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Thanks, Danielle! (When it rains, it pours!) Best of luck recovering quickly! Tell us you're using VNQM and NPM to troubleshoot this . . . ;^) There's nothing like real-world examples.

Hackers don't need Malware? Spot on. Except when they DO need it. And even when they don't need it, remember to keep your belt AND suspenders on. But getting inside so they can take advantage of your own tools (I bet lots of folks leverage WMI) is the issue. Shall we toss the baby out with the bath water? Or offer helpful…

Upgraded to 7.4, am even happier now. Thanks SW!

Schweet. It sounds very real-world-ish. If you're not monitoring what you've built (or if you haven't planned to monitor what you WILL be building), how will you troubleshoot when issues arise? I think far too many organizations deploy new technologies and applications without including monitoring (and appropriate…

I had to smile when I read the title. Who doesn't understand this already? I bet you could find someone with some gold bricks to sell them.

Wow! Seriously, Obi-Wan has taught you well! Would you be open to the idea of providing screen shots of the steps required to accomplish your beautiful status box? I bet a LOT of people would appreciate it.

Kudos to you for these observations! You're right on the money.

Whatever floats your boat, as long as it works around any limitations or unexpected/inconsistent behavior with left-clicking on a link. Assuming a person has a center button / wheel-button.

NPS is new to me. After reading this story, it sounds like modifying one's business to improve its NPS is like school administrators requiring teacher to train students to pass specific tests that measure the schools' performance incorrectly--at the expense of teaching kids critical out-of-the-box thinking and problem…

Marriott's likely only the tip of an iceberg of inestimable size. Every bit of PII, PHI, and PCI must be secured and stay secured. Each user should be informed every time their data is viewed or shared. And the consequences for violating that privacy must be so large that no individual or company or government would ever…

Thank you for the mission!

HEAT is taking over LAN Desk, which hasn't been a bad product for us. We had HEAT ten years ago, and I learned to use it satisfactorily, but Management became quickly aware it wasn't the right product for generating the needed reports. We're interested to learn what HEAT will do with LAN Desk under the covers over the…

I agree--facial recognition technology is not accurate enough to rely on for use as evidence in court. Worse, even if it WERE that reliable, we know that SFX folks & anyone with make-up/cosmetic skill can make themselves up to look like someone else. Worst: The data is stored electronically. Electronic information is easy…

I like your take on that. Reminds me of a Pixar film. "Hey Shrek--she thinks I'm a STEED!" Happy memories!

That's a screen name right out of the dark web. Cryptic indeed.

I'm having problems identifying the answer for Question 7 (3/14/2017) (Memory Contention on Host: Max Average Duration). None of the answers match up with the high spike for Average Duration, which I'd interpret as "max". And the actual Average Duration continually changes over time. What's the logic here? Are we supposed…

Soda pop dispensers that capture my photograph and analyze it and use it in the future to manipulate my choices? Nope. Nopity-Nope NOPE. That sure sounds like an invasion of my privacy. Our PII is already to vulnerable to manipulation and theft. Why create another avenue for it? Simply to increase someone else's profit at…

Personality matters. It's easy to hire someone and train them to be more secure, more technologically savvy. Similarly it's easy to shop around until you find a set of good social media resources. But hiring someone who advertises their top notch skills, and discovering they can't get along with your team . . . That might…

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You use the Facebook Application on your smartphone? Oh, you poor, uneducated, unsecured, personal-data-stolen-and-sold person! Fix many of your security problems with your personal information and IT habits right now: uninstall the FB app. Get along nicely without it. And do the same with other info-stealing app like…

Anti-monopoly thinking is probably ALWAYS popular for the folks who aren't in charge. Peasants often wish for beneficial change in their lives--sometimes to the extent of taking up arms and revolting. We're lucky when our leaders aren't associated with grabbing more power and working to change our country for their…

People are the answer, even as they can be the source of problem, no matter whether it's HR-kinds of problems, or process, or technology. In the last century (Hah! I Love being able to say that in an IT forum!) I worked for an organization that had 30 Novel 3.1 "servers", each unique to a site, each with 8 MB of RAM. They…

I haven't seen much new lately in the experimental gadget realm. Has everything been thought of and deployed or discarded already? I used to think that must be the case with music--that every possible permutation must have been created and played and recorded, and that we were in for a future of rehashing old hash because…

Regarding moderating online fora like 8chan, I think it's only a tiny part of the problem. It might be that our overwhelming need to share and receive approval or generate dissent is more at fault. Certainly the roots of the problem are beyond sharing unpleasant information in the blogosphere. Those roots are grown from…

Yah, I shake my head at that. I'm not certain which is worse: being required to enter personal information to access services I feel are necessary, or having my personal information discovered and shared (intentionally) to give banks and credit companies ideas about whether I'm trustworthy, and have that personal…

One might also interpret the title of this section to be equal to HAVING THE WRONG PEOPLE ON A PROJECT IS KEY TO FAILURE Now define "wrong" without stepping on toes . . . ;^)

I've been appreciating Aaron Wiebe's "Uncut Angling" videos on Youtube where he frequently shows views of fishing adventures with his AquaView camera. Lately he's added the Garmin Panoptix LiveSCOPE solution to ice fishing and software fishing (jigging for Muskies!) and it's been quite the game changer in my opinion.…

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