Has it really just been two? I'd swear I'd heard of at least three or four in the last five years, but maybe I'm just getting confused since you hear about the crash and then they release their findings so much later it seems like a new story.
Is it my imagination or is this sort of thing happening a lot with those airbus planes? "Lot" being a relative term, I suppose, since the vast majority of the planes never have a problem. But it seems like there have been several high profile crashes lately that seem to be the result of a shitstorm of the pilots and the computer fighting one another. It takes a pretty long time for a plane to fall out of the sky like that -- more than enough time, one would think, for either the pilot or the computer to realize that their actions are not fixing the problem and try something else.
I've been pondering that subject lately. If what you say is true, then shouldn't the company with the experienced employees and the institutional knowledge have a competitive advantage in their markets? I would have thought that advantage would have manifested fairly early as the quality of the shoddy competitors declines, but I haven't seen such a trend. I'd also expect the advantage to widen as the companies composed of nothing but temps loses institutional knowledge over time. Again, not seeing it.
Continuing on with my hypothesis, shouldn't the experienced employees be able to easily form a new company and drive the outsourcing ones out of the industry? I'm starting to see a few hints of that through anecdotal evidence, but not enough to draw conclusions yet.
A third if their time coming up with new corporate password rules, a third of their time architecting the Citrix solution that is going to propel the company into the brave future of 1998 and a third of their time requiring their employees to get training on whatever the bandwagon buzzword of the month is (This quarter it's Rally/Agile/Scrum.) You know, honestly, the company would be a lot better off if a freak software error caused that guy to fall down an elevator shaft.
It was going to coincide with a renaming of the product to something a bit more professional, as suggested by the fans of the application. Sadly, GNU Goatfucker never got off the ground.
Maybe I can have a shred of hope for the future of the franchise. Whenever Lucas dies, he should get a tombstone with an exquisitely carved scene from the Wookie Life Day Special.
There's a lot more client/server going on, and a lot of programmers haven't discovered that you can't trust the client and are doing all their input validation and sanitation on the client side. As long as that's going on, this sort of attack is going to be popular. '); drop table articles.
No kidding. If you're going to bring back a Sci Fi show from that era, why not do one with good writing, like The Twilight Zone? Though somehow I don't think that'd be the same without the narrator smoking a cigarette...
Well the major languages I looked at (C, Java, Perl) just ignore leap seconds, as does the POSIX standard. If you ignore leap seconds, you're not UTC and saying you are is incorrect. Maybe you're actually just TAI, but probably not since the language APIs don't know about SI seconds and work on the assumption that there are 86400 seconds in a day. But since it's a linear timescale, I can at least convert to and from another one when doing astronomical calculations.
I haven't checked but I suspect the situation is as bad on the Microsoft side of things, given that those guys still completely fail at DST adjustments on a regular basis. It's difficult to imagine them getting the occasional extra second every now and again correct. And really this situation would be fine except that everything always seems to break whenever anyone actually tries to use NTP to handle it correctly.
So if I have a hypothetical database of satellite locations that are a month old and the spec calls for them to be stored in UTC, it immediately becomes impossible to correctly plot their locations on a map. Especially since the spec for the inputs also says UTC but the identifier in the file always indicates "Zulu Time". Which I believe is just GMT. So you already have a 26 or so second probable error putting the coordinate into the database (~15 miles off the satellite's location) which will only get magnified if anyone else between you and the database tries to do leap second accounting again. This is kind of a problem if you're trying to hit a target within half a meter on the surface of the Earth with a "Laser." You'll be aiming at Saddam and accidentally hit a French embassy. Entirely hypothetical example.
Of course, if you start needing sub-second precision (Say, for targeting a femtosecond "laser" at the surface of the earth,) you might need to start thinking about relativity, since your atomic clock on your satellite will drift from your atomic clock for your ground station at sea level, even though both of them only ever lose a second about once every few trillion years. And they'll both be correct. Then you start to realize that the universe is just some poorly-written n-dimensional graduate student's thesis project, demonstrating how to convert hydrogen into plutonium, and retire to a profession where you don't have to deal with any span of time shorter than a season.
