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  1. What is needed is new processes and controls. You start with a simple governance framework (like COBIT maybe) where each part of the IT ecosystem is linked to a specific business leader, then you let each of those leaders make sure that their area of responsibility is well managed from a risk perspective. That's how you make the company more resilient, not by firing people who maybe were not empowered to make the right decisions in the first place.

    Well, that is what they have been paid for so long. If processes and controls are not in place, to avoid this kind of disaster, the leaders have clearly failed their duties. I might agree that entire staff need not be fired, but it is for sure that blame goes to somebody higher up sitting on his ass, instead of the poor kid.

  2. Traffic Management on All-Electric 'Flying Car' Takes Its First Test Flight In Germany (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I am just wondering how the traffic management will be, when these cars are everywhere.

  3. hard drives breaks; needs to buy whole new computer...

    That's nothing. While Windows was updating, my laptop imploded with mushroom cloud. I had to buy a new house!

  4. Re:documentary on Ask Slashdot: What Is Your Horrible IT Boss Story? · · Score: 1

    I watched a documentary about a guy who was slacking off at work (not showing up for work actually) and when the performance consultants interviewed him he actually got promoted to manager while they laid off a few of his friends or peers! Some other stuff happened in the documentary but I am pretty sure that was the relevant part.

    Was it Office Space? You forgot to tell, how he and his friends take revenge on the printer.

  5. Re:Whoopty Doo on Online Journalists Launch An Onslaught Against Donald Trump (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    It scares crap out of me to witness idiots as Presidents, who know some truth about terrorism and still funding them. Watch this video and then google how much taxpayers money we are giving Pakistan to fund this against our own citizens. Trump may be speaking a lot out of his head, but some issues raised by him made me think.

  6. And India is officially on The Americas Are Now Officially 'Measles-Free' (theverge.com) · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    declaring war on terror by striking terrorist training camps and launch pads inside Pakistan

  7. My dad is taller than your dad. :P

  8. Re:World Police? on Hacker Who Aided ISIS Gets 20 Years In Prison (softpedia.com) · · Score: 2

    We have picked up thousands of terrorists from Pakistan, and placed them in Guantanamo bay. What is your point?

    A terrorist does not care who is being killed. I would love to see entire world coming together against them as a single unit, and detain them/punish them under some new international law (making sure nationality, original place of crime etc do not become obstacles.). Otherwise we will be spending time debating norms and they will emerge as winner.

  9. Re:The Self Reward Syndrome on Activity Trackers May Undermine Weight Loss Efforts, Says Study (sciencedaily.com) · · Score: 2
    My personal experience is, activities in the morning are more effective for weight loss. I used to walk ~4km in the evening for more than a year, but did not result in weight loss. But when switched to morning walk, I could see results in couple of months.

    Probably it has something to do with glucose/sugar levels, which is lowest in the morning. Probably, the apps do not consider some such facts.

  10. Re:They are pledging to something in 30+ years on GM Commits To 100% Renewable Energy By 2050 (cleantechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    I worked with Intel. I learnt there that their energy requirement is almost fulfilled through green energy. Intel manufactures solar cells for their own need, using waste material.

  11. Re:Still rolling on NASA Shares Curiosity's New Mars Photos (nasa.gov) · · Score: 1

    Did you hear about Pale Blue Dot? The onboard vidicon cameras, designed in 1970's for Voyager 1, are still working and taking that picture.

  12. Re: BSD on the rise on PC-BSD Follows a Rolling Release Model, Gets Renamed To TrueOS · · Score: 1

    ROFL

  13. Re:I am not saying it's aliens. on SETI Has Observed a 'Strong' Signal That May Originate From a Sun-like Star (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I vote we send them all our lawyers to verify that.

    And also my mother in law.

  14. Great to know about new stuff they are bringing, but what about hangout hogging memory and CPU like crazy? (During summer, in many countries, the hangout has caused thermal shutdown of my laptop.)

  15. Is there option not to turn off feature when my boss or my mother is law is speaking?

  16. if, and only if, he/she prefers using those bitcoins, over anonymity.

  17. I will wait for next movie 'The Wolf Of Hollywood' :-D

  18. I know many, who still are on Windows XP, claiming all upgrades are crap.

  19. Exactly. And now UK has Vijay Mallya with all the money stolen^H^H^H^H^H^H earned from India, UK should pose brave postures.

    BTW, how does strikethrough works on slashdot?

  20. Re:Of course the spin is people are... on In the Aftermath Of Brexit, Brits Google About Irish Passport, Meaning Of EU, and Why it All Happened · · Score: 1

    Much like googling for "How to avoid pregnancy?" after you had unsafe sex. :-D

  21. Re:Fuck you on BBC: UK Votes To Leave The European Union (bbc.com) · · Score: 1
    Because, maybe this could as well be end of EU as whole. Or maybe split of UK. And finally it affects how companies in US are going to do business with them. Changes in laws, changes in trade agreements, fine for monopolistic approaches....everything changes. Hell the Dow futures are down 4%. Asian markets have melted. Sterling is down 10% and down are many currencies. It affects entire world. It affects the way US will export and do business.

    Maybe you are only interested in knowing how Ballmer scratches his ass, but I certainly think this is relevant news to us.

  22. Re:The problem is MOSLEMS on World Reacts To The Worst Mass Shooting In U.S. History (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Real problem is countries like Pakistan who wholeheartedly train, support and fund terrorism. I am sure there are many more.

  23. Re:Remember where the responsibility is on A Third Of Cash Is Held By 5 US Tech Companies (siliconbeat.com) · · Score: 2

    And that is why corporations need to be made illegal.

    You are forgetting citizens these corporations recruit, who get salary and pay taxes and spend money in American markets.

  24. Re:Why does this matter? on Warren Buffett Buys $1 Billion Stake In Apple (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    How does this affect me?

    It probably does not. But looks like Buffett needs new software for candlestick analysis, and that is important for me ;)

  25. Re:Unearned Platforms Given to Moral Guardians on Video Gamers From the '90s Have Turned Out Mostly OK (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, Anita Sarkeesian did indirectly show that at least some of the gamers from the 90s didn't turn out okay

    I had told her not to study my boss. She chose not to listen.