Re: Cisco: Be Bold!
>Nimble's only route to market is to go straight to the floor on price
I presume they'll be absorbed into HPE's product line and be pushed out via that channel.
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>Same old same old, you'll whine but you'll pay, because no one gets fired for buying MS do they.
Ok, ok... We'll only buy 16% less... which is the reason they've switched to subscriptions - you can't easily terminate them.
However, if people suddenly see their opex rise, they are going to start looking for other solutions. Maybe ones which allow them to sweat the assets.
>you won't have super elasticity without buying a lot more tin to cover way beyond your best guess at a worse case scenario.
I was with you up to here.
Tin is pretty cheap, especially if you compare it to the costs of getting the cattle model to work.
As much as a I dislike Uber's business practises, is no-one delighted by the delicious irony that the police can't arrest uber drivers because they refuse to break the law at police request?
I have to think that this is an LEO power grab. If they know the uber drivers, they know the car, they can track them down like any other vehicle & owner they want, they don't need the uber app to do it.
Its far better to have a customer-blackball mechanism and make the police use their normal procedures for catching criminals, than give the police special powers to force companies to recode applications they don't like.
There have been some dumb comparisons with rapists in this thread. We aren't talking rapists, we're talking people who give cheap lifts. The police aren't even going after Uber, they are going after the drivers. We are talking very small fry indeed. This is the kind of story you get when you give the police quotas to fill.
Is the TM a trademark note or part of the logo?
I suspect MS have made a mistake here with the cloud thing. I'm not sure many people use skype-out rather than a mobile phone, which means big infrastructure for little return. These days I use it for international family chat. I can't be bothered with yet another account so just use my mobile phone for (admittedly short) international business calls - I may use skype for the odd teleconference to a freephone number if I'm working from home.
Why don't they go with tax-type laws?
Is the local company a "controlled foreign corporation"? Fine the local corporation and assign joint responsibility to the parent company. Do they fail to turn up to court? Carry on without them. If found guilty, do what the US does and go after their income streams - block payments and hold intermediaries liable.
Sure you can do business, but you have to comply with our laws.
>That's dangerously close to a "turtles all the way down argument" and solves nothing ultimately about the origin of life.
Once you've accepted that the universe sprang into existence when "nothing" exploded and resulted in something (in defiance of the laws of physics) and then the debris from that explosion defied the laws of thermodynamics and went from chaos to extraordinarily ordered systems, "turtles all the way down" is the least of your problems.
I'm all for research, but I seem to think we've seen this before - was it rock structures on Mars? Really old inorganic stuff which doesn't relate to anything we know as organic, but seems to follow a pattern, so it might be and we might be able to disprove God by proving life on other planets! Though I'm never sure how those two things are related.
'Tis but a funding expedition. Not to say its unworthy, but probably nothing to get excited about.
>just use GPEdit to stop it.
Well yes, that's possible, but why should I have to do that?
Even in the 90's I had a Linux desktop which stayed up for months. Ditto Solaris.
I think it's all the tight integration which causes problems. Unexpected knock on consequences.
Yer hear that, systemd?
Doesn't that mean security is someone-else's problem?
I don't think I'd have deleted the data - it clearly has little value.
I think I'd have threatened to modify the recordings.
Grandma will be most surprised at little Tyke's vocabulary.
Cue sue-balls.
Far more effective than holding Tyke's message to ransom.
>If more people were to rely on automated vehicles there'd be less privately owned cars sitting parked on the streets so more spaces.
Not if everyone needs one at the same time... say 8:30am.
What happens to your booking system if there is an accident or delay earlier?
As far as the easy-clean vinyl seats go, I'm sure that would be just... lovely. BYO towel.
I think you'll find most people would just prefer to have their own car. If it all worked perfectly, it would be a boon to those replacing taxis. It doesn't work though. I think its mostly compute providers looking for a solution to a particular problem, that being, what can we flog?
Do you need to create a major traffic incident in order to block the police from arriving at the scene of your crime?
Do we have a GPS spoofer for you! Buy two, get this set of five child-shaped balloons with ballast and heat source absolutely free! But wait... there's more! Each child-shaped balloon comes with a remote-controlled launching catapult and laser-pointer sighting tool, so you can trigger road blocker remotely with pinpoint accuracy!
Despite all the contracts for these things being purchased by Uber and Lyft, the author seems to have overlooked the fact that autonomous vehicles are not a thing. We rarely even use them when the vehicle is in a controlled, human-free zone, on rails, never mind uncontrolled roads.
