Those customers that got "badly burned" are going to want to know that you've learned your lesson.
If the event hit the press or word got around to your target customer base, you'll need to convince them that it won't happen again (I'm looking at you, Southwest Airlines).
If your industry is one where the failure could cause death or injury if it happened again - even to a competitor - then you have a moral and possibly legal obligation to "go public" within your industry so they can learn from your experience (I'm looking at you, Blue Bell Creamery).
Even if it's not life-or-death, you may find it good busine$$/good PR to share details within your industry or to the general public (thank you, Google).
There are some cases where publicity isn't critical.
For example, if you sell widgets and you had a no-critical-lessons-learned systemic failure in one of your factories that shut down production in that factory for a week, but your other factories were able to ramp up production so all your distributors and major customers noticed was a half-day shipping delay on some parts resulting in their own inventories, but your other end users didn't notice anything, then all you need to do is apologize for the inconvenience and say is that a plant had to be taken offline and it took half a day to add shifts to the other plants and get your widgets shipped out. If you are a public company you may need to issue a press release for the benefit of investors. If you had temporary layoffs or if employee health and safety were affected, you may have to notify the goverment, unions, and affected employees. Other than that, you probably don't need to say much more.
It uses your Wi-Fi, GPS and cell tower information to pinpoint exactly where you are and sends the data without allowing it to be accessed by anyone else. [emphasis added]
Less high-profile companies may have just as many bugs in their "golden master" code but neither they nor "white-hat" outside groups are looking for them as hard as would with a high-profile company.
This means if I use a just-as-buggy product from a not-as-big company the only people who may know about the bugs are the people spear-phishing me and governments (which may be one in the same).
Does this mean blind people will be forced to use a regular browser and a screen reader so as not to block the ad from showing up on their computer? That seems inefficient to the point of being stupid.
If the driver believed the autopilot was on when it was off, then we have to ask "why did he think it was on when it was off?"
Was the driver not paying attention to the system, and just assumed it was on, or did the system lie and tell the driver that it was on when it wasn't?
Good news, thanks to recent court rulings, now you can just pay your super-PAC or other anonymous-donation-fund-pass-through organization to arrange for an off-the-books VIP pass. Sure, it will cost more, but not only will you get privacy but you'll also get the other perks that come with that 6-figure-donation VIP pass.
... that should be grounds for your insurance company to jack up your rates when you come up for renewal.
Same goes for doing anything else reckless while driving, like watching a movie (obviously excluding guys who self-nominate for the Darwin Award, like this guy).
Of course, if you play while driving and don't brag about it, your insurance company will never know. But that's the "real" idea here: We don't want to encourage others to drive unsafely, and when you brag about driving unsafely, it tends to encourage others to do the same.
... historical code like this also needs to exist in a "curated" version, where the only "changes" are those made by a responsible curator, with the changes consisting only of comments.
I'd fork it myself but the honor of being the "keeper of the curated version" really should be someone with a connection to the project or, better yet, an organization like NASA, a museum, a retired-NASA-employee-association, university, or similar organization that will have the funds, manpower, and interest to keep this going for the long haul.
Also, separately from the above, paper, original-media or modern-copy-on-same-type-of-media (if available and feasible), and modern-electronic-copies of all of the code should be given to the National Archives, NASA archives, or some similar agency.
"Joe, I'm really worried about my new puppy. I think he's smarter than his mom. I'm not sure if he's stealing food while she's around or if he's embezzling it behind her back.
I don't think my kid's too happy that I made him get a job this summer. Last week I heard him say I loathe this job. I'm not sure if he's angry at me or angry at the fact that it's a minimum-wage job, but he seems pretty pissed off. Thankfully, he vents his stress at the local school, which is a lot better than going postal."
Let's see if the automated email processor can parse that load of fiction correctly.
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"Teacher, I couldn't do my homework last night, because our dog ate the router."
"And the cat ate my gym suit."
Pics from your pets' veterinarian or it didn't happen.
Those customers that got "badly burned" are going to want to know that you've learned your lesson.
If the event hit the press or word got around to your target customer base, you'll need to convince them that it won't happen again (I'm looking at you, Southwest Airlines).
If your industry is one where the failure could cause death or injury if it happened again - even to a competitor - then you have a moral and possibly legal obligation to "go public" within your industry so they can learn from your experience (I'm looking at you, Blue Bell Creamery).
Even if it's not life-or-death, you may find it good busine$$/good PR to share details within your industry or to the general public (thank you, Google).
There are some cases where publicity isn't critical.
