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Stocks- You've got it perfect! Thanks, -R
Here are mine:
WAS 1
NYG 2
CIN 3
NEP 4
JAC 5
CHI 6
CAR 7
DEN 8
PIT 9
TBB 10
SEA 11
IND 12
Congrats Novo and thanks John! It was a lot of fun.
-R
Sure. All or nothing! It's a game. Let there be a winner.
-R
Any sort of tie breaker is my preference. Total points scored is fine. (I don't really care how the tie is broken.)
Thanks again for managing this. It has been fun. Though you may not recall, I thought I was out before it even started. http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=7426506
-R
Pickings are getting slim. Saint Louis to win this week. That will leave me Pittsburgh for the finish.
fung- they may be due. However, I think they're going to continue to grow their receivables for collection later (next year?).
Miami to win this week.
fung: LOL- I hope not. I think you're dead on about the .40's. Don't hold much of anything at the moment... I like to unwind over the holidays (figuratively and finacially) to prep for a new year. I'm having fun with this pool. PM and ad-free would be nice.
-R
Atlanta to win please.
Baltimore to win. Thanks!
solas will take Tennessee to win. Happy Thanksgiving!
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Gotta go with Denver to win.
OTOTOT- A potentially interesting resource in evaluating finacial reporting.
http://www.dummies.com/WileyCDA/DummiesArticle/id-2842.html
FWIW
-R
LFAWG- Are you sure? Are you a CPA? Honestly, I don't mean any disrespect I am simply trying to weigh you comments. In my quest for lucidity of ignorance I was leaning toward A/R being an asset but not revenue unless the A/R is sold (as in for collection).
Thanks.
Vader- Good, I agree with you! (you didn't really hate that, did you?) I just don't understand how some things (A/R?) were treated in the Q. It is not intuative to me (that's not saying much and is surely my problem.)
-R
Vader- I hope that the Dutton update can help me reconcile my interpretation of what the Q numbers represent. I admit to being a bit dull so appreciate any light that can be had. I am befuddled. (xxxxclewis I'm in your camp.)
Sorry if posted: Dutton says favorable Q. Will issue a more complete update later.
http://www.jmdutton.com/research/wavx/notes/wavx_note_110905.pdf
someone is buying a bunch at .97.
OT- the potential in the mobile (phone) market. Sorry if previously posted.
http://www.infoworld.com/article/05/11/07/HNmobiledatausage_1.html
Mobile data usage is on the rise
Number of people that use mobile e-mail or access Internet via wireless phones is up 20 percent
By Nancy Gohring, IDG News Service
November 07, 2005
Mobile data usage, including Internet access and wireless e-mail, is up compared to last year, according to a study by A.T. Kearney Inc. and the University of Cambridge's Judge Business School.
The study found that 53 percent of phones being used by 4,000 surveyed mobile users around the globe are data-enabled, compared to 49 percent in 2004. Armed with such data-capable phones, those customers are increasingly using online services, such as Internet or mobile e-mail access. In 2004, a similar study found that 36 percent of data-enabled phone owners used such services, but this year 56 percent of multimedia phone owners in the study used the Internet or mobile e-mail at least once a month.
Still, many mobile phone users say that they will continue to use their phones primarily for voice services only, although age determines that intention. For example, 80 percent of study respondents who were 65 years old or older said they'll use their phones only for voice. In the 35-year-old to 44-year-old age group, 60 percent said they won't use data services. At younger ages, however, that changes. Around 25 percent of mobile users in the study who were under 24-years-old said they'll use their phones only for voice.
One-third of multimedia phone owners in the study use MMS (Multimedia Messaging Service) to send media such as photos and video clips. Among younger users, age 19 to 24, half of multimedia phone users said they use MMS regularly. While those figures are up over last year, they're still small compared to SMS (Short Message Service) usage. Almost 90 percent of respondents with data-capable phones use SMS at least once a month, according to the study.
Music services are beginning to be used more frequently too. Among the surveyed multimedia phone owners, 33 percent said they download music, compared to 21 percent who said they did last year.
Mobile phone users are generally concerned about the cost of data services, however. Half of mobile phone users in the study said they aren't willing to pay more than US$5 a month on data services.
The study surveyed 4,000 mobile phone users in 21 countries in Latin America, North America, Europe and Asia. A.T. Kearney and the Judge Business School have regularly conducted a similar mobile phone study since 2000.
