I'm so fucking annoyed that Google does dumb things like introduce twenty chat clients but randomly kills off Hangouts.

China makes it very clear going in that they're going to rip you off. They're going to insist on a joint-venture with a domestic firm. They're going to insist on technology transfers. And they're going to just steal your fucking IP. All of this is made absolutely clear upfront, and Western firms still do it because they only care about the next quarter.

America has put itself out there as a free, capitalist country, so this is an about-face.

Nah, civilian aircraft have been shot down due to the dumb fuckery of the missile crew. US forces shot down an Iranian airliner because they thought a slow plane headed away from them was a fast plane coming at them. Russian irregulars shot down an airliner because they thought it was a Ukrainian military aircraft because they're some dudes that Russia entrusted with an anti-aircraft missile system. Iran shot down its own airliner because their ground crew thought an airplane leaving its own airport was an enemy aircraft, and in fact, shot it twice: once when it was leaving and once when it was returning after being hit the first time. Russia shot down a lost aircraft because the pilot was a dumb fuck and couldn't distinguish between a passenger jet and an American spy plane.

CAS requires exquisite coordination between the pilots and the JTAC calling in fires for the ground troops. I doubt that a drone being flown from the US could do the same thing that an A-10 can do with a man on the ground with a direct radio connection to the pilot.

Boeing and the FAA are both at fault for sending out shoddy aircraft. But the story here is how poorly-trained pilots are, especially in developing nations. Even in developed nations, pilots are increasingly becoming custodians of the auto-pilots. When the systems fail, the pilots are unable to fly the aircraft properly. Air France 447 crashed because the co-pilot freaked out when the computer stopped and held the stick back until the plane crashed. If he let go, then the plane would've recovered. Boeing does not want anyone to recognize this because then they wouldn't be able to sell as many aircraft to developing nations if they couldn't get enough pilots.

It's even worse in developing nations, where the training is lax, and pilot certificates can be bought. In India, there was a crash because the pilots forgot to lower the landing gear prior to landing. When they touched down, they scraped the engines. Instead of committing to the landing, they aborted their takeoff and went around. However, the engines died and the plane crashed into a neighborhood.

In the first MAX crash, the aircraft had a broken AOA sensor, which led the MCAS system, which acts on the auto-trim system, to activate during the penultimate flight. When MCAS activates erroneously, it acts exactly as a runaway trim would act. It is basic piloting to know what a runaway trim feels like, and to know that you fix it by turning off the auto-trim system. (That's why Boeing argued that MCAS didn't require extra training or that it wasn't a "new" system because it was acting on an existing system.)

An off-duty pilot in the cabin told the pilots flying the aircraft that they had to turn off the auto-trim system rather than pull up on the stick. That recovered control, and the plane landed uneventfully. The plane was then not fixed properly. On the last flight, the AOA sensor broke again. The MCAS activated again. The pilots did not know how to deal with a runaway trim. Instead, they started pulling up on the stick but the plane eventually crashed.

For the Ethiopian Air crash, the AOA sensor apparently hit an object during flight and was damaged. MCAS mistakenly activated. The captain was 29 years old and had been flying for nine years for the airlines. The co-pilot was 25 years old. They did the right thing by immediately hitting the trim cutout switch that turned off electric trim and MCAS. However, they had left the engines on full take-off power and they were overspeed. This made it impossible for them to fix the situation by hand. They desperately tried to turn on the electric trim system again to use it to fix the trim. However, MCAS activated when they did so and crashed the plane.

The FAA and Boeing are at fault. But there is also a rush to have underqualified and poorly trained pilots to fly aircraft, even in "developed" nations, in order to save money on training and salaries. This problem needs to be addressed. You can have pilots with 1,000 hours of flight time who spent all that time managing the auto-pilots. When the system fails, they are unable to adequately fly the aircraft. Unfortunately, no one is pointing out this huge deficiency in modern aviation.

The federal government should pass a regulation mandating all federally-regulated banking institutions to implement FIDO2/U2F and OTP on all consumer-facing websites. Banks don't want to do it because lost tokens will increase service calls but the problem is getting ridiculous. Our credit cards should all be chip + PIN and not signature.

CAs were making money doing nothing by selling longer-term CAs. Now they actually have to do something to make money.

MacOS supported BootCamp and Parallel so Windows and Windows apps can be used on Apple computers. I am not sure that these solutions will work with the new Apple CPUs.

The White House was polling a Facebook group for advice after appointing his son-in-law to take a part in crisis management. He didn't talk to high-level leaders around the world prior to banning travel from Europe, and excluding the UK (where he has a golf course) is BS when there are so many positive cases there.

Other hotel and hospitality hacks have been orchestrated by foreign intelligence services to track our intelligence operatives. I guess if you're using business emails to register for hotels, then you're just making it easy for the "bad guys" to track and target you. Similarly, CCleaner was hacked by the Chinese so malware targeting government and tech email domains can be pushed onto their systems.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/12...

We are going to create a safe and effective vaccine against the coronavirus, and then no one's going to get it because it's not a big deal, autism, etc.

All of what you wrote is true and Boeing should be punished. But we also need to keep an eye on low-cost carriers shirking on pilot training, and maintenance. For instance, the doomed Lion Air plane had the failed angle of attack sensor replaced right before the last flight. The "new" sensor was also defective, and there was no evidence that it had been tested on the ground. There is an entire chain of events that lead to the accident, and it starts at Boeing, but if the Lion Air crew had properly replaced the AOA sensor, then the crash would not have happened. If the pilots were aware of the checklist, then the crash would not have happened. Boeing will not complain about this because they need low-cost carriers to keep buying their airplanes.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/1...
https://www.businessinsider.co...

The usefulness is very limited but air filters aren't completely useless. My office has really dusty air because the landlord didn't bother to remove the old drop ceiling; instead, they just installed another drop ceiling under the existing one. The air filter I use in my office cut down on the amount of dusting I need to do, and the filters are always dirty as hell long before I am supposed to change them under regular use. I also have two cats at home so the air filter helps with cat hair, which is bizarre considering that two cats shouldn't be putting up so much hair.

The major email providers have already enabled DMARC. However, anyone with a custom domain name (such as the candidates) need to set up their encryption keys and publish them on the DNS in order to enable DMARC. DMARC is based on SPF and DKIM. SPF publishes the range of IP addresses that emails from that domain would be coming from while DKIM publishes a public encryption key that can be used to verify the header of emails sent from that domain.

For most businesses, DMARC is not a big deal to set up. It is a little bit more difficult to configure DMARC in the context of third-party email marketing providers but it is still doable.

The ulterior motive is that SPF, by virtue of its encryption, can be used to verify emails if they are hacked and released.

VPNs would be one part of a comprehensive privacy system, and it's all relative. Would I rather have my data flowing through an ISP that I can't really choose or a trustworthy VPN that I can switch? If I'm traveling, or using public wifi, then I'm probably better off piping my data through a VPN than doing without. Would I trust that the VPN completely resolved my privacy concerns? Nope.