Oh, and guess what then happened to the software that went to Libya?
Programmers who rely on income from their customers will expect this.
Suddenly the company who had to "give" the software to Libya started to get calls for software support from all sorts of places through the Mid-East and elsewhere in the world.
So much honesty and trust in the MidEast. Why it must absolutely be nirvana.
I'm not authorized to name names, but the software was essential to the refining of oil into finished products. Anyone in the industry can guess which of a couple companies that might be.
I can tell you that the firm that had to "turn over" the software, made sure that the code didn't have all the trade secrets in it.
The damnable government highjinks are actually undermining our country's companies, which means our jobs. It is our jobs that get lost when these "giveaways" occur because some political deal happens.
It is true marxist sickness, where the government tells companies to screw themselves and the company has to say back "Fine, now where do you want me to put the screw into myself and how deep?" Kill the Golden Goose and...you kill the employees.
Yup, this is marginally off topic, I admit, but it illustrates private corporation software going to foreign government entitites.
During the Clinton years the Secretary of Commerce forced some companies to sell software to Libya (known for software piracy) for proprietary oil operations (I can't say what) under the threat of federal prosecution if they did not do so.
This amounts to forced transfer of proprietary software, though not including original source code.
I do not think people realize what political deals behind the scenes do to US company's proprietary property when the US government decides to do "Let's make a deal" with foreign dictators that can't be trusted.
Somehow with a major break-in or other fault appearing virtually every day in the news, I am beginning to think large operations just don't have the required level of professionalism and funding of a proper testing environment (software & hardware) to get things right before they roll out the code publicly.
The prior news story which made me roll my eyes was the airline which lost use of some of its computers and stranded passengers.
So an author (not a solar scientist) of a book writes a blurb for an online story with his opinion and refers to his book as proof?
Some of the NASA and other solar scientists are saying their is some probability of a lull in Solar Output based on the science evidence and models they form. Proof, no, not yet. But there are reasons to consider it possible.
More science observations and correlations will come in the next few years.
How come I no longer respect big government and corporations to adequately protect themselves and us as a country anymore? It couldn't be because a major security blunder is reported in the press about once a week is it?
How can any large public corporation & defense contractors not have teams of people to constantly audit & oversee security procedures, penetration testing, network analysis, and systems analysis to keep up to date on a daily threat basis?
These constant adverse events inspire dark cynicism in an otherwise positive person.
Logical answers? If you can't keep the bad guys out, for god's sake get them offline permanently.
When you figure in the customers who they have finally "turned off" who just won't buy Sony 'anything' anymore, Sony may just have permanently set a backward slide.
It only takes one or two 'hits' from a manufacturer treating a customer badly to cause a consumer to give up on a brand. You hear comments like that all the time.
For me, the rootkit fiasco & a $3000 Sony TV that a bit over a year later had the remote fail and they no longer sold that model of remote was the last straw. Good companies don't do that. My feeling is that Sony has never taken software seriously as evidenced by all the published failures.
The story noted “The results suggested that Apple was actually stimulating the same parts of the brain as religious imagery does in people of faith.”
If it was generically said that "iconic products & services stimulate a certain section of the brain which is also stimulated by people of faith" the bias and imagery is gone as it does not imply fanaticism.
Journalists keep slanting things to suit their "fanaticism". How's that for an inditement by using just one word.
There have been so many security holes in all sorts of hardware and for so long, that I have to think that there is a basic failure of top management to understand and grasp the issues involved in the trust people place in their products.
Having top managers make decisions on whether a program gets top flight security implemented from day 1 of a program's inception would be a big mistake.
Security today ought to be #1. Ask Sony for instance, or any one of the other dozen recent companies who have failed basic updates to their servers even after the lack of updates was published publicly online.
Sheesh. What does it take to get top management "on board".
When starting up you have to have contingency plans.
"What happens if we can't sell direct guys and live with the cut to APPLE?"
The answer apparently was "Uhh..."
The answer should have been, "OK, we need an additional profitable business strategy." "How about selling our App as a superior Reader, Markup and Outlining utility to really make an advantage for the user who wants to retain information about the books and other similar documents they read?"
There are ways to structure advantages to give the user something he is willing to pay for that they can't get elsewhere as good as or for less than your product. Then comes the ability to do things like in app running text adds at the bottom of the screen that are like the nightly news scrolling text, which the user could turn off or turn on to see special offers, etc.
