I'd train my replacement. And I would gladly tell my next employer that I happily trained my replacement.
Of course, whether that training is of any value would be hard to determine. After all, I am not an educator or technical writer of any sort and training someone whose first language is not English will, I'm sure, lead to a lot of room for errors in translation.
So when my replacement removes rather than reviews the firewall rules on the last day of the month, I'm sure that was just an error in the way they heard me...
To me, two of the best hours ever shown on television are "City on the Edge of Forever" from the original series and "The Inner Light" from the Next Generation. I can forgive a lot of the other drek that aired in TOS and NG for those two episodes alone.
Then I pull out the network card, fill the PCI slots, USB ports, Firewire, and Bluetooth with resin.Then I put the computer in a lead lined room with a deadbolt on the door. Then I remove the keyboard. Then I smash the network card I removed to tiny, tiny pieces, just to be sure...
Since they DIDN'T upgrade to Windows 10, they obviously had recommended updates turned off. They were proactive about their computers. The problem here is Microsoft is changing the game, obfuscating the Windows 10 upgrade in the hope that you will install the update disguised behind the completely ineffective red "X".
That Microsoft has to resort to this subterfuge to get people to install their software reeks of desperation.
we should have had working quantum computers 5 years ago
You can put that down to bad luck. Every time we've opened a quantum computer to determine if it is working or not, the bottle of acid has broken and the quantum computer is dead...
And the complexity of the interface is a solved issue.
Until you are booting a disk-damaged Windows computer with no PS2 interface and Microsoft's all-so-helpful disk check tells you to press any key to stop "repairing" your disk and then proceeds to destroy the data because the drivers for the USB keyboard aren't loaded yet...
I have no idea who is right or who is wrong in the original situation, but I see no utility in executing a DDoS in this scenario. It feels like the DDoS in the hands of some hackers is a "solution" looking for a problem.
When the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.
We both had DSL. Neither of us had "functional internet". POTS still worked, but my neighbor didn't realize he could use the phone line even if the internet didn't work.
And even if the local loop stayed up, I guarantee that long distance trunks have filled up or dropped plenty of times without you being aware
Even if the long distance trunks did drop, how is that the fault of the OP's landline? After Hurricane Wilma, when cell phone towers were either down or overwhelmed or had no power, my landline was still working. A lot of my neighbors had to borrow my phone. I even gave my next door neighbor an old handset to use at his house - he had DSL and his landline worked, but he didn't have a plain old telephone.
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Learning How To Take Down the Internet
Isn't there a "For Dummies" book for this?
I'd train my replacement. And I would gladly tell my next employer that I happily trained my replacement.
Of course, whether that training is of any value would be hard to determine. After all, I am not an educator or technical writer of any sort and training someone whose first language is not English will, I'm sure, lead to a lot of room for errors in translation.
So when my replacement removes rather than reviews the firewall rules on the last day of the month, I'm sure that was just an error in the way they heard me...
To me, two of the best hours ever shown on television are "City on the Edge of Forever" from the original series and "The Inner Light" from the Next Generation. I can forgive a lot of the other drek that aired in TOS and NG for those two episodes alone.
When is compassion ever practical? Not saying that it isn't admirable, but when is it ever practical?
I'm a highly productive, able bodied worker. Why should my peers and I be bound by the votes of the elderly boomers?
Because someday you won't be. What do you propose we do with you then?
gargantuan amounts of UV and radiation from flares, rendering this planet a barren wasteland and unfit to support any type of life
Kinda sounds like New Jersey, and that's full of... oh, wait. I see what you mean. Never mind.
What I am wondering now is if a gun manufacturer can now be held liable for the bullets that went through the barrel of the guns they manufactured..
Oh I think there was plenty of greed involved, just not on the part of the factory workers: Hostess Executives got Raises While Filing for Bankruptcy
I SO want the last stage to look like a little car and all the satellites to be painted up like clowns!
But I thought you guys were building that wall.
I create a password for the system like Pass1234.
Then I pull out the network card, fill the PCI slots, USB ports, Firewire, and Bluetooth with resin.Then I put the computer in a lead lined room with a deadbolt on the door. Then I remove the keyboard. Then I smash the network card I removed to tiny, tiny pieces, just to be sure...
NO ONE is hacking THAT password...
"...a bearded man sitting on a cloud."
But the Woz hates clouds.
At least we know that the bearded man, whoever he/she is, isn't George R. R. Martin or else we'd all be dead by now...
Since they DIDN'T upgrade to Windows 10, they obviously had recommended updates turned off. They were proactive about their computers. The problem here is Microsoft is changing the game, obfuscating the Windows 10 upgrade in the hope that you will install the update disguised behind the completely ineffective red "X".
That Microsoft has to resort to this subterfuge to get people to install their software reeks of desperation.
This seems to be another case of scientists going "I can do this in the lab" and engineers just shaking their heads.
One of my professors years ago said that scientists show what's possible, engineers show what's practical.
we should have had working quantum computers 5 years ago
You can put that down to bad luck. Every time we've opened a quantum computer to determine if it is working or not, the bottle of acid has broken and the quantum computer is dead...
The thing is that the north Korean people need to solve this
And that has worked out so well for the people in Syria, Egypt, and Libya.
Whiskey, Guinness, and red-heads
That right there describes my wasted youth... and also explains why my kids are red heads.
And the complexity of the interface is a solved issue.
Until you are booting a disk-damaged Windows computer with no PS2 interface and Microsoft's all-so-helpful disk check tells you to press any key to stop "repairing" your disk and then proceeds to destroy the data because the drivers for the USB keyboard aren't loaded yet...
Water... lava... ?
That's watava for short.
You're thinking about this wrong. You WANT the Franklin Mint to fail. Look at what happens to the prices of an artist's work when they die.
I have no idea who is right or who is wrong in the original situation, but I see no utility in executing a DDoS in this scenario. It feels like the DDoS in the hands of some hackers is a "solution" looking for a problem.
When the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.
This demonstrates the power of coffee.
Coffee, making people out of assholes since the 1600's...
"escalated" - you keep using this word, but I do not think it means what you think it means. Now "sank" or "descended" I could get behind...
We both had DSL. Neither of us had "functional internet". POTS still worked, but my neighbor didn't realize he could use the phone line even if the internet didn't work.
And even if the local loop stayed up, I guarantee that long distance trunks have filled up or dropped plenty of times without you being aware
Even if the long distance trunks did drop, how is that the fault of the OP's landline? After Hurricane Wilma, when cell phone towers were either down or overwhelmed or had no power, my landline was still working. A lot of my neighbors had to borrow my phone. I even gave my next door neighbor an old handset to use at his house - he had DSL and his landline worked, but he didn't have a plain old telephone.