That's what happens when you make infrastructure decisions based on shiny things and buzz, rather than evaluating actual needs.
Why the hell would you use an Apple device (or more accurately, ANY device with a non-removable battery) for tasks that routinely require constant use throughout the day, every day.
I can't speak to the rest of their problems, but if the rest of their system was as poorly thought out as the battery aspect, then I'm not surprised they're running into issues.
This isn't an Apple problem. This is a management problem that resulted in a shoddy implementation. But naturally, people are going to go Nelson HA HA cause Apple "failed to perform".
Your choice. Based on everything I'm reading, their new file system seems to be worth the price of admission alone. Course, if you don't have an SSD then it won't do much for you.
But if that's the case, I'd recommend you spend the money to replace your storage with SSD. The performance difference is overwhelming, especially when you need to use bloat-tastic applications like Microsoft Office. (It takes a good minute or so to load from a spinning rust disk. Even on SSD it still takes 5-10 seconds.)
You've not considered another possibility - that Equifax actually did the best they could and it just wasn't good enough.
Based on how they're handling the outrage, I'm currently leaning towards "incompetence". Blaming a 3rd party library for a catastrophic data beach tells me that they don't have the foggiest idea what they're doing.
As you yourself said, no software is perfect. It's basically impossible at this point. That's why a company needs to have a layered and multi-faceted security infrastructure to help mitigate the risks as much as possible.
Maybe they did a good job and still got breached. I don't know for sure. But I've seen MANY examples shockingly shoddy code in my time, and one thing I've noticed is that people/companies who are generally obnoxious, try to deflect blame, etc, are usually those that really weren't very good to begin with.
IMO, the level of security rigor a company is required to comply with should scale based on the sensitivity of the data they are retaining. Companies like Equifax should be required to build the digital equivalent of Fort Knox, because the impact of a breach is so significant.
If they are not willing to treat the very sensitive data they store with the same care as would be afforded to the CEOs first born son, then they have no business holding onto that data.
IMO, the whole executive team should be charged and thrown in jail. They know exactly what kind of data they have, and how dangerous that data can be in the wrong hands. They have no excuse.
I've always configured all my email clients to not autodownload linked images unless I specifically want them. This blocks trackers and such, but if people start embedding javascript in email, then that doesn't help much.
Really? There is not one single new car on the market now that doesn't have a propriety computer control system. Do you have a tutorial on plugging a PC into your car engine and installing this fantastical OS to control your car?
I'm sure there are a bajillion farmers who would LOVE to get a hold of your technique so that they can repair their farm equipment. I suppose your recommendation would be to go back to horse and buggy, where the farmer slowly gets destroyed in the marketplace because he can't compete, can't make enough money to survive, and loses his land?
Seriously, put down the strawman dolls you're playing with, look outside your window for a moment, and see what's actually happening in the real world. Just cause you can slap together a custom router with some PC hardware you have lying around, doesn't mean everyone else is a brainwashed idiot.
That's still not a good enough solution, because until only the most recent versions of android, the sd card was mounted as a separate volume and managing apps on that volume was damned near impossible.
If all you do on your phone is use the base functionality and listen to music, videos, etc, then you're fine. But anyone who wants to install various applications is still going to be hosed. Especially when something like facebooks apps take up almost an entire gigabyte all on their own.
Now that the most recent versions of android support a fused filesystem between root and SD card, this problem is moot, but that doesn't help people stuck with older phones, or don't understand the importance of using a phone with a recent version of android.
Simple. Windows 8 has a brain damaged UI, but at least you still had control of your machine.
Windows 10 has a slightly less stupid UI, but Microsoft has taken away control of the most critical elements of computer administration. On top of that, their update QA has gone down the toilet, to the point where they routinely knock out hunderds of thousands of computers on a routine basis.
So I guess I can see why they are forcing updates. If people had a choice, they wouldn't update at all.
I seriously doubt that there's no explanation. IMO, it's a desperately needed correction that has been a very long time coming.
Windows 10 is the most user-hostile operating system Microsoft has ever released in their history.
Apple continues to jack up their prices on increasingly stupid hardware and are generally doing everything they can to take the piss out of their consumer base.
Chromebooks are providing an inexpensive, viable linux-based option that is is taking advantage of the not just the general frustration of the above, but also it's finding a sweet spot for people that do very little localhost work that can't just as, or more easily be, done through cloud services.
