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  1. We know that it didn't have the fuel to return to Florida. However what about if you keep going to say Lajes Air Base on the Azores, aka a Space Shuttle launch abort landing site? Not seen a reason why that is not possible other than having to negotiate with the Portuguese about it.

  2. Re:Just use IPSEC on Dragonblood Vulnerabilities Disclosed in Wi-Fi WPA3 Standard (zdnet.com) · · Score: 2

    Indeed back in the day when WEP was your only choice and it was broken bad I knew of sites that basically said you know what the WiFi is going to be free access, but once you have connected the *ONLY* think you can talk to is the VPN server, so until you have brought up a IPSEC VPN you can't actually do anything useful. Looks like that approach is still legitimate more than a decade later.

  3. Re:Not Netflix's fault on Netflix Axes Apple AirPlay Support (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Except HDCP (up to at least 1080p content) is a totally busted encryption protocol. The master keys where reverse engineered years ago. You can just go onto eBay and purchase a HDMI capture device stick it between a device and the TV and record everything being played.

  4. Re:Third-world country on Are America's Big Telecom Companies Suppressing Fiber? (salon.com) · · Score: 1

    Are you sure he was not already in the USA, because taking an entirely unnecessary transatlantic flight for a heart valve operation would be stupid. Oh and the announcement of the surgery was combined with news that the Rollings Stones USA tour due to start in like two weeks time was postponed.

  5. Re: why.. why.. why.. on White Hat Hackers Cracked 50 UK Universities' Computer Systems In 2 Hours (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Well as far as I can tell they didn't get into my HPC facility. Well its not mine personally but its the one I am responsible for maintaining. Being a multi institutional facility it is of course accessible via SSH on the wider internet. I am of course reasonably confident that they would need a zero day exploit or a compromised account to get in. In the latter case I am confident without a zero day privilege escalation they could only ravage the compromised account, and I have daily backups of that. Its TSM but up to a year, with 10 inactive copies for 31 days, dropping to one there after for 13 months. Then again my monthly nessus scan rarely shows anything. Last one was a couple of my websites where still allowing insecure cryptographic protocols, and that was months ago and more a better ditch these as they are possible to compromise with significant effort now.

  6. The Treaty of Rome states to work towards and ever closer economic and political union. The end state of that as a federal state will likely take hundreds of years.

  7. Except when two sensors disagreeing can send your plane into an unrecoverable dive then that immediately makes it a safety critical feature.

  8. The problem is the two sensors. You need three is a safety critical system like this so one bad sensor can be out voted by the remaining two good sensors.

    Boeing have two options. Redesign the whole system to have three sensors which means retrofitting it on all delivered planes. That's going to be costly and time consuming.

    The second option is just to disable the MCAS and have all pilots flying the MAX variants of the 737 type certify. This will take time and makes the 737 MAX a much less attractive plane for airlines as they have to type certify their pilots for the new plane.

    The best Boeing can do with the current hardware is have the software disengage on differential sensor input and turn on the indicator light (which presumably will need retrofitting on all planes without it). However at this point the pilots won't be trained/certified for a plane which now has different stall characteristics. Consequently you are back at having to type certify your pilots for the MAX variant.

    Boeing are completely and totally screwed. Further the person or persons who signed off on using just two sensors need to find themselves in the dock on corporate manslaughter charges.

  9. Re:Tres Fucked. on Boeing Delays 737 Max Software Fix (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    And it requires the use of three fricking sensors. One sensor, it goes wrong and your stuffed. Two sensors and one goes wrong, your still stuffed because you don't know which one has gone wrong. Three sensors and the one fails the other two can vote it down.

    No amount of software fixes are going to overcome the fact that Boeing cheaped out and only fitted the device with two sensors.

    Sure they can have the software detect that the two sensors disagree and disengage the MCAS, but that leaves you with a plane that has significantly different flight characteristics than a standard 737, which was the whole point of the MCAS in the first place so that pilots didn't need recertifying to fly the MAX.

    Basically Boeing have two options. fit a third sensor and update the software, or fix the software so the MCAS disengages with different sensor inputs and have all pilots recertify for the MAX variants.

    Meanwhile whoever signed off on just two sensors needs to send some time in jail for corporate manslaughter.

  10. Re:Shocking. on Sony To Slash Smartphone Workforce 50% By 2020 (nikkei.com) · · Score: 1

    The problem with Sony is that they produce too many models and update them too frequently which just increases support costs. Basically they where updating lines every six months where every 12 months would be more than fine, and then they could keep supporting them for longer.

    I had a Z1 compact and went to a XZ1 compact. I have no idea where I will go next to get a compact waterproof phone with a headphone socket.

  11. Re:API... not code on Oracle Tells Supreme Court Google Copyright Breach Knocked It Out Of Smartphone Market (crn.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Don't worry IBM are quietly rubbing their hands in glee. Should Oracle succeed, they should expect to find themselves in court for ripping off IBM's SEQUEL back when they where Relational Software. It's a bit of a silly game for Oracle to play IMHO.

  12. Re:No there's not. This is the EU. on Europe Passes Controversial Online Copyright Reforms (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Most parliaments don't propose laws, or at least have very limited powers to do so. In most countries laws are almost universally proposed by the executive to be either passed or rejected by the parliament.

  13. Re:Not democracy on Europe Passes Controversial Online Copyright Reforms (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    The parliament is democratically elected. Next election being in May.

    The council is composed of elected ministers, one from each member state.

    The commissioners are civil servants (and civil servants are not elected in any country I have ever heard of) that are appointed by the council.

    More either uninformed or deliberate misinformation.

