Automation is actually better for these types of tasks, than strong AI (if we had that) would be, because it is much faster and does not try to understand the situation. If it encounters something not in its profile, it just goes to a safe state as fast as possible.
If you allow changing of the hardware, then the term "isolated system" loses all meaning. Feel free to do so, but know that your statements become nonsense if you do this.
Accidents happen all the time. The only thing needed for this to be a good idea is less average damage to people in accidents with self-driving cars than in human-controlled ones. That should not be hard to achieve...
Actually, they had to put the tunnel in first for that, and, just as a hint, that required drilling an armored and shielded wall. The exception would have been exactly the right thing to do.
This happened to a customer of us: They were told by an auditor that they absolute must have anti-virus on all machines, as per policy. Hence they built a tunnel into a completely isolated environment with absolutely no malware-vectors in order to be able to get updated AV signatures to the AV they installed on these machines. The really bad thing was that they did not seem to understand when we explained to them that they now did not have an isolated environment anymore and that the AV vendor as well as anybody successfully attacking the AV vendor could now attack them and export data at their leisure. What they should have done is to get an exception.
Well, maybe buy some knowledge of how to do this? Available, e.g., in Europe and Asia. Of course, if you have people with no clue plan railway lines, that will fail.
I agree. Full liability with his personal fortune and significant prison time. How the hell can you run a company this size and with data this critical without a competent IT security division? Negligence does not get more gross than this.
Indeed. This was probably one person, completely overworked with no help and no verification of his work by others. That is a process and leadership failure.
And that is a leadership failure. If you do this right, for each critical role, there is one person that does the change, one that verifies it has been done and and at least one that can take either role if one of the others is sick or on vacation.
Anyways, in the end it is _always_ the CEO that is responsible. This person is a coward and unfit for a leadership position, i.e. typical large-company CEO material in this sad world we live in.
Indeed. Or ICE, TGV, CRH, Sapsan, etc. This is market with a lot of established known-to-work options. If you want something really flashy going at 500km/h but still being essentially a train from a passenger POV, get a Transrapid. Although that has some rather bad limitations compared to trains.
The US is _very_ late to this game. Magically thinking that the "Hyperloop" hyper-hype will make up for that is just plain stupid. Be rational and select one from the established options and then (if you insist) learn to do it for yourself over the next 30 years or so via collaborations and investments.
And what do you think happens when somebody blows up a very fast capsule in a "nearly airless" very long tube?
Incidentally, an IED does nothing to train-rails. You vastly underestimate how tough they are. You need to cut a length out of the rails and that can (and has been in the past) be detected by standard monitoring systems after the first cut. It takes a while to do each of both cuts while sparks fly everywhere. This is just way too hard to do without getting caught and you need special equipment (can be traced) for it to not take forever.
Indeed. Expect at least 1 hour of additional wait time. On the other hand, in most of Europe, you can just get on a high-speed train as soon as you have a ticket, no security check whatsoever, because trains are very hard to derail from the inside.
And with far less time to get onto the vehicle and out again probably in the same more realistic time (about 1h). And it could be done with reliable, established technology that you can buy on the market instead of some fantasy-construct that may or may not ever work well or safely.
Incidentally, the original meaning of "Terrorism" is that of government that leads by keeping its citizens in fear. Seems the Brits are traditionalists.
Well, at least they lead in one regard. If they manage to go a bit faster, they could even be useful as an example what to decidedly not do with freedoms.
People will learn to recognize rough quality level. This is not new. The yellow-press is not regarded as a source of reliable information by most people, for example. It just needs some time. And no "Crazy" has the equivalent of a platform of the NYT or BBC. There is this little logo that says "NYT" or "BBC" that makes all the difference to platform quality.
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Thanks, nice to know that _some_ people here are not functionally illiterate.
Automation is actually better for these types of tasks, than strong AI (if we had that) would be, because it is much faster and does not try to understand the situation. If it encounters something not in its profile, it just goes to a safe state as fast as possible.
