Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

Airlines in Asia, Africa ground Boeing 737 Max 8s after second death crash in four-ish months

Re: MCAS automatic trimming system

>I think it a flawed model, where the computer can override the pilot.

Especially ironic given the Boeing attitude to computerised Airbus aircraft

Re: UK CAA now suspended flights of the 737-MAX

The independent NTSB was established precisely because the FAA was in charge of both promoting air travel and accident investigation. The early FAA did have a tendency to blame any crash where both wings didn't obviously fall off on 'pilot error'.

There were some complaints a few years ago that the FAA were taking a 'Boeing aircraft are supporting our boys in Iraq/Afghanistan' and that any criticism of Boeing was tantamount to treason.

Re: According to the BBC...

A sub-optimal flight-path ground-plane intersection solution ?

Although it was due to pilot error in not checking the error made by the ground crew in loading the fuel.

Re: A programming error?

>"80% percent of accidents caused by pilot error, according to Boeing"

That's because 99% of all aircraft accidents are General Aviation light aircraft with very little automatic technology.

It's like Nasa saying the shuttle is safe because exploding rockets are only involved in 1 in a million vehicle accidents in the USA.

Re: According to the BBC...

"possible impact with terrain"

possible? I think impact with terrain is pretty much all you can be sure of when faced with a crater

UK joins growing list of territories to ban Boeing 737 Max flights as firm says patch incoming

Re: An already safe...

It depends.

If each new 737 variant is a completely different new aircraft when it comes to crash statistics then the later variants have had very few accidents - the -800 a couple and the -900 none (IIRC)

Considering the number of 737s flying and that they mostly do short commuter hops with lots of take offs and landings they are amazingly safe.

If you include all the early models with their somewhat distressing tendancy for control surfaces to fall off then ....

2 weeks till Brexit and Defra, at the very least, looks set to be caught with its IT pants down

The Pimlico option

Technically is the Queen still duke of Normandy?

Post Brexit - could we all just claim to be French subjects ?

>I believe the reason it was never criminalised was because of things that happen at sea...

There are lots of things that happen at sea that were criminalised

Re: Effects of food import tax

>Picking fruit without damaging it is way more difficult. I think the technology required to do that is about 10 years away.

Although ironically Brexit is providing a big stimulus to R&D in this area. Robot carrot pickers in Yorkshire

(sadly an American news source so no Wallace and Gromit puns)

Re: Effects of food import tax

>good news for farmers, not so good for shoppers

Although they are going to be rather busy.

With no foreign workers allowed, the cast of Ambridge are going to be pulling a lot of all-nighters to do the actual work in the fields

Re: You beat me to it ...

I think that's the new democracy:

Each MP gets their own policy.

ICO, forgive me – it has been three weeks since I discovered my breach

Re: What is the premise of this article?

That's the posters point, when do you "discover" a breach?

If you see an increased number of connections in the logs, or a few customers call to change their credit card numbers it could take weeks to build up enough evidence that there is an actual security failure.

Of course, you could also "continue to investigate" for years before feeling that you have enough evidence - just like government inquiries

Freelance devs: Oh, you wanted the app to be secure? The job spec didn't mention that

Re: Predictable

They offered £20M to Crapita and got a worse solution, it was more secure in that it never went live.

Re: Quality

Same could be said for everyone learning to read/write. Writing great novels is hard and if you don't want lots of J Archer books around you should stick to hiring Saul Belos.

The purpose of everyone learning to program isn't to have millions of low skilled app developers - it's so that people know to laugh when politicians claim that banning hashtags will stop terrorists.

Biker sues Google Fiber: I broke my leg, borked my ankle in trench dug to lay ad giant's pipe

Re: @Hans 1

In some states there are very broad rules that you can sue anyone tangentialy involved.

There was one tragic case when I was in Houston of somebody who backed out of his drive over his own kid. Among others the driver sued Levi - the jeans the kid as wearing because they weren't noticeable enough

If you are facing $10,000s in medical bills you need to go after everyone

Vodafone: Daft Huawei comms gear ban will cripple UK – and cost punters loads

Re: Would be ironic

That's one of those irregular verbs isn't it:

The Chinese government forces companies to spy for it

The US required communications providers to allow law enforcement access to data

The Australian government wants makers to redefine the laws of mathematics to give it access without a backdoor

Re: Would be ironic

Remember US companies are forced by law to give the government secret access to the data

Would be ironic

If Europe followed America's security warnings and insisted only European kit could be used in its phone network.

Obviously you can't have any of those Intel CPUs with their backdoors <cough> ubiquitous security bugs </cough> or those Microsoft operating systems with their phone home telemetry

Nah, National Cyber Security Centre doesn't need its own minister, UK.gov tells Parliament

Re: Yes but, no but...

Or he would have an official password for all government computers and then paint it on the side of a bus

Re: Yes but, no but...

On the other hand it could be fun guessing how Chris Grayling would screw it up.

No guns or lockpicks needed to nick modern cars if they're fitted with hackable 'smart' alarms

Re: Nothing "smart" about "smart" locks.

Potentially it could increase security

Most fob systems do a challenge response but just cycle through a list of predictable seeds (my Japanese car just increments integers)

Having both get a list of crypto keys from a central site which also monitors how many failed attempt the car has detected and other suspicious behaviour could be good.

