If you look further into the study, you will notice that educated people tend to to manifest symptoms of Alzheimers later. So, if it progresses at a faster rate, is that really any worse? Additional consideration are studies that indicate people who keep their minds active slow down the progression of Alzheimers. A good article that discusses nuns who packed more ideas into the sentences of their early autobiographies were less likely to get Alzheimer's disease six decades later is at:
Consider for a moment how much of a boon this could be to an "Evil doer." (To borrow a phrase)
You take your Ipod, and plug it into a completely foreign system. What kind of protections does their device have in place to ensure someone has not infected the terminal with malware? What about the kiosk inventorying everything you have on your Ipod and sending it to the company, who sells the information back to RIAA or MPAA?
Many savvy people will eschew using their USB drives thile using library computers. (In addition to being spied upon.) I would think these same people would avoid plugging their lovely iPod into a foreign socket.
I got a copy of this at Shmoocon. It seems to be a good, stable OS. However, it still misses the mark with respect to ease of use. Hardly anyone's grandmother or even their mother would feel comfortable in using this OS. For example, your e-mail settings need to be re-entered everytime you use it. There are a few other areas of concern as well. However, I must say that this was an excellent first try, and I look forward for the enhancements that are supposed to come shortly.
As a former broadcaster, I think this is a step in the right direction. However, the rating system television will still be extremely flawed.
The current system relies on moths that the broadcasting industry call, "sweeps." Most notably of these months is the May sweeps since a large number of ad agencies buy their advertisements on this books ratings. This system allows the television companies to ignore a number of months and play repeats and poorly produced programs, but still get good ratings. Basically, it is like ignoring your homework for school until the last week of class, and you whole grade is based on the final exam. It is a poor measure of your knowledge, and a poor measure of the quality of programming and viewership.
Instead of having months in which the television stations and networks can ignore their audiences desires, and still having good ratings, there should be a constant sampling system that ignores "sweep months." With this method, the stations and networks would have to work harder and provide more quality entertainment to get higher scores. Additionally, advertisement buyers may have a better sampling in which they can spot trends are more effectively target their advertising dollars.
Perhaps for some it is the best years of their life. However, I find my self much happier now all of that is behind me. I am fortunate in that I have a passion for the work that I do. In contrast, I could not say the same for college.
I believe the best time of one's life can always be the present as long as he pursues his ideals and goals with a passion.
The fact is that many banks are doing this switch now. If you are a Wells Fargo customer, be glad they are not using Diebold. These are the ATMs that were shutdown via either SQL slammer or blaster last year. I do not remember which. Diebolds answer to this is not a patch management scheme or to properly write their code. Instead, they now sell a personal firewall for each ATM! Additionally, Diebold was barred from doing business in California due to their poor practices. http://www.unknownnews.net/031106comvot.html
On the good side. This is a move that must be made. Many on the old ATMs do not encrypt their data at the keypad as is required from Visa standards. With their upgrades, they will.
One should also keep in mind that if these have a proper patch management scheme, and are appropriately firewalled, and have good code, that this is no worse than you doing your banking online. As a matter of fact it is probably safer since their is not outside network gaining direct access.
By it's very definition, the first amendment protects political speech. It is fool hardy to believe that it is appropriate to prevent someone blogging from posting a link to a contribution site.
Should you not be allowed to dontate to whom you choose?
What about Foreign web servers?
Who is going to filter this?
If it is not filtered, then which one of the thousands of people will be fined, and how would the FCC draw the line on this.
I fully support companies retaining ownership of their intellectual property. However, how granular do we go. This is remincient of e-commerce being patented.
If we follow old patent laws, we will surely stifle creativity. In contrast, if we do not have patents, we will likely stifle creativity since no one can claim ownership to their idea and profit accordingly.
First I must admit, I am not a scientist. However, I am quite confused about ozone depletion. We have things like the sun, and CFCs that deplete the ozone, and that is bad. On the other hand, jets and other transportation equipment are criticized for creating ozone among various environment toxins.
Why is machinery that creates ozone a bad thing if we have things that are depleting our ozone. (like the sun.) I seem to recall that ozone in and of itself has bad health risks for people with asthma as well as old folks and children.
