Posts by Mark 85

Maybe it's not the driver but it sure as hell is the megaphone.

Re: facebook moderation is a joke

They claim to stop antivax and other false information being redistributed, but they really don't. It's just zuck talking, there is zero actual action.

I sometimes think that basically he's still mentally a 20-something years old kid who just wanted a web page and still believes in the inherent goodness of humans.... etc. etc. etc.

He's really just moron who allowed people smarter than him and even less ethical to run things.

Off topic a bit... I do note that he had several meetings with Florida Man back when he was still President. Seems like two peas in the same pod... make money no matter who suffers for it.

Re: Figures.

I think humans is the wrong word, as 50% are most likely bot accounts.

Of the users I know, most have more than one account.. a prime and a backup. And then the kids, the cats, dogs, etc. all have at least one.

Re: It’s going to L2?

It will need to periodically fire a motor to adjust position. When it runs out of reaction mass, it will start drifting. Sending up more fuel will be interesting.

I just hope they filled the fuel tanks completely. I forget which space mission it was, but the spec called for something like 75% full, but the engineers topped off the tank before launch. Got them quite a bit of extra time.

Re: Enterprise IT solutions provider

A BOFH he isn't obviously. I hazard a guess that he's not a reader of El Reg's BOFH otherwise he'd have learned something.

Re: Ask Delphi<...>; no one is actually using it to make decisions.

Are you sure? The Facebook automated systems could be based on it, from behaviour described later in the article...

I was about to suggest the word "yet" be added to the title... But on second and third thought and involving FB, I'm not so sure that it's not already here.

Re: It doesn’t need a new name

Zuck is a psychopath. He should be barred from holding any position of power (I’ll not add “or responsibility” because he doesn’t take any)

Maybe he's ready for politics. Seems like that applies to too many of them of late.

Which should be the only reason for any Highway Patrol to actually have a Digital Forensic Unit

Seems all states have these state police forces. They just call them different names. In Missouri's case, who knows. When I lived there it was real effort to figure out what agency did what to who.

Re: The Register - Organ of Record

He's a typical politician... blame everything on someone else. It's his admins staff and he deflecting. If ID were/are stolen he'll blame the media. If they hadn't reported the vuln, he'd still find a scapgoat.

Re: "oxidizer and moisture interactions"…

On the other hand, while I don't know specifically where Boeing produces the Starliner, of course much of their production is in the Seattle area, which wouldn't give them much more excuse for not grokking humidity (pun intended).

Back in the day, I remember an engineer telling me to "not worry about that, it works fine here in the lab". Considering the lab and all the buildings were climate controlled, the product worked fine. Once out in the world, they had serious issues due to weather. In this case it was just small voltage regulator.

Seems there was a movie where they developed an aircraft and no one thought about weather. They couldn't launch their airplane until it dried out after washing it.

Re: Sun kit

As I'm routinely surprised by the differences between what I wrote and what I intended.

I think that's normal. Happens to everyone whether writing commands, school papers, or even comments to El Reg. Fat fingering a keyboard and not catching it is pretty normal. I learned to have someone take a look at any thing in the way of scripts, programs, that involved the OS.

It sounds like some poor Facebook Network Admin had a similar moment - but on a much bigger scale!

This won't be the last time it happens. Humans are fallible and thus, the devices they build are also fallible. Too many people don't believe this as they think/believe they are infallible.

There's one angle in this overlooked... tech is great for almost everything. But when it fails as in FB's case and fail to the point that everything is locked down, it's time to re-assess. I've seen a slow but steady movement to the "secure" doorlocks. The physical key is no longer there. Computer failure, power outages will effectively lock everyone out of everything.

It just seems that rational thinking and fully exploring the "what if" side of things has fallen into to disfavor.We're seeing this in many facets in our lives from cars, houses, buildings, even aircraft. We're headed to one of the armageddon scenarios from the science fiction of days past.

As side note.... Why couldn't FB not recovered and just go away leaving their data centers and offices as monuments to blind reliance on tech?

Re: Hitting a container?

Do subs hover so close to the sea buttom?

Sometimes. If they're doing "secret" stuff like tapping an underwater cable or collecting a sensor or an "interesting" bit of wreckage. Then again, during WWII, there's many stories of subs gently settling on the bottom for various reasons like waiting for a target to get close or hiding from depth charges.

Re: Other scenarios

Per Martinusher (above): This might explain the current scarcity of shipping containers.

I would agree as Occams Razor might involved here.