So, basically, you'd have the larger cities, tech valley, movie capitol on the west side of the state (the side with more money), and then the 'rural' counties on the east side of the state (that have less money)?
Hmm...yeah, I don't think that's a really good idea. You'd be better off with a north and south division, so the economics are more even.
Lenovo actually keeps an 11-inch sized netbook around in it's line up in a couple of flavors, but the full PC version is the ThinkPad 11e. It can ben outfitted with 8GB of RAM, 256GB SSD, and Core i3 Processor if you like.
When a company focuses on taking care of their Employees, then the employees can focus on getting work done, getting the client taken care of.
Part of that is keeping employees skilled. You might think the worst that could happen is that they outgrow your company and move on because they've become highly skilled. That's not true at all. They could be underskilled and stay right where they are...until the company goes under.
Well, I could get their fee schedule and amenitines, as well as probably the decore from their website. And if I sat outside the building with a cup of coffee, I could see who comes and goes. Now, actually trying to hack their systems from inside...well, that's another matter. But, there's no discussion of that here.
I could stand outside handing out fliers and telling them to come by for a visit and a special offer, details during the tour if they come by. Then just pilfer them that way by offering them a percentage off whatever they're paying now as their deal.
I'm struggling to figure out just what "trade secrets" there might be in a co-working setup. The billing system? The facilities? The sort of coffee they have? The network setup? The way they control print costs?
It's hard for me to imagine just what a co-working group has to really hide that's so proprietary.
I suspect that this will be a split decision, but I would surmise that the SCOTUS will not be willing to set the precident that it's okay for another country to access data across boarders with traditional search warrants, but this will require cooperative search warrants. That is, if the US issues a Search Warrant, and then the country in which the server resides will, in turn, issue a matching Search Warrant, then the data can be accessed.
However, I do not believe the SCOTUS will want Ireland or Dubia or any other of these 40+ countries to be able to unilaterally issue a single Search Warrant for data inside the US. If SCOTUS allows the US to do it, they set the precident that they would agree that other countries could do it to the US.
Seriously, manufacturers are in a hurry to get product to market, IoT security is an afterthought, that hopefully can be updated with firmware upgrades OTA.
So, how long before they start classifying Helpdesk and System Admin positions as 'lower-skilled' positions that are eligible for the H-2B? As companies move to make Entry level, or level 1 positions more KB and 'script' based, it doesn't seem like a huge leap for some IT positions to become classified as H-2B level.
I'm sure we all have many concerns about this case and the privacy of our data. Here are my thoughts and questions:
1.) If it's really National Security, why didn't it go through the FISA courts? Or, why hasn't the NSA/CIA simply covertly recovered the data for them?
2.) If MS won't give you the data because you're in the US, why don't they contact the Ireland courts with their warrant and request some international assistance? Perhaps they'll issue a warrant for the data in Ireland and release it to the US DoJ?
3.) Let's take this to the next [il]logical step - If a big company like MS, takes over an unclaimed island and becomes its own sovereign country, then places data centers there that store massive amounts of personal data from various countries; they make personal privacy their highest law; how do other countries retrieve data from there for court-ordered cases, when the data is clearly in a pro-privacy country? Do they use trespass on their sovereignty and use cyber-tactics to extract the data?
While this case has been running around for 4 years, a federal court has ruled, so the Supreme Court may simply let that ruling stand. They aren't obligated to hear the case. Plus, it might not be a Pandora's Box they want to open. Imagine then that Russian/Chinese/North Korean/Whatever courts could request data from US servers for companies that are doing business in/with Russian/Chinese/North Korean/Whatever jurisdictions. This could effectively set precedence how the DoJ would have to respond to foreign powers. That's really beyond the scope of the courts, isn't it?
