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Submission + - 95% of user generated content malicious (scmagazineuk.com)

shakuni writes: I came across this article which talks about the threat to enterprise security due to growing web 2.0 sites and their access from inside the enterprise firewall. It has always amazed me to see such dramatic statistics and wonder about their relevance and meaning ( in other words is this even a problem... or is it akin to saying that 70% of earth is salt water — a fact but not bad), the methodology used, making the sharing of methodology sharing mandatory for peer review before inclusion in marketing communications. I'd like to hold the feet off technology vendors to fire when it comes to these kinds of communications — especially in network security area. Does this number surprise you ?

Comment Re:ODF? (Score 5, Insightful) 111

While I am not a supporter of any particular person, I think a CTO doesnt need to be a specialist but should have the breadth of understanding across a range of issues around technologies, have the strong analytical sense so that he or she can organize problems and solutions in a structure that makes decision making possible. I think it is structured thinking and a demonstrated love for technology that are important not advanced knowledge of a particular focussed discipline.

Comment story lacks credibility (Score 1) 412

It seems unlikely to me that a Megacorp will out of the blue come up with a valuation and a decision to buy out a start up at the stage described here. Not in these times, at least. I am an entrepreneur and we had a Megacorp, that we were working with closely, discuss ways in which we can collaborate. One of the person in the Megacorp suggested the possibility of an acquisition and even threw in a number(18 months back) but I didnot consider it credible and it wasnt. These buyouts are a crap shoot and can fail for more reasons than one can count and often for no apparent reason. Only suggestion I have is to get outside opinion from someone who has a few years (10) of experience, someone you can trust and has played this game in the past(an entrepreneur or VC). Get his view and decide quickly. If you determine that you have a good shot at converting this (after advice from someone more experienced), go ahead and put a date say 60 days for closure. Always push for the MegaCorp to get committed as remember these are big Companies which have no souls and emotions you can appeal to ...... wait get help!!

Comment Re:Welp, (Score 1) 633

Insightful... really. The analogy sucks at best. First of all it is not murder that is being carried out. If it is developed world continues to carry bulk of the murder even today. If that is the analogy then we should all stop dead on our tracks.

The consumption analogy is more apt here and there is no way the developed world will be able to get the developing world to adopt to new standards unless they take the lead and solve the problem they created in the first place. Tough shit huh!!

There is just no political structure to make that happen in India or China.

Comment but frankly how'd we get good quality content (Score 2, Insightful) 328

if newspaper organizations do not have viable model. In essence good quality news requires presence of high quality tools and personnel that can be deployed rapidly across the globe to cover a wide range of events. If they cannot generate sufficient money from their effort and go down who will do this job ?

News aggregators need news for aggregation. I havent heard anyone in slashdot help address this fundamental challenge.

this is not a tirade against google or argument in favor of newspapers but just wondering what is the new model of news media that we are conceiving if all or most of the traditional news media go down. User generated news is has too much noise to have any validity and lacks quality and predictability.

Input Devices

Submission + - wink to rewind

shakuni writes: "News.com is reporting http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,25156050-5006007,00.html about a facial expression driven User Interface for operating say an iPhone. This device is tiny and fits into the ear and measures movements inside the ear due to changes in facial expression and then uses that as input triggers. So

tongue out — starts or stops your iPod Touch
Wink — rewinds to the last song
smile- replays the same song.

Interesting, but coupling my facial expressions with external systems seems like something that everyone likes."

Comment research has always been driven by largesse (Score 2, Insightful) 580

Since time immemorial, research has been achieved by strong patronage from the rich. Basic research thrives in extreme affluence as there is no great motivation to make the dollar work. MSFT and GOOG have been so wildly successful and that is great for the current generation as they continue to employ smart people with little pressure to come out with products that sell but are only judged by the quality of their research.

It wont last long with either of these Companies, especially with MSFT losing ground to Google the pressure for survival is growing. I think the next set of Companies/entities doing basic research will come from China. They have a huge war chest of resources and are beginning to establish their monopoly.

United States

Submission + - What can we do to get out of this economic mess? (blogspot.com)

shakuni writes: "It is enormously frustrating for me to just carry on my work like its business as usual, while the whole economy and society around us seems to be collapsing. I am sure there are others, in our community, who feel the same. I am looking for suggestions on how we can, individually and collectively, contribute to getting out of this situation. It is my belief that we are all capable of embracing hardships to build a better and robust future. What is unnerving, to most of us, is a lack of predictability around the current situation. Personally, I am witnessing a lot of very capable people unable to channelize their productive resources purely because they are in a state of shock or denial or both. I believe this community has the smarts and the attitude to come up with positive suggestions and personally I am all ears. I refuse to believe that we have no control over a situation that is of our own making."

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