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the point is, there is no backup for 15 days. These guys could be sued for million in US or other country.

DiabloD3 5y ago
No they couldn't. This goes on all the time, silently, at K-12 schools in the US in poorer areas, nobody cares, nobody does anything. You think Taiwan is any different than us? They're ahead of us, and if they're fucking this up, we're doing it ten-fold. The irony is, we spend billions on a contract for the government cloud (the one that Trump famously tried to yoink from Microsoft (who won the bid fair and square) and give to his buddies at Amazon), yet we don't mandate education use at as well, only for the military.
- dragonwriter 5y ago
  > the one that Trump famously tried to yoink from Microsoft (who won the bid fair and square) and give to his buddies at Amazon) Er, Trump didn't try that, and Trump hates Amazon (or, more specifically, Jeff Bezos), and the executive branch under Trump awarded it to Microsoft, fought against Amazon’s lawsuit, did a reevaluation in order to moot claims in Amazon’s lawsuit and force them back to square one and reaffirmed the award to Microsoft.
- momofarm 5y ago
  well, (at least) he creates jobs.......but I'd rather he pay teacher for higher salary
- LurkingPenguin 5y ago
  > You think Taiwan is any different than us? They're ahead of us, and if they're fucking this up, we're doing it ten-fold. Well, I'm a resident of Taiwan and while I think there are many wonderful things about the country, IT is not one of them and not sure how you came to the conclusion that Taiwan is "ahead of us" (assuming you're American or European). Everything related to tech here feels like it's from the late 1990s. Web applications here generally have horrible UIs and are buggy, sometimes to the point of being basically unusable. It's not just the front end either. See: all of the problems caused by a change to the ARC (alien resident certificate) ID numbers. https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/4293836 https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/4293836 This change was itself caused by problems created by the existing/old system.
  - momofarm 5y ago
    quick explain to non-Taiwan guy: ARC (alien resident certificate) ID numbers is like social IDs(SSN). It (was) a separate system to our local resident one, until then.

No they couldn't. This goes on all the time, silently, at K-12 schools in the US in poorer areas, nobody cares, nobody does anything. You think Taiwan is any different than us? They're ahead of us, and if they're fucking this up, we're doing it ten-fold. The irony is, we spend billions on a contract for the government cloud (the one that Trump famously tried to yoink from Microsoft (who won the bid fair and square) and give to his buddies at Amazon), yet we don't mandate education use at as well, only for the military.

dragonwriter 5y ago
> the one that Trump famously tried to yoink from Microsoft (who won the bid fair and square) and give to his buddies at Amazon) Er, Trump didn't try that, and Trump hates Amazon (or, more specifically, Jeff Bezos), and the executive branch under Trump awarded it to Microsoft, fought against Amazon’s lawsuit, did a reevaluation in order to moot claims in Amazon’s lawsuit and force them back to square one and reaffirmed the award to Microsoft.
momofarm 5y ago
well, (at least) he creates jobs.......but I'd rather he pay teacher for higher salary
LurkingPenguin 5y ago
> You think Taiwan is any different than us? They're ahead of us, and if they're fucking this up, we're doing it ten-fold. Well, I'm a resident of Taiwan and while I think there are many wonderful things about the country, IT is not one of them and not sure how you came to the conclusion that Taiwan is "ahead of us" (assuming you're American or European). Everything related to tech here feels like it's from the late 1990s. Web applications here generally have horrible UIs and are buggy, sometimes to the point of being basically unusable. It's not just the front end either. See: all of the problems caused by a change to the ARC (alien resident certificate) ID numbers. https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/4293836 https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/4293836 This change was itself caused by problems created by the existing/old system.
- momofarm 5y ago
  quick explain to non-Taiwan guy: ARC (alien resident certificate) ID numbers is like social IDs(SSN). It (was) a separate system to our local resident one, until then.