Echelon is a sigint system, designed to eavesdrop. Not intrude. At least so far as we know.
There IS a difference.
It's one thing to tap every cable, listen in on every conversation, and save what you think is interesting.
It's even another thing to get your taps from the various carriers (be it voice or data) just for the asking, and get denials from them no matter what.
But Google is accusing the Chinese government of aiding, supporting, or even sponsoring INTRUSIONS into corporate and other networks, with the intention of gaining access to email accounts and other services. I won't yet accuse them of actually performing the attempts.
The NSA is not a benign little organization, but Echelon doesn't try to crack your Gmail account. It just wants a copy of your mail. Which is trivial.
These Chinese attempts are overkill for just surveillance. More likely, these attempts are intended to disrupt, deny, or hijack accounts and services to discredit or hinder those users.
And the commercial stuff is no surprise, Chinese sources have been whacking away at systems worldwide for some time now. Hillary is just obeying protocol in the face of a government that clearly doesn't care, but in a world that does. She doesn't really have the ^&9(s to follow up the threats, but that's not State's job anyways. We have a military as one option, spooks as the best option, and of course ISPs could be prepared to start filtering Chinese traffic. Which will just make them rent servers somewhere else to do the job. Whack-a-mole. Nasty business, and time-consuming. Might not succeed.
Red and green didn't work? Wrong phosphor. I would expect these guys to be using IR, but whatever it is, the right spectrum will excite the right phosphor.
ps- Display thickness (or thinness) is overrated. DLP is a similar concept, so scanning the beam is not so hard. Sony showed some right-angle CRTs a while back that were 3/4" thick, and I expect there is not too much angle needed if you focus the beam carefully, which can be done as we do with various optical players.
This is a clever idea. I wish them luck. Imagine printing the screen about as large as you want.
And refresh rate can be solved with multiple lasers. There, prior art, they can't patent that unless they already did... Maybe....
Make them sheath it in copper plated tin. And the slab. Roof of course. You can't be too sure.
Of course, could he get by with just shielding the side of his house facing the neighbor? I can hardly get WiFi through plaster from my neighbor, and he's not 20 ft away.
Well, they are monopolistic. If you want cell service, you go to a cell carrier. They all act the same.
Collusion? Not likely, just jumping on the bandwagon.
ETFs for service are all about keeping you signed up, and not jumping ship to the next cheaper carrier. Some of this is actually about keeping you buying their service for the full term, and of course getting back the subisidised phone cost if you bail early.
But in this case, TMO is getting an ETF for the service only, and that is usually because they want you to stay for the whole term, to avoid having to replace you and pay the price of 'churn'.
It truly sucks. But there isn't really a double-dip here, it's just an extraordinarily large ETF, thanks to having two parties involved. One fot Google, one for TMO.
Two more reasons to avoid the Nexus One.
They tell me European carriers are cheaper and more forgiving. Some of this must be due to regulation. How much of the US pricing is due to the FCC's auctioning off bandwidth?
TMO probably booked $16B in 2009. They committed to $4.1B in FCC auction #66 in 2006. That's some hefty operating expenses, seeing as TMO admitted to about $21B total revenue in 2008, so it looks like they paid a LOT for bandwidth. They should, so some of your monthly service fee is going to pay the FCC (and us) for spectrum.
Did Europe auction spectrum? Comparable pricing, from what I can find... Not much of an excuse there.
Had you read the last paragraph, you would not have found the word 'angry' to accurately describe the author's attitude towards Android. At least not as accurate as 'favorite'.
Cost and margin matter the most when disruptive influences impact a market. So far, there is no disruptor in the music player market - iPods rule the market, and the Zune is not undercutting the iPod pricing. Now, if someone could come out with a iPhone-quality device at half the price, maybe, but the reality is that that market is also ruled by the music sources. iTunes is really what sets the iPod prices.
