I know what it costs to have a FTE, a contractor will set you back even further though. $100k most definitely pays for an intern, you could get an intern including all costs for $50k especially if you don't have to provide them with health care. There are SOME companies however that seem to spend oodles of money on Exchange, Sharepoint and Windows licenses, Dell and IBM support contracts etc. etc. that amount to $1000's/year on software alone and then there are others that like the image that comes with an office in some expensive (but cramped) office tower but for the average small-time startup company 50-75% of salary is a good ballpark figure.
Also, no company should have millions of dollars in damage from a hacking attempt (which most likely will be a DoS attack). If you have that much money on the line you have (or should have) the investment in security, staff, backup and failover services. If you don't, please fire your CIO (or whoever is responsible for your IT management)
Solaris (and other RBAC's) allow you to remove root and have very fine-grained controls over who does what and where even in virtual machines (containers). This problem has already been solved before many, many times so I doubt there is a need for yet another system. Even sudo itself allows for very fine grained controls.
At least those Canuks fans get something done (even though it's destruction/economic stimulus). I believe they're more like a group of IT managers at a Microsoft convention - they can all start communicating with the latest buzzwords but in the end it doesn't mean anything to anyone observing and trying to get an intelligent answer.
Sounds like most CIO's I know. None of the understand technology, at best they have an MBA, they can't take criticism, flap their lips and in the end everybody just does their own thing.
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You also must have missed the first few years of the World War where the US knew about the atrocities but decided to do nothing about it or Ford-Werke, the division of Ford in Germany or the 'neutral' Swiss supplying weapons and bankrolling the operations with Jewish deposits.
I would rather have 1 device next to my TV that does it all than 3 devices for each medium. I have an XBox next to my TV to play TV, DVD's and downloaded movies and a Mac Mini on another TV to play TV, DVD's and downloaded movies as well. I hate having to switch inputs and finding the 2-3 correct remotes to play a movie.
It is designed to be fixing the issue the music industry is having. People do not want to pay another $10 for your song, some don't even want to pay another $1 for your song they already have, they would rather pay a fixed fee and get all the music they want (see Pandora, Rhapsody etc.) or put it online somewhere so I can always have access to it.
Apple is giving them this, get all the music you already have in a high quality digital download for $25/year in an online storage. The reason iTunes is giving them 'fresh' songs instead of uploading and storing their own songs is purely out of cost. iTunes just has to maintain a database of who has what songs and they have to store them anyway to sell them and doesn't have to waste storage or bandwidth on low-fi and duplicate music.
Actually, stupid stuff like that is what you would want a Duke Nukem game to be. However most of the stuff is simply over the top while throughout the rest of the game it doesn't even involve any funniness nor keeping the old gameplay or even broad levels around. It has become a very linear, boring shooter.
TotalBiscuit said it best when he said: they kept all the bad stuff from old DOS games and all the bad stuff from new shooters and added it together. They made Duke an old man that can't jump, can't hold more than 2 guns and needs assistance in every fight.
Do you have any idea how some medical centers operate? The small ones are usually nimble enough to change on a drop of a hat. It's the big ones that use many, many closed source, proprietary software for records and then hire loads of contractors to write more closed, proprietary middleware to link them all together that are going to have the problems. Most of these medical software companies go out of business after having sold their 'product' to about 2-5 large clients so finding somebody that understands the code, structure or just about anything of it is nearly impossible.
If open source should prosper anywhere, it would be in the specialized software business. However greed and fear have driven many of these project impossible to alter so they have to be re-implemented every couple of years. Most of the cases they are simply interfaces on a database with some simple validation.
It's time we started accepting non-ICANN approved TLD's. ICANN is the main problem since it is based in the US. Verisign and 'corporate control' of any TLD is unacceptable.
I think it gets boring in single player but when you play online and can share your 'inventions' or collections with others, it becomes much better. You can also make it reflect real world if you want to and build mock-ups of your real-world ideas. I'm building my basement to scale (1m per block) for fun right now but I'm planning on converting it into a man-cave so I could use it to mock-up my placement ideas.
