Point your browser at the Chicken Noodle Network (cnn.com). They not only have an autoplay video, they make the damned thing follow you down as you read the page. Please block that.
I ended up with 3 new icons, one for Edge (which I ran once a few years back and don't plan to run again), and 2 for XBox something or other (I've got a PS4). Right click-> delete and bye bye Edge. Same thing on the XBox icons gave the scary warning "This will delete this program from your computer". Didn't really want to do that, but I also didn't want those 2 icons on my main screen so, well, I deleted the damned things.
Lets say I'm a software engineer for some handset company mostly doing low level stuff (drivers/kernels/etc) I'm pretty familiar with the code base but pretty clueless on encryption. If I decided to peruse the code looking for backdoors, how hard would it be? I'm not expecting backdoor.NSA() or anything like that, but would it look to me like a bug I might fix spontaneously (ok, submit bug report, email to whomever asking it be assigned to me, fix problem, wait for it to be assigned to me, take ownership of bug, check in, close bug. But you know what I mean).
This of course has nothing to do with the fact the mountain they were testing their nukes under collapsed, and China is pissed that the radioactivity is liable to head their way.
Back when I went to movies there was a reason I saw them more than once in a theater. First time I'm trying to get into my date's pants. Second time I'm interested in the movie. Sometimes that order is reversed. Sometimes that first scenario happened more than once.
I've got a Fire tablet, to access numbers from the keyboard you have to hit the 123 key, to go back to letters hit abc. Pain in the fucking ass, just put a number row above qwerty. I don't use !@$, etc much on my Fire, but I use numbers every damned time I enter a password. Which is what the Fire keyboard is used for 90% of the time.
My Android calendar defaults to day mode with no way to tell it I prefer the week or month view. No, I have to enter settings and hit month every damned time I open the calendar. I want month views 90% of the time, week views 9%, and daily 1% of the time.
Windows 10 has decided it looks better when the scroll bars are a light blue against a dark beige background. I'm sure the eyeballs of the 20 somethings designing this stuff thinks it looks rad wicked, but can't they take a prototype home to mom and dad once in a while to see what 50 year old eyes think of it? To give Microsoft credit this one seems to come and go. I suspect we get a patch tuesday, someone installs it and sez "damn, we got the wrong color scheme again" and fixes it. Next patch tuesday someone else installs it and sez "damn, we got the wrong color scheme again" and fixes it. Lather rinse repeat.
The first 2 can be fixed by downloading different apps, I have yet to find a fix for the third.
I'd think a satellite would want some type of RTOS for it's main system. I used WinCE some 15-20 years ago and it sucked ass, but I'd rather use it to control a satellite than I would Win95 (or a modern Linux for that matter).
For '95 to '00 I was a consultant for Globalstar. One of the problems we faced was the phone was too quiet, people would think Something Went Wrong, and hang up. We solved it by replacing the nothing with white noise. Cost G* money to do so. Sending nothing cost nothing as we didn't have to setup/teardown a call, but for white noise we had to setup the call, send a packet of white noise, and teardown the call (think of knocking on a door, as opposed to putting mail in a mailbox).
I guess they could come up with a "working on it" tone, but who is going to know what that is? That's a hell of an education campaign someone has to pay for.
These signing terminals have been a thing for a good 15-20 years now, yet I've never signed one. I sign either Foo Bar or Mickey Mouse, depending on my mood. All have gone through with 0 hassle.
In fact, I bought groceries from Von's today, signed Foo Bar with no issues
Then again, their Just 4 U program ties my phone # to my credit card so there's that.
CSB time. Back in the 80s I wrote some software for NASA that ran on our piece of test equipment (a telemetry analyzer). Part of the contract was to train them on how to use it so I flew to Cocoa Beach. Went to Cape Canaveral to do my 30 minute training (it was easy to use software), met our contact Dave. He asked where the box was. I said we shipped it a couple weeks ago. We went off to their shipping and receiving where I immediately saw our box. Dave talked to the guy, he said it wasn't a complete shipment. Showed us the invoice that listed our box, power cord, keyboard, yadda yadda, and 1 each NRE. Which of course was the special software in the box. S&R guy couldn't be bothered to tell either Dave, the recipient, or us, the sender, about the missing piece. It was about noon, Dave told us to take off because it was going to take the rest of the day to get the thing out of S&R.
The entire trip was like that. 5 days, every day first thing we find a problem and head back to the hotel for the day while it gets taken care of.
It was kind of a bummer. My co-worker and I wanted to spend a couple days at Disney World, figuring the training would take an hour at most. By the time friday had rolled around we'd both just about maxed out our credit cards (remember, we were in our early 20s), had already spent quality time at a laundromat, and were pretty sick of each other.
