If it is a choice between getting the company's work done and having "secuity", then guess which wins! Because it is getting the work done that pays everyone's salery checks.
I have seen more than one company that got so mad over password foolishness, that they fired half of the IT staff and removed all requirments for passwords. I asked them about it but it was still so "fresh" that they would not even discuss it...
So they say there are not enough scientific studies to prove the drinking water is good for you. So they are going to turn off everyone's water pipes. 8-P
These guys are fishing for Research Grant Money !;-)
Deaths are rare, about 9 per 1000 people per year. Given a reasonably occupancy numbers (100 people?) and occupancy time (it's a bar, say 5 hours per day for those 100), and say it has those numbers for the full 365 days per year. That gives an average 20 person years per year occupancy. Amortized over the whole population, that's an expected 1 death every 5 years with some pretty generous numbers.
... I think if the guy were to post "EMERGENCY TELEPHONE BEHIND BAR - DIAL 911" (substitute whatever the dispatcher number is in the UK is) on the door underneath his business hours, he'd be doing his due.
They used to post signs like that, even before there was 911. You can probably still buy them, if you talk to a sign company that has been around for a while.
... Y2K passed off with barely a whimper because millions of software engineers around the planet took it seriously and worked their asses off for a good 6 months to make their software cope with the year ticking over to 2000....
This is true, I worked on the systems that were not yet fixed. Before and after year 2000. And some of them were definatly scary.
Bottom line, don't believe the popular press reports any farther than you can throw them. About how terrible and scary things are, -or- about how all the scary was just a fraud. Both stories are written by the -same- reporters.;-)
I used instructions online to install Windows 10 to a VHD file on one of my external disks so it would be activated and valid in the Microsoft database and then kept using Windows 7....
That would be a good idea.
Except I am too scared of M$, right now, to even allow that much of a connection...
Leave updates off. There is now more risk of work disruption from Microsoft updates, than there is from "hackers". Especially if you have a decent anti-virus.
99.99% of Windows 10 Pro users were NEVER going to mess with group policy editor to tweak those settings anyway. So ~why~ go to the trouble of disabling them.
Have you ever heard the term: "Control Freak" ?
Of course, it might just be because they hired the cheapest and least experienced people that they could find...
I don't think even Donald Trump is oblivious enough to suggest that someone should hack a server that was decommissioned years ago.
I'll agree that man does a fine job of de-calibrating sarcasm detectors, but I just don't understand how anyone can take this seriously. The idea that professional journalists are doing so (apparently it was played as straight news by CNN as their top story) does not pass the smell test with me, and (in my opinion) is just an excuse to manufacture controversy.
I have no doubt that Trump was betting that the newsies would do exactly that! That is how he is saving money on his publicity.
Voters are getting way past tired of the "power structure" politicians.
In his first election, Obama was "none of the above", a stranger that was not known to be a corrupt pawn of the power brokers.
Hillery is the power structure's "strike back".
Trump is this election's "none of the above", and how !
Vote third party, every time. The powerful do look at how many votes they -didn't- get, and why.
And, vote for a change in all voting, to an "Approval Voting" system, where each voter gets one vote -for each candidate-. So you vote for all you can stand, and none that you can't stand. It would remove much of the power from the political parties. 8-)
... instead it shows that they did not want to play by their own rules when determining their candidate. It's dirty pool which may disenfranchise some Democrats.
That part of it is true. The political parties are Private Clubs. They have their own rules and can do as they wish, in their own club. Outside, they are subject to the same laws as anyone else.
Some states have laws about some things the parties do, in the primaries, but those might not even be constitutional.
It's the National and State Elections that are public and under federal law.
Hillery's email server was secure and the DNC tech types said so?
And then the DNC email server is hacked big time?
So just how secure was the classified information on Hillery's server?
And just because she removed the line that said "Classified" does not mean it was safe to let out...
The Democrats don't believe in security, have no idea of how to keep critical stuff safe, even their personal stuff, and don't even try much. Even for military and diplomatic secrets that can kill people.
The models used for Economics need to include information flow as a resourse transport, bought and sold as needed. But I don't know any that do...
Over-simplification can kill anything. That's the difference between acedemics and real work, and why graduates tend to not be worth anything at first.
