I believe what they are saying is that they did upgrade to hashes, but they had an old Dev environment from before the upgrade and that's what they hacked. I'd say that's pretty typical of big IT shops. Bunches of old Dev environments that go back years because people are afraid to erase them "just in case" Most companies have the false impression that the only part of their data that's at risk is the publicly facing stuff. They never think of "What if they get inside?"
Security team says such and such isn't secure. Management says "Oh no! We have to do something" Security provides a quote for the upgrade project. Management asks "Um... what? Really? That's our entire 2013 development budget! What kind of fines are we looking at if there's a breach?" Security: "Well... None..." Management "So why is it you're in my office?"
That's true of just about every department in the country. I think most people in this country have ridiculous illusions about the quality and skill of our police force. Reality hits them square in the face when they actually have to call the police. My neighbors home was burglarized recently, the police showed up, told him there wasn't much they could do and left. They didn't even ask any of the neighbors (like me) if we'd seen anything. No investigation at all. Get pulled over with a Marijuana pipe in your car and you'll have 3 squad cars on the scene within minutes.
The biggest obstacle to using the RPi in a lot of projects is the cost of a monitor. You'd think with all the cellphones out there small monitors would be easy to find but really there's nothing for under $150 worth your time.
Everything is related to money. Even if you don't believe it's to generate ticket revenue (and that is a bit of a stretch) why does the government care if you speed? Because accidents cost money, injury costs money and dead people don't spend money. It's ALWAYS about money. Unless it's about sex.
No, they don't. I have a heavily modified vehicle. Much more done to it that what he did. I've axles from 2 different models of cars, different break booster, different engine and transmission, Disc break conversions, Modified computer, Modified transmission lines and coolers, exhaust and complete custom suspension... They inspected it and raised my rates on it slightly but other than that it's still covered.
Have you ever owned a Plasma? They die... all the time. I had 3 plasmas die in as many years. I've had the same LCD for 7 years now. Every time I go over to someones house and their TV has a giant glitchy white or black stripe running down the screen I know they have a plasma. I'm sure there are some success stories but when even the $7k+ luxury models have higher failure rates, that technology needs to die.
You're completely correct. All of our experimental/never-been-tried-before surgical procedures definitely should be tried on JW's first. If you end up running short, let me know. I have at least 2 a month ask to come in my house and I'd be happy to net them for ya.
There should be only a single tax. Sales tax. It should apply to all sales equally. There should be no loopholes and it shout not be "progressive" (i.e. higher rate for the rich) There should be no deductions or tax deadlines. It would be very simple and fair. Lastly it would encourage savings rather than consumption which is something we need desperately right now. Our current "progressive" system results in the rich paying less than the poor in many cases because they are better equipped to use the system in their favor. In a sales tax only system they would naturally pay more in taxes because they have more discretionary income.
There is absolutely no reason we need separate little "mini" taxes on every product, sales event, and service there is. The sole purpose of all of our tax mess is to obfuscate the real percentage we're all paying in taxes.
You've obviously never worked with Marketing people before. It's just one giant clusterfuck of lies. Marketing has to prove their department is worth keeping so they want to inflate the number of clicks they got just as much as the vendor does. Remember the "Got Milk" campaign? One of the largest and most recognized ad campaigns in history and milk sales went DOWN while it was going on. It did more for the stars that showed up in the adds than it ever did for the milk industry.
You can bet that whomever decided to do this either: a. Had a legal team calculate the cost in fines and deduced they'd make more money than the fines would cost them by doing this. or b. (most likely) didn't check, didn't care, implemented the strategy and raked in large bonuses until the feds started asking questions at which time he/she either retired or moved on to another job. Ironically they likely will point to Infosys for the rest of their career and say "See how great they were doing right up until I left?"
I dunno, I buy my DS games at the local thrift store for $3 I don't have the 3D but my 5yr old doesn't know the difference and that's what this device is geared towards right? He's already starting to play some PC games, his only stumbling block is not being able to read. So I don't think it's going to be long before he's done with handhelds just like everyone else. They're fun in that car/bathroom/doctors office, but nothing beats a real PC with a keyboard.
There are so many things wrong with this article. First you'd be torn apart by tidal forces. Long before you got anywhere near it. If you somehow survived that, then time would slow as you approached. The wavelength of light would stretch due to time dilation, and the light hitting you from stars in the sky would shorten, so much so that you'd be roasted by high energy radiation. Lastly, it would take a very very very long time to actually reach the event horizon. As time slowed the victim would likely see the end of the universe behind him.
