Yes, security is impotant to every business. Electronic no more or less than physical. The director of marketing makes security decisions every day: this person can see cost lists, but that person can only see list prices or which people get to know the name of the new product before release. Any company that makes a (software) product that dooes not make it that simple for the director of marketing to make security decisions does so at their own risk.
I do believe that the profession of IT will go away. You are right that for the heavy lifting companies will job out, but there will have to be less heavy lifting or you have just outsourced the same work. My real point is that there must be standard products that the end users can manage. We have almost reached that point with the standard office suite. Can you imangine any reason for an IT department to write an office suite from scratch? I can not imagine any way a business case could be made anymore than an insurance company developing custom lamps for the cubes of the workers. You are right that today things are badly broken, but what do you expect with what are ineffect prototypes. Over time choices will narrow and prople will live with them. If a mid sized company has an IT department of say 100 people at 100k (total cost) that is a big overhead hit. $10 meg makes for a nice yearly profit increase. Sounds like a big reason to adopt standard tools and someday soon the teams doing outsorced development are going to se how to develop generalized solutions.
The real change in the IT profession is that it will go away. In the early days of electrification, if your company used electricity you would have an electrical engineer on staff to design the system, update it and keep it working. Today unless you have a very unusual need, such as an aluminum plant you have no need for an EE on staff. Same for the early days of the phone system. IT as an internal service must mature to that point. In the mainframe days a whole army of systems analysts were kept busy converting paper spreadsheets into one-off programs. Modern spreadsheet programs have killed that need. Not every company needs a custom accounting program. Sure, if you have a very unusual need there would be no market for someone to write it as a commercial product, but is your company really that much different that you have to write a custom spreadsheet program? So why do you need a custom accounting or MRP program? The business world needs canned programs that the MBAs or logistics folks can use just as well as MBAs now drive spreadsheets. What does IT bring to the table other than overhead? What domain expertise do they bring? The most competitive companies will spend the least on IT.
The whole wave of off-shoring shows the first phase of this maturation process. If you can spec it you can out source it. If you can our source it then someone can generalize it. Once it is generalized then IT as an internal service goes away. In the not so distant future, IT functions will be turned over to the facilities department and the maintenance folks - same as heat, water, electricity, phones, etc.
First there is no national VAT and the VAT, we call it sales TAX, varries state to state and even city to city (total tax = state + city tax). A few states do not have any sales tax. And yes, we are used to the fact that listed prices exclude sales tax. In my area, Seattle, taxes are almost 10% so it is easy to do the calculations.
In the US most states have their funding based on a three legged base of Sales Tax, Inclome Tax and Property Tax. The National government is almost all based on income tax. IIRC, generally states tend to be flat or slightly regressive due to thei ruse of sales tax while the national government used to be very progressive in their tax structures (progress means the rich pay at a higher rate). The current (right wing) party in power has been moving away from a progressive tax structure. I'm sure a policy wonk can (and will) correct my errors here.
Abstinence/monogomy assumes that the person has the ability to change their behavour. In many parts of the world women have no rights. They can not decide to whom they wed nor have the right to abstin from sex from their husbands nor the right to devorice. That is why you often see faithfull women (and their children) with HIV/AIDS who have only slept with their husbands. Adding condems to the mix to dampen the general infection rates help even those who chainge their behavour.
The use of Law is correct in this case. While it is not a physical law it is a fair to describe it as a technological law derived from repeated empirical observations of technological development behavior.
From the Wiki:
A physical law, scientific law, or a law of nature is a scientific generalization based on empirical observations of physical behavior. They are typically conclusions based on the confirmation of hypotheses through repeated scientific experiments over many years, and which have become accepted universally within the scientific community. However, there are no strict guidelines as to how or when a scientific hypothesis becomes a scientific law.
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Physical laws are distinguished from scientific theories by their simplicity. Scientific theories are generally more complex than laws; they have many component parts, and are more likely to be changed as the body of available experimental data and analysis develops. This is because a physical law is a summary observation of strictly empirical matters, whereas a theory is a model that accounts for the observation, explains it, relates it to other observations, and makes testable predictions based upon it. Simply stated, while a law notes that something happens, a theory explains why and how something happens, in terms of the more fundamental laws.
