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A commercial airliner should never have to rely on computer systems which act autonomously, i.e. change controls without pilot input, to keep the plane in the air.
These planes are only suitable for military use.
So either Boeing replaces the engines with smaller and lighter JT8D's and deactivates MCAS, or sell them to the men in green.
They spit out what they think, based on the information they receive and endless more cross references than human brains can create.
Filtering the outcome of AI bots to a censoring filter would solve the complaints of these researchers.
At the same time it beats the purpose of building AI machines if they are restricted in their answers.
They should be considered as advisors helping us taking optimal decisions based on large quantities of facts that our brains can not over see, making something that just replicates believes and convictions held by some doesn't add value.
In case they come up with conclusions that we find unacceptable, we can take note but not following up on it.
I clearly recall working in the second half of the 80's with 32 bit BSD 4.2 on DEC VAX and MC68K based SUN 3/50 with SunOS 3 after working for years with AT&T Unix v7 on 16 bit DEC pdp11 model 70.
Unix on Intel did not appear before Andrew S. Tanenbaum released Minix in 1987 while Linus Torvalds released Linux in 1992 having used Minix as platform to develop it.
The timeline pictured in your reply could have benefited from googling Unix timeline.
If both parties agree that information which is covered by the GDPR is not admissible as evidence in a court of law, Europeans are protected against prosecution in the US. It would leave open options for dragnet surveillance, which is needed to catch terrorists who need to be caught before they do what they are planning.
District Attorneys would careful to bring evidence, since it would blow their case in court.
No idea why people bother about GDPR and EU fines. Consumers in Europe have no rights at all, no rights to initiate class-action law-suits, no rights to sue companies without risking financial ruin.
Recent cases like the VW diesel scandal, Porsche IMS bearing issues and several privacy violations by US big tech prove the point. The EU citizens who were the actual victims of these corporate mistakes got nothing, Americans were compensated for their damages due to value loss of their motor vehicles, blown engines or invasions of their privacy.
The EU fines they manage to extort from google & Co. are just used to add a few extra cherries to the 250,000 euro salaries of the divine EU polit bureau members, so the poor guys can fill up their V8 cars with expensive tax free gas in Brussels for 60 euro cents per liter.
scmp.com so refreshing when coming from European and US based media outlets, finally not everything is centered around the braindead theme "climate change bad, orange man bad, climate change bad, orange man bad....." It is amazing to read articles written by smart journalists when used to repeating non-sense created by creatures with an IQ of 50 or lower.
If scmp.com is the product of the CCP and western mainstream media is the result of a capitalistic free market, then the latter is a big fail.
The reason for banning them are their suspected ties to the PLA.
Instead of doubling down on threats like a Mexican drug cartel does, the CCP could have taken steps to take away doubts about the ties between them and Huawei.
Instead they do nothing in in this sense, threat the rest of the world like they are children, threatening them with a beating if they are not obedient.
If China wants to be successful in selling tech, they could change their laws, freeing firms of the obligation to cooperate with what the CCP defines as "Chinese security needs", be more transparent and not behave like it is Germany embittered by the Versailles treaty.
Replace one murderous warlord by a puppet of Josef Stalin, who successfully tried to outperform its master when it come to mass murder, you mean by this ?.
Nikita Chroesjtsjov apologized for what Stalin did, Mao is still proudly present on bank notes and public buildings.
To me it proves Asians are aliens, hard working and brilliant, on the other side they allow a murderous monster like Mao a place in the Sun, and support a fascistic regime, albeit with a hammer and sickle label stuck to it, to exist and put to world in fear for a 1930's scenario of escalating territorial disputes with its neighbors.
Chinese people may be nice, but organizations linked with their fascist regime should have no place in infrastructure of the free world involving information processing.
Slaves get housing and food for "free", but I guess nobody would fancy becoming one.
It works the same for our "free" mobile Operating systems, we get it for free, but since it is for free we are in the mercy of its owner.
The sad thing is that app shops are not needed for security.
IoS and Android are both Unix based operating systems, which allow easy per app separation of privileges by assigning a different user-id for each app, I do not think there are apps in any of those stores running as root.
Apps just get access to devices like camera, phone, sms and others. If that is managed well, no app can influence others or access information we want to protect by limiting use of devices on the phone.
Having worked from home for 3 months, I noticed that it might be worth to accept a little pay cut when allowed to WFH, since it saves considerable amounts of money.
No gas bills, less car wear implying potential maintenance costs, things can be combined more easily.
WFH maybe different for other people, but as a society we would benefit if we stopped spending significant amounts of time just to commute to work.
