Unwanted update asside, what would have happend if the HD would have gone out without the upgrade? Hardware breaks. Shit happens. The real issue here is that they did not have a backup in place. Even worse, they had a single point of failure and that broke.
Here is what should have happened: 1) Do the (or any) upgrade and it breaks 2) Restore the situation as to when it was not broken with backups. 3) Start looking at a solution for the failed upgrade. This could be Windows, Linux kernel or Notepad upgrades for all I care. There should have been no reason for non working software (points 2-5) after a restore.
The real issue is that the company was not ready and it was just a disaster waiting to happen where the WIndows update was merely the last drip in the bucket.
To me an OS version update is nice when it works, but I NEVER expect it to do. And that is while running Linux and having done many upgrades without any issue. I will never expect it to work. I can hope, but never expect as people will never know what I have done to my machine after I first booted it.
I log in remotely via ssh and use e.g. 'screen'. The reason I use screen is that if I log out (e.g. if connections are lost when I am on the train), it still runs. So here a real life situation: I log in over ssh and start to do whatever I do from the train. There is one tunnel where I lose connection. I reconnect. I get home and log in and take over the screen session. I close the terminal and I expect the screen session still to be running. Now I log out and the screen session closes, while I expected it to keep running whatever I had running in the screen session. Fuck you very much.
It is a bootloader. Keep the fuck away of anything else. Cunts!
I left Windows (when it was 95) for Linux, because all I could do more was copy/paste some things into the regedit that I had no real idea what they were doing.
With Linux I had a system that I could do things myself (and screw it up myself).
Now we have a BIOS that wants to do everything, running a boot loader that wants to do everything staring a GUI that wants to do everything with a Desktop that wants to do everything that runs a browser that wants to do everything to visit a site that wants to do everything.
And if you have an issue, they all yell "It wasn't me." and point their fingers to others as if they are toddlers who stole candy.
Their business is build around THEM reading and then have people look for it so they can sell advertising. Please understand that you are the product.
What they do not want is OTHERS searching their data with a computer and selling it. All that the captcha is, is a robot.txt and they have it turned on and can be turned of for a (big) price)
As a business owner, I expect my employees to by reasonably available, even after hours.
This seems nice, but it isn't. You can ask people to come in when there is an emergency, but you can not expect them to do so.
The only way to expect it is to put it in writing and compensate people extra for it when it happens.
I personally tell my staff I expect them to NOT read any emails from home. I have even mocked some for doing so. (Did you think you make a promotion faster by reading emails at home, or are you unable to do your job in the time I assigned to you at the office?) One said the latter and then we looked into how he could do it. Turned out somebody tried to let him do their work. (think White Castle)
Just because something is on the tubes does not mean you need to handle it differently. A software update is nothing else but what a recall in the car (or any other) industry is.
If my car has a malfunction, I get a recall, go to the garage and have it fixed. I do not need to pay for it (except in the time I spend going there). If my canned food MIGHT have pieces of glass in it, I can replace it for free. There are plenty of examples, so why would it be different just because it is a program or an app or whatever.
I would go the other way: If there is an app that gets an update and I decide that I do not want to use it anymore, as the software does not function as expected, do I get my money back in full?
e.g. a game has no need for access to my phone numbers and suddenly it needs that access for some reason (or network access or whatever) that means to me that the software was not functioning correctly and was broken (or they would have no need to add it later) so they sold me an apparently broken game and I should get my money back, right?
Well, it is not as if they didn't try to warn you. They even hired a native English speaker to come up with a name to make you aware of the situation by name only.
There are standards that mean that most of the legalese is in the law. If I sell a product and you buy my product in my store, there does not need to be legese, because the law tells you who has what rights. This is warranty, how transactions are dealt with and all other things. If you want to take away some rights (e.g. 2 hours instead of 2 years warranty) that is not possible. It is possible to extend them to e.g. 20 years or whatever. At that moment you have a change of the standard and you might need some sort of new contract,
So these things are just a way to determine what is NOT in the law, but the exceptions.
That said, each country also has laws about what a contract is and what is not. e.g. many have it that clicking OK is not really a contract.
And no, I do not think legalese has peaked. Not by a long shot. First we had no contracts, then we had contracts and now we are at a state that we blindly click on accept and handed over all our rights to companies.
So not full circle, but rather wandered from the beach over the dunes into the dessert.
