Posts by DrM

The baskets keep getting bigger

Put all your eggs in one basket, save big bucks!

Roborace

Gee, if the Roborace competitors would just wait a few months, they can just port-over Tesla's finished software.

People's Committe on Free Speech

Oh, that sounds good. A non-elected committee deciding what can be said on social media, and what cannot. I think they used to have that in Russia?

ASIC -- GUI

It's 2020. All Software Is Crap -- Get Used to It.

Embelished

<emb> Pai responded, “Many Federal agencies reduce operational costs by letting an industry test and regulate itself under careful oversight. The FAA would be a prime example.” </emb>

Just a tad pregnant

So, Boeing finally went the Airbus (AirCoffin) route and put in SW the pilot couldn't take command away from.

Decided they'd go the XL Airways Germany Flight 888T route when the three angle of attack sensors disagreed and killed everyone on board?

Just a little bit though, just a little bit pregnant, just piles of dead bodies.

http://bluephotons.com/

Click and run

http://pipebomb.info/

Boot?

It's a bit like carjacking someone using the tire iron in the vehicle's trunk (or boot for our UK readers).

You have a boot in your trunk in the UK?

I don't buy this

Whilst devices may not have been prepared for the rollover in 1999 (all mine were fine), I doubt anyone could not be aware of such a thing by now. If you are writing the firmware in 2014, you buy any year less than 2014 as a rollover. Duh. The sky is falling not.

Adblock Plus

"Google and other internet advertising networks apparently pay Adblock Plus to whitelist their online adverts"

I read this a lot. Note that the so-called "whitelist" is completely optional, once click in setup and they are all blocked too.

May I add?

May I add any household appliance with a color LCD touchscreen?

Duh?

"Basically, the cryptographic keys used to encrypt and decrypt the data are not derived from the owner's password, meaning, you can seize a drive and, via a debug port, reprogram it to accept any password. At that point, the SSD will use its stored keys to cipher and decipher its contents. Yes, it's that dumb."

And who would be dumb enough to think it was otherwise? You can change the drive’s password in a few seconds – how many people thought it decrypted and re-encrypted the whole drive in a second?

Anything can be done if you just tell the engineers

Musk will just tell his SW engineers to fix it in software.

TPB!

Torrents never steal from you. :-)

OMG, what ever will we do???

How can we survive without real plastic physical sims!?!? How would it work?! I’ve had a cell phone since the bag phone days, with two networks, Verizon now – never seen a sim card in real life.

I love it when people ponder how the future will be if xxx happens, when the “new” situation is already around, open for full observation. OMG, how will Great Britain survive without the EU!? Ah – like it did for several centuries before the EU?

What tickles me is in this age of The Cloud, of everything interconnected, when you can set your house thermostat and pay bills from Antarctica, when you can share all your photos with friends online – you need to carry around this little piece of plastic? LOL!

Polly want a cracker?

"At the time she was stopped, the Trump administration was cracking down on Muslim people traveling into the States."

Why does an otherwise high quality article in a top notch publication print nonsense like this? They were cracking down on visas from countries that couldn’t properly vet travelers. From 6 of the 50 majority-Muslim countries, 12% of the world’s majority Muslim countries, plus N. Korea and Venezuela.

And she was a citizen so the whole visa issue didn’t apply.

Please don’t just parrot this “Trump hates Muslims” misinformation?

Consider motivations

Everyone is assuming that these politicians really want to help law enforcement. Politicians have but one goal -- re-election. They need to be saying to the voters, "We did everything we could, look at this law." They can't afford to say nothing can be done -- that is suicide for a politician. Someone else will immediately say they can fix things and they will be replaced.

Besides -- the ongoing war on terror is the greatest watershed since the Iron Curtain,

Ho hum

Boring, as common as a suicide bomber story from Iraq, We're all used to ASIC, the programmers and managers involved will get bonus checks. It's the new normal.