If some pasta company, for example, decided to cut prices 40% and outlast their competition, they might be able to. Then again, they might not be able to - lack of capacity, etc might mean that you can't buy their pasta at any price, it's sold out. If I can't buy cheapo pasta at 40% off 'cause it's out of stock, it really doesn't matter what price it is, I'm buying something else. If, however, I have the capacity, I can outlast the competition and drive them out. This is called predatory pricing. Any bets on how long the price war continues? Of course, maybe my competitors match me. IN which case, at some point, my CEO asks what the point of the pricing war is, since we gained no market share. Eventually, prices will rise.
Notice I did not mention costs in any of this. Cost doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. In a totally free, perfectly functioning market, cost sets the price floor. but it doesn't set the ceiling. And a market priced at the floor will fail to be perfect soon enough, as other factors such as management efficiency, marketing/advertising, and disruptors change the market and either kill off the losers or reward the winners.
As an example, most home furniture manufacturing has moved to China over the past decade or more. Have furniture prices gone down? Examples here would be helpful.
I haven't researched the furniture pricing issue, but my friends in North Carolina claim prices haven't changed. Yet their wages went from middle-class to zero. Chinese labor is cheaper. Did it work? For who?
Really, it is counter-intuitive until you understand it, but cost doesn't matter.
And trust me again, windpower will price itself based on the competition, not based just on cost. In fact, windpower will not even EXIST unless it can come in cheaper than the competition. Not CHEAPEST POSSIBLE BASED ON COST. cheap'ER'.
That's all they are talking about. Cheaper. It looks like a cost issue, but it is not. It is a prcing issue. Cost is the least of their worries.
And yet, the power generation market in the U.S. is fascinating. Natural gas pricing bounces around a lot on the spot market, but utilities buy on long-term contracts, usually more stable. Peak demand is importnat, I think, because it costs a LOT to buy extra fuel above your contract.
Sometimes I think cost/price is a chicken-and-egg issue. No longer.
Ordinarily I don't reward ACs with anything, but you can bite my shiny metal ass. The debate is still on, unless you're in the tank for one side or the other.
So why not post under your own name? I got 'em, do you?
Well, the argument about windpower having less impact than nuclear is interesting. Of course, hydro power in the east may have been the single most damaging presusre on Atlantic Salmon, denying access to spawning grounds just as they were being overfished. Hydro power is by no means low impact, but we tolerated it. Can I propose that hydro has caused much more environmental damange then nuclear worldwide, including Three Mile Island and Chernoby? Of course, hydro has a head start, so this may be unfair over the long haul. And Thorium reactors might make nuclear much safer and more practical.
And you WISH windpower would compete with itself. It already does, actually, competing for a limited capital pool and limited specific demand for 'green power' sources. And other 'green power' sources. In that respect, I think it's game on.
There are some great Texas sites that have potential. Consistent wind seems to be the desire. I live in Arizona, so I'm watching solar power. The sun is consistent down here, and there are designs that can even produce power when the sun is obscured for days. And in the night.
We'll need a mix of technologies, just as we have now, and a way to retrofit existing generators. Not easy. Not cheap. This will cost us more, just the way it is.
I lunch with an economist. You and I are not economists. But he's teaching me.
"Google's stated aim is to be able to purchase renewable energy directly from producers at bulk rates, pursuing its goal of becoming carbon neutral."
Sure. price has nothing to do with it. Uhuh. Color me cynical.
"ten years from now we the consumers might be enjoying a price war between wind power fields generating electricity on equipment that has been paid for and now just needs maintenance fees."
Same argument for nuclear power in the 60s. 'too cheap to meter'. I predict the same results for windpewer.
"slowly amortized back up to very profitable and freaking awesome for ma and pa corn grower. The economy would go nuts if you could alleviate energy costs for everyone."
Price has little to do with cost. It is the market. If oil- and coal-generated electicity is sold for 14/kwh, nuclear power can sell for the same, no problem. Why would windpower outfits sell for less than, say, 11/kwh? They are leaving money on the table. Not many corporations do that.
