The fact the Russians had him on their lists shows *something*.
It shows that Russians have list of names similar to the US "No fly" list, too.
Considering that senators and lots of other innocent people ended up on those no fly lists tells something about the data quality of such lists.
The only thing your posts shows is that you're assuming for no reason that Russian Terrorist watchlists are better than US ones. Becuse often enuogh it means jack sh** if you're on such a list.
The TSA is operated by some of the most incompetent people the USA has to offer. They are the problem, not the hardware or software.
Not neccessarily. The problem is the political setup of this whole thing.
From top manager to front row goon: You're on the safe side as long as you never think and just follow orders. No mistakes will get you promoted at some point. But deviation from the rules will either let a terrorist slip through or earn you some re-training, if your manager sees it.
And it's the same at the top tier: New security theater rules can always be explained as "inconvinient but neccessary". But lifting even the most stupid rule of all is only a personal risk, if at some point in time after lifting a rule an incident is indeed happening.
Have you ever went through US Customs and Border? I would not expect their personel to be able to type in and search for any non-Ascii letters.
And then, have a look at the affordable healthcare website debacle and you know what kind of "experts" are contracted by the gouvernment to design databases.
But that traditionally has been handled between the peering networks and not by anyone connected to those carriers. And if they want to have direct access, they can pay that carrier for multihoming their datacenter. That's also nothing unusual.
Right. But that's exactly what we have right now. A 16MB/sec DSL line is more expensive than a 6MB/sec line. So the consumers are already paying more if he wants to be connected to the road by a driveway tha's wide enough for an 18-wheeler.
A blogger can be anyone with an easily readable writing style, who provides the readers with quips, thoughts, personal observations, anecdotes, opinions and beliefs.
But that holds true also for the journalistic formats called "editorial" or "column".
Partly true, but the "general philosophy" is double edged.
While you COULD enforce good policies and high security standards on your own servers, you won't do it if it means hiring some full time IT security staff, giving them time and budget, and of course getting rid of the CEO who thinks security procedures should not be for him.
Cloud providers have larger and better equipped security teams that mopst smaller companies. I'd trust them over head of some department, who had his nephew set up some OwnCloud/Groupware on the old desktop PC below some desk.
It's a trade-off. You CAN get better security with your own gear and team. But that alone does not guarantee anything.
I don't know about IMAP, but I still can get out my complete calendar data as ical file that I can import into any other calendar service/app.
And Apple is a hardware company that added internet service, while Google is a internet company that recently added hardware. It's different, but I wouldnt call anything better per se..
Not exactly, but there's a good chance that if someone sneezes and dumps a load of possible pathogenes on you, that most of them belong to the strain that's currently in season and covered by this years flu shot.
As often, it's not a matter of size... It's free for educational organizations and charities.
There are a lot of small business that use the free Google services for business purposes. But running mission critical stuff on a platform without support or guarantees, that's usually somewhere between stupid and suicidal. (may be OK if you have an exit plan, but who has that...)
It is even HARDER to share a document with an outside person as this is (at least on one of the GoogleApps services) a feature which has to be enabled by the Domain admin first.
The matter of trust is a personal descision here which I'll simply respect.
But the example with the document sharing is a strawmen, as sharing secret document on a cloud drive with the wrong person is as easy as emailing the same document from a non-cloud storage to the wrong person.
2) Name any complex file formats that don't rely on corrosponding applications. pdf and jpg are fine, but what about the psd or svg, doc, odt file that contains all the editable versions? Open formats allow future developers to create converters or alternative, compatible apps.
3) Yes, there's nothing as a free lunch. But there is no guarantee that in a few years, there will be free a OpenOffice Version that runs on Windows10. So you sjould always be aware that at some point, any service might cost money. You're a bit better of with Google here, as they at least acknowledge that problem and have a team set up to make sure you can move in and out(!) to and from Google services (www.dataliberation.org) Other services have a long record of vendor lock-in instead.
You pretty much just nailed exactly my thought process. The flu vaccine is an excellent example. It's almost an intelligence test. I can ask "did you get a flu shot" and if the answer is yes I can just about guarantee they are of moderate or less intelligence.
That's similar to, but not exactly unlike BS.
Espescially with the flu shots as a very targeted vaccacination, there is not much to gain for "herd immunity". Flu shots only are targeted against this seasons most prevalent flavours of the flu. Neither all of them and espescially not agains the common cold that you're still likely to catch.
