"I have no idea what I'm taking about, and I was in too much of a rush to First-Post so I did not bother to read the article. But I made an anti-American remark, and I was snotty, therefore, I'm an instant Slashdot expert! Modded up to 'insightful'".
What sort of fools modded this up?
By the way, if you had bothered to read the article, the research is at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute. In the UK. That's not in the US, that's across the Atlantic Ocean, way on the other side.
Exactly! What we need is a giant database that can be compromised by one overworked medical resident who has no real concept of data security.
I know of two cases where residents had a shared database of passwords to various medical systems at multiple hospitals stored on insecure public "document" sites. In one case, they all had a common password, and different groups of students/residents used it year after year (not even ever changing the username or password). When the IT people found out and blew a large gasket, the medical people honestly did not see what the problem was.
Good thing these are only numbers which would require some sort of modern photo ID to actually use in a context where serious harm could be caused through fraudulent use.
Someone modded this up to "Insightful"? Really? Are you from Planet Quendor?
If you needed real government-issued photo ID to commit identity theft, then most of the criminals would be out of business
You mean Medicare, not Medicaid, which is for the very poor or terminally ill.
The big prize here would be any Children's SSN's. Those are valuable for identity fraud because children have clean credit histories, and it takes months-to-years for the parents to figure it out.
I suspect "Anonymous" may be at work here, they've attacked Utah government and police sites before. They seem to support free speech, unless it's free speech they don't like, then it should be destroyed. Ironically, not only did they attack the wrong police department (Salt Lake City, not West Valley City), but they took down the site that allows the public to talk to the police. But I guess as long as you destroy something and screw up people's lives, that's good news for them.
This was going to be available at some point in the future, and it's better for society that it's available now. Locked up in a vault they had zero value.
Sony has become evil, and I hate them for it.
But, that does not make stealing something slated for later sale moral. If I want a new video game, and it won't be released until October, so I break into the store and steal a case of games in August, how is it a benefit to society? Won't society benefit more if they are sold legally? The kid working in the game store, the UPS man who delivers them, the pizza store next to the game store...they would all prefer the product to be legally sold.
Jackson recorded them for the purpose of making money and/or providing a funding legacy for "his" children. So I don't see how stealing them is somehow moral. If Sony had decided to never release them, this would be one thing....but it is not. Please explain to me how the fact that Sony had not sold them yet makes it moral to steal them.
Also what does the name "NITRO" have to do with this in anyway? The original plant was set up to make nitrocellulose, also known as gun cotton. What does that have to do with chemical weapons, Agent Orange, or herbicides?
Nitrocellulose was gun powder. It was also used to make cue balls, movie film, and wood coatings.
So what? Aside from being very flammable, it's not even that dangerous, nor is it an explosive...
First of all, Agent Orange was not a chemical weapon. It was a nasty chemical and it injured my father-in-law and his children--my wife included--but that was collateral damage from what was intended as a defoliant. It was intended to clear tree cover and/or destroy food crops (though that was more Blue than Orange).
The really nasty chemical in Agent Orange was actually a contaminant;,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin. It was not supposed to be there at all.
Agent Orange was supposed to be a 50:50 mixture of (2,4,5-Trichlorophenoxy)acetic acid and (2,4-dichlorophenoxy)acetic acid.
I agree with snowgirl, the article title was for emotional impact. It's like saying "KNOWN CHEMOTHERAPY INGREDIENT "NORMAL SALINE" FOUND DUMPED NEAR SCHOOL!"
Exactly...does anyone here really have that "action movie" idea that some massive mainframe inside CIA headquarters is really running the CIA website? And that it's not just farmed out to some contractor like rackspace?
When a guy breaks into your house and steals your belongings, "Hey, he had a lousy alarm system and was gone over Labor Day Weekend, he was asking for it!"
A rapist: "She was wearing a provocative outfit! Anyone could see that she was asking for it".
Now these script kiddies: "Hey, we broke in and found plaintext! Sony was asking for it."
Same logic. "It's not my fault, you did not prevent me from committing a crime so it is your fault. I am not responsible for my criminal actions, you are. You are also responsible for the third-parties I hurt because you did not adequately prevent me from doing it".
Say what we like or we'll stamp our feet and hack your site! What happened to freedom of information? Or is it just WikiLeaks approved information?
Everyone should have learned the following quote in High School, if not earlier:
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."