Lets enumerate all the problems with this, shall we? -spam -customers who reply with inappropriate things, like requests for support on a sales announcement, or other nonsense -Out of Office replies -SPAM -Probably plenty of issues that didn't immediately pop into my head. -unsubscribe requests
You then have to hire additional staff just to sift through the quagmire of emails to discard or route the emails to more appropriate destinations.
The convenience to the customer is minor. The burden on an organization to deal with such a system would be massive, possibly insurmountable.
The thing is, is that Facebook et al have access to truely massive data sets, that they can slice and dice in every conceivable way they see fit. They can use algorithms to identify correlations that an average person would never even consider making, and the results can be downright frighteningly uncanny.
Another example is when a father found out his daughter was pregnant because of marketing material from Target (I think it was Target...). I think even the daughter wasn't entirely sure. But Target figured it out by comparing her purchases with the purchases of other expectant mothers and found correlations.
This is the kind of power that Big Data can provide.
It's also why I'm very nervous about Big Data, because IMO this kind of thing is *too* powerful, and is just begging to be abused by disreputable people.
Why are you targeting millennial with your comment? They don't have a monopoly on cheapness. Hell, if anything, the Boomers are *worse* cause they got it better than any generation before or since, and get pissy when anyone pushes back on their entitled attitude.
Unfortunately it was also inevitable. US culture revolves around extremes. Everything has to be black and white, good and evil, Left or Right.
The US has a white supremacist for a president for Pete's sake.
There is no longer room for nuanced thought. I'm genuinely shocked that the US hasn't exploded into civil war. In a way, I wish it *would* break out into civil war just to get all this idiocy over with.
nginx was a great low-footprint option for when apache was total overkill.
It was originally designed to act purely as a proxy server, and it does that function *fantastically* well with very low resources. This is because it used a strict event-based model that only spawned processes as requests came in.
Since it's inception, it's grown more powerful and you can also use it for serving sites and applications as well, so it can do a majority of what Apache is. You'd have to google for an actual comparison article if you want a really detailed analysis, but that's the jist of it.
That being said, Apache caught up and released their own event-driven processing engine that you can choose to use with a configuration setting. I haven't evaluated it myself, personally, cause I am satisfied with what nginx can do and don't see any point making an effort to switch back for proxy tasks.
AFAIK, Apache is still the king though when it comes to actually hosting sites that run non-java application code (ie: php, etc).
And this basically summarizes the whole javascript movement.
People don't use it cause it's good. People use it cause it's easy and fast. You can crank out some shit sandwich of a product very quickly. And that's all that matters.
Javascript today is what Visual Basic was 15 years ago. And 15 years from now, javascript developers will be looked down upon with the same disdain that VB programmers are looked at now. And future people will be stuck picking up the god awful pieces of the resulting mess, having to rewrite/replace everything all over again, just like we had to do with VB applications.
That's because "Smart" TVs are crap. The landscape of video services is changing constantly, so if you buy a TV now, there's an excellent chance that one or more of the features will no longer function several years from now because the manufacturer can't arsed to put out updates once they got your money.
And that's ignores the several instances of TV manufacturers pulling shady stunts like sending audio or other personal data back to the manufacturer on a regular basis.
No... A TV should be nothing more than a device that displays pretty pictures and makes noises. Everything else belongs in an inexpensive and easily replaceable/updatable unit.
The thing is, QT is great for OSS development but if you want to do anything commercial, it's stupid expensive. When Xamarin was still charging absurd amounts of money for their software, QT make them look cheap by comparison.
So basically the only people who can use QT are open source developers, or developers in large corporations with large purse strings. Everyone in the middle can GTFO.
If that's not an excellent reason to scare away developers, I don't know what is.
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That's what happens when you make infrastructure decisions based on shiny things and buzz, rather than evaluating actual needs.
Why the hell would you use an Apple device (or more accurately, ANY device with a non-removable battery) for tasks that routinely require constant use throughout the day, every day.
I can't speak to the rest of their problems, but if the rest of their system was as poorly thought out as the battery aspect, then I'm not surprised they're running into issues.
This isn't an Apple problem. This is a management problem that resulted in a shoddy implementation. But naturally, people are going to go Nelson HA HA cause Apple "failed to perform".
