Posts by Mark 85

Re: Some Sympathy here

It's the collision of two bureaucracies and that never ends well. Each assumes the other is dealing with an issue when neither aren't. Those employed by them, don't dare open their mouth to question anything. And so it goes...

The problem using Walmart as an example is that Walmart is running scared. They're losing business to Amazon and closing stores already. They're getting lean and mean by reducing employee counts, employee benefits, etc. OTOH, Walmart has increased it's online presence and also their stocks of goods using other suppliers.

As for Target, we'll see. They're a bit of wild card but have closed stores.

There might just be a bit. I think it's the one that some sites use that still ask you download it and then when you get the Flash part, it asks (well actually you need to uncheck the box) to install McAfee or some other bit of nonsense.

Re: Ignore them.

Exactly. For some reason, many email clients and almost all on-line email services started to hide the header. Reading headers has become a lost art form.

Re: My eyes are the age of that slab...

...where kiddies can ride dinosaurs just like Jesus did.

I have a mental image of Jesus jumping onto a dinosaur like the Lone Ranger did on Silver and shouting as he rides off: "Hi Ho Saurus, and away!!!!".

Re: What's your angle, bitch?

At some point, he'll probably (hopefully?) pull a Tom of MySpace and sell the place off to the highest bidder but not until he sorts out falling numbers of the product and his ego gets subverted to the reality of the value* of FB.

*This is more than money or ads as Zuck sees himself as a visionary and a bit of an idealist. He might be or he might just be the ultimate con artist. Time will tell.

Re: Whatever happened

If they miss, say goodbye to whatever was under the missile. Japan? Hawaii? Small places relatively, but Murphy's Law will triumph.

A quick Google and Bob's your uncle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shodan_(website)

Re: It's the jobs

Yes, it will cost the city and county, but if they do not pass a significant amount to their citizens via taxes, it might be worth doing.

It's a gamble and those entities have several things being dangled in their faces.... for example "up to 50,000 jobs" so unemployment might/will drop and there is employee taxes, spending, etc. to happen. We won't get into if Amazon actually will pay a living wage those "up to 50,000". So, there's also "votes" for those city and state "fathers" who are bringing this prosperity to the populous.

But they won't talk about things like more traffic congestion, etc., only the benefits. Yes, it can be a good thing for a city/county/state. It can also be a hidden time bomb that will come back to bit them later.

Everyone wants a miracle, two chickens in every pot, etc.... Not everyone (most?) will only get maybe half a chicken....

Re: Management Mantra

Employee 1 now has a new career path... he/she will be the "government" or "corporate" scapegoat. For a nice fee, he/she will willingly take the blame for any screw up.

Doubtful as I'm sure that the "upgrade" would have been a special exception.

Re: Double Pah

Sort of like trolley buses then? If you don't live on the main route where the cables are, your package may never get to you.

Re: I may be weird, but...

I'll use the old saying from the military and it pretty much fits a lot of these types of things: "Even with all the training, after the first 30 seconds in contact with the enemy, all bets are off." Practice and training only gets you so far. So yes, a real emergency will test and prove everything.

Re: From her mouth to God's ear

Maybe the name is wrongly applied? I'm an "emotional support human" for our Yorkie.

Re: Too mild in both cases

To use the old cowboy movie cliché: "Hangin' is too good for them.". So perhaps drawing and quartering with their skulls stuck on a post outside the courthouse?

Re: Moving Goalposts

You're right. It's called "gold plating". Some whiz looking for a promotion will request some "added" and the brass will love the idea. Result: everyone gets a promotion but the poor guys at the coalface. Schedules go long, problems occur and need to be solved. Mucho money changes hands and guys at the top of supplier/manufacturer food chain all get to buy new Ferraris next week. And so it goes....

Maybe they saw the word "milk" and decided not to read the story. Milk might be contagious you know.

Re: wtf?

Nope... it's call "mission creep". FB was, originally as I recall, just a place to connect with friends. They didn't do news, weather, sports, etc. as other sites (and hardcopies) did that. Now FB needs to zuck up all that it can, pasteurize it, and spoon feed it to the masses who would rather spend their time looking at cat vids, gossip from the neighbors and family and get their news from TV. That is, if they even care about finding what's happening in the world.

Re: Didn't anybody walk out the outline of a huge... ?

That could be fun. Map out some obscene words. Once it gets attention, sell your efforts for advertising. Say something like "Buy IBM!".

Re: Physical Access

You're thinking of the ones inside the store's walls with just the front of the machine available. It's the front they go through which most of the time isn't inside the store. There really isn't any "armor" on these things.

I've also seen more than a few machines that stand alone out by the parking lot or bank drive through. On those, I recall that a couple of guys were using a wrecker to pick up the machine and drive off with it.

Re: Ugh, Lawyers fees

Right... the real winners are the attorneys and the original plaintiffs (not as much as the attorneys though). Still, that's a nice chunk of change for everyone else.

Re: How about 'explosive'?

Explosive works when the value is going up like it has been lately. Going down, I think "implode" would be appropriate. "Falling" is what the traders will do from tall buildings when it implodes.

Re: This is the last straw

Errr,,,, yeah. quality. We've heard of it and testing costs a lots of money that could be better spent on bonuses. Or something along those lines.

To quote an old saying: "Don't ask. You really don't want to know.". I shudder at what might be under development by the blackhats.