Way to downplay those two items, which are used by millions, and conveniently ignore Android and Google Maps, among others.
Add Gmail to that.
Do any of you remember what webmail was like before Gmail...
It was shit in case you dont, think about what it's like to have no organisation (labels), a search function which couldn't find shit in a shit sandwich and spam galore.
> current most profitable enterprise (Note the singular)
Thanks for falling into the trap AC.
Chevron 2011 profit = $26.5
Apple 2011 profit = $25.9 B
The difference is, Chevron will consistently post high profits, Apple is a bubble waiting to burst.
We report to our boss, not yours, this includes every time a user refuses to do something we tell them to do.
It's all a big laugh until your boss, or your boss' boss, gets an iPhone. Then comes the knock on the IT office's door.
Actually, the Boss got Android.
Any IT senior I've known who uses Apple doesn't stay in that position very long. Nor do they use their personal devices to set company policy. Yes I know the Dilbert myths, but in reality that doesn't happen. All I have to do is point out the cost of operating Apple products and whatever complaints the boss has disappears quickly.
I'm sorry to have to destroy the myth for you, but Apple really has no place in the enterprise despite the attempts of fanboys to delude others otherwise.
Apple is not a player in business and enterprise period and it's far too easy to buy elsewhere.
That's funny because the current most profitable enterprise uses Apple products quite extensively.
Which is really funny, because it's an absolute lie.
BHP, Chevron, et al. all use windows on the desktop and Windows/Linux on the servers. Pays to have worked for like CSC and Fujitsu and actually done IT in some of the worlds most profitable corporations. BHP have just built a new building in Perth, you wont find a single Mac inside it.
We report to our boss, not yours, this includes every time a user refuses to do something we tell them to do.
That's until my boss tells his and your bosses boss that you are impeding my work. Then you and your boss will be fired.
LoL
My boss will tell your boss to naff off as you have everything you need and you are the problem because I've kept my boss apprised of the entire situation from the moment you started arguing with me.
I've been threatened by self important users before. "You'll be fired if you dont do this right now", "you'd better start looking for another job" and "you'll never work here again" are empty threats as even if are dumb enough to explain how stupid they acted to their boss. I've had dozens of threats, not once have I been fired (in fact, on one occasion a user pushed so far they were sacked).
Isn't that why he said you have to do what the users need (as in what they require to fulfill the requirements of their job and progress the business) rather than what the users want?
Got the GP's quote mixed up with the GGP's quote who I meant to reply to.
Already posted an appology to the GP.
Apple is still a niche player. IT shops can easily buy elsewhere, and bring in policies that lock out employee-owned devices. How is this a good business model for Apple?
Apple is not a player in business and enterprise period and it's far too easy to buy elsewhere.
Apple products get met with one word from my department, unsupported.
When a user complains about not being able to use their Macbook because it cant log into half the systems we use the problem is theirs because the platform is unsupported. Having done mac support before, I'll quit before having to touch another mac. Mac solutions came in three types, 50% of the time it cant be done, 40% of the time it's a hack, 10% the feature was there but so poorly implemented it's still a pain to use let alone administer. Support was a pain, it took those "geniuses" at Apple a week to fix a blown PSU in an Imac, they didn't do collect and return let alone the on site next business day support I got from Dell, Lenovo, IBM and Toshiba. Worse yet are the users, when a virus makes it onto the network, most of the time it came from a Mac user forwarding Adobe_CS3_Crack.exe to someone.
So I have a very long list of reasons why Apple products are on the unsupported list.
No... IT shops have to do what their users need. If you did everything what your users wanted, you'd never get off the support line.
Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
Spoken like someone who has never worked in tech support.
IT has to enable the company to make money, not pander to the user. We report to our boss, not yours, this includes every time a user refuses to do something we tell them to do.
If you dont understand you work for the companies interest, not the users interest you will get off the support line... and on to the unemployment line.
Seriously, the quickest way to advance in IT is to show an understanding of how a business (more specifically, your business) operates, the quickest way to fail in an IT career is to do everything the user wants.
