It's not Slashdot "catching wind" of this. It's the startup company Instrumental writing a blog post and shopping it around to all the tech sites to get people to go find out what the company Instrumental is and does.
From their website http://www.instrumental.ai/ , it looks like they sell services to companies that manufacture things.
Their case study with Pearl Auto seems like they landed the gig because Pearl Auto is a startup run by a friend.
And as far as I can tell the most work they actually do is put camera and other sensors in the assembly line and use image analysis software to alert on differences. Beyond that, they're consultants.
Their "case study" supports this, as does their team page (all software people) and their hiring page (they need a mechanical engineer and a computer vision person).
If they do anything more substantial than that it isn't supported by their website, which is little more than a blog, bios, and links to LinkedIn profiles. They announced their existence on October 31st of 2016, after "over a year in stealth". Yet today, they're ground-breaking research into a single Note 7 is plastered across every tech site, blog, and news aggregator.
I don't know if they know anything about manufacturing products or not, but they do know a thing or two about manufacturing clicks,
If this was the case then a slightly physically smaller battery would have solved the problem. They could have achieved this quite easily, even if it meant sacrificing capacity. And given they started by recalling the phones and replacing the batteries but there were still problems I would suggest they are wrong.
Did you even look at the linked report? These engineers have the benefit of hindsight. They knew that the initial attempts to fix the problem failed; it's mentioned in the very first paragraph of the linked report. They said that sources from within Samsung had various theories as to the cause, so whatever fix that Samsung did it was the wrong theory. Just because Samsung got it wrong (twice) doesn't mean that these engineers were wrong.
Your post mirrors what was in the second paragraph of the report:
But, if it was only a battery part issue and could have been salvaged by a re-spin of the battery, why cancel the product line and cede several quarters of revenue to competitors? We believe that there was more in play: that there was a fundamental problem with the design of the phone itself.
It's amazing that you can claim that what these engineers deduced wrong when you haven't even read even the first two paragraphs of what they thought. RTFA.
It's a small startup of 9 people with no history. None of the people are even listed as mechanical engineers. They're all software engineers (which isn't a recognized profession, by the way) and business people. Not a one among them has the authority to make any claims about the Note 7. None of them have the actual experience with the Note 7 to do so either - they had a single sample that they couldn't actually do anything with other than write the blog post and fish it out to tech sites for hits and to get their name out there.
The Note 7 is fucked. Samsung knows why, Google and Apple likely know why, and I'm sure various state actors know why. A startup of 9 young, hip, individuals with a background in software engineering who got their hands one one single unit and saw that it was a tight fit don't know why.
We know what the problem is. The batteries burst into flames. We know why this happens in lithium-based batteries, and we know how to build batteries to not do this in a specified operational environment. Heat, shorts, pressure on cells, insufficient or incorrect materials within the battery, encasing the battery, etc. One or more of these things was insufficient for the application in question (powering the Note 7 in a typical environment). We don't know which and to what degree. The few that do know why haven't said.
It's a small startup of 9 people with no history. None of the people are even listed as mechanical engineers. They're all software engineers (which isn't a recognized profession, by the way) and business people. Not a one among them has the authority to make any claims about the Note 7. None of them have the actual experience with the Note 7 to do so either - they had a single sample that they couldn't actually do anything with other than write the blog post and fish it out to tech sites for hits and to get their name out there.
The "manufacturing technology company" is a small startup with no experience, expertise, or credentials. Further, they had a single unit to work with. Their testing revealed nothing conclusive and they weren't able to actually discern anything.
All they did was look at it and say it's a very tight fit. Everything else is speculation.
The Taiwanese mobo brands have been layering ESD, overvoltage, and overcurrent protection, as well as fuses for individual ports, on their shit since the late 90s when tons of shit was getting fried due to crappy PSUs and crappy peripherals. The last time I saw it as a named feature emblazoned on the front of the box they were on version 4 of whatever they called it.
If you're buying OEM crap (Dell, Lenovo, HP, Apple), or an Intel board, you're fucked. Decent mobos will at the worst lose just the one port when the fuse blows.
I farted. I demoed this to people in the office, and they were quite excited. You'll be able to experience it yourself "in the near future".
(This kind of shit is stupid and won't be around "in the near future". The regulations for headlights alone would take years to rewrite and grease through. Further, nobody wants to see the projections from a car other than their own, least of all cyclists and pedestrians. It's bad enough when some jackass has illegal HID lamps that are misaligned so they blind you and are that ugly blue color so the last thing you see is just fucking awful. The only sane way to do this shit is to do it on the windshield as a head-up display for the driver.)
