This looks like it might be a violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, the part about "exceeds authorized access". File a criminal complaint with the FBI.
Most of the commentary on this accident is clueless. Wait for the NTSB report, and meanwhile, read NTSB reports of other crashes. Most airliner crashes have at least two causes, because the single-cause problems are known and have been fixed.
This accident is puzzling because landing too slow and too short is a classic new-pilot error. Here, both pilots had many thousands of hours, and visual conditions were near perfect. This is going to take more work to unravel.
Think of the desktop PC industry as being akin to the heavy truck industry. (A "heavy truck" means anything bigger than a pickup or van.) Heavy trucks move around most of the stuff in the world. Most larger businesses of own or lease some heavy trucks. Almost all businesses use shipping services that operate heavy trucks. They're an essential component of doing business, and they're not going away.
Heavy trucks work well, are used until they wear out, and are then replaced. About 2 million heavy trucks are produced per year worldwide. Nobody gets a new heavy truck because a new model just came out. New heavy trucks are better than older models, but not by much.
That's the role of the desktop PC today. Businesses need them and will buy them, use them until they wear out, then buy new ones. Some people will have them at home, and those are the people who had a typewriter at home before computers.
Software bloat is a consequence of stressing time-to-market over cost. Nothing gets rewritten to throw out old stuff. Look how bloated the Linux kernel has become.
It seems to take half a gigabyte to load a web browser today. New languages don't help; "Hello world" in Go is over a megabyte.
There are reasons for needing a lot of memory. Like loading the model for a jet engine into Autodesk Inventor, which requires many gigabytes and many processors. Or loading a game like GTA V, which has a big chunk of Southern California in there. But big phone apps that don't do much? Bad programming.
One win in the phone world is the lack of virtual memory. Virtual memory has become a crutch - just bring in everything including the kitchen sink, and let the pager throw out the useless stuff. This results in slow program loads and random delays during operation. Worse, there are programs that think they're so important that they load something that sits in memory just to keep their stuff active. (I'm looking at you, "jusched.exe". If that's running on your machine, delete it. Its sole purpose in life is to keep the Java system paged into memory, needed or not. Without it, Java programs (if you run any) will load slightly more slowly when no Java program has executed recently. There are similar memory drains for OpenOffice and Windows Office.)
All virtual memory can do, at best, is create the illusion you have about twice as much RAM. This is achieved at a cost of going out to disk that's 10,000 times slower than RAM. It was a win 40 years ago when memory cost a million dollars a megabyte. Not so much now.
Both the USAF and the U.S. Army field Predators. The Army has them driven by sergeants, and has autoland installed. The USAF has them driven by officer pilots, and refuses to have autoland installed on their birds.
USAF drone crash rates are much higher than Army crash rates.
There's at least one US cellular provider which annoys the FBI by obeying the law. They have a contact point for interception requests. That phone is answered by their lawyers, who check the validity of the request before anything happens. If it's an "emergency" request prior to a court order, they insist that the requesting law enforcement agent sign a form.
The form requires full identification of the law enforcement officer, their contact information, and their supervisor's contact information. The officer must certify that a proper court order will be requested and provided to the telco within a specified number of days.
The law enforcement officer has to agree that their agency will indemnify the telco in the event of any later legal dispute, and that should the agency fail to do so, the officer will be personally responsible for any penalties or legal expenses incurred by the telco.
That's what CALEA says a telco is supposed to do. The FBI hates being accountable like that.
There are now six systems with of known exoplanets within 10 light years. It's quite feasible to send messages in their direction on a regular basis. Should this be done?
You'd think they'd offer an upgrade path to Xbox One. But no. That's not the Microsoft way. They didn't migrate PlaysForSure to Zune. They sort of migrated Zune to Windows Phone and Xbox Music. They're not good at gracefully supporting their content buyers as the technology changes.
The tail broke off, not the wings.
And the aircraft didn't "cartwheel". There are many good pictures of the wreckage. The wreckage is sitting on the ground alongside the runway, right side up, wings intact, on its belly. The tail assembly is completely detached from the plane. Much fire damage to the top of the fuselage, which is puzzling.
There are pictures of the passengers evacuating, including, inevitably, one of the passengers who just evacuated taking pictures of the plane.
