Additionally if the backups aren't working, that's something that could have saved the company - if the CTO had made sure that they worked properly.
I'd probably think twice before hiring the new guy as well over this, although at the same time I'd probably limit access to just what he needed to do his job. I'd also make sure I have proper backups.
But I'd avoid the CTO at all costs, at least as a CTO. (OR C- anything if this is how he operates.)
I reconfigured our backups recently. It's a huge pain in the ass because I had to wait for the end of the month, move everything to other storage, recreate new jobs from scratch, wait for them to run, copy to a second location, and perform automated validation checks in both locations, then do it all again (making sure version chaining worked), then actually go in and open up every single new backup, in both locations, to ensure they all worked, the correct passwords were used, etc.
The 8 years of scapegoating you're referring to were all the liberals blaming Bush for everything that happened under Obama's watch.
- The economy, years 0 - 8
- The Patriot Act, extensions, and expansions, years 0 - 8
- The murder of countless innocents in several farcical wars, years 0 - 8
- The expansion of pervasive and invasive spying programs along with the erosion of liberties, years 0 - 8
- The continual undermining of law and abandonment of duty with regards to border control, years 0 - 8
- The murder of an American citizen via drone strike
- The huge spike in health care premiums after the "Affordable Care Act" was passed
Yeah and when racist sacks of shit that don't bother with 4Chan see it reported and start doing it not ironically but rather with intent... well, at that point it is a symbol of racist shitbags
Point to some examples of this happening, please. Also quantify them - establish that they were numerous and pervasive, not incidental, and thus justified considering the image to be "a symbol of racist shitbags".
Even the creator of pepe has disavowed his own creation because its been co-opted.
Who the fuck cares what the creator does or says? You're still begging the question. You're claiming it was "co-opted" but have failed to show that it was in fact used by actual racists for racist purposes and have failed to show that any such usage rose to a level that would turn it into a symbol of hate.
It's a shitty looking cartoon frog. The only thing it's a symbol of is weak, shitty memes.
Except Pepe the Frog wasn't adopted by racist sacks of shit.
4Chan tricked the media into thinking that was the case. Just like they tricked them into thinking the "OK" hand gesture was a symbol for white power. Every instance on social media you see of Pepe the Frog or the "OK" hand gesture being used for such purposes is a farce. The media bought it whole hog, with zero investigation, zero confirmation, and zero thinking.
Rumor? I knew of this for a fact in the 90s. Various scanning software and photo editing software has code to detect when you're scanning or editing currency, too.
XVID came about from an MS codec, and DivX;) got its start from, well, look at the name. They gradually got better over time, but the best codecs available to mere mortals were the $$$ ones for years and years.
LAME was ass and was developed against the official Fraunhofer MP3 encoder, and it took years to reach parity. When it finally did, people were wondering if MP3Pro was going to make LAME irrelevant again.
With MP4, we had Nero's aacenc to deal with. Everyone was passing it out because it was THE codec to use, and people were injecting malware into it, so Nero said "fuck it" and made it free to all.
Commercial encoders are developed slowly, infrequently, and target devices like DVD/BluRay players and other set top boxes.
It used to take ages for free (or freely available) codecs to match or beat commercial codecs or reference implementations. With each new generation that time is shrinking. Is it due to a wider audience of collaborators and testers on the internet? Is it due to faster PCs and broadband connections for testing samples and sharing results? Is it due to the increasing complexity of advanced codecs being too unwieldy for a huge licensing body to handle (technically and legally)? I don't know and I don't care.
I just know that it wasn't always this good.
As for x265 vs AV1, x265 is basically HEVC. AV1 is far, far away from being viable even from the encoding side. In terms of being able to decode it freely and easily (and with hardware acceleration), it'll be a long ass time. AV1 faces the chicken/egg problem new codecs face. Without big media players pushing it it will have an uphill battle.
Yup, UPS/FedEx drivers get tickets non stop and they just send them to corporate who negotiates a bulk deal, paying pennies on the dollar (or worse), wiping out all tickets with no ramifications to the driver. This applies even to things that should be classed as moving violations and have actual impacts on the drivers themselves, because FedEx and UPS have money.
Uber doesn't have information on who is double parked when, nor would that information result in people not double parking. The same goes for Lyft.