The abortion part is clickbait. What this is about is if privacy laws should be stricter in the US. The information of people was sold and is used. In Europe this is not allowed. From somebody who lives in Europe, this could be a bit stricter. So how does it work in Europe?
So I worked for CompanyA who had clients (companies) that had customers (people). They decided to close and sell the product portofolio to CompanyB. The customers would still be able to keep the identical product with the same name and what not. As we sold the product and not the customer, we were not allwed to just send a file with everything to CompanyB and have it automated. What we did was 1) Send a letter that we were going to stop 2) Inform them that if they want, they can cancel 3) If they did not cancel, they would be contacted by CompanyB 4) CompanyB (where I work now) send a letter to the customer saying they would now be dealing with the product 5) The customer needed to sign a new contract 6) All contracts needed to be verified and treated as if they were a new customer (because in reality they were)
The period of transfer CompanyA asked sometimes info about customers that, even while available, we were not allowed to give.
For me personaly this was nice, as I was working for CompanyA while being paid by CompanyB.
Other things mean that if your spouse calls for info, we are not allowed to give it, unless it is explicitely allowed. Mind you, most companies do not honor that last one.
Direct marketing to people is very restricted. It is allowed to customers you have a business relation with (e.g. people who bought something from you) but not to others. So no buying of data and sending then mail or what not.
If people ask to stop sending stuff, you better agree with that.
To me the privacy laws are not going far enough, but that is just a personal opinion.
Or when the auditers are there, so is the cash. 3 hour short term loan. That way the auditer sees the money and is happy. When they come van come from higher up.
I used to work in a hotel many years ago where we knew a day before that an unannounced inspection would take place. The one time they rally came unannounced, they asked me to bring coffee (I was a waiter) and he told me who they were.
That gave us enough time to send home the illegals who were working in the kitchen and in the house. If we could do it with people in 5 minutes, I am sure they can do it with money as well.
Let them code Perl and each time they make a mistake kit them on the head. If you are about 'no kid left behind' hit ALL the kids on the head, except the kid that made the mistake. It works in the military, so why not in schools?
I use gmx.com as a spambox. I also have my own doamin, so I use aliasses like slashdot.org@example.com
So my process is to use the spam adress for the first subscribtion of e.g. slashdot.org. Then when I see it is something I would like to keep, I make an alias slashdot.org@example.com That way the spam is send to the spambox. If they decide to sell the adress, I delete the alias (Hi Ebay) and be done with it. If the access to the spambox is lost, nothing of value will be gone as the important sites already send it to me.
Till now (over 10 years) Ebay is the only one where I have removed the email adress and will no longer do any business via them. I think I have 30-40 aliases or so.
If I go on a trip and I need reservations in several hotels, I make an email like trip2016@example.com and have everything neatly together.
I do not like to be dependent on one party, so the DNS and web hosting is not even at the same company, so if one screws up, I can leave at the turn of a dime.
The issue with passwords is that we need so many of them. IT people only look at the one access you get and make that safe to enter. They basically have a technical solution (login and password) for a social problem (people getting access to things they should not have) and that will not work out well.
So what do IT people look ate? The technical side. What they forget or see as a burden is the human side. They are not interested that I now have not only manyplaces I need to login. In many places I also am unable to select my own login.
At one place I worked I had 17 different logins from different types of access and several keys to type in a code as well. You bet I wrote shit down.
To me all to often the reason for passwords is so that the IT department can say: well, WE did our best, so you can't blame us so sue or fire somebody else. And not look at a real solution.
And no, I am not able to have a password keeper program as on most systems I am not allowed to install anything and I am not always on the same location, nor do all have access to the Inetrtubes.
What do you mean that this is not happening. That is exactly what happend in Brussels. They exploded themselves at the check-in, before any check has been done.
In the first few days after opening Brussels, they had the people waiting outside before the first initial check. Had they done anything there, the count would have been much higher.
Now they have an initial check with just your boaring card and other checks later. As far as I can tell from the flights I took from Brussels before and since is that they are trying to reduce the concentrqtion of people qs much qs possible.
Interesting is that while in Belgium an official ID is obligatory, the only place I have to chow it when traveling inside Schenen is at the gate.and nowhere else.
Just because I'm relatively OK with my phone being "leaky," and therefore rather cautious about what winds up there, does not mean I also must accept anyone mining through my private data on my computers. They are two entirely different worlds.