The sad part for sleuth junkies is that the true nature of what was found will not be revealed for decades if ever.
A part not mentioned is the chance of the US CIA putting double agents & operatives in businesses who interact with the likes of moneymen and couriers and transporters of goods that Al Queda used, such that the CIA/NSA continually finds out more and more about how these guys work.
Some 3000 years ago the Chinese warrior Sun Tzu who wrote the "The Art of War" noted he would rather have 1 good spy than 10,000 good soldiers.
Something tells me the world airline safety experts are already debating the update of recorders to offer redundant multiple storage of ALL data from a plane in case of a crash.
Given the nature of storage density these days, I really doubt it would cost much more or take up much more room to have redundant storage. It would seem to require primarily a couple extra cables and connectors.
I truthfully believe the beginning of the spiral started as a very very small circle of people at the center of a spiral that only the RIM Board and Execs saw and either ignored or misunderstood.
The moment the spiral started was when Steve Jobs stood alone on a black stage and pointed a colorful touch screen at the audience and then spoke convincingly of the world to come in personal communications.
I am an outsider, but from what I see, if you wait 3-4 years in a new market evolution-revolution, you die. What buzz does RIM have with the 15-35 crowd? What patent portfolio will give it substantial leverage against Apple? What magnificent design team exists which will drop the next major jump onto the market to show that RIM is here now?
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Oh, and guess what then happened to the software that went to Libya?
Programmers who rely on income from their customers will expect this.
Suddenly the company who had to "give" the software to Libya started to get calls for software support from all sorts of places through the Mid-East and elsewhere in the world.
So much honesty and trust in the MidEast. Why it must absolutely be nirvana.
I'm not authorized to name names, but the software was essential to the refining of oil into finished products. Anyone in the industry can guess which of a couple companies that might be.
I can tell you that the firm that had to "turn over" the software, made sure that the code didn't have all the trade secrets in it.
The damnable government highjinks are actually undermining our country's companies, which means our jobs. It is our jobs that get lost when these "giveaways" occur because some political deal happens.
It is true marxist sickness, where the government tells companies to screw themselves and the company has to say back "Fine, now where do you want me to put the screw into myself and how deep?" Kill the Golden Goose and...you kill the employees.
Yup, this is marginally off topic, I admit, but it illustrates private corporation software going to foreign government entitites.
During the Clinton years the Secretary of Commerce forced some companies to sell software to Libya (known for software piracy) for proprietary oil operations (I can't say what) under the threat of federal prosecution if they did not do so.
This amounts to forced transfer of proprietary software, though not including original source code.
I do not think people realize what political deals behind the scenes do to US company's proprietary property when the US government decides to do "Let's make a deal" with foreign dictators that can't be trusted.
Somehow with a major break-in or other fault appearing virtually every day in the news, I am beginning to think large operations just don't have the required level of professionalism and funding of a proper testing environment (software & hardware) to get things right before they roll out the code publicly.
The prior news story which made me roll my eyes was the airline which lost use of some of its computers and stranded passengers.
So why don't more systems lock you out after 3 tries for another 10 minutes or an hour?
That would deny brute force attacks.
Aan objective scientist, seeks only verifiable truth. Anything less is not science.
I won't buy things that contain their software & anyone who does, knows what they may get.
So an author (not a solar scientist) of a book writes a blurb for an online story with his opinion and refers to his book as proof?
Some of the NASA and other solar scientists are saying their is some probability of a lull in Solar Output based on the science evidence and models they form. Proof, no, not yet. But there are reasons to consider it possible.
More science observations and correlations will come in the next few years.
How come I no longer respect big government and corporations to adequately protect themselves and us as a country anymore? It couldn't be because a major security blunder is reported in the press about once a week is it?
How can any large public corporation & defense contractors not have teams of people to constantly audit & oversee security procedures, penetration testing, network analysis, and systems analysis to keep up to date on a daily threat basis?
These constant adverse events inspire dark cynicism in an otherwise positive person.
Logical answers? If you can't keep the bad guys out, for god's sake get them offline permanently.
10,000 ft/min = 120 miles/hr & looks suspiciously like a flat spin.
When you figure in the customers who they have finally "turned off" who just won't buy Sony 'anything' anymore, Sony may just have permanently set a backward slide.
