Comment Re:Stop trying to make Quishing a thing (Score 1) 56
You win the internet for an hour. Well played.
Comment Re:Swiss Train standards FTW (Score 3, Informative) 169
Switzerland is a monoculture with about 9 million people total.
The S in USA stands for 'States', as in separate sovereign entities of which there are currently 50. All of Switzerland would fit into Texas (one of the States) nearly 17 times. Starting to get an idea of the scope of the problem?
I really did try not to be condescending when crafting this; it is just a side effect of reducing the issue to simple terms.
Comment Re:Another one bites the dust... (Score 0) 41
Remember, you don't pay to do backups, you pay to do restores. But you are not wrong.
... Because it's costly, time consuming and difficult with a mobile work force.
Submission + - Missouri County Declares State of Emergency Amid Suspected Ransomware Attack (arstechnica.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Jackson County, Missouri, has declared a state of emergency and closed key offices indefinitely as it responds to what officials believe is a ransomware attack that has made some of its IT systems inoperable. "Jackson County has identified significant disruptions within its IT systems, potentially attributable to a ransomware attack," officials wrote Tuesday. "Early indications suggest operational inconsistencies across its digital infrastructure and certain systems have been rendered inoperative while others continue to function as normal."
The systems confirmed inoperable include tax and online property payments, issuance of marriage licenses, and inmate searches. In response, the Assessment, Collection and Recorder of Deeds offices at all county locations are closed until further notice. The closure occurred the same day that the county was holding a special election to vote on a proposed sales tax to fund a stadium for MLB's Kansas City Royals and the NFL's Kansas City Chiefs. Neither the Jackson County Board of Elections nor the Kansas City Board of Elections have been affected by the attack; both remain open.
The Jackson County website says there are 654,000 residents in the 607-square-mile county, which includes most of Kansas City, the biggest city in Missouri. The response to the attack and the investigation into it have just begun, but so far, officials said they had no evidence that data had been compromised. Jackson County Executive Frank White, Jr. has issued (PDF) an executive order declaring a state of emergency. The County has notified law enforcement and retained IT security contractors to help investigate and remediate the attack.
The systems confirmed inoperable include tax and online property payments, issuance of marriage licenses, and inmate searches. In response, the Assessment, Collection and Recorder of Deeds offices at all county locations are closed until further notice. The closure occurred the same day that the county was holding a special election to vote on a proposed sales tax to fund a stadium for MLB's Kansas City Royals and the NFL's Kansas City Chiefs. Neither the Jackson County Board of Elections nor the Kansas City Board of Elections have been affected by the attack; both remain open.
The Jackson County website says there are 654,000 residents in the 607-square-mile county, which includes most of Kansas City, the biggest city in Missouri. The response to the attack and the investigation into it have just begun, but so far, officials said they had no evidence that data had been compromised. Jackson County Executive Frank White, Jr. has issued (PDF) an executive order declaring a state of emergency. The County has notified law enforcement and retained IT security contractors to help investigate and remediate the attack.
Comment Re:Typical.... (Score 1) 230
Oh, to have some mod points to bestow.
Comment Re:A worldwide recession is just around the corner (Score 4, Insightful) 237
Mod parent up. Boring, but necessary.
Also (concerning the article) consider the source. Who is better positioned to make money off of market movement up or down? Average joe slashdot, or the folks managing 10 TRILLION in assets.
Comment Re:Long lived operating systems? (Score 1) 32
But let's now go shit on Apple. Not only are their support windows smaller but they have planned obsolescence so you cannot even put a newer OS version on after a point rendering the hardware junk.
Mod parent up and award a chocolate bar.
Comment Re:Pointless (Score 1) 240
I want the blue one; no feathers.
Comment Re:Isolate and Netflix and Chill by yourself (Score 0) 13
My first thought as well.
Comment Re:the zombie apocalypse (Score 1) 229
Pfft, agent orange and DDT combined in the right way _create_ the zombie apocalypse. Fantasy restored.
Comment Re:We've got one in our town (Score 2) 70
MPU! A facility near where people live to better facilitate delivery of goods. What a brilliant idea. I wonder if they filed a patent yet?
Comment Re:Geofencing (Score 2) 169
You clicked to read the article? I'm not sure you know how to do
Comment Re: Zero sports costs (Score 1) 222
I'm guessing because your cancer person's success average is
Comment Re:I like that fact that it took online classes (Score 1) 222
I came here to say exactly this. Mod up and tie a bow on it. It doesn't hurt that you may have buried a skeleton or two with some of these folks, motivating them to go the extra mile on your behalf and vice versa.
Comment Re:The reason why it's bad in America (Score 1) 542
Going to throw a bit of devil's advocacy in here. Can you also realistically argue that the greater good, by fiat, requires a sizable portion of the population to be unable to earn a living?
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