Since you're so fixated on Intel DEI hires, can you name any notable examples?

You're going by the republican definition of DEI.

Is the CEO of a wrestling company qualified to run the department of education? How about a drunken Fox commentator who accidentally texts classified info to journalists? He certainly doesn't sound qualified to run the DoD. Excuse me, Department Of War.

There was a criminal trial against Boeing but an orange asshole had it dismissed. https://www.politico.com/news/...

No part of that was a lie.

If you disagree, post a citation instead of modding me down with a sock puppet account.

Not to mention a bit of a masterclass in integrity, ethics, and corporate responsibility.

Boeing should take a lesson here: as soon as you've identified a serious safety issue, ground your birds and fix the problem. I can't help thinking that at Boeing even their engineering problems stem more from moral, ethical and cultural deficits than from a lack of design competence.

They have given us a bit of a masterclass in engineering here. Identified a rare but important issue, took decisive action to ensure safety, and engineered a fix very quickly to get the aircraft back into service.

Well said! I know you didn't mean to be humorous, but I'm still laughing anyway. And now I'm wracking my brain trying to figure out how to casually work "hammerfuck of failure and technological despair" into a conversation.

It might be a case of the specific version of software they want to install to fix the issue does not work with older hardware, so any aircraft that are still on it need to up upgraded. It's not uncommon for the hardware upgrade to be cheaper and faster than trying to backport the fix and fully qualify that software, especially as the aircraft can't be used until it is done.

It's been, what, a week, and they got 6000 jets through maintenance during a very busy holiday travel season?

That speaks to fantastic logistics. There are anonymous folks out there who did a great job and deserve a ridiculously generous Christmas Bonus. :gallant bow:

So you somehow found a way to blame DEI in an instance where it had zero mention? I guess DEI was the talking point on Fox News today.

This is true of everything. If you want to ban kids from social media because of this then it's no less logical to ban them from everything else. A parent's job is to teach children to successfully navigate a world in which "everyone" (statistically, nearly) is trying to take advantage of them, not to keep them locked in a box.

And Russia can't build tanks like they used to either because lots of the tank parts were made in Ukraine, too.

I refuse to have ads in any paid service.

My Slashdot still has Disable Advertising (from donating back in the day) and every now and then they STILL JUST IGNORE IT.

Fortunately, it's not an ongonig subscription, so I don't really care that much but - I paid for a reason. The button is still there for a reason. Honour it, or give me my money back.

I wouldn't ever pay a monthly subscription and then tolerate even a single second of an ad or one appearing on the screen anywhere. It's one or the other, not mix-and-match.

It's also one of the reasons that I don't have any monthly subscriptions to things - because apparently even your PAYING CUSTOMERS are just ad-revenue nowadays.

"One of them was to increase daily active users by 5% by the end of the year."

Gonna need a bit more than that to pay back those $1tn loans...

Were you able to before? Obviously, "like everyone else" you'll be keeping it encrypted at rest with keys that are kept in an HSM. For the important "pet feeding habit data" you will have made an exception and actually bought your own HSMs, kept in your multiple highly geographically separated underground bunkers with limited on site compute and simply feed limited summary results back to the cloud. For less important "nuclear weapons test results" data you find some compromise where you can track which and for the "current location of warheads data" you might just decide that you take the risk because, you're just going to have to accept the risk of that data leaking anyway for other reasons, and cost of processing is a priority. That's why right data classification and appropriate handling is important.

Every computer you use you trust Intel, Infineon, Samsung and tens or hundreds of others manufacturers not to embed hostile radio devices or software on chips that phone home. That includes some companies that actually have added weird management systems against their users wishes. Apple (IIRC) have pubilcly had the situation where they threw away a bunch of mother boards that arrived for their cloud. I'm sure all of the others have too. What don't they spot?

Adding one more cloud provider doesn't really make things much worse that it was to begin with.