> you could recover the cost of the reader in a semester and a half.
That's not because of the Kindle, that's because of the racket the publishers have going on in the student textbook business.
That's why textbooks cost so much, because you don't have the option to get them someplace like the Kindle. In other words, don't expect very many textbooks to be available on the Kindle anytime soon.
First off, I don't think you can sue the company unless you can prove they were somehow incompentent. Just having someone crack their security does not mean they were not taking reasonable precautions. And if they were taking what is considered to be (legally) reasonable precautions, then you aren't going to win suing them.
I'd still try, even if this weren't medical records. Now when you're dealing with medial records it's a whole new ball game. Significantly higher ante. Handling that stuff requires compliance with stiff rules. (sorry I don't recall the acronyms offhand but there are at least three of them) If you let something like that get out the door, someone's going to put you through a grinder.
better to put it in escrow for the coming lawsuits regarding careless handling of private information.
Tho I suppose if even a small percent of the "millions" exposed all take up legal action (or class action it?) as a result of the extortionist exposing their records, 1M won't get them off to a very good start. I wonder how much the courts would judge for damages regarding mishandling and loss of personal information like that, per-victim? Paying a $1M bounty on his head is probably a good deal for Express Scripts if it works.
But, serves them right. One way or another the scammer has done a public good by exposing the lax security. Unfortunately, The Public doesn't probably have a say in this, they're not the direct customers, and who can say they know who their local doctor or ER share their information with?
Initially I was surprised they didn't just pay them off or something. But then really when you are dealing with a privacy extortionist, you can pay them and they can just change the terms and say, set you up on an ongoing payment schedule to NOT release the information, so catching them before they can release it is the only way to get out of the hostage situation. Paying them off doesn't necessarily make them go away, it makes them just keep asking for more. Eventually you are going to run out of patience or run out of money and they're going to release it anyway. May as well get it over with and hope to catch them at the same time.
Though this is more of a declaration of war than anything. The extortionist may just release the info to "send a message" to future targets and chalk up this lost opportunity as an "investment" on future extortions. Will be interesting to see how things play out.
I run my own mailserver, and I make up unique email addresses (aliases to my main address) for pretty much everything. So when I get a spam, I can identify where it got loose. I've gotten spam from some amazing places. Ford and NewEgg are the big two so far. Ford from what I can tell got me bagged by the "have dealers in your area contact you" with at least one of the dealers' PCs owned.
As for NewEgg, a quick google search shows this is a widespread problem, so I assume one of NewEgg's machines (in ordering or shipping etc) is compromised.
So I can either just delete the alias, or sit back and see how long it continues. Ford spam took about a month to die out. NewEgg took over three months. Emails and phonecalls to NewEgg and Ford got nowhere, both of them insisted it couldn't have been them, and that they had "never heard of this happening to anyone before". (plausible with Ford, but certainly a brazen lie from NewEgg)
Anyway, I made an email for classmates.com when I signed up, I was interested in seeing where some of the members of my rather small class were nowadays.
I have never received spam to the email address I submitted. EVER.
I do have one minor gripe with them. When I browse and look at a classmate's profile, the web site, without asking me, "signs" their guest book. This triggers them to receive an email at the end of the month to say "xxx people have signed your guest book this month, login to see who". It's honest about what it does, and you can turn off the (on by default) auto sign on visit option. From time to time I get an email indicating someone has signed my guest book. I realize this doesn't mean they signed it, it merely means a registered user looked at my profile. (not even necessarily from my class)
But I can live with that. Of a class of 143 from '90, we've already lost seven and we're spread pretty thin. I appreciate the opportunity to meet back up with them from time to time. We don't do reunions anymore so this is about it.
This lawsuit looks like someone that didn't read the fine print and is disappointed with the results. In a way I'm happy in a way about this, because it just might attract enough press to get a few more of my classmates to sign up so I can hook back up with them again.
There are so many ways to get your name on a spam list. I think these people just don't realize all the things they've done and that several of them have gotten them spammed. I get maybe 1 spam a month if I'm lucky and have a pretty large and well-established internet footprint so I think I know what I'm talking about. My mailserver doesn't run any sophisticated antispam, it's just subscribed to 7 DNSRBL lists, mainly to help the other users of my mailserver.
