and fuck the attendant, who is probably complicit in the scheme.
Actually, the attendant pointed out the camera several times - and the fact that she was being recorded.
Even more than that, she identified herself as a celebrity and that she would post some crap about it all over TV.
So no sympathies at all. Even less so when you're trying to exert influence over others by using your authority.
And definitely no sympathy for her situation, because it was pointed out that everything she was doing and say was being recorded.
Perhaps her car was towed illegally. That doesn't excuse you for harassing the attendant and trying to use your position of power to influence them. Especially as the attendant repeatedly notifies her that she's under surveillance.
Anyhow, the response is not to be "nice" or "polite", it's to be "diplomatic". There's a time and a place for everything, and a time and a place where something is inappropriate. I don't know if it's social media or what, but it seems to have created a pile of self-entitled people who can muster up twitter to "shame" people and companies. Oh no, my package hasn't arrived yet? Tweet the company is awful and doesn't keep promises. Voila, package is now at door! Company didn't give me another free sample? Tweet, and there it is!
Unfortunately, the power company is still expected to make sure that the power comes in at the right voltage and frequency. And with control on only part of the inputs, that's a lot harder. The fewer inputs they control, the harder...
Theoretically, you can design a control system that'll handle the problem. But, so far, noone has bothered to, because noone's had a need to. As solar becomes more common that'll change, and the problems will go away.
Already exists, and Germany and California require all solar installations use smart inverters if they're going to hook to the grid. A smart inverter is a regular inverter except it's controllable as necessary.
They're able to do frequency detection (if the frequency drops, more power is needed on the grid, and if it rises, less power is needed and it should cut back. Even more advanced ones can invert with reactance.
Of course, it all means you can't dump all the power you generate into the grid - and if you're residential, it can also mean there's not enough transmission capacity to go from your house to the business and industrial district where it's needed most.
There's also something called "net metering" where the power company sells you electricity at retail price, and buys it at wholesale price.
Either way, if you're blessed with it, the general best idea is to just use it all - if you're in a sunny and hot location, well, use it to run the A/C when your system is producing maximum power (and maybe even use cold storage), because selling it back to the grid doesn't generally pay off,,,
Is it really common practice now to have laid off workers escorted out by security?
Depends on location. In the US, it's extremely common, potentially due to their more violent nature and the second amendment.
In a lot other countries, layoffs can take different schemes - they may provide notice of layoff - as in you're going to get a severance and all that, but it's a 2-week notice, and no, they're not going to buy you out, you're going to work those two weeks. Seems incredible, but a lot of companies do it because they want an orderly transition, and they do trust their employees enough to not be burning bridges. Some even go out of their way to help them find a new job (instead of just giving them the number of the employment agency) - and that includes counseling services. Heck, even benefits often continue for a few months after the layoffs (health insurance).
I don't know what it is about the US - perhaps their proclivity towards violence leads to basically shoving them out the door after the meeting is over - if you need any personal belongings, they'll fetch it for you and pack up the rest of your stuff.
Yes, but it took two whole years before the fix came out. And the fix was made within a day of the exploit being released.
Yes, I can understand 90 days being a bit tight if you're talking fundamental software like operating systems (which require a lot of testing, staging, and you lose some to Patch Tuesday), especially since root causing and fixing can require a bit of time. But two years is a bit on the long side.
More like the guy got ignored and once he released the code, the "OH SH*T" came out.
This is one of those struggles between what's right and what's reasonable... 90 days is a bit quick for something big like an operating system where a change can break everything, but it's also on the long side for something that only breaks something really minor, like Minecraft.
I seriously doubt it. I don't see how location reporting for a payment transaction in which location data is irrelevant could possibly pass Google's privacy policy review process. Collection of data not relevant to the transaction is not generally allowed[*], and if the data in question is personally identifiable (mappable to some specific individual), then a really compelling reason for collection is required, as well as tight internal controls on how the data is managed and who has access. I don't see what could possibly justify it in this case, and I can see a lot of risk in collecting it.
There's a lot of information involved in payment systems you think are irrelevant, but are passed on in order to judge if the payment is potentially fraudulent or not.
That includes things like location data (are you making a transaction where you normally make transactions, or in a new location (this is often the reason why credit cards are blocked when on vacaation), are transactions being made in impossible schedules - e.g., you used your credit card in Seattle, then in New York an hour later?). Online sellers routinely pass your shipping information to the card processor for the same reason - and can even ask for enhanced scrutiny. This verifies that the shipping address is known to the processor (either you put it on your credit card or it's been used constantly).
You may be confident that Google isn't collecting the data, but it's made available as part of the standard fraud checks. It's also why there's slightly more pushback against Google Wallet (where Google does get all the information involved in the transaction) than Apple Pay (where after setup, Apple is out of the picture and the information is shared between you, the retailer, the processor and your bank).
