Which is fine if they limit themselves to themselves. I'd hate to have my whole neighborhood burned to the ground, the women raped the men decapitated the children enslaved all in the name of religious tolerance because some nutjobs happened to see some porn or worse, something Jewish.
One need only casually peruse Google Play to see how different some devices are and how apps may or may not work on all of the various Android devices.
Outsourcing solves one very real problem; accountability. In house work has very little and no real penalty for missing service levels hence they rarely even publish them or meet them. When you're paying green money to someone else though you can throttle them if they miss any arbitrary contract term. So an awful lot of work goes into meeting those service levels.
Let's not forget that GM HAD an enormous in house IT function that was eventually spun off into Perot Systems and Hughes Aerospace. GM deemed it didn't want to actually be in the IT business when it could not determine if it was doing that work efficiently.
Anything they can do to unwind the clock several hundreds of years is great for the rest of us. Hopefully they'll outlaw literacy soon and get to breeding out of all sense of control or reason.
We all suck and should pray to the CEO each and every day we still have jobs or at least jobs in places where people aren't routinely eaten by tigers. One fundamental way to do this is to erect a byzantine HR structure which ensures that none but the politically astute few rise past the level of their incompetence while everyone else is left filling out endless self appraisals and evaluations. Another is to make it policy that in order to even apply for a different job in the company you have to have already lined up your own replacement. And since no one is really allowed to move outside of their own organizational structure anyhow, it's a near impossibility. And last but not least set in stone salary plans which, months ahead of the date of these so called appraisals, state that with few if any exceptions, there are, once again, zero dollars to give to anyone for any sort of bonus, benefit or increase, ever. The reasons, you can pick from the usual basket of nonsense: the industry's bad, the company didn't or won't meet its goals, market pressures, regional employment imbalance, you're too far above the midpoint (but be careful you never divulge what that number is or what it means), they have the wrong mix of skills and/or jobs, competitive pressures or 'drive to leverage'.
Then follow this up with the obligatory quarterly executive emails extolling the greatness of the company and how wonderfully it's doing. Exhort the workers to exceed all goals. Have HR grind out survey results proving that the company is the greatest company in the world to work for.
Failure is the new acceptable. Nothing really works all that well on a good day in America anymore from power companies to cell phones to cable to hospitals to airlines to local government to anything else. America is a country where getting a D+ is good enough and if that means that your city of a million people can't have power for 3 weeks after a hailstorm then that's what it means. And if you press them on the point, the answer, like the one I get from Duke power - is that they'll have to raise rates 19% if we actually want to have electricity.
Everything's going to kill you. Liberals are starting to sound like Muslim elders in Nigeria who claim that infidel medicine including polio vaccines are a Zionist plot to sterilize Muslims and make their genitals fall off.
That's what this is. Secondly, States aren't going to permit this unless there's some way to tax it out of existence, raise your insurance rates or otherwise screw you.
A 4+ year old Lenovo Thinkpad T61 running XP SP3 and I had to raise an enormous fuss to get it approved since it was on the schedule to be replaced sometime next year.
Corporations aren't upgrading now. They're going to crush every dollar out of their organizations until things start to fall apart and the wheels come off.
Anyway you assume Microsoft will have a cheaper upgrade path than simply starting over. That remains to be seen.
PCI audits are nice to have and companies want them and auditors are happy to do them but failing a PCI audit doesn't actually mean much. There's no regulatory penalty for failing one or failing all of them. Unlike HIPAA where there are real albeit rarely applied penalities, for PCI no such thing exists.
When EVERYONE becomes a patent troll and predatory lawsuit machine are those things still bad? Best case, the whole tech industry will implode into not making or creating or selling ANYTHING preferring instead to make all their money by suing each other continuously and shifting the same unproductive bag and cash back and forth among them.
I suppose morally or ethically this is needed but the idea that they should be fined money they already either didn't have or didn't want to spend in order to remediate this seems short sighted. Maybe a Wall Of Shame that requires them to post signs everywhere and on their websites, that Wyndam is REALLY bad and indifferent to security and they have and will probably again lose your data is what's needed.
The article sounds like a summary of a patent application. I wonder if this thing actually exists and more importantly, works and if it works does it work well?
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Which is fine if they limit themselves to themselves. I'd hate to have my whole neighborhood burned to the ground, the women raped the men decapitated the children enslaved all in the name of religious tolerance because some nutjobs happened to see some porn or worse, something Jewish.
Allahu Porqchop!
It's not enough. San Fran has to outlaw the sale and possession of all Apple products. Viva La Revolucion!
One need only casually peruse Google Play to see how different some devices are and how apps may or may not work on all of the various Android devices.