ASIC - GUI (All Software Is Crap -- Get Used to It)

Life Imitates Art

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075931/

How much do you charge for not practicing?

So, you have to pay them to not update your WIN10 features?

How much do you charge for not practicing? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhaDA7TneL4

Splunge!

Second Writer: Splunge.

Larry: Did he say splunge?

First and Third Writers: Yes.

Larry: What does splunge mean?

Second Writer: It means it's a great-idea-but-possibly-not-and-I'm-not-being-indecisive!

Larry: Good. Right. (to third writer) What do you think?

Third Writer: Er. Splunge?

Larry: OK.

First Writer: Yeah. Splunge for me too.

Larry: So all three of you think splunge, huh?

Writers: Yes!

Let's just skip that step

"The Department did not completely and properly test Phoenix before its implementation, which is contrary to recognized practices for developing a system," the audit stated. "Phoenix executives cancelled a pilot project with one department that would have assessed whether Phoenix was ready to be used government-wide."

In the automotive assembly plant world, this would be going with production tooling and skipping prototype tooling.

Ah ha!

Now I know why my pet bat Eric didn't like the smartphone I got him.

Good luck

Hotels are expected to run around and reprogram each and every door lock by late never-ever.

Hey, we're safer!

How Many People Have Died From Falling Down Stairs?

https://ellisinjurylaw.com › Blog

Dec 13, 2017 - According to the most recent data on stairway accidents in the United States, an estimated 12,000 people die from falling down steps each year.

OK, so if I was an elevator maker, and I showed statistics that our elevators only kill 6,000 people per year, I could say we were twice as safe as stairs and everyone would be satisfied?

Does not compute

Well, the government says the only thing on the chip is the passport number. They say nothing is stored but an index number for your data.

So are they lying, or is this fake news?

WTF?

The “rolling code” instead merely increments codes.

Ah -- yes, that is how rolling codes work, the whole idea behind them. They roll, they don't hop.

You think a randomly selected code can work with a one-way data link? If you can use a random number for the next key, why not just use the random number? What do you need a rolling code for??

Rolling code hacking is nothing new. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolling_code#Vulnerabilities

Firebrands

http://BluePhotons.com

ASIC

.. developers from Silicon Valley whose backgrounds are in general purpose software – software that, of course, crashes with reasonable frequency.

Am I the only person that thinks SW sliding into pure unreliable crap is a global problem in all parts of our lives? Or I should just get used to ASIC, All Software Is Crap?

Pathetic.

Oh no!! Old software!!!!!!! OMG!!!!!!!!

Oh no! Old software!!!! They are running WIN-XP!!!!! How can anyone use /old/ software, you /must/ have the new version!

Can the IT crowd who specialize in always-defective SW always in need of repair ever understand fixed function appliances? These will be working perfectly as ATM's running XP till they crumble to dust.

There is *no* reason to change to the newest OS, none. They are on VPN's and not on the Internet. They don't need to support some new application or anything new. They run as ATM's, period.

Look at the attacks on ATMs, the compromises in the article? Any have anything to do with XP?

Lie!

"Either way, the case is an ideal opportunity for the authorities to flag that people may want to reconsider making money from renting out their rooms or properties if they are racist."

Or they may want to consider being honest. She should have simply said the plumbing broke.

We must accept other cultures and their belief systems – and if you believe differently then you’ll have to change. She is a bad person for thinking someone is a bad person, her lack of acceptance was not acceptable.

Software is licensed

"Modifying the firmware of a DJI drone is not recommended,...and we strongly condemn any user who attempts to modify their drone for illegal or unsafe use."

Isn't modifying the software a violation of the license they supply it with? Why doesn't DJI take legal action?

Cha Ching

But we’ll keep throwing money at them. I mean, the IT world is so random and unfathomed, incomprehensible. No way you can expect better rates, it’s a crap-shoot with Mother Nature. Like gold mining.

JFC

Schumer and I agree on an issue? OMG, have my thoughts become confused? How can this be?

http://flashbangschumer.com/