I've been Agile exposed in so many different ways I can barely remember what the hell Agile really is supposed to be anymore. The worst thing that can happen to developers is "We're running or own take on Agile", because "our own take" means "negatively effective".
I've got colleagues who have been required to go to 10-14 hours of ceremonies each week because they don't need a scrum master and PMs murder them with meetings where they demand to be heard for hours for no reason other than the PMs have nothing better to do with their time. Hell, I have colleagues in that situation right now where I work.
I know of other teams that (and this continues to be a complete disaster) that have an open door policy on requirements. Work gets tabled all the time because the manager wants the internal customers to feel super special and any new requirement that comes along can out-prioritize something that is 99% complete. Makes the manager appear great (somehow) but the devs look like idiots because they never finish anything. Thankfully everyone I knew in this company has vacated...
My boss had been running a relatively successful Kanban but was forced to move to Agile Scrum recently due to some guy's decision up the ladder. As a team we've made the transition relatively effortlessly in the mind space. I mean, before I'd assign work to my team based on requirements that may not fit into sprints, and it worked very well, since I knew their skills very well. I could time manage the whole thing without a lot of thought and everyone was busting out good work left and right. The only difference now is I have to fit all that into sprints, which makes things harder. I'm not supposed to give out anything that would split an iteration, and therefore I either have to spent a lot of time cleverly breaking up projects so that work can continue, or give out 1-2 day assignments just to take up my developers' time.
As I'm the senior/lead/architect of the project this is definitely the wrong way to do things. All the above reduces MY time to develop from about 36 hours a week to 25-28 because I have to play scrumbag, as well as all the other rolls, and we've been saddled by a tools that doesn't' work so well. But I do a damned good job insulating my team from PMs and other managers (ours is really good at wasting time, too, but at least understands Agile).
Cord-cutters (generally) have no choice. Internet can travel over cable lines (fastish), voice lines (meh), or satellite (barf). This "choice" drives the innovation that leads to a-hole decisions like this. So you have a-holes with decent internet, a-holes with bad internet, and a-holes with terrible internet.
37% of Netflix subscribers abruptly cancelled their accounts citing sudden lack of employment.
I can't watch stuff and do real work, but some years ago I had a crappy job that required no brain power, and I binged (using a USB drive and portable VLC) all sorts of shows and movies. I was a top performer consistently in my department and basically had to spend a lot of time NOT working to keep them from upping the workload on everyone else, who somehow couldn't keep up with their heads down all day.
With all the consumer products that have little back doors and 'oopsies' in regards to security, how on Earth did they ever think this would work? I'm not a security researcher, but I'm willing to bet that these will be cracked open in days by various white or black hat hackers. And you know that government agencies will be prying into them in no time.
So at a price of $250, and a camera for another $120, this is a 370% 'no' item. And I get EVERYTHING on Amazon.
If it was free, AND I had some kind of room at the front of my house with another, stronger locked door on the inside, I'd consider it.
Seriously, though. Holy shit. The only way that company is going to survive in tact is if it is balls deep in some American politician's pocket that's willing to write up a bailout... Yay, capitalism.
I'm pretty sure they're just trying to put VI and EMacs to rest by making the ESC key too much of a pain in the ass to activate reliably. I've been using one for a few months now and I'm still certain it's a giant step back.
I can't recall a single time in my entire internet history that I've ever purposefully clicked on an ad. Relevant or not, I blanket ignore them and always have. I've been trying to figure out how so many people use ads on the internets that they're a lucrative business.
I SEE them. Sometimes they're for things that I might actually want or use. But even when Google shows me exactly what I want in my search, I skip past the advertised slots. There's 1/100th of a penny they may not get, but there's a slightly weaker advertising profile they have on me.
I dunno, I think every other year is fine for Android. Mostly because after 18-24 months post-release, stock phones are crippled by software updates and newer versions of Android that don't seem to be optimized for older hardware anymore. My S5 (at&t) was given to me by my job. When it was new, it was slow and buggy as hell. And somehow the at&t S5 got super locked down after 4.0, which was on it when I got it, and so I'm stuck with a crappy phone until they replace it. Really all I care about is that it's not locked down and I can stick Cyanogen or something else on it and never worry about at&t's shoddy products.
