Personally I think the major failure here was to outsource something important enough that a fuckup could cost them an election. Hence the cascading failure where nobody inhouse could do anything about it and they had to trust a naive user and a third party.
...we continue to talk about the HACK and who did it, not what the emails showed.
That's been done everywhere else, so why nor talk about the hack on a tech site and the politics on a political site? How about this suggestion - link to a one of the many places discussing what the emails showed.
I've had the misfortune of having to deal with a few of these types that went to college to play politics and never grew up. They like to call it "Political Science", but as valid a study as it is the "science" bit just doesn't cut it. When a manager has come in via a political track it is important to use small words instead of communicating as if they had studied science, engineering or literature. People who have not been to college at all usually make up the slack, but on the political track they are overconfident and don't bother to fill in the gaps. So dumb it down, check it over, then dumb it down a second time. Use words like "scam" instead of illegitimate. If utter stupidity lies in one direction do not be afraid of using outright profanity to point it out.
No. A very large company that used to be run by a guy that is a very poor choice of hunting partner and who had trouble keeping his business and political life apart. They could certainly afford to pay somebody weekend rates to answer emails.
There has been a Saudi oil price war designed to bankrupt a lot of the many new oil and gas startups that sprung up recently as part of a gas boom. It worked. "Nice" friends we have. Maybe we should stop giving them so much free military aid?
Not an error, deliberate framing by people who wish to manipulate opinion. Statistics used to be called political arithmetic for a reason. Those science deniers seem to have hired a bright young thing who can do better than high school mathematics to do a few tricks with graphs.
That was underground storage so the number (everything in storage there) is probably fairly accurate. What comes out of boreholes in coal seams would be a total guess since it's the stuff that gets captured that gets measured.
Mining companies have been under-reporting and trying to cover up the levels of methane
A lot of the time it isn't measured and they don't even know, which is a lot more simple than a coverup. Never attribute to malice what can be attributed to not giving a fuck.
The GP is just a cargo cult idiot that doesn't know shit about nukes, but like a stopped clock he's accidentally got a bit of a point. Nukes are potentially viable for base load so long as we do something other than build 1970s dinosaurs painted green or chase after 1950s molten salt conspiracy theories. We need other stuff to fill in the gaps, such as the wind, solar, gas turbines and other stuff he hates.
Good point. Have you noticed all that activity with coal seam gas lately? A lot of wells/boreholes have been left open for very long periods of time (almost entire years in some cases) before the infrastructure has been put in place to collect the gas. That wasteful stupidity with mostly methane has got to have added up to something noticable.
What is it that ensnares the bean counters to prefer this situation over hiring qualified local candidates?
The cash comes out of a different bucket so those "productivity" numbers become wonderful, leading to praise and promotion of bean counters. It's a misdirection game and not improvement.
You are seriously writing that just after Thanksgiving? Try doing a host change on a stupidly expensive software licence with a US company over that weekend like I tried this year. I had to wait until Tuesday before some turkey even bothered to reply.
The Protestant work ethic is based on the assumption that the employer will act like a Christian instead of an exploitative Satanist. Thus it doesn't really apply when employing guest workers at less than a living wage. The employer has already broken their side so expecting extra consideration from the employees is unlikely to happen.
The white Australia policy was keeping even most of the Jews out (not white enough apparently) plus anyone black was hated even more than in the US deep south. The Polish, Italian and Greek migrants didn't have it so hard but were getting spat on. My aunt spent a bit of time there in the 1950s (and again later) working as a Nun in Fitzroy trying to smooth things over. It is a very different city today. However I threw in the Ava Gardner quote because it was slightly related but funny and not to make any sort of point - it says more about her than Melbourne anyway.
Slashdot is not "getting out more". I'm serious. Go talk to someone that actually reads more than one book a year instead of a ranting nincompoop. It's a big world out there.
I disagree. Properly written ransomware appears to be about making a quick buck and not about existing for long enough that antivirus vendors get a chance to do something about a variant.
encrypt your files and then continue to function like normal
It would be kind of a massive giveaway when your files don't fit on the backup because so much has changed at once. Just doing a daily tar of everything is impractical in most cases so nearly every non-trivial backup system does incremental backups.
If you look at some of the guys that walk up to those girls on the street you would believe it. It's Russian roulette with random violent psychos in some cases according to police reports.
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Personally I think the major failure here was to outsource something important enough that a fuckup could cost them an election. Hence the cascading failure where nobody inhouse could do anything about it and they had to trust a naive user and a third party.
That's been done everywhere else, so why nor talk about the hack on a tech site and the politics on a political site?
