@Kim Indeed. A tough time working from home is better than lost productivity all together. Loss of power or life are by far worse. I'm happy to see the IE crew in the North East are doing ok.
keveend - It's difficult to work because the people you need to work with might be struggling with the storm.
One of the reasons we rescheduled the Tuesday, October 30, 7 Days of Executive Education session was because we knew that many of the people we want to attend are on the East coast. IT managers would either be dealing with Sandy directly, or dealing with the fallout of their NY-based facilities getting hit. Better to do it another day when people are more likely to be available.
Even large, distributed organizations sometimes have core IT facilities in New York. A user in California might find himself unable to access core IT facilities even though he's looking out the window at clear, sunny skies.
What if Gangnam Style was actually a giant rain dance and we've brought this on ourselves? #sandy
I saw this tweet reposted on another site a few days ago and found it oddly uplifting. The rain might damp everything else, but it's good to know that people's humor can stand such a disaster. Like I said, oddly uplifting and puts a whole different meaning (if ever there was any) on the Gangnam viral craze.
I agree. When it comes to bad news, there really is no need to flood airwaves and social media with the same thing over and over again. Too much coverage will probably make people feel paranoid and think that it's way worse than it actually is. Moderation is key, especially in times like these.
I think this works out as a nice extended holiday for people who (a) have power and (b) can only function at their workplace. For those of us who can work remotely, it's just a week where everything is twice as hard to get done. (But even that is not as bad as not having power.)
Any call that comes to 911 is answered. Both life threatening and emergencies. It's the job of the person on the other side of the call to distinguish to which category it falls.
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Recently, the Obama administration has been of two minds where privacy rights are concerned. On one hand, you have an administration that vowed to veto CISPA and mandated open data for government websites. On the other hand, you have an increasingly out-of-control Department of Justice on a fishing expedition at AP and demanding legislation to let the FBI wiretap private, encrypted communications and levy fines if a company fails to comply.
The apartment and house sharing service, Airbnb, now requires members to verify their identities by demonstrating a presence on the web, and by either scanning a government ID or entering detailed personal details. Other enterprises should take a close look at Airbnb's verification policies.
Facebook advertising is a lightning rod. It seems neither brands nor consumers are 100 percent happy about the social media site's policies, placement, or procedures. But the real controversy about Facebook ads and promotions is over whether they work.
By now, you've most likely heard about the 3D-printed gun that Texas-based Defense Distributed demonstrated last week. But we haven't heard the last about the censorship war that began soon afterward.
New York's Metropolitan Transit Authority is conducting a pilot test of digital kiosks to guide subway users to where they want to go more efficiently and at lower cost.
The whole Amazon.reader debate is a double-stupid. It's stupid to think that there's any e-book buyer who doesn't know Amazon's URL, and it was stupider to let ICANN launch the whole free-form TLD initiative to start with.
While NFC's original goal was to enhance mobile commerce applications, it is finding its way into a number of other uses, which is creating both opportunity as well as challenges for IT departments.
Enterprises would like to move to cloud computing but are hesitant because they are concerned about providers’ ability to secure company data. Here are some tips that help to ensure that if breaches occur, the business is not left holding the bag.
Edmunds separates customers into segments based on the info it collects on its site and from partners, and uses that to push out custom content, said Brian Baron, director of business analytics for Edmunds.com, at Predictive Analytics Innovation Summit.
The automotive website uses propensity modeling to target ads and customer registration forms, said Brian Baron, director of business analytics for Edmunds.com, at Predictive Analytics Innovation Summit.
Subsidized handsets, rather than locked handsets, should be the focus of regulators. We're not getting good deals, not fostering innovation, and weakening our power as buyers.
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