Find a reputable primary source, then follow sources that they cite. For example, if your doing research start with a reputable journal such as the Harvard Business Review, then refer to sources they cite for further detail. More generically, start at CNN.com or wikipedia or some other "large brand" of website, and use it for direction before clicking on any link that comes off google.
By no means a full proof or robust approach, but its a good start. This assumes an awareness that going to random sites bears some inherent risk, and you should build familiarity with good sources of information over time, as well as becoming familiar with where the pitfalls are.
Agreed to a point, however your extending my stance beyond where I intended it to reach.
"Almost" is a big operative word here. Here are my reasonings for my statement, in hopes it may make more sense. In no way was my statement meant to say you can forget about security altogether, and I stand by it being accurate.
1) There's a completely different paradigm to Linux than there is to Windows. If your using Linux correctly as a newbie user, your installing apps from repository and they are all approved apps. Installing apps from anywhere on the net or running as root are invalid assumptions for this. I say it almost can be forgotten, because in comparison to Windows being thoughtless about your PC usage in this regard is a lot safer in Linux.
4) ActiveX exploits are a huge area of web security to cross off your vulnerability list. One of my other statements was also about being cautious about where you enter personal/financial information - This addresses XSS and browser exploits to a point. If you aren't entering and storing personal data, then XSS and browser exploits are going to be low impact. In contrast to Windows, drive-by exploits are less likely to expose your personal info using a browser on Linux than they are on Windows - an activex script isn't going to own your box. Again, in comparison you can almost forget about it.
6) AV software on a Linux client is a bad idea, and those using it are silly for doing so. If your worried about passing a virus onto a client you should address that in your mail infrastructure, or ensure your using a mail service which handles that for you. Trying to do it yourself on the client is poor design, and the software options for this are lousy at best. I think that's very clear. Software firewall's are garbage also, their only purpose is to prevent things from phoning out - if you aren't running as root, you are installing trusted software from repository, then there's little benefit in wasting resources on a software firewall. Ensure you have a good hardware firewall that your behind on your network, and if you have any reason to be suspicious about traffic on your PC - the netstat tool is simple, unobtrusive, and gives you an accurate idea of what communication is coming into and going out of your PC. AV and software Firewalls have no real place on a Linux client - you can almost forget about them entirely. If you want to stretch it, you can install a software firewall but you'll likely never reap any benefit from it.
I don't see what makes him any more insightful in this area, aside from some ancient history. Looking at the domain mafiaboy.com I wouldn't expect much of anything from this book.
As for advising the masses in how to stay safe, the rules are so basic for everyday users that I doubt a security consultant could offer anything considerably insightful:
1) Don't run files whose source you don't trust 2) Read prompts before clicking yes, default answer should be no unless you specifically understand what it's talking about 3) Don't provide personal/financial information to anyone but highly reputable vendors/establishments 4) Avoid going to domains you aren't familiar with, as they could contain exploits which can bot your machine without any interaction - stick to reputable sources of information 5) Keep your AV and Firewall up to date 6) Ask your techie friend/relative about switching to Linux, and you can almost completely cross 1, 4, and 5 off this list
So its just like those 3M sticky hooks you can stick to your wall, hang some reasonably heavy stuff on them, then pull downwards on a tab attached to the sticky part and they come back off the wall no problem... But stronger.
Color me unimpressed. Can someone get me excited about new problems this address?
While technically accurate and wholly logical, what good does the policy serve the userbase when 90% of your userbase doesn't understand bits?
I like the suggestion, and it'd make good sense to me... But Joe Sixpack would have a rough time wrapping his head around why it costs more to text "hey dude" than to text "hey bud".
Not to mention, if they started charging by bit for phone calls, we'd be talking in HD in no time so the telco's again could charge us more for the same old service.
This was the one feature that maps.live.com had over google maps - they had this clarity before Google did, and they also offer the birds eye view which gives you an angled perspective rather than straight down.
I'm glad Google now offers something similar as I like their service much better. In all fairness however, it should be acknowledged that Google was beat to the punch by Microsoft on this.
While it may be a cash cow for the company, isn't an official battery replacement program a "good thing" environmentally?
