Posts by ckm5

Re: Security and cost

Anyone who thinks their on prem systems are more secure than cloud systems is fooling themselves. If you are connected to the internet in any way, you are vulnerable & a target.

The difference between cloud & on prem is that one has hundreds (thousands?) of engineers solely focused on securing systems and the other has maybe a dozen. I'll leave it up to the reader to figure out which is likely to be more secure and who has the experience/resources needed to fend off the most sophisticated rogue & nation-state attackers...

As far as cost - it's all about application architecture, the cost is not 1-1 as, in a properely architected cloud application you only pay for surge capacity when you need it instead of 24/7/365....

Re: What about my least favorite dodge?

According to this, they would have to take exactly the same steps to opt you in....

Re: The way forward?

Linux has already won that if you include Android since mobile usage surpassed desktop a while ago....

Re: Do what?

You can buy Xeons in the iMac Pro and Mac Pro

https://www.apple.com/imac-pro/specs/

You can buy a Mac Pro with a 28 core Xeon

https://www.apple.com/mac-pro/specs/

Who told you it wasn't possible to get a Mac with a Xeon?

Re: Perhaps

Or you could use scrails

Aka, screws driven by a nail gun....

You're welcome ;-)

Re: "This is a beta service for [their security] products"

I use a USG and IDS/IPS is clearly labeled as beta. I don't have it turned on as a slows the device down 10x and, after running it for a month, I just wasn't picking up any 'threats'.

Re: IMHO $32B is not reasonable

That's not really how investors think. It's all about P/E ration and, at 16x, it's actually reasonable for a software company, which ranges from 10 to 20....

What this is has done is to make it abundantly clear the the Chinese government doesn't give to shits about either it's people or democratic principles. The democratic & free world was willing to give China the benefit of the doubt while it modernized as it was thought that capitalism & wealth would lead to more democratic tendencies.

Between this, wholesale theft of IP, extinction of minorities and expansionism in the South China Sea, it's pretty clear what Whinnie the Pooh thinks their trajectory should be. There is no reason to be accommodating anymore.

It's actually quite sad. China had a moment in time where it could have become a great country, instead it decided that the worst kind of dystopic, intrusive totalitarianism and repression was the way forward. Fundamentally, when the regime is scared of it's people, it's because they are weak...

Re: yet another reason to not use ZuckBook

That's just stupid - it means that $insert_small_cash_strapped_company_here is responsible for keeping your PII secure and we all know how well that will go....

I have a Brother

I've been through several brands incl. Epson & HP. I now have a Brother all-in-one - it's my second one, I only upgraded to get double-sided printing and an auto-feeder....

Otherwise, dead reliable, cheap 3rd party ink and does pretty much everything without fuss. Never had a problem with ink drying up and it sometimes goes months between printing, although it will randomly auto-clean.... Also, works perfectly with a Mac as a printer & scanner.

Re: I disagree

Last time we had a true global pandemic, this is what the result was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roaring_Twenties

Re: Clouds sometime rain

These days, it pretty much doesn't matter if your PC is ultra reliable but the internets go offline... Still mostly useless, at least for my work...

It's not how to use a hammer....

It's not how to use a hammer, it's knowing where to hit.

E.g. What you are paying for is the knowledge & experience to get it fixed in 10 minutes, not the actual ten minutes. That's why most mechanics charge "book rate" not actual time.

It depends on the geographic location. Where I am, anyone staying in a job for more than 2 years is viewed with suspicion....

More incorrect & misleading propaganda

California re-defined Grand Theft (and only Grand Theft) as being anything over $950 (Prop 47), which is exactly in-line with most other states where it is at least $1000, incl. Texas where its $1500 or more. So California theft laws, while made more lenient recently, are still harsher than Texas.....

Burglary and robbery are still felonies and snatching someones laptop is robbery.

But thanks for the propaganda post - seems like the hate on California is spreading to El Reg along with deep misinformation....

Re: I understand where the dev is coming from but ....