As far as personal phones go, I buy them, I don't spend much, and I generally stick to whatever runs closest to bare Android. The N5 was great for almost 2 years, then it broke. I tried out Blu for the wife and a few others. She loses a lot of phones, and even if you look at how much we'd have spent on a leased phone with "insurance" vs us buying a sub $200 phone once or twice a year, we're still (barely) ahead. Having recently moved to an area where every providers coverage is spotty at best, we're now buying the older generations that support Google Fi. And it's been good so far.
Can you even buy a new TV that isn't "Smart"? Five years ago I bought my LED TV and to get to the range of features I wanted there weren't any dumb TVs. They all had some kind of networking involved.
We did use the apps a few times, but as soon as my game systems had the same features I unplugged the ethernet cable.
I'm guessing that all you did was deactivate the TV's wifi, or did you delete the wifi information and it still connected? That would be be pretty damned shady...
I'd have filtered the MAC as well. HELLS no... But even then it's possible it's looking for open APs.:/
Pay someone to do even a light check of your network. You never know.
Something very similar happened at an old employer. We did network and voice support for an auto dealer. Every month their long distance and international bills were unjustifiably enormous, but they didn't tell US about it, preferring to bitch at the phone company directly (company was horribly run, really). At some point or another they finally got fed up and told us they didn't want international calls to go out (this was the first thing we heard about the problem) and I turned it off for all but a select set of phone numbers. Over the next few months we get requests to turn off LD on all these extensions and back on. The boss is getting paid so when I get a bit angry about all the stupid switching around he doesn't want me to ask. We started looking into it anyways, and it turned out that one of their headless phone numbers was basically an open relay. The system had been set up by engineers that were long gone, so we just closed off the relay.
However, someone noticed this and used the relay to call around... for about a year. Got thousands of dollars in free calling.
Even though it's sort of backwards due to PTSD and all that, people fighting and supporting each other need to be mentally steady at all times. I say "steady" because I mean that someone who is manically depressed, wetting themselves and crying uncontrollably whenever they hear gunfire, fighting the voices, etc, have no business being depended upon by the rest of the military and our country. So if someone is mentally struggling with anything that keeps their concentration from being fully engaged with whatever job or task they have at any given time, they need to go.
On the flip side, once the horrors of breaking things and killing people have sunk in, we damned well should be doing everything we can to get them back to the healthy state they were in prior to joining up.
Because if we can't get people back into their original, normal lives (or at least get as close as possible), we need to start cutting off all military reproductive organs. Let our eunuchs fight the wars and if they no longer can function, push them into their retirement six feet under. It's may feel kinder than what many people deal with once they get spit out of our current system.
Oh, geez. I recently was transferred after my company was purchased. I went from a data center engineer to managing data center consolidation for a dozen Enterprise sites, from a handful of legacy organizations. I started collecting lists of technologies present from my director and forming a plan. Presented a lot of information about all the steps, road blocks, pinch points, etc. My director takes a cursory view and says, "None of this is important because we're going hyper converged with VMWare NSX!"
Haven't they also been trying to unbundle SMS/MMS and Hangouts for a year or two now as well? I mean, it was frustrating getting those two to work in concert but I wanted it to function in the end. I'd just like to know if all their posturing with regards to messaging is "Change for the sake of Change" or if it's really going to be useful. It'd be nice to know what the end of their road map is or if they're playing Sonic The Hedgehog and are stuck in the Casino Night Zone.
Is Jibe still a thing?? I sorta gave up on Google phones when the prices hit premium level so I'm not into all the google stuff anymore.
At any rate, I've had Voice installed for the last seven years or so and while I'm okay with Hangouts handling my VM and whatnot I do use Voice for some stuff because Hangouts is often buggy on the S5 provided by my workplace.
Can't wait until it's up on XDA Developers for the S5 from AT&T, which so far hasn't been able to be rooted, and is the phone my work gave me. Sure it's a free phone and it's a work phone... But I wanna put a different ROM on it, dammit.
