I don't think our chemistry lab was sponsored by Bausch, no. Way back in the early 1970s, we did have computers gifted by HP. I forget their names but they had plotters, hooked up to a television, and supported magnetic strip cards for algorithm storage. I think they took punch cards, as well.
As stated, I'd probably just delete it and send an email to the sender, asking them to submit their invoice again and asking that they do so in a sane format. If nothing else, in this case, it'd probably confirm that the person claimed to be the sender has no idea what the missive is actually about.
However, I'd not be even a little surprised to find out that someone has, for whatever reason, composed their invoice in PPT. And yes, yes I am near certain that I'd delete it and request a saner format. I am tempted to try to reason out why someone would opt to use PPT for that, but I am not sure I can. Plain text works, even.
Linux is, by default, more secure than the Windows OS used to be. Microsoft has come a long ways, with regards to security. Linux uses permissions, meaning that things like applications don't get installed without some effort on the part of the user. A user account is also limited in accessing files that it doesn't have ownership of. Things like system files can not, easily, be modified by the user - unless the user makes a specific effort to do so. Windows didn't even have permissions, for quite some time.
As always, the biggest security flaw is the operator. Microsoft has done a great deal to lock things down, but it still has to remain simple and familiar, while retaining backwards compatibility. They put things like warnings up, make the user confirm their choices, and even have a working permissions system. Well, that's what the various articles say, I haven't actually used a Windows PC since Vista. I am trusting they are honest. Either way, the user is probably just gonna click OKAY until they get the desired result.
That it is a PowerPoint file and requests that you trust it.
I am not omnipresent, but I've never seen an invoice in PPT. That alone would probably make me think twice, and exercise some caution. Well, no... I probably wouldn't much care, but that's because I don't use Windows. If I did, I'd probably be pretty cautious and may just delete the email without opening the attachment and would then email the sender asking them to submit their invoice in something more sane than a PowerPoint document.
I eagerly await their Groupon or coupons in my Sunday paper.
Trivially related; I think it'd be fun to get a small group of people together and take a trip to space (out of space, editors? I am guessing they meant outer space, but I digress) for just a few days. I actually know some folks who can realistically afford that. Unfortunately, I'm not sure that they are the kinds of people with whom I'd like to share the experience.
Numerically, there's a few possible combinations - but I am not even going to guess at their political feasibility. As an American, it's fun to learn about this stuff. It seems more complicated, but I have to wonder if that's just because I'm only familiar with the US system. There were very few questions about it, on the test to become a Canadian citizen. Even though I could, I do not vote in Canadian elections.
Ha! I was just talking with a real-live human about that, just a day or two ago.
They were frothing at the mouth because May was to blame for Brexit.
It took some work to try to explain it to them, and I'm not sure they've realized how mistaken they were. They weren't even talking about the "hard exit." They were convinced it was all her fault and that she was the origin of the idea - and not the person tasked with implementation of the idea. Hell, IIRC, she voted against it and spoke out against it.
> Would you elaborate please because that is no different from someone saying the complete opposite and asking me to trust them.
My bad - I neglected to mention that I'm familiar with Linda and the subject matter. I love to watch that stuff.
Anyhow, what you have from her is conjecture, supposition, and willful ignorance. Well, I assume it's willful - it appears to be.
In the case of livestock mutilations, the damage has perfectly normal reasons. There's predation, vultures, and insects. There's bloating which, if you've not seen it in person, does all sorts of horrific looking things to corpses. The blood isn't missing - it's pooled, leaked, and/or consumed.
For crop circles, those are made by humans. We've had many humans come forth and tell us how they created them - they'll even show you how they created them. It's pretty neat and often involves things like a plank of wood and some rope. I'm kinda impressed with their creativity and the simple methods that they use.
Anyhow, extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. She just takes evidence and decides it means what she wants it to mean and then ties things together when there's no association between them.
I... Umm... My guilty pleasure is watching all this stuff. Very, very few of the mysteries they cover are actually mysteries. Usually, there's a handy Wikipedia article that has actual sources at the bottom of the page.
I have actually spoken on this subject, to a crowd of ufologists. My talk was about the mathematical probabilities of intelligent life existing on other planets. In my talk, I conclude that I have zero reason to doubt the existence of said life. (I was redacting this last night, 'cause it can raise a whole lot of questions from a bunch of ACs and I don't feel like answering them all today.) In my talk, we discussed things like the Drake equation.
