I don't know about malicious. Seems to be both well-intentioned and working well. Of course, vigilantism can be a problem, but I don't really see that here either. It is hard to fault it when law enforcement has consistently failed to do anything at all about a serious threat. And anybody that took the minimal precautions to secure their devices will not be affected either.
Interesting. The other two are pretty obvious, but this one made me think. Too many meetings, too many people involved in tasks, maybe to much management-by-consensus?
Well, there are levels in Hell. Android with Broadcom hardware is somewhere in the middle, is my guess, i.e. "truly bad". For Windows Mobile, they would probably have to add a sub-basement to Hell though.
Ah, Broadcom. The fuckups of the chip-world. The same morons that deliver the truly bad chip on the Raspberry Pi, with bad USB, no sound, no Ethernet and nobody knows whether the I/O is 5V tolerant or not.
And in what way are you contradicting what I just said? I know lots of women in tech (up to PhD level). None of them is lazy. The ones promoting these studies are _not_ in tech, but they are trying to further a "women are paid less" there agenda nonetheless, because they think they can get away with it and profit themselves from it even when not in tech. My point was not at all that there are lazy women in tech.
Actually, they mean to say "the same work done better", because clearly women are superior in any regards. But that dies fail any real statistical test to badly that they compromised by suggesting it is "the same". It is not. While the women with excellent tech skills are comparable in result quality and performance (and get paid the same), there are a lot fewer of them. The reason for any such wage gap is that is a lot easier for women to be lazy than for men and that there is a faction of women that use this. They now try to not only be lazy, but also to get the same money as their non-lazy male and female competition.
It is perfectly fine if it makes things worse for male (and preferably white) people. It is only discrimination if a woman thinks she got less for her clearly superior efforts.
My guess was that this Math was done by one of those that think they get paid less while doing the same work (but obviously not with the same quality). Because competently done statistics consistently fail to find this "gap". Of course, the propaganda-technique of the "big lie" requires repeating the lie (baseless as it may be) until everybody believes it from sheer repetition.
I think I will have to whitelist all Win10 network traffic (when I finally need to move in 2020), and just forbid anything else in th firewall. That will take a lot of work. I will probably move everything except gaming to Linux, and Office to an isolated VM with no network at all. Talk about having to make things much worse from an usability point of view.
Indeed. I think they are wayyyy over what is legally acceptable without a written (on paper) waiver in a commercial setting. In a private setting not even that may be enough and many/most of these things will need to default to "off".
My guess is that they only do it because they got some pretty severe threats from the EU behind the scenes. The first round (Swiss Data Protection Commissioner) they already lost and that guy very likely talked this over with his EU colleagues before and they decided that his situation was best for a test-balloon (as Switzerland is not in the EU, hence not setting legal precedent for the EU).
Without that, my guess would be that MS would never have informed anybody. And they could still be lying. Unless there is an independent verification by somebody competent, I am not going to trust this at all.
I can tell by your writing that you're a natural coder. And, I can tell by your last sentence that that gets in the way when you're dealing with people.
Actually, it does not. The trick is to be an expensive consultant, and suddenly people listen to you and make sure you can work. Of course, in order to be that type of consultant, you must have pretty good people skills as well. I do know people for which your analysis is completely accurate though.
Actually, in the worst case-scenario, the robots damage their hardware as a result from changed safety-parameters and have to be completely replaced. Similar things have already happened with SCADA systems. "Bricked" is less severe, it just means that a direct, physical restoration of the original firmware has to be done before the robots can be used again.
Save a penny, lose a million. That is what MBAs do best. No understanding of anything and "normal operation" as the only optimization target. As a result, no survivability. While cleaning up after the results of such incompetence is a major part of my work and is actually often quite interesting (and I am expensive enough that nobody tries to micro-manage me or such idiocy), the sheer amount of stupidity at work in modern corporate cultures and management approaches is staggering and it seems to be getting worse. In many large corporations, they do not even recognize clear existential threats anymore.
Well, looks like a lot of wheels have been reinvented really badly here. The sign of utterly incompetent engineering and utterly incompetent management that does not know how to identify and hire good engineers and then let them work.
Also, stupid statements like "worst code he's ever see" only makes me know that such "expert" has not seen much code actually. More than half OS projects on GitHub are a stinking pile of shit, If they let me see that Tizen code, I can show at least a 100 projects with demonstrably consistent worst code.
While I sort-of agree to that, keep in mind that a security expert that understands security _and_ can code and read code with a reasonable level of expertise is already part of a small elite of the field. Yes, it is that bad.
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I don't know about malicious. Seems to be both well-intentioned and working well. Of course, vigilantism can be a problem, but I don't really see that here either. It is hard to fault it when law enforcement has consistently failed to do anything at all about a serious threat. And anybody that took the minimal precautions to secure their devices will not be affected either.
