The cloud is no more and no less inherently secure than Apple's service. As you have no clue where Apple's is hosted, the cloud-resident part of the service is a non-issue to me. What's more important is that the underlying security architecture is known, respected, and is constantly changed to prevent new attacks.
I'm more interested in its contextual accuracy. Of course the idea of a hijack is moderately amusing, and I'm sure the NSA has a back door, discovering my latest purchase by voice from Amazon. What is that guy doing with all those walnuts???
I agree that Time Capsule is convenient. I don't believe that the 55% is a good number, but there it is. In terms of overall population compliance, I'm sure the number varies as the sample domains of each survey are in the US to start, and are people that might want to hide their sloth.
It's maintenance. No one does it. They pay fantastic sums of money to retrieve really strongly valued data. Why?
The real secret is that it isn't fear, it's sloth.
Some of my data is priceless to me. I have a backup here, and one far, far away from me. There's a third being cached as I write this. To others, they could care less. This is my data.
What they missed was: data has value like the currency in your billfold. Not the onesyes, but the hundred dollar/euro/whatever bills. And a fat fistfull of them. Backup to the cloud? Ok. When I see the SAS70-II and the vendor's commitment to best practices and an F5 NOC with dual grids and a 48hr UPS, yes, I'll backup to the cloud. And yes, I found one, but I'm not a shill.
The cloud is fine for backups; you're in the minority.
Whether they're looking for data, or just the hardware, the data is just as gone.
I don't think the risk in the cloud is quite as great if your provider is being diligent. I don't think they are, but as soon as the litigation floodgates open, they will be. For now, no one reads the EULAs. They just stuff their stuff somewhere, and hope they can remember the URL and password.
- no one makes backups - no one protects from coffee spills or burglaries, for that matter - people lose their machines all the time - download malware, and let cats sleep on their machines
At the Office, which if you're smart, will be the same practice as the cloud:
- Backups are rarely checked for integrity - People spill coffee on their machines, and they get stolen - Someone forgets to pay the Symantec tax, or doesn't look at the CVE and oops-- all gone! - Nearly 100% of networks get cracked every few years
There isn't much difference, except that in the cloud a few people have training, which they may or may not use correctly.
So far, it's about a half-billion dollars and counting.
I didn't compare them to Apple or Microsoft. These organizations have their own evils, too.
But the "Are they perfect?" (etc.) reminds me of what's worse, a gunshot wound in the hip, thigh, or shoulder. They take a guy offline, ignore him, then arbitrarily re-instate him. No matter he's in otherwise good standing, no matter his queries, made in good faith.
You believe them to be faceless, but like the others you cite, they're here to suck money out of your wallet, and dignity from your privacy, and smack your membership around arbitrarily. What great guys! Let's salute them! Here's to getting f'd!
But even the true-names policy makes the suspension unclear. His point? No one to fight. If you depend on social media vendors, you're at their mercy, and they're not open about their policy decisions, and they're not clear about their application of the rules.
It's arbitrary. And the reasons why are conjecture because Google won't say, and even the ostensible reasons are squishy from the evidence he's given. Google seems to have good-person karma that they in NO way deserve. Time and again, they're fined for privacy invasion and doing bad things, yet they have as many fanbois as Apple. The meme of Google doing no harm is easily congruent to the excuse that the oil companies used to raise the price of gasoline today: false yet legitimate sounding meme. See Glenn Beck rejoinder upthread.
Sure. No one misleads anyone in science in the US. Please dismiss the report.
The better minds that you have read claiming to dismiss quantum communications often dismiss *everything* because of uncertainty principles. I have an old, breadboard-based 8080 computer; I can sometimes calculate numbers in my head faster than it can provide the correct answer. Quantum communications is at level approximating the mid-1970s in personal computing. Be patient.
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I'm wondering if some of the shills are just sucker-bait, guaranteeing that any rational discussion is derailed so that topics become devolved and useless.
When they're this obvious, they seem contrived to the point of provocation. Like bees into the honeypot. I think we're getting played.
Laws are irrelevant. There are over-arching secret National Security Letters, that can do allow their holders anything the letter desires regarding secrecy, and it does. It is the new de facto arbiter of what is secret or private in the United States. They are nearly impossible to fight. And we cannot know their contents, or what they really do. They are a ghost that vacuums stuff.
People open attachments, or had HTML code in an email. They got infected pps files. The gamut. Some were civilians, some should have known better. Defending their architecture will get you nowhere.
