Posts by maret77

Barclays and RBS on naughty step: Banks told to explain service meltdown to UK politicos

Oh, and don't forget the relentless outsourcing so that any given bank's staff member doesn't really have a clue about what's going on / wrong.

I would love to have forwarded this to a board member because it's written so well, but in a professional capacity, I won't forward anything with TITSUP* in the title no matter how cutesy you try to make the definition at the bottom of the well-written article.

Come on, boys! You can do better.

Blame everything on 'computer error' – no one will contradict you

Thanks for a great article and the chuckles.

TSB's middleware nightmare: Execs grilled on Total Sh*tshow at Bank

I've led massive integration tests for major banks and NOT ONE of them have paid proper attention to building a proper TEST infrastructure prior to implementation. Take a look at all of the IT execs at a bank (or pretty much anywhere) and I dare you to find one that has a clue about what's required to invest in proper testing (including, uh-hem, a reasonable test environment).

Drone smacks commercial passenger plane in Canada

Re: How is it different

I suspect that "traffic news, commuter and rich-yacht owner helicopter" operators actually do follow aviation laws and remain in communication with the proper authorities and can take evasive action if necessary.

I've got NO problem whatever in banning drones from downtown or from hospital helipads or from airports. One man's cute little amusements should not take precedence over pubic safety.

Re: How is it different

The thing is, we don't know if it was "practice" for something more sinister. Maybe the fellow wasn't so stupid after all.

What's stupid is that our regulators have set out a cute little fine of $25,000 and not bothered to mandate certain safety features that prevent these potentially deadly drones from hitting a planeload of people.

Ford's 400,000-car recall could be the tip of an auto security iceberg

When Cars Decide to Kill - software flaws occur all the time

Patricia Herdman's book, When Cars Decide to Kill, highlighted many of these points. She points out that we have NO software safety laws and that it's time we put into place a proper software safety architectural framework for car software that INCLUDES the basic protective measures such as: no software update is permitted until the driver/owner of the vehicle OK's it...and ways to capture faulty software that triggers a crash.

In the Bookout v Toyota legal case in the US, the actual software flaws were identified in the Toyota Camry software inspected by Michael Barr and his team.

It's time for software safety laws. Herdman's website on the subject, GlitchWatch.com, is a must-read.