To me the biggest risk in any product is not getting the right product out. Quality comes second. Iterating rapidly allows you to get to the right product. The impact on quality that comes from not having enough time to think through design, code and test, in theory, could be compensated for by "smarts". To the extent Agile helps iterate to get to the right product it is valuable. The specific mechanics of it are not "nature laws" and hence should and must be changed by smart people to see if it fits their purpose.
before any of you start saying India this and India that, ban H1B, nuke em all etc. Just remember this is one image and India is 1.3 million Sq mile in area with 29 states, 7 Union Territories, 122 major languages and 1599 other languages, 3 sign languages, 6 major religions, oral literature dating back to 1500 BCE, some of the richest and the poorest people, at least 14 different ethnic groups, 6 national level political parties, 1800 total political parties... etc. India is not " is" India "are". So please take a nuanced approach to everything. Read, learn, present arguments with humility that you know only a small fraction of what needs to be known to even take a position on this country.
Agree that they are doing things that are worrisome indicators. I have written about one experience here. In essence, they used my account information (like an alternative email address for forwarding of alerts) in bizarre ways.
I often use passwords that are us one of 2 non-english languages that i speak well. The words and phrases in that when written in English are typically unique to me as there is no right way to spell hindi words in English and then i add sprinkling of local context from my childhood. So Hindi for teacher is adhyapika/adhyaapica/adhyapeeka and now change few of those letters with numbers/special characters using one of the many possible choices... replace english letters with corresponding numbers or actually change the corresponding letters with numbers from hindi alphabet set (like aa could be 11 or 2).
My sense is that using non-english languages brings in a complexity that is highly resistant to attacks but I am not sure. In theory someone could have compiled a password dictionary with these combinations as well.
I think you missed 2 points. First of all the total video content over the network is really low due to the fact that the broadband penetration is at around 20% globally. Secondly most of the content is still not HD. You and I are benefitting from this in terms of the last mile being the bottleneck. So even if just consider HD resolution, the backbone will start to get clogged as more content becomes HD and more people get on broadband. To reiterate last mile will not be the bottleneck the backbone will be. There are many more points around why 4K makes sense which have to do with interactivity (think digital zoom) and projection displays but we dont even need to go there to see why networks will be unable to keep up as they stand today.
Is it not possible to make every access to data logged (whether through the application our outside of it) and then provide permissions to change those permissions only to a select group of people. These limited set of people (with ability to change the logging behaviour of the systems) can then be selected/monitored through highly stringent processes. While this will not eliminate the possibility of still having an insider threat but I'd think it'd go a long way towards deterring "insider" threat especially of all admins know that all their actions are logged and only the "superadmins" can change that. It seems to me that it is a design + awareness issue combined. Then comes the issue of even if it can built (the process) and implemented is there sufficient motivation for Cloud providers to do this. This is where regulation may be needed because if this investment is measured using regular business investment metrics around ROI then it is unlikely to meet the criteria.
Not so fast my friend. Video breaks this assumption especially when you consider increase in broadband penetration rates over next few years. Last mile, which has been the bottleneck for the first 20 years of internet will find that the other parts of the network backbone, peering points etc will need costly upgrades to carry all the video traffic. Especially as the video content on the internet moves from a measly 320x240 largely to HD, 4K and beyond. The increase in resolution and increase the demand for higher resolution (broadband penetration) can possibly change the economics to a physical media based distribution model especially for high resolution video. Even mobile video can consume a lot of bandwidth if it has interactivity. In many ways, relatively low penetration of braodband has been the reason that has kept the internet from collapsing under its owne weight.
Network based content distribution technologies are evolving to help address this. But my point is that the outcome is not as certain as you make it sound.
I found this (http://diagonalslash.blogspot.com/2010/08/google-must-respond-and-plug-this-leak.html) of privacy on part of Google quite astonishing. For some reason very few people seem to care about Google's continued "unusual and unexpected" usage of data provided by its users. The trade-offs you are making as you share each bit of information with Google are not at all obvious and easy to understand.
