Posts by Mark 85 12882 publicly visible posts • joined 22 Nov 2012
I grieve that is this is most important news of the day in some circles. Her large posterior and mindless thoughts get more lines of press than anything else it seems. And her claim to fame and being this fount of wisdom is... ???? Hell if I know... but it says a lot about where civilization is headed.
I suspect there are parts of the world that still use oxen ploughs, broadcasting for seeds, a sickle/scythe to harvest, and hand winnowing.
I think you are spot on. Africa, parts of southeast Asia, possibly parts of China and India. If the people are subsistence farmers, mechanization won't help them and there's no money for that.
Also, I suspect the final report will not recommend anyone be sanctioned/charged/etc. for this blunder.
Probably not. But fingers will be pointed. Some poor long retired or dead programmer will be blamed and all will be well. The fact that IT was probably outsourced to save some money might be blamed but then whatever politician thought it was a great idea will take the heat. But nevertheless, there will be gnashing of teeth and displays of outrage since we're in election season.
As for the former prisoners, I wonder how many will be rounded up and returned to serve out their time? I expect that they will spend millions on doing this and many of the former inmates who have got out and hopefully led good lives will now face losing jobs, etc. because the state wants to serve justice and lock them back up for a month or two.
The only winners in this will be whatever politico makes the most of the publicity.
Maybe not yet... same for Elliot and the other vultures. But in 3 years, Apple may start reaping what they are sowing today. I'm not a Fanboi, but I'd sure hate to see them torn up and fed to the wolves just so some vulture clown can make a pile of cash and have bragging rights for destroying therm.
You missed the point... MS's point. Those computers you rolled back, well they are now included in the numbers of "happy Windows 10 users". The numbers get more inflated if they count downloads where someone has had 5-10 downloads for this crap on one PC.
From MS's viewpoint, mission accomplished.
Or perhaps the FLA's have umm... shall we say.... certain information on the distinguished members that probably shouldn't fall into the wrong hands?
Seriously, the agencies want this info, they collect it and process it. It's a given that any organization that faces restrictions will fight those restrictions with every weapon they have in the arsenal.
Hello Kitty will suffer for this, but how many firms think it won't happen to them. It appears companies are not willing to learn from others' mistakes.
Right there is the crux of the matter and the problem/answer. What do they learn...? Pick one or all: Oh, our insurance covers it? Our customers soon forget about it? There's no penalty for this thing?
even if it is simply that of natural selection.
You're obviously not in the States, otherwise you'd know that Congress and certain "think of the children" types have been trying to repeal Darwin's Law for decades. If they succeed, we'll end up with more politicians per square mile than any other country.
Then he's not really looking Stateside, is he? Tool and die making and machining in general is making a large comeback here in the States. The rising prices in China and the comparatively low quality is driving things here. Several companies I'm aware of are doing "apprentice" programs. They pay well and the kids who are going into it have found a niche that in the long term should be a good choice fir them.
It seems anyone moderately knowledgeable about encryption is saying Hildabeast is a loud-mouthed moron proving Mark Twain's observation - "It is better not to speak and have people think you are a fool than to speak and remove all doubt."
It seems that this applies not only to her but everyone else running for the job. They're all spouting nonsense. The scary part is that they are all spouting is the "fear" and "terrorists" cards for which "they" have the solution and so far, they've all been inane.
I've been to 2 Mom and Pop type businesses recently that didn't take credit card or debit cards. A small sign explained "cash or check only for your safety". The person in front of me asked and they simply said, "there's been too many retailers that have had their systems compromised and we don't want to be one of them, and the banks/cc companies have increased what they charge us.". This might just be the wave of the future...
So he's damned if he did and the users are damned if he didn't?
I'm with the "him doing". Security should run deep in company's network and servers. If he can find it, then so can the bad guys. He told them what he found and where. I hope they fixed not just the front door but what he found in the basement also.
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