:You walk by your coworker Jim and wave to him, and he says, oh hey Mary I've got an idea/question:

Jesus Christ! I work mostly remote and it never stopped the ideas flow. so you are saying that unless you actually walk past a person no interaction ever occurs? I used to work with a guy in China and we always had long random ideas talks on a sunday morning via FaceTime audio. I worked with people in Chicago ( I am in France) and we always had random calls unscheduled ( Hey can you talk? Well give me 5 minutes. OK .... then random idea exchange begins)

Grow up. BTW even telcos are collaborative companies.

"you're not friends with your coworkers"

Most of the people I ever collaborated with successfully, I never met face to face. Never will. And yet ..... i did favours for them all the time.

I cannot even believe you posted that comment .....

"well, I have done this for 30 years so fuck you if you want me to change now".
Honestly how often has this actually been an issue in reality? Plenty of young people who learn ONE technology and that is all they want to use. It is not a function of age, some people are not creative, at any age. In my experience as an old fuck, I find more younger tech people adverse to change than older people. Closed minds exist at all age groups.

"Many of this persons tend to be in the 'old' range"

I live in the South of France and over the last 7 years most of my work has been remote. Prior and now, none of the work related calls have used video. Pointless and distracting. Try listening to people's voices, you can discern what you need out of that. Irregardless of my age, or the age of any project team ( always younger than me) I have never ever had to join a video conf call.

Con my current project, I have worked with three people closely I have never met and will never meet face to face. We have a great relationship, ad hoc calls/chats in between formal calls to exchange ideas etc.

"s a mentor, you can see the face of the other person and know if they understand or need a bit more time/different explanation. That's something difficult to achieve just via phone call, chat or plain documentation"

In any decent discussion of ideas you can always tell if the other person "gets it" as far as a concept or an idea or information imparted. Try listening more.

"The new generations seem to be more used to this." I repeat, as an external working on many different projects, not one ever used video. Had nothing to do with age.

" because older people have a harder time getting accustomed to changes in their environment"

Really? At 61, staying relevant in IT has been nothing but change. I know young people who learn one technology and can't see past what they know. It is not always a function of age, but of mindset.

"Most people who are above the age of 50 did not grow up with a cellphone in their pocket"

Jesus Christ! I have been using a cell phone for ..... 30 years. You are making some gross silly assumptions. Just because I learned COBOL in 1981 does not mean that as an IT architect I always see COBOL as the solution. My career has been nothing but change after change after change.

"because the old fart just don't get how to use the apps we now need"

Again, what stupid assumptions are these? Yeah we old fuckers are happy to use tools like Slack, Skype, and gasp, the internet in general. OMG, at 61 Slack was so so hard for me to understand and use ( not! ).

Our brains do not magically die when we get to 50. Your post and assumptions depress me.

US is growing so fast people have not had enough time to die. You do understand growth will continue? You understand France Spain and Italy are in a strict nationwide lockdown, fining people who sneak out and send them home? You probably assume the half assed partial lock down in the USA will slow it down? I am sitting in France on my 11th day of being locked in my house 24 hours a day. A European lock down is not the same as a half assed Trump lock down.

France's exponential and Italy are dropping. Because of the severity of the lock down.

Good luck.

The exponential is all you need to know.

I assume you have never heard of the word exponential. Try googling it, and get back to us when you finally comprehend the implications of exponential growth.

The window of stalling at high altitude is very small.

"The region is deadly. Get too slow, and you'll stall the jet at high altitude (not something you want to do). Get too fast, and you'll exceed your critical mach number. The air over your wings will go supersonic, you'll pitch down, the aircraft will accelerate, and your wings will fall off. Also bad"

Google "coffin corner"

https://www.nccoe.nist.gov/sit...

Shove this document into the inbox of the right decision makers ....... :-)

"Securing Wireless
Infusion Pumps
in Healthcare Delivery Organizations
Includes Executive Summary (A); Approach, Architecture, and Security Characteristics (B), and How-To Guides"

Most infusion pump manufacturers have all released integration gateways to take pump messages upstream and push things like drug libraries downstream, and also push infusion events upstream for hospital systems and billing records etc.

