Somehow I have a feeling that if this same kind of "bug" had been found in another operating system, such as one coming from Redmond, the discussion and media coverage would have been quite different, and there would have been much more Slashdot comments on this story.
We are talking about passwords stored in clear text, no fix yet, and based on the article, no assurance that the fix would remove copies of the unencrypted passwords. For a company that was wondering how to spend 100 billions. What a joke.
If, however, this were Microsoft or Apple, they would not offer such high amounts as bounties as they would soon go bankrupt from the financial burden of paying out these bounties.
Microsoft has a more cost-effective way to deal with bugs: the MVP, aka as "unpaid Level 1 support staff unleashed on forums and blogs that accept to do Microsoft's work in exchange for a title, a pin and a secret handshake instead of a salary". And when MVP cannot solve a problem or find a serious bug, they simply push them on Microsoft Connect and wait for a Service Pack or a hotfix, like the Common People.
Apple has a similar program (maybe even more brilliant) but only at the marketing level and they provide no formal title; the unpaid staff is informally called "fanbois" by those who know better, and they are convinced that promoting Apple products is a reward by itself so they don't need a pin or a logo.
There was a time when having a good domain name was required to be found on Internet. In those days, people paid insane amount of money to buy domains.
Then Google came, and changed everything. The domain name was not that important anymore, not as much as getting a good ranking, for which content was key. So people paid good money to generate content (aka blogs) and enlisted the help of (so-called) SEO specialist, some of which went to far (ask JcPenney).
Then Facebook came, and changed things even more. No more websites, no more blogs - "just visit our Facebook page and Like us, we'll give you a voucher for a free bottle of shampoo".
I may be silly but I say: fix DNS and bring back the domains. I don't like Liking and I hate blogs.
> At the same time, Hollande is also strongly against piracy
Hollande is strongly for or against whatever, as long as it will get him elected. The guy is 100% pure fluff.
Sarkozy on the other hand is as genuine as it gets, and he will always have my admiration for being able to render an islamic activist speechless during a television interview (those guys usually won't stop babbling).
Sarkozy is the guy that ordered the woman in charge of budget cuts to downsize her own team - that was awesome. He tried to open eyes in France to the danger of having insanely generous social programs (ask the Greeks), unfortunately this might cost him the presidency... many people prefer to dream and Hollande is pretty good at dreaming.
Again with the frameworks... The only thing I kinda like with the Apple Store is that it gives a focus on applications so developers have an incentive to build something that does something.
Unfortunately lots and lots of startups and open source projects are still spending cycles on yet another framework instead of creating actual value. This is not a problem that is specific to startups however - even in-house IT developers tend to spend time on frameworks and libraries if management or architects are not cracking the whip properly.
To make a long story short this is a symptom of what is wrong with IT: -Sysadmins tend to make rules that are preventing business to optimally leverage hardware and software that has been paid for -DBAs tend to value theoretical constructs (such as 3NF) before actual software or business requirements -Developers tend to write frameworks and libraries instead of applications that bring value to the business (expecting that other developers will use those frameworks to create applications, which does not happen because the other developers also work on frameworks)
This is why people that can "align IT with business" are making the big bucks.
This is off-topic but I have to say, whenever I see a post that ends with "Discuss." I feel the urge to print it then crumple the printout, stick it in a garbage bag full of dead squirrels, then hire a bum that has to eat asparagus for an entire day before peeing in the bag, then set the bag in the sun and let it simmer for a week, then build a brick wall around it, then spray a bunch of lame graffitis on that wall, then build a low quality house around that wall and sell the house to low quality people that I know will not take good care of it, then when there is a foreclosure (which is unavoidable) buy the house back then build a huge barn around it and put a sign on it saying: here lies arrogance.
To whom it may concern: take your _discusses_ and do something unbearably disgusting with them.
I'd rather get stuck in an elevator with six mouth breathers, a stinker and a middle-aged woman selling Quixtar products than take one more "Discuss.".
From the article: > Of the approximately 160,000 pages of training material reviewed, less than one percent contained factually inaccurate or imprecise information or used stereotypes
I say: let's occupy Quantico!
That's the best they can do? Out of what they reviewed, they only managed to identify 1,600 pages containing factually inaccurate or imprecise information or using stereotypes? At the very minimum whoever is responsible for quality control has been grossly incompetent.
Yeah but some of the 1,600 pages were *web pages* and they were very very long to scroll through.
From the article: > Of the approximately 160,000 pages of training material reviewed, less than one percent contained factually inaccurate or imprecise information or used stereotypes
I say: let's occupy Quantico!
Good luck getting through Quantico MCB first.
No problem, I'll just have to find a soldier which has gender and/or psychological issues and convince him to leak the plans and patrolling schedules or any other confidential material. Has been done before...
