tatersolid

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1021.
by tatersolid 9y ago
Coming from the banking industry, nobody looks at using unproven languages or frameworks unsupported by a large community or major vendor. If you "guess wrong" on a language you're looking at a multi-million dollar rewrite do
1022.
by tatersolid 9y ago
My Citibank card has the same feature, although the number generation applet requires Flash. On a banking website. In mid-2017.
1023.
by tatersolid 9y ago
The same is true in the USA, the district attorney can and often does prosecute crimes on behalf of the state without any victim "pressing charges".
1024.
by tatersolid 9y ago
That's really expensive when your previous backup is on cloud storage
1025.
by tatersolid 9y ago
Try out an iPhone for real world use. I did the opposite. Android is extraordinarily slow ("feels unresponsive") even on high end hardware compared with a comparable iPhone. I had to use a Galaxy S8 for a spell at work and every n
1026.
by tatersolid 9y ago
Doctor callbacks are an issue. Their phone systems seem to be quite the hodge-lodge due to all the "hospital system" consolidation in the USA since 2010. My doctors never call from the same number twice.
1027.
by tatersolid 9y ago
Not "private" as in "dedicated to voice traffic". Almost all modern telcos route their PSTN as packets on the same MPLS/IP or pure-IP network as internet traffic. This network is usually "privately owned"
1028.
by tatersolid 9y ago
I once wrote a server "clean up" script moved all .log files older than a few hours to an archive. Someone else added it to a group policy for all corporate servers, including all our Exchange servers, where the active database t
1029.
by tatersolid 9y ago
I have to point out that the very name "C++" is a security vulnerability in said language. I learned to program in C, during the dawn of the Internet. Yes, the "I can do anything on the machine" power was fun. But when c
1030.
by tatersolid 9y ago
>"the safety aspects of rust have never been problems for me." You are very likely wrong in this statement, and the fact that you don't even know how much insecure code you've shipped is exactly the problem with C&#x2
1031.
by tatersolid 9y ago
You've just described SQRL
1032.
by tatersolid 9y ago
You and I apparently don't attend the same sort of concerts.
1033.
by tatersolid 9y ago
Notepad++
1034.
by tatersolid 9y ago
Your LAN is protected Only if you know that no workstation which connects via VPN, WiFi, or cable can ever be compromised elsewhere and then connect. Which is clearly not possible unless your workstations are air-gapped and immobile, with n
1035.
by tatersolid 9y ago
I ate there today at lunch. I pulled out my phone to do Apple Pay at the register and... nope not supported either. In the Chicago HQ of Americas #2 retail bank! The US banks have been talking about "smart cards" and updating paym
1036.
by tatersolid 9y ago
And to preempt a rejoinder, a market economy has proven invariably better than the alternative. Remember, the Soviet Union collapsed because nobody wanted to wear Bulgarian shoes.
1037.
by tatersolid 10y ago
This is called an escrow company. They've been around for about 500 years. They're not cheap.
1038.
by tatersolid 10y ago
My corp can't use Azure. We really want to, we're mostly a MSFT shop that runs a largish SaaS application. But Microsoft automatically linked the organizational Azure account for our corporate internet domain to the personal accou
1039.
by tatersolid 10y ago
Don't forget the billion-plus machines out there running Windows Time Service (which strangely has had zero security issues I can remember, even when running in server mode).