Posts by Mark 85

Re: HildyJ

Career limiting? Maybe, but definitely less stressful. OTOH, I got in the habit a long time ago of padding the estimates for time while downplaying the "features". I'd have project I know will take a week... tell the PHB "three", he'll go to upper manglement and come back with "be done in two". That leaves a week for the unexpected and also adding "features". If I get done early, I sit on it until the due date. Just because I don't want to fall into that "we expected you to have it done early" trap.

They (manglement) play the system to their advantage, we need to learn how play it back and one-step better.

And then there's the CEO of (I forget which company right now) who arbitrarily picks a deadline date after all the estimates are in. There was an article on El Reg about him. A project would need a year to deliver it and all the features and he'd come back with some random number. A true-power tripper he is.

Re: Commercial possibilities

The ROI wasn't important to Og, I believe. Seeing what was on the other side and hoping to return and tell the tale was. Og was more of a Shepard or Glenn or a Gagarin.

His grandson on the other hand.... probably figured out how to hollow it out and make an ROI.

Re: Blackberry is considered a "mobile operator"?

I thought I read that BB was used heavily by "government types"? Might be that they need to watch them more than the common people. The numbers aren't huge, IIRC, but out of all the users a significant number were government types.

If I'm wrong I'll admit it. as I'm not finding the links at this moment except for several about the government leaders using the BB.

Re: The Great Unwashed are not so paranoid

There's been a couple of interesting articles floating around (news media pieces) I'll have to find some links for. It states that while those of us in the Baby Boom generation are worried about slurping and privacy, the millennials aren't. They freely share passwords and data with any and all. Maybe not all of the millennials but enough to raise eyebrows and concerns.

Indeed, I think companies hire staff of this age group and the mindset pervades. At some point, that will make it easier for the TLA's and FLA's to do what they want. This toy will go a long way to helping with that mindset about privacy.

Re: Mark 85

The point is nothing has changed. The data is still being gathered and shared.

Re: Let's get real

Excellent points Steve. It doesn't supersede treaties, laws, etc. Only tells US companies the US Government will not do an about face and claim ownership, etc. This is something that I think the author didn't read, or didn't want to bring up for whatever reason.

Re: Hands Up.

Or.. in a couple weeks, we'll hear that they apologized as did the managers for failing to realize that the tweak they put in was bad. All will be forgiven and everyone will go back to work.

Re: Grot (for those old enough to remember - and for those who don't I have a great idea).

While you're at it, go watch Mel Brooks' The Producers Similar concept and well worth the popcorn.

Re: Very disappointing

It would seem that https://haveibeenpwned.com/ is not a very well known website outside of some IT types. I kicked this to my department a couple of months ago as a help and only 5 out of approximately 75 people had ever heard of it and were happy to find out about it.

Re: Don't the bizzies have any real terrorists to arrest?

The LEO's do a lot of that as such. Take a look at the Dread Pirate Roberts case, for example. Here in the States, they call it a "sting".

Re: Sharks can't get in living room.

And they do insist on taking the TV remote and not giving it back.

Re: Is there a workaround or isn't there?

Yeah. you're right.. therein is the problem... Luckily I don't have to make those decisions cause I don't think there would be anyone left on the supplier list not just for switches/routers but PC's, phones, ISP/data services, OS's, programs, apps, etc. Makes me sad and angry at the same time...

Re: I'm off to Change.org

Thanks Dr. Syntax and Anonymous Boring Coward. That clears things up for me.

Re: Utterly idiotic

I wish I could upvote you more than once. I'm still wondering why someone with the brains it takes to design this stuff couldn't design something, you know, useful, instead of something useless. Doesn't even have to be a serious problem, just something useful. This is waste of talents.

@azaks -- Re: It isn't last 30/next 30. It's 15/15/15.

with most analysts rating the stock a "buy".

I'd be very cautious about listening to analysts. The last time I checked and admittedly it's been about 3 or 4 years, ENRON was listed as "buy".

Re: Yeah, you like bacon, I like bacon, now shut up about it and bring me some sausages

The current marketing driven "I love bacon" bandwagon is starting to get a bit tedious. Yeah, bacon is good and all that, but enough already.

Everything is marketing driven today. Even tech (Apple, for instance). Now all you have to do is get a media-storm going for IT security and that might make some inroads in our field of endeavors.

While you're figuring out how to make some security hype to drive the market, I'll go munch on bacon sarnie.

@Ledswinger -- Re: Can we have some collection statistics?

The sooner the ICO gets powers to bar directors and managers the better.

It's a good idea but practically speaking, I don't think it will work. What penalty for ignoring the 'ban' would work? How do you catch these guys? It's easy to open a shadow company where the board/ownership is hidden.

Re: The Judge is right ...

Sorry, in the States it's still a "privilege" until the laws make it a "right".

Re: So when the police break the law, it's called 'being reckless'.

They actually went one better as I recall.. "If the President does it, it's not illegal.".

Re: Très amusant...

We take our bootnotes very seriously here. No teasing allowed unless it's in the story of course.