On two occasions I've gotten spammed from a friend. I figured out who by examining the headers and finding that I was getting a certain variety of spam and that same mail was also going always to one specific other user of my mailserver. (spam engines that have two email addresses to one server will connect to the server once and cc it to both users, to save bandwidth/increase thruput) So I know that either I got him on the list (unlikely!) or he got me on the list. Turns out he used a friend's PC to email me once... thanks. I've considered handing out individual addresses for my friends to use but so far have not implemented that.
I hope they have figured out what to do with us by now. My gradeschool knew they needed a TAG program but had no clue what to do with us. It was fun though, they did find some interesting challenges. Though one of their ideas was to try to teach us a foreign language. Looking back on it I think I could have come up with some good suggestions. Too bad they didn't just sit us down and ASK us what we wanted to do.
Because what he did was not illegal where he lives. Luring someone onto your soil to trial them for something they did in another country isn't fair.
It would be on par with luring a woman from the Florida into Iran and then arresting her for driving her car in Florida, because it's illegal for her to drive in Iran.
I'm surprised this doesn't get thrown out of court. It's very similar to someone doing something, then a law being passed to make that act illegal, and then being arrested for having violated the law (in the past). Thankfully that one is still considered a farce.
To be fair, the article says that Google shut down the ad when notified of it; and no other examples of linked malware are offered. Was this a one-time oversight?
Given the amount of business Google gets, how can you possibly consider one instance anything but an oversight?
This is NOT "stuff that matters"
News flash! Local traffic cop overlooks jaywalker. Corruption, or honest mistake, you decide!
they make good quality legos too. I was waxing nostalgic last year and bought a generic bin of legos at kmart or something, it wasn't lego brand but looked identical, and they held together like crap.
I remember taking my 2x8 blocks and seeing how far I could get them to extend horizontally while stacked, and could get over 50 sometimes. The crappy new ones were lucky to see 10.
I also made things that required proper tolerance. I made a working lego lock. Tried to make one with the new blocks but they kept catching on each other. crap I say. Pay the money and get the real Lego.
I've replaced so many seagate laptop drives lately it's scary. tak-tak-tak, tak-tak-tak, tak-tak-tak. And that's it. I feel bad having to tell people again and again there's nothing I can do to help them and they're going to have to send it somewhere and pay out the nose if they want it back.
Ya it's somewhat their fault for no backups, but some of these people are on warranty replacement number THREE. This has GOT to be affecting the customer good-will with the OEMs by now. I don't see why OEMs continue to buy seagate HDs. Yes, they're cheaper, but when you're dealing with an angry customer on the phone that has now had a hard drive die for the third time in five months, that $5 you saved on the drive has now cost you $20 on shipping and is going to cost you another $1500 sale next upgrade cycle doesn't look so good anymore.
Seagate used to be the quality brand. (and more expensive) Now they're very near the bottom of the heap in terms of quality, and usually bottom in price. Fat lot of good that 5 year warranty does you when you go through four catastrophic failures during that timespan. The inconvenience is just not worth it.
My last seagate (and it WILL be my last) was a 2 week old 500gb HD that I could hear from outside my house when I came home from work one evening. Sounded like someone running a circular saw in my basement. Returned it to BB, they said I can go to the shelf and grab a new one. No thanks, I think I'll just take a cash refund and shop another brand.
Clearly their issues extend into the desktop market as well. Disappointing to see a brand you trust for quality just so completely tank.
that page loads but all the drive sounds are/.'ed there. I wonder if they don't attempt to mirror media like those recordings?
That or I wonder if they don't mirror on the fly... as in, they begin by mirroring the main page only, and then anytime someone requests a child page or media like those sounds effects, it downloads them from the actual page and then adds them to the mirror. That would explain why some of the HD sounds are not responding - they got there too late to mirror them before the original server went down.
I replace HDs a lot at work and I've considered recording some of the sounds because a few of the forums I'm on we often help users with what could be a failing hard drive, and it's hard to describe to them all the various things they can listen for to identify a failing hard drive. This is particularly useful for laptops that have their hard drive entombed, making removal for testing impractical for the novice. Glad to see someone else has done this for me, as I don't have access to anywhere near the variety of failed drives as these guys do.
what's annoying is going into a bar loaded with smokers for a little while with some non smoking friends. You leave, and can continue to smell the stench on each other's clothes for quite awhile.
If you find you have to plant your nose in someone's jacket to tell if they've been smoking recently, either you're a smoker, or you're around them too much and it's dulling your sense of smell.