Why are we ok that these are two different worlds? Why is it not ok to have the same privacy on one device, but expect it on another?
By being ok they can do it with a phone, you have given them a finger and they will take your arm. We should give them the finger. To me a phone is just another device with computing power and I expect the same with anything else, be it a server, desktop, laptop, tablet, phone, watch, car, fridge, toaster or whatever has computing power (or lack of it).
It is pretty simple: DO NOT USE MY DATA!
I do not even want them to use my data on their servers. Not even when I clicked OK. There is no need to explain that I clicked OK and they have the right to do so. That does not mean I WANT that to happen and there is no need to defend them. They have lawyers who do that for a living.
Concerning the tax program. It apparently depends on your country. e.g. in Belgium it works great via Linux. But that is because it is via a website and authentication is done via your (obligatory) ID with a chip on it and the source for the readers is open source and available compiled in all major distro's.or downloable via http://eid.belgium.be/en
A serious question about the squabble. Even if GW is not AGW, even if GW is not real, why should we not as a species work to reduce our impacts everywhere?
Money. Now that was easy. As long as people can take the profits and not pay the costs, why WOULD they do it?
We, as a species, are killing each other for almost anything. We do not care about the species. We kill each other for way less (or let others do the killing for you).
I have my own domain with unlimited aliases and filter my mail on my Linux box. So here is what I do:
I use e.g. Slashdot.orrg@example.com. This has several advatnages 1) It is easy to filter. I have separate mailboxes for different types of sites. e.g. purchases, banking, serious sites, fun sites,... 2) Easy to see who sells or gives away your email. (Looking at you ebay) regardless if it was opt in or opt out. 3) Easy to verify if it is spam. And this is the most import one for me.
That means I have always a dual verification and it means that if there is an issue, I just cancel the alias (e.g. ebay as I was getting a LOT of spam and will not be working with them again)
For me the most important part is that I can easily verify if it is e.g. my bank that is sending me something or if it is a spammer that emulates the email and it was not filtered out by the standard spam filters.
Slashdot Mirror
Unwanted update asside, what would have happend if the HD would have gone out without the upgrade? Hardware breaks. Shit happens.
The real issue here is that they did not have a backup in place. Even worse, they had a single point of failure and that broke.
Here is what should have happened:
1) Do the (or any) upgrade and it breaks
2) Restore the situation as to when it was not broken with backups.
3) Start looking at a solution for the failed upgrade.
This could be Windows, Linux kernel or Notepad upgrades for all I care. There should have been no reason for non working software (points 2-5) after a restore.
The real issue is that the company was not ready and it was just a disaster waiting to happen where the WIndows update was merely the last drip in the bucket.
To me an OS version update is nice when it works, but I NEVER expect it to do. And that is while running Linux and having done many upgrades without any issue. I will never expect it to work. I can hope, but never expect as people will never know what I have done to my machine after I first booted it.
I doubt that. Then they would not do that.
I log in remotely via ssh and use e.g. 'screen'. The reason I use screen is that if I log out (e.g. if connections are lost when I am on the train), it still runs. So here a real life situation:
I log in over ssh and start to do whatever I do from the train. There is one tunnel where I lose connection. I reconnect. I get home and log in and take over the screen session. I close the terminal and I expect the screen session still to be running. Now I log out and the screen session closes, while I expected it to keep running whatever I had running in the screen session.
Fuck you very much.
It is a bootloader. Keep the fuck away of anything else. Cunts!
I left Windows (when it was 95) for Linux, because all I could do more was copy/paste some things into the regedit that I had no real idea what they were doing.
With Linux I had a system that I could do things myself (and screw it up myself).
Now we have a BIOS that wants to do everything, running a boot loader that wants to do everything staring a GUI that wants to do everything with a Desktop that wants to do everything that runs a browser that wants to do everything to visit a site that wants to do everything.
And if you have an issue, they all yell "It wasn't me." and point their fingers to others as if they are toddlers who stole candy.
The consensus is that research causes cancer in mice. News at 11.
Next on Tublr: Cellphone invented by CIS males to kill off women earlier.
Their business is build around THEM reading and then have people look for it so they can sell advertising. Please understand that you are the product.
