Well number 1 is "people skills" - now I'm assuming that you have them already but you need to identify + reflect on your strengths & weaknesses in this area. I strongly recommend Emotional Intelligence + Working with Emotional Intelligence - this is 2 books in 1 - the 2nd having case studies & examples. Remember you can't be what you are not but you need to gain a little more insight into yourself in order to be on top of others.
On the intellectual side ? Move away from "perfect" solutions- begin to live with having to make optimal, even sub optimal decisions to keep things moving. Remember often having 80% of something today is more important than having 100% next week. Learn to live with being "wrong".
Oh yeah, also when your developers give you a work estimate: multiply it by 2.5;-)
I broadly agree with comment, yes of course this new data collection will enable abuse (e.g. a small few policemen are likely stalkers etc) so along with this shiny new plan why not an "anti abuse plan" ? One that describes in detail access logging & auditing - i.e. every query run on this ought be visible to every user - thus it can be determined if they use it inappropriately - etc.
Same way we expect our online bank to offer us good security - as well as their service we ought expect our law enforcement authorities to offer us the service along with protection for ourselves. Anti abuse features ought be architected in upfront and be part of the proposal !
We should try to seperate patents from their application. Too often the patent holders want to be the only people creating the product. Well patents & IP generally is a protection afforded by the state so the state can set some limits. Why not have it so that every year there is an anonomyous open market bidding for usage of every patent that allows multiple people to buy in at highest price ? (and to stop the holder firm bidding a gidzillion dollars attach a profit tax of say 5% to it).
So because it's confusing & they've forgotten the details they want it forgiven ? Fine for charity but ask for it upfront. Now everyone's going to be afraid to enter into business deals with people who might be able to turn on the tears & wave the "deserving cause" flag.
Hmmmmm consider say Zippy (the rudimentary Emacs psychiatrist)... well what if an upgraded was programmed to be rude & offensive... and registered as a user to a bulletin board. Yes it mightn't pass a full Turing test but would it manage to libel ? Who'd be responsible ?
Any form of eVoting will raise trust issues. Without source code there cannot be trust of a complex computer program - testing won't work. E.g. maybe only when sysdate is 15.May.2009 will a particular "feature" manifest. Microsoft are a closed source firm so they shouldn't go near eVoting.
bear minimum ram needed to boot the machine, and used swap for everything else no ! I'm presuming that they've written some custom code to manage the user download session. All that the judge appears to be looking for is just the header information for the session. This would be a miniscule proportion of the throughput. The judge is not looking for a whole RAM dump, she's just noted that the info she wants is actually captured at the moment in RAM.
We're not talking theoretical computer science here. Not dumping out a whole RAM snapshot. Just some specific logical session identifiers from the application level area. Only a small portion of what passes through RAM would need to be written- as the judge said they hadn't proved it an undue burden.
nearly 73% of the people who have bad experiences Possiby those people may not be very good with computers & would have had problems with any helpdesk.
Too many companies treat call centers as cost centers rather than seeing them as an opportunity to solidify the customer relationship, resulting in increased loyalty and retention Also how many computer users need to ring heldesks ? Might not more bad, cranky & mad users ring the desks ? I'm not convinced that helpdesk callers are repesentative of users.
since RAM must be slowed to be recorded On page 3 it says
4) Defendants have failed to demonstrate that the preservation & production of such data is unduly burdensome, or that the other reasons they articulate justify the ongoing failure to preserve and produce such data
They failed to make that case & I doubt they could.
Whilst ephemeral, data is being captured in RAM - to maintain a session of course they've to identify the IP. It isn't really all that hard to write that data to disk. Ok the logfiles would be a few GB a day - from technical viewpoint the judge's request is reasonable.
And Brad Smith, senior vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary at Microsoft, is rumoured to have gotten quite concerned about this development. After reading case law on "duty of care" that an employer ought extend to employees he has arranged for Tom Hanrahan to immediately go on advanced "object avoidance course" which will be taught by crack martial arts instructors. Microsoft is refusing to confirm rumours that Hanrahan is currently in a Seattle gymn with 10 instructors & a number of pieces of "office furniture".
