A basic concept here: If you are concerned with security, then why are you connecting infrastructure to the Internet in any way? Use your own fiber, don't let others tap into it, and then, security becomes about ways to keep people from illegally tapping into that fiber, which is NOT there for the use of the public. Military....nope, no Internet, power, traffic, you name it, don't connect these things to a network that is going to be open to hacking attempts. You can place SOME systems on the Internet for public access, but those would be on a different network. There is ZERO reason to allow infrastructure networks to be on the Internet in any way, access from home should even be seen as VERY rare, and should require a special network cable be run.
We know how incompetent politicians are when it comes to technology, look at Clinton, Trump, and all of these other people who have ZERO clue about security giving access to friends and family members. So, take that away, make people take security seriously, and stop trying to make things "convenient" for these technically incompetent idiots.
You must have missed that the reason the government has such a large deficit is because the wealthy keep hording their money in banks and offshore accounts and don't spend all that much compared to their income. As such, why give the wealthy tax breaks if the money doesn't go back into the economy in some way, shape, or form?
Government spending should be seen as an investment, with education being the thing that really does provide the biggest return on investment. Health care and keeping people from getting sick and to minimize time away from work also would be a huge return on investment, except that at the moment Medicare is primarily provided to the retired rather than the workers, so return on investment is relatively low there. Do we get a good return on investment when it comes to the military? Does the US government actually get money when we get involved in all of these wars, or is it going into the pockets of politicians who are corrupt?
With Intel having manufacturing problems and retailers being stupid and not offering many Ryzen based machines, it is no wonder that sales numbers are seen as going down. Ryzen 3rd generation is a couple of months away from release, which is going to cause many to wait for the new generation. Custom builds and computers from smaller vendors are probably up. Also, there has been very little advertising to inform the general public that consumer grade desktop machines can now have 8 core processors in them, and if people have a dual core processor in their computer, they will get a BIG upgrade in performance by going to a 4, 6, or 8 core processor in their next computer.
The real reason is so those who are NOT on the lease are not the ones living there. So, no problem if you don't show up often or anything like that, but if people not on the lease keep going in without the owner, doesn't that imply that there is a violation of the lease, because people not on the lease are living there?
I agree that for the most part, it DOES make it easier for those who should be there(on the lease), and not as easy for those scamming the system.
What rights are being infringed if there is no log of when people enter/exit? A face recognition system can be as simple as a face unlock, but without logging the activity. Unlike key cards and such, which can be passed off to people who are not actually on the lease, a face recognition can simply check if you are on the lease and bingo, it opens. Nothing would be needed if you are visiting and someone comes to the door to let you in as well, no logging or anything like that.
So, you want to enter without being let in by the person(people) on the lease and you have not made arrangements with the landlord/super/manager for someone to be there temporarily? Seriously, there is a shortage of affordable apartments, and you want to support people who are scamming the system?
Are you familiar with the purpose of rent controlled apartments? Is it to keep down the rent for people who continue to live in the same place for a long period of time, or just to give an increasing break to people the legal resident decides to rent the apartment to?
If you live anywhere near a large city like New York, you know that crime will ALWAYS be a concern, and making sure that only people who live there can provide access. If you live in a rent controlled apartment, then decide to move out, what stops you from renting that apartment to others at a profit? That is why it isn't a horrible idea to check who is actually living in an apartment, and that does NOT mean that your activities are being monitored, just making sure that those who are entering are either living there, or are being brought in by those who do live there.
The big problem comes from rent control, and people abusing that system. Your parents get into a rent controlled apartment, they die and because you have lived there, it is now yours, but paying what your parents had paid for rent, which may be only 1/10 the going price. You have a good job, you live somewhere else, so you now rent that apartment out to other people who are paying you and not the actual building owner. So you make a profit on a rent controlled apartment that you don't even live in. That isn't fair in the slightest.
People abusing rent control is why building owners want to clamp down on the people living in these buildings. I am not talking about people who come over here or there, but people who now are moving into the building as their home, but are not on the lease and if something happens, there are no records to show that the person even lives there.
