Comment Re:It's already there (Score 1) 40
I full agree with you, I never use steak sauce when I grill steaks...Just poking fun at our US Secretary of Education at this event
Comment It's already there (Score 1) 40
AI is already there, just no one is openly admitting it...
Personally I think A1 skills should be taught instead. Not too many people can cook a perfect medium rare steak with a tasty sauce. It's a much more usable life skill.
Personally I think A1 skills should be taught instead. Not too many people can cook a perfect medium rare steak with a tasty sauce. It's a much more usable life skill.
Comment Work is more important now than ever. (Score 0) 2
This work is more important than ever. A lot US public records are in the process of or will be destroyed by the current administration, so an independent archive of the data is invaluable..The only thing I would suggest is that they have a couple of non-US mirrors.
This is also why newspapers publishing public notices, birth, death, and other records independent of government is important..
This is also why newspapers publishing public notices, birth, death, and other records independent of government is important..
Comment Re:The bosses need more money (Score 2) 100
Comment Re:The bosses need more money (Score 2) 100
The MBAs are many of the ones who can't find jobs!
Graduates From Top MBA Programs Are Struggling To Land Jobs
Graduates From Top MBA Programs Are Struggling To Land Jobs
Comment Community hotspots (Score 1) 101
I guess the schools will just have to setup facilities in poorer neighborhoods who's wifi will spillover and pay for it with erate funding.
Comment Re:Stop Drooling - It's Still Digital (Score 1) 128
Although likely buttons and lights would just connect to GPIO on the infotainment system or other module near where they are installed...a switch can cost a few pennies, a comm module will cost a few dollars.
Comment Re:Stop Drooling - It's Still Digital (Score 1) 128
It will be CANBUS , not MIDI
Submission + - Elon Musk's doge.gov website hacked (fortune.com) 1
ArchieBunker writes: Hackers wasted no time in infiltrating the Department of Government Efficiency’s website.
After a hasty launch this week, at least two pages of the site have been defaced by critics who seemingly have accessed a database the page draws from. Two messages appeared on two separate pages of the site, reading “this is a joke of a .gov site” and “THESE ‘EXPERTS’ LEFT THEIR DATABASE OPEN -roro.”
The hacked pages, though still accessible as of 10:00 a.m. ET on Friday morning, no longer appear to people who navigate to the DOGE website in traditional methods.
404 Media, which first discovered the hacked pages, quoted anonymous experts who said the DOGE page does not appear to be hosted on government servers and was pulling data from a database that can be accessed by third parties. That opened the doors for the embarrassing criticism.
After a hasty launch this week, at least two pages of the site have been defaced by critics who seemingly have accessed a database the page draws from. Two messages appeared on two separate pages of the site, reading “this is a joke of a
The hacked pages, though still accessible as of 10:00 a.m. ET on Friday morning, no longer appear to people who navigate to the DOGE website in traditional methods.
404 Media, which first discovered the hacked pages, quoted anonymous experts who said the DOGE page does not appear to be hosted on government servers and was pulling data from a database that can be accessed by third parties. That opened the doors for the embarrassing criticism.
Submission + - DOGE Approved to Transfer Labor Dept Data Using PuTTY (nbcnews.com)
fahrbot-bot writes: NBC is reporting that Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency has received approval from the Labor Department to use software that could allow it to transfer vast amounts of data out of Labor’s systems, according to records seen by NBC News and interviews with two employees.
The approval for Musk’s team to use the remote-access and file-transfer software, known as PuTTY, has alarmed some of the Labor Department’s career employees. Musk, the head of DOGE, has dispatched subordinates throughout the government to radically overhaul or dismantle federal agencies with the backing of President Donald Trump.
Many of the details around DOGE’s actions have remained secret, though it has moved to gain access to large swaths of data held in the computer systems of individual agencies.
Concerns include the alleged use of artificial intelligence to analyze federal data and the alleged use of a computer server not familiar to government employees.
Transferring government data outside established protocols could have high stakes for anyone whose information is in those databases, because of the chance that more people would have access to their information than originally intended, increasing chances of a breach.
Two employees interviewed said that they considered the authorization to be a red flag because the DOGE members were new arrivals who, in their view, lacked sufficient vetting and experience for the access they were getting.
“We don’t know who they are, and we’re giving them free rein to extract whatever they want,” one employee said. “This is completely opposite of what we’d do to protect privacy.”
The approval for Musk’s team to use the remote-access and file-transfer software, known as PuTTY, has alarmed some of the Labor Department’s career employees. Musk, the head of DOGE, has dispatched subordinates throughout the government to radically overhaul or dismantle federal agencies with the backing of President Donald Trump.
Many of the details around DOGE’s actions have remained secret, though it has moved to gain access to large swaths of data held in the computer systems of individual agencies.
Concerns include the alleged use of artificial intelligence to analyze federal data and the alleged use of a computer server not familiar to government employees.
Transferring government data outside established protocols could have high stakes for anyone whose information is in those databases, because of the chance that more people would have access to their information than originally intended, increasing chances of a breach.
Two employees interviewed said that they considered the authorization to be a red flag because the DOGE members were new arrivals who, in their view, lacked sufficient vetting and experience for the access they were getting.
“We don’t know who they are, and we’re giving them free rein to extract whatever they want,” one employee said. “This is completely opposite of what we’d do to protect privacy.”
