Who knows? Maybe the costs of dealing with this fiasco will be cheaper than having a backup system . . . ?
By the time the Bean Counters get done? Depend on it. The books aren't going to show the future revenue lost because people swore off Delta in disgust and anyone who depends on surveys to obtain intangible data is going to get what they deserve. Even allowing for the fact that many people don't want to waste time on a survey to begin with, you can't survey people who thought "Delta? Those screwups?" and never even considered the company. Well you can, if you're into blanket surveys, but those are worth even less than the customer surveys.
And yes, if you detect an anti-survey bias there, you're right. To me, surveys are what you do when you're too out of touch to actually watch and listen to customers (Strike One), put blinders on your perceptions by virtue of only asking the questions your bean-counters think are worth asking (Strike 2), and are often only answered when the querent is either A) pissed, B) a "professional" survey answerer (limited, atypical population) or C) couldn't get away fast enough without actually gnawing off body parts (Strike 3).
So the drop in revenue over the long haul will be blamed on something more measurable and bonuses to the real offenders will continue unabated.
Personally, I count "quite lax security on their hashed and salted password file" as one of the bigger issues.
Unix-like systems moved passwords from the publicly-readable/etc/passwd file to a more secure shadow password file ages ago. If you're running even a moderately-sized enterprise, you won't have the bulk of your passwords (if any), in a password file at all - you'll have a security service such as LDAP authentication. In which case, to steal the password database you have to have the ability - directly or indirectly - to plunder the database server. Which, again, I count as a "bigger issue".
In a well-managed shop, passwords don't lie around loose for the plucking. In fact, well-written security systems don't even fetch passwords from the security service, thereby leaving them in RAM. Instead, they send a query to the security server in the form "Is this userid/password" combination valid? and get back a yes/no answer. At which point they overwrite the memory that contained the credentials being queried. Failure to do things like this is in fact one of the most common faults found in Do-It-Yourself security systems written by the local genius.
Good point. I was thinking about what good password changing does for the user. If the corporate password database has been hijacked, that's obviously different - assuming that the hijackers can't crack it fast enough.
Of course, if someone could get in far enough to hijack the password database, then you've got bigger security issues than just those pertaining to a single account anyway.
You have one and only one password. Either the enemy knows it, and all doors are open, or he doesn't.
Whether the password changes or not - or how frequently - is immaterial. If the password is known, then you are already pwned.
Changing the password after someone has already gotten in is almost literally like locking the barn after the horse was stolen - except that in the case of passwords, you could be locking the barn with bandits already inside ready to break security all over again.
You efforts are much more profitably employed in protecting your passwords to begin with.
No, it was horrible even at the time. My friends and I all mocked the CGI segments.
Every time it switched from the live action parts to the CGI stuff was jarring because it looked so unrealistic and out of place. The end result is I would get immersed in the story and then one of the space scenes would pop up and ruin the illusion.
On original (NTSC) or on DVD (digital)? The Video Toaster systems were advanced for the day, but they output broadcast-quality video. When the DVDs were mastered, I believe that the original data was lost and it wasn't possible to re-generate the CGI to the higher video quality that DVDs offer.
Hell, sometimes the ads are more entertaining that the main event. Just don't overdo it.
Putting out legal torrents with ads would actually be better than putting ads on DVDs. DVD ads go stale and worthless. Torrent ads can be kept up to date and adjusted for maximum marketing effect.
Remember, kids, Science is Lies straight from the Pit of Hell!
Real Americans don't mess around with chemicals or electronics, that's what outsourcing to Communist China is for! REAL Americans only mess around with guns. That's 'cause we've got FREEDOM!
So kids, if you See Something, Say Something! Report it immediately to the Department of Fatherland Security. Even if it's you're own parents! We'll arrest those damn Liberal Terrorists and give you a nice shiny medal!
Actually, Perrier has a bottling plant in ZephyrHills, Florida. The water bubbles up from fresh natural springs fed by the self-same aquifer that's fed from these newly-exempted water sources.
This same spring feeds the Hillsborough River, which serves as a primary water supply for Tampa. So if you live in the Big Cigar you could be paying premium prices for the same stuff that comes out of your tap.
Integral Calculus isn't "tangible", but the human brain can store information about it in tangible constructs. Likewise, my bank balance. But the storage isn't the actuality, and the bank account information in my brain is no more the actual account than the bank account information on my hard drive is, even though that is likewise represented in tangible and measurable form.
I don't posit self-aware Quantum mechanics and I have no idea how you drew such a wild conclusion, You seem to take a delight with confusing the levers with the driver.
And how, pray tell can a neural network "see" what's at the controls of a bulldozer if the driver no more visible to man or computer than cosmic rays were to the Babylonians? On top of which you seem to be assuming that we have neural networks that can accurately conduct a Turing Test. As I recall, the original test specifically required a human as the test instrument/reference.
