Confidence
"It turns out it was possible to reach across sessions and violate NT security boundaries for nearly twenty years, and nobody noticed."
That’s what you think...
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I’d have to assume you’re posting under the AC moniker because you’re doing some breakthrough research in this area and you’re not ready to reveal your hand just yet.
In telling us to “read up”, could you suggest some titles from your bibliography and/or references?
It’s not my sector, but AIUI that would be a tacit admission that it’s not actually a 737 but a new model of aircraft.
Pilots would then have to be trained on the new plane and its behaviour, at a significant cost to airlines in terms of cash and pilot availability.
It may even be that 737 MAX has “inherited” some certs from its “predecessors” (same airframe?) and I don’t know what would happen if the aircraft suddenly became, I don’t know, the 797.
It can’t be the work of a single ‘maverick’
Someone had the idea, someone else said it was a good idea, another person then approved it without worrying about their boss’s reaction.
Then someone was asked to implement it, and got that signed off and was able to get resources allocated from elsewhere. At no point did anyone think that they should flag or even stop it.
Then the third parties pushed it out and the data started to flow in. Nobody thought that was odd. People were asked to analyse data and write algorithms and produce charts and slide decks. No one paused for thought.
I mean, WTFIGO?
It also keeps people in the ecosystem, buying from the App Store, paying for iCloud, having a reason to stick to Mac OS...
Apple Services is a big line for Cupertino’s Counting Dept.
Moreover, when the punter goes to buy their next phone, they’re mentally discounting what they imagine will be the resale value from the price of the phone they’re buying.
Mobile providers need to focus on pumping 1s and 0s through the air as far as possible, as quickly as possible and as densely as possible.
Consumers will decide how they would like to use those 1s and 0s and device manufacturers will tempt the consumers with a range of conduits for doing so.
Whinging about Apple, Facebook and Google is a bit like electricity utilities moaning that many white goods are manufactured by Samsung, Haier and Whirlpool.
Groups and Rooms (yeah, sorry. This comes from Windows Phone 8.)
You don't know how great it is until you've used it. You don't know how useful it was until you don't have it any more.
And I think even Microsoft killed it off...
"Windows Phone 8 Groups allow you to join contacts together so you can more easily follow their social networking status updates, plus easily text, email, or IM a group at once."
http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/smartphones/manage-your-windows-phone-8-contacts-with-groups-and-rooms/
I was on the operating table for a particularly, ahem, delicate operation to ensure the family size remained stable.
The staff had thoughtfully put on some very middle-of-the-road music to take my mind of things, which was great right up to the point where Cat Stevens sang "the first cut is the deepest..."
these biases and unintended consequences that can end up having a damaging effect
Modelling the generic case is straightforward; it's the exceptions that cause the heartache. Truth is of course, there are many more exceptions than you ever realize...
once Blighty departs from the EU's jurisdiction, we will need “a piece of legislation that mirrors GDPR carefully, so as to leverage the fact that GDPR was already put in place...”
No we won't.
That's exactly the intention of the misleadingly-named "Great Repeal Bill", which will transpose EU law into domestic law on exit day. In other words, GDPR (and all other EU law) will stand until the UK Parliament decides it needs to be changed.
That was just the current management undoing their predecessor's idiocy of losing their original place in the mobile market.
It's easy to forget how disastrous things looked back then; BT had monstrous debt following the mobile auctions and its peak valuation was just prior to the dotcom crash. Creating and divesting mmO2 was to essential to keep things afloat.
You could argue it worked - shares were worth a shade under 83p when mmO2 was spun off and Telefonica later bought it for £2. By comparison, Vodafone's price was (about) 220p when mmO2 was spun off and (about) 175p in Oct 2005 when Telefonica's buy-out was agreed.
Legally separated means everything—this is just an intermediate step and the market will love it.
The value of each organization will become clearer for the market over time and within 2-3 years BT will spin Openreach off. In the current environment, pension funds are desperate to get their hands on anything that churns out stable dividends, and Openreach will be just that.
hopefully they don't auto update to WP10.
I seem to have that inadvertently covered. My 3-year old Lumia is stuffed full of photos and doesn't have room for any software updates.
The screen is cracked, the QI charging cover is held on with Blu-Tak and in another 5 years it might just start knocking into 6110i territory...
Millennials are more likely to vote Clinton:
https://www.statista.com/statistics/540686/choice-of-millennials-between-electing-trump-or-clinton-in-2016-us-presidential-election/
Millennials are more likely to use Facebook:
https://www.statista.com/statistics/187041/us-user-age-distribution-on-facebook/
Couple with that the fact that the button could be rolled out geographically in certain states...
(Disclaimer: I am no more than interested observer and have no voting rights in the US election.)
OK, what do we have from the recruiter's grab-bag of magic words?
experienced - check
senior - check
leader - check
values - check
passionate - check ("I can’t wait to shag a digital")
needs - check
ensure - check
effective and efficient - check
Trick question: Which of these words could not be applied to any other job ad?
The whole of "the Automated Case Tracking System [which] had data dating back to 2004 on complaints, investigations, appeals, and freedom of information requests, covering everything from waste and fraud to sexual harassment" was on one single disk/tape/floppy/punchcard?
All of it?
So presumably at every point during the last 12 years that someone in Lockheed Martin said:
"Hey, why not have a backup? Or RAID? Or printout?" they ran off to check with the in-house lawyers who replied:
"Nah. Nothing in the contract about that. Just leave it as it is..."
Lockheed Martin notified the Air Force after it spent two weeks trying to recover the information.
You can just imagine how much perspiration dripped into that keyboard...