Your choice. Based on everything I'm reading, their new file system seems to be worth the price of admission alone. Course, if you don't have an SSD then it won't do much for you.
But if that's the case, I'd recommend you spend the money to replace your storage with SSD. The performance difference is overwhelming, especially when you need to use bloat-tastic applications like Microsoft Office. (It takes a good minute or so to load from a spinning rust disk. Even on SSD it still takes 5-10 seconds.)
Regarding Apple, *OLD* version of iOS have vulnerabilities. The 10.x series does not have the issues described.
https://www.armis.com/blueborn...
Also, OSX isn't vulnerable to the described exploits.
You've not considered another possibility - that Equifax actually did the best they could and it just wasn't good enough.
Based on how they're handling the outrage, I'm currently leaning towards "incompetence". Blaming a 3rd party library for a catastrophic data beach tells me that they don't have the foggiest idea what they're doing.
As you yourself said, no software is perfect. It's basically impossible at this point. That's why a company needs to have a layered and multi-faceted security infrastructure to help mitigate the risks as much as possible.
Maybe they did a good job and still got breached. I don't know for sure. But I've seen MANY examples shockingly shoddy code in my time, and one thing I've noticed is that people/companies who are generally obnoxious, try to deflect blame, etc, are usually those that really weren't very good to begin with.
IMO, the level of security rigor a company is required to comply with should scale based on the sensitivity of the data they are retaining. Companies like Equifax should be required to build the digital equivalent of Fort Knox, because the impact of a breach is so significant.
If they are not willing to treat the very sensitive data they store with the same care as would be afforded to the CEOs first born son, then they have no business holding onto that data.
IMO, the whole executive team should be charged and thrown in jail. They know exactly what kind of data they have, and how dangerous that data can be in the wrong hands. They have no excuse.
I've always configured all my email clients to not autodownload linked images unless I specifically want them. This blocks trackers and such, but if people start embedding javascript in email, then that doesn't help much.
Really? There is not one single new car on the market now that doesn't have a propriety computer control system. Do you have a tutorial on plugging a PC into your car engine and installing this fantastical OS to control your car?
I'm sure there are a bajillion farmers who would LOVE to get a hold of your technique so that they can repair their farm equipment. I suppose your recommendation would be to go back to horse and buggy, where the farmer slowly gets destroyed in the marketplace because he can't compete, can't make enough money to survive, and loses his land?
Seriously, put down the strawman dolls you're playing with, look outside your window for a moment, and see what's actually happening in the real world. Just cause you can slap together a custom router with some PC hardware you have lying around, doesn't mean everyone else is a brainwashed idiot.
That's still not a good enough solution, because until only the most recent versions of android, the sd card was mounted as a separate volume and managing apps on that volume was damned near impossible.
If all you do on your phone is use the base functionality and listen to music, videos, etc, then you're fine. But anyone who wants to install various applications is still going to be hosed. Especially when something like facebooks apps take up almost an entire gigabyte all on their own.
Now that the most recent versions of android support a fused filesystem between root and SD card, this problem is moot, but that doesn't help people stuck with older phones, or don't understand the importance of using a phone with a recent version of android.
Simple. Windows 8 has a brain damaged UI, but at least you still had control of your machine.
Windows 10 has a slightly less stupid UI, but Microsoft has taken away control of the most critical elements of computer administration. On top of that, their update QA has gone down the toilet, to the point where they routinely knock out hunderds of thousands of computers on a routine basis.
So I guess I can see why they are forcing updates. If people had a choice, they wouldn't update at all.
I seriously doubt that there's no explanation. IMO, it's a desperately needed correction that has been a very long time coming.
Windows 10 is the most user-hostile operating system Microsoft has ever released in their history.
Apple continues to jack up their prices on increasingly stupid hardware and are generally doing everything they can to take the piss out of their consumer base.
Chromebooks are providing an inexpensive, viable linux-based option that is is taking advantage of the not just the general frustration of the above, but also it's finding a sweet spot for people that do very little localhost work that can't just as, or more easily be, done through cloud services.
I'll forward this on to people along with instructions on how to delay the update (since Microsoft says "no control for you!").
I'm still livid over their Anniversary update which hosed every single "Designed for Windows 10" Lenovo laptop we had.
I can't be any of those reasons. It has to be piracy.
