Posts by Bonegang

The first step to data privacy is admitting you have a problem, Google

Re: How often do we get to hear "Sorry"......

I recall that Microsoft once proposed a 'tax' on email of USD 0.00001 to stop bulk email (spam) abuse.

It made sense, but no-one could agree on how/who to collect the tax, so that idea died on the vine... unfortunately I see this idea going the same way.

(Pity the FCC in the US is so compromised under Ajit Pai)

Fastly 'fesses up to breaking the internet with an 'an undiscovered software bug' triggered by a customer

Re: Fastly cost savings

Except it's not just "a web serverr, three app servers and a database server"...

To meet a CDN's global delivery performance (which is what a CDN is ALL about) you'd need that kit in *every* geography you do business in and support 24x7.

If you're only doing business in a single region then arguably you do not need a CDN.

Linus Torvalds tells kernel list poster to 'SHUT THE HELL UP' for saying COVID-19 vaccines create 'new humanoid race'

Re: One should really refrain from ...

But.... I like cute kittens.

Icon for Friday, it's beer o'clock

.uk registry operator Nominet responds to renewed criticism – by silencing its critics

Re: "legally, a member-based non-profit organisation"

.kent must be next, shirley, given the latest brexit nonsense from those who should know better.

Microsoft leaks 6.5TB in Bing search data via unsecured Elastic server. *Insert 'Wow... that much?' joke here*

Not. Encrypted.

In this day and internet age?

Oracle staff say Larry Ellison's fundraiser for Trump is against 'company ethics' – Oracle, ethics... what dimension have we fallen into?

Re: Agree, Larry & Trump are quite a good fit, actually.

Still thinking that now????

Attention, lockdown DIY fans: UK hardware flinger Robert Dyas had credit card data and more skimmed from website

there are tools...

...to detect this kind of thing pretty much immediately.

Scanning the pages on an hourly/daily basis and notifying on diffs is an established method.

Why does it seem too expensive until the moment they are compromised...?

Crunch time: It's all fun and video games until you're being pressured into working for free

Re: How do people with children do it?

Couldn't agree more... but I find the situation much worse now, since the majority of our teams have been off-shored; the majority of our 'resources' have no interest in IT, let alone any passion for it or drive to improve or learn it 'because it's fun'.

And, if you take the time to bring them on and the patience to ensure they actually understand, in a few months they're gone (in the promotion/new job spiral, leveraging what you have given them) and you're looking in a VC window at another 'resource' that HR insist meets your requirements.

Cynical, me? Not so much, actually. More jealous that you are able to get colleagues on-shore that know what they're doing.

Re: How do people with children do it?

Many moons ago I interviewed for one of the largest games companies (an anagram of "AE") for the role of PM... they were specifically looking for an experienced IT PM from outside the games sector BECAUSE of the industry culture with annual franchise games for dicking about for 9 months doing 'research' and 'customer intell' and 'feature POCs' then only getting productive 3 months out when it's realised that the release candidate really should be with test right now. The prevailing idea was it was a norm to be lazing about for 9 months and somehow ok to be pulling all nighters for weeks to get the year's work done at the end.

Nope, didn't take it; they just wanted a hard-ass to crack whip in the salad days to get them on a more normal delivery cycle.

Standout phrase from the management team in the interview, "we think it could be done better".