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I'd love to be able to reply directly to a comment and see it show up below that comment. I'd also love to be able to paste pictures into Thwack again, but my long history with Thwack has resulted in me sharing "too many" images, and I'm prevented from sharing a single additional picture. Sadness. Here's hoping that…

If only these events happened in Minnesota . . .

Googles Files On You--depressing and scary stuff. Remind me to send myself a time-machine snail-mail letter. Maybe a couple, targeting me in 1980 and 1990. Include a copy of that article, and some definitions of what the Internet is (will be). Maybe I'll crawl into a hole and plug it behind me. Find an occupation that…

Aaaand, just like that, MAZE ransomware pushes me right back into pessimism mode. Let's get back to basics: * Teach children polite social behavior. Reward it and reinforce it. * Don't trust anyone to always do the right thing. Trust BUT VERIFY. * Eliminate bullying. It's a path to future wrong-doing. Eliminating it is…

Who's up for even more complex surveys . . .?

AUGH!!! You mean it's not Friday? AAAAUUGGGGGHHHH! Wow. I really thought it was Friday. Sorry for the S.U.T.

With Death Star budget available, and as long you've dropped us in fantasy world, I'd go to the Resistance and ask Leia and Rey and Luke (and maybe Admiral Akbar, but I'm little iffy on him) and make that budget available to them to make a safe Galaxy for everyone. Then I'd rewrite all the dictionaries and encyclopedias so…

I'd tune in to watch that.

A secretarial "whoops", for certain. I've seen multiple users who were formerly accustomed to storing everything on the desktop, who moved all those desktop files to their new Citrix virtual desktop, lose all the files as our Citrix servers' policy used to be to empty the desktop folder at log out, or at 24…

Bacoin? Seriously? Somebody's got to nail that P.R. person's fingers to the desktop. (paraphrased from The Little Mermaid: https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/f63a1099-04dc-40b5-9fa9-b8ffd212a326 )

The AVA / Netflix article was impressive for its technical information sharing--far over most users' heads and their ability to comprehend. I have an Engineering degree in Photographic Technology, and keep up with that industry to a certain degree. It's disappointing, to me, that so much effort goes into this kind of…

Poor Consumer-Class Network Security: Face it: people aren't tech-savvy. They want "easy, cheap, fast, reliable", and they want it now. Until consumers become more demanding, or until government regulates SOHO network equipment and personal IoT security implementations, consumers are going to get burned by lack of proper…

As soon as I saw who made Bing, and what it was associated, I disabled it everywhere I could. Those folks have already abused (and lost) my trust. Fool me twice? I hope not!

Absolutely--size and budgetary concerns could limit what any company or person can afford for training. These thoughts about training apply easiest to large organizations. But they COULD apply to small shops, and even individuals, if you took a particular mind set. I've worked in small shops--four people--and training was…

This is an excellent idea.

Smart folks manipulating the value of BitCoin? Ignorant people jumping on the BitCoin bandwagon and getting taken to the cleaners? Laws being broken, fortunes being lost, organized crime leveraging it for everything they can? It's just snake oil and stocks and bonds for the 2010's. Study history, apply it to today, and…

Breaking through the silo walls between IT departments still remains a goal for my organization. I'm trying to temp other groups into dipping a toe into the Orion waters, to see what my team can offer the other teams. QOE might be the wedge in the door for us . . .

There are MANY good concepts in this article! * I.T.MIGHT just be like a giant vacuum for dollars instead of a black hole for data. Frankly, do we care if data is lost if it's not important to someone? Correctly identifying what's important, and to whom, is the trick there. I have a huge ability to recall events from my…

No other bumps? No one else is interested in this?

No sweat--I didn't take your comments as negative in any manner. Mine were targeting the overall thought of the ideal monitoring solution that truly IS all-in-one-pane of glass. The items being monitored are too many and too complex for it all to show in a single screen's view, that's all.

Our digital photocopiers' hard drives are encrypted. When the copiers are retired, the hard drives are removed and physically shredded. It's harder to defeat Layer One security . . .

Sometimes this just needs to be reshared to get folks to look at the basics again. I know people who aren't interested in reading FAQ's or user guides if they were written for earlier versions of code, even though the interfaces and processes remain the same. Getting a new list out there might just help someone overcome an…

Forgive me--it's all in good fun--and THANK YOU for fixing this!

I'd read and heard about microwave ovens impacting 802.11 wireless networks and simply accepted it, assuming these were poorly designed / obsolete / non-safety-compliant legacy ovens. And then I put a Cisco 3702i Access Point into Clean-Air Monitor Mode in my cube and discovered the WLAN was totally disrupted at random…

I'd hoped I'd be able to help, but I'm out of my depth here. Reach out to some of the SWQL experts; I'm sure someone will have the answer to your question. Once you have it, please post it here so others may use it, since I think it's a nice idea. Thanks! Rick Schroeder

It's nice to see some of the bad things about bitcoins coming back to bite those that abuse the ignorance of others.

Google may not be using PHI for unauthorized purposes, but proving they're not is going to be challenging. With their track record and with the public's general skepticism and disappointment in Big Business I.T. security, it seems they'll be playing Sisyphus forever in that realm of Public Relations.

I'm impressed!

I'm with you on this topic, Peter. Less is better, from so many points of view. We had one legacy data center that could not accept more physical hardware due to power limitations. Our large UPS's weren't big enough for the additional load, and the local electric utility could not bring in the additional power we needed if…