So the intelligence test questions are rather "Do you have an increased risk for catching infectuous diseases (e.g. working in healthcare or resale being in close contact with varying, large groups of people)?" "Do you have any health problems that would make catching the flu a severe risk?" and "Do you have any immune system issues that would increase the risk of side effects of the vaccacination itself"
The actual intelligence test if the answers to THOSE questions match the answer of "Did you get your flu shot?".
Personal disclosure: I'm not getting flu shots, but recently updated my vaccacinations against the usual suspects. (Measeles, Mumps, Tetanus, Hepatitis...)
But that was since 2009 the same parliament made a threat to pass such a ruling. Back then, all phone manufactures "voluntarily" agreed on using USB as standard charging plug until 2013. So this is just the next step, but manufacturers now have a chance to agree on some other standard (if neccessary)
So without this story, phones today would not have USB connections for charging.
I agree 100%. I don't think the solution is to make women work more horrible jobs, but increase the quality of life for everyone by refusing to be exploited.
Oh yes.. nice idea. The problem is, that this goes against the average male ego. For some reason, competition is a defining male quality. (probably due to all the reproduction stuff, but why doesn't matter here)
Who can run faster, who can drink more, who can bang his head harder against a stone wall. And of course who can lift more weight, who can carry more meat from A to B. That is already a "who can work harder". Society only rewards this with "Who can make more money", so it can exploit that trait. And not the workers. We will only follow that urge for competition and to the exploitation part ourselves.
I was considering that, but tried to focus on another question: WHY do that 10hours overtime at all?
Perhaps there is a "female" solution like: "I'm making enough for me and my family, I'd rather spend those 10 hours with them and leave that rat race to those guys who seem to enjoy it." Sometimes the only way to win a pissing contest is not to play. (And if you're honest, thermonuclear war is only a very violent form of a pissing contest. But that's another movie)
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The fact the Russians had him on their lists shows *something*.
It shows that Russians have list of names similar to the US "No fly" list, too.
Considering that senators and lots of other innocent people ended up on those no fly lists tells something about the data quality of such lists.
The only thing your posts shows is that you're assuming for no reason that Russian Terrorist watchlists are better than US ones. Becuse often enuogh it means jack sh** if you're on such a list.
Doesn't a guy somewhere in Wales go by that name?
The TSA is operated by some of the most incompetent people the USA has to offer. They are the problem, not the hardware or software.
Not neccessarily. The problem is the political setup of this whole thing.
From top manager to front row goon: You're on the safe side as long as you never think and just follow orders. No mistakes will get you promoted at some point. But deviation from the rules will either let a terrorist slip through or earn you some re-training, if your manager sees it.
And it's the same at the top tier: New security theater rules can always be explained as "inconvinient but neccessary". But lifting even the most stupid rule of all is only a personal risk, if at some point in time after lifting a rule an incident is indeed happening.
So there is simply no incentive to be sensilbe.
Have you ever went through US Customs and Border? I would not expect their personel to be able to type in and search for any non-Ascii letters.
And then, have a look at the affordable healthcare website debacle and you know what kind of "experts" are contracted by the gouvernment to design databases.
Obviously, still not everyone has read this yet.
Espescially it seems like we're talking about #1, #9, #30 and #37 and #38, while we're at it.
But that traditionally has been handled between the peering networks and not by anyone connected to those carriers. And if they want to have direct access, they can pay that carrier for multihoming their datacenter. That's also nothing unusual.
Right. But that's exactly what we have right now. A 16MB/sec DSL line is more expensive than a 6MB/sec line. So the consumers are already paying more if he wants to be connected to the road by a driveway tha's wide enough for an 18-wheeler.
Same on the provider side.
The problem is you need an organization that will care for the stuff for longer than than the recorded history of humanity.
It may be a spoiler to some, but obviously someone read Anathem.
Those little green "exit" signs will eventually classify as nuclear waste.
The red ones, not the green ones.
A blogger can be anyone with an easily readable writing style, who provides the readers with quips, thoughts, personal observations, anecdotes, opinions and beliefs.
But that holds true also for the journalistic formats called "editorial" or "column".
Yes, but too bad that "Blog" merely describes the media something is published while "Journalism" describes a field of work.
These are not mutually exclusive.
You might find Journalism in print medie, radio, TV and blogs, and at the same time might find professional content and cat photos in Blogs.
TFA called dying "a way to get OUT of punishment".
So your point is...?
Partly true, but the "general philosophy" is double edged.
While you COULD enforce good policies and high security standards on your own servers, you won't do it if it means hiring some full time IT security staff, giving them time and budget, and of course getting rid of the CEO who thinks security procedures should not be for him.
