The Pre really appeals to me as a device in ways that the iPhone and Blackberry never really have, but as a frequent traveller to remote places, it's a non-starter for me until it's available with AT&T GSM service. Sprint doesn't even have decent coverage in my home town :-(
Further proof, if proof were needed, that there is nothing new under the sun. Almost every concert I went to as a teen/20-something in London in the 60s and 70s was in a movie theatre. Beatles, Rolling Stones, Byrds, David Bowie, etc, etc.
It seems to me the key point of Michael's article is that people don't buy and use computers in order to know or understand about security. It's a necessary evil tag-along. So isn't it better to have experts working quietly in the background (either locally or in-the-cloud - that part is a choice of context and convenience) taking care of that stuff than having to figure out what the threats are and then figuring out what is needed to take care of those threats? I've working in the infosec industry off and on for most of the past 20 years, and it's always for me been an underlying principle that the actual code is just a small part of what you buy when you buy a security product; what you're actually buying is the expertise of the researchers over a period of time.
I live in a small rural community, and our local newspapers (yes, our community supports two local dailies) are the primary source of what is happening where and other BASIC news functions. So don't write off print media just yet.
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Palm Pre and Sprint
The Pre really appeals to me as a device in ways that the iPhone and Blackberry never really have, but as a frequent traveller to remote places, it's a non-starter for me until it's available with AT&T GSM service. Sprint doesn't even have decent coverage in my home town :-(
Movie theatres as concert venues
Further proof, if proof were needed, that there is nothing new under the sun. Almost every concert I went to as a teen/20-something in London in the 60s and 70s was in a movie theatre. Beatles, Rolling Stones, Byrds, David Bowie, etc, etc.
Oops
Sorry, Tim, just realized this wasn't a Michael Masnick posting :-(
Missing the point?
It seems to me the key point of Michael's article is that people don't buy and use computers in order to know or understand about security. It's a necessary evil tag-along. So isn't it better to have experts working quietly in the background (either locally or in-the-cloud - that part is a choice of context and convenience) taking care of that stuff than having to figure out what the threats are and then figuring out what is needed to take care of those threats? I've working in the infosec industry off and on for most of the past 20 years, and it's always for me been an underlying principle that the actual code is just a small part of what you buy when you buy a security product; what you're actually buying is the expertise of the researchers over a period of time.
Re: Duped
But perhaps not smart enough to be able to spell 'bureaucracy' correctly?
:-)
Newspapers still have value
I live in a small rural community, and our local newspapers (yes, our community supports two local dailies) are the primary source of what is happening where and other BASIC news functions. So don't write off print media just yet.