Wouldn't it be ironic if the game plot was about a society that degenerated in a post-apocalyptic nightmare after they failed to properly secure their backups?
For those wanting to learn from this I was able to kill the lawsuit dead in it's tracks. When I talked with corporate legal counsel I asked them a simple question. Did the license say 'concurrent' or 'seat' in the fine print? Legal counsel came back to me an hour later to let me know that the license said "concurrent" and not seat. The fact that we had 8000 installations was meaningless/if/ I could prove that we never exceeded 5000 concurrent users.
Would not have been a job for the plaintiff? I mean, that it was they who had to demonstrate that you had exceeded the concurrent users limit? Of course, you would have had to submit to them all your logs, if you were required by the court.
Sorry, but first aid help is not brought to your home. You get to refugee camp, there you get aid.
So, no need for funky software to track parcel A from sender B to receiver C. You load a bunch of sacks in a truck/airplane, and unload where told. Or to check how much overtime has done employee D last week to calculate his paycheck.
Yes, they have some hardware. Lots of people have it, too. Unless UPS hardware is rugged to go through damaged communication lines, it is not that valuable. Unless UPS has strategic fuel and electricity reserves to operate it, it is not that important. Unless UPS personel can be expected to stay at their work places and don't go to their homes to protect their family / valuables / see what happened, they are not that reliable.
In the hour of need, an UPS could be a nice thing to have. But John Doe's truck would be equally as useful, because the wonderful organization of UPS is just not designed for that kind of situation and would be useless.
And BTW, forget about the 7 days issue. Once you have a generator big enough, adding days of autonomy is dirty cheap. You just need to add a few extra deposits of fuel, and it is not as if you are losing its value for holding there idle. Is a quick and cheap to look "ready for everythin".
They should really hurry themselves. Even in good conditions paper desintegrates slowly and, for what I have read, paper made since the 50s has a higher acidic composition that makes it even less durable.
Yes but UPS must stay running because the only way to recover from such a disaster is for UPS, FedEx and such to stay running. Under the martial law that would follow such an event the military would be ensuring they get priority access to whatever fuel can be obtained. That is why they figure on a week. If they can't get more in that time it is truly game over anyway. And anyway, the datacenter without fuel for the trucks and planes wouldn't help a lot.
Yes, because humanitarian aid, heavy repair machinery and qualified personnel will be delivered by UPS... go figure. Ah, and UPS workstations, communication networks (including wireless) and electricity and fuel will come from a diferent network that won't be affected by such an event.
The seven day figure is good for a minor local catastrophe event (a tornado, floodings, earthquake) or even just unreliable power suppliers. But the real reason is that, in case the shit hits the fan, UPS CIO can go to the board and claim that he had the datacenters protected against anything that could be expected.
The only mechanism I can think of which would case a solar flare to render optical disks unreadable would be radiation damage. A solar flare which delivered that kind of dose would likely wipe out all life on earth so you probably wouldn't be worrying about your backups.
A good sysadmin would worry about backups even after death...:-P
Lotus Notes. As fair as I have tested, it might run on Mozilla but works better in IE.
In fact, for new software in general, Mozilla compatibility is desirable, but the official platform is Windows + IE and all software must support it, and it is the platform that will be supported by the IT staff.
The one who thinks that, just because it is 2012, all our IT will automagically upgrade itself without the required investments, and that we will leave all our legacy systems because they are "not cool"
Oh, and the one that the issue will be resolved by arguing with me instead of arguing with the boss of the boss of the boss.... of my boss.
On the other hand, know-it-all users are fun to talk to.
Just today I had a chat with someone who complained that he could not use our IE centric webmail with his private iPad. It was funny seeing his gears running about how to make me confess the secret trick to make his iPad work with our system (including the usual reference to another organization vaguely related to us where "they can do it").
Of course, the time lost with those wankers. Luckily today was a slow day.
We want to kindly remind you that there are other countries on Earth, most of them inhabited by humans.
In accordance, we find it hard to understand that you react to a post concerning international treatries (which assume the existence of said several countries) just by looking at your country and thinking that it only applies to it.
Kindly regards.
More than 90% of mankind (too lazy to do the math right now).
When countries trying to violate their disarment treaties do secret development in the middle of the main street.
