I discovered the hard way that resetting the OBDII on the bug meant driving the car at least 40 miles on the highway. Since my whole purpose was as a station car, train to work to lunch only, that was a real PITA.
2001 bug has it. 2008 Chrysler has it. It stopped working, would go halfway up then detect "interference" and go back down, took it to dealer, dealer replaced something on other side. Then when I pointed that out he fixed it. 2008 Edge has it, drivers side only. Also has it for up or down of hatch, though it sometimes false-positives interference on the down.
But you can still slam your finger in any door.
I wouldn't want to hack any of those. When I got a new battery for the bug at Batteries+, the listing said "Do Not Even Attempt To Install This For Customer." Installer ignored that, no problem.
I once had a Fiat 128 with a different engine swapped in. The schematics didn't agree with what was there or had been there. In Italian.
Actually, so far...I've not found any jobs that required any Oracle DBA certification as a requirement for work. Maybe for starting out, but for me, job resume experience is what sells you.
I've never been certified, I've taken the classes in the past, but never got around to taking the actual exam, and I've never found it to be a job requirement, nor pay amount factor.
I'm pretty much contracting only these days, so maybe the more beginner W2 jobs value this more, but for now, I find that in general, Oracle Certs are about as worthless as MS certified engineer credentials. You just don't need them really.
Oracle Partners jobs require certs. This is of course all marketing, but marketing is lucrative.
They've dumped it on a contractor because they "knew" it was doomed. Contract not renewed. Six months later, original "hero" is gone, and new contract, with more realistic requirements.
Sometimes what they say they know, what they actually know, and what they come to believe are not congruent.
Most modern automatic transmissions don't have the necessary hardware to turn the engine. That's why you can't push start them. Computer controlled transmissions have odd fail modes too (like those Lexus that crash and burn because they can't stop).
I had an engine stall in a '69 Cadillac while starting a turn into a driveway. Wound up in neighbor's ivy.
My roommate "predicted" this as part of a speech class in college, early 1975. He also drew up a Fartmobile, tubes coming out from under the seats. He didn't have a solution for the problem that girls don't fart.
My worst bicycling injury came from kids following grampa up a bike path, swinging out to take up the entire path, forcing me over the lip of the newly paved asphalt path, tearing off my sew-up (yeah, they were the racy thing in the olde days), sending me sliding on my side on the new asphalt, busting both rims, I went into immediate shock. Later, after I got out of the hospital, police laughed when I told them what happened. "Haha, be on the lookout for killer gramps and grandkids!"
And yes, I used to ride on the freeway (101 near Ventura, only way through, semi's blowing past you and sucking you into traffic lanes).
VMS isn't a Unix, and I don't believe you can get ahold of VMS any more. The IBM mainframes are too expensive and not open source, so there's no point in comparing them to Solaris.
What's your point exactly? My point is that Solaris is useful, even in its somewhat dodgy state (thanks Oracle for the paid update program you fucks).
I think we should blame the enablers who say hactivism is a good thing and convinced Aaron that placing devices in a network closet to steal information was somehow a good thing.
To use a car analogy, what you said is like questioning the worth of seatbelts. Just because they don't save every life in an accident doesn't mean that it not worth wearing them.
Let's carry your analogy to its conclusion...
The auto industry fought seatbelts tooth and nail and it took Congressional regulation for them to even consider them. That's part of how Ralph Nader earned his name recognition. Much like the software industry is fighting tooth and nail any attempt to make their software safe.
My way to fix this is much more simpler. Simply make the "AS-IS" clause of their EULA null and void and allow the users to sue for the damages when their defective products really hurts real people. A few high profile suits will make them put more of a priority on these vulnerabilities.
There's an asymmetry issue here. The largest companies have the most lawyers.
Though I certainly agree a maturing industry needs liability. Corvairs were ten years ahead of Porsches in some technology (like turbocharging), 911's were famous for decades after Nader for going ass first off the road. --sarcasm-- German lack of liability certainly didn't hinder innovation there. If you can't handle trailing throttle oversteer, you aren't manly enough!--/sarcasm--
You only missed the part about the alternative being worse. "Genuine innovation" means you are going to have mostly crap, with some really nice stuff that gets ignored by the masses. Remember, technical excellence is not what drives success. If you don't agree with that, please explain why bg is a billionaire. Or Zuckerberg, for that matter.
Any mass market industry is going to require standards and regulation as it matures. Some mass market industries require standards in order to mature. It's easy to forget, simply deregulating the Hz coming out of the wall would screw up most of our computer infrastructure.
So in the java and browser situations we have everyone's gramma or whatever dependent on this software. These are not the places for innovation that breaks everything. If you want a wild-west internet, fine, cage your own. The rest of us would much rather spammers die, and banks don't.
John Cleese made a management film about how to run meetings. Everyone should watch this film before scheduling meetings or commenting about the subject. We'll schedule a meeting for that.
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I wandered into this place looking for an oil change on my NB: http://www.paradisemotorsport....
They'll run forever. Badly.
(Seriously, electric choke???)
I once worked for a place that restored a Sprite (the later version rebadged midget). Positive ground! Evil!
We put on the cutest little headers too.
I discovered the hard way that resetting the OBDII on the bug meant driving the car at least 40 miles on the highway. Since my whole purpose was as a station car, train to work to lunch only, that was a real PITA.
2001 bug has it.
2008 Chrysler has it. It stopped working, would go halfway up then detect "interference" and go back down, took it to dealer, dealer replaced something on other side. Then when I pointed that out he fixed it.
2008 Edge has it, drivers side only. Also has it for up or down of hatch, though it sometimes false-positives interference on the down.
But you can still slam your finger in any door.
