I may agree with you on some things there, but to say that such a project will not help at all may be too presumptious.
I know of experiments in India that were carried out on slum kids (who had never seen a computer). In these projects, they were provided access to a computer without any training whatsoever and were getting online and using the web within a very short period of time. If you want to read more, then google "Hole in the wall".
I know someone who is developing software for the Vista platform. They are porting their product to the next step. For them, everytime there is an announcement of a delay in release of the platform, it is a cause for a quick meeting to re-assess the risk it poses to their plan.
It makes perfect sense to have an alliance going between the two. I am glad that Microsoft is taking all these initiatives to try and improve their software.
They took over Sysinternals some time ago, which gives me a hope that I may not have to go googling to find tools for Windows and will in future find them in Windows.
>>>There are plenty of good reasons for encrypting data on a work machine. The first one that comes to mind is personal data stored on the machine, such as tax returns, or scanned copies of ID and credit cards >>>for emergency use. Sure, people really should keep it on personal machines and not work machines, but that isn't always practical.
Well, in our organization, we have to ensure that absolutely no personal data is kept on the machine, and as per policy, all data is available to administrators if they wish to audit it.
As for data which involves HR information, etc., we have implemented special procedures for that, where such data is kept on specially designated servers, with very tightly controlled access rules. But 99% of the users are developers who wouldn't have access to any sensitive data anyway.
Putting aside emotional reactions which would cause me to make comments like: "people are dying and yet you are thinking about IT infrastructures"... (I am an Indian, and have lots of relatives and friends in Mumbai).
I know that life went on after the blasts.
I know that the big IT companies in India are world leaders when it comes to having processes and procedures concerning their business. (I am in the IT industry myself). In my experience, most of the clients that I have worked with have had little or no processes themselves.
So, it is unfair to think of this in a light where India (the country being out-sourced to) needs to have back-up plans, and disaster recovery procedures. Anyway, I think that the whole world is fair game for terrorist activities (terrorists being what they are), so we should be discussing about these procedures, plans, etc. at a global level.
- Vaibhav
There is one problem i keep facing with buying Indian editions of books (mind u I am an indian and I rarely buy the foreign editions): Usually when a new book comes out in US, it takes quite some time before I can get an Indian (cheaper) edition available... if i really need it then i have the option of importing it, however that also takes a long time...
I found an ideal stopgap solution for my problems... Till I can get a hold of the Indian copy of a book, i go to a site called Informit Safari
Here for as less as $10 a month you can have a full month access to electronic version of as many as 5 books of your choice... (of course better deals are available, depending on your requirement)
These guys support a good number of publishers...
Do check out the site, i find it very helpful....
MiniDV is most suited for use in Video or Audio recording and playback devices. They cannot compete in reliability, speed, or efficiency with media such as CD/DVD, or even your ordinary harddisk (which is not so ordinary anymore)... With it being a tape, it doesn't offer efficient Random Access, which in today's world is a needed feature even for backup purposes. When you need to restore your data in a hurry because your business depends on it, your miniDV will leave you wanting...
All you people who are interested in this article, you should read the book "Surely, you are joking Mr. Feynman!" To take a glimpse at the report that Feynman submitted after investigating the Challenger incident, Check Out Personal observations
on the reliability
of the Shuttle
by Richard P. Feynman
On the issue of reusability of the space shuttle: As part of the investigation of the Challenger Space Shuttle incident, Richard P. Feynmann found out that the booster rocket assembly that is used in the initial stages of the launch and is later dropped is also resused. This assembly is a cylindrical tube. One of the requirements for this tube is to be perfectly cylindrical.. To ensure that a reused assembly is so, the engineers used to only take three random diameters of the tube and check to see if they are equal. If the tube passed this test, it was declared to be cylindrical.
With this kind of strict quality checks and controls, the space shuttle programs are sure to be a success....
According to IDC, internet traffic is going to double every year for the next five years. Such security loopholes open an unprecedented opportunity for miscreants to create chaos on the internet.
Slashdot Mirror
I wish Microsoft would release a tool kit for the Mindstorms NXT kit. The one they have up as of now is for the older RCX models.
I may agree with you on some things there, but to say that such a project will not help at all may be too presumptious. I know of experiments in India that were carried out on slum kids (who had never seen a computer). In these projects, they were provided access to a computer without any training whatsoever and were getting online and using the web within a very short period of time. If you want to read more, then google "Hole in the wall".
