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Posts by Bou Te
4 publicly visible posts • joined 6 Oct 2015
Broadband internet in New York is so garbage, the state's suing Charter
NIST: People have given up on cybersecurity – it's too much hassle
Thursday 6th October 2016 21:20 GMT
Could the new Evil Empire have it right?
The average homeowner has neither the funding nor the expertise to place a sophisticated ultra-bot, neural net, heuristic, intrusion prevention, AI defender with self-learning capabilities at the entrance into their residence.
As an IT professional, I couldn't tell you the last time I patched my own home router. My annual upgrades were "often enough" that I didn't care. I have the Google OnHub and there has been a shift on their part to be that protective beast made of unobtanium. They analyze threats and patterns across all the routers and adapt the software accordingly and in an automated fashion unbeknownst to the unwitting end users like myself.
Does the next generation of protection look like centralized learning with the lessons pushed out to the children nodes? Did Google get something right? Will the ensuing IoT rush from Google see us end users protected or will we all be leaving our front door keys in the locks and going to sleep?
EMC's VCE welcomes new president amid '250-plus layoffs at all levels'
Thursday 7th January 2016 22:03 GMT
Re: Not profitable
That is actually backwards logic. The whole point of having a private company is that you *can* run a division at a loss if you want to.
If you're a startup with either investors or running an IPO, you can only run in the negative for so long without pushback since you regularly report profits and losses to either investors or shareholders.
As a private company, you have the wherewithal to run something as a development arm or division as long as you like if you predict long-term benefits from doing so.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
