Every dollar spent on the wall could've gone towards a real investment in our country's future, such as education grants.
But the plan is to have Mexico pay for it. Are you suggesting Mexico should subsidize your education grants?
As for convincing Mexico to pay: the US government could simply take this out of the money they send to Mexico every year to help them fight the cartels. Almost 3 billions during the Obama administration alone.
Such empty pompous bombast was revolting. He complained more about the evils of "Political Correctness" than he offered real policy.
Ok, now that you're done with your tantrum, let me explain to you how politics work in this day and age.
You go on stage and you say: "I plan to improve the economy by 4% by having a responsible fiscal policy and make long-term investments in education". The guy next to you says: "I'm going to get every hard working American a brand new pickup truck and I'll make those Volkswagen crooks pay for it."
Now, the media has maybe 45 or 60 seconds to cover the debate before people get bored and switch the channel to HBO. What do you think will be the focus of the new report? Put Trump on the air, and you get people to keep watching.
That's how Trump managed to win the primaries and to beat Clinton while having a single campaign office and a tiny budget compared to hers. Hammer out a few messages that sound shocking and you're on the air 24x7; make sure that some of those messages talk to "the salt of the Earth" voters that Clinton ignores because they're in the wrong states, and make sure to address the stuff that truly bothers them (like getting fucked in the ass by Obamacare) and bang, President Trump.
And when in office, he can totally dial down the crazy talk while still keeping the persona for when it's needed. The guy totally understand stardom and played the media like a fiddle.
The MTTF is provided by most disk vendors, it's not a calculation one makes by hand. The point here is that if a disk shits itself way before it should, odds are that disks from a same production batch running in the same conditions are likely to follow.
Maybe. Or maybe the company has a "live in the fast lane" culture where all resources are focused on growth, and the "security" policy is to tell new hires to follow instruction and not mess with production until they know what they're doing. If you think that kind of company doesn't exist, you need to beef up on your Silicon Valley history.
But really all I mean is that firing executives is not a good response to disasters.
Just a precision, although I'm starting to get tired of being a bit of a Trump apologist. He hasn't always been surrounded by rich people. His father had some made some money being a landlord in blue collar neighborhood but wasn't immensely wealthy; at his death, his estate was worth $20 million. Now, that's good money but that's far from the 8 billions Trump is currently worth.
When Trump got started in "real estate", he was actually collecting rent money for properties owned by his father or himself, and also did a few fixer-upper. That's how he learned the business. It has taken him years to get in the "let's buy a skyscraper" business, and he didn't get there by winning the lottery. Hard work.
The C-level executives are the people in charge of executing the company strategy as established by the board (who are representing the owners). If you remove them, you basically have a headless chicken. If you replace them all at once, then you have months of instability as they have to rebuild their teams and puts their systems in place.
That's why elections are staggered in the USA. Could you imagine the mess if everyone was elected at the same time?
First, you have to understand that illegal immigration is becoming a big business in part because of the legalization of marijuana in some states. Smuggling pot out of Colorado is a lot easier than smuggling pot from the mountains of Sinaloa, and the quality is much better in Colorado. So a lot of Mexican criminals are recycling their drug smuggling network and switch to people smuggling.
Second, Mexico itself is having issues with illegal immigrants from Honduras and Guatemala. Some of those are cash cows for the smugglers, but many are also the cause of violent conflicts.
Third, there are large areas in Mexico where there's no rule of law and where the government is not in control; those areas are where the cartels fight each other, in endless waves of new partnerships and rivalries. They fight not only for the lucrative cocaine and crystal meth american markets, but also for control over local criminal elements (prostitution, etc).
So how do you keep all those problems from crossing the border? Subsidizing Mexican law enforcement has proven to be ineffective over the last decade. What's left? Giving a US passport to anyone who asks?
A wall would do the job. It has worked for China. It has driven down the number of terrorist attacks in Israel. Walls are good at blocking things. You may think that your are too sophisticated and civilized for this kind of brick & mortar enforcement of territorial security, but why don't you take the next bus for Laredo or El Paso, then cross the border to see what's on the other side. Then you can come back and make fun of the wall.
The country is not going to move or expand (Puerto Rico aside); meanwhile, the chaos is going to increase in Mexico as pressure from central America increases. A wall sounds like a good long term asset.
