I RTFA and found only one place in TFA that makes it clear that it's the bacteria inside the crows that has the resistance. Everywhere else reads like the crows themselves have become resistant. (Which is silly, because crows aren't bacteria, and non-bacteria are resistant by default.)
I am extremely disappointed that this Register article does not use the word Itanic. Not even the (currently 8) reader comments. I expected higher standards from such an organisation as El Reg.
Someone wrote a terrible web app, it could be attacked with simple GET requests. Someone else made those requests, but it was still a terrible web app. And nothing of value was lost.
But did they really strip out the "internet capability", or just the wifi chips? In other words, will it still support a USB Ethernet dongle? (Not that I care, I already have an old one that can play Gamecube games.)
It's the usual fearmongering: ZOMG EARTHQUAKES EVERYTHING FALLING DOWN!
Except that tiny earthquakes aren't even felt by most people. When it is known that one happened, they are often described as being like a truck rolling by. So yeah, what's the big deal? Some rocks shift a bit, hundreds of feet below the surface. There's more effect here in Texas on building foundations from drought/rain cycles.
It's not just an algorithm, that's the easy part. It's also a user interface to control that algorithm, and the configuration storage goes from being one bit to more than one bit. And it's also users for whom the very concept of double DST will be strange to begin with, so you also have to deal with not breaking their brains. It gets worse if it's only enacted in a limited area, and the concept remains strange for most of your customers.
Sorry, you had me until that. The Japanese are also masters at not questioning authority, looking the other way, and pretending everything is fine to save face.
Clearly he actually has the very lack of clue that you were telling him would be shown by putting that crap in his resume. I'm sure his prospective employers thank him for making it that easy to see.
Do it like the TV networks already do it, make Eastern and Pacific the base zones, 3 hours apart. Then Alaska moves down to PST, since the southeast of it was already in the next time zone over. Except that Anchorage was already downshifted one time zone so now they would be two down from solar time.
It is now that they made summer time last longer back in 2005. The sunrise/sunset time is like a sine wave, and DST change is right in the part with the fastest rise/fall time, so two or three weeks can make a big difference. Meanwhile it keeps the sun from waking you up at oh-five-thirty in the summer. Not to mention that bird that likes to sit outside your window chirping loudly soon after sunrise. (Apparently not outside your window, or you would understand. I have had a problem with this in the past.)
Mine is also based on talking to a "cloud" server via wifi which handles the DST change, as well as a web site that lets me change the info.
I'm surprised that you had to change the old one four times a year... it didn't support places like Arizona and Indiana that don't do DST? The worst case should have been to turn off DST and change the clock manually twice a year.
Many of those automatic clocks now don't work correctly and can't be reprogrammed.
Fortunately for us, any of them using the WWVB radio signal do work correctly, but only because the DST information is part of the radio signal. Of course this is the US DST, so anyone in Mexico (and probably Canada too) who wants to use the DST info is fucked.
It makes enough of a difference in Austin that I'm sure it is even more important in Minneapolis and Seattle. Of course anyone near or above the Arctic Circle (like Alaska) is completely hosed anyhow.
What really sends a chill down my spine are the words "Double Daylight Saving Time". I work on an embedded device's code base that has to deal with DST without the benefit of an operating system, or even a human adjusting it every day. It's bad enough as a boolean option with date ranges that change based on what borders you are inside of. So far, nobody has done double DST since the UK did it in WWI, when we didn't have mass-produced consumer electronics and compuers that care what the time of day is.
Except they wouldn't be later. You would just change the UTC offset for the same hours of the day in some parts of the country. All you would be doing is renaming 8AM as 9AM... which we already do every spring anyhow for DST changes, so it's not exactly rocket science. There's no reason why one place has to start the work day at 8AM just because some other place 1500 miles away starts at 8AM.
Fuck it. Let's just go full-on UTC everywhere, then everyone will know what time it is. We can even finish converting to metric while we're at it.
One more thing... I lived in Louisiana for one year. It's on the eastern side of CST. Holy crap did the sun ever come up early. Other than that, I've lived in the middle of CST (around US-281's longitude) since I was a kid in 1973.
My point is that even one-hour increments for time zones can be pretty rough if you live near the extreme ends of them.
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I RTFA and found only one place in TFA that makes it clear that it's the bacteria inside the crows that has the resistance. Everywhere else reads like the crows themselves have become resistant. (Which is silly, because crows aren't bacteria, and non-bacteria are resistant by default.)
I am extremely disappointed that this Register article does not use the word Itanic. Not even the (currently 8) reader comments. I expected higher standards from such an organisation as El Reg.
Someone wrote a terrible web app, it could be attacked with simple GET requests. Someone else made those requests, but it was still a terrible web app. And nothing of value was lost.
