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Re:But more importantly...
Or maybe it's a man who decided to have sex reassignment surgery.
Though I fail what relevance does that have to security research. There's something with a working brain finding security issues. Whether it's a man, woman, woman that used to be a man, a dog or a machine seems very unimportant to me.
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Re:Katz vs Munroe?
You're so wrong about the New Yorker.
This one is funny as is this one and even this one. And those are just the ones I remember in spite of seeing several that are funny each week.
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Re:Katz vs Munroe?
You're so wrong about the New Yorker.
This one is funny as is this one and even this one. And those are just the ones I remember in spite of seeing several that are funny each week.
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Re:Katz vs Munroe?
You're so wrong about the New Yorker.
This one is funny as is this one and even this one. And those are just the ones I remember in spite of seeing several that are funny each week.
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New Yorker cartoon, 9/9/2002
The CEO is giving a speech at a board meeting: "And so, while the end-of-the-world scenario will be rife with unimaginable horrors, we believe that the pre-end period will be filled with unprecedented opportunities for profit."
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Re:Whacked upside the head ...
This cartoon was prominently displayed on my Economics Professor's door. I think it accurately integrates Adam Smith's metaphor with our current situation.
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powerpoint in hell
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Reminded me of a cartoon . . .
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That cartoon...
It's an old, classic New Yorker magazine cartoon, by Sidney Harris. You can see it here.
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Re:New Yorker Cartoon
Beat me to it! That's always been one of my favorites at the New Yorker, just behind this other airplane themed comic (in the GIF it's almost indecipherable, but the text reads "Well, back to the old drawing board").
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New Yorker Cartoon
Maybe they have been getting their ideas from The New Yorker Magazine
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McBitch dumped 200,000 shares?if you look at some earlier forms 4 for him, you'll notice that in March of this year, he acquired 200,000 shares of stock.
Wow, that's some confidence in the outcome of this mess he's got. I suspect he knows something we all suspect! No case, no future, no value, but McBitch thinks he's going to be rich. He can swap tips with Martha soon.
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A view from inside the industryThe company I work for makes in flight entertainment equipment - video projection equipment, in seat audio and video, etc. Even though our equipment serves no role in the safety of the aircraft (so called "Class D" equipment), the FAA makes all our boxes go through very rigorous testing for EMI, vibration, and flamability. Some of the testing can get pretty absurd: I once had to do a software load on a prototype so it could be signed off as being in a flight configuration before it was thrown into an incinerator to test for toxic gasses. All this elaborate testing also skyrockets our costs - a two year obsolete IFE video tape player is going to cost you five to ten times as much as an up to date commercial model.
In all our testing, the FAA took the view that it was not their responsibility to prove that something was unsafe - it's the manufacturer's responsibility to prove that their product isn't. This is the real reason airlines are so paraniod about cellphones, etc. Unless Nokia spends $500K+ per model to certify that there's absolutely no way the device can produce interference even in a failure mode (and provides every consumer with an embossed certificate to that effect), your flight attendant will be asking you politlely to shut the thing off.
There is, of course, always the possibility of a sea change. Perhaps the manufacturers will begin doing real testing of their devices for EMI, although that will increase costs (although much less than for IFE equipment because the volume would be higher). However, that would have to happen on every device manufactured anywhere and require the user to show some kind of certification to the airline. Perhaps the FAA will require even better shielding on critcal equipment, but that implies retrofitting every piece of equipment on every commercial aircraft in the world. Or maybe the FAA will simply come under political pressure to relax their safety requirements, but that will end the second a plane goes down for any non-obvious reason and a herd of lawyers appears screaming "I told you so!"
Unless there is a paradigm shift on one of these fronts (none of which are really palatable), you will see more and more restrictive policies on the use of consumer electronics in the cabin.
Until then? Simple. Leave your laptop powered off and read a book. Maybe you'll learn something...
PS - A pretty amusing cartoon appeared in the New Yorker peripherally related to this topic once. Check it out here.
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Similar New Yorker CartoonI'm currently working on an in flight entertainment system for corporate jets that will allow laptops and PDAs to join the LAN on the aircraft (so, say, they could do a presentation on the same screen normally used for movies). In honor of my new project, I posted this cartoon outside my cube.
Somehow, management didn't find it funny.
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Where it will all end
This is the logical endpoint.
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I liked the cartoon outcome...
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News flash: Mike Lewis discovers the Net
While it's an okay, workmanlike article, what bugs me is how little it actually says -- and in how many words. What insight is there in Lewis's 5,000-word NY Times opus than was in the long-ago 1993 (!) New Yorker cartoon: "On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog."
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Re:the breakup
