Posts by Potemkine!

What that company did wrong: rely on a single critical resource to have its IT working.

'Scanlon ' was very nice to answer that call. Seen how the things went later, he should not have been.

"You think we would have taken the lessons learned and then moved them to the cloud". Yes, of course! Beancounters are always happy to throw money in cybersecurity, aren't they? It isn't as they asked to move everything in the cloud because they thought it would be less expensive. I also love the sentence that one should 'avoid misconfigurations', because IT has always the competent resources in sufficient number and all the time required to do things right. I would have another advice: bad people shouldn't do bad things, because it's bad you know.

"Sixth snafu in five years"? It's no more snafu, it becomes a tradition.

No need to worry, I'm sure T-mobile takes their customers' privacy and security seriously. Right?

If a jug fall on a stone, woe to the jug; if a stone fall on a jug, woe to the jug

PR BS decrypted:

"workers [...]will be let go": they will be fired.

"hiring done "during COVID" no longer fits Amazon's cost structure and describes the role eliminations as a necessary step to keep prices low.": Our shareholders want more dividends, and the higher management wants bonuses. And no, there will be no lower salaries for them. Are you kidding?

"it is an important part of a wider effort to lower our cost to serve so we can continue investing in the wide selection, low prices, and fast shipping that our customers love": we made a profit of $2,900,000 this last quarter but our greedy shareholders want more, and you workers are just an adjustment variable. Of course, we strongly expect the survivors to give their best and be loyal to the company, until they are part of the next axing round.

After the MCAS disaster, should we trust Boeing about designing automated systems controlling a plane's flight and claiming more safety?

Will those systems be self-certified or does now the FAA take its job seriously?

Batteries are hazardous, require materials which are very polluting to produce, capacity drops with discharge/charge cycles and need to be recycled. This is not a sustainable future.

If one wants to "store" electricity, use hydrogen instead

Inglorious B'stard Management

Or does the 'M' stand for Mafia?

In my socialist hellhole, the Law says that a wage slave is right to refuse to work in a dangerous situation. It even says the company is responsible for the workers' health.

Paints are used for a long time for thermal controls of satellites.

If I understand well, this one is new because its thermal properties can be reconfigured dynamically with the satellites in orbit, right? :~

The UK's University of Leeds is looking for a systems integrator to help move its ERP system from an ageing SAP installation dating back to 1999 onto the German vendor's latest S/4HANA platform.

Project's soundtrack

The attrition rates for the past twelve months at HCL was 21.7 percent. TCS recorded 21.3 percent, Infosys 24.3 percent, and Wipro 21.2 percent.

It tells a lot about how it is pleasant to work in those companies

Having to deal with some of them, I often in contact with under-trained staff who know nil in IT except of the narrow field they were instructed to deal with.

Lazarus Group should be another nail in the coffin of shittocurrencies.

IoS

There's no such thing as a smart device, only connected ones.

Stop this marketing BS please.

When you already have $1,700,000,000, what's the point to get a few millions more?

This World is insane. The world’s ten richest men own more wealth than the bottom 40 percent of humanity, 3.1 billion people.

Since the covid crisis, for every $1 won by the poorer 90%, each billionaire earned $1,700,000.

Redistribution of wealth is less and less assured. This was also a reason for the fall of the Roman Empire.

Twitter is broken?

Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.

If the captain had the fish, for example.

There's also the case of pilots fighting each others in the cockpit.

In some aspects, the US are still living in the 19th century.

What I understand from reading the IT press about Oracle is: never ever work with them or be screwed.

I guess I'm not the only one. Then I don't understand how it is possible Oracle still has customers?

the bill specifies 0.428 metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalents per megawatt-hour of electricity consumed

428kg / MWh, It's a huge number. To compare in France it's around 53 kg / MWh.

Even if reduced by 60%, that's still more than the triple. I guess Oregon's electricity comes from coal and oil?

What do people with "high-end" phones, except bragging of course?

The country is widely referred to as "Europe's last dictatorship"

Thanks to Putin Khuylo, it isn't anymore.

In Belarus, Nobel prize's recipient Ales Bialiatski faces a new trial and could be sent up to 12 years in jail. Lukashenko fears people defending human rights.

If you run after two hares you will catch neither

Bullying China when at the same time countering Russia in its ambition to annex former USSR territories doesn't seem wise. There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens.

Of course social media are bad for kids (and not only) and do whatever possible to enlarge their audience, also among kids. There's a lot of money to make.

Now that 6 year-old kids begin to shoot teachers, maybe schools should also think about suing the NRA.