I'm fairly sure it will have to be learned the same way. Get burned, cost the execs money, things change. Sad. We teach our children (hopefully) to learn from others' mistakes. Bug business is like a three year old. Won't learn till burned by the stove. -nB
Yup. We do exercise the power and have done so more than once. That said, it wasn't always like that. Management got burned some number of years ago. They learned their lesson when forced to. But the core structure of how things work here has changed such that the "old ways" really can not come back.
Corporate structures being what they are it simply isn't possible to communicate an intangible risk like 'what if a hacker breaks in and copies all our data' well enough to garner the kind of funding to implement real security. At least not at a company the size of Sony
I work for a company of roughly the same size, in a similar industry (hardware not content). I am currently one of the people in charge of validating our security measures. There are several of us, and I am likely near to bottom of that particular totem pole, yet I have the ability to stop the launch of the product I am working on at a cost of likely millions of dollars if I find an issue really late in the game. While the product may ultimately ship even if I find an issue, it will not ship till upper management is fully appraised by the leaders of my team, and by what I've seen already they have substantial power to force delays as needed to provide *real* security, not the illusion of it. So not all is lost in the big business world. -nB
Five bucks gets you that the FBI hasn't even thought of it from that angle... Profiling the existing content they have in the DB against unknown/new content and tracking the new content to find the source.
On a related note, with CGI getting so damn close to reality now (even though render times are long as hell) how much longer till we get wholly digital (no victim) versions of CP content? What happens if a person consumes that exclusively? Are they still guilty? The mental issue is still there (in the consumer only) but where does/should the law fall? -nB
can we count several goats (seriously) instead? The cow really didn't need any help.
Helping build the house?
yup
Make bread
yeppers
Fix your own car and fully understand it, not clip in a new chip?
chip? (ok, yeah, my truck has chips in it) My merc doesn't even have an ignition coil:-)
Build your own radio?
several, why do you ask? I'm only 34, but your point does stand, as I think I am in the vast minority of those my age. The part that doesn't really stand is the last one. I really am not sure if it will work out. The teachers at my children's school are even complaining that they are being stripped of the ability to teach properly by new age (for lack of a better term) teaching methods that are being required by the district because it is easier for the children to feel a sense of accomplishment. -nB
So do I, and it blows. I had a similar experience (going against Farmers Insurance), but fortunately for me it was a trademark,libel,cycbersquatting, defamation, confusion of source case, which the courts are much more literate about. It never went beyond "we're going to sue you into oblivion little man"... "oh yeah? Here's my rights, bite me".
It is that the courts are illiterate that the Sony's of the world chose to sue. Once the courts are literate about the issues then the lawsuits tend to stop sooner in the process because both sides know that the issue really isn't murky enough to require a judge && || jury. -nB
ha ha ha ha ha new in 93? really? I distinctly being elated about my first e-mail address that was not part of FIDONET in 89. I've been into the BBS scene since 85/86. by 93 the internet was not new anymore, though it was still primitive, largely "Free & Free", and distinctly Wild Wild Web. -nB
You should be fair about this. Most billionaires pay vastly more of their income as a percentage to taxes than you or I do. If you want to tighten up the tax code, that's fine, but to say individual rich people are not pulling their share is FUD.
Are there any technical benefits to having more than one measurement system? (besides having one more way to confuse PHB's and morons out there). Tolerance for other's preferences/cultures aside (i.e. this isn't exactly a "burkas vs. miniskirts" debate)
You know what measurement system really pisses me off? Lumber. Since when is it OK to call it a 2x4 and more correctly why is it 1.75x3.5? Even though I know these offsets, I nearly always get bit by them in one way or another. I am not a carpenter by trade, just a techie, but damn I won't build my kids a fort/clubhouse for fear that I'll dork it up and have it collapse on them.
That's the measurement system that pisses me off. Oh, and I'll take miniskirts on my women anyday (except on the women normally found on peopleofwalmart.com, burkas on them will be fine, thanks.)
I think Blank Media cost is the big mover here. If BD_Rom blanks were the same price or even price/gig as DVD media the adoption rate would be much higher. The content creators have ensured this won't happen. What they don't realize is this has also greatly hurt the general adoption rate of the format. If disks were cheap, people would use them for their home movies, what with 720p cameras being commonplace now.