Which is scary. Who thinks the Twits In Charge (TIC) have suddenly identified a few hundred thousand accounts in the week or so since Facebook had their business model thrown in their face?
No, the twits came up with a list of bad words and bad origins and made 2 teams, where each got really good with perl and Regexps shooting at different goals.
I'm a drunk that's been fired a few times for sexual harassment and spent time in jail for corporate espionage. But I promise you I won't write your supra sekrit keyz to a log file in plaintext.
On the one side you have the engineers that rely on APIs to Get Stuff Done, on the assumption that that's why the APIs exist. On the other side you have the 1% parasites who realize "oops, somebody took our work and made billions off it. Bring in the lawyers!"
The sheeple have finally figured out FB's business model, FB is running for the hills figuring the average sheeple has an IQ south of 100, yet being idiots, the sheeple are finally thinking FB is fucking them over big time.
/ never had a FB account // been warning friend/acquaintances for years about this /// my reward? fuck all. suxs being the prophet of doom when doom shows up //// Kids decided the way to keep up with the grandkids was via FB //// Still no FB account, see them this weekend, should be interesting
Then again, I'm not likely to shoot up anybody with my Mini 30, 92f, 10/22, nor Mark 2 pistol.
Point being, I'm a damned good shot with all of them, but if you ain't made of paper nor trying to break into my house you have nothing to fear from me.
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Point your browser at the Chicken Noodle Network (cnn.com). They not only have an autoplay video, they make the damned thing follow you down as you read the page. Please block that.
In tension, compression, or both? If tension this could be a big deal. Compression, meh, incremental improvement.
Of course, I'm not a structural engineer. But I did read a book called Structures; Why Things Don't Fall Down so I think I'm qualified.
I ended up with 3 new icons, one for Edge (which I ran once a few years back and don't plan to run again), and 2 for XBox something or other (I've got a PS4). Right click-> delete and bye bye Edge. Same thing on the XBox icons gave the scary warning "This will delete this program from your computer". Didn't really want to do that, but I also didn't want those 2 icons on my main screen so, well, I deleted the damned things.
Upgraded 2 days ago, no issues yet.
Lets say I'm a software engineer for some handset company mostly doing low level stuff (drivers/kernels/etc) I'm pretty familiar with the code base but pretty clueless on encryption. If I decided to peruse the code looking for backdoors, how hard would it be? I'm not expecting backdoor.NSA() or anything like that, but would it look to me like a bug I might fix spontaneously (ok, submit bug report, email to whomever asking it be assigned to me, fix problem, wait for it to be assigned to me, take ownership of bug, check in, close bug. But you know what I mean).
gets some money. I'm 60 y/o, and to be honest, getting old sucks.
// 9 times out of 10 it happens when legal issues arise
/// recent presidential elections haven't helped
If I don't read this right I claim ageism and my lawyer will get us some money.
/ sometimes sad to be an American
This of course has nothing to do with the fact the mountain they were testing their nukes under collapsed, and China is pissed that the radioactivity is liable to head their way.
Back when I went to movies there was a reason I saw them more than once in a theater. First time I'm trying to get into my date's pants. Second time I'm interested in the movie. Sometimes that order is reversed. Sometimes that first scenario happened more than once.
I've got a Fire tablet, to access numbers from the keyboard you have to hit the 123 key, to go back to letters hit abc. Pain in the fucking ass, just put a number row above qwerty. I don't use !@$, etc much on my Fire, but I use numbers every damned time I enter a password. Which is what the Fire keyboard is used for 90% of the time.
My Android calendar defaults to day mode with no way to tell it I prefer the week or month view. No, I have to enter settings and hit month every damned time I open the calendar. I want month views 90% of the time, week views 9%, and daily 1% of the time.
Windows 10 has decided it looks better when the scroll bars are a light blue against a dark beige background. I'm sure the eyeballs of the 20 somethings designing this stuff thinks it looks rad wicked, but can't they take a prototype home to mom and dad once in a while to see what 50 year old eyes think of it? To give Microsoft credit this one seems to come and go. I suspect we get a patch tuesday, someone installs it and sez "damn, we got the wrong color scheme again" and fixes it. Next patch tuesday someone else installs it and sez "damn, we got the wrong color scheme again" and fixes it. Lather rinse repeat.
The first 2 can be fixed by downloading different apps, I have yet to find a fix for the third.
I'd think a satellite would want some type of RTOS for it's main system. I used WinCE some 15-20 years ago and it sucked ass, but I'd rather use it to control a satellite than I would Win95 (or a modern Linux for that matter).