IT is there to make sure you can work, not to hold the users hand and make them feel better.
Why is it "hyperbole" if somebody can drain hundreds of bank accounts wirelessly with a $50 device?
To me that sounds more like "panic stations, block all cards now!!"
Just because Paypass/wave is limited to A$35 per transaction doesn't mean one cant do a lot of damage. That money, at least in Australia must be returned to the rightful owner in the case of fraud, this means that the money comes out of the banks bottom line which must be made up in the only way a bank knows how, higher fees. So there is a net cost to everyone when it comes to fraud.
With a lot of online stores all you need is the card number and expiration date (no CVV), there is no $35 limit here.
Also, I am confident this will only be the first of such exploits. There's a lot of money in it so the research will be there. Eventually they'll be forced to put in a form of user authentication on there.
Why anybody needs RFID credit cards is beyond me anyway. Is it sooooo hard to swipe a card through a reader?
They need them because Visa and Mastercard can charge a higher merchant fee for Paypass/wave then they can for an ordinary transaction.
Merchant fees are how credit cards make money for their owners (the banks, not you). Merchant fees are invisible to the average card user as they have to be built into the price of goods. The higher the fees for the merchant, the more goods cost for you.
Credit cards are 13.56 MHz RFID. That's a wavelength of ~75ft. Not going to hide that YAGI very well....
High vis vest, safety glasses, work boots, who's going to question it. If they do, "I'm with the council ma'am, we're just measuring ambient noise, nothing to worry about." or "I'm from the phone company, just testing signal strength ma'am, nothing to worry about"
There are a dozen ways to hide something strange, not the least of which is to ignore it, If you see someone walking around with an antenna on their back do you think he's stealing your secrets or not right in the head? A big part of any attack is social.
Anyway I'll be displaying my modern art masterpiece in the mall this weekend, I have a feeling this hunk of metal is going to earn me a fortune.
There's plenty they could do differently today. Stealth technology, carbon fiber, etc. But all of that is expensive. Do you put new tires on the old Ford and drive it to work for another year, or buy a new Ferrari? Depends on your budget.
They already had a Ferrari in the SR-71, but chose to retire it and kept the old Ford.
The Ferrari cost a fortune to maintain, no one would insure it and in order to carry as much load as an old ford it needed to do 15 trips.
The SR-71 was doomed by the satellite. The U-2 can still do a job that a satellite cant do as easily or cheaply, loiter over an area. If you want an SR-71 to loiter, you lose all it's advantages in speed. Granted, the U-2's job is now being done by drones but the military is nothing but conservative (traditional conservatism, not the madness that is "conservative" today).
seeing how in 2012 railroad still use hole punch tickets taking seems a long way off and to have any thing like a TSA cheek point will need a BIG TIME rebuild of all the stations
Dont be so quick to knock it.
Where I live we moved to a RFID system that had millions of dollars in cost overruns before the roll-out and now has millions of dollars in cost overruns because the machines dont work properly. Not to mention the delays because people cant use the RIFD cards properly.
A grandma will literally stare at a smarcard reader because she doesn't know where to swipe the RFID card and of course the RFID system is the only way she can get a senior citizens discount. Also people keep them in the inner most pocket of a massive purse so they cant be read properly. They'll keep swiping it 10 or 20 times getting the error beeps before taking it out of their massive purse. The old magnetic strip card system was easier and faster. So thanks to Modern Technology(TM) public transport is more expensive and less efficient.
Oh yeah. Cause for-profit industry is doing a great job bringing affordable health care to the masses.
The government isn't going to make health care more affordable, they're just going to make someone else pay for it.
The facts dont agree with you. The average American with their god like private system pays over $13,000 for insurance. The average Australian pays around $4000 for top private health care with our evil government backed Medicare system. And yes, I included the Medicare levy in that figure. Based on a family of four, parents aged 35-45 avg income A$66,000 used for Medicare levy calculations.
The public system in Australia is good enough that a lot of people, especially young people dont have to get private. This alone puts the private insurance rate for basic cover at $500 for a single 25-35 yr old, top cover starts around $1000.