Now, if they did somehow try to hide it in military/restricted instalations, that would make this proposal senseless. But evil war-mongering, rearming tyrants would not do that, wouldn't they?
How many people live in a country? How many poll watchers do you need to ensure that nobody gets in fraudulently?
Also, even if caught, the worst that the trickster gets is that his vote does not get counted.
Really, as a way of ensuring the legality of votes that method is just a joke. If you want to rig it with foreigners, just give as a direction an unpopulated, remote area and trust in probabilities.
Neither me or the post talks about remotely controlling vehicles. I meant "immobilize" in the old sense of having the driver stop, getting the keys, etc., as a way of discouraging tampering with the device (as an alternative to fines).
A national toll road system with tags that could be easily swapped or faked (as suggested by dutchwhizzman)??? That would be akin to a 50 meter radius wireless credit card with no authentication code. Bad idea.
well, if you're willing to drive around with fake plates. I suppose plenty of people in brazil are doing just that though..
Could you provide some explanation of your comment? Maybe it was just me, but it sounded a lot like "they are poor so most of them must be criminals" (or maybe it was "they live south of the border".
I mean, do you have any data (reports, statistics, even some news article or even anecdotal evidence) to support your sentence? Any explanation of why "plenty of people" are willing to take the effort of swapping plates and risk of getting caught?
You only have to provide the cops with a reader. At any police control, check if the data from the radio checks the one you can see (after all, all the data will be public/visible, according to TFS). If it does not match, fine/inmovilize the vehicle/whatever.
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Mars has no atmosphere/magnetosphere, so I think that even if it is farther away from the Sun it would be hit way harder than Earth's surface.
Wouldn't it be ironic if the game plot was about a society that degenerated in a post-apocalyptic nightmare after they failed to properly secure their backups?
For those wanting to learn from this I was able to kill the lawsuit dead in it's tracks. When I talked with corporate legal counsel I asked them a simple question. Did the license say 'concurrent' or 'seat' in the fine print? Legal counsel came back to me an hour later to let me know that the license said "concurrent" and not seat. The fact that we had 8000 installations was meaningless /if/ I could prove that we never exceeded 5000 concurrent users.
Would not have been a job for the plaintiff? I mean, that it was they who had to demonstrate that you had exceeded the concurrent users limit? Of course, you would have had to submit to them all your logs, if you were required by the court.
LMAO.
Sorry, but first aid help is not brought to your home. You get to refugee camp, there you get aid.
So, no need for funky software to track parcel A from sender B to receiver C. You load a bunch of sacks in a truck/airplane, and unload where told. Or to check how much overtime has done employee D last week to calculate his paycheck.
Yes, they have some hardware. Lots of people have it, too. Unless UPS hardware is rugged to go through damaged communication lines, it is not that valuable. Unless UPS has strategic fuel and electricity reserves to operate it, it is not that important. Unless UPS personel can be expected to stay at their work places and don't go to their homes to protect their family / valuables / see what happened, they are not that reliable.
In the hour of need, an UPS could be a nice thing to have. But John Doe's truck would be equally as useful, because the wonderful organization of UPS is just not designed for that kind of situation and would be useless.
And BTW, forget about the 7 days issue. Once you have a generator big enough, adding days of autonomy is dirty cheap. You just need to add a few extra deposits of fuel, and it is not as if you are losing its value for holding there idle. Is a quick and cheap to look "ready for everythin".
They should really hurry themselves. Even in good conditions paper desintegrates slowly and, for what I have read, paper made since the 50s has a higher acidic composition that makes it even less durable.
Yes but UPS must stay running because the only way to recover from such a disaster is for UPS, FedEx and such to stay running. Under the martial law that would follow such an event the military would be ensuring they get priority access to whatever fuel can be obtained. That is why they figure on a week. If they can't get more in that time it is truly game over anyway. And anyway, the datacenter without fuel for the trucks and planes wouldn't help a lot.
Yes, because humanitarian aid, heavy repair machinery and qualified personnel will be delivered by UPS... go figure. Ah, and UPS workstations, communication networks (including wireless) and electricity and fuel will come from a diferent network that won't be affected by such an event.