Invalid AdHominem. The rest of your comment is not even worth reading...
You forget that the air rushing in has mass and hence momentum.
If you allow changing of the hardware, then the term "isolated system" loses all meaning. Feel free to do so, but know that your statements become nonsense if you do this.
Accidents happen all the time. The only thing needed for this to be a good idea is less average damage to people in accidents with self-driving cars than in human-controlled ones. That should not be hard to achieve...
Actually, they had to put the tunnel in first for that, and, just as a hint, that required drilling an armored and shielded wall. The exception would have been exactly the right thing to do.
This one was. Sorry cannot get into details.
Nice one! What musical instrument do you play?
This happened to a customer of us: They were told by an auditor that they absolute must have anti-virus on all machines, as per policy. Hence they built a tunnel into a completely isolated environment with absolutely no malware-vectors in order to be able to get updated AV signatures to the AV they installed on these machines. The really bad thing was that they did not seem to understand when we explained to them that they now did not have an isolated environment anymore and that the AV vendor as well as anybody successfully attacking the AV vendor could now attack them and export data at their leisure. What they should have done is to get an exception.
If you do it right, the capsule will be pushed to impressively high speeds by the air rushing in and then eventually collide with some end-point....
Sounds plausible.
Well, maybe buy some knowledge of how to do this? Available, e.g., in Europe and Asia. Of course, if you have people with no clue plan railway lines, that will fail.
I agree. Full liability with his personal fortune and significant prison time. How the hell can you run a company this size and with data this critical without a competent IT security division? Negligence does not get more gross than this.
Those 250M were probably paid as bonuses to musicians and the like...
Indeed. This was probably one person, completely overworked with no help and no verification of his work by others. That is a process and leadership failure.
And that is a leadership failure. If you do this right, for each critical role, there is one person that does the change, one that verifies it has been done and and at least one that can take either role if one of the others is sick or on vacation.
Anyways, in the end it is _always_ the CEO that is responsible. This person is a coward and unfit for a leadership position, i.e. typical large-company CEO material in this sad world we live in.
Indeed. Or ICE, TGV, CRH, Sapsan, etc. This is market with a lot of established known-to-work options. If you want something really flashy going at 500km/h but still being essentially a train from a passenger POV, get a Transrapid. Although that has some rather bad limitations compared to trains.
The US is _very_ late to this game. Magically thinking that the "Hyperloop" hyper-hype will make up for that is just plain stupid. Be rational and select one from the established options and then (if you insist) learn to do it for yourself over the next 30 years or so via collaborations and investments.
And what do you think happens when somebody blows up a very fast capsule in a "nearly airless" very long tube?
Incidentally, an IED does nothing to train-rails. You vastly underestimate how tough they are. You need to cut a length out of the rails and that can (and has been in the past) be detected by standard monitoring systems after the first cut. It takes a while to do each of both cuts while sparks fly everywhere. This is just way too hard to do without getting caught and you need special equipment (can be traced) for it to not take forever.
Indeed. Expect at least 1 hour of additional wait time. On the other hand, in most of Europe, you can just get on a high-speed train as soon as you have a ticket, no security check whatsoever, because trains are very hard to derail from the inside.
And with far less time to get onto the vehicle and out again probably in the same more realistic time (about 1h). And it could be done with reliable, established technology that you can buy on the market instead of some fantasy-construct that may or may not ever work well or safely.
Incidentally, the original meaning of "Terrorism" is that of government that leads by keeping its citizens in fear. Seems the Brits are traditionalists.
Well, at least they lead in one regard. If they manage to go a bit faster, they could even be useful as an example what to decidedly not do with freedoms.
And so the establishment of a totalitarian regime continues. Expect this nice law to be applied to anything those in power do not like very soon.
People will learn to recognize rough quality level. This is not new. The yellow-press is not regarded as a source of reliable information by most people, for example. It just needs some time. And no "Crazy" has the equivalent of a platform of the NYT or BBC. There is this little logo that says "NYT" or "BBC" that makes all the difference to platform quality.