Re: Pwn attack by unknown group = We haven't a clue what is going on here.
Cut and paste is not the same as reading and understanding.
My thanks to all who really did read my comment and gave it an up vote.
Posts by Dixey
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Hackers hit NATO, White House – then aimed at MH17 air disaster probe
Thursday 22nd October 2015 22:19 GMT
Pwn attack by unknown group = We haven't a clue what is going on here.
This could be an attack by a pro-Russian group or it could be an attempt by some western power to make it look like the Russians are trying to muck up the investigation. We simply cannot tell (or rather I cannot tell) what is really going on from what is described in this Reg article.
The bottom line is that the lives of 298 innocent people are still being used like pawns (pun intended) in a rather ugly power-struggle. I hope they are allowed to rest in peace and that the relatives eventually do get to know who robbed them of such a precious chunk of their lives.
Laid-off IT workers: You want free on-demand service for what now?
Thursday 22nd October 2015 12:34 GMT
IT guys are just too nice for the financial world!
I wonder how much a bank would have to pay a financial consultant, accountant or lawyer for "advice" once they had left their employment?
The kind of scenario that SunTrust refer to (i.e. "we may need to reach out to former employees to ensure we accurately understand situations in which they were involved while employed by the company") falls under consultation. Now, how much do you think it costs to consult a lawyer about an action they took for the company in the past?
IT guys are just too nice for the financial world. IT is vital to the survival of pretty much every business. We wouldn't have highly paid CIOs if that were not the case. So we need to become just a little bit more demanding of our employers.
Thursday 22nd October 2015 12:22 GMT
Re: Non story
The package might indeed contain a retainer fee. However, I think SunTrust's PR spokesman who commented on the original ComputerWorld article would have alluded to that, if it were the case. That is assuming that he is clever enough to think of doing that. However, when I consider the wording of the original severance package, I doubt that that is the case.
Dell buys out EMC in mega-super-duper $67 billion deal
Tuesday 13th October 2015 07:50 GMT
Re: Dell is over 50!
I could not disagree more. I am 55 and studying for a Masters in Cloud Computing. It is great to see all the old ideas and a few new ones come together in a "new" solution. I call on all aging techies get into Cloud! We need to get the young ones heads out of it and their feet back on the ground :-)
Microsoft has developed its own Linux. Repeat. Microsoft has developed its own Linux
Friday 18th September 2015 12:21 GMT
Re: Any comment from Steve Balmer?
It is about time that Mr Balmer acted his age and made a public apology to both the Linux community and to all those who have been unfortunate enough to have suffered from cancer. His comments were both childish and unfeeling. The best way he could show some form of remorse would be to make a rather large donation to Cancer Research. At least that way some of the money that Microsoft wasted on him will come to good use.
Vodafone 'fesses up to hack of journalist's phone, denies 'improper behaviour'
Monday 14th September 2015 08:15 GMT
One incident, two problems and no solution.
This particular incident does, in my opinion, highlight two problems for which I believe there is no solution available.
Problem 1: The directors of any company only need to create "plausible deniability" in order to do the most horrific things.
Problem 2: It is almost impossible for any organization to stop the individual from committing wrong doing.
So how secure is your information held by that bank/website/government? How certain are you that nobody, and I mean nobody, has been able to smuggle something nasty onto that plain/train/bus/ship you are about to travel in? Answer to both: you are not. Tough.
Ed Snowden crocked cloud, says VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger
Wednesday 2nd September 2015 08:39 GMT
Don't shoot the messenger just because the emperor had a massive hole in his pants!
Whilst the statement "Ed Snowden crocked cloud..." might even be true, I would say that the cloud was going to be crocked at some stage anyway. Did we really all believe that the world had transformed into some fairly-land like place where everybody trusted everybody and there would be never be any chance that anybody would ever do anything as naughty as snooping? If we did, I'm glad we got the wake-up call. Thanks Ed!
Why Nobody Should Ever Search The Ashley Madison Data
Wednesday 26th August 2015 08:20 GMT
Re: Whoosh?
I didn't really find it very funny. If that was the intention, then I think it was just a bit too subtle to succeed. Worse than that, I think it is open to misinterpretation due to the fact that many people scan articles rather than read them (especially when longer than one web page).
If it was intended to also get a serious point across, then I think the sweeping statement that looking at AM data is worse than adultery missed out on one critical exception. Some people do get involved in relationships in which one partner is being unfaithful and the other member just wants to know the truth. Is the search of truth then also worse than becoming an AM member? I think not.
Anyway, I'm not going to bother searching the data. I get enough information just by reading the commentary around the whole affair (if you will excuse the rather bad pun).
Give nerds their own PRIVATE TRAIN CARRIAGES, say boffins
Wednesday 3rd December 2014 13:34 GMT
Douglas was definitely right about a lot of things.
I think the following quote sheds some light on the whole issue, though it does apply to roads (another traditional talking point):
“Bypasses are devices that allow some people to dash from point A to point B very fast while other people dash from point B to point A very fast. People living at point C, being a point directly in between, are often given to wonder what's so great about point A that so many people from point B are so keen to get there, and what's so great about point B that so many people from point A are so keen to get there. They often wish that people would just once and for all work out where the hell they wanted to be.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Returning a laptop to PC World ruined this bloke's credit score. Today the Supreme Court ended his 15-year nightmare
Friday 28th March 2014 10:18 GMT
So nothing much as changed in just under 2000 years?
If I recall correctly the first person to take action against the practices of the financial sector (ref: Mathew 21:12) eventually got hammered to a cross at the very early age of 33 (or thereabouts). For legal reasons, I should point out that I am not blaming the financial sector for that past act of violence, but I do suggest (only suggest, dear lawyers) that not an awful lot has changed since then, except maybe for the fact that Mr Durkin only got financially torn to shreds and not physically.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