Drag all icons off the launcher bar. Drag command prompt to launcher bar. Open up as many command windows as will fit on your screen. Boom. Done. Well, you could also optionally set your bash profile to start emacs in the command window, depending on your UI preferences.
He really doesn't sound like the kind of person who should be in charge of the CIA. Oh wait, he's not. Well. I guess that worked out well, then, didn't it?
Who gives a shit about Trump. He doesn't even listen to himself. He just opens his Trump hole and whatever you get out of it is whatever you get out of it. But you know, as long as we're wiping our ass with the Constitution anyway, gun violence kills a lot more Americans than terrorism does. Can we do away with that lot, too? Clearly they don't have any respect for the constitution (Or, probably, any idea what's in it) so it should be a no-brainer, right? Or is that one of those "hard" questions that hurts their feelings so much in the debates?
So just don't use UTC. The POSIX group only said "UTC" instead of "GMT" because they didn't know they difference and they thought saying "UTC" made them sound cooler. A lot of companies put it in their specs for the same reason. They're all like "Ooo we're all technical because we're using UTC!" Then you ask them if they're really using UTC or GMT and they ask you what the difference is. The only people it really matters for is NASA, and they convert from a well known time system to another well known time system as they need to. Most programmers just need to know the number of seconds since Midnight, Jan 1, 1970, GMT, as God intended.
Honestly, genetic engineers, where's your sense of ADVENTURE! Why not engineer up a salmon the size of an elephant, with huge tentacles?! And what the fuck is up with the grapple? I was all psyched that someone had hacked up an ABOMINATION, but no, they just soak the goddamn things in grape flavor! So whenever you get done with that little salmon project, why don't you engineer up an apple the size of an elephant, with huge tentacles, that tastes like fucking grape, OK? Don't make me have to put my goggles on!
Yeah, the Worth a Buy Shadow of Morder review alleges that Warner Brothers was threatening to issue DMCA takedowns to youtube reviewers who didn't have a branding agreement with Warner Brothers. I've been hearing similar allegations about other games from a number of reviewers. Obviously that didn't happen with Mack's video, as it's still up, but it highlights the kind of abuse that's possible under existing laws.
I thought they mostly made a living by conning clueless CIOs into buying their OS/2-Era dumb-terminal technology and selling some shoddy VOIP product that one of their interns coded up in between coffee runs. Seems like the only time I hear "We're moving to Citrix," the company is well past coughing up blood and is about to be acquired by VCs and be gutted for its intellectual property.
Clearly there's an assumption in the community that if they hadn't been using encryption, the intelligence community would have known about the attacks. Would they have known if none of the communication had ever taken place on the internet or cellular networks? It sounds like some of the attackers were actually related, so they could have just as easily discussed their plans over coffee. It's not even all that hard to meet up in person, possibly leaving the cell phone at home or handing it off to someone to run it around town for you if you're really paranoid. I'm sure it's in no way that we're complacent in the idea that things that don't happen online don't exist at all. After all, no wars were ever fought and no countries were ever invaded prior to the invention of the Internet, right? There's no possible way you could organize tens of men, much less tens of thousands of men without some sort of electronic medium. Or without your neighbors knowing.
I think what the OP is asking, is that due to the points you mentioned, is there some other shiny bandwagon management can jump on that will magically cure all the effects of their bad management and make their programmers magically crap out well-designed code. I mean, other than having a clear idea of what they want to accomplish, spending the time to document, design and test the code in the various phases of its life cycle. What we're looking for here is a magic bullet that just lets us flail around aimlessly, because programming and managing programmers is hard and we don't really know how to do it.
On behalf of the tourism board, we have one of the higher rated dropzones in the country, a number of really good restaurants, Left Hand and Oskar Blues breweries, a pretty decent downtown, a couple of ice skating rinks in the winter, a number of good pools and climbing walls at the local recreation centers and... no weed shops. If you want a weed shop, you have to drive 20 minutes to Lyons. You can find one in Boulder, too, but it's a longer drive and the traffic's worse.
That might have been true a couple years ago. Real estate and rental prices have shot up in the last couple of years. Unless you mean somewhere way out on the plains, like Greely (Which is practically Kansas,) or in Pueblo, which is practically Arizona. We tend to think of Pueblo as the butthole of the state, but you can get a house there for a third what you'd pay around Denver. Longmont has gigabit fiber though, and that's incredibly easy to get used to.
