The reality is their are hundreds of thousands if not millions of hardware and software combinations, no company or OSS provider can come even close to testing it all for such a significant system change. All they can do is make a best effort.
same way crap gets on 99% of systems be it windows, Linux or OS.X, poor user practises and education. malware rarely targets vulnerabilities nowadays as it is much easy to find away in through the Exploit sitting at the keyboard, this has been the case for quite a few years now.
Also, why isn't what the malware maker doing illegal?
Not sure on this particular case as can't be bothered reading the whole story. BUT most malware/adware is perfectly legal as it relies on user ignorance and stupidity, simply put in some terms and conditions that you accept the adware in the install of product X, 99% of people don't read the terms so you have an easy install path that is perfectly legal.
and that would get them precisely nothing, undercutting another countries tax rate is perfectly fine in the EU and they can scream all they want. What is NOT fine is giving specific companies tax deals that are not available to all companies which is what Ireland have done.
LOL Ireland setting an example of thrift and judgement lol you aren't familiar with the state of the Irish economy I gather. hint while stealing this money they also had multiple bailouts from the EU over the last decade.
Ireland saw an opportunity to steal tax revenue from other countries in order to provide minor benefits to its own local economy. It got called out for it and now is whining about it. Ireland would be one of the countries to suffer the most should the EU dissolve or become irrelevant, they depend on it hugely to maintain their economy.
He was claiming to have performed work that he never actually did. He was caught out when it was shown that he hadn't serviced the equipment he was claiming to have done. basically unless you expect the manager to be running to every site and inspecting the equipment after it is supposedly serviced I am not sure what you think the Manager could have done. The guy lied his arse off, eventually these sort of people get caught but it isn't realistic for a manager to be standing over a supposed professional workmans shoulder all day every day.
you don't get comfortable with it until you have practised a lot. When you hit the top you still have probably played less than 20% of your real match time against lefthanders, this is extremely significant in reaction, muscle memory and practised moves. while eventually you will become comfortable it takes time and during that time the lefties have a significant advantage against you, incidentally lefties have exactly the same issue against other lefties.
The reality is whiel they may be disproportionate at the top they are NOT that way where most people learn, practise or play the majority of their matches. Even in Fencing where they are around half at the top, you still will not practise with or fight nearly half your matches with lefties. They are an oddity and uncomfortable to compete against even in sports where they are in significant numbers at the top.
The problem is far more fundamental than that, computers only operate on binary information/numbers. They have no awareness of the world or even self awareness, instinct or motivation, they are a 1000 times below the level of a feral human and even with huge amounts of teaching, couching and assistance cannot ever perceive the world or have self awareness or that drive and instinct (at least not with anything that has yet been conceived or developed).
I regularly do that, I live in Australia. Last week it was actually closer to 12 hours with the only break a refuel and 5 min leg stretch. When you grow up where the daily commute can be a couple of hours drive then 6-8 hours is not even challenging.
The Secret ingredient is DON'T just be a technical resource, understand the business, add value at architecture, design and analysis of projects and problems, if you have government customers then things like security clearance and customer knowledge etc. As a purely technical resource you are a commodity item that is readily replaceable, as part of the business you are much more valuable. Their is this myth that still perpetuates that outsourcing to cheap overseas labour means poor quality, that is not the case any longer (at least not if they are hiring well), It is hard or impossible to compete directly on skill/cost as they have such a huge advantage in cost so you have to add value elsewhere that cannot easily be outsourced.
impeachment is separate to the prosecution, impeachments entire purpose is to remove someone from office for offenses committed while in office, impeachment has no purpose if they are not in office as the prosecution is separate it is like trying to fire someone who already quit. William Belknap was impeached after resigning but only because it was said he resigned specifically to avoid impeachment so they voted anyway, interestingly they then failed to convict him and their was even one who refused to vote on conviction as he believed they did not have jurisdiction due to the resignation.
A guys wife running up a large debt is actually a concerning scenario from a security perspective, it means external parties now have a financial leverage point against you, these are areas that make you a potential vulnerability and are areas that external parties actively seek.
Only if it was one person doing the review. I imagine they had a very large team, given the publicity, going through them and the vast majority of them would be easy to filter out as noise just like anyone elses inbox. probably comes down to less than a thousand per person needing careful reading.
As are many things in the consumer world, especially in technology space. If you start rating things by whether they are a waste of money or not then a lot of industries will be backrupt very quickly with everything from alcohol on up disappearing.
He made plenty of mistakes (but so does every CEO as you can't predict the future perfectly), but on the whole he was extremely successful CEO that increased profit and revenue throughout his tenure. He certainly missed the smartphone boat, but he got the Surface right (after the initial dud that was RT).
Sounds like they are giving it the Ghostbusters, Total Recall, Godzilla treatment. How about the concept of if you find the original too fucking offensive then stay the fuck away from it rather than trying to reimagine it as a steaming pile of shit.
then why does she use a pro? That is like buying a big rig because you want to fit all your groceries in one go. As a writer she has some of the most basic needs of any user.
A quick history of the past 40 years would quickly tell you what a batshit crazy idea that would be. ISIS, Al Queda and many other groups are the result of meddling in politics and wars and supplying arms in that region by the west. It is sad to see that some people think more of the same is the way to fix it.
That Argument doesn't hold. You CANNOT have more than 100% of a share in a market. You can claim Apple have 100% of the profit (which also isn't true), you can't add other companies negative profits to the share.
of course we care about those things here, but this site is NOT a good representation of the general publics views towards consumer technology purchases and is the reason why many here would do very badly if given the opportunity to make decisions for places like Samsung/apple etc.
