What about the cost of all us Slashdot readers having to read about it, post about it, argue about it? I'd say the real costs to society in up the millions in lost productivity already...
He pays you to make him secure, yet your lack of social skills at selling the security business case caused an incident. I'd fire you too.
IT people need to understand that business is more that just good ideas. Selling those ideas (whether it be the product, the HR policy, or the IT security requirements) are all skills everyone senior employee should have. If your IT manager failed to sell it then someone else deserves a chance at his job.
Have you ever stopped and wondered why? Maybe, just maybe it's you? I mean I've worked in IT a long time, I know the drill, but it's only recently I learnt how to run a business, and how to deal with company politics. In general IT people are shit at making a business case, therefore they get ignored. And this is how it should be. In short, if you can't sell an idea then don't blame the idea or the buyer.
Fuck him. I have no problem with drugs per say, but drug dealers are generally scum. No amount of 'war' will stop the supply, but like fly paper, it is generally a good method for removing dickheads from society.
Yes we are all slaves. All forced to work from dawn to dusk without pay, beaten and whipped for the smallest indiscretion by our draconian overlords, living a life of poverty and hunger and having our car GPS data recorded. Oh the humanity...
That, and that fact that Win8 is an unmitigated disaster. Had Win8 given us a Win7-type interface then I'm sure the slowing PC market wouldn't have slowed quite as quickly.
Now the little people, cryptographers, libertarians and online geeks, have actually managed to build up a decentralized payment infrastructure without government or corporate help. That's a damn impressive achievement,
Is it really? I mean most of this type of stuff is invented by the little people. Edison, Bell.. even Gates and Jobs were all little people when they started out. I'd be more impressed if something like happened with government involvement
More importantly you can't do a simple, casual transaction that requires no thought. That means at least half the population will never use it, and probably 90% of the other half too. I don't want to have to think every time I spend money. I pull out a piece of paper with a 10 on it, everyone knows the score. BTC will never have that.
Because cashless makes it harder for crooks to hide, which in-turn means better for society overall. I know you think the govt is out to get you, but you should spend some time in places that have no govt. Then you will appreciate it a bit more.
How do they screw their customers? I have a bank account and I have to say it's a pretty good service. I mean, I know we should automatically hate banks for some unknown reason, but why exactly? A bank offers a service, you can choose to use it or not. Most banks offer basic accounts without fees, and offer premium accounts with fees if you require extra facilities. I get electronic payments, credit, mobile and internet banking, all for a pretty trivial sum. I know of no other business which offers such convenience for so little. Which part of this do you disagree with?
I read somewhere that if a human got all their electricity in their entire life from Nuclear power, the total waste product would fit in a coke can. Not sure if that is true or not (your figures indicate about a coke can every year) but if it is (or even 10x times that) it makes the waste issue seem to be blown way out of proportion.
In the niche I was in, everyone pretended it was about patriotism and national service. But if you looked at what actually drove the decisions, it was mostly about money, spiced up a little bit with vicarious violence.
I've worked in a few government agencies, some of them requiring security clearance, and my experience has been that for 99% of people I met it was about money, job security or pension plan. My family is knee deep military including service in most major conflicts and after WW2 it was never about service, just a way to make a living that was the best option on the table at the time. In fact I'd go so far as to say I've never met one person that join the public service for patriotism (outside of grandfathers signing up to kill Hitler). WW2 gets a special mention because it was the last war the west fought that actually risked our way of life. That was the last great cause, since then it has just been politics, money and corruption.
I actually joined a hipster company (hipster specialty fashion retail) back in 2008 (as IT - no fashion sense required). Back then the running joke was hipster-ism had already done it's dash and had become too commercial (Ironic right since we were in the business of commercialising hipsters). Even the in-house hipsters were hipster hating back in 2008 because too many muggles had already caught on. 5 years later and it's now just a parody, every second idiot has a beard and sleeve tattoo these days. If I was a betting man I'd be investing heavily in tattoo removal technology.
I'm pretty sure that the novelty of knocking a drone out of the sky will be a whole world more appealing to bored troublemakers than snatch and grabbing a driver/customer. I personally am looking forward to trying to take one of these out purely for a laugh. I'm sure I'm not the only one.
1. Effort.
2. Risk of being caught.
3. Length of sentence when you do get caught.
None of these apply to drone 'interference'. Kids will be knocking these things out of the sky with rocks, the whole idea is unfeasible.
There's is a whole order of magnitude more effort involved in hijacking and stealing a truck than knocking a drone out of the sky. Especially since an unexpected drone crash is a very high risk anyway. If I see one of these things I'll be hitting tennis balls at them purely for shits and giggles. If they happen to be in the way of my game of backyard cricket then fuck them.
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I've got a better conclusion: "We're all fucked" :)
Good Post!
What about the cost of all us Slashdot readers having to read about it, post about it, argue about it? I'd say the real costs to society in up the millions in lost productivity already...
It's ironic because what you just wrote just describes your average IT nerd too...
