Mandatory overtime for like the last 3 years - it was fun until they stopped paying for any overtime. Only way I escaped was to work remote to pursue an MBA. And now what do I have to look forward to? Management Consulting or Investment Banking careers that have 60+ hour weeks as the norm.
This is not true in my portion of the industry. I design the Flight Management software and systems (my last three projects were A380, B787, and B747-8). All of our work is strictly not military; we have a separate group that does military work. The two product lines are 100% independent. So there is really no issue as far as I see here. Of note as well - we already employ 400+ Indian engineers working on our product. So selling components to China is of little concern.
Final point - just because the Chinese build an aircraft doesn't mean they understand aerospace. I would argue that while Boeing and Airbus build aircraft, many of their suppliers have most of the knowledge; they just integrate everything.
I work at a Fortune 100 company and we recently (1 year ago) deployed disk encryption to all laptops. It sucks honestly. You can't do image backups anymore, not to mention backups are questionable because you don't always know how the backup is being done (low level copy, file copy, etc.). Furthermore, it SLOWS compiles, etc. way way down. When you are hitting the disk a ton to compile, the encryption takes a huge toll. And finally, if something does wrong on the disk, well your data it at the hands of an IT guy they hired last week. Even worse, they won't give IT-contractors the keys to fix encryption issues, so only a limited staff can deal with disk encryption issues encountered.
For those suggesting simple solutions like a white board or a Wiki: these are good ideas, but it is possible the users are required to use a formal, controlled issue tracking system. For example, the FAA requires controlled issue tracking with many many controls and procedures in place.
A whiteboard or a wiki would encounter a large amount of scrutiny while trying to explain to a DER (designated engineering representative) how the highest priority issue on the whiteboard got replaced by your five year old who likes to draw purple kitties...
Military projects are in a similar situation, although I am not as familiar with the specifics.
This is the hole: "A flaw in mod_imap when using the Referer directive with image maps. In certain site configurations a remote attacker could perform a cross-site scripting attack if a victim can be forced to visit a malicious URL using certain web browsers."
However, because this test is wildly unrealistic, I doubt this can be exploited.
If you want a real test of Mac OSX: Give it to a person who surfs the web between 2- 4 hours a day, and who has no computer security knowledge whatsoever. This is, in fact, the typical Mac OSX user...
Considering the built in memory on the Treo is a joke; this hack is really worthless. Almost everyone I know with one of these uses the SDIO port for additional memory. And who the hell wants to have to keep swaping between the WiFi card and SD memory card.
Well on the DirecTV units you can do quite a bit; noZKT hack, stuff dealing with the P4. That is all I will say; there is a quite a bit that can be done. Steal service I guess if you are in to that and stuff;)
I would suggest picking up "Applied Cryptography" for reference. As to cryptography and it's affect on society, I would try looking online, like on Wired's site, etc. They usually have news articles coverign such issues.
Hey, how about they start a new distributed project that will allow me to boot Windows in under 30 minutes. I figure we could have it down to 15 minutes if we go like 30000 other computers involved.:-)
Okay, so now AMD has the upper hand. I think everyone is kind of forgetting that this is the computer industry. AMD will eventually make some bad decisions, and just like Intel it will fall. Then another small time chip manufacturer will be right on it's heels to take AMD's place and everyone will once again be cheering for the underdog. I think the important point here is that the competition between AMD and Intel has provided consumers with better chips and better prices. If only Microsoft had had someone like AMD on their ass about software Windows might actually run a little better. Oh, and I like the Tom's Hardware article, however, the part about a X-Box...lame. Other than that though it was a good article.
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Mandatory overtime for like the last 3 years - it was fun until they stopped paying for any overtime. Only way I escaped was to work remote to pursue an MBA. And now what do I have to look forward to? Management Consulting or Investment Banking careers that have 60+ hour weeks as the norm.
