WTF? Look around dude, we are a long way from cavemen. For all we know those stupid drawings on cave walls were made by the depressed guy who didn't want to go outside anymore.
Most CEO's (all upper management generally) are complete assholes. You get exceptions but generally those are the CEO's etc. that started their own company. Anyone who "worked" his way up the ladder to a top position did it by backstabbing and being an asshole.
The point being is that you are probably not qualified.
Well the only reason I signed up for Netflix in the first place was because the wife wanted to watch one of their exclusives and I was having trouble finding it in "ahem" unofficial places. Also I live in an area with crappy internet so having a copy on a hard drive is great for when the internet is down.
Exactly! Last night the wife and I ended up starting and stopping more movies / series than actually watching anything. Yeah there is shit there to watch, but it's exactly that SHIT! All the good stuff I have watched already - and I haven't had Netflix for long. At this rate I can see me signing up for NetFlix for about 3 months out of the year, if I'm watching crap because it's something to watch I very quickly start wondering why the fuck I am bothering, and do something else instead.
Bug lists ARE a pain to deal with, enhancements only bit better. The most fun is creating stuffs from scratch, and then having to debug that:-(
Worked at one company where they gave all the new development to juniors and only seniors were allowed to fix the code base, stupid bloody idea, should be the other way around. Suffice to say they have a high staff turnover and code that makes an abortion seem neat and tidy (OK, for all I know abortions are neat and tidy, have no clue).
And make it durable, and keep supporting upgrades regardless of how old the phone gets. I'm tired of buying a phone because the previous one just stopped working, or buying a new phone because stuff no longer runs on it since the OS is out of date. I would buy a phone that would last more than 5 years on that strength alone.
Think about the children seems to be getting swapped for "Think about the terrorists!"
This is such a bad idea, but hey, when it's up and running I wouldn't mind a look in that database, I'm sure just 30 minutes with it and I would have enough blackmail material to retire.
Yeah, been there done that. Rewrote a system that needed a lot of manual intervention (checks and such) because it was so... crap. The look on some of the peoples faces when we were giving a demo, when they realized that their jobs had been fully automated, was really painful. But that's unfortunately a big part of what we do, we automate stuffs, and at the rate of AI growth it's not going to be long before we automate ourselves out of a job, which is like a big ass karma thing I'm sure.
The first computer my parents bought had a 4.7Mhz processor (single core of course) and a whopping 20mb hard drive, display had a max of 4 colours, I forget the resolution. And no it was an 8088, not a zx etc. Compared to that I have a super computer in my pocket, lets not even bother comparing it to my gaming rig at home.
I have mod points, but you are already on five, so I will just comment and say I agree with you. I just shut up when it came to Clinton vs Trump debates. I learnt early on not to voice any support for Trump, regardless of my reasons.
Heck at this point I don't event think I'd be surprised if someone offed him before January.
My thoughts exactly, another grassy knoll.
The powers behind the scenes cannot be happy with this turn of events, hell, all the corporations backing Clinton can't be very happy either.
If I was Trump I would be VERY worried right now.
Big Yawn, yet another flavour of Linux rolled out by people with too much time on their hands.
At least they could have given it a better name..
"Ubuntu Ball Buster!"
"Ubuntu Killing Spree!"
Any fucken thing would have been better than "budgie".
I think the first use should be to put it onto satellites so that they don't need to use fuel to keep themselves in the correct position, then eventually run out of fuel and go into end of life by pushing themselves into a higher orbit to make room for their replacement. Instead they would be able to continue working until a better replacement was needed, then instead of littering upper orbit with useless crap they can be brought out of orbit to burn up in atmosphere.
I don't have an issue with time zones, what I do have an issue with is different date formats. If everyone just used ISO 8601 to write down dates my life would be a LOT easier. Also while I find the America date format annoying I would be happy switching to that as long EVERYONE did it.
Well if they can't be changed then it's also going to be hard to brick them.
I was under the assumption that most of these devices have not had the DEFAULT credentials changed, the ones that the get from the factory and are printing on the box or in the user manual. When the owner realizes he can no longer login and does a factory reset it will go back to the default. Hopefully after a few times he will catch a clue and change the default login.
They don't have to be bricked, just have their logins changed so they are no longer a threat. The problem is that even just doing that is technically hacking and can land you in hot water if/when caught. Bricking them would just land you in more hot water.
