Normally these hacks tend to be rather broad scope. So while this company may have been the target, it probably shared its network resources with other organizations who were not afflicted with the company, who may have had damaged.
I remember years ago A few hundred doctors Health Record systems were out for a few hours, because hackers were trying to DDOS a bank, Who was sharing the same hosting company, and main internet pipeline.
Well unlike the Dot COM days. Uber is actual trying to sell a service, and not just an idea. Also it is normal for a company to run in Debt for a while, as all its money it is taking in from investors is going toward capital investments. However this isn't an endless pot. As the economy is showing signs of slowing down investment may be less bullish, and Uber may need to turn a profit soon.
Stop putting facts in the way of a good Apple Rant. Apple has to be Evil and do no good. Because... because... Microsoft isn't as popular anymore, and Dag-Nabbit! We need a bad guy is the the cause on why I am not happy all the time.
If they are going to keep software patents, then there should be some limitation on them where there is a period of time to report that they are illegally using their patent. Most of the abuse seems to come from, a patent that has been mostly ignored until someone else goes with it, becomes immensely popular and nearly non-removable feature. Then Sue them for a heck of a lot of money, because the idea has the potential. While you lacked the rest of the effort needed for it.
While I hate getting stuck in traffics as much as the next person. I am comforted in the fact that there is an inspector to "Do Science" on the wreck so the justice system has data to work with. Freedom and Justice doesn't and shouldn't be equated with an economic outcome. Because if such thing shows that it was because a fault in the road, that needs to be fixed asap, or the person made a living collecting off of insurance claims by getting into an accident on purpose. Should be punished and jailed, to keep the rest of us safe.
The real reason why we are not dead already is the fact that most people are not total jerks who actively just want to make everyone lives miserable, with no real benefit towards them.
So why are you in jail? Well I thought it would be funny to trick the traffic lights to make them all red. In turn 3 ambulances couldn't make it to the Hospital in time, 1 Firetruck cause a house to burn down. All because some one got tired waiting in traffic, tried to do a U-Turn collide with a gasoline truck hurting 3 people, and causing the fire that spread to the house.
Yes we have stupid crazy people out there, however there are much easier ways to cause chaos then trying to hack a smart street.
While I wouldn't recommend it, There is a good chance the computer would survive it, while it may lower its life span, as parts may corrode more quickly. The real things I would look out for are Electrolytic capacitors rupturing, solder joints melting. And the LCD Screen. But we have a good chance it will operate after being in the autoclave.
All fine and good until you actually need the USB. Even if just for its final act running Deriks boot and nuke. Where the CD will need to plugged into the USB to run.
Cleaning the computer is so low down the list of concerns for computers for healthcare. Real issues... 1. Security: These devices need to be secure in many ways. a. Physical Lock down, so they can't be taken away. b. Data access ports should be locked into the pc's and free ports need to be disabled or blocked off. c. Screen polarization. Only the person using the computer should see what is on the screen. d. Fast authentication where the user can log-off an login easily and quickly to a system. 2. Networking: The PC will need to access the network reliability and quickly. 3. Performance: Health care data is big, there is a lot of data going across. So these systems will need to quickly work on such data. 4. Easy to Replace: if it fails, it needs to be able to be replaced quickly. 5. Affordability: Most Health Care Orgs are not for profit, and don't want to wast more money then needed. 6. Robust: They will be moved around a lot, bumped, dropped, spilled on, out in the cold or extreme heat, near magnets and radiation. 7. ADA ready: Big screens that are easy to read, easy to do user input on, etc... 8. Looks modern: sounds stupid, however when patients go into a health care settings, and they see modern systems, vs older looking one, they feel the place is more sanitary and they will take better care of you. 9. Easy to clean: this is way down on the list, because for the most part they are already being used in a clean environment. The computers are often far enough away from patients so they are not putting their germs on it, the hospitals have a good air filter system that keeps dust and other contaminates way down. Staff tying on the computer doesn't do it with their gloves on after touching patients. Using a computer in a hospital isn't any more dirty then a PC in your office, probably it is actually cleaner. 10. Long term vendor support. In many ways this could be listed in the #1 spot. But I gave it #10 because that is the easiest feature you can find.
Being that many add companies are implemented across many sites, one can simply track by connection info IP Address, browser settings, time of day, original sites.... To paint a picture good enough for advertising.
The old tracking cookies were not any better then tracking connection info.
