If you treat the problem as "crime" rather than "terrorism," you have a much deeper pool of knowledge and events to deal with.
However you still are stuck with two problems: there is very little correlation between criminal activity and the actions of someone wanting to cause problems on a plane; and standard police work does a piss-poor job of finding sociopaths.
I am of the school of thought that something can be done to improve the intelligence and efficiency of airport security to reduce risks of "bad stuff" to a viable level, even if the risks are increasing over time.
That is not a red herring. Really this is pretty simple: if Autonomy engaged in fraud in reporting their earnings, HP is (largely) off the hook. Fraud invalidate their market capitalization before the offer as a basis for price paid.
That said, HP... well... what can you really say-- they are the epitome of Epic Fail from Carly on.
We had westboro "baptist church" before they had enough gas money to inflict their crap on a wider net.
The actual Fordham letter is a fantastic statement. A university should not promote hate, but the only real way to counter that message is to discuss both sides in the open so that the stupidity becomes evident to all but the most closed minded ideologues.
I would suggest taking a look at the Gartner data. What actually happened (in no uncertain terms) are three things: Phone unit sales increased 3%; Samsung and Apple took sales from Nokia pretty much 1:1; and "dumb" phones were generally replaced at a much higher rate with smartphones-- smart phone sales increased 69%.
This is hardly the death-knell for iOS, and arguably Apple has more room to grow than Android. It really comes down to when quality apps are no longer available for a platform.
It isn't because it sucks... it is the fact that it needs a champion to be successful, and in a large organization, that champion needs to be a large number of people.
We deployed an ERP system for our small business last year. The core functionality was done previously in Quickbools and various Excel spreadsheets. We spent about $4k per employee on it.
Now we have a system that requires more ongoing money and effort than our old workflow, and for at least 40% of the process still needs to be done in Excel.
But, we can get information faster now, and I have a dashboard showing cash, AP, AR aging, and manpower utilization one click away. This basic functionality was worth about $2-3k/person to management, so now the challenge is getting more of the back workflow incorporated over time.
And our "champion" sits and shops online most of the time he is supposed to work on our objectives. Better focus and we would have been closer to budget and goals.
Honestly, voting for third party candidates to help build to 5% support is about all you can do. If they can get to 5%, 20% isn't that far away. While I did vote for Stein, I didn't actually know who the green party candidate was before last week.
Agree. Bad contract setup and irresponsible vendor. You can have it done better, although that doesn't provide much for guarantees. At least a certificate-based VPN...
Almost all situations fall into the first category. The SEL relays have rear ports for permanent connections and a front port for service. Usually they are set up so programming can't be changed over the serial or Ethernet network, but the front port has no ability for lock-down. SEL even has a cute little "data transporter" that has a serial port on it, so you don't have to bring your laptop to the relay.
The attack alluded to should be able to bypass the sneakernet use of the data transporter. Conceivably, if the service tech's laptop is compromised all relays would allow for remote settings change despite the visible settings on the laptop.
But, unless you could crack the relay firmware downloading the settings to another device or viewing from the built-in screen (which is extremely tedious), you would easily identify the problem.
I'm torn on how serious to take this. It isn't like settings are changed often, so practical implications are limited.
Kinect seems isolated to just the XBox, and not integrated into Microsoft's identity....why didn't they put Kinect sensors into the Surface... that would have been a differentiator! The only groups that do well seem to be the ones he doesn't bother.
Microsoft really should either split itself up (it could even do a EMC/VMware type separation) to allow for more innovation, or find a leader that can bring the business into a common fold.
There is the other half of the email address, which denotes the link to the actual company. Is it for a person who is presently @ a location, or is it a company currently represented by a person?
If personal correspondence is using the company account it isn't so personal. If the employer blocks access to external mail accounts then maybe there is a reasonable claim that content is personal, but barring that it seems like it should be the company's property.
How the hell do you do legal discovery data mining on email if it isn't the compan's property? This would be quite a mess for US companies trying to defend themselves.
