A full-blown Carrington Event, like in 1859, could result in many months or perhaps a year without electricity.
Or it might be just a couple of days till the event is over. It apparently is not that hard to protect this sort of equipment against the sort of surges that a Carrington Event would generate.
Only if you do it. And it will only be done if those responsible for it are aware of the danger.
For a company as large as Microsoft, it takes quite some time until current management style seriously affects the bottom line. Microsoft is a big tanker. Even if you put the engines to full reverse, it will still go quite some way forward before coming to a halt.
The bottom line of Microsoft is still mainly determined by what Bill Gates did. And whatever you think of him, there's one thing he understood well: How to make the company a success.
So he should switch to Oracle because Oracle might have backdoors? Are you hoping for extra protection against data loss by having the NSA maintaining an extra backup?
Well, if education is about teaching you to learn, how come that children learn easily and happily before coming into school, but on average their ability (and willingness) to learn is reduced during their school career? Something seems to go horribly wrong.
I just held a meeting yesterday with my entire team to discuss this very topic.
Generally, I explained that the onus of successful communication lies with the giver (not the receiver). That is, if I want you to understand me, I must communicate in such a way that is understandable by you.
So next time you call a hotline and get someone who can't understand English well, don't complain. Find out where the hotline is outsourced to and learn their language. After all, you are the one who wants to be understood, so why do you expect the worker on the hotline to speak and understand English? Learn whatever language they speak, and if you know that language well, you'll certainly won't have any problems communicating with the hotline.
At least that follows directly from what you just wrote. I don't think this is what anyone would think. Probably you don't think so either.
So you think that's something different? No, it isn't. You cannot expect your users to know what you understand best. It is your job to understand the users.
So the NSA isn't content with spying all over the earth, they now also spy on Pluto and Charon. No, I'm not going to let the extra A after the N fool me.;-)
I hear that SQL stores its data in a binary (rather than ASCII) format too!
Then you heard wrong. SQL does not store anything. Databases store data. SQL is just a language to access that data. And SQL databases (that is, databases which support the SQL language) store the data however they see fit. I'd not be surprised if there was an SQL database which stored its data in text.
I don't think tapping Google's fiber would do the NSA that much good. All traffic between gmail servers and gmail users is encrypted.
Unless the NSA has the private key for the certificate. There's no need to spoof a certificate if all you want is to listen. Just get hold of the private key, and the data could as well have been sent in cleartext. Since the browser will get the original certificate, there's nothing raising suspicion.
Indeed, even Google may be unaware of the NSA having the key, if they got it through an inofficial way (either bribing/threatening someone who has access to give it to them, or put an undercover agent in to get the key, or maybe even use a not publicly known vulnerability on the certificate generating computer's operating system to break in).
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A full-blown Carrington Event, like in 1859, could result in many months or perhaps a year without electricity.
Or it might be just a couple of days till the event is over. It apparently is not that hard to protect this sort of equipment against the sort of surges that a Carrington Event would generate.
Only if you do it. And it will only be done if those responsible for it are aware of the danger.
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AC, we don't care what you think.
If you think so, then why do you post?
When in their web interface they conflated Usenet groups with their own Google Groups.
Yeah, it's clear: Open source is expanding. However, is there some dark energy behind this expansion?
For a company as large as Microsoft, it takes quite some time until current management style seriously affects the bottom line. Microsoft is a big tanker. Even if you put the engines to full reverse, it will still go quite some way forward before coming to a halt.
The bottom line of Microsoft is still mainly determined by what Bill Gates did. And whatever you think of him, there's one thing he understood well: How to make the company a success.
You are talking to the post instead of the poster? Because the poster is not a response, but almost certainly a human being.
Is that C programming with lots of gotos? :-)
I'm going to use it under LinOS/2.
Hey, Mr. Anonymous Coward, stop talking to yourself!
So he should switch to Oracle because Oracle might have backdoors? Are you hoping for extra protection against data loss by having the NSA maintaining an extra backup?
That reminds me of the scene in Demolition Man where the policemen desperately try to stop Simon Phoenix by just ordering him to stop ...
Indeed, NoScript even has a surrogate script for Google Analytics.
Well, they will have videos of Slashdotters having sex ... with their hands.
You of course have to apply the meme correctly. In Soviet Russia, memes post YOU and moderate YOU funny.
And now please excuse me, I've got to run Linux on my imaginary Beowulf meme cluster before Netcraft declares the meme dead.
Well, if education is about teaching you to learn, how come that children learn easily and happily before coming into school, but on average their ability (and willingness) to learn is reduced during their school career? Something seems to go horribly wrong.
But for quite some time, the bot will not reach the age of consent. :-)
I wouldn't worry. Surely Microsoft is Too Big To Abort Retry Fail.
You forgot ignore.
I just held a meeting yesterday with my entire team to discuss this very topic.
Generally, I explained that the onus of successful communication lies with the giver (not the receiver). That is, if I want you to understand me, I must communicate in such a way that is understandable by you.
So next time you call a hotline and get someone who can't understand English well, don't complain. Find out where the hotline is outsourced to and learn their language. After all, you are the one who wants to be understood, so why do you expect the worker on the hotline to speak and understand English? Learn whatever language they speak, and if you know that language well, you'll certainly won't have any problems communicating with the hotline.
At least that follows directly from what you just wrote. I don't think this is what anyone would think. Probably you don't think so either.
So you think that's something different? No, it isn't. You cannot expect your users to know what you understand best. It is your job to understand the users.
So the NSA isn't content with spying all over the earth, they now also spy on Pluto and Charon. No, I'm not going to let the extra A after the N fool me. ;-)
Wrong. It's trivial to store Base64 encoded binary data in cookies.
Sure, because encrypted text will be so more easy to decrypt if you don't have the key ...
Then you heard wrong. SQL does not store anything. Databases store data. SQL is just a language to access that data. And SQL databases (that is, databases which support the SQL language) store the data however they see fit. I'd not be surprised if there was an SQL database which stored its data in text.
Unless the NSA has the private key for the certificate. There's no need to spoof a certificate if all you want is to listen. Just get hold of the private key, and the data could as well have been sent in cleartext. Since the browser will get the original certificate, there's nothing raising suspicion.
Indeed, even Google may be unaware of the NSA having the key, if they got it through an inofficial way (either bribing/threatening someone who has access to give it to them, or put an undercover agent in to get the key, or maybe even use a not publicly known vulnerability on the certificate generating computer's operating system to break in).
The Group Of Drunks.
That's the back conversion. Duh.