Re: No mention of a cause?
Even when there's no direct cause it can still be a fatal error. https://archive.shadowcat.co.uk/blog/matt-s-trout/indirect-but-still-fatal/
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It's ok, they are coming up with something new called Windows Updates and Service Packs. It lets then fix all the bugs in Windows. Should have them all fixed within a year. In other words, if they followed your advice, Mr Gates would be shown the door (or window) a few decades ago.
Another reason for doing this is the USA's CLOUD act, allowing them to grab data from servers outside the USA. FinTecs, governments, and anyone who cares about GDPR would love to have a fully european cloud provider at scale. Obviously there are some, but have you heard of them?
Phones have to work everytime and all the time. When you are calling a cab you don’t want some spyware overwriting core system binaries or interfering with other applications, like they do on windows.
iOS was designed to limit the damage that can be done to apps and to the OS itself. We have had cross application protection in memory since the first multi-user mainframe - that's why a page fault error exists. iOS (and android) extend that protection to the filesystem.
Apps are locked down. They are contained.
You make a choice - Restrictions and stability, or fewer restrictions and more risk.
If you are buying a machine for your low tech internet browsing uncle which YOU have to support over the PHONE, you may want to pick a more locked down system than the one you pick for yourself.
iPad OS is an interesting experiment along the journey of computer history. How far can you take an os with app separation and use it for general purpose tasks. It is an interesting experiment and it challenges older OSes to be better.
PS. Your article succeeded in rage farming over 150 responses. Well done.
I don't want any person judging the moral superiority of one human over another. Not AI. Not the participants in the study. No-one.
It is not possible to compare the true worth of two people. There is no such measure.
Number of offspring, years of service, body mass index, criminal record, or any other measure can never reveal how much someone is "worth". Are these the factors you use to measure your friends? No.
And it says nothing about the future. Who is about to invent a cure for cancer, or give someone a smile and save them from suicide? If humans can't judge humans, don't expect AI to do it.
Stormy Monday's reply describes the English system and it's mainly based on medical factors, and time waited. It's a good system.
Stop playing gods. Don't create AI gods. Give your head a wobble and stop dicking around with peoples' lives.
> how they fucked up, made what in retrospect were schoolboy errors
This is absolutely not what happened. The previous microcontroller, the RP2040 didn't have security flaws - it simply didn't have any features to protect software from being extracted or prevent memory from being read, or malicious code from being inserted and executed. Being aimed at hobbyists and tinkerers, the RP2040 has good support for debugging, allowing access to these things. With the RP2350 they added features to prevent this sort of access. This will appeal to commercial customers who don't want to share their IP or code, or have data extracted from the chip, or even to have people create a better version of their software or device.
If you read Upton's article - https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/security-through-transparency-rp2350-hacking-challenge-results-are-in/ - you'll see it was not schoolboy errors. Things like the order of instructions generated by the compiler come into play for some of the hacks. And if you read the hack write-up, you can see the extent they went to to extract this data. https://media.ccc.de/v/38c3-hacking-the-rp2350 Aedan says "Ultimately, the significant amount of luck (or lack thereof) involved is a reminder of the need to meticulously understand and validate complex systems."
If you can do better, please have a go.
> single points of failure are a bad thing
I am sure the designers are well aware that single points of failure are bad. But when you are building a microcontroller for devices the size of a bus ticket (or smaller - https://www.seeedstudio.com/Seeed-XIAO-RP2350-p-5944.html), the opportunities for full hardware redundancy are sort of limited.
Yes, getting windows from "off-screen" is the main use of Alt+Space for me. If microsoft had fixed this little issue, I wouldn't be so bothered.
Microsft are the makers of a windowing operating system which still can't position a window onto a real screen after decades of upgrades. Do you really trust them to run AI?
Automated test tools for Windows have been around for decades, and while some have OCR capabilities, most do not need them. Automated tests can easily reach into the app and grab the status bar text, if the app uses Windows controls. And even in the modern world where there are too many windowing toolkits, tests should be able to rely on the controls exposed to Accessibility tools (like Screen Readers). On Windows we have the luxury of 2 standards, of course. Microsoft Active Accessibility or UI Automation API.
"Spend the billions making the Software that is already here such as Windows 11 + all the apps that everyone uses each day actually *work* as advertised"
Totally agreed! But can we start with Windows 10, or 7, or XP? 11 seems to be a power hungry scam and environmental timebomb, when everyone throws out their powerful computers because they are not quite powerful enough to run Micros~1's latest spyware.
