Viacom to get vast Google information
Privacy advocates are alarmed
So a judge rules that Viacom gets to go on a fishing expedition with several years of viewers ID and videos. You stupid yerks obviously do not understand how statistical sampling works. They don't need all our IDs to reach a valid conclusion. You hired lawyers when you needed experts in another field: mathematics!
But all is not lost. You blew the hearing badly. Go back before the judge and demand that all the data be reviewed; nothing may be discarded or otherwise ignored. Every last little tiny bit must be reviewed and reported on. Should keep the fishers busy for the next ten or twenty years. See a mathematician about this. Hold their nose to the grindstone.
No thanks needed. That's what engineers do. Make the job work in spite of management.
Showing posts with label math. Show all posts
Showing posts with label math. Show all posts
Friday, July 4, 2008
Tuesday, July 1, 2008
12,000 Laptops Lost Each Week at US Airports
Now just how does this work. 12,000/100 = 120 laptops per airport per week. 120/7 = 16 laptops per airport per day. [Calcs rounded for the non-math 98% part of the population.] If that sounds high, the stats would have 67 airports with 48 or more laptops lost per day.
Suspect some folks start with real numbers then decide they are no longer dramatic enough and nobody will notice. GOTCHA! Again. Best guess is 60 per week for all. That would still become 12,000 per year, but Dilbert rules. BTW Ponemon is pushing security software; no surprise. Yahoo for the rest
Undiginfied News Service
In these digital times, it seems as though everything about us these days is reduced to bits and bytes and stored on computers -- so it's only fair to ask that those computers be secure. Well, according to a new study by the Ponemon Institute, half of all the business travelers surveyed said they fly regularly with important information on their laptops. Most of them -- more than two thirds -- don't use any type of security system in the event that laptops are lost or stolen.
Clearly, this is bad news, especially since the study also estimates that about 12,000 laptops are lost every week (based on interviews with officials at 106 American airports). This means business travelers are losing several laptops a week. Eventually, one of those laptops is going to be loaded with our Social Security numbers and names.
Suspect some folks start with real numbers then decide they are no longer dramatic enough and nobody will notice. GOTCHA! Again. Best guess is 60 per week for all. That would still become 12,000 per year, but Dilbert rules. BTW Ponemon is pushing security software; no surprise. Yahoo for the rest
Undiginfied News Service
In these digital times, it seems as though everything about us these days is reduced to bits and bytes and stored on computers -- so it's only fair to ask that those computers be secure. Well, according to a new study by the Ponemon Institute, half of all the business travelers surveyed said they fly regularly with important information on their laptops. Most of them -- more than two thirds -- don't use any type of security system in the event that laptops are lost or stolen.
Clearly, this is bad news, especially since the study also estimates that about 12,000 laptops are lost every week (based on interviews with officials at 106 American airports). This means business travelers are losing several laptops a week. Eventually, one of those laptops is going to be loaded with our Social Security numbers and names.
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