We've a photo that shows soemthing that might be a hole in the ground. If people went to Mars then they could live in the hole instead of on the surface... don't think that's a/. story. But:
I'm no geologist but possibly is the story how the hole was made ?
Because the spot lacks a raised rim or tossed out material called ejecta, researchers have ruled out the pit being an impact crater. So that leaves wind(?) , water(which would be a story) but a big river at 330 feet across, X ? , Y? , Z ?. What might make this story would be some informed geological speculation. Otherwise someone has just found a hole in the ground.
Well take one regulation in markets: on the London Stock Exchange(for example) once you agree to participate your trades can be done blindly- you've no choice who buys from you - they can even hide their identity after settlement usign the "central counter party". Or better still if you agree to act as Market Maker: you have to take reasonable orders for certain stocks. These rules keep the market neutral & thus flowing. If the rules weren't there everyone would be trying to get small one overs on everyone else & the value would vanish from the overall system.
I hope the fuzzier minded GOP congressmen don't get too confused on this - the "deregulation" banner AT&T are flying under sounds good but consider the financial equity markets: heavily regulated and you won't find an investment banker (paragons of free market capitalism) who'd want it any other way. Certain foundation structures like markets, networks need to be regulated to keep them neutral, transparent & useful. This enables freedom, paradoxical perhaps but pretty obvious.
As is many people, especially those engaging on/. connect in a bit to much. Daily we've x personal emails, y phone conversations & z page impressions & these numbers are all getting higher. Our attention spans break down from 40 --> 30 -->... 5 mins in such environments as is.
Being persistently connected at a cognitive level might be dangerous - we will start processing informational subliminally if over-loaded & yes for example this could lead to brainwashing...
certainly tiring...
it would force us to structure our days better & jack out entirely even during work just to escape the buzzing, but not all will- if we've information / net addicts with the crude i/o devices of today what will come in 20 years ?
No, it says that you've never worked in a big organisation where people firing off an email for every trivial point to entire groups is virtually company policy.
Actually I do work in big organisations & yes I get quite a lot of "cc" mail. I reckon on bad days I get over 50 mails addressed to me as cc. First off: if I am cc I lightly skim mail, mostly I don't respond. Secondly: if someone cc's me on a very detailed mail (> 200 words), that wasn't discussed in advance with me: then they are making a mistake.
Same as everything else: I don't go to all meetings I'm invited to ( I pick the ones I need/want to go to). It's a simple matter of managing your productivity.
The only time I've ever been overwhelmed by mail was when I accidentally left my own email address in a "reply to" field of a bespoke error handling system. It mailed 6,000 people within the first 3 hours before I figured out what happened. My mistake.
Like many things in life some individuals can't cope. Being deluged by spam is a lame excuse - I use GMail - I sign up to all sorts of dubious services with it& have receievd 1 piece of spam so far.
At any time I've over 3 other email addresses, the key rule with them is to check them daily else I'll... get a backlog.
People whinging about email tell more about themselves than email.
TFR
Specifically, FBI did not consistently
(1) configure network devices and services securely to prevent unauthorized insider access;
(2) identify and authenticate users to prevent unauthorized access;
(3) enforce the principle of least privilege to ensure that authorized access was necessary and appropriate;
(4) apply strong encryption techniques to protect sensitive data on its networks;
(5) log, audit, or monitor security-related events;
(6) protect the physical security of its network; and
(7) patch key servers and workstations in a timely manner. Insider attack is always a risk, full solutions against it are 1) Impossible 2) Infinitely costly (see 1)
I work in Financial Services a lot - these solutions aren't necessarily all implemented that strongly, the limitation is cost. Without seeing a costing plan for the above utopian remediation I'm not so sure it is needed. I'm not saying the FBI are necessarily good - just that the report language is too general/pipe dreamish to know.