Oh for fuck's sake.. it's very simple: Avionics need to be on a physically separate network from everything else, preferably encrypted. If there was 'air gap hacking' going on or even possible, wouldn't we have seen it long before now? Wouldn't an intelligent, capable, well-organized, well-thought-out terrorist (yes, Virginia, they do exist) have found a way to sneak the equipment necessary aboard a flight and implemented his hack, taken control of the plane?
Exactly.
And yes, it's possible to "break through" the airgap - cellphones are known to cause EMI issues with certain equipment on certain planes (e.g., lose GPS lock, increase INS errors, cause drift in the heading indicators, etc).
If you really wanted to cause problems, I'd go with a broadband transmitter that causes EMI in the airgapped control network more so than trying to hack it through in-flight WiFi.
The big problem with Wikipedia is that in spite of what the publicity says, it is only a small number of people who contribute, and a surprisingly large number of those people have an agenda for what they edit.
imo, with Wikipedia, truth is not the goal. A certain point of view is the goal.
No, the big problem with Wikipedia is politics. Wikipedia is the reinvention of communism, and it's proceeding just like Animal Farm and other Communist nations down the path to failure.
Heck, it's already at the "Everyone is equal, but some are more equal than others" stage.
That's the main problem - you have editors and higher ups who now patrol their part of Wikipedia who are not interested in the truth, correctness or other aspects - just in having little power struggles. Heck, for a time there were massive parts being deleted for arbitrary reasons (usually along the lines of "this content is not suitable for Wikipedia" despite having plenty of similar content around). And these days, well, edit-reversions by the same power-mad editors have basically rendered any reason to edit it moot.
I mean, there's a small amount of contributors because everyone else got driven away. Try to fix a mistake and you'll et into an edit war with an editor who thinks their interpretation is completely correct even if it's obviously wrong.
Yes, it's an encyclopedia anyone can edit. Except that if you do so, chances are someone will revert it in a few minutes because they don't agree with what you edited, even if all you did was fix an error. "Everyone has equal edit rights, but some people have more equal edit rights".
The study of Wikipedia itself is quite fascinating, no many times you get to see political ideology put into play and see the results. Usually you end up with people getting hurt or humanitarian crises if you try to experiment.
OS X does not support NVME, so no, there are no NVME drives being supplied to Apple. And finally these NVME drives are just entering production and are not available in either the OEM or Retail channels yet.
Their reasons involve context switching and interprocess communications. Context switching has got to happen (unless they run IE in kernel space) so just get it over with. Interproces communication has always been a weakness in Microsoft systems. Since day one. Multitasking OSs are here, folks. Get over DOS.
The bug here affects the HTTP server side, not IE.
And in HTTP servers, there are LOT of context switches - in basic static file handling mode, you read a file (syscall to read file), then you write it to a socket (syscall to write to socket). in effect, a webserver is just copying from two file handles, and incurring a kernel-usermode transistion twice every round.
Add in a moderately busy webserver and you could be spending significant amounts of time just switching between modes.
Using larger buffers helps, but if your site consists of lots of little files, it's still the bottleneck.
Linux has similar functionality - see sendfile(2) and splice(2), among other commands to actually manipulate in-kernel memory buffers.
In fact, doing it in the kernel has an added bonus - if you support zero-copy, no copies are made rather than potentially having to copy to/from userspace (more overhead).
Of course, in the Linux model, all the processing happens in user made and only the tedious file copying is accelerated which ups security.
You do realize google has a history of "boiling the frog", right?
You do realize there are other browsers out there, right?
And having it done in the browser is far better than the way notifications are done now - which is usually in a little tick box that then sends updates to your email... at least browsers can make a unified window listing every site push notification allowed and offer things like "disable all" or "delete all".
Moore's law is sort of a mangled version of Koomey's law. Koomey's law states that the number of computations per joule of energy dissipated has been doubling every 1.6 years. It appears to have been operative since the late 1940s: longer than Moore's law. Moreover, Koomey's law has the appeal of being defined in terms of basic physics, rather than technological artefacts. Hence, I prefer Koomey's law, even though Moore's law is far more famous.
There is another interesting aspect to Koomey's law: it hints at an answer to the question "for how long can this continue?" The hinted answer is "until 2050", because by 2050 computations will require so little energy that they will face a fundamental thermodynamic constraintâ"Landauer's principle. The only way to avoid that constraint is with reversible computing.
Ah, but Moore's Law has a direct correlation to a fundamental piece of computing - memory. Doubling transistors easily doubles storage capacity per unit area (and memory devices are area bound devices - there's a certain tradeoff between making huge memory devices versus defect rate - as you increase area, the defect rate increases dramatically). This isn't just RAM, but also non-volatile storage.
