So are they going to just swap drivers during the 15 minute refuel?
Not mentioned here, but the other big technology project for the trucking industry is to get rid of the drivers altogether. Autonomous trucking.
Plug one end of a cable into your router and the other end into your machine. Voila. No wifi issues and a more stable, and faster, connection.
Problem "solved".
Ladies and gentlemen, may I present today's winner for Most Typical Slashdot Solution-To-A-Problem Award! This one is:
* technically "correct"
* blames the user for others' technology failings
* and completely unworkable in the real world
All delivered in a patronizing, condescending tone. Well done, and thanks for playing!
Bzzzt! Wrong! You obviously have no idea what you are talking about. It is a 100% management decision whether and when to ship a product.
I have seen it firsthand when schedule rules above all else, and a half-baked product gets released to scathing reviews, and it's extremely frustrating to those who were working hard to make it as awesome as it might otherwise have been <cough> Blackberry Playbook </cough>. It is situations like that where I developed a begrudging respect for Steve Jobs, who would not suffer fools offering garbage quality, and had the spine to say "No, we won't release this, it is not good enough."
This was indeed an "Act of recklessness", on the part of the admins and other officials who created an environment which allowed such vulnerabilities to propagate. Having worked government, I can already guess that it was a combination of admins who are minimally capable and managers getting their backs scratched.
Welcome to Slashdot's longest running game show Blame The Victim! It's the zany show where technology experts try to explain why their products are too difficult to understand and use by regular people, and how it's all the users' fault. I'm your host Mr. McCrew.
If you are suggesting that vendors should be held to much higher standards, then I'm on board with you. (and skip the rest of this)
What is it specifically that people are supposed to learn? That in order to pass their smartphone license Slashdot approved certification they have to put their lives on hold and become an expert on programming smartphones, loading custom firmware, writing iptables rules, and boning up on the intricacies of the chattr command? And what, only then are they worthy? Is that when they will have 'learned'?
As usual, phones managed by highly tech-capable people focused on security are more secure than the masses left to rely on the vendor.
I figured, hey it's the Smithsonian, they gotta have something on woolly mammoths. Started typing a query and it suggested "Woolly mammoth", so I selected that.
Got 3 results, all for some obscure plants in their Botany collection.
D- Needs massive improvement
After Goliath's defeat, giants ceased to command respect. - Freeman Dyson