You reduce your company's exposure, or risk, to certain failures.
Part of quantifying that is stating the cost of catastrophe. That's the big scary part of the pitch.
But since there is always competition afoot (outsourcing IT), you must also quantify how much time the little things you do save the company, if say the response time of an outside IT vendor is 24 hours or whatever it would be. If you need to know what the response time is, call some as if you were looking to outsource your company's IT and ask them. Then add a little because it's never as efficient as they'll claim.
They're trying to do an honest service to their anti-virus users, and if they could truly masquerade as real users it might work.
So far however, it's trivial for the bad guys to work around their efforts.
If they could make it work right, it might make sense for some sort of pseudo-protocol addition where each AVG client notifies a site AFTER a series of visits that X number of visits that day were of the fake variety.
Interestingly enough, web hosting is also something Dreamhost does not do well.
They are a too-good-to-be-true priced web hosting firm that does not respond to support claims in a timely manner, if at all. They suffer many outages and major performance problems, and their support and service lines simply go silent when major problems hit.
So, it comes as no surprise that they cannot offer a reasonable email service.
"This is a complex Oracle database, and yes, even read-only access can cause major problems. These problems are prevented by accessing the data through the approved application.
If you would like full query access, you will need to provide an Oracle-trained staff member to perform that work. And even then, all warranties on the system are off.
Our preferred solution to your business requirements in this case is for you to submit queries for approval and/or integration into the front-end application. If there are strict deadlines involved, please let us know and we can try to accommodate those.
Please understand this isn't an issue of control, but simply of us trying to maintain a high level of quality of service. It may seem like read-only access is safe, but it is not. If you would like further clarification of this reasoning, please contact us and we would be happy to arrange a presentation."
If they want a presentation, you show them how poor queries can crash the database or cause unacceptable performance problems and misunderstood results.
From the article: The next step is to give each machine a direct Internet connection, with appropriate security technology, skipping the LAN, he predicted.
"The two major barriers are performance and reliability," Whiteley noted.
That "appropriate security technology" isn't even on the horizon, and given the rate of major Windows releases I'm going to say "within 10 years" is flat out wrong. Even 20 years is hard to imagine, because some LANs provide nearly complete physical separation.
It's time for the EFF and some supernerds to entrap the government.
Plant some communications that raise the government's interest enough to show up to investigate. Ensure the communications, once the plot is revealed, would not be judged to be a real threat or significantly illegal otherwise. But make sure it raises ire and causes a response that could not otherwise have been wise to the communications had they not been illegally snooping.
Bonus points if you can make it high profile enough that Cheney cannot absolve himself of knowledge of the details of the trap.
I can only laugh that the Brittish people are paying for this.
I suspect they will only be willing to pay for this for a very limited time.
I give this whole experiment at most 10 years before they start tearing it down under the flag of "scaling it back and reducing costs," at which point another period will pass and they'll scrap the whole thing.
It's sad that you presume that all of those organizations, through and through, are tyrants.
Because that is not the case. Anything you cite I'm sure will be annecdotal and far from evidence that as a whole those organizations are bad.
And it's kind of funny that so many of the annecdotes tend to involve citizens with a deep seeded opinion that the police are bad. I'm not saying that's the case here, but it seems to be the case quite often.
It's important to know the difference between not trusting authority and distrusting authority.
And due to the political power of blogs I suspect most members of congress are now smart enough and motivated enough to see right through this and kill it in short order.
It's somewhat understandable that the labels see Apple as a competitor now after they tried and failed to exert price control. But they're going to die clutching a bunch of soggy back catalogs once someone creates a new haven for artists.
As someone who lifts weights casually, playing a lot of wii sports seems to have really damaged and shrunk the applicable muscles. It feels similar to the effect baseball players experience if they try throwing a wiffle ball; something that is a huge no-no once you've developed those muscles.
But it does get me off the couch and moving around which has had a very minor positive effect on my body fat levels.
If police respond to too many bogus or non-priority complaints, they need to come up with a system or penalty that addresses that.
If they need to prioritize severity of complaints being considered for immediate response, I don't see how a cell phone photo or street-corner camera is going to provide an accurate enough assessment to make that kind of critical determination.
If there simply aren't enough police to cover a territory, then tell the taxpayers they need to provide more police.
This is exactly how big brother measures get implemented and it's totally predictable. At first there is a good cause, and eventually once the system is in place it gets abused.