The issue I have raised continues to exist (though it was much worse earlier) in Gmail.
Google definitely uses my data in ways that I don't explicitly authorize them to (arguably it is embedded in one of those terms of service that i sign but I am not talking technicality here but perception of trust) and definitely creates suspicion on total transparency image that is often spread in this forum. I have posted my experience below.
Change your name huh !! When you are asked to show your educational degrees which still have the old name and will continue to have unless you can have those changed as well. It isnt that simple is it ? Changing the name. Some one who has tried should shed more light on this.
People who benefit most from M&As are the wall street fat cat investment bankers. They are always on the prowl for creating marriages where none exist. The Company management usually is a weak defense against the might of these wall streeters, who combine smarts, aggression, money and massive selling skills to unsuspecting and often incompetent management. These guys are masters are discrediting company insiders who know something about the product and market while promoting insiders who spout their line of thinking. I have seen this used by some of the VC sponsored companies that have used these underhanded tactics.
the arrogance of the tech community at slashdot it quite astounding.. what makes you think you can really do whatever he does at half the price... I am not saying that this guy is great shakes but being the COO of a multi-billion dollar company is not an easy job at all and takes very different skills from being a tech whiz. Have you carried any revenue targets ever in your life ? This post has been marked funny but it is time that slashdotters understand that running a business is tough.
While I am not a supporter of any particular person, I think a CTO doesnt need to be a specialist but should have the breadth of understanding across a range of issues around technologies, have the strong analytical sense so that he or she can organize problems and solutions in a structure that makes decision making possible. I think it is structured thinking and a demonstrated love for technology that are important not advanced knowledge of a particular focussed discipline.
It seems unlikely to me that a Megacorp will out of the blue come up with a valuation and a decision to buy out a start up at the stage described here. Not in these times, at least. I am an entrepreneur and we had a Megacorp, that we were working with closely, discuss ways in which we can collaborate. One of the person in the Megacorp suggested the possibility of an acquisition and even threw in a number(18 months back) but I didnot consider it credible and it wasnt. These buyouts are a crap shoot and can fail for more reasons than one can count and often for no apparent reason. Only suggestion I have is to get outside opinion from someone who has a few years (10) of experience, someone you can trust and has played this game in the past(an entrepreneur or VC). Get his view and decide quickly. If you determine that you have a good shot at converting this (after advice from someone more experienced), go ahead and put a date say 60 days for closure. Always push for the MegaCorp to get committed as remember these are big Companies which have no souls and emotions you can appeal to...... wait get help!!
Gunpoint china... you must be smoking heavy duty. The biggest threat to Chinese Party is from the inside than outside. China is not a pushover like Iraq and while may not military might of the US the key is that it doesn't need to. It has more than a credible level of deterrence.
Insightful... really. The analogy sucks at best. First of all it is not murder that is being carried out. If it is developed world continues to carry bulk of the murder even today. If that is the analogy then we should all stop dead on our tracks.
The consumption analogy is more apt here and there is no way the developed world will be able to get the developing world to adopt to new standards unless they take the lead and solve the problem they created in the first place. Tough shit huh!!
There is just no political structure to make that happen in India or China.
if newspaper organizations do not have viable model. In essence good quality news requires presence of high quality tools and personnel that can be deployed rapidly across the globe to cover a wide range of events. If they cannot generate sufficient money from their effort and go down who will do this job ?
News aggregators need news for aggregation. I havent heard anyone in slashdot help address this fundamental challenge.
this is not a tirade against google or argument in favor of newspapers but just wondering what is the new model of news media that we are conceiving if all or most of the traditional news media go down. User generated news is has too much noise to have any validity and lacks quality and predictability.
