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Comment Re:At this point (Score 1) 64

It's clear by now that it's time to fire all those in leadership roles at Boeing and appoint top engineers to fill those seats. The bean-counting mentally has obviously proven to be a failed experiment. Those fired must be held accountable for the lives lost during their leadership roles. Send a message to other companies that hold lives in their hands that this will not be tolerated.

YES, 100%..."Career MBAs" have taken the place of engineers and others working their way through the ranks of the company, and the C-suite in most large companies is full of people have very little knowledge or understanding of how their company operates at lower levels...Personally I think that is what killed American industry, it was MBA'd to death

Comment Modern day corporate activity (Score 1) 64

This is what happens when you have career MBAs, who don't know the difference between an airfoil and tinfoil, put in charge instead of Engineers and others who've worked up the ranks of the company. It's happening everywhere in the USA. R&D is no longer being invested in, once good products are cost-reduced to the point they are crappy, and the C level is only worried about how the next quarter's financial statements look and who the next merger or acquisition might be.

Comment Re:Never should have done the Max (Score 1) 64

MACS was a software fix for an airfoil problem (the engines are too large for the airframe), and since pilots weren't told about it, when it functioned outside of how it was expected, the pilots didn't know what to do, because they didn't know that there was software trying to override the pilot actions. Now the pilots have the ability to disable MACS if they think it's over compensating, but they were only made aware of it and given the ability to override it after there were many fatalities.

Comment It's actually just the evolution of search (Score 1) 93

"AI" bots, like GPT, are the next evolution of search engine, instead of giving one pages of site matches, it gives natural language answers....I do wish ChatGPT and others would footnote their answers and have a bibliography of sources used in the answer.

Submission + - Bloodbath at Paramount claims 800 jobs including CBS News journalists (nypost.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes:

Catherine Herridge — an award-winning senior correspondent whose First Amendment case is being closely watched by journalists nationwide — was among the hundreds of employees at CBS parent Paramount who got pink slips on Tuesday, sources told The Post.

The carnage provoked outrage from the rank-and-file at CBS, with some focusing their ire on Paramount Global CEO Bob Bakish, who pulled down $32 million in total compensation last year despite the company’s ever-shrinking financial profile.

“Everybody in the newsroom is pissed that Bob Bakish is making over $30 million and he’s making these cuts,” one insider fumed.

Elsewhere, some suspected the layoffs were more than just cost-cutting. Sources said Herridge had clashed with CBS News president Ingrid Ciprian-Matthews — a sharp-elbowed executive who was investigated in 2021 over favoritism and discriminatory hiring and management practices, as revealed by The Post.

Sources said CBS News’ Washington bureau, where Herridge covered national security and intelligence, was hit particularly hard.

Submission + - Should I be charged for my own site data, harvested without my consent/request?

Submitted by Unpopular Opinions
Unpopular Opinions writes: Asking Slashdot for suggestions.

Lately a boom of companies decided to play their "nice guy" card, providing us with a trove of information about our own sites, DNS servers, email servers, pretty much anything about any online service you host. Which is not anything new, companies have been doing this for decades, except as paid services you requested. Now, the trend is basically anyone can do it over my systems, and they are always more than happy to sell anyone, me included, my data they collected without authorization or consent. Data they never had the rights to collect and/or compile to begin with. Including data collected thru access attempts via known default accounts (Administrator, root, admin, guest) and/or leaked credentials provided by hacked databases when a few elements seemingly match.

Some might say "if it is on the Internet, it is public information", and that's true — to the extent they aren't brute forcing, as some are. But the public information is now behind a paywall, so it ain't public any longer, but it is still your information.

Others might say "just block those crawlers" which is what some of those companies advise, but not only the site operator has to do automate it him/herself, not all companies offer lists of their source IP addresses identify them, use multiple/different crawler domain names of their commercial product, or use cloud providers such as Google Cloud, AWS and Azure — one can't just block access to these companies networks without massive implications. They also change their own information with no warning and many times, no updates to their own lists. Then, there is the indirect cost: computing cost, network cost, development cost, review cycle cost. It is a cat-and-mice game that has become very boring.

