Once again, if you can't detach and take that "backup" with you (even if you need a forklift and an 18 wheeler or three) and plug it into a different system and view the data, it's not a backup.
A "cloud" isn't inherently insecure any more than it's inherently insecure to host your own servers, or to have them colocated at a datacenter, or to pay an outsourced company to just handle all the computer stuff....
Know all of your options, and list all of your assets. Gather all of the information you can before you have to make a decision. That's the only way to improve your security.
The cloud is inherently insecure. Anytime you place all the parts needed for encryption outside your control, amazingly, it is no longer in your control. See any non-connected DRM for a long list of failures.
That said, the only cloud based services that can be "secured" are storage and communications if you externally encrypted the data. Externally means that the only thing the cloud service sees is an encrypted file or stream. There is no ability to decrypt that storage, no keys are associated with it, no algorithm is even evident on the service. Best yet, any number of current web services will suffice for this, including Google, MS, and DropBox. You can checkout OTR (Pidgin/Adium) and PGP plugins for a good idea of how these work and how to really secure your services. I predict that such approaches will happen sooner than later, as more and more problems with "it's the cloud" and other outsourcing options crop up.
Our banks enforce IE 10 minimum but recommend Firefox or Chrome.
These 15%? Yeah, they're not your main source of income if they haven't bought a PC or upgraded their browser in 10 years.
IE8 is 7 years old. I haven't supported IE 8 in 3 years. We ran tests via a QA person only to note that if the website broke, we'd add IE8 to the automatic pop up "Your browser is not supported, not all aspects of the site may work. Please upgrade to a supported browser: blah blah blah". It failed on a page about 2 years ago, we added the popup, and amazingly IE8 usage dropped significantly.:) No, we didn't lose those IE8 folks, they migrated to a supported browser. Since they were paying for services, they definitely wanted to use them. A 5+ year old browser being upgraded wasn't a huge issue. Note that we didn't intentionally break the site for IE8, just that we weren't working around its fubar implementation and lack of standards support. If it runs on Firefox, Chrome, Safari, KDE, etc, then the problem isn't with our code, it's with MS. We are not in the business of fixing MS bugs.
The sharing aspect should be removed. All seized items have to go to a pool of charities with requirements set by the feds, thus reducing the incentives significantly.
Nothing MS does today is solely local. Haven't you been paying attention? Win10 is a cloud service OS, and if you think telemetry data stays local, there's some beach front property in Kansas I'd like to sell you.
I long ago stated that the only way you would get to a secure version of windows was to ditch the core architecture of windows. Sure it can be done (just look at WINE, it's 90% there already) Does MS have the vision and will to make that happen? I doubt it, as they have tried replacing core pieces at least twice in the past decade and only wound up slapping on the UAC and removing the ability to manipulate security tokens within a process, only allowing masking, the exact opposite of what developers need and security experts say is best practices.
No, because FB is web enabled and instant gratification, whereas USENET can take a while. The reason I added TOR on top of the USENET concept for messaging is to allow for much closer to realtime messaging.
If true, that's truly ironically funny. Democrats only used the system created and handed to them by Republicans. If people weren't idiots, they would have voted for anyone that wasn't a Democrat OR Republican.
Long term, once the advertising bubble hits a wall (i.e. there isn't anything to suck out on users to sell, especially in a recession), social networks will not a viable business model. Instead, what is viable, will be going back to a decentralized ISP model, similar to how E-mail is done.
decentralized ISP model, like USENET? Now that would be sweet, because it solves hordes of issues, especially if you layer such a system on top of TOR to allow direct messaging.
