Re: woke-global-climate-change-bullcrap
You can beat that drum as often as you like, the climate is still changing.
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A terabyte of data every minute is a rather tall order to transmit via WiFi, even with 5G. Also, 60TB of data is one heck of stack of hard disks to put in the trunk (or boot), and driving for one hour is not all that uncommon. What is the data retention policy ?
So how is the car linked to the Azure server, and what is being sent/received ?
Also, when the learning phase is over, what kit is going to be left in the cars ?
No kidding.
The one good thing about COVID is that it has amply demonstrated that going to the office is not a requirement to being productive.
Oh sure, for the insecure managers who like counting heads, yes, having all your minions on hand must be very satisfying indeed, but unfortunately, your minions have worked off-site for almost two years and productivity has not gone down.
You're going to have to live with that fact now.
You don't want that.
Think about it for a minute : why are you authorizing remote access to a 3rd party in the first place ? Most likely, it is because they have the special proficiency you are lacking in your own workforce. That means they'll be coming in with near-admin level privilege. You want to be able to track that, and you don't want to give admin access to someone who clearly will never need it.
Create a specific user for that specific access, and log the interactions. That way, if something fishy happens, you either have proof of origin, or proof that you need to look somewhere else.
You might be right, but you should avoid thinking that Linux is impervious to infection. Privilege escalation exists, even in Linux world, and malware is capable of taking over a Linux box.
As usual, proceeding with caution is always a good thing.
Once you start forbidding some form of online expression, you start a game of whack-a-mole with all the derivatives.
Well Xi Ping, I'm happy that you give plenty of work for your endless pool of administrative busybodies to continue making the lives of Chinese citizens worse.
Way to go.
By the way, you will not suppress dissatisfaction by governmental decree. It will grow and, some day, it will come to bite you in the ass. If you were intelligent, you would let the people vent and listen to what they are venting about. It would give you pointers on what you need to improve.
You cannot dictate how people feel, and there's more of them than there is of you.
The author here has devoted a lot of time and work to produce this piece. I applaud the effort. I also appreciate the fact that the author has opened my eyes to the fact that, yes, basically almost everybody is implementing the Windows UI.
From a technical point of view, the Windows UI is a Good ThingTM. I remember reading about how Gates & Co really racked their brains over menu management, the homoginization of function keys and ease of use. Once upon a time, if you had access to Help, it could be via a function key, a combination of CTRL-<something>, or whatever else. Now, you just press F1, job done. That is good - except that now help is online, so if your connection is down, you're up shit creek without a paddle, and that is bad. Oh well.
But, concerning the efforts of volunteer developers, I'm sorry but nobody is forcing them to invest themselves. It's their choice, and I'm sure that they are dead set on improving some aspect or another of the user experience. The real issue is that (probably) none of them, or at least not many of them, have a lot of experience in alternative UIs, they just dive in with their idea and go for it.
It's their choice, there's nothing you can do about that. Yes, after reading this article I agree it's largely a waste of time, but it's their time to waste.
Why do the security regulations not apply to the most critical part of the entire banking infrastructure ?
I don't get it. Central banks should be the most paranoid institutions in existence. If a central banks gets infiltrated, there's no limit to the mayhem that can follow. So why are they exempt ?
My, are you a generous soul.
He's got money, and that's all he's got.
He's got no class, he's got no refinement, he's barely cultured and he's got no reserve. He's a mouthpiece on steroids and he's got all the money for all the steroids he wants.
There is absolutely nothing interesting in him, if not for the fact that he is almost single-handedly bringing Humanity back into space.
That is his only redeeming feature, and I will give him that.
Probably not.
I doubt that most Universities have the competent people on the payroll to effectively manage the complexities of such a specific environment. I have not had much dealings with Universities, but every time I have, it was always ad-hoc solutions implemented because they allowed things to work. Security ? The best case answer was "we're talking about reviewing things in the budget meetings, but for the moment, we don't have the money".
One down, plenty more to go.
I have worked at several large companies and organizations that have disabled or restricted Reply to All in Outlook.
There are very few cases where you actually need to reply to everyone.
Now, to be perfectly objective, Borkzilla is not reponsible for Reply to All. That lies at the feet of the people who invented email.
Freedom of speech hasn't prevented deadly violence from fermented views.
I'd wager that said fermentation has increased since the Internet - and smartphones - have become near-ubiquitous. Before the Internet, the wacko would stay in his corner of the bar, muttering to himself. Now, he's aware that there are other people that share his views, so he might become inclined to act on them.
How many school shootings were there in the 80's ? None.
Information is a double-edged sword, is what I'm saying.
The only reason companies have the same rights as a person is because some stupid judge way back when was bought and ruled in their favor and since, nobody has challenged that.
In France (and, I presume, much of Europe), companies do not have a person's rights. They don't need that to do business. There is no tax issue, companies have their income tax level set by law, period. A company has a manager, the law says that said manager needs to be declared in the company statutes. Everything a company can or needs to do is allowed by commercial law.
A company can run ads, a company does not need Free Speech.
Free Speech is for individuals, not corporations. I doubt any Founding Father would think differently.
Remember the caravan ?
When that orange-haired asshole was running for President, he repeatedly stated that there was a whole caravan of Mexicans (ie non-whites) on their way to the border and only he would build The Wall to stop them.
Well he got elected, a very small section of wall was built (and much donated money went into private pockets), and no caravan passed.
That is Republicans today for you.
A bunch of lying wankers.
That itself would light up big warning signs in my mind.
Before Windows 1 0, no OS worthy of the name would ever pop up an ad (thanks, Nadella, brilliant idea you got there).
I pity the people who start using computers these days. There is so much to learn to avoid being scammed, hacked and otherwise hijinked.
I have 30 years of experience in PCs and Internet. Nobody is going to fool me with an email attachment, or with a link (all links are suspicious until I have checked). If you email me and claim to work for Microsoft but your reply doesn't go back to Microsoft, you're out. And no, I don't believe that Bill Gates will send me $100 if I resend this to 20 people. These rules and many more are things I have accumulated over the years and they serve me well, but if you're a newcomer, it's an avalanche of things you need to assimilate and that's on top of trying to get to grips with how Windows works.
I'd hate to enter the arena at this point in time.
I disagree. I recall that Solarwinds123 got itself hacked in a long, very discreet process which injected malware into a critical portion of the update process. Once the update was installed on customer sites and the shit hit the fan, the whole thing was discovered.
This was not a Borkzilla update, this was a true hack.
Are these threats that are going to target online gambling sites hosted in China, or is Beijing giving itself the right to attack any and all gambling sites wherever they may be ?
Because Beijing doesn't need to attack those sites, it has the Great Chinese Firewall to keep them out.
Attacking them seems to me to be a bit overboard.
If I'm not mistaken, I seem to recall recently reading in these hallowed pages (this article) someone stating that kiddie porn was 0.2% of all cases, the proportion being relatively stable for the past decade.
Now, far be it from me to declare that the children being abused is negligeable, it is a horrible thing, but I don't see why I should give up my privacy for this.
Get the police to do their jobs and that will solve the problem.