Posts by Mark 85

Re: @Len After 50 weeks

I do think he should face charges though, and he can probably look forward to a fair stretch in Leavenworth.

Perhaps the SuperMax would be best. Isolation and no electronics for Twitter, etc. No publicity.

Re: me no understand

Well, we also have laws about how close to a school a bar can be.

Re: Mines (and yours)

Indeed. Some do that. Others just blow your leg off and you fall over. Effective but not as spectacular as flying through the air with all your body parts in loose formation.

Re: FAA Part 25 drove MCAS

The disagree alert was intended to be a standard, standalone feature on Max airplanes. However, the disagree alert was not operable on all airplanes because the feature was not activated as intended," Boeing said in a statement.

If we go back a bit, earlier on Boeing was saying that these features for checks and balances and even the second indicating system were "options". Since when is safety of flight considered an "option"?

Re: Irony

That's the problem in a nutshell. For a Chinese hacker, the world is a plum waiting to be picked and encouraged by China. They only respect their own "copyright" and "patents" as such.

Exactly. Profit as IT bods and security costs money.

Sounds like money and privilege have skewed her view of the world. In the working world (not the high dollar exec world) everyone needs to pitch in for household chores and care of the kids. It's not really 50-50 but more like 110-110 of the effort. But then, what she's writing about seems to encourage entitled children. I'm guessing it's not a public school they go to otherwise there would be bus service provided by the school district.

Get real, Mrs. Gates.

Re: When was the last time you sexed up a CV?

Never did, as I never had to. When I changed careers from tech writing to IT, I put down my training and skills. Also sent a floppy with some small utilities I'd done and samples of a game I had in the works. I'm self taught along with having quite a bit of training in the first career as was the first person in the company to get a PC.

When I changed career path, I had two days of interviews and "tests". Managed to pass the interviews and tests although on a couple of the tests (writing utilities for querying the database) I had to ask questions which were points in my favor.

All in all, just be honest with the CV and don't be afraid to admit you're not sure or don't know but willing to learn. IT isn't static and a willingness to learn new tech, etc. is a big part of it.

Re: Frickin' lasers

Lasers are for sharks not for whales. Do keep up.

Re: I'm assuming that the USA is where the game is rigged.

It's the American mentality to want a "deal". So, instead of a logical system based on income and family size we have deductions. Not everyone can use them but hey... we have a "good deal on taxes". Around tax time, the conversations talk about how much they got as a "refund" and not grumbling about how much they actually paid.

And let's not forget that the government likes it because most folks miss out a lot of deductions so end up paying more tax than they should.

It may not be the FBI but some other 3-letter group or perhaps a group from outside the US. Being paranoid is fine, jumping at the presumed source (FBI in this case) isn't rational, IMO. Since we know the leak exists, proper precautions should be put into play.

Re: A good use for AI?

I saw that a few weeks ago at a certain discount store (starts with the letter "W"). 4 or 5 teenage girls were using the electric disability carts as race cars. The part that hit me hard was that no employee said a word to them even the ones they ran into. WTF? Once upon a time, they would have been escorted to the manager's office, parents called, and the kinder would have been banished.

Re: Artifical Intelligence...

Part of the problem here is the buzz words "artificial intelligence". Yes, dishwashers, washer/driers/ and other appliances are still called "automatic". They follow a simple pre-programmed path.. either by chip or clockwork. The "intelligence" part is the where the buzz runs into problems. Has anyone actually defined intelligence when applied to computers, machinery or airplanes? Not really. It's still something pre-programmed.

Humans are "programmed" but we have that spark of 'what if' where we think outside the program. Mechanical devices have sensors, we do to but our are tied that brain that sorts things out.

You are correct, there is no magic, no man behind the curtain, etc. with AI. Perhaps AI should be called something else until mankind can get that "spark" to think, react, etc. outside the program?

Re: Compromised passwords remain valid for ever...

And therein is part of the problem. If the system gets hacked, the bad guys will own it forever.

Re: I like causing headaches.

You're Dr. Frank N Furter and I claim my 5 dollars, pounds, whatever.

It is truly amazing that Oracle has any customers.

What's more amazing is that sales types want to still work for them.

Re: According to Twitter's policy about promoting more "civil" discussions...

they should probably treat Twitter as the mental health issue it is and simply close it..

And perhaps FB also....

Re: Any blame on Hertz for not actually being in charge?

Hertz probably has some "contracts" people. But one has consider their competence and how much they can see through the BS and if they have a tech background and not a sales droid background.

Plus I'm sure there were some excellent business trips for meetings on this with many benefits especially if the contracts people have the marketing mentality in that they buy the BS shoveled at them.

Re: Another gratuitous shabby sneer at people who believe in democracy then...

You obviously can't read or think also. Look at the article... at the title. See the word "bootnotes"... so just f*** off.

Re: cannot escape your face

Face scanning in your own country might be ok,

I'm here in the States and to me, this will never be "ok". If I wanted to live under the watchful and benevolent eye of Big Brother I would move to country that does that. I don't. I'm not one to do illegal things but why should I give my face, my data, etc. to those who want (allegedly) to "protect us"? Yes, we have bad people in this world, but honestly, how many evil doers have been stopped from performing their evil by any technology? It usually takes "boots on the ground" to do that.

The time that passes, the worse it's getting. And as the article points out, it might be fine today but what about tomorrow or the day after that? Once the genii is out of the bottle, it will never be put back in. <rant off>

Re: destructive hdd check

"WARNING! ALL DATA ON THIS DRIVE WILL BE LOST. ARE YOU SURE YOU WISH TO PROCEED? YES/NO."

And maybe a window/command line question like: "ARE YOU REALLY, REALLY SURE YOU WIST TO PROCEED? YES/NO/LET ME THINK ABOUT THIS

Re: What happened to testing?

The new paradigm that's an extension of MS... "We let our customers do our testing.". Meh.... a pox on all of them.

Possible. He's been in jail for two years... so "time served" might be the deal along with a little arm around the shoulder and "come work for us". If parole is involved, he'll have to stay in the States under supervision. Part of it also will depend on the judge... they could put the "no using computers" for some period of time. Not good for the skillset if that happens.

But it's also in Ohio. No one would ever think of looking there anyway.

Re: '...targeting the price would help cut down on the unsafe levels of consumption.'

I'll put my hand up and say that I've used it as a coping mechanism for stress and anxiety in the past.

Which is probably a big part of the "why". One only has to look at job situations, employment opportunities, the political atmosphere, the world has the war drums beating again, etc. to know that there's a helluva lot of stress. When there is no hope of a better life, alcohol is what people fall back on. And today, it's also "legal" drugs. It's been this way for a long time that people turn to alcohol/drugs when there's no hope. And raising the price won't change things.

It probably will be unless someone high up does what was done to the Warren Commission report. Locked that sucker away for decades, they did.