Usually those things are pretty easy to disable. OnStar's system sits in a module in known locations which you can simply unplug the power or antenna to (a screwdriver, ratchet and a bit of manhandling may be required). I don't know about the LEAF system but I know Saab had a SIM-card based system which you could remove with a bent paperclip and when you took it out it just didn't do anything, queuing up any of that data would be useless. You could also reset the system before ever activating it again.
At this point, those systems are not made to spy on you just yet. It will probably be ordained by the government to do this (see OBD-3) but there probably will be ways around it just like you can reset your Check Engine light before going to the inspection.
The problem is not necessarily the chips as you say yourself it's the communications. And those chips may be cheap but the amount of power required to send something from the bottom of the ocean is going to require a big battery.
Then you have the data transfer costs, satellite communications are not cheap. And then you still haven't recovered the item. Boats are not very efficient nor very fast and require a full crew. Deep-sea recovery takes weeks and is even more expensive not to say dangerous.
The US military doesn't even want to spend the resources to recover their nuclear missiles that are in known locations. Why would you think a container full of teddy bears, gym shoes or even iPads are worth the expense? Because even if you recover them, most likely they will not be functional, the cargo will be corroded or halfway eaten by the local population.
I think the problem is twofold. Microsoft seems very tightlipped about.NET in mobile Windows devices and Windows 8 in general. Then there is the derivatives Silverlight and WPF which Microsoft has proposed is the replacement of Flash/ActiveX except that (finally) some have learned that giving your project in the hands of an ill-supported plugin from a corporate machine is not a good idea in general so they choose HTML5/JavaScript and even Microsoft is getting better supporting HTML5/JS in their browsers and even mobile browsers so that people are worried their precious code they had so nicely written in the Microsoft-language-du-jour is going to be unsupported come next generation. It's the repeat of the same issues coders had with MSN Channels, Active Desktop, VB, ActiveX,.NET1.0,.NET2.0 and they seem to never learn.
The EU can't allow their stuff to be hosted in the US where unwarranted and secretive searches are the norm. The US won't allow their stuff to be hosted in the EU because they can't trust the individual states to do the same to them.
The only solution is client-side encryption where Google etc. hosts only encrypted data and can't have access to the keys. There are projects that are working on this but this means the 'cloud' won't be hosting everything but a more hybrid approach is necessary.
Some scanners are a bit more expensive than a $50 USB one though. Once you get in the real document processing your most simple scanners jump up to $3000 but can easily go up to $30,000.
Much like ZFS, mdadm will simply be replaced with another set of commands. If a drive crashes and the array is not correctly set up, you will also lose data and it will be a pain in the butt to repair it (I've done ZFS recovery of a corrupted pool, no fun). Again, RAID (or any software checksum based alternative) is not a backup. You should have hourly/daily/weekly snapshots and backups depending on the importance of your data.
The good thing about ZFS and Btrfs vs RAID is that they fail graciously. Most of the time it will be able to indicate which files are corrupt, allow you to mount read only and at least copy portions of it over so there is some more intelligence built-in than a simple XOR but that's just the progression of technology.
That would cost even more money. A prisoner costs 50,000 per year on average. This type of thing usually includes more than 4 or 5 people. Plus the victim doesn't benefit and the perpetrator is not violent or a danger to society.
The problem IS those companies that only use it for security theater. I can tell you, many companies I've seen allow the RSA key to be used as a password by itself practically making it a single factor authentication model or once they have the RSA keys, downplay the need for strong passwords. A lot of outside contractors get a single character password or a simple or repeated password and then use the token as the rest of the password.
You can already do that you know. Do in Terminal: defaults write com.apple.systempreferences TMShowUnsupportedNetworkVolumes 1 Then just share a disk or directory over AFP and point your TimeMachine to it. And Lion will have Mac OS X Server built-in so you can just set up a share, enable it as a TimeMachine target and it will show up automatically.
Microsoft went through the wringer because they were selling their OWN products through their interfaces, not facilitating access to a free 3rd party service.
