Posts by Mark 85 12882 publicly visible posts • joined 22 Nov 2012
Silly valley? Texas Instruments' HQ is in Dallas.
That might just be the problem. Things you can say/do and get away with in Silly Valley won't go over well in Texas. And vice versa. One should always now the local customs and rules (if possible) before going there. This might just be something as innocent as drinking the wrong beer. Who knows but him and the company?
Almost all such titles forgot to mention they get a cut of everything a reader buys if they click on the links in the story.
Been a lot of that the few days... all about the special deals at Amazon and generally, the headlines link to some "news" site that is just clickbait. I'm thinking some companies got paid to do some stories first (with links to the stuff) and then touted that these stories were going "viral" (I hate that term). Other media picked it up and basically reprinted the story with links, etc. And so it goes...
Raging Environmentalists are not particularly impressive.
Oh, I don't know about that. Watching them turn red, start stomping their feet and then shaking and sputtering is pretty good humor.
If I want to bull bait them, I have T-shirt that on the front says: "Save the whales" and on the back "Collect the whole set". It sets off the environmentalists (Green Peacers are the best fun) AND the PITA folks in one fell swoop.
There's a very real possibility that the days of the "open and free" internet are numbered. Governments really need their own networks isolated from the internet in general and perhaps allow contracting companies a heavily monitored and controlled connection. But rather than do that, it's more likely that some countries will just take the cheap route and cut the cable at the borders.
Don't know why you're getting down votes.
Probably from management or accountant types. Equipment is always worth more than people and with the paperwork, harder to do. A manager I once worked for said: "You people are a dime a dozen. I can get rid of you at any time and have your replacement here in a couple of hours.". To say he was a jackass would be an understatement.
Nope.. no webcams here. The laptops that had them have all had the software removed and either the camera removed or the lens taped over. On the desktops, if the monitor has built in webcam, same thing plus the cable is never attached. The times we need a webcam we plug in an external cam and then remove when done.
Am I the only one who does this?
How gullible do you have to be if you let random posts on the Internet affect your decision on who to vote for?
Then the same can be said for flyers, mailed political ads, tv, radio, etc. And not just politics, everything is advertised. Both good products and absolute trash ones. So perhaps gullible isn't the right word here as advertising seems to affect most people or there wouldn't be so much advertising.
because of some war on another we have been dragged into on a lie is creating a back log of people needing replacement limbs.....
It's just not "wars".. it's old age also and accidents.
extra few million a year to cover the cost of the latest prosthetics technology
The latest prosthetic tech isn't cheap. A dumb knee or arm is a mere pittance compared to the latest bells and whistles tech prosthetics. Yes, they do more and are worth it, IMO. However, to give them to some old gaffer in a wheelchair who won't walk or use the limb is ridiculous in the least. I don't know how the NHS handles this but here in the States, a mere prescription entitles anyone to get one if they are an amputee.
My wife is a leg amputee and to get a good leg and knee is outrageously expensive. We both know too many people who consider the high tech limbs a "status symbol" only. It's just one of the problems with medicine and cost.
Then there's the cost of the "latest and greatest" medications... again, some are considered status symbols.
It's quite obvious that it's probably the old guard types of physicians who insist on this as they have no idea about some of this new fangled equipment. I've seen it in the States, one doc uses smartphones and computers to the max, another insists on paper for everything and fax machines. The paper guy is the department boss....
“We believe Congress should create a bipartisan expert commission to assess the best way to regulate the use of facial recognition technology in the United States,"
Just a small problem with this.... leaving it to Congress to define "a bipartisan commission" or be running it? I seriously doubt one could find a more computer illiterate group of people (there are a few exceptions in Congress however) anywhere. I suspect they will do it, and pick advisors based upon campaign contributions.
This in a nutshell: Often written against the pre-launch prototype that works in entirely different ways to the shipped product.
As a former tech writer (before changing careers) I can attest to this as "normal". Also add... the prototypes seldom physically look like the shipped unit.
Part of the plan to reduce taxes and still raise funds for government? By yachts for certain commissioners? Something is really rotten in DC if they thought they could get away with this little scheme. Can we please just nuke it and start over?
Yeah, I hear the choppers coming for me for this.
Soon companies will be wanting to take back control completely and everyone will be dusting off the cobwebs from their mega servers they always meant to get rid of but actually got shoved in a room somewhere
That might happen if the guy who put equipment there remembers that it's there. And that only if he's still working there and his job wasn't outsourced. On the other hand... perhaps they'll just ignore what's in storage so they can buy new shiny stuff.
As the last two paragraphs point out, there are some unanswered questions but perhaps a bigger one is: who's pulling who's chain? Why suddenly is Oracle raising eyebrows about this? Is there someone looking for world tech domination or pulling strings behind the scenes?
Will Congress put on it's usual dog and pony show?
And to keep it in the context of soap opera... what about Marylou?
According to prosecutors, Zhang took two circuit boards and a server
How the heck can one walk out of a company carrying a server and not be noticed or questioned? Every company I ever worked for that did any kind of engineering/research, etc. had security guards and if you carried something off and even had a piece of paper with signatures that it was ok, calls were made to ensure it was valid.
Or maybe just tear the hearts out of Board members,
May I suggest that they use a rusty spoon?
There's a problem with companies like this.. they can't be killed or destroyed. They return from the "dead" like zombies and carry on. And the companies mentioned so far in all the news reports (including those on El Reg) are just the ones that have been called out. It's probable there's many, many more flying under the radar at this point.
If anybody ever wanted to improve secondary market capitalism, the most obvious thing to do would be to ban the company from being able to wield proxy
In many companies, the shares the board members hold are "special" because of the share structure. Some shares a company issues are non-voting, the public ones that have voting privileges are "one share, one vote", then there's the "exec" shares which have many votes per share. Seem that 10 votes per exec share seem common.
Maybe I can *cough* "distribute" a miner on my company's laptops/servers etc... *cough* and blame it on an unknown ne'er-do-well when the dastardly miners are uncovered...
Mmmm. Must be the BOFH inside me.
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Go big time... infecte the whole company including call center, etc, and every computer you can find. Don't forget any PC/Servers sitting in your storage area. If you're going to do the crime, make sure it's worth the time* and that you have assets to go hide in some country without an extradition agreement.
*Time = potential jail time.
Asking "What is your back up plan?" is the wrong question!! The correct question is "How quickly can you repair, recover, restore, how often do you test it, and when was the last time you tested *?"
FTFY. Plans are meaningless as are "assurances" that corrective measures on paper will work. They need testing and updating.
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