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Comment Re:Computer technology (Score 4, Interesting) 128

They also appear to have a strong grasp of quality control in software. I can only assume, but I believe they must have unit tests and integration tests for everything. They probably exceed most every other company in terms of regression testing and code coverage.

You had me going until here. This doesn't match my experience or that of any other Tesla owner I know. The more typical experience is that the first few updates are great. Then once your car isn't the newest model with the newest hardware inside, every update has a significant chance of introducing bugs that might or might not be fixed in a subsequent update. As far as I can tell, their regression testing doesn't cover anything more than the basics outside of the safety critical systems.

Google

Gmail App Changes Will Cause Most IFTTT Features To Stop Working (extremetech.com) 47

Almost all of Gmail's IFTTT routines and actions will stop working at the end of the month as Google alters the Gmail API to make it more secure. The only functionality of IFTTT-Gmail integration will be sending yourself an email and sending an email to someone else. TechSpot reports: The roots of this problem reach back to a breathless report in the Wall Street Journal in the summer of 2018 that claimed Gmail app developers have been reading your email. What it actually meant was that Gmail's OAuth account access was too simple -- if you allowed an application to access to Gmail, it had access to all of it. Even apps that didn't need the full text of emails for their intended function would have access to that after you signed in. Google began tightening access to Gmail content for third-party apps, and that's where IFTTT comes in.

As of March 31, Google is placing new restrictions on Gmail apps. Apps can no longer read, create, or modify message bodies. None of IFTTT's seven Gmail triggers will work anymore after the new API rules go into effect. In conversations with Google, IFTTT was able to keep two of the Gmail actions: sending yourself an email and sending an email to someone else. However, the trigger needs to be from another service. You can log into your IFTTT account to see which of your Applets are affected by the change. The new API rules only affect Gmail. Other G Suite services like Google Drive and Assistant will remain operating normally.

Comment There's a reason asking about income is impolite (Score 1) 357

Having access to an individual coworker's pay does nothing except invite demoralizing comparisons. What if you make more? Is that because you're a better employee, or a better negotiator, or because your college GPA happened to be higher? Or maybe some other good or bad reason. Who knows? Their salary won't answer those questions for you, but it might easily make it uncomfortable to work together. It's rude to ask about other people's income because it's unhealthy and counter-productive to compare yourself to other people.

On the other hand, having access to anonymous, aggregated data about the compensation range of people doing similar jobs in a similar location is useful because it helps you see if your pay is within the normal range. Instead of demanding to see your coworkers' pay, demand to see the salary bands for your position (or just look on glassdoor). If you're within the normal range and otherwise happy with your situation, stop worrying about where your coworkers fall in the range. If you're below the normal range, ask for a raise or change jobs. If you're above the normal range and you're still not happy with your job, maybe it's time to decide whether money or happiness is more valuable to you. In any case, you don't need to know what any particular coworker takes home to make your decision.

Security

Submission + - Gozi trojan analysis leads to Russian data hoard

Stolen Identity writes: "An attack by a single trojan variant compromises thousands, circumvents SSL, and uploads the results to a Russian dropzone server. A unique blow-by-blow analysis reveals evidence of cooperation between groups of malware specialists acting as service providers and points to the future of malware's growing underground economy."

Comment Re:PDF file too large to download (Score 1) 416

Why not? Even if a PC is in an area of the world without any internet connection it may still be connected to a local area network and can still be attacked any number of ways including by infection from an MSBlaster-infected PC on the same LAN. It's not uncommon even for a PC which doesn't usually have an internet connection to be taken occasionally to somewhere which does have internet access such as an educational institution and directly connected to the internet from there in order to download updates, send emails, etc -- the only way of getting (occasional) internet access in some places.

Well, it's generally been my experience that in places where the population is too poor/too rural to afford Internet connections, they don't usually have computers at home either. Instead, they have net cafes, educational institutions, libraries, etc that have computers with a connection. People I know in those types of places make a trip to a net cafe or library occasionally to check their email or do other online business. Even if they did have their own computer, they certainly wouldn't carry it to the library to send their email.

Of course, I haven't been everywhere(not even close!), so maybe a place like you describe exists. If so, I'd genuinely like to hear where you have been that the people cannot afford an Internet connection but can afford to have a LAN full of PCs that can infect each other.

Comment IBM's Intel expertise (Score 2, Informative) 538

From SCO's complaint:

"51. Prior to this time, IBM had not developed any expertise to run UNIX on an Intel chip and instead was confined to its Power PC chip."

IBM had a version of UNIX on Intel, AIX-PS2. And don't forget OS/2's (albeit limited) POSIX layer. And IBM was involved with Linux before Project Monterey began.

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