>maybe you could offer a rollback option anyway,
BTRFS anyone? Well, who trusts software vendors to do the right thing?
It did take me ages to work out why my laptop (Suse) was apparently out of disk space when df said there was loads left, but it is very, very cool.
As for Bluecoat... resting on their laurels for far too long. Seriously, if network security is your game, at least put some effort in. If Google can put it in a browser for free, you can do it when people pay you for support.
>All. Software. Contains. Bugs.
Yes, but that's a cop-out.
The major problem is that a modern OS is huge and the attack surface is massive. We need a redesign which minimises the attack surface. User-id based rights don't cut it. We need to be able to restrict rights at run-time in a reasonable manner. Things like EMET and capabilities are a good start but not anywhere close to having the required user-friendliness. We need to be able to clamp down on access to the directory tree, raw network stack, localhost-based web proxy, and config system. Those rights need to be defined during installation and managed by an admin system, not from inside the application - no self-updaters.
My internet browser and its sub-processes needs access to the GUI, these particular libraries, its disk cache and its download directory. It needs read-access to part of the registry and it needs r/w to where it stores user preferences (a config file or registry subtree). It does not need access to my whole user directory, screen-saver binaries and preference settings.
I may even need to define a second less secure browser config for intranet work. Maybe that one allows Java but won't connect to any non-rfc1918 addresses. It still does not need access to my whole user directory, screen-saver binaries and preference settings. Some of these things are in EMET and the host firewall settings on Windows, but they need to be brought together and made mainstream, integrating them into the application installer.
We need to kill extension-based interpreter selection and stop hiding "file types." Applications should not be able to overwrite files on their own -they should use an OS-mediated file-save dialogue. OS dialogues should be triggered if they try over-writing files for a mime-type they did not register during installation. Non-installed binaries get r/w to an auto-created subdirectory only.
Maybe I've got some of these details wrong, but this is the kind of OS redesign we need. Even Android and IOS at least attempt fine-grained controls.
I doubt MS are under any illusions that they will convert any Linux users to windows.
It is mostly a defensive play - if you need a couple of tools, do you want to fight for a Linux install (another unmanaged VM/SOE) or are you going to just use the tools Windows comes with? The idea is to keep Linux off the radar.
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ed by SHA-1 collision? Not so fast, says Linus Torvalds
The issue is whether you can compromise the client before they realise the code is not what they think.
If you can compromise the GIT client and then pull down the proper code in the background so you don't know you've been compromised, you have a problem.
This is one reason its good to avoid monoculture. It would be hard to compromise lots of different clients (while maintaining the hash) and you only need one client to notice the compromise and the user to alert the others.
Phones don't cost anything like their retail price to make, but the do cost money to sell and if you sell cheap ones, you aren't selling high-margin ones.
The problem is, if you go cheap now, you'll be subsidising the network usage of the more expensive phones.
Check out Telstra's BYO / PAYG plans... not that different from getting a phone with it.
Intel have nothing to lose in mobile, it would be nice if they could put together a standard for phone hardware which allowed both ARM and x86 chips to interface with common phone hardware.
What it really comes down to is that the bulk end of the market can't be sustained so the vendors skim from the smaller purchasers (who expect lower "economies of scale") to fund it. That only works if you can prevent the bulk market redistributing.
As for the argument that you own the asset but not the IP in the asset, that's morally rot. If I buy a DVD, I can sell it on. If I start selling copies, that's a different issue. The fact that the US (and EU) government colludes to outlaw the grey market through IP law is irrelevant. Its indicative of a society in economic and moral decline. As for not selling stuff to "bad" regimes... really? That that fuss over Cuba while the US messes around in Vietnam, Central and South America, Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan? Do you really thing the Iranian government can't get its hands on plenty of compute power? Is this about, stopping them doing bad stuff or retarding their economic development? Maybe half the country dislikes their president - perhaps the government should be toppled and one more friendly to foreign powers installed...
>First, it's not warrantless.
I think the point point is: the police's surveillance isn't warrant-less, but Amazon's is.
The whole thing looks fishy to me. It would be easy to comply with this request and say, "see, we keep nothing" which would make them look good. If on the other hand, they are snooping more than they should, then things would get ugly and no-one would trust them, or Siri or Tay....
Of course, if he yelled, "Alexa, call the police!" and Amazon did nothing, that would look bad, even if it is entirely excusable.
>If this guy wins, expect your next contract to be like something written by Tolstoy.
He won't. We have juries to even out the edges and maintain the spirit of the law, which in the US is, "tough luck for the employees."
