Am I the only one that read this and didn't go, "duh, popular and social kids get laid", but rather, "addicts of one are addicts of another"? I don't think being more social has anything to do with "over" texting, or drinking, or sex, or 3 hours a day on facebook. Rather, it seems more like attention-seeking teens - get it.
There is always potential for abuse, regardless of where your data is hosted. Wikileaks gets their thousands of documents from persons that supposedly are authorized to be effective stewards of critical information.
For FISMA and the more stringent DIACAP, no one just takes your word for it that it's secured. You demonstrate that security, and the auditors tear you apart. Now, it could well be that it's not 100% secure - it depends if you actually believe in 100% security (I don't). You make risk assessments pertaining to the value of the data you are protecting, and put up controls that reasonably protect those assets.
I've built both FISMA (NIST 800) and DIACAP hosting environments.
It is neither fun nor easy, but for many use cases, it makes as much sense as any other cloud solution.
In practice, it's an extremely intrusive form of communication that always interrupt workflow, and often interrupt "real life" conversations; how many times are you getting a text message and NOT looking at it right away to see if it's anything important?
I think it's mostly relevant to the point being made, even if it's not really about software - it's about system assistance.
Like many Americans, I've mostly driven vehicles with an automatic transmission. Recently, I purchased a car with a manual transmission.
Driving with a manual transmission REQUIRES you to be more alert, to be more engaged in the driving process, to listen to and respond to feedback that the car is making. I THINK it makes me a safer driver (I haven't empirically measured the number of errors I made w/auto versus manual). It makes me more focused on the thing that's really important: driving. It's "harder", but as a result I concentrate more on the task at hand.
The analogy isn't perfect - does using vi make me focus on programming more than if I used Word? I think the analogy falls down if you end up concentrating more on the means than the end. The biggest danger to relying on tools as a substitute for brain power is when those tools aren't available.
Actually, it doesn't change that much. MS still has a well-earned reputation for half-assed software that doesn't work well, and not merely relegated to OS. Example? LiveMeeting's a good one. Record, pause, continue - then convert it afterwards with their hoaky converter tools into a Windows Media file that lo! Only uses the first video clip's audio (eg, just to the pause). Okay, so we'll just edit it with MS-provided tools and drop the audio in from the remaining clips. NO. Can't read LiveMeeting's weird codecs.
One example of many sub-standard experiences that is the MS Way (if you're looking for others, look no further than Office autocorrection). Yes, Win7 is way better than it was before. But the warts are the same warts we saw in Win 3.x: it takes too much effort to do simple things. Not that Apple doesn't also suck (and increasingly so), but there's still a big usability difference, and not in MS' favor.
Thanks for this, this is EXACTLY what I think everytime a slashdot article concerning databases come up - here come the blowhards who understand every possible application and its needs. How long before someone trashes MySQL? It's tiresome.
To be fair, I think this thread has a lot of signal compared to many - and then someone'll ruin it by asserting some absolute.
Yes, they know the IP address they're coming from. It's your box. Or it's your local internet cafe.
The point I'm trying to make here is that it's a long way from identifying a computer to identifying the responsible person for it, and maintaining a list of dynamically changing IP addresses that churns every time someone gets a new DHCP lease from their ISP is not very feasible. You'd think the ISP might have some vested interest in policing their nets, wouldn't you?
Unless we can somehow adopt broad technologies for tying every packet back to a real person, with no possibility of forging (fascists, rejoice!), this problem is unlikely to go away.
All NX does is prevent smash-the-stack type exploits. The world of malware seems to be triggered by poor user behavior, and a botnet doesn't need privilege to read from a twitter-based C&C and send spam.
I understand what you're saying - and my answer is a sort of middle ground. You want a computer? Sure! Go ahead and buy one! But before you can connect to the internet, you've gotta prove that you're qualified to do so, and recognize common scams and unsafe computing practices.
Attacking the source of the issue (the botnet operators and their clients) definitely needs to be a priority (and I mean with pliers and hammers if necessary; examples should be made), but given the wide-ranging social impacts caused by botnets and spam that just aren't possible with the joyrider analogy above, it's reasonable to demand demonstration of basic competency before being allowed to recognize the "benefits" of the internet.
Any money that is issued must be backed up by either some commodity or production capacity so that it's not just paper. Unfortunately the world currently is under impression that rules do not apply, that paper can be printed without any backing and economy can continue. That's just another force that removes the market balance from the equation.
This is nonsense. Money has value because people believe it has value. Whether it's backed or not is irrelevant - it then revolves around whether people believe what's it backed on has value.
Bullshit. What happens to a muslim who converts to something else is completely dependent on that family's individual values. Same as with Christians, same as with Jews.
Expression and practice of religion isn't limited to the endpoints of a line of human behavior - rather, they are more accurately represented by a spectrum of belief and practice.