Giving employees the legal right to WFH, in case the profession allows it, would be an intelligent way to reduce CO2 emissions.
And if this generation is not able to shed the idea. " if you are not there, you don't work", I am sure the next one will.
They build it with the help of some US based consultancy company like Booze Allen and Hamilton and SSL certificates supplied by an US based company all communicating using US designed and Chinese build networking equipment. The SAN's they use have a direct call home to their US based manufacturers.
It will be very successful since it is going to cost 5 times more than AWS, because Merkel wants the data centers to be powered by windmills so it is CO2 neutral.
Maybe El-Reg readers are on average a bit more proficient in physics ?:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c6/Energy_density.svg
A Lithium-Ion battery has 0.25 MJ/Kg. kerosene has 44 MJ/Kg.
Kerosene has a weight to energy ratio outperforming L-ION by a factor of 176.
Since there is a 1:1 relation between weight of planes and their energy use, it is hard to imagine that electric planes will be an efficient solution given the current state of battery technology.
Extrapolate the Cessna to a 747-8, having an empty weight of 221T, this is 70 Cessna's, which would require 140 ton of L-Ion batteries to take off.
Also haproxy on weekly updated CentOS servers suffer from it. This SSL with its centralistic setup is just there to squeeze money out of people in collusion with the browser manufacturers. Why can organizations not easily integrate the CA functionality into their external DNS server, fill everything with self generated certificates instead of having to pay the SSL racketeering mob $ 100,- every year for each certificate ?.
Because Sectigo bought Comodo, certificates get invalidated.. thx a lot guys.
This executive order is meant to support democracy. A democracy can only work if people can take informed decisions, we allowed google, youtube, facebook and others to monopolize information sharing between people. If they actively suppress information or tag certain information as being bad, it restricts the way citizens can inform themselves. The steps president Trump took are appropriate.
Lefty lawyers may cry victory because it can not be enforced, but these companies know loopholes will get fixed and if they continue to serve as a platform exclusively for supporting leftist and CCP views, several of them might end up in anti-trust litigation and will get broken up.
Would not have written this article on behalf om some Chinese propaganda organisation, he would notice the US numbers of Corona casualties are significantly below the European average.
Also the percentage of patients with Corona who died because of it is lower than in Europe, giving a good indication about the effectiveness of medical staff in helping patients to survive.
President Trump is right about influential digital platforms, where people exchange information, they should not be allowed to suppress free speech since it is unconstitutional. If they only want to allow leftist content they should move to China. Censorship is big business there and Corona wise it is the most healthy country in the world according to CCP statistics.
Intel did that in collusion with the major, also US based, software manufacturers like VmWare, Oracle, MS etc.
The Xeon cpu's always have this handy advantage in the metrics on which these software companies base their licensing fees, this puts AMD in a disadvantage in the datacenter since licensing costs often exceed hardware costs by multiple factors.
Maybe google could add api's to Android which generate fake privacy related information.
If a searchlight app asks for access to: photo's, contacts, location etc to work, google could add a checkbox: Give fake information only.
With the checkbox default on, users would be better protected against such apps.
Developers of such malicious apps would of course develop techniques to detect they are being conned and make the app stop working, but then the user knows what is the true intent of the developer is.
Socialism = Stealing from one group, and give it to another group, minus what gets allocated to those who are "more equal than others".
Communism = Class based socialism, they steal from people who have assets or an income.
National Socialism = Race based socialism, they steal from people belonging to a race or group, like German National-Socialists did with the jews.
The only difference between German National-Socialism and communism is that Russia, China, North-Korea and Venezuela did not lose a war, so they were able to hide the mountains of corpses that are the result of socialism, and even got so bold claiming National-Socialism is not socialism.
Here an extensive analysis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCkyWBPaTC8
You are spot on, women have no business in occupying leading positions within Tech companies, since being a leader in tech requires imagination, creativity and guts.
Women don't peak in either of these, implying the company with a female in charge will lose from competitors led by men. This is exactly what happened to IBM, from being a leader until the early 2000's, towards the downward spiral they are in since over a decade.
Make a woman head of development at Ferrari, within 10 years it will be bankrupt, with a runway full of unsold pink Fiat 500 like cars outfitted with furry interiors, because they are "cute and easy to park".
IPv6 is clearly a product of autistic tech thinking, striving for the technical perfect solution but ignoring the human aspect of losing control due to its inherent complexity.
It a sign of the times, cars went the same way, full of crap and hard to fix. But that is what they want anyway, the more crappy the stuff is one makes, the more successful the company is due to repeated sales.