For example, if you sell widgets and you had a no-critical-lessons-learned systemic failure in one of your factories that shut down production in that factory for a week, but your other factories were able to ramp up production so all your distributors and major customers noticed was a half-day shipping delay on some parts resulting in their own inventories, but your other end users didn't notice anything, then all you need to do is apologize for the inconvenience and say is that a plant had to be taken offline and it took half a day to add shifts to the other plants and get your widgets shipped out. If you are a public company you may need to issue a press release for the benefit of investors. If you had temporary layoffs or if employee health and safety were affected, you may have to notify the goverment, unions, and affected employees. Other than that, you probably don't need to say much more.
It uses your Wi-Fi, GPS and cell tower information to pinpoint exactly where you are and sends the data without allowing it to be accessed by anyone else. [emphasis added]
Um, yeah.
Less high-profile companies may have just as many bugs in their "golden master" code but neither they nor "white-hat" outside groups are looking for them as hard as would with a high-profile company.
This means if I use a just-as-buggy product from a not-as-big company the only people who may know about the bugs are the people spear-phishing me and governments (which may be one in the same).
I wouldn't invite them to Hoover me either.
They inherently block ads that contain no text.
Does this mean blind people will be forced to use a regular browser and a screen reader so as not to block the ad from showing up on their computer? That seems inefficient to the point of being stupid.
My main computer looks like a brain, well, because that's what it is.
My two "main" auxiliary computers look like a smart-phone and a laptop because, well, that's what they are.
There is a place for your post, but that place is not in the comments section of this article.
Log in and make a journal entry, please.
If the driver believed the autopilot was on when it was off, then we have to ask "why did he think it was on when it was off?"
Was the driver not paying attention to the system, and just assumed it was on, or did the system lie and tell the driver that it was on when it wasn't?
Will the telecoms really leave that much profit on the table and refuse to upgrade their networks?
I don't think they are that stupid. Or, rather, I do think they are that greedy.
I'm calling their bluff.
... yesterday's story TIOBE's Language-Popularity Index Sees A New Top 10 Language: Assembly. :)
I assume using someone else's credit card without authorization is a crime in Great Britain.
If it's not, well, nevermind then.
"I'm not going to be buying any more tickets"
Good news, thanks to recent court rulings, now you can just pay your super-PAC or other anonymous-donation-fund-pass-through organization to arrange for an off-the-books VIP pass. Sure, it will cost more, but not only will you get privacy but you'll also get the other perks that come with that 6-figure-donation VIP pass.
... that should be grounds for your insurance company to jack up your rates when you come up for renewal.
Same goes for doing anything else reckless while driving, like watching a movie (obviously excluding guys who self-nominate for the Darwin Award, like this guy).
Of course, if you play while driving and don't brag about it, your insurance company will never know. But that's the "real" idea here: We don't want to encourage others to drive unsafely, and when you brag about driving unsafely, it tends to encourage others to do the same.
... historical code like this also needs to exist in a "curated" version, where the only "changes" are those made by a responsible curator, with the changes consisting only of comments.
I'd fork it myself but the honor of being the "keeper of the curated version" really should be someone with a connection to the project or, better yet, an organization like NASA, a museum, a retired-NASA-employee-association, university, or similar organization that will have the funds, manpower, and interest to keep this going for the long haul.
Also, separately from the above, paper, original-media or modern-copy-on-same-type-of-media (if available and feasible), and modern-electronic-copies of all of the code should be given to the National Archives, NASA archives, or some similar agency.
Kill your network connection first, THEN kill people.
That way hackers from outside can't get in.
Now it scans social media and won't let you start it if you've ever posted pictures of yourself doing stupid things while in the driver's seat.
Anyone have any anecdotal experiences that back this up?
Quit interrupting my daily dose of Slashdot to ask me for examples of things from my life. Interruptions like these make me tired. And cranky.
"Joe, I'm really worried about my new puppy. I think he's smarter than his mom. I'm not sure if he's stealing food while she's around or if he's embezzling it behind her back.
I don't think my kid's too happy that I made him get a job this summer. Last week I heard him say I loathe this job. I'm not sure if he's angry at me or angry at the fact that it's a minimum-wage job, but he seems pretty pissed off. Thankfully, he vents his stress at the local school, which is a lot better than going postal."
Let's see if the automated email processor can parse that load of fiction correctly.
Someone's programming the sex-chatbots to do Google searches :)=
Maybe it's time for the government to order a factory recall.
Damn typos. Finding and fixing typos is left as an exercise for the reader.
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#instuctionstocash
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That's not my work password, it's my debit-card PIN!
I write my work password down on the back of my debit card.