I will apply all the patches that the vendor supplies in an automated way where possible and where not, as soon as is practical. While it is true that a vendor could screw up a patch, it is also true that my hard drive could die, malware could get on my system, an other hardware or software problem could corrupt my data, or I could just screw up and delete data myself.
To protect myself from any of these occurrences, I keep regular backups. I take these backups at a frequency similar to the amount of data I am willing to lose in the event of any failure (including "evil" actions on behalf of my OS vendor.) For me the frequency of backups is generally daily.
Note that I use the term OS vendor instead of Microsoft here, this because I run several computers with several operating systems (Microsoft, Linux(s), others) and I have had them all screw up a patch.
Since I have chosen not to write or personally review the source code for all the software I use (because I don't have that kind of time), I choose to outsource that work to several vendors, one of which is Microsoft. Yes, there are risks to running software from Microsoft (or any other vendor), Microsoft may not have my best interests in mind. However their software meets my needs and I have made the calculation that the value the software provides outweighs the risks.
You would think they would have a backup for the backup power. But like someone earlier said, this outage sounds suspicious.
Or if you are down for 2 days ($200 million), and the cost of having a fully redundant system is more than $200 million (equipment, people, process,...), from a business sense, it may make more sense to just accept an occasional outage.
Or they ran the numbers and calculated that even if they have an outage like this, the cost of that outage would be less than the cost of preventing it. If all you care about is the bottom line, you might not care if you inconvenience a bunch of customers for a few days.
It is our fault because we (the TV purchasing public) continue to buy. If we refused to purchase things that were overly complicated, manufacturers would create simpler products.
As a side note, I don't personally think TVs are too complicated. That being said, without regard to if they are or are not overly complicated, the quality and complexity of products in the marketplace is ultimately the consumers fault.
Make it so that the person placing the call potentially pays to call me. I get to set the price. I agree to split that price with the phone company. The phone company agrees to play an automated message to the original caller informing them of the price and giving the caller the option to to complete the call or not. When my phone actually rings I get the option to press a key to waive the charge. Fun and entertainment ensue.
I agree that the cases you listed are not too exciting. The one case that I have seen that is pretty exciting and useful is text translation. Nokia has (had?) a pretty slick translation application where you could point your phone at some text and it would translate it on the fly, in place. Works great when pointing it at a menu or something where you want to see the translation alongside pictures and other positionally useful information. It would translate and overlay the translations it could do, and left the rest of the image as is.
Cripes, it's an open carry state, with an open carry believers, for a candidate that encouraged his followers to beat up protestors.
If some one doesn't take a shot at them, then they will take a shot at the protestors.
I would offer odds, 2:1 that someone attending the convention or a protesting against the convention will end up trying to shoot someone
I would be more worried about those unlawfully carrying than those who are legally open carrying or those who are legally carrying concealed (with a permit). My guess is that most folks who are open carrying are doing so to promote / exercise their rights and are being responsible about it. The last thing folks emphasizing their rights want to do is perform an action (shoot someone in this case) that has the effect of generating negative public opinion.
I think that all if not most new cars do have data recorders (black boxes), the question is: What should these data recorders record, and who should have access to the recordings? There is a wide possible spectrum. I would tend to agree with you if we required storage of the last few minutes of mechanical parameters likely to indicate the cause of a crash and make this data only accessible via a court order. I would tend not to agree with you if the data recorders stored months of mechanical data, computer logs, GPS history of where the car has been, video and audio of the drivers actions and or if this data was routinely uploaded to the cloud with no restrictions on access or monetization.
And since so many people didn't seem to get this, after you test the parachute, you can't use it until you've repacked it, at which point it needs to be tested again.
The parachute description is all true, you can't truly test a packed parachute without using it, repacking it, and then not knowing for sure that the last pack job was good. However you can test the process. If you pack it yourself or pay a professional to do it for you, and it passes a test, you can have reasonable assurance that if you follow the exact same *process* again (pack it again yourself, or have the same professional do it for you again), you will have a usable parachute.
In the backup case, while arguably in this example is not as life critical, the guy should have validated the *process*. He should have either had the skills to make and restore a backup, or he should have tested the process by having the vendor demonstrate that they could restore a backup on his behalf. If he had done this at least once, he has a legitimate complaint that his data is gone. If he had never attempted a restore (on his own, or by asking Google to do it for him), I wouldn't consider his complaint legitimate.
