That's because they were in fact socio political experiments. For example one of the bunkers had a single faulty water chip, whereas another bunker had an excess of water chips, but no GECK.
Well intentioned, but this solution is fundamentally wrong.
The only thing that can really fix the problem is a modification to legislation surrounding patents, as well as clearer guidelines to patent examiners and stronger/any penalties for trolls. The above proposed puts the onus on OSS to file tonnes of stuff that should be considered obvious, simply to avoid predatory patent lawyers. In other words, innovation is still hampered.
It's even simpler than that. Once you assume God, it trumps all. See very low levels of Carbon-14 in those fossils? God did that. Drill up what appears to be vegetation processed in the bowels of the earth for eons? God put it there. Infer design from the simplicity of empty space(quite the logical left turn btw)? It's gee-to-tha-oh-to-tha-dee.
It's the whole problem with intelligent design as science: it's not a search for causes, it's looking for an understanding gap(real or imagined) in order to insert ideology.
The Submitter him/herself doesn't work with sensitive info, just other dept's. IT is enforcing an overly broad solution on everyone, with considering the downside. I agree with you that sensitive data needs to be secured, but rolling out disk encryption to everyone in a company when a subset of everyone is dealing with sensitive info is maybe overkill, and the impacts to the primary activity of other depts needs to at least be quantified and considered.
Parent is on the right track, imo. Submitter should work with the IT dept to assess the impact of this.
Setup two machines running the same processing task that is actual work that he does, one with encryption and one without. Compare the difference in processing. If the performance loss is acceptable, all done. If it's not acceptable, submitter needs to start agitating now that this will seriously hamper his/her ability to do the job, and push IT to come up with a different solution.
A previous employer rolled this out, and after my work productivity got killed, i found their assessment consisted of two guys opening MS Word, making some edits, saving, and exiting word.
It wasn't an accident. From the article, it looks like they fundamentally changed their profile/account structure (note I'm not a yahoo user, this is simply from RTFA).
It seems to "migrate" existing data to the new structure is not clear-cut and linear. In theory, they could have built some user facing tools to allow the users to choose different data migration paths, although this would invariably involve a ton of additional complexity, which is probably why they opted not to do it.
I suspect this is being done in advance of some social networking type features they're planning to roll out, and they wanted to get the unpleasantness out of the way so that it didn't mar the release of their shiny new features.
Agreed. This is the typical way this pans out, the path of least resistance if you will.
Where I've seen greater success is a) biz takes training in tech to understand what's going on. I'm not talking html 101, I mean they take courses for tech managers. b) tech is directly accountable for and has input into biz objectives. Further, they need to understand things like strategic plan and product roadmap.
Harvard Business Review had an article (in may of 2008 IIRC) about a japanese bank that implemented some of these techniques along with a pseudo agile dev methodology (which they intelligently didn't call agile, because some large enterprise and heuristically anti-agile) they called "pathing".
In deed this strikes me as the climatological equivalent to the following song:
I know an old lady who swallowed a cow,
I wonder how she swallowed a cow?!
She swallowed the cow to catch the goat,
She swallowed the goat to catch the dog,
She swallowed the dog to catch the cat,
She swallowed the cat to catch the bird,
She swallowed the bird to catch the spider,
That wriggled and jiggled and tickled inside her,
She swallowed the spider to catch the fly,
I don't know why she swallowed the fly,
I guess she'll die.
Seriously though, the applets point is a joke. Applets were dead well before Flash was anything more than an animation tool. Applets always have and always will suck, that's why we have so much shit DHTML to deal with; it was easier to hack it together with a document markup and some (at the time) piece of shit scripting language that had to run correctly on up to six disparate platforms at a time, because even THEN it was easier and better than applets. If you think applets ever had any real significance to Java's maturity, I'd guess you've been off coding.net for the last 7 years.
Java is entrenched in business server apps, and overall that's probably still growing. 20 years? Try 80.
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Wrong again! 1 long, 2 fars.
That's because they were in fact socio political experiments. For example one of the bunkers had a single faulty water chip, whereas another bunker had an excess of water chips, but no GECK.
Well intentioned, but this solution is fundamentally wrong.
The only thing that can really fix the problem is a modification to legislation surrounding patents, as well as clearer guidelines to patent examiners and stronger/any penalties for trolls. The above proposed puts the onus on OSS to file tonnes of stuff that should be considered obvious, simply to avoid predatory patent lawyers. In other words, innovation is still hampered.
