So tech workers now, who are very numerous, are making less then tech workers during the peak of the DotCom hysteria, when they were quite scarce? Shocking.
Our Tech isn't degrading.
Windows 95, Crashed on the slightest off glance, memory thrashing, memory leaks or buffer overflow can take control of your system, but you didn't even need to do that level of attack because in order to operate it properly you needed to run Windows 95 as Admin otherwise most applications and external hardware will not work.
You're being much too generous. You didn't "need to run Windows 95 as Admin", there was no access control in the system at all for running applications. The closest you got to access control was that you could set a password on network shares. The login process only switched you to your own profile.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I assume this software is written in Java, like many Android apps are. Would using a modern programming language like Rust instead of an older language like Java have prevented a bug like this from happening (assuming it actually is a bug that is being reported by these users) in the first place?
I assure you, bad code can be written in any language.
I dunno, I watched the webcast and that leeward fin will definitely need a new paint job. So, like I said, I dunno about 24hr turn around so far.
In the press conference after the launch, Elon Musk specifically said that the grid fins would be made from titanium instead of aluminum on the final revision of the Falcon 9 so it would not suffer from that problem.
Wouldn't this device just push itself out of the L1 point if it worked? Deflecting the solar wind should transfer momentum to the magnet, then it should fall in towards Mars. No?
Goodenough’s latest breakthrough, completed with Cockrell School senior research fellow Maria Helena Braga, is a low-cost all-solid-state battery that is noncombustible and has a long cycle life (battery life) with a high volumetric energy density and fast rates of charge and discharge.
Is this carefully worded statement just a way of saying this battery weighs a ton, but doesn't take up much space?
https://www.buzzfeed.com/reyha...
No lawsuit from this one, or at least none mentioned. Same lack of support, though. I don't remember if anything came of this being posted.
2. Why this system doesn't fail safe if the controller is taken down?
Yet another cautionary tale of IoT woe, but also some seemingly bad design...
It is actually failsafe, because the system goes safely to a safe state when the control is lost. The heater running at full blast would certainly not be failsafe...
The definition of "failsafe" depends a great deal on where you are. In areas where it's cold more than it's hot, the heater running at full blast definitely is the failsafe condition. I have had to deal with that exact issue. Midsummer we had a failure in the temperature control system. All the heaters were running full blast. I was told it's part of the building code here, a requirement.
Total income in the US is about $15T. If that were divided evenly between all US citizens, we'd get about $45K each, annually.
Which is certainly more than average now (if you exclude places like Silly Valley and such), but it wouldn't be enough to allow for a 15-hour workweek.
On the other hand, increasing automation will push us in the direction of a shorter workweek, once production reaches the point that everyone on the planet has a reasonable income....
Um... $45k/year for 15 hours per week is still $45k/year. Why would it be harder to live on if we got it in a smaller number of hours per year?
200m user details stored in one place that can get hacked?
I wouldn't hold your breath here.
At most, you'd expect some kind of isolated authentication service, separate from the rest of their servers but I doubt it.
If someone has just sucked it out of a SQL table, the chances of it being properly hashed and salted are minimal. And the chances they used MD5 - which even hashed and salted is cracked beyond belief nowadays - rather than something sensible? Minimal.
The notice from Yahoo claims that the passwords are hashed with bcrypt.
I have a feeling at that price the display is going to be a joke. What would be the point of connecting a 2560x1440 phone to a 800x480, or even a 1280x800 display?
The kickstarter site says it's a 768P HD screen, so yes. It will be exactly as you say.
The summary says "One of the downsides for the project is that it requires 25 tons of water for each ton of CO2 buried. However, seawater can be used." Can any old seawater be used? Would you be able to use the water that gets pumped to the surface with crude oil work? It would be helpful if you could put that back into the ground along with the CO2.
I was hoping the voice print was something like Edison's record cylinders, preferably in metal. You could wear an actual playable recording instead of an oddly shaped blob.
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So tech workers now, who are very numerous, are making less then tech workers during the peak of the DotCom hysteria, when they were quite scarce? Shocking.
Our Tech isn't degrading. Windows 95, Crashed on the slightest off glance, memory thrashing, memory leaks or buffer overflow can take control of your system, but you didn't even need to do that level of attack because in order to operate it properly you needed to run Windows 95 as Admin otherwise most applications and external hardware will not work.