2lee- Your's is exactly what I was looking for.
Thanks
Ok- Thanks. I think that will be what I was looking for.
-R
Is the CC going to be webcast? I've searched high and low and can't find it. (Not to say that poking around at Wave's website wasn't informative.)
Thanks,
-R
This line in the Liberty Alliance PR bouys my belief in Wave's potential for ubiquity.
The Strong Authentication Expert Group within the Liberty Alliance provides an excellent industry forum to define how Liberty's federated identity and web services standards can work with the TCG security specifications to provide complementary and interoperable approaches for assuring both the identity and integrity of people and machines.” - Lark M. Allen, EVP - Business Development, Wave Systems
Rooster you beat me to it. I just saw it on Wave's web site. Good find. Bodes well.
Wave is 3/4 of the way down- bold is mine.
-R
https://www.projectliberty.org/press/details.php?item_id=146
Liberty Alliance to Speed Wide-Scale Adoption of Strong Authentication Solutions
Consortium forms global expert group to help organizations meet new industry demands for universal strong authentication
Liberty Alliance Project – November 8, 2005 -- The Liberty Alliance Project, a global consortium for open federated identity and Web services standards, today announced the formation of a global, cross-organizational expert group focused on developing open specifications for interoperable strong authentication. Liberty’s new Strong Authentication Expert Group has been created to speed the worldwide deployment of interoperable strong authentication and to help organizations meet new industry-wide demands for universal strong authentication solutions.
The Strong Authentication Expert Group (SAEG) leverages the work Liberty Alliance has been doing for the past year in defining clear market requirements for appropriately deploying strong authentication in a federated network. The group will expand this work beyond federation to build ID-SAFE (Identity Strong Authentication Framework), an open framework to allow strong authentication solutions such as, hardware and software tokens, smart cards, SMS-based systems and biometrics to interoperate across organizations, networks and vertical market segments.
“With increasing industry demand for better protection against online fraud and identity theft, there can be no question that the time for universal strong authentication has come,” said Timo Skytta, vice president of the Liberty Alliance. “By forming the Strong Authentication Expert Group, Liberty is committing to rapidly deliver well defined and highly deployable solutions to help organizations meet new and pressing requirements for stronger authentication.”
On October 12, 2005, the US Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC) issued new guidance for banks on online authentication, which acknowledges that passwords alone are insufficient as the only means of security to protect a consumer bank account. This new guidance calls on banks to implement better ways to authenticate the identity of customers using online products and services. While governments and organizations around the world have moved to implement similar requirements, financial institutions based in the US are expected to achieve compliance with the new FFIEC guidance by the end of 2006.
Liberty’s ID-SAFE will help all organizations more easily meet the challenges in implementing solutions consisting of more than usernames and passwords to strengthen online authentication. “Gartner predicts that by 2007, 80 percent of organizations will reach the ‘password breaking point’ and will need to strengthen user authentication with alternative security methods,” said Ant Allan, research vice president at Gartner. “Businesses need to put roadmaps in place now that will allow them to phase out passwords and replace them with stronger authentication methods.”*
Strong authentication requires at least two forms of identity authentication for accessing a network or online application. Liberty’s ID-SAFE will offer standards-based online identity protection to allow organizations to deploy interoperable strong authentication faster, more cost-effectively and on a wider scale.
Widely deployed strong authentication based on ID-SAFE will provide organizations with opportunities to focus more on developing new business lines and e-commerce offerings while being able to rely on universal strong authentication that is easy to deploy and manage. Consumers will benefit from ID-SAFE with increased protection against identity theft and fraud, a seamless user experience across networks and advanced privacy protection based on individual consent and control.
"The lack of strong authentication in the online space is demonstrably one of the most significant causes of identity theft,” said Michael Barrett, co-chair of the Liberty Alliance Identity Theft Prevention Group, and VP Security/Utility Strategy at American Express. "The recent FFIEC guidance on strong authentication will likely change how organizations manage online identity threats, but initiatives for addressing these issues need to be coordinated via agreed industry standards - and that's where the Liberty Alliance has a strong track record of fast delivery."
Liberty is modeling the ID-SAFE technical development process on the successes Liberty has had in rapidly driving open identity specifications for federated identity management (Liberty Federation Framework, ID-FF) and Web services (Liberty Web Services Framework, ID-WSF) resulting in extensive deployments and implementations worldwide. Working in a collaborative, non-proprietary and multi-vendor environment, the group expects to release the first version of ID-SAFE specifications in 2006. Liberty Alliance regularly incorporates relevant work from other open standards bodies into its specifications and welcomes these organizations to participate in the development of ID-SAFE.
