Are you a constitutional lawyer then Bill?
If no, STFU {please}
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I used a free 'WiFi' network at a Hotel in Santa Fe, New Mexico a couple of years ago now. My 'throw away' email is still getting offers from the place. This is despite me not ticking the box about letting them send marketing emails etc. I did check, it wasn't a double negative question either.
Some of us bikers fit devices to our machines that allow us to keep the battery charged over the winter.
Perhaps one of these might do for your soft top beemer?
Bit don't tell the insurance company. They'll add £100 to your policy for making a performance enhancement/modification to the vehicle.
WTF such a device has to do with increasing performance is beyond me. Unless it is to make it more usable as a vehicle? (less towing to the dealer to get it rebooted)
VAG (Volkswagon Audi Group) seem to be going all out to make rear indicators obsolete.
After all they can't get much smaller can they?
I saw an A4 the other day and the indicators were about 10% (if that) of the rear light cluster.
Easy to say 'Sorry Gu, didn't see your tiny indicators'
Is there a minimum size for these things?
Where are the safety people?
Pah, total and abject failure
Which is why
Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.
Goes some way towards explaining a lot of the voting patterns.
If we leave the EU do we have to continue to fund the trash that is Eurovision?
If not it might be enough to make me vote for out.
Or could the BBC put it on BBC-3? That way no one but the addicts will watch it.
you gotta look cool at every opportunity... Oh wait...
given the Samsung S7 Launch yesterday was all about VR I have to wonder how long it will be before some Rapper/R&B performer wearing a VR headset totals his Lambo/Ferrari/Mclaren while driving with the VR enabled. Gotta look cool at all times...
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Apple has been running ALL OSX and IOS traffic (including Phone backups and email traffic) through their services for ages, scouring every bit of their users information to see what they can monetize. This is well documented, even in their own EULA's.
citation please.
Are you saying that if I go visit a web site (say www.theregister.co.uk) all the interation I have with that site gote through an apple server? [1]
Are you saying that if I use my own email server in the mail app ALL the traffic to that server goes through an Apple Server? [1]
given that apple don't sell any of your details to Ad agencies and that are basically shutting down iAd I find your statement rather confusing.
[1]I don't own a smartphone but have a company iPhone and use it for email access. I think an awful lot of businesses would like to know if all the emails that their employees read/write using an iDevice is also reaad by Apple. I would imagine that an awful lot of lawsuits would be flying in Apple's directino if it were true.
Please tell us why you believe that everying done on an iPhone goes through apple Servers.
It would make a fantastic Article here.
Care to explain why it is so vitally important that you know what your devices are doing every second of the day?
We managed for years without this and ... well we aren't dead yet.
Will you start getting the DT's if you happen to go into a 'not-spot' and you can't see this data for... perhaps an hour or two?
So again, why is it so important to your life, your univers and your everything that you know this stuff 24/7/52? If you don't know it, who will care (apart from you)?
Is it a solution waiting for a question?
At the moment, any IoT device won't get past my front door. They realy have to get their act sorted out with respect for Security and Snooping.
The more devices that you have connectect to a network the more endpoints you have that can get hacked and turned into snooping devices.
Apart from 'we did it because we could' most of the things that have Internet connections have functioned perfectly well for years without needing to be 'connected'. So effing what if I can switch on a light at my home from the other side of the world. Big Deal. For 99.9999% of us, once the novelty has worn off, we couldn't give a toss about it.
So why do people think we need this crap everywhere?
Ok, so I'm not a salesman and never will be but for many of us, we just can't see the point of it. That means that selling IoT enabled crap will be an uphill task especially for Luddites like me.
Hows about El-Reg puts £1 in the swear box everytime an El-Reg hack mentions it?
The DevOps tidal wave is a mere ripple (if that) in most companies.
All this plugging (or flogging of a truly dead horse) ain't going to make it the hottest thing since... the last hottest thing.
As far as many of us here are concerned it is akin to a certain Norwegian Blue.
What makes you think that have not already 'cracked it'?
Any evidence might be ruled as an illegal siezure so they may have to go through this charade to get it all done legally. Then they can use the evidence in open court.
Personally, I hope Apple prevail here. There was a revolution in the 18th Century in the USA. Perhaps the people inside the 'Beltway' should learn the lessons of the past lest they get repeated again. Communism fell in 1989. No need to say any more.