In a world where robots with AI can do just about every blue collar and almost all white collar work better, faster, and cheaper
Show me the gardening robot that's cheaper than whatever flavor of immigrant is in your local area. Show me the construction robot that's cheaper than whatever flavor of illegal immigrant is at your local Home Depot. Show me the plumber robot that will wrestle your turds and other unspeakables as well as a grizzly looking plumber. Show me the robot that will be held accountable when it decides to approve an exception on form II-37 without the standard documentation under section B because it determined via a phone call to the person overseas that there were grounds for an exception. Show me the software licensing agreements and prices for any of these pie-in-the-sky "AIs" or "Expert Systems".
People won't stop working, either. It's just not in our nature. Look at the military, where people can retire with a significant paycheck as early as 38.
Thank you for the lols. A great way to start the weekend.
I used to work in a lab with a guy who would go back and modify his lab notebooks to make himself look better.
You can't do science when someone is changing the numbers after the fact.
Form what I've seen, that's standard.
People love to tweak their data, adjust it, reinterpret it, look for any excuse to throw out an "outlier" (an outlier only to their predetermined conclusion), etc. Being "right" or pushing an agenda or foisting some scam is more important than actually testing a hypothesis (if they even have a proper hypothesis to test).
People bitch about how the masses are anti education, anti science, etc. Generally, they're not. They're anti educator, anti school, anti government, and anti "scientist" because they're sick of the bullshit.
You're the one who's wrong. If you modify a <MAKE> vehicle, even extensively, you absolutely can sell it as a modified <MAKE> because that's what it is.
I an buy a McDonald's Big Mac, take a shit in it, and sell it as a McDonald's Bic Mac, with Shit. At worst I'd need to declare that I'm not McDonald's and McDonald's owns "McDonald's" (even though they stole it from some dude) and "Big Mac".
They're rolling very patch into one big blob - take it or leave it. If the latest update causes your system to crash because one patch borks some hardware or software you rely on, then you can't get the 26 other patches and ignore the one bad one until they fix it.
Further, they force you to download what essentially amounts to a full OS image in order to patch, not just the files that have changed.
This has no impact on the code base, and as far as dependency hell goes, Windows has had the obnoxious Windows Side-by-Side system to deal with this since Vista. Every version of every library, every MSI, etc. you ever touch is stored and kept in the WinSxS folder, which just grows geometrically over time. (For years MS claimed that the dick space is not actually consumed as things are effectively symlinks, but that's just bullshit. Even if it were true, Explorer sees the space as used and thus the space effectively is used as Explorer can't grok it.)
It was a hard enough battle to get them to give us the option to skip kernel mode driver updates in Windows 10. (You can thank Nvidia for this as they kept pushing out WHQLd drivers that caused crashes.)
The fact that the update blobs have come to Windows 7 is a travesty, and it came along with the "Fuck you, we're not telling you what's in the updates anymore." bullshit. They've temporarily partially backed off on that bit for Windows 7, but you still don't get the full details of what an update actually does or what the file versions are, etc. Don't forget they also killed technet.
All in all the consolidated updates are just one more rusty genital they use against us in the orgy of fucking over their users.
That article simply says it's all fake and that people are being harassed. It doesn't address any of the alleged links or any of the evidence presented by the people who dug through the emails and found the connection.
The article also spends a lot of time whining about fake news and a lack of fact checking without even a hint that it's aware of the hypocrisy its engaged in.
It would take you the same amount of time to read the entire HDD back out using this exploit. (Assuming the read and write performance of your drive are roughly the same.)
Further, it took you hours to encrypt your drive because it wasn't OPAL v2 compliant and couldn't talk nicely to BitLocker. OPAL v2 drives simply use the same key in their hardware for BitLocker, so you're not double encryption and you don't need to run a pass over the whole drive when you turn it on. Turning it off just drops you back down to hardware encryption on the drive (which is completely useless unless you lock the drive with the manufacturer's tool / require a power on password, or later perform a secure erase which will just nuke the key and reset the various tables in the controller).
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Most significantly - they are software people trying to pimp their startup company (announced 10/31/2016).
https://www.instrumental.ai/te...
https://www.instrumental.ai/bl...
It's not Slashdot "catching wind" of this. It's the startup company Instrumental writing a blog post and shopping it around to all the tech sites to get people to go find out what the company Instrumental is and does.
From their website http://www.instrumental.ai/ , it looks like they sell services to companies that manufacture things.
Their case study with Pearl Auto seems like they landed the gig because Pearl Auto is a startup run by a friend.
And as far as I can tell the most work they actually do is put camera and other sensors in the assembly line and use image analysis software to alert on differences. Beyond that, they're consultants.
