An email that originated from inside the network pretended to be from the U.S. Postal Service. A few hundred systems were infected. Everyone was told to turn off the viewing pane in Outlook to avoid automatically launching the script inside the email. Nasty little bugger.
Yeah, the article says "gone and can not be restored" when it's clearly "will not be restored" since they clearly CAN do it. Logic fail.
It's a common policy statement to avoid being inundated with requests to recover deleted files. The website did have backups and was able to recover that deleted file.
And you stayed in the business rather than becoming a tour guide or a plumber?
During a six-month internship, I regressed 600 legacy bugs in two months (~30 bugs were still valid in the current build), fix web pages, and wrote a 200-page manual for a new software tool. My next job after was being a video game tester for six years, splitting my time between being a tester and a lead tester. Cleaning up the Japanese-to-English translations was worse a lot than cleaning up HTML code.
The end result may be a boom in tech businesses that choose to do business where these cheap labor pools are available.
Like manufacturing jobs returning the US because China is getting too expensive?
But despite what the rhetoric would have us believe, global manufacturing is trending in a positive direction for the U.S. Factory jobs are on the rise here, and many of these new jobs are coming back to North America from China, which is struggling to maintain its manufacturing capacity. Since March, 2010, when manufacturing employment in the U.S. hit a trough of 11.45 million jobs, nearly a million new factory positions have been created, most of them in the Southern states, particularly North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee. Better still, the jobs are typically good ones: across that same five-year period, average hourly manufacturing wages have increased over ten per cent, to more than twenty dollars. On the whole, U.S. manufacturing, as measured by the Purchasing Managers' Index, has steadily expanded.
If visa restrictions arrive, IT services firms may increase reliance on web-based "knowledge transfer" to avoid having visa workers at an employer's site.
If a computer need to be re-image, the user will have to FedEx the computer to India, wait three months for the computer to return, and find their PST file missing from Outlook. That should save a lot of money.
At my job in Silicon Valley, I'm classified as a computer engineer doing senior system admin work for IT support pay. I pointed out to the HR department that those different titles implied I should be making 2X to 4X what I'm currently making. Being an East Coast firm, they're reluctant to pay more than the national average even though they do pay more for employees in New York City.
0.72 out of every dollar a male makes goes to a female.
That's a huge improvement! My father gave 100% of his paycheck to my mother each week. If he didn't, all hell would break loose and he would have to sleep in the truck.
After six years of being a video game tester, and four years of making more money working in help desk support, I was long overdue for a decent gaming rig.:P
College is not supposed to be a trade school. It is supposed to prepare you for the real world. If you want a trade school, go to a trade school.
Every high school is sending kids straight into college (or prison in poorer areas). None are telling kids that trade school is an option. The US is facing a shortage of skilled trades people like plumbers, electricians and carpenters.
AI writing code for us? What could possibly go wrong?
Bloated code like the old HTML editors used to produce in late 1990's. My first job as a Software QA tester was to fix the HTML code that Dreamweaver produced when the picture perfect table goes FUBAR and the web designer had a hissy-fit. I still prefer using a text editor for HTML code.
Stop trying to lump things together that do not need to be lumped together. It dilutes all of it to the point of mediocrity.
This isn't surprising. Some states are calling for more funding of STEM and less funding of the humanities. If the degree doesn't lead to a high-paying job, it shouldn't be funded.
20 years ago my computer science prof used this to explain why I should stay for my PhD rather than get a job doing real work (which at the time, was paying really, really well).
My college computer instructor in the early 1990's told the class that 4GB RAM was all anyone needed in the future. Back then, 4MB RAM was a big deal. For the most part, he was correct. My current gaming PC had 4GB RAM since 2007. I'll probably go with 16GB or 32GB in the next rebuild.
I associate the 'A' with technical skills in the fine arts, performing arts or academic skills in art history, literature, anthropology, etc.
These days it better to be a 'C' (corporate) person who hires 'B' people for management and 'A' people for engineering. You want to own the corporate ladder rather than be owned by the corporate ladder.
