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Comment No it won't calm the hell down (Score 1) 273

It's another slice of the market going to a new competitor. It's not going to "kill" the cab industry. Why? Lots of people won't use it. It's not all that reliable and as it increases in scope it will include people who shouldn't be providing that service. So calm the hell down, take your bribes and shut the fuck up.

Comment The problem is 18 months to get clearance. (Score 2) 97

No one will hire anyone w/o clearance and no one will pay someone not to work for the up to 18 months it can take to get clearance. So the community of people with clearance get rehired over and over and over and over

Which is why you have Edward Snowden. It's easier to hire an angry ex square-badge high school dropout with clearance than to get someone better vetted.

BTW under Obama the amount of material labeled 'classified' or higher has exploded. It's pretty much everything everywhere.

Comment Well yes and no (Score 1) 205

Yes there are bad products, an increasing quantity of bad products. And an increasing quantity of things to fix more than once. And an increasing number of exposures and so forth.

But, SW has never actually been an engineering discipline. So there's no real way to make things better off the blocks or fix them once they're out. But key problems really have to do with people not things. People are the weak link. And as long as you have to rely on people it will remain the weak link. A better approach would be to take a more holistic approach to allow for vulnerabilities of a given scope and size and build around them as it were. For example if you know that your servers won't get patched very well then fence them off so they can't hurt very much even where they're badly broken. If workstations are infected because people are retards who click on anything, fence them off too so even when they do they can't propagate their own mistakes.

Moreover, you have to understand that not every vulnerability means the same thing. Some things simply won't hurt your company the same way something else will. Heartbleed while a big problem and very pervasive is still only going to point to 64k ram volatile memory blocks. Blow your stuff out before it gets there. Not every unpatched system not every firewall rule will actually hurt your company or conversely its fix help you.

You need to understand that being 98 or 99% healthy is ok too.

Comment Good. Get a taste of it like the rest of us (Score 1) 538

Good move. Now stupid Ivory Tower types get a taste of what liberal socialism really looks like. Shit - in a few years most of THOSE jobs will be offshored to India and China anyway. I'll be laughing my head off. Meanwhile Dr Income Redistribution Paul Krugman gets $225,000 a year to teach ZERO classes at CUNY. Fauxcohantas Dr Elizabeth Warren was paid millions as a tenured prof to do no actual work other than run for political office.

Comment So you can find where they sleep? (Score 1) 113

I had to laugh when they screamed about ending Saturday service. I haven't had reliable Saturday service in over a decade. Maybe one Saturday a month maybe less. And the rest of the week is even worse. On a good week we get mail 4 of the 5 days and when it comes, if it comes it's after 7pm. We stopped leaving mail for pickup years ago because if it didn't get lost, it would add 2 days to delivery. As it is, it take 5 days to send a 1st class letter to an address in the same zipcode. The USPS is Welfare for fat drunk diabetics.

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