Except that "modern mobile devices" get messed up and bogged down exactly the same way - even if the apps are supposed to be sandboxed. There is one million os wide settings , or system apps and services that can get screwed up and their internally stored data will start causing issues. Is the battery drain on your android the same as it was after factory reset ? Didn't think so.
Or you could actually keep is core along with settings on a dedicated partition, and have a meaningful way of diffing the changes to a stable initial snapshot to identify the reasons for things getting borked. Trivial with mostly text based/etc, not so with registry, MSI binary databases, metabase and a fuckton of other often proprietary binary formats
The actual problem with using cellphones in airplanes used to be the cell towers themselves in and around takeoff and landing corridors. Basestations would often go bonkers over too many nodes entering and exiting it at high speeds. Presumably latest 4G generation of the tower upgrades have reduced these kinds of issues enough that it does not pose a serious problem to carrier networks anymore. Statistically, there is an active cellphone probably on every single flight taking off and landing today, so the techs looking after the macrocells would have a pretty good idea if enabling it all full scale is safe or not - safe for carriers, of course.
Topical trust networks. I want to CHOOSE whose reviews i actually trust on any given subject. I trust Bobs opinions mostly on movies, but he knows nothing about gardening tools. I want an easy option of removing Bob and his likes out of the rating for gardening tools that gets displayed for me.
Same deal with Bobs taste and expertise in indian food.
When i start researching a completely new topic, say like 50ies italian vintage cars, i prefer to start with an auto-created small trust network comprised of community voted experts. Also, what my facebook "friends" think of any subject has absolutely no value to any of the reviews, so its not a "social" subject.
Also, reviews and opinions on some subjects should decay in weight pretty rapidly. Pastel painting reviewed 20 years ago is totally up to date. Small thai food joint at the corner reviewed 20 years ago is not.
All this is implementable, and i'm surprised that most review sites still keep using a stupid one dimensional "average" of scores.
Eliica did 230mph, in 2004. TTXGP bikes are closing in on gas bike speeds rapidly. In Pikes Peak hill climb electrics actually BEST some ICE cars in a few categories - because air breathing engines start to run out of air at altitude. There is no fundamental reason of physics or engineering that would dictate electric drivetrains top speed to be any slower than ICE.
Easy way to make this much more useable is to keep the current user rendezvous infrastructure, but use a layer on top for key exchange that goes through user-elected central servers. The entire Moxie Marlinspike's trust agility thesis. Let the users choose the central entity that they trust for making the rendezvous via a plugin or a high level protocol layer - something as simple as a REST api over https. Every trust provider just has to provide an API endpoint for signing and exchanging keys.
App to user : Here is Bob's key - signed by Slashdot's server. User: screw you, slashdot got hacked twice and their web looks funnay. I trust no one that comes that way. Does Bob exist on BookFace instead ? And so on. You could also have a distributed database of trust provider endpoints along with their current , recent and overall trustworthiness rankings.
PIN probably shouldnt be stored in the car, store a salted hash.
By the way, my old 91 Camaro used to have a start "security feature", where they had a basic resistor embedded in the ignition key. If the resistance was off or didnt start and blocked further tries after 3 attempts or something for 15 minutes.
Awesome when the contacts got slightly oxidized : )
I tried all of the alternatives and ended up sticking with TheOldReader
Twitter and other social media does not act as a topical news source - updates from low power embedded MCU world and switching mode power supply design will absolutely bubble to a place where I can catch up at my own leisure.
If FORTRAN and ADA are more of your thing, go right ahead. I hear COBOL programmers used to be immature as well 30 years ago, but maybe the situation has improved by now.
"Some of these packages are poor crap" out of tens of thousands in repository ? Oh, the humanity ! How is that different from any other programming language ? 90% of contents of any open source repositories is poor crap, be it github, sourceforge ( is that still alive ?? ) or even volumes of example code docs put out by good wise companies like Google, Apple or Microsoft. Its your job as a developer to sort through the crap that stinks less. And no, i dont regularly attend parades and do not ride on bandwagons, thanks.
Most likely is that they want a few of their ideas to become standard - like Supercharger infrastructure. If they manage to get even one major OEM to cooperate and add supercharger receptables, that is a massive win for Tesla.
Flying megatons of dead dinosaur juice in close proximity of cryocooled oxidiser, mixed in with a good bunch of healthy hydrazine. Why would you ever be concerned about any impacts there. Market regulates itself, right ?
Please make Windows 9 touch only, do not give anyone any menu, use the well known principle of most surprise for the user interface design, break all possible APIs, come up with another Uncommon Language Runtime, force me log into everything with the same username and password security be damned, put Bing on the way of actually getting to internet and if you could Ribbon me another two three screenfuls, all would be dandy.
Only by implementing these urgent measures will you guarantee your local fanbase of 2 people will stay very loyal. And the rest can move on to better things and world will be a better place.
How about firing people that installed policies for engineers to NOT speak out about faults and banned them from even talking about it ? Who compiled the not to be used word list of "hindenburg", "death trap" etc ?
Maybe search for causes in your legal and PR and HR departments first. Oh, and execs.