"industries that will be negatively affected (coal, gas, etc) by these price wars will have the time to realize and change or better yet invest in their own wind farms"
Or different petroleum supplies. Or nuclear. Or something else. Don't think they will choose for any other reason than profits.
"tornado alley could in fifty years become the new middle east and we'll be fighting wind wars over South Dakota and Kansas."
Um, California, Iowa, and a lot of other places have more potential. The wars in South Dakota and Kansas will be over migratory birds and turbine kills, noise (even in the middle nowhere, trust me on this), and the blight. Billboards are bad enough. Wind turbines are not pretty to everyone.
"Overly optimistic? Of course. A little unrealistic? Well, a man can dream, can't he? A man can dream."
Cling to your optimism. If it is all you have left, they can't take it away from you. Of course, you can give up. I just howe you don't.
That would have been a Thinkpad X41 Tablet. I bought a used one, and it is slick, sort of, for that. Handwrting recognition is lacking, and I wish I could teach it Grafitti, but I loathe WinMobile and won't be using that.
Of course, the old Palms did this, though drawing was totally sucky.
Limitless has its limits. Page management for the drawings, for instance. Can we get something that will extend the page to the right (or left) as you draw and write? Up & down isn't so useful for math.
Cover the connectors, and disable the chip, and they work most anywhere the reader is dual-mode. Assuming there is no regional restriction.
Not enough dual-mode terminals out there, since they are both a potential security/fraud issue, and the stuff is supposed to *work*. And most European processors are on board.
Believe me, they they are tested. I know. But they are not always tested well.
- The EMV (Euro MasterCard & Visa, also called chip & pin) specs are complex to say the least. It took 6 months for one team I know of to get to the point that the spec writerd admitted they did not know how it actually worked, and to admit that the actual data did not match the specs. They rewrote the spec based on actual data. Later, the 'controlling authorities' updated their specs to match our results. As if anyone ever really know how it worked. Kinda like taking your new car to a mechanic, having him change the oil, and he says 'gee, this doesn't look like the oil drain to me, but the manual says so. Just let me check'. And sure enough, the manual is illustrating the radiator draincock. Nice. And the car manufacturer is arguing with you that you're wrong, even when you send them a video of coolant coming out of the so-called 'oil drain plug'. Next year, they send you a new page for the manual. Your video is the source of the new pictures. Thanks, guys. You made this, and you got it that wrong?
- Covering the connectors will force the reader to take the stripe if it can, and many do. This is also a scam by some criminals, where they cover the terminals in the reader and force the stripes for all purchases - and snarf your data. These usually don't last long, as this is a characteristic of either a failed terminal or fraud, and someone will be sending a new terminal out to the POS. If they do it again, they will send a body also. Third time usually results in sanctions. Gas stations and small restaurants are favorites for this, but large retailers also get hit of someone can slip in a doctored terminal - usually after stealing one earlier. Mongrel terminals are usually caught pretty quickly, so go in late at night, distract the staff, nick it, fix it up in your car, come right back, and get it back in before anyone notices. Target here in the U.S. got hit by this. So far, no reports from Europe.
Chip & pin is not yet common in the U.S., and I'm not looking forward to it. In England, disputes over unauthorized charges with chip & pin almost always result in the bank ignoring the customer's pleas, and very often result in discovery later that there was a breach elsewhere in the system, like a pin pad. Many a sad tale of widows wiped out, and only after much pain is the truth found. The banks and all are hanging on to chip & pin as the 'final solution' to card fraud. Fat chance.
"And to the extent which a CxO controls assets, is the extent to which others can't use them in unexpected ways."
She nailed it. Enterprise security is indeed a culture, not a function. You got it, or you don't.
Not only Heartland, but Hannford, show the importance of the culture of ritual and 'things you just don't do'. Virtually every time you hear of a consultant/temp blowing up security and causing a breach, you see the same thing - the organization needs this to be a business-as-usual approach from the top down. It's not only about doing it right, it's about there being no other way.