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I know what it costs to have a FTE, a contractor will set you back even further though. $100k most definitely pays for an intern, you could get an intern including all costs for $50k especially if you don't have to provide them with health care. There are SOME companies however that seem to spend oodles of money on Exchange, Sharepoint and Windows licenses, Dell and IBM support contracts etc. etc. that amount to $1000's/year on software alone and then there are others that like the image that comes with an office in some expensive (but cramped) office tower but for the average small-time startup company 50-75% of salary is a good ballpark figure.
Also, no company should have millions of dollars in damage from a hacking attempt (which most likely will be a DoS attack). If you have that much money on the line you have (or should have) the investment in security, staff, backup and failover services. If you don't, please fire your CIO (or whoever is responsible for your IT management)
Solaris (and other RBAC's) allow you to remove root and have very fine-grained controls over who does what and where even in virtual machines (containers). This problem has already been solved before many, many times so I doubt there is a need for yet another system. Even sudo itself allows for very fine grained controls.
At least those Canuks fans get something done (even though it's destruction/economic stimulus). I believe they're more like a group of IT managers at a Microsoft convention - they can all start communicating with the latest buzzwords but in the end it doesn't mean anything to anyone observing and trying to get an intelligent answer.
Sounds like most CIO's I know. None of the understand technology, at best they have an MBA, they can't take criticism, flap their lips and in the end everybody just does their own thing.
You also must have missed the first few years of the World War where the US knew about the atrocities but decided to do nothing about it or Ford-Werke, the division of Ford in Germany or the 'neutral' Swiss supplying weapons and bankrolling the operations with Jewish deposits.
I would rather have 1 device next to my TV that does it all than 3 devices for each medium. I have an XBox next to my TV to play TV, DVD's and downloaded movies and a Mac Mini on another TV to play TV, DVD's and downloaded movies as well. I hate having to switch inputs and finding the 2-3 correct remotes to play a movie.
It is designed to be fixing the issue the music industry is having. People do not want to pay another $10 for your song, some don't even want to pay another $1 for your song they already have, they would rather pay a fixed fee and get all the music they want (see Pandora, Rhapsody etc.) or put it online somewhere so I can always have access to it.
Apple is giving them this, get all the music you already have in a high quality digital download for $25/year in an online storage. The reason iTunes is giving them 'fresh' songs instead of uploading and storing their own songs is purely out of cost. iTunes just has to maintain a database of who has what songs and they have to store them anyway to sell them and doesn't have to waste storage or bandwidth on low-fi and duplicate music.
Actually, stupid stuff like that is what you would want a Duke Nukem game to be. However most of the stuff is simply over the top while throughout the rest of the game it doesn't even involve any funniness nor keeping the old gameplay or even broad levels around. It has become a very linear, boring shooter.
TotalBiscuit said it best when he said: they kept all the bad stuff from old DOS games and all the bad stuff from new shooters and added it together. They made Duke an old man that can't jump, can't hold more than 2 guns and needs assistance in every fight.
Do you have any idea how some medical centers operate? The small ones are usually nimble enough to change on a drop of a hat. It's the big ones that use many, many closed source, proprietary software for records and then hire loads of contractors to write more closed, proprietary middleware to link them all together that are going to have the problems. Most of these medical software companies go out of business after having sold their 'product' to about 2-5 large clients so finding somebody that understands the code, structure or just about anything of it is nearly impossible.
If open source should prosper anywhere, it would be in the specialized software business. However greed and fear have driven many of these project impossible to alter so they have to be re-implemented every couple of years. Most of the cases they are simply interfaces on a database with some simple validation.
It's time we started accepting non-ICANN approved TLD's. ICANN is the main problem since it is based in the US. Verisign and 'corporate control' of any TLD is unacceptable.
I think it gets boring in single player but when you play online and can share your 'inventions' or collections with others, it becomes much better. You can also make it reflect real world if you want to and build mock-ups of your real-world ideas. I'm building my basement to scale (1m per block) for fun right now but I'm planning on converting it into a man-cave so I could use it to mock-up my placement ideas.