CPUs and other random logic parts have pretty much ignored Moore's law for decades now as the their limiting factor is wiring, not transistors per unit area. in fact, most random logic parts contain tons of transistors that are not hooked up to anything - they're just there. The reason for this is for revisions - fabbing extra transistors in costs nothing. But if you have a bug, if you can utilize those extra transistors, then it's less masks that have to be recreated, and at $100K a pop each, not having to redo the transistor level masks saves easily half a million or more. (It's why steppings are usually thought of as two parts - the first will be A0, while minor revisions that only change the metal layers increment the number, e.g., A1, A2, A3. Major revisions that change everything including the transistor masks change the letter, e.g, A3 to B0, etc). With proper metal layer allocations, fixing broken logic blocks may only change 1-2 metal layers rather than all metal, saving even more money when you consider that the most advanced ICs are already at 10 metal layers or more, requiring 20-30+ masks.
As clock speeds go up, random logic uses less and less minimum-size transistors and switches to larger transistors to increase drive strength. But again, transistor density isn't a problem on random logic.
They have this draconian douchebag policy that you can't ever reuse one for like 20 tries, you have to have a capital, number and punctuation.... so I just keep adding numbers to the end of it. Fark them if we get hacked.
Give me a reasonable password requirement with a reasonable expiry (NOT 30 days) and we'll talk.
I've consciously avoided jobs where my code is responsible for life-and-death decisions. The problem, I guess, is that too many other good people have made the same decision, and there aren't enough good people available to do what needs to be done. I'm not sure what to do about this.
The problem is not just that, it's that those companies don't actually pay that well, either.
Writing safety-critical code is not hard - there are plenty of guidelines on what you should and shouldn't do (e.g., memory allocation is verboten). It is a specialized skill, and the job should really be done by people who have the requisite training and knowledge and often even certifications (e.g., engineering certifications).
The problem is this is very specialized, and it costs a lot of money because those people know they are taking on professional risk (not unlike many other engineers - civil, mechanical, etc., who design stuff that could fail and take lives). Of course, the IT companies behind it all? They're not willing to pay for that enhanced risk - they're going to pay market rates.
Well geez, if I'm going to be paid market, I'm not going to put my name on anything to certify because that's a specialized skill that gets paid for. (hence, things like "approved drawings" which mean some engineer actually reviewed it all and put their stamp and certification on it).
There's a reason why NASA's software for the space shuttle costs 5+ times what a normal software project of similar size and scope would cost. It's not incompetence on NASA's part, and it's not just the extensive documentation and paperwork that goes along with it, but the fact that writing safety-critical software is hard, specialized, and for every line of code, probably generates a book's worth of documentation proving it fails safe, who wrote it, who changed it, who reviewed it, etc.
Yeah. Most IT companies for health don't even come close.
The problem with total rewrites is they almost always involve a huge amount of effort, introduce new bugs and when they "work", users barely notice the difference. So the company soldiers on, applying patch upon patch to some bullshit codebase and suffering from it but in a incremental way. Worst of all is when they embark on a rewrite and give up half way through. I was involved in a project to port a C++/ActiveX based system to.NET forms. They ported most of the major views but left a lot of the minor stuff from the old codebase lying around and wrote bridges to host it in the new framework. So they doubled the code, half of it became bitrotten and hidden by the new code and bloated out the runtime. Great project.
And what you described is technical debt.
Rewriting code costs time, effort and money, which is how you repay the debt. After all, when faced with a fix, you can do it quick and dirty and borrow from the bank, incurring debt, or fix it properly but takes longer, with no debt. The former will get it done the quickest and put the fire out, but that stuff you borrowed will haunt you later.
Your new system where you wrote bridges means you got rid of some debt, but the incurred a bunch more.
For stuff like manuscripts, museums are pretty much obsolete. What matters is what's on the paper, not the paper itself, so a hi-res picture is just as good, and a plain-text searchable copy is even better.
Except in a museum, there's a good chance it's available for public viewing. In a private collector's hands, unless they're philanthropic, it'll likely be locked away in a drawer never to see the light of day again. And the public will never get a chance to see it either.
Oh yeah, no collector will want to damage the value of their acquisition by making it easy to copy, either.
The open internet is one of the most democratizing things we have in a modern society, why is this even up for debate? What benefit would society have in enabling "Fast lanes" or "premium" connections or other nonsense? What do we get protecting commercial interests?
Easy, people with money get to make more money.
You have to remember in our capitalistic society (it's not free market, but it is capital-based), money is power, and those in power want to get more of both.
Internet fast lanes allows one to do that.
Democratizing, or rather, re-balancing of power (because it gives those who wouldn't have power, easy access to it) threatens those who have power. Power is almost a zero-sum game - get power and someone inevitably loses it. So letting the proles get access to power means those in power feel threatened.
I started using a Commodore 64 when I was 7. All of our family was amazed when we realized how to do 'Load"*",8,1' and Load"*",8,1
That always mystified me - what magic incantations did they do so that that command would actually load it off disk AND auto start the program. (I never did find out, so I don't know today).
Love it, hate it.. but, honestly you simply can't discount a film franchise in which two of the four movies have had global revenues of over a billion dollars and shows up on the lists of highest grossing films.
At the end of the day, screw artistic merit when you earn zillions of dollars.
You don't have to like it, but there's not escaping that they've been successful. As long as those movies make that much money, you can count on more of them.
