Boeing screwed up ROYALLY and they'll pay for this, likely to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars.
This was an egregious engineering fuckup that was completely 100% avoidable. So many mistakes, it's horrendous and shameful for a company like Boeing to implement these insane design choices.
Basic SOL and mission-critical applications are always always ALWAYS supposed to use a minimum of two sensors and in most cases they should use three (with an arbitrated voting system).
In addition there was very little in the manual on it plus virtually no pilot training and consequently no pilot awareness, leading to two completely avoidable accidents.
So Boeing says that now they'll add a "plane-is-trying-to-kill-you" lamp, as well as a "please-stop-trying-to-kill-us" switch that turns off the MCAS.
That's nice, but it's a little late for 360+ people.
"The promise of AMP for Email is that it'll turn basic messages into a surface for actually getting things done."
Yet another 'improvement' that nobody fuckin' wants or needs. This is just more dumbass hipster-driven bullshit that will be quietly forgotten about in a year... and then Google will drop it, just like they drop everything else that doesn't make them oodles of money.
It is only really the default configuration of older PHP versions that make it so much more practically insecure.
^^^^THIS
Yes, early versions of PHP were insanely insecure (automatic extraction and instantiation of ANY variables passed in via POST or GET, for example) plus a host of other stuff.
Still, it was easy to write secure code in PHP as long as you didn't so stupid things, which sadly, was setting the bar a little too high for most budding programmers (and not just PHP coders).
At the same time, PHP made it easy to do stupid things and that sure didn't help (see above).
Add to that the mountains of poorly-written insecure PHP code that was posted to every forum in the world....it was dutifully copied and spread widely. StackOverflow had more insecure code uploaded than you could shake a stick at (and still does).
In addition, the web 5 or 10 years ago wasn't nearly the maliciously-opportunistic place it is now.
Take bots, for example. Ten years ago bots were mostly unheard of and what they could do was very rudimentary. The bots now have long lists of vulnerabilities to look for as well all the other usual exploits that would screw up any public-facing code.
But these days every site gets hammered day and night with bots, and any code that doesn't screen incoming vars is grist for the mill.
Believe me, the problem isn't just PHP. The problem is bad programmers. Always has been, always will be.
It's weird how my "old-fangled" wired earbuds still sound great. They must have a hell of a battery because I've used them for years and never gotten a low battery warning.
Can I pay more to own a set of earbuds that don't sound as good and die every few months, even though there's nothing really wrong with them?
Same here...I have a wired home phone for several reasons, including long-duration work- and tech-related calls.
I can't recall the last time I got an actual legit call coming in on it, it's probably been years. The phone (2 lines, actually) are only about ~$10/month so it's not much of a cost.
And I admit that I enjoy driving the phone scammers insane and wasting their time in all sorts of ways. It's fun and I always come away feeling refreshed at having ruined a scammer's morning or whatever.
I don't know about the annihilation part, but I think a slow, bumpy ride to the bottom is more likely.
By the time people realize that shit is seriously screwed up it'll probably be too late do anything effective. (And it's possible things are there right now, we just haven't hit the "realize" part of the process.)
The world is fragile in lots of ways- global infrastructure, global economy, susceptibility to pandemic, etc etc.
The fact is that it would take a lot less work than most people think to turn shit upside down for the vast majority of people on the planet.
'Store your data in the cloud so we can sell more server-room class hard drive arrays! Don't store that shit at home. You know you what happens at home? Mexicans. Mexicans break into your house and steal the platters right out of your cheap TB hdds.'
If you're sitting at home hacking your ass off to shorten the life of defibrillator patients, man, you need to get out more.
I agree, but the sad fact is that there are plenty of people who would be only too happy to devote the time to hacking this device so they could threaten or kill people.
People need to go to prison for releasing insecure pieces of shit like this onto the market and for allowing them to be implanted in people.
I read about this shit all the time, and sadly I'm always astounded that NO ONE paid the slightest thought to hardening or securing these kinds of devices. It goes well beyond negligence. Fucking mind-boggling.
Amazing. Just look at all these fucking goobers desperate to tie their completely uninteresting little lives and egos to a Youtube 'star' who wouldn't piss on them even if they begged him to.
I'm convinced more than ever that what this world needs is a damn good plague.
The translation of what he said is roughly, "We want to infiltrate the maker community, mine them for good ideas, and then monetize the hell out of whatever we find."