Occupancy laws, including people who get a rent controlled apartment and then rent it out to others for more money than they pay? When talking about 700 units and rent controlled apartments, there has been a big problem where people move out and then rent to other people to "keep" the lower rent. The problem is that the fair rent would be three or more times higher than what the tenant has been paying. Passing a rent controlled apartment from person to person actually goes against the rent control laws.
There doesn't need to be any log kept of when a person comes and goes as well. As a positive thing, again with rent control in mind, the process of updating the facial recognition system to allow residents in would also keep things fair. You should never be allowed to pass on a rent controlled apartment to others, unless they are the children of listed residents.
When you use products by a patent holder, that isn't a problem. Apple wants to use Qualcomm patents without using Qualcomm products, then Apple should have paid the license fees. It is as simple as that. The fact that Apple decided not to pay any royalty fees and allow the debt to go up and up just asks for a judge to insist that Apple pay what is owed right now, not over a period of time. Apple has all that money "in the bank", so has no excuses for not paying, except for greed and general iDouchery.
It depends on the company, and the culture of the people already there. Many companies do not discriminate when it comes to gender, but if 85 percent of job applicants are men, that might explain why there are fewer women than men being hired. Pay isn't always going to be better for men in companies as well, so assuming that the culture of old-school corporations being sexist applies to newer businesses is not a good thing.
There are probably different pay rates for the same "level", so level 4 would be a range, but on the flip side, if they hire men and women at different times and offer better pay to new hires, there will come a point where the people who have been there longer are actually making less money. This goes along with the situation where there are significantly more men working in technology positions, so companies look to hire more women. The women they hire get offered a better rate of pay(job should be an upgrade from their prior job). After 2-3 years, the people working there previously are now making thousands less than the newer, generally female hires(to balance the male/female ratio), and you see this sort of thing. It isn't about paying men and women differently, it is PROBABLY just the pay adjustments happening.
Back in 1996, companies in the SF Bay area were doing pay adjustments to keep their employees, so most people got a raise based on skill, experience, etc. If there was the focus on gender and how many men there were compared to women, from year to year, as the, "to keep up with pay for the job in the area we are giving pay increases", you would have seen more men or more women in any given year getting higher pay increases, or lower pay increases. Of course, if 85 percent of your applicants are male, if you are set on hiring a 50 percent male/female ratio, you are probably passing over better qualified male employees to meet a gender number equality target, and that is worse for the company in many ways.
If your logic is that the US government does horrible things, so that should excuse the Chinese or any other government when THEY do terrible things, then you are a part of the problem. "quirky laws" would be things such as needing to get a permit before allowing your pet moose to enter a bar with you. Making it so you say something against the government and suddenly you are no longer allowed to fly on a plane isn't what I would call a quirky law.
You seem to believe that just because one government is horrible that you should then excuse other governments when they also do horrible things. The US government, or Chinese, or ANY government should be called out for doing horrible things, and just because people may live in one country or another should not make you assume that they approve or support horrible actions.
If the US Government does something wrong, then yes, say something, and do something, but don't point at the USA and then say that it is acceptable for the Chinese government to do something horrible because the US government also does horrible things.
That is probably one of the few comments that is really a GOOD complaint, because the error messages really are so cryptic that very few people can figure out why updates are failing. What I have found in some cases, is that those "reserved" partitions that are created are sometimes used by Windows Update to hold the update files, and if they run out of space, the updates will fail. I haven't run into that in a year or so, but I've learned that if you assign a drive letter to those reserved partitions and check them out, you may find a Win10 Update directory there that has been filling up the space since Win10 1511, and is now stopping updates. Removing it then resolves your problem. Just remember to remove the drive letter to avoid confusion later.
First, you can pick category or small/large icons in Control Panel. Second, Control Panel dates way way way back, and while it is still there, more and more functionality is being moved to the new Settings. If you don't want to learn anything new, ever, then you might want to switch to a Mac where nothing ever changes.