Perhaps we need to put down our keyboards and screens and lean how to talk to each other again, in person. If we don't, we risk going back to being animals.
It predicted the future like a calendar or an almanac predicted the future. Jun 15 of the next year is going to be Sunday" or "the next full moon day is going to be on Jul 22". If you consider this predicting the future, oh yeah, it did. It is the whole point of the machine.
This is a machine that simulated the movement of the planets and the moon using gears. The whole idea of this machine is to predict the phases of the moon and the location of the planets in the coming days.
Although not magic or anything and it does what it was designed to do, it is still pretty darn cool, especially considering how long ago it was built.
As for Amazon, seriously, it is bad enough that they want to fly packages around in drones - now they want to drop packages on our house from orbit? No thank you sir...
I see this term in product descriptions frequently. What does this mean and why would I care if a laptop (or flashlight or whatever) is made out of aerospace grade aluminum vs. some other grade of aluminum? It's not like I am planning patching a hole in my airplane or spacecraft with my laptop. I always assumed the term was just a marketing thing that sounded sort of cool, but is there some specific technical reason why "aerospace" grade vs some other grade? I care about "light and strong", but many types of aluminum alloys are light and strong. Wikipedia suggests that the term refers to a specific alloy.
United has the WORST scheduling ever. they always try and schedule flights way too close together to ensure that any delays will result in missed flights.
United doesn't schedule your connections, you schedule your connections (or your travel agent / website does on your behalf). Yes, United has many issues, and they have many delayed flights (along with the other airlines), but if you purchase trips with tight connections and don't expect to occasionally miss one, it is your own fault.
The Verge has an article with more details on the timestamped sequence of events in the car's log.
http://www.theverge.com/2016/5...
Unfortunately, these warnings were not heeded in this incident. The vehicle logs confirm that the automatic Summon feature was initiated by a double-press of the gear selector stalk button, shifting from Drive to Park and requesting Summon activation. The driver was alerted of the Summon activation with an audible chime and a pop-up message on the center touchscreen display. At this time, the driver had the opportunity to cancel the action by pressing CANCEL on the center touchscreen display; however, the CANCEL button was not clicked by the driver. In the next second, the brake pedal was released and two seconds later, the driver exited the vehicle. Three seconds after that, the driver's door was closed, and another three seconds later, Summon activated pursuant to the driver's double-press activation request. Approximately five minutes, sixteen seconds after Summon activated, the vehicle's driver's-side front door was opened again.
Without regard to the issue of this particular crash, I would be pretty leery about driving a car that logged every action I took to the level of time stamps for every control action. Would you want your car to have information that would potentially be available to law enforcement such as: If you ever exceeded the speed limit (even by one mile per hour for only a second); if you didn't come to a complete stop for a full second at every stop sign; if you failed to use your turn signals within 500 feet (or whatever is required where you are at) from the intersection; if you changed the radio station or volume within 30 seconds of an accident (you were therefore distracted and it was legally your fault - even though the other driver actually did something to cause the accident); etc. Such logs make it easy for the police to enforce the exact letter of the law as opposed to using judgement and forcing the intent of the law.
Headline implies a security problem at GitHub. Not correct. Developers are checking plaintext passwords (API keys) into a publicly accessible source control system. Still interesting and news relevant here, but not a breach to be sensationalized.
Don't forget that someone representing the company (presumably the board of directors) hired her and entered into a contract that explicitly spelled out the severance in the event of early termination. The company agreed to this in advance. Go ahead and complain about the actions she took or didn't take. Go ahead and complain that she didn't save the company (if even that were possible). If you are going to complain about the severance, don't complain about the CEO, complain about the company that entered into a contract providing a huge severance package without the requirements of performance.
It is not the $10 router's fault. If you have an international network, you must treat the network itself as hostile. On an international scale you simply cannot have a network that can be trusted as only having known devices and actors connected to it. On that scale you must assume that unapproved devices will be attached. Given this, the failure is in the design of the authentication system, not the network.
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I will apply all the patches that the vendor supplies in an automated way where possible and where not, as soon as is practical. While it is true that a vendor could screw up a patch, it is also true that my hard drive could die, malware could get on my system, an other hardware or software problem could corrupt my data, or I could just screw up and delete data myself.
To protect myself from any of these occurrences, I keep regular backups. I take these backups at a frequency similar to the amount of data I am willing to lose in the event of any failure (including "evil" actions on behalf of my OS vendor.) For me the frequency of backups is generally daily.