Placing the responsibility to replace batteries on the corporation allows it to be monitored and regulated. Leaving battery replacement in the hands of users makes it easy to throw out the old battery with your weekly garbage collection. I have to be honest - I'm not sure what sort of battery programs are in my area and it seems like going out of my way considerably to find out. Besides, I doubt most people have any awareness of how its bad to dispose of batteries in the garbage... Until its made a priority on a large scale, what worth exists in wasting my time to do some small part?
Until they backup their accusations, its just an attempt to divert responsibility instead of saying "Oops, we messed up".
If it is a fact that a common wireless communication device can cause this sort of issue - why do they not have policies and procedures in place to prevent it? I'd say all blame still lands squarely on their shoulder - if some tool with a bluetooth headset can bring the plane I'm riding on down, you better believe I'm placing my faith in the airline that they take necessary measures to ensure that isn't possible.
Seems a lot more likely they slipped on their maintenance schedule however and a component in the plane failed, simplest answer is often the correct one.
I would like to see it done right. Seeing as how google really took advertising away from the banner ad approach with the dominance of their contextual text ads, perhaps they will get this in-game advertising right.
What is right?
1) Don't interrupt me. Really. Figure out how to work it in, but not weigh it down or intrude. 2) Make it useful. I don't care for how it looks cheesy when you go to a vending machine in a game and all it has is fake product garbage. Normal advertising you encounter daily, like vending machines, is unobtrusive but also raises brand awareness while it provides some realism to the game. 3) Again, don't interrupt me. Stay out of the way, and a whole industry won't crop up around you trying to remove your ad content. (popup blockers)
Bottom line, I don't think ads coming into games is that bad of a thing, but they have to be done tastefully and not detract from the title your playing.
If the spammers are doing it, I assume thats because the majority of their target customers are aligned similarly with Obama. Makes sense, since Obama's online presence is considerably more progressive than McCains... Still doesn't say a whole lot about anything.
Intel has bags full of money and tons of capacity. If AMD were to be hugely successful with their next gen chip, they wouldn't have the capacity to fully reap the benefits. Where Intel could increase capacity if necessary, AMD would go broke doing so.
So while that's part of it, the other part is that if things start going worse for AMD they could be in real trouble if they remain in the chip-making business. If they can't unload the chips they've already fabbed, they'd have to cut back production until they clear inventory. Cutting back production in the fab business is signing your own death warrant - a fab needs to be at or near capacity to stand any chance at being profitable. So while things currently aren't going great for AMD, if they get worse now that they're split... The cut back in production won't pull them under. In the meantime, the capacity that comes available in the spunoff fabs can be rented out to anyone else needing chips fabbed.
Just kidding... But actually, its slightly more impressive than you noticed. They modified existing submissions thereby appearing as the top submission. While not groundbreaking, its more than simply posting garbled messages to a public board.
I am not trying to influence your stance, however I can honestly address your question about how Linux will save a person time. Off the top of my head, here are 2 things I like about using Linux.
Windows spews personal data anywhere an app wants to put it (docs and settings, program files, wherever). Linux has a sane file structure. If you want to clean up your tracks, this is much easier to do in Linux because most all applications adhere to sensible norms.
You will not spend any time dealing with malware or viruses. You don't even have to think about them, update definitions, etc.
I haven't tried using Windows on an Apple laptop. That sleep mode feature makes a lot of good sense. I wish there was a good opportunity for me to use more Apple stuff, or reason for me to justify buying an air for personal use. I'd love to play with it, but when I already have work systems sufficient for the bit of personal stuff I do... I can't bring myself to pony up the dough. It's an impossible sell trying to justify a macbook over a thinkpad to the boss.
By the way, I enjoy reading your posts. Your name is one which I remember commonly seeing as +5 with my moderation weighting.
If your going apple, it sounds like you have the right idea to get everything you could want out of it.
Going back to what I said earlier, my point isn't that you can't do real work on an Apple so don't feel slighted - you've expressed how you it has the capabilities. I'm just saying in business theres a lot of situations where purchasing Apple hardware and paying the premium isn't an option, because Windows is the "de facto" platform and you can get a formidable business class system for $1000.