Since most of the people I work with carry guns to work, I wouldn't recommend that.
If you're worried about the occasional psychopath, you've been watching too much TV. The increase in frequency of these attacks is a matter of perception (for several reasons) rather than reality, and that's no reason to start treating people like a cold corporation. If anything it's that kind of treatment that really makes those kind of people feel isolated and part of a world that just doesn't care.
Show a little human decency and let honesty be the best policy.
It sounds like this guy got a highly effective lesson in the fact that Americans are not prone to martyrdom.
In all of these taser threads, I see a lot of people assuming they're not safe, but I have yet to see one single supported claim that they are inherently unsafe. I can imagine if a person has a pacemaker it's unsafe, but at this point I'm not seeing any evidence it's unsafe.
That said, I can't imagine why 5 police officers were unable to move a handcuffed victim safely to a squad car. And then for them to use a disabling device as a means of getting the guy to move is something I'm sure was at least wrong on their part. Maybe not criminal, but definitely poor tool selection at the least.
The video does demonstrate audibly that there were at least a handful of vocal students yelling at the police to stop using the taser after the first one. The impression I got was that it was an unpleasant and somewhat inhumane sight to see.
At this point I just want to hear the police justification for this painful and botched attempt to remove the guy. I can't imagine how it will go well because the guy appears to offer no physical threat or significant deterrant to simply picking him up and hauling him away.
The problem here is simple. People want to be able to listen to music for at least 4 hours between charges, but they want their cell phones to run multiple days between charges.
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Let California stack up a bunch of feel-good legislation like this, so the rest of us can point to them as an example of a failed nanny state.
Anyone suggesting this in the face of a $44 billion budget deficit should be run out of town.
You reduce your company's exposure, or risk, to certain failures.
Part of quantifying that is stating the cost of catastrophe. That's the big scary part of the pitch.
But since there is always competition afoot (outsourcing IT), you must also quantify how much time the little things you do save the company, if say the response time of an outside IT vendor is 24 hours or whatever it would be. If you need to know what the response time is, call some as if you were looking to outsource your company's IT and ask them. Then add a little because it's never as efficient as they'll claim.
Just pretend you're going to speak in front of management.
They're trying to do an honest service to their anti-virus users, and if they could truly masquerade as real users it might work.
So far however, it's trivial for the bad guys to work around their efforts.
If they could make it work right, it might make sense for some sort of pseudo-protocol addition where each AVG client notifies a site AFTER a series of visits that X number of visits that day were of the fake variety.
Interestingly enough, web hosting is also something Dreamhost does not do well.
They are a too-good-to-be-true priced web hosting firm that does not respond to support claims in a timely manner, if at all. They suffer many outages and major performance problems, and their support and service lines simply go silent when major problems hit.
So, it comes as no surprise that they cannot offer a reasonable email service.
The business rule here is:
"This is a complex Oracle database, and yes, even read-only access can cause major problems. These problems are prevented by accessing the data through the approved application.
If you would like full query access, you will need to provide an Oracle-trained staff member to perform that work. And even then, all warranties on the system are off.
Our preferred solution to your business requirements in this case is for you to submit queries for approval and/or integration into the front-end application. If there are strict deadlines involved, please let us know and we can try to accommodate those.
Please understand this isn't an issue of control, but simply of us trying to maintain a high level of quality of service. It may seem like read-only access is safe, but it is not. If you would like further clarification of this reasoning, please contact us and we would be happy to arrange a presentation."
If they want a presentation, you show them how poor queries can crash the database or cause unacceptable performance problems and misunderstood results.
From the article:
The next step is to give each machine a direct Internet connection, with appropriate security technology, skipping the LAN, he predicted.
"The two major barriers are performance and reliability," Whiteley noted.
That "appropriate security technology" isn't even on the horizon, and given the rate of major Windows releases I'm going to say "within 10 years" is flat out wrong. Even 20 years is hard to imagine, because some LANs provide nearly complete physical separation.
It's good to know they have their bases covered when it comes to honest people.
I'm sure they'll get all of the dishonest people with the subsequent Really Real ID.
Until the man is disbarred from coast to coast, let's continue to feed the fire.
It's time for the EFF and some supernerds to entrap the government.
