Desktops should be citrix or some other virtual desktop - that's doable and more reliable that forcing people to save to the server... when there is nothing local to save to.
Restores are easily done when the files and backups reside in the same central location - poof it's back. Obviously offsite and redundant locations is a must.
Laptop users also shouldn't be carrying any customer information without some heavy duty protection and on-the-fly encryption. Mobile users are only safe if they're trained in how to use this software, and audited to make sure they're using it. You can lead a horse to water.. but you can't make a sales guy encrypt his files.
Even then, with a network connection - they'd be able to citrix back to home base over a VPN connection and do everything remotely... look ma, no identity theft.
I have this uneasiness of trusting biometrics as the sole protection for data storage or tamper resistance. Especially when this technology is built in Chinese manufacturing facilities... well, I guess I'm a bit of a hipocrit... I'm typing this on a Lenovo ThinkPad:\
Why is your bank even keeping data at its branches?
Get your $10,000,000,000 company to establish multiple redundant secure datacenters that the branches connect to using point to point connections along with strong encryption. No Internet connectivity... just centralized data storage in multiple places. I wouldn't even dream of allowing a branch manager access to infrastructure or data storage, six letters popped into my head... OMFG NO!
When a tornado comes along and wipes a branch office off the map - wtf is a thumbdrive going to be useful when the manager's thumb is nowhere to be found?
Your company rolls in a trailer with teller machines and Satellite feeds for data connections to the data center - and your customers' information is still safe in the central location and accessible the next day, even while they're still trying to ID the manager's corpse.
Thank you sir... now you know my wife calls her brother every weekend, and don't call my mother often enough. So will I be getting a check in the mail or a $1,000 credit on my 2006 tax returns?
Please explain - I would have expected better support from a "premium" manufacturer... compared to the 10k people in a call center on the otherside of the world.
If that's not the case, then screw alienware - I can build a PC for less, and save myself the hassle of support.
Although Dell's acquisition was widely anticipated, Alienware chief executive Nelson Gonzalez said that his company will remain a wholly-owned subsidiary of Dell, continuing its own brand, design, sales and marketing, and support.
Shucks, and I wanted to drop $4,000 on a new Alienware and talk to "Roger" from "Ohio" who was so nice to me when I owned my last Dell. While we rebooted the machine for the third time he asked me how the Packers were doing in the world series.
Nice fellows, those Dell support people... ye'sir.
Well, I guess on such a small database, having only one easily crackable encryption method wouldn't be all that smart. But cypherskills are not my forte... so when they say it's triple DES128, Blowfish, and AES... I would assume that's a little better than any one single method.
But hey, what do I know - steal my phone and try and crack my password.
I have to maintain an insane number of passwords and systems - Flexwallet 2006 triple encrypts the database file that stores my passwords. It also includes a PC app that it syncs with.
They charge $5/month to have your site listed on their website...
Sounds like pre-dotcom-bubble-bursting business model is showing its age. And they want to hit the biggest pocket first.
Frankly the site isn't all that - I don't think I agree with their rankings or content. If pagerank decided that they're not worthy of the rating, so be it...
I hate to mention it - but there is >some truth to search engine optimization methods, however from the details of the story - it sounds like Kinderstart's executives are 404.
Google doesn't have tell anyone why they rank anyone the way they do. It's search engine that essentially rates websites based on content or links to the site from others.
I would consider Google one of many food critics in a town of restaurants... you can't sue because you got a poor rating - suck it up, improve your site, and try again.
I fear they're trying to drum up traffic anyway they can because their site sucks. If google doesn't return the sites people want - they will and do use other search engines. So far, it seems they have a pretty good handle on returning relevant results to people's searches.
Has anyone investigated where this kinderstart.com site has ranked on other search engines? Or is it just because Google is the most popular search engine this second that they want to sue (or is it because Google has the most cash on hand?)
writely is great - but I suspect it's just something they needed to put a positive story out there - while they continue to fight the government over releasing our information.
Keep fighting, Google - the Bush administration sucks.
26 people commited suicide on the Internet. How many people called into suicide hotlines and finished the job on the phone?
How many people wrote a note?
So the Internet allows people to find people like themselves... this is pretty logical. Disturbing? Not really, unless nobody plans to find the root cause of their suicides and blames it on the Internet.
This story has got to be bunk... this company requires implants to access their data? Yeah, and when one infection occures from this device - lawsuit city.
