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Preventing loss of funds or personal ID should be the first goal of everyone--users AND online retailers and those that support them. Obviously there are no solutions that are 100% secure, and there are no companies or governments or agencies that can prevent your information from being stolen. Changing passwords regularly…
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I, like others, separate Fault Tolerant solutions from High Availability. FT feels much more low-level--like TCP requiring retransmits to ensure the data is correctly received. It's more fault tolerant than UDP traffic because of that characteristic. FT doesn't feel like a suitable description or solution to a major…
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https://www.incapsula.com/blog/know-your-top-10-bots.html The Web Robots Pages http://venturebeat.com/2016/06/14/botcamp-betaworks-botness/ http://www.reportsfromearth.com/1140/names-best-known-bots-spiders-crawlers-visiting-website-2014/
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I hired one guy for his networking skills and was very pleasantly surprised to discover he had amazing art / whiteboarding talents. He could draw square boxes freehand that were just about perfect, and his hand-drawn network designs were a pleasure to behold. On the other hand, the drawing process was slow &…
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Now to get users to understand what they're doing is sometimes inappropriate and risky . . .
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Movie Pass certainly sounded good to consumers. Apparently so too to investors, who did not apply the sniff test to the business plan and the costs.
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One is always encouraged when their impressions of a new technology turn out to be accurate. I was never a supporter of blockchain's hype.
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You're right when you observe there are fewer innovations and inventions when there is no perceived need. Could it be we're merely at the plateau of that specific type of innovation, and a quantum leap is around the corner? In human and computer terms, fifty years has accomplished so much innovation that we've become…
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Initial MTTR costs were lower than the time it took for the initial design & configuration (which was tedious, considerable, and challenging to get funding for training to learn & deploy correctly). Keeping the skillset fresh and in place, as staff leave or rotate on-call schedules, or are hired, will be challenging to…
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You're 100% correct on that with the Undercover Boss. I watched an episode once and the CEO was reduced to tears watching his employees sacrifice and bend over backwards and go without correct compensation / training / break time -- out of care for customers, out of fear of losing a job, out of exemplary work ethic. In…
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Apparently it takes MORE than an act of Parliament to become a Time Lord. Removing Daylight Savings Time will be interesting. I suspect it'll just cause more wailing and moaning and gnashing of teeth at the castle walls. My favorite anti-common-sense statement about Daylight Savings Time reportedly comes from one of the…
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Agreed. Your jaded view is shared by many, including me--with reasonable justification. When corporations were given equivalent rights as "real" people, when the government forbids scientists from researching/publishing facts about pollution, climate change, etc., when money is the thing that puts people into government…
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Ah, Flash. I've loved you on the NOAA web site for radar weather updates. https://radar.weather.gov/Conus/full_loop.php I've hated you when Chrome forces me to manually override its security for sites like NOAA's every time I visit them. I've been entertained by you, I've questioned your clunkiness and security, and shaken…
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https://emojipedia.org/bacon/
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Like many of you, I've had incentive to use stay-cations to burn up PTO in recent years--and not just due to COVID-19, although it's an EXCELLENT incentive to do right by my community, family, and myself. My PTO started growing pretty quickly due to me staying with the same company for many years. My wife changed companies…
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For better or worse, I'm not invited to discussions about Cloud services and negotiations with providers. I might have earned a reputation of erring on the side of my company's security and reliability, and my thoughts towards that end might tend to inhibit negotiations with cloud providers. Therefore I'm unaware of which…
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I agree that Nessie is an unlikely finalist. Even the severed head of Medusa was capable of defeating all comers; it should have come down to her against Dragon, with her on top (if logic and mythology and movie history were considered canon).
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I suspect the cloud is a worse location for patching, given it's that much more removed from your hands-on control. If that idea of trusting that you do a better job securing what you can actually hold and see is old-fashioned, so be it.
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Don't hesitate going to 12.0.1. I've seen it's better, more stable, more user-friendly than older versions. And if you DO happen to have issues. hit them from three sides: open a case online with SW support, open it again with a telephone call, and post your issues to Thwack. Then have a private contest with SW and Thwack…
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Nicely done! I agree, Moore's Law rocks, and we all benefit from faster, smaller, less expensive. At first I thought "The Matrix" movies had it right, but in the last couple of years I've heard that the futurists are predicting what we do online or wirelessly today, we'll do with a combination of hardware, software, and…
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Agreed, one can easily review the Penalties chart in the hint and come up with All as a viable answer However, "Externally defined remediation programs" is not specifically in the chart's penalties column, while all the other ARE in the chart. Yet when I chose A, C, and D, that was judged wrong. I don't like to cry…
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"June the First be with you" just doesn't have that ring . . . Unless we all really celebrated the beginning of summer. We have no monopoly on beautiful weather, but summer is particularly nice here in Duluth, MN. https://www.outsideonline.com/1924981/why-duluth-best-town-america
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Although learning Google is listening to your every word, no matter whether you intend it or not, no matter whether you have a Siri or Alexa or Google phone or Android or Apple phone, people apparently don't put two and two together. They install a voice-operated application/service that's always connected to the Internet,…
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More Security Kung Fu, please? Bundle it with real-world discoveries and examples that show off how SW products can reveal that which was hidden?
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We have the same solution here in Minnesota. They call it the "Gopher State One Call." Call Before You Dig - Gopher State One Call I'm not sure, but I THINK it's illegal to dig without calling and waiting for someone to get out & spray/flag the buried assets first. Many mistakes and outages could have been avoided if…
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I went with NAM licensing for my growing network needs. I came with nearly all the SolarWinds modules I wanted, plus the ability to scale out to twenty APE's (or more?) at will.
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Here's hoping answers to future mission's questions are less . . . divisive? Debatable? Confusing? Open to interpretation? Onward and upward!
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This was another good idea--I appreciate your work, Danielle.
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Here's a comparison of the Top 10 Leaderboard point totals since last October 31, 2017. There have been opportunities to gain over 100K points since then. If you're chasing points and haven't seen these opportunities, you have some great ones to get you additional points. But they take extra time and effort to earn. See…
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HumpDay Bump seconded.
