Gee. It’s almost as if rich people don’t give a single shit about anyone else. /s
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I try to post as sincerely as possible.
Gee. It’s almost as if rich people don’t give a single shit about anyone else. /s
Like wrecking the biosphere in its persuit.
How do we keep having to have these legal discussions every decade or so?
Odds I’ve been hearing for Trump being re-elected are about 3.4 to 1.
The thing about an operation as big as Amazon is that one or two people work on one component of one thing. If the folks who work on that one thing both bail, it doesn’t slow down Amazon or any of its constituent components overmuch. The way things are architected it can chug along for quite a while until somebody else is tasked with learning about and maintaining it.
This is, unfortunately, true. The kids of some family friends are trying in the worst way to get in at Amazon or Facebook to make their bones. They figure that they can build their brands by surviving there for four or five years (Amazon’s reputation for burning through people like toilet paper at Wing Wars is well known in the tech industry, and respected), sock money away because they still live at home, and get a jump on the good life.
I can’t tell 'em what to do. They asked for my advice and gave it. What they do is their problem.
People want to be lied to.
So much for going on a Shodan safari in South Korea.
News flash: IoT doesn’t always mean “backend is on AWS.”
Sheesh.
I was serious. BBSes would be an ideal long-distance communication method under some circumstances.
Or perhaps an unassuming office building that only has outbound VPN connections.
This. Whoever manages to splice an optic nerve (meaning, it goes just about perfectly) would be in line for a Nobel Prize for Medicine.
A few of us have a long-running joke that World War III will be started because somebody can’t reach Pornhub anymore.
Still have a modem?
Depends on which lines are affected.
Originally it was a portmanteau of “stalker-fan.” Think “super fan.”
Not all of these kids have any other computer.
Just as securicams in schools in the 90’s conditioned a lot of people to accept on-street surveillance.
That’s pretty much what it’s for.
And study the techniques used for currency manipulation, fraud, and so forth.