The technical term is "Asses in seats". Hollywood knows summer blockbusters are basically plotless action flicks that really have little artistic merit, but damn do they get those asses into those seats.
And it's just fine. Every other creative medium has similar things going for it - books can be pulp or they can be literature, or span the wide gap between them. Movies can be thought-provoking, life altering with tons of subtext, or they can consist of people just blowing crap up. You see this in video games too - from your standard FPS shooter that sells and makes billions to your indie game exposing some human condition.
Just because Depression Quest is a thought-provoking video game doesn't mean you can't have your Call of Duty.
There's a big difference - the Apple watch starts around $400 which is impulse buy territory for lots and lots of people. I think it's pretty neat, especially the ResearchKit stuff.
$400 is NOT "impulse buy" territory.
In fact, there are many cheaper Android Wear devices out there.
What is interesting is basically in one day, Apple has basically outsold practically all smartwatches sold to date combined - even best selling ones like the Moto 360 really only moved around 100K units in total. And Apple's watch costs more, and works with less, to boot.
Granted, I have no use for one (I don't even have an iPhone capable of using it), and while I got bored with the in-store demo, I will say at least there seems to be potential there - lots of apps are updated with Apple Watch support, so there seems to be lots of room for extension. At least it seems not as limiting as Android Wear where the interactions seem limited to what Google allows you to do.
And why should the stockholders by legally liable, when they make none of the decisions, after all?
Stockholders MAKE decisions.
In a corporation, you the head honcho, the chief executive officer. He handles the day-to-day running of the company. He gets his marching orders from the Board of Directors who set the general direction of the company and what they'd like to see the company do. The Directors set the goals for the CEO, who then tries to execute them on the company.
The board of directors is held responsible for their decisions via the stockholders - who in general set the principles behind how the company operates, but are even further isolated from the day-to-day running of the business.
You see this happen all the time - when Carl Icahn decides he wants to strongarm a company into doing something. He does it by owning lots of stock. Or as it seems, every Apple quarterly update where some stockholder or another keeps wanting Apple to get rid of all the green initiatives and corporate responsibility they do so they could make more money. (All the green power, supplier responsibility stuff increases Apple's costs). Usually resulting in Tim Cook responding with "if you feel that way, take your money out of Apple and put it elsewhere".
There is nothing fucked up about that. That technology worked on the cheap (compared to Xerography or God forbit, modern laser/inkjet printers.)
Just because it is old, that doesn't mean it is shit. Enter the #2 pencil.
But the parts and everything needed to maintain the machine are probably the more expensive parts of the whole thing.
Photocopiers (aka xerography) back then were still very cheap to operate, especially the larger enterprise models designed for high-volume copying. And it's usually only cost a few pennies per page.
The ironic thing is today, the modern photocopier is closer to a laser printer than anything - the "digital" photocopier is really a scanner and printer in one unit. They generally are cheaper to operate than a laser as they're designed for high-volume use and since they're already printers, it's just as easy to make them networked printers and scanners for an office scenario. And the price per page hasn't gone up at all, either - a regular desktop laser printer might do 5 cents per page, while the "office center" machine can do it for under a penny a page.
Drill a small hole into a fire-resistant safe where your power and SCSI/IDE/SATA/USB/ETH cables go, then put your drives in there. Won't be easily stolen and will likely survive a house fire. Googling the terms "fire-resistant safe" revealed dozens of good options.
Or just go and use IOSafe drives - they're armored and protected. They routinely do demos where they ask users to store some data on it and they'll put the drive in a fire, toss it off a building and then submerge it, then they'll extract the hard drive (or SSD, if desired for added resilience) and show that the data is still accessible.
Yes, the enclosure's destroyed in the test, but the drive inside is safe and usable.
I've seen 3 episodes so far and it's been enough to make me wonder why regular TV is such crap in comparison.
Ratings, aka eyeballs. And these aren't the L+SD/L+3/L+7 (Live+Same Day, +3 days, +7 days) numbers you see reported in the papers, no,the netowrks buy the C versions of the numbers, usually C3, sometimes C7 (the difference is the program's rating is removed - the C ratings solely consist of ads). The programming+commercials numbers are provided for free, while the C numbers are provided by cost (it's how companies like Neilsen fund themselves). There is a little correlation - the C3 numbers generally correspond to L+SD numbers, but never quite exactly. So a programs' commercial viability is basically (as us mere watches are concerned) to those who watch it live, or within 24 hours of airing.
Network TV is funded solely by advertising so every show they put up has to attract the eyeballs. And when attracting eyeballs, going for the lowest common denominator means you have the widest market of eyeballs available.
Going after tech-savvy intelligent people is entirely stupid, as they're more likely to either download the show (no ratings), use a DVR and skip ads, both of which don't contribute to the C ratings. It doesn't matter how good a show does on Netflix - that's not the numbers the networks care about.
