The idea behind this principle is that simple systems tend to be more secure.
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These relatively simple systems - using cameras, microphones, speakers and screens - are already in use.
They can if their employer designs simple systems. 7-Eleven employees already fill depleted shelves by ordering from handheld terminals.
Simple systems merely require you to keep track of the number of high cards (9, 10, A) dealt relative to low cards (2, 3, 4, 5, 6).
"Africa has the most advanced cell-phone-based payment systems using simple text, " Mr. Palella says.
Their nervous systems are simple, too, which makes them a good starting point for studies of the neurological arrangement that eventually spawned the human brain.
The success of Gladwell's first book, "The Tipping Point, " published in 2000, and of his later work have come at a time when simple explanations of complex systems are in vogue.
And to be effective, grievance systems should be simple, well publicized and easy to use.
Companies like Apex must help school systems get a simple job done: increase or maintain enrollment per class.
This virtuous form of rivalry helps explain why so many nations in recent years have lowered tax rates and adopted simple and fair flat tax systems.
Or the way normal folks zip through airline-reservation systems that are wonderfully simple on the surface yet are profoundly complex on the inside.
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The project aims to establish cell-phone based carbon micro-credit systems, using a simple message service to allow families to monetize the carbon offsets they produce.
T. systems offered solutions as simple as buying a book, booking travel or making a restaurant reservation online and he wondered why that was the case.
The rate fell thanks to the addition of systems to ensure the simple stuff--that every patient with the ailment is quickly identified and immediately gets all recommended treatments.
Astronomers are uncertain if this represents a genuine rarity of systems like our own, or a simple self-selection problem in which our current technology only has the sensitivity to pick up the weird systems.
Though not always as simple or sexy as product innovations, systems innovations are critical for our planet.
Accenture's researchers are also dreaming up ways for the elderly to share digital scrapbooks online with their grandchildren, and smart systems that talk you through simple home-improvement tasks, such as installing a new light fixture.
But the simple, low-cost mobile-banking systems that operate in countries such as Kenya, India or Brazil suggest otherwise.
If you want competition in operating systems, why not do the simple thing and break up the Windows company?
His major insight is that simple approaches are more effective at managing complex systems than complex approaches in a world of uncertainty.
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Globalstar's 48 birds act more like flying antennas, carrying calls to switching systems on the ground that are simple to operate and are linked into local phone networks.
Ensuring that their systems are set to operate as simple users rather than a having the powerful administrative rights of system administrators, can keep the attackers from running malicious software on their computers and stop the attacks.
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But it is hard to see how it can keep track of the ever-growing traffic that passes through or leaves big corporate IT systems, for instance through a simple memory stick (which plugs into a PC and can hold the equivalent of dozens of feature-length films).
Even those who build the most elaborate security systems say the best defenses can be simple ones.
Autonomic systems would bear more of a resemblance to simple biological organisms than a fully fledged, HAL-style artificial intelligence.
Something simple, like an upgrade to one part of those systems, led to them being down or inaccurate for a week.
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The moral of this tale: There is no substitute for end-to-end testing of all IT systems and where corporate revenue is involved, simple testing could well be the difference between profitability and disaster.
Given this possibility of simple exit from any and all of the European tax systems (and such exit does not require that one stays in the EU either) the theoretical peak of the Laffer Curve is lower in Europe than it is in the US. Where such exit is very much more difficult.
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