Their "case study" supports this, as does their team page (all software people) and their hiring page (they need a mechanical engineer and a computer vision person).
If they do anything more substantial than that it isn't supported by their website, which is little more than a blog, bios, and links to LinkedIn profiles. They announced their existence on October 31st of 2016, after "over a year in stealth". Yet today, they're ground-breaking research into a single Note 7 is plastered across every tech site, blog, and news aggregator.
I don't know if they know anything about manufacturing products or not, but they do know a thing or two about manufacturing clicks,
If this was the case then a slightly physically smaller battery would have solved the problem. They could have achieved this quite easily, even if it meant sacrificing capacity. And given they started by recalling the phones and replacing the batteries but there were still problems I would suggest they are wrong.
Did you even look at the linked report? These engineers have the benefit of hindsight. They knew that the initial attempts to fix the problem failed; it's mentioned in the very first paragraph of the linked report. They said that sources from within Samsung had various theories as to the cause, so whatever fix that Samsung did it was the wrong theory. Just because Samsung got it wrong (twice) doesn't mean that these engineers were wrong.
Your post mirrors what was in the second paragraph of the report:
It's amazing that you can claim that what these engineers deduced wrong when you haven't even read even the first two paragraphs of what they thought. RTFA.
Did YOU look at it? Did YOU RTFA? No, you didn't.
This is the company in question. https://www.instrumental.ai/te...
It's a small startup of 9 people with no history. None of the people are even listed as mechanical engineers. They're all software engineers (which isn't a recognized profession, by the way) and business people. Not a one among them has the authority to make any claims about the Note 7. None of them have the actual experience with the Note 7 to do so either - they had a single sample that they couldn't actually do anything with other than write the blog post and fish it out to tech sites for hits and to get their name out there.
The Note 7 is fucked. Samsung knows why, Google and Apple likely know why, and I'm sure various state actors know why. A startup of 9 young, hip, individuals with a background in software engineering who got their hands one one single unit and saw that it was a tight fit don't know why.
We know what the problem is. The batteries burst into flames. We know why this happens in lithium-based batteries, and we know how to build batteries to not do this in a specified operational environment.
Heat, shorts, pressure on cells, insufficient or incorrect materials within the battery, encasing the battery, etc. One or more of these things was insufficient for the application in question (powering the Note 7 in a typical environment). We don't know which and to what degree. The few that do know why haven't said.
Software "engineers" at best.
This is the company in question. https://www.instrumental.ai/te...
It's a small startup of 9 people with no history. None of the people are even listed as mechanical engineers. They're all software engineers (which isn't a recognized profession, by the way) and business people. Not a one among them has the authority to make any claims about the Note 7. None of them have the actual experience with the Note 7 to do so either - they had a single sample that they couldn't actually do anything with other than write the blog post and fish it out to tech sites for hits and to get their name out there.
The "manufacturing technology company" is a small startup with no experience, expertise, or credentials.
Further, they had a single unit to work with. Their testing revealed nothing conclusive and they weren't able to actually discern anything.
All they did was look at it and say it's a very tight fit. Everything else is speculation.
The Taiwanese mobo brands have been layering ESD, overvoltage, and overcurrent protection, as well as fuses for individual ports, on their shit since the late 90s when tons of shit was getting fried due to crappy PSUs and crappy peripherals. The last time I saw it as a named feature emblazoned on the front of the box they were on version 4 of whatever they called it.
If you're buying OEM crap (Dell, Lenovo, HP, Apple), or an Intel board, you're fucked. Decent mobos will at the worst lose just the one port when the fuse blows.
Like HRC scorned.
I'm piloting over a tonne of metal moving at speeds capable of inflicting instantaneous death upon anything in my way
What about a California Redwood?
Or a layer of water bears on the road?
I farted. I demoed this to people in the office, and they were quite excited. You'll be able to experience it yourself "in the near future".
(This kind of shit is stupid and won't be around "in the near future". The regulations for headlights alone would take years to rewrite and grease through. Further, nobody wants to see the projections from a car other than their own, least of all cyclists and pedestrians. It's bad enough when some jackass has illegal HID lamps that are misaligned so they blind you and are that ugly blue color so the last thing you see is just fucking awful. The only sane way to do this shit is to do it on the windshield as a head-up display for the driver.)
In a world where robots with AI can do just about every blue collar and almost all white collar work better, faster, and cheaper
Show me the gardening robot that's cheaper than whatever flavor of immigrant is in your local area.
Show me the construction robot that's cheaper than whatever flavor of illegal immigrant is at your local Home Depot.