Otherwise known as Grammar Nazis in middle school. Needless to say, I learned neither English nor grammar from them. I had wonderful college instructor who didn't upbraid me for explaining that a particular grammar example "felt right" because I didn't know and couldn't explain the rulebook definition.
I don't have any plausible theories as to why that isn't an option.
Based on my recent experience with installing Linux on my 2006 MacBook, the process is a PITA. After installing an alternative boot loader (see link below) and partitioning the hard drive, not every version of Linux will install correctly. I installed Mint Linux because the installer recognizes that it was on a MacBook and booted up fine without issue.
Seems odd they would distrust Lenovo but be perfectly happy to buy MacBooks, also made in China.
They were looking at the BIOS for security issues and each new Lenovo BIOS raised questions about potential backdoors. I didn't hear of any issues regarding Apple BIOS.
When I worked at the Google help desk in 2008, the powers to be were talking about moving away from the Lenovo laptops because they suspected that the Chinese government were putting a backdoor into the BIOS. When I did contract work for a Google data center in 2011, the only laptops I saw were MacBook Pros from Apple.
Ya totally just cemented owning that laughable nickname by your own compete lack of understanding and usage of it.
I understand perfectly what it meant. But people who give me a negative nickname become uncomfortable when I take ownership of the nickname, turn it around and wear it as a badge of honor. I used to be called "Tortuga" (Spanish for turtle) when I worked in a restaurant. I got removed from working the line as captain after a month because I worked the Latinos too hard and too fast.
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It's mostly new automated factories with few workers.
Obviously, workers are needed to fix the machines.
An email that originated from inside the network pretended to be from the U.S. Postal Service. A few hundred systems were infected. Everyone was told to turn off the viewing pane in Outlook to avoid automatically launching the script inside the email. Nasty little bugger.
When did Slashdot become a haven for retarded Republican faggots?
When Slashdot got a corporate owner or two.
Yeah, the article says "gone and can not be restored" when it's clearly "will not be restored" since they clearly CAN do it. Logic fail.
It's a common policy statement to avoid being inundated with requests to recover deleted files. The website did have backups and was able to recover that deleted file.
And you stayed in the business rather than becoming a tour guide or a plumber?
During a six-month internship, I regressed 600 legacy bugs in two months (~30 bugs were still valid in the current build), fix web pages, and wrote a 200-page manual for a new software tool. My next job after was being a video game tester for six years, splitting my time between being a tester and a lead tester. Cleaning up the Japanese-to-English translations was worse a lot than cleaning up HTML code.
The end result may be a boom in tech businesses that choose to do business where these cheap labor pools are available.
Like manufacturing jobs returning the US because China is getting too expensive?
But despite what the rhetoric would have us believe, global manufacturing is trending in a positive direction for the U.S. Factory jobs are on the rise here, and many of these new jobs are coming back to North America from China, which is struggling to maintain its manufacturing capacity. Since March, 2010, when manufacturing employment in the U.S. hit a trough of 11.45 million jobs, nearly a million new factory positions have been created, most of them in the Southern states, particularly North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee. Better still, the jobs are typically good ones: across that same five-year period, average hourly manufacturing wages have increased over ten per cent, to more than twenty dollars. On the whole, U.S. manufacturing, as measured by the Purchasing Managers' Index, has steadily expanded.
http://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/why-donald-trump-is-wrong-about-manufacturing-jobs-and-china
If visa restrictions arrive, IT services firms may increase reliance on web-based "knowledge transfer" to avoid having visa workers at an employer's site.
If a computer need to be re-image, the user will have to FedEx the computer to India, wait three months for the computer to return, and find their PST file missing from Outlook. That should save a lot of money.
At my job in Silicon Valley, I'm classified as a computer engineer doing senior system admin work for IT support pay. I pointed out to the HR department that those different titles implied I should be making 2X to 4X what I'm currently making. Being an East Coast firm, they're reluctant to pay more than the national average even though they do pay more for employees in New York City.
0.72 out of every dollar a male makes goes to a female.
That's a huge improvement! My father gave 100% of his paycheck to my mother each week. If he didn't, all hell would break loose and he would have to sleep in the truck.
A gaming machine is a want not a need ;).