And then giving your CxOs the authority and assets to actually perform. All the way down.
At my work, there are lots of things we just don't do. My work computer never sees the Internet except through the corporate proxy, either in office or via VPN. I do have the ability to install any software I want, bit I don't install anything that I would not want to justify to the security folks. We get Adobe Reader configured as plain-vanilla, and I turn off Javascript just because. I watch my virus-scanning and resolve any occasional alerts. We also use Cisco Security Agent, and I tolerate it when it jumps in and says no.
I could be messing about with any number of questionable things, but it's not worth it.
Now I can justify another $1000 worth of hardware to my wife, to play the same game I can get on a $300 console.
She gets it. I'm the Computer Guy. I know how it works. I know what is needed. I know how to keep her from not being able to play Farmtown. Or is it Fishville? hard to keep up with the Facebook privacy violations/games.
An extension ladder up the side of the house to look into the attic windows is pretty low-tech.
It's not just the 'low-tech' issue. It's about police power, Fourth Amendment, and due process.
Pulling a visitor out of their car and interrrogating them about what is going on inside the house is pretty low-tech also. It's just intrusive. Non-intrusive tech is subject to reasonable limits, just like high-tech etc.
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"So the USA is not always the evil? The "commie and social" can be as evil?"
A common mistake.
So the USA is not the only evil? The "commie and social" can be just as evil?
There. Fixed that for ya.
Echelon is a sigint system, designed to eavesdrop. Not intrude. At least so far as we know.
There IS a difference.
It's one thing to tap every cable, listen in on every conversation, and save what you think is interesting.
It's even another thing to get your taps from the various carriers (be it voice or data) just for the asking, and get denials from them no matter what.
But Google is accusing the Chinese government of aiding, supporting, or even sponsoring INTRUSIONS into corporate and other networks, with the intention of gaining access to email accounts and other services. I won't yet accuse them of actually performing the attempts.
The NSA is not a benign little organization, but Echelon doesn't try to crack your Gmail account. It just wants a copy of your mail. Which is trivial.
These Chinese attempts are overkill for just surveillance. More likely, these attempts are intended to disrupt, deny, or hijack accounts and services to discredit or hinder those users.
And the commercial stuff is no surprise, Chinese sources have been whacking away at systems worldwide for some time now. Hillary is just obeying protocol in the face of a government that clearly doesn't care, but in a world that does. She doesn't really have the ^&9(s to follow up the threats, but that's not State's job anyways. We have a military as one option, spooks as the best option, and of course ISPs could be prepared to start filtering Chinese traffic. Which will just make them rent servers somewhere else to do the job. Whack-a-mole. Nasty business, and time-consuming. Might not succeed.
That covers my needs. I'm in!
Red and green didn't work? Wrong phosphor. I would expect these guys to be using IR, but whatever it is, the right spectrum will excite the right phosphor.
ps- Display thickness (or thinness) is overrated. DLP is a similar concept, so scanning the beam is not so hard. Sony showed some right-angle CRTs a while back that were 3/4" thick, and I expect there is not too much angle needed if you focus the beam carefully, which can be done as we do with various optical players.
This is a clever idea. I wish them luck. Imagine printing the screen about as large as you want.
And refresh rate can be solved with multiple lasers. There, prior art, they can't patent that unless they already did... Maybe....
That's some pretty fine chicken wire.
Make them sheath it in copper plated tin. And the slab. Roof of course. You can't be too sure.
Of course, could he get by with just shielding the side of his house facing the neighbor? I can hardly get WiFi through plaster from my neighbor, and he's not 20 ft away.
Well, they are monopolistic. If you want cell service, you go to a cell carrier. They all act the same.
Collusion? Not likely, just jumping on the bandwagon.
ETFs for service are all about keeping you signed up, and not jumping ship to the next cheaper carrier. Some of this is actually about keeping you buying their service for the full term, and of course getting back the subisidised phone cost if you bail early.