  14. Re:Click Bait Title + No Universal Definition of " on Hacking Lawyers or Journalists Is Totally Fine, Says Notorious Cyberweapons Firm (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Thing is that for much of the early history of Israel the USA did not provide military aid. In fact it was only the selling of advanced fighter aircraft to Iraq by the USSR in 1962 that it started to do so. The major turning point was the Six-Day War of 1967, with the nail in the coffin being the Yon Kippur war in 1973. Up until that point the main source of arms was France.

    Much of the continuing support is because Israel is a fantastic test bed for new weapon technologies in actual combat operations. Where else do you get to test a missile defense system like Iron Dome for example?

  15. Re:We support these criminals? on Hacking Lawyers or Journalists Is Totally Fine, Says Notorious Cyberweapons Firm (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Does the passage of time make you a native population and the descendents of people pushed out not?

    It is the failure of the Palestinians and the wider Muslim population in especially the middle east to accept they don't have exclusive rights to the land that has lead them to the position they are in today.

    The Muslim's conquered what is now Israel. If that makes them the native population then we have to accept morally that anyone let alone the descendants of those pushed out by that conquest have the right to conquer the land and claim it as their own. The length of the passage of time is immaterial.

  16. Because a business the size of Google or Facebook has no business not having an ERP. My employer which is much smaller than either of those two but still significantly sized in the scheme of things has one.

    No purchase order in the ERP system, no payment of invoice, no if's and no buts and consequently no opportunity for this sort of fraud. Are ERP systems cheap, hell no, but they don't cost anywhere 99 million USD either which is what it cost Facebook for not having one.

  17. Re: A corporation cutting corners... on Crashed Boeing Planes Lacked Safety Features That Company Sold Only As Extras (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    A redundant second sensor is not enough. How do you know which one is giving faulty readings? You need three sensors.

    The problem with the MCAS is that it only had two sensors and a single faulty one can cause it think the plane is stalling when it's not. The indicator is to let the pilots know that there is a sensor disagreement.

  18. Re: A corporation cutting corners... on Crashed Boeing Planes Lacked Safety Features That Company Sold Only As Extras (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Problem is there are only two sensors that feed the MCAS. The indicator is to say there is a sensor disagreement. The indication is that this will be added to all new 737Max free of charge.

    However the bigger issue is why are there only two sensors. where a single faulty sensor can cause an issue. There should have been three sensors so a single faulty sensor can be out voted by the remaining two good ones.

    How the hell this passed for flight certification is the issue. Far to cosy a relationship between Boeing and the FAA, for which heads need to roll.

  19. Wrong. You should never arrest someone on the say so of someone else. Especially for an none violent offence with a very low flight risk.

    The police should have asked Wells Fargo for more information before proceeding with the arrest as the information WF presented was inadequate to justify an arrest.

  20. Re:Irresponsibility as usual on Wells Fargo Sued By 63-Year-Old Pastor They Wrongfully Accused of Forging Checks (nj.com) · · Score: 1

    Well that is perfectly possible. There is GPS, Glonass, Galileo and BeiDou GNSS time signals and various LW radio clocks depending where you are in the world.

    So in North America you could have five stratum one NTP servers with different time sources, GPS, Glonass, Galileo, BeiDou and WWVB, each one should be able to handle in excess of 100,000 clients at default NTP polling intervals that should get you millisecond accurate synchronization. More clients add in more stratum one NTP servers.

    I clearly know far more about time synchronization than you do. But having designed hardware LW radio clock interfaces for a PC and written associated clock source drivers for NTP you might expect that.

    Basically there is no good reason for a network attached computer to be more than one second out from the global reference UTC.

  21. Re:Irresponsibility as usual on Wells Fargo Sued By 63-Year-Old Pastor They Wrongfully Accused of Forging Checks (nj.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    No possible to synchronize all the clocks? What stone are you living under? You can either use NTP if millisecond synchronization is adequate or PTP if you need nano/pico second synchronization. Heck if you used RFC 868 and just wrote the time out to the local clock say every 8 hours you would get second level synchronization.

    Finally if you know your clocks are not synchronized then you have no business using time stamps to match up pictures to transactions for the purposes of prosecuting thefts/frauds.

  22. Re: Is this why Socialismdoesn't work? on Was Venezuela's 5-Day Blackout Caused By Cyberattacks -- or Wildfires? (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    The reparations the Germany had to pay after WWI where less than France had to pay to Germany in real terms after the Franco Prussian War. They are not the cause of WWII. General Pershing had it right on the eve of the armistice when he said if we agreed to the armistice the Germans would not accept they where defeated and we would have to do it all over again. The right end to WWI would have been to march into Germany in 1919 and demand an unconditional surrender, which is exactly what we did in WWII, because the policy in WWI had failed.

  23. You might just want to Google up on that. Tldr you are wrong they did have a breeding program.

  24. Re:Hybrids are better, for now on Toyota Is Losing the Electric Car Race, So It Pretends Hybrids Are Better · · Score: 1

    I think the point is that the vast majority of people *NEVER* need to have their drive handy.

    Outside of tag team driving a range of 500 miles is more than you can legally do in Europe as a commercial driver in 24 hours., so as long as you can charge in 8 hours you are golden. I figure 600 mile range from new so you still have say ~500 miles when the car is towards the end of it's life and everything is good. That would more than cover every car journey I have ever made in my life including when I was a child been driven around by my parents. My brother in law who is a sales person says the most he has done in a day was 470 miles and would not have wanted to drive any more.

    The Tesla Roadster 2 is going to have that range.

  25. Re:Dr Ian Malcolm said it best on Scientists Reawaken Cells From a 28,000-Year-Old Mammoth (vice.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I don't think a herbivore is likely to eat a human. On the other hand you might get trampled by them.