A company's market capitalization affects it's ability to borrow money / obtain credit. What's the market cap of a company on which trading has been suspended?
All this does is give bad guys a new way to extort money from companies. "Hey, Mr. CEO! Wire $50k to my egold account by Friday or I'll send pump&dump spam and get trading suspended on yoru company's stock."
The right answer is to unroll these trades and see who is profiting. Then start doing some analysis on the brokerages associated with these trades, because I'm willing to bet we're talking about "less reputable" brokerages. Now pull their securities dealer's license. Do you think that would cause other brokerages to look more carefully at sudden large volume trades on previously thinly-traded stocks? I do.
1. Estimates are 100-150 million machines are currently part of botnets 2. Loss estimates exceed 200 billion annually on a global basis 3. Over 80% of all spam comes from botnets
Yes, I can cite. Or you can Google. They are all easy to find.
This is a HUGE problem that is, in many ways, like spam was in 1996 or 1997. The technical community acknowledges it, the average consumer has no clue, and, left unaddressed the problem and associated looses will get much, much worse.
I was referring to the note that Charter and Earthlink are already doing this. I'm not defending the practice or saying it's a good idea. The US consumer ISP space is a commodity business and any way to bring in more money is being actively looked into. It boils down to a tradeoff of income versus the goodwill of your customers. The SiteFinder approach is less broken (but broken nonetheless) if you are a consumer ISP than if you are a gTLD.
Testing some T-Mobile phones recently, I once again ran into T-Mobile's annoying policy of banning third-party applications from accessing the Internet on their phones. Like so many infringements on our liberties, this started stealthily with a few devices but now covers their entire product line.
Geez... has the author considered calling them up trying to get out of his contract or if he doesn't have one, to simply cancel and move to another carrier?
What's that? T-Mobile's data plan costs less? Sounds to me like one is gettign what one paid for.
Infringements on our liberties. Puh-leez.... Yeah, I rate this right up their with warrantless wiretapping by the government.
In the US, Sarbanes-Oxley places some strict requirements on data retention for publicly-traded companies. Employees choosing to use IM and gmail, could cause those requirements to be circumvented.
The majority of the CIO's I know come from the Apps side of the house, not the Ops side. Please note, I said the majority, not all.
Do you really believe that a CIO understands all of the underlying technology in the IT department, even at a basic level? Trust me, most don't. It's near impossible, especially when most CIO's haven't been individual contributors for many years.
I'll say it again. If you're getting 300 real alerts a day, something is fundamentally wrong with the computing environment. I applaud the fact that you care enough about the computing environment to respond to such an onslaught; it the exception rather than the rule to find people who do.
And you're right, I'm no longer a sysadmin. Though in the late 80's I managed an environment with many more than 200 machines in a 24/7 production setup. And, it was the exception, not the rule, to get paged about a failure of any kind after hours.
Oh, I'm one of those CIO/CTO people you aspire to be, so while I may sound like a pompous prick to you by delivering news you need to hear in a terse way, it doesn't change the fact that you should be able to tune your environment such that you don't get called after hours on a regular basis about failures. And I can tell you, that until you grok that, you're chances of making it to the C-level aren't good.
Actually, I began my career as a sysadmin. While I'm not a name in sysadmin, my name is one that most senior sysadmins would recognize. I've published multiple, peer-reviewed papers on topics related to systems administration.
If you are getting alert notification mail from the systems you administer on a regular basis, you might wish to consider another career because you're not doing a good job as a sysadmin. And I am saying that from both the vantage point of having been one as well as having managed 100+ both directly and indirectly.
So, now that we've established that alert notifications from your systems are a pretty rare event, I leave it as an exercise to the reader to craft a procmail script such that your blackberry only alerts you to these specific incoming alert messages.
I have a blackberry. I do not have any audio/vibro "you have mail" announcement enabled (nor do I on my desktop computer's email app). When I get home at the end of the day, guess what? I stop looking at it! Wow! What a concept, huh? But wait, what if it's really urgent? Well, then the blackberry makes a ringing noise and I talk to the person on the other end. Translated: If they really want to get hold of me RIGHT THIS VERY MINUTE, then they'll call when I don't answer their email.
