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APIS calling APIS? Reminds me of a Star Wars scene: "Machines making machines"

I've read that FB has been working to implement a fix for users who pass away without closing their accounts first. It's obviously not been implemented and enforced.

Cortana never floated anyone's boat, as far as I know. I fear for the security and safety of those who go IoT and let Siri and Alexa have access to their bank accounts & credit cards and physical security. Time will show that portion of the gene pool getting shallower and shallower as their funds are drained and their…

The password cracking story reveals the inevitable limitations to just using one kind of security. The standard three-factor authentication solution is akin to a three-legged stool that won't stand up if any of the legs are missing. Those authentication factor "legs" are: * Something you have * Something you know *…

A problem with relying on A.I. and/or algorithms to predict what will be the hot new thing selling on the market this afternoon or tomorrow or next year is that the A.I. actually has no "I". Without intelligence, it'll be pretty challenging to understand that if model A changes drastically, then all the predictions based…

Intoxicated shopping? Apparently people need a breath-a-lyzer attachment for their smart phones, iPads, laptops, and PC's. Or, they COULD just not drink alcohol, or not shop after drinking . . . Did you catch the comments at the bottom of the page? "Someone has been adding soil to my garden. The plot thickens." and…

I'm on board with your skepticism about releasing genetically engineered moths into the wild to combat a bio-pest. It always looks good on paper, and is pretty much guaranteed to have bad results in practice. Let's consider what we should have learned, but didn't, from: Importing Rabbits to Australia, where they had no…

Yes, new complexity is at hand. As long as it's accompanied by efficient and affordable and effective security, with high availability so users and data and applications are never isolated from each other, it has appeal. One expects hackers and competitors and other governments and organized crime to realize the value of…

I somewhat distrust some of my past employers because they've sometimes put money above people and friends. Because I've seen a man smile and shake my hand as he planned to stab me in the back, and eventually DID stab me in the back. That sort of thing ruins a person's ability to give trust freely, without condition.

Lumping GitHub into the list of defendants does seem to be a desperate attempt to spread the blame and possibly get more money in recompense, or at least more money for law firms.

Our regional WAN service providers have such a wide variation in speeds & feeds & prices--nothing is as one would expect it, were one to base expectations on what I see in one city and compare similar services to that available in another city three hundred miles away. Things range regionally from ridiculously inexpensive…

Apple's "news" about speakers and AP's really isn't news. Just more hype and sales spin. They're just doing what businesses do. This one article probably isn't "Actuator-worthy" in my opinion. But I'm a jaded Network Analyst, continually frustrated at wireless and Apple and vulnerabilities and expenses, so you can put me…

$300 is the going rate? Wow. You couldn't pay me enough to destroy my reputation. Shakespeare had it right:

Here's hoping the automation will one-day find its way into patch cabling and per-port-ACL-construction!

We are of the same mine, viguy​. I like your philosophy. Your observations are spot-on. I pointed out the instant coffee maker because my daughter received one some years ago at Christmas, and in her ignorance she stocked up on the cups. As I helped her learn their inability to biodegrade, she played the "I can learn from…

Microsoft's VTC design for our organization seems ridiculously complex. I'm cool with resilient and load balanced servers up and down the lines, but requiring interfaces in four different physical firewall zones results in a product that is exceedingly challenging to troubleshoot. Three zones is plenty--Inside, Outside,…

As I rethink his comments about disconnecting while away from the job, I think he had a few goals other than Internet security in mind: * Being active is more healthy than keeping one's head buried in a screen * Staying away from the screen enabled him to get much better quality time with his wife, kids, and friends *…

I definitely detect a taste of The Princess Bride in your graph.

SMOKE SIGNALS! I totally missed that early tech! The signaller is the DNS look-up agent, and someone on the far side has to be a secondary look-up agent; they have to run & tell the right person about the message. How about drums? Rather like UDP--broadcast into the air, no one need respond, but probably there's a message…

As the team responsible for NPM and its sister modules, I respectfully submit that there is NO difference between monitoring in DevOps and the Data Center. If there's impact to customers or employees or availability or the bottom line, and if it can be monitored, it's just another thing to monitor with Orion's specialized…

I suspect job security in Equifax's IT Security group has recently shown a decline . . .

I Netflowed some packets through Cisco And found they were cooking in Crisco My Netflow denied They were tasty when fried Despite being made by Nabisco A new Flow Exporter named "Fred" Sent all of it packets to "Ted". The Ted server died But the packets still tried To make it from Fred out to Ted To monitor flows that were…

I still enjoy re-reading this one. In some ways it reminds me a bit of the BOFH, and how he might've programmed a network to respond to complaints.

The book is even better than the movie--lots more action, more emotion, more details. As usual.

Still applicable today.

Particularly appropriate, given this month's contest.

I've personally encountered virtually every one of those trite clichés, and while they're easy enough to understand in context, I enjoy your standing them on their heads with the occasional literal interpretation. Interpreting "Lean and mean" as becoming "emaciated and unpleasant" certainly reflects the impression and…

It turns out there's no "probably" about it at all, happily. With a proper sized telescope you can see the car tracks on the moon, and see the actual Lunar Rover. WAY COOL!

Donuts with bacon bits? Mmmmm!

I'm working on my employer to allow me to dedicate more time to getting more value out of our Orion deployment, too. We're still woefully understaffed, and I can only dream of creating a new Systems Performance Strategist position to allow myself the luxury of learning every system and buying and deploying the appropriate…