Story of a hijack -real life spyware story.
The clueless users who refuse to upgrade -interesting article, but if Microsoft really were to quit supporting older software wouldn’t the howls of “forced upgrading” be ten times louder than this?
Maybe I should get some of these and make everyone hang them in their offices?
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Yesterday I was out, took a vacation day rather than dealing with the snow. Today I’m being buried in a different way, under MyDoom emails coming into our accounts. Someone that we deal with quite a lot has gotten bit by this thing big time! I guess it’s time to figure out who. Follow these…
Saw this post over at Andy’s about him getting ready to move to Ohio. Like I need another guy looking for techie jobs in Columbus? Sheesh! 😉 Seriously though, we’re looking forward to getting together again once they’ve arrived and gotten settled in! Follow these topics: Uncategorized
Right in the middle of yesterday’s stress-filled running around, trying to get everything and everyone to the right place and then back again, I found out that my grandmother died. I couldn’t, at that time, really think about it or try to find out what the funeral arrangements were and whether we would be able…
That seems to be what happens in the tech journalism space. We have a list of people who’ve created successful companies and made a ton of money doing it, and everyone is supposed to assume that they are so bright they can do it over and over again. Then we are surprised when Elon buys Twitter and runs it into the ground or when Meta can’t find a market for the Metaverse. Microsoft spends billions upon billions of dollars on AI without any hope of making a profit for years while conducting rounds of layoffs to offset those costs. We assume they know what they’re doing because they’ve succeeded in other markets before, and the press doesn’t challenge them when they say provably false things.Â
It’s the Halo Effect. We assume that successful people are smart and kind and live healthy lives, especially if they are white men. When they contradict this picture we’ve painted, we loathe to admit it, let alone call it out in an interview. It’s more cognitively comfortable for us to continue believing they are competent and will figure it out.