But in this case, TMO is getting an ETF for the service only, and that is usually because they want you to stay for the whole term, to avoid having to replace you and pay the price of 'churn'.
It truly sucks. But there isn't really a double-dip here, it's just an extraordinarily large ETF, thanks to having two parties involved. One fot Google, one for TMO.
Two more reasons to avoid the Nexus One.
They tell me European carriers are cheaper and more forgiving. Some of this must be due to regulation. How much of the US pricing is due to the FCC's auctioning off bandwidth?
TMO probably booked $16B in 2009. They committed to $4.1B in FCC auction #66 in 2006. That's some hefty operating expenses, seeing as TMO admitted to about $21B total revenue in 2008, so it looks like they paid a LOT for bandwidth. They should, so some of your monthly service fee is going to pay the FCC (and us) for spectrum.
Did Europe auction spectrum? Comparable pricing, from what I can find... Not much of an excuse there.
Had you read the last paragraph, you would not have found the word 'angry' to accurately describe the author's attitude towards Android. At least not as accurate as 'favorite'.
sheesh.
"'You can't get an unbridled, roving commission to go about doing good"
This adequately describes more than one Appeals Court. Talk about calling out the kettle!
Breathtaking. Just stupendously breathtaking! He couldn't possibly have said that out loud with desperately wishing he had just shut up...
Cost and margin matter the most when disruptive influences impact a market. So far, there is no disruptor in the music player market - iPods rule the market, and the Zune is not undercutting the iPod pricing. Now, if someone could come out with a iPhone-quality device at half the price, maybe, but the reality is that that market is also ruled by the music sources. iTunes is really what sets the iPod prices.
If some pasta company, for example, decided to cut prices 40% and outlast their competition, they might be able to. Then again, they might not be able to - lack of capacity, etc might mean that you can't buy their pasta at any price, it's sold out. If I can't buy cheapo pasta at 40% off 'cause it's out of stock, it really doesn't matter what price it is, I'm buying something else. If, however, I have the capacity, I can outlast the competition and drive them out. This is called predatory pricing. Any bets on how long the price war continues? Of course, maybe my competitors match me. IN which case, at some point, my CEO asks what the point of the pricing war is, since we gained no market share. Eventually, prices will rise.
Notice I did not mention costs in any of this. Cost doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. In a totally free, perfectly functioning market, cost sets the price floor. but it doesn't set the ceiling. And a market priced at the floor will fail to be perfect soon enough, as other factors such as management efficiency, marketing/advertising, and disruptors change the market and either kill off the losers or reward the winners.
As an example, most home furniture manufacturing has moved to China over the past decade or more. Have furniture prices gone down? Examples here would be helpful.
I haven't researched the furniture pricing issue, but my friends in North Carolina claim prices haven't changed. Yet their wages went from middle-class to zero. Chinese labor is cheaper. Did it work? For who?
Really, it is counter-intuitive until you understand it, but cost doesn't matter.
And trust me again, windpower will price itself based on the competition, not based just on cost. In fact, windpower will not even EXIST unless it can come in cheaper than the competition. Not CHEAPEST POSSIBLE BASED ON COST. cheap'ER'.
That's all they are talking about. Cheaper. It looks like a cost issue, but it is not. It is a prcing issue. Cost is the least of their worries.
And yet, the power generation market in the U.S. is fascinating. Natural gas pricing bounces around a lot on the spot market, but utilities buy on long-term contracts, usually more stable. Peak demand is importnat, I think, because it costs a LOT to buy extra fuel above your contract.
Sometimes I think cost/price is a chicken-and-egg issue. No longer.
Is this the hair you want to split? Let it go.
Where does natural gas come from?
Oil wells and coal. Infinitesmal amounts of biogas.
I rest my case. Your turn.
Ordinarily I don't reward ACs with anything, but you can bite my shiny metal ass. The debate is still on, unless you're in the tank for one side or the other.
So why not post under your own name? I got 'em, do you?