What they do not want is OTHERS searching their data with a computer and selling it. All that the captcha is, is a robot.txt and they have it turned on and can be turned of for a (big) price)
This seems nice, but it isn't. You can ask people to come in when there is an emergency, but you can not expect them to do so.
The only way to expect it is to put it in writing and compensate people extra for it when it happens.
I personally tell my staff I expect them to NOT read any emails from home. I have even mocked some for doing so. (Did you think you make a promotion faster by reading emails at home, or are you unable to do your job in the time I assigned to you at the office?) One said the latter and then we looked into how he could do it. Turned out somebody tried to let him do their work. (think White Castle)
Just because something is on the tubes does not mean you need to handle it differently. A software update is nothing else but what a recall in the car (or any other) industry is.
If my car has a malfunction, I get a recall, go to the garage and have it fixed. I do not need to pay for it (except in the time I spend going there).
If my canned food MIGHT have pieces of glass in it, I can replace it for free.
There are plenty of examples, so why would it be different just because it is a program or an app or whatever.
I would go the other way: If there is an app that gets an update and I decide that I do not want to use it anymore, as the software does not function as expected, do I get my money back in full?
e.g. a game has no need for access to my phone numbers and suddenly it needs that access for some reason (or network access or whatever) that means to me that the software was not functioning correctly and was broken (or they would have no need to add it later) so they sold me an apparently broken game and I should get my money back, right?
Well, it is not as if they didn't try to warn you. They even hired a native English speaker to come up with a name to make you aware of the situation by name only.
Well, it is proven that medical studies cause cancer in rats, so there's that.
There are standards that mean that most of the legalese is in the law. If I sell a product and you buy my product in my store, there does not need to be legese, because the law tells you who has what rights.
This is warranty, how transactions are dealt with and all other things. If you want to take away some rights (e.g. 2 hours instead of 2 years warranty) that is not possible. It is possible to extend them to e.g. 20 years or whatever. At that moment you have a change of the standard and you might need some sort of new contract,
So these things are just a way to determine what is NOT in the law, but the exceptions.
That said, each country also has laws about what a contract is and what is not. e.g. many have it that clicking OK is not really a contract.
And no, I do not think legalese has peaked. Not by a long shot. First we had no contracts, then we had contracts and now we are at a state that we blindly click on accept and handed over all our rights to companies.
So not full circle, but rather wandered from the beach over the dunes into the dessert.
The abortion part is clickbait. What this is about is if privacy laws should be stricter in the US. The information of people was sold and is used. In Europe this is not allowed. From somebody who lives in Europe, this could be a bit stricter. So how does it work in Europe?
So I worked for CompanyA who had clients (companies) that had customers (people). They decided to close and sell the product portofolio to CompanyB. The customers would still be able to keep the identical product with the same name and what not.
As we sold the product and not the customer, we were not allwed to just send a file with everything to CompanyB and have it automated. What we did was
1) Send a letter that we were going to stop
2) Inform them that if they want, they can cancel
3) If they did not cancel, they would be contacted by CompanyB
4) CompanyB (where I work now) send a letter to the customer saying they would now be dealing with the product
5) The customer needed to sign a new contract
6) All contracts needed to be verified and treated as if they were a new customer (because in reality they were)
The period of transfer CompanyA asked sometimes info about customers that, even while available, we were not allowed to give.
For me personaly this was nice, as I was working for CompanyA while being paid by CompanyB.
Other things mean that if your spouse calls for info, we are not allowed to give it, unless it is explicitely allowed. Mind you, most companies do not honor that last one.
Direct marketing to people is very restricted. It is allowed to customers you have a business relation with (e.g. people who bought something from you) but not to others. So no buying of data and sending then mail or what not.
If people ask to stop sending stuff, you better agree with that.
To me the privacy laws are not going far enough, but that is just a personal opinion.
Looking at large stores, I believe they should do that in more countries. Can you imagine what that would do for e.g. Walmart?
Or when the auditers are there, so is the cash. 3 hour short term loan. That way the auditer sees the money and is happy. When they come van come from higher up.
I used to work in a hotel many years ago where we knew a day before that an unannounced inspection would take place. The one time they rally came unannounced, they asked me to bring coffee (I was a waiter) and he told me who they were.
That gave us enough time to send home the illegals who were working in the kitchen and in the house. If we could do it with people in 5 minutes, I am sure they can do it with money as well.
These cunts should analize Australian tweets.