The thing is, that's who he is. He decided to become President, and did it pretty much by himself with the help of family and friends, and with his own money. He had a tiny team of volunteers compared to Clinton; his own party didn't want him there and tried to get rid of him even after the primaries.
He's been like that his whole life. We're talking about a guy who literally fought for decades with bureaucrats to develop some land that he bought in NYC. He's not a sweet-talker that sugarcoated his way to power. He's in-your-face, doesn't-bend-over kind of guy. He doesn't try to hide things because that's who he is.
But there's more to the guy. Have you seen this thing that happened at a debate during the primaries? He saw that Carson was confused and stayed back to let him make a dignified entrance:
Not to mention - the very premise of just copying production database for use in testing is already terrible.
In theory, yes. But honestly, I've seen countless situations where there was no realistic alternatives given the available resources, especially if the volume or distribution of data could have an impact on the system. For instance, testing a new address autocomplete feature for an order form; if you only have a few hundred clients, maybe you can generate some decent test data, but if you have millions of customers it can be very difficult to make sure that the feature will work with the real data set. Same goes for specialized reporting (e.g quantitative analysis features in a trading platform).
There are a few interesting data obfuscation tools out there if data privacy is a concern, but they can be quite labor-intensive to set up. Sometimes an ironclad NDA and a copy of real prod data is the only available solution.
RAID (especially those with parity) can be terrifying. Just think of it: you have a group of disks probably acquired at the same time and probably coming from the same vendor (or even same production batch) serving the same workload in the same environment. That implies a fairly similar MTTF for all the disks.
Then one of the disks fail; this causes the other disks in the array to first handle a higher load, then to be brutally impacted by the rebuild process. That's like playing Russian roulette with a gattling gun.
First, "CXX" level is not "staff". Second, firing the entire senior management team because of this incident would be completely reckless. I understand the outrage but that's not how companies work in real life. The last thing a company in that situation needs is more instability.
The proper way to address this is to stabilize the situation, then make sure the problem cannot occur again. And this typically doesn't simply mean firing people, because odds are that there are cultural or organizational factors that made this situation possible (crazy deadlines, shoestring budgets, etc.), and those would probably lead the replacement to making the same kind of mistakes down the road.
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.
The CTO told me to leave and never come back. He also informed me that apparently legal would need to get involved due to severity of the data loss. I basically offered and pleaded to let me help in someway to redeem my self and i was told that i "completely fucked everything up".
It's not clear that the CTO was threatening legal action against the developer. For all we know, it could simply mean that the company would have to issue some kind of statement to shareholders or to customers based on some contractual commitment.
There's nothing in the entire story that clearly indicates that the CTO or HR acted improperly. Is it normal to have production credentials in documentation handed out to junior developers? Of course not. But the developer was supposed to configure a local instance using the output of a specific configuration tool, but opted instead to copy-paste from somewhere else a connection string that must have been obviously not a local instance. Then the developer, after being fired, left with his company-issued laptop, and started sending messages on the company chatroom. Would you want that person on your team?
Could you point out the parts of my comment that, according to you, are fascist? Or maybe you mistakenly believe that "fascists" are simply people who disagree with you?
Like many of your liberal peers, you display an interesting combination of intolerance and ignorance. Who would have guessed that Donald Trump was all it took to have you people drop your masks of civilized supporters of democracy and freedom.
The context is that the Trump haters keep accusing him of things that their own candidates do.
-Interference with the FBI investigation (the same guy, Comey, is the one that Clinton blames for losing the elections because he refused to stop investigating her email snafu) -Taking money from foreign countries (which the Clintons have done for over 25 years) -colluding with Russia (where Bill Clinton gave a speech to promote Uranium One, which conveniently received the blessing of the US govt to be partially acquired by Russian interests while Hillary Clinton was secretary of state)
so when a Trump hater accuse him of being unable to manage a coherent sentence, it's hard not to think of Obama who could probably not give the time of day if he has no cue cards.
The fact that their backup system was non-functional is double-plus unforgiveable.
In my experience, continuous SAN replication is often to blame for a poor backup strategy. It creates the illusion of security - yes, your DR site is synchronized with production within seconds or milliseconds, but guess what, mistakes are also replicated.
Replication -> floods, fire and similar disasters Backups -> oops my bad
Having production databases that can be reached from developers workstations is always a bad idea. They were lucky, in a way, that the developer deleted the data and didn't just alter it slightly.
