Posted on 06/08/2012 9:46:07 AM PDT by SomeCallMeTim
Absolutely, and agree on the call signs!
No doubt about it.
Same here... Back then, I actually was working in the process control field in a chemical plant. I was the Y2K Project Coodinator. We worked dilegently for more than a year, spent more than $1MM upgrading systems, and re-writing code to avoid problems that WERE REAL.... before we fixed them.
I spent that entire night and day watching the time zones change... and, we PARTIED heartily, the next day. :-)
Read a book, take a walk, communicate with your family. Not a big deal.
Have you ever lived in a hurricane region, where power is out for an extended time? It sucks..
You're right... we didn't all die. But then, we had plenty of food and water being sent in from other areas. What if there ARE no other areas? People today cannot grow their own food. With just-in-time shipping everywhere, food would become scarce very quickly.
I'm not losing any sleep over this.... but, I AM working on a plan. Hopefully, it never happens in my lifetime. But, it COULD also happen this afternoon.
I agree with you. But I speak to the hopelessness and overall gloom Kapersky puts forward. If anything, we should be looking up as our redemption draws near. Even cyber terrorism is under the authority of Christ. He is our hope, not any government.
Blessings to your house.
A good article, thank you for posting it.
I left the biz several years ago, but what I saw then is really nothing to what is able to be done now via the net. I remember well a demonstration where a remotely monitored oil pipeline pump was sabotaged via a relatively minor change to the code. The result was quite amazing though. Big Boom, real big.
I'm no computer expert... my friend is. He knew Steve Jobs... worked for Steve Case. But, he was a guy that actually DID coding and built things..
If he says the threat is real, I believe it. Nothwithstanding, Laz's personal guarantee! ;-)
LOL... a whole new way to look at the world! Awesome advice.
Maceman - at age fifty you still haven’t figured out what pisses off the women in your life?? LOL
It's not about what pisses them off -- that's different for every woman. It's about how they handle being pissed off. For example, imagine you're dating Ann Coulter or Laura Ingraham (or Heaven forfend, Michelle Obama). How much fun do you think it would be to have either one of THEM pissed off at you?
I prefer women who are soft spoken and reasonable, who don't scream or project all their past abuse trauma on me.
My current girlfriend, who I met two years ago, is very good at rationally expressing when she has a problem with something I've done. We've somehow managed to work out whatever issues have arisen with no drama, no arguments, no yelling, no emotional manipulation and no sublimated sulking. It's one of the many reasons I know I will love her forever.
That was the FIRST thing I was expecting to fail in a SHTF scenario- and I am a computer systems engineer for a living, I know a litle about these things- <> I am woried about is how to store enough gas (safely) to run my generator at least a couple of hours per day (to keep the freezer running, etc
I agree with him 100% on that) for at least a year
born and raised in New Orleans.
Like Stuxnet, Flame attacks Windows operating systems. Considering this reality, Kaspersky was emphatic: "Software that manages industrial systems or transportation or power grids or air traffic must be based on secure operating systems. Forget about Microsoft, Linux or Unix."
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