It is far more complex then that and you should know that. Sexism/Racism is an issue that is wider problem them just political leaning.
For most if not nearly all of these jobs, your political leaning, has little to do that will affect the quality of your work, and even your standing in the company. You can have a friendly, collaborative, intelligent conservative in your organization without it being a detriment to the work culture. Often having a conservative view point may be handy, because it will often offer up a simpler solution to a problem, because it may had already been solved before.
It depends on where Middle Class lives. So lets go by the standard rule of thumb of purchasing a house for 3x your salary.
A house in Rural Upstate NY with 2,000 sq/ft and an acre of land is about $250,000. So a home like that would require a Salary of $83k (Well into middle/middle class for the area, bordering on upper middle class)
A house in SF with the same properties will be 3-4million dollars. So you would need a million dollar salary to life the same type of life style as someone making 1/12 the salary.
That being said, not everything scales proportional to you salary in the SF area. The cost of an automobile isn't 12x as much, nor is the cost of Food and Fuel 12x more. So while I may be living in a Larger home, I have a smaller car, will need to budget more carefully extra expenses, food and fuel take up a good part of my budget. A $1000.00 iPhone, is considered a major purchase, which I plan to keep for years, and not until the next model comes out. New Furniture and repairs need to be budgeted and planned for. So my larger home, may not be as nice as the smaller SF home, and perhaps a decade behind the times.
This is often Big-City thinking, where outside such cities, people live in such an isolated world where trends and culture just don't reach them. When population shifts, people bring their preferences with them, and takes only a little coaxing to the grocery store that you want some type of food, that they can order it the next week, and often a restaurant will pop up to meet demand.
Small towns may not have such things, not because they can't but because no one wanted it before. When people show up, such services appear.
If Silicon Valley population and businesses spreads out equally across the country, then there will be little problems, other then a new restaurant, or some new food in the grocery isle.
However the biggest risk is if the population moves to a small number of locations. Say to the Mid-West, Where there would be an influx of highly paid professionals genderfacating an area. Raising the cost of living.
A big part of a browser is its displaying of the page and details. A lot of this is actually calling the OS layers to do the work. Input Output, Drawing graphics, handling fonts, mouse input... All this stuff is on the OS layer which different compilers may have different tricks to call.
The trade-war has begone. As countries are getting more nationalized they are seeing foreign countries as a risk, so they are doing as much as they can to milk as much from the imports as possible until they can setup their own competition. As of right now Europe doesn't really have a big name in Software Services. Siemens is the biggest one, but they are not as much a software services as an industrial manufacturing company like General Electric is in the United States. But it is mostly software services that support the industrial services. There is aren't any real big names in European Software companies.
The GNU folks have been too ambitious in their vision and many of its leaders didn't want to reconcile with its own problems in its vision. It was too easy to call people who disagreed with some of the GNU greedy corporate shills, where many the people were mostly on board however they had a few issues.
The biggest issue I have with GNU is the lack of respect of the time and effort it goes into coding. It seemed that if you wanted to make money off of GNU software you were limited to Distributions and Consulting support. Other methods that followed the rules have been frond on or caused the GPL to change to prevent such actions (With the IBM Exception). So for many businesses who in general supported open source principals tend to shy away from GNU software as it may bite them in the future.
Being that Google Chrome is in a constant speed race with Edge and Firefox all trying to be the fastest full featured browser out there. These guys need every advantage they can get to inch out on the benchmarks to claim they are the fastest. The general rule of thumb is tools made to run on many platforms tend to run more slowly then tools made for a particular platform.
Is Google going to stop in the benchmark war? Is CLang optimized enough for windows platforms to allow time saved in compiler compatibility to be used in better speed algorithms. Is CLang objectively equal or better then Visual C++ (As Microsoft sometimes sacrifices performance, for legacy support that Chrome may not be worried about)
You can manage a data center from one spot, but it isn't a cloud service. The key element to cloud services cost savings is that Computing power is shared across multiple customers. So your peak business hours processing that you need is taken away from an online store that has much of its traffic after hours, or with businesses in different time zones. Unless your are hosting a global business with thousands of apps with varying peak usage times. You local cloud system will be under utilized, because it will be built for peak usage, however there will be long periods of times, where it is under utilized.
Thus far more expensive.
If you need to manage your data center from one spot, they are tools for that too. You don't need a cloud system.