From the article: > Of the approximately 160,000 pages of training material reviewed, less than one percent contained factually inaccurate or imprecise information or used stereotypes
He means Bill Gates, though I don't his dig about 'monopoly'. Say what you will about Bill Gates the OS monopolist, but the Gates Foundation has done very good work.
I happen to have many friends working in NGOs in developing countries and I'm getting the same feedback over and over: the Gates Foundation is like a bulldozer that rolls over all the "competition" and forces people to do things their way. The foundation also has close ties to Monsanto and is pushing around the small organizations that disagree with their vision of "green development".
I guess you have access to Google, it's worth a quick search.
Inline deduplication is extremely expensive so it's not an option for this guy, and offline deduplication (and its small cousin, compression) requires to have enough room on the disk, which appears not to be the case based on the post - which is why I recommend a new compression algorithm.
As for collating files that are under 4k - I don't know what kind of activity would create a huge volume of such files... unless this guy is actually Twitter! That would explain it and also explain why he can't afford new disks.
So your disks are full and possibly broken. You don't want to have more disks, you don't want tape or optical medias, and a storage provider (aka The Cloud) is not an option... Then you have three solutions "down the road":
1) Delete stuff 2) Invent a new compression algorithm that will allow you to reuse the same disks forever without losing data 3) Rely on magic*
Men and women are different, and generally manage in different ways, but saying is one better than the other is silly. Depends on the job, the situation, and who they are managing; and really, I think the individual makes all the difference.
Congratulations, you win the Politically Correctness Award for the most Politically Correct comment discussing a Politically Correct interpretation of a Politically Correct study.
ignorant adjective 1. lacking in knowledge or training; unlearned: an ignorant man. 2. lacking knowledge or information as to a particular subject or fact: ignorant of quantum physics. 3. uninformed; unaware. 4. due to or showing lack of knowledge or training: an ignorant statement.
That would be describing your comments. It is not painting you with a broad brush, it is painting you with whatever size brush one needs to use to just hit you.
Again with the name calling. Tsk tsk. So many words, so little content.
There is an amazing book called "Advanced Presentations by Design", it gives an actual approach to making presentations and debunk many myths. I strongly recommend reading it; it is available on Amazon or from the author's website: http://www.extremepresentation.com/
If you knew what you were talking about, you wouldn't say things that were patently false. It is not a difference of opinion, it is flat out ignorance and stereotyping. For example, you're ignorant enough to think that you file grievances against members of your own union. When you insult an entire class of employees based on the sole fact that they're a member of a union, I think that counts as "slamming an entire workforce." It has nothing to do with agreeing or disagreeing, it has to do with painting people you've never met and know nothing about with a broad brush, you fucking ignoramus.
Well I was unionized about 4 years ago (it was mandatory in that company) and a coworker actually filed a grievance because I had more hours on my schedule than him. Maybe it was not "against me" but it was pretty much targeting me.
Calling people "ignorant" or "ignoramus" is not convincing (especially when you also accuse the other person of painting people with a broad brush), it just shows that you have no valid point to defend so you get pretty emotional. I'm not mad at you because having been myself under the slavery of unions I know that it can dehumanize people and lead them to act irrationally. I hope for your sake that one day you will develop a skill set that has enough value by itself that there will be a good place for you on the market and that you won't need a bunch of phony left-wingers lemmings to come and defend your job; until then you may want to tone down on the name calling because it has the unfortunate side effect of putting the spotlight on the lack of content in your comments.
Ah! So you don't know what you're talking about and have no experience with unions, but you remember something from when you were a school-aged kid and are pretty sure that entitles you to slam an entire workforce because of it. Sounds legit.
"First contact" hardly means "only contact" but if you are more comfortable disregarding other people opinions and accusing them of having no knowledge of the matter when they disagree with you, then you may interpret my comments at your convenience for all I care.
So here you go: everybody who is not pro-union is spineless and everybody who disagrees with you is slamming an entire workforce. Now that in your imaginary version of reality you've been vindicated, go back to your picket line before someone else pick the bullhorn to sing The Internationale. Oh no, wait, it won't happen because it's *your* job and taking over in your absence would expose them to a grievance. Good thing the Union is there to protect you while you promote its virtues on a forum where most people are not unionized and not interested in getting unionized.
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Not getting caught for a long time does not mean you got away. Ask Kadhafi.
To be fair, at least some of the compromised systems in Iran weren't connected to the Internet.
*Everything* is connected to the internet. It's just that sometimes it takes a human operator to close the loop.
Compared to the English language, these icons are stupidly up to date.
Reminds me of that "Closed - Please call again" sign in the door of the bookstore where I don't go anymore because of my kindle
But personally, i'd prefer a mini-cooper with a Charlise over the gold bricks anyway...
What if someone had made this choice 50 years ago?
