This is fine as long as I can't be prosecuted for the child porn that Joe Random User downloads through my router. And as long as it doesn't suck all my bandwidth up or infect my PC or slow it to a crawl or if it's susceptible to hacking or inclusion into a botnet.
On second thought, no, just no. You can't use my router for crap like this.
The Samsung flaw was a basic design error that should have been caught early on (and frankly it should never have been made to begin with, but that's another story).
Yes, your car manufacturer should be held responsible if your vehicle allows you to use a fuel nozzle that is specifically designed to prevent this mistake from happening.
Seriously, this is beyond idiocy, and an example of brain-dead poor engineering.
If your engineering staff can't test for simple shit like this and find this sort of problem, they should all be fired on the spot. There is NO excuse for this kind of failure to pass all of the intermediary design and testing levels and make it into live production.
Seriously, no one ever thought, "Hey, what happens if Mr Customer inserts the pen in upside down?"
That's a failure on multiple levels- design, prototype, initial testing, final design, and production. If one of my engineering teams had let this kind of craptastic customer-hostile bullshit out the door, I'd have fired them.
>if you (not you, justanotheroldguy, anyone reading) agitate for legal marijuana, gays getting married, women controlling their own bodies, etc.: i consider you a libertarian, and i respect you
I'm fine with all those things and more, but that doesn't make me a Libertarian.
It makes me "left-leaning" or "liberal" or "lefty", but I am not a Libertarian- I recognize the need (and the benefit) of having some form of government, including government regulation and taxation.
You can consider me a Libertarian if you want, but you'd be wrong. I'm a very liberal, very left-thinking guy, with a few streaks of conservatism mixed in for balance.
The last political position I'd ever take would be that of a Libertarian. Libertarianism is a hopeless fantasy with no hope of ever coming to pass. There has never been a successful Libertarian society and there never will be. The last one that came anywhere near close was hundreds of years ago and it fizzled out in no time.
FIX the government. if you WEAKEN the government, the bad guys who are the actual cause of your fucking problem laugh all the way to the bank: you made their job easier, and rewarded them for fucking up the only thing you have to protect yourself, your fucking government
This is the part that most Libertarians simply cannot grasp- it's as if they suddenly get a major brain cramp when they hear this spelled out for them. Because, you know, "Gubbmint BAD!!"
They want total control/monitoring of your network and they want to inject their ads into every page you view. They'll put ads on about:config if they could.
....they want to be able to mine your data at the lowest possible level, have a handy backdoor available in case the NSA comes calling, and so they can insert their own ads on every page of every website you ever browse.
As much as I dislike or disagree with Eich's opinions, having him run out of Mozilla on a rail was just plain bullshit.
Sorry, the guy is allowed to have his opinions and positions, just like everyone else. He wasn't using his position to spread his anti-gay opinion as far as I can tell. So okay, he's a bigot and a jackass, but to have him hounded form Mozilla was a travesty of overreaction.
And keep in mind, I'm pretty fucking liberal. I'm probably more liberal than most of the people reading this.
So yeah, I'm very liberal, and even I call that whole episode of his dumping the "Tyranny of the Politically Correct".
This has been possible for quite some time now, and is hardly breaking news. The story is so old that the first time it was posted, Slashdot still came on clay tablets.
"Assuming the download turns out to be authentic, people should remember that it was possible for anyone to create an account using the name and e-mail address of other individuals."
Yeah, honey, see some other guy with my name and email address made the account on AshleyMadison, it wasn't me!!
Just how addicted to your phone are you? Is this something that actually affects your life in a substantive way? So the icon takes 1 whole second to load instead of 0.75 seconds, is this such a vital issue?
Can't trust you, Greg. You've got a Facebook icon next to your name.
I agree, Facebook: ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.
Never had a Facebook page, never will. When people start to tell me about Facebook I usually just slap the shit outta them, push them down the stairs, and give myself a pat on the back for a job well done.
Regardless, the F-15's record stands- out of hundreds of engagements the F-15 was never the loser in the fight, and to date no F-15 has ever been shot down.
There may be no F-15 aces but that's not an indication of any deficiency in the plane. Like you alluded to, most kills for the last 20 ~ 30 years have been with missiles and there simply may not have been as many opportunities to rack up multiple kills.
If you look at Chromecast, the vast majority of silent upgrades went smoothly.
This is small consolation to those who have their PC or router hammered by an update that doesn't work.
If they had some mechanism for a fail-safe recovery then I'd be much more inclined to agree with the "turn upgrades on by default" scenario, but it doesn't appear they have anything like that in place.
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This is fine as long as I can't be prosecuted for the child porn that Joe Random User downloads through my router. And as long as it doesn't suck all my bandwidth up or infect my PC or slow it to a crawl or if it's susceptible to hacking or inclusion into a botnet.
On second thought, no, just no. You can't use my router for crap like this.
I know I'm shocked...how about you? Is this shocking tech news or what??
Holy crap, it's almost like they exist to sell stuff!
The Samsung flaw was a basic design error that should have been caught early on (and frankly it should never have been made to begin with, but that's another story).
Yes, your car manufacturer should be held responsible if your vehicle allows you to use a fuel nozzle that is specifically designed to prevent this mistake from happening.