Show me the plumber robot that will wrestle your turds and other unspeakables as well as a grizzly looking plumber.
Show me the robot that will be held accountable when it decides to approve an exception on form II-37 without the standard documentation under section B because it determined via a phone call to the person overseas that there were grounds for an exception.
Show me the software licensing agreements and prices for any of these pie-in-the-sky "AIs" or "Expert Systems".
People won't stop working, either. It's just not in our nature. Look at the military, where people can retire with a significant paycheck as early as 38.
Thank you for the lols. A great way to start the weekend.
I used to work in a lab with a guy who would go back and modify his lab notebooks to make himself look better.
You can't do science when someone is changing the numbers after the fact.
Form what I've seen, that's standard.
People love to tweak their data, adjust it, reinterpret it, look for any excuse to throw out an "outlier" (an outlier only to their predetermined conclusion), etc. Being "right" or pushing an agenda or foisting some scam is more important than actually testing a hypothesis (if they even have a proper hypothesis to test).
People bitch about how the masses are anti education, anti science, etc. Generally, they're not. They're anti educator, anti school, anti government, and anti "scientist" because they're sick of the bullshit.
You have such a transparent shitposting patten (and you keep using "brownshirts") that you may as well not post as AC.
You're the one who's wrong.
If you modify a <MAKE> vehicle, even extensively, you absolutely can sell it as a modified <MAKE> because that's what it is.
I an buy a McDonald's Big Mac, take a shit in it, and sell it as a McDonald's Bic Mac, with Shit. At worst I'd need to declare that I'm not McDonald's and McDonald's owns "McDonald's" (even though they stole it from some dude) and "Big Mac".
It's not progress.
They're rolling very patch into one big blob - take it or leave it. If the latest update causes your system to crash because one patch borks some hardware or software you rely on, then you can't get the 26 other patches and ignore the one bad one until they fix it.
Further, they force you to download what essentially amounts to a full OS image in order to patch, not just the files that have changed.
This has no impact on the code base, and as far as dependency hell goes, Windows has had the obnoxious Windows Side-by-Side system to deal with this since Vista. Every version of every library, every MSI, etc. you ever touch is stored and kept in the WinSxS folder, which just grows geometrically over time. (For years MS claimed that the dick space is not actually consumed as things are effectively symlinks, but that's just bullshit. Even if it were true, Explorer sees the space as used and thus the space effectively is used as Explorer can't grok it.)
It was a hard enough battle to get them to give us the option to skip kernel mode driver updates in Windows 10. (You can thank Nvidia for this as they kept pushing out WHQLd drivers that caused crashes.)
The fact that the update blobs have come to Windows 7 is a travesty, and it came along with the "Fuck you, we're not telling you what's in the updates anymore." bullshit. They've temporarily partially backed off on that bit for Windows 7, but you still don't get the full details of what an update actually does or what the file versions are, etc. Don't forget they also killed technet.
All in all the consolidated updates are just one more rusty genital they use against us in the orgy of fucking over their users.
Every major update to Windows 10 is essentially performed via a dirty reinstall.
They call this progress.
Any service, network, app, platform, etc. with a "Trust and Safety Council" is useless.
That article simply says it's all fake and that people are being harassed. It doesn't address any of the alleged links or any of the evidence presented by the people who dug through the emails and found the connection.
The article also spends a lot of time whining about fake news and a lack of fact checking without even a hint that it's aware of the hypocrisy its engaged in.
NYT is a joke.
if you don't tow the line
Toe the line.
Considering the code words used for other things found in the email dumps, it's looking like it's absolutely real.
Because I'm tacky!
Having Google, Apple, or Amazon in charge of my SQL servers, my AD domains, or my SCCM sites sounds like a fresh new level of.
You forgot the disclaimer about Droid being a registered trademark of Lucasfilm LTD.
Some amalgam of George Lucas and Walt Disney will be suing you shortly.
It would take you the same amount of time to read the entire HDD back out using this exploit.
(Assuming the read and write performance of your drive are roughly the same.)
Further, it took you hours to encrypt your drive because it wasn't OPAL v2 compliant and couldn't talk nicely to BitLocker.
OPAL v2 drives simply use the same key in their hardware for BitLocker, so you're not double encryption and you don't need to run a pass over the whole drive when you turn it on. Turning it off just drops you back down to hardware encryption on the drive (which is completely useless unless you lock the drive with the manufacturer's tool / require a power on password, or later perform a secure erase which will just nuke the key and reset the various tables in the controller).
BitLocker can be used without TPM. You can supply your key via a USB drive or even use a keyboard to put in the 48-digit recovery key.