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Wasn't that also someone's advertising thing? At least I remember some old commercial bragging about "only the finest nougat de Montelimar"
TTFN - Kent
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Quote: Techeye Millions of Microsoft Office 365 users were exposed to a massive zero-day Cerber ransomware attack last week... Link[^]
Thar' be pirates in them thar' clouds!
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The fact it took M$ 24 HOURS to respond doesn't help their public image much.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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Yeah, it's called Office365. They own the only crapware used to access your documents and you have to pay a fee to access them. Wait until they will force users to save them in the cloud, so that if you don't pay you won't have ANY access whatsoever to your documents...
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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den2k88 wrote: They own the only crapware used to access your documents
If you don't feel like paying, LibreOffice[^] supports reading and saving MS Office file formats. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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I know I know, it's quite low quality IMHO, at least compared to Office 2010. I never used newer version than 2010 so I don't know if they are crappy too, in the purest MS tradition of making a good version out of 2 or 3.
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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It is no news that Office 365 is a ransonware. 
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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In a bad week for Britain in the news, the UK can at least take solace in its average mobile connection speeds, which — according to a new report from content delivery network Akamai — are the best in the world. "Low rider drives a little slower"
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Actually, I don't care about speed on mobile networks anymore. For me HSDPA is more than enough - although I think LTE is cool, but not for the speed. What I am more concerned about is the small data plans. It's cool to have 150Mbps mobile connection, but it's useless, when you can burn all of available data in minutes.
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Unhappy humans are unhappy workers, and unhappy workers are less productive. Yes, this angle of technical debt is seldom discussed, in my experience. You code 16 KLoC and what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt.
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Sadly, a lot of people are unhappy because they're trying to work in a field that is above their intellectual capability. We need to de-technify farming.
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Technical debt needs to be renamed to Manager Debt or PMP Debt, because it is they who are the cause of the situation and should be held accountable, not the developer(s).
On the bright side, these wonderful legacy systems keep many of us unhappily employed. I kind of think about it like a car that needs a 24X7 mechanic for the life of the car.
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jgakenhe wrote: Technical debt needs to be renamed to Manager Debt or PMP Debt, because it is they who are the cause of the situation and should be held accountable, not the developer(s).
What about bad developers?
I've met many developers who couldn't write a stable system even if they had crystal clear specs and all the time and budget in the world.
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Sander Rossel wrote: I've met many developers who couldn't write a stable system
Were they cow-orkers?
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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Yes, I've met them and ended up inheriting their systems. I feel the pain.
I feel it is management's responsibility to put the right people and skills on a project. If someone doesn't have skills that can match up to any projects, then that developer should not be in the organization; employee or consultant. There's a saying in America from the movie Caddyshack, "the world needs ditch diggers too." I also believe it is management's responsibility to put employees on a career path; a career path the coincides with organizational needs and meshs with the individual's aptitudes.
If the right people aren't available, then the project should be put on hold because bad systems are very expensive to maintain and support.
modified 30-Jun-16 11:30am.
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Management can't really judge if a developer does his job right until it's too late...
You can't expect management to check every developers code (or even understand code), so how can they judge?
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Yes, Mgmt should stay out of code, but there should be architects and leads that assist in this area from interviewing, putting the team together, assigning tasks, and code reviews. If the leads or architects are weak, then the organization will end up with technical debt. PMs are trained to recognize when milestones or client expectations are not met and they need to do something early if there is smoke. At this point the PMs need to step back and decide on a contingency, instead of hiding faults and pushing forward with milestones to make projects and themselves look good. This is where they need to be accountable.
Just my opinion from my experiences. Cheers!
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NewSQL and NoSQL have similarities and differences. The “right” database choice is all about the use case, as always. Depending on what your company is trying to accomplish, you likely have a mix of SQL and NoSQL solutions. SELECT NEXT VALUE FOR fads
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SQL Server + AI (in query optimisation and invisible sharding) wins... by far.
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If the cigar-lighter does not work, then change the car.
You always obtain more by being rather polite and armed than polite only.
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This web page disable the scrollbar!
And they still hope I read whatever drivel they want to share?! 
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Same here - a truly awful clusterf*ck of style over substance.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Dangerous keyboard app has more than 50 million downloads | CIO[^]
I checked this out in play.google.com and the app is still there.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.dotc.ime.latin.flash[^]
Here's the list of rights the app wants:
Version 1.0.54 can access:
Device & app history
read sensitive log data
retrieve running apps
Identity
read your own contact card
find accounts on the device
Contacts
find accounts on the device
read your contacts
Location
precise location (GPS and network-based)
approximate location (network-based)
SMS
read your text messages (SMS or MMS)
Phone
read phone status and identity
reroute outgoing calls
Photos/Media/Files
modify or delete the contents of your USB storage
read the contents of your USB storage
Storage
modify or delete the contents of your USB storage
read the contents of your USB storage
Camera
take pictures and videos
Wi-Fi connection information
view Wi-Fi connections
Device ID & call information
read phone status and identity
Other
force stop other apps
download files without notification <<-- Oh, that seems safe!!!
run at startup
write Home settings and shortcuts
update component usage statistics
read Home settings and shortcuts
read Home settings and shortcuts
write Home settings and shortcuts
control vibration
install shortcuts
run at startup
disable your screen lock
draw over other apps
add words to user-defined dictionary
send sticky broadcast
connect and disconnect from Wi-Fi
change network connectivity
view network connections
close other apps
read terms you added to the dictionary
modify system settings
full network access
Google Play license check
uninstall shortcuts
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seriously, who download a keyboard ?!?
I'd rather be phishing!
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