Posts by Noodle 99 publicly visible posts • joined 29 Sep 2009
Exactly this. If you would not be happy with a stranger stressing there with a phone video recording you then you will not be ok with someone doing the same with "smart" glasses, except now you might not know it's happening. I can't see any beneficial outcome from this tech as it's currently presented.
Exactly, this article does appear to be trying to relitigate an argument that for most MS based enterprises is no longer really relevant. A big proportion of docs and spreadsheets now only ever exist as online versions in Office 365 and SharePoint and no open source rendering engine is going to affect that no matter how good it's fidelity.
Appreciate your honesty Chris. While these were some elementary mistakes for a professional I'm sure there are a lot of individual hobbyists, solo entrepreneurs and small businesses out there who are not AWS experts and are currently making one or more of the same mistakes and hopefully this article might save some of them from the same fate. Glad you were eventually able to get back control of the account.
After the previous fiasco with these legacy free workspaces a few years ago we put in place a back up plan to migrate off Google if they ever tried it again, they back tracked last time but it's pretty clear the writing is on the wall for these free workspace accounts. For whatever reason these now look bad on someone's internal dashboard at Google and now they want to get rid of them.
Well maybe once upon a time but here in the land of the long white cloud (New Zealand) our 3G network has just been shut down and it turned out a lot of supposed "4G" phones actually fall back to 3G when making calls to 111 (the emergency services) and since you would likely only find that out in a situation where you tried to ring the emergency services it's made using random old phones a bit of a risky prospect.
The DPA is incredibly broad so they could easily do that if they want e.g.
Title I: Priorities and Allocations, which allows the President to require persons (including businesses and corporations) to prioritize and accept contracts for materials and services as necessary to promote the national defense.
"You're right, you did specify to only target Russians but I didn't do that. Since Russians are humans and Russians are enemies I targeted all humans instead. Let me retry that for you and this time I won't annihilate all humans."
Just recently looked at buying a new phone and unfortunately all the premium models I looked at with quality materials, glass, charging features etc. were all encumbered with crappy AI "features" I don't want and will never use. As the commenters in the article state, it's now extremely difficult if not impossible to buy a premium quality phone without AI crowbarred into it.
The article seems to imply that irobot/Roomba failed because there isn't a market for robot vacuum cleaners or that the concept is inherently flawed, but that is clearly nonsense. The current market for robot vacuum cleaners is huge and of course now mostly dominated by Chinese manufacturers. Roomba has failed because it could no longer compete on either price or innovation but unlike Western car manufacturers it will not be kept going on life support.
Personally I've had several robot vacs and they have mostly been great, but none of them were Roombas because why would I pay 2x or 3x more?
Same. Honestly just screw these guys, they seem to have forgotten that the entire Stack product is built on the back of countless hours of free work contributed by users. Giving those contributors the finger and claiming all the content as their own property, why would anyone contribute to that mess anymore.
Unexpected bills are nothing new, have these people never been through an Oracle audit before?
"Well Mr Customer, I realize you have paid an eye watering sum of money to have our supposed "Enterprise" edition, but it looks to me like you've used advanced compression on those indexes, so you better dig deep and hand over some more cash!"
An insurance company I worked at had a similar experience, tech showed up to service a UPS unit and was supposed to switch power away from UPS unit while keeping everything else on. Instead they managed to turn off all power to the entire server room. On a Friday. Absolute chaos ensued, staff were summoned back from holidays, one particular bit of Fujitsu kit would not come back up and required a tech from HQ in Japan to remote in and coax it back to life. A heroic weekend-long effort by IT team managed to get everything back on line by Monday.
A week or so later the IT team received an invoice from the UPS tech for his work. Suffice to say some colourful language and loud phone calls later the invoice was consigned to the rubbish bin, unpaid.
"People getting used to the idea that the car will simply sort everything out so there's no need to pay attention."
This is exactly the problem with Teslas. It's (mostly) not a technology problem, it's the way they are marketed. We all know that no-one reads the manual any more and if you give enough people a feature called "autopilot" then some of them are going to interpret that literally, leading to accidents like this one.