For the people I know who are Mac owners, it goes beyond a particular laptop or phone, partly it the sharing and connectivity integration available through the Apple ecosystem, and some people really buy into it 100%. From what I can tell, it seems to work for them for the most part.
There are similar, less expensive sharing and connectivity options for Android users, but I think that when compared side-by-side, Apple has a more seamless system. Apple's control at the hardware level definitely gives them an edge.
Every time I read this “argument”, I wonder: what’s with the big rush? Frankly, is 5G going to change our lives compared to 4G? I doubt it.
Exactly. Most people wouldn't know the difference and wouldn't care. You could tell them it was 97G and they'd believe it.
The breathless move to 5G is partly an excuse to sell new phones and telecom gear, and partly an excuse to have an opportunity to slip in some serious spy-goodies along the way.
Imagine having an entire country's communication service completely penetrated at the core level for your use...it's the wet dream of dictators and autocrats everywhere.
I'm all in on net neutrality, but the Democrats are being really stupid about this. Why on earth would they bring this to bear when they already know the president will veto it? It's just going to make it less likely that the next congress will bring up such a bill.
Well for one thing it'll make it obvious who supports the American people and who doesn't. If he goes on record against Net Neutrality then it's another strike to be used against him.
Watch how the next crop of candidates running will be only too happy to show their taxes and school transcripts, while this self-described "stable genius" president is too scared do do either. How do you think that's gonna look?
I know it won't matter to his brainwashed supporters, but everyone else will pay attention and (hopefully) vote accordingly.
This is such a fundamental flaw that I'm actually in awe that it could have ever been approved. It goes against EVERYTHING taught in practically any engineering discipline.
You NEVER rely on a single sensor for life-critical operations- you normally use 3 and use an intermediary computer or other device to "vote" on what the reading actually is (or should be).
Segals Law: "A man with one watch always knows what time it is. A man with two watches is never sure."
And that's true, but a man with three watches can be reasonably certain what time it is even if one watch fails.
Granted, most things don't need a "tell me three times" setup, but for manned flight and other mission critical applications it's the standard.
How could they possibly have passed this through? It's an engineering mistake that even most rookies and newbs would never make. One bad sensor (or even two!) should never bring down a plane. This was, at its heart, negligent engineering from a company that should have known better.
I don't care if the sensors only fail one in a million times and cost a million dollars per piece, you NEVER rely on just one sensor. NEVER.
Microsoft's Azure Cloud offerings can be used Public, Private and true hybrid cloud types. Unlike amazon, which is 99.9% public cloud at the moment.
AWS has an entire private 'internet', if you will, that's not public. My company uses it for HIPAA data and medical transactions. I don't know the percentages, but I'm pretty sure it's way more than 0.1% of their cloud.
You know, it sounded stupid and dodgy and dangerous to me when I first heard about the push to "move to the cloud", but honestly, it makes perfect sense.
It's just turning computing power and storage into a commodity service. Not having to staff your own experts in every field to keep your stuff up and running is a huge plus. Safety, security, monitoring, doing updates, provisioning- let someone else who knows what they're doing do all that shit while you get on with your business.
I thought the whole cloud thing was overblown, and I was wrong. It makes so much sense on so many levels, it's kinda silly not to take advantage of it.
Are there some things that I don't want stored in the cloud? Yep, a few things, but everything else may as well be there.
Cloud is the "coming thing" that's already arrived. It's only going to become more so because it works and it makes sense. It's the new replacing the old, just like it always does.
In 30 years the young'ns of today will be the oldsters and they'll be complaining that "No one needs a million petabytes of personal storage! When I was your age all we had were 2TB disks, and we were happy to have them!"
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Boeing screwed up ROYALLY and they'll pay for this, likely to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars.
This was an egregious engineering fuckup that was completely 100% avoidable. So many mistakes, it's horrendous and shameful for a company like Boeing to implement these insane design choices.
Basic SOL and mission-critical applications are always always ALWAYS supposed to use a minimum of two sensors and in most cases they should use three (with an arbitrated voting system).
In addition there was very little in the manual on it plus virtually no pilot training and consequently no pilot awareness, leading to two completely avoidable accidents.
So Boeing says that now they'll add a "plane-is-trying-to-kill-you" lamp, as well as a "please-stop-trying-to-kill-us" switch that turns off the MCAS.
That's nice, but it's a little late for 360+ people.