I have seen this happen a few times. 80% of the time I would agree that it was a misguided hiring. (About half of these are what we refer to as "desperation hires.") The remainder can happen for a number of reasons-- divorce ranks high, mid-life crisis, alcoholism/drug abuse, and personality disorders are also on the list. Some can be caught at the interview stage, others can go undetected for years.
The submission uses those words as click-bait though.
The architecture we priced up was along a (roughly) half-mile "main street;" upstream bandwidth was available at the far end of the street. All cabling was aerial, with a 12-strand fiber and 50-pair copper running the length. The mini DSLAM was pole mounted, and the upstream routers and servers were located in an existing business for the initial deployment. At the time, service was just going to be three bonded T1 lines.
The server was ghetto, and the initial deployment was intended to get a foothold and demonstrate capability to the city. The IT labor was to be "donated," and would have easily been worth an extra $20k. The right-of-way was from the city power co-op in exchange for service to the school.
The aerial runs were $3/foot ($7,500) installed by contractor, $2,800 (IIRC) for the DSLAM, $2,000 or so for the server and firewall, plus the router. There was a little bit of money for air conditioning and UPS for the equipment rack which got us to about $20k. We expected to upgrade these facilities when we needed the second DSLAM to a more permanent solution.
It didn't go forward; the final city hall meeting the cable company came through with a commitment for service which killed the project viability. Maybe there would have been extra costs added in to get everything up and running, but if the goal is to create a co-op then you don't need a full telco mentality.
Keep in mind on the suggestions that nobody knows the scale of "rural" for your community. If it is a town of 500 with a surrounding community at a radius of a few miles there may be better options.
In all fairness, your rural broadband ISP is unlikely to want to reduce costs, as it could impact their subsidies. It's been a few years, but if he can get a mini-DSLAM up and running in a location that can serve 35-48 customers from a 50-pair aerial cable less than a half-mile long with 100' taps to the customer demarc point, he has about $20k in costs to serve the first customer and $50-100 for each additional customer.
It depends a lot on the topology, but it can be done cheaper.
Campaigning is a good strategy, but the first thing to do is really assess the opportunity. -How many households are currently served by DSL? -What percentage of people would switch to your service at the same price as they pay for DSL? -Are there any other services you could provide to help subsidize the cost of your network? --Would people pay you more money for them? -How much capital do you have to start up? -Do you need to recover that initial capital, or are you ok on getting "dividends" to cover your personal cash flow needs? -Can you get a bank loan? How much? -How could you phase deployment to make best use of capital?
If the project is capital constrained, it is a good candidate for community work. If it is knowledge constrained, then it might make a good business. If it is going to be revenue constrained, the most important thing is low operating costs. When I last did the math, the fixed cost to serve each customer needed to be around $100 to make my project work, and the only way to make that happen was with ADSL serving clusters of 20-24 customers and a fiber backhaul. If you have a central water tower wireless might work better than trying to use hillside towers at the perimeter-- less backhaul.
Also, don't try to concentrate everything in the same place. Put plugstrips on both sides of the desk, use the "pop up ports" for things that aren't fixed location like laptops. Get those multi-port USB chargers (there are 4-port ones that can be recessed in the wall like a normal receptacle).
If you want to go all out, use a common 12V power supply for 12V equipment, and modify plugs for any low-amp 5V equipment to use the multi-port USB chargers.
I would definitely encourage selling, especially if you can get in the $4-5MM range or better. Take time off, and think about the next problem you want to solve.
If you are going to get less than $1MM, selling is stupid. Up to about $3MM it is a very complicated decision where you really need to understand what you are doing next. Over $4MM, and you can play a little and buy some time for your next great idea. But, it will take well over $5MM for most 19-year olds to retire for life.
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If you treat the problem as "crime" rather than "terrorism," you have a much deeper pool of knowledge and events to deal with.
However you still are stuck with two problems: there is very little correlation between criminal activity and the actions of someone wanting to cause problems on a plane; and standard police work does a piss-poor job of finding sociopaths.
