Microsoft might self-destruct if they push Windows S too hard, that is just a nightmare. That'll drive everyone toward Linux in a hurry. Please do it, Microsoft. Push Windows S harder.
I do hope so. The Windows "Shit" edition should make it clear even to the dumbest user.
Indeed. As soon as Win7 goes out of security-support I am doing that. Not quite sure how yet, but possibly just by using two machines and a KVM switch. Alternatively, if Graphics passthrough works well by then, I might jail Win10 in a VM.
As I am a gamer, unless Vulcan makes Linux version of most games a reality by the end of security support for Win7, I cannot fully get rid of it. But I will likely go for one machine for gaming only and a Linux box for everything else. Alternatively, if graphics passthrough works well by then, I will jail Win10 in a VM on a Linux base. But there is no way in this universe I am going to give Win10 access to my email, browsing, and other things.
The gullibility of some people it truly astonishing. The actual situation is exactly the reverse, namely it will start to get beaten routinely. That is the reason why it is "retiring" now, when the carefully crafted illusion of "intelligence" (a blatant lie) still holds.
If it were to continue play, it would start to and then routinely be beaten by human players. And that would ruin the illusion carefully crafted by an unfair set-up. Hence in order to keep up the lie, it has to "retire". The fact of the matter here is that even a good, but not world-class player with an unconventional play-style can beat a master for a few times if said master does not know that unconventional style before and that is what happened here. By now there are just to many reference games out there for it to be able to keep it up.
The whole thing is an utterly meaningless stunt for the gullible. Or in other words: It is a shameless lie.
"We" (as in people that actually have a clue what they are doing) have indeed known that. But the decision-makers have no such understanding. While it is really tacky, I have had to explain catastrophe scenarios to customers that would have killed their company, and all that was needed was a failed software functionality update (which they wanted to do without a possibility to roll-back and no working plan for keeping business going any other way). The people making the decisions these days are bean-counters with zero understanding of risk-management or "visionaries" that have even less of an understanding about the reality of things. And, unfortunately, this often is aided by a corporate culture of "don't rock the boat" and people that warn of consequences get silenced.
There are no "power related" IT outages. There are some where the IT infrastructure could not handle one specific system going down, and that is not a technical issue, but something else which usually is called "gross negligence". The seeming technological root-causes are just transparent lies by misdirection that serve to obscure the fact that management caused this by incompetence, arrogance, greed and general stupidity.
Of course, it requires more than the myopic 3-month planning that most MBAs are capable of at maximum. It also requires a real understanding of risk management and staying away from all short-term optimization. Otherwise, you end up at "save a million, lose a billion", as this seems to be a fine example of.
Claiming this was a "power supply issue" is just lying by misdirection. The root cause is lack of redundancy, lack of resilience and lack of effective business continuity management. All things that cost money and that do not generate profit _unless_ something like this happens. In a healthy infrastructure, one (or even several) power supplies blowing up will not kill your ability to do business.
Events like that are almost universally due to gross mismanagement and should not only result in termination but also prosecution of the "leadership" that allowed this to happen by not being prepared.
Their statement is "We have no plans to implement/switch to systemd, and will try preventing it will ever happen." Looks like there _are_ several sane distributions still around.
Typo. Should obviously have been "couldn't". There is no irony here unless you have no understanding of the little fact that there are mistakes of different severity. Or do you believe that people need to be perfect before they are allowed to criticize others? In that case there is really nothing to add here, because you fail at existence.
Well, I am a "fucking security professional" and I do know how to do my "fucking job", but I also ask a pretty high price for my time. None that were willing to pay have ever regretted it, but there were quite a few that said "too expensive". Not that I lack for work at all...
If you regard the MBA as a valuable qualification that qualifies you to be a competent manager, I do expect you to be offended! If not, there obviously is no need to.
I begin to think of these things as evolution finally beginning to punish the dumb again. Incidentally, it does not matter whether it takes 15min, 1h, 1 day or 1 week to develop an exploit for a vulnerability. The article is dripping stupidity.
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Microsoft might self-destruct if they push Windows S too hard, that is just a nightmare. That'll drive everyone toward Linux in a hurry. Please do it, Microsoft. Push Windows S harder.
I do hope so. The Windows "Shit" edition should make it clear even to the dumbest user.
Indeed. As soon as Win7 goes out of security-support I am doing that. Not quite sure how yet, but possibly just by using two machines and a KVM switch. Alternatively, if Graphics passthrough works well by then, I might jail Win10 in a VM.