Plant some communications that raise the government's interest enough to show up to investigate. Ensure the communications, once the plot is revealed, would not be judged to be a real threat or significantly illegal otherwise. But make sure it raises ire and causes a response that could not otherwise have been wise to the communications had they not been illegally snooping.
Bonus points if you can make it high profile enough that Cheney cannot absolve himself of knowledge of the details of the trap.
I can only laugh that the Brittish people are paying for this.
I suspect they will only be willing to pay for this for a very limited time.
I give this whole experiment at most 10 years before they start tearing it down under the flag of "scaling it back and reducing costs," at which point another period will pass and they'll scrap the whole thing.
It's sad that you presume that all of those organizations, through and through, are tyrants.
Because that is not the case. Anything you cite I'm sure will be annecdotal and far from evidence that as a whole those organizations are bad.
And it's kind of funny that so many of the annecdotes tend to involve citizens with a deep seeded opinion that the police are bad. I'm not saying that's the case here, but it seems to be the case quite often.
It's important to know the difference between not trusting authority and distrusting authority.
Ted Stevens is a voter confirmed failure.
And due to the political power of blogs I suspect most members of congress are now smart enough and motivated enough to see right through this and kill it in short order.
It's somewhat understandable that the labels see Apple as a competitor now after they tried and failed to exert price control. But they're going to die clutching a bunch of soggy back catalogs once someone creates a new haven for artists.
As someone who lifts weights casually, playing a lot of wii sports seems to have really damaged and shrunk the applicable muscles. It feels similar to the effect baseball players experience if they try throwing a wiffle ball; something that is a huge no-no once you've developed those muscles.
But it does get me off the couch and moving around which has had a very minor positive effect on my body fat levels.
"Has the EULA ever been tested as a binding contract? Is it set in stone that an EULA is legally binding?"
Are you prepared to test it?
I just don't get why this tradeoff is necessary.
If police respond to too many bogus or non-priority complaints, they need to come up with a system or penalty that addresses that.
If they need to prioritize severity of complaints being considered for immediate response, I don't see how a cell phone photo or street-corner camera is going to provide an accurate enough assessment to make that kind of critical determination.
If there simply aren't enough police to cover a territory, then tell the taxpayers they need to provide more police.
This is exactly how big brother measures get implemented and it's totally predictable. At first there is a good cause, and eventually once the system is in place it gets abused.
Since most of the people I work with carry guns to work, I wouldn't recommend that.
If you're worried about the occasional psychopath, you've been watching too much TV. The increase in frequency of these attacks is a matter of perception (for several reasons) rather than reality, and that's no reason to start treating people like a cold corporation. If anything it's that kind of treatment that really makes those kind of people feel isolated and part of a world that just doesn't care.
Show a little human decency and let honesty be the best policy.
Which fusion system design is it that creates a self-sustaining reaction that requires active containment in order to not turn us into another star?
It sounds like this guy got a highly effective lesson in the fact that Americans are not prone to martyrdom.
In all of these taser threads, I see a lot of people assuming they're not safe, but I have yet to see one single supported claim that they are inherently unsafe. I can imagine if a person has a pacemaker it's unsafe, but at this point I'm not seeing any evidence it's unsafe.
That said, I can't imagine why 5 police officers were unable to move a handcuffed victim safely to a squad car. And then for them to use a disabling device as a means of getting the guy to move is something I'm sure was at least wrong on their part. Maybe not criminal, but definitely poor tool selection at the least.
The video does demonstrate audibly that there were at least a handful of vocal students yelling at the police to stop using the taser after the first one. The impression I got was that it was an unpleasant and somewhat inhumane sight to see.
At this point I just want to hear the police justification for this painful and botched attempt to remove the guy. I can't imagine how it will go well because the guy appears to offer no physical threat or significant deterrant to simply picking him up and hauling him away.
Countdown to Diebold biting off more than they can chew by suing Google.
Lesson #205
Tribute.wmv was funny, 9/11 wasn't, see the critical difference?
Lesson #206
Tribute.wmv was not funny to those who lost a loved one in 9/11.
Lesson #207
Tribute.wmv is still funny.
Insert SIDS as necessary.
"How can we get the FCC to audit their licensees?"
By telling them to stop wasting so much energy trying to be the morality police, so they can get back to what they were chartered to do.
Iran achieves nirvana.
The problem here is simple. People want to be able to listen to music for at least 4 hours between charges, but they want their cell phones to run multiple days between charges.