People come in and out of the door behind me all day long, and I can tell when someone just put out before stepping in. And I mean our door. The outer door is way back there so it's not just sweeping in with them. I don't even face the door and I'm 10ft from it. Sometimes it takes a good 30 sec to make it to me after they've walked by. Smokers have no idea the "aura" they project around them after having smoked a cigarette.
sorry to hear you don't like the odor of an orange. I think OJ is ok but I don't like eating the rind, and I like the smell. I also recall reading somewhere a long time ago that an orange's smell (like squeezed OJ) can be detected after an incredible amount of diluting. (sorry can't find a reference) Shame on your bad luck.
I don't have a particular problem identifying someone that's just come in from a smoke break, they usually reek really bad, (clothes, and especially breath) but given 5 minutes, both usually settle down to about the noise level of my nose.
Though if you have a bit of clothing that you don't wash regularly, like say a fall jacket, or have long hair, that can hold the odor for quite awhile.
HOUSES of smokers though, can be REALLY bad. IMHO there ought to be a law against smoking in your house when you have a kid. That's what I really hated as a kid, being confined in a house with two smokers. Thankful they weren't chain smokers.
heros and hero props on the other hand are often known for spontaneous combustion used to melt large amount of ice and produce steam, countering ice and CO2 instead of being suppressed by it.
Is it just me or is that 76mb tif sadly lacking in quality? Looks like a lossy jpeg. Here's something off the cuff from my wallpapers folder, redstar that has more detail and is under 1mb.
don't feel sorry for them... feel sorry for the poor schmucks that actually CLICK on the image link and expect their browser to render it before the wheels grind to a halt.
The problem is most of them are "fast flux" - the C&C servers move around daily. There's no stationary target to hit. Even if you go after a host channel somewhere etc, they just move to a different IP and change domain name records.
I realize this will either be wildly popular with you or you'll hate it, but what I'd like to see someone do is infiltrate the botnet somehow (either by vulnerability or crack their key or whatever) and send a command to the herd to zero the boot sector and shut down their host. (the zombies, not the herder's machines)
Nothing enough to cause data loss, but enough to force the naive owners to take their machines to someone to get them fixed/cleaned up. I'm tired of being a victim of computer neglect en masse.
Not saying there's just one botnet out there, so I'd be greatly entertained to see them fall one by one. Should make a nice spectacle. Wouldn't it be entertaining to get up tomorrow and read front page stories all over the place the likes of which we got with Code Red, that a sizeable chunk of zombies just dropped off the grid and there were long lines at the PC repair shops this morning? Stories of entire businesses being brought to a halt because 95% of the machines in their office were owned? Sorry, but "serves them right", and thank you have a nice day while I go check my mail and see 80% fewer medications for sale.
The obvious question on their mind is "can we dump our IT staff and just outsource it?" So figure what you do, and compute how much it would cost the company to outsource the work.
The simplest way to handle all the daily stuff you do is to figure out what sort of a service contract your business would require.
Then factor in the occasional emergency / disaster, and what the additional cost to the outsourced company would be to have them come in under emergency conditions and fix things.
It'd be a bit tricky to try to attack the dollar amount from "what disasters we prevent would otherwise cost", and is simpler to just calculate the cost of the preventative services. How much you'd have to pay your outsourcing people to provide the same protection as you do now.
Don't forget they will need phone support to replace all the heads poking into your office with a "quick question".
Quality outsourced IT is expensive. They'll learn that really quickly. If you lowball your outsourced IT, everyone suffers.
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> you could recover the cost of the reader in a semester and a half.
That's not because of the Kindle, that's because of the racket the publishers have going on in the student textbook business.
That's why textbooks cost so much, because you don't have the option to get them someplace like the Kindle. In other words, don't expect very many textbooks to be available on the Kindle anytime soon.
As far as examples go, that one's really poor.
and don't forget you will be BILLED for the time the lawyers take to use GOOGLE to find your infringements!
First off, I don't think you can sue the company unless you can prove they were somehow incompentent. Just having someone crack their security does not mean they were not taking reasonable precautions. And if they were taking what is considered to be (legally) reasonable precautions, then you aren't going to win suing them.
