One of the biggest risks of the mobile phone/Blackberry is loss. Most users sync with the corporate email server, this includes attachments. If the employee deals with sensitive information (SSN, CC numbers, etc), losing the mobile is equivalent (in the new legal world, especially with e-Discovery)to losing a laptop. With a majority of States already having privacy laws (and the rest on the way), this would have to be publicly reported, users notified, credit reports purchased, etc.
The key to mobile devices is not cutting them off (if the organization has web mail, the user will be able to connect anyway), the key is mitigating the risk through policies (hard and soft), user education, technology (encryption, etc), etc.
One reason is that most businesses have to comply with Sox, PCI, etc..... Many Open Source software has just not been certified by the compliance bodies and won't necessarily pass an audit. To most organizations, being compliant/passing an audit is far more important that user convenience or flexibility.
Even if certification of the technology/software/app is not required by the compliance body, proper documentation is. A good deal of off-the-shelf commercial solutions come with that documentation, or at least make it available. This is not the case in the open source world. Yes- I am fully aware that a lot of (good) open source software has more documentation (by users) than the commercial stuff, but this is not the business specific documentation the organization would need for compliance.
I ma a huge open source fan- I fight this battle at work pretty often.
Quick example- Qualys and Nessus. There is not much Qualys does that Nessus doesn't/can't. But, try to pass a PCI audit with a Nessus scan. Heck- the PCI DSS 1.1 even comes right out and suggests Tripwire for 10.5/11.5- no open source equivalent is even mentioned.
>How does that hide your IP address? You going to encrypt that too? And no, my ISP doesn't have any difficulty throttling encrypted BT packets.
It doesn't hide your IP. there should be no need to hide your IP unless you are doing something illegal.
>If TOR was made much, much easier to support (ie Firefox plug in) and promoted (more), loads more people would run it (ie anyone file sharing at universities around >the world) and it wouldn't be so laggy. It would also mean that it would be easier for people with a need to hide their tracks (other than for p2p naughtiness) to do >so.
That's the point, Tor was not made to do this and shouldn't be abused in that form. Hint: Most good BT clients (i.e uTorrent) allow you to choose almost any port you want (well, as long as it's one of the 65355 available), pick an obscure one, use the encryption in the link you provided, and your content privacy is ensured.
Hiding your identity and wanting to ensure privacy do not "really" go hand in hand with illegal activity. If you want to hide your IP, don't do anything illegal or use a better system besides Tor. It wasn't meant to protect criminal activity, and those supporting it (infrastructure and coding) don't appreciate it being used that way.
Plus, they cooperated in a large CP investigation when their network was being abused, what makes you think they wont do it for the **IA?
Not saying I am a boy scout or holier than thou, just saying I don;t abuse Tor and wish others wouldn't as well (especially when I am trying to use it). Illegal activity? That's what your neighbors WAP is for.
Please don't use Tor for Bittorrent. It's a free service, a good one, and they ask you nicely not to. Plus, the performance will suck anyway.
The real way to encrypt your Bittorrent traffic is available in the link you posted yourself...
Protocol header encrypt (PHE) and Message stream encryption/Protocol encryption (MSE/PE) are features of some BitTorrent clients that attempt to make BitTorrent hard to throttle. At the moment Azureus, Bitcomet, kTorrent and Torrent support MSE/PE encryption.
Absolutely. Http://Technet.Microsoft.Com details the transfer rights, procedures, etc.
I should have mentioned that Vista Home Basic does not allow a "downgrade" to XP "Pro" because of licensing option conflicts (mostly involving networking options).
Users are legally able to use any volume or system builder media to perform the "downgrade". If these items are not available, they should call Microsoft Activation for available options in obtaining the media and to be provided an activation code during the install.
This information was readily made to business customers, however, was not openly spelled out in consumer-level marketing programs. I think the reasons why are quite obviou$.
And XP is the cutoff-> you cannot downgrade further (i.e. 2000, NT, etc). This was a "new" restriction as XP and 2000 both allowed downgrades all the way.