Liberty Alliance Strong Authentication Expert Group Member Quotes
Axalto – “For 25 years Axalto has been committed to market expansion through the encouragement of open standards. We are excited to work through Liberty Alliance and the new Strong Authentication Expert Group to promote a framework that makes digital identities and strong authentication easier to use. The formation of the SAEG closely matches our internal initiatives for Axalto’s Protiva Strong Authentication product line and we believe efforts of the SAEG are key to ensuring cost effective, flexible solutions to secure the future of our digital world.” – Marvin Tansley, Vice President Products, Axalto
BMC Software – “BMC Software is committed to working with the Liberty Alliance Strong Authentication Expert Group to promote strong authentication interoperability for federated identity management solutions. With rise of identity theft and regulatory requirements for better identity verification and authentication, more and more organizations are interested in strong authentication solutions. Delivering secure, interoperable solutions that leverage Liberty standards help our customers establish trust in their environments and better leverage their federated identity management solutions.”- Doron Cohen, CTO of the Identity Management Business Unit, BMC Software
Diversinet Corp - “As consumers around the world become more concerned with the repercussions of identity theft, strong authentication is quickly becoming a basic requirement. Diversinet is very pleased to support the formation of the Liberty Alliance Strong Authentication Expert Group, and we look forward to the opportunity to contribute our knowledge and experience in consumer-scale strong authentication gained from our MobiSecure soft tokens and over-the-air provisioning services.” - Stu Vaeth, Chief Security Officer, Diversinet Corp.
Falkin Systems LLC - "Without trusted, reliable strong authentication that is user centric and controlled, the reality of the Internet as the prime channel of and for commerce, society and government will never come to pass. Positive verification and validation rather than simply authenticating possession of a token and knowledge remains the single most important solution to securing value, reputation, and safety. Industry's solutions must put identity safely and accurately back in the user's control. We at Falkin Systems believe that only through cooperation with the end-user community and with each other will the solution vendors solve the complex and future defining problem of digital identity and authentication. The Liberty Alliance remains as one of the main collaboration community to solve this and provide a language, grammar, and vocabulary to digital identity. We look forward to working with our peers to solve today's most elusive problem." - Rob Marano, CTO, and Dr. Simon Ben-Avi, Chief Scientist, founders of Falkin Systems LLC, provider of the Universal Authentication Platform (TM)
Financial Services Technology Consortium (FSTC) - "FSTC is pleased to support the Strong Authentication Expert Group's efforts to develop technology standards and practices. The SAEG and its efforts dovetail perfectly with FSTC's Security Standing Committee and its Better Mutual Authentication initiative currently underway, involving 25 financial institutions, technology providers, and industry organizations. FSTC shares the goal of making it easier for consumers and corporations to adopt improved authentication practices." - Zachary Tumin, Executive Director of FSTC
HP - "Interoperability of multiple authentication mechanisms in federated environments is a key enabler for security and privacy in online commerce, corporate remote access and secure mobile access. Enterprises in various industries across the world are facing the challenge of inadequate and weak identification technologies, brought to the forefront by the recent increase in phishing, identity theft, security and privacy breaches. Furthermore, enterprises are requiring strong privacy and data controls for regulatory compliance purposes. HP fully supports the formation of the Strong Authentication Expert Group (SAEG) within the Liberty Alliance and is pleased to be part of this market-driven team of customers, vendors and technology partners dedicated to define a secure, standards-based industry framework that enables interoperability." - Todd DeLaughter, VP/GM of Management Software Business at Hewlett-Packard Co.
