering begin. :) Silly me.
No one happens to know of a way to take ownership of posts you mistakenly posted anonymously?
From the swallow, silly.
That's cause you had a GUN, Mr. Wyatt Earp!! I'm pretty sure the school experience is wildly different depending on where you fall in the social pecking order. I seriously doubt my school was unique and it's not a place I'd go back to on purpose.
Not terribly interested in watching a video of OS upgrades (I get quite enough of that on my own) so a text write-up of the results would be dandy. Since the submitter didn't bother, perhaps it's time for an industrious reader to do a proper "review."
If you're really concerned about government observing your web browsing habits, use Tor (http://www.torproject.org/) for any browsing where personally identifying user information is not present and ensure you're using https over Tor for the cases where you pass user names/etc or information about you is being passed back. Tor and Firefox play quite nicely together as long as you're smart about it.
Utorrent would probably get some benefit out of Tor as well, but I don't really know how Utorrent works. If it provides some sort of "node identifier" when it downloads a file, encryption of Utorrent would be necessary to hide that node identifier. If it doesn't ship a node identifier across the network when it downloads a file, I suspect Tor by itself would be enough to mask what you are doing.
If you decide to use Tor, please fully understand how it works before trusting that you are truly anonymous. This is especially true if you're running a service over Tor that you do not fully understand (aka, Utorrent). If you don't eliminate user identifiable data, Tor can't help you.
Not on my Backflip :( Shame on you, Moto.
May I quietly suggest that you didn't really want to work there anyway?
It is less flawed than the current methods mentioned in the summary. In fact, it does MORE to measure the team effort than a metric like goals scored. This is what we might call an incremental improvement. /facepalm
Why use Open Office when the university installs Windows and MS Office on your PC for you and everyone you work with uses MS Office except for that weird guy over in IT? The reality is that short of a university wide switch to Open Office, I will continue to be that weird guy in IT running Linux and using that Open Office thingy.
Any feature that allows me to work with MS Office easier is wonderful from my perspective.
As the data warehouse guy here, I fight the export to Excel battle regularly and that has nothing to do with my comment. I was talking specifically about Word documents that OO won't open correctly with the version I'm using.
Yay! I think people were beginning to dislike me a little when I'd ask them to convert and resend an attachment that I couldn't open. Looks like I'll have to hunt around for some other subtle way to annoy my co-workers :)
It's only slightly less amusing than if it had been Fahrenheit 451 :)