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The solar system has been rolling around for about 4.5 billion years now so the earth's orbit has pretty much cleared out all of the rubble - we've already been hit. All this means is the the chances of another big strike are low, but we have a few meteorites rolling around every year - so it might happen, but it might not.
I suspect the issue is that modern device batteries are designed to be strong and small ... and not replaced or safe.
Does anyone remember their laptop having any issues like this back in the days when it booted up and MS-DOS prompted the user? Phones never had these problems when the battery compartment could be opened up and the battery replaced in less than 20 seconds.
Let's watch the lawsuit - will Michael Macaluso be counter sued for "causing" the fire?
So what happens when you are driving around and the screen says, "Updating, please reboot in ten minutes" ... but the boot's full ...
The car screen then says, "You battery is fully charged, rebooting now"
And the reboot completes with the message on the screen, "GPS is not working, please select the country that you are driving in, UK or EU" - of course to be safe the car would be in the middle of the road until you select the option.
It's best to just fix the problem, show the user how to avoid it next time and just move on. After all, when it come down to things we're all users somewhere. I can fix computers but when it comes to cooking I'm just a "user" and will make an occasional error ... sorry, I thought I put sugar in the cookies, turns out it was salt.
"this will improve performance since the delay incurred by redirection from an http:// endpoint to an https:// endpoint will no longer happen" ... but now everything have to run through the SSL translation.
Certainly HTTPS is essential for secure data access but the majority of websites are just junk - so I guess we'll have secure junk now?
Netgate aren't "bad guys" ... they are simply not people who should be in charge of firewall software. Their hardware has been very good over many years - it's their "hardware" view of life applied to software that's the trouble.
Look at it this way, if you were going to write firewall software, what language would you chose? C, C++, Visual Basic, Java, or Python? What's more important - the ease of writing the code, or the security of the code?
Netgate recently "updated" pfSense only to cause a lot of problems, I've used both pfSense and Netgate hardware for a great many years - as independent engineers they were both good, but once Netgate started writing software everything started to slide downhill. To quote a friend of mine from 40 years ago who used to design boards for PDP-11's; "One software writer thinks he can keep a dozen engineers busy but in fact one hardware engineer keeps 20 programmers busy."
Basically they are saying that it's not a crime to be stupid, it's just a crime to take advantage of stupid people, for example, in America it's a crime to open an unlocked car door and steal someone guns, but it's not a crime to leave them in an unlocked car.
"Stupid is as stupid does." - Forrest Gump.
"The site has also been tied to Russian intelligence services" - No, it's not been tied to the KGB, this is just a typical accusation with virtually zero evidence. These days, being accused quickly becomes "convicted" on social media.
Should we be saying that The City of London Police are tied to rapes? That would be just as bad a statement but at least there is some evidence suggesting that it's true as far as social media goes.
Easy access and performance have been the top priorities for years, security has always been just a "feature" - remember the old days when if you were driving around after an evening in the pub and it was never a problem unless you ran off the road a few times? Nowadays driving around is a security issue and doing it drunk is a crime, moving the driving world view into the Internet will not be easy but security needs to be a high priority - look at what's happening everywhere ... if it's connected to the Internet then it's at constant risk of getting hacked these days.
If we don't change the Internet then we'll keep getting hacked (see icon).
Working in an environment that can have problems like this one, better testing might have helped but it's no guarantee. I think that NASA did very well to actually find the issue and fix it. I've worked with NASA engineers in the past and it's always been fun, they see complex problems and fix them even if it takes the rest of us days to even figure out what might be the problem.
Cheers and Beers to NASA for keeping Hubble running!
I run the mail server and any email that arrives with a .zipx file or any one of about another 50 risky attachments is quarantined if it passes the AV tests - so the only serious risks are when people visit websites or use USB drives. At least we only have one computer with a 3.5 disk drive.... (LOL).
Norway's Parliament has joined the growing list of organisations hit by new features vulnerabilities in Microsoft's Exchange Server.
It's not just Microsoft, we see this everywhere, always new features being added to applications and then after a while the security bugs are fixed and then new features added ... only eleven updates to my Android phone today, I expect there will be more tomorrow.
There a lot of "evidence" that AI and machine learning is much better than most humans (LOL), so should we stop sending kids to college now and just send their laptops to class? At least that meets the current lock down rules ... but wait, I was writing a joke and I just thought, if machines are better at driving and learning than humans then maybe Microsoft could create a new political party with an AMD Ryzen 5 5600X as Prime Minister?
I've had these calls too but, while they are "sham technical support services", they sound exactly like Microsoft's sham technical support services. I've spent months now trying to get OneDrive to install on a laptop and it keeps saying the installer is corrupted (even though the same image worked fine on another laptop) so I can see why people will fall for scammers like this - they simply finally appear to be an improvement of the standard Microsoft support.
Yes, Microsoft, they are scammers - but when you look at what Microsoft offers as support you can see why people fall for this.
I like the idea of the Sinclair computers but I bought a SOL with a Kansas City tape interface because it was S100 based and gave me the ability to build my own boards for it ... The SOL is a beautiful computer although the keyboards need a little maintenance every 10-20 years - it's still running.
It would be interesting to build a SOL look-alike based on a Raspberry Pi (LOL).
Sure, as a kid I loved faggots - my mum used to cook them and they always tasted great! But these days that would be considered a crime, both my parents would be jailed because my dad tied up bundles of sticks in the garden and then threw the faggots on the fire. Go back a few hundred years and all the European royal families were marrying children - we're happy banning the use of "hacker" for someone just fixing things but we're OK with their ancestors behavior.
But this is all an illustration of the stupid media world these days - language is not evolving, it's becoming corrupted because people start applying words incorrectly and they tell everyone that their views are wrong because a new view has just been posted on TwitBookGram.
I was listening to an application programmer recently, telling people that floating-point calculations were much faster than integer math when creating a file storage method. Looking at the files he is creating I see that he's storing a few tens of thousand 16x8 matrices, each with a row of one's and zero's stored using floating point values.
It only takes one easy solution to create problems.
We see a lot of news every year like this with the companies deleting large numbers of fake accounts that have been set up in these circumstances that they claim to have discovered. I don't think that this completely eliminates fakes, it's just making the fakers work harder at creating accounts that escape the social media monitors.
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