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Email provider VFEmail said it has suffered a catastrophic destruction of all of its servers by an unknown assailant who wiped out almost two decades' worth of data and backups in a matter of hours. Something something something backups
Yeah, they got the backup server, but I could have sworn "multiple backups, including off-site" *might* have been pretty likely for this business scenario?
Which brings a question - "Hey @chris-maunder, how are your backups tonight?"
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If you rely on GPS then make a note of 6 April 2019 in your calendar because it's the date that the GPS Week Rollover occurs, and it could cause some GPS receivers to malfunction. "So tonight I'm gonna party like it's 1999"
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I hear that all police leave has been cancelled, and that entire police forces will be out on the streets -- for people to ask them for directions.
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Why even count weeks? Why not count the day of the year or something like that? Weeks seem to be a very arbitrary unit of measure that don't even fit evenly into a year, leap or not.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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Probably to expedite communication (satellites are and especially were farking slow) and computation, since positioning data won't change much daily but will have an effect weekly. In fact my old GPS had a QuickGPSFix release each week.
GCS d--(d+) s-/++ a C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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All units of measurement are arbitrary (I've done mind-boggling presentations on this), so it doesn't really matter which one you choose.
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stackify said: Customers love Amazon Web Services (AWS). There is no doubt about that. The segment earned a profit of more than $3 billion on revenues of more than $12 billion for the full year of 2016.
Revenues are a poor indicator of customer satisfaction, in tech services, especially "new" tech, like cloud services.
Their revenues are going up for three reasons:
0. More companies are being conned into using cloud services
1. Their psychopathic boss was hailed as being the world's richest man, and lots of the people who impose choices on IT matters aspire to that
2. Related to 2: the choice of external IT services and products is rarely made by the people who have to maintain and use the services/products, especially in larger companies -- and aws has shinier ads, to attract the non-technically-minded
If you think that revenues mean customer satisfaction, think oracle. That will put paid to such silly notions.
One thing that the article misses is amazon's recent decision to build its own database solution, based on an old version of the open-source database they used previously.
I would suggest that security problems are more likely to arise from using an older version, which has not had a few years' worth of updates.
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Love the zero-indexed list! C coders of the world unite and take over!
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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PeejayAdams wrote: and take cover
FTFY 
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge". Stephen Hawking, 1942- 2018
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PeejayAdams wrote: Love the zero-indexed list!
That's pretty much become the rule, in CP, unless you use the ol and li tags.
I picked up on it because @JSOP always used zero-based, and it felt like the right thing to do*.
* And because I can't type and dodge bullets at the same time
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In my limited experience (home use) Azure is far easier to use, as in I could actually do something! With AWS I failed miserably.
Kevin
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None the less, revenue is a better tool for comparison than the garbage fire of an article.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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I can't argue with that.
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The reality is that it's more about perception than, um, reality. And my perception is that AWS is far superior. One of the primary reasons for that perception is that AWS offered a one year free tier which perfectly suited my needs. At the time (and I think this is still true) Microsoft didn't/doesn't. Initially, Azure seemed like a "me too!!!!" knee-jerk reaction to AWS's success. I don't like "me too!!!!" companies.
Conversely (another thing that post didn't mention) is documentation. In my experience, the documentation for AWS truly sucks. Finding an answer ends up being a circular maze of page after page where nothing actually answers my question. I found this to be particularly true when trying to figure out why I was still being charged for a closed account (turned out I had another open account that I'd forgotten about.) But the same goes for technical questions -- I often find pages that are obsolete and nobody has removed.
And what about customer service? When I contacted Amazon, I never got the issue resolved because the account in question, which they could see, couldn't be cancelled because it required "verification" from me. Which meant that at a minimum, they had to verify the callback number I had listed on the account. The problem is, I'd moved, gotten a new home number, and obviously had never updated my account information. So while they could see it, there was no way I could convince them that I was I because the callback number didn't work.
So, back to perception. My perception now is that AWS, holistically, pretty much sucks and my perception of cloud computing in general has soured. Which is why I cancelled all my accounts and host my web sites at home, myself. In the end, that's cheaper and just as fast. I'm not concerned about the very rare downtime due to power outages (the server is a laptop, the router and cable boxes are on battery backup) and if the site goes down for a couple hours, nobody is going to care.
Obviously, if I were a company where I needed the services that cloud computing offered, that would be a different story, and again perception kicks in -- I would still go with AWS.
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Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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As AI becomes more common, companies’ exposure to algorithmic blowback increases They've already demonstrated how natural intelligence harms their business
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It's just the first step in making an AI the scapegoat for applying effluent to their ms office user interface.
It will be quite believable, because it's patently obvious that no real intelligence was involved in the design.
Mind you, if it's not the truth, I dread to think AIs will learn from it.Clippy AI said: new.user.interface.does.not.meet.current.standards...must.apply.effluent
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That's exactly what will happen. AI will be blamed in an effort to absolve themselves from any culpability. Hopefully people will be smart enough to realize who it was that deployed the AI and remember that no one forced them to.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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Percentage of memory safety issues has been hovering at 70 percent for the past 12 years. This explains why I can only remember stuff about 30% of the time
Yes, from the same presentation I linked to with another news item yesterday, but different focus.
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ms said: The reason for this high percentage is because Windows has been written mostly in C and C++, two "memory-unsafe" programming languages that allow developers fine-grained control of the memory addresses where their code can be executed by programmers who don't know what they're doing.
Like it is, tell it you must.
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The hammer can do nothing against it, if you are to dumb to use it right and you hit your finger.
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Percentage of memory safety issues has been hovering at 70 percent for the past 12 years.
And ditto for comparable software such as web browsers. Look at their release notes.
Kevin
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The planned unplugging is part of a cyber war-gaming exercise to make sure Russia can still operate even if it is disconnected from outside its borders. "Have you tried turning it off and on again?"
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I'd settle for just disconnecting twitter from Delaware County.
(My former uncle Bob lives there, and she's a pain)
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I'm not sure how we'll cope without our regular bombardment of pro-Brexit propaganda.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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