If they charge Tim Cook then they need to also charge the bosses of Smith & Wesson and every other gun maker in the USA. After all, terrorists don't only use AK-47's do they?
Then there is the company that sold every gun used to commit a crime in the USA. They should be bang up along with him. After all, they sold weapons that killed people didn't they?
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Aside from that, their customers will lose faith in Apple's promises of encryption which WILL affect sales.
But where will they go for a secure device?
Android? If Apple caves in then it won't be long before Google will be in the same boat..
Microsoft? ???
Blackberry?
A.N. Other?
Back to Semaphore then...
selling improves the bottom line.
delivering what was sold hits the bottom line
delivering what was sold to the correct customer hits it even further.
delivering what was sold to the correct customer and not spaffing all their details onto the internet for all to see hits it even further.
etc
etc
So you (as CEO/Chairman/BOD etc) decide how far down the ladder you want to go. That may or may not be adequate for the regaulatory requirements of your industry.
If it isn't then we are into the 'what they don't know about is goodness for our profits' territory.
This management malarkey is pretty simple eh? There must be a reason why I'm a techie and not a boss.(Don't answer that...)
I hope that Google (sorry Alphabet) will support them here because if Apple are forced to allow the FBI in then it won't be long before Google will have to do the same for Android.
Perhaps we will see two iPhone models? One for use in the USA (with a backdoor) and one 'Not for sale or use in the USA'.
This will run and run methinks.
And how does it run compared to the Subroutine Call?
with Vendors like Oracle etc charging arms, legs amd everything else on a Per CPU license all this SOA/Restful/Crapware modularisation costs CPU Cycles and may need the organisation to spend lots more $$$$/£££££/Magic money on more CPU licenses just to get the same performance (if you are lucky) than before.
Sure you might possibley/probably/are you joking (delete as appropriate) some money in support but that could easily be outweighed by a new Oracle/SQLServer/Database of your choice license.
And you still may never get the performance back to what it was before the 'DevOps' magic sauce was taken.
Which is why in a couple of jobs I've had in the past we all had mandatory fire safety training including how to tackle small fires. Jet-A can get a tad nasty at times.
To be honest, if the instructions are to 'Get the hell out' why do we have to have effing fire extinguishers all over the place? The Fire Brigade will bring their own.
Back on topic.
Salesforce or Uber?
How about neither and no I won't be drinking the DevOps koolaid.
time to stop flogging a dead horse perhaps?
Kids today know all about VPN's in order to get around the non availability of TV shows in the UK (or to get them for free). This knowledge is out there. The horse has bolted.
Any kid who wants to get access to Pron will know how to do it and no UK Politician (of any colour politically) can do a thing about it.
Use Google for anything and your data (Oh look he/she wants to go to Alton Towers. Lets give that information to 1,000,000 advertisers...) get slurped.
So you went to Alton Towers? How about DisneyLand Japan for your next vacation?
Your choice.
I know what mine is and it is NOT google.
YMMV (And probably will).
Then over on the RedHat [1] side of Linux, you get 10 years out of RHEL (paid) or CentOS (free).
If you really have to avoid SystemD then CentOS 6 still has a few more years of updates. (2020 or thereabouts)
[1] Yes I know that to some Debian diehards, R-H is the spawn of Satan especially for working with Microsoft on making their OS's work better in VM's and that SystemD is the R-H grand plan to get everyone locked into their tech. Personally, I don't have that opinion but everyone is entitled to their own.
The US Legal System allows anyone to sue anyone else often without reason.
So you (for example) have a car accident. Your lawyer is free (your deep pockets allowing) to sue each and everyong involved with building the car, all the components right down to the smallest nut and bolt use in a machine that was used to make the car and even the man/woman who cleans the toilets at the car factory. One big reason NEVER, EVER to sell anything to the USA even if you have product liability insurance.
For a change, this suit wasn't filed in East Texas but in Delaware. Another good place for [redacted] companies to do business. SCO (remember them?) was a Delaware registered company.
It will take some time for the courts to decide if these patents are:-
1) Overly broad and thus can be invaidated
OR
2) that crapple and AT&T did not violate them
OR
3) Guilty - Hang the lot of them. Now!