It is to be seen if things change, loadbalancer technology like haproxy and nginx became very mature and accessible, offsetting address shortages significantly. From the market, the major networking equipment makers will likely continue to market their IPv4 conjuring technology, since that is a major part of their added value.
The internet is another great example of what people are capable of without government interference. Except from developing the basic networking protocols, it all came into existence, without burning a single tax dollar. Like all the great inventions at the end of the 19th century, internet is the result of capitalism, which actually delivers instead of just taking until everyone is poor like socialism does.
Ads is the oil keeping the internet alive, without ads, over half of the internet would die, and users would be kept hostage by a handful of big companies and government controlled mainstream media outlets.
Although it may feel creepy at times, targeted ads are actually a blessing. Which man would like to be bugged by ads for PMS diapers, lipstick and washing powder when he is watching hickok45 on youtube ?.
The subject of targeted ads should not be swiped on the same heap as the dragnet surveillance by the US three letter agencies, projects like PRISM served a different purpose. There is no free lunch, getting some ads is a little price to pay for all the internet has to offer.
Spot on, thanks to a friend who is into vintage McIntosh gear, I relearned how good music was before the age of endlessly compressed mp3 crap.
Bought a Yamaha CR-800 solid state receiver from the mid 70's, which just has discrete components that can be replaced for a few cents and a soldering iron.
It taught me how easily we can be fooled by an Industry of frauds into getting shafted and accepting sub standard products.
Up to the mid 80's, globally over 70% of every dollar spent on IT equipment went to IBM.
In that period, 360/370 series mainframes were top sellers. Several hardware manufacturers like RCA, Memorex,Hitachi, Fijutsu and Amdahl started producing so called plug compatible System-370 compatible mainframes. When upgrading CPU and memory cabinets, customers could connect existing IBM I/O-equipment like 3745 channel controllers, 3330/3380 DASD, tapedrives and printers to the plug compatible units.
This caused IBM to initiate litigation, which they lost in the end. Translating hardware to software, plug compatible is the equivalent of a API.
It is April 15, 1952, seven years after WW2 ended. Boeing conducts the first flight with the B52, a huge jet engined bomber using 8 J-57's, which is still considered to be a venerable weapon in 2020.
Four years later, August 31, 1956, eleven years after the end of WW2. Boeing does the first flight with the KC-135 tanker, a modern four engined jet, which was the base for the successful 707 generation still in use by airlines and the military all over the world.
The fact Boeing was capable to design and produce modern jets less than a decade after only making slow piston engined planes, makes it seem weird they have so many issues now with things that seem simple for a layman like me. How is it, they do need more time to fix issues with the KC-46 tanker, than their grand fathers needed to design, produce and test the KC-135 from scratch, which is more remarkable, since they use an existing 767 airframe as basis for the KC-46.
Why did they allow, after 50 years of successfully building 737's, managed to ruin its good image as a safe plane ?.
Were our grand fathers just smarter people, or did the requirements go off the scale, and are impossible to meet by engineers ?.
Alphabet, Apple, Tesla etc are not mining companies. Although they are without doubt aware of the substandard labor circumstances involved in obtaining the precious metals, it is not them who are directly to blame.
It are worldwide operating companies like Glencore who mine in Africa. They are into bribery, paying off officials with a few millions to get mining contracts worth billions. If needed, they finance civil wars within the countries they are mining in to secure their mining sites.
To let companies like Glencore off the hook in this is the wrong approach, they can then as well sue everyone owning a device containing metals like Cobalt.
There is a difference between computers validating if the pilot uses controls withing acceptable limits, and computers themselves actuating controls without input from the pilot just to keep the aircraft in the air.
This is acceptable for fighter jets, 2019 built 737-Max jets ending up doing domestic flights in Africa around 2050 will probably cause a carnage once the computers start sending the aircraft nose down in the Savannah once sensors fail due to maintenance issues.
Could have been an alternative headline for this article.
Isn't it funny, the same EU commission preventing effective taxation of Big Tech in the EU, keeps asking for tips in return for the favor.
I am sure google will be happy to toss some change at the EU Commission in return for taxation of less than 5% for its profits, in a market where the average middle class worker is taxed between 50%-70%.
Imagine that, no more French food and nice things, only cheap crap made in Ch*n% remains.
The land of the free only living on greasy and tasteless food covered in dark yellow fake cheese, gobbled down with Champagne Americain (Coca cola).
The only wine available is this characterless Californian "Chardonnay" slobber, that is not made to have taste, but to be so generic that nobody will dislike it.
That seems like punishment enough, the good thing is that the CEO's of the tax evading companies will have enough money to buy nice French products anyway.
