If they're worth bothering with, the security, bandwdith, and many of the compliance issues become their problem.
Except that your ass is grass when your outsourcer drops the ball on security and compliance. Does $THIRD_WORLD_ASPIRANT have laws against selling confidential information to your competitor, and how well are they enforced?
your best bet is to focus on hiring decent people.
My guess is the reason most of these people are well attuned to the possibility of underhanded machinations is that they have had their own hands in quite a few. How do devils hire angels?
If this is like the standard submitted for.NET, the container of the file format will be completely open but the format of the actual data inside will be obscure. If you read the details of ECMA-335, something that trade press and PHB's can't be bothered to do, you will see that large portions of the.NET class library that you need to do anything useful, like Windows Forms, ASP.NET, and ADO.NET, are not part of the standard.
Microsoft knows that the devil is always in these kinds of details.
How do you guard against rogue peers poisoning the list with false positives, like to DOS someone or try to render the list unreliable and thus irrelevant?
This, of course, also means changes in the DB, OS or file system to make critical data only accessible through a secure DB layer that tracks changes (e.g., no accessible plain-text DB data structures).
But wait! There's more! Expect all the DB vendors to do this in their next major releases because it also happens to create lock-in to their product. "Migration tools could be used for tampering! Sarbanes-Oxley made us do it!"
I work in an all-ColdFusion shop and while it is great for small applications, once an application reaches a size where Model-View-Controller becomes a necessity, you're pretty much screwed. I'm trying to use their ColdFusion Components to implement an MVC app because the boss won't allow another language in our environment. Debugging is hell because there is no ColdFusion interactive debugger, so you either print a bunch of debug output on your page or step through their zillions of layers of indirection in a Java debugger.
I once had a conversation with an Indian contractor about prior projects we had each worked on. He mentioned creating a system for an outsourcer that addressed the privacy question in this way: They chopped form images into pieces (each different field, if I remember right) and sent the pieces to different operators for entry. So one person would enter the first name, another the last name, etc.
Unfortunately for our article, chopping up customer service e-mails would render them unintelligible.
Say what you want about the UN, but I think the ITU has done its job very well. My only concern about the current chairman is that he might be tempted to reach beyond the Union's proper role as a standards body. ITU standards are the reason that international calling works, even to China and post-Soviet countries where they might otherwise have been tempted to roll their own "superior" Communist telephony standard that was incompatiable with the West. Yes, Zhao may have an agenda, but at least he hasn't made the +886 country code (Taiwan) fall off the map (yet) like the Central Committee probably wants him to.
They should also require the hardware to be FPGA-based, and open for examination the board designs, Verilog/VHDL used to the program the FPGA, and the resulting bitstream.
However, I'm still not sure how to verify the FPGA. Maybe you second-source and distribute the different chips at random, but who's to keep Xilinx and Altera from colluding?
I don't understand why developers still look at HTML fix ups to make web applications rich. Especially when a tool like Macromedia's Flash allows a developer to build a rich web application with a clean interface that truly mimics a desktop application's. It offers a small foot print, interactivitey, mantains state, and can work with eneterprise backend logic (Web Services, J2EE, ASP.Net, and Coldfusion). Better solution hand down.
If your interested I wrote a short white paper on why its the future of web applications at http://www.jasonmperry.com/.
Signed, Jason Perry, Marketing Department, Macromedia.
I haven't tested a different card in my HP tc1100 Tablet PC, but the instruction manual (or maybe I saw it in the online knowledge base?) said that the BIOS may warn about an unsupported wireless card. It claimed that the restriction was there because the machine was only certified for FCC Part 15 with certain wireless cards.
Bull, I say. Putting a WLAN PCI card in your desktop PC doesn't change its FCC certification!
Especially because with enough performance this is a good candidate for embedding in a commercial product, i.e. if your code is really tied to a specific architecture you could "port" by wrapping QEMU around it.
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I suspect they really only know a heap overflow is "that damned thing that causes us to have to issue so many patches."
If this is like the standard submitted for .NET, the container of the file format will be completely open but the format of the actual data inside will be obscure. If you read the details of ECMA-335, something that trade press and PHB's can't be bothered to do, you will see that large portions of the .NET class library that you need to do anything useful, like Windows Forms, ASP.NET, and ADO.NET, are not part of the standard.
Microsoft knows that the devil is always in these kinds of details.
How do you guard against rogue peers poisoning the list with false positives, like to DOS someone or try to render the list unreliable and thus irrelevant?
All the body x-ray screeners should be women. The straight men will think it's hot and the rest of us will know it's no big deal.
"Boy, if that last one goes, we'll be up here all day!"
Burma, North Korea, and the United States have just banned tin foil and removable media. Film at 11.
Every home in America has several dangerous radiation devices in use. *
--* They're called light bulbs, they radiate visible light, and they're dangerous to step on with bare feet.
Apparently they can't be bothered to run their website on one of these babies... I guess the cobbler's children never get any shoes.
I work in an all-ColdFusion shop and while it is great for small applications, once an application reaches a size where Model-View-Controller becomes a necessity, you're pretty much screwed. I'm trying to use their ColdFusion Components to implement an MVC app because the boss won't allow another language in our environment. Debugging is hell because there is no ColdFusion interactive debugger, so you either print a bunch of debug output on your page or step through their zillions of layers of indirection in a Java debugger.
Unfortunately for our article, chopping up customer service e-mails would render them unintelligible.
Say what you want about the UN, but I think the ITU has done its job very well. My only concern about the current chairman is that he might be tempted to reach beyond the Union's proper role as a standards body. ITU standards are the reason that international calling works, even to China and post-Soviet countries where they might otherwise have been tempted to roll their own "superior" Communist telephony standard that was incompatiable with the West. Yes, Zhao may have an agenda, but at least he hasn't made the +886 country code (Taiwan) fall off the map (yet) like the Central Committee probably wants him to.
However, I'm still not sure how to verify the FPGA. Maybe you second-source and distribute the different chips at random, but who's to keep Xilinx and Altera from colluding?
Bull, I say. Putting a WLAN PCI card in your desktop PC doesn't change its FCC certification!
Especially because with enough performance this is a good candidate for embedding in a commercial product, i.e. if your code is really tied to a specific architecture you could "port" by wrapping QEMU around it.
This reminds me of why I left ('course, Georgia's not much better...)
I expect the next worm to come out to do nothing except create a little registry key:
Dearth of cancer in South Africa. Film at 11.