Some of us actually enjoy having a real library at home, turning through pages and even collecting real books. There is nothing better than going in the library, firing up a premium cigar or my pipe and doing either some actual real book work-reading of leisurely reading.
The kindle cannot replace that experience, at least not for me. So it's not always about money.
You are confusing policies with guidelines. Guidelines are often optional and serve as a "rule of thumb" or "best practices" for employees; policies are not. Policies (especially security policies) are, or should be established with the advice of legal counsel, and should be issued and enforced from an executive level.
If you don't want policies, do not issue them, otherwise you are just confusing employees and encouraging them to disregard issues which are important to the organization.
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Yes, and one huge issue that nobody appears to have noticed: how do you tow this thing around if it breaks? Does AAA cover it?
What part of sun cycles and sun weather don't you guys get? How ignorant does one have to be in order to look at 100 or 200 years of monitored weather and then decide that the planet is heading towards a global meltdown...all the while in the same breath admitting that this already happened over and over again millions of years ago, telling us that global warming killed the dinosaurs?
This is madness. The big burning ball in the skies warms up the planet. When it doesn't burn as hot, the planet cools down. That is not a myth...I can see it every day I go outside.
The sun is the coolest it has been for a long time...there is no need to even attempt to do this. What such an attempt would illustrate is (1) the outright arrogance of mankind, thinking that we can actually terraform and manage an entire planet when we can't even handle a hurricane in New Orleans or poverty in Africa, and (2) the attempt by a few socialists to use the green movement to control the lives of others.
The green movement has been long ago hijacked by the extreme left. Wake up people!
Signup for Google's Grand Central service. It works fine for me...you can mark "spammers" and block them permanently from calling you. Easy and no headaches.
No, it is not the constitutional-republic structure of government that is wrong - there is something wrong when people keep voting corrupt politicians into power...so in a sense stupid people keep voting corruption into office. There is no form of government in existence that will protect you from stupid people.
So you are saying that an open-source government would get bloated over time as well? Naaah...that would never happen would it?:)
On the serious side I am a naturalized citizen here in the U.S. I spent the first 21 years of my life in a communist country. In my opinion, which is based on very strong personal experience, anyone suggesting that a pseudo-socialist form of government is feasible is simply a moron. And the guy suggesting that "so far all the other socialists got it wrong and it can be done better" is even a bigger moron. The only reason the U.S. is such a successful republic is BECAUSE of its type of government which is one of the most open and democratic on this planet. Can it be better? Of course...can it be worse? Hell yea...just look at every other country around us.
And to your point on the constitution being a "living document" you are right on. It HAS to be a static document in order to maintain a free and democratic republic, otherwise every new generation will pull a new meaning out of their collective asses and make it mean whatever they want it to mean.
This has to be the most idiotic suggestions I've seen here for a while. There is nothing wrong with the current U.S. government - it is ignoring the constitution which is the problem. There are clear boundaries presented by the constitution to protect citizens from the abusive and corrupt politicians, but if the law is ignored, it does not matter who is in charge and whether or not the government is "open source" or not.
Why not all put our pants down and bend over for the Linux boys...since they write good code, they obviously could be really good at coming up with constitutional law and governmental suggestions! Of course, they would never get corrupt at the first sight of pr0n, because they already have the hottest women on the block:)
I agree and I was going to make the same observation - no attempt to connect this with global warming? Based on this alone, I'll give you a winter prediction: It's gonna be cold, it's gonna be gray, and it's gonna last you for the rest of your life.:)
Hehe..that's great.
As someone who lived under Communism for most of my life, I am amazed that people are actually surprised to hear this. Either people are just plain stupid to be shocked by this, or they are bent on repeating/forgetting history pretty quick.
I would say that you are reading too much into the text of standard, which is likely vague enough on purpose to allow for flexibility of interpretation on your end. Afterall you would not want PCI to tell you what kind of copper cable you need to use for your LAN and who your data provider need to be, right?
Whenever you mention PCI to executive management all they hear is dollars dropping out of their pockets, so generally speaking, unless the CIO or CTO has a security interest or somewhat of a background, there will be no administrative or financial support for PCI efforts. I've worked with only one organization so far (of many) who is amazingly disciplined to stick to PCI in detail, perform the required scans and be willing to shell out the dollars to ensure compliance.