I'd still try, even if this weren't medical records. Now when you're dealing with medial records it's a whole new ball game. Significantly higher ante. Handling that stuff requires compliance with stiff rules. (sorry I don't recall the acronyms offhand but there are at least three of them) If you let something like that get out the door, someone's going to put you through a grinder.
better to put it in escrow for the coming lawsuits regarding careless handling of private information.
Tho I suppose if even a small percent of the "millions" exposed all take up legal action (or class action it?) as a result of the extortionist exposing their records, 1M won't get them off to a very good start. I wonder how much the courts would judge for damages regarding mishandling and loss of personal information like that, per-victim? Paying a $1M bounty on his head is probably a good deal for Express Scripts if it works.
But, serves them right. One way or another the scammer has done a public good by exposing the lax security. Unfortunately, The Public doesn't probably have a say in this, they're not the direct customers, and who can say they know who their local doctor or ER share their information with?
Initially I was surprised they didn't just pay them off or something. But then really when you are dealing with a privacy extortionist, you can pay them and they can just change the terms and say, set you up on an ongoing payment schedule to NOT release the information, so catching them before they can release it is the only way to get out of the hostage situation. Paying them off doesn't necessarily make them go away, it makes them just keep asking for more. Eventually you are going to run out of patience or run out of money and they're going to release it anyway. May as well get it over with and hope to catch them at the same time.
Though this is more of a declaration of war than anything. The extortionist may just release the info to "send a message" to future targets and chalk up this lost opportunity as an "investment" on future extortions. Will be interesting to see how things play out.
I run my own mailserver, and I make up unique email addresses (aliases to my main address) for pretty much everything. So when I get a spam, I can identify where it got loose. I've gotten spam from some amazing places. Ford and NewEgg are the big two so far. Ford from what I can tell got me bagged by the "have dealers in your area contact you" with at least one of the dealers' PCs owned.
As for NewEgg, a quick google search shows this is a widespread problem, so I assume one of NewEgg's machines (in ordering or shipping etc) is compromised.
So I can either just delete the alias, or sit back and see how long it continues. Ford spam took about a month to die out. NewEgg took over three months. Emails and phonecalls to NewEgg and Ford got nowhere, both of them insisted it couldn't have been them, and that they had "never heard of this happening to anyone before". (plausible with Ford, but certainly a brazen lie from NewEgg)
Anyway, I made an email for classmates.com when I signed up, I was interested in seeing where some of the members of my rather small class were nowadays.
I have never received spam to the email address I submitted. EVER.
I do have one minor gripe with them. When I browse and look at a classmate's profile, the web site, without asking me, "signs" their guest book. This triggers them to receive an email at the end of the month to say "xxx people have signed your guest book this month, login to see who". It's honest about what it does, and you can turn off the (on by default) auto sign on visit option. From time to time I get an email indicating someone has signed my guest book. I realize this doesn't mean they signed it, it merely means a registered user looked at my profile. (not even necessarily from my class)
But I can live with that. Of a class of 143 from '90, we've already lost seven and we're spread pretty thin. I appreciate the opportunity to meet back up with them from time to time. We don't do reunions anymore so this is about it.
This lawsuit looks like someone that didn't read the fine print and is disappointed with the results. In a way I'm happy in a way about this, because it just might attract enough press to get a few more of my classmates to sign up so I can hook back up with them again.
There are so many ways to get your name on a spam list. I think these people just don't realize all the things they've done and that several of them have gotten them spammed. I get maybe 1 spam a month if I'm lucky and have a pretty large and well-established internet footprint so I think I know what I'm talking about. My mailserver doesn't run any sophisticated antispam, it's just subscribed to 7 DNSRBL lists, mainly to help the other users of my mailserver.
On two occasions I've gotten spammed from a friend. I figured out who by examining the headers and finding that I was getting a certain variety of spam and that same mail was also going always to one specific other user of my mailserver. (spam engines that have two email addresses to one server will connect to the server once and cc it to both users, to save bandwidth/increase thruput) So I know that either I got him on the list (unlikely!) or he got me on the list. Turns out he used a friend's PC to email me once... thanks. I've considered handing out individual addresses for my friends to use but so far have not implemented that.
I hope they have figured out what to do with us by now. My gradeschool knew they needed a TAG program but had no clue what to do with us. It was fun though, they did find some interesting challenges. Though one of their ideas was to try to teach us a foreign language. Looking back on it I think I could have come up with some good suggestions. Too bad they didn't just sit us down and ASK us what we wanted to do.
