Companies used to building medical hardware have discovered microcontrollers and hired the cheapest programmer or two they could find to program it. Companies not used to software, hiring low skilled programmers, probably giving them unreasonable schedules and requirements. Color me shocked.
Love to hear from one of the programmers who programmed one of these things, hear what they have to say.
You naive jackass. The trucks don't have to be safe. They just need to generate enough money to bribe\h\h\h\h donate money to our elected assholes\h\h\h\h\h politicians to keep them on the streets.
stupid/naive people. Somebody thought this could be a thing and we should be scared? No, us smarties not only dodged that bullet, we saw it coming and avoided any chance of it hitting us.
/ stupid is as stupid does // stupid/naive people are stupid /// I fucking hate how many line breaks I have to manually insert on/., instead of just a CR
It's not millenials, this has been going on for a long time. Used to be a magazine called Computer Languages, which was all about new computer languages (duh).
Keep in mind, at one point C, C++, Java, Javascript, D, whatever were hot new languages.
My car will be fine in 8 years. Not only that, it will be paid off (it's paid off now, I paid cash for it). Maybe in 20 years, but most insurance guys give me a better than 50/50 chance of being dead by then so it won't matter to me.
Too many plot twists got given away. The funniest scene in the trailer isn't in the movie. I use either reviews or the subject matter to decide if I wanna see a movie or not.
Nobody is perfect, all software has vulnerabilities. Had our relevant TLAs bothered to tell the relevant companies about the holes they found we would all be a hundredfold safer. But no, they kept them secret, figuring they could hack Some Bad Guy's computer and Stop Some Low Level Bad Thing.
The fault here lies in our countries TLA's deciding it was better to leave 100% of the country at risk hoping they would be able to exploit a hole before someone else could exploit that same hole against us.
Fuck the NSA, CIA, FBI, and everyone else that finds security issues and keeps them private. They are the problem, not Microsoft.
Being told to hang a left in a mile, being told to hang a left in half a mile, being told to hang a left in a quarter mile, being told to hang a left in 300 yards, being told to hang a left in 100 yards, being told to hand a left at the next light, missing the turn because you didn't have enough warning.
Jeezuz fuck us, let's have an app that sends all these people onto train tracks and tells them to wait until a train hits them.
Been using Windows since 3.1, still haven't gotten used to ribbons (where dafuq did the option I want that used to be here go?). Metro was a huge disaster. Not feeling chippy about a new look and feel for something I spend 10+ hours a day (work & home) working with.
I use duck duck go as my daily search engine. I use gmail and android but both could easily be switched out. Facebook? Never had an account, never logged on.
In the past there was no way to avoid the Bell System if you wanted a telephone, and you had to have a telephone.
I don't understand why Comey didn't indict not only HRC, but also Huma and Weiner over mishandling of classified material. But the guy seemed to be trying to thread the needle.
Comey seemed to be trying to Do The Right Thing, as opposed to the rest of Washington.
Keep in mind folks, had you or I done anything these three did we would be in prison looking at 20 years.
Which shows the closest station as the one that shuts off my gas when my tank is half full. I've told the worker bees, this has gone on for a good 2 years.
Second cheapest is on the way to my aerobics class, so I buy gas there.
Actually, the cheapest are either:
1) The Union 76 station 1 mile away that can't handle my credit card, or
2) Various stations that don't accept credit cards. I'm sorry, gas costs so much I don't carry the cash needed to fill my tank. Debit cards don't have the consumer protections I need to trust them, I don't have one.
Let's say it has a.50 machine gun on it with a few thousand rounds of ammo. Let's say it can change orbits. Let's say someone on the ground can say "that one".
Let's try to argue we shot it down as opposed to space junk hitting it.
/ then again, with it's payload it probably has a few million rounds of ammo
Remote tracking from earth, or advanced software that lets someone on the ground say "shoot that", and who can prove it wasn't random space junk that took out that satellite.
Oh shit, if you don't hear from me tomorrow start a gofundme to get me a lawyer.
I've written a couple apps in Java, run them weekly. That said, no way in hell will I allow a web browser to run Java (nor Javascript, and I know they are completely different).
Don't see how either of my apps are security issues as neither touches the network. They scratch an itch, they do what I need them to do, I'm happy with them.
A few month back a (presumably) drunk guy hit and killed a pedestrian while speeding on a residential street in the rain. He took off, got turned in by his girlfriend (he was driving her car). He was sentenced yesterday to 10 years. Being California, he'll be out in 5.
10-15 years ago our sales rep for our JTAG debugger was Jeff Flake (not the congressclown). This guy was great. He knew his stuff, and if I asked him a question he didn't know he'd find out and let me know (we were trying to automate test scripts via Perl with a COM library developed in house. Basically guessing how the JTAG debugger internals works and asking Jeff when we guessed wrong).
It pisses me off to see congressclown Jeff bring down the awesome Jeff Flake the sales represenative.
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Find the iffy journals, submit a couple of fabricated papers, bingo! A 50+ y/o software engineer might get a new job.
Followed him for years, always thought he was my age (58). He was right more than he was wrong, but he was always interesting.
Companies used to building medical hardware have discovered microcontrollers and hired the cheapest programmer or two they could find to program it. Companies not used to software, hiring low skilled programmers, probably giving them unreasonable schedules and requirements. Color me shocked.
Love to hear from one of the programmers who programmed one of these things, hear what they have to say.
