Comment Re:Seems like a good OS, but requires you to give (Score 1) 485
You haven't kept up with EULA's, have you? It's in every piece of software for a few years now.
Kamkar said GM is aware of the security hole and is working on a fix.
If he knows a fix is in the works why is he broadcasting his hack on YouTube? The OnStar client isn't a geek, doesn't follow every obscure hacker channel on YouTube, and doesn't read Computerworld.
uploads a supposedly-encrypted form of your wireless AP's password to a Microsoft server for safe-keeping
It's a bit hard to get outraged at MSFT when GOOG has been doing the exact same thing for the last three or four Android versions.
One of the early postulates was that a software bug caused the autopilot to fly along 90 E towards 0/0. If it ran out of fuel on that course
One of the early postulates was that
I take some of that back. It seems the real credit for digging in goes to these guys. Samsung came in a month ago after they were provided a test suite and then gets credit for finding the kernel code path that caused the problem. An Oracle engineer provided a more-correct patch.
Yeah, the outcome is great. I just wonder why they waited more than a year to look into it. Maybe this will set a good example for the industry that with a little bit of effort you can take care of your customers and sell more product.
If this were the 80's and a hard drive vendor had more than two reports of data loss under, say VMS, there would have been engineers on a plane to DEC by morning to get it solved by the coming weekend.
Now we have thousands of users with reports and millions of units sold, and a wealthy vendor, and it's all crickets, leaving some kernel hackers to half-ass a blacklist. It's not like this is BeOS - there are millions of servers running in the target market. I don't mean to absolve the bad troubleshooting by kernel devs, but want to know what drove the apathy at Samsung (and other vendors behaving poorly). It's obviously not profit motive.
If anybody wants to spend 45 minutes reviewing the data on whether the FDA's current regulatory regime helps or hinders, this talk is quite good.
How reliable are they in winter driving conditions? How is the battery efficiency affected by temperature? What about cabin heating? I'm having a hard time seeing any of the current crop being adopted for year-round use in areas that get more than a smattering of snow, or a few days below freezing per year.
Am I being too picky when I notice that?
The first thought I had was that I hope they don't do it because it'll only be used to invade our privacy.
LK
secretary-typists and the typists in corporate typing pools complained about the location of the Caps Lock key not being where they were used to it. Keyboards for computers intended for general business use accordingly swapped over, since the people who typed the most and had the strongest opinions on keyboards in the early 1980s wanted it that way.
and I bet the same could be said for full-time clerical workers in 2015. changes in software and workflow in the office can be glacial.
The majority of the posts here boil down to one simple fact:
The commercial - proprietary - mass market product or service is more appealing and accessible than anything the geek has to offer.
Neutrinos have bad breadth.