Outsourcing solves one very real problem; accountability. In house work has very little and no real penalty for missing service levels hence they rarely even publish them or meet them. When you're paying green money to someone else though you can throttle them if they miss any arbitrary contract term. So an awful lot of work goes into meeting those service levels.
Let's not forget that GM HAD an enormous in house IT function that was eventually spun off into Perot Systems and Hughes Aerospace. GM deemed it didn't want to actually be in the IT business when it could not determine if it was doing that work efficiently.
Run any article with GOP, Romney, Israel, Jews, Wall St in it it will attract thousands of screeching retards. Because that's what HuffPo is.
An awful lot of unforeseen things were learned that way. Way to go science!
Anything they can do to unwind the clock several hundreds of years is great for the rest of us. Hopefully they'll outlaw literacy soon and get to breeding out of all sense of control or reason.
We all suck and should pray to the CEO each and every day we still have jobs or at least jobs in places where people aren't routinely eaten by tigers. One fundamental way to do this is to erect a byzantine HR structure which ensures that none but the politically astute few rise past the level of their incompetence while everyone else is left filling out endless self appraisals and evaluations. Another is to make it policy that in order to even apply for a different job in the company you have to have already lined up your own replacement. And since no one is really allowed to move outside of their own organizational structure anyhow, it's a near impossibility. And last but not least set in stone salary plans which, months ahead of the date of these so called appraisals, state that with few if any exceptions, there are, once again, zero dollars to give to anyone for any sort of bonus, benefit or increase, ever. The reasons, you can pick from the usual basket of nonsense: the industry's bad, the company didn't or won't meet its goals, market pressures, regional employment imbalance, you're too far above the midpoint (but be careful you never divulge what that number is or what it means), they have the wrong mix of skills and/or jobs, competitive pressures or 'drive to leverage'.
Then follow this up with the obligatory quarterly executive emails extolling the greatness of the company and how wonderfully it's doing. Exhort the workers to exceed all goals. Have HR grind out survey results proving that the company is the greatest company in the world to work for.
Failure is the new acceptable. Nothing really works all that well on a good day in America anymore from power companies to cell phones to cable to hospitals to airlines to local government to anything else. America is a country where getting a D+ is good enough and if that means that your city of a million people can't have power for 3 weeks after a hailstorm then that's what it means. And if you press them on the point, the answer, like the one I get from Duke power - is that they'll have to raise rates 19% if we actually want to have electricity.
That's why.
Everything's going to kill you. Liberals are starting to sound like Muslim elders in Nigeria who claim that infidel medicine including polio vaccines are a Zionist plot to sterilize Muslims and make their genitals fall off.
Particularly in Florida, Alabama, Mississippi and Texas. Sounds like a good thing to me.
That's what this is. Secondly, States aren't going to permit this unless there's some way to tax it out of existence, raise your insurance rates or otherwise screw you.
Because the idea that world has been built for you personally so as to never give you an uncomfortable moment is a bit silly.
Don't forget nuclear explosives.
I guess everyone is a criminal.
Didn't you get the memo? Netflix barely runs now and this is working as planned. Time Warner had four internet outages in Raleigh THIS WEEK.
Everything everywhere is slowly grinding to a halt. So let's send more work to China and India. Who cares anymore.
Websites are so god awful and packed with 10 dozen scripts, flash, embedded garbage now they are their own viruses.
A 4+ year old Lenovo Thinkpad T61 running XP SP3 and I had to raise an enormous fuss to get it approved since it was on the schedule to be replaced sometime next year.
Corporations aren't upgrading now. They're going to crush every dollar out of their organizations until things start to fall apart and the wheels come off.
Anyway you assume Microsoft will have a cheaper upgrade path than simply starting over. That remains to be seen.
A bona fide tax that takes money from everyone and gives it to Apple. May as well.
PCI audits are nice to have and companies want them and auditors are happy to do them but failing a PCI audit doesn't actually mean much. There's no regulatory penalty for failing one or failing all of them. Unlike HIPAA where there are real albeit rarely applied penalities, for PCI no such thing exists.
When EVERYONE becomes a patent troll and predatory lawsuit machine are those things still bad? Best case, the whole tech industry will implode into not making or creating or selling ANYTHING preferring instead to make all their money by suing each other continuously and shifting the same unproductive bag and cash back and forth among them.
I suppose morally or ethically this is needed but the idea that they should be fined money they already either didn't have or didn't want to spend in order to remediate this seems short sighted. Maybe a Wall Of Shame that requires them to post signs everywhere and on their websites, that Wyndam is REALLY bad and indifferent to security and they have and will probably again lose your data is what's needed.
That's what American kids would do.
The article sounds like a summary of a patent application. I wonder if this thing actually exists and more importantly, works and if it works does it work well?
Isn't the Federal govt involved in nuclear arms?