I have no doubt that intelligent life exists on more planets than Earth. However, I see zero evidence that suggests extraterrestrial activity on this planet.
Let's try a simple thought experiment...
Why would an alien species come to the planet and make crop circles or mutilate cows? Surely, they have better methods of communication. Surely, they've had time to study our communication. Surely, they've had time to observe our behaviors. To even get here, they'd have to be intelligent.
Why would they abduct us? How could all these governments keep it a secret? Why wouldn't they just tell us that they're here - or avoid us entirely?
The problem is, as I see it, people trying to invent something bigger than themselves. I *want* credible evidence that suggests aliens are here. I *want* to believe.
So far, no evidence exists - that I'm aware of. We have a method to establish belief. It's called science. Nobody is going to lose their career by proving extraterrestrial activity. In fact, proving it would rocket them to fame and fortune.
Which should not be seen as me suggesting you stop looking or believing. I'm just telling you why I don't currently believe. I keep an open mind.
That said, I love the stuff. I watch way more of that sort of stuff than I want to admit to. You may already know of these folks, but here's a link - just in case you don't:
At this time, however, there's just conjecture, speculation, and (probably) disparate events that people use to make claims without actually providing proof. I have her talk playing now - but she's spoken on this subject before. She's been in the circuit for a while now. She's fun to watch but she's not a scientist. By that, I don't mean that she doesn't have the degree, I mean she's not using the scientific method.
In theory, we've multiple parties in the US. We even have parties that are now defunct. I did have to learn a little about the Canadian system, but there weren't a lot of questions about it on the citizenship test.
I owned the company. We were also pretty relaxed. I'm not sure we'd have used those titles, but I'm pretty sure someone is getting demoted - and it's probably not going to be the junior developer. Hell, I might have taken Mr. Junior Dev out to eat, or given them a small bonus - for having discovered the glaring hole in our process that enabled them to do this and for demonstrating that our backups were worse than useless.
Anyhow, I'd not want to fire anyone, without more information at hand. Firing people has large costs associated with it.
How to describe this?
As stated, I am retired. I've been retired for over ten years. Back in my day, we trained people and paid for them to continue their education. Don't laugh, that really used to happen.
So, I'd probably try to salvage this as a teaching moment. I'd also be changing someone else to the lead position. If I were to fire anyone, it might be the person who enabled this to happen and probably wouldn't be the junior.
Our shop was kinda laid back. It is unlikely that I'd fire anyone, but someone is going to catch a whole ration of shit. If this is a habit, then someone is getting fired, but if this is a habit then it speaks to a larger problem.
I'd start with the junior dev and work my way up. I'd keep digging until I found the problem in the process. I'd then take time to listen and find out what we need to do to make sure it never happens again. There's gonna be a meeting. Hell, there are going to be several meetings. Chances are, this is going to have a bunch of little teaching moments.
Junior devs, autocorrect hates that word and thinks it should be debs, sure as hell shouldn't be able to push to production. Even if they could, those backups damned well better be timely and functional. The IT staff, I guess you call them ops today, were great at their jobs, thankfully. For reasons, we had a pretty robust backup methodology. I am still flummoxed when I hear stories about not backing up properly.
I haven't done this for a while, so it is time to do it again.
I used a computer because I had to. I actually kinda hated them, for the longest time. I am not a programmer, but I programmed because I had a task that needed to get done. I'm not an admin, but I did that job because it also needed to get done.
Then, I was able to hire capable people. I was able to hire competent developers and IT staff. It was those people who did much of the heavy lifting. I learned a lot from them. I learned what best practices were and why they were that way.
So, as I said, I've not taken the time to do so lately. Here's a tip of the hat, and a nod, to those folks in the admin side and in the developer side. Here's a tip of the hat to the database admins and to the jerks who secured my network. Here is a tip of the hat to the programmers and to the QA. Here's a tip of the hat to those who spent long hours beside me, enabling me and teaching me.
1) I believe the science is valid and that AGW is a problem. C) I dislike Trump, a great deal. VIII) I have no problems with us withdrawing from the accord, States and businesses are picking up the slack, or so it appears.
So, frankly, I don't much care that you don't like Trump. I don't like him either. Now, put on your big boy pants and go find a way to be nicer to Mother Nature. It'd be far more productive for you to help than it is for you to sit and complain.
