Keep in mind that Spain is entirely in the wrong timezone It is south of the UK so it should be on the same timezone as the UK but instead it's on Central European time so 10-18 is actually 9-17. Also it's mainly only government offices that take 3h lunch breaks. At least in the Madrid area, the people who actually work for a living mainly get a 1h lunch break.
They were trivial to circumvent because it's a hard problem to solve. I'm always fascinated how plenty of people think they can do better without ever suggesting how they could do better.
So this is less a worry about what my webhosting provider is going to do, and more what my corporate firewalls are going to fail on.
Correct. Webhosting providers have users who spazz on them when anything is slow. Corporate IT just don't have the same motivation. Mind you, I don't doubt for a moment that some corporate websites will also be affected. The number of big name corps with bad firewall configs on their public hosted side is frightening.
Not necessarily. One of the current workarounds is to detect that something failed and disable the extended features. If they stop doing that, then certain requests will simply fail. I can name a few firewall vendors that still don't allow DNS packets large enough to allow EDNS by default.
Well, except Brocade FCAL switch management interfaces (2 year old hardware) and most net enabled KVMs (brand new). Not even web start, requires applet in both cases
It's far easier to for me to go without Flash since last year, I junked the only NAS device (6 years old) I had that required it.
This is a good step. It's great that browser makers are generally not beholden to people like advertisers for money, so they can make more user-friendly decisions.
I don't know if I missed something there, but that is wrong.
How is breaking my add-ons user-friendly.
Why are there ads on the newtab page.
This is a good step. It's great that browser makers are generally not beholden to people like advertisers for money, so they can make more user-friendly decisions.
I don't know if I missed something there, but that is wrong.
/How is breaking my add-ons user-friendly.
Mainly because flash hasn't been "run anywhere" for a very long time. If you write your page with flash, it won't run on my Raspberry PI(it never did), my flatmate's iPhone (Apple's choice) or my Android cellphone (Adobe's choice). In fact, Flash took ages to even manage 64 bit CPUs. Web pages should be write once, run anywhere but flash was a major problem in making that happen.
The difference is that pizzerias aren't a natural monopoly the same ways that ISPs tend to be in small towns.
If you have to chose between a corporate monopoly and a government monopoly, you are better off with the government monopoly since there is less of a motive for them to squeeze their customers for more money than they need to. plus you can vote out the people in charge if they get abusive. When dealing with a corporate monopoly, you have no choice but to keep paying whatever they ask.
It really doesn't need to be either fax or email. Here, my doctor has a 2FA dongle to access his account with the Government of Quebec, yet the pharmacy faxes him prescription update requests and his receptionist faxes his reply. I don't see why they can't have some secure, medical professional only system for sending medical related information.
Security's procedure is to call call 911 immediately and have someone at the door to direct the emergency crew to the correct location. The alternative, is for some employee to call 911, the nurse never hears about it and can't provide first aid, and no one knows what to do with the ambulance that shows up at the door, wasting precious minutes. The building has 3 entrances and a loading dock, security would get the location (building letter, floor number, grid code for the nearest pillar) code for the caller which the 911 system has no way to get from the PBX, or even understand if they had it. If that is illegal in your country, than the law is counterproductive and will get people killed.
Exactly this. I worked in a building for 1300 people and all 911 calls were routed through security since the most appropriate first responded would be the onsite nurse and an ambulance would have no way to find out where in the building the emergency was happening if security didn't direct them.
Cutting back on H1-Bs and their spouses only moves more jobs offshore.
It was clear to anyone who had half a brain that Trump could never deliver on most of his promises and that many of his promises would have counterproductive results if implemented.
Meanwhile, I live in a country that allows more immigrants than the US, I often find myself in offices full of recent immigrants from India, China and eastern Europe and I still have employers trying to out bid each other to get me on board.
Or they quiet and go work for a less trendy company who doesn't make such insane demands on their time. Working long hours has an adverse affect on code quality. If employees are regularly working more than 40 hour weeks, something is seriously wrong with the management.
Up here, employers are now competing on quality of life rather than just higher paychecks.
The version on Facebook got posted far and wide complete with cheesy music and lame motivational captions. The fact that the drone was causing the mother to panic was literally the first thing I noticed about the video. She looked right at the camera as she knocked the baby bear down the slope.
Lack of scaling? MS-SQL's clustering is nowhere near as good as Oracle's. On top of that, I find that Oracle's product is much more stable under load. Keep in mind this is coming from someone who absolutely hates Oracle
Sometimes when a corporation gets too big, they start to feel entitled to their income and stop trying to earn it via persuasion. Oracle is one such company. They have been sued multiple times for defrauding the US government and have no problem threatening their own customers if it means making more money this quarter.