Just buy the Vista license (or get it with your Dell) and install XP. You CAN use your Vista license for XP until you are ready to upgrade. You WILL need to call MS for activation, but it is a simple process that takes only minutes. This is totally allowed under Microsoft's "relaxed" Vista licensing schema.
Vista is more sluggish on current machines than XP. True. But, in all honesty, hasn't it been this way with every new Microsoft OS? Did MS design Vista to be totally perfect on current hardware, or to work with hardware coming out over the next few years- over it's lifespan?
I think this can be spun a hundred different ways, and a hundred other OS's are "superior", etc, etc. It all comes down to what you want. Don;t we hear pretty much the same story whenever a new MS OS comes out? Then it turns out not to be that bad after all? Windows ME excluded of course!
Dell would probably do best making sure the public knew they could buy the Vista license and have either OS pre-installed. Sure, it might be a headache if the consumer wants support during the upgrade, but they could always sell that as an "option" or figure it in as the cost of getting customers who may be afraid of Vista right now.
Actually, that's not correct. Bitlocker does not "require" TPM 1.2, it CAN be used without it. You can boot from a USB drive, make a few edits in the local policy, or manually set the 48 digit recovery password just to name a few.
And just about any computer manufactured after January 2006 will have TPM 1.2.
I was going to post and say the C64 should have replaced the Amiga, but you beat me to it.
If it wasn't for my C64 as a kid (originally purchased because I fell in love with "Choplifter" on the store demo unit), I would not be where I am today (and no, I am not in prison).
They already have her on a "radio blitz" media tour. She was at the XM studio's yesterday with her father and "handlers" from YouTube and Island. Several interviewers tried to turn the questioning away from Naomi (after she performed about a minute and a half of her song) to the YouTube/Viacomm lawsuit only to get the same old scripted answers over and over (i.e. "Actually, we are too busy working with our community to pay attention to such matters...The community continues to grow every day", etc, etc".
An in my humble opinion, her father is fashioning himself after the "great" Joe Simpson, answering the majority of her questions for her and steering interviews to topics he wanted/approved of.
Sadly, most interviewers gave less than enthusiastic reviews of her performance. Most dubbed her "vanilla", the "same old thing", "boring", etc. I think that losing the uniqueness of the "YouTube only" format is already costing her.
BUT...a good deal of XM/Sirius subscribers listen to satellite radio vie internet stream at work/home where they either don't have units (most still use the satellite radio in their car) or cannot get a signal.
I have had XM for a few years now and haven't listened to terrestrial radio since. While at work,if I am not listening to an MP3 player, I am streaming XM over the internet to my cell phone or laptop.
How is this fee going to impact listeners like me? XM Canada (not truly an XM Company) has recently raised their internet streaming fees by several fold due to licensing fees- will XM USA/Sirius be forced to do the same? If I am forced to pay for my streaming XM account (on top of my multi-unit XM subscription), I will seriously re-think my XM subscription.
Never one to be upstaged, Hillary Clinton has joined WoW as level 42 gnome and can be seen tailoring and enchanting on a nightly basis. However, she has yet to reveal her position on the Scourge invasion. While she agrees she initially voted for patch 1.11, she claims her vote was based on faulty intelligence and now opposes it. She faults the Litch King and his administration for the resulting issues.
The laptop I am typing on now dual-boots Windows XP AS WELL AS Vista "upgrade" using said Windows XP install as my upgrade permission. While I fully intend on going full Vista and being compliant on this box, I was not ready to risk losing apps that might not be Vista compatible yet.
My "upgrade" did not invalidate anything. I can still use Windowsupdate.Microsoft.Com on both boxes with WGA.
FYI...two separate partitions on the same box, booting using a custom boot loader.
While completing my last degree, I was forbidden from using (or at least citing) Wikipedia. Any papers submitted with Wikipedia as a source were automatically rejected. this was across the board- not just one professor.
I debated this often. Not once was a professor able to give me an acceptable answer.
Yes, I fully understand the possible "cons" to using Wikipedia, but if we were not able to tell a defaced article from a real one, we should not have been in a Masters class.
Yet another reason I think academics are WAY overrated. I prefer experience and common sense to a degree when I am interviewing for an opening. It has served me well so far.