As for my books, you have no clue the subject matter, but it was best for you to reveal that the content doesn't matter to you, that they must be profitable, and must have to do with infections.
Defending Microsoft is one of the silliest things you can do.
Yes, there was improvement, and yes, there became in the process of rapid releases and poor quality checks, unbelievably bad security and increased vulnerability.
For you, the sense that XP SP2 introduced demotion of user from root/admin is what made it a bit safer, and architecturally tenable. In the meantime, I had to scrape countless machines of malware, viruses, and just plain insane and stupid problems caused by revision desynchronization.
This is an apologist's view point. Save for the aforementioned minor successes, Microsoft has polarized and engendered enormous amounts of FUD into the markets it once championed.
While the article leaves out several glaring mistakes by omission, it is a largely accurate portrayal of an organization that's losing mindshare, market leadership, money, intellectual capital, and the warmth of its users.
The most glaring omission in my mind: poor quality software. Windows 98-Windows XPSP2 were horrible and fraught with bugs that lead to users having their machines trashed by viruses malware, or just machines made unusable by driver and systems software dependencies that took near experts to sort out. User as root allowed any app to have essentially complete control over the machine. Windows security became an oxymoron, and when Apple and Torvalds paid attention to details, they won. Regaining that trust will be painfully difficult for Microsoft at the user level. Note that the user-level is solely where Apple markets to; they're business clueless and don't care.
Market growth after market growth has escaped Microsoft, whose lack of entrepreneurship has stifled their growth, removed employee incentives, and made them amorphous.
I get the feeling that this is a guy that reads but doesn't learn, operates but doesn't understand what he's doing. Ye gawds, six weeks with RedHat training should teach you *something*.
I have no criticism of the poster that I responded to, only the twit that he tried to help. If a person goes for six weeks to learn about RH, then coughs a storm against Ubuntu for a perceived root account absence problem, he needs to be straightened out. He was.
But there's this part about why not dig under the surface and get your fingernails dirty to find the answer instead of dismissing an entire distribution for an erroneous assumption. That's where my gall is poised.
Stop confusing the issues with facts. This person went for weeks, weeks, he tells us, to make such conclusions. His facts are his facts, and Ubuntu must be trashed! Give him his due!
Were it me, I'd recommend LinuxMint 13 with Mate 1.2, based on the Gnome fork, Ubuntu 12.04, and the Debian substrate.
We ask journalists to do quite a bit; some are faithful and truthful, others are not. Sometimes, even those that are trustworthy screw up. They're human, after all.
But vocabulary, especially jargon, is important and is used to convey deeper meaning-- if the audience can understand it. A target audience of engineers is different than a target audience of salespeople, third graders, and aircraft mechanics (no slime intended).
Jargon is mandatory to convey meaning to the target audience's understanding. Jargon not normally within their vocabulary might as well be fog, because it will convey no discernible information.
Hmmmm. You inferred that, and inferred it incorrectly. Wanna try again? I believe in paying the damn bill. Sales, property, alcohol/tobacco/fuel, and maybe the toll on the Chicago Skyway for example, Illinois. For years, legislatures have gotten away with unfunded pension liabilities, then they went after the unions that they did the deals with. Now the bill is coming due. Pay the bill. Not bonds. The bill.
Zontar, he is unaware. His posting name gives us the bigger clue. He uses epithets to drive home his misunderstandings. I was wrong to challenge this stupidity. I beg forgiveness.
No, the federal government isn't toying around with bankruptcy.
Some states are raising taxes because of their long unfunded pension liabilities, which were used to cook the books. See the commercial version of this: United Airlines, for one
A few municipal governments are indeed filing Chapter 9s. Uniformly, these filings are as a result of long-term mayor vs city council funding issues.
Big infrastructure is not dead for now, and it never was. Let's kill the meme that spending is bad: it can do lots of good if there's a realistic expectation of an outcome, rather than peeing it down a rathole.
Yes, you might need to raise revenues through reasonable taxation: a fair share.
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The cloud is no more and no less inherently secure than Apple's service. As you have no clue where Apple's is hosted, the cloud-resident part of the service is a non-issue to me. What's more important is that the underlying security architecture is known, respected, and is constantly changed to prevent new attacks.
I'm more interested in its contextual accuracy. Of course the idea of a hijack is moderately amusing, and I'm sure the NSA has a back door, discovering my latest purchase by voice from Amazon. What is that guy doing with all those walnuts???