WTF 1st grade math class did you fail out of? A straight line can have a positive, negative or zero slope. That is three options.
More then that, a line can be any shape and nothing real is ever straight. Economists talk about curves but draw straight lines. I don't think any of them ever took calculus, which is what you use to work with change. Real things change...
"Black and Decker" is no longer Black and Decker, the name was sold off. The current owners have little, if any, connection to the old design team and manufacturing.
That has happened to several of the old good companies, whose names should never have been sold but they were inherited by bankers... 8-(
As I understand it, Verizon has not had an "unlimited" plan for many years! It was stopped a long time ago.
They just let people continue as they were to avoid controversy.
So now they say: Hey, that was stopped years ago. And also, you are being a dick. So stop or we cut you off. Sorry, but they have a right to do that. They are not your parents...
Although that is true, it is not to be depended upon. If you are dead, it does not matter who was at fault...
Slamming on the brakes while in traffic is not a good idea, that is why they have deceleration lanes for exits.
And then there are the cases where slamming the brakes could leave you sitting right in front of an oncoming truck, when you might have passed and been clear. I saw this happen, a few years back.
People who are actively driving use a lot more complicated logic than that. But it is subconsious and they don't realize all they are doing. The robots are past that, too, even though they are much simpler than a human.
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If it is a choice between getting the company's work done and having "secuity", then guess which wins! Because it is getting the work done that pays everyone's salery checks.
I have seen more than one company that got so mad over password foolishness, that they fired half of the IT staff and removed all requirments for passwords. I asked them about it but it was still so "fresh" that they would not even discuss it...
This is all true but password changes do reveal password compromises.
How does it reveal compromised passwords? Do the criminals call IT to complain about not getting on? 8-P
Oh, right ... They do, and IT gives them a new password ... 8-(
So they say there are not enough scientific studies to prove the drinking water is good for you. So they are going to turn off everyone's water pipes. 8-P
These guys are fishing for Research Grant Money ! ;-)
Deaths are rare, about 9 per 1000 people per year. Given a reasonably occupancy numbers (100 people?) and occupancy time (it's a bar, say 5 hours per day for those 100), and say it has those numbers for the full 365 days per year. That gives an average 20 person years per year occupancy. Amortized over the whole population, that's an expected 1 death every 5 years with some pretty generous numbers.
Now, there is a -real- SlashDot answer! 8-)
I know! It'll be like the dark ages back in 1995 again. People died man. People died.
Most of them died. And the rest will die in the next few decades. And it's worse than that, you are going to die, too. (eventually)
But more die now from walking in front of buses and stuff, than did then... 8-P
... I think if the guy were to post "EMERGENCY TELEPHONE BEHIND BAR - DIAL 911" (substitute whatever the dispatcher number is in the UK is) on the door underneath his business hours, he'd be doing his due.
They used to post signs like that, even before there was 911. You can probably still buy them, if you talk to a sign company that has been around for a while.
"In desending order: Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics."
What if there's a terrorist attack in there? How will they call the police from the toilets?
Wired phones in the toilets? (I hope not...)
But calling the police does not seem to help much, even with them doing all that they can.
Get a carry permit?
... Y2K passed off with barely a whimper because millions of software engineers around the planet took it seriously and worked their asses off for a good 6 months to make their software cope with the year ticking over to 2000. ...
This is true, I worked on the systems that were not yet fixed. Before and after year 2000. And some of them were definatly scary.
Bottom line, don't believe the popular press reports any farther than you can throw them. About how terrible and scary things are, -or- about how all the scary was just a fraud. Both stories are written by the -same- reporters. ;-)
I used instructions online to install Windows 10 to a VHD file on one of my external disks so it would be activated and valid in the Microsoft database and then kept using Windows 7. ...
That would be a good idea.
Except I am too scared of M$, right now, to even allow that much of a connection...
Leave updates off. There is now more risk of work disruption from Microsoft updates, than there is from "hackers". Especially if you have a decent anti-virus.
I have blocked the Microsoft download and update sites in my router. M$ is now more dangerous than the "hackers".
99.99% of Windows 10 Pro users were NEVER going to mess with group policy editor to tweak those settings anyway. So ~why~ go to the trouble of disabling them.