How about this suggestion - link to a one of the many places discussing what the emails showed.
I've had the misfortune of having to deal with a few of these types that went to college to play politics and never grew up.
They like to call it "Political Science", but as valid a study as it is the "science" bit just doesn't cut it. When a manager has come in via a political track it is important to use small words instead of communicating as if they had studied science, engineering or literature. People who have not been to college at all usually make up the slack, but on the political track they are overconfident and don't bother to fill in the gaps.
So dumb it down, check it over, then dumb it down a second time. Use words like "scam" instead of illegitimate. If utter stupidity lies in one direction do not be afraid of using outright profanity to point it out.
Well fuck you too if you are going to insult everyone reading scientific/technical/medical texts.
No. A very large company that used to be run by a guy that is a very poor choice of hunting partner and who had trouble keeping his business and political life apart. They could certainly afford to pay somebody weekend rates to answer emails.
You know the quantities released do you? How? When something is not measured how can you possibly know?
There has been a Saudi oil price war designed to bankrupt a lot of the many new oil and gas startups that sprung up recently as part of a gas boom. It worked. "Nice" friends we have. Maybe we should stop giving them so much free military aid?
Not an error, deliberate framing by people who wish to manipulate opinion.
Statistics used to be called political arithmetic for a reason.
Those science deniers seem to have hired a bright young thing who can do better than high school mathematics to do a few tricks with graphs.
That was underground storage so the number (everything in storage there) is probably fairly accurate.
What comes out of boreholes in coal seams would be a total guess since it's the stuff that gets captured that gets measured.
A lot of the time it isn't measured and they don't even know, which is a lot more simple than a coverup. Never attribute to malice what can be attributed to not giving a fuck.
The GP is just a cargo cult idiot that doesn't know shit about nukes, but like a stopped clock he's accidentally got a bit of a point. Nukes are potentially viable for base load so long as we do something other than build 1970s dinosaurs painted green or chase after 1950s molten salt conspiracy theories. We need other stuff to fill in the gaps, such as the wind, solar, gas turbines and other stuff he hates.
Good point.
Have you noticed all that activity with coal seam gas lately? A lot of wells/boreholes have been left open for very long periods of time (almost entire years in some cases) before the infrastructure has been put in place to collect the gas. That wasteful stupidity with mostly methane has got to have added up to something noticable.
The cash comes out of a different bucket so those "productivity" numbers become wonderful, leading to praise and promotion of bean counters.
It's a misdirection game and not improvement.
You are seriously writing that just after Thanksgiving? Try doing a host change on a stupidly expensive software licence with a US company over that weekend like I tried this year. I had to wait until Tuesday before some turkey even bothered to reply.
The Protestant work ethic is based on the assumption that the employer will act like a Christian instead of an exploitative Satanist. Thus it doesn't really apply when employing guest workers at less than a living wage. The employer has already broken their side so expecting extra consideration from the employees is unlikely to happen.
Only on paper.
There are many scams such as forcing them to pay various fees back to the company that has employed them at market salary.
The white Australia policy was keeping even most of the Jews out (not white enough apparently) plus anyone black was hated even more than in the US deep south. The Polish, Italian and Greek migrants didn't have it so hard but were getting spat on. My aunt spent a bit of time there in the 1950s (and again later) working as a Nun in Fitzroy trying to smooth things over.
It is a very different city today.
However I threw in the Ava Gardner quote because it was slightly related but funny and not to make any sort of point - it says more about her than Melbourne anyway.
Epic fail - those two detest each other especially since Abe keeps baiting the Chinese by visiting shrines where war criminals are buried.
I think you've got that backwards. Trump will fuck you over instead of the nice Japanese man with the flattering comments.
Slashdot is not "getting out more".
I'm serious. Go talk to someone that actually reads more than one book a year instead of a ranting nincompoop.
It's a big world out there.
I disagree. Properly written ransomware appears to be about making a quick buck and not about existing for long enough that antivirus vendors get a chance to do something about a variant.
Unless your nightly backup process replaced the backups of all your files with the encrypted versions.
In which case it's not actually a backup but just a copy.
Thanks, you've provided a good example of the difference for future use.
It would be kind of a massive giveaway when your files don't fit on the backup because so much has changed at once. Just doing a daily tar of everything is impractical in most cases so nearly every non-trivial backup system does incremental backups.
You should get out more and you'll see that your strawman is vanishingly rare.
If you look at some of the guys that walk up to those girls on the street you would believe it. It's Russian roulette with random violent psychos in some cases according to police reports.