Yea...And you use, what? Traditional waterfall? Make-it-up-as-you-go?
Yes, the people trying to SELL you Agile are full of shit, and NO, it won't fix your problems. It IS a useful way to look at things, if you apply it like a human being with brains instead of a procedure monkey.
I'm gonna give you the hotdesking one - I can't envision where that isn't a completely pain in the ass.
believing that there isn't SOMETHING going on. I really have trouble believing that they had several hundred under-performing employees, and that they chose to get rid of them all at the same time.
If it were true, it would mean that management is incompetent and should get on the way out as well - because if you let hundreds of folks who aren't up to the task hang around till performance appraisal time, then you suck at management.
So, are they lying about why these folks got the ax? Or are they stupid and should have fired them all long ago?
Yea, $7.1 mil IS small for them. Which means that contract wasn't about that contract, but rather about getting a foot in the door for more work in the future. So while the loss of that contract is almost irrelevant, the near-future potential that goes with it is probably quite a bit more.
Because the overall speed of using the device declines as the device ages?
I honestly doubt that Apple would deliberately slow down an older device. On the other hand, there's no real reason to worry about performance of older devices anymore - Apple already has your money. And the people who really like the Apple ecosystem aren't going to ditch it for an Android - they'll buy a new Apple device instead.
So while I don't buy into any conspiracy, I DO think that Apple engineering doesn't give a fuck about anything but the latest devices.
I'd love to know what Google is actually changing, but the article doesn't really say - I've been using a physical security key for my google account logins for a while now. Though the 'limiting apps that can connect' is certainly a good thing, I can't figure out what they are actually changing otherwise.
Does this involve being able to force accounts to use a security key? What's really going on here?
From what we can see from outside, the NSA firmly believes it's the smartest one in the room, and that no one else can possibly figure out a backdoor it's put in place. They really believe in the 'NOBUS' (NObody But US) theory about certain things.
Couple that with a dual-mission agency (protect 'our' communications, break everyone else's) and you have a recipe for arrogance and disaster.
AKA: Code execution results in code execution. Raymond has a whole series of these things: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20070807-00/?p=25683
Once you're able to run arbitrary programs as admin on a Windows box, the box is lost. Which particular set of arbitrary weirdness you choose to do to crash, compromise, or exfiltrate the data is pretty much irrelevant.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automated_convenience_store Basically: big-ass vending machine. From what I've read in the past, they usually have remote camera operators keeping an eye on things. One of the nice things is that you can get plenty of cold stuff like a gallon of milk or whatever quite easily.
I love how these guys can get money for inventing a vending machine that works via camera, rather than pushing buttons to select products. How the heck are they going to deal with the inevitable failures of the machine? It's gonna screw up now and then for lots of reasons, and then what? What if I get home and find out it overcharged me? What if someone runs up behind me while I've got it open and grabs items and runs off?
Seriously, there might be a place for this tech, but these guys are making way too much out of it.
Not that it's an excuse, but in what universe is it OK to have internet-connected data repositories that don't have a password? When is that EVER a good idea? Why can you even create a bucket without some kind of authorization on it? That's just kinda stupid.
And yea, TigerSwan: You were freaking responsible for the data. You might not directly employ the guy who screwed up, but your contractors are YOUR problem. The fact that you obviously DIDN'T control your contractors properly indicates that you probably aren't the right guys for the job.
I think if it was a scam, he wouldn't have spent so much money on engineering and product - I think this is real, honest-to-gods stupid coming out to play with other people's money.
Yup. I've got one (it was the best in my price range for other features), and the 'smart' bits have never worked correctly - the thing takes 2-3 minutes to figure out it's internet connection when it starts up (judging by the internet, this is 'normal' for this model). Even if I WANTED to use the smart features, it's incomparably shitty at it. Had I bought it for the smart features, I'm pretty sure it would have ended back at the store it came from, if not shoved up the ass of the person who sold it to me.
As it is, it's disconnected from the internet and serving it's primary function as a front to the DVR and XBox.