... tricks like this should not be legal.
Why not?
Because what he did was not illegal where he lives. Luring someone onto your soil to trial them for something they did in another country isn't fair.
It would be on par with luring a woman from the Florida into Iran and then arresting her for driving her car in Florida, because it's illegal for her to drive in Iran.
I'm surprised this doesn't get thrown out of court. It's very similar to someone doing something, then a law being passed to make that act illegal, and then being arrested for having violated the law (in the past). Thankfully that one is still considered a farce.
To be fair, the article says that Google shut down the ad when notified of it; and no other examples of linked malware are offered. Was this a one-time oversight?
Given the amount of business Google gets, how can you possibly consider one instance anything but an oversight?
This is NOT "stuff that matters"
News flash! Local traffic cop overlooks jaywalker. Corruption, or honest mistake, you decide!
they make good quality legos too. I was waxing nostalgic last year and bought a generic bin of legos at kmart or something, it wasn't lego brand but looked identical, and they held together like crap.
I remember taking my 2x8 blocks and seeing how far I could get them to extend horizontally while stacked, and could get over 50 sometimes. The crappy new ones were lucky to see 10.
I also made things that required proper tolerance. I made a working lego lock. Tried to make one with the new blocks but they kept catching on each other. crap I say. Pay the money and get the real Lego.
I've replaced so many seagate laptop drives lately it's scary. tak-tak-tak, tak-tak-tak, tak-tak-tak. And that's it. I feel bad having to tell people again and again there's nothing I can do to help them and they're going to have to send it somewhere and pay out the nose if they want it back.
Ya it's somewhat their fault for no backups, but some of these people are on warranty replacement number THREE. This has GOT to be affecting the customer good-will with the OEMs by now. I don't see why OEMs continue to buy seagate HDs. Yes, they're cheaper, but when you're dealing with an angry customer on the phone that has now had a hard drive die for the third time in five months, that $5 you saved on the drive has now cost you $20 on shipping and is going to cost you another $1500 sale next upgrade cycle doesn't look so good anymore.
Seagate used to be the quality brand. (and more expensive) Now they're very near the bottom of the heap in terms of quality, and usually bottom in price. Fat lot of good that 5 year warranty does you when you go through four catastrophic failures during that timespan. The inconvenience is just not worth it.
My last seagate (and it WILL be my last) was a 2 week old 500gb HD that I could hear from outside my house when I came home from work one evening. Sounded like someone running a circular saw in my basement. Returned it to BB, they said I can go to the shelf and grab a new one. No thanks, I think I'll just take a cash refund and shop another brand.
Clearly their issues extend into the desktop market as well. Disappointing to see a brand you trust for quality just so completely tank.
that page loads but all the drive sounds are /.'ed there. I wonder if they don't attempt to mirror media like those recordings?
That or I wonder if they don't mirror on the fly... as in, they begin by mirroring the main page only, and then anytime someone requests a child page or media like those sounds effects, it downloads them from the actual page and then adds them to the mirror. That would explain why some of the HD sounds are not responding - they got there too late to mirror them before the original server went down.
I replace HDs a lot at work and I've considered recording some of the sounds because a few of the forums I'm on we often help users with what could be a failing hard drive, and it's hard to describe to them all the various things they can listen for to identify a failing hard drive. This is particularly useful for laptops that have their hard drive entombed, making removal for testing impractical for the novice. Glad to see someone else has done this for me, as I don't have access to anywhere near the variety of failed drives as these guys do.
what's annoying is going into a bar loaded with smokers for a little while with some non smoking friends. You leave, and can continue to smell the stench on each other's clothes for quite awhile.
If you find you have to plant your nose in someone's jacket to tell if they've been smoking recently, either you're a smoker, or you're around them too much and it's dulling your sense of smell.
People come in and out of the door behind me all day long, and I can tell when someone just put out before stepping in. And I mean our door. The outer door is way back there so it's not just sweeping in with them. I don't even face the door and I'm 10ft from it. Sometimes it takes a good 30 sec to make it to me after they've walked by. Smokers have no idea the "aura" they project around them after having smoked a cigarette.
sorry to hear you don't like the odor of an orange. I think OJ is ok but I don't like eating the rind, and I like the smell. I also recall reading somewhere a long time ago that an orange's smell (like squeezed OJ) can be detected after an incredible amount of diluting. (sorry can't find a reference) Shame on your bad luck.