Firewalls, people, they're not just there to block wordpress exploit scanners. Danger can come from insiders, and that includes hostile employees as well as clueless morons.
Yes, yes, you've been disparaging Obama for years, to the point where you concocted an insane reason for a simple misstatement
The video is a 5 minute compilation of a large number of different times when his inability to speak without cue cards was made obvious. Spinning that as a "simple misstatement" is like saying that Bill Clinton had just one extramarital affair.
Republicans suddenly love Russia, hate democracy, love their president to appoint Russian spies, and use Moscow secured networks to protect discussions from Congress and Senate. They love how his campaign staff held secret meetings with Russian secret service, and exchanged emails with Russian government hackers.
None of that is backed by actual evidence. You just keep repeating the same propaganda published by biased liberal medias, you're not citing facts.
And I'm sure Republicans love it, that any foreign government can donate large amounts of money/assets to Trump and several already have.
That's a bit rich considering how much money Clinton took from foreign donors. Based on evidence released by Wikileaks, that includes: the United Arab Emirates, Iraq, Turkey, Libya, Qatar, Algeria, Oman. And of course China (which has a long love story with the Clintons), plus the usual: Norway, Netherlands, Canada, etc. Of course none of those contributions would have influenced her presidency.
If you manage to watch the whole 5 minutes of his babbling without feeling ice coming up your spine as you realize what kind of person was in the oval office for 8 years, well done. We're not talking about funny missquote like GWB, we're talking about a full-blown retard who can't talk without a cue card written by someone else.
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You only need to look at some of the anti-monopolistic practices MS has been convicted of to answer your questions.
Like having a proprietary web browser included in their proprietary o/s?
I wonder if any other company does that.
Every dollar spent on the wall could've gone towards a real investment in our country's future, such as education grants.
But the plan is to have Mexico pay for it. Are you suggesting Mexico should subsidize your education grants?
As for convincing Mexico to pay: the US government could simply take this out of the money they send to Mexico every year to help them fight the cartels. Almost 3 billions during the Obama administration alone.
It sounds to me like they've already maximized instability, and any change whatsoever could only lessen it.
And you say that based on 2 paragraphs posted by an anonymous junior developer who deleted a production database without knowing it?
Maybe. But usually when talking about the enteprise world, C-level executives are called corporate officers, and everyone else is the staff.
Such empty pompous bombast was revolting. He complained more about the evils of "Political Correctness" than he offered real policy.
Ok, now that you're done with your tantrum, let me explain to you how politics work in this day and age.
You go on stage and you say: "I plan to improve the economy by 4% by having a responsible fiscal policy and make long-term investments in education". The guy next to you says: "I'm going to get every hard working American a brand new pickup truck and I'll make those Volkswagen crooks pay for it."
Now, the media has maybe 45 or 60 seconds to cover the debate before people get bored and switch the channel to HBO. What do you think will be the focus of the new report? Put Trump on the air, and you get people to keep watching.
That's how Trump managed to win the primaries and to beat Clinton while having a single campaign office and a tiny budget compared to hers. Hammer out a few messages that sound shocking and you're on the air 24x7; make sure that some of those messages talk to "the salt of the Earth" voters that Clinton ignores because they're in the wrong states, and make sure to address the stuff that truly bothers them (like getting fucked in the ass by Obamacare) and bang, President Trump.
And when in office, he can totally dial down the crazy talk while still keeping the persona for when it's needed. The guy totally understand stardom and played the media like a fiddle.
The MTTF is provided by most disk vendors, it's not a calculation one makes by hand. The point here is that if a disk shits itself way before it should, odds are that disks from a same production batch running in the same conditions are likely to follow.
Maybe. Or maybe the company has a "live in the fast lane" culture where all resources are focused on growth, and the "security" policy is to tell new hires to follow instruction and not mess with production until they know what they're doing. If you think that kind of company doesn't exist, you need to beef up on your Silicon Valley history.
But really all I mean is that firing executives is not a good response to disasters.
Just a precision, although I'm starting to get tired of being a bit of a Trump apologist. He hasn't always been surrounded by rich people. His father had some made some money being a landlord in blue collar neighborhood but wasn't immensely wealthy; at his death, his estate was worth $20 million. Now, that's good money but that's far from the 8 billions Trump is currently worth.