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To me the biggest risk in any product is not getting the right product out. Quality comes second. Iterating rapidly allows you to get to the right product. The impact on quality that comes from not having enough time to think through design, code and test, in theory, could be compensated for by "smarts". To the extent Agile helps iterate to get to the right product it is valuable. The specific mechanics of it are not "nature laws" and hence should and must be changed by smart people to see if it fits their purpose.
before any of you start saying India this and India that, ban H1B, nuke em all etc. Just remember this is one image and India is 1.3 million Sq mile in area with 29 states, 7 Union Territories, 122 major languages and 1599 other languages, 3 sign languages, 6 major religions, oral literature dating back to 1500 BCE, some of the richest and the poorest people, at least 14 different ethnic groups, 6 national level political parties, 1800 total political parties... etc. India is not " is" India "are". So please take a nuanced approach to everything. Read, learn, present arguments with humility that you know only a small fraction of what needs to be known to even take a position on this country.
Agree that they are doing things that are worrisome indicators. I have written about one experience here. In essence, they used my account information (like an alternative email address for forwarding of alerts) in bizarre ways.
http://diagonalslash.blogspot.com/2010/05/google-is-messing-with-my-profile-data.html
i dont have to worry about internet connectivity when on business trips to the dark side...
I often use passwords that are us one of 2 non-english languages that i speak well. The words and phrases in that when written in English are typically unique to me as there is no right way to spell hindi words in English and then i add sprinkling of local context from my childhood. So Hindi for teacher is adhyapika/adhyaapica/adhyapeeka and now change few of those letters with numbers/special characters using one of the many possible choices... replace english letters with corresponding numbers or actually change the corresponding letters with numbers from hindi alphabet set (like aa could be 11 or 2).
My sense is that using non-english languages brings in a complexity that is highly resistant to attacks but I am not sure. In theory someone could have compiled a password dictionary with these combinations as well.
I think you missed 2 points. First of all the total video content over the network is really low due to the fact that the broadband penetration is at around 20% globally. Secondly most of the content is still not HD. You and I are benefitting from this in terms of the last mile being the bottleneck. So even if just consider HD resolution, the backbone will start to get clogged as more content becomes HD and more people get on broadband. To reiterate last mile will not be the bottleneck the backbone will be. There are many more points around why 4K makes sense which have to do with interactivity (think digital zoom) and projection displays but we dont even need to go there to see why networks will be unable to keep up as they stand today.
Is it not possible to make every access to data logged (whether through the application our outside of it) and then provide permissions to change those permissions only to a select group of people. These limited set of people (with ability to change the logging behaviour of the systems) can then be selected/monitored through highly stringent processes. While this will not eliminate the possibility of still having an insider threat but I'd think it'd go a long way towards deterring "insider" threat especially of all admins know that all their actions are logged and only the "superadmins" can change that. It seems to me that it is a design + awareness issue combined. Then comes the issue of even if it can built (the process) and implemented is there sufficient motivation for Cloud providers to do this. This is where regulation may be needed because if this investment is measured using regular business investment metrics around ROI then it is unlikely to meet the criteria.
Not so fast my friend. Video breaks this assumption especially when you consider increase in broadband penetration rates over next few years. Last mile, which has been the bottleneck for the first 20 years of internet will find that the other parts of the network backbone, peering points etc will need costly upgrades to carry all the video traffic. Especially as the video content on the internet moves from a measly 320x240 largely to HD, 4K and beyond. The increase in resolution and increase the demand for higher resolution (broadband penetration) can possibly change the economics to a physical media based distribution model especially for high resolution video. Even mobile video can consume a lot of bandwidth if it has interactivity. In many ways, relatively low penetration of braodband has been the reason that has kept the internet from collapsing under its owne weight.
Network based content distribution technologies are evolving to help address this. But my point is that the outcome is not as certain as you make it sound.
I found this (http://diagonalslash.blogspot.com/2010/08/google-must-respond-and-plug-this-leak.html) of privacy on part of Google quite astonishing. For some reason very few people seem to care about Google's continued "unusual and unexpected" usage of data provided by its users. The trade-offs you are making as you share each bit of information with Google are not at all obvious and easy to understand.
The issue I have raised continues to exist (though it was much worse earlier) in Gmail.
so you have had your parents for longer than your heat pump. what is your point ?
talking about bugs i have documented my experience here http://diagonalslash.blogspot.com/2010/05/google-is-messing-with-my-profile-data.html
While the bug exposed it there is something going on here which i didn;t expect as a user.