Personally, if they gave me my own spacious cave/cell like Hannibal Lecter with free WIFI for reading slashdot and visiting FBI trainees asking about C++ rules for sequence points, I'd consider it.
In reality, the only time you get your own glass cage is when you cant stop other prisoners from throwing urine on you.
In that case, shower time would also be quite an adventure for you.
This has been covered every this story comes up on Slashdot. Unregulated, unlicensed pharmacies are dangerous--not only do people get drugs without a doctor's prescription, but there's no guarantee that the drugs are even the right drugs or that they've been handled properly.
This is a sign of how screwed up the medical system is in the US.
In Australia few would even think twice about using an online pharmacy in another country. Then again, very few pay $10,000 per year for health insurance. Going to a doctor is easy and simple, going to the pharmacy next to a doctor (location, location, location) is just as simple and often cheap as doctors and pharmacies dont hesitate to give out generics if they are available (pharmacies make more money from generics whilst selling them at lower prices, a win-win situation, no?). Of course plenty of Australians shop online for medications they use regularly, but there are plenty of legit options for this.
Source on US insurance costs.. In Oz, you would need to earn A$400,000 and be dumb enough not to have private insurance to be paying A$10K per year (Medicare levy is 2.5% of income when earning above A$80,000, 1.5% below A$80,000). We've also got one of the best medical systems in the world.
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Way to downplay those two items, which are used by millions, and conveniently ignore Android and Google Maps, among others.
Add Gmail to that.
Do any of you remember what webmail was like before Gmail...
It was shit in case you dont, think about what it's like to have no organisation (labels), a search function which couldn't find shit in a shit sandwich and spam galore.
Its either this or an iPhone 6.
So murder equipment or suicide equipment,
Seriously, cant we just sent people into space or something with this money.
In any case, what other, easy to use term would you use for a modern long gun.
Does 'long gun' not serve?
Wouldn't "gun" suffice.
Did anyone else get the image of making out with a robot with the appearance of Henry Kissinger? Or am I the crazy one here...
Hey, at least you didn't order a Lucy Liu sexbot and get one that looked like Margaret Thatcher instead....
UPS can make that a reality.
Thanks for falling into the trap AC.
Chevron 2011 profit = $26.5
Apple 2011 profit = $25.9 B
The difference is, Chevron will consistently post high profits, Apple is a bubble waiting to burst.
We report to our boss, not yours, this includes every time a user refuses to do something we tell them to do.
It's all a big laugh until your boss, or your boss' boss, gets an iPhone. Then comes the knock on the IT office's door.
Actually, the Boss got Android.
Any IT senior I've known who uses Apple doesn't stay in that position very long. Nor do they use their personal devices to set company policy. Yes I know the Dilbert myths, but in reality that doesn't happen. All I have to do is point out the cost of operating Apple products and whatever complaints the boss has disappears quickly.
I'm sorry to have to destroy the myth for you, but Apple really has no place in the enterprise despite the attempts of fanboys to delude others otherwise.
Apple is not a player in business and enterprise period and it's far too easy to buy elsewhere.
That's funny because the current most profitable enterprise uses Apple products quite extensively.
Which is really funny, because it's an absolute lie.
BHP, Chevron, et al. all use windows on the desktop and Windows/Linux on the servers. Pays to have worked for like CSC and Fujitsu and actually done IT in some of the worlds most profitable corporations. BHP have just built a new building in Perth, you wont find a single Mac inside it.
We report to our boss, not yours, this includes every time a user refuses to do something we tell them to do.
That's until my boss tells his and your bosses boss that you are impeding my work. Then you and your boss will be fired.
LoL
My boss will tell your boss to naff off as you have everything you need and you are the problem because I've kept my boss apprised of the entire situation from the moment you started arguing with me.
I've been threatened by self important users before. "You'll be fired if you dont do this right now", "you'd better start looking for another job" and "you'll never work here again" are empty threats as even if are dumb enough to explain how stupid they acted to their boss. I've had dozens of threats, not once have I been fired (in fact, on one occasion a user pushed so far they were sacked).