Well, the argument about windpower having less impact than nuclear is interesting. Of course, hydro power in the east may have been the single most damaging presusre on Atlantic Salmon, denying access to spawning grounds just as they were being overfished. Hydro power is by no means low impact, but we tolerated it. Can I propose that hydro has caused much more environmental damange then nuclear worldwide, including Three Mile Island and Chernoby? Of course, hydro has a head start, so this may be unfair over the long haul. And Thorium reactors might make nuclear much safer and more practical.
And you WISH windpower would compete with itself. It already does, actually, competing for a limited capital pool and limited specific demand for 'green power' sources. And other 'green power' sources. In that respect, I think it's game on.
There are some great Texas sites that have potential. Consistent wind seems to be the desire. I live in Arizona, so I'm watching solar power. The sun is consistent down here, and there are designs that can even produce power when the sun is obscured for days. And in the night.
We'll need a mix of technologies, just as we have now, and a way to retrofit existing generators. Not easy. Not cheap. This will cost us more, just the way it is.
Where can I get it?
I lunch with an economist. You and I are not economists. But he's teaching me.
"Google's stated aim is to be able to purchase renewable energy directly from producers at bulk rates, pursuing its goal of becoming carbon neutral."
Sure. price has nothing to do with it. Uhuh. Color me cynical.
"ten years from now we the consumers might be enjoying a price war between wind power fields generating electricity on equipment that has been paid for and now just needs maintenance fees."
Same argument for nuclear power in the 60s. 'too cheap to meter'. I predict the same results for windpewer.
"slowly amortized back up to very profitable and freaking awesome for ma and pa corn grower. The economy would go nuts if you could alleviate energy costs for everyone."
Price has little to do with cost. It is the market. If oil- and coal-generated electicity is sold for 14/kwh, nuclear power can sell for the same, no problem. Why would windpower outfits sell for less than, say, 11/kwh? They are leaving money on the table. Not many corporations do that.
"industries that will be negatively affected (coal, gas, etc) by these price wars will have the time to realize and change or better yet invest in their own wind farms"
Or different petroleum supplies. Or nuclear. Or something else. Don't think they will choose for any other reason than profits.
"tornado alley could in fifty years become the new middle east and we'll be fighting wind wars over South Dakota and Kansas."
Um, California, Iowa, and a lot of other places have more potential. The wars in South Dakota and Kansas will be over migratory birds and turbine kills, noise (even in the middle nowhere, trust me on this), and the blight. Billboards are bad enough. Wind turbines are not pretty to everyone.
"Overly optimistic? Of course. A little unrealistic? Well, a man can dream, can't he? A man can dream."
Cling to your optimism. If it is all you have left, they can't take it away from you. Of course, you can give up. I just howe you don't.
That would have been a Thinkpad X41 Tablet. I bought a used one, and it is slick, sort of, for that. Handwrting recognition is lacking, and I wish I could teach it Grafitti, but I loathe WinMobile and won't be using that.
Of course, the old Palms did this, though drawing was totally sucky.
Limitless has its limits. Page management for the drawings, for instance. Can we get something that will extend the page to the right (or left) as you draw and write? Up & down isn't so useful for math.
Cover the connectors, and disable the chip, and they work most anywhere the reader is dual-mode. Assuming there is no regional restriction.
Not enough dual-mode terminals out there, since they are both a potential security/fraud issue, and the stuff is supposed to *work*. And most European processors are on board.
Internationally, it should. EMV cards in the U.S. are generally only reading the stripe. There are not very many chip & pin terminals here, if any.
We aren't deploying at this time.
Actually, I was on the team. I AM the third party.
Believe me, they they are tested. I know. But they are not always tested well.