I always loved Endorsement Roulette on LinkedIn. I only log in every month or so (if I'm not actively pursuing something) and nothing beats seeing that real estate agent you never actually hired endorsing me for Python Development and CPU Design. I'm reasonably certain I never discussed either of these with that dude, because at the time I wasn't heavily into Python... and Intel keeps telling me that nobody needs a CPU made out of reconstituted coffee grounds.
I've never been interested in having Exchange in my phone's email client because the email clients built in with most Androids suck.. I bought Touchdown years ago because it was built to talk to Exchange and it worked very well.
Gmail is pretty good, but I'm still not interested in merging my Exchange account with it because then my phone becomes completely subject to my workplace's rules and regulations on mobiles. Touchdown keeps that separate and I like it that way. Hell, I have a company phone and I STILL use Touchdown. If some idiot Exchange admin F's up a powershell command to wipe some dude's phone and ends up wiping everyone named Steve's phone**, I don't have to worry because only my Touchdown partition is affected. And any personal stuff I have on the device (for better or worse) is unaffected. Yay.
**This HAS happened at a company where I warned the head of IT that the guy they just made a domain admin was not ready for that responsibility. Not a week goes by before he force wiped all phones belonging to anyone named Christine. Out of 1200 users. Fun day!
Little enrages me as much as these guys getting the handouts they get. The main purpose of the building is for roughly 14 days out of the year and then maybe another 30-60 days a year for other events. The public funds them and gets little to nothing in return. If public money is going to stadiums then they should be owned by the public. MN's new stadium should never have been built and popular opinion was never polled. It would never have passed popular vote. Sure, about 20-30% of the public would have been irate at the other 70-80%, but that's how it would have gone. But then Dayton just handed a multi billionaire half a billion anyways. Over half that stadium belongs rightfully to the city of Minneapolis and its proceeds shouldn't be making it into Wilf's pockets, but into the schools and policy stations that they SHOULD have been paying for in the first place.
if not before, the better plan if one wanted to switch from PS4 to something else would be to hang on to your potentially exploitable console and keep it offline until someone releases an exploit. If Sony is able to fix the hole with a patch any unpatched boxes immediately jump up in value, like we saw with the Xbox 360 and PS3. That of course means giving up online features and possibly new game releases for a while, but if you're one of those users who doesn't game online and/or uses it mostly as a Bluray player that might not be a big deal. You can then use the money to build a budget gaming PC that'll beat the pants off of any of the consoles.
Where does the PS4 hold its OS? If it's on the HDD you could just back it up to one or two others and let them sit around.
Who the heck actually still runs an FTP server as part of their website, in this day and age?
More than I care to admit or remember... I've seen a lot of advertising firms using FTP for transferring material to/from clients all over the place. They figure user/pass and origin IP are secure enough. Well, maybe their data isn't important enough to transfer with any level of encryption.
So when the headline says these protections are "easily" bypassed, all it's really saying is that if someone using a defensive system makes mistakes
Very true, but many smaller websites may not have the luxury of moving their IPs about.
Microsoft also adds that Wi-Fi Sense will only provide internet access, and block connections to other things on the wireless LAN
So I'm reasonably certain all this will do is block access to your subnet and only allow traffic to your gateway. Which in any corporate environment is a massive security risk because if they're doing it right, employees are sitting on different subnets (RFC1918 or otherwise). So, yes, random guy who happens to be a contact in Outlook.com (which literally BEGS to let you make every you ever emailed a contact) now has access to every normally permissible network node as long as he's not interested in the wifi subnet.
Yes, most corporations should be using per-employ authentication, and hopefully Sense engineers are dumb enough to share out AD/LDAP credentials (well, maybe they're not smart or interested enough to go into *nix authentication). But that's not always the case.
I was going to suggest using a box of 3.5" floppy disks as I wouldn't expect them to have the equipment to read them anymore, but then I realized this is the post office, so maybe just a DVD would be okay since they probably haven't gotten around to procuring any of those yet.
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I've been Agile exposed in so many different ways I can barely remember what the hell Agile really is supposed to be anymore. The worst thing that can happen to developers is "We're running or own take on Agile", because "our own take" means "negatively effective".