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The reality is their are hundreds of thousands if not millions of hardware and software combinations, no company or OSS provider can come even close to testing it all for such a significant system change. All they can do is make a best effort.
It still isn't bricked. bricked means permanently unrecoverable.
"It worked fine in development, it must be your environment"
same way crap gets on 99% of systems be it windows, Linux or OS.X, poor user practises and education. malware rarely targets vulnerabilities nowadays as it is much easy to find away in through the Exploit sitting at the keyboard, this has been the case for quite a few years now.
Also, why isn't what the malware maker doing illegal?
Not sure on this particular case as can't be bothered reading the whole story. BUT most malware/adware is perfectly legal as it relies on user ignorance and stupidity, simply put in some terms and conditions that you accept the adware in the install of product X, 99% of people don't read the terms so you have an easy install path that is perfectly legal.
and that would get them precisely nothing, undercutting another countries tax rate is perfectly fine in the EU and they can scream all they want. What is NOT fine is giving specific companies tax deals that are not available to all companies which is what Ireland have done.
LOL Ireland setting an example of thrift and judgement lol you aren't familiar with the state of the Irish economy I gather. hint while stealing this money they also had multiple bailouts from the EU over the last decade.
Ireland saw an opportunity to steal tax revenue from other countries in order to provide minor benefits to its own local economy. It got called out for it and now is whining about it. Ireland would be one of the countries to suffer the most should the EU dissolve or become irrelevant, they depend on it hugely to maintain their economy.
He was claiming to have performed work that he never actually did. He was caught out when it was shown that he hadn't serviced the equipment he was claiming to have done. basically unless you expect the manager to be running to every site and inspecting the equipment after it is supposedly serviced I am not sure what you think the Manager could have done. The guy lied his arse off, eventually these sort of people get caught but it isn't realistic for a manager to be standing over a supposed professional workmans shoulder all day every day.
you don't get comfortable with it until you have practised a lot. When you hit the top you still have probably played less than 20% of your real match time against lefthanders, this is extremely significant in reaction, muscle memory and practised moves. while eventually you will become comfortable it takes time and during that time the lefties have a significant advantage against you, incidentally lefties have exactly the same issue against other lefties.
The reality is whiel they may be disproportionate at the top they are NOT that way where most people learn, practise or play the majority of their matches. Even in Fencing where they are around half at the top, you still will not practise with or fight nearly half your matches with lefties. They are an oddity and uncomfortable to compete against even in sports where they are in significant numbers at the top.
The problem is far more fundamental than that, computers only operate on binary information/numbers. They have no awareness of the world or even self awareness, instinct or motivation, they are a 1000 times below the level of a feral human and even with huge amounts of teaching, couching and assistance cannot ever perceive the world or have self awareness or that drive and instinct (at least not with anything that has yet been conceived or developed).
I regularly do that, I live in Australia. Last week it was actually closer to 12 hours with the only break a refuel and 5 min leg stretch. When you grow up where the daily commute can be a couple of hours drive then 6-8 hours is not even challenging.
The Secret ingredient is DON'T just be a technical resource, understand the business, add value at architecture, design and analysis of projects and problems, if you have government customers then things like security clearance and customer knowledge etc. As a purely technical resource you are a commodity item that is readily replaceable, as part of the business you are much more valuable. Their is this myth that still perpetuates that outsourcing to cheap overseas labour means poor quality, that is not the case any longer (at least not if they are hiring well), It is hard or impossible to compete directly on skill/cost as they have such a huge advantage in cost so you have to add value elsewhere that cannot easily be outsourced.
impeachment is separate to the prosecution, impeachments entire purpose is to remove someone from office for offenses committed while in office, impeachment has no purpose if they are not in office as the prosecution is separate it is like trying to fire someone who already quit. William Belknap was impeached after resigning but only because it was said he resigned specifically to avoid impeachment so they voted anyway, interestingly they then failed to convict him and their was even one who refused to vote on conviction as he believed they did not have jurisdiction due to the resignation.
A guys wife running up a large debt is actually a concerning scenario from a security perspective, it means external parties now have a financial leverage point against you, these are areas that make you a potential vulnerability and are areas that external parties actively seek.
Only if it was one person doing the review. I imagine they had a very large team, given the publicity, going through them and the vast majority of them would be easy to filter out as noise just like anyone elses inbox. probably comes down to less than a thousand per person needing careful reading.
As are many things in the consumer world, especially in technology space. If you start rating things by whether they are a waste of money or not then a lot of industries will be backrupt very quickly with everything from alcohol on up disappearing.
He made plenty of mistakes (but so does every CEO as you can't predict the future perfectly), but on the whole he was extremely successful CEO that increased profit and revenue throughout his tenure. He certainly missed the smartphone boat, but he got the Surface right (after the initial dud that was RT).
Sounds like they are giving it the Ghostbusters, Total Recall, Godzilla treatment. How about the concept of if you find the original too fucking offensive then stay the fuck away from it rather than trying to reimagine it as a steaming pile of shit.
then why does she use a pro? That is like buying a big rig because you want to fit all your groceries in one go. As a writer she has some of the most basic needs of any user.
leading down? Turkey were way down that road long before this was announced.
A quick history of the past 40 years would quickly tell you what a batshit crazy idea that would be. ISIS, Al Queda and many other groups are the result of meddling in politics and wars and supplying arms in that region by the west. It is sad to see that some people think more of the same is the way to fix it.
That Argument doesn't hold. You CANNOT have more than 100% of a share in a market. You can claim Apple have 100% of the profit (which also isn't true), you can't add other companies negative profits to the share.
of course we care about those things here, but this site is NOT a good representation of the general publics views towards consumer technology purchases and is the reason why many here would do very badly if given the opportunity to make decisions for places like Samsung/apple etc.