Somehow I have a feeling that if this same kind of "bug" had been found in another operating system, such as one coming from Redmond, the discussion and media coverage would have been quite different, and there would have been much more Slashdot comments on this story.
We are talking about passwords stored in clear text, no fix yet, and based on the article, no assurance that the fix would remove copies of the unencrypted passwords. For a company that was wondering how to spend 100 billions. What a joke.
If, however, this were Microsoft or Apple, they would not offer such high amounts as bounties as they would soon go bankrupt from the financial burden of paying out these bounties.
Microsoft has a more cost-effective way to deal with bugs: the MVP, aka as "unpaid Level 1 support staff unleashed on forums and blogs that accept to do Microsoft's work in exchange for a title, a pin and a secret handshake instead of a salary". And when MVP cannot solve a problem or find a serious bug, they simply push them on Microsoft Connect and wait for a Service Pack or a hotfix, like the Common People.
Apple has a similar program (maybe even more brilliant) but only at the marketing level and they provide no formal title; the unpaid staff is informally called "fanbois" by those who know better, and they are convinced that promoting Apple products is a reward by itself so they don't need a pin or a logo.
There was a time when having a good domain name was required to be found on Internet. In those days, people paid insane amount of money to buy domains.
Then Google came, and changed everything. The domain name was not that important anymore, not as much as getting a good ranking, for which content was key. So people paid good money to generate content (aka blogs) and enlisted the help of (so-called) SEO specialist, some of which went to far (ask JcPenney).
Then Facebook came, and changed things even more. No more websites, no more blogs - "just visit our Facebook page and Like us, we'll give you a voucher for a free bottle of shampoo".
I may be silly but I say: fix DNS and bring back the domains. I don't like Liking and I hate blogs.
> At the same time, Hollande is also strongly against piracy
Hollande is strongly for or against whatever, as long as it will get him elected. The guy is 100% pure fluff.
Sarkozy on the other hand is as genuine as it gets, and he will always have my admiration for being able to render an islamic activist speechless during a television interview (those guys usually won't stop babbling).
Sarkozy is the guy that ordered the woman in charge of budget cuts to downsize her own team - that was awesome. He tried to open eyes in France to the danger of having insanely generous social programs (ask the Greeks), unfortunately this might cost him the presidency... many people prefer to dream and Hollande is pretty good at dreaming.
"First time accepted submitter gstrickler" == "at least once rejected submitter gstrickler".
I don't want no stories from a stinkin' do-over deadbeat.
it's like the Dems bringing back Kerry.
Again with the frameworks... The only thing I kinda like with the Apple Store is that it gives a focus on applications so developers have an incentive to build something that does something.
Unfortunately lots and lots of startups and open source projects are still spending cycles on yet another framework instead of creating actual value. This is not a problem that is specific to startups however - even in-house IT developers tend to spend time on frameworks and libraries if management or architects are not cracking the whip properly.
To make a long story short this is a symptom of what is wrong with IT:
-Sysadmins tend to make rules that are preventing business to optimally leverage hardware and software that has been paid for
-DBAs tend to value theoretical constructs (such as 3NF) before actual software or business requirements
-Developers tend to write frameworks and libraries instead of applications that bring value to the business (expecting that other developers will use those frameworks to create applications, which does not happen because the other developers also work on frameworks)
This is why people that can "align IT with business" are making the big bucks.
This is off-topic but I have to say, whenever I see a post that ends with "Discuss." I feel the urge to print it then crumple the printout, stick it in a garbage bag full of dead squirrels, then hire a bum that has to eat asparagus for an entire day before peeing in the bag, then set the bag in the sun and let it simmer for a week, then build a brick wall around it, then spray a bunch of lame graffitis on that wall, then build a low quality house around that wall and sell the house to low quality people that I know will not take good care of it, then when there is a foreclosure (which is unavoidable) buy the house back then build a huge barn around it and put a sign on it saying: here lies arrogance.
To whom it may concern: take your _discusses_ and do something unbearably disgusting with them.
I'd rather get stuck in an elevator with six mouth breathers, a stinker and a middle-aged woman selling Quixtar products than take one more "Discuss.".
From the article:
> Of the approximately 160,000 pages of training material reviewed, less than one percent contained factually inaccurate or imprecise information or used stereotypes
I say: let's occupy Quantico!
That's the best they can do? Out of what they reviewed, they only managed to identify 1,600 pages containing factually inaccurate or imprecise information or using stereotypes? At the very minimum whoever is responsible for quality control has been grossly incompetent.
Yeah but some of the 1,600 pages were *web pages* and they were very very long to scroll through.
From the article:
> Of the approximately 160,000 pages of training material reviewed, less than one percent contained factually inaccurate or imprecise information or used stereotypes
I say: let's occupy Quantico!
Good luck getting through Quantico MCB first.