Retired boss, here. If a junior dev can push to prod AND can delete data, it isn't their fault. Okay... I am still going to try to salvage my hire and see if they fit in QA, or see if the debs will stop fucking with him. Seriously, not his fault. Nobody should be able to push to prod, withou someone signing off. Ask me how I fucking know. I'm not even a programmer. I just paid a lot of you and shut the hell up and listened.
So, if I am wrong then they were wrong. You don't push code to prod without someone signing off. The person signing off has ultimate authority. You sure as fuck don't let a junior do it, without oversight. Not now, not ever.
If this happened in my shop, some titles would have been changed.
Nah... Windows or Linux, once it is owned it is owned. The biggest security hole is the human. Someday, I'll tell you of my most recent hack. It was via VNC and I got to watch them. It was also my fault, entirely. I got lucky and could literally see them move the mouse and type commands. It was almost fun to watch them learn Linux. Point is, it was my fault and I know the path.
I cheated and RTFA. Please don't hold it against me. Basically, the article says, "If you're functionally retarded, this could happen under a very limited set of circumstances."
My comment history shows I am biased towards Linux but not a zealot. This is a problem if you're stupid. That's about it. Even stupid people are pretty well protected, as they are behind a NAT that disallows ingress.
I have some Pi (pies?) so I looked at the article. Sorry... You'd have to expose it to the net AND keep default passwords the same. Then, maybe, if will effect you but only if you have those services running.
I am trying to not minimize this but, really, it is a wee bit silly. Maybe I am missing something?
It's kinda amusing to see people who see that image and then try to establish what "side" they think I'm on. I ain't even got a Trump hat. I don't even know, anymore. I'm half convinced the whole world went insane without me. (Really, click the link. It'll maybe make you giggle - and who doesn't need a giggle?)
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Well, not with that attitude, you won't!
You'd need exactly one, to improve air quality.
I wish to know more about these climate scientists who've never taken a basic chemistry class. ;-)
I don't think our chemistry lab was sponsored by Bausch, no. Way back in the early 1970s, we did have computers gifted by HP. I forget their names but they had plotters, hooked up to a television, and supported magnetic strip cards for algorithm storage. I think they took punch cards, as well.
But, no. Bausch hadn't anything to do with it.
As stated, I'd probably just delete it and send an email to the sender, asking them to submit their invoice again and asking that they do so in a sane format. If nothing else, in this case, it'd probably confirm that the person claimed to be the sender has no idea what the missive is actually about.
However, I'd not be even a little surprised to find out that someone has, for whatever reason, composed their invoice in PPT. And yes, yes I am near certain that I'd delete it and request a saner format. I am tempted to try to reason out why someone would opt to use PPT for that, but I am not sure I can. Plain text works, even.
Linux is, by default, more secure than the Windows OS used to be. Microsoft has come a long ways, with regards to security. Linux uses permissions, meaning that things like applications don't get installed without some effort on the part of the user. A user account is also limited in accessing files that it doesn't have ownership of. Things like system files can not, easily, be modified by the user - unless the user makes a specific effort to do so. Windows didn't even have permissions, for quite some time.
As always, the biggest security flaw is the operator. Microsoft has done a great deal to lock things down, but it still has to remain simple and familiar, while retaining backwards compatibility. They put things like warnings up, make the user confirm their choices, and even have a working permissions system. Well, that's what the various articles say, I haven't actually used a Windows PC since Vista. I am trusting they are honest. Either way, the user is probably just gonna click OKAY until they get the desired result.
That it is a PowerPoint file and requests that you trust it.
I am not omnipresent, but I've never seen an invoice in PPT. That alone would probably make me think twice, and exercise some caution. Well, no... I probably wouldn't much care, but that's because I don't use Windows. If I did, I'd probably be pretty cautious and may just delete the email without opening the attachment and would then email the sender asking them to submit their invoice in something more sane than a PowerPoint document.
Nobody clicks to RTFA, not even the editors, so I suppose the answer is, "probably."
I eagerly await their Groupon or coupons in my Sunday paper.
Trivially related; I think it'd be fun to get a small group of people together and take a trip to space (out of space, editors? I am guessing they meant outer space, but I digress) for just a few days. I actually know some folks who can realistically afford that. Unfortunately, I'm not sure that they are the kinds of people with whom I'd like to share the experience.
I'm pretty sure that more than two bit.
My last Accord was stolen. I never did get it back.