Being that this service is being labeled "Mysterious". I expect they are opening up the phone, tapping into the storage media. Downloading all the data. The brute forcing it until they get in. Being most people just use a 4 digit pin. That means 9999 possible combination. If they use a password, then we have the brute force password hacking algorithms.
Such a process I would expect the 30k to be a reasonable price. Taking account opening an iPhone without breaking it, skills to tap into a soldered SD Drive, Putting the data onto high speed server(s), Putting the phone back to the way it was before. And doing the hack.
Not impossible, and really there isn't much Apple can do at these particular points. There gets to a point where enough effort will allow someone to get into a device that was built by man.
Actually it is more Modern Western Culture morality, then christian morality. The Age of Consent has historically been in flux. However it normally trends to older then younger. Especially as science points to developmental issues, in the brain showing that younger children are not good at decision making. Also to note in cultures with a younger consent age, people were put together for political and strategic reasons, not because of Love or sexual preference. And such marriages at a young age often recommended a good period of time before consecrations.
You don't need permission to do the right thing. However you should inform others that you are doing such actions, to help prevent mistakes from being made.
The more competition isn't always the better. Sometimes this will make the lesser phone makers play a race to the bottom game. So while Apple and Samsung keep with their "Premium" line up. The other guys are fighting with themselves to make a cheaper phone then their competitors, with each generation getting crappier then before, and each product they sell has less profit margin to them, so they don't make money to invest back into the company, leading to a crappier next version.
While Apple and Samsung keep their place on their respective pegs, while any other rivals, are in the mist of destroying themselves.
I am not sure you you are old enough to remember the days when jeans were not pre-worn. When new they were very stiff and uncomfortable. It took weeks for them to be used enough so you felt like you were wring pants not cardboard. While some of is overdone for style, for the most part it is comfort adjustment to the clothing. Where before people would be sitting in the tub with their Jeans on so the material will shrink and fit to the body, or purchased a size larger so when it shrinks in the wash. The Chemical Washing and sanding helped make a better product. Some styles go a bit too far. Chemical washing them until their are nearly white, and with holes and rips. But that trend comes and goes. However they have been pre-worn for decades now.
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Normally these hacks tend to be rather broad scope. So while this company may have been the target, it probably shared its network resources with other organizations who were not afflicted with the company, who may have had damaged.
I remember years ago A few hundred doctors Health Record systems were out for a few hours, because hackers were trying to DDOS a bank, Who was sharing the same hosting company, and main internet pipeline.
Well unlike the Dot COM days. Uber is actual trying to sell a service, and not just an idea. Also it is normal for a company to run in Debt for a while, as all its money it is taking in from investors is going toward capital investments. However this isn't an endless pot. As the economy is showing signs of slowing down investment may be less bullish, and Uber may need to turn a profit soon.
Stop putting facts in the way of a good Apple Rant. Apple has to be Evil and do no good. Because... because... Microsoft isn't as popular anymore, and Dag-Nabbit! We need a bad guy is the the cause on why I am not happy all the time.
If they are going to keep software patents, then there should be some limitation on them where there is a period of time to report that they are illegally using their patent. Most of the abuse seems to come from, a patent that has been mostly ignored until someone else goes with it, becomes immensely popular and nearly non-removable feature. Then Sue them for a heck of a lot of money, because the idea has the potential. While you lacked the rest of the effort needed for it.
While I hate getting stuck in traffics as much as the next person. I am comforted in the fact that there is an inspector to "Do Science" on the wreck so the justice system has data to work with. Freedom and Justice doesn't and shouldn't be equated with an economic outcome. Because if such thing shows that it was because a fault in the road, that needs to be fixed asap, or the person made a living collecting off of insurance claims by getting into an accident on purpose. Should be punished and jailed, to keep the rest of us safe.
The real reason why we are not dead already is the fact that most people are not total jerks who actively just want to make everyone lives miserable, with no real benefit towards them.
So why are you in jail? Well I thought it would be funny to trick the traffic lights to make them all red. In turn 3 ambulances couldn't make it to the Hospital in time, 1 Firetruck cause a house to burn down. All because some one got tired waiting in traffic, tried to do a U-Turn collide with a gasoline truck hurting 3 people, and causing the fire that spread to the house.
Yes we have stupid crazy people out there, however there are much easier ways to cause chaos then trying to hack a smart street.
While I wouldn't recommend it, There is a good chance the computer would survive it, while it may lower its life span, as parts may corrode more quickly.
