Take the magnetron out of an old microwave and attach it to the rear bumper with a switch. In case the police are chasing me I turn it on to disable their car before they can pull in from of me to disable mine.
You see, being the bad guy, I'm going to be in the pole position in this particular car race.
What if the corrupted data makes the vehicle think it's in a yaw, and whether it is or not, misapplies the brakes when the fleeing bad guy is actually steering in a straight line?
Okay. I'm a copper in hot pursuit of bank robbers. I aim the magnetron from the police station's microwave oven at the car and miss, cooking the electronics in the cameras, cars, watches of people we're driving past, as well as the inventory in the shops on the street.
And someone with a pacemaker just dropped dead.
I'd imagine there'd be some hefty insurance claims.
>Grab example schema from a private insurance firm, adapt them to this task, and go from there.
You clearly have never worked with code from an insurance company. It's code that goes back to Rome, with layers of crap built on top of layers of crap. The code comments have remarks from developers begging for the sweet release of death.
Plenty of the latter will help you sign the cheques for endless customization work orders until the money is gone. They have no actual interest in getting your product to market.
Of course, bad project/program management is the actual fault here but at some point an ethical consultant will say 'Look, this will kick the can down the road to infinity+10 minutes.'
That should be a shooting offence. I recall working for a company who had a new director of marketing. She did everything -- everything -- in PPT, even memos. Her preferred font was Comic Sans and the concept of a colour space for documents was basically science fiction to her.
Those who don't agree with assisted suicide and those who don't yet agree. I have a degree in philosophy and so understand the ethical concerns, risk for abuse and perspectives, but having seen anyone linger for years in a wasting state, I cannot believe anyone who has witnessed this would not agree that our ability to keep people alive has passed the point of a foolish consistency.
Set up a whitelisting system. Meaning, calls you enter into the white list are passed on to you. Everything else gets forwarded to my mentally ill mother.
Now, before anyone says this is cruel, she LOVES talking on the phone. In fact, if it were an Olympic sport, she'd be on the podium each time. In fact, I have to keep her number blacklisted because she'd call me 400-500 times a month.
They may not care that the evidence won't stick to a non-crime (assuming that the story is as reported in the submission). They may care more about nailing down the leak to save their jobs in the near term. Of course, long term, there may be no prosecution, and a long and winding tort that they can afford to spend money on since it's not their money and if they settle, it's not their money. She could go broke trying to get an apology from them.
That being said, if the story is as reported. Let's wait a bit for the facts to solidify.
France has 65 million people. The number of terrorists is well under one per cent; now unless the baddies phone even more than the average teenaged girl, millions of eavesdrops is at best described as waste of brains, time and money in addition to unethical.
Monitoring millions of calls, including the admitted 'politicians' and 'high profile businessmen' means espionage and industrial espionage. Now, I expect that nation states indulge in a certain amount of espionage against their allies. It's natural. One hopes less than against their actual enemies but given France's dependance upon areas upon which America wishes to also have exports -- aviation and armaments -- I'd anticipate that this may be a can of worms that keeps on giving.
Larry Bonds, the creator of the naval simulator Harpoon basically wrote HFRO. Whole paragraphs of his user manual made it into the 'novel' which was basically unreadable and despite its reputation, contained no information that wasn't publicly available to anyone who reads Jane's. Clancy was basically a brand manager for ghost writers.
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>Unless there is some visual information best conveyed by moving pictures, it is not worthwhile watching the video.
Mod this up.
All we need to do is start wearing our trousers inside-out and we can be as cool as Marty McFly.
All of 'em? Really?
> Then come up with one that's equally descriptive, equally memorable, and not offensive to anyone.
'Guy in a dress' seems to do the trick.
Take the magnetron out of an old microwave and attach it to the rear bumper with a switch. In case the police are chasing me I turn it on to disable their car before they can pull in from of me to disable mine.
You see, being the bad guy, I'm going to be in the pole position in this particular car race.
What if the corrupted data makes the vehicle think it's in a yaw, and whether it is or not, misapplies the brakes when the fleeing bad guy is actually steering in a straight line?
Okay. I'm a copper in hot pursuit of bank robbers. I aim the magnetron from the police station's microwave oven at the car and miss, cooking the electronics in the cameras, cars, watches of people we're driving past, as well as the inventory in the shops on the street.
And someone with a pacemaker just dropped dead.
I'd imagine there'd be some hefty insurance claims.
>Grab example schema from a private insurance firm, adapt them to this task, and go from there.
You clearly have never worked with code from an insurance company. It's code that goes back to Rome, with layers of crap built on top of layers of crap. The code comments have remarks from developers begging for the sweet release of death.
Plenty of the latter will help you sign the cheques for endless customization work orders until the money is gone. They have no actual interest in getting your product to market.
Of course, bad project/program management is the actual fault here but at some point an ethical consultant will say 'Look, this will kick the can down the road to infinity+10 minutes.'
'If you're not cop, you're little people.'
Oh, they also need to take initiative because frankly don't read people very well. Yes, I'm in tech R&D, why do you ask?
It's legally safer for them to say that they're incompetent.
That should be a shooting offence. I recall working for a company who had a new director of marketing. She did everything -- everything -- in PPT, even memos. Her preferred font was Comic Sans and the concept of a colour space for documents was basically science fiction to her.
Yeah, the company went under. How did you guess?
Those who don't agree with assisted suicide and those who don't yet agree. I have a degree in philosophy and so understand the ethical concerns, risk for abuse and perspectives, but having seen anyone linger for years in a wasting state, I cannot believe anyone who has witnessed this would not agree that our ability to keep people alive has passed the point of a foolish consistency.
Set up a whitelisting system. Meaning, calls you enter into the white list are passed on to you. Everything else gets forwarded to my mentally ill mother.
Now, before anyone says this is cruel, she LOVES talking on the phone. In fact, if it were an Olympic sport, she'd be on the podium each time. In fact, I have to keep her number blacklisted because she'd call me 400-500 times a month.
>Airlines would have to install equipment in their planes that would communicate with cellphone towers on the ground.
How those people aboard the doomed aircraft on Sept 11 were all able to make phone calls again?
My wiener did. So, we're good, right?
Just wondering.
Newsflash on CBC.
They may not care that the evidence won't stick to a non-crime (assuming that the story is as reported in the submission). They may care more about nailing down the leak to save their jobs in the near term. Of course, long term, there may be no prosecution, and a long and winding tort that they can afford to spend money on since it's not their money and if they settle, it's not their money. She could go broke trying to get an apology from them.
That being said, if the story is as reported. Let's wait a bit for the facts to solidify.
Get cracking on this. It's a gold mine!
France has 65 million people. The number of terrorists is well under one per cent; now unless the baddies phone even more than the average teenaged girl, millions of eavesdrops is at best described as waste of brains, time and money in addition to unethical.
Monitoring millions of calls, including the admitted 'politicians' and 'high profile businessmen' means espionage and industrial espionage. Now, I expect that nation states indulge in a certain amount of espionage against their allies. It's natural. One hopes less than against their actual enemies but given France's dependance upon areas upon which America wishes to also have exports -- aviation and armaments -- I'd anticipate that this may be a can of worms that keeps on giving.
No-one holds a grudge like the French government.
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Mod this up.
Larry Bonds, the creator of the naval simulator Harpoon basically wrote HFRO. Whole paragraphs of his user manual made it into the 'novel' which was basically unreadable and despite its reputation, contained no information that wasn't publicly available to anyone who reads Jane's. Clancy was basically a brand manager for ghost writers.