Cloud providers have larger and better equipped security teams that mopst smaller companies. I'd trust them over head of some department, who had his nephew set up some OwnCloud/Groupware on the old desktop PC below some desk.
It's a trade-off. You CAN get better security with your own gear and team. But that alone does not guarantee anything.
I don't know about IMAP, but I still can get out my complete calendar data as ical file that I can import into any other calendar service/app.
And Apple is a hardware company that added internet service, while Google is a internet company that recently added hardware. It's different, but I wouldnt call anything better per se..
Not exactly, but there's a good chance that if someone sneezes and dumps a load of possible pathogenes on you, that most of them belong to the strain that's currently in season and covered by this years flu shot.
As often, it's not a matter of size...
It's free for educational organizations and charities.
There are a lot of small business that use the free Google services for business purposes. But running mission critical stuff on a platform without support or guarantees, that's usually somewhere between stupid and suicidal. (may be OK if you have an exit plan, but who has that...)
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It is even HARDER to share a document with an outside person as this is (at least on one of the GoogleApps services) a feature which has to be enabled by the Domain admin first.
The matter of trust is a personal descision here which I'll simply respect.
But the example with the document sharing is a strawmen, as sharing secret document on a cloud drive with the wrong person is as easy as emailing the same document from a non-cloud storage to the wrong person.
2) Name any complex file formats that don't rely on corrosponding applications. pdf and jpg are fine, but what about the psd or svg, doc, odt file that contains all the editable versions? Open formats allow future developers to create converters or alternative, compatible apps.
3) Yes, there's nothing as a free lunch. But there is no guarantee that in a few years, there will be free a OpenOffice Version that runs on Windows10. So you sjould always be aware that at some point, any service might cost money. You're a bit better of with Google here, as they at least acknowledge that problem and have a team set up to make sure you can move in and out(!) to and from Google services (www.dataliberation.org) Other services have a long record of vendor lock-in instead.
4) Good point :-)
You pretty much just nailed exactly my thought process. The flu vaccine is an excellent example. It's almost an intelligence test. I can ask "did you get a flu shot" and if the answer is yes I can just about guarantee they are of moderate or less intelligence.
That's similar to, but not exactly unlike BS.
Espescially with the flu shots as a very targeted vaccacination, there is not much to gain for "herd immunity". Flu shots only are targeted against this seasons most prevalent flavours of the flu. Neither all of them and espescially not agains the common cold that you're still likely to catch.
So the intelligence test questions are rather "Do you have an increased risk for catching infectuous diseases (e.g. working in healthcare or resale being in close contact with varying, large groups of people)?" "Do you have any health problems that would make catching the flu a severe risk?" and "Do you have any immune system issues that would increase the risk of side effects of the vaccacination itself"
The actual intelligence test if the answers to THOSE questions match the answer of "Did you get your flu shot?".
Personal disclosure: I'm not getting flu shots, but recently updated my vaccacinations against the usual suspects. (Measeles, Mumps, Tetanus, Hepatitis...)
The russian military spying agency is handing out ID cards to their agents?
Sounds way too plausible for a joke. At least for anyone with experience in corporate IT.
Yes.
But that was since 2009 the same parliament made a threat to pass such a ruling. Back then, all phone manufactures "voluntarily" agreed on using USB as standard charging plug until 2013. So this is just the next step, but manufacturers now have a chance to agree on some other standard (if neccessary)
So without this story, phones today would not have USB connections for charging.
Sorry, but you're clearly thinking of CSS here.
I agree 100%. I don't think the solution is to make women work more horrible jobs, but increase the quality of life for everyone by refusing to be exploited.
Oh yes.. nice idea. The problem is, that this goes against the average male ego. For some reason, competition is a defining male quality. (probably due to all the reproduction stuff, but why doesn't matter here)
Who can run faster, who can drink more, who can bang his head harder against a stone wall. And of course who can lift more weight, who can carry more meat from A to B. That is already a "who can work harder". Society only rewards this with "Who can make more money", so it can exploit that trait. And not the workers. We will only follow that urge for competition and to the exploitation part ourselves.
I was considering that, but tried to focus on another question: WHY do that 10hours overtime at all?
Perhaps there is a "female" solution like: "I'm making enough for me and my family, I'd rather spend those 10 hours with them and leave that rat race to those guys who seem to enjoy it." Sometimes the only way to win a pissing contest is not to play. (And if you're honest, thermonuclear war is only a very violent form of a pissing contest. But that's another movie)