"little"?!
You can call Curiosity many things, not sure "little" is very high up the list... yeah that's her on the right
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Eric Raymond's aphorism fails when asked to prove a negative (like everything else).
Posit: there are no other technological lifeforms capable of transmitting any sort of signal that we could detect with current instruments, or with any instrument conceivable in, say, the next three decades. IF that were the case, how long should we continue searching before concluding the odds of finding anything are now so low as to make further searches unnecessary?
all sorts of gear from network or internet-connected TVs, routers, thermostats, light switches, CCTV cameras, and robot vacuum cleaners, to servers, PCs, smart fridges, dialysis machines, car infotainment systems, tractors, construction equipment, and uranium centrifuges, and so on,
power statins and electricity distribution grids...
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/17/world/europe/russia-us-cyberwar-grid.html
Welcome to ChoppedLiver 2.0
https://www.google.com/amp/s/gizmodo.com/googles-project-zero-team-releases-details-on-high-seve-1833052225/amp
The 90 day deadline (which has nothing to do with anti-trust laws, of course) is the same for every vendor. Release is automatic.
Take a tip from an old pro: put it in writing. Even a polite email heavily obfuscated with technical jargon that only goes to your line manager is enough. It won't stop you getting fired when something goes pop (because "scapegoat" is second on the list of core duties in security, just below "fig leaf") but it should get you a bit more of a payoff when you draw their attention to the warnings they ignored and ask how they'll sound when they're read out at the employment tribunal.
Did you know* - the Mississippi is only prevented from jumping over to another nearby valley that will get it down the last 150 miles to the Gulf in half the time, as well as shutting down the entire lower river cargo traffic -- the route down which an appreciable fraction of the global food supply is transported. Really fascinating articles here (this is one of a series of 3): https://www.wunderground.com/cat6/If-Old-River-Control-Structure-Fails-Catastrophe-Global-Impact
* Me neither til I saw these pieces.
Assuming, of course, humanity makes it to the 22nd century and there's anyone around who gives a crap.
Magic 8ball says: chances not so good
https://www.livescience.com/65633-climate-change-dooms-humans-by-2050.html
(Don't shoot the messenger, I'm just pointing out this assertion has been made... by "The Breakthrough National Centre for Climate Restoration in Melbourne", who evidently have also hit upon a breakthrough in getting coverage, too. Perhaps some IT vendors could commission them to get more coverage of the latest breakthroughs in network attached storage arrays?
Actually, I think you'll find...
The quality of sperm quality decreases with a man's age, increasing the chances of birth defects, developmental problems and other things that make them a poorer choice of breeding partner than a 30-year old man (given modern life expectancies and the relatively high death rate in 20-something males,) That's why, in most cultures, when 30 year old women form couples with 50 year old men, it's generally assumed that other factors must be at work.
See, that's the problem with reductionist biological explanations that fail to take account of culture and societal pressures... they're superfically appealing but unsatisfactory explanations for a surprisingly large amount of human behaviour.
(PS https://boingboing.net/filesroot/201004071446.jpg )
...as these toys become tools and the map of the world becomes the world itself.
. French philosophers notwithstandnig, maps will never become the world. If you walk across a crenelated black line* on a map, life goes on as normal. In the real world... not so much. Until you respawn, anyway.
* https://media.geograph.org.uk/files/1ff1de774005f8da13f42943881c655f/NAT_black1.jpg
the email had "contained hidden computer coding designed to extract the IP address of the Navy Times computer network and to send that information back to a server located in San Diego".
A web bug, as used by every marketing mail ever sent since about 2002? CODE RED! CALL THE PRESIDENT!!
*eyeroll*
Thsi type of farce has played out in every one of the companies I have worked for in my 30 years : / without exception.
May I politely suggest the possibility that you're picking the wrong employers?
No doubt there are plenty of industries and orgs where senior managers cover up for each other in this sort of situation, but in anywhere of any scale the seething piranha pool of hungry ambitious execs eager to climb a ladder of knives sticking out of other people's backs mean "you're only as good as your last outage". At least two of my past employers ditched senior execs after major outages (Director, Operations and CIO, respectively.) So it does sometimes happen.
It will also depend what sort of impact this event has on the bottom line. If they end up as GDPR test cases and get a huge fine -- or if there's a long-term loss of customer confidence and they start switching to competitors in significant numbers, senior heads could certainly roll.
"....future devices shipped by the world's second largest handset maker will not get access to the latest Android operating system."
So, just like all the other Android devices?
(Don't misunderstand me, I've got a direct-from -vendor (Motorola) Android myself. They used to push Android updates fairly regularly, not it's 6-9 months at best.
...than my £150 Motorola? Does everything I want (and a load of things I'm not fussed about, eg selfie camera). The only thing missing is manual mode on the camera which doesn't have the f-stop, exposure & ISO sliders, which is a shame but I guess might be because they took it out of Android since my previous phone was manufactured. (??)
Icon purely because $mgmt decreed we should move desks over the weekend, not realising the only way facilities could get that done would involve us packing up at 2pm today, allowing me to "catch up on some document reviews" -- indeed I intend to provide so much feedback on the docs I'll have difficulty walking home *)
A broken arm or leg is unlikely to kill you. bump on the head can turn from "I've got a bit of a headache" to "I'm unconscious in a blue-light taxi with a 50/50 chance of death or permanent brain damage resulting from an undiagnosed bleed" really unexpectedly (ie, many hours after the initial trauma.)
+1 for a text editor, but can I get a shout out for always starting a line containing potentially dangeous commands with a couple of '#' characters.
One of the grizzled old veteran Unix admins who learned me a lot of what I think I know about it had a slightly annoying (at first) habit that after typing any command into a terminal, it took his hands off the keyboard and read it back through a couple of times before hitting RETURN. Saved a lot more time than it cost in the long run though.
I am not an astrodynamist. However I believe the current thinking is that tidally disrupted objects gradually spread out along the approximate line of the original object's orbit. This is how asteroids and comets give rise to meteor showers. See also Shoemaker-Levy impact at Jupiter.
There are a lot more people working in sprawling organisations stuffed with 30 years of accumulated legacy technology than are working in shiny-shiny startups with the latest and greatest post-agile serverless cloud everything.
Yup. Worked on a project to allow any number of arbitrary sequences to be blacklisted -- not just "qwerty" but "1qaz2wsx" and all the permutations along and across a standard 102 key keyboard.
When I pointed out to the PM that the two customers who were insisting on this change operated in dozens territories that used different keyboard layouts he nearly cried. #funtimes