@scottalanmiller said in Coca-Cola to Launch First Alcoholic Product Ever:

@jaredbusch said in Coca-Cola to Launch First Alcoholic Product Ever:

@scottalanmiller I thought CocaCola sold that back off.

They might have, but they were trying to claim that this was their first one ever, and it was a pretty major operation a few decades ago.

Just read the article. This is CocaCola not a subsidiary, so this is technically true. CocaCola owned the winery stuff separately, not as CocaCola

Westinghouse

LOL That company just needs to turn off all of it's servers, sell off everything and divy up the money to the shareholders!

Chinese electronics firm Hangzhou Xiongmai is set to recall swathes of webcams after they were compromised by the Mirai botnet.
 
Mirai exploits the low security standards of internet-connected devices, from routers to webcams, and after enslaving them with malware uses their network connections to launch DDoS attacks, such as that hobbling Dyn's DNS services last week.

Sauce of regret: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/10/24/chinese_firm_recalls_webcams_over_mirai_botnet_infection_ddos_woes/

@Dashrender said in Is a Mid Career Sabbatical a Good Idea:

@scottalanmiller said in Is a Mid Career Sabbatical a Good Idea:

And how many tiny companies with only one staffer do "projects" at all? And how many of them? I know a lot of SMBs and year or longer delays because of management alone is not uncommon.

But again... how long would these delays be if you quit?

I agree the projects, that I tossed on the pile aren't that many/big, but they wouldn't be zero over the life of the tech, sure may be years between.

But even the day to day stuff, can't print, can't get on the network, my mouse is dead, etc.

Most companies with a single IT person will have a MSP as their backup, which is our case.

Right.. and doesn't all that sound like a year off once or twice a decade wouldn't have much of any impact? Especially when you consider that you'd be fresh and ready to go when you return? And maybe they'd be ready to make decisions faster?

The rubber banding effect might seriously absorb the whole thing!

@gjacobse said:

I wonder if Keezel would bypass this?

Basically a hardware device doing what Hola does.

The original BBC Micro was released in 1981. The BBC has been making computers for a very long time.

BBC Micro

@coliver said:

@IRJ said:

Seems appropriate
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Honestly for being on the spot like that I think he did an alright job. Although his accent really got in the way of being understandable.

I'm not sure how I would have reacted sitting in his spot.

I would have just straight up told them while on air.