I recently had to explain to someone that my sony* DCR-96 was DVD quality even though it wasn't 1080p/720p etc. they really didn't get it. It wasn't until I shot identical scenes on both the DCR and a FlipUltraHD 720p camera and mastered them to a DVD, then played it on a 1080p TV did it sink in that raw pixel counts don't help in consumer video. You're better off buying based on low light performance and SNR than on resolution. -nB
* I hate Sony's antics, and I shopped around for days to find an alternative camera in the same cost range, nada.
good point, maybe I'll put a high voltage plasma emitter ringing the tablet, using the plasma as an antenna, on the bright side it will naturally keep users fingers off the antenna:)
On a more serious note, isn't the rectangular tablet with rounded edges covered (at least in concept) by prior art vis a vis Star Trek PADDs? -nB
In fact, it's not really the skills that are a problem, it's the butts on the line. I'm not in a HIPPA regulated field (thank god), but, my IT division has a simple rule: They get a root/admin login to any machine connected to the network. I work in a Fortune 50 company, and our IT dept. is sane enough to realise that some groups have special needs that can not be met by IT. Those groups can buy any hardware they want and place it on the network provided that it meets minimum security guidelines and IT has a root login in case there is an IT event. This is all reasonable and allows things to get done.
The main caveat that applies is that IT is not responsible for anything on that machine, your data backups are on your head. They disavow all responsibility. It all comes back to who's ass gets put in the grinder when something goes wrong. When crap like HIPPA is involved I'd imagine this is amplified dramatically (in my case it's SARBOX that can cause grief). -nB
I live in Sacramento, CA and it is officially faster for me to drive to LA (buena park, Disneyland) than to fly. We had a high speed rail on our ballet a few years back, and it passed, but because my state's senators and legislature can't seem to understand fiscal responsibility it was defunded*. Anyway, if we simply had high speed rail in this country between major metro centers that were too far apart to drive in 4 hours, but too close to make flying worth it I think it would be a real success. Say Sac to SF to LA or Manhatten to Boston to DC, or Austin to Houston, etc. -nB
*yes, canning this was actually responsible, but the people voted in funding for this project. The project was canned, but the funding was not, and was diverted for other stuff, now we don't have that funding (as well as a lot of other stuff) and we have a mandated spending pattern for about 80% of our budget, so our congresscritters have resorted to name calling and fighting, much like their federal counterparts. It is time to take the medicine before the country I love (and the state I love) goes the way of Iceland or Greece. No one will stand up and do it, because they think it's political suicide, but I'd venture a guess that nearly 100% of the/. population (US and non US members), and the better part of 75% of the US population in general know what needs to be done and are more wondering why the government isn't doing it.
[soapbox] If I were in charge I would: - Cut NASA deeply (I *love* the space program, but hey, we have issues, so let's see if Space-X can deliver). - Extricate ourselves from foreign campaigns as quickly and prudently as possible (Time for the UN member nations to step up). - Cut swaths out of NSA/DOD (no you *don't* need that much surveillance, PC be damned, lets use good 'ol fashioned profiles). - Start a laddered reduction in social security:
* you are 50+ you get benefits as expected
* 40+ you get 75%, 30+ == 50%, 20+ == 25%, less than 20? start saving. - Cut swaths out of funding back to states for improvement projects (pork is yummy, but it makes you fat). - Concrete boots and a fishing trip for any congress critter who tries to make it look like I'm being a dick (even if I am). Ok, so I likely couldn't get away with that [/soapbox]
The stuff is $7-$10/sheet (4'x8') at most home improvement stores. I just got done insulating an outbuilding with it (and with the foiled bubble wrap for the parts that the solid polystyrene board wouldn't work well for). Given an average new home and my experience with the outbuilding, yeah, this will block WiFi. My phone drops coverage to almost nill inside and full bars outside. Both operate in a similar frequency range. -nB
fundamentally that's what I do. There is a real me on FB. Then there is me here (and this ID is shared across multiple sites) which would not be too hard to link to the real me. For stuff I really don't want tied to me in re. job interviews, non-gov't background checks etc. I use other identities. For something that I would be afraid of coming out in a relatively thorough discovery && || government background check I simply don't post it on line. At all. -nB
I have to pick a nit at #2... Since I am in possession of 30 trillion Zimbabwean dollars (3x 10,000,000,000,000 notes) and I am broke I think your valuation of Zynga is a bit off. They are worth at least 1 quadrillion Zdollars -nB
Yes, it can. I managed to burn myself in some sensitive areas twice. damn that's not fun. I've started 12 Chocolate Habanero plants this year. One of my standing offers will be to take the finely ground powder and snort a line of it. I will pay $100 to whomever is foolish enough to do it (on video). On a related note, it does make a beautiful salsa or rack of ribs if done right. -nB
I never was at that point (first modem was 1200 baud), but I did connect to BBS's with ATDT1aaapppnnnn+ yes, there was something awesome about all that.
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I'm fairly sure it will have to be learned the same way. Get burned, cost the execs money, things change.
Sad. We teach our children (hopefully) to learn from others' mistakes. Bug business is like a three year old. Won't learn till burned by the stove.
-nB
Yup.