Sounds plausible.
You should cut back on the drugs. They are not good for you.
There is a difference between things you can turn of and things you cannot. That is the whole point of the discussion. You seem to have missed that.
As I am a gamer, unless Vulcan makes Linux version of most games a reality by the end of security support for Win7, I cannot fully get rid of it. But I will likely go for one machine for gaming only and a Linux box for everything else. Alternatively, if graphics passthrough works well by then, I will jail Win10 in a VM on a Linux base. But there is no way in this universe I am going to give Win10 access to my email, browsing, and other things.
The gullibility of some people it truly astonishing. The actual situation is exactly the reverse, namely it will start to get beaten routinely. That is the reason why it is "retiring" now, when the carefully crafted illusion of "intelligence" (a blatant lie) still holds.
If it were to continue play, it would start to and then routinely be beaten by human players. And that would ruin the illusion carefully crafted by an unfair set-up. Hence in order to keep up the lie, it has to "retire". The fact of the matter here is that even a good, but not world-class player with an unconventional play-style can beat a master for a few times if said master does not know that unconventional style before and that is what happened here. By now there are just to many reference games out there for it to be able to keep it up.
The whole thing is an utterly meaningless stunt for the gullible. Or in other words: It is a shameless lie.
Actually not having these commercial backers may be an advantage here.
And if that were even remotely true, it would be interesting.
There is nothing funny about being a dysfunctional sadist...
"Power supply failure" does not take down a well-designed and well-maintained infrastructure. This is just a smokescreen to hide incompetence.
"We" (as in people that actually have a clue what they are doing) have indeed known that. But the decision-makers have no such understanding. While it is really tacky, I have had to explain catastrophe scenarios to customers that would have killed their company, and all that was needed was a failed software functionality update (which they wanted to do without a possibility to roll-back and no working plan for keeping business going any other way). The people making the decisions these days are bean-counters with zero understanding of risk-management or "visionaries" that have even less of an understanding about the reality of things. And, unfortunately, this often is aided by a corporate culture of "don't rock the boat" and people that warn of consequences get silenced.
Expect more of these utterly pathetic failures.
There are no "power related" IT outages. There are some where the IT infrastructure could not handle one specific system going down, and that is not a technical issue, but something else which usually is called "gross negligence". The seeming technological root-causes are just transparent lies by misdirection that serve to obscure the fact that management caused this by incompetence, arrogance, greed and general stupidity.
Of course, it requires more than the myopic 3-month planning that most MBAs are capable of at maximum. It also requires a real understanding of risk management and staying away from all short-term optimization. Otherwise, you end up at "save a million, lose a billion", as this seems to be a fine example of.
Claiming this was a "power supply issue" is just lying by misdirection. The root cause is lack of redundancy, lack of resilience and lack of effective business continuity management. All things that cost money and that do not generate profit _unless_ something like this happens. In a healthy infrastructure, one (or even several) power supplies blowing up will not kill your ability to do business.
Events like that are almost universally due to gross mismanagement and should not only result in termination but also prosecution of the "leadership" that allowed this to happen by not being prepared.
Their statement is "We have no plans to implement/switch to systemd, and will try preventing it will ever happen." Looks like there _are_ several sane distributions still around.
Please take your hate and stupidity somewhere else. You clearly have noting at all to contribute.
Typo. Should obviously have been "couldn't". There is no irony here unless you have no understanding of the little fact that there are mistakes of different severity. Or do you believe that people need to be perfect before they are allowed to criticize others? In that case there is really nothing to add here, because you fail at existence.
If you are relating to SOX, that is not worth the paper it is printed on. If it is something else, I also would like to know what it is.
Well, I am a "fucking security professional" and I do know how to do my "fucking job", but I also ask a pretty high price for my time. None that were willing to pay have ever regretted it, but there were quite a few that said "too expensive". Not that I lack for work at all...
If you regard the MBA as a valuable qualification that qualifies you to be a competent manager, I do expect you to be offended! If not, there obviously is no need to.
Oh yes, they are. But the article is about Samba, not sane.
Fascinating. By the same logic, ACs have around 0.001% of the intelligence of normal people. Hey, that one may actually be true!
It has not. It will likely remain an option for a long time (because people are stupid), but nowhere near has it destroyed its competition.
I begin to think of these things as evolution finally beginning to punish the dumb again. Incidentally, it does not matter whether it takes 15min, 1h, 1 day or 1 week to develop an exploit for a vulnerability. The article is dripping stupidity.