Actually, we are still averaging around 800ms latency on our static stations with mobile units (including aircraft) increasing slightly. The best we have been able to get -in the center of our coverage area with optimal atmospheric conditions- is around 400-450ms.
While this pretty much guarantees you will get fragged as soon as you spawn, it is still better than watching the same in-flight movie over and over when you forget to pack DVD's.
if we could get the kinks worked out of the (proposed) air-to-air mesh network, we could cut that latency in half while improving bandwidth substantially.
Incorrect. My Treo 650 does 802.11 quite well. Yes, I have to use a sled, but it works fine. I expect to do the same with my 750 if I need wireless (although data access using 3G is fine for me- I rarely use wireless anyway).
These discussions are going to bring up pluses and minuses for each device mentioned. What it boils down to is what you want your phone to do.
I think the iPhone is great- however, I am not sure it hits several key elements I need. I am sure others can say the same thing about the Treo I use. That's what's great about having a choice.
Now, all that being said, I also think Jobs is one heck of a salesman. I am pretty sure he could take a dump in a paper bag, label it the "iTurd", and sell a thousand before the end of the day.
This is all starting to resemble the console wars far too much- PS3, 360, Wii...Geez- they all have good points and bad. buy the one that works for you and get one with it already!
So, I take it drivers may be developed- either by Nvidia or OS (i.e. SourceForge)? I guess what I am really asking is - there is no hardware "lock", right? Drivers "can" be developed for the GPU?
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One of the biggest risks of the mobile phone/Blackberry is loss. Most users sync with the corporate email server, this includes attachments. If the employee deals with sensitive information (SSN, CC numbers, etc), losing the mobile is equivalent (in the new legal world, especially with e-Discovery)to losing a laptop. With a majority of States already having privacy laws (and the rest on the way), this would have to be publicly reported, users notified, credit reports purchased, etc.
The key to mobile devices is not cutting them off (if the organization has web mail, the user will be able to connect anyway), the key is mitigating the risk through policies (hard and soft), user education, technology (encryption, etc), etc.
One reason is that most businesses have to comply with Sox, PCI, etc..... Many Open Source software has just not been certified by the compliance bodies and won't necessarily pass an audit. To most organizations, being compliant/passing an audit is far more important that user convenience or flexibility.
Even if certification of the technology/software/app is not required by the compliance body, proper documentation is. A good deal of off-the-shelf commercial solutions come with that documentation, or at least make it available. This is not the case in the open source world. Yes- I am fully aware that a lot of (good) open source software has more documentation (by users) than the commercial stuff, but this is not the business specific documentation the organization would need for compliance.
I ma a huge open source fan- I fight this battle at work pretty often.
Quick example- Qualys and Nessus. There is not much Qualys does that Nessus doesn't/can't. But, try to pass a PCI audit with a Nessus scan. Heck- the PCI DSS 1.1 even comes right out and suggests Tripwire for 10.5/11.5- no open source equivalent is even mentioned.
Ditto, but in-laws.
I guess that's my fault though.
>How does that hide your IP address? You going to encrypt that too? And no, my ISP doesn't have any difficulty throttling encrypted BT packets.
It doesn't hide your IP. there should be no need to hide your IP unless you are doing something illegal.
>If TOR was made much, much easier to support (ie Firefox plug in) and promoted (more), loads more people would run it (ie anyone file sharing at universities around >the world) and it wouldn't be so laggy. It would also mean that it would be easier for people with a need to hide their tracks (other than for p2p naughtiness) to do >so.
That's the point, Tor was not made to do this and shouldn't be abused in that form. Hint: Most good BT clients (i.e uTorrent) allow you to choose almost any port you want (well, as long as it's one of the 65355 available), pick an obscure one, use the encryption in the link you provided, and your content privacy is ensured.
Hiding your identity and wanting to ensure privacy do not "really" go hand in hand with illegal activity. If you want to hide your IP, don't do anything illegal or use a better system besides Tor. It wasn't meant to protect criminal activity, and those supporting it (infrastructure and coding) don't appreciate it being used that way.