We do exercise the power and have done so more than once. That said, it wasn't always like that. Management got burned some number of years ago. They learned their lesson when forced to. But the core structure of how things work here has changed such that the "old ways" really can not come back.
Corporate structures being what they are it simply isn't possible to communicate an intangible risk like 'what if a hacker breaks in and copies all our data' well enough to garner the kind of funding to implement real security. At least not at a company the size of Sony
I work for a company of roughly the same size, in a similar industry (hardware not content). I am currently one of the people in charge of validating our security measures. There are several of us, and I am likely near to bottom of that particular totem pole, yet I have the ability to stop the launch of the product I am working on at a cost of likely millions of dollars if I find an issue really late in the game. While the product may ultimately ship even if I find an issue, it will not ship till upper management is fully appraised by the leaders of my team, and by what I've seen already they have substantial power to force delays as needed to provide *real* security, not the illusion of it. So not all is lost in the big business world.
-nB
Five bucks gets you that the FBI hasn't even thought of it from that angle...
Profiling the existing content they have in the DB against unknown/new content and tracking the new content to find the source.
On a related note, with CGI getting so damn close to reality now (even though render times are long as hell) how much longer till we get wholly digital (no victim) versions of CP content? What happens if a person consumes that exclusively? Are they still guilty? The mental issue is still there (in the consumer only) but where does/should the law fall?
-nB
sure.
I'm good with that.
Did you hunt?
yes
Help a cow deliver a calf?
can we count several goats (seriously) instead? The cow really didn't need any help.
Helping build the house?
yup
Make bread
yeppers
Fix your own car and fully understand it, not clip in a new chip?
chip? (ok, yeah, my truck has chips in it) My merc doesn't even have an ignition coil :-)
Build your own radio?
several, why do you ask?
I'm only 34, but your point does stand, as I think I am in the vast minority of those my age.
The part that doesn't really stand is the last one. I really am not sure if it will work out. The teachers at my children's school are even complaining that they are being stripped of the ability to teach properly by new age (for lack of a better term) teaching methods that are being required by the district because it is easier for the children to feel a sense of accomplishment.
-nB
So do I, and it blows. ... "oh yeah? Here's my rights, bite me".
I had a similar experience (going against Farmers Insurance), but fortunately for me it was a trademark,libel,cycbersquatting, defamation, confusion of source case, which the courts are much more literate about. It never went beyond "we're going to sue you into oblivion little man"
It is that the courts are illiterate that the Sony's of the world chose to sue. Once the courts are literate about the issues then the lawsuits tend to stop sooner in the process because both sides know that the issue really isn't murky enough to require a judge && || jury.
-nB
ha ha ha ha ha
new in 93?
really?
I distinctly being elated about my first e-mail address that was not part of FIDONET in 89.
I've been into the BBS scene since 85/86.
by 93 the internet was not new anymore, though it was still primitive, largely "Free & Free", and distinctly Wild Wild Web.
-nB
affect/effect
You should be fair about this.
Most billionaires pay vastly more of their income as a percentage to taxes than you or I do.
If you want to tighten up the tax code, that's fine, but to say individual rich people are not pulling their share is FUD.
This made me smile, thanks.
-nB
Are there any technical benefits to having more than one measurement system? (besides having one more way to confuse PHB's and morons out there). Tolerance for other's preferences/cultures aside (i.e. this isn't exactly a "burkas vs. miniskirts" debate)
You know what measurement system really pisses me off? Lumber. Since when is it OK to call it a 2x4 and more correctly why is it 1.75x3.5? Even though I know these offsets, I nearly always get bit by them in one way or another. I am not a carpenter by trade, just a techie, but damn I won't build my kids a fort/clubhouse for fear that I'll dork it up and have it collapse on them.
That's the measurement system that pisses me off.
Oh, and I'll take miniskirts on my women anyday (except on the women normally found on peopleofwalmart.com, burkas on them will be fine, thanks.)
I think Blank Media cost is the big mover here.
If BD_Rom blanks were the same price or even price/gig as DVD media the adoption rate would be much higher. The content creators have ensured this won't happen. What they don't realize is this has also greatly hurt the general adoption rate of the format.
If disks were cheap, people would use them for their home movies, what with 720p cameras being commonplace now.
I recently had to explain to someone that my sony* DCR-96 was DVD quality even though it wasn't 1080p/720p etc. they really didn't get it. It wasn't until I shot identical scenes on both the DCR and a FlipUltraHD 720p camera and mastered them to a DVD, then played it on a 1080p TV did it sink in that raw pixel counts don't help in consumer video. You're better off buying based on low light performance and SNR than on resolution.
-nB
* I hate Sony's antics, and I shopped around for days to find an alternative camera in the same cost range, nada.
IBM Desk Star drives of the 20-30 gig size were the first 3.5 inch drives I encountered that were glass.