The real things I would look out for are Electrolytic capacitors rupturing, solder joints melting. And the LCD Screen. But we have a good chance it will operate after being in the autoclave.
All fine and good until you actually need the USB. Even if just for its final act running Deriks boot and nuke. Where the CD will need to plugged into the USB to run.
Cleaning the computer is so low down the list of concerns for computers for healthcare.
Real issues...
1. Security: These devices need to be secure in many ways.
a. Physical Lock down, so they can't be taken away.
b. Data access ports should be locked into the pc's and free ports need to be disabled or blocked off.
c. Screen polarization. Only the person using the computer should see what is on the screen.
d. Fast authentication where the user can log-off an login easily and quickly to a system.
2. Networking: The PC will need to access the network reliability and quickly.
3. Performance: Health care data is big, there is a lot of data going across. So these systems will need to quickly work on such data.
4. Easy to Replace: if it fails, it needs to be able to be replaced quickly.
5. Affordability: Most Health Care Orgs are not for profit, and don't want to wast more money then needed.
6. Robust: They will be moved around a lot, bumped, dropped, spilled on, out in the cold or extreme heat, near magnets and radiation.
7. ADA ready: Big screens that are easy to read, easy to do user input on, etc...
8. Looks modern: sounds stupid, however when patients go into a health care settings, and they see modern systems, vs older looking one, they feel the place is more sanitary and they will take better care of you.
9. Easy to clean: this is way down on the list, because for the most part they are already being used in a clean environment. The computers are often far enough away from patients so they are not putting their germs on it, the hospitals have a good air filter system that keeps dust and other contaminates way down. Staff tying on the computer doesn't do it with their gloves on after touching patients. Using a computer in a hospital isn't any more dirty then a PC in your office, probably it is actually cleaner.
10. Long term vendor support. In many ways this could be listed in the #1 spot. But I gave it #10 because that is the easiest feature you can find.
Being that many add companies are implemented across many sites, one can simply track by connection info IP Address, browser settings, time of day, original sites.... To paint a picture good enough for advertising.
The old tracking cookies were not any better then tracking connection info.
It is far more complex then that and you should know that.
Sexism/Racism is an issue that is wider problem them just political leaning.
For most if not nearly all of these jobs, your political leaning, has little to do that will affect the quality of your work, and even your standing in the company. You can have a friendly, collaborative, intelligent conservative in your organization without it being a detriment to the work culture. Often having a conservative view point may be handy, because it will often offer up a simpler solution to a problem, because it may had already been solved before.
It depends on where Middle Class lives. So lets go by the standard rule of thumb of purchasing a house for 3x your salary.
A house in Rural Upstate NY with 2,000 sq/ft and an acre of land is about $250,000. So a home like that would require a Salary of $83k (Well into middle/middle class for the area, bordering on upper middle class)
A house in SF with the same properties will be 3-4million dollars. So you would need a million dollar salary to life the same type of life style as someone making 1/12 the salary.
That being said, not everything scales proportional to you salary in the SF area. The cost of an automobile isn't 12x as much, nor is the cost of Food and Fuel 12x more. So while I may be living in a Larger home, I have a smaller car, will need to budget more carefully extra expenses, food and fuel take up a good part of my budget. A $1000.00 iPhone, is considered a major purchase, which I plan to keep for years, and not until the next model comes out. New Furniture and repairs need to be budgeted and planned for. So my larger home, may not be as nice as the smaller SF home, and perhaps a decade behind the times.
This is often Big-City thinking, where outside such cities, people live in such an isolated world where trends and culture just don't reach them.
When population shifts, people bring their preferences with them, and takes only a little coaxing to the grocery store that you want some type of food, that they can order it the next week, and often a restaurant will pop up to meet demand.
Small towns may not have such things, not because they can't but because no one wanted it before. When people show up, such services appear.
If Silicon Valley population and businesses spreads out equally across the country, then there will be little problems, other then a new restaurant, or some new food in the grocery isle.
However the biggest risk is if the population moves to a small number of locations. Say to the Mid-West, Where there would be an influx of highly paid professionals genderfacating an area. Raising the cost of living.
A big part of a browser is its displaying of the page and details. A lot of this is actually calling the OS layers to do the work. Input Output, Drawing graphics, handling fonts, mouse input... All this stuff is on the OS layer which different compilers may have different tricks to call.