Add to that the fact that you can go to any dealer and get a key with the same code (which means the on-board software has no idea that it is different) for something like a few hundred dollars, and there is a bit of a fishy smell about this story.
Are you sure this is true? I was under the impression that this was NOT possible. You CAN got to a dealer and get new keys - they just have to register them with the on-board computer. Which presumably they were unable to do in this case because they had NO valid keys? That seems odd to me too - you'd think a dealer could just reset the computer to zero and enroll some new keys.
Also, the summary text is far more confusing than the actual article text. The fear of recharge related failure came from the mechanic recommending against letting a hacker at the thing due to fear that hacking it would screw up the computer as a side effect, not because the key was somehow vital.
Terrible summary. And probably some stupid going on somewhere in the chain of events - I really don't believe a dealer couldn't have dealt with this somehow.
I just looked at the data from the printer at my office. Small company (~15 right now), and our test results and much of our documentation are printed out so they can be stored forever in a filing cabinet (medical device). Among our printers, it comes to something shy of 5 pages/person/day average, which is about 1825 pages/year.
But Xerox doesn't just do relatively small stuff like that. Think of a financial planner, printing out 400 page reports several times per year for each of their clients. Is that shit useful? Absolutely not. But it's pages printed.
Or think of someplace that still sends paper bills- I know I get a paper bill every month from my utility company. At Nthousand customers, they can REALLY push up the average if they are running Xerox gear for that operation.
So yea, you and I don't print anything like that. But then someone else pushes way up on the average.
Actually, and especially with CloudFlare, I don't think anyone has much of a leg to stand on to take them on. First amendment is a thing that limits the government, not business - they are free to do business (or not) with whoever they choose.
Whether it's a good idea or not, is a separate thing.
Because I'd kind of like them to stop helping DDOS providers.
Assuming this statement is true, why would they do that? It would cut off a source of business given they provide "protection".
I'm referencing Krebs on Security on that one - he's pointed out several times that CloudFlare does in fact seem to have a protection racket running there. That's why I'm curious whether they've turned over a new leaf (perhaps not EVERYONE should be our customer), or whether this is a one-off.
You are almost certainly correct on why they do it, of course.
http://variety.com/2017/film/news/amc-moviepass-1202528974/ Looks like AMC does NOT want to play at ALL. From what I could tell, AMC is trying to figure out how to not deal with MoviePass at all, presumably because they want it to fail horribly before MoviePass gets consumers used to the idea of cheap movies.
Has Cloudflare released a statement on this? Because...this is at odds with their previous behavior, and I want to know if it's just a one-off 'if you beat us hard enough, we'll do things' or if they've actually changed their mind. Because I'd kind of like them to stop helping DDOS providers.
I'm with you on planes, not so much on cars. With a car 'just stop here' is almost always a safe failure mode, and a significant percentage of the drivers out there are complete morons who have no business walking around unaided, let alone piloting a full ton of fiberglass and sheet metal.
I'm of the opinion we would do MUCH better with driverless cars because so many drivers are so damn bad that even with the inevitable failures of the AI, we'd kill far less people on the roads than we do now.
There's no way they don't ship it at this point, but given that the current plan is to make it available via their Streaming service, I bet when it tanks they blame streaming instead of the show.
That corporations would do the most economically sensible thing, given the conditions at hand.
In other words: Duh. Now that we have the evidence, can we PLEASE do something about this?
I have serious problems with a visa that's designed for the worker to have to go home again later (I know that a fair number of H1B holders do convert to green card holders, but that's deliberately NOT the point of an H1B).
H1B should be a fairly rare thing - if the US is so short of workers that you have to go oversees, then we should be giving out green cards and encouraging citizenship, not paying crap wages, depressing pay scales for US workers, and then sending them home.
Take the number of H1B visas issued, and put that number into the green card program instead. I want people who are going to stay and be my neighbor, not temps from oversees!
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Yea...And you use, what? Traditional waterfall? Make-it-up-as-you-go?
Yes, the people trying to SELL you Agile are full of shit, and NO, it won't fix your problems. It IS a useful way to look at things, if you apply it like a human being with brains instead of a procedure monkey.
