Re: Reasons to use OpenBSD incremented by one
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"foiling 37 terrorist plots"
All three words are open to interpretation. I accept that security considerations mean that there can't be full and frank disclosure. Knowing that I assume that as reports get passed up the system they are massaged to put things in the best light. The final mouth piece just has to accept what they are told and probably believe it anyway.
I'm not on the hotel's side but just shutting down their system would, in all likelihood, stop new bookings by card. No matter how apologetic and determined to compensate the victim, you can't do that if the business is bust.
I think it was a rock and a hard place situation and the PHB agonised for seconds before deciding to let it run for his benefit.
"Free NHS"
Free at the point of delivery. There is no magic money tree.
Tory, Labour, whatever - vote (and do vote) for whoever you think will be best for the economy so we can afford the NHS. (Or at least most of it, many admins could go the way of free prescriptions as far as I'm concerned.)
I've used this before.
The greatest test of an engineer is not his technical ingenuity but his ability to persuade those in power who do not want to be persuaded and convince those for whom the evidence of their own eyes is anything but convincing.
Extract from "Plain Words" in The Engineer 2nd October 1959
"Oh, and good luck trying to find aftermarket parts."
There are reports of my car's manufacturer refusing to integrate replacement radios legally sourced from scrap yards. (Its on the Internet, it must be true.) This is, of course, to prevent you using possibly stolen goods - nothing to do with outrageous price of a dealer sourced replacement.
"Because the U.S. doesn't go threatening to turn cities that are home to 10s of millions of people into a "sea of fire""
The point of a nuclear strike capability, indeed the only point, is to threaten just that "sea of fire". To deter you must make that threat and make it credible.
(That is why I just cannot understand Jeremy Corbin's statement that he wants to keep the UK's deterrent but will never use it. You can't change your mind in the middle of a crisis - that is a huge negative signal to the other side.
Having a nuclear deterrent is a political, not a military, decision. If you are running the country and don't believe the UK should have it man up and scrap it. The money released can be spent on the NHS and pensions for superannuated techs.)
"The idea was to ensure people couldn't casually plug uncertified equipment into those sockets."
But they would have to unplug my heart-lung machine to find this out.
I took over as project manager for a national radio project. New broom etc I queried the cost of a double 13A socket when we only need one. For the tech's kettle apparently.
"This is a class of device that does not need a cloud connection, nor worldwide remote access."
Pound to pinch of the proverbial that the class will have cloud and world wide access. This is because:
The manufacturer wants to collect profile information (for service optimization obviously).
The "engineers" just got it wrong.
The PHB curtails development at the first opportunity.