I know someone who is developing software for the Vista platform. They are porting their product to the next step. For them, everytime there is an announcement of a delay in release of the platform, it is a cause for a quick meeting to re-assess the risk it poses to their plan.
It makes perfect sense to have an alliance going between the two. I am glad that Microsoft is taking all these initiatives to try and improve their software. They took over Sysinternals some time ago, which gives me a hope that I may not have to go googling to find tools for Windows and will in future find them in Windows.
>>>There are plenty of good reasons for encrypting data on a work machine. The first one that comes to mind is personal data stored on the machine, such as tax returns, or scanned copies of ID and credit cards >>>for emergency use. Sure, people really should keep it on personal machines and not work machines, but that isn't always practical. Well, in our organization, we have to ensure that absolutely no personal data is kept on the machine, and as per policy, all data is available to administrators if they wish to audit it. As for data which involves HR information, etc., we have implemented special procedures for that, where such data is kept on specially designated servers, with very tightly controlled access rules. But 99% of the users are developers who wouldn't have access to any sensitive data anyway.
Putting aside emotional reactions which would cause me to make comments like: "people are dying and yet you are thinking about IT infrastructures"... (I am an Indian, and have lots of relatives and friends in Mumbai). I know that life went on after the blasts. I know that the big IT companies in India are world leaders when it comes to having processes and procedures concerning their business. (I am in the IT industry myself). In my experience, most of the clients that I have worked with have had little or no processes themselves. So, it is unfair to think of this in a light where India (the country being out-sourced to) needs to have back-up plans, and disaster recovery procedures. Anyway, I think that the whole world is fair game for terrorist activities (terrorists being what they are), so we should be discussing about these procedures, plans, etc. at a global level. - Vaibhav
There is one problem i keep facing with buying Indian editions of books (mind u I am an indian and I rarely buy the foreign editions): Usually when a new book comes out in US, it takes quite some time before I can get an Indian (cheaper) edition available... if i really need it then i have the option of importing it, however that also takes a long time...
I found an ideal stopgap solution for my problems... Till I can get a hold of the Indian copy of a book, i go to a site called Informit Safari
Here for as less as $10 a month you can have a full month access to electronic version of as many as 5 books of your choice... (of course better deals are available, depending on your requirement)
These guys support a good number of publishers... Do check out the site, i find it very helpful....
Vaibhav
They have been showing this all the time in Harry Potter haven't they... Its just that you muggles thought that was magic and this is sciene...
So the planet will spin a different yarn now!
I guess this is what is meant by having putting someone's Life on the LINE.
It will be impossible to trace a bug in that webserver... because the bug is outside the webserver. Ha Ha Ha.
That is interesting. Thanks for replying. I guess people in your field better start looking for other ways to encrypt data.
Thank You!
Thanks a Lot!
Thank You.
Just like the subject says: What IS Quantum Computing?
MiniDV is most suited for use in Video or Audio recording and playback devices. They cannot compete in reliability, speed, or efficiency with media such as CD/DVD, or even your ordinary harddisk (which is not so ordinary anymore)... With it being a tape, it doesn't offer efficient Random Access, which in today's world is a needed feature even for backup purposes. When you need to restore your data in a hurry because your business depends on it, your miniDV will leave you wanting...
All you people who are interested in this article, you should read the book "Surely, you are joking Mr. Feynman!" To take a glimpse at the report that Feynman submitted after investigating the Challenger incident, Check Out Personal observations on the reliability of the Shuttle by Richard P. Feynman
On the issue of reusability of the space shuttle: As part of the investigation of the Challenger Space Shuttle incident, Richard P. Feynmann found out that the booster rocket assembly that is used in the initial stages of the launch and is later dropped is also resused. This assembly is a cylindrical tube. One of the requirements for this tube is to be perfectly cylindrical.. To ensure that a reused assembly is so, the engineers used to only take three random diameters of the tube and check to see if they are equal. If the tube passed this test, it was declared to be cylindrical. With this kind of strict quality checks and controls, the space shuttle programs are sure to be a success....
According to IDC, internet traffic is going to double every year for the next five years. Such security loopholes open an unprecedented opportunity for miscreants to create chaos on the internet.
A Net is always made of Holes. So what's new???