-- Evelyn Hall, in a summation of her read of Voltaire.
Wikileaks and their supporters claim to be for the unrestricted flow of information, even when this information could cost lives. I can understand their idealism; when I first read the Hall quote I was swept up in a patriotic-like fervor, willing to give my life for the cause of free speech. That idealism is why we send young men off to war...as we get older, we're less willing to just throw our lives away because somebody told us to. Men may still be willing to die for a cause, but the cause has to be greater.
I had assumed that the Wikileaks kids were under a similar grand unified cause, but as time has gone on, they seem to be targeting which causes they want to "attack". Big corporations and the USA/their allies. They don't seem to attack Russia or other powerful nations who may choose to fight back.
Even the famous video released by Wikileaks has been edited twice. We don't know what was cut out the first time, but in the second details like a man carrying a rocket launcher were removed. This is not "open", this is yellow journalism. I really wonder who is actually funding Wikileaks behind-the-scenes.
So I am not surprised that the Wikileaks people or their fan club attack their critics. When a show like Frontline shows them in a good light, they celebrate it. And when it shows them in a bad light, they attack, trying to silence the messenger.
"We don't like what you say, so you don't have the right to say it"
Clearly not something that would be promoted by Voltaire.
I cannot believe the CS crowd that still uses TI calculators, or that anyone takes them seriously.
Where I went to school, algebraic calculators were for high-school kids and English majors. If you were math, science or engineering, you had an HP and used RPN. Anything else is kids stuff.
The culture is extremely different. You could make a plausible case that the state was founded as a theocracy, and that those roots are still very much there.
Just note the state's rules on alcohol.
So when was this written? 1975? This is totally outdated. I see anti-Utah crap on Slashdot all the time, including total fantasy about the difficulty of obtaining caffeinated soda in Utah. Most of the Mormons I know live on Coke or Mountain Dew; it's one of the few vices they can have.
The state has no open-door saloons. Full liquor service is available only to dues-paying members of "private" social clubs or at the 470 restaurants with liquor stocks they cannot advertise, display or even mention unless a customer asks first.
They can advertise now. That law was passed in the early 1990s and overturned sometime in the late 1990s, long before the 2002 Olympics. I think it lasted like five years; basically, it was a "bribe" to some Mormon lawmakers. They agreed to ban advertising in return for liberalizing the rules on alcohol in restaurants. But that is all long past. Except in your head.
The "private club" law for full liquor service was abolished three years ago.
The state's 121 taverns can pour only "light" beer, or 3.2 percent alcohol, and no other alcoholic drinks. No membership is required at taverns. Grocery stores can sell only light beer, too.
You can buy full-strength beer at the liquor stores, brewpubs, or directly from the "factory stores" of the microbreweries. There are at least 10 microbreweries in Salt Lake alone. Epic Brewing on State Street in Salt Lake, just a mile straight down from the capitol building and even closer to the Mormon Temple, sells 9%+ beers right off the shelf. http://www.epicbrewing.com/
Wine, hard liquor and heavy beer can be purchased at 36 state-run liquor stores - if you can find them. Typically they are tucked away in warehouse districts and off major thoroughfares.
This is still true about wine and liquor being sold only in state stores, but it's been decades since they were hidden off in the middle of nowhere. And a LOT of states have that restriction. In Wisconsin, after 10PM I could not even buy Ginger Ale at the grocery store as it was considered a "mixer" and the entire aisle in the grocery store was LOCKED OFF behind metal gates.
The Utah state liquor stores started changing this around 1977 with the wine store in Salt Lake's landmark Trolley Square shopping center. There are beautiful stores in prime areas of Salt Lake now, including a large new store right across from Cottonwood Mall. These are modern beverage stores with large stocks of wine, reviews, magazines, etc.
A quota limits the number of private clubs to one per 7,000 Utah residents, or 295 clubs concentrated primarily in Salt Lake County and Park City. Minimum club dues by law are $12 a year, though visitors can buy a two-week membership for $5. Or visitors can ask the guy on the next barstool to sponsor them as guests.
Again, the private club system was ended in 2009. It had eased up before that.
I'm not saying that in Mexican Hat or Delta or some other town of 137 residents that it may not be a problem, I'm just saying you need to stop bitching about this and find something current to complain about.
I grew up in the bible belt and WE weren't even that strict.
