Posts by Kabukiwookie 429 posts • joined 8 Dec 2017
This should be no surprise to anyone who has had a taste of the 'it works, so it's ready for production' style of working within projects that use 'Devops' en 'Agile'.
It's either 'good', 'fast' or 'cheap', any combination, but you can only alwqys have two ; the current Devops//Agile projects have chosen 'fast' and 'cheap'.
Has nothing to do with whether these projects are using closed or open source software aside from the fact that the only reason Open sourse is used is to cut cost.
Objects have methods with typed parameters, so there's a whole lot less room for error.
Until there are changes to the object/methods and your POWER shell script stops working all of a sudden or worse starts displayimg erratic behaviour. Good luck troubleshooting that.
Though you could always try turning it of and on again.
Secureworks said the state-sponsored phacker crew - dubbed Cobalt Ulster - has "destructive and disruptive cyber capabilities" at its disposal
Like what? Thwy downloaded a copy of Kali and kicked off Metasploit?
Somehow, with all the economic warfare waged against Iran, which proobably gives the govt. a somewhat different priority than 'cyber warfare', along with the fact that the funding to the NSA dwarfs the GDP of a lot of small nations and is equiped with tools that specifically leave behind 'tell traces' of foreign interference, that we should not particularly worry about Iran doing the nasty.
You don't even need mathematical.literacy, he should probably have had the humility and sense to accept the advice that some crypto experts have undoubtedly already given him.
I sense the Dunning-Kruger is strong in this one, along with a good dose of arrogance to go with it. Precisely the type of person you would not want to lead your spy agency.
The database [...] is thought to contain 12.5 million faces - a far cry from the claim that only “serious crime” is considered by the system.
With the definition of 'serious' constantly shifting depending on who operates this system, until 'serious' includes protesting fracking, chlorine chickens or privarisation of the NHS or uncovering corruption of the ones running the system.
Didn't you read the bit about the guy not wanted to be filmed and received a £110 fine for 'disorderly conduct'?
They're going to make sure the worms stay in line by makimg their life a living hell if they don't.
And somehow the UK govt has the gall criticisimg China.
"tailors the covered equipment to the types of technology that pose a risk of being disrupted by 'hostile actors' who engage in cyber-attacks and -espionage."
But the US would be the first to cry foul if this same reasoning would be applied by other countries for equipment and services produced in the US, which are now well known to do the same thing of which the US accuses. Huawei of doing without actually providing any tangiie evidence.
Contractors are often hired for either project work or to fill a temporary gap in the workforce.
Unfortunately due to the nature of most IT work, it's not something you can do for 4 hours a day at one client and the remaining hours at another.
Doesn't mean that contractors are secretly 'employees'. Usually get this sort of reaction from envious permies who are too afraid (or too unskilled) to make the leap to contracting.
What are spies supposed to do? Limit themselves to pawing through garbage?
How about acting according to what their governments say they're standing for?
How are you ever going to trust a government that tramples over all the 'values' it says it stands for whenever it's convenient?
Aren't we supposed to be the 'good guys'?
How can you take the moral high ground if you're just as bad (or worse) than the so-called 'bad guys'
This is pure hypocrisy and hypocrites cannot be trusted with anything. Least of all the freedom and wellbeing of the citizens they are supposed to answer to in a (supposed) democracy.
So people spent time and energy to build up a life in the UK, paid taxes, contributed to the economy (yep even the polish plumber is contributing, it's not just the scientists Boris is trying to get in), then het told to ask pretty please to not be kicked out.
If ai were in thay position, I would definitely tell Boris to f-off and move to mainland Europe where I don't have these issues
Unregulated (or insufficiently regulated for the pedantis under us) result in monopolies.
Monopolies are the death of competition an the free market.
Any real capitalist would be opposing this merger.
Unfortunately, capitalism is for plebs, who can compete themselves into the ground, while the real large amounts of money are made through corporate socialism.
when they found that it was difficult, and that there were many different devices to handle, the scope was reduced
Yep. I think Lennart came to that conclusion, then said 'works for me' and stopped doing anything to make it work for others as well, all the while pattimg himself on the back for a job well done and pushing the broken Pile Of Software into almost every Linux distro..
Starting to see any parallels already with systemd?
As a result the FAA didn't have the resources to do certification testing, so it let the plane makers self-certify.
It should have continued on at the speed its resources allowed. If it costs Boeing (and others) enough money in delays, their funds get either re-instated or a politician will need to stick out its (yes, that the proper pro-noun) neck and be responsible for any slips in QA.
Non capitalist - communist Russian and Chinese companies
Both China and Russia are far from being communist. Companies from both countries happily compete on the 'free' market both domestically as internationaly. Unless a foreign government (dare I say which one here) deems them a 'security risk' and excludes them from competing because they'd like to give their home-grown companies an unfair competitive edge (very anti-capitalistic behaviour).
are even less accountable
You mean like sentencing CEOs who lead companies responsible for civilian deaths are actually sentenced to death instead of golden parachuting into a new role?
https://www.businessinsider.com/chinese-white-collar-criminals-death-sentence-2013-7?op=1&r=US&IR=T
Yes, I can definittely see that white collar criminals in China get away scott-free.
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