Agreed, I know someone who works for a large retail company, they are currently experimenting with automating the loading of the trucks, which would replace all the forklift drivers jobs. The main reason why is because they ALWAYS strike over the busiest time of the year (Christmas) and demand more pay. It costs the company billions to get temporary staff in and to hire more security to protect those workers because the strikes ALWAYS get violent as well. Then there is theft to deal with as well (they call it shrinkage), put all of this together and it's WAY cheaper to simply automate and get rid of the problem (the forklift drivers). Sure some of the stuff probably can't be automated, so they will have a small workforce of drivers left (for the time being anyway) but the vast majority will be losing their jobs. I imagine that is also why the mines are doing it, they will spout stuff about safety (which is true) but I bet the bigger reason is to get rid of the unions and the strikes that come with them.
Although if the robots ever rise up we will be in even more trouble. I wonder if our children's children will be studying about the dark time in human history where we treated the robots as slaves?
The manufacturers don't give a shit, and I bet the people who haven't secured their own devices give even less of a shit as well. They WILL give a shit if their IoT device gets borked however, even if the intention was altruistic the legal response will put you in jail. I don't feel like doing time to stop Krebs, or Trump or Hillary or anyone else from getting DDOS'd. But hey, it's a good idea, go for it.
You mean no one who actually worked on the Y2K issue will be alive, and everyone will just think it was media hype.
I worked for a major bank at the time, we had to work night shifts towards the end for testing, we started making changes about 4 years before Y2K, millions was spent on contractors, people came out of fucking retirement to work on Y2K. But ask anyone who wasn't involved (even other programmers) and they all think it was much ado about nothing.
I think a lot of people are not really aware of how much data banks are sending back to their collective reserve banks and from there on to the UN for "risk" assessment, ie. trying to track down funding of terrorists and other illegal activity (drugs, smuggling etc). Risk and compliance are a big pain in the ass for lots of banks, there are a few systems which try to handle the pain for them, but each has to tailored to fit the bank, which takes time, so most of the current systems in place are home grown. Also to NOT be compliant involves HUGE fines, so some of these systems are literally thrown together just to meet the deadlines. If IBM comes up with a better way of doing it then I am all for it.
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WTF? Look around dude, we are a long way from cavemen. For all we know those stupid drawings on cave walls were made by the depressed guy who didn't want to go outside anymore.
Most CEO's (all upper management generally) are complete assholes. You get exceptions but generally those are the CEO's etc. that started their own company. Anyone who "worked" his way up the ladder to a top position did it by backstabbing and being an asshole.
The point being is that you are probably not qualified.
Which is an option you can choose as well, AND they don't keep a copy of your key, so they definitely cannot access it.
Well the only reason I signed up for Netflix in the first place was because the wife wanted to watch one of their exclusives and I was having trouble finding it in "ahem" unofficial places. Also I live in an area with crappy internet so having a copy on a hard drive is great for when the internet is down.
Exactly! Last night the wife and I ended up starting and stopping more movies / series than actually watching anything. Yeah there is shit there to watch, but it's exactly that SHIT! All the good stuff I have watched already - and I haven't had Netflix for long. At this rate I can see me signing up for NetFlix for about 3 months out of the year, if I'm watching crap because it's something to watch I very quickly start wondering why the fuck I am bothering, and do something else instead.
Bug lists ARE a pain to deal with, enhancements only bit better. The most fun is creating stuffs from scratch, and then having to debug that :-(
Worked at one company where they gave all the new development to juniors and only seniors were allowed to fix the code base, stupid bloody idea, should be the other way around. Suffice to say they have a high staff turnover and code that makes an abortion seem neat and tidy (OK, for all I know abortions are neat and tidy, have no clue).
And make it durable, and keep supporting upgrades regardless of how old the phone gets. I'm tired of buying a phone because the previous one just stopped working, or buying a new phone because stuff no longer runs on it since the OS is out of date. I would buy a phone that would last more than 5 years on that strength alone.
Think about the children seems to be getting swapped for "Think about the terrorists!"
This is such a bad idea, but hey, when it's up and running I wouldn't mind a look in that database, I'm sure just 30 minutes with it and I would have enough blackmail material to retire.
Valid point, but why drag this out into the light now? They were young, they bumped uglies, there is nothing to see here, move along.
Yeah, been there done that. Rewrote a system that needed a lot of manual intervention (checks and such) because it was so... crap. The look on some of the peoples faces when we were giving a demo, when they realized that their jobs had been fully automated, was really painful. But that's unfortunately a big part of what we do, we automate stuffs, and at the rate of AI growth it's not going to be long before we automate ourselves out of a job, which is like a big ass karma thing I'm sure.