Note that I use the term OS vendor instead of Microsoft here, this because I run several computers with several operating systems (Microsoft, Linux(s), others) and I have had them all screw up a patch.
Since I have chosen not to write or personally review the source code for all the software I use (because I don't have that kind of time), I choose to outsource that work to several vendors, one of which is Microsoft. Yes, there are risks to running software from Microsoft (or any other vendor), Microsoft may not have my best interests in mind. However their software meets my needs and I have made the calculation that the value the software provides outweighs the risks.
You would think they would have a backup for the backup power. But like someone earlier said, this outage sounds suspicious.
Or if you are down for 2 days ($200 million), and the cost of having a fully redundant system is more than $200 million (equipment, people, process, ...), from a business sense, it may make more sense to just accept an occasional outage.
Or they ran the numbers and calculated that even if they have an outage like this, the cost of that outage would be less than the cost of preventing it. If all you care about is the bottom line, you might not care if you inconvenience a bunch of customers for a few days.
It is our fault because we (the TV purchasing public) continue to buy. If we refused to purchase things that were overly complicated, manufacturers would create simpler products.
As a side note, I don't personally think TVs are too complicated. That being said, without regard to if they are or are not overly complicated, the quality and complexity of products in the marketplace is ultimately the consumers fault.
Make it so that the person placing the call potentially pays to call me. I get to set the price. I agree to split that price with the phone company. The phone company agrees to play an automated message to the original caller informing them of the price and giving the caller the option to to complete the call or not. When my phone actually rings I get the option to press a key to waive the charge. Fun and entertainment ensue.
What is the potential of AR?
I agree that the cases you listed are not too exciting. The one case that I have seen that is pretty exciting and useful is text translation. Nokia has (had?) a pretty slick translation application where you could point your phone at some text and it would translate it on the fly, in place. Works great when pointing it at a menu or something where you want to see the translation alongside pictures and other positionally useful information. It would translate and overlay the translations it could do, and left the rest of the image as is.
Cripes, it's an open carry state, with an open carry believers, for a candidate that encouraged his followers to beat up protestors.
If some one doesn't take a shot at them, then they will take a shot at the protestors.
I would offer odds, 2:1 that someone attending the convention or a protesting against the convention will end up trying to shoot someone
I would be more worried about those unlawfully carrying than those who are legally open carrying or those who are legally carrying concealed (with a permit). My guess is that most folks who are open carrying are doing so to promote / exercise their rights and are being responsible about it. The last thing folks emphasizing their rights want to do is perform an action (shoot someone in this case) that has the effect of generating negative public opinion.
All cars should have black boxes.
I think that all if not most new cars do have data recorders (black boxes), the question is: What should these data recorders record, and who should have access to the recordings? There is a wide possible spectrum. I would tend to agree with you if we required storage of the last few minutes of mechanical parameters likely to indicate the cause of a crash and make this data only accessible via a court order. I would tend not to agree with you if the data recorders stored months of mechanical data, computer logs, GPS history of where the car has been, video and audio of the drivers actions and or if this data was routinely uploaded to the cloud with no restrictions on access or monetization.
And since so many people didn't seem to get this, after you test the parachute, you can't use it until you've repacked it, at which point it needs to be tested again.
The parachute description is all true, you can't truly test a packed parachute without using it, repacking it, and then not knowing for sure that the last pack job was good. However you can test the process. If you pack it yourself or pay a professional to do it for you, and it passes a test, you can have reasonable assurance that if you follow the exact same *process* again (pack it again yourself, or have the same professional do it for you again), you will have a usable parachute.
In the backup case, while arguably in this example is not as life critical, the guy should have validated the *process*. He should have either had the skills to make and restore a backup, or he should have tested the process by having the vendor demonstrate that they could restore a backup on his behalf. If he had done this at least once, he has a legitimate complaint that his data is gone. If he had never attempted a restore (on his own, or by asking Google to do it for him), I wouldn't consider his complaint legitimate.
If you dont have a backup, then it must not have been important to you...
Actually, if you haven't successfully tested a restore of your backup, you don't have a backup (and it must not be that important to you.)
For millions of years mankind lived just like the animals. Then something happened which unleashed the power of our imagination. We learned to talk.
-- Keep Talking - Pink Floyd
Perhaps we need to put down our keyboards and screens and lean how to talk to each other again, in person. If we don't, we risk going back to being animals.