"The promise of AMP for Email is that it'll turn basic messages into a surface for actually getting things done."
Yet another 'improvement' that nobody fuckin' wants or needs. This is just more dumbass hipster-driven bullshit that will be quietly forgotten about in a year... and then Google will drop it, just like they drop everything else that doesn't make them oodles of money.
It is only really the default configuration of older PHP versions that make it so much more practically insecure.
^^^^THIS
Yes, early versions of PHP were insanely insecure (automatic extraction and instantiation of ANY variables passed in via POST or GET, for example) plus a host of other stuff.
Still, it was easy to write secure code in PHP as long as you didn't so stupid things, which sadly, was setting the bar a little too high for most budding programmers (and not just PHP coders).
At the same time, PHP made it easy to do stupid things and that sure didn't help (see above).
Add to that the mountains of poorly-written insecure PHP code that was posted to every forum in the world....it was dutifully copied and spread widely. StackOverflow had more insecure code uploaded than you could shake a stick at (and still does).
In addition, the web 5 or 10 years ago wasn't nearly the maliciously-opportunistic place it is now.
Take bots, for example. Ten years ago bots were mostly unheard of and what they could do was very rudimentary. The bots now have long lists of vulnerabilities to look for as well all the other usual exploits that would screw up any public-facing code.
But these days every site gets hammered day and night with bots, and any code that doesn't screen incoming vars is grist for the mill.
Believe me, the problem isn't just PHP. The problem is bad programmers. Always has been, always will be.
"...and lock users inside browser pages by preventing them from closing and leaving browser tabs."
Ummm, is it soooo hard to use CTRL-F4 to close a tab on Windows or Linux?
Locked in a browser tab, oh noes! So scary.
If only there was a way to power headphones using a cable instead of relying on batteries.
It's a crazy idea but it might just work.
I saw that part too and I laughed. It was basically, "These suck so obviously I'm just going to buy another pair."
Apple really, really knows their target audience: short-sighted idiots with money.
It's weird how my "old-fangled" wired earbuds still sound great. They must have a hell of a battery because I've used them for years and never gotten a low battery warning.
Can I pay more to own a set of earbuds that don't sound as good and die every few months, even though there's nothing really wrong with them?
Same here...I have a wired home phone for several reasons, including long-duration work- and tech-related calls.
I can't recall the last time I got an actual legit call coming in on it, it's probably been years. The phone (2 lines, actually) are only about ~$10/month so it's not much of a cost.
And I admit that I enjoy driving the phone scammers insane and wasting their time in all sorts of ways. It's fun and I always come away feeling refreshed at having ruined a scammer's morning or whatever.
I don't know about the annihilation part, but I think a slow, bumpy ride to the bottom is more likely.
By the time people realize that shit is seriously screwed up it'll probably be too late do anything effective. (And it's possible things are there right now, we just haven't hit the "realize" part of the process.)
The world is fragile in lots of ways- global infrastructure, global economy, susceptibility to pandemic, etc etc.
The fact is that it would take a lot less work than most people think to turn shit upside down for the vast majority of people on the planet.
'Store your data in the cloud so we can sell more server-room class hard drive arrays! Don't store that shit at home. You know you what happens at home? Mexicans. Mexicans break into your house and steal the platters right out of your cheap TB hdds.'
Okay, not gonna lie- that made me laugh.
"Windows 10 Calculator Will Soon Be Able To Graph Math Equations"
1985 called, they want their groundbreaking functionality back.
If you're sitting at home hacking your ass off to shorten the life of defibrillator patients, man, you need to get out more.
I agree, but the sad fact is that there are plenty of people who would be only too happy to devote the time to hacking this device so they could threaten or kill people.
People need to go to prison for releasing insecure pieces of shit like this onto the market and for allowing them to be implanted in people.
I read about this shit all the time, and sadly I'm always astounded that NO ONE paid the slightest thought to hardening or securing these kinds of devices. It goes well beyond negligence. Fucking mind-boggling.
He's a Youtube star who is famous for being an empty-headed asshole.
And by 'star', I mean a racist, talentless hack, similar to Kim Kardashian or Paris Hilton.
And by 'famous', I mean that some people within the dysfunctional 'community' known as Youtube recognize his name.
And by 'community', I mean a group of losers who clicked a button with his name by it.
