As part of the Sarbanes-Oxley act, companies are required to conduct some internal security audits to get a 404 compliance certificate. Without this certification, the company stock can't be traded.
Although the stiff penalties outlined in the Sarbanes-Oxley Act initially captured the attention of CFOs, they and their staffs are now scrambling to address the far-reaching but less-understood challenge of complying with the new law, and Section 404 in particular.
Section 404 requires management to explicitly take responsibility for establishing and maintaining an adequate internal control structure.
"a strong second-half recovery in the United States, Britain and Australia
Is that an improvement in the economy or an improvement in the quality of music?
Something tells me we'll be seeing more wardrobe malfunctions in an effort to sell more CDs and promote more tours(which generate good revenue for the artist).
I think it's a great idea for normal people but it's too complicated to be used by terrorists. First of all, they'd have to get this scheme out to all their operatives..enter the NSA. If they distributed it through software, it would only work until one operative gets caught and gets debriefed at gitmo.
I don't think the NSA used some super-duper software to filter all messages flowing through the internet. They probably had some humint on the Khwaja guy and tracked HIS e-mail. Intel isn't always about James Bond driving cool cars. Abdul went to the same school as Osama's cousin is great intel. Abdul's name goes on a list and HIS mail gets tracked. People he sends an email to get their e-mail tracked.
Encrypted to you perhaps, but really encrypted to the NSA? I don't think so..
I don't know where i read this. A terrorist group was using hotmail to plot terrorist attacks. One terrorist in Pakistan would compose a message and save it in the drafts folder without sending it. The other terrorist across the world would log into the same account and read the message from the drafts folder.
Come to think of it, spam makes the job of the NSA more difficult. Must be hard finding an e-mail about a terrorist plot among all the mail for a larger.
Shouldn't the government do something about spam: It's a national security issue.
OTOH, if the NSA has a good spam filter they use before reading my mail, i'd be happy if they could share the technology with the rest of the world.
say make it fair. If you want free trade, you should feel the sting a free trade. Allow US citizens to buy goods directly from countries with lower costs of living.
You can buy a product in Singapore and get it shipped. What's stopping you from doing that right now? It's exactly what wal-mart is doing, isn't it?
My biggest problem with outsourcing is that it is the product of a system which is skewed in favour of corporates, and screws the little guy.
And yet it's the same system that let's the little guy buy a PC which he couldn't afford if it was worth 4000$.
But the prices don't go down to reflect this.
Prices do go down...Almost all electronic products are assembled in Taiwan or China and they do get cheaper. Microsoft manufactures the X-box in mexico and we have a thread on slashdot when it sells for 149.99$.
They layoff people, their customers... WHO will buy their products?
That's probably what the guy who assembles motherboards said when his job, assembling motherboards in YOUR PC, went to Taiwan years ago. But thanks to cheap PCs, YOU can now buy two: a windows machine for your wife and a linux machine for you to play around with. You could probably write some software for linux that you wouldn't be able to if PCs cost 4000$ like they once did.
What if my provider allows me unlimited downloads or let's me run a commercial website for a really low rate. Won't that affect my neighbours? I'd imagine the cable providers negotiating a rate with the incumbent cable company, but what would be a fair rate. The incumbent cable company can't just say take this very high rate or leave it.
First of all...I agree with you on the excessive CEO pay. Sandy Weil of citibank made 110K per day. Richard Brown of EDS made 55million$/yr while EDS was laying off people left and right.
Which jobs should be kept here? Manufacturing hardware that let's American consumers like you buy a PC for less than a 1000$? Or is it patriotism only when YOUR job is being protected?
So the American middle class isn't threatened with extinction when you buy computer hardware made in China or Taiwan? If it wasn't for cheaper manufacturing in those countries, you wouldn't have a sub-1000$ PC.
The researchers laid off will probably be hired the next day. America isn't giving up anything. Bell Labs is doing most of the giving. Blame the execs who care more about their yearly bonus and stock options.
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First a chip in my head and now a RFID chip in my car. I'd be worried if i was interesting enough to be tracked.
Sarovar means lake(i think). Is there a hidden meaning in this?
At first i read it as cheese...admit it: most people here would be happier if it had really read Cheese improves humans..
And if he sees the orange light, he is more likely to accelerate and cross the intersection before it turns red.
Is that an improvement in the economy or an improvement in the quality of music?
Something tells me we'll be seeing more wardrobe malfunctions in an effort to sell more CDs and promote more tours(which generate good revenue for the artist).
Are we counting call centers in Information Technology now? Call centers aren't exactly things that matter to nerds.
What's wrong with profit? Profit isn't just the punchline in an old /. joke.
I don't think the NSA used some super-duper software to filter all messages flowing through the internet. They probably had some humint on the Khwaja guy and tracked HIS e-mail. Intel isn't always about James Bond driving cool cars. Abdul went to the same school as Osama's cousin is great intel. Abdul's name goes on a list and HIS mail gets tracked. People he sends an email to get their e-mail tracked.
sounds really intelligent and difficult. Wouldn't it be easier, perhaps, to just live and let live?
They were planning an attack on London's Gatwick airport using a chemical osmium something. Really nasty chemical too..
YOu may be an Anonymous Coward to /., but you're not anonymous to the NSA. You could have posted under your own id and raised your karma.
I don't know where i read this. A terrorist group was using hotmail to plot terrorist attacks. One terrorist in Pakistan would compose a message and save it in the drafts folder without sending it. The other terrorist across the world would log into the same account and read the message from the drafts folder.
Come to think of it, spam makes the job of the NSA more difficult. Must be hard finding an e-mail about a terrorist plot among all the mail for a larger. Shouldn't the government do something about spam: It's a national security issue. OTOH, if the NSA has a good spam filter they use before reading my mail, i'd be happy if they could share the technology with the rest of the world.
and the problem there is the free trade, or the lack thereof..The solution is free trade.
You can buy a product in Singapore and get it shipped. What's stopping you from doing that right now? It's exactly what wal-mart is doing, isn't it?
And yet it's the same system that let's the little guy buy a PC which he couldn't afford if it was worth 4000$.
But the prices don't go down to reflect this.
Prices do go down...Almost all electronic products are assembled in Taiwan or China and they do get cheaper. Microsoft manufactures the X-box in mexico and we have a thread on slashdot when it sells for 149.99$.
That's ridiculous. Kias are cheaper than BMWs. Yet people prefer BMWs.
Free people aren't equal. Equal people aren't free.
That's probably what the guy who assembles motherboards said when his job, assembling motherboards in YOUR PC, went to Taiwan years ago. But thanks to cheap PCs, YOU can now buy two: a windows machine for your wife and a linux machine for you to play around with. You could probably write some software for linux that you wouldn't be able to if PCs cost 4000$ like they once did.
What if my provider allows me unlimited downloads or let's me run a commercial website for a really low rate. Won't that affect my neighbours? I'd imagine the cable providers negotiating a rate with the incumbent cable company, but what would be a fair rate. The incumbent cable company can't just say take this very high rate or leave it.
Which jobs should be kept here? Manufacturing hardware that let's American consumers like you buy a PC for less than a 1000$? Or is it patriotism only when YOUR job is being protected?
The researchers laid off will probably be hired the next day. America isn't giving up anything. Bell Labs is doing most of the giving. Blame the execs who care more about their yearly bonus and stock options.