But Symantec is a master of bundling, allmost any windows PC you buy comes with free 3 month Norton Antivirus, thus inertia makes many people continue that.. along with the fact that most people do not know better or care...
Everything is possible, but if Symantec had reasonably good processes in place they should have been able to provide the orginal reasons and symptoms that caused them to write that knowledgebase article, however incomplete, along with "we will investigate this matter further"
True enough, but one thing to consider is that antivirus makers did not care about most spyware for a long time, thus the anti-spyware companies sprung up. Now the anti-virus makers are trying to get into that market too, but their products are still not as good, so there is definitely a motive atleast.
Indeed, I am sure that they could have atleast published the findings that lead to the orginal assessment, however incomplete, as defence if there was any reason.
And funny thing too.. both partly because of Intel...
Dell under pressure specially in the serverspace because they do not use AMD processors.. and Apple because the switched to Intel..
Ofcourse the reasons go much deeper than that, including increased competition from even cheaper manufacturers from Asia for Dell and iPods for Apple and many other things.. But just wanted to reflect on the irony of Intel being a problem for one and good thing for other...
Thus Apple gets much more "bang for buck" with their advertising by doing it this way. The article discusses how NIKE for exaple introducing something basically gets ignored. The oney and effort that Apple puts int the "show" are thus worth every cent.. multiplied by a large number.
Indeed.. thus thank god the whole world is not american yet.. as in some places of the world people are still told about and believe in of things like responsibilities to other people.
Well yes.. opression will happen again.. and again.. as people do not seem ever to listen to the first signs of trouble.. and wait until it is too late.
Actually some shareholders do require integrity to invest in a company. Many small time shaheholders do and then few really big ones. One example of a really big one that does is the Norvegian state investment arm that invests the oil incomes. They have for example recently pulled out of companies that are involved in nuclear weapons work and have before pulled out from others with chilf labour and such.
Management basically looks at only one thing: Money. As long as they see your proposals costing moneyand not earning it they will be refused. So the real point is to find and propose to them ways that efficiency could be raised or something similar.
According to what you wrote there would likely be a lot of things really in need of overhaul to actually do things efficiently, but as long as management only sees IT as a drain and not as thing helping profit they will not happen. Thus the first task is finding where small changes could reap big benefits and then propose those, likely in the form of hiring someone "for project duration" to do do/hel with that change. As that thing is then showing some gains, propose a next thing and so on.
Afterall the role of IT in a company is not something standalone, instead it is a tool to make other things more efficient.
yes they were normal citizens once, but more on the restrictive side of things in the begining too and then trained and prodded to distrust people who are not fellow agents.
No no no. If people brush their teeth they will get less holes in them. That then translates into lesser visits to the dentists, making for less money changing hands. That is clearly a communist plot to fight capitalism too.
A book is far more dangerous than any gun ever was. You see guns aren't dangerous, it is the person holding it and it is ideas that animate us.
Seems you have not read that book..:)
"Political power comes from the barell of a gun" -Chairman Mao
But the current goverment has read it, that is why US of A spends more money on its Military than rest of the world combined.
They need to manufacture/invent a clear enemy and threat to take over and then use that same threat as excuse to take the population control steps.
From now on that student will have a record at Gestap^h^h^h^h^h Department of Homeland Security as potential terrorist.
Next steps will include total supression of dangerous books from public, so you will not be even able to request such a dangerous book without going personally to a Department of Homeland Security Office and giving full DNA samples and fingerprints and photos and such directly to the register before being denied.
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But Symantec is a master of bundling, allmost any windows PC you buy comes with free 3 month Norton Antivirus, thus inertia makes many people continue that.. along with the fact that most people do not know better or care...