Ultimately, if there is no desire and willingness to do what's right, it will not happen just because a new standard is released.
I imagine one great addition to GMail would be a way to allow send/receive based on a whitelist approved by a parent. It would be perfect for a situation like the one mgessner presented. Heck, for all I know it may already be possible to do that...I am not a GMail expert.
Well, the $40 price per movie would not appeal to many regardless of the economy, but that's just me. This is just simple market economics: poor adoption should tell the boneheads at Sony that the products are priced too high.
"she engaged in illegal evasion of Alaska's Sunshine Laws."
What illegal evasion? Where does the law say that she cannot open an Yahoo account? You are making your argument out of silence, not to mention that the very fact that there was nothing incriminating found in the Yahoo account proves that she was in fact NOT trying to hide anything.
If any politically-motivated asshat with would stop filing lawsuits over the most minor things, crap like this would not happen, but the fishing expeditions are forcing politicians on BOTH sides of the spectrum to do crap like this which makes government business either extremely insecure or very inefficient.
Well, I did not RTFA in detail but it does not seem to address key regulations like HIPAA and SOX which put hard numbers on data retention. So whether or not it's expensive, you have to do it if you want to be legit.
If the issue is discovery, a sound archival system will eliminate expenses related to discovery and would allow one to provide requested information very quickly and efficiently. I say let the legal people fight discovery requests and unless you have something to hide, stick with the requirements for archival and retention.
The argument "the less you keep the less they ask for" is simply stupid. In certain SOX-related situations, even the appearance of impropriety will come back to bite you, so I always tell folks to do the right thing, by running your business properly, identifying document types correctly and sticking to regulatory requirement as much as possible.
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You are absolutely right. Indexed word searches are a bit hard to do with paper books, but this is a great idea.
Some of us actually enjoy having a real library at home, turning through pages and even collecting real books. There is nothing better than going in the library, firing up a premium cigar or my pipe and doing either some actual real book work-reading of leisurely reading.
The kindle cannot replace that experience, at least not for me. So it's not always about money.
The better question is, can they fire while cloaked? I hear the Klingons made substantial advances in that area.
You are confusing policies with guidelines. Guidelines are often optional and serve as a "rule of thumb" or "best practices" for employees; policies are not. Policies (especially security policies) are, or should be established with the advice of legal counsel, and should be issued and enforced from an executive level.
If you don't want policies, do not issue them, otherwise you are just confusing employees and encouraging them to disregard issues which are important to the organization.
Yes, and one huge issue that nobody appears to have noticed: how do you tow this thing around if it breaks? Does AAA cover it?
All there is to know about the weather on the sun is here...read and learn, and tell others who may be ignorant: http://www.spaceweather.com/
What part of sun cycles and sun weather don't you guys get? How ignorant does one have to be in order to look at 100 or 200 years of monitored weather and then decide that the planet is heading towards a global meltdown...all the while in the same breath admitting that this already happened over and over again millions of years ago, telling us that global warming killed the dinosaurs?
This is madness. The big burning ball in the skies warms up the planet. When it doesn't burn as hot, the planet cools down. That is not a myth...I can see it every day I go outside.
The sun is the coolest it has been for a long time...there is no need to even attempt to do this. What such an attempt would illustrate is (1) the outright arrogance of mankind, thinking that we can actually terraform and manage an entire planet when we can't even handle a hurricane in New Orleans or poverty in Africa, and (2) the attempt by a few socialists to use the green movement to control the lives of others.
The green movement has been long ago hijacked by the extreme left. Wake up people!
Signup for Google's Grand Central service. It works fine for me...you can mark "spammers" and block them permanently from calling you. Easy and no headaches.
You are probably right; it's likely the number is already in some database somewhere being discussed by a bunch of pissed off people. Good point.
No, it is not the constitutional-republic structure of government that is wrong - there is something wrong when people keep voting corrupt politicians into power...so in a sense stupid people keep voting corruption into office. There is no form of government in existence that will protect you from stupid people.
