Posts by J__M__M

Plane tracker app FlightAware admits user data exposed for years

Re: Just why …

The question is why are you paying them money? Every flight trackers' preferred currency is ADSB data, so give them that instead.

Elon Musk's xAI scores $6B in its series B funding round

Re: A right wing bullshit generator is worth $24 billion?

stop trying to ruin our country, you groomer.

Re: Simon says ..

At least you didn't say... are you even a billionaire bro?

Venerable ICQ messaging service to end operations in June

Re: Trillian

Lower than 193050?

YouTube now sabotages ad-blocking apps that stream its vids

52% of Americans said they use an ad-blocker

The keyword being "said".

Does anyone know what percentage of Americans actually know what an ad-blocker is?

Google co-founder Brin named a defendant in wrongful death complaint

Re: More than surprising

It's so incredible it's impossible. When an airplane crashes everyone gets sued. Everyone. So owning an airplane is all about covering your ass. The chances of Brin or Google being liable here is zero.

Macy's and Sunglass Hut sued for $10M over face-recog arrest and 'sexual assault'

Re: Way too little

The entirety of the USA? Hell no.

In order of most batshit crazy to least:

Florida

Texas

Rest of the bible belt

Flyover states

Everybody else

HP customers claim firmware update rendered third-party ink verboten

rhetorical question for the lawyers

Any particular reason they would agree to "we promise to never do it again... on certain models"?

$5 says those certain models were already EOL'ed when they made the deal.

THAT'S why they failed.

You say that like HP's 220mb print drivers have always been such bug free works of art.

A tale of 2 casino ransomware attacks: One paid out, one did not

Re: They wouldn't have done this 60 years ago

When the mob ran Las Vegas, getaways were made in things like cars or airplanes.

The problem with Jon Stewart is that Apple appears to have cancelled his show

And here's the subhead that goes with it:

And You Would, Too!

Apple and Lenovo are dropping the ball for visually impaired users

swing and a miss

What Levono will do is refund the price difference for this particular purchase because it's our own goddamn fault, not the customer's.

What Levono should have done was write off the guy's laptop, but we are either too stupid to recognize the opportunity to turn a negative into a positive or we are not empowered enough to take advantage of it. Either way total fail.

Ransomwared health insurer wasn't using antivirus software

Re: Icing on the cake...

Why would we assume they weren't running defender? Because if they were it would be in the article? Ha ha, good one.

Windows XP activation algorithm cracked, keygen now works on Linux

Re: DO NOT go on the Internet with XP

No and no and I agree.

Ferrari in a spin as crims steal a car-load of customer data

I'm gonna take a wild guess and say it's probably worse

https://samcurry.net/web-hackers-vs-the-auto-industry/

Cancer patient sues hospital after ransomware gang leaks her nude medical photos

Re: Flippin' heck!

>I though there was some general agreement amongst data thieves and ransomware users that medical facilities were off limits.

Where in the hell have you been?

Chinese surveillance balloon over US causes fearful gasbagging

Re: Yet again - more proof that China needs to be obliterated in a nuclear armageddon

Pentagon: It's just a balloon, don't worry about it.

You: WARMONGERING! LIKE IRAQ!

No more free API access, says Twitter: You pay for that data

Re: Well that *IS* his aim,

Wow, one payment!

Security needs to learn from the aviation biz to avoid crashing

Re: Preaching to the chior

"What if I took all of your computers and tossed them into the dumpster out back, and replaced them with mechanical typewriters? How productive would your office be?"

Well they were still using Wordperfect, so...

Until someone has to go to jail for doing it wrong?

I haven't watched the video yet, but I hope this little go to jail tidbit is taken out of context. Or something, because not sending people to jail for mistakes is a huge reason the aviation industry is as safe as it is today (that and the crew resource thing). The ASRS database being hosted by NASA.

Threats of being fired or going to jail cause more coverups, not more safety. This is common knowledge level stuff at this point.

Waterfox: A Firefox fork that could teach Mozilla a lesson

Re: Technically-minded typical geek

"For too many of these damn 'geeks', a change to the Windows Start menu is reasons for war, how dare you change because you CAN!! I'll have to relearn a BRAND NEW LOOK!"

You can't seriously be advocating change for the sake of change. Check out our new model SUV, it has the brake on the right and the accelerator on the left! Because CHANGE! Don't complain like a geek, just be cool and get used to it like me.

Killing the start button was really, really expensive for business and the return on investment was a big fat zero.

First, stunning whistleblower leaks. Now a shareholder lawsuit lands on Zuckerberg's desk

how long would it take to spend a billion bucks....

Give me a week.

Boeing 737 Max chief technical pilot charged with deceiving US aviation regulators over MCAS

Re: Some extra info

80 grand extra is hardly a barrier when msrp is 150 million.

>I think He and Boeing Execs should unknowingly fly on a 737-Max before the improvements.

After development ended he took a job with Southwest doing exactly that. Makes you think.

Re: Hmmm....

to transfer non-defense spending to defense companies in the districts of politicians on the funding committee?

Districts like Russia you mean? Either way, NASA's annual budget is a rounding error compared to defense.

Re: This is not the pilot retraining you are looking for

what are we watching for (once Forkner starts plea-bargaining)?

Re: Some extra info

Sensor that could only be swapped manually?