Keeping this relevant to the article at hand, this system on a chip in combination with a full windows system sounds like a win and thats really my point - if its got to be a windows platform, its great to have this option.
Good point, Apple's sleep mode actually works as advertised. Bit I and most others in business aren't in the market for an Apple laptop to do real work on (not counting marketing, etc... I said "real" work).
On a windows platform, sleep and hibernation have been sketchy, mainly due to questionable drivers. Add to this the fact that even if it does come out of sleep correctly, things feel a bit sluggish still and it altogether just doesn't feel snappy.
Give me web, email, and documents in a snap, with the opportunity to also boot a full OS... And I think thats adding something valuable to a Windows OS. In business environments where its gotta be Windows for whatever reason, I like this option.
It doesn't need to be pretty - if I can turn a system on in near-zero boot time and do useful things like access email or open a document... Point me to the cash register, I'm ready to hand over my wallet.
A company only looking at short term gains is nothing new, your right. However, creating new securities out of garbage mortgages, giving them high security ratings and selling them off is new. Its a new practice which caused this problem, and it came from loans based on the assumption that the housing market would continue to go up in value, so you pretty much had to sell the house for more than you paid in a year or 2 in order to make good on the terrible mortgage terms... Then someone else repeats the process. In the meantime, all the banking middlemen make their cuts on pushing the deals thru despite knowing the loans were very likely to fail. In the end, the mortgagers and mortgagees are left bearing all the risks and it bit them in the ass ultimately.
I agree with you entirely that people should be allowed to screw up their own lives and learn from it. People don't learn if they don't feel the pain when things go bad. This is why its a bad idea to bailout the banks who were using shoddy investment principles instead of just letting them collapse - the CEOs running the show will not learn from it, and they ultimately succeed in fleecing the american public.
In the meantime, millions of people unassociated with this whole mess are hurting bad in the market and its not fair. They didn't take out crappy loans, yet because their fellow citizens did they are losing money left and right when their stocks collapse. The stock market is risky, theres another hard lesson. Whats that? You had over 100,000 in the bank for your retirement? Oh sorry about that, the FED only insures 100K, the rest of your savings just went up in smoke.
There should be reasonable regulations in place to guard regular people from irresponsible decisions of the masses... Or we should deregulate the highways too, and just let people learn the hard way. To hell with collateral damage.
Yes, a wireless router would do the trick - The DWL-G730AP would be like what your looking for. It can be powered by USB also so it fits all your stated reqs. The unit would plug into your wimax modem, which would not be battery powered as you had hoped - but most places have electric outlets.
Thats as close as you are going to get to a continuously mobile wifi connection that travels with you from currently available products.
Its done the same way nearly anyone formulates a research grant request - they look at grant requests that have already been submitted by others, and build their own in that model. No one makes it from scratch, there is a predefined format which must be followed, then they make it very similar to other grant requests which have been accepted, but ensure they differentiate themselves and highlight the importance of their research. Its not as challenging as one might think to write a grant request just because the problems are abstract.
Supposedly, the sting has been taken out of the law: only the department of defense and the cabinet may request data, and they'll have to get court approval for it.
I'm not so sure I agree thats taking the sting out of it - I mean, isn't the expectation of due process before having your rights infringed a given?
Its great that they are requiring due process, but I'd still prefer my own government didn't have the ability to make these requests at will. Court approval is likely to be a rubber stamp sort of step, with all requests getting approved. And in light of that, I could see requests for data being abused to fuel political motivations when convenient.
Things going bad "lately" and yearning for "the good old days", is a common fallacy of logic - it's easy to fall into, welcome to the in-crowd.
Since thats out in the open, we can talk about something progressive rather than dwelling on how things went bad. You are the master of your own S/N ratio... Customize your preferences and you can control how moderations are weighted, and the level at which you browse.
Slashdot has given us a robust system to control viewing preferences and moderate commenting - use the tools provided, you'll thank yourself for it.
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The same way you would do so at the library?
Find a reputable primary source, then follow sources that they cite. For example, if your doing research start with a reputable journal such as the Harvard Business Review, then refer to sources they cite for further detail. More generically, start at CNN.com or wikipedia or some other "large brand" of website, and use it for direction before clicking on any link that comes off google.
