https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/11/17/us_military_spying_archive_exposed/

Three misconfigured AWS S3 buckets have been discovered wide open on the public internet containing "dozens of terabytes" of social media posts and similar pages – all scraped from around the world by the US military to identify and profile persons of interest.

The archives were found by veteran security breach hunter UpGuard's Chris Vickery during a routine scan of open Amazon-hosted data silos, and these ones weren't exactly hidden. The buckets were named centcom-backup, centcom-archive, and pacom-archive.

CENTCOM is the common abbreviation for the US Central Command, which controls army operations in the Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia. PACOM is the name for US Pacific Command, covering the rest of southern Asia, China and Australasia.

Vickery told The Register today he stumbled upon them by accident while running a scan for the word "COM" in publicly accessible S3 buckets. After refining his search, the CENTCOM archive popped up, and at first he thought it was related to Chinese multinational Tencent, but quickly realized it was a US military archive of astounding size.

November 17, 2017

In 1976 UF required calculus if you majored in business

UF = University of Florida in Gainesville

I initially majored in biz in 76 but that requirement gave me pause. Have you ever used calculus in your business career?

yes I'm bored lol, thanks for indulging me, kind ladies and gentlemen of DU.

November 17, 2017

According to one estimate, wealthy couples in NYC need $190 million to keep their heads above water

(yes a real headline. What ?!)

http://www.businessinsider.com/how-much-money-to-be-rich-2017-11

An analyst from US Trust cited in the Town & Country report estimated the hypothetical couple would need to have a net worth of $190 million to sustain this lifestyle.

Here are some of the costs considered in the estimate:

Real estate: $18 million apartment on Fifth Avenue facing Central Park, $2 million for furniture and decor, $20 million for a weekend home in the Hamptons and a vacation spot in the Caribbean.

Education: $1.7 million a child for a "no-expense-spared educational strategy," which includes private school and tutors, music lessons, sports, trips abroad, and four-year Ivy League tuition.

Ah yes, our new Gilded Age. Sigh.

eta: original source here

November 17, 2017

fwiw, snopes.com about Franken

https://www.snopes.com/photographer-said-franken-image-was-staged/

It's really long and quoting 4 paragraphs doesn't do it justice. Simply posting for critique and comment. I really like Senator Franken and I'd really hate for him to quit the Senate. He's one of our very best there.

November 17, 2017

Infamous Tech Industry Predictions and Quotations (fascinating article with tons of quotes)

https://www.techspot.com/article/754-tech-predictions-and-quotes/

snip

“There definitely is a new kid on the block, but there is nothing that IBM has presented that would blow the industry away”
– Tandy’s Radio Shack division financial VP when asked about the IBM PC
[Business Week, August 24, 1981]

snip

“What would I do? I'd shut it down and give the money back to the shareholders”
– Michael Dell, Chairman/CEO of Dell Computers said when asked what he would do if he was CEO of Apple
[Various news outlets, October 1997]

snip

“There's no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share. No chance.”
– Steve Ballmer, Microsoft CEO
[USA Today, April 2007]

snip

“In five years we're going to sit around and laugh that we even had operating system wars; there's just going to be Linux. We're going to take over”
– Trae McCombs, site manager Linux.com
[Maximum Linux, October 1999]

tons more, hilariously bad predictions and some really good ones.

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