The reason leaking has become such an party game (pun intended) is because the whole clasification game has been so abuses. As you can see here http://www.slate.com/id/2136480/ much of what was reviewed had no need to be clasified. IIRC, the National Archive has documents going back to around 1914 that are still clasified. (OK, I'm going to go out on a limb and tell the world: Archduke Franz Ferdinand is still dead and Germany lost!) It is not against the law to disclose that the government is vilating the law. From the article, ""No information... shall be classified in order to... prevent embarrassment of a person, organization, or agency."
Democracy is not just about writing a letter to an elected official. It is also about standing in the (electronic) public square and talking with your fellow citizens. As Jefferson said, "The best defense of democracy is an informed electorate." And as Roger Nash Baldwin said, "Silence never won rights. They are not handed down from above; they are forced from pressures from below."
Much of th eabuse of power can come from activities outside of the cort room. How easy is it for someone in power to have a call made to an employeer and say, "did you know that your employee John is calling his priest every day on his lunch hour? Maybe you should make sure he is not doing someting wrong." And least you think I'm wearing a tine foil hat check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO And if you think this is all in the past why is the FBI watching the Quakers and other churches invlolved in the peace movement? Yes them Quakers are a dangerous bunch???
While IANAL, but IIRC if symantic wants an injunction would they not have to post a bond to cover the full cost (read giga-bucks) to MS should they not win their lowsuat against MS? Is there a IAAL who can answer this?
The other co-dependent in spam are the credit card companies. They make a killing off of the tranastions. If VISA were to pull the plug on any company that allows their account to be used by spammers we would see an instant end to spam. Call up your bank and ask why they allow their visa acounts to be used for spam.
There is a simple way for the states to end spam. Require a 1 year period for any person who buys somthing from a spam message to get their money back---for any reason. The banks would not be willing to be on the hook for this so you would see the end of accounts to spammers
I seem to remember some German Patent clerk making good in his spare time back in 1905. Al somebody. I think he invented the internet or physics or something.
Since Bill Gates just invested in ethanol does that mean all of slashdot is now for BioDiesel???? The truth be told, the energy return on alternate fuels is not yet as good as it needs to be.
This can be discriminatory depending on history, circumstance, etc. For example, if they don't bother fixing broken terminals in areas with a particular minority population, or if stores with a history getting mostly female applications fail to get their terminals fixed then yes this could be an act of discrimination. Grocery stores have a long history (don't know about krogers) of charging much more for food in poor minority areas over the rich white 'burbs.
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When you absolutely, positively have to nuke overnight! Do use use UPS, the last package that I sent to SE went there via SN. Africa has enough problems without a mis-routed nuke.
That is assuming that you point the thing right. I seem to remember a little boo-boo about getting the steet address wrong on a "smart bomb" and have it hit the chinese consulate. Yes, it did hit the address give, it just that some bozo told it the wrong address.
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Let see, lots of hot air and small fish going down the drain, yep that's it.
I do believe that the profession of IT will go away. You are right that for the heavy lifting companies will job out, but there will have to be less heavy lifting or you have just outsourced the same work. My real point is that there must be standard products that the end users can manage. We have almost reached that point with the standard office suite. Can you imangine any reason for an IT department to write an office suite from scratch? I can not imagine any way a business case could be made anymore than an insurance company developing custom lamps for the cubes of the workers. You are right that today things are badly broken, but what do you expect with what are ineffect prototypes. Over time choices will narrow and prople will live with them. If a mid sized company has an IT department of say 100 people at 100k (total cost) that is a big overhead hit. $10 meg makes for a nice yearly profit increase. Sounds like a big reason to adopt standard tools and someday soon the teams doing outsorced development are going to se how to develop generalized solutions.
The whole wave of off-shoring shows the first phase of this maturation process. If you can spec it you can out source it. If you can our source it then someone can generalize it. Once it is generalized then IT as an internal service goes away. In the not so distant future, IT functions will be turned over to the facilities department and the maintenance folks - same as heat, water, electricity, phones, etc.
