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Comment Re:maintenance updates during the day ? (Score 1) 98

by KernelMuncher (#44576599) Attached to: Washington Post Hacked, a Day After New York Times
We test in QA during the week and then release on Fridays. The full team has to be on the status call Friday night and/or Saturday morning, whenever the testing on production has been completed. If it's broken or it needs a roll-back, we all start working on it.

My company having good remote work capabilities is a great plus but it still means don't schedule anything socially that weekend which can't be postponed.

Comment maintenance updates during the day ? (Score 3, Interesting) 98

by KernelMuncher (#44574939) Attached to: Washington Post Hacked, a Day After New York Times
Seriously, what competent IT shop pushes out maintenance updates during peak viewing times ? Our company schedules that work for Friday nights, just in case something unexpected happens. At the very least they should have saved the update until the late evening shift.

The NY Times doesn't sound like they are telling the entire truth.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/15/business/media/new-york-times-web-site-returns-after-hours-offline.html?_r=0

Comment Re:A cynic's view (Score 4, Insightful) 637

by KernelMuncher (#44560051) Attached to: Medical Costs Bankrupt Patients; It's the Computer's Fault
Even with these complexities if the insurance companies really wanted to cooperate, the could add up the out of pocket costs and when it was >12,700, just stop and exempt the person. But obviously that would cost them money so they throw up the "technical difficulties" flag and say it's impossible.

What they are really saying is "We want to delay this for as long as possible so we can keep maximizing our profits".

Submission + - Edward Snowden: The Video Game (vice.com)

Submitted by Tasha26
Tasha26 writes: Game-maker activists BINJI have recently released a free Mario-type platform game called Eddy's Run: The Prism Prison as both an homage to Edward Snowden (the man who risked his life to leak information on NSA's spying programmes) and a wake-up call on the inhuman actions a government can take against millions of its own people. It is as they put it, their contribution in the fight against total surveillance and the undermining of democracy. Here's a CNN video interview of the game developers.

Submission + - Apache Web Server Usage Falls Below 50 Percent - Or Does It? (eweek.com) 4

Submitted by darthcamaro
darthcamaro writes: Apache has always dominated the web server landscape. But in August, its' share has slipped below 50 percent for the first time in years. The winner isn't nginx either — it's Microsoft IIS that has picked up share. But don't worry, this isn't likely a repeat of the Netscape/IE battle of the late 90's, Apache is here to stay (right?)

Submission + - NSA Firing 90% of it's Sysadmins (rt.com)

Submitted by sl4shd0rk
sl4shd0rk writes: Director of the NSA, Keith Alexander, has decided that the best way to
prevent illegal activity, or rather be witness to it, is to reduce the number of ears and eyes involved. During a monolog at a cybersecurity conference in New York this week, Alexander revealed his plans to cut 90% of the System Administration workforce at the NSA. "What we're in the process of doing — not fast enough — is reducing our system administrators by about 90 percent," he said. Alluding to an issue of mistrust, Alexander further clarified: "At the end of the day it's about people and trust...if they misuse that trust they can cause huge damage.". Apparently, breaking the law and lying about it leaves one without a sense of irony when speaking in public.

Comment top place for mathematics (Score 1) 126

by KernelMuncher (#44489235) Attached to: Def Con Hackers On Whether They'd Work For the NSA
The NSA also does a lot of basic research, especially in mathematics related to code breaking. IIRC it employs more mathematicians as a job title than any other organization in the country. That environment would be ideal to the academically oriented types who just want to ponder number theory all day long.

Submission + - NASA's Curiosity Rover Celebrates One Year on Mars

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: The Curiosity rover celebrates one year on Mars today. 'The 1-ton robot has achieved a great deal in its 12 months on Mars, discovering an ancient streambed and gathering enough evidence for mission scientists to declare that the planet could have supported microbial life billions of years ago. And more big finds could be in the offing, as Curiosity is now trekking toward its ultimate science destination: the foothills of a huge and mysterious mountain that preserves, in its many layers, a history of Mars' changing environmental conditions.'

Submission + - NSA Whistleblower Edward Snowden Offered a Job on Russian Facebook (ibtimes.co.uk)

Submitted by DavidGilbert99
DavidGilbert99 writes: The global recession is still in full effect in most parts of the world, but not for Edward Snowden it seems. Just hours after being allowed to leave Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport yesterday having been granted temporary asylum he has been offered a high profile job with one of the biggest tech companies in Russia. David Gilbert reports for the IBTimes that VK, the second biggest social network in Europe, wants Snowden to join them to work on the "protection of personal data for our millions of users." And they weren't even being ironic.....

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