Plus, they cooperated in a large CP investigation when their network was being abused, what makes you think they wont do it for the **IA?
Not saying I am a boy scout or holier than thou, just saying I don;t abuse Tor and wish others wouldn't as well (especially when I am trying to use it). Illegal activity? That's what your neighbors WAP is for.
Please don't use Tor for Bittorrent. It's a free service, a good one, and they ask you nicely not to. Plus, the performance will suck anyway.
The real way to encrypt your Bittorrent traffic is available in the link you posted yourself...
Protocol header encrypt (PHE) and Message stream encryption/Protocol encryption (MSE/PE) are features of some BitTorrent clients that attempt to make BitTorrent hard to throttle. At the moment Azureus, Bitcomet, kTorrent and Torrent support MSE/PE encryption.
Absolutely. Http://Technet.Microsoft.Com details the transfer rights, procedures, etc.
I should have mentioned that Vista Home Basic does not allow a "downgrade" to XP "Pro" because of licensing option conflicts (mostly involving networking options).
Users are legally able to use any volume or system builder media to perform the "downgrade". If these items are not available, they should call Microsoft Activation for available options in obtaining the media and to be provided an activation code during the install.
This information was readily made to business customers, however, was not openly spelled out in consumer-level marketing programs. I think the reasons why are quite obviou$.
And XP is the cutoff-> you cannot downgrade further (i.e. 2000, NT, etc). This was a "new" restriction as XP and 2000 both allowed downgrades all the way.
Just buy the Vista license (or get it with your Dell) and install XP. You CAN use your Vista license for XP until you are ready to upgrade. You WILL need to call MS for activation, but it is a simple process that takes only minutes. This is totally allowed under Microsoft's "relaxed" Vista licensing schema.
Vista is more sluggish on current machines than XP. True. But, in all honesty, hasn't it been this way with every new Microsoft OS? Did MS design Vista to be totally perfect on current hardware, or to work with hardware coming out over the next few years- over it's lifespan?
I think this can be spun a hundred different ways, and a hundred other OS's are "superior", etc, etc. It all comes down to what you want. Don;t we hear pretty much the same story whenever a new MS OS comes out? Then it turns out not to be that bad after all? Windows ME excluded of course!
Dell would probably do best making sure the public knew they could buy the Vista license and have either OS pre-installed. Sure, it might be a headache if the consumer wants support during the upgrade, but they could always sell that as an "option" or figure it in as the cost of getting customers who may be afraid of Vista right now.
Actually, that's not correct. Bitlocker does not "require" TPM 1.2, it CAN be used without it. You can boot from a USB drive, make a few edits in the local policy, or manually set the 48 digit recovery password just to name a few.
And just about any computer manufactured after January 2006 will have TPM 1.2.
If PJ really wants to remain as anonymous as possible, I hope that is not her user ID and client login at the bottom of the Pacer docs (Pdf's).
Right there with you.
I was going to post and say the C64 should have replaced the Amiga, but you beat me to it.
If it wasn't for my C64 as a kid (originally purchased because I fell in love with "Choplifter" on the store demo unit), I would not be where I am today (and no, I am not in prison).
They already have her on a "radio blitz" media tour. She was at the XM studio's yesterday with her father and "handlers" from YouTube and Island. Several interviewers tried to turn the questioning away from Naomi (after she performed about a minute and a half of her song) to the YouTube/Viacomm lawsuit only to get the same old scripted answers over and over (i.e. "Actually, we are too busy working with our community to pay attention to such matters...The community continues to grow every day", etc, etc".
An in my humble opinion, her father is fashioning himself after the "great" Joe Simpson, answering the majority of her questions for her and steering interviews to topics he wanted/approved of.
Sadly, most interviewers gave less than enthusiastic reviews of her performance. Most dubbed her "vanilla", the "same old thing", "boring", etc. I think that losing the uniqueness of the "YouTube only" format is already costing her.
BUT...a good deal of XM/Sirius subscribers listen to satellite radio vie internet stream at work/home where they either don't have units (most still use the satellite radio in their car) or cannot get a signal.
