Posts by Tishers

After nearly 3B personal records leak online, Florida data broker confirms it was ransacked by cyber-thieves

We need to develop penalties for companies such as this one who fail to have proper safeguards in place for user data.

Not a financial penalty but prison sentences for corporate officers.

It looks a lot like VMware just lost a 24,000-VM customer

Back in the day 'Big Blue' pulled that stunt on a company I was working for (one of the major oil and gas corporations). The word came down from on high; 'Dump Them'.

It was painful, took two years but we did indeed terminate that relationship.

Musk 'texts' Nadella about Windows 11's demands for a Microsoft account

Musk can create his own OS, he will probably call it Unix-X.

The auto-installer will lock you out of the controls, accelerate and a high speed and crash in to a wall.

Then a message will pop up in the flaming ruin of your computer, pointing out that it is part of the user experience.

Air Canada must pay damages after chatbot lies to grieving passenger about discount

Re: Can't wait until Air Canada replaces all of its C-suite high-priced suits with AI

Engaging with a gate agent is as just a soulless, draining experience as well.

Tesla's Cybertruck may not be so stainless after all

Re: A Can of Dulux?

To do vapor deposition coating each cybertruck will take a ride on that monstrosity that has yet to make it to orbit. They will do it in the vacuum of space and just drop it through the atmosphere to land it right on your driveway.

Just don't park your Camry in the same spot.

Antipathy?

Tesla owners in deep freeze discover the cold, hard truth about EVs

Part of the issue is that many people do not have a dedicated parking spot or lot with chargers in the Chicago area (lived there for 30 years).

They park on the street and it is seldom near your house or apartment, your car may be several blocks away and at a semi-random location. There just aren't that many charging stations other than super-charger facilities.

What works best is if you have a garage that is at least slightly heated (to a little above 0c) and you have your own personal charger that the car can stay plugged in to all night long.

Winters in the midwest of the United States can be quite brutal for the prolonged cold and constant winds (it is why Chicago is known as "the windy city"). The batteries on a Tesla are beneath the floor and the surface area of the battery tray is to encourage cooling in the summertime so the batteries do not get too hot.

Cloudflare defends firing of staffer for reasons HR could not explain

I was 'laid-off' (fired) from a job where I was a manager with thirty eight employees reporting to me. Of the two other managers in my division, one had five employees, the other had two. I was rated the highest of the three managers and had just been put on track to become a senior-manager within the next year.

I had more seniority than one of the other managers (I had seven years, one of the others had three years).

I pressed hard for a rationale to their decision-making and my senior vice president said "well, you are single and Dale has a wife and children, you can find another job quickly". (Dale was the guy with less seniority).

They took my former department and broke it in two and gave it to the remaining two managers. Richard (the manager who only had two employees) ended up dropping dead of a heart-attack at his desk two months later from the stress of suddenly being responsible for fifteen more employees and needing to come in late at night to handle customer escalations. (I was in the telecomms industry and managed the 'translations', 'grooms' and 'traffic engineering' groups).

They were partially right; I was laid off on a Monday morning, had a job interview by Wednesday and was hired by Friday, making 50% more than I had been earning. My former employees still consider me their best manager and many are still personal friends with me twenty years later.

Cisco whips up modded switch to secure Ukraine grid against Russian cyberattacks

Using GPS-only as a time reference is probably a bad idea.

There is a local oscillator that will keep it within a few milliseconds but it will gradually drift, but not at an incredibly fast rate.

They could of used a rubidium oscillator that is disciplined by GPS. It is not as if the GPS 1 PPS signal needs to be there constantly. The output protocol is known as IRIG-B at 100 PPS in a BCD code that is usually connected (serially) to the IED (intelligent electronic device) that makes up the substation controller.

A disciplined rubidium oscillator might get down to better than 1Ex10-9 accuracy (part per billion). Some can even go down to 1Ex10-11. This is many

It is most relevant for fault-detection between distant stations on a power-transmission system (many tens of kilometers apart) for breaker trips and fault detection. The goal is to trip a series of protective devices within a fraction of a power sine-wave (in EU it is 50 Hz) to minimize damage to transformers and switches..