More important to me than the cost of keeping out a professional thief (after all, it's only money), is the inconvenience of a bulletproof security system - that's impacting quality of life at home, and similarly impacts the efficiency of businesses that over secure their assets.
You do need to factor in the cost to the customers, which can be quite high when you "out" 50,000 customer credit card numbers... personally, I feel that the customers should be compensated actual cost of loss plus $100 for the hassle of having to jump all the security hoops associated with a CC# change. CC companies pay more than that in advertising to get a customer to switch to their CC.
In an optimal world, the costs would balance. If you spend zero on defense, then the breaches will increase due to the lack of defense. So, spend some on defense, make it harder to breach, breaches will always be possible, so where's the sense in spending more on defense than the breaches are costing?
Now, in military systems, the potential cost of a breach is rather high...
It is also cheaper (and usually more pleasant) to live in houses with breakable glass windows and pickable locks, and just prosecute the burglars who flaunt the niceties and come in anyway.
I think the whole point of the bible was summed up nicely in the Battlestar Galactica remake: "All of this has happened before, and shall happen again."
The older the text is, the more it drives that point home.
Hmmm.... I set up my current Yahoo account about 20 years ago, I think my most recent password change was about 2 years ago, I haven't received any notice of the breach from them... maybe it's in my Spam folder with 3,478,235 other messages.
Well, especially in the R camp, "having principles and sticking to them" is a character trait that the voters value. Like so much else in the conservative world, what they say they want has a huge disconnect from how things actually are. No successful politician has rigid principles that they steadfastly stick to - times change, peoples desires change, and the politicians who stay in office are the ones who move with the times. The real art of being a successful R pol is to put out that image of "steady course, values will not be compromised," while adjusting and compromising enough to stay in office.
As an athiest, I suppose you wouldn't know that Christian churches include the new and old testament in their bibles, put the old testament first, and do still read from it in weekly sermons (though they _tend_ to focus on the happier passages of the New Testament, and the rare happy ones in the Old, disproportionately to their frequency of occurrence - the bible is full of damned depressing stories, not surprising since it is basically relating the stories of the human condition.)
Lewinski could, actually, have been a carefully crafted political maneuver. The country didn't really have anything better to do than an impeachment process at the time, the man in control won the day, still got his full 2nd term, and made the impeachers look like a bunch of impotent whiners. On the flip side, Newt Gingrich actually left office over his scandal. I met him a few months later (didn't talk about his retirement, though), I'd judge him to have taken the scandal as an excuse to leave office and do other things - he was very different in person than the fire breathing table thumping clips they showed on CNN.
Read some old testament, there's all sorts of life lessons in there, mostly negative.
By standing up in the ballot box, you're not throwing your vote away, you're showing how many people in your state actually do care enough to vote against the tide. Even if that means that Georgia goes all R by 60-40 margins, it's still communicating to the Rs that 40% don't believe in their message enough to vote for it. If Georgia goes all R by 90-10 margins, those Rs are going to behave differently while in office.
R, D, L, I, they're all politicians, serving their constituency, and actually themselves: if they want to continue to ride the gravy train they'll keep their home districts as happy as they can.
I'll take exception with the entertainment hub quip. If you want a Simple, Uniform, Highly Functional, Good UX GUI for an entertainment hub, that sounds like Kodi - which runs quite well in Linux.
Time was, not too long before 25 years ago, "Made in Japan" was viewed with equal contempt as "Made in China," cheap junk that broke easily.
India, like China, makes things all sorts of ways - cheap and flashy for temporary use, and solid chunks that will outlive your grandchildren. When the Chinese make hardware to sell to the lowest bidder, the bidder is getting what they paid for - or less. They also make good stuff - not necessarily any cheaper than domestic, which means you usually don't get it imported.
Recycling is handled by waste disposal people. On the US East coast, at least, waste disposal is handled by organized crime... is anyone shocked that they lie about their recycling activities when those lies mean profit?
I have a 25 year old Japanese car with 130Kmiles on it, still in great shape.
The bits of hardware, electrical switches, tools, and occasional appliance made in China can last a really long time - it may have branding like Black & Decker, but look close and it's made in China.