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Has it really just been two? I'd swear I'd heard of at least three or four in the last five years, but maybe I'm just getting confused since you hear about the crash and then they release their findings so much later it seems like a new story.
Is it my imagination or is this sort of thing happening a lot with those airbus planes? "Lot" being a relative term, I suppose, since the vast majority of the planes never have a problem. But it seems like there have been several high profile crashes lately that seem to be the result of a shitstorm of the pilots and the computer fighting one another. It takes a pretty long time for a plane to fall out of the sky like that -- more than enough time, one would think, for either the pilot or the computer to realize that their actions are not fixing the problem and try something else.
Continuing on with my hypothesis, shouldn't the experienced employees be able to easily form a new company and drive the outsourcing ones out of the industry? I'm starting to see a few hints of that through anecdotal evidence, but not enough to draw conclusions yet.
A third if their time coming up with new corporate password rules, a third of their time architecting the Citrix solution that is going to propel the company into the brave future of 1998 and a third of their time requiring their employees to get training on whatever the bandwagon buzzword of the month is (This quarter it's Rally/Agile/Scrum.) You know, honestly, the company would be a lot better off if a freak software error caused that guy to fall down an elevator shaft.
It was going to coincide with a renaming of the product to something a bit more professional, as suggested by the fans of the application. Sadly, GNU Goatfucker never got off the ground.
Maybe I can have a shred of hope for the future of the franchise. Whenever Lucas dies, he should get a tombstone with an exquisitely carved scene from the Wookie Life Day Special.
There's a lot more client/server going on, and a lot of programmers haven't discovered that you can't trust the client and are doing all their input validation and sanitation on the client side. As long as that's going on, this sort of attack is going to be popular. '); drop table articles.
Yeah! Now if he'd had a heavily armed robot exoskeleton built in order to give his kid a better outcome, that would actually be slashdot-worthy!
No kidding. If you're going to bring back a Sci Fi show from that era, why not do one with good writing, like The Twilight Zone? Though somehow I don't think that'd be the same without the narrator smoking a cigarette...
I haven't checked but I suspect the situation is as bad on the Microsoft side of things, given that those guys still completely fail at DST adjustments on a regular basis. It's difficult to imagine them getting the occasional extra second every now and again correct. And really this situation would be fine except that everything always seems to break whenever anyone actually tries to use NTP to handle it correctly.
So if I have a hypothetical database of satellite locations that are a month old and the spec calls for them to be stored in UTC, it immediately becomes impossible to correctly plot their locations on a map. Especially since the spec for the inputs also says UTC but the identifier in the file always indicates "Zulu Time". Which I believe is just GMT. So you already have a 26 or so second probable error putting the coordinate into the database (~15 miles off the satellite's location) which will only get magnified if anyone else between you and the database tries to do leap second accounting again. This is kind of a problem if you're trying to hit a target within half a meter on the surface of the Earth with a "Laser." You'll be aiming at Saddam and accidentally hit a French embassy. Entirely hypothetical example.
Of course, if you start needing sub-second precision (Say, for targeting a femtosecond "laser" at the surface of the earth,) you might need to start thinking about relativity, since your atomic clock on your satellite will drift from your atomic clock for your ground station at sea level, even though both of them only ever lose a second about once every few trillion years. And they'll both be correct. Then you start to realize that the universe is just some poorly-written n-dimensional graduate student's thesis project, demonstrating how to convert hydrogen into plutonium, and retire to a profession where you don't have to deal with any span of time shorter than a season.
Drag all icons off the launcher bar. Drag command prompt to launcher bar. Open up as many command windows as will fit on your screen. Boom. Done. Well, you could also optionally set your bash profile to start emacs in the command window, depending on your UI preferences.
He really doesn't sound like the kind of person who should be in charge of the CIA. Oh wait, he's not. Well. I guess that worked out well, then, didn't it?