More likely, there will be clauses concerning the requirement to "ensure the continuity of corporate systems' functionality as required by the company for operational activities..."
>Rather than place the blame for this shift on privacy invasions, defective products, unsavory employment policies, or toxic corporate cultures...
or the fact that, unlike in the 80's and 90's, the industry isn't making significantly better tech, or our lives either better or more fun.
I do not want your rubbish app,
It looks just like some 80's tat,
That I purchased long ago,
It isn't worth having, "on the go."
Those 35 years have made you rich,
But its clear, you've had no creative itch,
Since in your garage you hatched a plan,
To take the tech of some other man,
Its all about the patents now
And the milking of that one cash-cow
You tell us lies 'bout what the product can do
And drip feed features 'til we're blue
Your AI stinks, bright - it is not,
Your code, it suffers from bit-rot,
We cannot trust your new software,
Not to take our data, store it who-knows-where,
To be stolen by some nasty hackers,
Who behave better than your advertising-backers,
You try to feed us browser enhancements,
That's really pants, in all departments,
You want your cloud to be our controller,
I think I'd rather get ebola,
I remember when every day,
We'd run a spreadsheet in 48k
The money that we've spent upgrading,
Is consumed by your awful coding,
Those layers and layers of virtualisation
I've now come to the realisation,
Solve problems of your own devising,
And this is just my own surmising,
That you do not deserve that brand new yacht,
You don't deserve it, not one jot.
IT was fun, IT was cool,
Now its just a huge cesspool,
Of lawyers, http spam
You've made it like,
Green eggs and ham.
So I'll take it back from you,
With Linux and all things GNU,
I may do less, be less connected,
Than you think should be expected,
From all the things that do not matter,
That incessant, inconsequential chatter,
I'll go outside, take my children too,
I'll give no more of my cash to you,
I'll visit friends and drink some wine,
I'll vow to spend more time offline.
I do like tech, I really do,
Tech is still cool - but not from you,
I like to make it do my thing,
All that Chrome - I don't like bling,
It isn't fun when you do it all,
And try to keep me in your thrall.
I do not need your streaming service,
All that slurping makes me nervous.
You do things in an inefficient way,
Far better to broadcast FTA,
So I'll tinker with my PVR,
As some would tinker with their car,
I care not for content though,
MKR? I hate that show.
Recording it, getting it for free,
Is what really motivates me.
I have no interest in your content,
I'll record it all, then auto-delete it.
A billionaire I'll never be,
And that's really fine with me,
I see what happens to a company,
When all it cares about is money,
Unpleasant both to foe and friend,
Flexible morals, truth to bend,
And dodgy accounting in the end.
Those who remember "Pretty Woman"
Can learn a very important lesson,
No, prostitution will not make you lucky,
Its that you don't want to be Stuckey.
I should end this rhyme right here,
Though I'm sure it'll make you sneer,
At tech that does not turn a buck,
I loath your tech and that's tough luck,
For when tech lovers have departed,
Your downfall, it will then have started,
Open source your profits will consume,
You may bored customers' profiles exhume,
Pretend they're valid like Yahoo,
Like like like like on Facebook too,
But when all is said and all is done,
And ads are all "One weird trick, for your tum."
Though in this life you'll do ok,
There is one thing to cause dismay,
That golden parachute, which works so well,
Will land you gently down, in hell.
I think the problem is the scope of the request.
This would appear to be a one-time prosecution device. No-one involved in this type of crime is going to use their fingerprint for unlocking in the future.
However, rejecting the request does stop the government from abusing the system when they want to trawl for fingerprints.
>it's overkill and painfully distracting and ultimately unnecessary.
I disagree - and I'm someone who can't stand fb and doesn't have an account.
What facebook does provide is an authenticated presence. Not authenticated in terms of who you are, but authenticated in terms of, you're the same person attached to that facebook account as you were yesterday. - at least for people who already know each other offline.
It is a bit like a telephone number - once you know the right one, you can call it and be reasonably sure of the person picking up.
People use fb like an address-book + group chat. It's power is in the data that is already in there - the pictures that we assume will be around forever, but won't be.
What we are in desperate need of is a point of presence protocol and sophisticated address-book and identity management. We need to ditch single-identity communications systems, such as skype.
I think we'll need to see a revenue collapse at facebook which leads to service degradation, before anything changes. There's too much historical data that people want to keep in fb for them to move to another service just because its trendy.
>there are a few solutions, but most are fairly draconian, and even they are rarely bullet proof.
What was the error? Hiding data and mixing formatting with data.