I probably use my phone most as an MP3 player while hiking. Last thing I want are expensive, easy to lose wireless earbuds.
The Norks will spend the money we give them and test fire another ICBM.
Cuz it's what they've been doing for the past 30 years, I wish to god there was an ETF that let me bet on the Norks lying in a treaty.
For '95 to '00 I was a consultant for Globalstar. One of the problems we faced was the phone was too quiet, people would think Something Went Wrong, and hang up. We solved it by replacing the nothing with white noise. Cost G* money to do so. Sending nothing cost nothing as we didn't have to setup/teardown a call, but for white noise we had to setup the call, send a packet of white noise, and teardown the call (think of knocking on a door, as opposed to putting mail in a mailbox).
I guess they could come up with a "working on it" tone, but who is going to know what that is? That's a hell of an education campaign someone has to pay for.
These signing terminals have been a thing for a good 15-20 years now, yet I've never signed one. I sign either Foo Bar or Mickey Mouse, depending on my mood. All have gone through with 0 hassle.
In fact, I bought groceries from Von's today, signed Foo Bar with no issues
Then again, their Just 4 U program ties my phone # to my credit card so there's that.
CSB time. Back in the 80s I wrote some software for NASA that ran on our piece of test equipment (a telemetry analyzer). Part of the contract was to train them on how to use it so I flew to Cocoa Beach. Went to Cape Canaveral to do my 30 minute training (it was easy to use software), met our contact Dave. He asked where the box was. I said we shipped it a couple weeks ago. We went off to their shipping and receiving where I immediately saw our box. Dave talked to the guy, he said it wasn't a complete shipment. Showed us the invoice that listed our box, power cord, keyboard, yadda yadda, and 1 each NRE. Which of course was the special software in the box. S&R guy couldn't be bothered to tell either Dave, the recipient, or us, the sender, about the missing piece. It was about noon, Dave told us to take off because it was going to take the rest of the day to get the thing out of S&R.
The entire trip was like that. 5 days, every day first thing we find a problem and head back to the hotel for the day while it gets taken care of.
It was kind of a bummer. My co-worker and I wanted to spend a couple days at Disney World, figuring the training would take an hour at most. By the time friday had rolled around we'd both just about maxed out our credit cards (remember, we were in our early 20s), had already spent quality time at a laundromat, and were pretty sick of each other.
Still haven't made it to Disney World.
So, somebody broke the routers in 2 countries. We all know you know the holes used. We all know you aren't the only ones who know the holes used.
Wouldn't it be nice if you could be pro-active for once and tell the router makers about all the holes you exploit?
My bad. I understand your job is to fuck the other guy, even if the other guy can fuck us the same way.
Which is scary. Who thinks the Twits In Charge (TIC) have suddenly identified a few hundred thousand accounts in the week or so since Facebook had their business model thrown in their face?
No, the twits came up with a list of bad words and bad origins and made 2 teams, where each got really good with perl and Regexps shooting at different goals.
Don't really give a shit as long as he does a good job.
Learned my lesson years ago, so unless they do a drive by download I'm good.
Had I grown up in these times I would have never graduated high school, unless the prison I was sent to had high school classes.
Are they still logging encryption keys in plain text?
Gotta admit, I'm having a lot of trouble getting over that one, that was a doozie.
I'm a drunk that's been fired a few times for sexual harassment and spent time in jail for corporate espionage. But I promise you I won't write your supra sekrit keyz to a log file in plaintext.
FFS.
On the one side you have the engineers that rely on APIs to Get Stuff Done, on the assumption that that's why the APIs exist. On the other side you have the 1% parasites who realize "oops, somebody took our work and made billions off it. Bring in the lawyers!"
If the var statement is a big feature for you then Kotlin is way ahead. Just sayin.
And if you think I'm updating my Java environment every 6 months then you must think my farts smell like rose water.
The sheeple have finally figured out FB's business model, FB is running for the hills figuring the average sheeple has an IQ south of 100, yet being idiots, the sheeple are finally thinking FB is fucking them over big time.
// been warning friend/acquaintances for years about this
/// my reward? fuck all. suxs being the prophet of doom when doom shows up
//// Kids decided the way to keep up with the grandkids was via FB
//// Still no FB account, see them this weekend, should be interesting
/ never had a FB account
Then again, I'm not likely to shoot up anybody with my Mini 30, 92f, 10/22, nor Mark 2 pistol. Point being, I'm a damned good shot with all of them, but if you ain't made of paper nor trying to break into my house you have nothing to fear from me.