By no means a full proof or robust approach, but its a good start. This assumes an awareness that going to random sites bears some inherent risk, and you should build familiarity with good sources of information over time, as well as becoming familiar with where the pitfalls are.
Agreed to a point, however your extending my stance beyond where I intended it to reach. "Almost" is a big operative word here. Here are my reasonings for my statement, in hopes it may make more sense. In no way was my statement meant to say you can forget about security altogether, and I stand by it being accurate. 1) There's a completely different paradigm to Linux than there is to Windows. If your using Linux correctly as a newbie user, your installing apps from repository and they are all approved apps. Installing apps from anywhere on the net or running as root are invalid assumptions for this. I say it almost can be forgotten, because in comparison to Windows being thoughtless about your PC usage in this regard is a lot safer in Linux. 4) ActiveX exploits are a huge area of web security to cross off your vulnerability list. One of my other statements was also about being cautious about where you enter personal/financial information - This addresses XSS and browser exploits to a point. If you aren't entering and storing personal data, then XSS and browser exploits are going to be low impact. In contrast to Windows, drive-by exploits are less likely to expose your personal info using a browser on Linux than they are on Windows - an activex script isn't going to own your box. Again, in comparison you can almost forget about it. 6) AV software on a Linux client is a bad idea, and those using it are silly for doing so. If your worried about passing a virus onto a client you should address that in your mail infrastructure, or ensure your using a mail service which handles that for you. Trying to do it yourself on the client is poor design, and the software options for this are lousy at best. I think that's very clear. Software firewall's are garbage also, their only purpose is to prevent things from phoning out - if you aren't running as root, you are installing trusted software from repository, then there's little benefit in wasting resources on a software firewall. Ensure you have a good hardware firewall that your behind on your network, and if you have any reason to be suspicious about traffic on your PC - the netstat tool is simple, unobtrusive, and gives you an accurate idea of what communication is coming into and going out of your PC. AV and software Firewalls have no real place on a Linux client - you can almost forget about them entirely. If you want to stretch it, you can install a software firewall but you'll likely never reap any benefit from it.
I don't see what makes him any more insightful in this area, aside from some ancient history. Looking at the domain mafiaboy.com I wouldn't expect much of anything from this book.
As for advising the masses in how to stay safe, the rules are so basic for everyday users that I doubt a security consultant could offer anything considerably insightful:
1) Don't run files whose source you don't trust
2) Read prompts before clicking yes, default answer should be no unless you specifically understand what it's talking about
3) Don't provide personal/financial information to anyone but highly reputable vendors/establishments
4) Avoid going to domains you aren't familiar with, as they could contain exploits which can bot your machine without any interaction - stick to reputable sources of information
5) Keep your AV and Firewall up to date
6) Ask your techie friend/relative about switching to Linux, and you can almost completely cross 1, 4, and 5 off this list
So its just like those 3M sticky hooks you can stick to your wall, hang some reasonably heavy stuff on them, then pull downwards on a tab attached to the sticky part and they come back off the wall no problem... But stronger.
Color me unimpressed. Can someone get me excited about new problems this address?
While technically accurate and wholly logical, what good does the policy serve the userbase when 90% of your userbase doesn't understand bits?
I like the suggestion, and it'd make good sense to me... But Joe Sixpack would have a rough time wrapping his head around why it costs more to text "hey dude" than to text "hey bud".
Not to mention, if they started charging by bit for phone calls, we'd be talking in HD in no time so the telco's again could charge us more for the same old service.
This was the one feature that maps.live.com had over google maps - they had this clarity before Google did, and they also offer the birds eye view which gives you an angled perspective rather than straight down.
I'm glad Google now offers something similar as I like their service much better. In all fairness however, it should be acknowledged that Google was beat to the punch by Microsoft on this.
While it may be a cash cow for the company, isn't an official battery replacement program a "good thing" environmentally?