The trade-war has begone.
As countries are getting more nationalized they are seeing foreign countries as a risk, so they are doing as much as they can to milk as much from the imports as possible until they can setup their own competition.
As of right now Europe doesn't really have a big name in Software Services. Siemens is the biggest one, but they are not as much a software services as an industrial manufacturing company like General Electric is in the United States. But it is mostly software services that support the industrial services. There is aren't any real big names in European Software companies.
So explain how to design your apps properly without starting a flame war.
The GNU folks have been too ambitious in their vision and many of its leaders didn't want to reconcile with its own problems in its vision. It was too easy to call people who disagreed with some of the GNU greedy corporate shills, where many the people were mostly on board however they had a few issues.
The biggest issue I have with GNU is the lack of respect of the time and effort it goes into coding. It seemed that if you wanted to make money off of GNU software you were limited to Distributions and Consulting support. Other methods that followed the rules have been frond on or caused the GPL to change to prevent such actions (With the IBM Exception). So for many businesses who in general supported open source principals tend to shy away from GNU software as it may bite them in the future.
Being that Google Chrome is in a constant speed race with Edge and Firefox all trying to be the fastest full featured browser out there. These guys need every advantage they can get to inch out on the benchmarks to claim they are the fastest. The general rule of thumb is tools made to run on many platforms tend to run more slowly then tools made for a particular platform.
Is Google going to stop in the benchmark war? Is CLang optimized enough for windows platforms to allow time saved in compiler compatibility to be used in better speed algorithms. Is CLang objectively equal or better then Visual C++ (As Microsoft sometimes sacrifices performance, for legacy support that Chrome may not be worried about)
You can manage a data center from one spot, but it isn't a cloud service. The key element to cloud services cost savings is that Computing power is shared across multiple customers. So your peak business hours processing that you need is taken away from an online store that has much of its traffic after hours, or with businesses in different time zones. Unless your are hosting a global business with thousands of apps with varying peak usage times. You local cloud system will be under utilized, because it will be built for peak usage, however there will be long periods of times, where it is under utilized.
Thus far more expensive.
If you need to manage your data center from one spot, they are tools for that too. You don't need a cloud system.
All the expense of hosting it locally, with the vendor lock in of a cloud solution!
Being that this service is being labeled "Mysterious". I expect they are opening up the phone, tapping into the storage media. Downloading all the data. The brute forcing it until they get in. Being most people just use a 4 digit pin. That means 9999 possible combination. If they use a password, then we have the brute force password hacking algorithms.
Such a process I would expect the 30k to be a reasonable price. Taking account opening an iPhone without breaking it, skills to tap into a soldered SD Drive, Putting the data onto high speed server(s), Putting the phone back to the way it was before. And doing the hack.
Not impossible, and really there isn't much Apple can do at these particular points. There gets to a point where enough effort will allow someone to get into a device that was built by man.
Actually it is more Modern Western Culture morality, then christian morality. The Age of Consent has historically been in flux. However it normally trends to older then younger. Especially as science points to developmental issues, in the brain showing that younger children are not good at decision making. Also to note in cultures with a younger consent age, people were put together for political and strategic reasons, not because of Love or sexual preference. And such marriages at a young age often recommended a good period of time before consecrations.
You don't need permission to do the right thing. However you should inform others that you are doing such actions, to help prevent mistakes from being made.
The more competition isn't always the better.
Sometimes this will make the lesser phone makers play a race to the bottom game. So while Apple and Samsung keep with their "Premium" line up. The other guys are fighting with themselves to make a cheaper phone then their competitors, with each generation getting crappier then before, and each product they sell has less profit margin to them, so they don't make money to invest back into the company, leading to a crappier next version.
While Apple and Samsung keep their place on their respective pegs, while any other rivals, are in the mist of destroying themselves.
I am not sure you you are old enough to remember the days when jeans were not pre-worn. When new they were very stiff and uncomfortable. It took weeks for them to be used enough so you felt like you were wring pants not cardboard. While some of is overdone for style, for the most part it is comfort adjustment to the clothing. Where before people would be sitting in the tub with their Jeans on so the material will shrink and fit to the body, or purchased a size larger so when it shrinks in the wash. The Chemical Washing and sanding helped make a better product.
Some styles go a bit too far. Chemical washing them until their are nearly white, and with holes and rips. But that trend comes and goes. However they have been pre-worn for decades now.