I'm gonna give you the hotdesking one - I can't envision where that isn't a completely pain in the ass.
Is that all that is? I have long been struggling to figure out what the heck that trendilicious phrase meant. Thank you.
Ohh. If noise is a problem, we could use this to get offices.
believing that there isn't SOMETHING going on. I really have trouble believing that they had several hundred under-performing employees, and that they chose to get rid of them all at the same time.
If it were true, it would mean that management is incompetent and should get on the way out as well - because if you let hundreds of folks who aren't up to the task hang around till performance appraisal time, then you suck at management.
So, are they lying about why these folks got the ax? Or are they stupid and should have fired them all long ago?
Yea, $7.1 mil IS small for them. Which means that contract wasn't about that contract, but rather about getting a foot in the door for more work in the future. So while the loss of that contract is almost irrelevant, the near-future potential that goes with it is probably quite a bit more.
Could be they've taken stuff down to prevent any more embarrassment for the moment.
Because the overall speed of using the device declines as the device ages?
I honestly doubt that Apple would deliberately slow down an older device. On the other hand, there's no real reason to worry about performance of older devices anymore - Apple already has your money. And the people who really like the Apple ecosystem aren't going to ditch it for an Android - they'll buy a new Apple device instead.
So while I don't buy into any conspiracy, I DO think that Apple engineering doesn't give a fuck about anything but the latest devices.
I'd love to know what Google is actually changing, but the article doesn't really say - I've been using a physical security key for my google account logins for a while now. Though the 'limiting apps that can connect' is certainly a good thing, I can't figure out what they are actually changing otherwise.
Does this involve being able to force accounts to use a security key? What's really going on here?
From what we can see from outside, the NSA firmly believes it's the smartest one in the room, and that no one else can possibly figure out a backdoor it's put in place. They really believe in the 'NOBUS' (NObody But US) theory about certain things.
Couple that with a dual-mission agency (protect 'our' communications, break everyone else's) and you have a recipe for arrogance and disaster.
AKA: Code execution results in code execution.
Raymond has a whole series of these things:
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20070807-00/?p=25683
Once you're able to run arbitrary programs as admin on a Windows box, the box is lost. Which particular set of arbitrary weirdness you choose to do to crash, compromise, or exfiltrate the data is pretty much irrelevant.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automated_convenience_store Basically: big-ass vending machine. From what I've read in the past, they usually have remote camera operators keeping an eye on things. One of the nice things is that you can get plenty of cold stuff like a gallon of milk or whatever quite easily.
I love how these guys can get money for inventing a vending machine that works via camera, rather than pushing buttons to select products. How the heck are they going to deal with the inevitable failures of the machine? It's gonna screw up now and then for lots of reasons, and then what? What if I get home and find out it overcharged me? What if someone runs up behind me while I've got it open and grabs items and runs off?
Seriously, there might be a place for this tech, but these guys are making way too much out of it.
Not that it's an excuse, but in what universe is it OK to have internet-connected data repositories that don't have a password? When is that EVER a good idea? Why can you even create a bucket without some kind of authorization on it? That's just kinda stupid.
And yea, TigerSwan: You were freaking responsible for the data. You might not directly employ the guy who screwed up, but your contractors are YOUR problem. The fact that you obviously DIDN'T control your contractors properly indicates that you probably aren't the right guys for the job.
I think if it was a scam, he wouldn't have spent so much money on engineering and product - I think this is real, honest-to-gods stupid coming out to play with other people's money.
Way to go guys. Every time a troll gets his ass whooped, it's good for the rest of us.
Thanks!
Yup. I've got one (it was the best in my price range for other features), and the 'smart' bits have never worked correctly - the thing takes 2-3 minutes to figure out it's internet connection when it starts up (judging by the internet, this is 'normal' for this model). Even if I WANTED to use the smart features, it's incomparably shitty at it. Had I bought it for the smart features, I'm pretty sure it would have ended back at the store it came from, if not shoved up the ass of the person who sold it to me.
As it is, it's disconnected from the internet and serving it's primary function as a front to the DVR and XBox.