Who gives a shit about Trump. He doesn't even listen to himself. He just opens his Trump hole and whatever you get out of it is whatever you get out of it. But you know, as long as we're wiping our ass with the Constitution anyway, gun violence kills a lot more Americans than terrorism does. Can we do away with that lot, too? Clearly they don't have any respect for the constitution (Or, probably, any idea what's in it) so it should be a no-brainer, right? Or is that one of those "hard" questions that hurts their feelings so much in the debates?
So just don't use UTC. The POSIX group only said "UTC" instead of "GMT" because they didn't know they difference and they thought saying "UTC" made them sound cooler. A lot of companies put it in their specs for the same reason. They're all like "Ooo we're all technical because we're using UTC!" Then you ask them if they're really using UTC or GMT and they ask you what the difference is. The only people it really matters for is NASA, and they convert from a well known time system to another well known time system as they need to. Most programmers just need to know the number of seconds since Midnight, Jan 1, 1970, GMT, as God intended.
Honestly, genetic engineers, where's your sense of ADVENTURE! Why not engineer up a salmon the size of an elephant, with huge tentacles?! And what the fuck is up with the grapple? I was all psyched that someone had hacked up an ABOMINATION, but no, they just soak the goddamn things in grape flavor! So whenever you get done with that little salmon project, why don't you engineer up an apple the size of an elephant, with huge tentacles, that tastes like fucking grape, OK? Don't make me have to put my goggles on!
Yeah, the Worth a Buy Shadow of Morder review alleges that Warner Brothers was threatening to issue DMCA takedowns to youtube reviewers who didn't have a branding agreement with Warner Brothers. I've been hearing similar allegations about other games from a number of reviewers. Obviously that didn't happen with Mack's video, as it's still up, but it highlights the kind of abuse that's possible under existing laws.
I thought they mostly made a living by conning clueless CIOs into buying their OS/2-Era dumb-terminal technology and selling some shoddy VOIP product that one of their interns coded up in between coffee runs. Seems like the only time I hear "We're moving to Citrix," the company is well past coughing up blood and is about to be acquired by VCs and be gutted for its intellectual property.
True. Isn't it funny how no one ever jumps on THAT bandwagon?
Clearly there's an assumption in the community that if they hadn't been using encryption, the intelligence community would have known about the attacks. Would they have known if none of the communication had ever taken place on the internet or cellular networks? It sounds like some of the attackers were actually related, so they could have just as easily discussed their plans over coffee. It's not even all that hard to meet up in person, possibly leaving the cell phone at home or handing it off to someone to run it around town for you if you're really paranoid. I'm sure it's in no way that we're complacent in the idea that things that don't happen online don't exist at all. After all, no wars were ever fought and no countries were ever invaded prior to the invention of the Internet, right? There's no possible way you could organize tens of men, much less tens of thousands of men without some sort of electronic medium. Or without your neighbors knowing.
I think what the OP is asking, is that due to the points you mentioned, is there some other shiny bandwagon management can jump on that will magically cure all the effects of their bad management and make their programmers magically crap out well-designed code. I mean, other than having a clear idea of what they want to accomplish, spending the time to document, design and test the code in the various phases of its life cycle. What we're looking for here is a magic bullet that just lets us flail around aimlessly, because programming and managing programmers is hard and we don't really know how to do it.
On behalf of the tourism board, we have one of the higher rated dropzones in the country, a number of really good restaurants, Left Hand and Oskar Blues breweries, a pretty decent downtown, a couple of ice skating rinks in the winter, a number of good pools and climbing walls at the local recreation centers and... no weed shops. If you want a weed shop, you have to drive 20 minutes to Lyons. You can find one in Boulder, too, but it's a longer drive and the traffic's worse.
Doesn't snow get asshole deep on a camel in the winter, up in Bozeman?
That might have been true a couple years ago. Real estate and rental prices have shot up in the last couple of years. Unless you mean somewhere way out on the plains, like Greely (Which is practically Kansas,) or in Pueblo, which is practically Arizona. We tend to think of Pueblo as the butthole of the state, but you can get a house there for a third what you'd pay around Denver. Longmont has gigabit fiber though, and that's incredibly easy to get used to.
And have a background processes constantly browsing livegoatporn.com so they have something interesting to look at while they're watching you.
Or anybody. I guarantee you not one arrest will come of this. I'm almost as certain no one will even lose their job over it.