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Comment Re:Good for O'Reilly, but... (Score 2) 33

I definitely saw it at a very large financial institution where I once worked seven years ago. About a year before I left, they created a whole new department around security and got tons of leverage across multiple levels and departments. Security-related upgrades trumped regular changes. And any discovered vulnerabilities were given high priority for devs to drop whatever they're doing to fix. In forming their group, they recruited people from different teams throughout the IT field, including devs, build engineering, devops, networking, and systems engineers, so that the department had a good handle on institutional knowledge throughout the company.

Comment Re:Only $1k?! (Score 2) 44

If you work for Google, you're already getting decent hardware to work from home with.

Per the article (second paragraph):
"For people who want to continue working from home, Pichai said the company will allow employees to expense up to $1,000 for equipment and furniture, such as standing desks and ergonomic chairs. "

Incidentally, my company (not Google) gave all employees 1K in March to help pay for any WFH-related expenses. Now that it's looking like we'll be WFH for at least till 2021, we're being allowed to expense upgrades on office equipment. So, I got myself a decent standing desk.

Comment Not AT&T's first rodeo (Score 1) 54

by broohaha (#57928202) Attached to: Verizon Says It Won't Launch Fake 5G Icons Like AT&T Did

They did this with 4G. Here's a quote from an article from 2012:

The emptiness of 4G was highlighted last week, when people who installed the latest iPhone 4S operating system upgrade noticed something that seemed too good to be true: The network indicator on their phones began displaying “4G” rather than “3G.” This change occurred only for people who use AT&T’s cellular service; Verizon iPhone users who installed the upgrade still saw the 3G indicator. Some people took the change to mean that their phones had gotten faster wireless Internet access, but that wasn’t true—the OS upgrade did nothing to change how your phone communicates with cell towers. All that changed was AT&T’s marketing. Early last year, essentially overnight, AT&T began rebranding its 3G network as a 4G network. So now that tired old 3G phone is fresh again—lucky you, you’ve got 4G!
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Video When Your Data Absolutely, Positively has to be Destroyed (Video) 295

Posted by Roblimo from the it's-all-about-the-magnetism dept.
Here's a corporate motto for you: "Destroying data since 1959." Timothy ran into a company called Garner Products (which doesn't use that motto as far as we know), at a security conference. While most exhibitors were busily preserving or encrypting data one way or another, Garner was not only destroying data but delighting in it. And yes, they've really been doing this since 1959; they started out degaussing broadcast cartridges so broadcasters could re-use them without worrying about old cue tones creeping into new recordings. Now, you might ask, "Instead of spending $9,000 or more to render hard drives useless, couldn't you just use a $24 sledge hammer? And have the fun of destroying something physical as a free bonus?" Yes, you could. You'd get healthy exercise as well, and if you only wanted to destroy the data on the hard drives, so what? New drives are cheap these days. But some government agencies and financial institutions require degaussing before the physical destruction (and Garner has machines that do physical destruction, too -- which is how they deal with SSDs). Garner Products President Ron Stofan says in the interview that their destruction process is more certain than shooting a hard drive with a .45. But neither he nor Tim demonstrated a shooting vs. degaussing test for us, so we remain skeptical.
The Almighty Buck

The Man Who Sold Shares of Himself 215

Posted by Unknown Lamer from the social-experiments-gone-awry dept.
RougeFemme writes "This is a fascinating story about a man who sold shares in himself, primarily to fund his start-up ideas. He ran into the same issues that companies run into when taking on corporate funding — except that in his case, the decisions made by his shareholders bled over into his personal life. This incuded his relationship with his now ex-girlfriend, who became a shareholder activist over the issue of whether or not he should have a vasectomy. The experiment continues." The perils of selling yourself to your friends.

Comment I telecommute 4 out of 5 days a week. (Score 1) 455

by broohaha (#42999913) Attached to: Why Working Remotely Needs To Make a Comeback

It's a decent arrangement, but there are pluses and minuses. You get regular interruptions from your 1-year-old, but at the same time you get to see your 1-year-old so frequently -- and she gets to see you!

I do miss lunches with co-workers, though. On the day I go onsite, I'm usually too busy, packing in a week's worth of face-to-face meetings into one day.

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