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Submission + - Microsoft Office 365 Cloud Experiencing Major Outage (office.com)

TorinEdge writes: Microsoft appears to have botched an internal Office365 cloud services rollout today, with outages confirmed up and down the West Coast of North America. Confirmed roll backs were good early omens, but in the end did not appear to be successful. Outage now moving in to its third or fourth hour, 2 hours by confirmation from Microsoft's status page (https://status.office.com/) and official Twitter feed (https://twitter.com/MSFT365Status). Symptoms may include: All 365-related services flaking out, borking, alternately approving logins and confirming they definitely do not exist.

Comment Why do you need a separate box? (Score 1) 194

Many IP cameras already have a micro SD card slot and can record video to the SD card in addition to streaming it offsite. A quick search on Amazon found one that is IP67 rated and has temperature ratings from -40c to +60c for $86, Dahua IPC-HDBW4431R-ZS. Iâ(TM)ve used Dahua cameras before and their optics and image sensors are great but their network security is lousy. Keep them on an isolated VLAN and donâ(TM)t let them connect outbound to the Internet.

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NASA Has a Way to Cut Your Flight Time in Half (bloomberg.com) 234

An anonymous reader shares a Bloomberg Businessweek article: For almost a half-century there's been a clear speed limit on most commercial air travel: 660 miles per hour, the rate at which a typical-size plane traveling at 30,000 feet breaks the sound barrier and creates a 30-mile-wide, continuous sonic boom. That may be changing. In August, NASA says, it will begin taking bids for construction of a demo model of a plane able to reduce the sonic boom to something like the hum you'd hear inside a Mercedes-Benz on the interstate. The agency's researchers say their design, a smaller-scale model of which was successfully tested in a wind tunnel at the end of June, should cut the six-hour flight time from New York to Los Angeles in half. NASA proposes spending $390 million over five years to build the demo plane and test it over populated areas. The first year of funding is included in President Trump's 2018 budget proposal. Over the next decade, growth in air transportation and distances flown "will drive the demand for broadly available faster air travel," says Peter Coen, project manager for NASA's commercial supersonic research team. "That's going to make it possible for companies to offer competitive products in the future." NASA plans to share the technology resulting from the tests with U.S. plane makers, meaning a head start for the likes of Lockheed Martin, General Dynamics, Boeing, and startups such as Boom Technology and billionaire Robert Bass's Aerion. [...] NASA is targeting a sound level of 60 to 65 A-weighted decibels (dBa), Coen says. That's about as loud as that luxury car on the highway or the background conversation in a busy restaurant. Iosifidis says that Lockheed's research shows the design can maintain that sound level at commercial size and his team's planned demo will be 94 feet long, have room for one pilot, fly as high as 55,000 feet, and run on one of the twin General Electric engines that power Boeing Co.'s F/A-18 fighter jet.

Comment The flip side -- why they're asked (Score 1) 1001

Having been on both sides, I can tell you why companies ask these questions -- they're looking for basic technical knowledge and competence. All too many times we've seen candidates who can talk a good fight and who can (given lots of time and access to Stack Overflow) write a program that succeeds using copy-paste. However, these are not the people we want to hire. Once we're past the basic knowledge and competence we can look at fit, people skills, etc., but I for one have been burned by new hires who bamboozled a non-technical manager.

Comment Re:Same mistake as Korea (Score 1) 81

The extent of the dangers ... of ActiveX were not known at the time of this implementation

ActiveX in the browser has always been an absolutely horrendous idea from a security perspective. Everyone I know of who works in the computer security field thought that ActiveX in the browser was a security hole waiting to be exploited from the start. Choosing ActiveX as a basis for electronic payments was a Really Bad Idea. This was obvious even in 1996.

Comment Same mistake as Korea (Score 5, Insightful) 81

South Korea mandated the use of an ActiveX control for online payments in the 1990s, which has locked companies and banks there into a deprecated and dangerous technology. Only in the last couple of years has the government there started the process of getting rid of the damn POS system.

Someone please tell the Japanese government that what they are doing is a REALLY bad idea.

Comment Bad data, poor credibility (Score 3, Informative) 330

Folks, all of this is from numbers pulled out of some IDC analyst's rear end. Their estimates are no better than SWAG's. I should know, I've had to use their reports in a past life. Sometimes they're accurate, as companies will report otherwise confidential numbers so long as they can't be backed out of the reports. However, Apple doesn't play those games and in this case it's explicitly some analyst's best guess. Most analysts badly misunderstand Apple, and when you misunderstand the biggest player in the market your analysis is almost certain to be wrong.

Also, Garmin's growth was from a very low base. It's easy to grow by 300+% if you start from almost zero.

Comment Re:Sounds like author hasn't been sick enough (Score 2) 294

"It seems when you are sick and laying in a hospital bed and have trouble sleeping, the single LED shining in your eyes is an issue,"

A LED shining in your eyes is the LEAST of your worries when trying to get to sleep in a hospital.

Actually, it IS a big deal. Sleep is important to a patient's recovery, and a lack of good sleep can slow healing.

Patients in a hospital are constantly being disturbed at night due to vital signs checks, administration of medication, pain medication wearing off, etc. Sometimes the disturbance is not even for the patient but for the other patient in the same semi-private room. Falling asleep is difficult enough; getting back to sleep can be worse. Lots of strongly glowing and flashing LEDs and other indicators can make it darn near impossible, especially if the patient is already in pain and having to lie in an uncomfortable position.

Imagine you were trying to sleep in the middle of Times Square at night, with all of the lights and noise. That's what it's like. As IT professionals we can at least cut down on the lights and beeps, even if we can't do anything about the other disturbances.

Comment Completely unreliable poll format (Score 4, Insightful) 629

"...responding to an informal internet survey"

That pretty much says it right there. The numbers in this survey can be given about zero credence. There is no sign of vetting of the responders (are they even really MD's?), no pretense at a representative sample, and no sign that there was any attempt at all to prevent ballot stuffing.

There were also no questions concerning Donald Trump's health, which makes me think that this group is partisan and has an axe to grind.

Editors, can we please not publish click-bait non-news like this? I'd like to downvote the whole damn story.

Comment Hostname leaks and internal CA (Score 5, Insightful) 62

1) Hostnames leak all the time. A client will make a DNS request and the name becomes known even if it is not resolvable on the public Internet.

2) If you really care that much, run an internal CA. Lots of ways to do it, most server OS's have built-in or easily available internal CA software.

Keeping a hostname out of the certificate log is pretty much pointless security by obscurity.

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