It's interesting to see, as the wind-down of the war and sequestration are pinching military hardware budgets, that DARPA is increasingly exploring innovations to virtual problems. As you may have seen elsewhere, DARPA...
In reply to: DARPA's Push Into Software
Cloud does not make your application agile... nor does it make it scalable - you still have to architect your solution allow for scalability. I annoys me when people attempt to sell the cloud as the "magic bullet"...
In reply to: Cloud avoids flexibility and availability issues?
Two interesting pain points here: One we don't often feel; and other we now plainly can: On one hand you have Forrester analyst James Staten noting: "It's naive and dangerous to think that the NSA's actions are unique....
In reply to: Who Can We Trust?
I work for a company that buys, and refurbishes or destroys magnetic tapes. we have never heard or seen any data ever escaping from a tape. - ...
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when those spies look for anything on the internet, my Chrome browser responds
"Sorry, search found nothing for you."
If I were Microsoft, ...
In reply to: If I were google, I should have known some spies' machine ID
Very true. I don't think Sony or Samsung is attracting anyone to their smartwatches. The funcitonality is just lacking. And yeah, I steer clear of Web MD because it frequently leads me to conclude I have contracted the plague....
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Yep, I just found this thread: http://en.community.dell.com/support-forums/mobile-devices/f/4586/t/19533657.aspx A few other people have had the same issue, from the look of it. Glad it didn't take long to get it worked...
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Thanks Gerald for providing an outsiders view on the NIST Cybersecurity Framework. It's certainly been a bit frustrating to watch one administration after the next, and one Congress after the next, fail to gain real traction...
In reply to: NIST Cyber Framework
I'm curious. Why do you believe the government should not be bound by law when it comes to gathering information?
In reply to: Re: Citizen to Tech Giants
While this 2nd round of initiatives covers many of the same initiatives we've heard previously, there are a number of details in the document that, if the public actuallly read, are actually reflect a more enlightened perspective...
In reply to: Open Gov Policy
A company doesn't have to be evil to lose trust. Companies lose trust with incompetence, too. To the healthcare example -- how many false positives before you chuck some monitoring device and decide it's not worth the...
In reply to: Re: More Than Cool
I like the focus on experience, since it's quite the trendy word. Too often "experience" is about copying some other company's experience (per the milk foam over analytics), even though many times what customers value is...
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It is included. The product key is in the box.
In reply to: Re: Office home is not included
Great point. IoT applications will only succeed if they capture the right data and turn it into something actionable and useful. But even compelling use cases might not be enough if users don't trust companies with their...
In reply to: Re: More Than Cool
It is rocket science. We can ease the pain of coming up with business intelligence and predictive analytics by building ease of use front ends for specific areas. And we can keep making it easier to visualize what's in the...
In reply to: It is rocket science
Citizen to Tech Giants: you don't speak for me. Get off the Gov's back.
In reply to: Citizen to Tech Giants
I always wonder about that too. Whenever reports pop up about Apple having some supply chain problem, I always wonder what's actually going on. Poor yield of a new technology? Bad planning? Media control? Absolute fiction?...
In reply to: Re: Short supplies
A great game certainly couldn't have hurt, but it wouldn't be some kind of panacea. As some have pointed out, Microsoft didn't really need to condition people to touch; Apple had already done that. But Microsoft did need...
In reply to: More than a game needed
Internet of things use cases need one other element: trust. Do consumers trust you enough to let their device connect? Think of all the companies that launched gee whiz mobile apps only to have consumers tell them "sorry,...
In reply to: Re: More Than Cool
InformationWeek December 2013 Special IssueHybrid cloud standards promise a more open future, free of inflexible ties to vendors.
2014 Private Cloud Survey
Respondents are on a roll: 53% brought their private clouds from concept to production in less than one year, and 60% extend their clouds across multiple datacenters. But expertise is scarce, with 51% saying acquiring skilled employees is a roadblock.
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