Here's a thought on rape and abuse cases, take a page from England. Don't allow publishing of victims nor suspects until the case has been proven as guilty in court. Given social media etc, it's ridiculous that you can effectively be tainted by a single statement and nothing in libel law will allow redress, because, technically, that statement is true at the time it was made. People in general are stupid, and seeing "suspect in a rape case" or "person of interest" and "rape" or "abuse" next to each other and in association with a person's name immediately makes the leap in most of these people's minds that they're guilty, because... it's on the internet. Given the general trends of education these days and the removal of focus on anything related to critical thinking, I'd say it's safe to say that the situation will not improve.
if the process of the data being gathered via a 3rd party makes that data stale, then there's no impact to Uber as far as UrbanHail goes. It's surge pricing, if their data is "old" then it will never be correct, not to mention that it likely makes UrbanHail a non Uber app entirely. UrbanHail should have come into being prior to Uber becoming the de facto monopoly it is. At this point, Uber can pretty much say "no" and UrbanHail will follow many others into oblivion if Uber stays on top.
If I needed all that, I'd buy 2 1TB SSDs. If your VMs and data are truly needed often, then there's no reason to wait on even a black drive. Black drives are still slow, especially if you compare them to 10K or 15K drives. But the noise and power draw make the couple of hundred extra spent on SSDs worth it. (BTW, last time I priced a 2TB black drive it was running $120 on sale)
I managed to drop all my work requirements to a 500GB RAID0 pair of SSDs on my desktop, with VMs running off of a separate 500GB 850. I have a couple of other older SSDs floating about, but those are used for testing OSes and stuff. I was considering adding 2 more drives to the RAID 0 set, not to increase size but to speed it up, but found that for my main tasks I'm looking to speed up I'm CPU bound because those are single threaded and disk I/O is no longer the bottle neck.
For the record, WD Purple is a slow ass drive, and WD Black is WORTH THE MONEY!
Any spinning drive is slow as crap these days. SSDs all the way. I only use spinning drives for backups and mass store features.
Regarding windows VMs, I very rarely spin one up, and never for games. The reason AAA games are having a tougher and tougher time is because they expect you to drop $2K every year or two for the latest and greatest hardware/software combo so you can see that wizbang shaded shadow flicker at 60fps instead of 30 fps. Honestly, most of the games are based on how fast you notice and react. You'd be best off playing them on high end CRTs (no latency) While some think that's fun, I've been more of the "where did all the fun games go". Thank goodness for GoG and Steam (believe it or not, they're actually helping the situation even though I'd rather buy everything via GoG).
Ah bullshit. My (non CS) engineering degree had more programming taught in it than most current CS courses teach. On top of that, to answer the topic's question: I "learned" originally to code in basic, if you could call it that, for about 2 copied programs worth, found it worthless and delved into assembly immediately to get into the interesting things. There weren't any other languages really available at the time, not for any platform I had access to. Later on, learned COBOL, FORTRAN, C, C++, Java, C#, JS, Perl, Ruby, Python and any number of supporting libraries and quite a few scripting languages. What's the point of this question?
Well, I think he's right. And he's actually one of those people with enough experience to say this, since programming doesn't require pesky interaction with the real world like, say, automated cars do, humans obviously suck at programming big time, and Gates is one of those people who... suck[s] big time at programming over multiple decades.
First, FTFY. Bill Gates' technical experience is primarily in writing really really crappy software that failed. Name a single thing he actually wrote or led that was remotely successful. MS Basic? MS bought GWU basic to replace it.
His experience in being a cunning and unethical asshole only interested in himself? Well, you got me there.
First, this is how my current TV runs. It is not connected to the internet, and is about as dumb as rocks. The remote is a Harmony reprogrammed to do precisely those things you mention. I do have an HTPC in front of it, and if I could get rid of the provider box entirely, I would. It's likely I'll tackle that soon, actually. I'm not sure why anyone wants a mike or camera in their TV, and then connect it to the internet, that's just stupid.
Yep, IBM was losing money on every copy of OS/2 sold. I can't find any links today, but that's what I recall way way back when, when there were hot discussions about why OS/2 was so much more expensive than windows.
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Once again, if you can't detach and take that "backup" with you (even if you need a forklift and an 18 wheeler or three) and plug it into a different system and view the data, it's not a backup.
The revelation is that it is trivial to accomplish this.
A "cloud" isn't inherently insecure any more than it's inherently insecure to host your own servers, or to have them colocated at a datacenter, or to pay an outsourced company to just handle all the computer stuff. ...