It's even simpler than that. Once you assume God, it trumps all. See very low levels of Carbon-14 in those fossils? God did that. Drill up what appears to be vegetation processed in the bowels of the earth for eons? God put it there. Infer design from the simplicity of empty space(quite the logical left turn btw)? It's gee-to-tha-oh-to-tha-dee.
It's the whole problem with intelligent design as science: it's not a search for causes, it's looking for an understanding gap(real or imagined) in order to insert ideology.
RTFA FTW!!!
The Submitter him/herself doesn't work with sensitive info, just other dept's. IT is enforcing an overly broad solution on everyone, with considering the downside. I agree with you that sensitive data needs to be secured, but rolling out disk encryption to everyone in a company when a subset of everyone is dealing with sensitive info is maybe overkill, and the impacts to the primary activity of other depts needs to at least be quantified and considered.
Parent is on the right track, imo. Submitter should work with the IT dept to assess the impact of this.
Setup two machines running the same processing task that is actual work that he does, one with encryption and one without. Compare the difference in processing. If the performance loss is acceptable, all done. If it's not acceptable, submitter needs to start agitating now that this will seriously hamper his/her ability to do the job, and push IT to come up with a different solution.
A previous employer rolled this out, and after my work productivity got killed, i found their assessment consisted of two guys opening MS Word, making some edits, saving, and exiting word.
"Thou shouldst not have been old, nuncle, until thou hadst been wise"
How about +1 accurate? Japan is already a creditor of the US.
Meh just buy it now on credit. I'm sure the japanese will lend us the money. It's foolproof!!
It wasn't an accident. From the article, it looks like they fundamentally changed their profile/account structure (note I'm not a yahoo user, this is simply from RTFA).
It seems to "migrate" existing data to the new structure is not clear-cut and linear. In theory, they could have built some user facing tools to allow the users to choose different data migration paths, although this would invariably involve a ton of additional complexity, which is probably why they opted not to do it.
I suspect this is being done in advance of some social networking type features they're planning to roll out, and they wanted to get the unpleasantness out of the way so that it didn't mar the release of their shiny new features.
At least he has chicken.
When you lay out all you money and roll around naked in it, do you ever worry about infections?
You Mainers won't be so smug when you find out that Windows Mojave is really Vista!!!
which was changed during editing, but further reinforces the prescience of Mr. Clarke.
Agreed. This is the typical way this pans out, the path of least resistance if you will.
Where I've seen greater success is a) biz takes training in tech to understand what's going on. I'm not talking html 101, I mean they take courses for tech managers. b) tech is directly accountable for and has input into biz objectives. Further, they need to understand things like strategic plan and product roadmap.
Harvard Business Review had an article (in may of 2008 IIRC) about a japanese bank that implemented some of these techniques along with a pseudo agile dev methodology (which they intelligently didn't call agile, because some large enterprise and heuristically anti-agile) they called "pathing".
Here is a link to a spot where you can buy copies (ugh, I know, buy) but if you can track down a free copy it's worth a read:
http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/b02/en/common/item_detail.jhtml;jsessionid=EGWNZ1OVIAUO0AKRGWDR5VQBKE0YIISW?id=R0803J
You've missed the point of the article, and this is clearly due to the Earth's magnetic field.
Never mind Kerrigan, I still can't get over what the Zerg did to Aeris.
Bah, it's been two hours already, and no one's corrected you. Don't you look stupid...
Yes, in fact this applies to any democracy.
You imply that usage of the site is a prerequisite for the insecurity. Many sites create risk for customers who've never even logged on.
In deed this strikes me as the climatological equivalent to the following song: I know an old lady who swallowed a cow, I wonder how she swallowed a cow?! She swallowed the cow to catch the goat, She swallowed the goat to catch the dog, She swallowed the dog to catch the cat, She swallowed the cat to catch the bird, She swallowed the bird to catch the spider, That wriggled and jiggled and tickled inside her, She swallowed the spider to catch the fly, I don't know why she swallowed the fly, I guess she'll die.
Yes, that's why I posted it. Techdirt is typically highly critical of the RIAA, and if THEY think this story smells, that it doesn't past muster.
Indeed. Techdirt had an article about this two days ago.
You fail at boobies.
Actually, Java has lots of data....
Seriously though, the applets point is a joke. Applets were dead well before Flash was anything more than an animation tool. Applets always have and always will suck, that's why we have so much shit DHTML to deal with; it was easier to hack it together with a document markup and some (at the time) piece of shit scripting language that had to run correctly on up to six disparate platforms at a time, because even THEN it was easier and better than applets. If you think applets ever had any real significance to Java's maturity, I'd guess you've been off coding .net for the last 7 years.
Java is entrenched in business server apps, and overall that's probably still growing. 20 years? Try 80.