Netflix, OTOH, is funded by subscribers, and not commercials. So they need to generate good programming to keep subscribers coming back and paying their $9/month. Here the economics are different - Netflix needs to find out who its customers are (and in general, they're more affluent, tech savvy, and want programming that makes them think, or appeals to geek/nerd culture, etc), and produce that kind of programming to keep the money flowing in. Same goes for other subscription oriented channels like HBO. It's also why public TV (e.g., PBS) or state-funded TV (e.g., BBC, CBC) generally has better programming.
Now, if you look closely, you'll probably figure out why a la carte channels probably will be a race to the bottom - they need to attract cable subscribers, and those in general are more like network viewers so you cannot produce much high quality content as those don't gather eyeballs as much as the latest reality show featuring some big celebrity would. At least when they were bundled those speciality channels were insulated a bit from having to produce content that appeals to the masses and could spend money to make better programming. When it's instead all about getting as many subscribers as possible, well, you can see where it's headed.
As the demographics of Netflix change, so will the programming. Luckily this will take a long time so a show like Daredevil will be on for a while. Netflix will have to broaden its original programming in order to not just maintain its subscriber base, but to increase it.
There really isn't any reason they needed to do this, besides incompetence or malice.
Most likely incompetence.
You have to remember, LG makes money on the monitor, they don't make money on the software. Once you buy the monitor, the software's just a bonus to help you manage the windows more effectively.
The problem is, this makes the software a cost center - so a company like LG would basically say "we need software to do this" and give you $0 to develop it. I.e., get the thing out ASAP and spend no more than a day on it (including any sort of "QA" you want to do). Remember, it costs LG money to make the software which they hope will sell a few extra monitors.
Disabling UAC is supposed to be "hard" in nature - Microsoft provides no API for it, so you have to actually go in and twiddle with the controls itself (trivial to do - just hook it to Spy++)...
Here in Europe radars remain essential because of Russian planes (both fighters and nuclear bombers) are flying around with their ADS-B switched of, just to test how quick European forces respond to possible treats./blockquote.
ADS-B isn't mandatory on planes yet. There are plenty of aircraft in North America that are NOT ADS-B equipped, notably General Aviation ones where ADS-B Out devices still remain in the $5000+ category of avionics cost. Even in Canada, when Transport Canada mandated use of 405 ELTs there was great pushback because the approved ELTs still costed $5000 at implementation. The price has dropped a little bit - you can get 'em for around $3000 or so. But it also requires about $2-4000 worth of work to hook it up (especially if it doesn't have a built-in GPS and has to be wired to the onboard GPS). It's hard enough that it the mandate was pushed back.
To have ADS-B Out, you need either a Mode-S transponder with ES (Extended squitter), or a dedicated ADS-B Out transmitter. Mode S is common on commercial jetliners, so the ES part pretty much comes "for free". General Aviation aircraft typically have Mode C transponders and need to be fitted with the requisite gear.
So no, primary and secondary radar aren't going away anytime soon. The FAA is encouraging ADS-B adoption by providing free weather and traffic information for those who provide ADS-B Out - the ground stations receive a plane's ADS-B information, then consult the databases and return it traffic and weather (centered around the plane). If you only have ADS-B In, you can sometimes piggy back on that data. (Inflight weather is generally a cost option - either through satellite networks, or through SiriusXM WX service, you're still looking at over $1000/year for the service).
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Actually, the attendant pointed out the camera several times - and the fact that she was being recorded.
Even more than that, she identified herself as a celebrity and that she would post some crap about it all over TV.
So no sympathies at all. Even less so when you're trying to exert influence over others by using your authority.
And definitely no sympathy for her situation, because it was pointed out that everything she was doing and say was being recorded.
Perhaps her car was towed illegally. That doesn't excuse you for harassing the attendant and trying to use your position of power to influence them. Especially as the attendant repeatedly notifies her that she's under surveillance.
Anyhow, the response is not to be "nice" or "polite", it's to be "diplomatic". There's a time and a place for everything, and a time and a place where something is inappropriate. I don't know if it's social media or what, but it seems to have created a pile of self-entitled people who can muster up twitter to "shame" people and companies. Oh no, my package hasn't arrived yet? Tweet the company is awful and doesn't keep promises. Voila, package is now at door! Company didn't give me another free sample? Tweet, and there it is!
Already exists, and Germany and California require all solar installations use smart inverters if they're going to hook to the grid. A smart inverter is a regular inverter except it's controllable as necessary.
They're able to do frequency detection (if the frequency drops, more power is needed on the grid, and if it rises, less power is needed and it should cut back. Even more advanced ones can invert with reactance.
Of course, it all means you can't dump all the power you generate into the grid - and if you're residential, it can also mean there's not enough transmission capacity to go from your house to the business and industrial district where it's needed most.
There's also something called "net metering" where the power company sells you electricity at retail price, and buys it at wholesale price.
Either way, if you're blessed with it, the general best idea is to just use it all - if you're in a sunny and hot location, well, use it to run the A/C when your system is producing maximum power (and maybe even use cold storage), because selling it back to the grid doesn't generally pay off,,,
Depends on location. In the US, it's extremely common, potentially due to their more violent nature and the second amendment.