When Trump got started in "real estate", he was actually collecting rent money for properties owned by his father or himself, and also did a few fixer-upper. That's how he learned the business. It has taken him years to get in the "let's buy a skyscraper" business, and he didn't get there by winning the lottery. Hard work.
I don't fail at civics. You fail at understanding what "at the same time" means.
Here's a hint.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Eventually they split us up and took away the developer's root privileges from all the machines forcing us to use sudo instead...
sudo bash
Problem solved!
The C-level executives are the people in charge of executing the company strategy as established by the board (who are representing the owners). If you remove them, you basically have a headless chicken. If you replace them all at once, then you have months of instability as they have to rebuild their teams and puts their systems in place.
That's why elections are staggered in the USA. Could you imagine the mess if everyone was elected at the same time?
don't even get me started on that wall.
The wall is not a simple matter.
First, you have to understand that illegal immigration is becoming a big business in part because of the legalization of marijuana in some states. Smuggling pot out of Colorado is a lot easier than smuggling pot from the mountains of Sinaloa, and the quality is much better in Colorado. So a lot of Mexican criminals are recycling their drug smuggling network and switch to people smuggling.
Second, Mexico itself is having issues with illegal immigrants from Honduras and Guatemala. Some of those are cash cows for the smugglers, but many are also the cause of violent conflicts.
Third, there are large areas in Mexico where there's no rule of law and where the government is not in control; those areas are where the cartels fight each other, in endless waves of new partnerships and rivalries. They fight not only for the lucrative cocaine and crystal meth american markets, but also for control over local criminal elements (prostitution, etc).
So how do you keep all those problems from crossing the border? Subsidizing Mexican law enforcement has proven to be ineffective over the last decade. What's left? Giving a US passport to anyone who asks?
A wall would do the job. It has worked for China. It has driven down the number of terrorist attacks in Israel. Walls are good at blocking things. You may think that your are too sophisticated and civilized for this kind of brick & mortar enforcement of territorial security, but why don't you take the next bus for Laredo or El Paso, then cross the border to see what's on the other side. Then you can come back and make fun of the wall.
The country is not going to move or expand (Puerto Rico aside); meanwhile, the chaos is going to increase in Mexico as pressure from central America increases. A wall sounds like a good long term asset.
The thing is, that's who he is. He decided to become President, and did it pretty much by himself with the help of family and friends, and with his own money. He had a tiny team of volunteers compared to Clinton; his own party didn't want him there and tried to get rid of him even after the primaries.
He's been like that his whole life. We're talking about a guy who literally fought for decades with bureaucrats to develop some land that he bought in NYC. He's not a sweet-talker that sugarcoated his way to power. He's in-your-face, doesn't-bend-over kind of guy. He doesn't try to hide things because that's who he is.
But there's more to the guy. Have you seen this thing that happened at a debate during the primaries? He saw that Carson was confused and stayed back to let him make a dignified entrance:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
First time in forever that there's a WYSIWYG president. It's refreshing, it's not the end of the world.
Not to mention - the very premise of just copying production database for use in testing is already terrible.
In theory, yes. But honestly, I've seen countless situations where there was no realistic alternatives given the available resources, especially if the volume or distribution of data could have an impact on the system. For instance, testing a new address autocomplete feature for an order form; if you only have a few hundred clients, maybe you can generate some decent test data, but if you have millions of customers it can be very difficult to make sure that the feature will work with the real data set. Same goes for specialized reporting (e.g quantitative analysis features in a trading platform).
There are a few interesting data obfuscation tools out there if data privacy is a concern, but they can be quite labor-intensive to set up. Sometimes an ironclad NDA and a copy of real prod data is the only available solution.
RAID (especially those with parity) can be terrifying. Just think of it: you have a group of disks probably acquired at the same time and probably coming from the same vendor (or even same production batch) serving the same workload in the same environment. That implies a fairly similar MTTF for all the disks.
Then one of the disks fail; this causes the other disks in the array to first handle a higher load, then to be brutally impacted by the rebuild process. That's like playing Russian roulette with a gattling gun.
The entire CXX staff level should be let go.
First, "CXX" level is not "staff". Second, firing the entire senior management team because of this incident would be completely reckless. I understand the outrage but that's not how companies work in real life. The last thing a company in that situation needs is more instability.