Although I agree standardization is important. We should also consider that it brings certain risks as well. For example, Microsoft Office has become a defacto standard for enterprises to use. By doing this, there were standard exploits for millions of systems. (Hence, the I Love You virus.)
I am all for standardization, as long as proper security controls are put in place as well.
Strictly speaking, SOX has no Information Security requirements outside of being able to ensure the integrity of the financial information. This piece of legislation is almost useless for anyone who wishes to have their company implement appropriate controls on their network and data.
In the financial world, you *may* have better luck with GLB. However, GLB leaves a great deal to interpretation when it comes to requiring *appropriate* controls.
If you can make a tie in with HIPPA, then you have a bit more to back you up. Additionally, if you have customers in California, then SB 1386 can be helpful. Although it does not directly say what controls to put in place, it requires companies to disclose to its customers security breaches.
Having said all of this, a real frustrating issue in the US is that there are NO laws that require a company to protect it's employees data! I know of a company that had private employee data available on an FTP server for all the world to see, and the employees had no say in the matter.
The fact is, there is no Federal law in the United States that forces companies to protect employee data.
I recently talked to a friend that worked at a company that had someone who thought it would be smart to post employees salaries in a convenient place. (The web.) However, once this problem was found, the employees were not notified. As a matter of fact there was absolutely no follow through.
If for some reason there could be a tie to the employees health insurance though, one could invoke regulations like HIPPA.
Ben Franklin said--
"Those who are willing to give up a measure of freedom for a measure of security deserve neither."
We now will have the equivalent of a national ID card. You can be sure that this will move more towards other national databases to cause a chilling effect on our freedoms. The next step will be national registration of firearms I am guessing.
This is a wonderful idea. At some point, we will need to look for other places to live as resources are needed. Additionally, if we have a second planet, we may be able to afford to have a huge growth in population.
The fact is, it is dangerous to have all of mankind located on only one planet. What if this planet is destroyed with a meteor? The race ends!
Perhaps there is just an issue with performing a search on only one subject or maybe Britney does not have the star power she used to have.
I did a seach on Anna Kournikova, and it offered a plethora of web sites.
They are banning FIFA 2005 as well?
Perhaps they are truly understanding that soccer is a violent as the vietnam war.;-) (Toungue in cheek)
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What you are asking is actually a question that people who are not geeks wrestle with daily as well. I would suggest a few books to get your thoughts in place, and weed out the useless.
1) "A force for Change: How Leadership Differs from John Kotter (Kotter also writes a number of other papers I highly recommend.) Management" by John Kotter 2) Good to Great by Jim Collins (SOLID Research!) 3) Built to last by Jim Collins
I recommend that you consider a couple personality assesments. Include those that consider your perspective, and one that also infers your social style. One you understand this better, you may see how your personality can mesh with people who have differing styles.
Finally, consider stufying for an MBA from a school that emphasises leadership.
Good luck! It is alot of work to sharpen the people skills when you have been so sharp technically. However, your intellect can carry you through if you consider how you best interface.
Actually, this is just bad science. The figures just do not bear what many people are asserting as it relates to global warming.
Note the rebuttal below from a review at Harvard. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news /886304/po sts
"Such claims have now been sharply contradicted by the most comprehensive study yet of global temperature over the past 1,000 years. A review of more than 240 scientific studies has shown that today's temperatures are neither the warmest over the past millennium, nor are they producing the most extreme weather - in stark contrast to the claims of the environmentalists.
The review, carried out by a team from Harvard University, examined the findings of studies of so-called "temperature proxies" such as tree rings, ice cores and historical accounts which allow scientists to estimate temperatures prevailing at sites around the world.
The findings prove that the world experienced a Medieval Warm Period between the ninth and 14th centuries with global temperatures significantly higher even than today."
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If you look further into the study, you will notice that educated people tend to to manifest symptoms of Alzheimers later. So, if it progresses at a faster rate, is that really any worse? Additional consideration are studies that indicate people who keep their minds active slow down the progression of Alzheimers. A good article that discusses nuns who packed more ideas into the sentences of their early autobiographies were less likely to get Alzheimer's disease six decades later is at:
l zheimers.htm [Neroanatomy)
http://www.neuroanatomy.wisc.edu/selflearn/Nuns&a
Consider for a moment how much of a boon this could be to an "Evil doer." (To borrow a phrase)
You take your Ipod, and plug it into a completely foreign system. What kind of protections does their device have in place to ensure someone has not infected the terminal with malware? What about the kiosk inventorying everything you have on your Ipod and sending it to the company, who sells the information back to RIAA or MPAA?