I agree that Time Capsule is convenient. I don't believe that the 55% is a good number, but there it is. In terms of overall population compliance, I'm sure the number varies as the sample domains of each survey are in the US to start, and are people that might want to hide their sloth.
But I'll humor you and say: not very many, eh?
It's maintenance. No one does it. They pay fantastic sums of money to retrieve really strongly valued data. Why?
The real secret is that it isn't fear, it's sloth.
Some of my data is priceless to me. I have a backup here, and one far, far away from me. There's a third being cached as I write this. To others, they could care less. This is my data.
What they missed was: data has value like the currency in your billfold. Not the onesyes, but the hundred dollar/euro/whatever bills. And a fat fistfull of them. Backup to the cloud? Ok. When I see the SAS70-II and the vendor's commitment to best practices and an F5 NOC with dual grids and a 48hr UPS, yes, I'll backup to the cloud. And yes, I found one, but I'm not a shill.
The cloud is fine for backups; you're in the minority.
Whether they're looking for data, or just the hardware, the data is just as gone.
I don't think the risk in the cloud is quite as great if your provider is being diligent. I don't think they are, but as soon as the litigation floodgates open, they will be. For now, no one reads the EULAs. They just stuff their stuff somewhere, and hope they can remember the URL and password.
C'mon, dude. These are people that swore that ATM would be the backbone of the future just a decade or so ago.
SPEND MONEY ON INFRASTRUCTURE? AGAIN? What is Wall Street Going To DO To OUR STOCK PRICE!!!!!!???!!! WAAHHHHHHH!
At home:
- no one makes backups
- no one protects from coffee spills or burglaries, for that matter
- people lose their machines all the time
- download malware, and let cats sleep on their machines
At the Office, which if you're smart, will be the same practice as the cloud:
- Backups are rarely checked for integrity
- People spill coffee on their machines, and they get stolen
- Someone forgets to pay the Symantec tax, or doesn't look at the CVE and oops-- all gone!
- Nearly 100% of networks get cracked every few years
There isn't much difference, except that in the cloud a few people have training, which they may or may not use correctly.
You diminish their evil with faint praise.
So far, it's about a half-billion dollars and counting.
I didn't compare them to Apple or Microsoft. These organizations have their own evils, too.
But the "Are they perfect?" (etc.) reminds me of what's worse, a gunshot wound in the hip, thigh, or shoulder. They take a guy offline, ignore him, then arbitrarily re-instate him. No matter he's in otherwise good standing, no matter his queries, made in good faith.
You believe them to be faceless, but like the others you cite, they're here to suck money out of your wallet, and dignity from your privacy, and smack your membership around arbitrarily. What great guys! Let's salute them! Here's to getting f'd!
But even the true-names policy makes the suspension unclear. His point? No one to fight. If you depend on social media vendors, you're at their mercy, and they're not open about their policy decisions, and they're not clear about their application of the rules.
It's arbitrary. And the reasons why are conjecture because Google won't say, and even the ostensible reasons are squishy from the evidence he's given. Google seems to have good-person karma that they in NO way deserve. Time and again, they're fined for privacy invasion and doing bad things, yet they have as many fanbois as Apple. The meme of Google doing no harm is easily congruent to the excuse that the oil companies used to raise the price of gasoline today: false yet legitimate sounding meme. See Glenn Beck rejoinder upthread.
Sure. No one misleads anyone in science in the US. Please dismiss the report.
The better minds that you have read claiming to dismiss quantum communications often dismiss *everything* because of uncertainty principles. I have an old, breadboard-based 8080 computer; I can sometimes calculate numbers in my head faster than it can provide the correct answer. Quantum communications is at level approximating the mid-1970s in personal computing. Be patient.
I'm wondering if some of the shills are just sucker-bait, guaranteeing that any rational discussion is derailed so that topics become devolved and useless.
When they're this obvious, they seem contrived to the point of provocation. Like bees into the honeypot. I think we're getting played.
Laws are irrelevant. There are over-arching secret National Security Letters, that can do allow their holders anything the letter desires regarding secrecy, and it does. It is the new de facto arbiter of what is secret or private in the United States. They are nearly impossible to fight. And we cannot know their contents, or what they really do. They are a ghost that vacuums stuff.
What stuff? You can trust the government, right?
Works for me! Isn't that the floor that the TSA uses?
But wait, you mean correlation!=causation??????
What's that click I just heard......