Let them code Perl and each time they make a mistake kit them on the head.
If you are about 'no kid left behind' hit ALL the kids on the head, except the kid that made the mistake. It works in the military, so why not in schools?
I use gmx.com as a spambox. I also have my own doamin, so I use aliasses like slashdot.org@example.com
So my process is to use the spam adress for the first subscribtion of e.g. slashdot.org. Then when I see it is something I would like to keep, I make an alias slashdot.org@example.com
That way the spam is send to the spambox. If they decide to sell the adress, I delete the alias (Hi Ebay) and be done with it. If the access to the spambox is lost, nothing of value will be gone as the important sites already send it to me.
Till now (over 10 years) Ebay is the only one where I have removed the email adress and will no longer do any business via them. I think I have 30-40 aliases or so.
If I go on a trip and I need reservations in several hotels, I make an email like trip2016@example.com and have everything neatly together.
I do not like to be dependent on one party, so the DNS and web hosting is not even at the same company, so if one screws up, I can leave at the turn of a dime.
The issue with passwords is that we need so many of them.
IT people only look at the one access you get and make that safe to enter. They basically have a technical solution (login and password) for a social problem (people getting access to things they should not have) and that will not work out well.
So what do IT people look ate? The technical side. What they forget or see as a burden is the human side. They are not interested that I now have not only manyplaces I need to login. In many places I also am unable to select my own login.
At one place I worked I had 17 different logins from different types of access and several keys to type in a code as well. You bet I wrote shit down.
To me all to often the reason for passwords is so that the IT department can say: well, WE did our best, so you can't blame us so sue or fire somebody else. And not look at a real solution.
And no, I am not able to have a password keeper program as on most systems I am not allowed to install anything and I am not always on the same location, nor do all have access to the Inetrtubes.
How many stay in Finland? 1350 sounds like a lot.
What do you mean that this is not happening. That is exactly what happend in Brussels. They exploded themselves at the check-in, before any check has been done.
In the first few days after opening Brussels, they had the people waiting outside before the first initial check. Had they done anything there, the count would have been much higher.
Now they have an initial check with just your boaring card and other checks later. As far as I can tell from the flights I took from Brussels before and since is that they are trying to reduce the concentrqtion of people qs much qs possible.
Interesting is that while in Belgium an official ID is obligatory, the only place I have to chow it when traveling inside Schenen is at the gate.and nowhere else.
Why are we ok that these are two different worlds? Why is it not ok to have the same privacy on one device, but expect it on another?
By being ok they can do it with a phone, you have given them a finger and they will take your arm. We should give them the finger. To me a phone is just another device with computing power and I expect the same with anything else, be it a server, desktop, laptop, tablet, phone, watch, car, fridge, toaster or whatever has computing power (or lack of it).
It is pretty simple: DO NOT USE MY DATA!
I do not even want them to use my data on their servers. Not even when I clicked OK. There is no need to explain that I clicked OK and they have the right to do so. That does not mean I WANT that to happen and there is no need to defend them. They have lawyers who do that for a living.
Concerning the tax program. It apparently depends on your country. e.g. in Belgium it works great via Linux. But that is because it is via a website and authentication is done via your (obligatory) ID with a chip on it and the source for the readers is open source and available compiled in all major distro's.or downloable via http://eid.belgium.be/en
Thanks for the confirmation. I have a short attention span; so I did not want to check it myself.
Money. Now that was easy.
As long as people can take the profits and not pay the costs, why WOULD they do it?
We, as a species, are killing each other for almost anything. We do not care about the species. We kill each other for way less (or let others do the killing for you).
I have my own domain with unlimited aliases and filter my mail on my Linux box. So here is what I do:
I use e.g. Slashdot.orrg@example.com. This has several advatnages ...
1) It is easy to filter. I have separate mailboxes for different types of sites. e.g. purchases, banking, serious sites, fun sites,
2) Easy to see who sells or gives away your email. (Looking at you ebay) regardless if it was opt in or opt out.
3) Easy to verify if it is spam. And this is the most import one for me.
That means I have always a dual verification and it means that if there is an issue, I just cancel the alias (e.g. ebay as I was getting a LOT of spam and will not be working with them again)
For me the most important part is that I can easily verify if it is e.g. my bank that is sending me something or if it is a spammer that emulates the email and it was not filtered out by the standard spam filters.