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Submission + - Microsoft Office 365 Cloud Experiencing Major Outage (office.com)

Submitted by TorinEdge
TorinEdge writes: Microsoft appears to have botched an internal Office365 cloud services rollout today, with outages confirmed up and down the West Coast of North America. Confirmed roll backs were good early omens, but in the end did not appear to be successful. Outage now moving in to its third or fourth hour, 2 hours by confirmation from Microsoft's status page (https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fstatus.office.com%2F) and official Twitter feed (https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2FMSFT365Status). Symptoms may include: All 365-related services flaking out, borking, alternately approving logins and confirming they definitely do not exist.

Comment Why do you need a separate box? (Score 1) 194

Many IP cameras already have a micro SD card slot and can record video to the SD card in addition to streaming it offsite. A quick search on Amazon found one that is IP67 rated and has temperature ratings from -40c to +60c for $86, Dahua IPC-HDBW4431R-ZS. Iâ(TM)ve used Dahua cameras before and their optics and image sensors are great but their network security is lousy. Keep them on an isolated VLAN and donâ(TM)t let them connect outbound to the Internet.

Comment What if Nuclear is more expensive than renewables? (Score 1) 451

by sampson7 (#55555581) Attached to: Germany Is Burning Too Much Coal

What if nuclear costs more to operate than building new renewables? Would you still be averse to shutting down nuclear? That's exactly whats happened in Illinois. Existing nuclear plants are insisting on getting paid $16.50 per megawatt-hour of energy produced (above the market baseline), while new wind and solar (blended) are asking to get paid $4.26 per megawatt-hour of energy produced. Which would you rather spend your money on?

Sure, it will take some time for renewables to put out the sheer amount of energy that nuclear puts out, but that wind will be blowing long after the nuclear plant is a contaminated shell.

Comment Re:If you want to prove that, try "quotes" (Score 1) 471

by sampson7 (#55500341) Attached to: Newspaper Obtains James Damore's Complaint Against Google

Funny, I read your comment and thought, yes, you are right -- I should read the actual memo before commenting.

Having now done so.... Wow. It's really an awful paper. If this is indicative of the quality of his work product, he should have been fired long ago. It's text-book freshman philosophy babble-speak!!! Introductory statement: We all agree stereotyping is bad. Next three paragraphs: let's stereotype! Rinse and repeat.

At some level, the reason the right loses these culture war issues over and over again is because of crap like this. Of course, the Left has its own ways of blowing elections too. Basically, we're now at the point where the side that screws up the least wins.... Pathetic.

Comment Viral Videos = $$$ (Score 1) 326

by sampson7 (#55457731) Attached to: Apple Fires Engineer After His Daughter's iPhone X Video Goes Viral

So how much do you think she made by having a viral video on YouTube? How much more will she make now that they are giving a "second life" to the video by re-linking to it?

That said, I am actually getting increasingly turned off by Apple as a company. The arrogance and the bad customer service is starting to grate on me (and we have eight different Apple devices in my house hold). I think my next purchase will probably be a Samsung. Not saying they will necessarily be any better, but at some point, Apple has run out of second chances.
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NASA Has a Way to Cut Your Flight Time in Half (bloomberg.com) 234

Posted by msmash from the pushing-the-needle-forward dept.
An anonymous reader shares a Bloomberg Businessweek article: For almost a half-century there's been a clear speed limit on most commercial air travel: 660 miles per hour, the rate at which a typical-size plane traveling at 30,000 feet breaks the sound barrier and creates a 30-mile-wide, continuous sonic boom. That may be changing. In August, NASA says, it will begin taking bids for construction of a demo model of a plane able to reduce the sonic boom to something like the hum you'd hear inside a Mercedes-Benz on the interstate. The agency's researchers say their design, a smaller-scale model of which was successfully tested in a wind tunnel at the end of June, should cut the six-hour flight time from New York to Los Angeles in half. NASA proposes spending $390 million over five years to build the demo plane and test it over populated areas. The first year of funding is included in President Trump's 2018 budget proposal. Over the next decade, growth in air transportation and distances flown "will drive the demand for broadly available faster air travel," says Peter Coen, project manager for NASA's commercial supersonic research team. "That's going to make it possible for companies to offer competitive products in the future." NASA plans to share the technology resulting from the tests with U.S. plane makers, meaning a head start for the likes of Lockheed Martin, General Dynamics, Boeing, and startups such as Boom Technology and billionaire Robert Bass's Aerion. [...] NASA is targeting a sound level of 60 to 65 A-weighted decibels (dBa), Coen says. That's about as loud as that luxury car on the highway or the background conversation in a busy restaurant. Iosifidis says that Lockheed's research shows the design can maintain that sound level at commercial size and his team's planned demo will be 94 feet long, have room for one pilot, fly as high as 55,000 feet, and run on one of the twin General Electric engines that power Boeing Co.'s F/A-18 fighter jet.

Comment The flip side -- why they're asked (Score 1) 1001

Having been on both sides, I can tell you why companies ask these questions -- they're looking for basic technical knowledge and competence. All too many times we've seen candidates who can talk a good fight and who can (given lots of time and access to Stack Overflow) write a program that succeeds using copy-paste. However, these are not the people we want to hire. Once we're past the basic knowledge and competence we can look at fit, people skills, etc., but I for one have been burned by new hires who bamboozled a non-technical manager.

Comment Re:Same mistake as Korea (Score 1) 81

by plsuh (#53752095) Attached to: Japanese Government Requires Java and Internet Explorer 11 X86

The extent of the dangers ... of ActiveX were not known at the time of this implementation

ActiveX in the browser has always been an absolutely horrendous idea from a security perspective. Everyone I know of who works in the computer security field thought that ActiveX in the browser was a security hole waiting to be exploited from the start. Choosing ActiveX as a basis for electronic payments was a Really Bad Idea. This was obvious even in 1996.

Comment Same mistake as Korea (Score 5, Insightful) 81

by plsuh (#53749191) Attached to: Japanese Government Requires Java and Internet Explorer 11 X86

South Korea mandated the use of an ActiveX control for online payments in the 1990s, which has locked companies and banks there into a deprecated and dangerous technology. Only in the last couple of years has the government there started the process of getting rid of the damn POS system.

Someone please tell the Japanese government that what they are doing is a REALLY bad idea.

Comment Bad data, poor credibility (Score 3, Informative) 330

by plsuh (#53143133) Attached to: No One Is Buying Smartwatches Anymore

Folks, all of this is from numbers pulled out of some IDC analyst's rear end. Their estimates are no better than SWAG's. I should know, I've had to use their reports in a past life. Sometimes they're accurate, as companies will report otherwise confidential numbers so long as they can't be backed out of the reports. However, Apple doesn't play those games and in this case it's explicitly some analyst's best guess. Most analysts badly misunderstand Apple, and when you misunderstand the biggest player in the market your analysis is almost certain to be wrong.

Also, Garmin's growth was from a very low base. It's easy to grow by 300+% if you start from almost zero.

Comment We need statutory penalties (Score 1) 184

by sampson7 (#52953901) Attached to: Sad Reality: It's Cheaper To Get Hacked Than Build Strong IT Defenses

The big problem is that data loss is an externality that it is not being priced by the market. So let's have government put a price on it. Pick a number. Five dollars? Ten dollars? Fifty cents? For every person's personal information the company loses, they pay a fine of the mandated amount. Make it treble for social security numbers. Problem solved. Yahoo pays out a cool $250 million, even at 50 cents a pop.

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