Amazing. Just look at all these fucking goobers desperate to tie their completely uninteresting little lives and egos to a Youtube 'star' who wouldn't piss on them even if they begged him to.
I'm convinced more than ever that what this world needs is a damn good plague.
Yeah, right- it was a 'blunder'.
The translation of what he said is roughly, "We want to infiltrate the maker community, mine them for good ideas, and then monetize the hell out of whatever we find."
What are the reasons for owning a Mac in 2019?
For the people I know who are Mac owners, it goes beyond a particular laptop or phone, partly it the sharing and connectivity integration available through the Apple ecosystem, and some people really buy into it 100%. From what I can tell, it seems to work for them for the most part.
There are similar, less expensive sharing and connectivity options for Android users, but I think that when compared side-by-side, Apple has a more seamless system. Apple's control at the hardware level definitely gives them an edge.
Every time I read this “argument”, I wonder: what’s with the big rush? Frankly, is 5G going to change our lives compared to 4G? I doubt it.
Exactly. Most people wouldn't know the difference and wouldn't care. You could tell them it was 97G and they'd believe it.
The breathless move to 5G is partly an excuse to sell new phones and telecom gear, and partly an excuse to have an opportunity to slip in some serious spy-goodies along the way.
Imagine having an entire country's communication service completely penetrated at the core level for your use...it's the wet dream of dictators and autocrats everywhere.
I'm all in on net neutrality, but the Democrats are being really stupid about this. Why on earth would they bring this to bear when they already know the president will veto it? It's just going to make it less likely that the next congress will bring up such a bill.
Well for one thing it'll make it obvious who supports the American people and who doesn't. If he goes on record against Net Neutrality then it's another strike to be used against him.
Watch how the next crop of candidates running will be only too happy to show their taxes and school transcripts, while this self-described "stable genius" president is too scared do do either. How do you think that's gonna look?
I know it won't matter to his brainwashed supporters, but everyone else will pay attention and (hopefully) vote accordingly.
This is such a fundamental flaw that I'm actually in awe that it could have ever been approved. It goes against EVERYTHING taught in practically any engineering discipline.
You NEVER rely on a single sensor for life-critical operations- you normally use 3 and use an intermediary computer or other device to "vote" on what the reading actually is (or should be).
Segals Law: "A man with one watch always knows what time it is. A man with two watches is never sure."
And that's true, but a man with three watches can be reasonably certain what time it is even if one watch fails.
Granted, most things don't need a "tell me three times" setup, but for manned flight and other mission critical applications it's the standard.
How could they possibly have passed this through? It's an engineering mistake that even most rookies and newbs would never make.
One bad sensor (or even two!) should never bring down a plane. This was, at its heart, negligent engineering from a company that should have known better.
I don't care if the sensors only fail one in a million times and cost a million dollars per piece, you NEVER rely on just one sensor. NEVER.
"It is made by Israel-based company Cellebrite, which says the technology does not access or store personal content."
Of course it doesn't access your personal data, because that would be wrong! *cough* *cough*
And you can certainly trust Cellebrite, they surely would have no reason to fib, right? RIGHT?
Ah yes, Texas, the contender for the lowest "quality of life" stats in nearly every category.
Microsoft's Azure Cloud offerings can be used Public, Private and true hybrid cloud types. Unlike amazon, which is 99.9% public cloud at the moment.
AWS has an entire private 'internet', if you will, that's not public. My company uses it for HIPAA data and medical transactions. I don't know the percentages, but I'm pretty sure it's way more than 0.1% of their cloud.
You know, it sounded stupid and dodgy and dangerous to me when I first heard about the push to "move to the cloud", but honestly, it makes perfect sense.
It's just turning computing power and storage into a commodity service. Not having to staff your own experts in every field to keep your stuff up and running is a huge plus. Safety, security, monitoring, doing updates, provisioning- let someone else who knows what they're doing do all that shit while you get on with your business.
I thought the whole cloud thing was overblown, and I was wrong. It makes so much sense on so many levels, it's kinda silly not to take advantage of it.
Are there some things that I don't want stored in the cloud? Yep, a few things, but everything else may as well be there.
Cloud is the "coming thing" that's already arrived. It's only going to become more so because it works and it makes sense. It's the new replacing the old, just like it always does.
In 30 years the young'ns of today will be the oldsters and they'll be complaining that "No one needs a million petabytes of personal storage! When I was your age all we had were 2TB disks, and we were happy to have them!"