http://www.bespacific.com/mt/archives/022700.html
October 31, 2009
Report: Lost Laptops: More Expensive than you Think
"To better understand the range of potential outcomes, the Ponemon Institute compiled data on 138 instances of laptop loss or theft within a 12-month period by the employees, temporary employees, and subcontractors of a representative sample of U.S. Businesses."
[From the article:
A security expert, billing from around USD 50 to USD 160 per hour, typically spends a day reviewing backup files, e-mail trails, and other clues to the potential damage to the firm.
[From the White Paper:
Summing up these cost drivers, Ponemon estimated the average cost of a lost laptop to be a whopping USD 49,246.
Interesting question. Leads me to ask, do those shrink-wrap licenses work both ways? If a customer “opens and account” has he entered a contractual agreement?
http://news.cnet.com/8301-19413_3-10387879-240.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
Does cloud computing need malpractice safeguards?
by James Urquhart November 1, 2009 6:00 AM PST
Recent failures to protect consumer data stored on the Internet (aka "the cloud") point to an alarming gap between the value of that data and the care with which some vendors treat that data.
Microsoft subsidiary Danger failed to put in even adequate safeguards for its customers' data. Amazon Web Services failed to discover an obvious problem that kept a loyal customer down for 20 hours. Coghead's agreement to sell to SAP without any provisions to continue support for existing customers.
Here's an interesting question. If this speculation is true for music, would it also be true for other content? I already see students who appear to have broad and deep knowledge of games (both as players and programmers) could the same happen to video (tv and movies),books, newspapers, and other topics? (It used to be that you first needed to become an expert at information gathering...)
http://entertainment.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/10/31/215209
The Golden Age of Infinite Music
Posted by kdawson on Sunday November 01, @03:03AM from the in-the-air dept.
Over at the BBC, music journalist John Harris speculates on what may become of the music business now that we have entered the golden age of infinite music.
"I've just poured the music-related contents of my brain into a book, and I would imagine that 30-ish years worth of knowledge about everyone from Funkadelic to The Smiths has probably cost me a five-figure sum, a stupid amount spent on music publications, and endless embarrassed moments spent trying to have a conversation with those arrogant blokes who tend to work in record shops. Last weekend, by contrast, I had a long chat about music with the 16-year-old son of a friend, and my mind boggled. At virtually no cost, in precious little time and with zero embarrassment, he had become an expert on all kinds of artists, from English singer-songwriters like Nick Drake and John Martyn to such American indie-rock titans as Pavement and Dinosaur Jr. Though only a sixth-former, he seemingly knew as much about most of these people as any music writer. Like any rock-oriented youth, his appetite for music is endless, and so is the opportunity..."
Interesting but probably not true. What really happened?
Blogger Humiliates Town Councillors Into Resigning
Posted by kdawson on Sunday November 01, @06:16AM from the speaking-truth-to-power dept.
Dr_Barnowl writes
"In an occurrence first postulated in sci-fi and later lampooned by stick figures, it seems that a blogger has actually been responsible for the mass resignation of elected officials — a British town council — largely by calling them 'jack***es' and Nazis. What's next? The deposition of a president with 'your mom' smacktalk?"
[Not how I read the blog http://muckandbrass.blogspot.com/ Bob]
Bad strategy. Software that throttles itself proves the ISP's point – networks need to be throttled! (No it's not logical, this is an argument for politicians, not rational people.) True problem is that many ISPs have what amounts to monopolistic power.
http://torrentfreak.com/utorrent-2-0-to-elimininate-the-need-for-isp-throttling-091031/
uTorrent 2.0 To Elimininate The Need For ISP Throttling
Written by Ernesto on October 31, 2009
ISPs have been throttling BitTorrent traffic for years already. Although the true reasons for this are not always clear, some ISPs have argued that a high number of BitTorrent connections are slowing down other applications and traffic.
In early 2007, when network neutrality was still a non-issue for most people, BitTorrent inventor Bram Cohen told us that ISPs should find a way to cope with BitTorrent.
“ISPs have to invest in making their networks better and faster rather than stifling applications which consumers use and love,” he said, while encouraging users to switch to non throttling ISPs if possible, or complain to their ISP’s customer services.
These articles still capture my attention
After all the fuss, govt health plan to cover few
By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR, Associated Press Writer – Sat Oct 31, 5:17 pm ET
WASHINGTON – What's all the fuss about? After all the noise over Democrats' push for a government insurance plan to compete with private carriers, coverage numbers are finally in: Two percent.
Repeat, but really useful guides
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/pdf-manuals-round-up/
15 Free Guides That Really Teach You USEFUL Stuff
Oct. 31st, 2009 By Simon Slangen
For the Forensics Wiki
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-to-recover-deleted-emails-in-thunderbird/
How To Recover Deleted eMails in Thunderbird
Oct. 31st, 2009 By Tina
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