With the political shift of Missouri to a Republican slant, while Primary Public Education in Missouri will hit 'full funding' or come close to it in the state, (which triggers other interesting, and positive events to happen,) we have seen Higher Education take a major hit in funding. They've lost $150M across the state. The University of Missouri - Columbia, the 'bright and shining star' of the UM system, has been rocked with scandals that have caused the turnover of high-level potions in the preceding years, which has caused their attendance to plummet.
With such a large loss in their budget from state funding, it's not surprising to see UM looking to not just cut, but slash costs in other areas. While not rocked by scandals, other Public Higher Education institutes are feeling the very same belt-tightening, such as the University of Central Missouri. "It used to be a college where a farm-boy could set a cow or two, and get a good education." That's a direct quote I've heard from more than one alumni, but it's far, far from the case any more.
I suspect that states like Missouri, will struggle for the next few years, with Public Higher Education. It's becoming a necessity for entry-level jobs in our Knowledge Age (opposed to the Industrial Age), where Knowledge Workers have to have stronger skill sets. States and the US will struggle in this area until we figure out it needs to become easier and more reasonable for all High School graduates to be able to attend 4-year and trade schools to make themselves fully ready for the job market.
Can the CIO, Paul Ramsay, define for us just how many "some" is in the 'Some of the jobs will be relocated to Bangalore, India.'? Is that half a dozen? A dozen? Two dozen? Or more like 75 or 100...or, you know, 125 jobs?
I'd like to think, likely naively so, that some day shareholders will wake up and realize that not all things that are good for the bottom line, are good for the company, either in the short term with morale, or long term for the longevity of and sustainability of the company.
For hotels to actually be successful in clawing back the business from travel sites, they're going to have to be willing to take that 30% commission that they were giving the travel sites, and give it to the traveler as a discount.
They're not getting that money anyway, but they can use the 30% discount to lure people back, and when they're used to booking with their favorite chain, they'll be able to reduce that to 20% or 15% and effectively offer their returning travelers more upgrades or amenities.
Dragon-file - We are totally workaholics, compared to much of Europe. It's a hold over from our roots in the Industrial Age, and our need to feel like we need more, More, MORE!
However, I would be curious what percentage of US IT workers don't have a college or university degree. Just last night, someone I've worked with for 12 years asked me why I didn't have some additional sashes for presiding over a graduation ceremony, I replied that I only had a 2-year degree. He look surprised and nodded, "Good for you!" he told me.
So, it would be interesting to see how far wrong you can go with crowdsourcing this sort of information. Get a new phone, new number, enter your own detail as mis-information, wrong name, nickname, bogus details..see how far, or how long that gets spread around.
The easiest and most obvious is that the vehicles will just stop outside of the house/apartment and the person will walk to the street and unlock the package with a phone.
So, they will they only make deliveries when I'm home? Meaning the bulk of the fleet would operate after hours in the window from 6PM to 9PM, when people are home, but not yet in bed. I'm not sure this approach would work well for the average person with a 8AM to 5PM job.
However, if they -do- deliver it when I plan to be home, nights, weekends, etc.. and I set the delivery time and they adhere to it, that could work.
So, Amazon will use driverless cars to deliver goods. How do you suppose those goods get from the car, to the 3rd floor apartment, or in onto the porch of the house, or if there are special instructions, through the gate and onto the step at the back door? A drone based in the vehicle? I think you're going to have to have someone involved there to get the package to where it needs to go.
Yeah, I'm old enough I don't get it either. The only reason I can imagine my garage door being attached as an IoT, is to tell me I left it open, and to close it. Or it was opened by RF and I wasn't expecting it to. The IoT doesn't need to open my garage. Too much of a physical security risk. (RF can be the same way, but we've given up on that for a long, long time.)
I can see very limited reasons to be able to open my garage door, or front door, or side door, or whatever, remotely, over the internet. If it's an emergency, I guess I'll either have had to leave a key with someone I trust, or just tell them to bust in my window/door/etc to get in.
We tell our children: Don't share things on social media you think could come back on you later. It NEVER goes away.
