You missed the part where he was already forced to use safe mode and still needed to somehow download and install the drivers to fix the problem. What would you recommend instead of a browser for that task?
Driving uninsured or using an ungrounded oven DO jeopardize you. You just happened to beat the odds. The DC authorities claimed nobody was jeopardized at all.
It's not just the lack of an incident. They claimed that public safety was not in any way impacted by the loss of the cameras. That includes potential for harm not being increased by their loss.
In the sense that EVERYTHING is a cost center yes. It is not as the management over-simplification where soem departments are macically profit centers even though they also cost money.
Unless they routinely deleted email on reading, the backups might contain inboxes containging years of emails.
OTOH, unless there is a specific data retention requirement, discovery is for things you have. If things missing from discovery are consistent with your retention policy (showing that you didn't make a mad rush to delete things to avoid discovery), you're fine.
The whole cost center thing is a silly over-simplification anyway. If it enables the company to have revenue it is a profit center. The question they should be asking is if we replaced all of this IT stuff with a building full of people with spindles and adding machines, a big warehouse full of documents and a bunch of people to run documents back and forth, how much extra would that cost and how much would it slow us down.
IT is a cost center like sales and marketing is a cost center. You have to pay sales and marketing people, and you have to buy them equipment. You have to hire people to set up and take care of that equipment for them.
Unless we change our economic system, that's exactly where it's headed. Except that would create a large group of pissed off people with weapons and nothing to lose.
One way to ease the transition is to promote more people hired for fewer hours and a basic income that makes up the difference. That will take some pressure on employers to reverse current trends.
The USB-C spec allows for as much as 20V to be negotiated. For anything but the cheapest crap devices I don't think it's too much to ask that they be able to handle that or at least disconnect electrically rather than burn out. Any supplier of power should, as you say, not be damaged by even a dead short.
I can understand if a $5 thumb drive can't handle it, but there's no excuse for something like a chromebook burning out.
The meter might be useful for some things, but I suspect it's more likely to tell you why your new shiny let the smoke out than it is to prevent it.
That is somewhat more useful, but I really wish they would just go with plain old vnc. They're not as bad as the ones that open a random port and signal back to the app. Some of us have to hop through ssh tunnels.
That's why in 2017, I'm still glad linux can be installed using a combination of serial and (sometimes) vnc. At least I can now use the web browser to mount virtual media.
Mostly because there have been so many security holes found in java plugins that no other browsers even support it any more. Even Oracle doesn't think it's a good idea these days. Fee free to contemplate the irony of using the java plugin for a security application.
There may be some effects, but there is nothing so far suggesting a problem for healthy users. People with cardiovascular disease are often advised to reduce or eliminate caffeine as well.
IIRC, when separated from all the other crap in cigarettes, nicotine is about on the level of caffeine as far as harmful potential (though it's easier to overdose). It's also a lot less addictive without the MAOIs found in cigarettes.
Many introverts are perfectly capable of extroverted interaction and even enjoy it. The real determinant is if you find it energizing or tiring. The introvert finds it tiring and so enjoys it in smaller and/or less frequent doses.
If you can't understand how those are two sides of a coin, you have a thought disorder.
If labor costs go up, your response is some combination of increased prices and accepting reduced profits. You claim there exists no non-disastrous combination of those for any increase in wages.
I can understand why you might want to walk that back a bit, but calling others idiots and claiming you never said such a thing isn't the way to do it.
True, but Qualcomm agreed to FRAND when their patented technology was incorporated into the LTE standards. If you want your phone to actually be able to talk to the cellular network, you MUST licence Qualcomms tech.
You're the one who claimed that any raise at all was going to ruin you rather than jusrt reducing your margins. I was just challenging the absolute nature of your claim.
Don't forget that Socialism has no monopoly on force. Our current capitalism is full of forced situations, some by government and some by businesses. I am forced to pay a doctor if I need a prescription, even if I know what I need. I can't get an x-ray without the radiology consult. I am not permitted to convert my front yard to food crops, so I must pay the grocery store. I'm not supposed to do my own electrical work even if I exceed code. Many restaurants have a problem if they want to offer Coke and Pepsi products at the same time. Sometimes you can't buy parts for appliances and home electronics unless you've also paid a few thousand to be a "certified" technician (basically, certified that you've paid them a few thousand, that is). Same crappy deal for modern automotive diagnostics.
The lack of a basic income also creates a force situation for many. Work when we say and as much as we say and you'll take what we're willing to pay. Be sure to kiss the manager's ass or you'll be even worse off.
Some of that force comes from government, some from businesses.
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I didn't claim management didn't do that, just that it is wrong headed and results in problems.
You missed the part where he was already forced to use safe mode and still needed to somehow download and install the drivers to fix the problem. What would you recommend instead of a browser for that task?
Driving uninsured or using an ungrounded oven DO jeopardize you. You just happened to beat the odds. The DC authorities claimed nobody was jeopardized at all.