Really? I'd say a dry county (like where Jack Daniels is made) where you are forbidden to buy or even DRINK alcohol is much stricter.
While the US system has it's roots in the British Empire system, they are NOT the same.
The US system broke off and established it's own measurement standards after gaining independence in the Revolutionary War (known in England as the War Of Stupid Snotty Idiots Over There) in 1783.
The Imperial System was not standardized until 1824, and there are differences.
The US still is standardized behind-the-scenes on SI units, and are used in science, medicine, by the US government, military, etc.
There was a heavy-handed push to suddenly convert everyone to metric in the late-1970s and was handled so badly that the backlash is still felt now; things like gas stations suddenly sold fuel in liters, but the old mechanical pumps read in gallons. Some changed had been made to make the pumps count in liter fractions, but at a lot of stations you had to do some math (before everyone had a handheld calculator) to figure out what you actually owed (multiply the price by 1.4 or something) and a lit of small stations certainly "rounded" things to there favor. Grocery stores, and other places often had similar problems, and consumers left feeling like
I remember filling my mother's car and the total in liters was like 3l more than the tank could hold in gallons.
Americans don't like the government telling them how to live. That's why we left Europe in the first place. And once they felt like they were being cheated--the metric conversions always seemed to work out in favor of the seller--the government had to back off.
That's really unfair to assume that the poster must be American, since Tom Baker and Elisabeth Sladen were the team that introduced Doctor Who to the USA, and are still the most beloved here by most viewers.
I'm not a huge Tom Baker fan (Peter Davision was my favorite, because he had better stories), but Elisabeth Sladen was my favorite companion. I recall at 13 having tears in my eyes when she left the Tardis.
To me, Elisabeth Sladen will always be Sara-Jane Smith.
I could go on a rant here about the English always complaining how awful all Americans are, and then talk about one of my grandfathers getting half his head blown off saving your nation (and a great uncle got gassed saving it 30 years earlier when y'all started the previous war you then wanted us to bail you out of), but this is not the place for it.
\begin{sarcasm}
It's okay folks, this is Apple we are talking about! You know, the moral company who does everything right.
They have products produced by just-above-slave-labor Foxconn in China that people--the very same people who love Apple--would be screaming about if it was Nike or Coca-Cola or (heaven forbid) McDonald's doing the same thing.
But this is Apple! Their uber-hip coolness overrides any questionable moral or ethical decisions. When you whip out your iPad in Starbucks, people know that you're the kind of person who thinks like they do. You're instantly on the winning team, out to stop oppression of the masses. And when you tether it to your iPhone, they know you own a Prius or a Subaru. And they have a pretty good guess about your political bumper stickers....
So, it's all good! Apple would never shaft their customers...you can ask the owners of products like the Apple ]I[, the Lisa, or the MacCube if you don't believe me. And when your $1000 Apple Cinema Display is unplugged from it's power brick and destroys the logic board into thinking that the supply is bad, they will accept that it was just Steve Job's way of helping them improve their life with even better Apple technology.
Apple owners know this, in the same way that SUV owners learn...if you own a small Chevy SUV that gets 20MPG, you're an evil wasteful meat-eating fascist out to destroy the planet. But if you own a Subaru or Toyota wagon/SUV with the same 20MPG, then you're an environmentalist who should get priority parking.
\end{sarcasm}
I dont worry about the guy that can access a server at work, I worry about the guy that leaves the job with a 64gb thumb drive that has the entire customer database on it.
You hit the nail square on the head there. I have access to several former employers; I even have access to one site where I shut off my own access before I walked out the door. But then my replacement did not work out and they begged me to help them find out what was going on...I had to come back into the building and hack into my old servers with a boot disk to restore my access and undo the work of my "successor".
Generally, a true IT professional can be trusted after they leave, because if they wanted to get confidential information, they had plenty of chances while they worked there. Most of us don't even care what the data is, we just don't want to lose it. for the company.
As a company, you generally have no risk from a true professional IT person. Not a lot of risk from engineers, either...some are crooks, but most are ready when they leave to work on something new anyway. Your highest risk staff are folks like sales, who already work on commission and are likely to be doing the same thing with a similar customer list at their next employer. They are also likely to have poor security practices among their group and therefore know the passwords of a half-dozen coworkers.
Seriously, I don't see what being communist has to do with embarrassing yourself. Capitalist nations embarrass themselves pretty damn often too.