I've got colleagues who have been required to go to 10-14 hours of ceremonies each week because they don't need a scrum master and PMs murder them with meetings where they demand to be heard for hours for no reason other than the PMs have nothing better to do with their time. Hell, I have colleagues in that situation right now where I work.
I know of other teams that (and this continues to be a complete disaster) that have an open door policy on requirements. Work gets tabled all the time because the manager wants the internal customers to feel super special and any new requirement that comes along can out-prioritize something that is 99% complete. Makes the manager appear great (somehow) but the devs look like idiots because they never finish anything. Thankfully everyone I knew in this company has vacated...
My boss had been running a relatively successful Kanban but was forced to move to Agile Scrum recently due to some guy's decision up the ladder. As a team we've made the transition relatively effortlessly in the mind space. I mean, before I'd assign work to my team based on requirements that may not fit into sprints, and it worked very well, since I knew their skills very well. I could time manage the whole thing without a lot of thought and everyone was busting out good work left and right. The only difference now is I have to fit all that into sprints, which makes things harder. I'm not supposed to give out anything that would split an iteration, and therefore I either have to spent a lot of time cleverly breaking up projects so that work can continue, or give out 1-2 day assignments just to take up my developers' time.
As I'm the senior/lead/architect of the project this is definitely the wrong way to do things. All the above reduces MY time to develop from about 36 hours a week to 25-28 because I have to play scrumbag, as well as all the other rolls, and we've been saddled by a tools that doesn't' work so well. But I do a damned good job insulating my team from PMs and other managers (ours is really good at wasting time, too, but at least understands Agile).
It sorta could.
Cord-cutters (generally) have no choice. Internet can travel over cable lines (fastish), voice lines (meh), or satellite (barf). This "choice" drives the innovation that leads to a-hole decisions like this. So you have a-holes with decent internet, a-holes with bad internet, and a-holes with terrible internet.
Well, they may need to pull in some analysts. Because $2,667,328 is being spent over weeks. Perhaps a cool $3M now up front is a bargain.
Or they could invest in real storage/backup/BC/DR solutions for much, much less.
37% of Netflix subscribers abruptly cancelled their accounts citing sudden lack of employment.
I can't watch stuff and do real work, but some years ago I had a crappy job that required no brain power, and I binged (using a USB drive and portable VLC) all sorts of shows and movies. I was a top performer consistently in my department and basically had to spend a lot of time NOT working to keep them from upping the workload on everyone else, who somehow couldn't keep up with their heads down all day.
With all the consumer products that have little back doors and 'oopsies' in regards to security, how on Earth did they ever think this would work? I'm not a security researcher, but I'm willing to bet that these will be cracked open in days by various white or black hat hackers. And you know that government agencies will be prying into them in no time.
So at a price of $250, and a camera for another $120, this is a 370% 'no' item. And I get EVERYTHING on Amazon.
If it was free, AND I had some kind of room at the front of my house with another, stronger locked door on the inside, I'd consider it.
Seppuku time?
Seriously, though. Holy shit. The only way that company is going to survive in tact is if it is balls deep in some American politician's pocket that's willing to write up a bailout... Yay, capitalism.
I'm pretty sure they're just trying to put VI and EMacs to rest by making the ESC key too much of a pain in the ass to activate reliably. I've been using one for a few months now and I'm still certain it's a giant step back.
I can't recall a single time in my entire internet history that I've ever purposefully clicked on an ad. Relevant or not, I blanket ignore them and always have. I've been trying to figure out how so many people use ads on the internets that they're a lucrative business.
I SEE them. Sometimes they're for things that I might actually want or use. But even when Google shows me exactly what I want in my search, I skip past the advertised slots. There's 1/100th of a penny they may not get, but there's a slightly weaker advertising profile they have on me.
I dunno, I think every other year is fine for Android. Mostly because after 18-24 months post-release, stock phones are crippled by software updates and newer versions of Android that don't seem to be optimized for older hardware anymore. My S5 (at&t) was given to me by my job. When it was new, it was slow and buggy as hell. And somehow the at&t S5 got super locked down after 4.0, which was on it when I got it, and so I'm stuck with a crappy phone until they replace it. Really all I care about is that it's not locked down and I can stick Cyanogen or something else on it and never worry about at&t's shoddy products.