Seriously, this is beyond idiocy, and an example of brain-dead poor engineering.
If your engineering staff can't test for simple shit like this and find this sort of problem, they should all be fired on the spot. There is NO excuse for this kind of failure to pass all of the intermediary design and testing levels and make it into live production.
Seriously, no one ever thought, "Hey, what happens if Mr Customer inserts the pen in upside down?"
That's a failure on multiple levels- design, prototype, initial testing, final design, and production. If one of my engineering teams had let this kind of craptastic customer-hostile bullshit out the door, I'd have fired them.
>if you (not you, justanotheroldguy, anyone reading) agitate for legal marijuana, gays getting married, women controlling their own bodies, etc.: i consider you a libertarian, and i respect you
I'm fine with all those things and more, but that doesn't make me a Libertarian.
It makes me "left-leaning" or "liberal" or "lefty", but I am not a Libertarian- I recognize the need (and the benefit) of having some form of government, including government regulation and taxation.
You can consider me a Libertarian if you want, but you'd be wrong. I'm a very liberal, very left-thinking guy, with a few streaks of conservatism mixed in for balance.
The last political position I'd ever take would be that of a Libertarian. Libertarianism is a hopeless fantasy with no hope of ever coming to pass. There has never been a successful Libertarian society and there never will be. The last one that came anywhere near close was hundreds of years ago and it fizzled out in no time.
FIX the government. if you WEAKEN the government, the bad guys who are the actual cause of your fucking problem laugh all the way to the bank: you made their job easier, and rewarded them for fucking up the only thing you have to protect yourself, your fucking government
This is the part that most Libertarians simply cannot grasp- it's as if they suddenly get a major brain cramp when they hear this spelled out for them. Because, you know, "Gubbmint BAD!!"
^^^^ THIS times a million billion trillion.
They want total control/monitoring of your network and they want to inject their ads into every page you view. They'll put ads on about:config if they could.
....they want to be able to mine your data at the lowest possible level, have a handy backdoor available in case the NSA comes calling, and so they can insert their own ads on every page of every website you ever browse.
Agreed.
As much as I dislike or disagree with Eich's opinions, having him run out of Mozilla on a rail was just plain bullshit.
Sorry, the guy is allowed to have his opinions and positions, just like everyone else. He wasn't using his position to spread his anti-gay opinion as far as I can tell. So okay, he's a bigot and a jackass, but to have him hounded form Mozilla was a travesty of overreaction.
And keep in mind, I'm pretty fucking liberal. I'm probably more liberal than most of the people reading this.
So yeah, I'm very liberal, and even I call that whole episode of his dumping the "Tyranny of the Politically Correct".
This has been possible for quite some time now, and is hardly breaking news. The story is so old that the first time it was posted, Slashdot still came on clay tablets.
"It probably won't eat your data — but no promises."
Well, that's a ringing endorsement if I ever heard one. Thanks but no thanks.
They signed a contract with Oracle? Now yer screwed, and good!
Kim Kardashian is famous because she has a giant ass, which some guys apparently find attractive.
I don't find her ass attractive in the least, I think it's gross and misshapen.
A privilege escalation vulnerability that gives physical access? Yeah, that does sound pretty serious.
Apparently, once it's been rooted it enables teleportation.
One Hundred Million Americans of working age NOT in the wok force.
Oh please, I bet there aren't even 100 million woks in the entire country.
If there were, we'd be up to our asses in stir-fry.
"Assuming the download turns out to be authentic, people should remember that it was possible for anyone to create an account using the name and e-mail address of other individuals."
Yeah, honey, see some other guy with my name and email address made the account on AshleyMadison, it wasn't me!!
I'm sure that'll work, it sounds so plausible.
it's an old CPU, look at the specs
Just how addicted to your phone are you? Is this something that actually affects your life in a substantive way? So the icon takes 1 whole second to load instead of 0.75 seconds, is this such a vital issue?
OMG, people will have to PAY FULL PRICE for their new shiny, how will humanity survive this apocalyptic disaster??
Can't trust you, Greg. You've got a Facebook icon next to your name.
I agree, Facebook: ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.
Never had a Facebook page, never will. When people start to tell me about Facebook I usually just slap the shit outta them, push them down the stairs, and give myself a pat on the back for a job well done.
I propose Bitcoin Mega eXtreme: "For when you really need to lose a lot of money in a hurry!"
That was my take on it, lol.
Regardless, the F-15's record stands- out of hundreds of engagements the F-15 was never the loser in the fight, and to date no F-15 has ever been shot down.
There may be no F-15 aces but that's not an indication of any deficiency in the plane. Like you alluded to, most kills for the last 20 ~ 30 years have been with missiles and there simply may not have been as many opportunities to rack up multiple kills.
If you look at Chromecast, the vast majority of silent upgrades went smoothly.
This is small consolation to those who have their PC or router hammered by an update that doesn't work.
If they had some mechanism for a fail-safe recovery then I'd be much more inclined to agree with the "turn upgrades on by default" scenario, but it doesn't appear they have anything like that in place.
Infrequent event statistics do not lend well to random comparisons.
Whoooooooooooosh!