Swapped manually, like every other sensor sticking out of every other airplane ever, you mean.

"adding a new feature breaks your regulatory approval (change in operating instructions)"

Regulatory approval is not based on the instruction manual.

Re: Some extra info

Or will he bring in the Boeing 737-7/-8 System Differences Manual (Jan 2017) and open it to page 748?

Look after him? They already threw him under the bus.

Re: Some extra info

He was not chief test pilot, he was chief technical pilot. One flies airplanes, one flies simulators.

And if he thought it was unsafe, he probably wouldn't have taken a job flying one for Southwest after max development ended.

Ransomware crim: Yeah, what I do is bad. No, I don't care. Yes, infosec bods are all mouth and no trousers

Russian state's tacit condoning of ransomware attackers in their territories

Instead of trying to find these guys, wouldn't it be easier to just make it look like they are targeting the organizations they aren't supposed to be targeting?

Microsoft Exchange Autodiscover protocol found leaking hundreds of thousands of credentials

Because this issue can be mitigated by proper configuration

Great, now if you don't mind sharing how I'm supposed to properly configure the entire internet I'll be good to go.

Report details how Airbus pilots saved the day when all three flight computers failed on landing

Re: "Seems the pilots did a good job,"

" but no mention was made of the new systems"

Not that it matters to you guys, but it was in the System Differences Manual on page 748.

Re: "Seems the pilots did a good job,"

There was much unjustified criticism?

You are full of shit. They couldn't manually trim because they were going too fast. They were going too fast because they didn't throttle back.

Can we talk about Kevin McCarthy promising revenge if Big Tech aids probe into January insurrection?

As a US citizen, I find democrats and republicans to be disgusting and the alternatives which I can't even name to be irrelevant jokes. We are so screwed.

Fired credit union employee admits: I wiped 21GB of files from company's shared drive in retaliation

Re: Court documents indicate that the credit union had "some" of the data backed up

I can't understand why you think they weren't using it. Our deleter had admin.

Re: Rather moronic

They should fire their IT person. Er, wait.

A man spent a year in jail on a murder charge involving disputed AI evidence. Now the case has been dropped

Re: Really?

You would hear the CRACCCKKK regardless of propellant type, er unless the round was subsonic anyway.

Re: Really?

in the US, someone pulling out a gun in the middle of the street is likely to cause a flurry of calls to 911.....

Not so much in Chicago.

Pakistan's tax office services go dark after migration project goes awry

am I missing something?

"A Hyper-V attack is certainly a plausible explanation for the incident, as CVE-2021-28476 can crash hosts"

Unless Pakistan's Federal Board of Revenue allows citizens to spin up VM's on government servers, CVE-2021-28476 probably ain't the problem. To crash a host you have to compromise a guest... and the guest has to be Ubuntu Focal. Plus it's kind of tough to steal data from a blue screened server.

Doggy DNA database adopted by Gloucestershire cops to bring crims to heel

Re: Pramagtically

Those dogs did you a favor. Most would just take a dump on the carpet then sit back and watch the (shit) show.

John McAfee dead: Antivirus tycoon killed himself in prison after court OK'd extradition, says lawyer

Re: RIP

If only he had won you meant to say.

Playmobil crosses the final frontier with enormous, metre-long Enterprise playset

A mint condition Supra for $100,000.00?

Roger Waters tells Facebook CEO to Zuck off after 'huge' song rights request

Activist

Waters activism is telling Zuck to fuck off, Gilmour's is auctioning his guitars for 128 million and donating it all to charity.

Looks like Gilmour is better at this, too.

No shit. There are others stuck in places like Russia who are a lot more deserving than Assange ever was.

Re: Money...

A few years? I'm pretty sure it was a few more years ago than that, since I can now only vaguely remember going to a free show with 750 other people.

Say helloSystem: Mac-like FreeBSD project emits 0.5 release

Re: All security is good security

Re: Windows Defender, can you help me find the off button?

Re: More than enough

>That's more than enough to not even have a look at this OS....

Mom?

Anyway, yeah, because having "web security" baked into your OS is so great.

Now if you'll excuse me I have an airgapped mac nagging for a password again, probably icloud.

SolarWinds: Hey, only as many as 18,000 customers installed backdoored software linked to US govt hacks

Re: 36 days left

Who's he going to pick a fight with? Dictators and despots are his friends.

Proposed US fix for Boeing 737 Max software woes does not address Ethiopian crash scenario, UK pilot union warns

Re: Fundamentals

"Anyone have information on the fact that there were upgrade options for MCAS (which had to be paid for) which would have mittigated this issue ?"

I do. There is no upgrade option for MCAS. The option the "safety should be free" crowd is usually chirping about is the "aoa indicator". There are two things they always fail to mention. First, the actual price: an "option" that costs 85 grand on a 100 million dollar airplane is not a barrier, period. It's also not making anyone at Boeing rich, so calm down I make my kid wear a helmet in the bathtub types. And second, an aoa indicator is not a primary parameter like air speed, attitude, altitude, vertical speed, etc. In an emergency, more is not better. Some groups of pilots prefer them (like military), and some don't. Some parts of the world like them, some don't.

I don't know about you, but I would prefer the airline I'm flying on have the choice that fits their pilots and their situation best, rather than have something they don't need or want stuffed down their throat by a manufacturer or a politician.