In a lot other countries, layoffs can take different schemes - they may provide notice of layoff - as in you're going to get a severance and all that, but it's a 2-week notice, and no, they're not going to buy you out, you're going to work those two weeks. Seems incredible, but a lot of companies do it because they want an orderly transition, and they do trust their employees enough to not be burning bridges. Some even go out of their way to help them find a new job (instead of just giving them the number of the employment agency) - and that includes counseling services. Heck, even benefits often continue for a few months after the layoffs (health insurance).
I don't know what it is about the US - perhaps their proclivity towards violence leads to basically shoving them out the door after the meeting is over - if you need any personal belongings, they'll fetch it for you and pack up the rest of your stuff.
Yes, but it took two whole years before the fix came out. And the fix was made within a day of the exploit being released.
Yes, I can understand 90 days being a bit tight if you're talking fundamental software like operating systems (which require a lot of testing, staging, and you lose some to Patch Tuesday), especially since root causing and fixing can require a bit of time. But two years is a bit on the long side.
More like the guy got ignored and once he released the code, the "OH SH*T" came out.
This is one of those struggles between what's right and what's reasonable... 90 days is a bit quick for something big like an operating system where a change can break everything, but it's also on the long side for something that only breaks something really minor, like Minecraft.
There's a lot of information involved in payment systems you think are irrelevant, but are passed on in order to judge if the payment is potentially fraudulent or not.
That includes things like location data (are you making a transaction where you normally make transactions, or in a new location (this is often the reason why credit cards are blocked when on vacaation), are transactions being made in impossible schedules - e.g., you used your credit card in Seattle, then in New York an hour later?). Online sellers routinely pass your shipping information to the card processor for the same reason - and can even ask for enhanced scrutiny. This verifies that the shipping address is known to the processor (either you put it on your credit card or it's been used constantly).
You may be confident that Google isn't collecting the data, but it's made available as part of the standard fraud checks. It's also why there's slightly more pushback against Google Wallet (where Google does get all the information involved in the transaction) than Apple Pay (where after setup, Apple is out of the picture and the information is shared between you, the retailer, the processor and your bank).
Exactly.
And yes, it's possible to "break through" the airgap - cellphones are known to cause EMI issues with certain equipment on certain planes (e.g., lose GPS lock, increase INS errors, cause drift in the heading indicators, etc).
If you really wanted to cause problems, I'd go with a broadband transmitter that causes EMI in the airgapped control network more so than trying to hack it through in-flight WiFi.
No, the big problem with Wikipedia is politics. Wikipedia is the reinvention of communism, and it's proceeding just like Animal Farm and other Communist nations down the path to failure.
Heck, it's already at the "Everyone is equal, but some are more equal than others" stage.
That's the main problem - you have editors and higher ups who now patrol their part of Wikipedia who are not interested in the truth, correctness or other aspects - just in having little power struggles. Heck, for a time there were massive parts being deleted for arbitrary reasons (usually along the lines of "this content is not suitable for Wikipedia" despite having plenty of similar content around). And these days, well, edit-reversions by the same power-mad editors have basically rendered any reason to edit it moot.
I mean, there's a small amount of contributors because everyone else got driven away. Try to fix a mistake and you'll et into an edit war with an editor who thinks their interpretation is completely correct even if it's obviously wrong.
Yes, it's an encyclopedia anyone can edit. Except that if you do so, chances are someone will revert it in a few minutes because they don't agree with what you edited, even if all you did was fix an error. "Everyone has equal edit rights, but some people have more equal edit rights".
The study of Wikipedia itself is quite fascinating, no many times you get to see political ideology put into play and see the results. Usually you end up with people getting hurt or humanitarian crises if you try to experiment.
The new MacBook supports NVMe on OS 10.10.3, so support is rapidly coming...
The bug here affects the HTTP server side, not IE.
And in HTTP servers, there are LOT of context switches - in basic static file handling mode, you read a file (syscall to read file), then you write it to a socket (syscall to write to socket). in effect, a webserver is just copying from two file handles, and incurring a kernel-usermode transistion twice every round.
Add in a moderately busy webserver and you could be spending significant amounts of time just switching between modes.
Using larger buffers helps, but if your site consists of lots of little files, it's still the bottleneck.
Linux has similar functionality - see sendfile(2) and splice(2), among other commands to actually manipulate in-kernel memory buffers.
In fact, doing it in the kernel has an added bonus - if you support zero-copy, no copies are made rather than potentially having to copy to/from userspace (more overhead).
Of course, in the Linux model, all the processing happens in user made and only the tedious file copying is accelerated which ups security.
You do realize there are other browsers out there, right?
And having it done in the browser is far better than the way notifications are done now - which is usually in a little tick box that then sends updates to your email... at least browsers can make a unified window listing every site push notification allowed and offer things like "disable all" or "delete all".
