Posts by yetanotheraoc 1753 publicly visible posts • joined 2 Jan 2021
Your mistake was in not assuring your employer you could do the same thing again with another program. I don't have any problem making myself redundant. So far it's worked out and I've been reassigned to other roles, and at more than one employer. If it ever doesn't work out, then I didn't want to work for such a short-sighted employer anyway.
"A fundamental rule about communication is that what is communicated is that which is received, not that which is transmitted."
Not everybody agrees with that. See "authorial intent".
Or perhaps a better counter-argument: Suppose two people hear my speech, one of them a savant and the other an idiot. Afterwards one of them understands my speech in the way I intended, and the other one understands my speech entirely differently. For the purposes of evaluating the quality of my speech, does it matter to you which person is which?
"a properly designed and inherently secure specific IoT protocol which had been properly tested, is fully certified and has been adopted by the entire industry as the default standard"
It would be a strange world indeed where the internet of useless tat has better standards than the internet of banking, or the internet of motor vehicle registration, or the internet of you-name-it.
Anyway, there are more ways to fail than protocols and security, and IoT has found most of them. Failing to grow enough to pay for keeping the server turned on seems to me the most reliable point of unreliability.
You were thrown off by the article's use of the term investors: "Investors, for example, have been said to be keen to buy into AWS separately from its Amazon mothership because of the rapid growth the cloud services subsidiary is enjoying."
Investors make money on value -- "business building" in your words. Speculators make money on volatility, they don't care about the underlying business. It's the speculators who are keen to see the spinoff.
Not from the UK, but I think "motorway" means restricted access? Those are safer in raw body counts because no (or few) pedestrians or bicycles to run over. And otherwise safer per mile because very few turns and merges to negotiate. The problem with motorways is every time the engineers devise a bit of safety, the drivers add a byte of speed.
Amazon can't be trusted with the big gun. But Amazon is going to have to get out the same big gun to fix this one.
Big problem one is not running a "malicious binary named java", it's running the bog-standard binary named java with root privileges on the _host_ server.
Big problem two is asking all their customers to patch their containers is not sufficient, because it's the ones who **don't want** to patch their containers that they should be worried about.
So it's fine if customers patch, but isn't Amazon going to have to do the same nasty root cleanup in reverse on all the customers who didn't patch?
"Then think about intrusion detection, regular backups, restoration planning and processes, network segmentation, patching strategies, security breach notifications and reporting, investigations, and more."
[1] ...those who sigh "Good list, we're working on it but will never be there."
[10] ...those who shout "No! Why can't _you_ idiots make a computer that just works?"
Yes, in the past I was burned by some Windows applications, not even changing OS. So now I don't take up any application on any platform unless it has the ability to import from / export to plain text, or common image format, etc. At a minimum there needs to be an API -- it's acceptable if I have to write some code to do the import/export. And then I periodically do the export as part of my backup strategy. Which is also a fine solution when switching from android to ios (did that without help from an app), or back again (might do that someday).
I'm just here to read the kvetching! I haven't had a television for 25 years, don't do any online streaming, and don't miss it. It's funny when people want to talk about some show and I tell them why I haven't seen it, they find it _amazing_. But not _amazing_ enough for them to remember the next time they want to talk about some other show.
I note that Netflix isn't just in a nirvana of perpetual growth, but the fantasy-land of growing growth: "We have high confidence that we will accelerate revenue, ....". In other words, the usual short-term charade for the earnings report.
Being of a not-litigious nature, I would have done ... nothing. Once the constructive dismissal has commenced, plans for new employment would be made, and the only remaining question is timing. Will they dismiss me first, or will I give notice first? Probably they will dismiss me first, because if I haven't given my notice already then I have made it into a game.
I think the mention of the funeral and timing was not "oh the grief", but more an example of just how low-down the manager was. Sounds as low as they get.
>> ...to install something and this is just as easy in Linux as it is in any other system.
> Is it? Is it really?
You tried to disagree, but your own experience of downloading and double-clicking a .deb was more agreeing than disagreeing. Without question you installed _something_. It seems you just don't know where it is or how to run it. It didn't work for you in much the same way that malware wouldn't work for a phishing victim.
"... paste in a screenshot and crop a section to put in an email, doc or to print. Perhaps draw a red circle round something I want to highlight."
I just did a bunch of almost exactly those in Paint yesterday (I prefer orange circles). But Paint is only good because Microsoft hasn't broken it yet. As I remember the early Paint, it was pretty limited. MS improved it over time until it was actually pretty good at what it did -- which wasn't everything. More recently MS have been disimproving it.
Ugh, methinks that one was user error, because I did a similar thing once upon a time. Right-click a .lnk file, Open With => Notepad, _and_ somehow check the Always box. (In recent Windows I don't even see how to reproduce those steps.) The system's use of .lnk files runs deep, so my advice is don't make this mistake. Luckily it was a VM so just restarting fixed it, but no credit to me for that.
Sophisticated means "someone tried to explain to me what happened, but I had to make them stop explaining before my brain exploded".
TL;DR computers => sophisticated.
Someone should publish a comic book explanation of the common exploits so the top decision makers can figure out what to do.
"I always position it as it protecting that person too."
It absolutely does protect that person. There are always crafty people looking for someone upon whom to pin their misdeeds, someone just let go would make a perfect fall guy. Example, as a lad I was part-time working the cash register (and sandwiches) at a restaurant. After I started, one of the cooks started stealing from the drawer, but only on the nights I worked. I found out on the night they set up the surveillance to catch him.... "Hey, go take a break."
"As Bridge is played in teams each player is only as good as their partner."
There is more to it than that.
When playing Hearts at a long-ago job, my favorite partner was J___. She was probably the least smart person playing, but I always knew *exactly* what her bid meant, and when she played a card I always knew *exactly* what she had left. As opposed to K___. He was probably the most smart person playing, but he used a little too much imagination when bidding and playing.
Similar situation when playing tandem chess -- that's where a team alternates moves on their side without conversation. It's more important to play a move that your partner will grasp the followup than to play the absolute "best" move. It was always amusing when on the other team player A would make a move, player B would take it back, player A would make the same move *again*, and a fist-fight would ensue.
Clowns are great! They are so funny, so _visible_, and so indicative of disfunction higher up the management chain. Coal mines have canaries, national defenses have sirens, political parties have (uhm) partisans, and companies have clowns.
Except for self-employed / startup / CEO clowns, all clowns have hiring managers. If you have the same hiring manager as that clown over there, it's time to start worrying.
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