Vary the amounts randomly in a cake recipe. Do the same with a tomato sauce recipe. Which has a greater probability of being edible?
Sorry, I don't see what's so special
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In a standard recipe, ingredients are listed in the order in which you use them. I don't see what's so peculiar about that that makes it "womanly"
If you look at the whole recipes on his site, there's still your normail, detailed instructions. I guess it's nice having a quick synopsis at-a-glance, but I'm going to carefully read the entire recipe if it's new to me before I even begin mis en place
This is especially true with baking which is much more akin to chemistry than, say, tomato sauce.
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Not quite. You do not trust them with a storage device they can remove from the premises. How does that work? In many successful companies, quite well, actually. The "no removeable storage devices" policy is becoming more and more prevalent.
A clever person with physical access can always steal information. As stated above, one makes it increasingly difficult until one reaches what one feels is an acceptable level of risk.
Zero effect? Give me a break. An idiot can use a USB flash drive. All of the ways you outline require a higher level of intelligence.
By eliminating an entire group of people (non-technical ones) from being able to steal, one has made their information more secure.
Most security-consciou companies log email transmissions. If you suddenly start emailing tons of data to an unknown address, chances are good it's detectable.
What MS is doingis making it harder to steal, not impossible. One continues to raise the bar of difficulty until one attains a level of acceptable risk. This makes it easier to raise the bar.
In a 20 person company, if you are dilligent, you can, in all liklihood hire trustworthy people. No so easy in a 20,000-person company. Some of them will be dishonest. Sorry, it's just human nature.
If your 20-person company gets a contract that requires you to work with another company's confidential information, they may require you to demonstrate that you can prevent disclosure of that information. Saying, "I only hire honest people" isn't going to cut it.
You say that if your employees abuse your trust, you'll fire them or go after them via the legal system. You are assuming you will know for a fact when they abuse your trust. This is not always as easy as it may sound on the surface.
No and neither does restricting users' ability to write to USB devices make IT's job easier. It might help make the company secure it's proprietary and confidential information though.
Unless your company has IT as it's business, IT is a service organization, a cost center. Get it?
As usual, Microsoft continues to push the blame elsewhere instead of fixing their damn OS! If users didn't have rights to do "bad" things, then USB keys and iPods wouldn't be a concern. Yet Windows continues to insist on letting users run with privileges that only administrators should have.
Case in point. A company has proprietary and confidential information that you, as their employee, have access to (without having admin privs). The company wishes to restrict your ability to make copies and potentially misuse (i.e., steal) that information.
I fail to see what administrator priveleges have to do with this.
Companies struggle with protecting their confidential and proprietary information. Being able to to do this at a policy level will be a big help to a lot of security folks.
Thinking back to my college days, neighborly responsibility was not very high on my list or that of my peers. Questioning authority, on the other hand, was only a couple below drinking as much beer as possible.:)
I don't mind having the product of my work (money) being used to write rules against me. Why should anyone else?
Whether the rule is favors or disfavors one is based entirely upon one's point of view. If one cannot access the campus network because of another's AP, one is probably not too sympathetic to another's desire to use said AP.
Umm. No. Not if they also say that you must abide by the University's Rules & Regs (or whatever they call them) and in those rules it says they are subject to change at any time.
Ahh the dangers of replying before morning coffee.
Sigh.
They're still within their rights to limit what devices you can and cannot use on their property. You can't use your cell phone on an airplane in flight. They always tell you it's "Federal Regulations". Nope. It's neither the FAA nor the FCC. It's the airline.
One thing for certain though is they do own the infrastructure you are trying to access. Therefore, they can restrict or limit how you access as they see fit.
I worked at a major competitor (big company) of these guys for a while. Almost 50% of hosting revenue came from Porn. They were great customers. Seldom complained. More often than not, paid full price for bandwidth, and always paid their bills on time.
They also ask if they can look in the trunk of your car or if they can come into your house without a warrant or probable cause *ALL THE FREAKIN TIME*. If you don't want them to, then say, "no, not without a warrant".
Stop watching the Rodney King video over and over again. There are hundreds of thousands of cops out there every day who do an excellent job.