I gotta smoke less pot.
Numerically, there's a few possible combinations - but I am not even going to guess at their political feasibility. As an American, it's fun to learn about this stuff. It seems more complicated, but I have to wonder if that's just because I'm only familiar with the US system. There were very few questions about it, on the test to become a Canadian citizen. Even though I could, I do not vote in Canadian elections.
Ha! I was just talking with a real-live human about that, just a day or two ago.
They were frothing at the mouth because May was to blame for Brexit.
It took some work to try to explain it to them, and I'm not sure they've realized how mistaken they were. They weren't even talking about the "hard exit." They were convinced it was all her fault and that she was the origin of the idea - and not the person tasked with implementation of the idea. Hell, IIRC, she voted against it and spoke out against it.
Note to self: Do not get involved in UK politics.
> Would you elaborate please because that is no different from someone saying the complete opposite and asking me to trust them.
My bad - I neglected to mention that I'm familiar with Linda and the subject matter. I love to watch that stuff.
Anyhow, what you have from her is conjecture, supposition, and willful ignorance. Well, I assume it's willful - it appears to be.
In the case of livestock mutilations, the damage has perfectly normal reasons. There's predation, vultures, and insects. There's bloating which, if you've not seen it in person, does all sorts of horrific looking things to corpses. The blood isn't missing - it's pooled, leaked, and/or consumed.
For crop circles, those are made by humans. We've had many humans come forth and tell us how they created them - they'll even show you how they created them. It's pretty neat and often involves things like a plank of wood and some rope. I'm kinda impressed with their creativity and the simple methods that they use.
Anyhow, extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. She just takes evidence and decides it means what she wants it to mean and then ties things together when there's no association between them.
I... Umm... My guilty pleasure is watching all this stuff. Very, very few of the mysteries they cover are actually mysteries. Usually, there's a handy Wikipedia article that has actual sources at the bottom of the page.
I have actually spoken on this subject, to a crowd of ufologists. My talk was about the mathematical probabilities of intelligent life existing on other planets. In my talk, I conclude that I have zero reason to doubt the existence of said life. (I was redacting this last night, 'cause it can raise a whole lot of questions from a bunch of ACs and I don't feel like answering them all today.) In my talk, we discussed things like the Drake equation.
I have no doubt that intelligent life exists on more planets than Earth. However, I see zero evidence that suggests extraterrestrial activity on this planet.
Let's try a simple thought experiment...
Why would an alien species come to the planet and make crop circles or mutilate cows? Surely, they have better methods of communication. Surely, they've had time to study our communication. Surely, they've had time to observe our behaviors. To even get here, they'd have to be intelligent.
Why would they abduct us? How could all these governments keep it a secret? Why wouldn't they just tell us that they're here - or avoid us entirely?
The problem is, as I see it, people trying to invent something bigger than themselves. I *want* credible evidence that suggests aliens are here. I *want* to believe.
So far, no evidence exists - that I'm aware of. We have a method to establish belief. It's called science. Nobody is going to lose their career by proving extraterrestrial activity. In fact, proving it would rocket them to fame and fortune.
Which should not be seen as me suggesting you stop looking or believing. I'm just telling you why I don't currently believe. I keep an open mind.
That said, I love the stuff. I watch way more of that sort of stuff than I want to admit to. You may already know of these folks, but here's a link - just in case you don't:
Rabbit hole.
At this time, however, there's just conjecture, speculation, and (probably) disparate events that people use to make claims without actually providing proof. I have her talk playing now - but she's spoken on this subject before. She's been in the circuit for a while now. She's fun to watch but she's not a scientist. By that, I don't mean that she doesn't have the degree, I mean she's not using the scientific method.
LOL I think I get the gist of it, thanks.
In theory, we've multiple parties in the US. We even have parties that are now defunct. I did have to learn a little about the Canadian system, but there weren't a lot of questions about it on the citizenship test.
I owned the company. We were also pretty relaxed. I'm not sure we'd have used those titles, but I'm pretty sure someone is getting demoted - and it's probably not going to be the junior developer. Hell, I might have taken Mr. Junior Dev out to eat, or given them a small bonus - for having discovered the glaring hole in our process that enabled them to do this and for demonstrating that our backups were worse than useless.
I gotta stop trying to type on a tablet.
Anyhow, I'd not want to fire anyone, without more information at hand. Firing people has large costs associated with it.
