|
Remember when ipods were not just Mac only, but firewire only too? Lmbo
|
#
?
Nov 16, 2015 04:04
|
|
|
|
| # ? May 10, 2024 05:20 |
|
|
i have one of the very first ones. 5gb, firewire only, mechanical rotating wheel with opto-encoder slots underneath like an old school mouse. all it could do was play mp3s and also breakout if you held some buttons down on the about screen it was cash
|
|
#
?
Nov 16, 2015 04:17
|
|
|
There was a very real chance of Steve Jobs not allowing ipods to switch off Firewire only for additional years, and it could have ended up with the ipod being niche forever (since only macs and a few random pcs had firewire ports). Apple was real lucky he was talked out of that
|
|
#
?
Nov 16, 2015 04:33
|
|
|
aw poo poo remember when Pepsi gave away all those iTunes songs? poo poo was cash and you could tilt the bottle a certain way and see if it had the free song or not
|
|
#
?
Nov 16, 2015 04:55
|
|
|
theflyingexecutive posted:aw poo poo remember when Pepsi gave away all those iTunes songs? poo poo was cash and you could tilt the bottle a certain way and see if it had the free song or not I did that with lemon ice Gatorade and got free gatorades it owned.
|
|
#
?
Nov 16, 2015 05:09
|
|
|
A Pinball Wizard posted:
jesus christ lol
|
|
#
?
Nov 16, 2015 06:01
|
|
|
has anyone said blackberry privy yet cause it's toilet
|
|
#
?
Nov 16, 2015 14:46
|
|
|
flakeloaf posted:has anyone said blackberry privy yet 
|
|
#
?
Nov 16, 2015 15:37
|
|
|
yo blackberry I will do John Chen's job for literally 1/2 of what you're paying him and you will get the same results
|
|
#
?
Nov 16, 2015 21:08
|
|
|
I'll do it for the same amount but drive the company into the ground twice as fast
|
|
#
?
Nov 16, 2015 22:41
|
|
|
ill turn the corporate hq into a series of reality tv shows where i force my corporate slaves do embarrassing poo poo on camera we won't even have to pay them extra because anyone loving stupid enough to still work for blackberry at this point will do anything to stay this will generate more revenue than blackberry is currently making
|
|
#
?
Nov 17, 2015 05:08
|
|
|
it'll be like undercover boss except without medical bankruptcy or crushing racial inequality, and at the end of every episode all of the employees get blacksberry instead of cash or vacations
|
|
#
?
Nov 17, 2015 14:23
|
|
|
flakeloaf posted:it'll be like undercover boss except without medical bankruptcy or crushing racial inequality, and at the end of every episode all of the employees get blacksberry instead of cash or vacations you monster
|
|
#
?
Nov 17, 2015 21:14
|
|
|
flakeloaf posted:it'll be like undercover boss except without medical bankruptcy or crushing racial inequality, and at the end of every episode all of the employees get blacksberry instead of cash or vacations  lol
|
|
#
?
Nov 18, 2015 03:10
|
|
|
quote:Blackberry believes in a “balanced” approach to encryption, incorporating lawful intercept capabilities, and the company prioritizes cooperation with law enforcement, Chief Operating Officer Marty Beard said Tuesday.
|
|
#
?
Nov 18, 2015 05:04
|
|
|
lol "Use us if you want to be secure*!" *we can let anyone see what you're doing if someone asks nicely enough
|
|
#
?
Nov 18, 2015 05:12
|
|
|
lolll
|
|
#
?
Nov 18, 2015 05:13
|
|
|
THATS UNFAIR THIS INTERVIEW IS OVER
|
|
#
?
Nov 18, 2015 05:13
|
|
|
mishaq posted:lol i've been saying that for years. they willingly give out their encryption keys to any government that asks. the only thing your BB communication is secure from is opportunistic non-state actors that in itself isn't a bad thing, at least your phone won't get mitm'd on some airport cafe hotspot, but touting it as unbreakable security is a bit much. not to mention bby has access to all of your communications since everything is routed through them, any compromise of their network (see nortel and chinese hackers having access for a decade) means every bby customer is compromised
|
|
#
?
Nov 18, 2015 05:53
|
|
|
infernal machines posted:i've been saying that for years. they willingly give out their encryption keys to any government that asks. the only thing your BB communication is secure from is opportunistic non-state actors if you design something where the platform owner has keys to give out, it's inherently insecure some opportunistic hacker can just hack into bb hq and get the keys theoretically
|
|
#
?
Nov 18, 2015 05:55
|
|
|
the blackberry priv because you only get 4/7 of privacy
|
|
#
?
Nov 18, 2015 05:56
|
|
|
Pinterest Mom posted:the blackberry priv you get the PRIVilege of 4/7ths worth of PRIVacy 
|
|
#
?
Nov 18, 2015 05:57
|
|
|
mishaq posted:if you design something where the platform owner has keys to give out, it's inherently insecure they may not even need the keys themselves. based on the outages a few years ago and bits of information from former rim employees it's likely there's only two DCs handling all worldwide bby traffic. if traffic is unencrypted at any point internally, it's all compromised
|
|
#
?