If the crisis in Asia deepens then the rise may well be reversed pretty soon.
If you raise/borrow money and assume that rates will stay this low forever then you need your head examined. If you do your business plan and cater for them to be say 3% then anything less is a bonus and 'embiggens' the bottom line.
anyone investing in a company that has not done a business plan with this sort of scenario also need their head examining.
Pah. Fail.
As I have been coding for almost 44 years, I feel that it is time to learn a bit of Shakespear.
A time and a place etc.
If you are only a coder (imagine the geek in their Mom's Basement) then you are hardly prepared to face the world at large. I think the term is socially inept.
Do we really want a world full of people like that?
or do we want people with a rounded background?
I know what I want and it is not the former.
2:30 on a Friday afternoon? my, that is early.
How's about 4:30pm? A PHB wanted to make sure that we were all at our desks until 5:00 and the traffic jam outside meant that we couldn't get out of the car park until 6:30.
We moved the meeting to a Pub outside the area affected by the traffic jam. Everyone went apart from the PHB who was folornly waiting for us until one of us sent him a text asking where he was....
We had told him about the change of venue but he was so engrossed with his management reports he never read it.
Said PHB moved on very shortly afterwards. Heard later that he'd tried the same at the new company.
Sigh...
how long before AWS prices rise?
as has been said, it is a single point of failure
Miss paying your bill by 1 second? Bye-bye Netflix.
Whoever made the decision to put the whole lot into AWS should be sacked
Unless..........
Netflix wants to be bought by Amazon.
As for Apple wanting out of AWS. Well, they are building large bit barns of their own all over the world (Planning permision in Galway permitting) so it sort of makes sense for Apple to at least reduce their dependency on AWS. I'd still use AWS where there isn't a local Data Centre but for the rest of the world? As is usual for the fruity company, they like to do things their own way.
If they do get out of AWS totally perhaps this rush for 'everything must be in the cloud' might slow down a tad. Probably wishful thinking though...
Well, if you believe the Virgin Media junk mail then 24Mbits is akin to a snail crawling up a pane of glass?
OTOH, the BT Backhaul can't take even 10% of this so why are we even bothering to discuss speeds that will probably never be reached until 2116. Even then the last mile will still be over single strand twisted pair copper PSTN quality wire so anything over 80Mbits is more than could be expected even with a following wind and les than 50ft to the Fibre Box.
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So you really mean...
Contemporary IT staff, in short, must spend more time talking and technology professionals who climb the all-important career ladder will be expected to “engage” with end users, customers and external providers.
Isn't the trend that the farther up the PHB ladder/greasy pole you get the more divorced you are from:-
1) Customers
2) End Users
and
3) Reality in general.
All you really care about is the bottom line of your team and how it look wrt others so that you get another three months of job continuation.... Until the next company re-org that is and if you have played your cards rights (viz lick the right boots) you can be moved up and get the key to the executive washroom.
For Politicians even at state level, is does not really exist.
There are some really remote parts of the country.
There is a road going from Nevada into Oregon that has a sign saying
Lakeview 179 miles
200yds down the road there is another one
Next Gas 179.
Turn around and it is 82miles to 'Gas'. Wonderful and beautiful country but a long way from nowhere.
So being serious for a moment, what company would invest in anything but wet string to provide internet out there?
This area of California is pretty remote and the small population widely scattered. Income? Mostly Benefits. There was work once but the mines closed a long time ago. Not a lot left out there. So unless you are going to make the citizens move... you are stuck. The 19th Centurty ideal of having their own claim/homestead and living on it remains true today.
this solution deserves a lot of kudos. Well done.
All those bloody automated test cases are all well and good but they don't and can't replicate the quirks of the average user who will try every know keypress in 5seconds in order to speed up the system.
I'm just spent two days getting to the bottom of a nasty UI interaction problem. Do this, this, this, then that and opps!
All has to be done within a minute or things going on in the background make it all work. Timing Sucks.
Can anyone write an automated test for this? Somehow I doubt it.
Systems are getting more and more complicated. Proper (not the automated type) Testing takes lots of time and even more money.
We used to put people in front of a system and tell them 'Go Break it'.
Lots of very obsure bugs were discovered that way. Why don't we do it now?
Answers on a pinhead please?