You presume much, and with an attitude.
People open attachments, or had HTML code in an email. They got infected pps files. The gamut. Some were civilians, some should have known better. Defending their architecture will get you nowhere.
As for my books, you have no clue the subject matter, but it was best for you to reveal that the content doesn't matter to you, that they must be profitable, and must have to do with infections.
Defending Microsoft is one of the silliest things you can do.
Yes, there was improvement, and yes, there became in the process of rapid releases and poor quality checks, unbelievably bad security and increased vulnerability.
For you, the sense that XP SP2 introduced demotion of user from root/admin is what made it a bit safer, and architecturally tenable. In the meantime, I had to scrape countless machines of malware, viruses, and just plain insane and stupid problems caused by revision desynchronization.
I wrote BOOKS on the subject.
This is an apologist's view point. Save for the aforementioned minor successes, Microsoft has polarized and engendered enormous amounts of FUD into the markets it once championed.
While the article leaves out several glaring mistakes by omission, it is a largely accurate portrayal of an organization that's losing mindshare, market leadership, money, intellectual capital, and the warmth of its users.
The most glaring omission in my mind: poor quality software. Windows 98-Windows XPSP2 were horrible and fraught with bugs that lead to users having their machines trashed by viruses malware, or just machines made unusable by driver and systems software dependencies that took near experts to sort out. User as root allowed any app to have essentially complete control over the machine. Windows security became an oxymoron, and when Apple and Torvalds paid attention to details, they won. Regaining that trust will be painfully difficult for Microsoft at the user level. Note that the user-level is solely where Apple markets to; they're business clueless and don't care.
Market growth after market growth has escaped Microsoft, whose lack of entrepreneurship has stifled their growth, removed employee incentives, and made them amorphous.
I get the feeling that this is a guy that reads but doesn't learn, operates but doesn't understand what he's doing. Ye gawds, six weeks with RedHat training should teach you *something*.
I have no criticism of the poster that I responded to, only the twit that he tried to help. If a person goes for six weeks to learn about RH, then coughs a storm against Ubuntu for a perceived root account absence problem, he needs to be straightened out. He was.
But there's this part about why not dig under the surface and get your fingernails dirty to find the answer instead of dismissing an entire distribution for an erroneous assumption. That's where my gall is poised.
Stop confusing the issues with facts. This person went for weeks, weeks, he tells us, to make such conclusions. His facts are his facts, and Ubuntu must be trashed! Give him his due!
Were it me, I'd recommend LinuxMint 13 with Mate 1.2, based on the Gnome fork, Ubuntu 12.04, and the Debian substrate.
Better still: invest in hard drive and archiving manufacturers.
Profit!
We ask journalists to do quite a bit; some are faithful and truthful, others are not. Sometimes, even those that are trustworthy screw up. They're human, after all.
But vocabulary, especially jargon, is important and is used to convey deeper meaning-- if the audience can understand it. A target audience of engineers is different than a target audience of salespeople, third graders, and aircraft mechanics (no slime intended).
Jargon is mandatory to convey meaning to the target audience's understanding. Jargon not normally within their vocabulary might as well be fog, because it will convey no discernible information.
Hmmmm. You inferred that, and inferred it incorrectly. Wanna try again? I believe in paying the damn bill. Sales, property, alcohol/tobacco/fuel, and maybe the toll on the Chicago Skyway for example, Illinois. For years, legislatures have gotten away with unfunded pension liabilities, then they went after the unions that they did the deals with. Now the bill is coming due. Pay the bill. Not bonds. The bill.
Zontar, he is unaware. His posting name gives us the bigger clue. He uses epithets to drive home his misunderstandings. I was wrong to challenge this stupidity. I beg forgiveness.
Must.Dissect.Meme.
No, the federal government isn't toying around with bankruptcy.
Some states are raising taxes because of their long unfunded pension liabilities, which were used to cook the books. See the commercial version of this: United Airlines, for one
A few municipal governments are indeed filing Chapter 9s. Uniformly, these filings are as a result of long-term mayor vs city council funding issues.
Big infrastructure is not dead for now, and it never was. Let's kill the meme that spending is bad: it can do lots of good if there's a realistic expectation of an outcome, rather than peeing it down a rathole.
Yes, you might need to raise revenues through reasonable taxation: a fair share.
It actually went like this:
"Hey Gunnar-- Microsoft's check cleared the bank!"
"Oh shit! Where's the fcuking delete key!"