Know all of your options, and list all of your assets. Gather all of the information you can before you have to make a decision. That's the only way to improve your security.
The cloud is inherently insecure. Anytime you place all the parts needed for encryption outside your control, amazingly, it is no longer in your control. See any non-connected DRM for a long list of failures.
That said, the only cloud based services that can be "secured" are storage and communications if you externally encrypted the data. Externally means that the only thing the cloud service sees is an encrypted file or stream. There is no ability to decrypt that storage, no keys are associated with it, no algorithm is even evident on the service. Best yet, any number of current web services will suffice for this, including Google, MS, and DropBox. You can checkout OTR (Pidgin/Adium) and PGP plugins for a good idea of how these work and how to really secure your services. I predict that such approaches will happen sooner than later, as more and more problems with "it's the cloud" and other outsourcing options crop up.
Our banks enforce IE 10 minimum but recommend Firefox or Chrome.
These 15%? Yeah, they're not your main source of income if they haven't bought a PC or upgraded their browser in 10 years.
IE8 is 7 years old. I haven't supported IE 8 in 3 years. We ran tests via a QA person only to note that if the website broke, we'd add IE8 to the automatic pop up "Your browser is not supported, not all aspects of the site may work. Please upgrade to a supported browser: blah blah blah". It failed on a page about 2 years ago, we added the popup, and amazingly IE8 usage dropped significantly. :) No, we didn't lose those IE8 folks, they migrated to a supported browser. Since they were paying for services, they definitely wanted to use them. A 5+ year old browser being upgraded wasn't a huge issue. Note that we didn't intentionally break the site for IE8, just that we weren't working around its fubar implementation and lack of standards support. If it runs on Firefox, Chrome, Safari, KDE, etc, then the problem isn't with our code, it's with MS. We are not in the business of fixing MS bugs.
The sharing aspect should be removed. All seized items have to go to a pool of charities with requirements set by the feds, thus reducing the incentives significantly.
Nothing MS does today is solely local. Haven't you been paying attention? Win10 is a cloud service OS, and if you think telemetry data stays local, there's some beach front property in Kansas I'd like to sell you.
I long ago stated that the only way you would get to a secure version of windows was to ditch the core architecture of windows. Sure it can be done (just look at WINE, it's 90% there already) Does MS have the vision and will to make that happen? I doubt it, as they have tried replacing core pieces at least twice in the past decade and only wound up slapping on the UAC and removing the ability to manipulate security tokens within a process, only allowing masking, the exact opposite of what developers need and security experts say is best practices.
And I was going what does Continuum have to do with Windows 10?
When has Apple stolen from Google?
No, because FB is web enabled and instant gratification, whereas USENET can take a while. The reason I added TOR on top of the USENET concept for messaging is to allow for much closer to realtime messaging.
If true, that's truly ironically funny. Democrats only used the system created and handed to them by Republicans. If people weren't idiots, they would have voted for anyone that wasn't a Democrat OR Republican.
Long term, once the advertising bubble hits a wall (i.e. there isn't anything to suck out on users to sell, especially in a recession), social networks will not a viable business model. Instead, what is viable, will be going back to a decentralized ISP model, similar to how E-mail is done.
decentralized ISP model, like USENET? Now that would be sweet, because it solves hordes of issues, especially if you layer such a system on top of TOR to allow direct messaging.
Critical thinking and situational awareness are both sorely missing from the US education system. is this really true elsewhere in the world, as well?
Given my experience working with various entities and people across Europe and Asia, I'd have to say this is not a US only trend.
Here's a thought on rape and abuse cases, take a page from England. Don't allow publishing of victims nor suspects until the case has been proven as guilty in court. Given social media etc, it's ridiculous that you can effectively be tainted by a single statement and nothing in libel law will allow redress, because, technically, that statement is true at the time it was made. People in general are stupid, and seeing "suspect in a rape case" or "person of interest" and "rape" or "abuse" next to each other and in association with a person's name immediately makes the leap in most of these people's minds that they're guilty, because... it's on the internet. Given the general trends of education these days and the removal of focus on anything related to critical thinking, I'd say it's safe to say that the situation will not improve.
if the process of the data being gathered via a 3rd party makes that data stale, then there's no impact to Uber as far as UrbanHail goes. It's surge pricing, if their data is "old" then it will never be correct, not to mention that it likely makes UrbanHail a non Uber app entirely. UrbanHail should have come into being prior to Uber becoming the de facto monopoly it is. At this point, Uber can pretty much say "no" and UrbanHail will follow many others into oblivion if Uber stays on top.
