MerryJaneDoe

I think you would need to first make the case that software is making the world a better place. So far, it’s got a spotty record…

Personally, I prescribe to Carlin’s philosophy. The problem will take care of itself.

https://youtu.be/UTPlKwkryEk?t=461

Deadpan sarcasm doesn’t translate well from a verbal medium to a written medium.

Unless you’re in an echo chamber…

This movie made me vaguely uncomfortable when I first saw it. In a good way.

The acting is so spot on, reminded me a bit of American Psycho. A movie about a human being who’s wired so differently than most people, yet seems totally normal on the surface.

I get what you’re saying, but reading these examples has me shaking my head in frustration.

The administrator doesn’t work in the office. They work in a different office, or from home.

Meetings between two higher-ups can’t be cancelled because 1. The employee wouldn’t even know that a meeting was scheduled and 2. The meeting is scheduled via Outlook and the only way to cancel it would be to have access to your boss’s computer while it’s unlocked.

But supposing you could do these things, and you caused a 2% loss in efficiency by gunking up the keyboard and canceling the meeting.

Great, they lost 2% for the day. It’s 2% loss of efficiency for people who only work at a 75% efficiency to begin with. They get another keyboard and reschedule the meeting. Tomorrow, you have to start all over again. It won’t be long before you’re found out.

The system is built with these things in mind. The number one security concern in any company is the employees. This is not a new thing and corporations are very good at creating systems of accountability.

You can watch some videos on YouTube, if you really want to learn. It’s interesting, sometimes in a full-dystopian nightmare fuel kind of way. Yes, we are at the point where some of these robots can climb and jump.

It’s a gimmick, though, for sure. Just like human-mimicking androids are a gimmick. The money for robotics is in manufacturing.

But I’ll bet there will always be an obscenely wealthy person who is willing to pay for a cool looking robot prototype.

…get busy asap and fuck it up from the inside…

Easier said than done. Security and risk mitigation is one of the first (if not the very first) concern of any IT company in this day and age.

I’ve been a system engineer. Digital assets are locked down, meaning that I couldn’t access anything outside of my scope (which was small and midsize banking websites). Physical assets (servers) sat in three remote locations, highly secure and staffed by a different team. Everything is backed up 5 different ways in 5 different places. Every keystroke is logged. Every door uses a passcard.

It’s built to be a trustless system of sorts, where no single person holds the keys to anything too important. Regular audits and individual accountability for every outage are the norm. About the only way to fuck it up would be to somehow incite a mass exodus of seasoned engineers.

I think what people often miss about these systems (not just IT, but all of our systems from finance to healthcare) is that they are supported by very intelligent, motivated individuals. These people are fighting hard to make sure that nobody can fuck up their work. They aren’t sitting ducks - they are nigh impenetrable sentries.

I think he’s just trying to further normalize the outsourcing/underpaying/devaluing of programmers.

Love that movie!

My mom hated the “boob tube”, and restricted our viewing heavily. But, on the other hand, she had excellent taste when it came to family films. Gods Must Be Crazy was another one she picked that we all loved. (Not that the two are at all similar!)

Big Trouble in Little China.

I don’t even know how or why we owned this movie. I was in high school and working 30 hours a week on top of that, so I was a bit out of the loop regarding current household events. I came home one night, and there it was. I popped it into the VCR and was gobsmacked. Such a fun film, I still watch it occasionally.

Saturn 3.

This was one of the first movies my dad brought home after he bought his first VCR. Such a cheesy film as an adult, but terrifying to a 10 year old child. Also, I fell in love with Farah Fawcett that night.

Grades are meaningless to some people. They matter greatly to other people.

Video games are meaningless to some people. They matter greatly to other people.

The difference is that I didn’t get a scholarship and an education due to my ability to play video games. It was my grades that paid my tuition.

Poorly executed military action is 100% an American institution. We expect it - from the Bay of Pigs to “Mission Accomplished” in Iraq to the twenty year campaign in Afghanistan, our executive branch has a habit of making itself look incompetent.

But guess what? Nobody’s asking about Epstein, so VICTORY!

Shilling much lately?

It could be.

But I don’t see any other PC/laptop reviews by this author. He writes mostly about cybersecurity. And his Neo articles seem a bit…biased. Compare to his other articles, which are well-researched. Example:

https://www.csoonline.com/article/563017/wannacry-explained-a-perfect-ransomware-storm.html

My guess is either someone is posting articles in his name, or he’s taking a free Neo in return for a positive review.

I’m suspicious.

I’m seeing social media FLOODED with Neo content. Definitely not organic.