If you read the original article, much of the case hinges on GS' due diligence in regard to the financial health of L&H.
Two PhD engineers should not be expected to perform forensic accounting; that was what they were paying GS to do.
It is clear to the casual observer that the four GS employees handling the deal were either incompetent or criminally negligent in
their duties.
Verizon FiOS uses ActionTec routers, which ship with remote access and auto firmware updates disabled.
Verizon keeps an unblockable port in the ActionTec that allows them unfettered access to the router.
I thinks it's exceptionally clever of Google that they found a wifi hacker with street cred to write the sniffer, so that they could be shocked! SHOCKED! to find wifi sniffing was taking place in their establishment.
Ironic that I prefer reading the NY Times...
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on my spouse's iPad. I subscribe to the Sunday tree version, so get a complimentary digital subscription.
Reading it on the iPad means no jumps in the middle of an article, and no blackened fingers...
NHTSA proposed this years ago, simply that turning on the windshield wipers would turn on the headlights, so as to improve being seen while driving in the rain.
This would have cost about a dollar, for the relay required. Never happened.
From the latest version of PocketCloud Remote Free (RDP/VNC client for iPxxx):
What's New in Version 2.2.134
We noticed we had mistakenly enabled multiple computer support on a previous release.
This free version of PocketCloud has always been limited to 1 computer as documented on the app description.
We apologize for the inconvenience and ask for your understanding.
We are discounting PocketCloud Pro 40% to ease the migration for our power users who need to access multiple computers.
Added to the list:
American Bankers Association (ABA)
Creative America
Entertainment Software Association (ESA)
MasterCard Worldwide
True Religion Brand Jeans
United States Olympic Committee
Visa Inc.
Wallace Bajjali Development Partners, L.P.
I've placed a text version here. Please be gentle, I pay for the bandwidth out of my own pocket.
I found the PDF on TrulyRural.com, but thought I would save them the/.ing.
Cough cough Bullshit. They have plenty of spectrum. What the carriers don't want to do is spend cash on infrastructure (towers, microcells, servers)
until they absolutely have no choice due to competitive pressure.
My spouse wanted an iPad.
For myself, the extra $100-200 premium over an Android tablet is nothing compared to the amount of aggravation I would face
attempting to convince spouse that the Android is equivalent, or even better than the iPad.
Since spouse chose the iPad, she can't blame me for shoddy apps, or confusing interfaces, or crashes.
Sure, it's a case of marketing over facts, but all the other tablets in her office are iPads, so I go with the flow.
If Google/Android really wants to grab market, they should offer a reasonably priced 3G/4G data-only infrastructure,
as I would spend close to the cost of the device on a data plan from the incumbent wireless carriers.
They were just using a different set of units for the internal calculation, and then got bit by precision problems in the conversion. Basically, it was a rounding error. Theoretically, the details of the math could be fairly arbitrary as a "black box API." They just needed an infinite number of bits and it would have worked fine..
No, they were taking a value in N-s but interpreting it as lbf-s. This was not rounding error, all ground calculations
were off by a factor of > 4.
Pardon me, but I don't recall that software/firmware was ever implicated in the Toyota unintended accelerations.
Some cases were blamed on the floor mats, but, as with the Audi 5000, the most likely failure involved the placement of
the driver's foot on the wrong pedal.
even though no human being has ever chosen to nose-dive under any scenario in a commercial flight.
This is incorrect. A winged aircraft will stall when the speed of air over the wings is too low.
The correct response of a pilot or computer to a stall is to point the nose down in order to increase airspeed.
The failure here was of the computers calculating that the aircraft was about to stall due to the reading from one airspeed sensor.
Pitot tubes used for sensing airspeed are subject to plugging up due to icing (which is why most are heated), and from spiders who like to climb
into them (which is why you will see covers on the pitot tubes of grounded aircraft, with long red streamers attached so that the ground crew
doesn't forget to remove them).
Pitot tubes are also implicated in the loss of Air France 447.
My favorite is when we slammed a $20 million NASA/ESA probe in to the surface of mars at high speed because some engineer forgot to convert mph in to kph (or vice-versa).
No, it was when two different softwares were used to calculate thrust. The spacecraft software calculated thrust correctly in newton-seconds.
The ground software calculated thrust in pounds force-seconds. This was contrary to the software interface specification, which called out newton-seconds.
The result was that the ground-calculated trajectory was more than 20 kilometers too close to the surface.
The engineers didn't "forget to convert", they failed to read and understand the specifications.
I understand that. The complaint was about the time required for the transition/page turn.
I find the time-wasting fade-in of any UI element extremely annoying.
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I just leave them where I stayed for the next guest.
If you read the original article, much of the case hinges on GS' due diligence in regard to the financial health of L&H.
Two PhD engineers should not be expected to perform forensic accounting; that was what they were paying GS to do.
It is clear to the casual observer that the four GS employees handling the deal were either incompetent or criminally negligent in
their duties.
I prefer "Better, Faster, Cheaper - Pick two."
Verizon FiOS uses ActionTec routers, which ship with remote access and auto firmware updates disabled.