- The EMV (Euro MasterCard & Visa, also called chip & pin) specs are complex to say the least. It took 6 months for one team I know of to get to the point that the spec writerd admitted they did not know how it actually worked, and to admit that the actual data did not match the specs. They rewrote the spec based on actual data. Later, the 'controlling authorities' updated their specs to match our results. As if anyone ever really know how it worked. Kinda like taking your new car to a mechanic, having him change the oil, and he says 'gee, this doesn't look like the oil drain to me, but the manual says so. Just let me check'. And sure enough, the manual is illustrating the radiator draincock. Nice. And the car manufacturer is arguing with you that you're wrong, even when you send them a video of coolant coming out of the so-called 'oil drain plug'. Next year, they send you a new page for the manual. Your video is the source of the new pictures. Thanks, guys. You made this, and you got it that wrong?
- Covering the connectors will force the reader to take the stripe if it can, and many do. This is also a scam by some criminals, where they cover the terminals in the reader and force the stripes for all purchases - and snarf your data. These usually don't last long, as this is a characteristic of either a failed terminal or fraud, and someone will be sending a new terminal out to the POS. If they do it again, they will send a body also. Third time usually results in sanctions. Gas stations and small restaurants are favorites for this, but large retailers also get hit of someone can slip in a doctored terminal - usually after stealing one earlier. Mongrel terminals are usually caught pretty quickly, so go in late at night, distract the staff, nick it, fix it up in your car, come right back, and get it back in before anyone notices. Target here in the U.S. got hit by this. So far, no reports from Europe.
Chip & pin is not yet common in the U.S., and I'm not looking forward to it. In England, disputes over unauthorized charges with chip & pin almost always result in the bank ignoring the customer's pleas, and very often result in discovery later that there was a breach elsewhere in the system, like a pin pad. Many a sad tale of widows wiped out, and only after much pain is the truth found. The banks and all are hanging on to chip & pin as the 'final solution' to card fraud. Fat chance.
"And to the extent which a CxO controls assets, is the extent to which others can't use them in unexpected ways."
She nailed it. Enterprise security is indeed a culture, not a function. You got it, or you don't.
Not only Heartland, but Hannford, show the importance of the culture of ritual and 'things you just don't do'. Virtually every time you hear of a consultant/temp blowing up security and causing a breach, you see the same thing - the organization needs this to be a business-as-usual approach from the top down. It's not only about doing it right, it's about there being no other way.
And then giving your CxOs the authority and assets to actually perform. All the way down.
At my work, there are lots of things we just don't do. My work computer never sees the Internet except through the corporate proxy, either in office or via VPN. I do have the ability to install any software I want, bit I don't install anything that I would not want to justify to the security folks. We get Adobe Reader configured as plain-vanilla, and I turn off Javascript just because. I watch my virus-scanning and resolve any occasional alerts. We also use Cisco Security Agent, and I tolerate it when it jumps in and says no.
I could be messing about with any number of questionable things, but it's not worth it.
Now, my home machines, that's different. :)
Now I can justify another $1000 worth of hardware to my wife, to play the same game I can get on a $300 console.
She gets it. I'm the Computer Guy. I know how it works. I know what is needed. I know how to keep her from not being able to play Farmtown. Or is it Fishville? hard to keep up with the Facebook privacy violations/games.
Ya gotta have priorities.
The FCC should have responsibility for this,and so should maintain the data.
Google wants to get a foot in the door to be able to control/promote a wireless carrier in this spectrum.
And that I don't much mind. But they should have to pay, or at least compete, for that space.
In a way, this is worse than the major carriers playing tic-tac-toe with spectrum auctions.
"On the Nexus One, only 190 megabytes of its total 4.5 gigabytes of memory is allowed for storing apps"
Until it is rooted. apps2sd, my friend. Then memory is limited mostly by your wallet.
An extension ladder up the side of the house to look into the attic windows is pretty low-tech.
It's not just the 'low-tech' issue. It's about police power, Fourth Amendment, and due process.
Pulling a visitor out of their car and interrrogating them about what is going on inside the house is pretty low-tech also. It's just intrusive. Non-intrusive tech is subject to reasonable limits, just like high-tech etc.