Many savvy people will eschew using their USB drives thile using library computers. (In addition to being spied upon.) I would think these same people would avoid plugging their lovely iPod into a foreign socket.
I am sure the Russians wish a little global warming would go their way considering they have reached record lows as of late.
I got a copy of this at Shmoocon. It seems to be a good, stable OS. However, it still misses the mark with respect to ease of use. Hardly anyone's grandmother or even their mother would feel comfortable in using this OS. For example, your e-mail settings need to be re-entered everytime you use it. There are a few other areas of concern as well. However, I must say that this was an excellent first try, and I look forward for the enhancements that are supposed to come shortly.
As a former broadcaster, I think this is a step in the right direction. However, the rating system television will still be extremely flawed.
The current system relies on moths that the broadcasting industry call, "sweeps." Most notably of these months is the May sweeps since a large number of ad agencies buy their advertisements on this books ratings. This system allows the television companies to ignore a number of months and play repeats and poorly produced programs, but still get good ratings. Basically, it is like ignoring your homework for school until the last week of class, and you whole grade is based on the final exam. It is a poor measure of your knowledge, and a poor measure of the quality of programming and viewership.
Instead of having months in which the television stations and networks can ignore their audiences desires, and still having good ratings, there should be a constant sampling system that ignores "sweep months." With this method, the stations and networks would have to work harder and provide more quality entertainment to get higher scores. Additionally, advertisement buyers may have a better sampling in which they can spot trends are more effectively target their advertising dollars.
Perhaps for some it is the best years of their life. However, I find my self much happier now all of that is behind me. I am fortunate in that I have a passion for the work that I do. In contrast, I could not say the same for college.
I believe the best time of one's life can always be the present as long as he pursues his ideals and goals with a passion.
It is free to use this software. Doubt it is open source though.
http://www.taxact.com/
I find it offensive that an industry would be allowed to demand a sales tax on Internet services and P.C. purchases.
If I never use my P.C. for music, I would still have to pay this fee. This would be pure theft at worst, or coersion at best.
As far as the five cent model goes, that is a good idea. Charge the people who use the music. I for one do not download music, and rarely buy music.
There is good and bad with this.
The fact is that many banks are doing this switch now. If you are a Wells Fargo customer, be glad they are not using Diebold. These are the ATMs that were shutdown via either SQL slammer or blaster last year. I do not remember which. Diebolds answer to this is not a patch management scheme or to properly write their code. Instead, they now sell a personal firewall for each ATM!
Additionally, Diebold was barred from doing business in California due to their poor practices. http://www.unknownnews.net/031106comvot.html
On the good side. This is a move that must be made. Many on the old ATMs do not encrypt their data at the keypad as is required from Visa standards. With their upgrades, they will.
One should also keep in mind that if these have a proper patch management scheme, and are appropriately firewalled, and have good code, that this is no worse than you doing your banking online. As a matter of fact it is probably safer since their is not outside network gaining direct access.
By it's very definition, the first amendment protects political speech. It is fool hardy to believe that it is appropriate to prevent someone blogging from posting a link to a contribution site.
Should you not be allowed to dontate to whom you choose?
What about Foreign web servers?
Who is going to filter this?
If it is not filtered, then which one of the thousands of people will be fined, and how would the FCC draw the line on this.
My friends, welcome to another slippery slope.
I fully support companies retaining ownership of their intellectual property. However, how granular do we go. This is remincient of e-commerce being patented. If we follow old patent laws, we will surely stifle creativity. In contrast, if we do not have patents, we will likely stifle creativity since no one can claim ownership to their idea and profit accordingly.
First I must admit, I am not a scientist. However, I am quite confused about ozone depletion. We have things like the sun, and CFCs that deplete the ozone, and that is bad. On the other hand, jets and other transportation equipment are criticized for creating ozone among various environment toxins.
Why is machinery that creates ozone a bad thing if we have things that are depleting our ozone. (like the sun.) I seem to recall that ozone in and of itself has bad health risks for people with asthma as well as old folks and children.