Ah, but Moore's Law has a direct correlation to a fundamental piece of computing - memory. Doubling transistors easily doubles storage capacity per unit area (and memory devices are area bound devices - there's a certain tradeoff between making huge memory devices versus defect rate - as you increase area, the defect rate increases dramatically). This isn't just RAM, but also non-volatile storage.
CPUs and other random logic parts have pretty much ignored Moore's law for decades now as the their limiting factor is wiring, not transistors per unit area. in fact, most random logic parts contain tons of transistors that are not hooked up to anything - they're just there. The reason for this is for revisions - fabbing extra transistors in costs nothing. But if you have a bug, if you can utilize those extra transistors, then it's less masks that have to be recreated, and at $100K a pop each, not having to redo the transistor level masks saves easily half a million or more. (It's why steppings are usually thought of as two parts - the first will be A0, while minor revisions that only change the metal layers increment the number, e.g., A1, A2, A3. Major revisions that change everything including the transistor masks change the letter, e.g, A3 to B0, etc). With proper metal layer allocations, fixing broken logic blocks may only change 1-2 metal layers rather than all metal, saving even more money when you consider that the most advanced ICs are already at 10 metal layers or more, requiring 20-30+ masks.
As clock speeds go up, random logic uses less and less minimum-size transistors and switches to larger transistors to increase drive strength. But again, transistor density isn't a problem on random logic.
Here's some...
2015January!
2015February@
2015March#
2015April$
2015May%
2015June^
2015July&
2015August*
2015September(
2015October)
2015November-
2015December=
If it's too long, shorten to 3-letter months.
And for next year, you'll have another set of "unique" passwords so it doesn't matter if they demand it doesn't match the last 100 passwords.
Numbers, capital, punctuation it's got it all.
With a few modifications, you can come up with similar passwords that will obey any other rules you need.
The problem is not just that, it's that those companies don't actually pay that well, either.
Writing safety-critical code is not hard - there are plenty of guidelines on what you should and shouldn't do (e.g., memory allocation is verboten). It is a specialized skill, and the job should really be done by people who have the requisite training and knowledge and often even certifications (e.g., engineering certifications).
The problem is this is very specialized, and it costs a lot of money because those people know they are taking on professional risk (not unlike many other engineers - civil, mechanical, etc., who design stuff that could fail and take lives). Of course, the IT companies behind it all? They're not willing to pay for that enhanced risk - they're going to pay market rates.
Well geez, if I'm going to be paid market, I'm not going to put my name on anything to certify because that's a specialized skill that gets paid for. (hence, things like "approved drawings" which mean some engineer actually reviewed it all and put their stamp and certification on it).
There's a reason why NASA's software for the space shuttle costs 5+ times what a normal software project of similar size and scope would cost. It's not incompetence on NASA's part, and it's not just the extensive documentation and paperwork that goes along with it, but the fact that writing safety-critical software is hard, specialized, and for every line of code, probably generates a book's worth of documentation proving it fails safe, who wrote it, who changed it, who reviewed it, etc.
Yeah. Most IT companies for health don't even come close.
Except in a museum, there's a good chance it's available for public viewing. In a private collector's hands, unless they're philanthropic, it'll likely be locked away in a drawer never to see the light of day again. And the public will never get a chance to see it either.
Oh yeah, no collector will want to damage the value of their acquisition by making it easy to copy, either.
Easy, people with money get to make more money.
You have to remember in our capitalistic society (it's not free market, but it is capital-based), money is power, and those in power want to get more of both.
Internet fast lanes allows one to do that.
Democratizing, or rather, re-balancing of power (because it gives those who wouldn't have power, easy access to it) threatens those who have power. Power is almost a zero-sum game - get power and someone inevitably loses it. So letting the proles get access to power means those in power feel threatened.
That always mystified me - what magic incantations did they do so that that command would actually load it off disk AND auto start the program. (I never did find out, so I don't know today).
Or how that even worked...
The technical term is "Asses in seats". Hollywood knows summer blockbusters are basically plotless action flicks that really have little artistic merit, but damn do they get those asses into those seats.
And it's just fine. Every other creative medium has similar things going for it - books can be pulp or they can be literature, or span the wide gap between them. Movies can be thought-provoking, life altering with tons of subtext, or they can consist of people just blowing crap up. You see this in video games too - from your standard FPS shooter that sells and makes billions to your indie game exposing some human condition.
Just because Depression Quest is a thought-provoking video game doesn't mean you can't have your Call of Duty.
Ironically, though, Michael Bay isn't a bad a filmmaker as you think. He actually does do quite a few things right that other filmmakers do wrong.
$400 is NOT "impulse buy" territory.
In fact, there are many cheaper Android Wear devices out there.
What is interesting is basically in one day, Apple has basically outsold practically all smartwatches sold to date combined - even best selling ones like the Moto 360 really only moved around 100K units in total. And Apple's watch costs more, and works with less, to boot.