You naive jackass. The trucks don't have to be safe. They just need to generate enough money to bribe\h\h\h\h donate money to our elected assholes\h\h\h\h\h politicians to keep them on the streets.
TCP port 137, 139, and 445 are blocked, UDP ports 137 and 138 are blocked. So am I safe?
I've got a printer and NAS on my network, I know the printer uses SMB but not sure of the NAS.
stupid/naive people. Somebody thought this could be a thing and we should be scared? No, us smarties not only dodged that bullet, we saw it coming and avoided any chance of it hitting us.
// stupid/naive people are stupid
/// I fucking hate how many line breaks I have to manually insert on /., instead of just a CR
/ stupid is as stupid does
It's not millenials, this has been going on for a long time. Used to be a magazine called Computer Languages, which was all about new computer languages (duh).
Keep in mind, at one point C, C++, Java, Javascript, D, whatever were hot new languages.
My car will be fine in 8 years. Not only that, it will be paid off (it's paid off now, I paid cash for it). Maybe in 20 years, but most insurance guys give me a better than 50/50 chance of being dead by then so it won't matter to me.
Too many plot twists got given away. The funniest scene in the trailer isn't in the movie. I use either reviews or the subject matter to decide if I wanna see a movie or not.
Nobody is perfect, all software has vulnerabilities. Had our relevant TLAs bothered to tell the relevant companies about the holes they found we would all be a hundredfold safer. But no, they kept them secret, figuring they could hack Some Bad Guy's computer and Stop Some Low Level Bad Thing.
The fault here lies in our countries TLA's deciding it was better to leave 100% of the country at risk hoping they would be able to exploit a hole before someone else could exploit that same hole against us.
Fuck the NSA, CIA, FBI, and everyone else that finds security issues and keeps them private. They are the problem, not Microsoft.
I can't smell my own BO, let alone a nice stash of coke, weed, or vodka 2 feet from my nose.
Being told to hang a left in a mile, being told to hang a left in half a mile, being told to hang a left in a quarter mile, being told to hang a left in 300 yards, being told to hang a left in 100 yards, being told to hand a left at the next light, missing the turn because you didn't have enough warning.
Jeezuz fuck us, let's have an app that sends all these people onto train tracks and tells them to wait until a train hits them.
Been using Windows since 3.1, still haven't gotten used to ribbons (where dafuq did the option I want that used to be here go?). Metro was a huge disaster. Not feeling chippy about a new look and feel for something I spend 10+ hours a day (work & home) working with.
What a waste of a good space station. Attach boosters to it and send it to congress.
I use duck duck go as my daily search engine. I use gmail and android but both could easily be switched out. Facebook? Never had an account, never logged on.
In the past there was no way to avoid the Bell System if you wanted a telephone, and you had to have a telephone.
I don't understand why Comey didn't indict not only HRC, but also Huma and Weiner over mishandling of classified material. But the guy seemed to be trying to thread the needle.
Comey seemed to be trying to Do The Right Thing, as opposed to the rest of Washington.
Keep in mind folks, had you or I done anything these three did we would be in prison looking at 20 years.
Which shows the closest station as the one that shuts off my gas when my tank is half full. I've told the worker bees, this has gone on for a good 2 years.
Second cheapest is on the way to my aerobics class, so I buy gas there.
Actually, the cheapest are either:
1) The Union 76 station 1 mile away that can't handle my credit card, or
2) Various stations that don't accept credit cards. I'm sorry, gas costs so much I don't carry the cash needed to fill my tank. Debit cards don't have the consumer protections I need to trust them, I don't have one.
What we really want people to do is drop the trojan/boated Windows 10 and starting using ElementaryOS or Linux Mint. It's so easy to do folks
I'll get right on that, soon as I can play a current top tier game on OtherOS.
Let's say it has a .50 machine gun on it with a few thousand rounds of ammo. Let's say it can change orbits. Let's say someone on the ground can say "that one".
Let's try to argue we shot it down as opposed to space junk hitting it.
/ then again, with it's payload it probably has a few million rounds of ammo
Remote tracking from earth, or advanced software that lets someone on the ground say "shoot that", and who can prove it wasn't random space junk that took out that satellite.
Oh shit, if you don't hear from me tomorrow start a gofundme to get me a lawyer.
I think "snotsicle", something a co-worker called oysters back in the 80's. And I have to say, after eating a couple I agree with him.
They may be tasty, but they are gross as hell and I don't eat them.
Sorry, did I just hijack a thread? Should have done this on fark.
I've written a couple apps in Java, run them weekly. That said, no way in hell will I allow a web browser to run Java (nor Javascript, and I know they are completely different). Don't see how either of my apps are security issues as neither touches the network. They scratch an itch, they do what I need them to do, I'm happy with them.
The Times reporter later tweeted "This could be @twitter's death knell.
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A few month back a (presumably) drunk guy hit and killed a pedestrian while speeding on a residential street in the rain. He took off, got turned in by his girlfriend (he was driving her car). He was sentenced yesterday to 10 years. Being California, he'll be out in 5.
10-15 years ago our sales rep for our JTAG debugger was Jeff Flake (not the congressclown). This guy was great. He knew his stuff, and if I asked him a question he didn't know he'd find out and let me know (we were trying to automate test scripts via Perl with a COM library developed in house. Basically guessing how the JTAG debugger internals works and asking Jeff when we guessed wrong).
It pisses me off to see congressclown Jeff bring down the awesome Jeff Flake the sales represenative.