You're being much too generous. You didn't "need to run Windows 95 as Admin", there was no access control in the system at all for running applications. The closest you got to access control was that you could set a password on network shares. The login process only switched you to your own profile.
I tried a couple of searches for Canadian political parties and it didn't turn up anything at all. Is this completely US-centric?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I assume this software is written in Java, like many Android apps are. Would using a modern programming language like Rust instead of an older language like Java have prevented a bug like this from happening (assuming it actually is a bug that is being reported by these users) in the first place?
I assure you, bad code can be written in any language.
Is there a chance that people running Linux in a VM will end up getting hit twice as hard due to fixes in both the Linux kernel and the hypervisor?
I have a 16-bit program (originally run under Windows 3.0) which I believe the only way to run now is under Wine.
You can probably also run the program on 32 bit Windows 7 or possibly newer. I'm not sure how easy it is to get 32 bit versions now, though.
...ads are either blocked by software or my mental ability to completely tune them out as visual noise. If I want something I search for it.
I think most people significantly overrate their "mental ability to completely tune them out as visual noise."
I dunno, I watched the webcast and that leeward fin will definitely need a new paint job. So, like I said, I dunno about 24hr turn around so far.
In the press conference after the launch, Elon Musk specifically said that the grid fins would be made from titanium instead of aluminum on the final revision of the Falcon 9 so it would not suffer from that problem.
Wouldn't this device just push itself out of the L1 point if it worked? Deflecting the solar wind should transfer momentum to the magnet, then it should fall in towards Mars. No?
Goodenough’s latest breakthrough, completed with Cockrell School senior research fellow Maria Helena Braga, is a low-cost all-solid-state battery that is noncombustible and has a long cycle life (battery life) with a high volumetric energy density and fast rates of charge and discharge.
Is this carefully worded statement just a way of saying this battery weighs a ton, but doesn't take up much space?
https://www.buzzfeed.com/reyha... No lawsuit from this one, or at least none mentioned. Same lack of support, though. I don't remember if anything came of this being posted.
2. Why this system doesn't fail safe if the controller is taken down?
Yet another cautionary tale of IoT woe, but also some seemingly bad design...
It is actually failsafe, because the system goes safely to a safe state when the control is lost. The heater running at full blast would certainly not be failsafe...
The definition of "failsafe" depends a great deal on where you are. In areas where it's cold more than it's hot, the heater running at full blast definitely is the failsafe condition. I have had to deal with that exact issue. Midsummer we had a failure in the temperature control system. All the heaters were running full blast. I was told it's part of the building code here, a requirement.
Umm, no.
Total income in the US is about $15T. If that were divided evenly between all US citizens, we'd get about $45K each, annually.
Which is certainly more than average now (if you exclude places like Silly Valley and such), but it wouldn't be enough to allow for a 15-hour workweek.
On the other hand, increasing automation will push us in the direction of a shorter workweek, once production reaches the point that everyone on the planet has a reasonable income....
Um ... $45k/year for 15 hours per week is still $45k/year. Why would it be harder to live on if we got it in a smaller number of hours per year?
200m user details stored in one place that can get hacked?
I wouldn't hold your breath here.
At most, you'd expect some kind of isolated authentication service, separate from the rest of their servers but I doubt it.
If someone has just sucked it out of a SQL table, the chances of it being properly hashed and salted are minimal. And the chances they used MD5 - which even hashed and salted is cracked beyond belief nowadays - rather than something sensible? Minimal.
The notice from Yahoo claims that the passwords are hashed with bcrypt.
I have a feeling at that price the display is going to be a joke. What would be the point of connecting a 2560x1440 phone to a 800x480, or even a 1280x800 display?
The kickstarter site says it's a 768P HD screen, so yes. It will be exactly as you say.
The summary says "One of the downsides for the project is that it requires 25 tons of water for each ton of CO2 buried. However, seawater can be used." Can any old seawater be used? Would you be able to use the water that gets pumped to the surface with crude oil work? It would be helpful if you could put that back into the ground along with the CO2.
I was hoping the voice print was something like Edison's record cylinders, preferably in metal. You could wear an actual playable recording instead of an oddly shaped blob.
Does anyone know if XenServer uses this functionality?