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Was this written by the advertising department of Intel?

@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 ..

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.

“Everyone knows how fragile these systems are”

How about not connecting your ICSs directly to the Internet?

> 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/watch?v=NLflLdIJeMw)

b. There are people making a lot of money out of the migrant crisis.

c. The leftists in Europe are in favor of migration not because they like migrants, but because they hate their own culture. (Peter Hitchens 41:26 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlN0g6zut9c)

> 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 three primary agree then system normal. If two primary disagree then switch to backup.

“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 management. They couldn't use two Angle of Attack (AOA) sensors as when there was a differing reading there would be no way to know the correct reading, which is why MCAS used a single AOA sensor on the right-hand side.

“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 heroin trade out of Afghanistan and where all the money goes ;]

> 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.

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 devices for potential remote root access and the ability to bypass the Trust Anchor? Lastly I don't know how an internet router can be not connected to the Internet and still function?

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 from Spyglass, that was 'given away' with Windows as Internet Explorer 1.0 around 1994. As such Microsoft deemed it unnecessary to actually pay Spyglass. Mosaic Netscape was released in 1994, despite this factoid, in 1996 we have Bill Gates welcoming Netscape into the Industry.

https://web.archive.org/web/20120618054817/http://www.nation...

https://www.cnet.com/news/gates-draws-roadmap-for-intranet/

“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 Augmentation System) and therefore could not even know how to disable it. The presence of or lack thereof of a warning light being rendered specious. And MCAS read only the one AoA sensor, from the captains side.

So to summarize, the pilots don't know about MCAS, MCAS is still engaged even when the auto-pilot is disengaged. A single AoA sensor failed, triggering the MCAS into a nose-down mode, the pilots begin ignorant of this, repeatedly tried to regain level flight using the trim wheel. This they failed at.

“The warning light notifies pilots of a disagreement in the sensors that measure which direction the plane is pointed”

This wouldn't even work in the way described, in a two sensor system, the computer can't tell which sensor is giving false readings. That's why they hooked up MCAS to only the one sensor. And Boeing didn't tell the FFC or the pilots as they would of had to get the plane re-certified and the pilots retrained.

"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 possessed wireless email capable of handling video back in 2004. Seriously though, what's this UFO waffle doing on a respectable tech blog such as HN.

> 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 understand the versioning system or what it meant. Were releases named something like "Ubuntu Standard 18.04", or "Ubuntu Preview 19.04" it would have helped clarity. LTS doesn't mean anything to average people. Small things like would help me convince family members to switch

Are you posting from some parallel universe, I've sat Windows users down in front of this Ubuntu desktop and they can't tell the difference. What's complicated about clicking on 'software Updater'?

> 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 ;]

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 ground placed telescopes survey the shuttle, choose to not have the crew do an EVA and choose not have have a rescue shuttle sent up. The title has a nice ring to it all the same.

> 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 difficult can it be to design-in total isolation into a 'computer'.

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 began to install files, a "very out-of-the-ordinary" event that he had never seen happen before during this kind of analysis. The agent had to immediately stop the analysis to halt any further corruption of his computer, Ivanovich said. The analysis is ongoing but still inconclusive, he testified.’

“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 — while also protecting society from broader harms.”

My irony just exploded. My solution is to say goodby to your Facebook “friends”, switch off the computer and go outside and socialize with real people. Yea, I know you can't unfriend people when they annoy you, but that's a small price to engage in a real social life.

“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 ..

"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.

> 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 :]

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 religious authorities more control over the everyday lifes of the believers. Same dynamics as when religions take great interest in the sexual lives of the belivers”

Going on how your comment has been rendered invisible, looks like you triggered someone :]

I predict they'll be a regime change in Venezuela real soon .

> 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/15reuter...

“MongoDB switches up its open source license”

Is that the same as modify and/or improve?

@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 school of ethics as Gates :]

@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 both the machines.”

Bricked you say, I don't recognize that from my experience, as for 'light duties' it's a little more useful than that:

"Ubuntu Linux Demo"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eI-YIO0OKz0

"Using Play On Linux For Windows Games On Linux!)"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YVCY0rnI90

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?

@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?