My favorite pair of scissors are from India - big brass handled things, crude, and bullet-proof.
Actually, when it comes to stuff like touchscreen phones, it's damned impossible to get that designed and built in the US anymore - you do have to go to China.
Now, if you pay the Chinese to build you a luxury yacht, and you supervise the suppliers sufficiently, they are indeed capable of building a world class luxury yacht, but it will cost nearly the same as building it in the US, possibly a little more if you have to take a lot of trans-pacific flights to manage the project.
Oops, forgot, they did (claim to) try to control it, but failed. Skylab was a massive kludge to start with, not surprising that the de-orbit control was dodgy.
Now, PR and attitudes being what they are, it's entirely possible that NASA never really designed Skylab for a controlled re-entry, but to save face they did their best to drop it in the Pacific. Build yourself a Skylab in KSP and try to de-orbit it on 2kg of hydrazine, see if you even get as close as dropping it on the planned orbit, much less hitting an ocean.
32GB for $10 is what I was thinking. My music CD collection fits in roughly 32GB of space, and it takes me several months to play through it even once while driving to/from work. Pandora seems to repeat songs at least weekly, much more often if you don't hammer on them to get variety into the stations.
I'm not counting repeated songs as needing to be stored multiple times. Also, I suppose I'm not counting the seven live versions of some songs that Pandora seems to like to play if you ever thumbs-up a live cut of anything.
That one was tough for me as well - I used to pay annually, but now they've pushed me into monthly... I tried Spotify for awhile after they did that, and then decided to get over the whole monthly charge thing and stick with the product I preferred. Now they're up to $60/year - when I originally signed up they were at $30/year - and I certainly haven't noticed a doubling of my value received. If they keep going, Spotify et.al. are going to get a much more serious trial run.
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More important to me than the cost of keeping out a professional thief (after all, it's only money), is the inconvenience of a bulletproof security system - that's impacting quality of life at home, and similarly impacts the efficiency of businesses that over secure their assets.
When are we going to start spending effort on "Lawyer control"?
You do need to factor in the cost to the customers, which can be quite high when you "out" 50,000 customer credit card numbers... personally, I feel that the customers should be compensated actual cost of loss plus $100 for the hassle of having to jump all the security hoops associated with a CC# change. CC companies pay more than that in advertising to get a customer to switch to their CC.
In an optimal world, the costs would balance. If you spend zero on defense, then the breaches will increase due to the lack of defense. So, spend some on defense, make it harder to breach, breaches will always be possible, so where's the sense in spending more on defense than the breaches are costing?
Now, in military systems, the potential cost of a breach is rather high...
It is also cheaper (and usually more pleasant) to live in houses with breakable glass windows and pickable locks, and just prosecute the burglars who flaunt the niceties and come in anyway.
I think the whole point of the bible was summed up nicely in the Battlestar Galactica remake: "All of this has happened before, and shall happen again."
The older the text is, the more it drives that point home.
I just got the recent breach notice this morning.
And has an energy density that will burn through a garage fire rated wall in probably a minute or less...
If you don't know about Jehova's Witnesses, you're probably happier not finding out.
A Powerwall... you mean a grid-connected scaled up version of a Samsung battery?
Yes, built right into the wooden frame of your home.
Hmmm.... I set up my current Yahoo account about 20 years ago, I think my most recent password change was about 2 years ago, I haven't received any notice of the breach from them... maybe it's in my Spam folder with 3,478,235 other messages.
Well, especially in the R camp, "having principles and sticking to them" is a character trait that the voters value. Like so much else in the conservative world, what they say they want has a huge disconnect from how things actually are. No successful politician has rigid principles that they steadfastly stick to - times change, peoples desires change, and the politicians who stay in office are the ones who move with the times. The real art of being a successful R pol is to put out that image of "steady course, values will not be compromised," while adjusting and compromising enough to stay in office.
As an athiest, I suppose you wouldn't know that Christian churches include the new and old testament in their bibles, put the old testament first, and do still read from it in weekly sermons (though they _tend_ to focus on the happier passages of the New Testament, and the rare happy ones in the Old, disproportionately to their frequency of occurrence - the bible is full of damned depressing stories, not surprising since it is basically relating the stories of the human condition.)