I'd think that a more-or-less conglomerated area of oil will make recovery processes easier. I'd like to see these recovery processes footed by BP, and the resultant sale of the recovered crude denied BP and used instead to fund environmental cleanup.
If his mental state is relevant, that is for a court and justice to decide. I'm sure I am not alone in thinking that I don't have all the facts necessary to make an informed opinion on his alleged charges - so let's not.
What an excellent post. I had to read it several times over to decide whether or not I agreed with it. I think your premise is, "the buck has to stop somewhere", and that belongs with the bodies charged with enforcing the laws. If I'm understanding you correctly, I would argue that, in the US anyway, a system of checks-and-balances works well (enough) at high levels of governance. It's a matter of trust versus faith - trust is earned, so it seems reasonable to assume that the governed are the likely checks against the governors.
Wii Fit captures several exercises that could be done without it. It follows that since there is a cheaper means of getting his rehabilitation (eg, functional exercises), I would expect that there are grounds for denying the Wii Fit.
Also of interest is who that geo-tracked person is friends with - since presumably, they will have common interests and locations. A little bit of a cross-referencing with other social networks, and you've got a broader marketing target than you did.
I figured this argument would come up. Not to condone any "illegal" activity, but clearly there's a difference between unsanctioned copying of software, which may or may not deprive author of compensation, and theft, which denies someone else the ability to use said software.
Any space agency whose stated goal is consolidation of funds and policy - isn't a space agency.
Someone needs to take the reins and start doing something IN space. Fine, fine, fine, increased data analysis on the ground of satellite-based observation - boring!
Where's our space elevator? Where are material launch platforms designed to get things (not necessarily people) to orbit and back? Where's microgravity manufacturing, power generation and transmission, orbiting biodomes, space litter remediation - enough talk about space, time for action!
Pretty discouraging, when asked to initiate and lead three missions in the next 20 years, the nascent UKSA policy leaders can't even commit to that!
This entire thread seems so very against the charter of slashdot. Though clearly a polarizing issue in the US, maybe there are other forums that can hammer out the inevitable right-versus-left polemic.
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Am I the only one that read this and didn't go, "duh, popular and social kids get laid", but rather, "addicts of one are addicts of another"? I don't think being more social has anything to do with "over" texting, or drinking, or sex, or 3 hours a day on facebook. Rather, it seems more like attention-seeking teens - get it.
It's losing the battle to fight the war. Realistically, it's going to be virtually impossible for GoogleApps to get a play in the current DoI RFQ.
What they can do is create such a stink and furor that the DoI becomes a cautionary tale on how not to create future closed bids.
There is always potential for abuse, regardless of where your data is hosted. Wikileaks gets their thousands of documents from persons that supposedly are authorized to be effective stewards of critical information. For FISMA and the more stringent DIACAP, no one just takes your word for it that it's secured. You demonstrate that security, and the auditors tear you apart. Now, it could well be that it's not 100% secure - it depends if you actually believe in 100% security (I don't). You make risk assessments pertaining to the value of the data you are protecting, and put up controls that reasonably protect those assets. I've built both FISMA (NIST 800) and DIACAP hosting environments. It is neither fun nor easy, but for many use cases, it makes as much sense as any other cloud solution.
If it was accidental, why didn't they voluntarily hand those "accidental" fees back? Why'd a third party have to force them to settle? Btw, here's the link to the referenced source: http://voices.washingtonpost.com/posttech/2010/10/the_federal_communications_com_5.html
The situation is more like, "oops you missed something, and operational data was accessed without detection, and now you're dead."
Given the choice between keeping data or saving lives, you choose lives, and you scuttle.
In practice, it's an extremely intrusive form of communication that always interrupt workflow, and often interrupt "real life" conversations; how many times are you getting a text message and NOT looking at it right away to see if it's anything important?
I think it's mostly relevant to the point being made, even if it's not really about software - it's about system assistance.
Like many Americans, I've mostly driven vehicles with an automatic transmission. Recently, I purchased a car with a manual transmission.
Driving with a manual transmission REQUIRES you to be more alert, to be more engaged in the driving process, to listen to and respond to feedback that the car is making. I THINK it makes me a safer driver (I haven't empirically measured the number of errors I made w/auto versus manual). It makes me more focused on the thing that's really important: driving. It's "harder", but as a result I concentrate more on the task at hand.
The analogy isn't perfect - does using vi make me focus on programming more than if I used Word? I think the analogy falls down if you end up concentrating more on the means than the end. The biggest danger to relying on tools as a substitute for brain power is when those tools aren't available.
Actually, it doesn't change that much. MS still has a well-earned reputation for half-assed software that doesn't work well, and not merely relegated to OS. Example? LiveMeeting's a good one. Record, pause, continue - then convert it afterwards with their hoaky converter tools into a Windows Media file that lo! Only uses the first video clip's audio (eg, just to the pause). Okay, so we'll just edit it with MS-provided tools and drop the audio in from the remaining clips. NO. Can't read LiveMeeting's weird codecs.