So lets see. This is an NRC report that ONLY considered using SLS as the launch vehicle, and concluded that you cannot get to Mars with that, something has to be done differently.
How about _trying_ something different then for a change, stop trying to build redundant launch vehicles, we already have plenty, and actually invest in enabling technologies that DO get us to Mars. Like, putting spacecraft together from modules like was done with ISS and other stations before that - except without involving costly human ops. How about refuelling the spacecraft on orbit. How about doing research on partial-g environments, and launching a centrifuge. How about sending some rats en route to Mars to study different radiation shielding approach effectiveness. The list is endless. Actually, NRC PRODUCED all the enabling technology roadmaps, they are available here : http://www.nasa.gov/offices/oc... How about actually fricking following these roadmaps ( SLS is NOT in there ) and getting some stuff done ? Advanced radioisotope stirling generator that was outlined as the CRUCIAL enabling technology piece for future exploration ? Cancelled ! Funds are required to build a monster rocket to nowhere instead...
But, if you keep doing the same thing over and over, no reason to expect a different result. Kill the waste, and start investing in future.
Phones are the least of the worries IMO. There are so many internet connected consumer electronics devices around that are based on some lightweight linux stack - SmartTVs, home routers, set-top boxes, NAS boxes, IP security cameras etc come to mind. These things will NEVER get patched because the development teams that put together the original firmware for the last years model are often even not around anymore. "Install Cyanogenmod" is not an option either. With the "Internet of Things" wave raising, this will only get worse.
I'm not sure there is a reasonable solution there, zero day exploits will continue to be around, and companies will continue to build "embedded" devices that are not really designed to take frequent software updates.
Maybe there is a room on market for consumer oriented security certification brand, which basically tells the buyer - yes, we have reviewed and tested the software stack on this device, and its reasonably safe and sound and the company behind it is reasonably committed to keeping it secure ?
Anonymous posting on Slashdot could give an explanation to supersymmetry, detail a working cheap fusion reactor or do any number of more critical things than do another iteration of "ooh ooh baby". More likely it will be about hot grits though
You'll be guaranteed to have WebDirectX of some sort, and two very "popular" game publishers will immediately announce support for it for their two upcoming titles. My money is on Electronic Arts
Slashdot Mirror
Except that "modern mobile devices" get messed up and bogged down exactly the same way - even if the apps are supposed to be sandboxed.
There is one million os wide settings , or system apps and services that can get screwed up and their internally stored data will start causing issues.
Is the battery drain on your android the same as it was after factory reset ? Didn't think so.
Or you could actually keep is core along with settings on a dedicated partition, and have a meaningful way of diffing the changes to a stable initial snapshot to identify the reasons for things getting borked. /etc, not so with registry, MSI binary databases, metabase and a fuckton of other often proprietary binary formats
Trivial with mostly text based
The actual problem with using cellphones in airplanes used to be the cell towers themselves in and around takeoff and landing corridors. Basestations would often go bonkers over too many nodes entering and exiting it at high speeds. Presumably latest 4G generation of the tower upgrades have reduced these kinds of issues enough that it does not pose a serious problem to carrier networks anymore. Statistically, there is an active cellphone probably on every single flight taking off and landing today, so the techs looking after the macrocells would have a pretty good idea if enabling it all full scale is safe or not - safe for carriers, of course.
There is a way to fix the review systems.
Topical trust networks. I want to CHOOSE whose reviews i actually trust on any given subject. I trust Bobs opinions mostly on movies, but he knows nothing about gardening tools. I want an easy option of removing Bob and his likes out of the rating for gardening tools that gets displayed for me.
Same deal with Bobs taste and expertise in indian food.
When i start researching a completely new topic, say like 50ies italian vintage cars, i prefer to start with an auto-created small trust network comprised of community voted experts. Also, what my facebook "friends" think of any subject has absolutely no value to any of the reviews, so its not a "social" subject.
Also, reviews and opinions on some subjects should decay in weight pretty rapidly. Pastel painting reviewed 20 years ago is totally up to date. Small thai food joint at the corner reviewed 20 years ago is not.
All this is implementable, and i'm surprised that most review sites still keep using a stupid one dimensional "average" of scores.
Eliica did 230mph, in 2004.
TTXGP bikes are closing in on gas bike speeds rapidly. In Pikes Peak hill climb electrics actually BEST some ICE cars in a few categories - because air breathing engines start to run out of air at altitude.
There is no fundamental reason of physics or engineering that would dictate electric drivetrains top speed to be any slower than ICE.
In other words, you are wrong.
Easy way to make this much more useable is to keep the current user rendezvous infrastructure, but use a layer on top for key exchange that goes through user-elected central servers.
The entire Moxie Marlinspike's trust agility thesis. Let the users choose the central entity that they trust for making the rendezvous via a plugin or a high level protocol layer - something as simple as a REST api over https. Every trust provider just has to provide an API endpoint for signing and exchanging keys.
App to user : Here is Bob's key - signed by Slashdot's server. User: screw you, slashdot got hacked twice and their web looks funnay. I trust no one that comes that way. Does Bob exist on BookFace instead ? And so on. You could also have a distributed database of trust provider endpoints along with their current , recent and overall trustworthiness rankings.