Isn't that why he said you have to do what the users need (as in what they require to fulfill the requirements of their job and progress the business) rather than what the users want?
Got the GP's quote mixed up with the GGP's quote who I meant to reply to. Already posted an appology to the GP.
Apple is still a niche player. IT shops can easily buy elsewhere, and bring in policies that lock out employee-owned devices. How is this a good business model for Apple?
Apple is not a player in business and enterprise period and it's far too easy to buy elsewhere.
Apple products get met with one word from my department, unsupported.
When a user complains about not being able to use their Macbook because it cant log into half the systems we use the problem is theirs because the platform is unsupported. Having done mac support before, I'll quit before having to touch another mac. Mac solutions came in three types, 50% of the time it cant be done, 40% of the time it's a hack, 10% the feature was there but so poorly implemented it's still a pain to use let alone administer. Support was a pain, it took those "geniuses" at Apple a week to fix a blown PSU in an Imac, they didn't do collect and return let alone the on site next business day support I got from Dell, Lenovo, IBM and Toshiba. Worse yet are the users, when a virus makes it onto the network, most of the time it came from a Mac user forwarding Adobe_CS3_Crack.exe to someone.
So I have a very long list of reasons why Apple products are on the unsupported list.
I got your post confused with the post below yours. That sarcasm was meant for him.
Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
Spoken like someone who has never worked in tech support.
IT has to enable the company to make money, not pander to the user. We report to our boss, not yours, this includes every time a user refuses to do something we tell them to do.
If you dont understand you work for the companies interest, not the users interest you will get off the support line... and on to the unemployment line.
Seriously, the quickest way to advance in IT is to show an understanding of how a business (more specifically, your business) operates, the quickest way to fail in an IT career is to do everything the user wants.
IT is there to make sure you can work, not to hold the users hand and make them feel better.
Why is it "hyperbole" if somebody can drain hundreds of bank accounts wirelessly with a $50 device?
To me that sounds more like "panic stations, block all cards now!!"
Just because Paypass/wave is limited to A$35 per transaction doesn't mean one cant do a lot of damage. That money, at least in Australia must be returned to the rightful owner in the case of fraud, this means that the money comes out of the banks bottom line which must be made up in the only way a bank knows how, higher fees. So there is a net cost to everyone when it comes to fraud.
With a lot of online stores all you need is the card number and expiration date (no CVV), there is no $35 limit here.
Also, I am confident this will only be the first of such exploits. There's a lot of money in it so the research will be there. Eventually they'll be forced to put in a form of user authentication on there.
Why anybody needs RFID credit cards is beyond me anyway. Is it sooooo hard to swipe a card through a reader?
They need them because Visa and Mastercard can charge a higher merchant fee for Paypass/wave then they can for an ordinary transaction.
Merchant fees are how credit cards make money for their owners (the banks, not you). Merchant fees are invisible to the average card user as they have to be built into the price of goods. The higher the fees for the merchant, the more goods cost for you.
High vis vest, safety glasses, work boots, who's going to question it. If they do, "I'm with the council ma'am, we're just measuring ambient noise, nothing to worry about." or "I'm from the phone company, just testing signal strength ma'am, nothing to worry about"
There are a dozen ways to hide something strange, not the least of which is to ignore it, If you see someone walking around with an antenna on their back do you think he's stealing your secrets or not right in the head? A big part of any attack is social.
Anyway I'll be displaying my modern art masterpiece in the mall this weekend, I have a feeling this hunk of metal is going to earn me a fortune.
There's plenty they could do differently today. Stealth technology, carbon fiber, etc. But all of that is expensive. Do you put new tires on the old Ford and drive it to work for another year, or buy a new Ferrari? Depends on your budget.
They already had a Ferrari in the SR-71, but chose to retire it and kept the old Ford.
The Ferrari cost a fortune to maintain, no one would insure it and in order to carry as much load as an old ford it needed to do 15 trips.
