Posts by Velv

Red Hat, Fedora, Oracle, Kernel, 2.5 6.5, 7.0, 3.10 3.80.

This is even more confusing than Microsoft ...

That'll be a SysAdmin getting sacked today then.

No, not for the "human error" misconfiguration. For not noticing more quickly that the flood of emails about his systems had suddenly stopped.

"Wow, everything must be working brilliantly today, I'm not getting sent ANY errors" - you are the weakest link, goodbye.

So, essentially, the company allowed third party developers to insert code into their commercial product without checking what the the new code did (or deliberately chose to ignore).

Third party developers could have inserted all sorts of malware or other nefarious things into their commercial product, leaving copyright infringement as the least of the companies worries. Sounds like the CEO probably got off lightly.

The moral of the story is - if it's in your name, make sure you know what you're putting your name to!

"... and some political donations will still be allowed"

So who's a hypocrite?

Hint: if your politician was one of those clamouring for change, yet still accepts donations, you have proof they're a hypocrite (or more of a hypocrite than other politicos).

Finally I've found a reason to fly Ryanair.

"No Sir, sorry, you're not allowed to use your mobile phone unless you pay us this exorbitant fee first".

"The preferred payment method for the many and varied services for sale through cybercrime bazaars has switched to either BitCoin or Western Union money transfers"

What! You mean to say they don't take Credit Cards ????

Is it just me, or does this who BitCoin mining thing seem a bit like a giant Ponzi scheme.

A small number of early entrants have easy work to do, and start to get small returns as more people enter the arena. As time goes on the work to achieve a return gets harder and harder while the perceived returns skyrocket with the profits of the early adopters peak and they exit to a nice little pad in the Caribean.

Eventually, BANG! The base of the pyramid explodes and the whole thing collapses.

(BTW, the base has started to crumble, there's been three articles in a week about BitCoin breaches and failures.)

Looks like the Coroner may have got the response he wanted (perhaps, just guessing).

Maybe the Coroner KNOWS the idea is stupid. But by suggesting something totally stupid and unworkable it sparks debate and brings the issue into the public eye for consideration and possible better suggestions.

Or maybe the Coroner is an idiot. But let's keep the debate going.

"...and moving towards best-practice security."

I know it's generic, but I loathe the term "best practise" for two reason:

1. it gives people a false sense of security - "we're doing what's best so we must be safe"; and

2. there really is no such thing as "best" practise, because every situation is different.

We really should be encouraging the use of the term "good practises", because let's face it, the "best" security is about multiple layers and multiple factors appropriate to the situation and use case.

If the customer has a complaint he should complain to the Ombudsman and the Regulator. Oh, wait...

If you give your money to a stranger on a street corner to look after, don't be surprised if they aren't there next week to give it back.

The concept of BitCoin is fantastic. But this type of incident is EXACTLY the reason governments introduced banking regulations many decades ago. To clean up the cowboys.

And what's a "teenager" doing with that much money anyway? And if he's this naive, I'm quite sure some blonde bimbo golddigger would have relieved it from him in the not too distant future anyway (sexist, I know!)

NOBODY should be allowed to claim the service is "unlimited", not even with caveats, because that is a limit.

Unlimited does not live in the finite space of what is technically or contractually possible. It's the same as infinity does not fit on the line of finite numbers. They occupy entirely different spaces.

Poor poor poor

Schengen agreement - A group of 26 European nations which have agreed to drop passport and immigration controls at their INTERNAL borders.

The whole point is that they beef up their outer border with non-Schengen participants so that internal border controls are not required. They have not dropped passport and immigration controls.

And the point of the story is...

PEOPLE MAKE MISTAKES!

Sorry, that's not the point. The point of the story is:

YOU PUT CONTROLS IN PLACE TO MAKE SURE THAT THE MISTAKES PEOPLE MAKE ARE CAUGHT BEFORE THEY DO DAMAGE

Sadly the bean counters are unlikely to be reading this comment, and all they'll see from the media is "sysadmin made a mistake"