I for one do not wish to send spam to our new alien overlords.
Although I agree standardization is important. We should also consider that it brings certain risks as well. For example, Microsoft Office has become a defacto standard for enterprises to use. By doing this, there were standard exploits for millions of systems. (Hence, the I Love You virus.)
I am all for standardization, as long as proper security controls are put in place as well.
Strictly speaking, SOX has no Information Security requirements outside of being able to ensure the integrity of the financial information. This piece of legislation is almost useless for anyone who wishes to have their company implement appropriate controls on their network and data.
:)
In the financial world, you *may* have better luck with GLB. However, GLB leaves a great deal to interpretation when it comes to requiring *appropriate* controls.
If you can make a tie in with HIPPA, then you have a bit more to back you up. Additionally, if you have customers in California, then SB 1386 can be helpful. Although it does not directly say what controls to put in place, it requires companies to disclose to its customers security breaches.
Having said all of this, a real frustrating issue in the US is that there are NO laws that require a company to protect it's employees data! I know of a company that had private employee data available on an FTP server for all the world to see, and the employees had no say in the matter.
Enjoy
But what are the implications to the Prime Directive?
The fact is, there is no Federal law in the United States that forces companies to protect employee data.
I recently talked to a friend that worked at a company that had someone who thought it would be smart to post employees salaries in a convenient place. (The web.) However, once this problem was found, the employees were not notified. As a matter of fact there was absolutely no follow through.
If for some reason there could be a tie to the employees health insurance though, one could invoke regulations like HIPPA.
If You have to ask why sex, then you my friend have truly entered into geekdom.
I salute you!
Ben Franklin said-- "Those who are willing to give up a measure of freedom for a measure of security deserve neither." We now will have the equivalent of a national ID card. You can be sure that this will move more towards other national databases to cause a chilling effect on our freedoms. The next step will be national registration of firearms I am guessing.
This is a wonderful idea. At some point, we will need to look for other places to live as resources are needed. Additionally, if we have a second planet, we may be able to afford to have a huge growth in population.
The fact is, it is dangerous to have all of mankind located on only one planet. What if this planet is destroyed with a meteor? The race ends!
Ad Astara!
Perhaps there is just an issue with performing a search on only one subject or maybe Britney does not have the star power she used to have. I did a seach on Anna Kournikova, and it offered a plethora of web sites.
They are banning FIFA 2005 as well? Perhaps they are truly understanding that soccer is a violent as the vietnam war. ;-) (Toungue in cheek)
What you are asking is actually a question that people who are not geeks wrestle with daily as well. I would suggest a few books to get your thoughts in place, and weed out the useless.
1) "A force for Change: How Leadership Differs from John Kotter (Kotter also writes a number of other papers I highly recommend.)
Management" by John Kotter
2) Good to Great by Jim Collins (SOLID Research!)
3) Built to last by Jim Collins
I recommend that you consider a couple personality assesments. Include those that consider your perspective, and one that also infers your social style. One you understand this better, you may see how your personality can mesh with people who have differing styles.
Finally, consider stufying for an MBA from a school that emphasises leadership.
Good luck! It is alot of work to sharpen the people skills when you have been so sharp technically. However, your intellect can carry you through if you consider how you best interface.
Let me get this right...
:)
The government vaccinates people in order to inject their mind control drug...
Bill Gates is subsidizing the vaccinations...
Now I do believe in black helicopters and RFID in my dental work!
Actually, this is just bad science. The figures just do not bear what many people are asserting as it relates to global warming.
s /886304/po sts
Note the rebuttal below from a review at Harvard.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-new
"Such claims have now been sharply contradicted by the most comprehensive study yet of global temperature over the past 1,000 years. A review of more than 240 scientific studies has shown that today's temperatures are neither the warmest over the past millennium, nor are they producing the most extreme weather - in stark contrast to the claims of the environmentalists.
The review, carried out by a team from Harvard University, examined the findings of studies of so-called "temperature proxies" such as tree rings, ice cores and historical accounts which allow scientists to estimate temperatures prevailing at sites around the world.
The findings prove that the world experienced a Medieval Warm Period between the ninth and 14th centuries with global temperatures significantly higher even than today."