If you put your doors on the IoT, it's like passing out your keys to everyone out there...and it NEVER goes away, unless you uninstall the product.
In the US, if you still subscribe to the Declaration of Independence, these patent law findings potentially infringe on the 'pursuit of happiness' to tinker and modify, so long as they aren't infringing on the personal rights of others. If these are indeed, "unalienable Rights," then even due process shouldn't be able to easily wipe them away.
I'm probably wrong from a legal perspective, but it sounds like the 'right' answer to me.
I thought you were being detained and your phone searched without due process, because you're in one of those legal "grey zones" not technically in the US. If you can't be protected by the laws there, why would you be subject to charges?
Customs and boarder crossing is becoming more and more the a little mini US GITMO.
Additionally, all of the above isn't overly helpful (except maybe the group email address), if you start outsourcing whole departments. Even if if you document things, the chances are there will be some things, like this, lost in translation.
However, you're right, they're generally effective steps to mitigate this issue. Especially number 1, if your credit card info never expires.:-)
I think I'd like to take this opportunity to point out that this is what happens as we do more and more with IT on less and less staff. While I understand sometimes we think of IT as a cost-center and not a revenue generator, it probably needs to be thought of as more like a utility; because without the lights, water, phones...and internet, you can't do business very effectively these days.
That being said, this happens more and more. Someone is responsible for renewing certificates, but as we renew them for longer and longer periods, that means we simply start to forget about them. Then with the certificate issuer sends out an notification to that IT staffer who used to do that, but was 'right sized' a year and a half ago...no one gets the email. So, the certificate expires and this happens. Same song, different, louder verse, apparently when it happens to DHS, and likely more embarrassing.
Bottom line: Doing more with less, isn't always in everyone's best interest.
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So, basically, you'd have the larger cities, tech valley, movie capitol on the west side of the state (the side with more money), and then the 'rural' counties on the east side of the state (that have less money)?
Hmm...yeah, I don't think that's a really good idea. You'd be better off with a north and south division, so the economics are more even.
Lenovo actually keeps an 11-inch sized netbook around in it's line up in a couple of flavors, but the full PC version is the ThinkPad 11e. It can ben outfitted with 8GB of RAM, 256GB SSD, and Core i3 Processor if you like.
Info here: https://www3.lenovo.com/us/en/...
Super Dipolamtic Powers...Activ...oh, nevermind. :-(
When a company focuses on taking care of their Employees, then the employees can focus on getting work done, getting the client taken care of.
Part of that is keeping employees skilled. You might think the worst that could happen is that they outgrow your company and move on because they've become highly skilled. That's not true at all. They could be underskilled and stay right where they are ...until the company goes under.
Well, I could get their fee schedule and amenitines, as well as probably the decore from their website. And if I sat outside the building with a cup of coffee, I could see who comes and goes. Now, actually trying to hack their systems from inside...well, that's another matter. But, there's no discussion of that here.
I could stand outside handing out fliers and telling them to come by for a visit and a special offer, details during the tour if they come by. Then just pilfer them that way by offering them a percentage off whatever they're paying now as their deal.
I'm struggling to figure out just what "trade secrets" there might be in a co-working setup. The billing system? The facilities? The sort of coffee they have? The network setup? The way they control print costs?
It's hard for me to imagine just what a co-working group has to really hide that's so proprietary.
I suspect that this will be a split decision, but I would surmise that the SCOTUS will not be willing to set the precident that it's okay for another country to access data across boarders with traditional search warrants, but this will require cooperative search warrants. That is, if the US issues a Search Warrant, and then the country in which the server resides will, in turn, issue a matching Search Warrant, then the data can be accessed.
However, I do not believe the SCOTUS will want Ireland or Dubia or any other of these 40+ countries to be able to unilaterally issue a single Search Warrant for data inside the US. If SCOTUS allows the US to do it, they set the precident that they would agree that other countries could do it to the US.
Just my gut feeling on the matter.
No one.
Next question?