What you see will generally be reproductive cycles that go up and down based on many factors, from food to the overall environment, and available resources. We already see a decline in birth rates for those who are middle class and above, while those who are poor have the genetic pre-disposition where the less likely offspring are to survive, the more children they will have. Pollution, global warming causing a reduction in available food, and things like that are the larger causes for concern, because reproductive choice may not be enough to solve the problem of a lack of food, and pollution causing humans to die off.
Society as a whole has been breaking down as well, and when dictators and those who aspire to be dictators(such as Donald Trump) become the norm, rather than the exception, deaths will increase until society pulls together again to remove these people from power. The problem is, with environmental problems such as climate change and pollution combined with the problems in society, will the planet remain able to sustain us?
AMD 7nm chips should change that where AMD will also win single threaded as well as multi-threaded workloads. The IPC improvements from the Zen2 cores, combined with the 7nm fab process which will allow for higher clock speeds/lower power draw definitely have the potential to do this. Right now though, we need to wait another 5-6 months to find out if that will be true, but it is very possible. The unconfirmed leaked lineup of Ryzen 3000 series processors has 12 and 16 core parts, including boost that will go to 5GHz. Based on first and second generation Ryzen processors, if boost is listed at a given speed, then with decent cooling, that is what can be gotten on all cores with good cooling(typical 280mm closed loop AIO being enough).
Fab process improvements will not fix or change the actual CPU design, it's just the implementation. The shift from the old Pentium 3 to the Pentium 4 was a significant change to the actual CPU design. Then, Intel went back to the Pentium 3 as the basis for much of the Core design. Improvements have been made, but Intel hasn't been forced to actually come up with a fully new design in a VERY long time, so all we see have been tweaks. IPC being stagnant for years is how you see that fundamental problem. More L1, L2, and L3 cache will help feed the existing design better, but it's still the same basic design. Make the same design wider, it's still the same design, just improved.
AMD on the other hand, has gone through changes over the generations, from the old Athlon/Athlon64, then the X2, Phenom series. They went with Bulldozer(FX series desktop chips), but the IPC wasn't very good compared to Intel, so high clock speed, but poor efficiency. AMD is on the Zen cores now, which are not based on previous designs, and the performance proves that point. A new fab process will improve the implementation, higher clock speeds, lower voltages, or a combination of the two, but no fab process can save a bad design, and fab process improvements won't get around a stagnant design either.
Intel is trying to claim that their only way to improve the design of the Core series is through fab process improvements? Did all the real innovators at Intel die or retire 5+ years ago, since this is NOT a difficult concept. A better design on an old fab process will still be better than a bad design on that old fab process. Clock speeds might be lower, but the DESIGN is key, along with having enough cache to feed the CPU cores. Yes, cache helps, but honestly, Intel BS still stinks.
So, until Golden Cove shows up, it will be tweaks and adjustments to what is currently out there, which hasn't been much of an improvement in over three years now. The people at AMD will probably be celebrating, because that means they have 2019 and 2020 where Intel won't have a significant design improvement to compete with their Zen2 based products that will be out in the next quarter(exact timeframe should be announced at CES).
Cache improvements....yea, it will help, but won't be a significant redesign of the CPU design.
The USA has a huge problem, and that is that there are areas in this country where people are against the idea of higher education, and they prize stupidity and ignorance. Look at entertainment, and you see reality shows all over the place that actually elevate people who don't have much education and they embrace ignorance and stupidity. The bottom of the barrel are given a lot of money, and in turn, we see those people continually. The Kardashians are idiots who have money, look at the cast of Jersey Shore....and they won't go away!
You have anti-education politicians and those who are technically clueless in charge, which is how you had problems with Hillary Clinton and a private e-mail server, with no improvement out of the Trump administration. Yes, Trump tweets nonstop nonsense, but his actual understanding of anything relating to technology is actually below zero, he throws out things that are WRONG. How do you get technology to thrive when you have people with zero understanding of technology placed in charge of education? How do you get improvements when the politicians put more money into the military than on anything else?
So you have stupid things like this at the same time that many experienced people have problems getting interviews, just because the "AI" that recruiters are using skips over many resumes just because of formatting. I know that I've seen and heard from many people who don't get ANY response to their resume, not because of a lack of experience, but because of some mysterious reason. The real problem is when you take humans out of the resume parsing process and you now need a formula resume that is designed just for stupid AI systems.
