Actually the number we quote is analysts spend 60 - 80% of their time manually prepping their data for analysis if they don't have a solution in place. Its a BIG problem. Just because you can ingest everything in the world doesn't mean you should.

"partially because it didn’t need integration of disparate applications."

I would say that the only way Tesla was able to do this was because they didn't need to integrate disparate applications. Most SAP integrations and installations fail because they have to connect to every other system within a company. Tesla has no legacy so therefore it would be easier to do so. I would say this, there are a few cloud-based SAP solutions available that could have been brought up in the same amount of time or less given what little constraints it appears to have been put on them.

I'm calling on Apple to kick 3rd party applications out of the ability to make a configuration like this. This appears to be a significant security threat to the iOS platform and should be treated as such. Applications should not be able to do this on their own and as we have seen with LinkedIn, it can lead to no good.

For those sysadmins who would like to block this from occurring within their network or on their devices this was taken from Reddit. See the IMAP and SMTP configuration below and block it at the firewall.

IMAP: imap.intro.linkedin.com
SMTP: smtp.intro.linkedin.com
From the Apple configuration profile:
IncomingMailServerHostName imap.intro.linkedin.com IncomingMailServerPortNumber 143 .... OutgoingMailServerHostName smtp.intro.linkedin.com OutgoingMailServerPortNumber 587

I was thinking the same thing. Kudos sir.

Between Fast and Furious, Swartz, and now giving the OK on drone strikes against US citizens in America - he doesn't have a friend in the world, he has ticked off everyone.

calling out BS, exaggerated, wrongly calibrated, and/or embellished results. This makes perfect sense to me. If you publishing a paper on a subject then it should be a repeatable recipe.

We have a long tradition in the US of respecting patient and client (attorney-client privilege) rights. However, we do not do the same for weapons ownership. Medical history for a good part is involuntary especially when seeking care through Medicare bills (Grandma gets old, she needs medical treatment and you can't really choose to get most cancers unless you smoke or go next to a huge field of radiation). Gun ownership is completely voluntary, no one compels anyone to own a gun in the US. Gun ownership is completely voluntary especially as it relates to assault rifles. Assault rifles have only one purpose, killing people real bad dead. We have the right and a responsibility as a society to make sure we know who owns those weapons, ensure that owners are of sound mind and body, adequately trained to handle the weapon, and that the weapon is being cared for in such a way that it will not fall into the wrong or young and untrained hands. For those that own a .22 rifle for hunting, I have no problem. I don't feel the need to regulate them that deeply. For those that need an AR-15, I want a great deal more background, training, and understanding of that individual.

NYC: They moved our election point so we ended up going to the wrong polling place. When we got to the correct polling place and standing in line for 20 mins, we found out our election district changed. Another 20 mins in line and we got our ballots finally for the correct election district. It sucks, but its your duty to vote.

72% vs 62% for the entire population. Shades a little more towards drone use but not over and above Republican sentiment.

http://www.pewglobal.org/2012/06/13/global-opinion-of-obama-slips-international-policies-faulted/
"Americans are the clear outliers on this issue – 62% approve of the drone campaign, including most Republicans (74%), independents (60%) and Democrats (58%)."

This is going to be slightly off-topic, but it something I have been mulling in my head

Rating research of people who supposed to be also teaching puts them firmly in publish or perish mode and that's not good for students. Universities are both research institutions and teaching facilities, really they should choose one. There was a time you needed all three together because of the cost and learning efficiency, however, that time has come and gone as the number of students entering all three segments has increased dramatically over the last 100 years. Many researchers who happen to be professors don't like to teach undergraduates and many undergraduates would rather have a professor who knows them and is open to them rather then learning in a lecture hall from a TA. There is no need to subject these two against each other anymore. Lifting the grunt teaching will free our researchers to explore and continue to push their craft in addition institutions focused on undergraduate learning will deliver a better, more hands-on education. Face reality, very little of research gets into undergraduate education and the longer we hold up this charade the worse this process will get.

http://www.cisco.com/web/siteassets/legal/connect_cloud_supp.html

I especially like how they get to keep your Internet history. Why do you think this is a good idea Cisco?

Your new Cloud Connect contract ...When you use the Service, we may keep track of certain information related to your use of the Service, including but not limited to the status and health of your network and networked products; which apps relating to the Service you are using; which features you are using within the Service infrastructure; network traffic (e.g., megabytes per hour); Internet history; how frequently you encounter errors on the Service system and other related information ("Other Information"). We use this Other Information to help us quickly and efficiently respond to inquiries and requests, and to enhance or administer our overall Service for our customers. We may also use this Other Information for traffic analysis (for example, determining when the most customers are using the Service) and to determine which features within the Service are most or least effective or useful to you. In addition, we may periodically transmit system information to our servers in order to optimize your overall experience with the Service. We may share aggregated and anonymous user experience information with service providers, contractors or other third parties to assist us with improving the Service and user experience, but any shared information will be consistent with Cisco's overall Privacy Statement and will not identify you personally in any way....

Unless all employees are in the class and assumed to increase their salaries 10% during the time frame; the resulting lawsuit/settlement has little to no chance of being more expensive then if all the companies had been competing for talent as it will be extremely difficult to prove financial damages. I am very disappointed in the DOJ settling this one with little more then a "don't do it again" as they may have been the only way to stop this cold going forward.

"It's not a "health" choice, it's a lifestyle choice."

Your ignorance is deafening. Sorry, but the pill is not just a "life-style" choice. Please educate yourself.

My wife has poly-cystic ovaries (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polycystic_ovary_syndrome), a pre-cancerous condition. One of the fun things about PCOS is you don't menstruate. So my wife will literally go months without a menstrual cycle but when she does, oh boy. She is constantly cramping, imagine someone grabbing your insides and constantly squeezing. Then when a menstrual cycle starts it does so with even more incredible cramping that she can hardly get out of bed in the morning or even get through the day. Pain meds are the order of the day. Next up comes an extremely heavy and clotty flow that will continue for about 4 weeks that makes her tired and light headed most of the day. If she isn't on birth control she gets to look forward to that 2-3 times a year for a month at a time. In our lives there is no such thing as "lifestyle" choice just pain or no pain.

For those who were in mixed Apple / PC environments at the time (I was working on a college campus); the fact that you could still get Office was a major reason that folks got to keep their Macs and would start trading up to the their iMacs and G3 towers in the next two years. While Jobs gets all the credit for bringing the company back from the brink (and rightfully so) you have to remember where his reputation was at the time, ie weird dude that got kicked out earlier. For better or worse, MS blessing upon Apple made it ok to actually purchase Macs because their would always be a copy of Office to be had from Microsoft.

All the articles coming out about start-ups, being your own boss, writing your own iOS app and making money....sure smells like 1999 - 2000 to this Slashdot old-timer.