IIRC, that is total traffic deaths. The smaller number is just pedestrian deaths.
Is it plugged in?????
In the US most states have their funding based on a three legged base of Sales Tax, Inclome Tax and Property Tax. The National government is almost all based on income tax. IIRC, generally states tend to be flat or slightly regressive due to thei ruse of sales tax while the national government used to be very progressive in their tax structures (progress means the rich pay at a higher rate). The current (right wing) party in power has been moving away from a progressive tax structure. I'm sure a policy wonk can (and will) correct my errors here.
Abstinence/monogomy assumes that the person has the ability to change their behavour. In many parts of the world women have no rights. They can not decide to whom they wed nor have the right to abstin from sex from their husbands nor the right to devorice. That is why you often see faithfull women (and their children) with HIV/AIDS who have only slept with their husbands. Adding condems to the mix to dampen the general infection rates help even those who chainge their behavour.
From the Wiki:
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The reason leaking has become such an party game (pun intended) is because the whole clasification game has been so abuses. As you can see here http://www.slate.com/id/2136480/ much of what was reviewed had no need to be clasified. IIRC, the National Archive has documents going back to around 1914 that are still clasified. (OK, I'm going to go out on a limb and tell the world: Archduke Franz Ferdinand is still dead and Germany lost!) It is not against the law to disclose that the government is vilating the law. From the article, ""No information ... shall be classified in order to ... prevent embarrassment of a person, organization, or agency."
Democracy is not just about writing a letter to an elected official. It is also about standing in the (electronic) public square and talking with your fellow citizens. As Jefferson said, "The best defense of democracy is an informed electorate." And as Roger Nash Baldwin said, "Silence never won rights. They are not handed down from above; they are forced from pressures from below."
Much of th eabuse of power can come from activities outside of the cort room. How easy is it for someone in power to have a call made to an employeer and say, "did you know that your employee John is calling his priest every day on his lunch hour? Maybe you should make sure he is not doing someting wrong." And least you think I'm wearing a tine foil hat check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO And if you think this is all in the past why is the FBI watching the Quakers and other churches invlolved in the peace movement? Yes them Quakers are a dangerous bunch???
While IANAL, but IIRC if symantic wants an injunction would they not have to post a bond to cover the full cost (read giga-bucks) to MS should they not win their lowsuat against MS? Is there a IAAL who can answer this?
Blowfish was developed by Bruce Schneier and frineds. Not the spooks.
There is a simple way for the states to end spam. Require a 1 year period for any person who buys somthing from a spam message to get their money back---for any reason. The banks would not be willing to be on the hook for this so you would see the end of accounts to spammers
Point of interest: Anything that happens at a bank is handled by the Fedsno N.C.
I seem to remember some German Patent clerk making good in his spare time back in 1905. Al somebody. I think he invented the internet or physics or something.
My understanding is that CSPAN is paid for by the cable industry
Since Bill Gates just invested in ethanol does that mean all of slashdot is now for BioDiesel???? The truth be told, the energy return on alternate fuels is not yet as good as it needs to be.
This can be discriminatory depending on history, circumstance, etc. For example, if they don't bother fixing broken terminals in areas with a particular minority population, or if stores with a history getting mostly female applications fail to get their terminals fixed then yes this could be an act of discrimination. Grocery stores have a long history (don't know about krogers) of charging much more for food in poor minority areas over the rich white 'burbs.
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PBR are the biggest waste creators
When you absolutely, positively have to nuke overnight! Do use use UPS, the last package that I sent to SE went there via SN. Africa has enough problems without a mis-routed nuke.
That is assuming that you point the thing right. I seem to remember a little boo-boo about getting the steet address wrong on a "smart bomb" and have it hit the chinese consulate. Yes, it did hit the address give, it just that some bozo told it the wrong address.
What about Aero Gel and other ablative materials?
I can't imagine a larger brag that microsoft is a monopoly. It really is straight from the horses mouth with implicit proof of monopoly abuse.