Too early to discuss causes. Reports indicate the plane landed short in an nose-up attitude, but it's too early to say why.
The Xbox One recognizes your face. It knows if you're watching. They're in a position to insist that you watch the ads. Leave during an ad, and everything pauses until you get back to finish watching the ad.
"It sees you when you're sleeping. It knows when you're awake. It knows if you've been bad or good."
There's an anime version of Welcome to the N.H.K. The first episode describes someone becoming hikikomori. Then it gets worse. It's so painful that when it ran on Japanese TV, a public service announcement of a help line for hikikomori ran with each episode.
I'd thought of doing that as part of one of my browser add-ons, but it has problems. The general idea is that you send your cookies to a central site which sends them out to others to confuse tracking. As the article says, "The Vortex system will build a database of cookies gathered by players." So you've traded multiple limited data collection systems for one central one. There are a number of obvious ways that can backfire.
Just turn off third party cookies. Or run Abine's Do Not Track Me.
The situation where there are no movies to watch because everything is ether in 3d or in the shittiest corner screens is slightly disappointing.
True. A big problem with what passes for 3D movies rely on hitting you in the face with 3D effects. All "3D" movies seem to have to have a roller coaster scene or equivalent. It's not cool any more, just annoying.
Cameron did a nice job with "Avatar". He figured out how to use 3D with restraint. At no point in Avatar is anything placed in front of the screen plane. In everything in Disney Crap 3D, the 3D is in your face.
There are things that can still be done. Cameron wants higher frame rates, for those big slow pans over high-detail backgrounds he likes don't have any visible strobing effects. He also points out that going to 4K resolution is meaningless after the first few rows in the theater, where nobody sits anyway.
Didn't the original scrolling intro always say "episode 4"?
It did when I saw the original theatrical release on opening day in1978. Seeing that go by, I thought they were showing a serial out of order by mistake.
This is a solution to a very special problem - one program with cryptographic code running in a VM, and a hostile program running in the same VM. There are some crypto algorithms which can be broken if you can submit keys to them, and watch how long they run or what cache misses they make. This is very tough to do in the real world.
It also comes up for crypto modules which do DRM for content owners. There, an attacker can watch the signals and interfere with the operation of the crypto unit to slowly extract its internal keys. That's a real threat to DRM systems.
Extruder-based machines aren't a very good technology. The fundamental problem is that you're trying to weld a hot thing to a cold thing. Welding metals that way produces flawed joints, and soldering that way produces cold solder joints. Heating the build platform helps a little, but once you've built something of any height, the heater is too far from the action. Some of the machines have better temperature control of the build area than others, but they're all rather flaky. TechShop has tried four different brands, and they range from mediocre (Replicator2 ) to useless (the Up).
The UV polymerization machines seem to work quite well. The high-end machines produce consistent results and don't need to be watched while running. They're still slow, though. The Form1 printer may get there, if they ever really ship the thing in quantity. The ship date has slipped from April 2013 to October 2013, even though their Kickstarter funding was way oversubscribed. They also charge $149/liter for their custom resin. (I suspect that resin for 3D printers is going to be a similar racket as ink for inkjet printers. The stuff isn't inherently expensive; a slightly different formulation is routinely used for making printing plates, where it costs about a quarter of the price.)
SELinux isn't claimed to be secure. NSA's defensive side, the Central Security Service, created it because they wanted application developers to start writing applications that would run under a mandatory security system. Once all major applications could run under SELinux, it would be possible to swap out the Linux kernel for something smaller, with far less trusted code.
That didn't work out. Not enough applications were redesigned to run under the tight restrictions needed to make most of their code untrusted. A good example of commercial developer incompetence in this area is Matlab, which won't run with SELinux enabled. So Matlab's official instructions tell users to turn SELinux off. There is no justification for Matlab requiring security privileges.
There is also a new "backdoor" to SELinux in Linux installed recently to support a competing "security" package.
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This looks like it might be a violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, the part about "exceeds authorized access". File a criminal complaint with the FBI.
Most of the commentary on this accident is clueless. Wait for the NTSB report, and meanwhile, read NTSB reports of other crashes. Most airliner crashes have at least two causes, because the single-cause problems are known and have been fixed.