This doesn't make the newspaper. Why? Because it's not newsworthy!
The answer you give a cop isn't, "The Supreme Court says I don't have to". That's not called being smart, it's called being a smartass.
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Vary the amounts randomly in a cake recipe. Do the same with a tomato sauce recipe. Which has a greater probability of being edible?
In a standard recipe, ingredients are listed in the order in which you use them. I don't see what's so peculiar about that that makes it "womanly"
If you look at the whole recipes on his site, there's still your normail, detailed instructions. I guess it's nice having a quick synopsis at-a-glance, but I'm going to carefully read the entire recipe if it's new to me before I even begin mis en place
This is especially true with baking which is much more akin to chemistry than, say, tomato sauce.
Which would explain why so many books use your format.
Note to web page designers:
Dark characters, light background, sans serif fonts. Trust me. People way smarter than you and mr have already figured this out.
Not quite. You do not trust them with a storage device they can remove from the premises. How does that work? In many successful companies, quite well, actually. The "no removeable storage devices" policy is becoming more and more prevalent.
Tell that to the Fortune 500.
Zero effect? Give me a break. An idiot can use a USB flash drive. All of the ways you outline require a higher level of intelligence.
By eliminating an entire group of people (non-technical ones) from being able to steal, one has made their information more secure.
Nobody has said totally secure. Just more secure.
Most security-consciou companies log email transmissions. If you suddenly start emailing tons of data to an unknown address, chances are good it's detectable.
What MS is doingis making it harder to steal, not impossible. One continues to raise the bar of difficulty until one attains a level of acceptable risk. This makes it easier to raise the bar.
If your 20-person company gets a contract that requires you to work with another company's confidential information, they may require you to demonstrate that you can prevent disclosure of that information. Saying, "I only hire honest people" isn't going to cut it. You say that if your employees abuse your trust, you'll fire them or go after them via the legal system. You are assuming you will know for a fact when they abuse your trust. This is not always as easy as it may sound on the surface.
Unless your company has IT as it's business, IT is a service organization, a cost center. Get it?
Case in point. A company has proprietary and confidential information that you, as their employee, have access to (without having admin privs). The company wishes to restrict your ability to make copies and potentially misuse (i.e., steal) that information.
I fail to see what administrator priveleges have to do with this.
Companies struggle with protecting their confidential and proprietary information. Being able to to do this at a policy level will be a big help to a lot of security folks.
Thinking back to my college days, neighborly responsibility was not very high on my list or that of my peers. Questioning authority, on the other hand, was only a couple below drinking as much beer as possible. :)
I don't mind having the product of my work (money) being used to write rules against me. Why should anyone else? Whether the rule is favors or disfavors one is based entirely upon one's point of view. If one cannot access the campus network because of another's AP, one is probably not too sympathetic to another's desire to use said AP.
Umm. No. Not if they also say that you must abide by the University's Rules & Regs (or whatever they call them) and in those rules it says they are subject to change at any time.
Sigh.
They're still within their rights to limit what devices you can and cannot use on their property. You can't use your cell phone on an airplane in flight. They always tell you it's "Federal Regulations". Nope. It's neither the FAA nor the FCC. It's the airline.
One thing for certain though is they do own the infrastructure you are trying to access. Therefore, they can restrict or limit how you access as they see fit.
When you are a one of the big boys with a large, global network, the perring game is much more complex than symetric bandwidth.
notable for work on bind and cron among other things
I worked at a major competitor (big company) of these guys for a while. Almost 50% of hosting revenue came from Porn. They were great customers. Seldom complained. More often than not, paid full price for bandwidth, and always paid their bills on time.
I can;t see how Motorola and Apple will launch a joint phone/iPod product. Motorola's phone UI's absolutely suck.
Or have have a built-in accelerometer that detects sudden changes, and pauses the drive, like recent Thinkpads.
Stop watching the Rodney King video over and over again. There are hundreds of thousands of cops out there every day who do an excellent job.
This doesn't make the newspaper. Why? Because it's not newsworthy!
The answer you give a cop isn't, "The Supreme Court says I don't have to". That's not called being smart, it's called being a smartass.
"apropos of nothing" comes to mind