I've noticed that most SASS companies have been pulling in the reigns lately and trying to focus more on core functionality. I think a lot of these companies had been adding every service they could think of, then their customers would get the tool and run with it. A year or two later they find that its not all that profitable but their customers now have business processes dependent on it and are pissed when they find out it's not being developed any longer. More and more when we deal with a SASS vendor we're demanding to see their "Roadmap" so we don't use the bits that are getting deprecated.
Ok, I'll give you a typical scenario. You live just outside of town in a small subdivision. There are about 20 homes in your area. You have no DSL, and you're too far our for cable. The phone company would like you to have DSL, but the cost of laying a new trunk is in the 1 to 2 million dollar range. Then the equipment in the remote needs to be upgraded, and ADSL 6+6 cards (serves 6 customers) cost over $1000/each unless you get old ones off of ebay. The most the ISP will make off those 20 homes is $40/home on average (these are REAL stats) So 20 homes x $40 = $800/month. So it would take ONE HUDRED YEARS for those customers to pay off the istall of that equipment. The ISP is NOT going to do that. So the Feds com in, subsidize the upgrade. Yay! They all have DSL now! 2 years later, 3 of those homes get Netflix and saturate the trunk feeding the remote. No one can surf the net on friday/saturday night.
It's your ISP, what would you do? Running another trunk is another million or so depending on distance.
And if you're wondering about the people that live IN town... this is why ISPs are given monopolies. They charge the same rate throughout town (and are required to by law) and the city dwelling people are subsidizing the rural customers bill. The people in town are much more profitable. This is why AT&T/Sprint etc... have spent the past decade pulling their operations out of rural areas. They focus on big cities now.
Your ISP installs equipment in your area. That equipment is VERY expensive. You'd be surprised how much actually. In fact, your bill is likely heavily subsidized by the government and even other customers via fees and such. Your ISP figures out average usage in your area and then installs the equipment that will provide whatever speed they're trying to sell there. Not everyone uses 100% of their connection 100% of the time. If they did, your bill would be much more expensive. So the equipment that leads to your house CAN support the speed (usually) that you are paying for. And the equipment that feeds the remote in your area can usually support about 60% of users at max capacity.
Now, the problem is that Netflix and services like it concentrate usage at specific times. Not only that but netflix, unlike other content providers, refuses to work with ISPs. Google, for example has a department in charge of "peering" and when they have a contract with Level3 but plan to move to Sprint or something, they call up the ISPs and let them know in advance. The ISPs can then sign similar peering contracts with Sprint. Netflix is hostile in this area, they just switch... with no notice... and they leave the ISPs in the lurch. There are about 10 major players on the net, and Netflix is one of the biggest. When they just move all of their traffic to another network its equivalent to a stampede of elephants running to one side of your boat. The ISP either has to let customers suffer or sign a hasty contract with another carrier and take a loss on the previous commitment. Google doesn't do that, not even Microsoft does that.
Anyways, I'm not sure usage based billing is the solution, but like it or not, it IS coming to this country. and yes, I work for an ISP. They are trying to be creative about it, but I doubt it'll come to anything. The easiest solution is to just charge you more. So that's what will happen.
It's a horrible, awful job. My father was in the airforce and maintained a lot of that equipment. Think of it this way, you are locked underground with 2 other guys. Everyone has a gun and have been psychologically tested to be sure that they could kill YOU immediately if ordered to, or if you hesitate in following an order. Spend 6 months with those guys and try and have meaningful interactions with them... oh right, you might have to shoot them to... so don't get too attached.
It's basically a recipe for the worst reality show ever. My father said the second he'd show up to work on stuff the guys would begin yapping their traps non-stop. Being the first human they'd seen in months that had no designs on shooting them in the head, he was their new best friend.
Lastly, the blast doors aren't the only doors. It's an entire facility. It just takes the blast doors a loooong time to open. So they dont close them unless they absolutely have to. Granted, his experiences were in the 60s and 70s so I'm not sure how much of it still applies. But I bet it's still pretty much the same.
The answer was obvious. We need a way to fast track issues like this to the SCOTUS and force them to rule on them. How many people sat in prison for years due to this crooked process while law enforcement stalled it in court?
I would trade the internet for everyone at Adobe and Oracle getting laid off in the same week. Seems fair to me. If you've ever done business with them, you'll likely understand my sentiment.
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I do like how you completely distorted the subject of the article and turned it into an anti-snowden rant.