Usually those things are pretty easy to disable. OnStar's system sits in a module in known locations which you can simply unplug the power or antenna to (a screwdriver, ratchet and a bit of manhandling may be required). I don't know about the LEAF system but I know Saab had a SIM-card based system which you could remove with a bent paperclip and when you took it out it just didn't do anything, queuing up any of that data would be useless. You could also reset the system before ever activating it again.
At this point, those systems are not made to spy on you just yet. It will probably be ordained by the government to do this (see OBD-3) but there probably will be ways around it just like you can reset your Check Engine light before going to the inspection.
The problem is not necessarily the chips as you say yourself it's the communications. And those chips may be cheap but the amount of power required to send something from the bottom of the ocean is going to require a big battery.
Then you have the data transfer costs, satellite communications are not cheap. And then you still haven't recovered the item. Boats are not very efficient nor very fast and require a full crew. Deep-sea recovery takes weeks and is even more expensive not to say dangerous.
The US military doesn't even want to spend the resources to recover their nuclear missiles that are in known locations. Why would you think a container full of teddy bears, gym shoes or even iPads are worth the expense? Because even if you recover them, most likely they will not be functional, the cargo will be corroded or halfway eaten by the local population.
I think the problem is twofold. Microsoft seems very tightlipped about .NET in mobile Windows devices and Windows 8 in general. Then there is the derivatives Silverlight and WPF which Microsoft has proposed is the replacement of Flash/ActiveX except that (finally) some have learned that giving your project in the hands of an ill-supported plugin from a corporate machine is not a good idea in general so they choose HTML5/JavaScript and even Microsoft is getting better supporting HTML5/JS in their browsers and even mobile browsers so that people are worried their precious code they had so nicely written in the Microsoft-language-du-jour is going to be unsupported come next generation. It's the repeat of the same issues coders had with MSN Channels, Active Desktop, VB, ActiveX, .NET1.0, .NET2.0 and they seem to never learn.
The EU can't allow their stuff to be hosted in the US where unwarranted and secretive searches are the norm. The US won't allow their stuff to be hosted in the EU because they can't trust the individual states to do the same to them.
The only solution is client-side encryption where Google etc. hosts only encrypted data and can't have access to the keys. There are projects that are working on this but this means the 'cloud' won't be hosting everything but a more hybrid approach is necessary.
Some scanners are a bit more expensive than a $50 USB one though. Once you get in the real document processing your most simple scanners jump up to $3000 but can easily go up to $30,000.
They probably had seen those Microsoft commercials: To the cloud!
Much like ZFS, mdadm will simply be replaced with another set of commands. If a drive crashes and the array is not correctly set up, you will also lose data and it will be a pain in the butt to repair it (I've done ZFS recovery of a corrupted pool, no fun). Again, RAID (or any software checksum based alternative) is not a backup. You should have hourly/daily/weekly snapshots and backups depending on the importance of your data.
The good thing about ZFS and Btrfs vs RAID is that they fail graciously. Most of the time it will be able to indicate which files are corrupt, allow you to mount read only and at least copy portions of it over so there is some more intelligence built-in than a simple XOR but that's just the progression of technology.
That would cost even more money. A prisoner costs 50,000 per year on average. This type of thing usually includes more than 4 or 5 people. Plus the victim doesn't benefit and the perpetrator is not violent or a danger to society.
The problem IS those companies that only use it for security theater. I can tell you, many companies I've seen allow the RSA key to be used as a password by itself practically making it a single factor authentication model or once they have the RSA keys, downplay the need for strong passwords. A lot of outside contractors get a single character password or a simple or repeated password and then use the token as the rest of the password.
Never seen Mission Impossible eh.
You can already do that you know.
Do in Terminal: defaults write com.apple.systempreferences TMShowUnsupportedNetworkVolumes 1
Then just share a disk or directory over AFP and point your TimeMachine to it.
And Lion will have Mac OS X Server built-in so you can just set up a share, enable it as a TimeMachine target and it will show up automatically.
Microsoft went through the wringer because they were selling their OWN products through their interfaces, not facilitating access to a free 3rd party service.
445.1050 British pounds sterling. Why carry such an odd amount around in Great Britain?
Dealers sell drugs to users using local currency, Senators pass a law to outlaw the $100 bill.