U.S. Government is a big buyer of Blackberries. See the recent article here on Slashdot about gov't gadgets for numbers. They're a big chunk of your profit. And as soon as the iPhone or Android gets FIPS certified you will lose most of your U.S. Government business overnight.
Right now, most of the people I know in gov't use Blackberries only because they're forced to. Not a week goes by where I don't have users asking me when they can use their iPhone, iPad or Android device and return the BB.
We're piloting iPads and Samsung Android tablets now.
Oh, and thanks for making the BES compatible with iOS and Android devices. That'll smooth our transition when we dump your crap.
In government, where security is a higher consideration for data BY LAW, the whole "move quickly to the cloud" is a nightmare.
His little stunt with whining about why gov't employees have to suffer with Blackberries instead of iPhones was a joke. (Hint: until they actually get FIPS 140-2 certified the answer is "NO".)
If he had to ask the question, he wasn't qualified for the job.
Forget the fact that most police departments don't have the skilled personnel to deal with these sorts of things. Forget that most of them are overwhelmed with physical crimes, most of which never get solved. What makes you think any of them will have the jurisdiction to deal with anything?
Notifying a national agency like the FBI will mostly overwhelm them. Yeah, it is great for their statistics, but lets not kid about their needing a head start. Anyone big enough to matter already cooperates with them first, anyway. The rest will just sit on the pile because they don't have the resources to deal with it.
Notifying *customers* is the one thing they can do that might actually make a difference.
Creating an alternate up-link and backbone infrastructure isn't that difficult. You can use point-to-point microwave or laser communications to keep the backbone hidden, and a satellite up-link to connect to the wider world.
How do you deal with clients? You can't go around handing out access points in places like Syria or North Korea.
Even if you did, or more likely just relied on people using their existing cell phones and setting up "ghost" APs, you still are just going to get people killed.
In seriously oppressive regimes, they've just been TURNING OFF cellular communications. After that, it is child's play to do some Huff-Duff (HF-DF or High Frequency Direction Finding) in the appropriate bands to track down people with active cell phones.
Hell, North Korea is doing that NOW to track down people with Chinese cell phones who are circumventing the North Korean cell network to get outside info.
Radio signal tracking is old hat and fairly trivial.
Ultra-WideBand (UWB) would be the best, because it would just blend into the background noise, but we're back to the problem of distributing clients.
AdBlock Plus, NotScripts, and WebDeveloper are available for Chrome which are the only plugins I really would consider "must have".
Chrome is, for me, significantly faster than Firefox 4 on 64-bit Ubuntu, Windows 7 and Windows XP. It starts up faster, uses less memory, renders pages faster -- all of it.
Yesterday, after viewing dozens of documents in multiple tabs on the web, memory use in Firefox had climbed on my system to over 1 Gb. Closing down and opening the same set of tabs in Chrome, I proceeded to work in that for the rest of the day. Memory usage peaked at 380 Mb, and hovered around 250 Mb.
I could feel Firefox starting to bog down as the day wore on. I did not get that feeling with Chrome.
Intelligent discourse supposes an intelligent article to begin with. I'm not so much interested in burying stories I don't *like*, just ones that aren't up a minimum standard.
This particular story was a opinion piece disguised as objective fact. If I want that, I'll head to Fox News or The Huffington Post.
A suitable article with room for intelligent discussion would have been to compare and contrast the security features of iOS, Android, RIM and WinPhone 7. That, at least, would have been useful.
Here is a link to RSA's official statement made yesterday. They are offering to replace tokens for "customers with concentrated user bases typically focused on protecting intellectual property and corporate networks".
That is corporate VPN, not the people who use tokens issued to get to websites, such as banking info.
There are bitcoin currency exchanges where you can trade for $US.
Money -- ALL money -- is only worth anything because people mutually agree it is. All of it is nothing more than a medium for exchange that is more convenient than barter.
Backed by government can mean zilch in a very short order if no one trusts that government any longer. See Wiemar Republic and Zimbabwe for example.
Good to know. That is getting close to where I'd think about ditching VoIP.
I paid Vonage for a year in advance, which was $270 + tax for 12 months. That works out to $22.50 per month plus tax, which is just over half of what you pay.