I am of the school of thought that something can be done to improve the intelligence and efficiency of airport security to reduce risks of "bad stuff" to a viable level, even if the risks are increasing over time.
That is not a red herring. Really this is pretty simple: if Autonomy engaged in fraud in reporting their earnings, HP is (largely) off the hook. Fraud invalidate their market capitalization before the offer as a basis for price paid.
That said, HP... well... what can you really say-- they are the epitome of Epic Fail from Carly on.
We had westboro "baptist church" before they had enough gas money to inflict their crap on a wider net.
The actual Fordham letter is a fantastic statement. A university should not promote hate, but the only real way to counter that message is to discuss both sides in the open so that the stupidity becomes evident to all but the most closed minded ideologues.
I would suggest taking a look at the Gartner data. What actually happened (in no uncertain terms) are three things: Phone unit sales increased 3%; Samsung and Apple took sales from Nokia pretty much 1:1; and "dumb" phones were generally replaced at a much higher rate with smartphones-- smart phone sales increased 69%.
This is hardly the death-knell for iOS, and arguably Apple has more room to grow than Android. It really comes down to when quality apps are no longer available for a platform.
It isn't because it sucks... it is the fact that it needs a champion to be successful, and in a large organization, that champion needs to be a large number of people.
We deployed an ERP system for our small business last year. The core functionality was done previously in Quickbools and various Excel spreadsheets. We spent about $4k per employee on it.
Now we have a system that requires more ongoing money and effort than our old workflow, and for at least 40% of the process still needs to be done in Excel.
But, we can get information faster now, and I have a dashboard showing cash, AP, AR aging, and manpower utilization one click away. This basic functionality was worth about $2-3k/person to management, so now the challenge is getting more of the back workflow incorporated over time.
And our "champion" sits and shops online most of the time he is supposed to work on our objectives. Better focus and we would have been closer to budget and goals.
Here is a better take from a map perspective: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mejn/election/2012/
Honestly, voting for third party candidates to help build to 5% support is about all you can do. If they can get to 5%, 20% isn't that far away. While I did vote for Stein, I didn't actually know who the green party candidate was before last week.
Agree. Bad contract setup and irresponsible vendor. You can have it done better, although that doesn't provide much for guarantees. At least a certificate-based VPN...
Almost all situations fall into the first category. The SEL relays have rear ports for permanent connections and a front port for service. Usually they are set up so programming can't be changed over the serial or Ethernet network, but the front port has no ability for lock-down. SEL even has a cute little "data transporter" that has a serial port on it, so you don't have to bring your laptop to the relay.
The attack alluded to should be able to bypass the sneakernet use of the data transporter. Conceivably, if the service tech's laptop is compromised all relays would allow for remote settings change despite the visible settings on the laptop.
But, unless you could crack the relay firmware downloading the settings to another device or viewing from the built-in screen (which is extremely tedious), you would easily identify the problem.
I'm torn on how serious to take this. It isn't like settings are changed often, so practical implications are limited.
Kinect seems isolated to just the XBox, and not integrated into Microsoft's identity. ...why didn't they put Kinect sensors into the Surface... that would have been a differentiator! The only groups that do well seem to be the ones he doesn't bother.
Microsoft really should either split itself up (it could even do a EMC/VMware type separation) to allow for more innovation, or find a leader that can bring the business into a common fold.
As long as you have heat or enthalpy recovery, it still works fine while ventilating the space.
A well insulated house can easily be heated with a couple dozen candles with an outdoor temperature around 0F.
Exporting all those MWh is great, but are they just importing it back at night?
There is the other half of the email address, which denotes the link to the actual company. Is it for a person who is presently @ a location, or is it a company currently represented by a person?
If personal correspondence is using the company account it isn't so personal. If the employer blocks access to external mail accounts then maybe there is a reasonable claim that content is personal, but barring that it seems like it should be the company's property.