There are SO many other forms of security already in place that can prevent unauthorized access to datacenters - this one is actually not that secure!
biometric scanners (iris and palm), ID badge access that is checked by a security guard, pin + rsa keyfob generated password, and an "airlock" type room between public and secure areas that weighs the person entering. It would be almost impossible to dupe this setup... in any event it would be MUCH more difficult to duplicate than to skim and reproduce the rfid chip.
And if security is your top priority - injecting microchips into your people and letting them walk around with private keys in their arm isn't a good practice.
You know that Wal Mart has been the target of one of the biggest boycotts in US history? Did you? Do you know how much it effects them? Yeah, that's right - because most people don't know why, or even THAT, there is a boycott. A boycott is useless unless the public know it's going on, why it's goin on, and why they should boycott as well.
I didn't know that there was a boycott against WalMart. I just don't shop there because I don't think they deserve my money... I don't get treated like a customer, the store is overcrowded and looks like a midway of a circus.
If that makes me part of the boycott - then I jump up and say "woo hoo!" Screw Walmart.
When companies realise they are copy protecting themselves out of business, maybe others will learn from their mistakes and not treat every paying customer like a thief.
Bravo for posting information on this - the public needs more information to make educated choices.
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It's actually build into the motherboard, cpu, and OS.
The motherboard (more directly the PCU) recognizes it's not on AC anymore and switches to battery. It then alerts the OS that it is on DC.
The BIOS checks its settings and alerts the motherboard to go into power saving mode (if it's enabled).
The CPU then drops in speed. My Thinkpad also throttles the GPU, NIC, Wireless, FSB, backlight, and colordepth. Anything that isn't being used is shutoff - like wireless, nic, IR, etc.
The difference between full on and power saving gives me on average an extra hour and 20 minutes of battery life without a noticable performance degration in normal usage.
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Desktops should be citrix or some other virtual desktop - that's doable and more reliable that forcing people to save to the server... when there is nothing local to save to.
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Restores are easily done when the files and backups reside in the same central location - poof it's back. Obviously offsite and redundant locations is a must.
Laptop users also shouldn't be carrying any customer information without some heavy duty protection and on-the-fly encryption. Mobile users are only safe if they're trained in how to use this software, and audited to make sure they're using it. You can lead a horse to water.. but you can't make a sales guy encrypt his files.
Even then, with a network connection - they'd be able to citrix back to home base over a VPN connection and do everything remotely... look ma, no identity theft.
I have this uneasiness of trusting biometrics as the sole protection for data storage or tamper resistance. Especially when this technology is built in Chinese manufacturing facilities... well, I guess I'm a bit of a hipocrit... I'm typing this on a Lenovo ThinkPad
Why is your bank even keeping data at its branches?
Get your $10,000,000,000 company to establish multiple redundant secure datacenters that the branches connect to using point to point connections along with strong encryption. No Internet connectivity... just centralized data storage in multiple places. I wouldn't even dream of allowing a branch manager access to infrastructure or data storage, six letters popped into my head... OMFG NO!
When a tornado comes along and wipes a branch office off the map - wtf is a thumbdrive going to be useful when the manager's thumb is nowhere to be found?
Your company rolls in a trailer with teller machines and Satellite feeds for data connections to the data center - and your customers' information is still safe in the central location and accessible the next day, even while they're still trying to ID the manager's corpse.
Thank you sir... now you know my wife calls her brother every weekend, and don't call my mother often enough. So will I be getting a check in the mail or a $1,000 credit on my 2006 tax returns?
Ass hats, get off my line... >:(
Now with $500+ consoles, $60-$80 games, and monthly subscription fees that exceed what I used to spend on gas in a month -
Adult gamers are the cash cow of the gaming industry - teens are a secondary market.
This is news, how?
put me on speed dial, my dice bag is ready to roll
Ignorant consumers would be lining up around the block to upgrade their antivirus and antispyware software... and that folks, is a very large market.
Please explain - I would have expected better support from a "premium" manufacturer... compared to the 10k people in a call center on the otherside of the world.
If that's not the case, then screw alienware - I can build a PC for less, and save myself the hassle of support.
Although Dell's acquisition was widely anticipated, Alienware chief executive Nelson Gonzalez said that his company will remain a wholly-owned subsidiary of Dell, continuing its own brand, design, sales and marketing, and support.
Shucks, and I wanted to drop $4,000 on a new Alienware and talk to "Roger" from "Ohio" who was so nice to me when I owned my last Dell. While we rebooted the machine for the third time he asked me how the Packers were doing in the world series.
Nice fellows, those Dell support people... ye'sir.
Well, I guess on such a small database, having only one easily crackable encryption method wouldn't be all that smart. But cypherskills are not my forte... so when they say it's triple DES128, Blowfish, and AES... I would assume that's a little better than any one single method.
