Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward 26124 publicly visible posts • joined 31 Dec 2009
That doesn't seem that unreasonable.
If you are a Coca-cola or Nike, then paying a few $ to have access to billions of eyeballs - and getting a real account manager to call to get things fixed still sounds like a good deal vs buying superbowl advertising
If you called NBC and said you want to run an ad for all their viewers and they suggested charging you only $8/month you would bite their hand off.
>capable people who simply can't be educated about some aspects of security. It's not part of their world view.
That's why we need to up our security.
Send a MFA popup to their phone everytime they want to open/save a document, everytime their screen locks, everytime they want to read an email. For extra security we should also make each application use a separate authenticator.
Then they will be really careful about what pop-up requests they approve.
It was a legitimate question.
You would only build enough storage to cover the expected technical disruption multiplied by the chance your customers are going to sue you. Plus maybe a bit of buffer capacity for peak demand
Companies don't keep 2 years of components in stock just in case of a global pandemic.
It's hard to imagine gas company shareholders built a years worth of gas storage capacity on the off-chance of a non-nuclear war with Russia ?
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> but they decide to destroy the pipelines, therefore removing most or said leverage
They destroyed a pipeline feeding a number of countries, leaving the one that is totally controlled by Germany.
Put enough political pressure on Germany and they can decide to open the taps without any one else getting a veto
> west is to employ a bunch of "useful idiots" to force Western governments to accelerate the rollout of electric vehicles
Musk is a Chinese agent - I knew it.
Roll coal to defeat communism
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I don't know if it's a requirement elsewhere in the world - but I really need a "this vehicle is reversing" bin lorry recording
My tiny little electric car is silent reversing and the number of people who walk/push a shopping trolley/wheel a pushchair behind me while going backwards... I think their brain goes, that car is moving, it's reversing lights are on, but there is no noise so it's not really real.
One person literally walked into the back bumper and then said "it is quiet, isn't it? "
Was the victim of a new Oracle based purchasing system at Caltech-JPL in the late 90s. Rumour was that at least one space mission was cancelled because a critical supplier went bust when no one could pay them. I remember having to take $ out of petty cash to pay for liquid nitrogen for our lab, from the university's own plant.
Ironically I moved to Cambridge just as they introduced an Oracle base purchasing system that never worked / was massively late / went over budget.
Still I suppose accounts-receivable and double-entry book keeping is one of those areas of hyper-mathematics that would take the University of Maximegalon to solve
Not wishing to be partisan, but it seems largely one side who attempt to overthrow elections by force, calls for the killing of political opponents and refuses to accept the results when their chap loses.
You can have a reasonable debate between opposing political views about tax rates and Laffar curves and or inflation and Phillips curves but it's harder to find common ground on Jewish space Lasers, chem-trails and the Illuminati using Adrenochrome to resurrect JFK.
The problem is that you get feature creep
It needs to be secure ( enjoy that rabbit hole) but interact seamlessly with every desktop and mobile platform.
It should interface with every existing medical database, from the ambulance laptop to that mainframe in some neglected clinical research agency.
Obviously it should also be able to send medical data, including 5d fMRI scans and support all the legacy kit with their nonconformist DICOM.
And we require a single bidder for the software, hardware, support and training.
Oh that's going to cost a squillion quid and take 10 years? Better just stick to fax then.
Is that because the pharmacy is now part if some giant chain that has the political muscle to make sure the NHS adapts to its systems?
Happened over here in the colonies. If you go to a chain that is in-group then it's all simple. You are free to use any local pharmacy, but expect a Lord of the Rings style quest to get if paid for. So best just stick to GlobalMegacorp
>In the end we all pay the price for this kind of silliness as poor public service.
Dear pharamcist, your mission if you choose to accept it.
Throw out the fax machine and install a new IT system
It requires Windows server with a primary and backup domain controller, which must support WibblePling 4.3 .45XYZ security
You need a Ploing certificate of at least XC3455.b.v2 subpara 4 which must be kept upto date as specified in ISO3141592654 part B
Please check with NHS IT policy directorate to ensure that none of these requirements have changed today
You are now responsible for securing this against Russian/Chinese/N. Korean/Belgian nation state hackers
The 4 local doctors surgeries, the 2 physiotherapy clinics and the 3 health authorities that you are on the border of all have different systems and you need to make sure your system works with all of them.