Just for fun, many months ago I put on my site Terms of Service page verbiage just like theirs, that amongst other ToS things, reads "By collecting any data hosted on this domain and/or its registered IPv4 and IPv6 addresses, you hereby authorize any person and/or valid user account from this domain to a no-cost, full and unrestricted access to any processed data originated by these systems, to the full extent of the law. You agree that by accessing the Site, you have read, understood, and agree to be bound by all of these Terms of Service. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE WITH ALL OF THESE TERMS OF SERVICE, THEN YOU ARE EXPRESSLY PROHIBITED FROM USING THE SITE AND YOU MUST DISCONTINUE USE IMMEDIATELY.". All data harvesters are still here, so proof nobody reads terms of services until it bites them in the wallet.

With the raise of concerns and ethical questions about AI harvesting and learning from copyrighted work, how are those security companies any different from AI, and how could one legally put a stop on this? Could a TOS like the above become legal and enforceable by law (assuming at lawful countries/jurisdictions)?

Submission + - GPS Interference Now a Major Flight Safety Concern For Airline Industry (theregister.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Europe's aviation safety body is working with the airline industry to counter a danger posed by interference with GPS signals — now seen as a growing threat to the safety of air travel. The European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) and the International Air Transport Association (IATA) held a recent workshop on incidents where people spoofed and jammed satellite navigation systems, and concluded these pose a "significant challenge" to safety. Mitigating the risks posed by such actions will require measures to be enacted in the short term as well as medium and long term timescales, the two bodies said. They want to start by sharing information about the incidents and any potential remedies.

In Europe, this information sharing will occur through the European Occurrence Reporting scheme and EASA's Data4Safety program. Given the global nature of the problem, a broader solution would be better, but this would have to be pursued at a later date, EASA said. Inevitably, another of the measures involves retaining traditional navigation aids to ensure there is a conventional backup for GNSS navigation, while a third calls for guidance from aircraft manufacturers to airlines and other aircraft operators to ensure they know how to manage jamming and spoofing situations. As a further measure, EASA said it will inform all relevant stakeholders, which includes airlines, air navigation service providers, airports and the air industry, about recorded incidents.

Interference with global navigation systems can take one of two forms: jamming requires nothing more than transmitting a radio signal strong enough to drown out those from GPS satellites, while spoofing is more insidious and involves transmitting fake signals that fool the receiver into calculating its position incorrectly. According to EASA, jamming and spoofing incidents have increasingly threatened the integrity of location services across Eastern Europe and the Middle East in recent years. [...] The IATA said that coordinated action is needed, including sharing of safety data and a commitment from nations to retain traditional navigation systems as backup.

Comment Wasn't this the type of thing the XO project was.. (Score 1) 163

Wasn't this the type of thing that the OLPC-XO project was supposed to address, a ~$99 computing device for educational use by school age kids? I know the original intent was for kids in impoverished countries, but no reason we couldn't make it a goal for use in USA public schools. ASUS and others are close with the $200 Chromebooks. I know people like to knock the chromebooks, but they are not intended to be high performance machines, nor should most coursework require much power - maybe up GPU capability a bit so it doesn't choke on video call encoding/decoding, but also there, software should be updated as most of the time, students don't need to see each other, just the teacher, so reducing the number of video streams will improve performance a lot - or maybe occasional remote learning doesn't have to involve video. Also no reason most coursework couldn't be transferred as text and like SVG drawings and like a 450 MHz packet radio network (with like a 1W transmitter on the device) could be built to the devices for data transfer eliminating the Internet connectivity issues.

Comment Re:I pay about $30 for nominal 10up/100down (Score 1) 97

I've had the T-Mobile home internet service for a year and a half now and 100Mbps is the minimum I usually get, typically 150Mbps, have peaked over 200Mbps at times. Downside is only 10-20 Mbps up (but no worse than what Midco does for twice the price). I have the box and stuff ready to send everything back when it starts not working to our satisfaction at home, but it's been good!

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