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by runciblespoon 7y ago
Was this written by the advertising department of Intel?
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by runciblespoon 7y ago
@mindgam3 .. “Minor quibbles about truth and meaning of words aside, I have to support any article that skewers the soft underbelly of the phony AI ecosystem as effectively as this one does.” I fully concur ..
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by runciblespoon 7y ago
Retrospective ass covering, Boeing installed MCAS to save money, and in the process took control of the airplane away from the pilots. They should be looking at jailtime for this.
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by runciblespoon 7y ago
“Everyone knows how fragile these systems are” How about not connecting your ICSs directly to the Internet?
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by runciblespoon 7y ago
> What an absolutely harrowing, hair-raising tale I'm sure it is, but how about a little context: a. Since the overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi, North Africa has become an open door into Europe. ( https://www.youtube.com/
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by runciblespoon 7y ago
> With two sensors, you can detect failure You get a reading of 20 on one sensor and get a reading of 34 on the second, which one is correct. To achieve reliability a minimum of five sensors need be used. four primary and one back-up. If
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by runciblespoon 7y ago
“After Boeing removed one of the sensors from an automated flight system on its 737 Max, the jet’s designers and regulators still proceeded as if there would be two.” No, no, no. This is just more of shifting the blame from Boeing upper man
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by runciblespoon 7y ago
“the system would enable the .. National Security Agency, to instantaneously share select classified information with America’s closest allies in the fight against the Taliban” Would it also help them figure out who is facilitating the hero
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by runciblespoon 7y ago
> Leave the testing until the end? Is that best practice in some places still? What testing, we'll let the end-user find the bugs and then fix them in the next version.
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by runciblespoon 7y ago
Do you think these security defects are really bugs or are back-doors left in for the state security apparatus? Who or what department is tasked with testing Cisco devices for security vulnerabilities. I mean didn't anyone test the dev
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by runciblespoon 7y ago
Actually Internet Explorer 1.0 was a rebranded Spyglass browser . After failing to get an exclusive license from Mosaic Netscape and failing to get an exclusive license from the NCSA, Microsoft does get a non-exclusive license for a browser
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by runciblespoon 7y ago
“Boeing Believed a 737 Max Warning Light Was Standard. It Wasn’t.” This is retrospective ass-covering, to distract us from the fact that the the pilots were never informed as to the existence of MCAS (Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentatio
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by runciblespoon 7y ago
"in the immediate aftermath of the 2004 incident, a video of the encounter was shared and viewed widely by members aboard the Princeton and Nimitz via an internal military email system" I hadn't realized that the US navy poss
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by runciblespoon 7y ago
> The Linux world has a lot of conventions you just 'need to know about' in order to navigate. It works very well for experienced people, but it isn't helpful for newcomers. When I was first starting out I didn't unde
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by runciblespoon 7y ago
> The way Linux distros have no conception of separating "system" from "application" .. That's a novel concept if you don't mind me saying so ;]
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by runciblespoon 7y ago
I seem to remember it differently, what killed seven people was senior management choosing to ignore warnings about ice debris strikes on the wing during launches. On this one, they know ice had struck the wing, they choose not to have grou
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by runciblespoon 7y ago
> It's a severe discredit to the major operating system vendors that plugging in a USB stick can still compromise a system. Well, just the one OS vendor comes to mind and a particular chip maker also shares the blame. Just how diffi
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by runciblespoon 7y ago
Ha haa haaaa .. you can not be serious :] ‘Secret Service agent. Samuel Ivanovich, who interviewed Zhang Mar-a-Lago, testified at the hearing. He stated that when another agent put Zhang's thumb-drive into his computer, it immediately
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by runciblespoon 8y ago
“I believe we need a more active role for governments and regulators. By updating the rules for the Internet, we can preserve what’s best about it — the freedom for people to express themselves and for entrepreneurs to build new things — wh
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by runciblespoon 8y ago
“During the two and a half decades leading up to the Russian cyber attacks on the 2016 U.S. presidential election ..” You lost my interest right there ..
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by runciblespoon 8y ago
"CDC director warns that Congo's Ebola outbreak may not be containable" especially as the locals insist on following traditional burial methods such as washing the deceased and sitting in for days on end with cadaver.
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by runciblespoon 8y ago
> Umm. Yes. Most normal people have no idea Google isn’t the internet, I’m guessing. The same people that think you can only access the web through the Microsoft Internet Explorer :]
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by runciblespoon 8y ago
sorokod: “Humanity made it to the 21st century consuming pork. Labeling pork 'unclean' is just standard operating procedure where arbitrary restrictions are introduced to generate an "us vs. them" divide and give the rel
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by runciblespoon 8y ago
I predict they'll be a regime change in Venezuela real soon .
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by runciblespoon 8y ago
> anybody have a mirror? site's down... http://archive.is/hldpY I wonder did Gates ever manage to get the shares back? https://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2018/10/15/business/15r
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by runciblespoon 8y ago
“MongoDB switches up its open source license” Is that the same as modify and/or improve?
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by runciblespoon 8y ago
@DenisM: “I can imagine there could be good reason to dilute someone” .. Cutting a business partner out of his fair share while he's in the middle of battling a life threatening disease, a good reason. I guess you went to the same scho
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by runciblespoon 8y ago
@FooHentai: “I've had Ubuntu running on a few cheap desktop machines for some years now used for light duties in a few living spaces. So far we're at 100% failure rate on version upgrades: Both LTR release upgrades have bricked bo
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by runciblespoon 8y ago
Are these bitcoin exchanges just a gigantic implimentation of a pyramid scheme. I mean where is the added value coming from? Are they similar to “over unity” machines in physics?
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by runciblespoon 8y ago
@spacehome: “It's probably not the same sand, or at least not very much of it.” What was wrong with that comment that it got voted into invisibility?

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