How the hell do you do legal discovery data mining on email if it isn't the compan's property? This would be quite a mess for US companies trying to defend themselves.
I have seen this happen a few times. 80% of the time I would agree that it was a misguided hiring. (About half of these are what we refer to as "desperation hires.") The remainder can happen for a number of reasons-- divorce ranks high, mid-life crisis, alcoholism/drug abuse, and personality disorders are also on the list. Some can be caught at the interview stage, others can go undetected for years.
The submission uses those words as click-bait though.
The architecture we priced up was along a (roughly) half-mile "main street;" upstream bandwidth was available at the far end of the street. All cabling was aerial, with a 12-strand fiber and 50-pair copper running the length. The mini DSLAM was pole mounted, and the upstream routers and servers were located in an existing business for the initial deployment. At the time, service was just going to be three bonded T1 lines.
The server was ghetto, and the initial deployment was intended to get a foothold and demonstrate capability to the city. The IT labor was to be "donated," and would have easily been worth an extra $20k. The right-of-way was from the city power co-op in exchange for service to the school.
The aerial runs were $3/foot ($7,500) installed by contractor, $2,800 (IIRC) for the DSLAM, $2,000 or so for the server and firewall, plus the router. There was a little bit of money for air conditioning and UPS for the equipment rack which got us to about $20k. We expected to upgrade these facilities when we needed the second DSLAM to a more permanent solution.
It didn't go forward; the final city hall meeting the cable company came through with a commitment for service which killed the project viability. Maybe there would have been extra costs added in to get everything up and running, but if the goal is to create a co-op then you don't need a full telco mentality.
Keep in mind on the suggestions that nobody knows the scale of "rural" for your community. If it is a town of 500 with a surrounding community at a radius of a few miles there may be better options.
A lot of engineering schools have a surcharge for engineering courses to cover higher costs.
In all fairness, your rural broadband ISP is unlikely to want to reduce costs, as it could impact their subsidies. It's been a few years, but if he can get a mini-DSLAM up and running in a location that can serve 35-48 customers from a 50-pair aerial cable less than a half-mile long with 100' taps to the customer demarc point, he has about $20k in costs to serve the first customer and $50-100 for each additional customer.
It depends a lot on the topology, but it can be done cheaper.
Campaigning is a good strategy, but the first thing to do is really assess the opportunity.
-How many households are currently served by DSL?
-What percentage of people would switch to your service at the same price as they pay for DSL?
-Are there any other services you could provide to help subsidize the cost of your network?
--Would people pay you more money for them?
-How much capital do you have to start up?
-Do you need to recover that initial capital, or are you ok on getting "dividends" to cover your personal cash flow needs?
-Can you get a bank loan? How much?
-How could you phase deployment to make best use of capital?
If the project is capital constrained, it is a good candidate for community work. If it is knowledge constrained, then it might make a good business. If it is going to be revenue constrained, the most important thing is low operating costs. When I last did the math, the fixed cost to serve each customer needed to be around $100 to make my project work, and the only way to make that happen was with ADSL serving clusters of 20-24 customers and a fiber backhaul. If you have a central water tower wireless might work better than trying to use hillside towers at the perimeter-- less backhaul.
Not married, eh?
Also, don't try to concentrate everything in the same place. Put plugstrips on both sides of the desk, use the "pop up ports" for things that aren't fixed location like laptops. Get those multi-port USB chargers (there are 4-port ones that can be recessed in the wall like a normal receptacle).
If you want to go all out, use a common 12V power supply for 12V equipment, and modify plugs for any low-amp 5V equipment to use the multi-port USB chargers.
Shortest cords possible...
I would definitely encourage selling, especially if you can get in the $4-5MM range or better. Take time off, and think about the next problem you want to solve.
If you are going to get less than $1MM, selling is stupid. Up to about $3MM it is a very complicated decision where you really need to understand what you are doing next. Over $4MM, and you can play a little and buy some time for your next great idea. But, it will take well over $5MM for most 19-year olds to retire for life.