Because this is the state controlled media. This is like catching Number 10 or the White House talking about their new border security system, and showing a picture of the Great Wall of China.
For those readers who were around during the Cold War and old enough to remember it, things like this were not uncommon, state-controlled media that was a mouthpiece of the government making various claims about great technical accomplishments that were later found to be faults, sometimes laughably so. Like the Soviets claiming they had invented baseball and television.
It's harder to get away with this in the western world. People can demand evidence. You can't do this in China. The government is the evidence.
You have some very valid points. I've worked in manufacturing.
One thing to remember in this case, however, is the machines in question were not the Dell Crap line machines, they were the premium-quality Optiplex line, where you pay more to get a reliable machine for Enterprise users.
And the bad caps? Not the work of poor QC from a "Chinese peasant", but industrial espionage from some Taiwanese capacitor firms who had engineers steal a formula from from a company in Japan, but got it wrong.
And Dell bought low-end capacitors from cut-rate suppliers. They are not the first to make this mistake, but on your premium line, where you charge premium prices, you should be buying name-brand components. Good electrolytics are expensive.
Steve Jobs was working, writing the words of his Beatles cat-a-log victory
part of his Apple Music lawsuit his-tory.
For years he kept working,
Buying the rights to those songs while he pulled out his hair
but now we don't care.
All the the massive egos,
Where do they all belong?
All the massive egos,
Redmond and Cu-per-tin-o.
Exactly, it's probably a bit of a kludge, and making it into a stable, documented, supported feature is going to be expensive with a lot of support and a small user base.
I have modes like this in some of my own products, and sometimes I'm leery of even having some other people on my own team have access to the debug modes, because of the potential for disaster and a WHOLE lot of handholding from me.
It's not worth the time it would take for me to set it up for broader use, and if I did, they would break things and then come running to me.
Slashdot Mirror
"I have no idea what I'm taking about, and I was in too much of a rush to First-Post so I did not bother to read the article. But I made an anti-American remark, and I was snotty, therefore, I'm an instant Slashdot expert! Modded up to 'insightful'".
What sort of fools modded this up?
By the way, if you had bothered to read the article, the research is at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute. In the UK. That's not in the US, that's across the Atlantic Ocean, way on the other side.
I think you underestimated your own laziness.
First: since when does Slashdot give a fuck about people's copyrights?
Yes, I also found it amusing that this the same site were people argue about non-profits and fair use.
Exactly! What we need is a giant database that can be compromised by one overworked medical resident who has no real concept of data security.
I know of two cases where residents had a shared database of passwords to various medical systems at multiple hospitals stored on insecure public "document" sites. In one case, they all had a common password, and different groups of students/residents used it year after year (not even ever changing the username or password). When the IT people found out and blew a large gasket, the medical people honestly did not see what the problem was.
Good thing these are only numbers which would require some sort of modern photo ID to actually use in a context where serious harm could be caused through fraudulent use.
Someone modded this up to "Insightful"? Really? Are you from Planet Quendor?
If you needed real government-issued photo ID to commit identity theft, then most of the criminals would be out of business
.
You mean Medicare, not Medicaid, which is for the very poor or terminally ill.
The big prize here would be any Children's SSN's. Those are valuable for identity fraud because children have clean credit histories, and it takes months-to-years for the parents to figure it out.
I suspect "Anonymous" may be at work here, they've attacked Utah government and police sites before. They seem to support free speech, unless it's free speech they don't like, then it should be destroyed. Ironically, not only did they attack the wrong police department (Salt Lake City, not West Valley City), but they took down the site that allows the public to talk to the police. But I guess as long as you destroy something and screw up people's lives, that's good news for them.
This was going to be available at some point in the future, and it's better for society that it's available now. Locked up in a vault they had zero value.
Sony has become evil, and I hate them for it.
But, that does not make stealing something slated for later sale moral. If I want a new video game, and it won't be released until October, so I break into the store and steal a case of games in August, how is it a benefit to society? Won't society benefit more if they are sold legally? The kid working in the game store, the UPS man who delivers them, the pizza store next to the game store...they would all prefer the product to be legally sold.
Jackson recorded them for the purpose of making money and/or providing a funding legacy for "his" children. So I don't see how stealing them is somehow moral. If Sony had decided to never release them, this would be one thing....but it is not. Please explain to me how the fact that Sony had not sold them yet makes it moral to steal them.