The first computer my parents bought had a 4.7Mhz processor (single core of course) and a whopping 20mb hard drive, display had a max of 4 colours, I forget the resolution. And no it was an 8088, not a zx etc.
Compared to that I have a super computer in my pocket, lets not even bother comparing it to my gaming rig at home.
So... Russia's privacy laws are exactly the same as America's then.
Good to know
"it's been 40 years" and I need the money, so to get people to buy the book I am dragging out all my dirty laundry.
I have mod points, but you are already on five, so I will just comment and say I agree with you. I just shut up when it came to Clinton vs Trump debates. I learnt early on not to voice any support for Trump, regardless of my reasons.
My thoughts exactly, another grassy knoll.
The powers behind the scenes cannot be happy with this turn of events, hell, all the corporations backing Clinton can't be very happy either.
If I was Trump I would be VERY worried right now.
Big Yawn, yet another flavour of Linux rolled out by people with too much time on their hands.
At least they could have given it a better name..
"Ubuntu Ball Buster!"
"Ubuntu Killing Spree!"
Any fucken thing would have been better than "budgie".
I think the first use should be to put it onto satellites so that they don't need to use fuel to keep themselves in the correct position, then eventually run out of fuel and go into end of life by pushing themselves into a higher orbit to make room for their replacement. Instead they would be able to continue working until a better replacement was needed, then instead of littering upper orbit with useless crap they can be brought out of orbit to burn up in atmosphere.
I don't have an issue with time zones, what I do have an issue with is different date formats. If everyone just used ISO 8601 to write down dates my life would be a LOT easier. Also while I find the America date format annoying I would be happy switching to that as long EVERYONE did it.
Well if they can't be changed then it's also going to be hard to brick them.
I was under the assumption that most of these devices have not had the DEFAULT credentials changed, the ones that the get from the factory and are printing on the box or in the user manual. When the owner realizes he can no longer login and does a factory reset it will go back to the default. Hopefully after a few times he will catch a clue and change the default login.
They don't have to be bricked, just have their logins changed so they are no longer a threat. The problem is that even just doing that is technically hacking and can land you in hot water if/when caught. Bricking them would just land you in more hot water.
Agreed, I know someone who works for a large retail company, they are currently experimenting with automating the loading of the trucks, which would replace all the forklift drivers jobs. The main reason why is because they ALWAYS strike over the busiest time of the year (Christmas) and demand more pay. It costs the company billions to get temporary staff in and to hire more security to protect those workers because the strikes ALWAYS get violent as well. Then there is theft to deal with as well (they call it shrinkage), put all of this together and it's WAY cheaper to simply automate and get rid of the problem (the forklift drivers). Sure some of the stuff probably can't be automated, so they will have a small workforce of drivers left (for the time being anyway) but the vast majority will be losing their jobs. I imagine that is also why the mines are doing it, they will spout stuff about safety (which is true) but I bet the bigger reason is to get rid of the unions and the strikes that come with them.
Although if the robots ever rise up we will be in even more trouble.
I wonder if our children's children will be studying about the dark time in human history where we treated the robots as slaves?
Most American series end up being drama's, regardless of their intended genre, fvcken annoying.
The manufacturers don't give a shit, and I bet the people who haven't secured their own devices give even less of a shit as well. They WILL give a shit if their IoT device gets borked however, even if the intention was altruistic the legal response will put you in jail. I don't feel like doing time to stop Krebs, or Trump or Hillary or anyone else from getting DDOS'd. But hey, it's a good idea, go for it.
You mean no one who actually worked on the Y2K issue will be alive, and everyone will just think it was media hype.
I worked for a major bank at the time, we had to work night shifts towards the end for testing, we started making changes about 4 years before Y2K, millions was spent on contractors, people came out of fucking retirement to work on Y2K. But ask anyone who wasn't involved (even other programmers) and they all think it was much ado about nothing.
I think a lot of people are not really aware of how much data banks are sending back to their collective reserve banks and from there on to the UN for "risk" assessment, ie. trying to track down funding of terrorists and other illegal activity (drugs, smuggling etc). Risk and compliance are a big pain in the ass for lots of banks, there are a few systems which try to handle the pain for them, but each has to tailored to fit the bank, which takes time, so most of the current systems in place are home grown. Also to NOT be compliant involves HUGE fines, so some of these systems are literally thrown together just to meet the deadlines. If IBM comes up with a better way of doing it then I am all for it.