...it's the air gap. It's the fact that there's no electronic connection between your backup tapes in storage and anything on the internet. Using hard drives in hot swapable carriers works as well, the data rate is faster, and the storage density is higher. But as soon as you start using disks, someone starts thinking it'd be way convenient to have the backup data online all the time, and you lose the security advantage. At least with tape, there's a managerial expectation that the tape would be put away somewhere.
But I wonder if offline storage is really that secure in actual implementation. The last lessee... one, three, six... six or seven companies I worked for all use the same one (1) company for their offsite tape storage. (You know who I mean.) This creates a single point of failure, kind of analogous to a mechanical cloud -- lifeblood data from several companies all in one place. It's just a little harder to access. Maybe it's really secure -- I've never been there -- but maybe getting physical access to the tapes is as simple as getting a job there as a janitor. Or doing some social engineering to appear to be a customer needing to do a restore.
Maintaining your own airgapped tape archive on-site might be practical, as long as you have a process for vetting employees with physical access that actually works. I've seen too many companies "really serious about security" who nevertheless hand the keys to every door in the place to a $15/hour janitor with minimal vetting. At my first job as a sysadmin, the site manager gave the keypad combination for our machine room to the non-english-speaking janitors so they could come in and buff the raised machine room floor. Besides the security concern, we couldn't figure out for the longest time why the disk error rate always increased on Wednesday nights.
This type of vector (payment included or here's your fax or you have a voicemail) are pretty common. I've noticed a significant increase lately, zipped with 7zip, which might be this payload. (I don't have any interest in finding out.) Part of me wants to ask, does anyone actually fall for these? But of course, that's a stupid question.
The "robot apocalypse" has been threatened for a long time, but deploying robots increase complexity, which usually means they need trained people to keep them going. This is not necessarily what TFA is talking about, but to me the reason not to fear the robot apocalypse is, robots don't fix themselves.
Ok, I would not have put it that way. But agree that since keyboards are a commodity item, there shouldn't be a lot of time wasted on testing. Just dump it and get another out of stores.
That last part of your post made me very happy. There's a time when you just have to go "excuse me, can I see that for a second?" SMASH "There ya go."
That's precisely what I upgraded to: A blackberry. Still the best keyboard in the business, and the best integration into the intranet.
But then, IT was outsourced on a Friday, BES crashed on a Saturday, and remained down for three weeks while offshore admins proved their absolutely lack of any training whatsoever. By the time BES was back up, I was already on Android.
And it's been ok, but I still miss my Blackberry sometimes. Great keyboard.
...just whoindahell could be dumb enough to think that Windows phone would ever last? Hell, us North Georgia Rednecks(TM) stayed away from them in droves! Christ, that one sale must have been half of all Windows phone sales. What maroons!!
...which makes me wonder if money or some other lucrative object changed hands.
I never have the opportunity to use Windows Phone, couldn't even say if it had a blue screen of death. I carried a.. what was it called, Windows Mobile 6?...phone for awhile. (Work phone. No choice.) What I liked most about it is the popup "(blank) has caused an error and will now close". Something that could be easily ignored, right? Punch OK and move on. But the thing that was not named happened to be the audio driver. The phone would not ring or make any alert sound until it was rebooted. And would only ring or beep up until the next "(blank) has caused an error and will now close".
After fighting with that for awhile, it was: never again. No Microsoft personal electronics. So I completely missed out on the Windows Phone 7, Windows Phone 8 debacle. That sounded like fun.
...because you were tired of spending your limited time on earth staring at a TV? Because besides being $160/month richer, you also have a lot more time to actually do stuff and learn things and talk to people and take your dog for a walk?
Too many choices? If you say so. I think people can handle having choices. I personally choose not to participate.
They may have been stuck in a forced upgrade to Windows 10, and were in the process of rebooting when the collisions occurred. Could Microsoft have ignored the Navy's desires not to upgrade to Windows 10, i.e., taken the Navy's dismissal as an OK to do so?
"Ready fire control! Bogies off the port bow!"
"I can't, sir. All the screens say 'Hi. We're setting things up for you'".
Those would probably be perfectly fine for use in a static enclosure.
The problem that caused the fires was related to those battery packs being overflexed due to their size and the limited rigidity of the note 7 case for those size batteries was it not?
I have a mental image of a house down the street exploding after a minor earthquake. The neighbors are all loafing around the sidewalk looking at the debris. "A-yep. Samsung batteries. Shouldna used 'em."
> If Disney's new streaming service does end up costing around $5 per month, could you justify paying for it?
Probably not. Disney has tried to roll their own before (the destructo-disks of several years ago) and when they realize that people aren't buying it, they eventually give up and do what everyone else is doing, while their marketing tries to make it seem like they invented it. (As in "Disney DVD".)
But I'm probably not the target. TV isn't that important to me. I watch a movie a week on Friday (with pizza and beer), and that probably doesn't justify signing up for yet another service. When the next Star Wars film comes out, I'll just buy the disc.
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Well, that would explain Starfleet losses at... basically every massed battle they've ever had.
"Raise shields!"
"Sir, all our screens are saying "Just a moment" with a little rotating circle!"
"Oh crap, is it Tuesday?"