The electro-chemical signals flowing through the complex network of your brain are quite tangible. You can track them with physical probes, you can track them with radiation scanners, you can track them with passive external monitors.
"Spiritual" could be one theory, but why be so limited in your philosophy, Horatio? We have perfectly respectable scientists arguing for rolled-up micro-dimensions. We have quantum mechanics doing spooky things - and just maybe doing them at a macro scale in biological systems if a recent article I read is on the right track.
One thing I've learned about science is that it's never "done". We get finer and finer approximations until it all seems to boil into fuzz. Then we try something different and maybe learn something new.
If my world-view was all metal and lubricants, would I see the human in the seat of the bulldozer? Or be able to tell it from a ghost? A computer? An orang-utan?
That's probably been true since the end of the days when science was conducted primarily by the nobility, wealthy idle businessmen and others who didn't have to "work for a living" doing science. Or worse, show "results" in time for Quarterly Earnings or the next scholastic year.
Then again, some would have applied the term "sciency" to Germ Theory, DNA, and other applecart-turners until enough data came in to take a wild idea and make it serious.
I think your spell-checker got you. It was Southern Pacific Rail Internal Network Telecommunications. I'm fairly sure that they were running as a long-distance carrier before the Internet became a big thing, and even today they're known as a phone service, not as an Internet service (they left that part to Clear, mostly).
WiPro still has its before-tech name, though. Sprint started out as the Brown Telephone company, and telephony is still a core business for them.
I'm not a retail expert, but I though the loss rate for theft and damage typically ran about 10% anyway.
It's just that certain people think they aren't rich enough yet, and they're willing to drive away paying customers while they try to drive that number down to zero.
It gets better. I "bought" a book through Google Play. All that actually downloaded was a 150-byte decryption key. The book itself only downloads to their Play reader and for all I know, only the parts you are actively reading at the moment.
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Who knows? Maybe the costs of dealing with this fiasco will be cheaper than having a backup system . . . ?
By the time the Bean Counters get done? Depend on it. The books aren't going to show the future revenue lost because people swore off Delta in disgust and anyone who depends on surveys to obtain intangible data is going to get what they deserve. Even allowing for the fact that many people don't want to waste time on a survey to begin with, you can't survey people who thought "Delta? Those screwups?" and never even considered the company. Well you can, if you're into blanket surveys, but those are worth even less than the customer surveys.
And yes, if you detect an anti-survey bias there, you're right. To me, surveys are what you do when you're too out of touch to actually watch and listen to customers (Strike One), put blinders on your perceptions by virtue of only asking the questions your bean-counters think are worth asking (Strike 2), and are often only answered when the querent is either A) pissed, B) a "professional" survey answerer (limited, atypical population) or C) couldn't get away fast enough without actually gnawing off body parts (Strike 3).
So the drop in revenue over the long haul will be blamed on something more measurable and bonuses to the real offenders will continue unabated.
Personally, I count "quite lax security on their hashed and salted password file" as one of the bigger issues.
Unix-like systems moved passwords from the publicly-readable /etc/passwd file to a more secure shadow password file ages ago. If you're running even a moderately-sized enterprise, you won't have the bulk of your passwords (if any), in a password file at all - you'll have a security service such as LDAP authentication. In which case, to steal the password database you have to have the ability - directly or indirectly - to plunder the database server. Which, again, I count as a "bigger issue".
In a well-managed shop, passwords don't lie around loose for the plucking. In fact, well-written security systems don't even fetch passwords from the security service, thereby leaving them in RAM. Instead, they send a query to the security server in the form "Is this userid/password" combination valid? and get back a yes/no answer. At which point they overwrite the memory that contained the credentials being queried. Failure to do things like this is in fact one of the most common faults found in Do-It-Yourself security systems written by the local genius.
Good point. I was thinking about what good password changing does for the user. If the corporate password database has been hijacked, that's obviously different - assuming that the hijackers can't crack it fast enough.
Of course, if someone could get in far enough to hijack the password database, then you've got bigger security issues than just those pertaining to a single account anyway.
You have one and only one password. Either the enemy knows it, and all doors are open, or he doesn't.
Whether the password changes or not - or how frequently - is immaterial. If the password is known, then you are already pwned.
Changing the password after someone has already gotten in is almost literally like locking the barn after the horse was stolen - except that in the case of passwords, you could be locking the barn with bandits already inside ready to break security all over again.
You efforts are much more profitably employed in protecting your passwords to begin with.
Game of Thrones in space is something that could potentially get a huge audience and would definitely be welcomed by all.
God no. Bad enough with JRRM chronicling the lives of everyone on one planet, let alone a galaxy full of them!
No, it was horrible even at the time. My friends and I all mocked the CGI segments.
Every time it switched from the live action parts to the CGI stuff was jarring because it looked so unrealistic and out of place. The end result is I would get immersed in the story and then one of the space scenes would pop up and ruin the illusion.
