Thanks! It's good to hear from a subject expert. I'm hoping an "email lawyer" and/or "secrecy lawyer" can weigh in on you-know-who* one of these days.
I have a followup question. Subscription-based services have been around a long time. How are they typically dealt with in terms of estimated future revenue?
One probably has to use an estimated renewal rate to make accounting forecasts. For established products, one would expect a reasonable effort is made to find an "industry standard" rate for subscriptions of that product type.
But being "the cloud" is generally new, what would be an "acceptable" way to make an estimate for renewal rate?
It appears Oracle may have been over generous here. As somebody pointed out, mainframe subscriptions have been around a long time. Would using such rates as a stand-in be acceptable?
Or, could Oracle just say "it's a new field so we simply guessed" in their official accounting? Or, would they be expected to survey somewhat similar services, such as mainframe or super-computer subscriptions, to find a rough approximation?
* (Online experts seem to say she may be fined but not likely imprisoned because the difficulty of proving "intent". Thus: sloppy=fines, intent=jail)
[FBI investigation] What happened to "innocent until proven guilty"?
In politics it's "You wear it until you figure out how to out-spin the spinner".
I bet there are a lot of "investigatable" issues in the federal government; it's just that they haven't come to light (yet). The email thing spawned out of the Benghazi investigation, which the GOP made sure was examined under a microscope. We'd perhaps never know about it if not discovered from that. After all, Colin Powell also allegedly "did it wrong", but if not for Hillary's activities (or lack of), nobody would know or care.
Although veto power kept the GOP Congress from passing much legislation, their numbers gave them vast investigative resources.
I wish waterboarding had that much investigation. The chain of orders is still fuzzy on that. Same with the bleeped-up F35 jet. I bet neither party wants a full F35 investigation because both sides got the local pork. See, they can "compromise".
Kind of like, "That's not the giant hand of the server admin, that's swamp gas kicked up by a weather balloon trapped in a thermal pocket and reflecting the light from Venus."
If things get too out of hand, the server admin may just restore the last good reality from backup tapes/turtles/thingies.
Indeed. I cannot think of ANY American president who has a good record in the Middle East. Although Carter got a peace deal signed, he's sometimes blamed for the Iran hostage crisis. Fair criticism or not, bad stuff happens over there and you won't come out looking good.
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However, many sites have had the password hashes stolen,
The hash should be locked inside the "login box". Smashing it open should be the only way to get to it, barring some interface bug. But if the appliance does only one narrow job, the risk of interface bugs is small.
Might be difficult to integrate with the modern virtual machine...
True, but with computing power growing beyond human capacity to remember and/or type passwords, it's time for a different approach.
(Note that there perhaps should be twin mirrored login boxes so that there's a fail-over spare. Or, put redundancy in a single box.)
Clever and/or persistent trolls can screw up and/or find holes in ANY SYSTEM, similar to good hackers. If you peck, probe, and obsess long enough, you can probably muck your way into ANY system: legal, technical, and administrative.
I cannot fault the legal system itself in this case so far, other than perhaps for not recognizing law-trolls sooner and putting a summary cap on them. But that would probably require an act of Congress, being each local and state jurisdiction probably has their own peculiarities that can be milked by a good troll.
I've encountered persistent jerks myself. They are scary people.
Why the hell are hackers allowed to guess bajillion times? The login system should be isolated and only allow limited number of tries per time period per account. Make it like a hardware pluggin. Don't put the login info on regular disks/storage with everything else.
As far as "show weakness", arguably we shouldn't even be involved in many of the recent conflicts. Meddling in the Mid. E. in the past has failed far more often than it has worked.
If we use history as a guide, we should simply stop meddling there. You squash one "bad group" and another pops up to take its place. It's Whack-A-Mole that we keep losing at. Rambo-ing around doesn't work: The Movies lie.
1. Upgrade to Windows 10 2. Upgrade to Windows 9 + 1 3. Get Windows 10 for Free! 4. Install the latest Windows version from Microsoft 5. Restart your computer, and then have it automatically install Windows 10 6. Let Microsoft decide for you 7. Ten, Windows, upgrade to. -Yoda 8. Just do it, dammit, it probably won't kill you 9. Go to 1.
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Thanks! It's good to hear from a subject expert. I'm hoping an "email lawyer" and/or "secrecy lawyer" can weigh in on you-know-who* one of these days.
I have a followup question. Subscription-based services have been around a long time. How are they typically dealt with in terms of estimated future revenue?
One probably has to use an estimated renewal rate to make accounting forecasts. For established products, one would expect a reasonable effort is made to find an "industry standard" rate for subscriptions of that product type.
But being "the cloud" is generally new, what would be an "acceptable" way to make an estimate for renewal rate?
It appears Oracle may have been over generous here. As somebody pointed out, mainframe subscriptions have been around a long time. Would using such rates as a stand-in be acceptable?
Or, could Oracle just say "it's a new field so we simply guessed" in their official accounting? Or, would they be expected to survey somewhat similar services, such as mainframe or super-computer subscriptions, to find a rough approximation?