No problem, I'll just have to find a soldier which has gender and/or psychological issues and convince him to leak the plans and patrolling schedules or any other confidential material. Has been done before...
From the article:
> Of the approximately 160,000 pages of training material reviewed, less than one percent contained factually inaccurate or imprecise information or used stereotypes
I say: let's occupy Quantico!
He means Bill Gates, though I don't his dig about 'monopoly'. Say what you will about Bill Gates the OS monopolist, but the Gates Foundation has done very good work.
I happen to have many friends working in NGOs in developing countries and I'm getting the same feedback over and over: the Gates Foundation is like a bulldozer that rolls over all the "competition" and forces people to do things their way. The foundation also has close ties to Monsanto and is pushing around the small organizations that disagree with their vision of "green development".
I guess you have access to Google, it's worth a quick search.
As far as rich guys hobbies go, this is way cooler than buying a fighter jet or trying to get a monopoly on fighting HIV in Africa.
Inline deduplication is extremely expensive so it's not an option for this guy, and offline deduplication (and its small cousin, compression) requires to have enough room on the disk, which appears not to be the case based on the post - which is why I recommend a new compression algorithm.
As for collating files that are under 4k - I don't know what kind of activity would create a huge volume of such files... unless this guy is actually Twitter! That would explain it and also explain why he can't afford new disks.
So your disks are full and possibly broken. You don't want to have more disks, you don't want tape or optical medias, and a storage provider (aka The Cloud) is not an option... Then you have three solutions "down the road":
1) Delete stuff
2) Invent a new compression algorithm that will allow you to reuse the same disks forever without losing data
3) Rely on magic*
*might overlap with solution #2
Men and women are different, and generally manage in different ways, but saying is one better than the other is silly. Depends on the job, the situation, and who they are managing; and really, I think the individual makes all the difference.
Congratulations, you win the Politically Correctness Award for the most Politically Correct comment discussing a Politically Correct interpretation of a Politically Correct study.
With Political Correctness, everybody wins!
Seriously she reminds me of Nina Sharp in Fringe.
Uh, no.
ignorant
adjective
1. lacking in knowledge or training; unlearned: an ignorant man.
2. lacking knowledge or information as to a particular subject or fact: ignorant of quantum physics.
3. uninformed; unaware.
4. due to or showing lack of knowledge or training: an ignorant statement.
That would be describing your comments. It is not painting you with a broad brush, it is painting you with whatever size brush one needs to use to just hit you.
Again with the name calling. Tsk tsk. So many words, so little content.
There is an amazing book called "Advanced Presentations by Design", it gives an actual approach to making presentations and debunk many myths. I strongly recommend reading it; it is available on Amazon or from the author's website: http://www.extremepresentation.com/
If you knew what you were talking about, you wouldn't say things that were patently false. It is not a difference of opinion, it is flat out ignorance and stereotyping. For example, you're ignorant enough to think that you file grievances against members of your own union. When you insult an entire class of employees based on the sole fact that they're a member of a union, I think that counts as "slamming an entire workforce." It has nothing to do with agreeing or disagreeing, it has to do with painting people you've never met and know nothing about with a broad brush, you fucking ignoramus.
Well I was unionized about 4 years ago (it was mandatory in that company) and a coworker actually filed a grievance because I had more hours on my schedule than him. Maybe it was not "against me" but it was pretty much targeting me.
Calling people "ignorant" or "ignoramus" is not convincing (especially when you also accuse the other person of painting people with a broad brush), it just shows that you have no valid point to defend so you get pretty emotional. I'm not mad at you because having been myself under the slavery of unions I know that it can dehumanize people and lead them to act irrationally. I hope for your sake that one day you will develop a skill set that has enough value by itself that there will be a good place for you on the market and that you won't need a bunch of phony left-wingers lemmings to come and defend your job; until then you may want to tone down on the name calling because it has the unfortunate side effect of putting the spotlight on the lack of content in your comments.
Ah! So you don't know what you're talking about and have no experience with unions, but you remember something from when you were a school-aged kid and are pretty sure that entitles you to slam an entire workforce because of it. Sounds legit.
"First contact" hardly means "only contact" but if you are more comfortable disregarding other people opinions and accusing them of having no knowledge of the matter when they disagree with you, then you may interpret my comments at your convenience for all I care.
So here you go: everybody who is not pro-union is spineless and everybody who disagrees with you is slamming an entire workforce. Now that in your imaginary version of reality you've been vindicated, go back to your picket line before someone else pick the bullhorn to sing The Internationale. Oh no, wait, it won't happen because it's *your* job and taking over in your absence would expose them to a grievance. Good thing the Union is there to protect you while you promote its virtues on a forum where most people are not unionized and not interested in getting unionized.
Just send them a few of the negative votes received by Al Gore in Florida, then the universe will be in equilibrium again.