At 8:05 AM -0400 5/2/05, Kenneth R. van Wyk wrote:
Yet, despite that pessimistic outlook -- and the survey that
forked this thread -- I do think that companies are demanding
more in software security, even though consumers are not.
Companies value time spent on cleanup more than consumers do.
Greenarrow 1 wrote:
But, the problem I see with this survey is they only polled 1,000 out of
what over 5 million users in the USofA.
Political pollsters regularly sample 1000 Americans to get a prediction
of 100,000 voters that is accurate to 5% or so. 1000 people should be
sufficient to sample
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This makes it highly unlikely that software companies are
about to start dumping large quantities of $$ into improving software
Crispin Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
ISPs could also position a non-restricted account as an expert
account and charge extra for it.
That already happens in many cases, except they call it a business
class account. The only one I've heard called some kind of expert
account is that
What really mystifies me is the anlogy to fire insurance. *Everyone*
keeps their fire insurance up to date, it costs money, and it protects
against a very rare event that most fire insurance customers have never
experienced. What is it that makes consumers exercise prudent good
sense for fire