It only takes one or two 'hits' from a manufacturer treating a customer badly to cause a consumer to give up on a brand. You hear comments like that all the time.
For me, the rootkit fiasco & a $3000 Sony TV that a bit over a year later had the remote fail and they no longer sold that model of remote was the last straw. Good companies don't do that. My feeling is that Sony has never taken software seriously as evidenced by all the published failures.
The article cited a lot of facts, theory and experimental work being done, but not one item about a physical product used in production.
"Will Graphene Revolutionize the 21st Century?": The answer is cost effective applications of graphene will be the sole determinant.
High schools and colleges are increasingly overrun with Apple products.
No kid I know begs his parents for a "PC"...no one.
The story noted “The results suggested that Apple was actually stimulating the same parts of the brain as religious imagery does in people of faith.”
If it was generically said that "iconic products & services stimulate a certain section of the brain which is also stimulated by people of faith" the bias and imagery is gone as it does not imply fanaticism.
Journalists keep slanting things to suit their "fanaticism". How's that for an inditement by using just one word.
"The cost of doing business is rarely the price of doing business."
Very good point. Warren Buffett noted "Price is what you pay; Value is what you get"
For managers who slack on security, "Security Cost is what you pinch on; crisis is what you get"
There have been so many security holes in all sorts of hardware and for so long, that I have to think that there is a basic failure of top management to understand and grasp the issues involved in the trust people place in their products.
Having top managers make decisions on whether a program gets top flight security implemented from day 1 of a program's inception would be a big mistake.
Security today ought to be #1. Ask Sony for instance, or any one of the other dozen recent companies who have failed basic updates to their servers even after the lack of updates was published publicly online.
Sheesh. What does it take to get top management "on board".
I don't trust either pan to hold my data. I might get burned.
When starting up you have to have contingency plans.
"What happens if we can't sell direct guys and live with the cut to APPLE?"
The answer apparently was "Uhh..."
The answer should have been, "OK, we need an additional profitable business strategy." "How about selling our App as a superior Reader, Markup and Outlining utility to really make an advantage for the user who wants to retain information about the books and other similar documents they read?"
There are ways to structure advantages to give the user something he is willing to pay for that they can't get elsewhere as good as or for less than your product. Then comes the ability to do things like in app running text adds at the bottom of the screen that are like the nightly news scrolling text, which the user could turn off or turn on to see special offers, etc.
Create = yes. Complain = No
Put OSX on it to debug when plugged into a Mac when OSX goes poof.
The sad part for sleuth junkies is that the true nature of what was found will not be revealed for decades if ever.
A part not mentioned is the chance of the US CIA putting double agents & operatives in businesses who interact with the likes of moneymen and couriers and transporters of goods that Al Queda used, such that the CIA/NSA continually finds out more and more about how these guys work.
Some 3000 years ago the Chinese warrior Sun Tzu who wrote the "The Art of War" noted he would rather have 1 good spy than 10,000 good soldiers.
If I think I can trust a cloud to support my data.
Something tells me the world airline safety experts are already debating the update of recorders to offer redundant multiple storage of ALL data from a plane in case of a crash.
Given the nature of storage density these days, I really doubt it would cost much more or take up much more room to have redundant storage. It would seem to require primarily a couple extra cables and connectors.
I truthfully believe the beginning of the spiral started as a very very small circle of people at the center of a spiral that only the RIM Board and Execs saw and either ignored or misunderstood.
The moment the spiral started was when Steve Jobs stood alone on a black stage and pointed a colorful touch screen at the audience and then spoke convincingly of the world to come in personal communications.
I am an outsider, but from what I see, if you wait 3-4 years in a new market evolution-revolution, you die. What buzz does RIM have with the 15-35 crowd? What patent portfolio will give it substantial leverage against Apple? What magnificent design team exists which will drop the next major jump onto the market to show that RIM is here now?
If a device doesn't "fit" and isn't priced fairly, they keep their current device or move on to some other product. Simple.
Steve Jobs, Jonny Ives and other designers realize that "fit" means easy to use and does the job.
I have to put Nintendo CEO Satori in the same camp as RIM CEO Basillie as CEOs who are out of touch with their customers.
A cloud based form of backup or duplicates can only be one leg of a system to protect data. Gotta have at least 3 legs to stand on.
The reminder that 4 services closed in one year is fair warning.