It's not just the lack of an incident. They claimed that public safety was not in any way impacted by the loss of the cameras. That includes potential for harm not being increased by their loss.
In the sense that EVERYTHING is a cost center yes. It is not as the management over-simplification where soem departments are macically profit centers even though they also cost money.
Unless they routinely deleted email on reading, the backups might contain inboxes containging years of emails.
OTOH, unless there is a specific data retention requirement, discovery is for things you have. If things missing from discovery are consistent with your retention policy (showing that you didn't make a mad rush to delete things to avoid discovery), you're fine.
The whole cost center thing is a silly over-simplification anyway. If it enables the company to have revenue it is a profit center. The question they should be asking is if we replaced all of this IT stuff with a building full of people with spindles and adding machines, a big warehouse full of documents and a bunch of people to run documents back and forth, how much extra would that cost and how much would it slow us down.
IT is a cost center like sales and marketing is a cost center. You have to pay sales and marketing people, and you have to buy them equipment. You have to hire people to set up and take care of that equipment for them.
Unless we change our economic system, that's exactly where it's headed. Except that would create a large group of pissed off people with weapons and nothing to lose.
One way to ease the transition is to promote more people hired for fewer hours and a basic income that makes up the difference. That will take some pressure on employers to reverse current trends.
Remember when a workday was actually 9 to 5?
The USB-C spec allows for as much as 20V to be negotiated. For anything but the cheapest crap devices I don't think it's too much to ask that they be able to handle that or at least disconnect electrically rather than burn out. Any supplier of power should, as you say, not be damaged by even a dead short.
I can understand if a $5 thumb drive can't handle it, but there's no excuse for something like a chromebook burning out.
The meter might be useful for some things, but I suspect it's more likely to tell you why your new shiny let the smoke out than it is to prevent it.
That is somewhat more useful, but I really wish they would just go with plain old vnc. They're not as bad as the ones that open a random port and signal back to the app. Some of us have to hop through ssh tunnels.
That's why in 2017, I'm still glad linux can be installed using a combination of serial and (sometimes) vnc. At least I can now use the web browser to mount virtual media.
Mostly because there have been so many security holes found in java plugins that no other browsers even support it any more. Even Oracle doesn't think it's a good idea these days. Fee free to contemplate the irony of using the java plugin for a security application.
There may be some effects, but there is nothing so far suggesting a problem for healthy users. People with cardiovascular disease are often advised to reduce or eliminate caffeine as well.
After the party on Friday, do you wonder who's throwing the Saturday party of do you prefer a night at home?
IIRC, when separated from all the other crap in cigarettes, nicotine is about on the level of caffeine as far as harmful potential (though it's easier to overdose). It's also a lot less addictive without the MAOIs found in cigarettes.
Many introverts are perfectly capable of extroverted interaction and even enjoy it. The real determinant is if you find it energizing or tiring. The introvert finds it tiring and so enjoys it in smaller and/or less frequent doses.
Nicotine isn't the least bit carcinogenic. It's the other stuff in cigarette smoke(and in chewing tobacco but not snus) that causes the cancer.
Cigarettes should be denounced, but not nicotine.
It's amazing to me how often the bad effects of smoking get attributed to nicotine itself.
A multi-million dollar spin on the roulette wheel that costs more than just paying? I wonder why that wouldn't be the first choice?
Chartging based on a percentage is not the only complaint against Qualcomm. Also, this is Chinese law.
If you can't understand how those are two sides of a coin, you have a thought disorder.
If labor costs go up, your response is some combination of increased prices and accepting reduced profits. You claim there exists no non-disastrous combination of those for any increase in wages.
I can understand why you might want to walk that back a bit, but calling others idiots and claiming you never said such a thing isn't the way to do it.
True, but Qualcomm agreed to FRAND when their patented technology was incorporated into the LTE standards. If you want your phone to actually be able to talk to the cellular network, you MUST licence Qualcomms tech.
I guess you have a memory issue. Look back up where it was suggested you might accept a slightly lower margin and how you replied.
You're the one who claimed that any raise at all was going to ruin you rather than jusrt reducing your margins. I was just challenging the absolute nature of your claim.
Don't forget that Socialism has no monopoly on force. Our current capitalism is full of forced situations, some by government and some by businesses. I am forced to pay a doctor if I need a prescription, even if I know what I need. I can't get an x-ray without the radiology consult. I am not permitted to convert my front yard to food crops, so I must pay the grocery store. I'm not supposed to do my own electrical work even if I exceed code. Many restaurants have a problem if they want to offer Coke and Pepsi products at the same time. Sometimes you can't buy parts for appliances and home electronics unless you've also paid a few thousand to be a "certified" technician (basically, certified that you've paid them a few thousand, that is). Same crappy deal for modern automotive diagnostics.
The lack of a basic income also creates a force situation for many. Work when we say and as much as we say and you'll take what we're willing to pay. Be sure to kiss the manager's ass or you'll be even worse off.
Some of that force comes from government, some from businesses.