I have had XM for a few years now and haven't listened to terrestrial radio since. While at work,if I am not listening to an MP3 player, I am streaming XM over the internet to my cell phone or laptop.
How is this fee going to impact listeners like me? XM Canada (not truly an XM Company) has recently raised their internet streaming fees by several fold due to licensing fees- will XM USA/Sirius be forced to do the same? If I am forced to pay for my streaming XM account (on top of my multi-unit XM subscription), I will seriously re-think my XM subscription.
Never one to be upstaged, Hillary Clinton has joined WoW as level 42 gnome and can be seen tailoring and enchanting on a nightly basis. However, she has yet to reveal her position on the Scourge invasion. While she agrees she initially voted for patch 1.11, she claims her vote was based on faulty intelligence and now opposes it. She faults the Litch King and his administration for the resulting issues.
The laptop I am typing on now dual-boots Windows XP AS WELL AS Vista "upgrade" using said Windows XP install as my upgrade permission. While I fully intend on going full Vista and being compliant on this box, I was not ready to risk losing apps that might not be Vista compatible yet.
My "upgrade" did not invalidate anything. I can still use Windowsupdate.Microsoft.Com on both boxes with WGA.
FYI...two separate partitions on the same box, booting using a custom boot loader.
Actually, TFA shows multiple examples.
Good idea. However, for a single dollar, your spaceflight is going to consist of some sort of slingshot system right out of a road runner cartoon.
While completing my last degree, I was forbidden from using (or at least citing) Wikipedia. Any papers submitted with Wikipedia as a source were automatically rejected. this was across the board- not just one professor.
I debated this often. Not once was a professor able to give me an acceptable answer.
Yes, I fully understand the possible "cons" to using Wikipedia, but if we were not able to tell a defaced article from a real one, we should not have been in a Masters class.
Yet another reason I think academics are WAY overrated. I prefer experience and common sense to a degree when I am interviewing for an opening. It has served me well so far.
Actually, we are still averaging around 800ms latency on our static stations with mobile units (including aircraft) increasing slightly. The best we have been able to get -in the center of our coverage area with optimal atmospheric conditions- is around 400-450ms.
While this pretty much guarantees you will get fragged as soon as you spawn, it is still better than watching the same in-flight movie over and over when you forget to pack DVD's.
if we could get the kinks worked out of the (proposed) air-to-air mesh network, we could cut that latency in half while improving bandwidth substantially.
Not content with taking over everything else, they now aim to become "number 1" in the "number 2" business.
They really seem to be getting their "shit" together.
It's all part of their plan to "bowl" over the competition.
Thanks, I'll be here all week. Please tip your bartenders.
I'm suing you!
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'out an iTurd with an "iPhone" '
I came up with the iTurd YESTERDAY! http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=216388&cid=17
(sorry, no time to search and see if this obligatory comment has been made 20 times already)
Incorrect. My Treo 650 does 802.11 quite well. Yes, I have to use a sled, but it works fine. I expect to do the same with my 750 if I need wireless (although data access using 3G is fine for me- I rarely use wireless anyway).
These discussions are going to bring up pluses and minuses for each device mentioned. What it boils down to is what you want your phone to do.
I think the iPhone is great- however, I am not sure it hits several key elements I need. I am sure others can say the same thing about the Treo I use. That's what's great about having a choice.
Now, all that being said, I also think Jobs is one heck of a salesman. I am pretty sure he could take a dump in a paper bag, label it the "iTurd", and sell a thousand before the end of the day.
This is all starting to resemble the console wars far too much- PS3, 360, Wii...Geez- they all have good points and bad. buy the one that works for you and get one with it already!
Sorry- the Circuit City/Disney/etc debacle DIVX (aka "rental" DVD's), not the CODEC DIVX.
Here's an article at YDL with info on the PS3 video modes with tweaks, recco's, etc... This provides a little more info.
n s/ydl_5.0/video-config.shtml
http://www.terrasoftsolutions.com/support/solutio
Thanks.
So, I take it drivers may be developed- either by Nvidia or OS (i.e. SourceForge)? I guess what I am really asking is - there is no hardware "lock", right? Drivers "can" be developed for the GPU?