Verizon keeps an unblockable port in the ActionTec that allows them unfettered access to the router.
I'm pretty sure this was one of the first SF series I read. Highly recommended.
http://www.amazon.com/Tripods-Trilogy-White-Mountains-City/dp/0020425716
Sorry, forgot the "ironic" tag. The clever part is in finding the perfect fall guy, not the perfect coder.
I thinks it's exceptionally clever of Google that they found a wifi hacker with street cred to write the sniffer, so that they could be shocked! SHOCKED! to find wifi sniffing was taking place in their establishment.
on my spouse's iPad. I subscribe to the Sunday tree version, so get a complimentary digital subscription.
Reading it on the iPad means no jumps in the middle of an article, and no blackened fingers...
NHTSA proposed this years ago, simply that turning on the windshield wipers would turn on the headlights, so as to improve being seen while driving in the rain.
This would have cost about a dollar, for the relay required. Never happened.
From the latest version of PocketCloud Remote Free (RDP/VNC client for iPxxx):
What's New in Version 2.2.134
We noticed we had mistakenly enabled multiple computer support on a previous release.
This free version of PocketCloud has always been limited to 1 computer as documented on the app description.
We apologize for the inconvenience and ask for your understanding.
We are discounting PocketCloud Pro 40% to ease the migration for our power users who need to access multiple computers.
Added to the list:
American Bankers Association (ABA)
Creative America
Entertainment Software Association (ESA)
MasterCard Worldwide
True Religion Brand Jeans
United States Olympic Committee
Visa Inc.
Wallace Bajjali Development Partners, L.P.
Removed from the list:
Baker & Hostetler LLP
Covington & Burling LLP
Cowan, DeBaets, Abrahams & Sheppard LLP
Cowan, Liebowitz & Latman, P.C.
Davis Wright Tremaine LL
Go Daddy
Irell & Manella LLP
Jenner & Block LLP
Kelley Drye & Warren LLP
Kendall Brill & Klieger LLP
Kinsella Weitzman Iser Kump & Aldisert LLP
Lathrop & Gage LLP
Loeb & Loeb LLP
Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp LLP
Morrison & Foerster LLP
Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP
Phillips Nizer, LLP
Proskauer Rose LLP
Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi LLP
Shearman & Sterling LLP
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
White & Case LLP
LINK.
I'll do a diff in a few minutes.
I've placed a text version here. Please be gentle, I pay for the bandwidth out of my own pocket. /.ing.
I found the PDF on TrulyRural.com, but thought I would save them the
Cough cough Bullshit. They have plenty of spectrum. What the carriers don't want to do is spend cash on infrastructure (towers, microcells, servers)
until they absolutely have no choice due to competitive pressure.
My spouse wanted an iPad.
For myself, the extra $100-200 premium over an Android tablet is nothing compared to the amount of aggravation I would face
attempting to convince spouse that the Android is equivalent, or even better than the iPad.
Since spouse chose the iPad, she can't blame me for shoddy apps, or confusing interfaces, or crashes.
Sure, it's a case of marketing over facts, but all the other tablets in her office are iPads, so I go with the flow.
If Google/Android really wants to grab market, they should offer a reasonably priced 3G/4G data-only infrastructure,
as I would spend close to the cost of the device on a data plan from the incumbent wireless carriers.
No, they were taking a value in N-s but interpreting it as lbf-s. This was not rounding error, all ground calculations
were off by a factor of > 4.
Pardon me, but I don't recall that software/firmware was ever implicated in the Toyota unintended accelerations.
Some cases were blamed on the floor mats, but, as with the Audi 5000, the most likely failure involved the placement of
the driver's foot on the wrong pedal.
This is incorrect. A winged aircraft will stall when the speed of air over the wings is too low.
The correct response of a pilot or computer to a stall is to point the nose down in order to increase airspeed.
The failure here was of the computers calculating that the aircraft was about to stall due to the reading from one airspeed sensor.
Pitot tubes used for sensing airspeed are subject to plugging up due to icing (which is why most are heated), and from spiders who like to climb
into them (which is why you will see covers on the pitot tubes of grounded aircraft, with long red streamers attached so that the ground crew
doesn't forget to remove them).
Pitot tubes are also implicated in the loss of Air France 447.
No, it was when two different softwares were used to calculate thrust. The spacecraft software calculated thrust correctly in newton-seconds.
The ground software calculated thrust in pounds force-seconds. This was contrary to the software interface specification, which called out newton-seconds.
The result was that the ground-calculated trajectory was more than 20 kilometers too close to the surface.
The engineers didn't "forget to convert", they failed to read and understand the specifications.
They're padded, have a lock, are secured with a cable, and slide under the seat.
I understand that. The complaint was about the time required for the transition/page turn. I find the time-wasting fade-in of any UI element extremely annoying.
The first thing I do at any Win XP machine is turn off "transition effects".
Never mind. It was A.C. Clarke, as clearly identified above...
Whoops. It wasn't Asimov, I think it was published in Asimov's Science Fiction.
..which I'm trying to remember the title of. It played off on the Beatles song Lucy in the Sky (with Diamonds).