Do not do unexpected things with data processing. If you have the data there, keep it in plain sight. If it shouldn't be in plain sight, don't just pretend it isn't there.
Keep a canonical list of templates which have no data in them and have reports populate them. If you must import the data to provide a snapshot, don't hide it, put it in a separate sheet and have your formatted report reference the data.
Of course, if MS could, you know, innovate in security, it could get the mail client to check attachments when they are added and run the "ready to publish?" checks it already has in its own products which pick up on hidden fields and so on.
Maybe they could add an "attachment" api to windows so that picking up a file will run it through checks based on the file type and system configuration. It always looks a little weird that you "open" a file when you are actually not.
But hey, people will buy Windows and Office anyway, so why bother spending any money on developing it for security?
There are a couple of things worth mentioning.
I was working for a company which had everything on citrix. I had my own laptop, but mostly it was a citrix client. A phone with a decent video-out capability could easily take that role and mean I can ditch a large lump of metal from my bag.
We are constrained quite a bit by battery power. Even a phone running as a smartphone can suck the battery down quickly if you have the screen brightness up and you're running a game. If we can add a power to my screen-docking, we can really open up the CPU.
Instant-on and quiet. I have a powerful PC desktop, but web and email are the most used functions. These are bad on a small screen with no keyboard and mouse, so just adding that would be worthwhile. A phone doesn't replace the PC, but it does mean I only need to turn the PC on when its really called for.
And the downside? I don't trust mobile OS's. I don't want them transitioning to my desktop, I'm going to need a new linux OS for this to be a thing.
>Google actually sells advertising on many of these tunes videos while the copyright holder gets nothing.
Possibly true, but look a little closer at many of the music videos.
Product placement much?
There are also two more things:
1. if the illegal stuff on youtube disappeared, would you go out and buy it instead?
2. if the illegal stuff on youtube was allowed, but it became unprofitable to produce more of that kind of thing, would the world be a worse place?
or a firefox extension which returns page 2 from google results.
See? This is why open source is such good indicator of criminality!
We should ban it.
Or maybe, we should pass a law which says that google can only ever return one page of results. Maybe remove the "search" button and just leave the "I feel lucky" one.
>It says "has multiple social media profiles on one platform".
>I'm fine with ridiculing the advice, but at least ridicule what it actually says, not what you hallucinate it to say.
Most of the kids I know do this - one public profile (maybe for school too), one for close friends.
It's much easier the managing the ever-changing privacy settings social media companies play with.
I create email addresses for almost every organisation I talk to. Then I can track their data sharing.
>Yesterday, the power station's owner Engie said that's because its number two unit was accumulating losses and has been mothballed since July 2015.
>Ever since last year's blackouts in South Australia, the state's high proportion of wind power has been blamed as the reason for blackouts, leading to a push for “clean coal” to provide “stability” to the grid.
The gas generator wasn't being used enough to be profitable, so they want to use coal instead?
It looks to me like the company just didn't want to carry enough spare capacity to cope with the spike in demand during the heat. A bit like the water companies in the UK selling off their reservoirs for building on and then cutting supplies during hot summers due to "drought."
I know nothing of the industry, but it appears to me that if energy usage spikes during the heat, then solar might be a better bet than wind. At least at night, demand should ease off as office-blocks turn off their air-conditioning. Either way, you need to cater for peak rather than average, capacity, which is going to be "a financial burden" on the generating company.
>Tugging strongly on The Register's heart-strings, they call out some of the world's richest known sources of bullshit: “the TED talk you watched last night … the latest New York Times or Washington Post article fawning over some startup's big data analytics”...
>We almost weep with joy to see them ask “Can you tell when a clinical trial … is trustworthy, and when it is just a veiled press release for some big pharma company?”
Actually, that was the subject of a series of TED talks, "Bad Pharma" where they look at how clinical trials are manipulated to the point of being "less than optimal."
There are a couple of issues. The first is morality. There is a difference between showing off your thing in a good light and completely manipulating the message for the purposes of misrepresentation. We seem to have a distinct lack of morality in our vendors and a surprising willingness on the part of customers to tolerate it rather than blacklisting them.
The second issue is the models. The problem with stats is that you have so many variable factors that your models can easily fail to reflect reality. There are also so many shades of meaning attached to data before it goes into the lake that get lost by the time the data comes out.
Big Data is what big companies do when they can't be bothered to get to know their customers/internal management and their customers problems. There is certainly a place for stats and multi-discipline analysis, but I'm not sure that throwing it all together into chaos and hoping order comes out is a model worth banking on. Even matching up things like network traffic and latency issues can be a non-trivial exercise.