When you design a network, some basic concepts can really help when it comes to security. If you use a locked down DHCP system where the hardware MAC address of all approved machines is used, you assign an IP address from the DHCP server ONLY to those machines that are supposed to be there. New equipment must have that MAC address logged. Locking access to select IP addresses, and testing any connected equipment for MAC addresses that are not known would find the unauthorized devices.
So, who designed the networks used at the banks? Do they even understand how to set things up so most internal devices are limited in what other devices they can connect to(router rules)?
Yes, there will always be the potential for security to be violated, but the technology IS available that would make it much more difficult, as long as you have talented technical people who actually understand security.
Going back several decades, network protocols such as OSPF were designed as a way for networks to automatically reroute around problems and to allow for manually adjusting for things like congestion on a network to route around problems. It should NOT have taken this long for a company like UPS to come up with something similar to route around problem areas when it comes to traffic. People with a computer science degree should have been brought in back in the 1990s to come up with a good package routing system, and with all the new information available, to even be able to switch from air to ground or ground to air as a way to address changes to transportation infrastructure that would improve transportation times.
This goes back to the decline in competent support that started back in the late 1990s, and using outsourced support instead of skilled support staff working for the company. A big part of this came from corporate executives with zero technical knowledge wanting to "save money" by outsourcing technical support, not understanding that having a staff with real understanding of the products/services really helps customers decide which products to buy.
With that said, there are times when doing a re-upgrade to Windows 10 is needed, in the same way that when something is broken, rather than tracking which component broke, fixing installation problems in Windows 10 by just doing a re-upgrade makes more sense than spending hours trying to figure out what part of the update went wrong.
People who read from scripts as their way of helping a customer should not be paid to work in technical support, since customers could easily just find these same scripts on the company support site! Helping the customer understand what is going on so that the proper solution can be provided does require knowing what you are doing, and reading from scripts will not do the job.
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A basic concept here: If you are concerned with security, then why are you connecting infrastructure to the Internet in any way? Use your own fiber, don't let others tap into it, and then, security becomes about ways to keep people from illegally tapping into that fiber, which is NOT there for the use of the public. Military....nope, no Internet, power, traffic, you name it, don't connect these things to a network that is going to be open to hacking attempts. You can place SOME systems on the Internet for public access, but those would be on a different network. There is ZERO reason to allow infrastructure networks to be on the Internet in any way, access from home should even be seen as VERY rare, and should require a special network cable be run.
We know how incompetent politicians are when it comes to technology, look at Clinton, Trump, and all of these other people who have ZERO clue about security giving access to friends and family members. So, take that away, make people take security seriously, and stop trying to make things "convenient" for these technically incompetent idiots.
You must have missed that the reason the government has such a large deficit is because the wealthy keep hording their money in banks and offshore accounts and don't spend all that much compared to their income. As such, why give the wealthy tax breaks if the money doesn't go back into the economy in some way, shape, or form?
Government spending should be seen as an investment, with education being the thing that really does provide the biggest return on investment. Health care and keeping people from getting sick and to minimize time away from work also would be a huge return on investment, except that at the moment Medicare is primarily provided to the retired rather than the workers, so return on investment is relatively low there. Do we get a good return on investment when it comes to the military? Does the US government actually get money when we get involved in all of these wars, or is it going into the pockets of politicians who are corrupt?
With Intel having manufacturing problems and retailers being stupid and not offering many Ryzen based machines, it is no wonder that sales numbers are seen as going down. Ryzen 3rd generation is a couple of months away from release, which is going to cause many to wait for the new generation. Custom builds and computers from smaller vendors are probably up. Also, there has been very little advertising to inform the general public that consumer grade desktop machines can now have 8 core processors in them, and if people have a dual core processor in their computer, they will get a BIG upgrade in performance by going to a 4, 6, or 8 core processor in their next computer.
