Many labs routinely participate in accreditation audits. The accrediting agency sends a box of samples to the lab, the lab runs tests on the samples, and sends results back to the accreditation agency. If your results don't match expected results, things start happening.
Yes, somebody should absolutely be assigned responsibility to keep up with things like this. Because when no one's assigned the responsibility, well, then you get things like domains expiring.
WTF? A guy wants a degree on his resume to enhance his employment opportunities and you suggest that he blow his head off? What the hell's the matter with you?
"Perk" is defined as 'an advantage or benefit following from a job or situation.'
Which pretty much describes the OP's intent. Just because he is interested in the practical outcomes of having a degree rather than worshiping at the Holy Altar of the Ivory Tower you think he should end his life?
I am curious, how do you think the police should be able to look for people drink driving?
Should they need to see you do something legal but seriously stupid like weaving between the lanes of the highway like a jackass before they can breathalyse you? Or should you actually need to break the law by running a red light? Or should they only be able to breath test people who crash?
Any of these would likely be "probable cause" under U.S. law to make a traffic stop. Under U.S. law an officer cannot detain you without either a warrant or probable cause. (At least, not in theory.)
I think you misunderstand the purpose of the Pi. The Pi was developed to be an educational tool for high-school aged kids. The fact that hackers and makers found it useful and jumped on the bandwagon is a fortunate side effect, but wasn't a design goal of the Pi.
A very interesting point, and one on which I agree. To date, companies haven't cared much about cybersecurity because there's no fiscal benefit to spending all that money. This case may indeed change that.
No, liability insurance pays out according to the terms of the contract.
If I were writing an insurance policy to protect a company against hacking, I'd sure as heck include clauses that require the insured party to take certain steps to protect that data. *If* such terms were part of the contract, and *if* Sony didn't abide by the terms of the contract, then the insurer isn't under any obligation to pay out.
It all comes down to: what were the terms of the policy? None of us knows that, so we're all just taking WAGs on this issue.
Most liability contracts have clauses that require the insured to take certain measures to reduce their risk. If this policy does contain such clauses, and Sony didn't take those measures, it certainly stands to reason that the policy won't pay out.
It all comes down to what the contract says. Since that contract hasn't (as far as I'm aware) been released, all we can do here is guess.
Your wife may not have committed the crime the police were investigating, but she may have committed several crimes by making the recordings. If your wife didn't need a lawyer before, she likely does now.
Unfortunately, in order for that to happen, a case would have to go to trial. It appears the police departments involved have been smart enough not to let any of these cases actually go to trial.
I remain optimistic that, when one of these cases finally does make it to trial, courts will in fact interpret the law consistently with loads of case law that have found that an individual in a public space has no expectation of privacy.
Hopefully, the court will throw in there the public good that is served by videotaping law enforcement officials in the line of duty as well. But I'm not as confident in that one actually happening.
...I'd bet a lot of money that napkins hold up BETTER than hard drives and floppy drives for data retention. It's hard to beat ink on paper for longevity.
When I stopped asking questions, Shail had one for me. "I have experienced some Americans—please don't mind—they don't like Indians. They act rude as soon as they come to know I am Indian. Why is this?" I stammered something about protectionism, but really I didn't know what to say.
Simply put, nobody likes communicating with people who are.. well... difficult to communicate with.
This doesn't explain it.
American consumers are watching companies abandon customer service and outsourcing these functions to overseas companies that employ call-takers that have no knowledge of the products they support, no ability to do any real troubleshooting, and no authority to give any help at all outside the script on their desk.
India isn't the cause of the problem; it's the symptom. When we call and talk to someone in India, we're not upset at India, we're upset at the company we're trying to do business with, which has let us down. Talking to someone in India is simply the indication that the company we're working with doesn't care about us as customers.
I'd be happy if they'd just provide competent support, at any price. We have ~10,000 SUN servers and Oracle is happy to let my servers sit out of production for weeks at a time when they can't figure out the cause of a problem. If my software platform didn't have redundancy built in at the application layer I'd be losing millions of dollars a month to this.
Dell, HP, or IBM would replace a server if they couldn't get it back into production. Not Oracle. Oracle will "research" the problem for weeks on end while my server sits, powered up, but out of production.
Maybe VMWare was doing something that the documentation says you shouldn't do, and the security patch came along and actually started enforcing what the documentation said.
Don't be so quick to judge MSFT. Without further details it's not possible to know whose fault this is (as if assigning blame is productive).
So I report you to DHS as a terrorist. No evidence to support my claim, just an anonymous tip.
For the rest of your life, you're subjected to additional screening and harassment every time you fly. You have no recourse to clear your name. You have no idea how your name got on the watch list. For the rest of your life you learn to show up at the airport an hour earlier than everyone else does and see everyone in the security line looking at you, getting your extra pat-down, wondering, "I wonder that that guy did."
And your civil liberties are not at stake?
If you were an author, songwriter, or other artist who produced copyrighted works to feed your family, maybe you'd understand that for some people, this *is* an issue to fight over like it's a matter of life and death.
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As if Trump's use of the "Pocahontas" moniker hasn't already had the candidate himself take us all back to first grade.
Many labs routinely participate in accreditation audits. The accrediting agency sends a box of samples to the lab, the lab runs tests on the samples, and sends results back to the accreditation agency. If your results don't match expected results, things start happening.