I wouldn't want to hack any of those. When I got a new battery for the bug at Batteries+, the listing said "Do Not Even Attempt To Install This For Customer." Installer ignored that, no problem.
I once had a Fiat 128 with a different engine swapped in. The schematics didn't agree with what was there or had been there. In Italian.
Actually, so far...I've not found any jobs that required any Oracle DBA certification as a requirement for work. Maybe for starting out, but for me, job resume experience is what sells you.
I've never been certified, I've taken the classes in the past, but never got around to taking the actual exam, and I've never found it to be a job requirement, nor pay amount factor.
I'm pretty much contracting only these days, so maybe the more beginner W2 jobs value this more, but for now, I find that in general, Oracle Certs are about as worthless as MS certified engineer credentials. You just don't need them really.
Oracle Partners jobs require certs. This is of course all marketing, but marketing is lucrative.
All you need to do is take a couple of upgrade exams, and pink unicorns will bombard you from the sky with suitcases of sparkly cash.
See the alternate method at the bottom of this doc.
I've seen another variant of this:
They've dumped it on a contractor because they "knew" it was doomed. Contract not renewed. Six months later, original "hero" is gone, and new contract, with more realistic requirements.
Sometimes what they say they know, what they actually know, and what they come to believe are not congruent.
3d printers are robots.
Happened in San Diego too: http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/26.80.html#subj5.1
Most modern automatic transmissions don't have the necessary hardware to turn the engine. That's why you can't push start them. Computer controlled transmissions have odd fail modes too (like those Lexus that crash and burn because they can't stop).
I had an engine stall in a '69 Cadillac while starting a turn into a driveway. Wound up in neighbor's ivy.
How funny, yesterday I posted that link on usenet, in response to somebody posting http://on.rt.com/4h0u9g
My roommate "predicted" this as part of a speech class in college, early 1975. He also drew up a Fartmobile, tubes coming out from under the seats. He didn't have a solution for the problem that girls don't fart.
He's been sucked into the wifi! http://shkspr.mobi/blog/2013/03/howto-make-a-doctor-who-bells-of-st-john-style-wifi-name/
That's not enough: http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2011/Jun/01/bicyclist-killed-was-a-poway-father-of-two/
(bicyclists on the train I commute with knew that guy)
My worst bicycling injury came from kids following grampa up a bike path, swinging out to take up the entire path, forcing me over the lip of the newly paved asphalt path, tearing off my sew-up (yeah, they were the racy thing in the olde days), sending me sliding on my side on the new asphalt, busting both rims, I went into immediate shock. Later, after I got out of the hospital, police laughed when I told them what happened. "Haha, be on the lookout for killer gramps and grandkids!"
And yes, I used to ride on the freeway (101 near Ventura, only way through, semi's blowing past you and sucking you into traffic lanes).
Yeah, that's how they added those extra four stories to the Rana Plaza. That went well.
"The other important thing to remember is that we will no longer accept cash at any of our branch locations -- no exceptions," http://www.kpbs.org/news/2012/nov/29/san-diego-property-taxes/
Me too. I listen to them every 5 years or so.
And what about the children? http://www.uscyberpatriot.org/Pages/default.aspx
VMS isn't a Unix, and I don't believe you can get ahold of VMS any more. The IBM mainframes are too expensive and not open source, so there's no point in comparing them to Solaris.
What's your point exactly? My point is that Solaris is useful, even in its somewhat dodgy state (thanks Oracle for the paid update program you fucks).
You can still get a hobbyist license: http://www.vmshobbyist.org/faq.php?cat_id=3
Back in the '90s, a VMS magazine pointed out that the posix implementation was good enough to say "VMS is better unix than unix."
I think we should blame the enablers who say hactivism is a good thing and convinced Aaron that placing devices in a network closet to steal information was somehow a good thing.
Bad hackers. Bad, bad hackers.
A vuln that apparently was first reported in August 2012 is finally fixed (maybe) in January 2013.
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Why can't the larger companies, e.g. Microsoft and Oracle, respond to and fix the sucrity issues more quickly than on a timeline expressed in months?
Because they need this guy in charge.
Let's carry your analogy to its conclusion...
The auto industry fought seatbelts tooth and nail and it took Congressional regulation for them to even consider them. That's part of how Ralph Nader earned his name recognition. Much like the software industry is fighting tooth and nail any attempt to make their software safe.
My way to fix this is much more simpler. Simply make the "AS-IS" clause of their EULA null and void and allow the users to sue for the damages when their defective products really hurts real people. A few high profile suits will make them put more of a priority on these vulnerabilities.
There's an asymmetry issue here. The largest companies have the most lawyers.
Though I certainly agree a maturing industry needs liability. Corvairs were ten years ahead of Porsches in some technology (like turbocharging), 911's were famous for decades after Nader for going ass first off the road. --sarcasm-- German lack of liability certainly didn't hinder innovation there. If you can't handle trailing throttle oversteer, you aren't manly enough!--/sarcasm--
You nailed it.
You only missed the part about the alternative being worse. "Genuine innovation" means you are going to have mostly crap, with some really nice stuff that gets ignored by the masses. Remember, technical excellence is not what drives success. If you don't agree with that, please explain why bg is a billionaire. Or Zuckerberg, for that matter.
Any mass market industry is going to require standards and regulation as it matures. Some mass market industries require standards in order to mature. It's easy to forget, simply deregulating the Hz coming out of the wall would screw up most of our computer infrastructure.
So in the java and browser situations we have everyone's gramma or whatever dependent on this software. These are not the places for innovation that breaks everything. If you want a wild-west internet, fine, cage your own. The rest of us would much rather spammers die, and banks don't.
John Cleese made a management film about how to run meetings. Everyone should watch this film before scheduling meetings or commenting about the subject. We'll schedule a meeting for that.