The real reason is so those who are NOT on the lease are not the ones living there. So, no problem if you don't show up often or anything like that, but if people not on the lease keep going in without the owner, doesn't that imply that there is a violation of the lease, because people not on the lease are living there?
I agree that for the most part, it DOES make it easier for those who should be there(on the lease), and not as easy for those scamming the system.
What rights are being infringed if there is no log of when people enter/exit? A face recognition system can be as simple as a face unlock, but without logging the activity. Unlike key cards and such, which can be passed off to people who are not actually on the lease, a face recognition can simply check if you are on the lease and bingo, it opens. Nothing would be needed if you are visiting and someone comes to the door to let you in as well, no logging or anything like that.
So, you want to enter without being let in by the person(people) on the lease and you have not made arrangements with the landlord/super/manager for someone to be there temporarily? Seriously, there is a shortage of affordable apartments, and you want to support people who are scamming the system?
Are you familiar with the purpose of rent controlled apartments? Is it to keep down the rent for people who continue to live in the same place for a long period of time, or just to give an increasing break to people the legal resident decides to rent the apartment to?
If you live anywhere near a large city like New York, you know that crime will ALWAYS be a concern, and making sure that only people who live there can provide access. If you live in a rent controlled apartment, then decide to move out, what stops you from renting that apartment to others at a profit? That is why it isn't a horrible idea to check who is actually living in an apartment, and that does NOT mean that your activities are being monitored, just making sure that those who are entering are either living there, or are being brought in by those who do live there.
The big problem comes from rent control, and people abusing that system. Your parents get into a rent controlled apartment, they die and because you have lived there, it is now yours, but paying what your parents had paid for rent, which may be only 1/10 the going price. You have a good job, you live somewhere else, so you now rent that apartment out to other people who are paying you and not the actual building owner. So you make a profit on a rent controlled apartment that you don't even live in. That isn't fair in the slightest.
People abusing rent control is why building owners want to clamp down on the people living in these buildings. I am not talking about people who come over here or there, but people who now are moving into the building as their home, but are not on the lease and if something happens, there are no records to show that the person even lives there.
Occupancy laws, including people who get a rent controlled apartment and then rent it out to others for more money than they pay? When talking about 700 units and rent controlled apartments, there has been a big problem where people move out and then rent to other people to "keep" the lower rent. The problem is that the fair rent would be three or more times higher than what the tenant has been paying. Passing a rent controlled apartment from person to person actually goes against the rent control laws.
There doesn't need to be any log kept of when a person comes and goes as well. As a positive thing, again with rent control in mind, the process of updating the facial recognition system to allow residents in would also keep things fair. You should never be allowed to pass on a rent controlled apartment to others, unless they are the children of listed residents.
When you use products by a patent holder, that isn't a problem. Apple wants to use Qualcomm patents without using Qualcomm products, then Apple should have paid the license fees. It is as simple as that. The fact that Apple decided not to pay any royalty fees and allow the debt to go up and up just asks for a judge to insist that Apple pay what is owed right now, not over a period of time. Apple has all that money "in the bank", so has no excuses for not paying, except for greed and general iDouchery.
That may get done next week for the next episode, or at least, I hope that happens!
It depends on the company, and the culture of the people already there. Many companies do not discriminate when it comes to gender, but if 85 percent of job applicants are men, that might explain why there are fewer women than men being hired. Pay isn't always going to be better for men in companies as well, so assuming that the culture of old-school corporations being sexist applies to newer businesses is not a good thing.
There are probably different pay rates for the same "level", so level 4 would be a range, but on the flip side, if they hire men and women at different times and offer better pay to new hires, there will come a point where the people who have been there longer are actually making less money. This goes along with the situation where there are significantly more men working in technology positions, so companies look to hire more women. The women they hire get offered a better rate of pay(job should be an upgrade from their prior job). After 2-3 years, the people working there previously are now making thousands less than the newer, generally female hires(to balance the male/female ratio), and you see this sort of thing. It isn't about paying men and women differently, it is PROBABLY just the pay adjustments happening.