I know not all on this site like Digg & Reddit but I find these sites have merit in flagging news. Better still would be if a user community was to interact with Google News (which ought extend to more journal articles etc). Then they could "tag" stories & vote as with say Reddit. More interestingly GoogleNews could start learning what I liked (e.g. as with all slashdottians stories about new & improved blowup wives) but better again it could start learning who I liked: e.g. perhaps 68% of times I follow through on stories that "Cowboy Neal" votes up. So to summarize base "My stories" on:
1) My hero's tastes (and I want it to figure out my heros)
Also: Google has huge brand recognition, until today I didn't know that feed broadcasting was big business. Now I do because Google paid $100m.... and who do I know that now does feed broadcasting ? So if I was actually a webmaster that earned some bucks from ads & was thinking about RSS - I'd now go straight to GoogleBurner. I don't even bother looking for competitors (who might be marginally better) as : It keeps things simple for me: I just have to hold one concept in my head "Google good: Google has good products, Google finds the new good products ". Given this brand "synergy" effect I'm surprised they got away with a 10x deal.
Well Google's concern is that they wish to control our interface to information, as more people rely on RSS they are less likely to encounter Google (and ads). Most siteowners will still want their ad revenue preserved when they go RSS - so this is the way for them to do it.
More from Techcrunch (another article) One reason a blog or website owner would want to use this is because it simplifies the RSS feed. The Feed URL for Techcrunch, for instance, is "http://feeds.feedburner.com/Techcrunch", which is a much simpler format that standard RSS feeds. Also, most blogging software offers a variety of RSS feeds - Atom, RSS 1.0, 2.0, etc. Sometimes these feeds don't work properly with some readers. And if a site can get most of its readers to use the single Feedburner feed, they can take advantage of the great statistics and tools to see where readers are coming from and what they are clicking on.
The big reason for using FeedBurner, however, is that it can automatically add Google Adsense adds to your feeds, allowing you to easily generate revenue if you have a large enough audience. There are a number of influential bloggers who don't like this service, however (and other aspects of FeedBurner as well) - see Relevant Links below for more information. So Google now has bought the best RSS broadcaster that already serves Google ads (and the review is from 2005).
Try this link. Google without any ads ? Ok we could configure our machines to bloack ads but I use different machines a lot, if that "backdoor" link becomes popular Google would be in trouble ! I picked up on this "bug" from here.
Yes strictly it isn't a bug in the sense that it harms the user but it is the same as a bug that allows you use a program for free.
I've worked in IT a while now & have never heard of a "data storm". This reminds me of
And again, the Internet is not something you just dump something on. It's not a big truck. It's a series of tubes. Ted Stevens We have plant managers concocting an odd metaphor that will only further confuse senators. Why can't they just use actual language - is it because they are deliberately trying to confuse the issue to avoid blame ? The same way the red herring of terrorism is being floated re this ? In fact it is more serious that
1) They can't describe what happened
2) They can't tell if outside interference, whatever the nature occurred
3) That this might have an internal/design cause ... than if "terrorists" did it.
And in possibly related news Police in Seattle are reporting that Tom Robertson, general manager for Interoperability and Standards at Microsoft, was hit by a flying chair whilst out walking his dog. Police don't yet have any firm leads but are seeking to question a bald, red-faced caucasian man who was seen fleeing the scene.
The article is complaining about people re-tooling articles , making them ever more precise. This reminds me of "physical" code optimisation: doing this makes the code difficult to read straight off, very hard to grasp the logical concept of what is being done. Or even adding in error handling & exception cases to a main flow. Whilst this detail is better fact is that most people have the outline concepts first & re-tool after, this also needs to be the case for first time readers. Possibly Wikipedia needs to have "generalist" & "specialist" articles.
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Well number 1 is "people skills" - now I'm assuming that you have them already but you need to identify + reflect on your strengths & weaknesses in this area. I strongly recommend Emotional Intelligence + Working with Emotional Intelligence - this is 2 books in 1 - the 2nd having case studies & examples. Remember you can't be what you are not but you need to gain a little more insight into yourself in order to be on top of others.
;-)
On the intellectual side ? Move away from "perfect" solutions- begin to live with having to make optimal, even sub optimal decisions to keep things moving. Remember often having 80% of something today is more important than having 100% next week. Learn to live with being "wrong".
Oh yeah, also when your developers give you a work estimate: multiply it by 2.5
I broadly agree with comment, yes of course this new data collection will enable abuse (e.g. a small few policemen are likely stalkers etc) so along with this shiny new plan why not an "anti abuse plan" ? One that describes in detail access logging & auditing - i.e. every query run on this ought be visible to every user - thus it can be determined if they use it inappropriately - etc.