Placing the responsibility to replace batteries on the corporation allows it to be monitored and regulated. Leaving battery replacement in the hands of users makes it easy to throw out the old battery with your weekly garbage collection. I have to be honest - I'm not sure what sort of battery programs are in my area and it seems like going out of my way considerably to find out. Besides, I doubt most people have any awareness of how its bad to dispose of batteries in the garbage... Until its made a priority on a large scale, what worth exists in wasting my time to do some small part?
Until they backup their accusations, its just an attempt to divert responsibility instead of saying "Oops, we messed up".
If it is a fact that a common wireless communication device can cause this sort of issue - why do they not have policies and procedures in place to prevent it? I'd say all blame still lands squarely on their shoulder - if some tool with a bluetooth headset can bring the plane I'm riding on down, you better believe I'm placing my faith in the airline that they take necessary measures to ensure that isn't possible.
Seems a lot more likely they slipped on their maintenance schedule however and a component in the plane failed, simplest answer is often the correct one.
I would like to see it done right. Seeing as how google really took advertising away from the banner ad approach with the dominance of their contextual text ads, perhaps they will get this in-game advertising right.
What is right?
1) Don't interrupt me. Really. Figure out how to work it in, but not weigh it down or intrude.
2) Make it useful. I don't care for how it looks cheesy when you go to a vending machine in a game and all it has is fake product garbage. Normal advertising you encounter daily, like vending machines, is unobtrusive but also raises brand awareness while it provides some realism to the game.
3) Again, don't interrupt me. Stay out of the way, and a whole industry won't crop up around you trying to remove your ad content. (popup blockers)
Bottom line, I don't think ads coming into games is that bad of a thing, but they have to be done tastefully and not detract from the title your playing.
So thats the trend, but how is it meaningful?
If the spammers are doing it, I assume thats because the majority of their target customers are aligned similarly with Obama. Makes sense, since Obama's online presence is considerably more progressive than McCains... Still doesn't say a whole lot about anything.
Honest mistake... Or your nick and sig have become a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Intel has bags full of money and tons of capacity. If AMD were to be hugely successful with their next gen chip, they wouldn't have the capacity to fully reap the benefits. Where Intel could increase capacity if necessary, AMD would go broke doing so.
So while that's part of it, the other part is that if things start going worse for AMD they could be in real trouble if they remain in the chip-making business. If they can't unload the chips they've already fabbed, they'd have to cut back production until they clear inventory. Cutting back production in the fab business is signing your own death warrant - a fab needs to be at or near capacity to stand any chance at being profitable. So while things currently aren't going great for AMD, if they get worse now that they're split... The cut back in production won't pull them under. In the meantime, the capacity that comes available in the spunoff fabs can be rented out to anyone else needing chips fabbed.
AMD is maintaining a minority interest - the Foundry Company has a 55% majority on the spunoff part.
"F-" ...I'm concerned, please see me after class!
Just kidding... But actually, its slightly more impressive than you noticed. They modified existing submissions thereby appearing as the top submission. While not groundbreaking, its more than simply posting garbled messages to a public board.
I am not trying to influence your stance, however I can honestly address your question about how Linux will save a person time. Off the top of my head, here are 2 things I like about using Linux.
Windows spews personal data anywhere an app wants to put it (docs and settings, program files, wherever). Linux has a sane file structure. If you want to clean up your tracks, this is much easier to do in Linux because most all applications adhere to sensible norms.
You will not spend any time dealing with malware or viruses. You don't even have to think about them, update definitions, etc.
I haven't tried using Windows on an Apple laptop. That sleep mode feature makes a lot of good sense. I wish there was a good opportunity for me to use more Apple stuff, or reason for me to justify buying an air for personal use. I'd love to play with it, but when I already have work systems sufficient for the bit of personal stuff I do... I can't bring myself to pony up the dough. It's an impossible sell trying to justify a macbook over a thinkpad to the boss.
By the way, I enjoy reading your posts. Your name is one which I remember commonly seeing as +5 with my moderation weighting.
If your going apple, it sounds like you have the right idea to get everything you could want out of it.
Going back to what I said earlier, my point isn't that you can't do real work on an Apple so don't feel slighted - you've expressed how you it has the capabilities. I'm just saying in business theres a lot of situations where purchasing Apple hardware and paying the premium isn't an option, because Windows is the "de facto" platform and you can get a formidable business class system for $1000.