Interesting. The other two are pretty obvious, but this one made me think. Too many meetings, too many people involved in tasks, maybe to much management-by-consensus?
Well, there are levels in Hell. Android with Broadcom hardware is somewhere in the middle, is my guess, i.e. "truly bad". For Windows Mobile, they would probably have to add a sub-basement to Hell though.
Ah, Broadcom. The fuckups of the chip-world. The same morons that deliver the truly bad chip on the Raspberry Pi, with bad USB, no sound, no Ethernet and nobody knows whether the I/O is 5V tolerant or not.
Indeed.
And in what way are you contradicting what I just said? I know lots of women in tech (up to PhD level). None of them is lazy. The ones promoting these studies are _not_ in tech, but they are trying to further a "women are paid less" there agenda nonetheless, because they think they can get away with it and profit themselves from it even when not in tech. My point was not at all that there are lazy women in tech.
Good guess.
True, and no, it is not a step up at all.
So this product is aimed at morons that cannot do anything even a tiny bit complicated?
Actually, they mean to say "the same work done better", because clearly women are superior in any regards. But that dies fail any real statistical test to badly that they compromised by suggesting it is "the same". It is not. While the women with excellent tech skills are comparable in result quality and performance (and get paid the same), there are a lot fewer of them. The reason for any such wage gap is that is a lot easier for women to be lazy than for men and that there is a faction of women that use this. They now try to not only be lazy, but also to get the same money as their non-lazy male and female competition.
If you have no self-respect, sure, that will work. You could also become a politician.
It is perfectly fine if it makes things worse for male (and preferably white) people. It is only discrimination if a woman thinks she got less for her clearly superior efforts.
My guess was that this Math was done by one of those that think they get paid less while doing the same work (but obviously not with the same quality). Because competently done statistics consistently fail to find this "gap". Of course, the propaganda-technique of the "big lie" requires repeating the lie (baseless as it may be) until everybody believes it from sheer repetition.
I think I will have to whitelist all Win10 network traffic (when I finally need to move in 2020), and just forbid anything else in th firewall. That will take a lot of work. I will probably move everything except gaming to Linux, and Office to an isolated VM with no network at all. Talk about having to make things much worse from an usability point of view.
Indeed. I think they are wayyyy over what is legally acceptable without a written (on paper) waiver in a commercial setting. In a private setting not even that may be enough and many/most of these things will need to default to "off".
My guess is that they only do it because they got some pretty severe threats from the EU behind the scenes. The first round (Swiss Data Protection Commissioner) they already lost and that guy very likely talked this over with his EU colleagues before and they decided that his situation was best for a test-balloon (as Switzerland is not in the EU, hence not setting legal precedent for the EU).
Without that, my guess would be that MS would never have informed anybody. And they could still be lying. Unless there is an independent verification by somebody competent, I am not going to trust this at all.
I can tell by your writing that you're a natural coder. And, I can tell by your last sentence that that gets in the way when you're dealing with people.
Actually, it does not. The trick is to be an expensive consultant, and suddenly people listen to you and make sure you can work. Of course, in order to be that type of consultant, you must have pretty good people skills as well. I do know people for which your analysis is completely accurate though.
Given that what you described is often accurate, no problem.
Urgh. My condolences and congratulations for getting out.
Actually, in the worst case-scenario, the robots damage their hardware as a result from changed safety-parameters and have to be completely replaced. Similar things have already happened with SCADA systems. "Bricked" is less severe, it just means that a direct, physical restoration of the original firmware has to be done before the robots can be used again.
Good luck with that.
Save a penny, lose a million. That is what MBAs do best. No understanding of anything and "normal operation" as the only optimization target. As a result, no survivability. While cleaning up after the results of such incompetence is a major part of my work and is actually often quite interesting (and I am expensive enough that nobody tries to micro-manage me or such idiocy), the sheer amount of stupidity at work in modern corporate cultures and management approaches is staggering and it seems to be getting worse. In many large corporations, they do not even recognize clear existential threats anymore.
...when the first script-kiddie gets in and does some firmware "upgrades".
Well, looks like a lot of wheels have been reinvented really badly here. The sign of utterly incompetent engineering and utterly incompetent management that does not know how to identify and hire good engineers and then let them work.
Also, stupid statements like "worst code he's ever see" only makes me know that such "expert" has not seen much code actually.
More than half OS projects on GitHub are a stinking pile of shit, If they let me see that Tizen code, I can show at least a 100 projects with demonstrably consistent worst code.
While I sort-of agree to that, keep in mind that a security expert that understands security _and_ can code and read code with a reasonable level of expertise is already part of a small elite of the field. Yes, it is that bad.