Good grief man! Do you believe everything you read on the web?
Judith Miller was never "tried, convicted and sentenced to prison". She was jailed for contempt of court. Huge difference.
From the wikipedia entry on Judith Miller (which I believe a lot more than your "cited sources"):
In July of 2005, Miller was jailed for contempt of court for refusing to testify before a federal grand jury investigating a leak naming Valerie Plame as a covert CIA agent. Miller did not write about Plame, but is reportedly in possession of evidence relevant to the leak investigation. According to a subpoena, Miller met with an unnamed government official -- later revealed to be "Scooter" Libby, Vice President Cheney's Chief of Staff--on July 8, 2003, two days after former ambassador Joseph Wilson published an Op-Ed in the Times criticizing the Bush administration for "twisting" intelligence to justify war in Iraq. (Plame's CIA identity was revealed in a column by conservative political commentator Robert Novak on July 14, 2003.)
Also, the Alexandria City Jail (where Miller was jailed) is a vastly different place from federal prison.
You know why? It was his. He bought it with his money. If it broke, he didn't get issued another one. People take better care of stuff they have to buy with their own money. The IT dept in my company can show you a shelf full of busted laptops that never went to Iraq and never made 18 months.
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A company's market capitalization affects it's ability to borrow money / obtain credit. What's the market cap of a company on which trading has been suspended?
All this does is give bad guys a new way to extort money from companies. "Hey, Mr. CEO! Wire $50k to my egold account by Friday or I'll send pump&dump spam and get trading suspended on yoru company's stock."
The right answer is to unroll these trades and see who is profiting. Then start doing some analysis on the brokerages associated with these trades, because I'm willing to bet we're talking about "less reputable" brokerages. Now pull their securities dealer's license. Do you think that would cause other brokerages to look more carefully at sudden large volume trades on previously thinly-traded stocks? I do.
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/ 21/004233
Well put! That took me a second. :)
It's my way of giving the nitpickers, who otherwise have nothing of value to contribute, something to do.
People said that about spam in 1997.
because CNN is infected?
1. Estimates are 100-150 million machines are currently part of botnets
2. Loss estimates exceed 200 billion annually on a global basis
3. Over 80% of all spam comes from botnets
Yes, I can cite. Or you can Google. They are all easy to find.
This is a HUGE problem that is, in many ways, like spam was in 1996 or 1997. The technical community acknowledges it, the average consumer has no clue, and, left unaddressed the problem and associated looses will get much, much worse.
I was referring to the note that Charter and Earthlink are already doing this. I'm not defending the practice or saying it's a good idea. The US consumer ISP space is a commodity business and any way to bring in more money is being actively looked into. It boils down to a tradeoff of income versus the goodwill of your customers. The SiteFinder approach is less broken (but broken nonetheless) if you are a consumer ISP than if you are a gTLD.
is actively testing it. From their perspective, it's free money.
Good job taking care of inbound spam, but whan will they do something about spam emanating from their networks?
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https://nssg.trendmicro.com/nrs/reports/rank.php?
See #5.
It's been a while since I looked, but isn't Cingular's $19.95 plan capped at some max number of bits/month versus T-Mobile's $29.95 being uncapped?
If you are polite and persistent, you can usually get out of a term contract if some significant underlying functionality changes during the term.
Testing some T-Mobile phones recently, I once again ran into T-Mobile's annoying policy of banning third-party applications from accessing the Internet on their phones. Like so many infringements on our liberties, this started stealthily with a few devices but now covers their entire product line.
Geez... has the author considered calling them up trying to get out of his contract or if he doesn't have one, to simply cancel and move to another carrier?
What's that? T-Mobile's data plan costs less? Sounds to me like one is gettign what one paid for.
