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It's an unsteady plank to walk, once you start thinking in those terms. "If I slant it THIS way, I'll get more of THOSE kinds of readers, meaning I can sell advertising better to THAT group of companies . . ." Such are the ways truth dies.

It seems like much of the SXSW experience could happen online. Cancelling the in-person conference eliminates a lot of the face-to-face and hand-pressing, along with the excitement generated by a crowd surrounding a person. But it also reduces/eliminates the ability to spread real diseases (while simultaneously exposing…

There are so MANY potential future bracket battles that might be made! * Best band of a particular decade. Might have to get specific, since someone who loves the Beatles may not care for Bruno Mars or the Carpenters . . . * Scariest monster? * Most awesome Muppet * Best karaoke song? * One Hit Wonders! YES!!!! Brandy, by…

When I attended a Cisco LIve session 18 months ago and saw the 93xx and 94xx switches coming with huge internal SSD storage that can be partitioned off into four separate environments, I was seeing the beginning of what you wrote about here. Those partitions can be used as containers for a wide variety of items, not least…

The cloud providers must give your company the following, before I'd consider trusting my customers and their data and my apps and job and reputation: * Ability to monitor all aspects of data and security in and out of every cloud facility, and every switch, router, server, backup solution, SAN, etc. * A true prediction of…

I support these ideas. Another few details to include are: * Corporate policy defines exactly what is allowed and what is forbidden. * Frequent training of employees to refresh their understanding of acceptable policy. * Ensuring your security staff has time assigned to reviewing accesses. Too often I see security staff…

I SOOOO feel for you & your staff, offering points for technical ideas & questions & answers to a bunch of Type A detail-oriented concrete-sequential people who might set the standards for OCD!

This sounds interesting and fun--bring it on!

ASA's with FirePower (SourceFire) and ACI leverage full Netflow to identify flows and secure them without the traditional IP address / zone rules. Now that Cisco's providing all 5 of the key Netflow items, we should see WLC's playing better with NTA and NPM. I like the idea of Netflow being leveraged for "Retrospective…

I've seen this topic discussed and bemoaned by old-school professionals several times. One concern is how will you survive in the event of an IT outage? If you need a subnet calculator on the Internet to discover the difference between two networks' masks, you're OK until that major event happens. Now not only is the…

This was a great story. Thank you for finding & sharing it!

It feels like there's a good set of thoughts asking for help increasing the infrastructure of the nation to support the growing demand for streaming large amounts of data. But I don't see anything yet that limits providers, carriers, religious groups, political groups, individuals, or businesses from slowing or reducing or…

I feel that same away about every project that was purchased and dropped on my door step ("Here's the new mission critical app. Make it work. And by the way, this is your new Number One Priority.") Imagine if all the IT staff had clout and veto power, AND spent time educating the users (from highest C-Level to lowest…

I loved the story about the Passivhaus; thank you for sharing it. It must be quite heat efficient, based on seeing how the snow clings to it without apparently melting due to radiant heat from within the house.

Build a better mousetrap and the world will be a path to your door. Make a protocol and command language that's compatible with all the systems you need to manage and you can name your price for it. (Rereading the topic made me realize that there are too many people who'd throw their hands up in the air in wonder,…

I agree--living in our modern world, without participating in any social media, grow more difficult and isolating. At the same time, participating in this KIND of social networking has increased "I.T. security risks" that parallel the biological health risks of HIV and AIDS. If we isolate ourselves from HIV and other…

If you're participating in the NPM 7.8 Beta, you're possibly seeing your dream come true.

Nooo! You're saying a tortoise may discover its environment has turned into a restaurant?

I immediately thought of the world's current national leaders, quickly ticking off positive and effective leaders and ones that are . . . not so positive or effective. Perhaps a requirement for there to even BE a thought leader is people who are interested, who are affected by certain styles of communication, by specific…

Your story is particularly interesting to me, reading how you moved from one discipline to another, eliminating paths until you found yourself where you are today. If a person has a knack for building or fixing or understanding or predicting, there are worse schools to become involved with than S.T.E.M. can be an amazing…

Ditto to all of that, here.

If designers, developers, security types, businesses, governments, and militaries don't treat past horror or suspense A.I. movies as guides for what to avoid, then their negative counterparts will use those movies as guides for what to attempt to achieve.

Again, our kids & young adults are not skeptical enough for their own safety. Nor for the safety of their friends and family. Facebook, shame on you.

Yes, my organization used to believe Gartner's Magic Quadrant listed the only products to be evaluated. I was surprised to get the impression Gartner may not do any testing at all, and that everything in their Magic Quadrant simply reflects glowing marks someone input into their survey. With no testing of the product, no…

I see a parallel in the boat motor world. In the old days we'd use 2-stroke motors and add oil manually to our gasoline to lubricate the pistons. It made for expensive gas at the pumps--buying pre-mix. Someone got the bright idea of oil injection, where we'd buy plain gasoline and load oil into a separate reservoir, and…

Wow--Question one is a doozy. Slight differences between the answers . . . Read these ​carefully!

Improving Netflix Suggestions: This might be fun technology. But I won't participate. Netflix raises its prices, has bandwidth requirements my rural ISP can't support, and doesn't offer many movies I wanted to stream. True, Netflix has contents available nowhere else, and proprietary series. But I ended up paying for…

Nice, lindsey.serrano​. How many folks participated in this mission by answering at least one question?

Whoops--I missed a "no" in the above comment, and I have no way to edit it to correct it. It SHOULD have said: Pay employees a better / competitive wage so they have ​NO incentive to leave after they're trained. Your business should be one which people are lining up to get into, not get out of.

This is still a good idea.