This is not true in my portion of the industry. I design the Flight Management software and systems (my last three projects were A380, B787, and B747-8). All of our work is strictly not military; we have a separate group that does military work. The two product lines are 100% independent. So there is really no issue as far as I see here. Of note as well - we already employ 400+ Indian engineers working on our product. So selling components to China is of little concern.
Final point - just because the Chinese build an aircraft doesn't mean they understand aerospace. I would argue that while Boeing and Airbus build aircraft, many of their suppliers have most of the knowledge; they just integrate everything.
I work at a Fortune 100 company and we recently (1 year ago) deployed disk encryption to all laptops. It sucks honestly. You can't do image backups anymore, not to mention backups are questionable because you don't always know how the backup is being done (low level copy, file copy, etc.). Furthermore, it SLOWS compiles, etc. way way down. When you are hitting the disk a ton to compile, the encryption takes a huge toll. And finally, if something does wrong on the disk, well your data it at the hands of an IT guy they hired last week. Even worse, they won't give IT-contractors the keys to fix encryption issues, so only a limited staff can deal with disk encryption issues encountered.
For those suggesting simple solutions like a white board or a Wiki: these are good ideas, but it is possible the users are required to use a formal, controlled issue tracking system. For example, the FAA requires controlled issue tracking with many many controls and procedures in place.
A whiteboard or a wiki would encounter a large amount of scrutiny while trying to explain to a DER (designated engineering representative) how the highest priority issue on the whiteboard got replaced by your five year old who likes to draw purple kitties...
Military projects are in a similar situation, although I am not as familiar with the specifics.
Hmm, I think the larger problem here is that we cannot trust cashiers to tell a blind person they gave them a $20 bill instead of a $5 bill...
I would have been more impressed if Google had been able to achieve the 4th spacial dimension.
Come on Google, I thought you guys were "innovators"
Welcome to my world, Linux users!
This is the hole: "A flaw in mod_imap when using the Referer directive with image maps. In certain site configurations a remote attacker could perform a cross-site scripting attack if a victim can be forced to visit a malicious URL using certain web browsers."
However, because this test is wildly unrealistic, I doubt this can be exploited.
If you want a real test of Mac OSX: Give it to a person who surfs the web between 2- 4 hours a day, and who has no computer security knowledge whatsoever. This is, in fact, the typical Mac OSX user...
Considering the built in memory on the Treo is a joke; this hack is really worthless. Almost everyone I know with one of these uses the SDIO port for additional memory. And who the hell wants to have to keep swaping between the WiFi card and SD memory card.
Well on the DirecTV units you can do quite a bit; noZKT hack, stuff dealing with the P4. That is all I will say; there is a quite a bit that can be done. Steal service I guess if you are in to that and stuff ;)
Or could this possibly be a downside of Redhat... What? You mean Linux can sometimes have downsides too? Hmm, who would have thought...
I would suggest picking up "Applied Cryptography" for reference. As to cryptography and it's affect on society, I would try looking online, like on Wired's site, etc. They usually have news articles coverign such issues.
Hey, how about they start a new distributed project that will allow me to boot Windows in under 30 minutes. I figure we could have it down to 15 minutes if we go like 30000 other computers involved. :-)
Yeah, so now all guys who use computers must be transexuals.... :-)
Ha! To hell with Linux! It's takes skill to make an OS that after crashing and displaying the blue screen then crashes again at the blue screen. :-)
Okay, so now AMD has the upper hand. I think everyone is kind of forgetting that this is the computer industry. AMD will eventually make some bad decisions, and just like Intel it will fall. Then another small time chip manufacturer will be right on it's heels to take AMD's place and everyone will once again be cheering for the underdog. I think the important point here is that the competition between AMD and Intel has provided consumers with better chips and better prices. If only Microsoft had had someone like AMD on their ass about software Windows might actually run a little better. Oh, and I like the Tom's Hardware article, however, the part about a X-Box...lame. Other than that though it was a good article.
Gee, the way this case has gone thus far, i'm not really surprised by this.