3-D printing makes it easier to access firearms. If one can buy the metal parts for an AR-15 pattern rifle, being able to create the polymer frame can be of an advantage.
During firing the the 5.56 *(.223) Nato round is rated at a pressure of 62,366 PSI. No idea if the receiver and bolt carrier can be 3-D printed to safely withstand this pressure, since these parts are made out of special steel which needs to have a certain grade of elasticity to cope with these pressure spikes.
Since gun parts are easily accessible in the US, 3-D printing may increase the number of unregistered firearms.
And a Cobra Shelby GT500 with 760 HP starts at $ 70,300.
For that money the retarded krauts will be happy to sell one a souped up BMW 5-series that sounds like a Golf with its wheezing twin-turbo crap 4-cylinder engine.
A M5 with way less HP costs twice as much.
Since it is the digital equivalent of a smoke screen. If people can't detect they are interacting with the article of a newsbot, then anything is possible.
Governments could use such machines to influence opinions, and are able to generate sufficient amounts of white noise, that seems sensible at first sight, to obfuscate the real picture.
This type of contracts seem nice and an efficient use of federal budgets.
For the civilian market it implies that the big cloud providers become military targets as well.
In case of war, China may start targeting data center locations and head quarters of Amazon and MS first, as part of a strategy to reduce the capabilities of the US military.
It is questionable if the big bit barns in VA are blast and EMP proof.
A Pearl Harbor like strike addressing Amazon and MS may yield interesting outcomes if done well, not taking into account the unpleasant collateral damage for the people living nearby those facilities.
Technology that started as a nuclear bomb in WW2, ended up making C02 neutral energy and saved the lives of countless millions being used in radiation therapy.
Nobody wants, and would allow, Marc's his greedy hands in ones brain, it could perhaps replace classic chemical medication for people with mental issues.
It could allow fast learning in a world where things get more complicated everyday, allowing people to do work they otherwise couldn't.
Maybe one day it even simplifies the whole learning process, so people do not have to sit the first 25 years of their lives in school benches to acquire the skills necessary to perform in this society.
Replace the word "age" by something like "non aryan" or "non white" and a pretty grim picture emerges.
Age discrimination should for the law, be treated equivalent to racial discrimination.
It is an issue all over the world that in companies old guys on higher management positions decide that other guys have to be booted based on their age.
Since IBM is a well known company, it would be great if they either have to pay a very substantial fine, or the management involved faces jail time for this.
Being Dutch myself, I was surprised such a report is published at all. Holland is the country where all but one banks went bust in 2008 because employees of the National Bank where too busy attending parties organized by those they were supposed to keep in check, leaving the tax payer with a bill of 40 billion dollar. It is the country where all HTTPS certificates of the government were outsourced at diginotar.nl, owned by the US based VASCO Data security, leaving excellent opportunities for MITM attacks. It is the country where Linux is taboo in the government because decisions are made by hired people from big IT service companies, who receive kick backs from MS.
Many semi governmental institutions outsourced their email scanning to companies like mimecast without even factoring in what this means for the privacy of their customers. Legislation or guidelines for this type of outsourcing is non existent, leaving the privacy of citizens to the grabs of the cheapest offer for outsourcing, or lemming like behave of decision makers.
The Microsoft discussion in Dutch government is moot anyway, since on the level of communities, a company named Centric has over 90% market share in software solutions for communal administration and services. Centric is a MS only solution provider and a Platinum/Diamond MS reseller. Within 10 years, all these solutions will only work in Azure, so is all the data of citizens kept by communities.
In the end "we the people" get what we asked for, a total loss of power and privacy because we allowed them to give it away, seduced by the false promise "privatizing would make us all rich and happy".
Checking the log of any proxy handling traffic for an idling windows 10 PC reveals excessive amounts of "call home" activities.
The volume of this telemetry information is such, that it may impact weak internet connections.
People who have the opportunity to configure their proxy should perhaps block these sites, the ones I blocked have lines with DENIED in it.
This is the traffic of Windows PC, without active browser windows open. It is sent every minute.
TCP_TUNNEL/200 4827 CONNECT watson.telemetry.microsoft.com:443 - HIER_DIRECT/20.44.86.43 -
TCP_DENIED/403 3786 CONNECT rt.services.visualstudio.com:443 - HIER_NONE/- text/html
TCP_TUNNEL/200 6487 CONNECT nexus.officeapps.live.com:443 - HIER_DIRECT/52.109.88.39 -
TCP_DENIED/403 3786 CONNECT rt.services.visualstudio.com:443 - HIER_NONE/- text/html
TCP_TUNNEL/200 7894 CONNECT nexusrules.officeapps.live.com:443 - HIER_DIRECT/52.109.88.