I don't have a particular problem identifying someone that's just come in from a smoke break, they usually reek really bad, (clothes, and especially breath) but given 5 minutes, both usually settle down to about the noise level of my nose.
Though if you have a bit of clothing that you don't wash regularly, like say a fall jacket, or have long hair, that can hold the odor for quite awhile.
HOUSES of smokers though, can be REALLY bad. IMHO there ought to be a law against smoking in your house when you have a kid. That's what I really hated as a kid, being confined in a house with two smokers. Thankful they weren't chain smokers.
r=0;echo > temp3;echo "00110001 00110011 00110011 00110111 00100000 01101011 01100101 01111001 00100000 01101001 01110011 00100000 01100001 00100000 01110000 01101100 01110101 01100111 01101001 01101110 00100000 01110100 01101111 00100000 01101101 01100001 01101011 01100101 00100000 01110000 01101111 01110011 01110100 01110011 00100000 01100110 01110101 01101110 01101110 01101001 01100101 01110010" | tr ' ' '\n' | while read x ; do if [ $(($r/16*16)) == $r ] ; then echo >> temp3;echo -n "$(echo "obase=16;$(($r/16))" | bc): " >> temp3;fi;r=$((r+1));t=$(echo "ibase=2;$x" | bc);b=$(echo "obase=16;$t" | bc);echo -n "$b " >> temp3;done;cat temp3 | xxd -r;rm temp3;echo
and bash is a plugin to make funny posts more interesting
heros and hero props on the other hand are often known for spontaneous combustion used to melt large amount of ice and produce steam, countering ice and CO2 instead of being suppressed by it.
Is it just me or is that 76mb tif sadly lacking in quality? Looks like a lossy jpeg. Here's something off the cuff from my wallpapers folder, redstar that has more detail and is under 1mb.
Bone marrow replicates itself. You can keep digging it out of the same person's bone, or out of someone who receives it.
Though I've heard this procedure is quite painful, breaking into bones to dig out (or stuff in) marrow.
don't feel sorry for them... feel sorry for the poor schmucks that actually CLICK on the image link and expect their browser to render it before the wheels grind to a halt.
The problem is most of them are "fast flux" - the C&C servers move around daily. There's no stationary target to hit. Even if you go after a host channel somewhere etc, they just move to a different IP and change domain name records.
I realize this will either be wildly popular with you or you'll hate it, but what I'd like to see someone do is infiltrate the botnet somehow (either by vulnerability or crack their key or whatever) and send a command to the herd to zero the boot sector and shut down their host. (the zombies, not the herder's machines)
Nothing enough to cause data loss, but enough to force the naive owners to take their machines to someone to get them fixed/cleaned up. I'm tired of being a victim of computer neglect en masse.
Not saying there's just one botnet out there, so I'd be greatly entertained to see them fall one by one. Should make a nice spectacle. Wouldn't it be entertaining to get up tomorrow and read front page stories all over the place the likes of which we got with Code Red, that a sizeable chunk of zombies just dropped off the grid and there were long lines at the PC repair shops this morning? Stories of entire businesses being brought to a halt because 95% of the machines in their office were owned? Sorry, but "serves them right", and thank you have a nice day while I go check my mail and see 80% fewer medications for sale.
The obvious question on their mind is "can we dump our IT staff and just outsource it?" So figure what you do, and compute how much it would cost the company to outsource the work.
The simplest way to handle all the daily stuff you do is to figure out what sort of a service contract your business would require.
Then factor in the occasional emergency / disaster, and what the additional cost to the outsourced company would be to have them come in under emergency conditions and fix things.
It'd be a bit tricky to try to attack the dollar amount from "what disasters we prevent would otherwise cost", and is simpler to just calculate the cost of the preventative services. How much you'd have to pay your outsourcing people to provide the same protection as you do now.
Don't forget they will need phone support to replace all the heads poking into your office with a "quick question".
Quality outsourced IT is expensive. They'll learn that really quickly. If you lowball your outsourced IT, everyone suffers.
I wonder if Ballmer would agree that ignorance should be 'strongly recommended when it comes to patents'?"
Makes you wonder if they think that constitutes "plausible deniability"?
Your honor, you see, we can't possibly have knowingly broken the law, we have a company policy of delibrate ignorance."
physical access usually = owned.