So you are saying that an open-source government would get bloated over time as well? Naaah...that would never happen would it? :)
On the serious side I am a naturalized citizen here in the U.S. I spent the first 21 years of my life in a communist country. In my opinion, which is based on very strong personal experience, anyone suggesting that a pseudo-socialist form of government is feasible is simply a moron. And the guy suggesting that "so far all the other socialists got it wrong and it can be done better" is even a bigger moron. The only reason the U.S. is such a successful republic is BECAUSE of its type of government which is one of the most open and democratic on this planet. Can it be better? Of course...can it be worse? Hell yea...just look at every other country around us.
And to your point on the constitution being a "living document" you are right on. It HAS to be a static document in order to maintain a free and democratic republic, otherwise every new generation will pull a new meaning out of their collective asses and make it mean whatever they want it to mean.
This has to be the most idiotic suggestions I've seen here for a while. There is nothing wrong with the current U.S. government - it is ignoring the constitution which is the problem. There are clear boundaries presented by the constitution to protect citizens from the abusive and corrupt politicians, but if the law is ignored, it does not matter who is in charge and whether or not the government is "open source" or not. Why not all put our pants down and bend over for the Linux boys...since they write good code, they obviously could be really good at coming up with constitutional law and governmental suggestions! Of course, they would never get corrupt at the first sight of pr0n, because they already have the hottest women on the block :)
Well, if some guy who works for Google endorses Obama, then hell, Obama has it bagged already! I might as well stay home on voting day.
I agree and I was going to make the same observation - no attempt to connect this with global warming? Based on this alone, I'll give you a winter prediction: It's gonna be cold, it's gonna be gray, and it's gonna last you for the rest of your life. :)
Hehe..that's great. As someone who lived under Communism for most of my life, I am amazed that people are actually surprised to hear this. Either people are just plain stupid to be shocked by this, or they are bent on repeating/forgetting history pretty quick.
I would say that you are reading too much into the text of standard, which is likely vague enough on purpose to allow for flexibility of interpretation on your end. Afterall you would not want PCI to tell you what kind of copper cable you need to use for your LAN and who your data provider need to be, right?
Whenever you mention PCI to executive management all they hear is dollars dropping out of their pockets, so generally speaking, unless the CIO or CTO has a security interest or somewhat of a background, there will be no administrative or financial support for PCI efforts. I've worked with only one organization so far (of many) who is amazingly disciplined to stick to PCI in detail, perform the required scans and be willing to shell out the dollars to ensure compliance. Ultimately, if there is no desire and willingness to do what's right, it will not happen just because a new standard is released.
I imagine one great addition to GMail would be a way to allow send/receive based on a whitelist approved by a parent. It would be perfect for a situation like the one mgessner presented. Heck, for all I know it may already be possible to do that...I am not a GMail expert.
Hehe..well said, well said. :)
Well, the $40 price per movie would not appeal to many regardless of the economy, but that's just me. This is just simple market economics: poor adoption should tell the boneheads at Sony that the products are priced too high.
"she engaged in illegal evasion of Alaska's Sunshine Laws." What illegal evasion? Where does the law say that she cannot open an Yahoo account? You are making your argument out of silence, not to mention that the very fact that there was nothing incriminating found in the Yahoo account proves that she was in fact NOT trying to hide anything. If any politically-motivated asshat with would stop filing lawsuits over the most minor things, crap like this would not happen, but the fishing expeditions are forcing politicians on BOTH sides of the spectrum to do crap like this which makes government business either extremely insecure or very inefficient.
Well, I did not RTFA in detail but it does not seem to address key regulations like HIPAA and SOX which put hard numbers on data retention. So whether or not it's expensive, you have to do it if you want to be legit. If the issue is discovery, a sound archival system will eliminate expenses related to discovery and would allow one to provide requested information very quickly and efficiently. I say let the legal people fight discovery requests and unless you have something to hide, stick with the requirements for archival and retention. The argument "the less you keep the less they ask for" is simply stupid. In certain SOX-related situations, even the appearance of impropriety will come back to bite you, so I always tell folks to do the right thing, by running your business properly, identifying document types correctly and sticking to regulatory requirement as much as possible.
We aren't doing this because we have those big things with wings flying through the air...they are birds, no airplanes! :)
Unfortunately, that did not take place in 2008 when slavery is illegal. Nice to see you compare some communist bastards with the U.S.