Ship blows up, seen from space, accompanied by a "Boom!!!" for no reason whatsoever.
But I wonder if offline storage is really that secure in actual implementation. The last lessee... one, three, six... six or seven companies I worked for all use the same one (1) company for their offsite tape storage. (You know who I mean.) This creates a single point of failure, kind of analogous to a mechanical cloud -- lifeblood data from several companies all in one place. It's just a little harder to access. Maybe it's really secure -- I've never been there -- but maybe getting physical access to the tapes is as simple as getting a job there as a janitor. Or doing some social engineering to appear to be a customer needing to do a restore.
Maintaining your own airgapped tape archive on-site might be practical, as long as you have a process for vetting employees with physical access that actually works. I've seen too many companies "really serious about security" who nevertheless hand the keys to every door in the place to a $15/hour janitor with minimal vetting. At my first job as a sysadmin, the site manager gave the keypad combination for our machine room to the non-english-speaking janitors so they could come in and buff the raised machine room floor. Besides the security concern, we couldn't figure out for the longest time why the disk error rate always increased on Wednesday nights.
Yeah, you beat me to it. Multiple-blade copters tend to drop like a brick when the blades stop turning. Not enough inertia in the blades, maybe.
I'm thinking the parachutes automatically deploy, or not. No human intervention.
One way to look at it is that the rich... um, people in Dubai are ironing out the bugs in the technology for us.
Woosh?
This type of vector (payment included or here's your fax or you have a voicemail) are pretty common. I've noticed a significant increase lately, zipped with 7zip, which might be this payload. (I don't have any interest in finding out.) Part of me wants to ask, does anyone actually fall for these? But of course, that's a stupid question.
> Google forgave the total, restored Tane's service in less than an hour and credited her account for $30, reports Kansas City News.
Just kidding. Because someone at Google realized this was going to go viral and they needed to get in front of it.
The "robot apocalypse" has been threatened for a long time, but deploying robots increase complexity, which usually means they need trained people to keep them going. This is not necessarily what TFA is talking about, but to me the reason not to fear the robot apocalypse is, robots don't fix themselves.
At least, not yet.
Ok, I would not have put it that way. But agree that since keyboards are a commodity item, there shouldn't be a lot of time wasted on testing. Just dump it and get another out of stores.
That last part of your post made me very happy. There's a time when you just have to go "excuse me, can I see that for a second?" SMASH "There ya go."
That's precisely what I upgraded to: A blackberry. Still the best keyboard in the business, and the best integration into the intranet.
But then, IT was outsourced on a Friday, BES crashed on a Saturday, and remained down for three weeks while offshore admins proved their absolutely lack of any training whatsoever. By the time BES was back up, I was already on Android.
And it's been ok, but I still miss my Blackberry sometimes. Great keyboard.
...just whoindahell could be dumb enough to think that Windows phone would ever last? Hell, us North Georgia Rednecks(TM) stayed away from them in droves! Christ, that one sale must have been half of all Windows phone sales. What maroons!!
I never have the opportunity to use Windows Phone, couldn't even say if it had a blue screen of death. I carried a .. what was it called, Windows Mobile 6? ...phone for awhile. (Work phone. No choice.) What I liked most about it is the popup "(blank) has caused an error and will now close". Something that could be easily ignored, right? Punch OK and move on. But the thing that was not named happened to be the audio driver. The phone would not ring or make any alert sound until it was rebooted. And would only ring or beep up until the next "(blank) has caused an error and will now close".
After fighting with that for awhile, it was: never again. No Microsoft personal electronics. So I completely missed out on the Windows Phone 7, Windows Phone 8 debacle. That sounded like fun.
I wonder how much she got from Microsoft.
People still use Telnet?
I was wondering why the volume of spam was up dramatically.
Too many choices? If you say so. I think people can handle having choices. I personally choose not to participate.
They may have been stuck in a forced upgrade to Windows 10, and were in the process of rebooting when the collisions occurred. Could Microsoft have ignored the Navy's desires not to upgrade to Windows 10, i.e., taken the Navy's dismissal as an OK to do so?
"Ready fire control! Bogies off the port bow!"
"I can't, sir. All the screens say 'Hi. We're setting things up for you'".
If the smell you've gotten used to is smoke escaping from batteries, someone is doing something wrong.
Ah, there it is. Under "companies I'll never do business with" add Sonos. Write, quit.
If you can get past the smell.
Those would probably be perfectly fine for use in a static enclosure.
The problem that caused the fires was related to those battery packs being overflexed due to their size and the limited rigidity of the note 7 case for those size batteries was it not?
I have a mental image of a house down the street exploding after a minor earthquake. The neighbors are all loafing around the sidewalk looking at the debris. "A-yep. Samsung batteries. Shouldna used 'em."
> If Disney's new streaming service does end up costing around $5 per month, could you justify paying for it?
Probably not. Disney has tried to roll their own before (the destructo-disks of several years ago) and when they realize that people aren't buying it, they eventually give up and do what everyone else is doing, while their marketing tries to make it seem like they invented it. (As in "Disney DVD".)
But I'm probably not the target. TV isn't that important to me. I watch a movie a week on Friday (with pizza and beer), and that probably doesn't justify signing up for yet another service. When the next Star Wars film comes out, I'll just buy the disc.