Nov 18, 2015 06:00
|
|
|
didn't the book "losing the signal" admit in the first chapter that they killed their EU POP and only have one in Waterloo now?
|
|
#
?
Nov 18, 2015 06:01
|
|
|
minivanmegafun posted:didn't the book "losing the signal" admit in the first chapter that they killed their EU POP and only have one in Waterloo now? yeah it was during that big downtime event a few years back
|
|
#
?
Nov 18, 2015 06:41
|
|
|
Pinterest Mom posted:the blackberry priv
|
|
#
?
Nov 18, 2015 14:46
|
|
|
bb told us they were going to have dcs in south america/africa/multiple in asia/new ones in europe/new ones in america after sniffing around diagnosing some perf issues we realized all the "new dcs" had never been brought up and they were just lbs that redirected to waterloo/europe
|
|
#
?
Nov 18, 2015 17:26
|
|
|
I've been told the story a few times by ex employees and I think it was something like this. They either shut down a data center or redirected Euope's traffic to Waterloo without any kind of stress test. Fail-over systems didn't work and they scrambled to buy hardware from IBM to get infrastructure in place. You would think that this would be a lesson learned right? Well, there is another local tech company that hired most of the RIM managers that were laid off. This same company brought down the University of Waterloo's online learning portal for days because they switched storage mediums on PRODUCTION without doing any testing in DEV or QA.
|
|
#
?
Nov 18, 2015 17:58
|
|
|
unbreakable security (key is under the doormat)
|
|
#
?
Nov 18, 2015 18:12
|
|
|
Bonzo posted:I've been told the story a few times by ex employees and I think it was something like this. They either shut down a data center or redirected Euope's traffic to Waterloo without any kind of stress test. Fail-over systems didn't work and they scrambled to buy hardware from IBM to get infrastructure in place. how the gently caress do you even get cowboys like this in corporate it?
|
|
#
?
Nov 18, 2015 18:30
|
|
|
infernal machines posted:how the gently caress do you even get cowboys like this in corporate it? useless b school roommates/frat bros need jobs too
|
|
#
?
Nov 18, 2015 18:31
|
|
|
infernal machines posted:how the gently caress do you even get cowboys like this in corporate it? I've worked in Enterprise IT for the last 8 years and you would be surprised what goes on. I have no idea how the world has not blown up by now. I've seen upgrades done with no backups, schema changes applied to production databases during peak access, you name it. I've even seen guys bounce a machine by yanking the power cord because all of the terminal server sessions were full.
|
|
#
?
Nov 18, 2015 20:14
|
|
|
infernal machines posted:how the gently caress do you even get cowboys like this in corporate it? a corporate culture with an over-fattened middle management, which creates an compounding set of rules that are meant to hide the true reason of fuckups (incompetent employees) while covering rear end fun example, losing the signal starts with a waterloo noc failure. since then it is corporate policy that all discussions during a noc outage need to be recorded so a noc outage happened, a massive email thread was spawned, and eventually everyone figures out you need a call so the 8+ teams that need to coordinate on the outage can do so the only acceptable way to record a noc outage teleconference is through a special noc teleconference conference line, in which you need to dial in or be called into by an actual operator ...but the noc teleconference conference line was having issues, and people were waiting 40+ minutes and not getting added to the calls, or would get a buggy call in that would say a few sentences in french and hang up and no one wants to be the target of the 20+ middle managers that need "make serious changes" aka find someone to lynch, so everyone just sat around with a noc down. eventually someone at the noc restarted a router and things got unfucked. no postmortem, except to ask why there was no noc conference line transcription to go over
|
|
#
?
Nov 18, 2015 20:15
|
|
|
what the gently caress is a blackberry?
|
|
#
?
Nov 18, 2015 20:25
|
|
|
|
|
#
?
Nov 18, 2015 22:28
|
|
|
|
|
#
?
Nov 19, 2015 00:01
|
|
|
blackberry are such a loving joke. "here's the priv it stands for privacy!" "why yes we will unlock your device for any government that asks nicely"
|
|
#
?
Nov 19, 2015 00:01
|
|
|
rim/blackberry has never been about actual privacy, let alone privacy for any given user. it's been about helping corporations cover their asses. that means total control over the device's data -- sometimes hiding it from the public, sometimes revealing it to the executives or hr depts
|
|
#
?
Nov 19, 2015 00:29
|
|
|
Bonzo posted:I've worked in Enterprise IT for the last 8 years and you would be surprised what goes on. I have no idea how the world has not blown up by now. i'm used to small/medium business it where this poo poo happens on the reg because the infrastructure just sort of accreted around whatever shitlord fell into the position when the company started as a mom and pop shop or whatever. the problem there is no one ever bothers with silly things like standards or best practices. to see the same bullshit in a (formerly) large scale player like rim would be surprising if not for them being a terribly company throughout
|
|
#
?
Nov 19, 2015 02:06
|
|
|
|
| # ? May 10, 2024 05:20 |
|
|
infernal machines posted:how the gently caress do you even get cowboys like this in corporate it? the data center hosting the business critical software my company makes has gone down 5 times in 3 months so none of our customers can log in for a good half day or so no changes have been made to data center personnel
|
|
#
?
Nov 19, 2015 03:28
|
|
