Posted on 05/11/2021 5:46:06 AM PDT by Presbyterian Reporter
This is crazy. I stopped for gas just now having no idea what was happening. It’s out. People here told me they’d been to other stations and found the same. pic.twitter.com/7LDVdUXPo4
The smug emanating from EV drivers is going to become thick and nauseous.
Islamic terror is sooooo 6th century. The new terrorists depend on lax cybersecurity measures and poor backup policies. The new terrorists can depend on the laziness of people to cause mayhem.
"Cloud" is just another name for "running on someone else's computer."
Back in the day when I started, it was called time sharing in the old IBM 360/370 Mainframe environments. We wrote our software on leased space in someone else's Mainframe and ran it there when we needed it. It was relatively simple, self contained and easy to manage.
Today it's a hodgepodge of services that get wired together on AWS or Azure, Infrastructure as Code, writing Cloud Native apps and services and not a whole lot of visibility into how it all really works beyond that. And security? I as a customer am responsible for understanding how to protect my apps, services and data in the Cloud. If I get breached, it's my fault if my Security Services that I'm also responsible to deploy, configure, manage and monitor actively aren't setup properly.
Nothing is simple anymore.
Welcome to the communist world of the demon-frantic government. It has only just begun.
“””I produce and sell crude oil, the most I can get on a truck is 185 barrels. Not sure about refined products, they’ll have different weights.”””
A typical tanker truck will hold 8.500 gallons of gasoline.
You are correct the API gravity of crude oil is not the same as gasoline.
Some very light crude oils have an API gravity similar to diesel.
Until they get tagged with new road use taxes because none of the gas cars are driving around. Then not so much. Also not so much when they find out what happens to the unmodified power grids when more battery electric vehicles are trying to charge from it in the middle of the summer with building AC going at max.
Don't leave out Clowns In America, the CIA. Can't spell 'CHINA' without 'CIA'.
Yes...I’ve thought putting things in the cloud just makes vulnerability higher.
10% for the Big Guy
It takes a worry wart to keep systems ready for failure. Hardly anyone is capable of maintaining a sense of urgency and diligence about this kind of thing.
The rank and file just assume the systems will always work and become not the least bit prepared for failure. The perfectly obvious but probably stupid question that comes to mind is, isn’t there a way for manual over ride? Probably have not trained to do this in eons and are afraid of what might happen if they do try it.
Nobody wants to pay for preparation and nobody wants to hear about it. Failure is just too far down the priority list for most managers. The people who do care about this kind of thing are just trouble makers in management’s eyes.
The only thing I have seen that gets management’s attention is the fear they may make the headlines and even that one gets stale and loses its impact. Very few understand and subscribe to risk management in the sense that somebody must be 100% prepared for the remote possibility of a failure. That somebody must be the right guy and appreciated at a very high level because nobody else will. Probability may be small but consequence can be catastrophic. Ask AIG about low probability company crushing events, AIG should have been destroyed for their CDS type play but instead were bailed out as too big to fail.
Being the guy who is responsible for emergency response is a thankless job that takes a champion and champions get tire and tired of being taken for granted.
Air-gapped means there is no physical connection, in this case, to the internet. If I have a wifi or LAN connected laptop at home, and the wifi is connected to a router/modem that goes to DSL or some other internet provider, it has a physical connection. If I have a stand alone computer or even a local network of computers connected by cable, wifi, or blue tooth, but it is not connected to an internet provider, it can be referred to as air-gapped. To get a file to or from the stand alone system to the internet (i.e. to send/receive an email) the only way to do that would be to put the file on a disk or memory stick and physically carry it to the other system. This is how you protect sensitive systems from hacking.
Sooo, Boomers? :P
From Wikipedia: An air gap, air wall, air gapping or disconnected network is a network security measure employed on one or more computers to ensure that a secure computer network is physically isolated from unsecured networks, such as the public Internet or an unsecured local area network.
To say that nothing is "air gapped" means that everything is somehow connected to the Internet. Whether through a physical cable, satellite dish, WiFi or some other method a connection to the Internet exists.
See Magnum44’s comment above. His is a much better explanation.
And your surprised, this has been a time bomb waiting to go off for years and the government and private corporations did nothing to be prepared so that their systems would not get hacked. What did they do, well they went to the Cloud which is even worse. And what are they doing about it, sitting on their thumbs.
So we got what we deserve because of gross stupidity.
Thank you.
“””Nothing is simple anymore.”””
Such true words.
I spent my working career in the oil industry and in the good old days we had large staffs that would send fax orders to the refinery to pump a certain number of barrels of a product to the pipeline.
And those fax orders would also entail many telephone calls between the refinery, the pipeline, and the receiving terminals.
I have been retired for more than 25 years and I suspect all of those written orders and telephone calls have been replaced with a computer screen.
All of the computer enhancements we have witnessed over the past 25 years are fabulous until some bad dudes attack it.
Thank you.
Good one! Touche!
I've seen that other one occasionally with a mexican hat, and sporting a mustache.
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