I believe what they are saying is that they did upgrade to hashes, but they had an old Dev environment from before the upgrade and that's what they hacked. I'd say that's pretty typical of big IT shops. Bunches of old Dev environments that go back years because people are afraid to erase them "just in case" Most companies have the false impression that the only part of their data that's at risk is the publicly facing stuff. They never think of "What if they get inside?"
Security team says such and such isn't secure.
Management says "Oh no! We have to do something"
Security provides a quote for the upgrade project.
Management asks "Um... what? Really? That's our entire 2013 development budget! What kind of fines are we looking at if there's a breach?"
Security: "Well... None..."
Management "So why is it you're in my office?"
That's true of just about every department in the country. I think most people in this country have ridiculous illusions about the quality and skill of our police force. Reality hits them square in the face when they actually have to call the police. My neighbors home was burglarized recently, the police showed up, told him there wasn't much they could do and left. They didn't even ask any of the neighbors (like me) if we'd seen anything. No investigation at all. Get pulled over with a Marijuana pipe in your car and you'll have 3 squad cars on the scene within minutes.
The biggest obstacle to using the RPi in a lot of projects is the cost of a monitor. You'd think with all the cellphones out there small monitors would be easy to find but really there's nothing for under $150 worth your time.
Everything is related to money. Even if you don't believe it's to generate ticket revenue (and that is a bit of a stretch) why does the government care if you speed? Because accidents cost money, injury costs money and dead people don't spend money. It's ALWAYS about money. Unless it's about sex.
No, they don't. I have a heavily modified vehicle. Much more done to it that what he did. I've axles from 2 different models of cars, different break booster, different engine and transmission, Disc break conversions, Modified computer, Modified transmission lines and coolers, exhaust and complete custom suspension... They inspected it and raised my rates on it slightly but other than that it's still covered.
ok why are all the replys to my post adds for Panasonic?
I can understand Google and Redhat... but Oracle? Talk about having a fox in the hen-house.
Have you ever owned a Plasma? They die... all the time. I had 3 plasmas die in as many years. I've had the same LCD for 7 years now. Every time I go over to someones house and their TV has a giant glitchy white or black stripe running down the screen I know they have a plasma. I'm sure there are some success stories but when even the $7k+ luxury models have higher failure rates, that technology needs to die.
You're completely correct. All of our experimental/never-been-tried-before surgical procedures definitely should be tried on JW's first. If you end up running short, let me know. I have at least 2 a month ask to come in my house and I'd be happy to net them for ya.
There should be only a single tax. Sales tax. It should apply to all sales equally. There should be no loopholes and it shout not be "progressive" (i.e. higher rate for the rich) There should be no deductions or tax deadlines. It would be very simple and fair. Lastly it would encourage savings rather than consumption which is something we need desperately right now. Our current "progressive" system results in the rich paying less than the poor in many cases because they are better equipped to use the system in their favor. In a sales tax only system they would naturally pay more in taxes because they have more discretionary income.
There is absolutely no reason we need separate little "mini" taxes on every product, sales event, and service there is. The sole purpose of all of our tax mess is to obfuscate the real percentage we're all paying in taxes.
You've obviously never worked with Marketing people before. It's just one giant clusterfuck of lies. Marketing has to prove their department is worth keeping so they want to inflate the number of clicks they got just as much as the vendor does. Remember the "Got Milk" campaign? One of the largest and most recognized ad campaigns in history and milk sales went DOWN while it was going on. It did more for the stars that showed up in the adds than it ever did for the milk industry.
You just blew my mind.
You can bet that whomever decided to do this either:
a. Had a legal team calculate the cost in fines and deduced they'd make more money than the fines would cost them by doing this.
or
b. (most likely) didn't check, didn't care, implemented the strategy and raked in large bonuses until the feds started asking questions at which time he/she either retired or moved on to another job. Ironically they likely will point to Infosys for the rest of their career and say "See how great they were doing right up until I left?"
In other words, Ignorance is Bliss and nosy in-laws are always trying to stir shit up.
I dunno, I buy my DS games at the local thrift store for $3
I don't have the 3D but my 5yr old doesn't know the difference and that's what this device is geared towards right?
He's already starting to play some PC games, his only stumbling block is not being able to read. So I don't think it's going to be long before he's done with handhelds just like everyone else. They're fun in that car/bathroom/doctors office, but nothing beats a real PC with a keyboard.
There are so many things wrong with this article. First you'd be torn apart by tidal forces. Long before you got anywhere near it. If you somehow survived that, then time would slow as you approached. The wavelength of light would stretch due to time dilation, and the light hitting you from stars in the sky would shorten, so much so that you'd be roasted by high energy radiation. Lastly, it would take a very very very long time to actually reach the event horizon. As time slowed the victim would likely see the end of the universe behind him.
