Would this guy's laptop have been stolen if he'd put it into his briefcase and taken it home with him after work? If this company was a small startup, they probably don't have the building security features that they'd like to have protecting their hardware. Thus, leaving nothing at work seems prudent.. depending on how important it is to the guy.
Once he takes the laptop out of the building the security problem is worse. Now he has to leave it in his car or his house when he goes to the movies, dinner, etc. What are the odds his house is more secure than his office?
Now multiply one employee times 100 and consider whether it's better for employees to leave their computers at work or take them to their 100 homes.
Besides, the CIO's floppies and CD-Rs were also stolen. Unless he's going to schlep that stuff home along with his laptop, you're still looking at having data in the office. The office has to be secure or all bets are off.
This post... too accurate for Sandpeople. Only Imperial Stormtroopers are so precise.
It's one solution to an interface problem. Say you've got an Internet-enabled cell phone, PDA, or other small computer-like-thingie. How do you compose email on the stupid thing without a keyboard?
The problem is solved on the Palm PDAs with Graffiti, FITALY and similar, but not on cell phones. Voice is the most compact and intuitive interface for entering information, so it's one obvious solution for small consumber devices. Time will tell if it's a good solution.
When they said that information wants to be free, they meant free as in speech, not free as in beer.
Really? I haven't seen it in the original context, but the quote is:
Information wants to be free,
because it has become so cheap to distribute, copy and recombine.
It wants to be expensive because it can be immeasurably valuable
to the recipient. -- Stewart Brand
It sure sounds like Brand is talking about free beer. Unless there's such a thing as expensive speech.
isps.com did just that so they would be indexed by the search engines. The Links engine (see http://www.56k.com/links for an example) stores links in a database, but generates static html pages.
Everyone has been talking about web-wide search engines. Having a mix of dynamic and static content also presents problems for a site-wide search engine, unless you have the scratch or programming savvy to write a local search engine to query both.
The "crackers vs. hackers" debate come up on slashdot every time the media uses the term. People were debating this on Usenet and BBSes when I went online in the '80s, and the "trekkers vs. trekkies" debate has probably been around even longer.
I call it the Starfish Syndrome: most people don't know or care about the difference between a boy starfish and a girl starfish, but it's a big deal to the starfish. That's why John Q. Public doesn't care about "hackers" vs "crackers" and "trekkies" vs. "trekkers," but people on computer networks will endlessly debate the distinctions.
P.S. Someone mentioned "script kiddies." Awesome term! Really useful for d00dz who found a copy of AOHell on a web page.
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Once he takes the laptop out of the building the security problem is worse. Now he has to leave it in his car or his house when he goes to the movies, dinner, etc. What are the odds his house is more secure than his office?
Now multiply one employee times 100 and consider whether it's better for employees to leave their computers at work or take them to their 100 homes.
Besides, the CIO's floppies and CD-Rs were also stolen. Unless he's going to schlep that stuff home along with his laptop, you're still looking at having data in the office. The office has to be secure or all bets are off.
This post... too accurate for Sandpeople. Only Imperial Stormtroopers are so precise.
The problem is solved on the Palm PDAs with Graffiti, FITALY and similar, but not on cell phones. Voice is the most compact and intuitive interface for entering information, so it's one obvious solution for small consumber devices. Time will tell if it's a good solution.
When they said that information wants to be free, they meant free as in speech, not free as in beer.
Really? I haven't seen it in the original context, but the quote is:
It sure sounds like Brand is talking about free beer. Unless there's such a thing as expensive speech.
Amazingly enough, there are now robots that wash dishes and do the laundry. Science marches on!
isps.com did just that so they would be indexed by the search engines. The Links engine (see http://www.56k.com/links for an example) stores links in a database, but generates static html pages.
Everyone has been talking about web-wide search engines. Having a mix of dynamic and static content also presents problems for a site-wide search engine, unless you have the scratch or programming savvy to write a local search engine to query both.
The "crackers vs. hackers" debate come up on slashdot every time the media uses the term. People were debating this on Usenet and BBSes when I went online in the '80s, and the "trekkers vs. trekkies" debate has probably been around even longer.
I call it the Starfish Syndrome: most people don't know or care about the difference between a boy starfish and a girl starfish, but it's a big deal to the starfish. That's why John Q. Public doesn't care about "hackers" vs "crackers" and "trekkies" vs. "trekkers," but people on computer networks will endlessly debate the distinctions.
P.S. Someone mentioned "script kiddies." Awesome term! Really useful for d00dz who found a copy of AOHell on a web page.