Uber doesn't represent most traffic, nor does Lyft. So their traffic data can't be taken as representative of all traffic. A far better (and still incomplete / non-covering) source would be Google Maps. Should Google honor a subpoena for all location data?
No, of course they shouldn't. The city should do its job and address these problems directly and with the legal powers they have.
If they claim they need money to do it, the can issue tickets to everyone double parked. In "the bay area", one traffic cop configured in Parking Nazi mode can generate tantalizing amounts of money. Give them marching orders to target Uber, Lyft, UPS, FedEx, etc. and then REFUSE to negotiate the tickets in bulk. Boot / tow repeat offenders and charge them out the ass for impound fees. Cities like SF and LA already makes tons of money off of parking tickets, but they currently target regular people and often apply tickets erroneously, with no functional method to appeal. Why not target that bullshit at the people who deserve it? or the people / corporations who are repeat offenders (allowing you to increase the amount of the fine each time)?
If they cared about double parked cars, they'd issue tickets. If they cared about congestion, they'd put down the car counting strips and adjust signal timing. If they cared about accessibility, they'd run more buses to residential areas.
I don't see a legal reason Uber or Lyft would have to give up that data. My standard policy is "fuck them" for both Uber and Lyft, but they should laugh at this "subpoena".
What about removing the ability to install tons of applications because of the new system file protection/redirection/whatever bullshit? Hell, the last time I looked at a Sierra system, I couldn't get the built-in firewall to produce any sort of log. WTF are they doing?
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Uh, most of Hollywood regarding Woody Allen, Roman Polanski, etc.?
Additionally if the backups aren't working, that's something that could have saved the company - if the CTO had made sure that they worked properly.
I'd probably think twice before hiring the new guy as well over this, although at the same time I'd probably limit access to just what he needed to do his job. I'd also make sure I have proper backups.
But I'd avoid the CTO at all costs, at least as a CTO. (OR C- anything if this is how he operates.)
I reconfigured our backups recently. It's a huge pain in the ass because I had to wait for the end of the month, move everything to other storage, recreate new jobs from scratch, wait for them to run, copy to a second location, and perform automated validation checks in both locations, then do it all again (making sure version chaining worked), then actually go in and open up every single new backup, in both locations, to ensure they all worked, the correct passwords were used, etc.
But I know they fucking work.
Fewer.
Rinse, lather, repeat.
That's not right.
The 8 years of scapegoating you're referring to were all the liberals blaming Bush for everything that happened under Obama's watch.
- The economy, years 0 - 8
- The Patriot Act, extensions, and expansions, years 0 - 8
- The murder of countless innocents in several farcical wars, years 0 - 8
- The expansion of pervasive and invasive spying programs along with the erosion of liberties, years 0 - 8
- The continual undermining of law and abandonment of duty with regards to border control, years 0 - 8
- The murder of an American citizen via drone strike
- The huge spike in health care premiums after the "Affordable Care Act" was passed
But hey, keep on trucking, retard.
I've only ever seen people share things via internal file shares, USB, Dropbox, email, Box, Google Drive, or Google Docs.
WTF is docs.com? WTF is SlideShare? An audience of 70 million? DOUBTFUL!
$26,000,000,000.00 well spent, though.
As an aside, he knows that. Read his post.
All speech is free speech. What crowd of imbeciles thinks otherwise? Democrats?
Keep tooting your hate horn in 2018 and 2020. See what happens.
Yeah and when racist sacks of shit that don't bother with 4Chan see it reported and start doing it not ironically but rather with intent... well, at that point it is a symbol of racist shitbags
Point to some examples of this happening, please. Also quantify them - establish that they were numerous and pervasive, not incidental, and thus justified considering the image to be "a symbol of racist shitbags".
Even the creator of pepe has disavowed his own creation because its been co-opted.
Who the fuck cares what the creator does or says? You're still begging the question. You're claiming it was "co-opted" but have failed to show that it was in fact used by actual racists for racist purposes and have failed to show that any such usage rose to a level that would turn it into a symbol of hate.
It's a shitty looking cartoon frog. The only thing it's a symbol of is weak, shitty memes.
Technically all modern x86 processors are emulating x86 (same goes for x64/AMD64). It's all implemented in microcode now.