Granted, I have no use for one (I don't even have an iPhone capable of using it), and while I got bored with the in-store demo, I will say at least there seems to be potential there - lots of apps are updated with Apple Watch support, so there seems to be lots of room for extension. At least it seems not as limiting as Android Wear where the interactions seem limited to what Google allows you to do.
Stockholders MAKE decisions.
In a corporation, you the head honcho, the chief executive officer. He handles the day-to-day running of the company. He gets his marching orders from the Board of Directors who set the general direction of the company and what they'd like to see the company do. The Directors set the goals for the CEO, who then tries to execute them on the company.
The board of directors is held responsible for their decisions via the stockholders - who in general set the principles behind how the company operates, but are even further isolated from the day-to-day running of the business.
You see this happen all the time - when Carl Icahn decides he wants to strongarm a company into doing something. He does it by owning lots of stock. Or as it seems, every Apple quarterly update where some stockholder or another keeps wanting Apple to get rid of all the green initiatives and corporate responsibility they do so they could make more money. (All the green power, supplier responsibility stuff increases Apple's costs). Usually resulting in Tim Cook responding with "if you feel that way, take your money out of Apple and put it elsewhere".
But the parts and everything needed to maintain the machine are probably the more expensive parts of the whole thing.
Photocopiers (aka xerography) back then were still very cheap to operate, especially the larger enterprise models designed for high-volume copying. And it's usually only cost a few pennies per page.
The ironic thing is today, the modern photocopier is closer to a laser printer than anything - the "digital" photocopier is really a scanner and printer in one unit. They generally are cheaper to operate than a laser as they're designed for high-volume use and since they're already printers, it's just as easy to make them networked printers and scanners for an office scenario. And the price per page hasn't gone up at all, either - a regular desktop laser printer might do 5 cents per page, while the "office center" machine can do it for under a penny a page.
Or just go and use IOSafe drives - they're armored and protected. They routinely do demos where they ask users to store some data on it and they'll put the drive in a fire, toss it off a building and then submerge it, then they'll extract the hard drive (or SSD, if desired for added resilience) and show that the data is still accessible.
Yes, the enclosure's destroyed in the test, but the drive inside is safe and usable.
Ratings, aka eyeballs. And these aren't the L+SD/L+3/L+7 (Live+Same Day, +3 days, +7 days) numbers you see reported in the papers, no ,the netowrks buy the C versions of the numbers, usually C3, sometimes C7 (the difference is the program's rating is removed - the C ratings solely consist of ads). The programming+commercials numbers are provided for free, while the C numbers are provided by cost (it's how companies like Neilsen fund themselves). There is a little correlation - the C3 numbers generally correspond to L+SD numbers, but never quite exactly. So a programs' commercial viability is basically (as us mere watches are concerned) to those who watch it live, or within 24 hours of airing.
Network TV is funded solely by advertising so every show they put up has to attract the eyeballs. And when attracting eyeballs, going for the lowest common denominator means you have the widest market of eyeballs available.
Going after tech-savvy intelligent people is entirely stupid, as they're more likely to either download the show (no ratings), use a DVR and skip ads, both of which don't contribute to the C ratings. It doesn't matter how good a show does on Netflix - that's not the numbers the networks care about.
Netflix, OTOH, is funded by subscribers, and not commercials. So they need to generate good programming to keep subscribers coming back and paying their $9/month. Here the economics are different - Netflix needs to find out who its customers are (and in general, they're more affluent, tech savvy, and want programming that makes them think, or appeals to geek/nerd culture, etc), and produce that kind of programming to keep the money flowing in. Same goes for other subscription oriented channels like HBO. It's also why public TV (e.g., PBS) or state-funded TV (e.g., BBC, CBC) generally has better programming.
Now, if you look closely, you'll probably figure out why a la carte channels probably will be a race to the bottom - they need to attract cable subscribers, and those in general are more like network viewers so you cannot produce much high quality content as those don't gather eyeballs as much as the latest reality show featuring some big celebrity would. At least when they were bundled those speciality channels were insulated a bit from having to produce content that appeals to the masses and could spend money to make better programming. When it's instead all about getting as many subscribers as possible, well, you can see where it's headed.
As the demographics of Netflix change, so will the programming. Luckily this will take a long time so a show like Daredevil will be on for a while. Netflix will have to broaden its original programming in order to not just maintain its subscriber base, but to increase it.
Most likely incompetence.
You have to remember, LG makes money on the monitor, they don't make money on the software. Once you buy the monitor, the software's just a bonus to help you manage the windows more effectively.
The problem is, this makes the software a cost center - so a company like LG would basically say "we need software to do this" and give you $0 to develop it. I.e., get the thing out ASAP and spend no more than a day on it (including any sort of "QA" you want to do). Remember, it costs LG money to make the software which they hope will sell a few extra monitors.
Disabling UAC is supposed to be "hard" in nature - Microsoft provides no API for it, so you have to actually go in and twiddle with the controls itself (trivial to do - just hook it to Spy++)...