Like this MIPS attempt ? http://www.pcworld.com/article...
Or any other or wannabe rpi competitors.
Extend this to people that are not yet celebs. Even if you are pushing 60 you still might become one.
Ah, Prime Radiant !
PIN probably shouldnt be stored in the car, store a salted hash.
By the way, my old 91 Camaro used to have a start "security feature", where they had a basic resistor embedded in the ignition key. If the resistance was off or didnt start and blocked further tries after 3 attempts or something for 15 minutes.
Awesome when the contacts got slightly oxidized : )
I tried all of the alternatives and ended up sticking with TheOldReader
Twitter and other social media does not act as a topical news source - updates from low power embedded MCU world and switching mode power supply design will absolutely bubble to a place where I can catch up at my own leisure.
If FORTRAN and ADA are more of your thing, go right ahead. I hear COBOL programmers used to be immature as well 30 years ago, but maybe the situation has improved by now.
"Some of these packages are poor crap" out of tens of thousands in repository ? Oh, the humanity ! How is that different from any other programming language ? 90% of contents of any open source repositories is poor crap, be it github, sourceforge ( is that still alive ?? ) or even volumes of example code docs put out by good wise companies like Google, Apple or Microsoft. Its your job as a developer to sort through the crap that stinks less.
And no, i dont regularly attend parades and do not ride on bandwagons, thanks.
And if you are really claiming that packages here https://www.npmjs.org/browse/d... are not stable and dependable, you sir are an idiot.
Same with this http://stats.bower.io/
https://www.npmjs.org/
Most likely is that they want a few of their ideas to become standard - like Supercharger infrastructure. If they manage to get even one major OEM to cooperate and add supercharger receptables, that is a massive win for Tesla.
Flying megatons of dead dinosaur juice in close proximity of cryocooled oxidiser, mixed in with a good bunch of healthy hydrazine. Why would you ever be concerned about any impacts there.
Market regulates itself, right ?
Dear Microsoft,
Please make Windows 9 touch only, do not give anyone any menu, use the well known principle of most surprise for the user interface design, break all possible APIs, come up with another Uncommon Language Runtime, force me log into everything with the same username and password security be damned, put Bing on the way of actually getting to internet and if you could Ribbon me another two three screenfuls, all would be dandy.
Only by implementing these urgent measures will you guarantee your local fanbase of 2 people will stay very loyal. And the rest can move on to better things and world will be a better place.
Thanks,
Your local detractor.
If they fired a single engineer, they were likely not looking for a root cause. Companies don't get that screwed up because of engineers.
How about firing people that installed policies for engineers to NOT speak out about faults and banned them from even talking about it ? Who compiled the not to be used word list of "hindenburg", "death trap" etc ?
Maybe search for causes in your legal and PR and HR departments first. Oh, and execs.
So lets see. This is an NRC report that ONLY considered using SLS as the launch vehicle, and concluded that you cannot get to Mars with that, something has to be done differently.
How about _trying_ something different then for a change, stop trying to build redundant launch vehicles, we already have plenty, and actually invest in enabling technologies that DO get us to Mars. ...
Like, putting spacecraft together from modules like was done with ISS and other stations before that - except without involving costly human ops. How about refuelling the spacecraft on orbit. How about doing research on partial-g environments, and launching a centrifuge. How about sending some rats en route to Mars to study different radiation shielding approach effectiveness. The list is endless. Actually, NRC PRODUCED all the enabling technology roadmaps, they are available here :
http://www.nasa.gov/offices/oc...
How about actually fricking following these roadmaps ( SLS is NOT in there ) and getting some stuff done ? Advanced radioisotope stirling generator that was outlined as the CRUCIAL enabling technology piece for future exploration ? Cancelled ! Funds are required to build a monster rocket to nowhere instead
But, if you keep doing the same thing over and over, no reason to expect a different result. Kill the waste, and start investing in future.
Phones are the least of the worries IMO. There are so many internet connected consumer electronics devices around that are based on some lightweight linux stack - SmartTVs, home routers, set-top boxes, NAS boxes, IP security cameras etc come to mind. These things will NEVER get patched because the development teams that put together the original firmware for the last years model are often even not around anymore. "Install Cyanogenmod" is not an option either.
With the "Internet of Things" wave raising, this will only get worse.
I'm not sure there is a reasonable solution there, zero day exploits will continue to be around, and companies will continue to build "embedded" devices that are not really designed to take frequent software updates.
Maybe there is a room on market for consumer oriented security certification brand, which basically tells the buyer - yes, we have reviewed and tested the software stack on this device, and its reasonably safe and sound and the company behind it is reasonably committed to keeping it secure ?
Anonymous posting on Slashdot could give an explanation to supersymmetry, detail a working cheap fusion reactor or do any number of more critical things than do another iteration of "ooh ooh baby". More likely it will be about hot grits though
Yep, thats what they were saying on Venus and Mars just a billion years ago.
You'll be guaranteed to have WebDirectX of some sort, and two very "popular" game publishers will immediately announce support for it for their two upcoming titles. My money is on Electronic Arts