Also what does the name "NITRO" have to do with this in anyway? The original plant was set up to make nitrocellulose, also known as gun cotton. What does that have to do with chemical weapons, Agent Orange, or herbicides?
Nitrocellulose was gun powder. It was also used to make cue balls, movie film, and wood coatings.
So what? Aside from being very flammable, it's not even that dangerous, nor is it an explosive...
Huh?
First of all, Agent Orange was not a chemical weapon. It was a nasty chemical and it injured my father-in-law and his children--my wife included--but that was collateral damage from what was intended as a defoliant. It was intended to clear tree cover and/or destroy food crops (though that was more Blue than Orange).
The really nasty chemical in Agent Orange was actually a contaminant; ,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin. It was not supposed to be there at all.
Agent Orange was supposed to be a 50:50 mixture of (2,4,5-Trichlorophenoxy)acetic acid and (2,4-dichlorophenoxy)acetic acid.
I agree with snowgirl, the article title was for emotional impact. It's like saying "KNOWN CHEMOTHERAPY INGREDIENT "NORMAL SALINE" FOUND DUMPED NEAR SCHOOL!"
How dare he be old! Stupid jerk...he should know that once you get old, you are instantly disgusting and should report to a Sleepshop on lastday.
If they're so tough, why do they hide under a rock?
Wish I had mod points. You've made the only intelligent argument in the thread today.
Exactly...does anyone here really have that "action movie" idea that some massive mainframe inside CIA headquarters is really running the CIA website? And that it's not just farmed out to some contractor like rackspace?
When a guy breaks into your house and steals your belongings, "Hey, he had a lousy alarm system and was gone over Labor Day Weekend, he was asking for it!"
A rapist: "She was wearing a provocative outfit! Anyone could see that she was asking for it".
Now these script kiddies: "Hey, we broke in and found plaintext! Sony was asking for it."
Same logic. "It's not my fault, you did not prevent me from committing a crime so it is your fault. I am not responsible for my criminal actions, you are. You are also responsible for the third-parties I hurt because you did not adequately prevent me from doing it".
Say what we like or we'll stamp our feet and hack your site! What happened to freedom of information? Or is it just WikiLeaks approved information?
Everyone should have learned the following quote in High School, if not earlier:
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."
-- Evelyn Hall, in a summation of her read of Voltaire.
Wikileaks and their supporters claim to be for the unrestricted flow of information, even when this information could cost lives. I can understand their idealism; when I first read the Hall quote I was swept up in a patriotic-like fervor, willing to give my life for the cause of free speech. That idealism is why we send young men off to war...as we get older, we're less willing to just throw our lives away because somebody told us to. Men may still be willing to die for a cause, but the cause has to be greater.
I had assumed that the Wikileaks kids were under a similar grand unified cause, but as time has gone on, they seem to be targeting which causes they want to "attack". Big corporations and the USA/their allies. They don't seem to attack Russia or other powerful nations who may choose to fight back.
Even the famous video released by Wikileaks has been edited twice. We don't know what was cut out the first time, but in the second details like a man carrying a rocket launcher were removed. This is not "open", this is yellow journalism. I really wonder who is actually funding Wikileaks behind-the-scenes.
So I am not surprised that the Wikileaks people or their fan club attack their critics. When a show like Frontline shows them in a good light, they celebrate it. And when it shows them in a bad light, they attack, trying to silence the messenger.
"We don't like what you say, so you don't have the right to say it"
Clearly not something that would be promoted by Voltaire.
I cannot believe the CS crowd that still uses TI calculators, or that anyone takes them seriously. Where I went to school, algebraic calculators were for high-school kids and English majors. If you were math, science or engineering, you had an HP and used RPN. Anything else is kids stuff.
The culture is extremely different. You could make a plausible case that the state was founded as a theocracy, and that those roots are still very much there.
Just note the state's rules on alcohol.
So when was this written? 1975? This is totally outdated. I see anti-Utah crap on Slashdot all the time, including total fantasy about the difficulty of obtaining caffeinated soda in Utah. Most of the Mormons I know live on Coke or Mountain Dew; it's one of the few vices they can have.
The state has no open-door saloons. Full liquor service is available only to dues-paying members of "private" social clubs or at the 470 restaurants with liquor stocks they cannot advertise, display or even mention unless a customer asks first.
