Posts by mutt13y 34 publicly visible posts • joined 8 May 2019
As they mentioned in the article this malware got the 2FA code and the C&C server logged in.
These phone app 2FAs are kinda fake anyway. As far as I can tell there is no jitter introduced into the timing and the codes are completely synched to NTP time. Therefore it is not a second factor at all and is just a knowledge based.
Many accidents where pilot error is the cause were precipitated by errors in monitoring or automation that were then mishandled by the pilots.
So if there is no pilot you do remove one of the last lines of defence.
There are probably many incidents where the automation went crazy and the pilots just handled it as they were trained and so we never hear about it.
That said there is a rule against having one person in the cockpit because of the spate of murdercides. So who is going to be there to make sure the one pilot does not intentionally crash the plane?
It gets worse. Mercedes drive pilot (arguably better than tesla's drive pilot)
Reads the signs and if enabled changes the cruise setting to that speed.
Now you get foreign trucks on the motorway with (90) [Kph] on the back. Car sees that and sets the cruise to 90Mph!
Currently even the best systems only work in close to ideal road conditions. Bad lane markings, heavy rain, snow, fog and they cant cope.
That is a huge problem you know?
Let's say you are using an encryption system with this feature but you didn't use it.
Police ask you for you password, as you don't want to go to prison and there is nothing much of importance in the encrypted data so you hand it over.
They find nothing.
Now they want the other password (which does not exist)
Of course they won't believe you and there is no way you can prove you haven't used the deniability feature.
so its 2.5 Years in prison for you for using an encryption system with this feature.
These are quite different to a tape library. Usually there is one tape arm which is attached to the frame.
These warehouse systems use autonomous robots on a grid of tracks. They move quite fast and there is some sort of orchestration to (mostly) avoid collisions. The robots are like 100+Kg.
Also below the robots there are stacks of bins. I have never seen a tape library with more than one tape in a slot.
IMO there is plenty of scope for patentable algorithms and mechanics.
Like GSM in order for the satellite internet to work all transmissions from various ground stations must arrive in sync. Therefore the ground transceiver must know the exact range to the satellite.
The problem as you correctly point out is that we would not have an exact position for the satellite.
You could potentially model this quite accurately and transmit the ephemeris data out of band.
Also you can have fixed ground stations verifying the exact position of each satellite the same way GPS does but have the clocks on the ground.
It will be clunky and probably never make it into consumer GPS but if what you want is a solution for the military in case we go to war with France then probably it will do the job
DAB has way less bandwidth than FM and many many stations are mono! So it's more like comparing CD to MP3.
DAB is *potentially* better quality than FM but that is not what they did.
I reckon most radio listening happens in cars these days. Well over 50% of which can not receive DAB
master with main across its services
If it ends up that by contracting I have the same take home pay as I would have as an employee with none of the benefits then the answer is simple: Ill just get a permanent role.
by extension the number of people contracting will go down and therefore the day rates will go up. Also of course for perm salaries will go down.
We will reach some new equilibrium with some % fewer contractors working at higher day rates and more competition for perm roles at a lower salary.
It is capable of flying safely but it would not get a transport category certification because the relationship between yoke angle and rate of climb would not be linear.
Yes, the primary reason was to prevent need to retrain pilots, but it would have been a requirement anyway for certification
If you also have accurate accelerometers you could dead reckon.
You would still need the occasional* reference, perhaps from land based systems
*how occasional depends on the accuracy of your clock and accelerometers.
I believe inertial navigation is still one input to commercial aircraft navigation systems
There is some benefit.
You have a fighting chance of catching people flying a drone without a license, because their operations would always be illegal not just near airports.
Also making it illegal to sell one to an unlicensed individual will help.
It would reduce the number of idiots but not to 0.
>The problem for HMRC is then that they want to stop contractors using those rules - BUT NOT >REMOVE THOSE RULES for the big boys.
Exactly, and they would not have to put much of a dent in those rules to get the additional income they are after. I reckon if they increased Dividend tax by 1% they would make much more and be unambiguous.
I don't see how you get to 20%
outside IR35 contractors pay 19% corporation tax and 7.5% dividend tax = 26.5%
Inside IR35 20% income tax 12% NI = 32% (Because the salary is a deductible expense for the company)
so far only 5.5% worse off.
Now there is the matter of 13.5% Employer contributions but if the responsibility movs to the employer and they determine that the contractor is inside then they can pay the Employer NI themselves just like they do for all there other employees.
Don't panic, Rates will just go up, same as they do now for inside working.
> it was decided that the company would move its IT, web design, and marketing to external vendors.
then
>When officers arrived and interviewed Polequaptewa in his hotel room, he admitted accessing the company's infrastructure, according to Blue Stone's civil filing.
What an idiot
I was wondering about the "feature" of the original system that switched between AoA sensors after each flight.
I can think of no technical reason to do this. It introduces instability and difficult to diagnose faults.
The only thing I can think of is that it would let me draw a line from both AoA sensors to MCAS on my block diagram.
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