The seven day figure is good for a minor local catastrophe event (a tornado, floodings, earthquake) or even just unreliable power suppliers. But the real reason is that, in case the shit hits the fan, UPS CIO can go to the board and claim that he had the datacenters protected against anything that could be expected.
The only mechanism I can think of which would case a solar flare to render optical disks unreadable would be radiation damage. A solar flare which delivered that kind of dose would likely wipe out all life on earth so you probably wouldn't be worrying about your backups.
A good sysadmin would worry about backups even after death... :-P
Lotus Notes. As fair as I have tested, it might run on Mozilla but works better in IE.
In fact, for new software in general, Mozilla compatibility is desirable, but the official platform is Windows + IE and all software must support it, and it is the platform that will be supported by the IT staff.
The one who thinks that, just because it is 2012, all our IT will automagically upgrade itself without the required investments, and that we will leave all our legacy systems because they are "not cool"
Oh, and the one that the issue will be resolved by arguing with me instead of arguing with the boss of the boss of the boss .... of my boss.
On the other hand, know-it-all users are fun to talk to.
Just today I had a chat with someone who complained that he could not use our IE centric webmail with his private iPad. It was funny seeing his gears running about how to make me confess the secret trick to make his iPad work with our system (including the usual reference to another organization vaguely related to us where "they can do it").
Of course, the time lost with those wankers. Luckily today was a slow day.
Most artists, when something as dull as that, just dissasemble it/store it in the basement.
No need to use a space rocket to dispose of it.
FROM: Earth
TO: USA-Citizens
SUBJECT: Outside the USA
Dear Sir or Madam:
We want to kindly remind you that there are other countries on Earth, most of them inhabited by humans.
In accordance, we find it hard to understand that you react to a post concerning international treatries (which assume the existence of said several countries) just by looking at your country and thinking that it only applies to it.
Kindly regards.
More than 90% of mankind (too lazy to do the math right now).
When countries trying to violate their disarment treaties do secret development in the middle of the main street.
Now, if they did somehow try to hide it in military/restricted instalations, that would make this proposal senseless. But evil war-mongering, rearming tyrants would not do that, wouldn't they?
Vietnam, Korea, Czech Republic and many other want to object...
So....
How many people live in a country? How many poll watchers do you need to ensure that nobody gets in fraudulently?
Also, even if caught, the worst that the trickster gets is that his vote does not get counted.
Really, as a way of ensuring the legality of votes that method is just a joke. If you want to rig it with foreigners, just give as a direction an unpopulated, remote area and trust in probabilities.
Don't tell that to your doctor...
Neither me or the post talks about remotely controlling vehicles. I meant "immobilize" in the old sense of having the driver stop, getting the keys, etc., as a way of discouraging tampering with the device (as an alternative to fines).
Apart from the position, it is always do some regular exercise so your muscles can stand your weight better.
Also, don't forget to move a little (even if it is just goig to the water cooler) once in a while.
But I'll keep waiting for the news about the turtle and the elephants :-).
A national toll road system with tags that could be easily swapped or faked (as suggested by dutchwhizzman)??? That would be akin to a 50 meter radius wireless credit card with no authentication code. Bad idea.
well, if you're willing to drive around with fake plates. I suppose plenty of people in brazil are doing just that though..
Could you provide some explanation of your comment? Maybe it was just me, but it sounded a lot like "they are poor so most of them must be criminals" (or maybe it was "they live south of the border".
I mean, do you have any data (reports, statistics, even some news article or even anecdotal evidence) to support your sentence? Any explanation of why "plenty of people" are willing to take the effort of swapping plates and risk of getting caught?
You only have to provide the cops with a reader. At any police control, check if the data from the radio checks the one you can see (after all, all the data will be public/visible, according to TFS). If it does not match, fine/inmovilize the vehicle/whatever.
It means that if someone sets a private "listening" station, they will get no more data that they could have get just looking at the car.
Only the people with access to the vehicles registration database(i.e. the state) could make a match with additional info (owner, address, and so on).
Did he RTFM?
Maybe it was something like
These articles always miss the details.
You are right but also, with thin air you get less heat transfer for cooling, so it is not as simply as that.
Windows will finally run at acceptable speed?
Unfortunately, this will happen in the Year of the Linux Desktop so we will not be able to notice.... :-p
Interpret that as you like.