Infringements on our liberties. Puh-leez.... Yeah, I rate this right up their with warrantless wiretapping by the government.
All Scientologists are crazy, whackos who will take all of your money, brainwash you, and give you nothing in return.
whether you like it or not.
In the US, Sarbanes-Oxley places some strict requirements on data retention for publicly-traded companies. Employees choosing to use IM and gmail, could cause those requirements to be circumvented.
The majority of the CIO's I know come from the Apps side of the house, not the Ops side. Please note, I said the majority, not all.
Do you really believe that a CIO understands all of the underlying technology in the IT department, even at a basic level? Trust me, most don't. It's near impossible, especially when most CIO's haven't been individual contributors for many years.
I'll say it again. If you're getting 300 real alerts a day, something is fundamentally wrong with the computing environment. I applaud the fact that you care enough about the computing environment to respond to such an onslaught; it the exception rather than the rule to find people who do.
And you're right, I'm no longer a sysadmin. Though in the late 80's I managed an environment with many more than 200 machines in a 24/7 production setup. And, it was the exception, not the rule, to get paged about a failure of any kind after hours.
Oh, I'm one of those CIO/CTO people you aspire to be, so while I may sound like a pompous prick to you by delivering news you need to hear in a terse way, it doesn't change the fact that you should be able to tune your environment such that you don't get called after hours on a regular basis about failures. And I can tell you, that until you grok that, you're chances of making it to the C-level aren't good.
Actually, I began my career as a sysadmin. While I'm not a name in sysadmin, my name is one that most senior sysadmins would recognize. I've published multiple, peer-reviewed papers on topics related to systems administration.
If you are getting alert notification mail from the systems you administer on a regular basis, you might wish to consider another career because you're not doing a good job as a sysadmin. And I am saying that from both the vantage point of having been one as well as having managed 100+ both directly and indirectly.
So, now that we've established that alert notifications from your systems are a pretty rare event, I leave it as an exercise to the reader to craft a procmail script such that your blackberry only alerts you to these specific incoming alert messages.
I have a blackberry. I do not have any audio/vibro "you have mail" announcement enabled (nor do I on my desktop computer's email app). When I get home at the end of the day, guess what? I stop looking at it! Wow! What a concept, huh? But wait, what if it's really urgent? Well, then the blackberry makes a ringing noise and I talk to the person on the other end. Translated: If they really want to get hold of me RIGHT THIS VERY MINUTE, then they'll call when I don't answer their email.
There's a chasm of difference between a Snake Eater and a REMF
unlike my actual experience in real counter-terrorism ops
Sorry, neihter reading Tom Clancy nor playing his games qualify as real, counter-terrorism ops.
Theoretically speaking, of course. ;)
Good grief man! Do you believe everything you read on the web?
Judith Miller was never "tried, convicted and sentenced to prison". She was jailed for contempt of court. Huge difference.
From the wikipedia entry on Judith Miller (which I believe a lot more than your "cited sources"):
In July of 2005, Miller was jailed for contempt of court for refusing to testify before a federal grand jury investigating a leak naming Valerie Plame as a covert CIA agent. Miller did not write about Plame, but is reportedly in possession of evidence relevant to the leak investigation. According to a subpoena, Miller met with an unnamed government official -- later revealed to be "Scooter" Libby, Vice President Cheney's Chief of Staff--on July 8, 2003, two days after former ambassador Joseph Wilson published an Op-Ed in the Times criticizing the Bush administration for "twisting" intelligence to justify war in Iraq. (Plame's CIA identity was revealed in a column by conservative political commentator Robert Novak on July 14, 2003.)
Also, the Alexandria City Jail (where Miller was jailed) is a vastly different place from federal prison.
Two words: Judith Miller
If you and the judge disagree and you don't come around to the judge's point of view, you're going to jail.
You know why? It was his. He bought it with his money. If it broke, he didn't get issued another one. People take better care of stuff they have to buy with their own money. The IT dept in my company can show you a shelf full of busted laptops that never went to Iraq and never made 18 months.