Google definitely uses my data in ways that I don't explicitly authorize them to (arguably it is embedded in one of those terms of service that i sign but I am not talking technicality here but perception of trust) and definitely creates suspicion on total transparency image that is often spread in this forum. I have posted my experience below.
http://diagonalslash.blogspot.com/2010/05/google-is-messing-with-my-profile-data.html
Oops sorry i am ahead i missed a digit there
Damn you beat me again...
Change your name huh !! When you are asked to show your educational degrees which still have the old name and will continue to have unless you can have those changed as well. It isnt that simple is it ? Changing the name. Some one who has tried should shed more light on this.
DVD that can store data for 1000 years. Who cares even if it does ?
People who benefit most from M&As are the wall street fat cat investment bankers. They are always on the prowl for creating marriages where none exist. The Company management usually is a weak defense against the might of these wall streeters, who combine smarts, aggression, money and massive selling skills to unsuspecting and often incompetent management. These guys are masters are discrediting company insiders who know something about the product and market while promoting insiders who spout their line of thinking. I have seen this used by some of the VC sponsored companies that have used these underhanded tactics.
the arrogance of the tech community at slashdot it quite astounding.. what makes you think you can really do whatever he does at half the price... I am not saying that this guy is great shakes but being the COO of a multi-billion dollar company is not an easy job at all and takes very different skills from being a tech whiz. Have you carried any revenue targets ever in your life ? This post has been marked funny but it is time that slashdotters understand that running a business is tough.
Its the number of disintermediaries that is the problem here - too few and hence too powerful.
While I am not a supporter of any particular person, I think a CTO doesnt need to be a specialist but should have the breadth of understanding across a range of issues around technologies, have the strong analytical sense so that he or she can organize problems and solutions in a structure that makes decision making possible. I think it is structured thinking and a demonstrated love for technology that are important not advanced knowledge of a particular focussed discipline.
It seems unlikely to me that a Megacorp will out of the blue come up with a valuation and a decision to buy out a start up at the stage described here. Not in these times, at least. I am an entrepreneur and we had a Megacorp, that we were working with closely, discuss ways in which we can collaborate. One of the person in the Megacorp suggested the possibility of an acquisition and even threw in a number(18 months back) but I didnot consider it credible and it wasnt. These buyouts are a crap shoot and can fail for more reasons than one can count and often for no apparent reason. Only suggestion I have is to get outside opinion from someone who has a few years (10) of experience, someone you can trust and has played this game in the past(an entrepreneur or VC). Get his view and decide quickly. If you determine that you have a good shot at converting this (after advice from someone more experienced), go ahead and put a date say 60 days for closure. Always push for the MegaCorp to get committed as remember these are big Companies which have no souls and emotions you can appeal to ...... wait get help!!
Gunpoint china... you must be smoking heavy duty. The biggest threat to Chinese Party is from the inside than outside. China is not a pushover like Iraq and while may not military might of the US the key is that it doesn't need to. It has more than a credible level of deterrence.
Insightful... really. The analogy sucks at best. First of all it is not murder that is being carried out. If it is developed world continues to carry bulk of the murder even today. If that is the analogy then we should all stop dead on our tracks.
The consumption analogy is more apt here and there is no way the developed world will be able to get the developing world to adopt to new standards unless they take the lead and solve the problem they created in the first place. Tough shit huh!!
There is just no political structure to make that happen in India or China.
You are definitely not married.
if newspaper organizations do not have viable model. In essence good quality news requires presence of high quality tools and personnel that can be deployed rapidly across the globe to cover a wide range of events. If they cannot generate sufficient money from their effort and go down who will do this job ?
News aggregators need news for aggregation. I havent heard anyone in slashdot help address this fundamental challenge.
this is not a tirade against google or argument in favor of newspapers but just wondering what is the new model of news media that we are conceiving if all or most of the traditional news media go down. User generated news is has too much noise to have any validity and lacks quality and predictability.