The problem in this case was a stolen credential that was left usable for an extended period of time. Near-line storage alone would've only been a small "bump in the road" for this particular leak, assuming the person knew enough to ask for all the data to be loaded from near-line storage before stealing it.
Things like building-access-codes don't need to be kept on a "live" database. If a customer places an order, the key-access-code for that specific customer can be copied from nearline storage to "live" storage well before delivery, then deleted after delivery is complete.
This way, if the "live" database is completely compromised, only the relatively-few customers who have pending or very-recently-delivered items will have their key-access-code data stolen.
A similar principle can apply to the customer's contact and billing information and for that matter all information not needed to login in: only have it available to the "live" system when it's needed.
If a customer decides he wants to review his account information, give him a screen that says something like "it will take 5 minutes to retreive your data" then put a count-down timer in the corner of the web page. Use that 5 minutes to load the data from nearline storage.
I'm placing my bets on the sharks. They have lasers. Pew! Pew! Pewpewpew!
As far as tariffs go, Trump telling the rest of the world they should learn to live without America may be the best thing for the rest of the world, long-term. Sure, there is short- and medium-term pain, but imagine it's 2060 and the rest of the world has weaned itself from any dependence on America. Imagine a Trump-like President trying to tell the rest of the world what to do. Imagine the rest of the world shugging its collective shoulders.
Is that troy ounce, avoirdupois ounce, or hockey-puck ounce?
The latter is defined as 1/6th the weight of a standard NHL hockey puck, exactly.
Linguistic humor, English spelling reform
Source: An old chestnut. In its globalized incarnation below, via Steven Gearhart.
English in the Future
Directors at Daimler Benz and Chrysler have announced an agreement to adopt English as the preferred language for communications, rather than German, which was another possibility.
As part of the negotiations, directors at Chrysler conceded that English spelling has some room for improvement and have accepted a five-year phase-in plan. In the first year, "s" will be used instead of the soft "c". Also, the hard "c" will be replased with "k". Not only will this klear up konfusion, but komputers have one less letter.
There will be growing kompany enthusiasm in the sekond year when the troublesome "ph" will be replased by "f". This will make words like "fotograf" 20 persent shorter.
In the third year, DaimlerKhrysler akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reash the stage where more komplikated shanges are possible.
DaimlerKhrysler will enkourage the removal of double letters, whish have always ben a deterent to akurate speling. Also, al wil agre that the horible mes of silent "e"'s in the languag is disgrasful, and they would go.
By the fourth year, peopl wil be reseptiv to steps sush as replasing "th" with "z" and "w" by "v".
During ze fifz year, ze unesesary "o" kan be droped from vords kontaining "o", and similar shanges vud of kors be aplid to ozer kombinations of leters.
After zis fifz yer, ve vil hav a reli sensibl riten styl. Zer vil be no mor trubls or difikultis, and employes vil find it ezi to kommunikat viz eash ozer.
Ov kors al supliers vil be expekted to us zis for all busines komunikation via DaimlerKhrysler.
Ze drem vil finali kum tru.
First, there's no absolute proof that Kissinger said this. But he had decades to refute it but didn't, so let's assume he did.
In any case, context is critical.
Here's the quote in context, (words attributed to Kissinger in bold) from snopes.com:
In the story, Buckley recalled meeting Kissinger in the mid-1950s, writing, "We have been friends for many years." The in-question quote appeared later in the article, after Buckley detailed some developments that occurred before and after Richard Nixon accepted the Republican Party's nomination for U.S. president at the 1968 Republican National Convention.
Buckley mentioned the quote in the context of references to two former South Vietnamese presidents, including Ngo Dinh Diem, who served from 1955 until his assassination in a 1963 coup, and Nguyen Van Thieu, who held office from 1967 to 1975.
Describing the situation in late 1968 during the Vietnam Warâ" a decades-long conflict between the U.S. and communist-backed North Vietnam that lasted from 1955 to 1975 â"Buckley wrote:
In late November, I was lecturing in Los Angeles. Kissinger reached me by phone. That day Secretary of Defense Clark Clifford had blasted Thieu for taking so adamant a stand on the requisite shape of the bargaining table in Paris. I still have the notes I took.
"Nixon should be told," Kissinger said, "that it is probably an objective of Clifford to depose Thieu before Nixon is inaugurated. Word should be gotten to Nixon that if Thieu meets the same fate as Diem, the word will go out to the nations of the world that it may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."
I telephoned New York, a personal meeting was set up between Kissinger and the President-elect, and a week or so later my phone rang. "You will never be able to say again that you have no contact inside the White House."
Has any employer ever WANTED to pay experienced workers higher pay?
Yes, to avoid having to fill the position again when either they get someone "too good to be true at a low pay" who isn't what he seems or when they get someone "too good to be true at low pay" who is but who leaves when a much-better/market-value offer comes along.
Attended a high school graduation a couple of years ago. The school was practically bragging about how 90% of the graduating class were honor graduates.
If the term "honor graduates" is being used as "compared to each other" then yeah, anything over 10-15% is by definition bull.
If, on the other hand, it's an objective comparison against all 18-year-olds in the city/county/state/country graduating from high school that term as measured by independent, objective measurements (say, by scoring in the top 10% of a rigorous state test or a rigorous college-entrance exam), then it could be legit claim as long as it was clear how the term was being used.
Imagine a school system that invited its top-5% of 8th grade students to go to an intensive high-quality college-prep/early-college high school. I would expect nearly all of this elite school's graduates to be "honor graduates" when compared with every other high school graduate in the district.
"How to Win Friends and Influence People Through Fear and Intimidation" by Gordon Ramsay
Agree my recipes are the best, OR ELSE!
Companies need to get together and hire someone to produce an exam given to all graduates in a particular field
For some careers, these tests exist, either in the form of professional certifications or professional licenses or early-career pre-full-license tests like the Fundamentals of Engineering Exam.
For lawyers, there's the state bar exams.
No wonder Tesla had to build a new substation for Cortex 2
They should be building entire power plants on-site. If they can't build a power plant at a given site, then build the whole thing, power plant and battery storage included, somewhere else.
An alternative to on-site power is a power plant that's close by (within tens of miles) then build dedicated power-transmission lines from the power plant to the data center.
Both solutions avoid the "we are going to bust the electrical grid with our power demands" problem.
Recognizing when there's an interruption to the program I'm watching so I can turn what is probably an ad into a silent black screen.
Sure, I may miss out on urgent weather bulletins or we-interrupt-this-program-for-a-major-news-bulletins, but at least I won't have to watch the ads.
I'm waiting for a TV that will include this ad-blocking technology without an unacceptable price. I'm also waiting for the heat death of the universe. I'm pretty sure I know which will happen first.
the algorithm was chosen because it made moving people off NT4 domains to AD back 25 years ago "easy".
That's a plausible reason to have it.
But it should've come disabled by default and with a warning label: "RC4 has known issues, enable it only if you have to."
This way, companies upgrading existing networks would turn it on knowing they will eventually turn it off, and companies starting all-new networks (e.g. new companies) could start things off with RC4 off by default.
>I'd bet further this case would never have been brought had it not been for the help of AI.
In the old days he would've gotten an hour or two of free anonymous legal help from someone he knew who happened to be a lawyer and who liked the idea of having John Q. Citizen stick it to BigCorp "all by himself."
Today, he gets 10 minutes of "free" help from an AI that is learning from every query he makes.
Human resources are human first, and resources second. -- J. Garbers