As far as personal phones go, I buy them, I don't spend much, and I generally stick to whatever runs closest to bare Android. The N5 was great for almost 2 years, then it broke. I tried out Blu for the wife and a few others. She loses a lot of phones, and even if you look at how much we'd have spent on a leased phone with "insurance" vs us buying a sub $200 phone once or twice a year, we're still (barely) ahead. Having recently moved to an area where every providers coverage is spotty at best, we're now buying the older generations that support Google Fi. And it's been good so far.
... Look at the posts so far: 90% are about porn and maybe 5% are about cloud storage.
Just like the internet...
Can you even buy a new TV that isn't "Smart"? Five years ago I bought my LED TV and to get to the range of features I wanted there weren't any dumb TVs. They all had some kind of networking involved.
We did use the apps a few times, but as soon as my game systems had the same features I unplugged the ethernet cable.
I'm guessing that all you did was deactivate the TV's wifi, or did you delete the wifi information and it still connected? That would be be pretty damned shady...
I'd have filtered the MAC as well. HELLS no... But even then it's possible it's looking for open APs. :/
Pay someone to do even a light check of your network. You never know.
Something very similar happened at an old employer. We did network and voice support for an auto dealer. Every month their long distance and international bills were unjustifiably enormous, but they didn't tell US about it, preferring to bitch at the phone company directly (company was horribly run, really). At some point or another they finally got fed up and told us they didn't want international calls to go out (this was the first thing we heard about the problem) and I turned it off for all but a select set of phone numbers. Over the next few months we get requests to turn off LD on all these extensions and back on. The boss is getting paid so when I get a bit angry about all the stupid switching around he doesn't want me to ask. We started looking into it anyways, and it turned out that one of their headless phone numbers was basically an open relay. The system had been set up by engineers that were long gone, so we just closed off the relay.
However, someone noticed this and used the relay to call around... for about a year. Got thousands of dollars in free calling.
Agreed.
Even though it's sort of backwards due to PTSD and all that, people fighting and supporting each other need to be mentally steady at all times. I say "steady" because I mean that someone who is manically depressed, wetting themselves and crying uncontrollably whenever they hear gunfire, fighting the voices, etc, have no business being depended upon by the rest of the military and our country. So if someone is mentally struggling with anything that keeps their concentration from being fully engaged with whatever job or task they have at any given time, they need to go.
On the flip side, once the horrors of breaking things and killing people have sunk in, we damned well should be doing everything we can to get them back to the healthy state they were in prior to joining up.
Because if we can't get people back into their original, normal lives (or at least get as close as possible), we need to start cutting off all military reproductive organs. Let our eunuchs fight the wars and if they no longer can function, push them into their retirement six feet under. It's may feel kinder than what many people deal with once they get spit out of our current system.
Oh, geez. I recently was transferred after my company was purchased. I went from a data center engineer to managing data center consolidation for a dozen Enterprise sites, from a handful of legacy organizations. I started collecting lists of technologies present from my director and forming a plan. Presented a lot of information about all the steps, road blocks, pinch points, etc. My director takes a cursory view and says, "None of this is important because we're going hyper converged with VMWare NSX!"
I laughed at his joke.
He asked me what was funny.
I cried inside...
Haven't they also been trying to unbundle SMS/MMS and Hangouts for a year or two now as well? I mean, it was frustrating getting those two to work in concert but I wanted it to function in the end. I'd just like to know if all their posturing with regards to messaging is "Change for the sake of Change" or if it's really going to be useful. It'd be nice to know what the end of their road map is or if they're playing Sonic The Hedgehog and are stuck in the Casino Night Zone.
Is Jibe still a thing?? I sorta gave up on Google phones when the prices hit premium level so I'm not into all the google stuff anymore.
At any rate, I've had Voice installed for the last seven years or so and while I'm okay with Hangouts handling my VM and whatnot I do use Voice for some stuff because Hangouts is often buggy on the S5 provided by my workplace.
Can't wait until it's up on XDA Developers for the S5 from AT&T, which so far hasn't been able to be rooted, and is the phone my work gave me. Sure it's a free phone and it's a work phone... But I wanna put a different ROM on it, dammit.