This is a prime example of what should be on the site. Thanks )
As other posters have said, his words are those of an idiot.
Any possibly that he is actually saying that known crypto algorithms have been broken by the US? I doubt it, but it is interesting to ponder.
It predicted the future like a calendar or an almanac predicted the future. Jun 15 of the next year is going to be Sunday" or "the next full moon day is going to be on Jul 22". If you consider this predicting the future, oh yeah, it did. It is the whole point of the machine.
This is a machine that simulated the movement of the planets and the moon using gears. The whole idea of this machine is to predict the phases of the moon and the location of the planets in the coming days.
Although not magic or anything and it does what it was designed to do, it is still pretty darn cool, especially considering how long ago it was built.
As for Amazon, seriously, it is bad enough that they want to fly packages around in drones - now they want to drop packages on our house from orbit? No thank you sir...
It's the only way to be sure.
I see this term in product descriptions frequently. What does this mean and why would I care if a laptop (or flashlight or whatever) is made out of aerospace grade aluminum vs. some other grade of aluminum? It's not like I am planning patching a hole in my airplane or spacecraft with my laptop. I always assumed the term was just a marketing thing that sounded sort of cool, but is there some specific technical reason why "aerospace" grade vs some other grade? I care about "light and strong", but many types of aluminum alloys are light and strong. Wikipedia suggests that the term refers to a specific alloy.
What kind of infrastructure would you need that makes a "center of high tech industry" sensible?
Employees at other companies to poach?
Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, Up, Up, Up, Up. YMMV.
United has the WORST scheduling ever. they always try and schedule flights way too close together to ensure that any delays will result in missed flights.
United doesn't schedule your connections, you schedule your connections (or your travel agent / website does on your behalf). Yes, United has many issues, and they have many delayed flights (along with the other airlines), but if you purchase trips with tight connections and don't expect to occasionally miss one, it is your own fault.
The Verge has an article with more details on the timestamped sequence of events in the car's log. http://www.theverge.com/2016/5...
Unfortunately, these warnings were not heeded in this incident. The vehicle logs confirm that the automatic Summon feature was initiated by a double-press of the gear selector stalk button, shifting from Drive to Park and requesting Summon activation. The driver was alerted of the Summon activation with an audible chime and a pop-up message on the center touchscreen display. At this time, the driver had the opportunity to cancel the action by pressing CANCEL on the center touchscreen display; however, the CANCEL button was not clicked by the driver. In the next second, the brake pedal was released and two seconds later, the driver exited the vehicle. Three seconds after that, the driver's door was closed, and another three seconds later, Summon activated pursuant to the driver's double-press activation request. Approximately five minutes, sixteen seconds after Summon activated, the vehicle's driver's-side front door was opened again.
Without regard to the issue of this particular crash, I would be pretty leery about driving a car that logged every action I took to the level of time stamps for every control action. Would you want your car to have information that would potentially be available to law enforcement such as: If you ever exceeded the speed limit (even by one mile per hour for only a second); if you didn't come to a complete stop for a full second at every stop sign; if you failed to use your turn signals within 500 feet (or whatever is required where you are at) from the intersection; if you changed the radio station or volume within 30 seconds of an accident (you were therefore distracted and it was legally your fault - even though the other driver actually did something to cause the accident); etc. Such logs make it easy for the police to enforce the exact letter of the law as opposed to using judgement and forcing the intent of the law.
Headline implies a security problem at GitHub. Not correct. Developers are checking plaintext passwords (API keys) into a publicly accessible source control system. Still interesting and news relevant here, but not a breach to be sensationalized.
Don't forget that someone representing the company (presumably the board of directors) hired her and entered into a contract that explicitly spelled out the severance in the event of early termination. The company agreed to this in advance. Go ahead and complain about the actions she took or didn't take. Go ahead and complain that she didn't save the company (if even that were possible). If you are going to complain about the severance, don't complain about the CEO, complain about the company that entered into a contract providing a huge severance package without the requirements of performance.
I dry my hair with the defroster in my car. A bit expensive for hair driver, but it takes me places as a secondary feature, and it's cordless.
It is not the $10 router's fault. If you have an international network, you must treat the network itself as hostile. On an international scale you simply cannot have a network that can be trusted as only having known devices and actors connected to it. On that scale you must assume that unapproved devices will be attached. Given this, the failure is in the design of the authentication system, not the network.
Really? The driver and passenger are each given a password / secret code in order to verify each other? This certainly has never been done before.