Back in 1996, companies in the SF Bay area were doing pay adjustments to keep their employees, so most people got a raise based on skill, experience, etc. If there was the focus on gender and how many men there were compared to women, from year to year, as the, "to keep up with pay for the job in the area we are giving pay increases", you would have seen more men or more women in any given year getting higher pay increases, or lower pay increases. Of course, if 85 percent of your applicants are male, if you are set on hiring a 50 percent male/female ratio, you are probably passing over better qualified male employees to meet a gender number equality target, and that is worse for the company in many ways.
If your logic is that the US government does horrible things, so that should excuse the Chinese or any other government when THEY do terrible things, then you are a part of the problem. "quirky laws" would be things such as needing to get a permit before allowing your pet moose to enter a bar with you. Making it so you say something against the government and suddenly you are no longer allowed to fly on a plane isn't what I would call a quirky law.
You seem to believe that just because one government is horrible that you should then excuse other governments when they also do horrible things. The US government, or Chinese, or ANY government should be called out for doing horrible things, and just because people may live in one country or another should not make you assume that they approve or support horrible actions.
If the US Government does something wrong, then yes, say something, and do something, but don't point at the USA and then say that it is acceptable for the Chinese government to do something horrible because the US government also does horrible things.
That is probably one of the few comments that is really a GOOD complaint, because the error messages really are so cryptic that very few people can figure out why updates are failing. What I have found in some cases, is that those "reserved" partitions that are created are sometimes used by Windows Update to hold the update files, and if they run out of space, the updates will fail. I haven't run into that in a year or so, but I've learned that if you assign a drive letter to those reserved partitions and check them out, you may find a Win10 Update directory there that has been filling up the space since Win10 1511, and is now stopping updates. Removing it then resolves your problem. Just remember to remove the drive letter to avoid confusion later.
First, you can pick category or small/large icons in Control Panel. Second, Control Panel dates way way way back, and while it is still there, more and more functionality is being moved to the new Settings. If you don't want to learn anything new, ever, then you might want to switch to a Mac where nothing ever changes.
What you see will generally be reproductive cycles that go up and down based on many factors, from food to the overall environment, and available resources. We already see a decline in birth rates for those who are middle class and above, while those who are poor have the genetic pre-disposition where the less likely offspring are to survive, the more children they will have. Pollution, global warming causing a reduction in available food, and things like that are the larger causes for concern, because reproductive choice may not be enough to solve the problem of a lack of food, and pollution causing humans to die off.
Society as a whole has been breaking down as well, and when dictators and those who aspire to be dictators(such as Donald Trump) become the norm, rather than the exception, deaths will increase until society pulls together again to remove these people from power. The problem is, with environmental problems such as climate change and pollution combined with the problems in society, will the planet remain able to sustain us?
AMD 7nm chips should change that where AMD will also win single threaded as well as multi-threaded workloads. The IPC improvements from the Zen2 cores, combined with the 7nm fab process which will allow for higher clock speeds/lower power draw definitely have the potential to do this. Right now though, we need to wait another 5-6 months to find out if that will be true, but it is very possible. The unconfirmed leaked lineup of Ryzen 3000 series processors has 12 and 16 core parts, including boost that will go to 5GHz. Based on first and second generation Ryzen processors, if boost is listed at a given speed, then with decent cooling, that is what can be gotten on all cores with good cooling(typical 280mm closed loop AIO being enough).
Fab process improvements will not fix or change the actual CPU design, it's just the implementation. The shift from the old Pentium 3 to the Pentium 4 was a significant change to the actual CPU design. Then, Intel went back to the Pentium 3 as the basis for much of the Core design. Improvements have been made, but Intel hasn't been forced to actually come up with a fully new design in a VERY long time, so all we see have been tweaks. IPC being stagnant for years is how you see that fundamental problem. More L1, L2, and L3 cache will help feed the existing design better, but it's still the same basic design. Make the same design wider, it's still the same design, just improved.
AMD on the other hand, has gone through changes over the generations, from the old Athlon/Athlon64, then the X2, Phenom series. They went with Bulldozer(FX series desktop chips), but the IPC wasn't very good compared to Intel, so high clock speed, but poor efficiency. AMD is on the Zen cores now, which are not based on previous designs, and the performance proves that point. A new fab process will improve the implementation, higher clock speeds, lower voltages, or a combination of the two, but no fab process can save a bad design, and fab process improvements won't get around a stagnant design either.