Yes, somebody should absolutely be assigned responsibility to keep up with things like this. Because when no one's assigned the responsibility, well, then you get things like domains expiring.
WTF? A guy wants a degree on his resume to enhance his employment opportunities and you suggest that he blow his head off? What the hell's the matter with you? "Perk" is defined as 'an advantage or benefit following from a job or situation.' Which pretty much describes the OP's intent. Just because he is interested in the practical outcomes of having a degree rather than worshiping at the Holy Altar of the Ivory Tower you think he should end his life?
So, if I don't want an airplane to disappear, I should hire a pilot to fly it instead of network it with external systems, then?
This is only true if she gets convicted. I can't imagine a DA prosecuting this case.
I am curious, how do you think the police should be able to look for people drink driving?
Should they need to see you do something legal but seriously stupid like weaving between the lanes of the highway like a jackass before they can breathalyse you? Or should you actually need to break the law by running a red light? Or should they only be able to breath test people who crash?
Any of these would likely be "probable cause" under U.S. law to make a traffic stop. Under U.S. law an officer cannot detain you without either a warrant or probable cause. (At least, not in theory.)
WHS = Windows Home Server
Came here to say this. Color me skeptical.
I think you misunderstand the purpose of the Pi. The Pi was developed to be an educational tool for high-school aged kids. The fact that hackers and makers found it useful and jumped on the bandwagon is a fortunate side effect, but wasn't a design goal of the Pi.
A tutorial for the STM32F0DISCOVERY board can be found: http://thehackerworkshop.com/?p=391
A very interesting point, and one on which I agree. To date, companies haven't cared much about cybersecurity because there's no fiscal benefit to spending all that money. This case may indeed change that.
No, liability insurance pays out according to the terms of the contract.
If I were writing an insurance policy to protect a company against hacking, I'd sure as heck include clauses that require the insured party to take certain steps to protect that data. *If* such terms were part of the contract, and *if* Sony didn't abide by the terms of the contract, then the insurer isn't under any obligation to pay out.
It all comes down to: what were the terms of the policy? None of us knows that, so we're all just taking WAGs on this issue.
Most liability contracts have clauses that require the insured to take certain measures to reduce their risk. If this policy does contain such clauses, and Sony didn't take those measures, it certainly stands to reason that the policy won't pay out.
It all comes down to what the contract says. Since that contract hasn't (as far as I'm aware) been released, all we can do here is guess.
Your wife may not have committed the crime the police were investigating, but she may have committed several crimes by making the recordings. If your wife didn't need a lawyer before, she likely does now.
Unfortunately, in order for that to happen, a case would have to go to trial. It appears the police departments involved have been smart enough not to let any of these cases actually go to trial. I remain optimistic that, when one of these cases finally does make it to trial, courts will in fact interpret the law consistently with loads of case law that have found that an individual in a public space has no expectation of privacy. Hopefully, the court will throw in there the public good that is served by videotaping law enforcement officials in the line of duty as well. But I'm not as confident in that one actually happening.
...I'd bet a lot of money that napkins hold up BETTER than hard drives and floppy drives for data retention. It's hard to beat ink on paper for longevity.
When I stopped asking questions, Shail had one for me. "I have experienced some Americans—please don't mind—they don't like Indians. They act rude as soon as they come to know I am Indian. Why is this?" I stammered something about protectionism, but really I didn't know what to say.
Simply put, nobody likes communicating with people who are.. well... difficult to communicate with.
This doesn't explain it.
American consumers are watching companies abandon customer service and outsourcing these functions to overseas companies that employ call-takers that have no knowledge of the products they support, no ability to do any real troubleshooting, and no authority to give any help at all outside the script on their desk.
India isn't the cause of the problem; it's the symptom. When we call and talk to someone in India, we're not upset at India, we're upset at the company we're trying to do business with, which has let us down. Talking to someone in India is simply the indication that the company we're working with doesn't care about us as customers.
I'd be happy if they'd just provide competent support, at any price. We have ~10,000 SUN servers and Oracle is happy to let my servers sit out of production for weeks at a time when they can't figure out the cause of a problem. If my software platform didn't have redundancy built in at the application layer I'd be losing millions of dollars a month to this. Dell, HP, or IBM would replace a server if they couldn't get it back into production. Not Oracle. Oracle will "research" the problem for weeks on end while my server sits, powered up, but out of production.
It wouldn't. But neither would an antivirus program.
The Gameduino handles the video output. Any input device you'd like can be connected to the Arduino that's running the show.
Maybe VMWare was doing something that the documentation says you shouldn't do, and the security patch came along and actually started enforcing what the documentation said. Don't be so quick to judge MSFT. Without further details it's not possible to know whose fault this is (as if assigning blame is productive).
Since when can the courts only use 'public' information as evidence? This whole thread is based on a flawed premise.
So I report you to DHS as a terrorist. No evidence to support my claim, just an anonymous tip. For the rest of your life, you're subjected to additional screening and harassment every time you fly. You have no recourse to clear your name. You have no idea how your name got on the watch list. For the rest of your life you learn to show up at the airport an hour earlier than everyone else does and see everyone in the security line looking at you, getting your extra pat-down, wondering, "I wonder that that guy did." And your civil liberties are not at stake?
If you were an author, songwriter, or other artist who produced copyrighted works to feed your family, maybe you'd understand that for some people, this *is* an issue to fight over like it's a matter of life and death.