I've noticed that most SASS companies have been pulling in the reigns lately and trying to focus more on core functionality. I think a lot of these companies had been adding every service they could think of, then their customers would get the tool and run with it. A year or two later they find that its not all that profitable but their customers now have business processes dependent on it and are pissed when they find out it's not being developed any longer. More and more when we deal with a SASS vendor we're demanding to see their "Roadmap" so we don't use the bits that are getting deprecated.
Ok, I'll give you a typical scenario. You live just outside of town in a small subdivision. There are about 20 homes in your area. You have no DSL, and you're too far our for cable. The phone company would like you to have DSL, but the cost of laying a new trunk is in the 1 to 2 million dollar range. Then the equipment in the remote needs to be upgraded, and ADSL 6+6 cards (serves 6 customers) cost over $1000/each unless you get old ones off of ebay. The most the ISP will make off those 20 homes is $40/home on average (these are REAL stats) So 20 homes x $40 = $800/month. So it would take ONE HUDRED YEARS for those customers to pay off the istall of that equipment. The ISP is NOT going to do that. So the Feds com in, subsidize the upgrade. Yay! They all have DSL now! 2 years later, 3 of those homes get Netflix and saturate the trunk feeding the remote. No one can surf the net on friday/saturday night.
It's your ISP, what would you do? Running another trunk is another million or so depending on distance.
And if you're wondering about the people that live IN town... this is why ISPs are given monopolies. They charge the same rate throughout town (and are required to by law) and the city dwelling people are subsidizing the rural customers bill. The people in town are much more profitable. This is why AT&T/Sprint etc... have spent the past decade pulling their operations out of rural areas. They focus on big cities now.
Your ISP installs equipment in your area. That equipment is VERY expensive. You'd be surprised how much actually. In fact, your bill is likely heavily subsidized by the government and even other customers via fees and such. Your ISP figures out average usage in your area and then installs the equipment that will provide whatever speed they're trying to sell there. Not everyone uses 100% of their connection 100% of the time. If they did, your bill would be much more expensive. So the equipment that leads to your house CAN support the speed (usually) that you are paying for. And the equipment that feeds the remote in your area can usually support about 60% of users at max capacity.
Now, the problem is that Netflix and services like it concentrate usage at specific times. Not only that but netflix, unlike other content providers, refuses to work with ISPs. Google, for example has a department in charge of "peering" and when they have a contract with Level3 but plan to move to Sprint or something, they call up the ISPs and let them know in advance. The ISPs can then sign similar peering contracts with Sprint. Netflix is hostile in this area, they just switch... with no notice... and they leave the ISPs in the lurch. There are about 10 major players on the net, and Netflix is one of the biggest. When they just move all of their traffic to another network its equivalent to a stampede of elephants running to one side of your boat. The ISP either has to let customers suffer or sign a hasty contract with another carrier and take a loss on the previous commitment. Google doesn't do that, not even Microsoft does that.
Anyways, I'm not sure usage based billing is the solution, but like it or not, it IS coming to this country. and yes, I work for an ISP. They are trying to be creative about it, but I doubt it'll come to anything. The easiest solution is to just charge you more. So that's what will happen.
Lol, ok who change the dudes video message to "aggg my bandwidth cap!!" lololol
It's a horrible, awful job. My father was in the airforce and maintained a lot of that equipment. Think of it this way, you are locked underground with 2 other guys. Everyone has a gun and have been psychologically tested to be sure that they could kill YOU immediately if ordered to, or if you hesitate in following an order. Spend 6 months with those guys and try and have meaningful interactions with them... oh right, you might have to shoot them to... so don't get too attached.
It's basically a recipe for the worst reality show ever. My father said the second he'd show up to work on stuff the guys would begin yapping their traps non-stop. Being the first human they'd seen in months that had no designs on shooting them in the head, he was their new best friend.
Lastly, the blast doors aren't the only doors. It's an entire facility. It just takes the blast doors a loooong time to open. So they dont close them unless they absolutely have to. Granted, his experiences were in the 60s and 70s so I'm not sure how much of it still applies. But I bet it's still pretty much the same.
The answer was obvious. We need a way to fast track issues like this to the SCOTUS and force them to rule on them. How many people sat in prison for years due to this crooked process while law enforcement stalled it in court?
I would trade the internet for everyone at Adobe and Oracle getting laid off in the same week. Seems fair to me. If you've ever done business with them, you'll likely understand my sentiment.