Keeping this relevant to the article at hand, this system on a chip in combination with a full windows system sounds like a win and thats really my point - if its got to be a windows platform, its great to have this option.
Good point, Apple's sleep mode actually works as advertised. Bit I and most others in business aren't in the market for an Apple laptop to do real work on (not counting marketing, etc... I said "real" work).
On a windows platform, sleep and hibernation have been sketchy, mainly due to questionable drivers. Add to this the fact that even if it does come out of sleep correctly, things feel a bit sluggish still and it altogether just doesn't feel snappy.
Give me web, email, and documents in a snap, with the opportunity to also boot a full OS... And I think thats adding something valuable to a Windows OS. In business environments where its gotta be Windows for whatever reason, I like this option.
It doesn't need to be pretty - if I can turn a system on in near-zero boot time and do useful things like access email or open a document... Point me to the cash register, I'm ready to hand over my wallet.
A company only looking at short term gains is nothing new, your right. However, creating new securities out of garbage mortgages, giving them high security ratings and selling them off is new. Its a new practice which caused this problem, and it came from loans based on the assumption that the housing market would continue to go up in value, so you pretty much had to sell the house for more than you paid in a year or 2 in order to make good on the terrible mortgage terms... Then someone else repeats the process. In the meantime, all the banking middlemen make their cuts on pushing the deals thru despite knowing the loans were very likely to fail. In the end, the mortgagers and mortgagees are left bearing all the risks and it bit them in the ass ultimately.
I agree with you entirely that people should be allowed to screw up their own lives and learn from it. People don't learn if they don't feel the pain when things go bad. This is why its a bad idea to bailout the banks who were using shoddy investment principles instead of just letting them collapse - the CEOs running the show will not learn from it, and they ultimately succeed in fleecing the american public.
In the meantime, millions of people unassociated with this whole mess are hurting bad in the market and its not fair. They didn't take out crappy loans, yet because their fellow citizens did they are losing money left and right when their stocks collapse. The stock market is risky, theres another hard lesson. Whats that? You had over 100,000 in the bank for your retirement? Oh sorry about that, the FED only insures 100K, the rest of your savings just went up in smoke.
There should be reasonable regulations in place to guard regular people from irresponsible decisions of the masses... Or we should deregulate the highways too, and just let people learn the hard way. To hell with collateral damage.
Yes, a wireless router would do the trick - The DWL-G730AP would be like what your looking for. It can be powered by USB also so it fits all your stated reqs. The unit would plug into your wimax modem, which would not be battery powered as you had hoped - but most places have electric outlets.
Thats as close as you are going to get to a continuously mobile wifi connection that travels with you from currently available products.
Its done the same way nearly anyone formulates a research grant request - they look at grant requests that have already been submitted by others, and build their own in that model. No one makes it from scratch, there is a predefined format which must be followed, then they make it very similar to other grant requests which have been accepted, but ensure they differentiate themselves and highlight the importance of their research. Its not as challenging as one might think to write a grant request just because the problems are abstract.
Supposedly, the sting has been taken out of the law: only the department of defense and the cabinet may request data, and they'll have to get court approval for it.
I'm not so sure I agree thats taking the sting out of it - I mean, isn't the expectation of due process before having your rights infringed a given?
Its great that they are requiring due process, but I'd still prefer my own government didn't have the ability to make these requests at will. Court approval is likely to be a rubber stamp sort of step, with all requests getting approved. And in light of that, I could see requests for data being abused to fuel political motivations when convenient.
I like the spokepersons answer, as it lines up nicely with the nature of the company's employees.
Not to pass judgement, but their overwhelmingly elitist and extremely confident - realistically, that's not a value statement.
Things going bad "lately" and yearning for "the good old days", is a common fallacy of logic - it's easy to fall into, welcome to the in-crowd.
Since thats out in the open, we can talk about something progressive rather than dwelling on how things went bad. You are the master of your own S/N ratio... Customize your preferences and you can control how moderations are weighted, and the level at which you browse.
Slashdot has given us a robust system to control viewing preferences and moderate commenting - use the tools provided, you'll thank yourself for it.