As a CR-48 owner, I received an e-mail from Google last week with the option to purchase a Samsung ChromeBook last Wednesday that was due to start shipping today.
Until Google comes up with a better solution for printing than what they're offering now, and actually releases the Citrix connector and offline versions of Docs, Calendar and Mail, I'll pass.
Okay, at home I can live with the Google Cloud Print bit because I almost never print. But considering it for an office solution is a freaking joke.
Can you get unlimited calling, to any number in your country (and maybe a neighboring few), any time of day for under $30?
If so, I'm jealous. If not, you people under 35 need to go back and take a math class or two.
Since I'm paying for Internet access anyway, adding VoIP with those features cost me $30 a month.
Working from home, I have 2-6 hour conference calls, 4 nights a week coordinating with team members around the country. That gets mighty expensive on a cell.
I share that line with everyone in the family, which is SIGNIFICANTLY cheaper than getting them all cell phones with lots of minutes. Considering my wife stays at home to raise the little one, needing a cell because she runs around all day doesn't happen. She's at home, where the VoIP line is and can chat all day with friends and extended family and it doesn't cost me a dime.
Arresting people for holding opinions and saying things that the government doesn't like is despicable. Just because those with guns make it a "law" doesn't make it moral or just.
(And no, I'm not talking about yelling "fire" in a crowded theater type speech.)
Putting people in jail, without formal charges or even notifying anyone outside the jail that they are being held is despicable -- even if it is the law.
Yes, there are laws that EVERYONE should be above -- if they had a brain and a backbone.
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More to the point, what did the Princes of Green, Red, White and Mauve think? And what about the Marquis of Heliotrope?
U.S. Government is a big buyer of Blackberries. See the recent article here on Slashdot about gov't gadgets for numbers. They're a big chunk of your profit. And as soon as the iPhone or Android gets FIPS certified you will lose most of your U.S. Government business overnight.
Right now, most of the people I know in gov't use Blackberries only because they're forced to. Not a week goes by where I don't have users asking me when they can use their iPhone, iPad or Android device and return the BB.
We're piloting iPads and Samsung Android tablets now.
Oh, and thanks for making the BES compatible with iOS and Android devices. That'll smooth our transition when we dump your crap.
Amen! He was a politician.
In government, where security is a higher consideration for data BY LAW, the whole "move quickly to the cloud" is a nightmare.
His little stunt with whining about why gov't employees have to suffer with Blackberries instead of iPhones was a joke. (Hint: until they actually get FIPS 140-2 certified the answer is "NO".)
If he had to ask the question, he wasn't qualified for the job.
I have faith in Congress. :-)
No, that 100 MPH to 0 MPH wasn't a car crash, it was draining the battery in 10 seconds and coasting to a stop.
The authorities? You're kidding, right?
Forget the fact that most police departments don't have the skilled personnel to deal with these sorts of things. Forget that most of them are overwhelmed with physical crimes, most of which never get solved. What makes you think any of them will have the jurisdiction to deal with anything?
Notifying a national agency like the FBI will mostly overwhelm them. Yeah, it is great for their statistics, but lets not kid about their needing a head start. Anyone big enough to matter already cooperates with them first, anyway. The rest will just sit on the pile because they don't have the resources to deal with it.
Notifying *customers* is the one thing they can do that might actually make a difference.
They already have a cult, why not a union?
Creating an alternate up-link and backbone infrastructure isn't that difficult. You can use point-to-point microwave or laser communications to keep the backbone hidden, and a satellite up-link to connect to the wider world.
How do you deal with clients? You can't go around handing out access points in places like Syria or North Korea.
Even if you did, or more likely just relied on people using their existing cell phones and setting up "ghost" APs, you still are just going to get people killed.
In seriously oppressive regimes, they've just been TURNING OFF cellular communications. After that, it is child's play to do some Huff-Duff (HF-DF or High Frequency Direction Finding) in the appropriate bands to track down people with active cell phones.
Hell, North Korea is doing that NOW to track down people with Chinese cell phones who are circumventing the North Korean cell network to get outside info.
Radio signal tracking is old hat and fairly trivial.
Ultra-WideBand (UWB) would be the best, because it would just blend into the background noise, but we're back to the problem of distributing clients.