I always loved Endorsement Roulette on LinkedIn. I only log in every month or so (if I'm not actively pursuing something) and nothing beats seeing that real estate agent you never actually hired endorsing me for Python Development and CPU Design. I'm reasonably certain I never discussed either of these with that dude, because at the time I wasn't heavily into Python... and Intel keeps telling me that nobody needs a CPU made out of reconstituted coffee grounds.
Touchdown...
I've never been interested in having Exchange in my phone's email client because the email clients built in with most Androids suck.. I bought Touchdown years ago because it was built to talk to Exchange and it worked very well.
Gmail is pretty good, but I'm still not interested in merging my Exchange account with it because then my phone becomes completely subject to my workplace's rules and regulations on mobiles. Touchdown keeps that separate and I like it that way. Hell, I have a company phone and I STILL use Touchdown. If some idiot Exchange admin F's up a powershell command to wipe some dude's phone and ends up wiping everyone named Steve's phone**, I don't have to worry because only my Touchdown partition is affected. And any personal stuff I have on the device (for better or worse) is unaffected. Yay.
**This HAS happened at a company where I warned the head of IT that the guy they just made a domain admin was not ready for that responsibility. Not a week goes by before he force wiped all phones belonging to anyone named Christine. Out of 1200 users. Fun day!
Little enrages me as much as these guys getting the handouts they get. The main purpose of the building is for roughly 14 days out of the year and then maybe another 30-60 days a year for other events. The public funds them and gets little to nothing in return. If public money is going to stadiums then they should be owned by the public. MN's new stadium should never have been built and popular opinion was never polled. It would never have passed popular vote. Sure, about 20-30% of the public would have been irate at the other 70-80%, but that's how it would have gone. But then Dayton just handed a multi billionaire half a billion anyways. Over half that stadium belongs rightfully to the city of Minneapolis and its proceeds shouldn't be making it into Wilf's pockets, but into the schools and policy stations that they SHOULD have been paying for in the first place.
if not before, the better plan if one wanted to switch from PS4 to something else would be to hang on to your potentially exploitable console and keep it offline until someone releases an exploit. If Sony is able to fix the hole with a patch any unpatched boxes immediately jump up in value, like we saw with the Xbox 360 and PS3. That of course means giving up online features and possibly new game releases for a while, but if you're one of those users who doesn't game online and/or uses it mostly as a Bluray player that might not be a big deal. You can then use the money to build a budget gaming PC that'll beat the pants off of any of the consoles.
Where does the PS4 hold its OS? If it's on the HDD you could just back it up to one or two others and let them sit around.
Who the heck actually still runs an FTP server as part of their website, in this day and age?
More than I care to admit or remember... I've seen a lot of advertising firms using FTP for transferring material to/from clients all over the place. They figure user/pass and origin IP are secure enough. Well, maybe their data isn't important enough to transfer with any level of encryption.
So when the headline says these protections are "easily" bypassed, all it's really saying is that if someone using a defensive system makes mistakes
Very true, but many smaller websites may not have the luxury of moving their IPs about.
Microsoft also adds that Wi-Fi Sense will only provide internet access, and block connections to other things on the wireless LAN
So I'm reasonably certain all this will do is block access to your subnet and only allow traffic to your gateway. Which in any corporate environment is a massive security risk because if they're doing it right, employees are sitting on different subnets (RFC1918 or otherwise). So, yes, random guy who happens to be a contact in Outlook.com (which literally BEGS to let you make every you ever emailed a contact) now has access to every normally permissible network node as long as he's not interested in the wifi subnet.
Yes, most corporations should be using per-employ authentication, and hopefully Sense engineers are dumb enough to share out AD/LDAP credentials (well, maybe they're not smart or interested enough to go into *nix authentication). But that's not always the case.
Can't wait until this is called "Wifigate"
"Campaign Contributions", geeze. How are the politicians supposed to make a living without them?!
I was going to suggest using a box of 3.5" floppy disks as I wouldn't expect them to have the equipment to read them anymore, but then I realized this is the post office, so maybe just a DVD would be okay since they probably haven't gotten around to procuring any of those yet.