Seriously, manufacturers are in a hurry to get product to market, IoT security is an afterthought, that hopefully can be updated with firmware upgrades OTA.
So, how long before they start classifying Helpdesk and System Admin positions as 'lower-skilled' positions that are eligible for the H-2B? As companies move to make Entry level, or level 1 positions more KB and 'script' based, it doesn't seem like a huge leap for some IT positions to become classified as H-2B level.
I'm sure we all have many concerns about this case and the privacy of our data. Here are my thoughts and questions:
1.) If it's really National Security, why didn't it go through the FISA courts? Or, why hasn't the NSA/CIA simply covertly recovered the data for them?
2.) If MS won't give you the data because you're in the US, why don't they contact the Ireland courts with their warrant and request some international assistance? Perhaps they'll issue a warrant for the data in Ireland and release it to the US DoJ?
3.) Let's take this to the next [il]logical step - If a big company like MS, takes over an unclaimed island and becomes its own sovereign country, then places data centers there that store massive amounts of personal data from various countries; they make personal privacy their highest law; how do other countries retrieve data from there for court-ordered cases, when the data is clearly in a pro-privacy country? Do they use trespass on their sovereignty and use cyber-tactics to extract the data?
While this case has been running around for 4 years, a federal court has ruled, so the Supreme Court may simply let that ruling stand. They aren't obligated to hear the case. Plus, it might not be a Pandora's Box they want to open. Imagine then that Russian/Chinese/North Korean/Whatever courts could request data from US servers for companies that are doing business in/with Russian/Chinese/North Korean/Whatever jurisdictions. This could effectively set precedence how the DoJ would have to respond to foreign powers. That's really beyond the scope of the courts, isn't it?
With the political shift of Missouri to a Republican slant, while Primary Public Education in Missouri will hit 'full funding' or come close to it in the state, (which triggers other interesting, and positive events to happen,) we have seen Higher Education take a major hit in funding. They've lost $150M across the state. The University of Missouri - Columbia, the 'bright and shining star' of the UM system, has been rocked with scandals that have caused the turnover of high-level potions in the preceding years, which has caused their attendance to plummet.
With such a large loss in their budget from state funding, it's not surprising to see UM looking to not just cut, but slash costs in other areas. While not rocked by scandals, other Public Higher Education institutes are feeling the very same belt-tightening, such as the University of Central Missouri. "It used to be a college where a farm-boy could set a cow or two, and get a good education." That's a direct quote I've heard from more than one alumni, but it's far, far from the case any more.
I suspect that states like Missouri, will struggle for the next few years, with Public Higher Education. It's becoming a necessity for entry-level jobs in our Knowledge Age (opposed to the Industrial Age), where Knowledge Workers have to have stronger skill sets. States and the US will struggle in this area until we figure out it needs to become easier and more reasonable for all High School graduates to be able to attend 4-year and trade schools to make themselves fully ready for the job market.
Can the CIO, Paul Ramsay, define for us just how many "some" is in the 'Some of the jobs will be relocated to Bangalore, India.'? Is that half a dozen? A dozen? Two dozen? Or more like 75 or 100...or, you know, 125 jobs?
I'd like to think, likely naively so, that some day shareholders will wake up and realize that not all things that are good for the bottom line, are good for the company, either in the short term with morale, or long term for the longevity of and sustainability of the company.
For hotels to actually be successful in clawing back the business from travel sites, they're going to have to be willing to take that 30% commission that they were giving the travel sites, and give it to the traveler as a discount.
They're not getting that money anyway, but they can use the 30% discount to lure people back, and when they're used to booking with their favorite chain, they'll be able to reduce that to 20% or 15% and effectively offer their returning travelers more upgrades or amenities.
Dragon-file - We are totally workaholics, compared to much of Europe. It's a hold over from our roots in the Industrial Age, and our need to feel like we need more, More, MORE!