You are correct, we've heard this before
"Windows 10 is the last version of Windows that will ever be released" - The Register
https://www.theregister.com/2015/07/31/rising_and_ongoing_cost_of_windows/
"Why Microsoft is calling Windows 10 'the last version of Windows'"- The Verge
https://www.theverge.com/2015/5/7/8568473/windows-10-last-version-of-windows
> consider what materials you sensibly allow on your printer
Kids off school during summer holidays... raining outside... could be _anything_ on the printer bed - clean clothes from a dryer, homework, dolls, chocolate cake, hay from the hamsters, hamsters eating chocolate cake...
A real risk of a nasty fire.
"The cyclist and vehicle targets were both lightweight and designed to be harmless to the test vehicle and driver."
Was the radar able to spot them? Were the cars guilty of crashing into cardboard boxes?
Having said that, we already have TMS - Too Much Software, and AI should only take over when proven to be safer than the average human.
Immediate solution - rename these shoddy AI systems. Why are Tesla allowed to call it AutoPilot? No wonder their owners think it will do everything. Trade descriptions.
Who?
Russia? March 2022 - "AGCO Agriculture Foundation Donates to Ukraine Emergency Relief" - https://www.fendt.com/int/agco-agriculture-foundation-donates-to-ukraine-emergency-rel
And then there's John Deere who have interesting business practices - https://www.freeict.eu/news/john-deere-restrictive-practices-hinder-maintenance-for-farmers - despite calling themselves "one of World's Most Ethical Companies". See some of the comments on https://forums.theregister.com/forum/all/2022/05/02/ukrainian_tractors_deere/
UK Government? "Tory MP's friend 'can see' how he went from tractors to p*rn site" - https://metro.co.uk/2022/05/01/tory-mps-friend-can-see-how-he-went-from-tractors-to-porn-site-16566918/
Or just some chancers.
What?
I would be very surprised if the outages only impact their production systems.
No-one likes price increases, but SpaceX have done more to cut launch costs than anyone else. Why are NASA using them to get to the ISS? Because they are reliable and cheap. So instead of being subsidised by tax payers they are actually saving the tax payer money. Of course the biggest saving would be to defund space, but that's a different question.
Starlink has plenty of competition. There's the traditional satellite internet proviers, who are expensive and have restrictive monthly data caps. But the biggest competition is the traditional earth based telecoms providers. They could have provided fast broadband to every person on the planet but decided that excessive profits and asking governments to subsidise their networks was more important. They could have expanded their wire, fibre, or mobile networrks to cover everyone. But apparently it costs more to dig a trench and lay some wires to the nearest town than it does for Elon to concieve, design, manufacture, and launch thousands of satellites which provide amazing connections.
“downloading by a web crawler facial images of individuals and personal information associated therewith; and storing the downloaded facial images and associated personal information in the database.”
Sounds a lot like the opening statement in a legal case against a company alleged to have broken Europe's GDPR.
Microsoft aren't personally trucking millions of machines to landfill, but they are pushing them on their way.
When will their corporate responsibility annual statement start measuring the tonnes of gear which their upgrades obsoleted? https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/corporate-responsibility
And don't get me started on the vast tracts of human time wasted.
"but there's something about a jet of boiling water that I can't put my finger on."
I see what you did there
"He said tank, not boiler, so I'd assume from that it's an unpressurised, insulated storage vessel, not a pressurised boiler."
Yes exactly that. Copper tank, and unpressurised (vented to the attic). Managed to get a pinprick hole while trying to undo the massive thread on the element and folded the thin tank skin slightly. It was a very fine jet of quite hot water. Took a while to notice the wet patch downstairs and realise there was a hole. Was off to a Java training course (those were the days) and didn't want to leave the family without hot water. Water is a demon.
You make a couple of good points.
- A lot of telemetry is used to improve products. Microsoft used usage stats from Office when deciding which icons to put first on the Ribbon (hated because of the way it was rolled out but overall beneficial).
- Google is providing this stuff for free. We should be paying for great maps but don't have to. Quid pro quo.
Maybe if platforms and advertisers were more careful to hide the clear link between what pages we visit on one site and the ads we see the next site, we wouldn't be so suspicious.