-nB
good point, maybe I'll put a high voltage plasma emitter ringing the tablet, using the plasma as an antenna, on the bright side it will naturally keep users fingers off the antenna :)
On a more serious note, isn't the rectangular tablet with rounded edges covered (at least in concept) by prior art vis a vis Star Trek PADDs?
-nB
That may be, but to ensure my tablet is not subject to a rounded corners suit, I'll design it with razor edges.
-nB
In fact, it's not really the skills that are a problem, it's the butts on the line.
I'm not in a HIPPA regulated field (thank god), but, my IT division has a simple rule: They get a root/admin login to any machine connected to the network.
I work in a Fortune 50 company, and our IT dept. is sane enough to realise that some groups have special needs that can not be met by IT. Those groups can buy any hardware they want and place it on the network provided that it meets minimum security guidelines and IT has a root login in case there is an IT event.
This is all reasonable and allows things to get done.
The main caveat that applies is that IT is not responsible for anything on that machine, your data backups are on your head. They disavow all responsibility.
It all comes back to who's ass gets put in the grinder when something goes wrong. When crap like HIPPA is involved I'd imagine this is amplified dramatically (in my case it's SARBOX that can cause grief).
-nB
I live in Sacramento, CA and it is officially faster for me to drive to LA (buena park, Disneyland) than to fly.
We had a high speed rail on our ballet a few years back, and it passed, but because my state's senators and legislature can't seem to understand fiscal responsibility it was defunded*.
Anyway, if we simply had high speed rail in this country between major metro centers that were too far apart to drive in 4 hours, but too close to make flying worth it I think it would be a real success.
Say Sac to SF to LA or Manhatten to Boston to DC, or Austin to Houston, etc.
-nB
*yes, canning this was actually responsible, but the people voted in funding for this project. The project was canned, but the funding was not, and was diverted for other stuff, now we don't have that funding (as well as a lot of other stuff) and we have a mandated spending pattern for about 80% of our budget, so our congresscritters have resorted to name calling and fighting, much like their federal counterparts. /. population (US and non US members), and the better part of 75% of the US population in general know what needs to be done and are more wondering why the government isn't doing it.
It is time to take the medicine before the country I love (and the state I love) goes the way of Iceland or Greece. No one will stand up and do it, because they think it's political suicide, but I'd venture a guess that nearly 100% of the
[soapbox]
If I were in charge I would:
- Cut NASA deeply (I *love* the space program, but hey, we have issues, so let's see if Space-X can deliver).
- Extricate ourselves from foreign campaigns as quickly and prudently as possible (Time for the UN member nations to step up).
- Cut swaths out of NSA/DOD (no you *don't* need that much surveillance, PC be damned, lets use good 'ol fashioned profiles).
- Start a laddered reduction in social security:
* you are 50+ you get benefits as expected
* 40+ you get 75%, 30+ == 50%, 20+ == 25%, less than 20? start saving.
- Cut swaths out of funding back to states for improvement projects (pork is yummy, but it makes you fat).
- Concrete boots and a fishing trip for any congress critter who tries to make it look like I'm being a dick (even if I am). Ok, so I likely couldn't get away with that
[/soapbox]
The stuff is $7-$10/sheet (4'x8') at most home improvement stores. I just got done insulating an outbuilding with it (and with the foiled bubble wrap for the parts that the solid polystyrene board wouldn't work well for). Given an average new home and my experience with the outbuilding, yeah, this will block WiFi. My phone drops coverage to almost nill inside and full bars outside. Both operate in a similar frequency range.
-nB
fundamentally that's what I do.
There is a real me on FB. Then there is me here (and this ID is shared across multiple sites) which would not be too hard to link to the real me.
For stuff I really don't want tied to me in re. job interviews, non-gov't background checks etc. I use other identities. For something that I would be afraid of coming out in a relatively thorough discovery && || government background check I simply don't post it on line. At all.
-nB
you're right, but the interesting thing is I bet they don't know why they feel uncomfortable.
I have to pick a nit at #2...
Since I am in possession of 30 trillion Zimbabwean dollars (3x 10,000,000,000,000 notes) and I am broke I think your valuation of Zynga is a bit off. They are worth at least 1 quadrillion Zdollars
-nB
Yes, it can.
I managed to burn myself in some sensitive areas twice.
damn that's not fun. I've started 12 Chocolate Habanero plants this year. One of my standing offers will be to take the finely ground powder and snort a line of it.
I will pay $100 to whomever is foolish enough to do it (on video).
On a related note, it does make a beautiful salsa or rack of ribs if done right.
-nB
I never was at that point (first modem was 1200 baud), but I did connect to BBS's with ATDT1aaapppnnnn+
yes, there was something awesome about all that.
ponies!