I find it surprising that anyone is surprised, and even more surprising that UrbanHail thinks they have any rights to Uber's data.
If I needed all that, I'd buy 2 1TB SSDs. If your VMs and data are truly needed often, then there's no reason to wait on even a black drive. Black drives are still slow, especially if you compare them to 10K or 15K drives. But the noise and power draw make the couple of hundred extra spent on SSDs worth it. (BTW, last time I priced a 2TB black drive it was running $120 on sale)
I managed to drop all my work requirements to a 500GB RAID0 pair of SSDs on my desktop, with VMs running off of a separate 500GB 850. I have a couple of other older SSDs floating about, but those are used for testing OSes and stuff. I was considering adding 2 more drives to the RAID 0 set, not to increase size but to speed it up, but found that for my main tasks I'm looking to speed up I'm CPU bound because those are single threaded and disk I/O is no longer the bottle neck.
For the record, WD Purple is a slow ass drive, and WD Black is WORTH THE MONEY!
Any spinning drive is slow as crap these days. SSDs all the way. I only use spinning drives for backups and mass store features.
Regarding windows VMs, I very rarely spin one up, and never for games. The reason AAA games are having a tougher and tougher time is because they expect you to drop $2K every year or two for the latest and greatest hardware/software combo so you can see that wizbang shaded shadow flicker at 60fps instead of 30 fps. Honestly, most of the games are based on how fast you notice and react. You'd be best off playing them on high end CRTs (no latency) While some think that's fun, I've been more of the "where did all the fun games go". Thank goodness for GoG and Steam (believe it or not, they're actually helping the situation even though I'd rather buy everything via GoG).
Ah bullshit. My (non CS) engineering degree had more programming taught in it than most current CS courses teach. On top of that, to answer the topic's question: I "learned" originally to code in basic, if you could call it that, for about 2 copied programs worth, found it worthless and delved into assembly immediately to get into the interesting things. There weren't any other languages really available at the time, not for any platform I had access to. Later on, learned COBOL, FORTRAN, C, C++, Java, C#, JS, Perl, Ruby, Python and any number of supporting libraries and quite a few scripting languages. What's the point of this question?
I've tested mine several times: 50/50 or better. I am seeing little to no latency increases either.
But, none of that matters, congrats on the baby. You'll find a lot of stuff changes after the first.
Frontier just acquired about half of Verizon's FIOS customers, maybe more. They certainly aren't just DSL.
Well, since the iMacs have been running 5K for a while now... I guess they're not worthless. :)
Well, I think he's right. And he's actually one of those people with enough experience to say this, since programming doesn't require pesky interaction with the real world like, say, automated cars do, humans obviously suck at programming big time, and Gates is one of those people who ... suck[s] big time at programming over multiple decades.
First, FTFY. Bill Gates' technical experience is primarily in writing really really crappy software that failed. Name a single thing he actually wrote or led that was remotely successful. MS Basic? MS bought GWU basic to replace it.
His experience in being a cunning and unethical asshole only interested in himself? Well, you got me there.
First, this is how my current TV runs. It is not connected to the internet, and is about as dumb as rocks. The remote is a Harmony reprogrammed to do precisely those things you mention. I do have an HTPC in front of it, and if I could get rid of the provider box entirely, I would. It's likely I'll tackle that soon, actually. I'm not sure why anyone wants a mike or camera in their TV, and then connect it to the internet, that's just stupid.
Yep, IBM was losing money on every copy of OS/2 sold. I can't find any links today, but that's what I recall way way back when, when there were hot discussions about why OS/2 was so much more expensive than windows.