Re: 'oh we had the same issue last time we switched machine ranges'.
Only 17 times? That doesn't sound excessive in the eyes of the law, no case to answer, you're free to go.
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It could also come back to bite them
From the article "Microsoft Ireland is the entity through which the company grants licenses in the UK and EEA."
The UK could theoretically impose import taxes on those "goods" coming from the EU since they are a "third country" from our perspective. Just as the EU like to keep reminding the UK :-) I wonder how long it would take MS to suddenly allocate MSUK as the source of MS licenses to UK customers?
(No, I wasn't in favour of Brexit, but it's something we all have to make the best of nowadays)
"Every administrative task should always be actively authorised at the recipient side, so updates should be offered but not automatically installed."
By the owner? Maybe the kit is leased. That make either the ISP or ViaSat the owner.
"with some Basic knowledge."
I initially read that as "some BASIC knowledge". Writing an OS in BASIC? On the other hand, the first iterations of The Last One were written in BASIC and produced BASIC apps.
On the bright side, for most *nix users, it will only be the one or two relevant libraries that need updating. Windows users will more likely have a much tougher time of it as "shared libraries" are often statically compiled into each app, necessitating all of those apps to be updated.
EDIT, I see from comments further down this is a bigger can of worms than I suspected and not only Windows users might be in a world of pain thanks to programmers cutting and pasting the code in locally instead of calling the system library.
"In this case the iPads etc were simply vehicles for fraudulently moving money from Yale's bank account to hers and her associates'."
Isn't that the theft component though? Yes, the iPads were the "vehicle" that enabled her to steal $millions. The oddest thing about this case are the amounts involved and the sheer length of time before it was noticed! If she'd just gone for enough for a nicer car and an extra annual skiing holiday, instead of being greedy, she might have got away with it for years longer, or maybe never have been caught.
"by banning everything that doesn't conform to their narrative. if anything this shows western hypocrisy - they only want to hear there own voice."
And yet, people in "the West" can still access the Russian side of the story, albeit, depending on the source, often plastered with "FAKE" and some very plausible reasons why it's so labelled, eg demonstrable proof a video was made years earlier in a different country.
Meanwhile, in Russia, if you don't know how to use a VPN you are almost exclusively limited to the Kremilin vision of the the "Truth".
"The amount of cost and effort needed when trying to control everything is not going to be small when you try and scale it up to billions of users."
And yet, the likes of Facebook are trying very hard to do exactly that all over again.
"They used an unshielded cable to transmit RF between devices (which must therefore be broadcasting crap all over the place) and didn't protect the same devices from any outside interference?"
Aren't there regulations for RF interference from/to device too? ie, they should not produce (too much) RF interference and also be able to ignore outside RF interference/ This sounds like it might be a major regulatory fail.
"A couple of previous programmers generally used swear words as lables and program names... along with opinions of the manglement/customers in the comments"
Some years back, the suggestion was mooted that customers should have read-only access to their call-outs in our service and maintenance database. It was pointed out that those who came up with the idea should have a read through some of the fault resolutions entered by field engineers. IIRC, the eventual decision was that the time to sanitise the engineers comments would cost more than the projected customer benefits might be.
You really think running a fire hose over a car bonnet is slower than breaking a couple of car windows then feeding the hose through, hoping it doesn't get snagged? Have you seen firemen unrolling a hose in an emergency? Unless it's just the last few feet, then that's a big and heavy roll of hose to push through a car. It's far, far simpler and quicker to just go over it.
"We'll let the family of four know their house burned down because it would have been "more fun" to break some fool's windows... FTFY
Oh, and exactly why is the person who parked their car there a fool? Was this a marked fire hydrant? A marked emergency access route? The OP didn't say. Maybe the person who parked the car should have been expected to know there was going to be fire and parked in a different town? All the OP said was "blocking access", which covers a multitude of scenarios, 99.9% of of which could be totally innocent and reasonable for the person parking their car.
Imagine if your car insurence was hiked up because of this or something similar. And then you try to sue the manufacturer for the extra costs due to their cost-cutting on what should be a foreseeable outcome by "an expert in the field", which of course, they surely employ for something as important as the security of what for many people is the second most expensive thing they will buy during their lifetime.
Most modern cars, these days, seem to cost in the region of double what I paid for my current house, admittedly that was about 35 years ago :-)
"There never was one of those that you couldn't pop the lock in under a minute. Doesn't matter how big and sturdy a security device is if you can open the lock with a ball point pen."
On the other hand, it was a visible deterrent. The casual car thief would more likely go for one without it because there's a known extra time involved. And anyone prepared to take the time to fit it when leaving the car will less likely leave valubales in the car and have an alarm or other anti-theft features.
It might be as much use, practically, as having a fake alarm box on your house wall, but it will most likely cause a thief to look for an easyer target. It won't stop the thief stealing a car, but it will more likely be someone else's car, not your.
"> Stuck in a traffic jam? Buy a Maserati!
Now that is a philosophy I can get behind."
Personally, in that situation I'd go for a Challanger rather than a Maseratti. Fuel consumption is similar but the 0-60 isn't quite as good. On the other hand, in a traffic jam, the 0-60 might be considerably better than a Maseratti, abeit still a bit slow.
Yep. Did a job a couple of months back. Got sent in with minimal info on the client site. PCs would randomly work/not work on the LAN, but all had internet access. Who got on the working LAN and who didn't was random and changed each time machines were booted. In the back of my mind, I'm thing DHCP. Sure enough, when I got there, there were two LANs on different subnets and two DHCP servers. The "emergency" backup provision had kicked in at some stage and not reverted when the main provision came back up. The emergency provision was bare bones hence the lack of connectivity internally and, naturally, had it's own DHCP. And was plugged into the same master switch box as the primary provision. Half an hour to find the kit, 10 seconds to identify and pull the plug. 20 minutes explaining why their failover method was the cause and how to fix it it for the future, half day billable and a grateful customer who will almost certainly call us back to set it all up properly for them.
IIRC, it's been shown that people will use the most easily remembered/guessed password they can get away with within the confines of the defined password policy when said policy forced frequent changes.
On the other hand, people will choose a more complex, less easily guessed password if it's significantly longer but only requires a change every 6-12 months and is, in turn actually more secure.
Irhmbawhwrny1666 is probably more secure than Pa55wo0d26!
(FWIW, I Really Hate My Boss And Wish He Would Retire Next Year 1666 :-)
The initial letters of a long but memorable and personal phrase is easier to handle than a short complex, random sequence and more secure.
Disclaimer: IANAsecurity professional and may be talking bollox.