After six years of being a video game tester, and four years of making more money working in help desk support, I was long overdue for a decent gaming rig. :P
College is not supposed to be a trade school. It is supposed to prepare you for the real world. If you want a trade school, go to a trade school.
Every high school is sending kids straight into college (or prison in poorer areas). None are telling kids that trade school is an option. The US is facing a shortage of skilled trades people like plumbers, electricians and carpenters.
AI writing code for us? What could possibly go wrong?
Bloated code like the old HTML editors used to produce in late 1990's. My first job as a Software QA tester was to fix the HTML code that Dreamweaver produced when the picture perfect table goes FUBAR and the web designer had a hissy-fit. I still prefer using a text editor for HTML code.
Stop trying to lump things together that do not need to be lumped together. It dilutes all of it to the point of mediocrity.
This isn't surprising. Some states are calling for more funding of STEM and less funding of the humanities. If the degree doesn't lead to a high-paying job, it shouldn't be funded.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/22/business/a-rising-call-to-promote-stem-education-and-cut-liberal-arts-funding.html
20 years ago my computer science prof used this to explain why I should stay for my PhD rather than get a job doing real work (which at the time, was paying really, really well).
My college computer instructor in the early 1990's told the class that 4GB RAM was all anyone needed in the future. Back then, 4MB RAM was a big deal. For the most part, he was correct. My current gaming PC had 4GB RAM since 2007. I'll probably go with 16GB or 32GB in the next rebuild.
I associate the 'A' with technical skills in the fine arts, performing arts or academic skills in art history, literature, anthropology, etc.
These days it better to be a 'C' (corporate) person who hires 'B' people for management and 'A' people for engineering. You want to own the corporate ladder rather than be owned by the corporate ladder.
a writer with perfect grammar, but nothing to say
Otherwise known as Grammar Nazis in middle school. Needless to say, I learned neither English nor grammar from them. I had wonderful college instructor who didn't upbraid me for explaining that a particular grammar example "felt right" because I didn't know and couldn't explain the rulebook definition.
My kids won't need to code because soon computers will just code for them.
The 1980's called and want their software back.
I don't have any plausible theories as to why that isn't an option.
Based on my recent experience with installing Linux on my 2006 MacBook, the process is a PITA. After installing an alternative boot loader (see link below) and partitioning the hard drive, not every version of Linux will install correctly. I installed Mint Linux because the installer recognizes that it was on a MacBook and booted up fine without issue.
http://www.rodsbooks.com/refind/
Seems odd they would distrust Lenovo but be perfectly happy to buy MacBooks, also made in China.
They were looking at the BIOS for security issues and each new Lenovo BIOS raised questions about potential backdoors. I didn't hear of any issues regarding Apple BIOS.
I'm typing this on my Google-issued Macbook, which I wish was running Ubuntu or Debian, but I make do with OS X
I'm surprised that Goobuntu doesn't run on a Mac.
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Lenovo is owned by the Chinsese. Apple is not, and, presumably, has safeguards against the firmware being tampered with from there to here.
I know it's a crazy idea, but maybe if Apple built their own servers, they wouldn't have to worry about that.
Or they can buy a rack-mountable chassis for Mac Minis and Mac Pros from Other World Computing.
http://eshop.macsales.com/search/mac+rack
When I worked at the Google help desk in 2008, the powers to be were talking about moving away from the Lenovo laptops because they suspected that the Chinese government were putting a backdoor into the BIOS. When I did contract work for a Google data center in 2011, the only laptops I saw were MacBook Pros from Apple.
Yeah, except Stihl was the founder's name; it's also a German company so no relation to the English word.
Can't be German. It's too short. :)
Ya totally just cemented owning that laughable nickname by your own compete lack of understanding and usage of it.
I understand perfectly what it meant. But people who give me a negative nickname become uncomfortable when I take ownership of the nickname, turn it around and wear it as a badge of honor. I used to be called "Tortuga" (Spanish for turtle) when I worked in a restaurant. I got removed from working the line as captain after a month because I worked the Latinos too hard and too fast.
And that explains ever so much.
That readability counts? Absolutely! :)