On original (NTSC) or on DVD (digital)? The Video Toaster systems were advanced for the day, but they output broadcast-quality video. When the DVDs were mastered, I believe that the original data was lost and it wasn't possible to re-generate the CGI to the higher video quality that DVDs offer.
Hell, sometimes the ads are more entertaining that the main event. Just don't overdo it.
Putting out legal torrents with ads would actually be better than putting ads on DVDs. DVD ads go stale and worthless. Torrent ads can be kept up to date and adjusted for maximum marketing effect.
Remember, kids, Science is Lies straight from the Pit of Hell!
Real Americans don't mess around with chemicals or electronics, that's what outsourcing to Communist China is for! REAL Americans only mess around with guns. That's 'cause we've got FREEDOM!
So kids, if you See Something, Say Something! Report it immediately to the Department of Fatherland Security. Even if it's you're own parents! We'll arrest those damn Liberal Terrorists and give you a nice shiny medal!
I spray Round-up on all my food. Don't you?
Bottled water is not as safe as you think it is.
Actually, Perrier has a bottling plant in ZephyrHills, Florida. The water bubbles up from fresh natural springs fed by the self-same aquifer that's fed from these newly-exempted water sources.
This same spring feeds the Hillsborough River, which serves as a primary water supply for Tampa. So if you live in the Big Cigar you could be paying premium prices for the same stuff that comes out of your tap.
Integral Calculus isn't "tangible", but the human brain can store information about it in tangible constructs. Likewise, my bank balance. But the storage isn't the actuality, and the bank account information in my brain is no more the actual account than the bank account information on my hard drive is, even though that is likewise represented in tangible and measurable form.
I don't posit self-aware Quantum mechanics and I have no idea how you drew such a wild conclusion, You seem to take a delight with confusing the levers with the driver.
And how, pray tell can a neural network "see" what's at the controls of a bulldozer if the driver no more visible to man or computer than cosmic rays were to the Babylonians? On top of which you seem to be assuming that we have neural networks that can accurately conduct a Turing Test. As I recall, the original test specifically required a human as the test instrument/reference.
You exist because your cells want you to exist and consciousness is just a byproduct of that collective, the collective of cells.
Or, consciousness finds it convenient to control a vehicle that has self-preservative characteristics.
The cells of even primitive life-forms "want to exist", but that doesn't mean that they have consciousness.
The electro-chemical signals flowing through the complex network of your brain are quite tangible. You can track them with physical probes, you can track them with radiation scanners, you can track them with passive external monitors.
"Spiritual" could be one theory, but why be so limited in your philosophy, Horatio? We have perfectly respectable scientists arguing for rolled-up micro-dimensions. We have quantum mechanics doing spooky things - and just maybe doing them at a macro scale in biological systems if a recent article I read is on the right track.
One thing I've learned about science is that it's never "done". We get finer and finer approximations until it all seems to boil into fuzz. Then we try something different and maybe learn something new.
If my world-view was all metal and lubricants, would I see the human in the seat of the bulldozer? Or be able to tell it from a ghost? A computer? An orang-utan?
Since everything we do is driven by our brain...
Is it? Or is the brain just the engine that something less tangible uses?
The science isn't in yet.
That's probably been true since the end of the days when science was conducted primarily by the nobility, wealthy idle businessmen and others who didn't have to "work for a living" doing science. Or worse, show "results" in time for Quarterly Earnings or the next scholastic year.
Then again, some would have applied the term "sciency" to Germ Theory, DNA, and other applecart-turners until enough data came in to take a wild idea and make it serious.
"The Library of Congress announced via Twitter ..."
I think your spell-checker got you. It was Southern Pacific Rail Internal Network Telecommunications. I'm fairly sure that they were running as a long-distance carrier before the Internet became a big thing, and even today they're known as a phone service, not as an Internet service (they left that part to Clear, mostly).
WiPro still has its before-tech name, though. Sprint started out as the Brown Telephone company, and telephony is still a core business for them.
Does this mean we have to go back to learning Prolog?
Could be worse, they could have been bought out by a Chinese chicken-supplier.
Fun Fact: WiPro, the famous Indian software outsourcer, gets its name from its origins: The West India Produce Company.
I'm not a retail expert, but I though the loss rate for theft and damage typically ran about 10% anyway.
It's just that certain people think they aren't rich enough yet, and they're willing to drive away paying customers while they try to drive that number down to zero.
No, idiots tip them on top of themselves trying to nudge the candy bar out.
Buzz saw attachments are for the ones that upgrade humans. The Exterminate units make di with plungers and eggbeaters.
You can buy our robots in any color you like, so long as it's white.
Eat your heart out, Henry Ford!
Hell, a frickin' Roomba can tell when it bumps into something.
It gets better. I "bought" a book through Google Play. All that actually downloaded was a 150-byte decryption key. The book itself only downloads to their Play reader and for all I know, only the parts you are actively reading at the moment.
"Own it" indeed.