Comment Re:2025 or bust! (Score 2) 115
Did anyone seriously think they would kick the thing off on time? This is a govt. project.
It's not like it's rocket science or anything... oh wait.
Comment I'm already paying for this (Score 2) 257
Do the telecommunications companies need yet another reason to add a fee onto my bill? Doesn't my paying for this phone line and data plan already cover the insignificant (at scale) cost of testing and releasing the android system updates when they are published? Or maybe the phone company lied to me when I bought this phone, took my money, paid bonuses and provided raises to the already wealthy and overpaid execs?
Bait and switch seems to be the business model for telecommunications companies in the US. We are always sold one thing, then when it isn't delivered it's not because they didn't get tax breaks or charge an exorbitant fee for the service, but they kept the profits and now need to raise prices to deliver half of what was originally promised.
Comment Re:Something I don't understand (Score 1) 166
It's 2015. Congress can hire someone for $10/hour to run diff against the two bills and e-mail them to everyone. There is no excuse for passing something without knowing what's in it and we need to hold these people fully accountable for their votes.
Comment I'm running Chrome 45 and Firefox 41 (Score 1) 86
It seems many developers stopped caring about versioning several years ago. I've been torn on whether it was just marketing finally overtaking common sense or too many inexperienced but successful developers showing up and making some poor choices.
Comment Reality (Score 3) 157
How do you plan to overcome the virtual impossibility of breaking through the two-party system?
Comment Re:Poor example (Score 1) 451
With all seriousness, I bet we will see a lot of changes once the number of automated cars reaches a certain threshold. Computer controlled vehicles can do a lot of things safely that we can't.
Comment Re:Poor example (Score 4, Interesting) 451
"One Google car, in a test in 2009,..."
One would think that in 6 years some improvements would have been made. Do we have a more current example?
It mentions further down in the article that that particular example has already been corrected.
... For instance, at four-way stops, the program lets the car inch forward, as the rest of us might, asserting its turn while looking for signs that it is being allowed to go.
Comment Re:Herewith, my solution (Score 1) 149
The specific gravity of salt water is about 1.025 already.
Comment cure of the day (Score 0) 52
There isn't much to say here. Let's hope that this time it works.
Comment Correlation (Score 1) 87
Perhaps people who write more citable papers tend to prefer more concise titles.
Comment wasn't this a joke (Score 1) 259
Honestly, who thought this was a good idea? This is up there with the Edsel and Baconnaise. It sounds like a joke (and wasn't it announced on or around April Fool's Day?!)
Comment SSO (Score 1) 87
I think you use single sign-on and try to do a better job of choosing services that support it. LDAP authentication is fairly prolific these days.
Submission + - Samsung to Push Monthly Over-the-Air Security Updates for Android (securityweek.com)
wiredmikey writes: Smartphone maker Samsung said on Wednesday that it soon will implement a new Android security update process that fast tracks mobile security patches over the air when security vulnerabilities are uncovered. The South Korea-based maker of popular Android smartphones said that it recently fast tracked security updates to its Galaxy devices in response to the recent Android “Stagefright” vulnerabilities uncovered late last month by security firm Zimperium.
News of the initiative is great for Android users. For years, wireless carriers and phone manufacturers have been accused of putting profits over protection and dragging their feet on regular operating system updates, making Android users vulnerable to malware and other attacks.
News of the initiative is great for Android users. For years, wireless carriers and phone manufacturers have been accused of putting profits over protection and dragging their feet on regular operating system updates, making Android users vulnerable to malware and other attacks.
Submission + - SDN switches not hard to compromise, researcher says (networkworld.com)
alphadogg writes: Software-defined switches hold a lot of promise for network operators, but new research due to be presented at Black Hat will show that security measures haven't quite caught up yet. Gregory Pickett, founder of the Chicago-based security firm Hellfire Security, has developed several attacks against network switches that use Onie, the Linux-based Open Network Install Environment that competes with OpenDaylight. Being able to exploit the vulnerability to put malware on SDN switches would have full visibility into all of the traffic running through the switch, enabling large-scale spying.
Submission + - An Undead SOPA Is Hiding Inside an Extremely Boring Case About Invisible Braces (vice.com)
derekmead writes: The most controversial parts of SOPA, an anti-piracy bill defeated in 2012 after a massive public outcry, may end up becoming de facto law after all, depending on the outcome in an obscure case that is working its way through the legal system without anyone noticing.
Next week, the US Appeals Court for the Federal Circuit will hear oral arguments in ClearCorrect Operating, LLC v. International Trade Commission, a case that could give an obscure federal agency the power to force ISPs to block websites. In January, The Verge reported that this very legal strategy is already being considered by the Motion Picture Association of America, as evidenced by a leaked document from the WikiLeaks Sony dump.
Next week, the US Appeals Court for the Federal Circuit will hear oral arguments in ClearCorrect Operating, LLC v. International Trade Commission, a case that could give an obscure federal agency the power to force ISPs to block websites. In January, The Verge reported that this very legal strategy is already being considered by the Motion Picture Association of America, as evidenced by a leaked document from the WikiLeaks Sony dump.
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