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But of course, any Windows user would reflexively confirm.
Apparently, Mac owners will also because "can't be malware as there are none for Mac". <sigh> And yes, the myth persists and apparently even the Apple store folks repeat this to customers.
It's very disturbing that too many voters put their faith in ads, various propaganda sites, etc. and do no real fact checking for themselves. Follow the herd mentality in action, both media and voters. Yes, it takes some time to do some research like past voting history of the candidate, etc. But we'd be far better off if there was no political advertising at this point. It's turned into a giant urinating contest as to who's the "worst" candidate for the job.
The PHB's and higher love billable hours. There was your mistake. Been better if you had gone, took a look at the problem, wandered off, then came back and fixed it.
At one place I worked (in house), all the programmers had "look busy kits" on their desk. Usually a few manuals, a pile of code printout, and for some of them, a stack of blueprints. We could get things done in a couple of hours and then goof off the rest of the day with "off-site meetings" or web browsing.
The time slowing down in an accident situation is very real,
Indeed it does. I rolled a drag racer at half track... managed to think and tried stepping on the brake (while upside down... brilliant), pulling the ripcord for the parachute (straightened the car out and actually slowed it down pretty quickly), and playing with the steering wheel and stomping on the brake pedal amongst other thoughts like "why is everything upside down?" and "why aren't the brakes working?". Actual time of the "event" was maybe 5-10 seconds. The mind is a strange thing at times. Luckily only damage was to the car and my sense of immortality (I was in my 20's).
Sidebar... I stopped racing after that season.
Yeah, if the car has time to actually take any action it has time to break and not hit anyone.
The "evil" pedant in me wonders about usage of the word "break" here. "Break" as in fall apart? Or perhaps you meant "brake" as in stop the car? The first was a rather amusing muse of a car disassembling itself as part of the avoidance process so have an upvote.
Some companies will probably try to completely encase the entire circuit board in a heavy layer of potting compound. Some did try about 20 years ago and repair was impossible. So was cooling as the process often covered any cooling vanes. We'll just have to wait and see what happens next in this circus.
So if you reduce the number of techies to zero you have *infinite profit*
Right... but sometimes not for long. Then the customers who no longer can support their own infrastructure go to another company and profit starts to drop. Rinse, repeat until the customer goes belly up due to not having any IT to fall back on.
Since the stock buyers and sellers don't look long term, the submarine analogy is perfect. It appears that the hedge funds, corporate raiders, etc. have changed stockholder's thinking and expectations. No such thing as sticking with a stock for the long haul anymore.
In the event that they lose their work, I hear "DAMMIT! I wish somebody could invent a computer that WORKS!"
Best response I've heard is: "It's not the computer. It's Windows." and many times the user argues about how great Windows is... <sigh> About time a mindset change is needed or maybe a large stick.
Instead of longing for the past, we should bravely go into the future, shedding the shackles of modern Web design. A better world is possible!
Interesting concept and valid except for one thing... the corporates who own and control the web infrastructure like their profits and hate paying for anything "new". Don't forget the TLA's and FLA's who are heavily invested also. A better web and world is something they don't want either.
once W10 is bad enough everyone will leap at the chance to get the new release.
That's in their wildest dreams. I think reality is about to bite them in the ass in the not too distant future. The problem is that they destroyed the competition back a few decades ago, so who would replace them. I don't see Linux as it's too fragmented by too many distros at this point.
I would hope that if they get the contract that they and DoD sort out the passwords on the servers, etc. Seems there's been too much in the news about wide open buckets, etc. from AWS lately. Given the antagonism of Trump/Bezos I wonder how AWS is the so-called leading contender?
And this does have a smell of a targeted contract to a pre-selected contractor though.
The problem with managing those kinds of folks is that many (most perhaps) think they are primadonnas and thus need "special" treatment. I've worked with more than a few of them and occasionally a proper dressing down is needed to get them to pull their head out of their nether regions and deal with reality. A good example: A developer had one of the few 24" high resolution monitors in a company of around 5,000 (call centers, claim processors, etc.) so he hard coded his application for that monitor. He didn't want to change it and insisted that all employees be given the same equipment as he. Took me and his boss and some rather colorful language to get the point across that the average user had a 16" low resolution monitor and could only see part of his app's display. He did end up being one of our better developers after that.
Sometimes, explicit and direct language is needed to properly express ones self to others. Linus T. comes to mind here as well as others. Being able to freely vent is good for morale and usually no one takes a venting seriously.. Letting it build up inside one's self isn't a good idea.
I've been in meetings where the walls turned blue from the intense language used. When the meeting was over, they returned to the normal color and everyone was still speaking to each other.
Normally that's true, but in the spy-vs-spy world maybe not so much. Another saying goes: "Every answer begats two more questions". It would seem someone is/has been shoveling the pile, the questions are "who" and "why"?
From the article: Although a better explanation may be that it accurately reported a misinformation campaign put together by some part of the intelligence services.
That seems a simple explanation but I'll reserve judgment as there's still too much politics, etc. from the agencies to really know. If its a misinformation campaign to discredit the Chinese, then Super Micro is taking a huge hit in credibiity in a variation of a drive-by shooting and the company and the IT industry will suffer.
IF there's been mods to the board than why haven't any been produced for independent inspection? At this point, that would point back to the TLA's and "national security" excuses. The Rabbit Hole is getting deeper the longer this goes on.
And, just in case the WiFi goes down, if they're at home they should be able to do whatever's needed through the control panel.
One power outage and the control panel is useless. What's wrong with just having a key lock? Or at least a physical key to unlock the wonderous computer controlled lock?
Apple boss Tim Cook is still not over the Bloomberg hit piece on Super Micro that named the iGiant as a possible spying victim.
The lad doth protest to much. Makes one wonder if the adage about "where there's smoke, there's fire" applies here. Might as well not get too worked up and just wait and see. Popcorn?
Very similar to the old "kids who watch too much TV" end up fat, etc., etc., etc. In my father's generation it was listening to too much radio and that damned "boogie woogie" music. So now it's memes. <shrugs> I wonder what will be blamed next? Doubtful it'll be bad parental influence or peer pressure.
However, there is a fear this practice will discourage organizations from looking in the first place, in order to avoid any negative headlines when they publicize their bug discoveries.
That's a false sense of reality. Imagine the turmoil if an unpatched bug hit hard or they gave away (sold) the info like FB did? Oh wait, users didn't bail out en masse so no fear of publicizing bugs then.
Never mind that! YouTube is down worldwide and I'm on the dole!
The serious news would be if Facebook when down. Millions of voices screaming in the night and utter chaos as those hapless souls wandered about offering to show total strangers a picture of what they had for lunch or dinner. But cat video fans would be worst... jumping, doing "cute" cat things to show others what their cat does.
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