TCP_MISS/503 4523 GET http://olkflt.edog.officeapps.live.com/olkflt/outlookflighting.svc/api/glides? - HIER_NONE/- text/html
TCP_DENIED/403 3801 CONNECT v10.vortex-win.data.microsoft.com:443 - HIER_NONE/- text/html
TCP_TUNNEL/200 20165 CONNECT login.microsoftonline.com:443 - HIER_DIRECT/20.190.137.98 -
TCP_TUNNEL/200 7079 CONNECT graph.microsoft.com:443 - HIER_DIRECT/40.126.9.51
TCP_TUNNEL/200 1995 CONNECT storeedgefd.dsx.mp.microsoft.com:443 - HIER_DIRECT/88.221.166.83 -
TCP_TUNNEL/200 7022 CONNECT livetileedge.dsx.mp.microsoft.com:443 - HIER_DIRECT/88.221.166.83 -
TCP_TUNNEL/200 16520 CONNECT storeedgefd.dsx.mp.microsoft.com:443 - HIER_DIRECT/88.221.166.83 -
TCP_TUNNEL/200 4119 CONNECT settings-win.data.microsoft.com:443 - HIER_DIRECT/52.156.204.185 -
TCP_DENIED/403 3801 CONNECT v10.vortex-win.data.microsoft.com:443 - HIER_NONE/- text/html
TCP_DENIED/403 3801 CONNECT v10.vortex-win.data.microsoft.com:443 - HIER_NONE/- text/html
TCP_DENIED/403 3801 CONNECT v10.vortex-win.data.microsoft.com:443 - HIER_NONE/- text/html
TCP_TUNNEL/200 7373 CONNECT c.urs.microsoft.com:443 - HIER_DIRECT/40.114.224.200 -
TCP_MISS/200 4613 GET http://tile-service.weather.microsoft.com/en-US/livetile/preinstall? - HIER_DIRECT/104.123.111.225 text/xml
TCP_TUNNEL/200 7015 CONNECT secure.aadcdn.microsoftonline-p.com:443 - HIER_DIRECT/23.62.132.180 -
TCP_TUNNEL/200 6019 CONNECT mobile.pipe.aria.microsoft.com:443 - HIER_DIRECT/52.114.158.50
TCP_TUNNEL/200 43097 CONNECT r.manage.microsoft.com:443 - HIER_DIRECT/52.169.9.87 -
Several factors make big tech dangerous, market power, enormous lobbying capabilities and the unified effort of the leftist fifth column, that got control of them, to impose censorship on the content they present to the world.
We the people created these leeching monsters by giving them our time and attention.
In order to preserve things like free speech, the possibility to get informed about a diversity in views and opinions and a state where everybody pays their fair share, we need to check the seemingly unlimited power of big Tech.
Now we live in a world where big tech prays socialism in their contents, they them selves live like 18th century nobles. Paying taxes is reserved for the losers with a middle class job, who pay 60%-70% of their gross income. But that is also socialism.. "All are equal, but some are more equal than others".
If the inventor of USB-C lived in the middle ages, he would would have been put besides the IPv6 guy in a stock so passers by could toss rotten fruit at them.
Have to buy all these new cables, and for what... Oh yeah I know.. share holder Value.
Millions of people have to buy new cables, but hey lets order some Chinese solar panels, that is good for carbon dioxide and the environment.
It is predicted that by 2050, there will be many cities with 10-20 million inhabitants.
It is also said that 5% of the population engages in criminal activities varying from pick pocketing to Hanibal Lector like nut cases and drug dealers.
The 5% of 20 million is one million people who have a criminal intent.
Without electronic surveillance these cities will become unlivable and dangerous pools of crime, comparable to the large cities in Brazil today where the police recommends not to stop for red light after dark.
Gaining experience with these technologies seems a good idea for police forces around the world so they are able to deal with mega cities.
Linux as a whole became too important for the electronics industry to allow it to be hijacked by one party.
It is great news another powerful party joined the club, since Open Source is a collaboration project, it can only gain from it.
Revenues from windows licenses is a declining business on the longer term.
Since MS is giving away W10 for free, it only serves as enabler for sales of other MS products, they could as well replace w10 with Linux and save considerable money otherwise spent on development and maintenance.
AWS, which is not relying on license fees as a business model, is pouring millions in further developing Open-Source products like MariaDB, to undermine MS and Oracle. Every dollar not spent on licenses for MSSQL or Oracle, is a potential revenue for AWS. It is along these lines the battles will be fought, the good old license model is on the long run not sustainable due to the enterprise grade quality of Open-Source products.
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