Same way we expect our online bank to offer us good security - as well as their service we ought expect our law enforcement authorities to offer us the service along with protection for ourselves. Anti abuse features ought be architected in upfront and be part of the proposal !
We should try to seperate patents from their application. Too often the patent holders want to be the only people creating the product. Well patents & IP generally is a protection afforded by the state so the state can set some limits. Why not have it so that every year there is an anonomyous open market bidding for usage of every patent that allows multiple people to buy in at highest price ? (and to stop the holder firm bidding a gidzillion dollars attach a profit tax of say 5% to it).
So because it's confusing & they've forgotten the details they want it forgiven ? Fine for charity but ask for it upfront. Now everyone's going to be afraid to enter into business deals with people who might be able to turn on the tears & wave the "deserving cause" flag.
Hmmmmm consider say Zippy (the rudimentary Emacs psychiatrist) ... well what if an upgraded was programmed to be rude & offensive... and registered as a user to a bulletin board. Yes it mightn't pass a full Turing test but would it manage to libel ? Who'd be responsible ?
Any form of eVoting will raise trust issues. Without source code there cannot be trust of a complex computer program - testing won't work. E.g. maybe only when sysdate is 15.May.2009 will a particular "feature" manifest. Microsoft are a closed source firm so they shouldn't go near eVoting.
We're not talking theoretical computer science here. Not dumping out a whole RAM snapshot. Just some specific logical session identifiers from the application level area. Only a small portion of what passes through RAM would need to be written- as the judge said they hadn't proved it an undue burden.
They failed to make that case & I doubt they could.
Whilst ephemeral, data is being captured in RAM - to maintain a session of course they've to identify the IP. It isn't really all that hard to write that data to disk. Ok the logfiles would be a few GB a day - from technical viewpoint the judge's request is reasonable.
And Brad Smith, senior vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary at Microsoft, is rumoured to have gotten quite concerned about this development. After reading case law on "duty of care" that an employer ought extend to employees he has arranged for Tom Hanrahan to immediately go on advanced "object avoidance course" which will be taught by crack martial arts instructors. Microsoft is refusing to confirm rumours that Hanrahan is currently in a Seattle gymn with 10 instructors & a number of pieces of "office furniture".
I'm no geologist but possibly is the story how the hole was made ? Because the spot lacks a raised rim or tossed out material called ejecta, researchers have ruled out the pit being an impact crater. So that leaves wind(?) , water(which would be a story) but a big river at 330 feet across, X ? , Y? , Z ?. What might make this story would be some informed geological speculation. Otherwise someone has just found a hole in the ground.
Well take one regulation in markets: on the London Stock Exchange(for example) once you agree to participate your trades can be done blindly- you've no choice who buys from you - they can even hide their identity after settlement usign the "central counter party". Or better still if you agree to act as Market Maker: you have to take reasonable orders for certain stocks. These rules keep the market neutral & thus flowing. If the rules weren't there everyone would be trying to get small one overs on everyone else & the value would vanish from the overall system.
I hope the fuzzier minded GOP congressmen don't get too confused on this - the "deregulation" banner AT&T are flying under sounds good but consider the financial equity markets: heavily regulated and you won't find an investment banker (paragons of free market capitalism) who'd want it any other way. Certain foundation structures like markets, networks need to be regulated to keep them neutral, transparent & useful. This enables freedom, paradoxical perhaps but pretty obvious.
As is many people, especially those engaging on /. connect in a bit to much. Daily we've x personal emails, y phone conversations & z page impressions & these numbers are all getting higher. Our attention spans break down from 40 --> 30 --> ... 5 mins in such environments as is.
...
Being persistently connected at a cognitive level might be dangerous -
we will start processing informational subliminally if over-loaded & yes for example this could lead to brainwashing...
certainly tiring
it would force us to structure our days better & jack out entirely even during work just to escape the buzzing, but not all will- if we've information / net addicts with the crude i/o devices of today what will come in 20 years ?
Actually I do work in big organisations & yes I get quite a lot of "cc" mail. I reckon on bad days I get over 50 mails addressed to me as cc. First off: if I am cc I lightly skim mail, mostly I don't respond. Secondly: if someone cc's me on a very detailed mail (> 200 words), that wasn't discussed in advance with me: then they are making a mistake.