Intel is trying to claim that their only way to improve the design of the Core series is through fab process improvements? Did all the real innovators at Intel die or retire 5+ years ago, since this is NOT a difficult concept. A better design on an old fab process will still be better than a bad design on that old fab process. Clock speeds might be lower, but the DESIGN is key, along with having enough cache to feed the CPU cores. Yes, cache helps, but honestly, Intel BS still stinks.
So, until Golden Cove shows up, it will be tweaks and adjustments to what is currently out there, which hasn't been much of an improvement in over three years now. The people at AMD will probably be celebrating, because that means they have 2019 and 2020 where Intel won't have a significant design improvement to compete with their Zen2 based products that will be out in the next quarter(exact timeframe should be announced at CES).
Cache improvements....yea, it will help, but won't be a significant redesign of the CPU design.
The USA has a huge problem, and that is that there are areas in this country where people are against the idea of higher education, and they prize stupidity and ignorance. Look at entertainment, and you see reality shows all over the place that actually elevate people who don't have much education and they embrace ignorance and stupidity. The bottom of the barrel are given a lot of money, and in turn, we see those people continually. The Kardashians are idiots who have money, look at the cast of Jersey Shore....and they won't go away!
You have anti-education politicians and those who are technically clueless in charge, which is how you had problems with Hillary Clinton and a private e-mail server, with no improvement out of the Trump administration. Yes, Trump tweets nonstop nonsense, but his actual understanding of anything relating to technology is actually below zero, he throws out things that are WRONG. How do you get technology to thrive when you have people with zero understanding of technology placed in charge of education? How do you get improvements when the politicians put more money into the military than on anything else?
So you have stupid things like this at the same time that many experienced people have problems getting interviews, just because the "AI" that recruiters are using skips over many resumes just because of formatting. I know that I've seen and heard from many people who don't get ANY response to their resume, not because of a lack of experience, but because of some mysterious reason. The real problem is when you take humans out of the resume parsing process and you now need a formula resume that is designed just for stupid AI systems.
When you design a network, some basic concepts can really help when it comes to security. If you use a locked down DHCP system where the hardware MAC address of all approved machines is used, you assign an IP address from the DHCP server ONLY to those machines that are supposed to be there. New equipment must have that MAC address logged. Locking access to select IP addresses, and testing any connected equipment for MAC addresses that are not known would find the unauthorized devices.
So, who designed the networks used at the banks? Do they even understand how to set things up so most internal devices are limited in what other devices they can connect to(router rules)?
Yes, there will always be the potential for security to be violated, but the technology IS available that would make it much more difficult, as long as you have talented technical people who actually understand security.
Going back several decades, network protocols such as OSPF were designed as a way for networks to automatically reroute around problems and to allow for manually adjusting for things like congestion on a network to route around problems. It should NOT have taken this long for a company like UPS to come up with something similar to route around problem areas when it comes to traffic. People with a computer science degree should have been brought in back in the 1990s to come up with a good package routing system, and with all the new information available, to even be able to switch from air to ground or ground to air as a way to address changes to transportation infrastructure that would improve transportation times.
This goes back to the decline in competent support that started back in the late 1990s, and using outsourced support instead of skilled support staff working for the company. A big part of this came from corporate executives with zero technical knowledge wanting to "save money" by outsourcing technical support, not understanding that having a staff with real understanding of the products/services really helps customers decide which products to buy.
With that said, there are times when doing a re-upgrade to Windows 10 is needed, in the same way that when something is broken, rather than tracking which component broke, fixing installation problems in Windows 10 by just doing a re-upgrade makes more sense than spending hours trying to figure out what part of the update went wrong.
People who read from scripts as their way of helping a customer should not be paid to work in technical support, since customers could easily just find these same scripts on the company support site! Helping the customer understand what is going on so that the proper solution can be provided does require knowing what you are doing, and reading from scripts will not do the job.