The SR-71 was doomed by the satellite. The U-2 can still do a job that a satellite cant do as easily or cheaply, loiter over an area. If you want an SR-71 to loiter, you lose all it's advantages in speed. Granted, the U-2's job is now being done by drones but the military is nothing but conservative (traditional conservatism, not the madness that is "conservative" today).
Exelis Visual Information Solutions would have sued their pants off.
Erm, Foxconn is not the only company in China.
Much like Asus, Samsung runs their own production complex in China.
And while HTC's premium flagship phones are made in Taiwan, I'd guess most of the rest of them are made in Foxconn
Bolded the key word. Once again, there's no evidence of this but nice try to spread FUD.
I live in Stockholm, where 30C is fucking hot, you insensitive clod!
I live in Perth where it's just been over 40C for the last 5 days you isensitive clod.
I think my faith in humanity might yet be vindicated.
Not so fast.
He got ACTA signed in Europe. He did the job he was paid for, only now can he say whatever he likes.
seeing how in 2012 railroad still use hole punch tickets taking seems a long way off and to have any thing like a TSA cheek point will need a BIG TIME rebuild of all the stations
Dont be so quick to knock it. Where I live we moved to a RFID system that had millions of dollars in cost overruns before the roll-out and now has millions of dollars in cost overruns because the machines dont work properly. Not to mention the delays because people cant use the RIFD cards properly.
A grandma will literally stare at a smarcard reader because she doesn't know where to swipe the RFID card and of course the RFID system is the only way she can get a senior citizens discount. Also people keep them in the inner most pocket of a massive purse so they cant be read properly. They'll keep swiping it 10 or 20 times getting the error beeps before taking it out of their massive purse. The old magnetic strip card system was easier and faster. So thanks to Modern Technology(TM) public transport is more expensive and less efficient.
Oh yeah. Cause for-profit industry is doing a great job bringing affordable health care to the masses.
The government isn't going to make health care more affordable, they're just going to make someone else pay for it.
The facts dont agree with you. The average American with their god like private system pays over $13,000 for insurance. The average Australian pays around $4000 for top private health care with our evil government backed Medicare system. And yes, I included the Medicare levy in that figure. Based on a family of four, parents aged 35-45 avg income A$66,000 used for Medicare levy calculations.
The public system in Australia is good enough that a lot of people, especially young people dont have to get private. This alone puts the private insurance rate for basic cover at $500 for a single 25-35 yr old, top cover starts around $1000.
Yes, we should put private enterprise in charge of our roads and highways. Won't travel be more fun when every road is a toll road.
Life will be so much better when every road now to make a profit rather then simply having tolls to offset some of the cost.
Personally, if they gave me my own spacious cave/cell like Hannibal Lecter with free WIFI for reading slashdot and visiting FBI trainees asking about C++ rules for sequence points, I'd consider it.
In reality, the only time you get your own glass cage is when you cant stop other prisoners from throwing urine on you.
In that case, shower time would also be quite an adventure for you.
This is a sign of how screwed up the medical system is in the US.
In Australia few would even think twice about using an online pharmacy in another country. Then again, very few pay $10,000 per year for health insurance. Going to a doctor is easy and simple, going to the pharmacy next to a doctor (location, location, location) is just as simple and often cheap as doctors and pharmacies dont hesitate to give out generics if they are available (pharmacies make more money from generics whilst selling them at lower prices, a win-win situation, no?). Of course plenty of Australians shop online for medications they use regularly, but there are plenty of legit options for this.
Source on US insurance costs.. In Oz, you would need to earn A$400,000 and be dumb enough not to have private insurance to be paying A$10K per year (Medicare levy is 2.5% of income when earning above A$80,000, 1.5% below A$80,000). We've also got one of the best medical systems in the world.
Bavarian illuminati, freemasons, elders of zion, the psyops corps of the PLA and the shade of Osama bin Laden.
You forgot,
The NSA, CIA cyber operatives, the Majestic Council of 12,. psycorps, KGB (or whatever they're called these days) and Mossad.