Have you ever heard the term: "Control Freak" ?
Of course, it might just be because they hired the cheapest and least experienced people that they could find...
in a republican controlled world view, I wonder which bathrooms Bob and Clippy would be told to use?
In a progressive world, only one kind of bathroom will exist, and all will use the same one.
Separate bathrooms are too expensive to build and maintain, anyway... 8-P
(That partly a joke, but only partly.)
I don't think even Donald Trump is oblivious enough to suggest that someone should hack a server that was decommissioned years ago.
I'll agree that man does a fine job of de-calibrating sarcasm detectors, but I just don't understand how anyone can take this seriously. The idea that professional journalists are doing so (apparently it was played as straight news by CNN as their top story) does not pass the smell test with me, and (in my opinion) is just an excuse to manufacture controversy.
I have no doubt that Trump was betting that the newsies would do exactly that! That is how he is saving money on his publicity.
The Russians are doing us all favor, by hacking our systems and showing it to the public.
It wakes us up, and gives us a chance to fix the leaks before we actually lose critical operational info.
Now if they would just hack the Republicans, too... 8-)
(And maybe a few big companies.)
Voters are getting way past tired of the "power structure" politicians.
In his first election, Obama was "none of the above", a stranger that was not known to be a corrupt pawn of the power brokers.
Hillery is the power structure's "strike back".
Trump is this election's "none of the above", and how !
Vote third party, every time. The powerful do look at how many votes they -didn't- get, and why.
And, vote for a change in all voting, to an "Approval Voting" system, where each voter gets one vote -for each candidate-. So you vote for all you can stand, and none that you can't stand. It would remove much of the power from the political parties. 8-)
... instead it shows that they did not want to play by their own rules when determining their candidate. It's dirty pool which may disenfranchise some Democrats.
That part of it is true. The political parties are Private Clubs. They have their own rules and can do as they wish, in their own club. Outside, they are subject to the same laws as anyone else.
Some states have laws about some things the parties do, in the primaries, but those might not even be constitutional.
It's the National and State Elections that are public and under federal law.
Hillery's email server was secure and the DNC tech types said so?
And then the DNC email server is hacked big time?
So just how secure was the classified information on Hillery's server?
And just because she removed the line that said "Classified" does not mean it was safe to let out...
The Democrats don't believe in security, have no idea of how to keep critical stuff safe, even their personal stuff, and don't even try much. Even for military and diplomatic secrets that can kill people.
The models used for Economics need to include information flow as a resourse transport, bought and sold as needed. But I don't know any that do...
Over-simplification can kill anything. That's the difference between acedemics and real work, and why graduates tend to not be worth anything at first.
WTF 1st grade math class did you fail out of? A straight line can have a positive, negative or zero slope. That is three options.
More then that, a line can be any shape and nothing real is ever straight. Economists talk about curves but draw straight lines. I don't think any of them ever took calculus, which is what you use to work with change. Real things change...
"Black and Decker" is no longer Black and Decker, the name was sold off. The current owners have little, if any, connection to the old design team and manufacturing.
That has happened to several of the old good companies, whose names should never have been sold but they were inherited by bankers... 8-(
As I understand it, Verizon has not had an "unlimited" plan for many years! It was stopped a long time ago.
They just let people continue as they were to avoid controversy.
So now they say: Hey, that was stopped years ago. And also, you are being a dick. So stop or we cut you off.
Sorry, but they have a right to do that. They are not your parents...
Seatbelt warning...
Same problem. I always start the car first, so that the oil has time to start circulating and warming while I put on the seatbelt.
Stupid buzzer! They could make it only sound if you went into gear, if the government would let them... 8-(
If slamming on the brakes causes an accident ...
Although that is true, it is not to be depended upon. If you are dead, it does not matter who was at fault...
Slamming on the brakes while in traffic is not a good idea, that is why they have deceleration lanes for exits.
And then there are the cases where slamming the brakes could leave you sitting right in front of an oncoming truck, when you might have passed and been clear. I saw this happen, a few years back.
People who are actively driving use a lot more complicated logic than that. But it is subconsious and they don't realize all they are doing. The robots are past that, too, even though they are much simpler than a human.