Legacy applications. It wasn't that long ago when MySQL didn't handle load very well at all, IBM's enterprise database and Ingress (doesn't really exist now) weren't being marketed at all, and the other competition didn't even exist. Many customers are also sold on the idea that Oracle DB runs best on Oracle's OS, running on Oracle's virtualization system (actually virtualization on anything else can can cause licensing issues regarding Hyper-threading) running on Oracle's hardware.
It is not easy to switch away from Oracle, I man sure it's all SQL, but all of the databases have different quirks and extensions so it can take many months of conversion and years of testing to know if the conversion went well. Now imagine you are a business with some critical app. When things are good, there is no point in spending all of that money to make the conversion, and when things aren't, well it's just faster to buy more licenses so the needed software.
And of course, Oracle knows this and don't even pretend to be nice about it. Their sales department is well tuned towards bleeding revenue from existing clients even if it pisses them off or they have to threaten a lawsuit. I worked at a place before that ended up on the incoming end of an audit that bled us for more money. After the audit, the order came down: NO new Oracle projects. We also had issues where Oracle wouldn't sell us upgrades to our Blade system without the purchase of a support contract with penalties for the years the hardware wasn't covered. (dumped it all when I pointed out that the blades were 10x the price of a 1u rack mount server with the same specs) After both incidents, Oracle sales were shocked that we weren't going to expand any of our Oracle stuff.
The existing customer base all pretty much hates them, and I suspect that if Oracle hadn't gone one step too far and bragged about Amazon, their legacy stuff would have been left running for years longer.
That works, because in each case, they control both ends of the call. SPAM is actually the reason Hangouts dropped it's Jabber interface.
So unless you are advocating that telcos stop taking calls from outside of their direct customer base, I'm not sure what your point is.
You have to keep in mind that Quebec's system is bad for reasons other than socialism. The main problem in Quebec, is that the government keeps driving medical professionals out of the province. Also, the percentage of the Quebec budget is 34.3%, You think Canada is expensive? Canada spends $4753 each year for each person on healtchare. The US spends $9892
Part of the stupidity is offering loans for degrees with little to know job future. In everything else the bank would want to know that it could get it's money back, but student loans are just handed out with no thought whatsoever.
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Setting up an internal Certificate Authority is not that hard.
Keep in mind that Spain is entirely in the wrong timezone It is south of the UK so it should be on the same timezone as the UK but instead it's on Central European time so 10-18 is actually 9-17. Also it's mainly only government offices that take 3h lunch breaks. At least in the Madrid area, the people who actually work for a living mainly get a 1h lunch break.
They were trivial to circumvent because it's a hard problem to solve. I'm always fascinated how plenty of people think they can do better without ever suggesting how they could do better.
Have you forgotten the mass of tech startups that went bankrupt at the time?
So this is less a worry about what my webhosting provider is going to do, and more what my corporate firewalls are going to fail on.
Correct. Webhosting providers have users who spazz on them when anything is slow. Corporate IT just don't have the same motivation. Mind you, I don't doubt for a moment that some corporate websites will also be affected. The number of big name corps with bad firewall configs on their public hosted side is frightening.
Not necessarily. One of the current workarounds is to detect that something failed and disable the extended features. If they stop doing that, then certain requests will simply fail. I can name a few firewall vendors that still don't allow DNS packets large enough to allow EDNS by default.
Nobody writes Java Applets anymore.
Well, except Brocade FCAL switch management interfaces (2 year old hardware) and most net enabled KVMs (brand new). Not even web start, requires applet in both cases
It's far easier to for me to go without Flash since last year, I junked the only NAS device (6 years old) I had that required it.
This is a good step. It's great that browser makers are generally not beholden to people like advertisers for money, so they can make more user-friendly decisions.
I don't know if I missed something there, but that is wrong. How is breaking my add-ons user-friendly. Why are there ads on the newtab page.
This is a good step. It's great that browser makers are generally not beholden to people like advertisers for money, so they can make more user-friendly decisions.
I don't know if I missed something there, but that is wrong.
/How is breaking my add-ons user-friendly.
Mainly because flash hasn't been "run anywhere" for a very long time. If you write your page with flash, it won't run on my Raspberry PI(it never did), my flatmate's iPhone (Apple's choice) or my Android cellphone (Adobe's choice). In fact, Flash took ages to even manage 64 bit CPUs. Web pages should be write once, run anywhere but flash was a major problem in making that happen.
Why are there ads on the newtab page.
You can Turn those off. I did.
This won't do anything to solve that problem since it was always an OS issue. You can just as easily install a keylogger on an approved device.
The difference is that pizzerias aren't a natural monopoly the same ways that ISPs tend to be in small towns.
If you have to chose between a corporate monopoly and a government monopoly, you are better off with the government monopoly since there is less of a motive for them to squeeze their customers for more money than they need to. plus you can vote out the people in charge if they get abusive. When dealing with a corporate monopoly, you have no choice but to keep paying whatever they ask.