Of course allowing you to reset the key fob on the web site with just an email or sms isn't quite so good.

Re: Zombie cars

Power steering can be overridden from the software - was even demonstrated remotely on the Jeep hack.

The safety rules do require that you have mechanical steering if the power steering fails, how you achieve that depends on the model

I assume you descend Tom Cruise like on wires from above, pull out your battery powered mini circular saw and cut through the canvas top and get inside that way

Champagne corks undocked as SpaceX brings the Crew Dragon back to Earth

Re: Well done, SpaceX ...

Congratulations on doing what the Nazis did 80years ago - but this time with parachutes and missing london.

Sure, we've got a problem but we don't really want to spend any money on the tech guy you're sending to fix it

Re: Here's my contribution...

Or the risk that the passenger's bags were chemically exciting

Or one hell of a coincidence

Re: Moving countries but no-one knew

>young lady i spent the next 3 months >romancing, and promptly went to bed.

Not that promptly, rather a heroic late night

So Windrush happened, and yet UK Home Office immigration data still has 'appalling defects'

Re: Umm..

Waiting for the current home secretary to revoke his own British citizenship and deport himself on the grounds that he has foreign heritage

Raspberry Pi 3 Model A+ support to arrive in Linux 5.1

Re: So what was it running before?

Custom kernel tree which was extra work for someone and sometimes slight pain for users trying to get some mainstream app to work.

Adi Shamir visa snub: US govt slammed after the S in RSA blocked from his own RSA conf

Re: So where would they move it to?

>IIRC a transit visa like this is managed on-the-spot.

You are probably coming from a US visa waiver country like the UK.

"transit" as far as the US is concerned is entering the country = easy for a Brit, trickier for an Iranian.

Not just an orange-utan problem

It seems someone at a 3letter agency really doesn't like the guy

US red-tape will drain boffins' brains into China, says crypto-guru Shamir (el'reg 2013)

Ironically that was an invite by the NSA to speak at an NSA conference that got blocked

Re: Weeeeaaaelllll... looky here, we gad ar selfs a reader!

Arggggh damn phone autocomplete - I'm not an illiterate idiot I'm a university professor.

(Not that those are necessarily distinct sets)

Re: He has history ...

No the DoD would just block web access to any news site that reported it

Re: Weeeeaaaelllll... looky here, we gad ar selfs a reader!

Currently a very good whine in the papers by Harvard about the difficulty of Chinese students getting visas to study their and how the current administration doesn't seem to understand that overseas students paying to study in the USA is an export not an import.

Re: So where would they move it to?

>most of South America,

Most of South America requires you to fly through the USA. Since the USA doesn't have transit lounges it means you have to get a US visa to visit a lot of S. America.

Ironically one of patriotic Boeing's selling points for the long range version of the Dreamliner is that it would allow more S. American airlines to fly direct to Europe without the interference of Uncle Sam.

Re: Johnny Foreigner

And he repeatedly visited the middle east.

A colleague of mine who served in the Israeli Defense Force (along with pretty much everyone in that country) wondered how he should answer the 'have you ever been involved in espionage or sabotage' question on the visa form. The correct answer - Yes I was made to run around half the desert with a backpack full of explosives - presumably wouldn't get a favorable response

Canada has lunar dreams as Germany worries about what lies beneath

Re: Canada has to pay for it's military protection

But the presence of the US protects Canada from Cuban invasion.

America has been bravely living under the imminent threat of Cuba for decades

Smart home owner? Don't make your crib easy pickings for the smart home pwner

Re: I'm safe

Rogers follows the Canadian telecom model of providing billing with a minimum of actual telecoms.

By cleverly removing the 'transfering IP packets to/from the customer" loophole they are able to greatly enhance security

I'm safe

The burglar would first have to break in and disconnect my cable modem for 15mins to force a network reset, then turn it off and on again to get a new IP, before they were able to hack my smart home.

Rogers telecom: not only an expensive unreliable monopoly - but now my partner in security

UK.gov's Verify has 'significantly' missed every target, groans spending watchdog

Re: Grateful for the clarification

The metaphors were supplied by a private contractor under the government's new Malapropism scheme, implemented by crapita

Re: The default way for people to prove their identity

That would also come with big savings.

Make access to benefits dependent on having a bank account to prove your id.

Banks don't want to deal with people who have no money and live in areas where nobody has any money.

Huge savings on benefits

Oh no Xi didn't?! China's hackers nick naval tech blueprints, diddle with foreign elections to boost trade – new claim

Re: This strikes me as funny.

So you can tell the ones doing the hacking because they have the best kit.

Although presumably they are hacking the people with crap security so will be stealing designs for useless kit.

McAfee: Oops, our bad. Sharpshooter malware was the Norks' Lazarus Group the whole time

Re: I have to give McAfee credit

They had to wait until they were sure the US wasn't about to announce that Trump was building a golf course there and that N Korea had always been America's greatest ally.

But now we have always been at war with Eurasia it's OK to blame them.

Customer: We fancy changing a 25-year-old installation. C'mon, it's just one extra valve... Only wafer thin...

Re: Valves!?

>It's interesting that there about as many "valves" in a top-of-the-range smartphone

Ne market opportunity. Audiophile smartphone for hipsters with valve headphone

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