Intel – “Intel recognizes the critical need for computing, communication, health, and entertainment platforms to support a variety of strong authentication mechanisms in all market segments, from eCommerce to corporate networks, in a way that users can easily understand and manage. Liberty is well-positioned to appropriately balance the competing requirements of secure access and privacy to create an ID-SAFE framework that will permit providers to offer, and users to access, services with confidence.” - Raj Hazra, Ph.D., Director, Systems Technology Lab, Intel Corporation
Kantega AS - "Being a strong supporter of Liberty Alliance's open standards for federated identity, Kantega is exited to join Liberty's Expert Group for Strong Authentication. Kantega sees the development of open standards in this area as an important next step in developing federated identity for high security applications such as online banking. We look forward to contributing to this work based on our broad experience in strong authentication and federated identity.” – Gunnar Nordseth, CTO, Kantega AS
Oracle - “Key to the Liberty Alliance’s success is its ability to bring together enterprises and vendors to develop open standards. Today, organizations of all sizes and industries are demanding a standards-based means for improving protection against identity fraud and theft. Oracle looks forward to working with members of the Strong Authentication Group in order to meet the rising demand for standards supporting strong authentication.”- Roger Sullivan, Vice President, Identity Management, Oracle
RSA Security - “The formation of this Expert Group brings great promise for the truly open dialogue on strong authentication that the industry is looking for. The Liberty Alliance is unique in comprising a broad cross-section of end-users and vendors, and – as a founding board member with a long-running commitment to industry standards – we applaud the Alliance’s efforts in bringing these leading organizations together. We look forward to productive participation.” - Burt Kaliski, vice president of research at RSA Security and chief scientist, RSA Laboratories
US Department of Defense / Defense Data Manpower Center - "The Department of Defense is committed to working with industry partners to strengthen the assurance for federated identities and web services. The creation of the Strong Authentication Expert Group (SAEG) by the Liberty Alliance Project signals a recognition of the need for this increased assurance in all aspects of American life. In its Common Access Card program, the DoD has already made a great commitment to a strong identity smartcard credential. Working with industry to help define stronger identity assurance standards will help protect our service members, their families and all American citizens."
- Greta Lehman, Director, Identity Authentication Office, Defense Manpower Data Center
VeriSign, Inc. "For strong authentication to achieve its true potential, fresh approaches are needed in the development and deployment of two-factor authentication services. Two years ago, VeriSign, along with several industry partners, sought to address the need for an open standards-approach with the creation of the Initiative for Open AuTHentication. VeriSign applauds the Liberty Alliance for also recognizing this need, and we look forward to contributing to the ultimate goal of an open, global and federated authentication service that benefits all Internet users." – Kevin Trilli, director, product management, Authentication Services, VeriSign.
Wave Systems - Wave Systems has been involved with the Trusted Computing Group (TCG) since its inception working to define open specifications for standardized security building blocks. Wave develops trusted computing software and services solutions supporting the TCG standards. Today, one of the specifications with broad adoption is the Trusted Platform Module (TPM), an implementation done as a silicon chip which is being shipped in millions of PCs today. Products developed using the TCG specifications help answer the questions of 'who are you' and 'can I trust you', for both the user and their network devices. The Strong Authentication Expert Group within the Liberty Alliance provides an excellent industry forum to define how Liberty's federated identity and web services standards can work with the TCG security specifications to provide complementary and interoperable approaches for assuring both the identity and integrity of people and machines.” - Lark M. Allen, EVP - Business Development, Wave Systems
About Liberty’s Strong Authentication Expert Group
Some of the members currently participating in the Strong Authentication Expert Group include American Express, Axalto, BMC Software, Diversinet Corp., Falkin Systems LLC, Financial Services Technology Consortium, HP, Intel, Kantega AS, NEC, NTT, Oracle, RSA Security, US Department of Defense / Defense Data Manpower Center, Vodafone, VeriSign, Inc. and Wave Systems. Membership in the Strong Authentication Expert Group is open to all Liberty sponsor and board members interested in helping to drive interoperable strong authentication.
About the Liberty Alliance Project
The Liberty Alliance Project (www.projectliberty.org) is a global alliance of companies, non-profit and government organizations developing open standards and business, policy and privacy guidelines for federated network identity. Federated identity offers businesses, governments, employees and consumers a more convenient and secure way to control identity information and is a key component in driving the use of e-commerce, personalized data services and identity-based Web services. Liberty specifications are deployed worldwide by organizations that include American Express, AOL, BIPAC, General Motors, France Telecom, Nokia, NTT and Sun Microsystems. Membership is open to all commercial and non-commercial organizations. A full list of Liberty Alliance members, as well as information about how to become a member, is available at www.projectliberty.org.
* Gartner Research “Passwords Are Near the Breaking Point” by Ant Allan. December 6, 2004.
I'll take da Bears this week (Chicago).