AT the point of this integration gateways, it is not deeply difficult to push alarm messages to a central console ( i.e. at a nurses station) [this company I worked with had developed a Nurse console application to display ward level infusion pump data and alarms]

HL7 is probably not the solution at the level of alarms, too heavy and not a precise standard.

NIST and the FDA released a vast best practice document several years regards infusion pumps and security and yes, they should be on a protected subnet etc .....

There are no alarm standards and a hierarchy of alarms as far as I am aware. Manufacturers try to capture events on the pump and issue alarms but there needs to be a vast body of work to standardise alarms in hospitals.

The FDA requirements for an infusion Pump and it's hardware alarms are harder to meet than a Medical software standard. It is about risk. In reference to the alarm centralisation software, it was shipped as an advisory to the actual physical pump alarm, if it supersedes a pump alarm, then the cost of having the software accepted by the FDA goes up by a lot.

There is no standard to the message protocols issues by devices ..... every manufacturor creates their own, either a serial protocol, or maybe something like MQTT carrying device specific data upstream to a device driver at an integration framework.

HL7 does help in terms of defining how you locate where the pump is .....

Most routers and servers support telnet. Having worked over three years on a long running Huawei/Vodafone project and having visited Huawei headquarters three times, my experience is that Huawei will work with you and never tried to hide stuff. Huawei telnet can be configured as off on their routers. OK cool. I cannot imagine Vodaphone demanding that the actual telnet code was removed. It certainly was never demanded in my project and was a higher level of security than normal ( payments) and certainly group security were aware that telnet existed on routers firewalls and Huawei Linux servers. We were concerned with managed configuration, and firewall security and zones. For example no server or service could be used to jump to any other service, there was one way into the network via a secure gateway will full logging and access control. So frankly with how things were, I would not give a shit that telnet code existed on a box ( and yeah cisco support telnet eh?)

This whole story stinks of bullshit. Most probably some deployment engineers fucked up on deployment config and it was found and corrected. Happens all the time, which is why we always had third party penetration testing, group security auditing, and our own project configuration audits.

The worst aspect of Huawei is that they simply cannot get enough staff at the coal face to manage the deployments, and a lot ends up being managed by engineers remote in China. We had to teach Huawei a lot about deployments and how to manage them. Their internal deployment automation tool was shite.

Note I worked for Vodafone Group level not at a country level and worked very closely with Group Security who set the rules for all countries .....

I have worked with Vodafone in the past as well as Huawei as used by Vodaphone. Bloomberg sidestep a lot of stuff like: Vodaphone have a tightly controlled global security group who sign off on all projects, people like us who define security and audit closely Huawei in terms of what they do, and very very tight ways to get into a production network via a single gateway that is audited as well as auditing all firewall rules etc etc etc ...... If a router had telnet? So what? It would have never been able to be accessed ..... and sure Huawei like other vendors had issues that were discovered by extensive penetration testing, but in fairness to Huawei they were open and co-operative to solve all the issues ever found. Huawei could be viewed as somewhat immature in process management but they were aware of it and tried their best to change.

Yeah in the early 80's I made a fortune in the Middle East based on Sun, support, training and consulting. Ever since then it has been a long slow spiral down earnings wise. I guess I never got over the shift :-(

The vast majority of airplanes crash in an obvious place. Very very few black boxes have never been found (10? 12?). People want cleap flights, and the cost benefit of real time satellite is dubious. It is more to satisfy the curious in the tiny tiny set of edge cases like this.

Possibly to head to the closest runway available ....... Note the Fex Ex Dubai crash, the smoke was so bad the pilots could not see the instruments, and in the end, the fire burned the oxygen lines. The pilot left the cockpit to seek an oxygen bottle but never returned, presumably overwhelmed by fumes. The co-piot crashed alone in the cockpit. Fire indicates getting down to the nearest runway ......

Gemalto generate a master SIM key with batches of cards shipped to each Mobile Operator. I work on a project for mobile payments, mediated with a STK loaded on each card. A HSM is loaded with all the master keys. If you have the master key, you can decrypt all the communications with the STK app on the SIM card. If the Master key leaks, all payment operations/transactions are fucked.