But hey, what do I know - steal my phone and try and crack my password.
I have to maintain an insane number of passwords and systems - Flexwallet 2006 triple encrypts the database file that stores my passwords. It also includes a PC app that it syncs with.
Highly recommended.
They charge $5/month to have your site listed on their website...
Sounds like pre-dotcom-bubble-bursting business model is showing its age. And they want to hit the biggest pocket first.
Frankly the site isn't all that - I don't think I agree with their rankings or content. If pagerank decided that they're not worthy of the rating, so be it...
I hate to mention it - but there is >some truth to search engine optimization methods, however from the details of the story - it sounds like Kinderstart's executives are 404.
Google doesn't have tell anyone why they rank anyone the way they do. It's search engine that essentially rates websites based on content or links to the site from others.
I would consider Google one of many food critics in a town of restaurants... you can't sue because you got a poor rating - suck it up, improve your site, and try again.
I fear they're trying to drum up traffic anyway they can because their site sucks. If google doesn't return the sites people want - they will and do use other search engines. So far, it seems they have a pretty good handle on returning relevant results to people's searches.
Has anyone investigated where this kinderstart.com site has ranked on other search engines? Or is it just because Google is the most popular search engine this second that they want to sue (or is it because Google has the most cash on hand?)
I would consider the Bush administration more of a threat to my security and freedoms than the Chinese Communists
writely is great - but I suspect it's just something they needed to put a positive story out there - while they continue to fight the government over releasing our information.
Keep fighting, Google - the Bush administration sucks.
So?
26 people commited suicide on the Internet. How many people called into suicide hotlines and finished the job on the phone?
How many people wrote a note?
So the Internet allows people to find people like themselves... this is pretty logical. Disturbing? Not really, unless nobody plans to find the root cause of their suicides and blames it on the Internet.
If I had mod points, you'd get one brother... :)
This story has got to be bunk... this company requires implants to access their data? Yeah, and when one infection occures from this device - lawsuit city.
There are SO many other forms of security already in place that can prevent unauthorized access to datacenters - this one is actually not that secure!
biometric scanners (iris and palm), ID badge access that is checked by a security guard, pin + rsa keyfob generated password, and an "airlock" type room between public and secure areas that weighs the person entering. It would be almost impossible to dupe this setup... in any event it would be MUCH more difficult to duplicate than to skim and reproduce the rfid chip.
And if security is your top priority - injecting microchips into your people and letting them walk around with private keys in their arm isn't a good practice.
You know that Wal Mart has been the target of one of the biggest boycotts in US history? Did you? Do you know how much it effects them? Yeah, that's right - because most people don't know why, or even THAT, there is a boycott. A boycott is useless unless the public know it's going on, why it's goin on, and why they should boycott as well.
I didn't know that there was a boycott against WalMart. I just don't shop there because I don't think they deserve my money... I don't get treated like a customer, the store is overcrowded and looks like a midway of a circus.
If that makes me part of the boycott - then I jump up and say "woo hoo!" Screw Walmart.
Apparently they even used bloggers as part of the operation, as relayers of misinformation!"
... nevermind, I got nuthin'
In Russia...
I still have a Flying Spaghetti Monster badge on my car though...
When companies realise they are copy protecting themselves out of business, maybe others will learn from their mistakes and not treat every paying customer like a thief.
Bravo for posting information on this - the public needs more information to make educated choices.
It's actually build into the motherboard, cpu, and OS.
The motherboard (more directly the PCU) recognizes it's not on AC anymore and switches to battery. It then alerts the OS that it is on DC.
The BIOS checks its settings and alerts the motherboard to go into power saving mode (if it's enabled).
The CPU then drops in speed. My Thinkpad also throttles the GPU, NIC, Wireless, FSB, backlight, and colordepth. Anything that isn't being used is shutoff - like wireless, nic, IR, etc.
The difference between full on and power saving gives me on average an extra hour and 20 minutes of battery life without a noticable performance degration in normal usage.
If I want to game - all bets are off.
Interesting. You mean maybe Microsoft (easy target but it could apply to Cisco or Google) could put holes in Windows so that ...
Could?
Smart elevators with greedy dumb riders... forget that. I'll take the stairs and shower on the tenth floor.
This coming from the same company that screwed over New Orleans after the hurricanes came to town.
s -screw-you-new-orleans.html
http://www.binaryspiral.com/2005/12/bellsouth-say
They just keep building up the bad karma... maybe we'll see a metor drop on BS HQ in the near future?