Lewinski could, actually, have been a carefully crafted political maneuver. The country didn't really have anything better to do than an impeachment process at the time, the man in control won the day, still got his full 2nd term, and made the impeachers look like a bunch of impotent whiners. On the flip side, Newt Gingrich actually left office over his scandal. I met him a few months later (didn't talk about his retirement, though), I'd judge him to have taken the scandal as an excuse to leave office and do other things - he was very different in person than the fire breathing table thumping clips they showed on CNN.
Read some old testament, there's all sorts of life lessons in there, mostly negative.
By standing up in the ballot box, you're not throwing your vote away, you're showing how many people in your state actually do care enough to vote against the tide. Even if that means that Georgia goes all R by 60-40 margins, it's still communicating to the Rs that 40% don't believe in their message enough to vote for it. If Georgia goes all R by 90-10 margins, those Rs are going to behave differently while in office.
R, D, L, I, they're all politicians, serving their constituency, and actually themselves: if they want to continue to ride the gravy train they'll keep their home districts as happy as they can.
I'll take exception with the entertainment hub quip. If you want a Simple, Uniform, Highly Functional, Good UX GUI for an entertainment hub, that sounds like Kodi - which runs quite well in Linux.
Time was, not too long before 25 years ago, "Made in Japan" was viewed with equal contempt as "Made in China," cheap junk that broke easily.
India, like China, makes things all sorts of ways - cheap and flashy for temporary use, and solid chunks that will outlive your grandchildren. When the Chinese make hardware to sell to the lowest bidder, the bidder is getting what they paid for - or less. They also make good stuff - not necessarily any cheaper than domestic, which means you usually don't get it imported.
Recycling is handled by waste disposal people. On the US East coast, at least, waste disposal is handled by organized crime... is anyone shocked that they lie about their recycling activities when those lies mean profit?
I have a 25 year old Japanese car with 130Kmiles on it, still in great shape.
The bits of hardware, electrical switches, tools, and occasional appliance made in China can last a really long time - it may have branding like Black & Decker, but look close and it's made in China.
My favorite pair of scissors are from India - big brass handled things, crude, and bullet-proof.
Actually, when it comes to stuff like touchscreen phones, it's damned impossible to get that designed and built in the US anymore - you do have to go to China.
Now, if you pay the Chinese to build you a luxury yacht, and you supervise the suppliers sufficiently, they are indeed capable of building a world class luxury yacht, but it will cost nearly the same as building it in the US, possibly a little more if you have to take a lot of trans-pacific flights to manage the project.
Oops, forgot, they did (claim to) try to control it, but failed. Skylab was a massive kludge to start with, not surprising that the de-orbit control was dodgy.
Now, PR and attitudes being what they are, it's entirely possible that NASA never really designed Skylab for a controlled re-entry, but to save face they did their best to drop it in the Pacific. Build yourself a Skylab in KSP and try to de-orbit it on 2kg of hydrazine, see if you even get as close as dropping it on the planned orbit, much less hitting an ocean.
Carter didn't put it up there, and if he initiated a program to get it under control the day he took office, it would have been too late.
Anybody in Australia remember Skylab?
32GB for $10 is what I was thinking. My music CD collection fits in roughly 32GB of space, and it takes me several months to play through it even once while driving to/from work. Pandora seems to repeat songs at least weekly, much more often if you don't hammer on them to get variety into the stations.
I'm not counting repeated songs as needing to be stored multiple times. Also, I suppose I'm not counting the seven live versions of some songs that Pandora seems to like to play if you ever thumbs-up a live cut of anything.
That one was tough for me as well - I used to pay annually, but now they've pushed me into monthly... I tried Spotify for awhile after they did that, and then decided to get over the whole monthly charge thing and stick with the product I preferred. Now they're up to $60/year - when I originally signed up they were at $30/year - and I certainly haven't noticed a doubling of my value received. If they keep going, Spotify et.al. are going to get a much more serious trial run.