Except Pepe the Frog wasn't adopted by racist sacks of shit.
4Chan tricked the media into thinking that was the case. Just like they tricked them into thinking the "OK" hand gesture was a symbol for white power.
Every instance on social media you see of Pepe the Frog or the "OK" hand gesture being used for such purposes is a farce. The media bought it whole hog, with zero investigation, zero confirmation, and zero thinking.
Fuck AMT (and AMD's PSP).
They have almost zero real world benefit, and are just absurdly dangerous.
Rumor? I knew of this for a fact in the 90s. Various scanning software and photo editing software has code to detect when you're scanning or editing currency, too.
This being a reason lot of hackers and leakers be talking and typing in way like this.
https://medium.com/@shadowbrok...
Many people are in fact upholding a higher law when choosing to leak details about illegal bullshit.
He speaks for me.
XVID came about from an MS codec, and DivX ;) got its start from, well, look at the name.
They gradually got better over time, but the best codecs available to mere mortals were the $$$ ones for years and years.
LAME was ass and was developed against the official Fraunhofer MP3 encoder, and it took years to reach parity. When it finally did, people were wondering if MP3Pro was going to make LAME irrelevant again.
With MP4, we had Nero's aacenc to deal with. Everyone was passing it out because it was THE codec to use, and people were injecting malware into it, so Nero said "fuck it" and made it free to all.
Commercial encoders are developed slowly, infrequently, and target devices like DVD/BluRay players and other set top boxes.
It used to take ages for free (or freely available) codecs to match or beat commercial codecs or reference implementations. With each new generation that time is shrinking. Is it due to a wider audience of collaborators and testers on the internet? Is it due to faster PCs and broadband connections for testing samples and sharing results? Is it due to the increasing complexity of advanced codecs being too unwieldy for a huge licensing body to handle (technically and legally)? I don't know and I don't care.
I just know that it wasn't always this good.
As for x265 vs AV1, x265 is basically HEVC. AV1 is far, far away from being viable even from the encoding side. In terms of being able to decode it freely and easily (and with hardware acceleration), it'll be a long ass time. AV1 faces the chicken/egg problem new codecs face. Without big media players pushing it it will have an uphill battle.
Do I look like I know what a "jay peg" is?
Let's face facts: This show was cancelled before it even aired.
Yup, UPS/FedEx drivers get tickets non stop and they just send them to corporate who negotiates a bulk deal, paying pennies on the dollar (or worse), wiping out all tickets with no ramifications to the driver. This applies even to things that should be classed as moving violations and have actual impacts on the drivers themselves, because FedEx and UPS have money.
Uber doesn't have information on who is double parked when, nor would that information result in people not double parking.
The same goes for Lyft.
Uber doesn't represent most traffic, nor does Lyft. So their traffic data can't be taken as representative of all traffic. A far better (and still incomplete / non-covering) source would be Google Maps. Should Google honor a subpoena for all location data?
No, of course they shouldn't. The city should do its job and address these problems directly and with the legal powers they have.
If they claim they need money to do it, the can issue tickets to everyone double parked. In "the bay area", one traffic cop configured in Parking Nazi mode can generate tantalizing amounts of money. Give them marching orders to target Uber, Lyft, UPS, FedEx, etc. and then REFUSE to negotiate the tickets in bulk. Boot / tow repeat offenders and charge them out the ass for impound fees. Cities like SF and LA already makes tons of money off of parking tickets, but they currently target regular people and often apply tickets erroneously, with no functional method to appeal. Why not target that bullshit at the people who deserve it? or the people / corporations who are repeat offenders (allowing you to increase the amount of the fine each time)?
If they cared about double parked cars, they'd issue tickets.
If they cared about congestion, they'd put down the car counting strips and adjust signal timing.
If they cared about accessibility, they'd run more buses to residential areas.
I don't see a legal reason Uber or Lyft would have to give up that data. My standard policy is "fuck them" for both Uber and Lyft, but they should laugh at this "subpoena".
What about removing the ability to install tons of applications because of the new system file protection/redirection/whatever bullshit?
Hell, the last time I looked at a Sierra system, I couldn't get the built-in firewall to produce any sort of log.
WTF are they doing?
It's a "leak", and we all know it.