Posts by Flakk 403 publicly visible posts • joined 27 Jan 2017
If we were more concerned about our future than with the shiny-shiny, we might have paid more attention.
Agreed. A healthy understanding of our past (who we are, why we are who we are, how did we get where we're at and why) would probably help us to avoid some painful own goals, too.
A former boss was a huge fan of cloud. In his mind, cloud was more secure because the provider had a dedicated staff working around the clock, focusing on nothing other than constant network and security analysis.
I am one holey bucket away from declaring this notion utter hogwash. The most dedicated team of crack security analysts will never be able to fully protect data from the risk of lazy or incompetent admins. Your typical on-prem shop may not have a 24/7 NOC and security staff, but threat actors will at least need to go through the formality of breaching the network in order to gain access to that [Everyone/Full Control] file share that some idiot admin just created.
Is even Xbox safe?
I don't think it will be. Microsoft have indicated that they don't have the appetite to price the "Xbox One X" competitively to the "PlayStation 4 Pro" at launch. The other (and perhaps bigger) problem is that a significant chunk of first-party titles are no longer Xbox exclusive. Microsoft continues to offers gamers fewer reasons to either buy into or stick with the platform.
If you didn't have a BYOD programme and the competition did, well, guess where that potential new, hire wearing the chin thatch and lumberjack shirt would choose to work.
In other news, someone at El Reg has alleged that hipster millennials actually do work.
Mine is the one with the dog-eared copy of "Yelling at Clouds for Dummies".
@Stevie
I think that's the ideal answer. Jam the bands used by cell phones and Wi-Fi. Turn smartphones into expensive "Flappy Bird" consoles.
I can't help but indulge in a bit of overthink. A huge fan of the technology since its introduction in 1987, I believe the ideal system for drone interdiction would be the ED-209.
Unity... an AI platform... Okay. Sure.
I'm going to propose a new standard test for determining the effectiveness of AI.
"An AI may be considered to be self-aware enough to perform actual AI work if, upon discovering what an absolute abomination of cobbled-together garbage it is, promptly deletes itself."
Let me recap this to make sure I haven't gone astray:
Researcher has a beef with a manufacturer, so he chooses to not follow responsible disclosure protocols. Since the vulnerable products have already been sold by said manufacturer, it is in fact the consumers that will likely bear the immediate consequences of the researcher's ire. The disclosed vulnerabilities will likely be snapped up by cybercrims, who will surely be eager to have another platform upon which to build a botnet. Once the DDoSes start, then it's not just the consumers suffering the consequences of the researcher's ire, but also the Internet-at-large.
Because a researcher has a beef with a manufacturer.
Did I get that right?
Do Oracle's existing customers still have Oracle on their longer term road map?
If the answer is yes, then why?
Because it would cost more to implement a risky migration to a less expensive, more efficient platform than it would be to just stay put?
It's not a good answer, mind you, but it is an altogether predictable one.
About fscking time. This "drama" had all the excitement of O.J.'s mosey down the 405. Now we can get back to the important business of grumbling about Apple, the CIA, encryption backdoors, Google, IBM, the Home Office, May, Microsoft, the NSA, Oracle, patent trolls, Putin, Torvalds, Trump, and Greg the Bunny.
This.
It's not Ludditism to acknowledge that technology isn't always the answer. There's no hackable network stack on an electro-mechanical optical scanner, no program logic to exploit and corrupt, and it's easy to verify the correct operation of the machine. It will absolutely take longer to tally votes, but that's part of the trade-off. Security is pain, and sometimes it's worth it.
I like the touch panels at McDs. My ability to make sure that my order is entered correctly is in my hands.
I'm reminded of a story shared with me about a visit to a Taco Bell. A hapless cashier accidentally added a side of guacamole to a medium diet soda. To the shock of onlookers, the manager went absolutely ballistic on this kid.
Upon hearing this story, I couldn't help but feel a little sorry for him. It seemed to me that whoever performed Q&A on that POS system should have caught and prevented combinations like that.
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Please do let us know if, when using the self-service touch panel, you succeed in adding hotcake syrup to your Royale with Cheese.
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