It really doesn't need to be either fax or email. Here, my doctor has a 2FA dongle to access his account with the Government of Quebec, yet the pharmacy faxes him prescription update requests and his receptionist faxes his reply. I don't see why they can't have some secure, medical professional only system for sending medical related information.
Security's procedure is to call call 911 immediately and have someone at the door to direct the emergency crew to the correct location. The alternative, is for some employee to call 911, the nurse never hears about it and can't provide first aid, and no one knows what to do with the ambulance that shows up at the door, wasting precious minutes. The building has 3 entrances and a loading dock, security would get the location (building letter, floor number, grid code for the nearest pillar) code for the caller which the 911 system has no way to get from the PBX, or even understand if they had it. If that is illegal in your country, than the law is counterproductive and will get people killed.
Exactly this. I worked in a building for 1300 people and all 911 calls were routed through security since the most appropriate first responded would be the onsite nurse and an ambulance would have no way to find out where in the building the emergency was happening if security didn't direct them.
Faxing is annoying and slow. But it "just works."
Except when faxes get sent to the wrong place or get hacked
Cutting back on H1-Bs and their spouses only moves more jobs offshore.
It was clear to anyone who had half a brain that Trump could never deliver on most of his promises and that many of his promises would have counterproductive results if implemented.
Meanwhile, I live in a country that allows more immigrants than the US, I often find myself in offices full of recent immigrants from India, China and eastern Europe and I still have employers trying to out bid each other to get me on board.
Or they quiet and go work for a less trendy company who doesn't make such insane demands on their time. Working long hours has an adverse affect on code quality. If employees are regularly working more than 40 hour weeks, something is seriously wrong with the management.
Up here, employers are now competing on quality of life rather than just higher paychecks.
The version on Facebook got posted far and wide complete with cheesy music and lame motivational captions. The fact that the drone was causing the mother to panic was literally the first thing I noticed about the video. She looked right at the camera as she knocked the baby bear down the slope.
Lack of scaling? MS-SQL's clustering is nowhere near as good as Oracle's. On top of that, I find that Oracle's product is much more stable under load. Keep in mind this is coming from someone who absolutely hates Oracle
Sometimes when a corporation gets too big, they start to feel entitled to their income and stop trying to earn it via persuasion. Oracle is one such company. They have been sued multiple times for defrauding the US government and have no problem threatening their own customers if it means making more money this quarter.
Having used both Oracle and MS-SQL: Microsoft thinks their product competes with Oracle. It's not anywhere in the same league
Legacy applications. It wasn't that long ago when MySQL didn't handle load very well at all, IBM's enterprise database and Ingress (doesn't really exist now) weren't being marketed at all, and the other competition didn't even exist. Many customers are also sold on the idea that Oracle DB runs best on Oracle's OS, running on Oracle's virtualization system (actually virtualization on anything else can can cause licensing issues regarding Hyper-threading) running on Oracle's hardware.
It is not easy to switch away from Oracle, I man sure it's all SQL, but all of the databases have different quirks and extensions so it can take many months of conversion and years of testing to know if the conversion went well. Now imagine you are a business with some critical app. When things are good, there is no point in spending all of that money to make the conversion, and when things aren't, well it's just faster to buy more licenses so the needed software.
And of course, Oracle knows this and don't even pretend to be nice about it. Their sales department is well tuned towards bleeding revenue from existing clients even if it pisses them off or they have to threaten a lawsuit. I worked at a place before that ended up on the incoming end of an audit that bled us for more money. After the audit, the order came down: NO new Oracle projects. We also had issues where Oracle wouldn't sell us upgrades to our Blade system without the purchase of a support contract with penalties for the years the hardware wasn't covered. (dumped it all when I pointed out that the blades were 10x the price of a 1u rack mount server with the same specs) After both incidents, Oracle sales were shocked that we weren't going to expand any of our Oracle stuff.
The existing customer base all pretty much hates them, and I suspect that if Oracle hadn't gone one step too far and bragged about Amazon, their legacy stuff would have been left running for years longer.
That works, because in each case, they control both ends of the call. SPAM is actually the reason Hangouts dropped it's Jabber interface. So unless you are advocating that telcos stop taking calls from outside of their direct customer base, I'm not sure what your point is.
You have to keep in mind that Quebec's system is bad for reasons other than socialism. The main problem in Quebec, is that the government keeps driving medical professionals out of the province. Also, the percentage of the Quebec budget is 34.3%, You think Canada is expensive? Canada spends $4753 each year for each person on healtchare. The US spends $9892
"No job future." I should really not type while tired.
Part of the stupidity is offering loans for degrees with little to know job future. In everything else the bank would want to know that it could get it's money back, but student loans are just handed out with no thought whatsoever.