What he did was illegal, but I can't say that it was wrong.
I'm not in the least convinced that it was illegal. Revealing classified info which reveals the existence of criminal behavior is not necessarily illegal (at least as of one of my early briefings when having a clearance bestowed upon my august presence).
And you're offensively paternalistic in thinking I want to go thru 10 minutes of booting & reloading all my apps and active development docs every day (or even week) just to satisfy some IT god's paranoia. I repeat: load the patches and give the users a minimum of 5 day's warning before forcing a reboot.
Wow -- someone's doing it right
You're entirely missing the point. Aside from the fact that viruses almost never penetrate the corporate firewalls, what I stressed was that system (and AV-software) updates can be pushed without executing a forced shutdown. There are better ways to achieve the same goal.
Call someone else a PEBCAC, 'mkay? I lost 2 days of work because some red flag went off and IT wasted 2 days doing their SuperSpecial scans only to find nothing at all -- and here I am with an 8-core machine but they wouldn't let me run their scans while simultaneously working.
Without that, what's the point
Go ahead, make some Rule34 versions of what "bobbles" you want to get.
Computers that aren't rebooted at least once a month are likely to miss a critical patch and present a serious risk to the network. If the users aren't willing to do their part to maintain network security, then the script needs to reboot the computers.
And, THAT is why we call IT workers total fuckwits. Until you figure out how to tell the users they must reboot without doing a forced shutdown of apps without so much as saving the work in process, we're going to do everything we can (e.g. pulling the ethernet plug every night before going home) to stop your idiocy. Granted Windows itself is largely to blame, as it's incapable of understanding that force-quitting apps should never be allowed sans local keyboard interaction (i,e. direct user approval), but the typical IT approach of nuking from orbit is unexcusable.
So what you're really saying is "Criminals are the job creators" ?
And we can do it without any fear of retribution. "PEDO" now means "person of excellent demeanor online" (by which I mean "I just made that piece of BS up") .
Who would ever confuse 'PEDO' and 'pedo'?
What if your cloud service provider goes down? How you going to get all your data if you get only 1 day, or a week notice? How about if you get no notice, the shit just stops working? The company goes poof! So does all your data.
Not the best analogy, but: in case of bankruptcy, shutdown, or death, a medical doctor's practice/office/heirs are required by law to store the patient records & provide them or transfer them upon request. Similar legislation is needed for data storage service companies. (Oh,wait-- intelligent legislative action in today's Congress? Putting a burden on the Job Creators? nevva mind)
Damn sure all the Founding Fathers would be on the no fly list.
Response #1: Well, of course, since airplanes didn't work back then.
Response #2, Well, duh, it was easier to put on leggings than use button-fly pants back then (zippers weren't due to be invented for a while)
That's because the world is fucked and nothing maters. At all.
Nice Freudian typo there!
Anyway,
"Nothing really matters, any more"
or
"It's the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine."
See, the musicians have it covered.
China and Russia already have the F-35 plans.
I certainly hope so! Just wait for them to try to *build* the F-35 and watch their budgets explode just as wildly as the intra-USA budget has.
Slaves are not people.
Bah. Here in the US of frakking A, slaves are (well, were) 60% of a person. Take that, you backwater countries like Dubai!
What the gods would destroy they first submit to an IEEE standards committee.