Same as everything else: I don't go to all meetings I'm invited to ( I pick the ones I need/want to go to). It's a simple matter of managing your productivity.
The only time I've ever been overwhelmed by mail was when I accidentally left my own email address in a "reply to" field of a bespoke error handling system. It mailed 6,000 people within the first 3 hours before I figured out what happened. My mistake.
Like many things in life some individuals can't cope. Being deluged by spam is a lame excuse - I use GMail - I sign up to all sorts of dubious services with it& have receievd 1 piece of spam so far.
At any time I've over 3 other email addresses, the key rule with them is to check them daily else I'll... get a backlog.
People whinging about email tell more about themselves than email.
(1) configure network devices and services securely to prevent unauthorized insider access;
(2) identify and authenticate users to prevent unauthorized access;
(3) enforce the principle of least privilege to ensure that authorized access was necessary and appropriate;
(4) apply strong encryption techniques to protect sensitive data on its networks;
(5) log, audit, or monitor security-related events;
(6) protect the physical security of its network; and
(7) patch key servers and workstations in a timely manner. Insider attack is always a risk, full solutions against it are 1) Impossible 2) Infinitely costly (see 1)
I work in Financial Services a lot - these solutions aren't necessarily all implemented that strongly, the limitation is cost. Without seeing a costing plan for the above utopian remediation I'm not so sure it is needed. I'm not saying the FBI are necessarily good - just that the report language is too general/pipe dreamish to know.
I know not all on this site like Digg & Reddit but I find these sites have merit in flagging news. Better still would be if a user community was to interact with Google News (which ought extend to more journal articles etc). Then they could "tag" stories & vote as with say Reddit. More interestingly GoogleNews could start learning what I liked (e.g. as with all slashdottians stories about new & improved blowup wives) but better again it could start learning who I liked: e.g. perhaps 68% of times I follow through on stories that "Cowboy Neal" votes up. So to summarize base "My stories" on:
/.)
1) My hero's tastes (and I want it to figure out my heros)
2) My preferred sources (eg
3) My preffered tags
4) General stream
Also: Google has huge brand recognition, until today I didn't know that feed broadcasting was big business. Now I do because Google paid $100m .... and who do I know that now does feed broadcasting ? So if I was actually a webmaster that earned some bucks from ads & was thinking about RSS - I'd now go straight to GoogleBurner. I don't even bother looking for competitors (who might be marginally better) as : It keeps things simple for me: I just have to hold one concept in my head "Google good: Google has good products, Google finds the new good products ". Given this brand "synergy" effect I'm surprised they got away with a 10x deal.
The big reason for using FeedBurner, however, is that it can automatically add Google Adsense adds to your feeds, allowing you to easily generate revenue if you have a large enough audience. There are a number of influential bloggers who don't like this service, however (and other aspects of FeedBurner as well) - see Relevant Links below for more information. So Google now has bought the best RSS broadcaster that already serves Google ads (and the review is from 2005).
Try this link. Google without any ads ? Ok we could configure our machines to bloack ads but I use different machines a lot, if that "backdoor" link becomes popular Google would be in trouble ! I picked up on this "bug" from here.
Yes strictly it isn't a bug in the sense that it harms the user but it is the same as a bug that allows you use a program for free.
1) They can't describe what happened
2) They can't tell if outside interference, whatever the nature occurred
3) That this might have an internal/design cause
And in possibly related news Police in Seattle are reporting that Tom Robertson, general manager for Interoperability and Standards at Microsoft, was hit by a flying chair whilst out walking his dog. Police don't yet have any firm leads but are seeking to question a bald, red-faced caucasian man who was seen fleeing the scene.
The article is complaining about people re-tooling articles , making them ever more precise. This reminds me of "physical" code optimisation: doing this makes the code difficult to read straight off, very hard to grasp the logical concept of what is being done. Or even adding in error handling & exception cases to a main flow. Whilst this detail is better fact is that most people have the outline concepts first & re-tool after, this also needs to be the case for first time readers. Possibly Wikipedia needs to have "generalist" & "specialist" articles.