* (Online experts seem to say she may be fined but not likely imprisoned because the difficulty of proving "intent". Thus: sloppy=fines, intent=jail)
Don't tell me, steam will also make a comeback.
That's gonna be so cool: switch it on and you hear:
Chug......chug...chug, chug, chug as puffy white smoke billows out.
And then Microsoft will tell you, "640 gallons of water oughtta be enough for anyone!"
Yah, build a firewall around BuzzFeed and make them and their tech-hugging judge pay for it!
In politics it's "You wear it until you figure out how to out-spin the spinner".
I bet there are a lot of "investigatable" issues in the federal government; it's just that they haven't come to light (yet). The email thing spawned out of the Benghazi investigation, which the GOP made sure was examined under a microscope. We'd perhaps never know about it if not discovered from that. After all, Colin Powell also allegedly "did it wrong", but if not for Hillary's activities (or lack of), nobody would know or care.
Although veto power kept the GOP Congress from passing much legislation, their numbers gave them vast investigative resources.
I wish waterboarding had that much investigation. The chain of orders is still fuzzy on that. Same with the bleeped-up F35 jet. I bet neither party wants a full F35 investigation because both sides got the local pork. See, they can "compromise".
Kind of like, "That's not the giant hand of the server admin, that's swamp gas kicked up by a weather balloon trapped in a thermal pocket and reflecting the light from Venus."
If things get too out of hand, the server admin may just restore the last good reality from backup tapes/turtles/thingies.
Indeed. I cannot think of ANY American president who has a good record in the Middle East. Although Carter got a peace deal signed, he's sometimes blamed for the Iran hostage crisis. Fair criticism or not, bad stuff happens over there and you won't come out looking good.
Crap, that causes slashdot to get stuck in a loop. Crap, that causes slashdot to get stuck in a loop. Crap, that causes slashdot to get stuck in a loop. Crap, that causes slashdot to get stuck in a ERROR 47032 IN FLEA 629
Clippy: "It looks like you want to upgrade. Therefore, I've already started the upgrade for you to save you valuable time."
The hash should be locked inside the "login box". Smashing it open should be the only way to get to it, barring some interface bug. But if the appliance does only one narrow job, the risk of interface bugs is small.
True, but with computing power growing beyond human capacity to remember and/or type passwords, it's time for a different approach.
(Note that there perhaps should be twin mirrored login boxes so that there's a fail-over spare. Or, put redundancy in a single box.)
Clever and/or persistent trolls can screw up and/or find holes in ANY SYSTEM, similar to good hackers. If you peck, probe, and obsess long enough, you can probably muck your way into ANY system: legal, technical, and administrative.
I cannot fault the legal system itself in this case so far, other than perhaps for not recognizing law-trolls sooner and putting a summary cap on them. But that would probably require an act of Congress, being each local and state jurisdiction probably has their own peculiarities that can be milked by a good troll.
I've encountered persistent jerks myself. They are scary people.
Nah, just locked up a good long time. No violence, please.
Basically Zavodnik a legal troll: bleeps around with people for the shear hell of it.
Why the hell are hackers allowed to guess bajillion times? The login system should be isolated and only allow limited number of tries per time period per account. Make it like a hardware pluggin. Don't put the login info on regular disks/storage with everything else.
"Upgrade to Windows 11 in order to turn left."
Elooza
Aliens spotted Trump and yelled, "step on it!!!"
The Great Simulator didn't bother to implement garbage collection.
Trump flip-flops on troop levels etc. He's a wild-card there.
But his greatest "weapon" is his mouth.
He's smokin' simulated weed
Mr. O is quite diplomatic compared to Donald.
As far as "show weakness", arguably we shouldn't even be involved in many of the recent conflicts. Meddling in the Mid. E. in the past has failed far more often than it has worked.
If we use history as a guide, we should simply stop meddling there. You squash one "bad group" and another pops up to take its place. It's Whack-A-Mole that we keep losing at. Rambo-ing around doesn't work: The Movies lie.
Menu of Choices:
1. Upgrade to Windows 10
2. Upgrade to Windows 9 + 1
3. Get Windows 10 for Free!
4. Install the latest Windows version from Microsoft
5. Restart your computer, and then have it automatically install Windows 10
6. Let Microsoft decide for you
7. Ten, Windows, upgrade to. -Yoda
8. Just do it, dammit, it probably won't kill you
9. Go to 1.
I agree the H1B program is a farce per "skill shortage," and glad Mr. Trump has highlighted the issue in his campaign, but I'm not a one-issue voter.
I believe Mr. Trump will likely be a train-wreck in foreign policy, offending leaders and countries far and wide, perhaps triggering wars.
USA knows him from TV over the years and we take him with a grain of salt. The rest of the world won't.
I'd rather be unemployed than an apocalyptic zombie.
"We sucker money from rich-but-dumb investors using vague bullshit, buzzwords, and glitzy websites that do nothing useful."
The dinosaurs made the mistake of putting their return address on a big package.
Translation: We broke Earth, so let's move on to screw up the rest of the universe.
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