He pays you to make him secure, yet your lack of social skills at selling the security business case caused an incident. I'd fire you too. IT people need to understand that business is more that just good ideas. Selling those ideas (whether it be the product, the HR policy, or the IT security requirements) are all skills everyone senior employee should have. If your IT manager failed to sell it then someone else deserves a chance at his job.
Have you ever stopped and wondered why? Maybe, just maybe it's you? I mean I've worked in IT a long time, I know the drill, but it's only recently I learnt how to run a business, and how to deal with company politics. In general IT people are shit at making a business case, therefore they get ignored. And this is how it should be. In short, if you can't sell an idea then don't blame the idea or the buyer.
Well clearly it does since you ack'd a response :)
Fuck him. I have no problem with drugs per say, but drug dealers are generally scum. No amount of 'war' will stop the supply, but like fly paper, it is generally a good method for removing dickheads from society.
We are wards and slaves to the state.
Yes we are all slaves. All forced to work from dawn to dusk without pay, beaten and whipped for the smallest indiscretion by our draconian overlords, living a life of poverty and hunger and having our car GPS data recorded. Oh the humanity...
That, and that fact that Win8 is an unmitigated disaster. Had Win8 given us a Win7-type interface then I'm sure the slowing PC market wouldn't have slowed quite as quickly.
Whereas on the streets in the US it's considered a good 20 seconds if no-one dies in a car accident...
Now the little people, cryptographers, libertarians and online geeks, have actually managed to build up a decentralized payment infrastructure without government or corporate help. That's a damn impressive achievement,
Is it really? I mean most of this type of stuff is invented by the little people. Edison, Bell.. even Gates and Jobs were all little people when they started out. I'd be more impressed if something like happened with government involvement
More importantly you can't do a simple, casual transaction that requires no thought. That means at least half the population will never use it, and probably 90% of the other half too. I don't want to have to think every time I spend money. I pull out a piece of paper with a 10 on it, everyone knows the score. BTC will never have that.
Well apart from water and oxygen and a few other things...
Because in Internet forum world there are only two colours...
Because cashless makes it harder for crooks to hide, which in-turn means better for society overall. I know you think the govt is out to get you, but you should spend some time in places that have no govt. Then you will appreciate it a bit more.
How do they screw their customers? I have a bank account and I have to say it's a pretty good service. I mean, I know we should automatically hate banks for some unknown reason, but why exactly? A bank offers a service, you can choose to use it or not. Most banks offer basic accounts without fees, and offer premium accounts with fees if you require extra facilities. I get electronic payments, credit, mobile and internet banking, all for a pretty trivial sum. I know of no other business which offers such convenience for so little. Which part of this do you disagree with?
So they do exist then?
I read somewhere that if a human got all their electricity in their entire life from Nuclear power, the total waste product would fit in a coke can. Not sure if that is true or not (your figures indicate about a coke can every year) but if it is (or even 10x times that) it makes the waste issue seem to be blown way out of proportion.
In the niche I was in, everyone pretended it was about patriotism and national service. But if you looked at what actually drove the decisions, it was mostly about money, spiced up a little bit with vicarious violence.
I've worked in a few government agencies, some of them requiring security clearance, and my experience has been that for 99% of people I met it was about money, job security or pension plan. My family is knee deep military including service in most major conflicts and after WW2 it was never about service, just a way to make a living that was the best option on the table at the time. In fact I'd go so far as to say I've never met one person that join the public service for patriotism (outside of grandfathers signing up to kill Hitler). WW2 gets a special mention because it was the last war the west fought that actually risked our way of life. That was the last great cause, since then it has just been politics, money and corruption.
I actually joined a hipster company (hipster specialty fashion retail) back in 2008 (as IT - no fashion sense required). Back then the running joke was hipster-ism had already done it's dash and had become too commercial (Ironic right since we were in the business of commercialising hipsters). Even the in-house hipsters were hipster hating back in 2008 because too many muggles had already caught on. 5 years later and it's now just a parody, every second idiot has a beard and sleeve tattoo these days. If I was a betting man I'd be investing heavily in tattoo removal technology.
I'm pretty sure that the novelty of knocking a drone out of the sky will be a whole world more appealing to bored troublemakers than snatch and grabbing a driver/customer. I personally am looking forward to trying to take one of these out purely for a laugh. I'm sure I'm not the only one.
It's a lot harder to hide a truck. Any 12 year old can knock a drone out of the sky (with some skill/luck) and stomp on it.
1. Effort.
2. Risk of being caught.
3. Length of sentence when you do get caught.
None of these apply to drone 'interference'. Kids will be knocking these things out of the sky with rocks, the whole idea is unfeasible.
There's is a whole order of magnitude more effort involved in hijacking and stealing a truck than knocking a drone out of the sky. Especially since an unexpected drone crash is a very high risk anyway. If I see one of these things I'll be hitting tennis balls at them purely for shits and giggles. If they happen to be in the way of my game of backyard cricket then fuck them.