Submission + - "Largest data breach in US history": Three more lawsuits try to stop DOGE (arstechnica.com)
AmiMoJo writes: The US DOGE Service's access to the private data of ordinary Americans and federal employees is being challenged in several lawsuits filed this week.
Three new complaints seek court orders that would stop the data access and require the deletion of unlawfully accessed data. Two of the complaints also seek financial damages for individuals whose data was accessed.
The US DOGE Service, Elon Musk, the US Office of Personnel Management (OPM), and OPM Acting Director Charles Ezell were named as defendants in one suit filed yesterday in US District Court for the Southern District of New York.
"The Privacy Act [of 1974] makes it unlawful for OPM Defendants to hand over access to OPM's millions of personnel records to DOGE Defendants, who lack a lawful and legitimate need for such access," the lawsuit said. "No exception to the Privacy Act covers DOGE Defendants' access to records held by OPM. OPM Defendants' action granting DOGE Defendants full, continuing, and ongoing access to OPM's systems and files for an unspecified period means that tens of millions of federal-government employees, retirees, contractors, job applicants, and impacted family members and other third parties have no assurance that their information will receive the protection that federal law affords."
The lawsuit names Musk as a defendant "in his capacity as director of the US Doge Temporary Service," which was created by President Trump and has a mandate lasting until July 4, 2026. The temporary organization is separate from the US DOGE Service, which used to be called the US Digital Service. DOGE, of course, is a reference to the popular meme involving a Shiba Inu and in the government context stands for the Department of Government Efficiency.
Three new complaints seek court orders that would stop the data access and require the deletion of unlawfully accessed data. Two of the complaints also seek financial damages for individuals whose data was accessed.
The US DOGE Service, Elon Musk, the US Office of Personnel Management (OPM), and OPM Acting Director Charles Ezell were named as defendants in one suit filed yesterday in US District Court for the Southern District of New York.
"The Privacy Act [of 1974] makes it unlawful for OPM Defendants to hand over access to OPM's millions of personnel records to DOGE Defendants, who lack a lawful and legitimate need for such access," the lawsuit said. "No exception to the Privacy Act covers DOGE Defendants' access to records held by OPM. OPM Defendants' action granting DOGE Defendants full, continuing, and ongoing access to OPM's systems and files for an unspecified period means that tens of millions of federal-government employees, retirees, contractors, job applicants, and impacted family members and other third parties have no assurance that their information will receive the protection that federal law affords."
The lawsuit names Musk as a defendant "in his capacity as director of the US Doge Temporary Service," which was created by President Trump and has a mandate lasting until July 4, 2026. The temporary organization is separate from the US DOGE Service, which used to be called the US Digital Service. DOGE, of course, is a reference to the popular meme involving a Shiba Inu and in the government context stands for the Department of Government Efficiency.
Comment Re:partially responsible for self-nullifying behav (Score 5, Insightful) 23
Postgres can be a relational database, a document store (JSON) database, a key-value pair database, a geospatial database, a graph database, a full text search engine....
and Postgres JSONB performance almost always beats CouchDB, MongoDB and other dedicated document store DBs.
and Postgres JSONB performance almost always beats CouchDB, MongoDB and other dedicated document store DBs.
Comment MBAs are a dime a dozen (Score 1) 120
What we're really missing in our society are people who actually make things and innovate: EEs, MEs, CEs, etc..
Comment Re:Hmmmmm (Score 0) 65
Too bad just about every "normal" user who tries to use it ends up not liking it, until you bring their MSO back.
Also a full 365 implementation is not just the Office suite, but also email/messaging, file shares, intranet type stuff, calendaring/booking, etc.. When the organizations I maintain moved to 365, I made it clear they have to make use of every feature to make it pay off for what the cost is.
Also a full 365 implementation is not just the Office suite, but also email/messaging, file shares, intranet type stuff, calendaring/booking, etc.. When the organizations I maintain moved to 365, I made it clear they have to make use of every feature to make it pay off for what the cost is.
Comment Bait and Switch (Score 4, Insightful) 65
Sure, after migrating a few organizations to MS365, mostly because that's what they are expected to have, after resisting it for nearly a decade - finally the licensing costs between 365 vs perpetual licensed, and having to maintain file servers and mail servers came to a wash over 5 years, but if MS makes such a price increase, throws that analysis all out the window.
I've been trying to get organizations to ditch MS Office for 25+ years, but there is constant resistance, and even after trying alternatives (Star Office, OOo, LibreOffice, etc.), they never have a similar user experience as MS Office and users fight back at first frustration, and of course external entities they work with assume their using MSO...also when were running our own mail exchangers, any difficulty getting messages through was always our fault, no matter who was blocking it...again, everyone just expects everyone else to be running 365 or GSuite, so we just gave everyone what they wanted in the end, and significant increase in monthly operating expense, but like I said earlier, can make a case where they break even over 3-5 years, if monthly/yearly licensing stay relatively stable.
I've been trying to get organizations to ditch MS Office for 25+ years, but there is constant resistance, and even after trying alternatives (Star Office, OOo, LibreOffice, etc.), they never have a similar user experience as MS Office and users fight back at first frustration, and of course external entities they work with assume their using MSO...also when were running our own mail exchangers, any difficulty getting messages through was always our fault, no matter who was blocking it...again, everyone just expects everyone else to be running 365 or GSuite, so we just gave everyone what they wanted in the end, and significant increase in monthly operating expense, but like I said earlier, can make a case where they break even over 3-5 years, if monthly/yearly licensing stay relatively stable.
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