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Comment I thought the ad campaign was good (Score 1) 132

Brilliant 'memetic judo'. Whoever is on their marketing team should be CEO, I hear the position's open.

FWIW what I found interesting is that if neither of them had reacted at all to being on the kiss cam (or reacted normally) we wouldn't even have heard about it.

Comment Re:everything shredded and/or destroyed (Score 1) 102

All the systems you mentioned, are *personal* computers. I'm pretty sure Stack Exchange wasn't using home systems, but rack-mounted servers. Very different story.

Sure, but that doesn't change the fact that even "obsolete" hardware can be useful. As a sysadmin, I've used plenty of old(er) server class systems in production, as well as development and research, settings and they generally work fine; just be realistic about their performance and capability and plan accordingly. Not everything needs the latest and greatest.

Comment Re:everything shredded and/or destroyed (Score 1) 102

It was probably all obsolete anyway.

"Obsolete" hardware often works fine, and it's usually rather inexpensive.

For example, all my systems are old(er) and inherited from friends/family. My Windows 10 system is a Dell XPS 420 that a friend gave me in 2017 and it works great -- don't know when he got it, but the model was discontinued in 2009. Only thing I've replaced is the HDD, later replaced with a SSD. My Linux Mint system uses an ASRock Z77 Extreme3 motherboard with Intel Core i7-3770 CPU (32 GM RAM) -- old, but works great. My OPNsense router uses the MB from a HP a6130n with Athlon 64 X2 (B) 5000+ CPU (8 GB RAM), and a few Intel GB NICs (1 Intel 82571EB/82571 (2-port), 1 Intel 82574L (1-port)) and stuffed into a simplified case - very old, but works like a champ. I've got two other old systems currently unused: Dell PowerEdge T110 (32 GB ECC RAM) and a Dell Inspiron 530a - both run Linux like a champ. Using SSDs instead of HDDs for the OS disks helps keep these pretty useful.

Comment everything shredded and/or destroyed (Score 4, Insightful) 102

For security reasons (and to protect the PII of all our users and customers), everything was being shredded and/or destroyed. Nothing was being kept...

Everything? Pretty sure just destroying the disks (SSDs/HDDs) would be sufficient. Destroying *everything* seems like wasteful overkill. I've worked places (DoD contractor) where drives being discarded had to be shredded and/or melted, but drives being returned to the Government were just securely wiped, several times. In practice, we securely wiped all drives, even ones destined to be physically destroyed.

I'm sure someone would by the servers...

Comment it should be loss of licensure (Score 1) 43

Not just sanction.

They did it deliberately.
They exercised no reasonable oversight by double checking the references.
Their sole role was as ethical agents knowing the law; they failed every part of the task.

They clearly don't want to actually practice law, so give them a larger opportunity not to do so.

Comment Re: See, silly women? There's nothing to fear! (Score 1) 88

Women: some men are dangerous
Men: ok let us have really terrible punishments for those bad men.
Women: no no no, that would be cruel. They need counseling, not punishment.

Non predatory men by a massive majority want draconian punishment for men that hurt women. WOMEN by a massive majority vote against severe punishments.

Comment Re: Hold on, Tex (Score 1) 26

(shrug) incompetent management tends to manage all parts... Incompetently.

That said, the early assertion was that "the cloud" would be safer because of redundancies. What wasn't highlighted was that from another perspective, it was concentrating points of failure/vulnerability.

Is one giant cloud service run for everyone by a professional data team more or less vulnerable collectively than a vast array of local networks/servers run by a bell curve of IT expertise from "really skilled" down to "I think Bill's nephew knows something about computers? He can configure it probably?"

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