They can advertise now. That law was passed in the early 1990s and overturned sometime in the late 1990s, long before the 2002 Olympics. I think it lasted like five years; basically, it was a "bribe" to some Mormon lawmakers. They agreed to ban advertising in return for liberalizing the rules on alcohol in restaurants. But that is all long past. Except in your head.
The "private club" law for full liquor service was abolished three years ago.
The state's 121 taverns can pour only "light" beer, or 3.2 percent alcohol, and no other alcoholic drinks. No membership is required at taverns. Grocery stores can sell only light beer, too.
You can buy full-strength beer at the liquor stores, brewpubs, or directly from the "factory stores" of the microbreweries. There are at least 10 microbreweries in Salt Lake alone. Epic Brewing on State Street in Salt Lake, just a mile straight down from the capitol building and even closer to the Mormon Temple, sells 9%+ beers right off the shelf. http://www.epicbrewing.com/
Wine, hard liquor and heavy beer can be purchased at 36 state-run liquor stores - if you can find them. Typically they are tucked away in warehouse districts and off major thoroughfares.
This is still true about wine and liquor being sold only in state stores, but it's been decades since they were hidden off in the middle of nowhere. And a LOT of states have that restriction. In Wisconsin, after 10PM I could not even buy Ginger Ale at the grocery store as it was considered a "mixer" and the entire aisle in the grocery store was LOCKED OFF behind metal gates.
The Utah state liquor stores started changing this around 1977 with the wine store in Salt Lake's landmark Trolley Square shopping center. There are beautiful stores in prime areas of Salt Lake now, including a large new store right across from Cottonwood Mall. These are modern beverage stores with large stocks of wine, reviews, magazines, etc.
A quota limits the number of private clubs to one per 7,000 Utah residents, or 295 clubs concentrated primarily in Salt Lake County and Park City. Minimum club dues by law are $12 a year, though visitors can buy a two-week membership for $5. Or visitors can ask the guy on the next barstool to sponsor them as guests.
Again, the private club system was ended in 2009. It had eased up before that. I'm not saying that in Mexican Hat or Delta or some other town of 137 residents that it may not be a problem, I'm just saying you need to stop bitching about this and find something current to complain about.
I grew up in the bible belt and WE weren't even that strict.
Really? I'd say a dry county (like where Jack Daniels is made) where you are forbidden to buy or even DRINK alcohol is much stricter.
While the US system has it's roots in the British Empire system, they are NOT the same.
The US system broke off and established it's own measurement standards after gaining independence in the Revolutionary War (known in England as the War Of Stupid Snotty Idiots Over There) in 1783.
The Imperial System was not standardized until 1824, and there are differences.
The US still is standardized behind-the-scenes on SI units, and are used in science, medicine, by the US government, military, etc.
There was a heavy-handed push to suddenly convert everyone to metric in the late-1970s and was handled so badly that the backlash is still felt now; things like gas stations suddenly sold fuel in liters, but the old mechanical pumps read in gallons. Some changed had been made to make the pumps count in liter fractions, but at a lot of stations you had to do some math (before everyone had a handheld calculator) to figure out what you actually owed (multiply the price by 1.4 or something) and a lit of small stations certainly "rounded" things to there favor. Grocery stores, and other places often had similar problems, and consumers left feeling like
I remember filling my mother's car and the total in liters was like 3l more than the tank could hold in gallons.
Americans don't like the government telling them how to live. That's why we left Europe in the first place. And once they felt like they were being cheated--the metric conversions always seemed to work out in favor of the seller--the government had to back off.
Same here. I lost it after I saw that cartoon.
That's really unfair to assume that the poster must be American, since Tom Baker and Elisabeth Sladen were the team that introduced Doctor Who to the USA, and are still the most beloved here by most viewers.
I'm not a huge Tom Baker fan (Peter Davision was my favorite, because he had better stories), but Elisabeth Sladen was my favorite companion. I recall at 13 having tears in my eyes when she left the Tardis.
To me, Elisabeth Sladen will always be Sara-Jane Smith.
I could go on a rant here about the English always complaining how awful all Americans are, and then talk about one of my grandfathers getting half his head blown off saving your nation (and a great uncle got gassed saving it 30 years earlier when y'all started the previous war you then wanted us to bail you out of), but this is not the place for it.