The proper way to address this is to stabilize the situation, then make sure the problem cannot occur again. And this typically doesn't simply mean firing people, because odds are that there are cultural or organizational factors that made this situation possible (crazy deadlines, shoestring budgets, etc.), and those would probably lead the replacement to making the same kind of mistakes down the road.
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.
This is what the anonymous poster actually said:
The CTO told me to leave and never come back. He also informed me that apparently legal would need to get involved due to severity of the data loss. I basically offered and pleaded to let me help in someway to redeem my self and i was told that i "completely fucked everything up".
It's not clear that the CTO was threatening legal action against the developer. For all we know, it could simply mean that the company would have to issue some kind of statement to shareholders or to customers based on some contractual commitment.
There's nothing in the entire story that clearly indicates that the CTO or HR acted improperly. Is it normal to have production credentials in documentation handed out to junior developers? Of course not. But the developer was supposed to configure a local instance using the output of a specific configuration tool, but opted instead to copy-paste from somewhere else a connection string that must have been obviously not a local instance. Then the developer, after being fired, left with his company-issued laptop, and started sending messages on the company chatroom. Would you want that person on your team?
you fascist fuck.
Could you point out the parts of my comment that, according to you, are fascist? Or maybe you mistakenly believe that "fascists" are simply people who disagree with you?
Like many of your liberal peers, you display an interesting combination of intolerance and ignorance. Who would have guessed that Donald Trump was all it took to have you people drop your masks of civilized supporters of democracy and freedom.
The context is that the Trump haters keep accusing him of things that their own candidates do.
-Interference with the FBI investigation (the same guy, Comey, is the one that Clinton blames for losing the elections because he refused to stop investigating her email snafu)
-Taking money from foreign countries (which the Clintons have done for over 25 years)
-colluding with Russia (where Bill Clinton gave a speech to promote Uranium One, which conveniently received the blessing of the US govt to be partially acquired by Russian interests while Hillary Clinton was secretary of state)
so when a Trump hater accuse him of being unable to manage a coherent sentence, it's hard not to think of Obama who could probably not give the time of day if he has no cue cards.
just like the "supposed" rm -rf / last year ...
Something similar happened at Columbia Internet a while ago...
http://ars.userfriendly.org/ca...
The fact that their backup system was non-functional is double-plus unforgiveable.
In my experience, continuous SAN replication is often to blame for a poor backup strategy. It creates the illusion of security - yes, your DR site is synchronized with production within seconds or milliseconds, but guess what, mistakes are also replicated.
Replication -> floods, fire and similar disasters
Backups -> oops my bad
Both are needed.
Having production databases that can be reached from developers workstations is always a bad idea. They were lucky, in a way, that the developer deleted the data and didn't just alter it slightly.
Firewalls, people, they're not just there to block wordpress exploit scanners. Danger can come from insiders, and that includes hostile employees as well as clueless morons.
Yes, yes, you've been disparaging Obama for years, to the point where you concocted an insane reason for a simple misstatement
The video is a 5 minute compilation of a large number of different times when his inability to speak without cue cards was made obvious. Spinning that as a "simple misstatement" is like saying that Bill Clinton had just one extramarital affair.
Republicans suddenly love Russia, hate democracy, love their president to appoint Russian spies, and use Moscow secured networks to protect discussions from Congress and Senate.
They love how his campaign staff held secret meetings with Russian secret service, and exchanged emails with Russian government hackers.
None of that is backed by actual evidence. You just keep repeating the same propaganda published by biased liberal medias, you're not citing facts.
And I'm sure Republicans love it, that any foreign government can donate large amounts of money/assets to Trump and several already have.
That's a bit rich considering how much money Clinton took from foreign donors. Based on evidence released by Wikileaks, that includes: the United Arab Emirates, Iraq, Turkey, Libya, Qatar, Algeria, Oman. And of course China (which has a long love story with the Clintons), plus the usual: Norway, Netherlands, Canada, etc. Of course none of those contributions would have influenced her presidency.
Without you know, actually managing a coherent sentence, but who cares about that?
Dude, have you ever heard Obama talk without a teleprompter?
Educate yourself.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
If you manage to watch the whole 5 minutes of his babbling without feeling ice coming up your spine as you realize what kind of person was in the oval office for 8 years, well done. We're not talking about funny missquote like GWB, we're talking about a full-blown retard who can't talk without a cue card written by someone else.