What? That excuse has worked just fine for us in the past.
Signed,
MPAA
Oh FFS. Only in the Javascript world can you be sarcastic and have it become a prediction. :P
Pfft. Python on a Mac? How backwards are you?
You should be writing javascript /w angular 2 and react and at least 2 other frameworks that are no less recent than 6 months, using your iPad.
A comma is NOT necessary just because the subject consists of more than one word. Fuckheads.
I, disagree.
Lets enumerate all the problems with this, shall we?
-spam
-customers who reply with inappropriate things, like requests for support on a sales announcement, or other nonsense
-Out of Office replies
-SPAM
-Probably plenty of issues that didn't immediately pop into my head.
-unsubscribe requests
You then have to hire additional staff just to sift through the quagmire of emails to discard or route the emails to more appropriate destinations.
The convenience to the customer is minor. The burden on an organization to deal with such a system would be massive, possibly insurmountable.
The thing is, is that Facebook et al have access to truely massive data sets, that they can slice and dice in every conceivable way they see fit. They can use algorithms to identify correlations that an average person would never even consider making, and the results can be downright frighteningly uncanny.
Another example is when a father found out his daughter was pregnant because of marketing material from Target (I think it was Target...). I think even the daughter wasn't entirely sure. But Target figured it out by comparing her purchases with the purchases of other expectant mothers and found correlations.
This is the kind of power that Big Data can provide.
It's also why I'm very nervous about Big Data, because IMO this kind of thing is *too* powerful, and is just begging to be abused by disreputable people.
Why are you targeting millennial with your comment? They don't have a monopoly on cheapness. Hell, if anything, the Boomers are *worse* cause they got it better than any generation before or since, and get pissy when anyone pushes back on their entitled attitude.
Unfortunately it was also inevitable. US culture revolves around extremes. Everything has to be black and white, good and evil, Left or Right.
The US has a white supremacist for a president for Pete's sake.
There is no longer room for nuanced thought. I'm genuinely shocked that the US hasn't exploded into civil war. In a way, I wish it *would* break out into civil war just to get all this idiocy over with.
Unless you're Google, of course.
nginx was a great low-footprint option for when apache was total overkill.
It was originally designed to act purely as a proxy server, and it does that function *fantastically* well with very low resources. This is because it used a strict event-based model that only spawned processes as requests came in.
Since it's inception, it's grown more powerful and you can also use it for serving sites and applications as well, so it can do a majority of what Apache is. You'd have to google for an actual comparison article if you want a really detailed analysis, but that's the jist of it.
That being said, Apache caught up and released their own event-driven processing engine that you can choose to use with a configuration setting. I haven't evaluated it myself, personally, cause I am satisfied with what nginx can do and don't see any point making an effort to switch back for proxy tasks.
AFAIK, Apache is still the king though when it comes to actually hosting sites that run non-java application code (ie: php, etc).
And this basically summarizes the whole javascript movement.
People don't use it cause it's good.
People use it cause it's easy and fast. You can crank out some shit sandwich of a product very quickly. And that's all that matters.
Javascript today is what Visual Basic was 15 years ago. And 15 years from now, javascript developers will be looked down upon with the same disdain that VB programmers are looked at now. And future people will be stuck picking up the god awful pieces of the resulting mess, having to rewrite/replace everything all over again, just like we had to do with VB applications.
That's because "Smart" TVs are crap. The landscape of video services is changing constantly, so if you buy a TV now, there's an excellent chance that one or more of the features will no longer function several years from now because the manufacturer can't arsed to put out updates once they got your money.
And that's ignores the several instances of TV manufacturers pulling shady stunts like sending audio or other personal data back to the manufacturer on a regular basis.
No... A TV should be nothing more than a device that displays pretty pictures and makes noises. Everything else belongs in an inexpensive and easily replaceable/updatable unit.
The thing is, QT is great for OSS development but if you want to do anything commercial, it's stupid expensive. When Xamarin was still charging absurd amounts of money for their software, QT make them look cheap by comparison.
So basically the only people who can use QT are open source developers, or developers in large corporations with large purse strings. Everyone in the middle can GTFO.
If that's not an excellent reason to scare away developers, I don't know what is.
"Microsoft Will Never Again Sneakily Force Windows Downloads on Users".... in Germany.