Not necessarily - if he owned the copyright, he can relicense it any way he wants. The true source of control in open source is copyright, not the license....

Also, open source is about free speech, not free beer. Seems most everyone has forgotten that.

Re: In California, U.S.A....

I was gonna say, all he needs to do is move to California and all this is irrelevant.

Re: Not an Intel fan...

#3 is not true - large corps sign NDAs all the time, even with small players - we have several NDAs with F10 (yes ten) companies, no issues.

Now, whether we can enforce these or not is another question, although we have gone to court in the past to get contracts enforced....

Apparently only 5 servers

Five servers is all it takes to:

- Be bulletproof

- Run a bot net doing 'millions' of attacks per day

- Profit?

Re: Its about time....

Depends on what the liability is of a failing coffee machine and if you can present a cogent argument about the ROI of testing.

There are plenty of scenarios where testing labs charge the equivalent of more than $20,000/hr. I'm quite sure UL would likely charge you more than $25k/hr equivalent.

I remember putting something through a certification (not UL, this was for software) and it cost $1 million. It took 3 weeks and, if you just count straight hours, it was about $9k/hour. Thing is, I've very sure they spent around 40/hrs of actual work on it, which is about $25k/hr. Most of the cost was just getting their stamp of approval....

Re: Place files in cloud - surprise - can't reach'em anymore

Cloud systems are no better or worse than in-house systems - probably better than most in-house systems I have seen, actually, and def. way more secure.

You still have the responsibility to make sure everything is correctly setup and have recovery procedures for emergencies, it is not the responsibility of the cloud provider. If the story was "in-house IT system crashes, deletes all data with no backups" it would be a non-story as that is SOP for most small businesses.

In this case, it's just a PEBKAC.

By definition, you are pretty much always trusting your codebase to other people. Other people write the filesystem, OS & VCS. It would be more appropriate to describe it as cloud, offsite, etc. Even then, most hosted services are likely more reliable that most people's desktops....

Re: airport security

I used to travel with a round, analog quartz alarm clock - boy did that get them excited - most just laughed.

Not after 9/11 however.

Re: mast sharing

It also helps that CDMA was a favored technology in the US. CDMA requires 1/4 of the cell density versus GSM....

As someone else pointed out, they probably switched from gold plated to unplated switches as they were $0.00001 cents cheaper.

Re: What possible delay?

No, it's going to part it's cheeks and accept whatever painful deal the US forces on it. Look into Liam Fox's background, and you can see that's his wet dream. The UK as the 51st state, though one without any representation or power, blindly following US rules.

Well, the US has already said there would be no quick trade deal https://www.kitv.com/story/40053335/britains-hopes-of-a-trade-deal-with-america-just-suffered-a-big-blow and https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/us-uk-trade-deal-brexit-deal-theresa-may-trump-ambassador-woody-johnson-a8705056.html

I'm sure China & Russia will be happy to do a quick deal, however.

Re: "with US-only standards [...] being dropped in favour of LTE, because it was cheaper to buy."

"You know that US for a long time lagged behind Europe and Japan in mobile, because telcos were much more worried about customer lock-in than improving the network? "

This is a common misunderstanding.

The reason why the US never warmed to GSM is because the cell radius is 1/4 that of CDMA. In a large, lightly populated country like the US, GSM require 4 to 6 times more infrastructure to build out.

So the largest carriers chose CDMA instead. The fact that it was incompatible with the rest of the world was not that much of an issue since most Americans don't really travel internationally.

And, in reality, CDMA was better than GSM in many ways, so much so that it became the basis for LTE.....

Re: Did a spell at Lockheed

It was in satellite assembly at Moffett field circa 2009, so, yes, space rated.

That's why I said "sat RF" - woosh -

PS - not sure what you 'other info' is other than the LSD mentioned in another post.... There is nothing particularly secret about Lockheed sat assembly facility - https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Where-science-takes-flight-Lockheed-marks-50-2469631.php