One example of many sub-standard experiences that is the MS Way (if you're looking for others, look no further than Office autocorrection). Yes, Win7 is way better than it was before. But the warts are the same warts we saw in Win 3.x: it takes too much effort to do simple things. Not that Apple doesn't also suck (and increasingly so), but there's still a big usability difference, and not in MS' favor.
Thanks for this, this is EXACTLY what I think everytime a slashdot article concerning databases come up - here come the blowhards who understand every possible application and its needs. How long before someone trashes MySQL? It's tiresome.
To be fair, I think this thread has a lot of signal compared to many - and then someone'll ruin it by asserting some absolute.
And what of computers outside the US?
Clearly there's nothing simple about this problem, or it would've been fixed already.
Yes, they know the IP address they're coming from. It's your box. Or it's your local internet cafe.
The point I'm trying to make here is that it's a long way from identifying a computer to identifying the responsible person for it, and maintaining a list of dynamically changing IP addresses that churns every time someone gets a new DHCP lease from their ISP is not very feasible. You'd think the ISP might have some vested interest in policing their nets, wouldn't you?
Unless we can somehow adopt broad technologies for tying every packet back to a real person, with no possibility of forging (fascists, rejoice!), this problem is unlikely to go away.
All NX does is prevent smash-the-stack type exploits. The world of malware seems to be triggered by poor user behavior, and a botnet doesn't need privilege to read from a twitter-based C&C and send spam.
I understand what you're saying - and my answer is a sort of middle ground. You want a computer? Sure! Go ahead and buy one! But before you can connect to the internet, you've gotta prove that you're qualified to do so, and recognize common scams and unsafe computing practices.
Attacking the source of the issue (the botnet operators and their clients) definitely needs to be a priority (and I mean with pliers and hammers if necessary; examples should be made), but given the wide-ranging social impacts caused by botnets and spam that just aren't possible with the joyrider analogy above, it's reasonable to demand demonstration of basic competency before being allowed to recognize the "benefits" of the internet.
This is nonsense. Money has value because people believe it has value. Whether it's backed or not is irrelevant - it then revolves around whether people believe what's it backed on has value.
Bullshit. What happens to a muslim who converts to something else is completely dependent on that family's individual values. Same as with Christians, same as with Jews.
Expression and practice of religion isn't limited to the endpoints of a line of human behavior - rather, they are more accurately represented by a spectrum of belief and practice.
I'd think that a more-or-less conglomerated area of oil will make recovery processes easier. I'd like to see these recovery processes footed by BP, and the resultant sale of the recovered crude denied BP and used instead to fund environmental cleanup.
If his mental state is relevant, that is for a court and justice to decide. I'm sure I am not alone in thinking that I don't have all the facts necessary to make an informed opinion on his alleged charges - so let's not.
What an excellent post. I had to read it several times over to decide whether or not I agreed with it. I think your premise is, "the buck has to stop somewhere", and that belongs with the bodies charged with enforcing the laws. If I'm understanding you correctly, I would argue that, in the US anyway, a system of checks-and-balances works well (enough) at high levels of governance. It's a matter of trust versus faith - trust is earned, so it seems reasonable to assume that the governed are the likely checks against the governors.
"We'll support you until we don't."
Move it back to individuals only and a prohibition of patent transfer, and it seems like you've solved half the problem.
Wii Fit captures several exercises that could be done without it. It follows that since there is a cheaper means of getting his rehabilitation (eg, functional exercises), I would expect that there are grounds for denying the Wii Fit.
Also of interest is who that geo-tracked person is friends with - since presumably, they will have common interests and locations. A little bit of a cross-referencing with other social networks, and you've got a broader marketing target than you did.
I figured this argument would come up. Not to condone any "illegal" activity, but clearly there's a difference between unsanctioned copying of software, which may or may not deprive author of compensation, and theft, which denies someone else the ability to use said software.
Probably because you can't get woodworking tools for free - there simply is no alternative, other than theft.
Believe me, if you COULD get cameras and woodworking tools for free, hobbyists WOULD.
Any space agency whose stated goal is consolidation of funds and policy - isn't a space agency.
Someone needs to take the reins and start doing something IN space. Fine, fine, fine, increased data analysis on the ground of satellite-based observation - boring!
Where's our space elevator? Where are material launch platforms designed to get things (not necessarily people) to orbit and back? Where's microgravity manufacturing, power generation and transmission, orbiting biodomes, space litter remediation - enough talk about space, time for action!
Pretty discouraging, when asked to initiate and lead three missions in the next 20 years, the nascent UKSA policy leaders can't even commit to that!
This entire thread seems so very against the charter of slashdot. Though clearly a polarizing issue in the US, maybe there are other forums that can hammer out the inevitable right-versus-left polemic.
Litmus test: does story subject use or create technology to yield unexpected results? If yes - approve for publication. If not - reject.