This accident is puzzling because landing too slow and too short is a classic new-pilot error. Here, both pilots had many thousands of hours, and visual conditions were near perfect. This is going to take more work to unravel.
Think of the desktop PC industry as being akin to the heavy truck industry. (A "heavy truck" means anything bigger than a pickup or van.) Heavy trucks move around most of the stuff in the world. Most larger businesses of own or lease some heavy trucks. Almost all businesses use shipping services that operate heavy trucks. They're an essential component of doing business, and they're not going away.
Heavy trucks work well, are used until they wear out, and are then replaced. About 2 million heavy trucks are produced per year worldwide. Nobody gets a new heavy truck because a new model just came out. New heavy trucks are better than older models, but not by much.
That's the role of the desktop PC today. Businesses need them and will buy them, use them until they wear out, then buy new ones. Some people will have them at home, and those are the people who had a typewriter at home before computers.
Software bloat is a consequence of stressing time-to-market over cost. Nothing gets rewritten to throw out old stuff. Look how bloated the Linux kernel has become.
It seems to take half a gigabyte to load a web browser today. New languages don't help; "Hello world" in Go is over a megabyte.
There are reasons for needing a lot of memory. Like loading the model for a jet engine into Autodesk Inventor, which requires many gigabytes and many processors. Or loading a game like GTA V, which has a big chunk of Southern California in there. But big phone apps that don't do much? Bad programming.
One win in the phone world is the lack of virtual memory. Virtual memory has become a crutch - just bring in everything including the kitchen sink, and let the pager throw out the useless stuff. This results in slow program loads and random delays during operation. Worse, there are programs that think they're so important that they load something that sits in memory just to keep their stuff active. (I'm looking at you, "jusched.exe". If that's running on your machine, delete it. Its sole purpose in life is to keep the Java system paged into memory, needed or not. Without it, Java programs (if you run any) will load slightly more slowly when no Java program has executed recently. There are similar memory drains for OpenOffice and Windows Office.)
All virtual memory can do, at best, is create the illusion you have about twice as much RAM. This is achieved at a cost of going out to disk that's 10,000 times slower than RAM. It was a win 40 years ago when memory cost a million dollars a megabyte. Not so much now.
It's just to get kids to use Google+.
You just know that's what it is for.
Can you turn off the channel to Google?
Both the USAF and the U.S. Army field Predators. The Army has them driven by sergeants, and has autoland installed. The USAF has them driven by officer pilots, and refuses to have autoland installed on their birds.
USAF drone crash rates are much higher than Army crash rates.
Remember when the CSS fanboys said CSS would reduce network traffic, because you'd already have the style sheet loaded?
The big change is allowing multiplexing in one stream. It's a lot like how Flash multiplexes streams.
Sure, PCs are connected to the cloud which acts as a server of sorts, but I can run any application I want, connect to any server I wish.
Phones and tablets, though...
Who's in charge here? The cloud!
There's at least one US cellular provider which annoys the FBI by obeying the law. They have a contact point for interception requests. That phone is answered by their lawyers, who check the validity of the request before anything happens. If it's an "emergency" request prior to a court order, they insist that the requesting law enforcement agent sign a form.
The form requires full identification of the law enforcement officer, their contact information, and their supervisor's contact information. The officer must certify that a proper court order will be requested and provided to the telco within a specified number of days. The law enforcement officer has to agree that their agency will indemnify the telco in the event of any later legal dispute, and that should the agency fail to do so, the officer will be personally responsible for any penalties or legal expenses incurred by the telco.
That's what CALEA says a telco is supposed to do. The FBI hates being accountable like that.
There are now six systems with of known exoplanets within 10 light years. It's quite feasible to send messages in their direction on a regular basis. Should this be done?
You'd think they'd offer an upgrade path to Xbox One. But no. That's not the Microsoft way. They didn't migrate PlaysForSure to Zune. They sort of migrated Zune to Windows Phone and Xbox Music. They're not good at gracefully supporting their content buyers as the technology changes.
The tail broke off, not the wings. And the aircraft didn't "cartwheel". There are many good pictures of the wreckage. The wreckage is sitting on the ground alongside the runway, right side up, wings intact, on its belly. The tail assembly is completely detached from the plane. Much fire damage to the top of the fuselage, which is puzzling.