And, you *DO* sound "like a hater".
\begin{sarcasm} It's okay folks, this is Apple we are talking about! You know, the moral company who does everything right. They have products produced by just-above-slave-labor Foxconn in China that people--the very same people who love Apple--would be screaming about if it was Nike or Coca-Cola or (heaven forbid) McDonald's doing the same thing. But this is Apple! Their uber-hip coolness overrides any questionable moral or ethical decisions. When you whip out your iPad in Starbucks, people know that you're the kind of person who thinks like they do. You're instantly on the winning team, out to stop oppression of the masses. And when you tether it to your iPhone, they know you own a Prius or a Subaru. And they have a pretty good guess about your political bumper stickers.... So, it's all good! Apple would never shaft their customers...you can ask the owners of products like the Apple ]I[, the Lisa, or the MacCube if you don't believe me. And when your $1000 Apple Cinema Display is unplugged from it's power brick and destroys the logic board into thinking that the supply is bad, they will accept that it was just Steve Job's way of helping them improve their life with even better Apple technology. Apple owners know this, in the same way that SUV owners learn...if you own a small Chevy SUV that gets 20MPG, you're an evil wasteful meat-eating fascist out to destroy the planet. But if you own a Subaru or Toyota wagon/SUV with the same 20MPG, then you're an environmentalist who should get priority parking. \end{sarcasm}
I dont worry about the guy that can access a server at work, I worry about the guy that leaves the job with a 64gb thumb drive that has the entire customer database on it.
You hit the nail square on the head there. I have access to several former employers; I even have access to one site where I shut off my own access before I walked out the door. But then my replacement did not work out and they begged me to help them find out what was going on...I had to come back into the building and hack into my old servers with a boot disk to restore my access and undo the work of my "successor".
Generally, a true IT professional can be trusted after they leave, because if they wanted to get confidential information, they had plenty of chances while they worked there. Most of us don't even care what the data is, we just don't want to lose it. for the company.
As a company, you generally have no risk from a true professional IT person. Not a lot of risk from engineers, either...some are crooks, but most are ready when they leave to work on something new anyway. Your highest risk staff are folks like sales, who already work on commission and are likely to be doing the same thing with a similar customer list at their next employer. They are also likely to have poor security practices among their group and therefore know the passwords of a half-dozen coworkers.
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Seriously, I don't see what being communist has to do with embarrassing yourself. Capitalist nations embarrass themselves pretty damn often too.
Because this is the state controlled media. This is like catching Number 10 or the White House talking about their new border security system, and showing a picture of the Great Wall of China.
For those readers who were around during the Cold War and old enough to remember it, things like this were not uncommon, state-controlled media that was a mouthpiece of the government making various claims about great technical accomplishments that were later found to be faults, sometimes laughably so. Like the Soviets claiming they had invented baseball and television.
It's harder to get away with this in the western world. People can demand evidence. You can't do this in China. The government is the evidence.
You have some very valid points. I've worked in manufacturing.
One thing to remember in this case, however, is the machines in question were not the Dell Crap line machines, they were the premium-quality Optiplex line, where you pay more to get a reliable machine for Enterprise users.
And the bad caps? Not the work of poor QC from a "Chinese peasant", but industrial espionage from some Taiwanese capacitor firms who had engineers steal a formula from from a company in Japan, but got it wrong.
And Dell bought low-end capacitors from cut-rate suppliers. They are not the first to make this mistake, but on your premium line, where you charge premium prices, you should be buying name-brand components. Good electrolytics are expensive.
This story was all covered by IEEE Spectrum. They have a story on the Dell scandal as well.
Steve Jobs was working, writing the words of his Beatles cat-a-log victory
part of his Apple Music lawsuit his-tory.
For years he kept working,
Buying the rights to those songs while he pulled out his hair
but now we don't care.
All the the massive egos,
Where do they all belong?
All the massive egos,
Redmond and Cu-per-tin-o.
Exactly, it's probably a bit of a kludge, and making it into a stable, documented, supported feature is going to be expensive with a lot of support and a small user base.
I have modes like this in some of my own products, and sometimes I'm leery of even having some other people on my own team have access to the debug modes, because of the potential for disaster and a WHOLE lot of handholding from me.
It's not worth the time it would take for me to set it up for broader use, and if I did, they would break things and then come running to me.