Thanks. An exciting day of football given the distribution of the picks . Of course 'it ain't over till it's over':
But, at about 3 this afternoon I thought I was going to be an even bigger winner. This is fun.
solas
Doma, Kant- Unfortunately, people are are impatient (by and large- including me at times) and in need of instant gratification. It may be a result of greed, self doubt, distrust, whatever. Wave may have gotten the deals too early and people felt burned after investing soley on the relationships they had developed with MAJOR players (the Intel thing in '03). I hope that I will feel sorry for those folks. However, I can understand the hesitation to venture down that road again. You, me, we, us believe the ground is fertile and have confidence that execution will be demonstrated within the next few quarters. My personal veiw is that if we don't see something in the upcoming Q someone else may have stolen the show. I'm stressed and trying to limit my postings. Thanks for the rant.
Ciao,
-R
Me against the world? HOLY COW!
lspro- Those numbers would cause many sleepless nights without a good deal of insight into (positive) future developments. My "feel good" number is on dig's board. I have to admit that I may be a bit over-invested at the moment... but then again, maybe not (my cost basis put me in the black until last Friday.) Things are happening in the TC space. I, personally, believe that Wave is a linchpin in the maturation of TC (I could be wrong- TC could be down the toilet or new competition could eat Wave's lunch. But, I'm very confident with a lucid ignorance.)
At this point I've placed my bet. Next week we'll see.
-R
Dig- Do we have a lee shore? I believe we do. This last Q has been a long passage under clouded skies (for the non-nautical we've been going someplace but we have no sure way of knowing where... just ded-reckoning, dot-connecting). Next week we'll find a port that will, for me, give an indication of our course. It will be just a port-of-call. However, it will indicate where this ship is headed (good or bad).
That was fun,
-R
San Diego to win- Thx.
OT... perhaps on the fictional reality board.
Interesting article for understanding the potential and immediacy.
http://www.breitbart.com/news/2005/10/26/051026170646.qeg79ytn.html
Security fears on Internet cause big cuts in US Web usage: survey
Oct 26 2:08 PM US/Eastern
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Nearly one-third of US Internet users are cutting back on Web usage and 25 percent say they have stopped buying online due to fears of identity theft and other threats, a survey showed.
The survey by Consumer Reports WebWatch, a joint effort of the consumer magazine Consumer Reports and other organizations, found Internet users are less trustful of websites and have been adjusting their behavior due to what they see as threats online.
Eighty percent said they were at least "somewhat concerned" someone could steal their identity from personal information on the Internet, and 86 percent have made at least one change in their online behavior.
The survey found 30 percent say they have reduced their overall use of the Internet.
Some 53 percent said they have stopped giving out personal information on the Internet, and 25 percent say they have stopped buying things online.
Among those who continue to shop online, 29 percent said they have cut back on how often they buy on the Internet.
Additionally, 54 percent of those who shop online report they have become more likely to read a site's privacy policy or user agreement before buying.
The report confirmed other surveys that showed eroding confidence in the Internet for commerce due to concerns about identity theft, credit card fraud and security breaches that leaked personal information.
The latest survey of 1,501 Internet users was conducted by Princeton Survey Research Associates International.
The survey found Internet users were keenly aware of the questions about information security -- with 88 percent saying keeping personal information safe and secure is very important.
"We're gratified that over time, our guidelines for improving website credibility, and the general concerns of US Internet users, remain connected," said Beau Brendler, director of Consumer Reports WebWatch.
"The types of qualities users expect from credible websites are the same qualities found in WebWatch's guidelines."
Although fears have increased, overall interest in the Internet remains strong, the survey found.
The percentage of adults saying they get most of their news from the Internet has doubled from five percent in a similar survey in 2002 to 11 percent in this poll.
Some 27 percent say they have visited a blog in the past several months, but just one in eight users (12 percent) say they believe the information on blogs is accurate at least most of the time.
Nearly half the poll's respondents -- 47 percent -- say they have come across manipulated digital images on the Web. However, two-thirds said they trust online news sites a lot or somewhat to use photographs that are genuine and have not been altered to change their meaning.
Gugi- Thank you for your timely posting... thanks, also, to lspro for an even more timely posting.
Ok. I've actually read it now and I see what you mean. However, the TPM statement was just like all the other technology statements. All of the products had a similar "it was announced..." syntax. It sure would have been nice to have an update. However, TPMs weren't slighted.
-R
Cinci to win.
Great! I look forward to hearing about your experience and observations. It's nice to have someone (or two, or three...) on "that" side of the pond.
-R
Washington to win. -Thx