Re: Free Libre Open Source Java
Lifetime employment? Nice dinners at Oracleworld? Any Oracle branded swag around the office?
Posts by vmy2197
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Nearly 3 out of 4 Oracle Java users say they've been audited in the past 3 years
IBM moves scientists out of Almaden Research Center
Sinaloa drug cartel hired a cybersnoop to identify and kill FBI informants
Tuesday 1st July 2025 01:28 GMT
Re: But we dont need free expert advice or CISA funded properly
January: Department of Homeland Security’s Cyber Safety Review Board (CSRB) shut down.
But CISA’s efforts to counter misinformation during the 2020 election transformed it into a conservative bogeyman, and the second Trump administration quickly began targeting the agency, freezing its election security work, pushing out roughly one-third of its 3,300-person workforce, ending threat-hunting contracts and proposing even deeper cuts.
In addition to the struggles at CISA, infrastructure operators have also reported problems with the specialized Sector Risk Management Agencies (SRMAs) that help various industries deal with cyber and physical threats.
The Trump administration is demoting and restructuring the HHS wing that handles the department’s SRMA work. “It seems like they’ve taken a step back,” a healthcare industry representative said. The sector used to meet regularly — sometimes weekly — with HHS to discuss critical infrastructure cybersecurity, Weiss said, “but since the new administration, all of that’s gone.”
Why yes, yes we do blame Trump.
https://www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/critical-infrastructure-cybersecurity-partnerships-disruption-trump-government-industry/751589/
Torvalds' typing taste test touches tactile tragedy
IBM seeks $3.5B in cost savings for 2025, discretionary spend to be clipped
Friday 31st January 2025 02:27 GMT
where do you see $3.5b in cost savings for 2025?
Where do you see a statement from IBM about $3.5b in cost savings for 2025? I see the statement below which is talking about $3.5b in run rate savings exiting 2024. I don't doubt they'll try to do this again but I don't see that exact number referenced from IBM for 2025.
Thanks.
"This remains our playbook going forward, having executed on $3.5 billion of annual run rate savings exiting 2024,
Judge crosses out some claims by writers against OpenAI, lets them have another crack at it
Wednesday 28th February 2024 03:09 GMT
the main problem is with whoever wrote the planitiffs complaint.
So the judge was not convinced ChatGPT actually reproduced the complainants works. If that's the case the plaintiffs must not had very good examples. Always take a screen capture folks, that's the lesson here. And get a better lawyer.
California approves lavatory-to-faucet water recycling
Wednesday 20th December 2023 15:31 GMT
Re: Please could you ....
Acre feet is the standard unit of measure for bulk water (in reservoirs and rivers,) in the western U.S.. As you might guess, it's the amount of water needed to cover an acre to one, huh, foot.
One acre = 43,560 square feet or, for the rest of the world, 4046.86 square meters.
One acre foot = 325,851 U.S. liquid gallons or 1233.48 cubic meters.
Olympic swimming pools are 50 meters long, 25 meters wide, and 2 meters deep. In terms of volume, when full, these pools hold 2.5 million liters of water or about 660,000 gallons. (from the interweb). Just shy of 2 acre feet.
IBM's vintage Db2 database jumps on AWS's cloud bandwagon
Thursday 30th November 2023 15:37 GMT
Re: Db2 for z/OS is what we need on AWS!
Rick Mo? Where have I heard that name before?
But you know what they say, there's no substitute for hardware. Even if the Db2Z software could be ported to run on n x86 chip without an interpreter how do you provide the IO bandwidth, the context switching and RAS functions provided by z hardware? Look at how x86 native databases have tried to compensate for the hardware limitations; by scaling out. But scaling out brings it's own problems, chief among them consistency. Eventual consistency across the replicas? Guaranteed consistency with the associated performance hit? Db2 on z is the success it is because of the hardware and z hardware is all about dense computing. You'll never get the same result if you leave the hardware behind and just move the software.
Now IBM sued for age discrim by its own HR veterans
Friday 22nd September 2023 20:22 GMT
Re: HR...
It was easier to be a paternal company with jobs-for-life when they had a hardware monopoly. Fortune 500 are still using that hardware and the software that goes with it but every company outside the 500 (and probably most outside the Fortune 100,) are doing their best to get rid of the old iron and nobody is writing new code for it(the old stuff.) IT tech is a much more competitive environment now, brutally so. Software is pretty fungible and the move to cloud tech has been devastating for old-line on-premise software sellers.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
