Every kid goes through weird phases like that. They'll outgrow it in a month or so.

There's a huge difference between a big boat trailer behind a pickup truck and a small generator behind a Tesla. With decent instrumentation and driver assist the Tesla will practically drive itself. Imagine cameras on the trailer and angle sensors in the hitch, with on-screen instructions telling you which way to turn the wheel as you back up around a corner or into a parking space. Piece of cake, even for a "guy with a midlife crisis."

Backing up a trailer isn't rocket science; you just have to be careful and overcome your natural tendency to turn the wrong way. If you're telling the truth about your hobby you know full well that most people even manage a boat trailer on a ramp with no backup cameras without incident.

14.4k would have been ultra-fast in the 1980s. Holy crap were those PCs slow. Programmers actually had to work for a living back then.

Sneak a few pages into the secret commercial treaty du jour requiring every government to outlaw encryption. Problem solved!

Computer Science is the study of computation. Computer programming is engineering, not science. I don't know what it's like today, but when I was in college most of the Computer Scientists could barely program at all, and in general looked down on programming as a kind of crude, dirty manual labor.

That makes no sense whatsoever, and is also wrong. Following the first link in the wikipedia article you cited, we find this: "4K resolution, also called 4K, refers to a display device or content having horizontal resolution on the order of 4,000 pixels."

Do you blame the meteorologist when you don't like the weather? Do you blame the dealer when you don't like the cards? People are illogical that way.

This is some crappy proprietary firmware library for very low cost network devices. As TFA mentions, we can expect a lot more of these vulnerabilities in the "IoT".

Putting the checksum right next to the binary on the download server only helps to check for bitrot in the download. It does nothing whatsoever to establish provenance of the binary, since whoever put the binary there could generate their own checksum from it. You need a checksum or signature that is more trustworthy than the binary in order to verify it.

It would be nice if every publisher would sign every downloadable blob, and the OS maintainers would countersign the true public keys for all popular projects. Then we wouldn't have to care about whether we're downloading from an "official" site or not.

There is nothing in that story to suggest that HDDs are considered inappropriate for backup media. What is your theory? I've used HDDs for deduplicating daily snapshots for the last 15+ years and found them to be every bit as reliable as tapes, and far far easier to use.

The keming rnonster strikes again!

The right thing to do is try any desperate, far-fetched attempt to save all the people. It's better to fail to save someone than to kill someone. Never sacrifice anybody without their consent.