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Using AI to reduce bank fraud is cool. What will it cost? How effective will it be? How much better would it be to create educational systems that teach children to be honest? How much more effective would the money be if it were spent on requiring ethical behavior of all people?

I think @"jeremymayfield" has the right of it, using "pocolypse" as a hyphenated suffix to add to anything that makes a big impression on someone, as long as that thing doesn't cause the literal destruction of the Earth. Surely that philosophy has worked for advertising & naming purposes. Tacopocalypse was a restaurant in…

Happy to see the links and comments are still valid in September, 2015!

What's to hate? "And the truth shall set you free . . ." ;^)

"Healthier Bacon"? Is this really a thing? Does bacon really cause cancer? Healthier bacon created without 'cancer-causing' ingredients to hit supermarket shelves | The Independent

(Typo. Should've said "It would be more convenient than it not working.)

More NetFlow activities would be appreciated!

20 seconds to steal a modern high-end car? Is wireless remote technology that necessary, and that hard to encrypt/protect? Worse, being able to quickly and easily disable GPS tracking of the stolen car leaves a person wondering what Mercedes, or any car manufacturer, is thinking? Hopefully they are VERY embarrassed, and…

I've had co-workers study on their own for CISSP certifications, test and receive them, then move to other businesses. I've also had co-workers study security but stay on as SysAdmins, DBA's, Network Analysts, etc. You've got the world at your feet--especially if you're willing to move/travel/get a different employers. If…

I'll remain hopefully optimistic about MMSP, but the memories of bad experiences with MS products remains a power deterrent. Maybe they'll get better. Maybe they've gotten better. But fool me once . . .

I understand your thoughts--my coworker DOES have serious skills, and applies them at home. The focus is that if IoT bring untrustworthy devices into our workplaces and homes, then we need my coworker's skill sets, equipment, and time to isolate and research the unexpected threats that accompany the IoT right out of the…

I'd offer an alternate-but-related topic to explore. I'll confess that "Maximizing monitoring capabilities while minimizing the need to choose" brought to mind the idea of "Just buy all Solarwinds products and be done with it." I don't think that was your intent, but it's the impression I imagined. Instead, I'd love to see…

Thanks! I'm not their IT guy, but I occasionally answer security questions from my friends there. I spend more time playing electric bass & piano & singing for them than doing IT support.

I like "The Questions" as a starting point for thinking about adoption of technologies or changing existing solutions or tools. But the scenario laid out is one in which all the questions were ignored; someone went ahead with their own initiative (often encouraged and rewarded behavior) and now appears to be defensive for…

Thank you!

Since you have a more urgent need, I recommend opening a support request via telephone with Solarwinds. While you might get a good response from Thwack from your Feature Request, you're likely to get the definitive answer more reliably with a support case open AND your query to Thwack, than by just the Thwack message…

Bacon is also useful for technological analogies, as demonstrated here: AI building blocks: The eggs, the chicken, and the bacon - O'Reilly Media

Worse, the documentation I used to uninstall them and reinstall the correct version of syslog/polling app was incorrect. It pointed to an obsolete version that is inappropriate. I obediently and trustingly followed those instructions using the (incorrect) destination link they provided. I got the new syslog/polling item…

You are correct--a different page than the one provided as today's Hint shows different information. My takeaway is to use the hint for the question of the day--which "should" provide the required answer for today's question. It's unfortunate the two resources aren't in sync with each other, but today's Hint is the one to…

Wow. THAT will be easy to troubleshoot . . . (NOT!) Let's put things where no one can see all the parts, then assign one team or person to troubleshoot the thing as a whole without giving them access to the multiple containers or systems in which the parts are contained or in which they operate. I don't know . . . Is this…

You are correct in your philosophy about truth being absolute and full. The reports and advice we give to our superiors must be honest and based in fact and truth, lest our reputations be diminished when half-truths are revealed and problems occur which we said were not possible. By the same token, though, we have MANY…

Cordwainer Smith imagined a parallel to this for monitoring and controlling a human's health. It was called a "Manikin mee", and one could think of it as a voo-doo doll that presented any individual to the smallest degree. It had the ability to display health and injuries in any part of the analog human to which it was…

Such a deep topic. There's information required that takes years to discover and experience and implement. There is no Easy Button for Security so far.

I'm not 100% clear about what fixed the licensing problem. It may be that my manually reapplying the module licenses beneath NAM fixed it. Or it may be that logging out of the web console and logging back in got me the access I needed. It seems that allowing some time to pass between applying the license and testing the…

I appreciate the introduction.

Gaming often doesn't have the extreme consequences of the real world; risky strategies and guesses may lead to outcomes that are career-limiting. Or worse. In Health Care Networking, we must remain risk adverse. Not knowing the specific results that will happen when deploying a script and hitting "Enter" might put you in a…

Horror stories about The Cloud being down. Who'd have figured . . .

When your boss is distracted by every new thing, you and your company have a problem. The fact that something is established, may even be viewed as "old", does not justify replacing it or discarding it. I look at Solarwinds in my environment. I've used it with great success since 2004. New staff or new administrators…

Agreed--it's not the looks that brought me into a Prius, it was the 52 mpg. That was four years ago, when gasoline in northern Minnesota hit $4.00/gallon. Since then, gas has averaged much lower--it's $1.99 at the pump now, and the chain I frequent gives me a $.13/gal discount, so I've been paying $1.86/gallon recently.…