That'd be fun. Sesame Street as prior art!
That would be one hell of a fast boat.
Sorry, I don't use them so don't know what would be good or not.
Someone should start a website that lists Chrome extension equivalents to various FireFox add-ons.
AdBlock Plus, NotScripts, and WebDeveloper are available for Chrome which are the only plugins I really would consider "must have".
Chrome is, for me, significantly faster than Firefox 4 on 64-bit Ubuntu, Windows 7 and Windows XP. It starts up faster, uses less memory, renders pages faster -- all of it.
Yesterday, after viewing dozens of documents in multiple tabs on the web, memory use in Firefox had climbed on my system to over 1 Gb. Closing down and opening the same set of tabs in Chrome, I proceeded to work in that for the rest of the day. Memory usage peaked at 380 Mb, and hovered around 250 Mb.
I could feel Firefox starting to bog down as the day wore on. I did not get that feeling with Chrome.
That wasn't a sheep and a goat, that was your wife and daughter.
Intelligent discourse supposes an intelligent article to begin with. I'm not so much interested in burying stories I don't *like*, just ones that aren't up a minimum standard.
This particular story was a opinion piece disguised as objective fact. If I want that, I'll head to Fox News or The Huffington Post.
A suitable article with room for intelligent discussion would have been to compare and contrast the security features of iOS, Android, RIM and WinPhone 7. That, at least, would have been useful.
More people need to pay attention to http://slashdot.org/firehose.pl and mod stories like this into oblivion.
Here is a link to RSA's official statement made yesterday. They are offering to replace tokens for "customers with concentrated user bases typically focused on protecting intellectual property and corporate networks".
That is corporate VPN, not the people who use tokens issued to get to websites, such as banking info.
It is more fun if you throw gold in the mixture. What is heavier, a ton of gold or a ton of ?
Gold is measured in Troy ounces, where 1 Troy Oz = 1.097 avoirdupois ounce. Thus, the gold is heavier.
There are bitcoin currency exchanges where you can trade for $US.
Money -- ALL money -- is only worth anything because people mutually agree it is. All of it is nothing more than a medium for exchange that is more convenient than barter.
Backed by government can mean zilch in a very short order if no one trusts that government any longer. See Wiemar Republic and Zimbabwe for example.
Good to know. That is getting close to where I'd think about ditching VoIP.
I paid Vonage for a year in advance, which was $270 + tax for 12 months. That works out to $22.50 per month plus tax, which is just over half of what you pay.
As a CR-48 owner, I received an e-mail from Google last week with the option to purchase a Samsung ChromeBook last Wednesday that was due to start shipping today.
Until Google comes up with a better solution for printing than what they're offering now, and actually releases the Citrix connector and offline versions of Docs, Calendar and Mail, I'll pass.
Okay, at home I can live with the Google Cloud Print bit because I almost never print. But considering it for an office solution is a freaking joke.
What do you consider affordable?
Can you get unlimited calling, to any number in your country (and maybe a neighboring few), any time of day for under $30?
If so, I'm jealous. If not, you people under 35 need to go back and take a math class or two.
Since I'm paying for Internet access anyway, adding VoIP with those features cost me $30 a month.
Working from home, I have 2-6 hour conference calls, 4 nights a week coordinating with team members around the country. That gets mighty expensive on a cell.
I share that line with everyone in the family, which is SIGNIFICANTLY cheaper than getting them all cell phones with lots of minutes. Considering my wife stays at home to raise the little one, needing a cell because she runs around all day doesn't happen. She's at home, where the VoIP line is and can chat all day with friends and extended family and it doesn't cost me a dime.
They see a Squid Proxy error? I'm thinking a cure for that disease isn't too far off...
What doesn't?
Bullshit.
Arresting people for holding opinions and saying things that the government doesn't like is despicable. Just because those with guns make it a "law" doesn't make it moral or just.
(And no, I'm not talking about yelling "fire" in a crowded theater type speech.)
Putting people in jail, without formal charges or even notifying anyone outside the jail that they are being held is despicable -- even if it is the law.
Yes, there are laws that EVERYONE should be above -- if they had a brain and a backbone.
Epic fail.
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