There are pictures of the passengers evacuating, including, inevitably, one of the passengers who just evacuated taking pictures of the plane.
Too early to discuss causes. Reports indicate the plane landed short in an nose-up attitude, but it's too early to say why.
The Xbox One recognizes your face. It knows if you're watching. They're in a position to insist that you watch the ads. Leave during an ad, and everything pauses until you get back to finish watching the ad.
"It sees you when you're sleeping. It knows when you're awake. It knows if you've been bad or good."
San Francisco has 8,000 homeless people. Those could help.
There's an anime version of Welcome to the N.H.K. The first episode describes someone becoming hikikomori. Then it gets worse. It's so painful that when it ran on Japanese TV, a public service announcement of a help line for hikikomori ran with each episode.
I'd thought of doing that as part of one of my browser add-ons, but it has problems. The general idea is that you send your cookies to a central site which sends them out to others to confuse tracking. As the article says, "The Vortex system will build a database of cookies gathered by players." So you've traded multiple limited data collection systems for one central one. There are a number of obvious ways that can backfire.
Just turn off third party cookies. Or run Abine's Do Not Track Me.
The situation where there are no movies to watch because everything is ether in 3d or in the shittiest corner screens is slightly disappointing.
True. A big problem with what passes for 3D movies rely on hitting you in the face with 3D effects. All "3D" movies seem to have to have a roller coaster scene or equivalent. It's not cool any more, just annoying.
Cameron did a nice job with "Avatar". He figured out how to use 3D with restraint. At no point in Avatar is anything placed in front of the screen plane. In everything in Disney Crap 3D, the 3D is in your face.
There are things that can still be done. Cameron wants higher frame rates, for those big slow pans over high-detail backgrounds he likes don't have any visible strobing effects. He also points out that going to 4K resolution is meaningless after the first few rows in the theater, where nobody sits anyway.
Didn't the original scrolling intro always say "episode 4"?
It did when I saw the original theatrical release on opening day in1978. Seeing that go by, I thought they were showing a serial out of order by mistake.
This is a solution to a very special problem - one program with cryptographic code running in a VM, and a hostile program running in the same VM. There are some crypto algorithms which can be broken if you can submit keys to them, and watch how long they run or what cache misses they make. This is very tough to do in the real world.
It also comes up for crypto modules which do DRM for content owners. There, an attacker can watch the signals and interfere with the operation of the crypto unit to slowly extract its internal keys. That's a real threat to DRM systems.
This isn't for general purpose computing.
This sounds like something a music promotion company would do.
Extruder-based machines aren't a very good technology. The fundamental problem is that you're trying to weld a hot thing to a cold thing. Welding metals that way produces flawed joints, and soldering that way produces cold solder joints. Heating the build platform helps a little, but once you've built something of any height, the heater is too far from the action. Some of the machines have better temperature control of the build area than others, but they're all rather flaky. TechShop has tried four different brands, and they range from mediocre (Replicator2 ) to useless (the Up).
The UV polymerization machines seem to work quite well. The high-end machines produce consistent results and don't need to be watched while running. They're still slow, though. The Form1 printer may get there, if they ever really ship the thing in quantity. The ship date has slipped from April 2013 to October 2013, even though their Kickstarter funding was way oversubscribed. They also charge $149/liter for their custom resin. (I suspect that resin for 3D printers is going to be a similar racket as ink for inkjet printers. The stuff isn't inherently expensive; a slightly different formulation is routinely used for making printing plates, where it costs about a quarter of the price.)
This was years ago. I think it was even on Slashdot.
SELinux isn't claimed to be secure. NSA's defensive side, the Central Security Service, created it because they wanted application developers to start writing applications that would run under a mandatory security system. Once all major applications could run under SELinux, it would be possible to swap out the Linux kernel for something smaller, with far less trusted code.
That didn't work out. Not enough applications were redesigned to run under the tight restrictions needed to make most of their code untrusted. A good example of commercial developer incompetence in this area is Matlab, which won't run with SELinux enabled. So Matlab's official instructions tell users to turn SELinux off. There is no justification for Matlab requiring security privileges.
There is also a new "backdoor" to SELinux in Linux installed recently to support a competing "security" package.