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Comment If you are on a large rigid vehicle... (Score 2) 108

... there are actually multiple way to spot simple spoofing.

Essentially you put multiple GPS receivers on the extreme ends of your vehicle. If spoofing is done by a single transmitter, they will all get the same position, but different times. You can detect this. If spoofing is done by multiple transmitters, each one simulating a satellite, the distances between your GPS receivers will vary widely.

So essentially you can either use timing-grade GPS receivers and compare their "PPS"-signal, or you can just take the position information from each GPS-receiver and, for example, calculate the distances of them. Those should, within error margins, never change. If there is a simple spoof, those distances will all be zero.

Since aeroplanes often have wingsspans of 10 meters or more, the precision of the GPS position signal should be good enough to determine if it is "correct" or "zero".

Comment So it's $15 a month... (Score 1) 100

... for something the company "promises", but you have no way of checking yourself. Why on earth would that company not secretly sell your data... or be forced to sell your data?

BTW if you just want your software to run on a more secure system, just use text-based software and use mosh (based on SSH) to connect to your computer at home.

Comment Re:It's not like there have been any use-cases (Score 5, Insightful) 128

So please, tell us how a blockchain/smart contract based system could solve that problem?

In the end any system will have to depend on people doing "honest" inputs into a system despite it being against their interests. No system can solve that. If you want transparency over data so you can simply do this by just publishing it. Sign it with GPG if you want to be able to proof it actually came from the entity you think it came from.

Comment It's not like there have been any use-cases (Score 5, Insightful) 128

It's been over a decade now and _nobody_ was able to find any sensible use case for that technology that couldn't be done with much less effort without blockchains. Not even the original ideas behind cryptocurrencies have been reached. Cryptocurrencies are now more centralized than "normal" currencies, transaction fees are higher than anything banks would even dream of.

Essentially all that's left is fraud.

Comment Isn't that the job of such software? (Score 1) 19

I mean what other reasons does one have to install "Endpoint Protection Software"? It would be highly illogical to expect "more software" to solve the problem of to many security critical bugs. After all that problem is already caused by to much software.

It's like trying to drain your cellar by putting in more water, or like trying to get slim by eating a lot more food.

Comment They don't exactly publish news (Score 1) 23

Axel Springer is not exactly a news company, their business is more like advertisements disguised as news. For example they constantly write against heat-pumps without providing any facts. They also had front-page articles agitating against every measure to help condemn the spread of Covid19... going as far as to personally attack the minister of health.

Comment Next step: Fire all developers (Score 1) 196

I mean seriously, VMware isn't a product that's going to get more customers. The customers that still use VMware are kinda locked in. Moving to another solution would be fairly expensive, so they won't do it. If you have those customers in a subscription model you no longer have to give them reasons to buy the newest version. They will just pay even if you don't pretend you're going to fix bugs in the next version.

From an economical perspective it makes no sense to go on developing VMware after they have moved to a subscription model.

Comment That's the standard feature set (Score 1) 196

Seriously, any half decent server virtualization solution will do that. One example is ganeti. It can actually even migrate machines without a SAN as it can sync virtual disks between hosts in a cluster.

The big problem with vmware is of course, that it is designed as "enterprise grade" software, which means that it barely does what's advertised while having lots of "wont-fix" bugs that contractors know to work around.

Comment Re:Nope. (Score 1) 119

You are talking about storage. For that we already have a multitude of better ways to do it. For example we have batteries and heat for short term storage, we can use hydrogen for long term storage. Creating Jet Fuel essentially wastes most of the energy with no feasible way to get it back to the grid. This is just as bad as heating up resistors outside, but much more expensive and with some minor benefit for billionaires who can continue flying their aeroplanes.

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