Everything is possible, but if Symantec had reasonably good processes in place they should have been able to provide the orginal reasons and symptoms that caused them to write that knowledgebase article, however incomplete, along with "we will investigate this matter further"
True enough, but one thing to consider is that antivirus makers did not care about most spyware for a long time, thus the anti-spyware companies sprung up. Now the anti-virus makers are trying to get into that market too, but their products are still not as good, so there is definitely a motive atleast.
Indeed, I am sure that they could have atleast published the findings that lead to the orginal assessment, however incomplete, as defence if there was any reason.
Dell under pressure specially in the serverspace because they do not use AMD processors.. and Apple because the switched to Intel..
Ofcourse the reasons go much deeper than that, including increased competition from even cheaper manufacturers from Asia for Dell and iPods for Apple and many other things.. But just wanted to reflect on the irony of Intel being a problem for one and good thing for other...
Yes, one should stand up to any Censorship including the US ones.
Thus Apple gets much more "bang for buck" with their advertising by doing it this way. The article discusses how NIKE for exaple introducing something basically gets ignored. The oney and effort that Apple puts int the "show" are thus worth every cent.. multiplied by a large number.
Indeed.. thus thank god the whole world is not american yet.. as in some places of the world people are still told about and believe in of things like responsibilities to other people.
Well yes.. opression will happen again.. and again.. as people do not seem ever to listen to the first signs of trouble.. and wait until it is too late.
Actually some shareholders do require integrity to invest in a company. Many small time shaheholders do and then few really big ones. One example of a really big one that does is the Norvegian state investment arm that invests the oil incomes. They have for example recently pulled out of companies that are involved in nuclear weapons work and have before pulled out from others with chilf labour and such.
That is not corrent, it is the job of management to look at shareholder/owner value. That is as simple as it is.
In some circumstances it means what you say, in other circumstances it means to do the opposite.
According to what you wrote there would likely be a lot of things really in need of overhaul to actually do things efficiently, but as long as management only sees IT as a drain and not as thing helping profit they will not happen. Thus the first task is finding where small changes could reap big benefits and then propose those, likely in the form of hiring someone "for project duration" to do do/hel with that change. As that thing is then showing some gains, propose a next thing and so on.
Afterall the role of IT in a company is not something standalone, instead it is a tool to make other things more efficient.
yes they were normal citizens once, but more on the restrictive side of things in the begining too and then trained and prodded to distrust people who are not fellow agents.
No no no. If people brush their teeth they will get less holes in them. That then translates into lesser visits to the dentists, making for less money changing hands. That is clearly a communist plot to fight capitalism too.
In the end you tend to become what you fight.
Mao was a communist (though not really but..)
Communist countries used to support terrorism
=reading a book about communism is reading a book about terrorism
Actually many of those people do care about that there is a strong misstrust of the Federal Goverment in general among many of the "right wingers".
Note the security personel that will make sure that all those communists at red cross and similar never get to disturb you on this "holiday".
no no.. we vote for people who approve machines for next elections that get them reelected forever.
A book is far more dangerous than any gun ever was. You see guns aren't dangerous, it is the person holding it and it is ideas that animate us. Seems you have not read that book.. :)
"Political power comes from the barell of a gun" -Chairman Mao
But the current goverment has read it, that is why US of A spends more money on its Military than rest of the world combined.
The book? What does he need the book for when he is arrested as Enemy Combatant and sent to some hidden prison without trial.
the point was not investigation, it was intimidation. That is how Totalitarian countries work.
That is why TV is portrayed as the best way to spend any extra time you may have, so as to not even think about reading.
They need to manufacture/invent a clear enemy and threat to take over and then use that same threat as excuse to take the population control steps.
From now on that student will have a record at Gestap^h^h^h^h^h Department of Homeland Security as potential terrorist.
Next steps will include total supression of dangerous books from public, so you will not be even able to request such a dangerous book without going personally to a Department of Homeland Security Office and giving full DNA samples and fingerprints and photos and such directly to the register before being denied.
Well, given the way US kidnaps regulary people abroad, why would they not? Though I understand it is not FBI that does that.