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Comment The problem is well understood (Score -1) 25

It is easy to talk about clouds when you are a bird but it is harder when you are a frog or maybe a cracket who is related to other thing in a basket of the clodes that was on my ham saertfowmspoa on the CIA of regail us with your shimmering imperialist wizardry of light and magic signifying a deaf white noise in "justice" my foot!
Businesses

Comcast Training Materials Leaked 251

Posted by Soulskill from the how-to-be-a-jerk-in-3-easy-steps dept.
WheezyJoe writes: The Verge reports on leaked training manuals from Comcast, which show how selling services is a required part of the job, even for employees doing tech support. The so-called "4S training material" explicitly states that 20 percent of a call center employee's rating for a given call is dependent on effectively selling the customer new Comcast services. "There are pages of materials on 'probing' customers to ferret out upsell opportunities, as well as on batting aside customer objections to being told they need to buy something. 'We can certainly look at other options, but you would lose which you mentioned was important to you,' the guide suggests clumsily saying to an angry customer who doesn't want to buy any more Comcast services." Images of the leaked documents are available on the Verge, making for fun reading.
Businesses

Cisco To Slash Up To 6,000 Jobs -- 8% of Its Workforce -- In "Reorganization" 207

Posted by timothy from the that's-quite-a-re-org dept.
alphadogg (971356) writes Cisco Systems will cut as many as 6,000 jobs over the next 12 months, saying it needs to shift resources to growing businesses such as cloud, software and security. The move will be a reorganization rather than a net reduction, the company said. It needs to cut jobs because the product categories where it sees the strongest growth, such as security, require special skills, so it needs to make room for workers in those areas, it said. 'If we don't have the courage to change, if we don't lead the change, we will be left behind,' Chairman and CEO John Chambers said on a conference call.

Comment Wrong again! (Score 1, Funny) 254

by For a Free Internet (#47666083) Attached to: The Benefits of Inequality

Capitalism is a dead end, literalluy. Mass thermonuclear holocaust.

Where the workers have taken power (Paris commune, October 1917 revolution) they made advances that no capitalist government ever could make. Despite their encirclement by bloodthirsty bourgeois armies. Despite the bureaucratic degenration of the Russian revolution. The facts don't lie. Read about the vital statistics in Russia before and after the 1992 Yeltsin-Bush counterrevolution.

Revolution meant emancipation for women, gays, national minorities, Jews, and it meant the transformation fo Russia from the poorest, msot backward country in Europe to a global scientific-industrial superpower.

Wha we need now is a SOVIET AMERICA as part of a WORKERS WORLD!!!!!!
Security

A Look At Advanced Targeted Attacks Through the Lens of a Human-Rights NGO 25

Posted by Unknown Lamer from the shotgun-network-intrusion dept.
An anonymous reader writes New research was released on cyber-attacks via human-rights NGO World Uyghur Congress over a period of four years. Academic analysis was conducted through the lens of a human-rights NGO representing a minority living in China and in exile when most targeted attack reports are against large organizations with apparent or actual financial or IP theft unlike WUC, and reported by commercial entities rather than academics. The attacks were a combination of sophisticated social engineering via email written primarily in the Uyghur language, in some cases through compromised WUC email accounts, and with advanced malware embedded in attached documents. Suspicious emails were sent to more than 700 different email addresses, including WUC leaders as well as journalists, politicians, academics and employees of other NGOs (including Amnesty International and Save Tibet — International Campaign for Tibet). The study will be presented at USENIX on August 21, and the full paper is already available.
Businesses

Facebook Acquires Server-Focused Security Startup 18

Posted by samzenpus from the answering-the-acquisition-request dept.
wiredmikey writes In a move to bolster the security of its massive global server network, Facebook announced on Thursday it was acquiring PrivateCore, a Palo Alto, California-based cybersecurity startup. PrivateCore describes that its vCage software transparently secures data in use with full memory encryption for any application, any data, anywhere on standard x86 servers. "I'm really excited that Facebook has entered into an agreement to acquire PrivateCore," Facebook security chief Joe Sullivan wrote in a post to his own Facebook page. "I believe that PrivateCore's technology and expertise will help support Facebook's mission to help make the world more open and connected, in a secure and trusted way," Sullivan said. "Over time, we plan to deploy PrivateCore's technology directly into the Facebook server stack."
PHP

PHP Finally Getting a Formal Specification 180

Posted by timothy from the let-the-ossification-ceremony-commence dept.
itwbennett (1594911) writes "Despite becoming one of the most widely used programming languages on the Web, PHP didn't have a formal specification — until now. Facebook engineer and PHP core contributor Sara Golemon announced the initiative at OSCON earlier this month, and an initial draft of the specification was posted Wednesday on GitHub."

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