However, I would be curious what percentage of US IT workers don't have a college or university degree. Just last night, someone I've worked with for 12 years asked me why I didn't have some additional sashes for presiding over a graduation ceremony, I replied that I only had a 2-year degree. He look surprised and nodded, "Good for you!" he told me.
So, it would be interesting to see how far wrong you can go with crowdsourcing this sort of information. Get a new phone, new number, enter your own detail as mis-information, wrong name, nickname, bogus details..see how far, or how long that gets spread around.
The easiest and most obvious is that the vehicles will just stop outside of the house/apartment and the person will walk to the street and unlock the package with a phone.
So, they will they only make deliveries when I'm home? Meaning the bulk of the fleet would operate after hours in the window from 6PM to 9PM, when people are home, but not yet in bed. I'm not sure this approach would work well for the average person with a 8AM to 5PM job.
However, if they -do- deliver it when I plan to be home, nights, weekends, etc.. and I set the delivery time and they adhere to it, that could work.
So, Amazon will use driverless cars to deliver goods. How do you suppose those goods get from the car, to the 3rd floor apartment, or in onto the porch of the house, or if there are special instructions, through the gate and onto the step at the back door? A drone based in the vehicle? I think you're going to have to have someone involved there to get the package to where it needs to go.
....until next quarter or the second half of the year, when we get an even more powerful graphics card!
Yeah, I'm old enough I don't get it either. The only reason I can imagine my garage door being attached as an IoT, is to tell me I left it open, and to close it. Or it was opened by RF and I wasn't expecting it to. The IoT doesn't need to open my garage. Too much of a physical security risk. (RF can be the same way, but we've given up on that for a long, long time.)
I can see very limited reasons to be able to open my garage door, or front door, or side door, or whatever, remotely, over the internet. If it's an emergency, I guess I'll either have had to leave a key with someone I trust, or just tell them to bust in my window/door/etc to get in.
We tell our children: Don't share things on social media you think could come back on you later. It NEVER goes away.
If you put your doors on the IoT, it's like passing out your keys to everyone out there...and it NEVER goes away, unless you uninstall the product.
I imagine the Tourism Lobby will have a dollar or two to ..er, I mean, thing or two to say about this.
Alternatively, can you imagine how we would react if the UK decided to do the same with US visitors?
In the US, if you still subscribe to the Declaration of Independence, these patent law findings potentially infringe on the 'pursuit of happiness' to tinker and modify, so long as they aren't infringing on the personal rights of others. If these are indeed, "unalienable Rights," then even due process shouldn't be able to easily wipe them away.
I'm probably wrong from a legal perspective, but it sounds like the 'right' answer to me.
I had trouble finding the article provided in the news entry. CIO had it here: http://www.cio.com/article/317...
I thought you were being detained and your phone searched without due process, because you're in one of those legal "grey zones" not technically in the US. If you can't be protected by the laws there, why would you be subject to charges?
Customs and boarder crossing is becoming more and more the a little mini US GITMO.
Additionally, all of the above isn't overly helpful (except maybe the group email address), if you start outsourcing whole departments. Even if if you document things, the chances are there will be some things, like this, lost in translation.
However, you're right, they're generally effective steps to mitigate this issue. Especially number 1, if your credit card info never expires. :-)
I think I'd like to take this opportunity to point out that this is what happens as we do more and more with IT on less and less staff. While I understand sometimes we think of IT as a cost-center and not a revenue generator, it probably needs to be thought of as more like a utility; because without the lights, water, phones...and internet, you can't do business very effectively these days.
That being said, this happens more and more. Someone is responsible for renewing certificates, but as we renew them for longer and longer periods, that means we simply start to forget about them. Then with the certificate issuer sends out an notification to that IT staffer who used to do that, but was 'right sized' a year and a half ago...no one gets the email. So, the certificate expires and this happens. Same song, different, louder verse, apparently when it happens to DHS, and likely more embarrassing.
Bottom line: Doing more with less, isn't always in everyone's best interest.