Add to that the fact that you can go to any dealer and get a key with the same code (which means the on-board software has no idea that it is different) for something like a few hundred dollars, and there is a bit of a fishy smell about this story.
Are you sure this is true? I was under the impression that this was NOT possible. You CAN got to a dealer and get new keys - they just have to register them with the on-board computer. Which presumably they were unable to do in this case because they had NO valid keys? That seems odd to me too - you'd think a dealer could just reset the computer to zero and enroll some new keys.
Also, the summary text is far more confusing than the actual article text. The fear of recharge related failure came from the mechanic recommending against letting a hacker at the thing due to fear that hacking it would screw up the computer as a side effect, not because the key was somehow vital.
Terrible summary. And probably some stupid going on somewhere in the chain of events - I really don't believe a dealer couldn't have dealt with this somehow.
I just looked at the data from the printer at my office. Small company (~15 right now), and our test results and much of our documentation are printed out so they can be stored forever in a filing cabinet (medical device). Among our printers, it comes to something shy of 5 pages/person/day average, which is about 1825 pages/year.
But Xerox doesn't just do relatively small stuff like that. Think of a financial planner, printing out 400 page reports several times per year for each of their clients. Is that shit useful? Absolutely not. But it's pages printed.
Or think of someplace that still sends paper bills- I know I get a paper bill every month from my utility company. At Nthousand customers, they can REALLY push up the average if they are running Xerox gear for that operation.
So yea, you and I don't print anything like that. But then someone else pushes way up on the average.
Actually, and especially with CloudFlare, I don't think anyone has much of a leg to stand on to take them on. First amendment is a thing that limits the government, not business - they are free to do business (or not) with whoever they choose.
Whether it's a good idea or not, is a separate thing.
Because I'd kind of like them to stop helping DDOS providers.
Assuming this statement is true, why would they do that? It would cut off a source of business given they provide "protection".
I'm referencing Krebs on Security on that one - he's pointed out several times that CloudFlare does in fact seem to have a protection racket running there. That's why I'm curious whether they've turned over a new leaf (perhaps not EVERYONE should be our customer), or whether this is a one-off.
You are almost certainly correct on why they do it, of course.
http://variety.com/2017/film/news/amc-moviepass-1202528974/
Looks like AMC does NOT want to play at ALL. From what I could tell, AMC is trying to figure out how to not deal with MoviePass at all, presumably because they want it to fail horribly before MoviePass gets consumers used to the idea of cheap movies.
Has Cloudflare released a statement on this? Because...this is at odds with their previous behavior, and I want to know if it's just a one-off 'if you beat us hard enough, we'll do things' or if they've actually changed their mind. Because I'd kind of like them to stop helping DDOS providers.
I'm with you on planes, not so much on cars. With a car 'just stop here' is almost always a safe failure mode, and a significant percentage of the drivers out there are complete morons who have no business walking around unaided, let alone piloting a full ton of fiberglass and sheet metal.
I'm of the opinion we would do MUCH better with driverless cars because so many drivers are so damn bad that even with the inevitable failures of the AI, we'd kill far less people on the roads than we do now.
There's no way they don't ship it at this point, but given that the current plan is to make it available via their Streaming service, I bet when it tanks they blame streaming instead of the show.
We'll see, but I'm not hopeful.
That corporations would do the most economically sensible thing, given the conditions at hand.
In other words: Duh. Now that we have the evidence, can we PLEASE do something about this?
I have serious problems with a visa that's designed for the worker to have to go home again later (I know that a fair number of H1B holders do convert to green card holders, but that's deliberately NOT the point of an H1B).
H1B should be a fairly rare thing - if the US is so short of workers that you have to go oversees, then we should be giving out green cards and encouraging citizenship, not paying crap wages, depressing pay scales for US workers, and then sending them home.
Take the number of H1B visas issued, and put that number into the green card program instead. I want people who are going to stay and be my neighbor, not temps from oversees!
That alone gives you the skills needed to handle most any general board-level repair.
A thing that very few places do anymore. What else you got?