FTFY.
Because Little Bobby Tables.
http://your.site/dumbass.php?id=10; DROP TABLE catalog; --
It's the Javascript Cyber Army that you really need to watch out for. I hear the PHP is getting one, too.
But did they really strip out the "internet capability", or just the wifi chips? In other words, will it still support a USB Ethernet dongle? (Not that I care, I already have an old one that can play Gamecube games.)
Indeed: SO WHAT.
It's the usual fearmongering: ZOMG EARTHQUAKES EVERYTHING FALLING DOWN!
Except that tiny earthquakes aren't even felt by most people. When it is known that one happened, they are often described as being like a truck rolling by. So yeah, what's the big deal? Some rocks shift a bit, hundreds of feet below the surface. There's more effect here in Texas on building foundations from drought/rain cycles.
It's not just an algorithm, that's the easy part. It's also a user interface to control that algorithm, and the configuration storage goes from being one bit to more than one bit. And it's also users for whom the very concept of double DST will be strange to begin with, so you also have to deal with not breaking their brains. It gets worse if it's only enacted in a limited area, and the concept remains strange for most of your customers.
Add a little voice recognition and you can call out all your attacks, too!
Version 7 says "Let there be light!"
And if there's a technical problem with it, they'll ask you to reboot it before doing anything else.
The japanese are perfecstionists
Sorry, you had me until that. The Japanese are also masters at not questioning authority, looking the other way, and pretending everything is fine to save face.
Clearly he actually has the very lack of clue that you were telling him would be shown by putting that crap in his resume. I'm sure his prospective employers thank him for making it that easy to see.
Not sure if trolling or really that stupid.
Do it like the TV networks already do it, make Eastern and Pacific the base zones, 3 hours apart. Then Alaska moves down to PST, since the southeast of it was already in the next time zone over. Except that Anchorage was already downshifted one time zone so now they would be two down from solar time.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Standard_time_zones_of_the_world.png
So the sun sets in December at 4:11pm in Boston now? How many hours difference do you think there are between EST and CST?
It is now that they made summer time last longer back in 2005. The sunrise/sunset time is like a sine wave, and DST change is right in the part with the fastest rise/fall time, so two or three weeks can make a big difference. Meanwhile it keeps the sun from waking you up at oh-five-thirty in the summer. Not to mention that bird that likes to sit outside your window chirping loudly soon after sunrise. (Apparently not outside your window, or you would understand. I have had a problem with this in the past.)
Mine is also based on talking to a "cloud" server via wifi which handles the DST change, as well as a web site that lets me change the info.
I'm surprised that you had to change the old one four times a year... it didn't support places like Arizona and Indiana that don't do DST? The worst case should have been to turn off DST and change the clock manually twice a year.
Many of those automatic clocks now don't work correctly and can't be reprogrammed.
Fortunately for us, any of them using the WWVB radio signal do work correctly, but only because the DST information is part of the radio signal. Of course this is the US DST, so anyone in Mexico (and probably Canada too) who wants to use the DST info is fucked.
It makes enough of a difference in Austin that I'm sure it is even more important in Minneapolis and Seattle. Of course anyone near or above the Arctic Circle (like Alaska) is completely hosed anyhow.
What really sends a chill down my spine are the words "Double Daylight Saving Time". I work on an embedded device's code base that has to deal with DST without the benefit of an operating system, or even a human adjusting it every day. It's bad enough as a boolean option with date ranges that change based on what borders you are inside of. So far, nobody has done double DST since the UK did it in WWI, when we didn't have mass-produced consumer electronics and compuers that care what the time of day is.
Except they wouldn't be later. You would just change the UTC offset for the same hours of the day in some parts of the country. All you would be doing is renaming 8AM as 9AM... which we already do every spring anyhow for DST changes, so it's not exactly rocket science. There's no reason why one place has to start the work day at 8AM just because some other place 1500 miles away starts at 8AM.
Fuck it. Let's just go full-on UTC everywhere, then everyone will know what time it is. We can even finish converting to metric while we're at it.
Nixon? What did he have to do with this? It remained unchanged from 1966 until 2005 when Washington DC couldn't resist fixing what wasn't broke.
One more thing... I lived in Louisiana for one year. It's on the eastern side of CST. Holy crap did the sun ever come up early. Other than that, I've lived in the middle of CST (around US-281's longitude) since I was a kid in 1973.
My point is that even one-hour increments for time zones can be pretty rough if you live near the extreme ends of them.
This. Exactly this. I live in south west texas, and kids have been going to school in the dark for over a month now.
You can thank Dubya (along with most of the US Congress and Senate) for that. It was working just fine since 1966, then someone had to go mess with it.