Posts by gudguy1a

Daannnggg!!!!

@ K --- that about spells it out pretty well. Good one.

Re: Phone Batteries

7 year journey...? Not necessarily - as assistive/peripheral technologies (used to help with this battery problem) also gain ground in their own realms - the time line becomes shortened, making a 'possible' market introduction in 3 - 5 years. Maybe... fingers crossed

Re: Android too? - Terrorist, no.... okay.

"I turned them on, as I value location data and I'm not a terrorist/having and affair/or doing anything else illegal/immoral..."

--- I like that, a bit of humour for the day. That aside, you should still be cautious. In role my work role, we use that kind of info to track folks. But on the flip side, there are those malicious As_ _ oles out there who use that location data to target you for any nice valuables you might have at home, nicely framed in your photo, with the geolocation info turned on... be careful.

Hardware and services

Yes, good one "TheVogon". It does matter to some businesses to know what services they can run in cloud AS WELL AS the type of hardware that cloud provider is providing. Before anyone comments on this, i.e. some software is optimized to run more efficiently on certain hardware. Just the way businesses, to this point anyway, is being done. Not all software runs the same on all hardware. If only it were that easy - it would make life MUCH better for all of us.

SD display.... 320kpbs

I have to respectfully disagree, I don't know many folks who would want to have SD quality on anything, especially after having HD in their lives.

Then, at 320k...?

That is just asking for trouble - think about folks who have crappy vision - those with glasses and STILL have crappy vision. Having higher quality displays, faster speeds can mean a great deal for the driver (maps in particular) - back seat displays, sure, they can have SD quality. But in the driver seat, some of us want the best possible definition with the faster speed processors available.

At a decent price that is....

Re: NS

Ahhh, hello NS.

After I read a few of the articles that have been released since yesterday, my very first thought was:

"super white-list" or "white-list on steroids" and sent that out along with some of the press release content to my peers across the country as a new interesting possibility (can't say which organization, sorry). But I'm not in the top level for gaining a new product...

Edgewise does sound promising because there are no 'hard' & 'true' edge to networks any longer as one person who talked about Edgewise indicated (in one press release) - but we knew that.

And I know and have talked to the CTO of vArmour and their micro-segmentation product, which is at the address-control level - even that is still like a firewall (even if it is a good product).

Basically, we all have a headache in trying to figure out how to effectively stop malicious activities & behaviour (I put in the 'u' for our UK friends). If there is a product that introduces 'machine-learning' to help stop the bad guys (and gals), let's see more.

Good luck

Sad statement but maybe true...

@ Old Handle - you got quite a point there, this situation is starting to make ME want to leave the US. That is, while this looney, errr, certain individual put into the presidency by the electoral college is in that office. Or rather, as soon as the next election comes around - we can do better... We definitely want folks to come in, after this social media invasive vetting episode is over.

Now just imagine how many folks are going to create fake accounts, just seed it with just enough true info - and no, it may not extend very far into the past but it will be there...

Re: C'mon get serious...

The machine in Redmond has finally put out the word for OEMs to stop selling Win 7 & 8.

But, we all know it is going to take years before those two versions go away, by which point, we're going to likely be looking at Win 15 and 18 and etc....

Re: Russian aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov

130mph...??

Not clear on that one, no large military naval craft can get that high. Maybe you're thinking of a specially kitted out attack boat with hydrofoils to skim faster over the water (much faster)...?

Then, that really would be something to see, some attack boat hitting an opponent while traveling at 130mph (or 120 knots) or higher...

Hack back...

Good response but likely not true.

The snag is, if it is 'consumer' kit in a hospital that was coopted and used as a jump off point and you hack back, possibly doing some damage (inadvertently) for something like a life saving device. Once an investigation begins to discover how that device was brought down, law enforcement will be able to back track to your IP.

Then, unfortunately, you're going to be on the hot seat for causing damage (or a death), even if your heart was in the right place in trying to stop the hack.

But I think most of us are with you in wanting to do some kind of hack back to stop this crap from malevolent, idiotic, STUPD morons causing this mayhem....

People...

Good point you make here, if organizations are not spending the money on a cloud provider, then they're spending it on staff (and on-prem equipment) to do that coding/scripting...

And with adding more staff to do that coding comes costs - salaries, medical/dental insurance, 401k (Roth, etc.) and other stingily granted concessions to keep and (or try to) make employees happy (overtime, sick time/vacation, maternity leave, etc.).

Let's not forget continual upgrades/patches (and testing of those patches) while we're at it...

Oh yeah, and Disaster Recovery - anyone plan and set up DR from scratch to a different city (not for a Hot site but for a Cold or Warm site)...?

Don't forget about power and cooling of the datacenter (as well as power and cooling AND heating for the humans).

Then there is the space needed to house more staff.

And then there is, well, we could go nattering on about this, couldn't we...?

The cost of operating in the cloud, for now, is going to cost the organization to some degree. The issue will be in deciding which way to go:

a) hiring more coders and buying equipment or

b) offload most of the h/w (& maybe software) worries to a provider and THEN bring in a platoon of coders rather than an army

Re: So what?

Ahhh, you might want to reconsider your comment, as some of those, ahhh, granddads may had had to take out another 20+ year mortgage to pay for their child's (or three) college tuition.

Or, to pay for their grand-children's day care that the parent's cannot afford.

Sooo.... think on those aspects a wee bit before you jump on some of the older population at work.

Re: Actually an argument for a public utility to own the last mile

EXCELLENT write up.

The only snag with the government involvement is that we (in the US) have a large number of people who do not want more government regulation, which is rather short sighted and sad. Having some kind of nation-wide regulation along the lines you suggested would only benefit everyone...

I mean, who would not want 1 Gbps to the door, consistent all over the country...???

It would also solve the great digital divide. We still have too many people being forced to use friggin' dial up and kilobit speeds as we all know, well, they suck.

Re: So exactly like mainframe computing 30 years ago...

Hmmmm, maybe Hollerith cards are coming back too?

Let me see if I can dig up a box or two of those punched cards to do a 2 or 3 page report on the state of mainframe, errr, serverless computing.

Re: Whoopsie!

@Black Rat, yep, good topic but that and a couple of other typos and errors got me distracted...