How to describe this?
As stated, I am retired. I've been retired for over ten years. Back in my day, we trained people and paid for them to continue their education. Don't laugh, that really used to happen.
So, I'd probably try to salvage this as a teaching moment. I'd also be changing someone else to the lead position. If I were to fire anyone, it might be the person who enabled this to happen and probably wouldn't be the junior.
Our shop was kinda laid back. It is unlikely that I'd fire anyone, but someone is going to catch a whole ration of shit. If this is a habit, then someone is getting fired, but if this is a habit then it speaks to a larger problem.
I'd start with the junior dev and work my way up. I'd keep digging until I found the problem in the process. I'd then take time to listen and find out what we need to do to make sure it never happens again. There's gonna be a meeting. Hell, there are going to be several meetings. Chances are, this is going to have a bunch of little teaching moments.
Junior devs, autocorrect hates that word and thinks it should be debs, sure as hell shouldn't be able to push to production. Even if they could, those backups damned well better be timely and functional. The IT staff, I guess you call them ops today, were great at their jobs, thankfully. For reasons, we had a pretty robust backup methodology. I am still flummoxed when I hear stories about not backing up properly.
I haven't done this for a while, so it is time to do it again.
I used a computer because I had to. I actually kinda hated them, for the longest time. I am not a programmer, but I programmed because I had a task that needed to get done. I'm not an admin, but I did that job because it also needed to get done.
Then, I was able to hire capable people. I was able to hire competent developers and IT staff. It was those people who did much of the heavy lifting. I learned a lot from them. I learned what best practices were and why they were that way.
So, as I said, I've not taken the time to do so lately. Here's a tip of the hat, and a nod, to those folks in the admin side and in the developer side. Here's a tip of the hat to the database admins and to the jerks who secured my network. Here is a tip of the hat to the programmers and to the QA. Here's a tip of the hat to those who spent long hours beside me, enabling me and teaching me.
Huh...
1) I believe the science is valid and that AGW is a problem.
C) I dislike Trump, a great deal.
VIII) I have no problems with us withdrawing from the accord, States and businesses are picking up the slack, or so it appears.
So, frankly, I don't much care that you don't like Trump. I don't like him either. Now, put on your big boy pants and go find a way to be nicer to Mother Nature. It'd be far more productive for you to help than it is for you to sit and complain.
I suppose we could do nothing different, but I'm not sure how that helps.
Retired boss, here. If a junior dev can push to prod AND can delete data, it isn't their fault. Okay... I am still going to try to salvage my hire and see if they fit in QA, or see if the debs will stop fucking with him. Seriously, not his fault. Nobody should be able to push to prod, withou someone signing off. Ask me how I fucking know. I'm not even a programmer. I just paid a lot of you and shut the hell up and listened.
So, if I am wrong then they were wrong. You don't push code to prod without someone signing off. The person signing off has ultimate authority. You sure as fuck don't let a junior do it, without oversight. Not now, not ever.
If this happened in my shop, some titles would have been changed.
I don't know who you are, but I kinda love you. Seriously, keep people off Linux. I kinda like it here.
Linux User some four digit number here.
Nah... Windows or Linux, once it is owned it is owned. The biggest security hole is the human. Someday, I'll tell you of my most recent hack. It was via VNC and I got to watch them. It was also my fault, entirely. I got lucky and could literally see them move the mouse and type commands. It was almost fun to watch them learn Linux. Point is, it was my fault and I know the path.
I cheated and RTFA. Please don't hold it against me. Basically, the article says, "If you're functionally retarded, this could happen under a very limited set of circumstances."
My comment history shows I am biased towards Linux but not a zealot. This is a problem if you're stupid. That's about it. Even stupid people are pretty well protected, as they are behind a NAT that disallows ingress.
I have some Pi (pies?) so I looked at the article. Sorry... You'd have to expose it to the net AND keep default passwords the same. Then, maybe, if will effect you but only if you have those services running.
I am trying to not minimize this but, really, it is a wee bit silly. Maybe I am missing something?
I don't even know? LOL I really don't. Umm... Wanna see a picture?
BLARGH!!!
It's kinda amusing to see people who see that image and then try to establish what "side" they think I'm on. I ain't even got a Trump hat. I don't even know, anymore. I'm half convinced the whole world went insane without me. (Really, click the link. It'll maybe make you giggle - and who doesn't need a giggle?)