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Or maybe they did but somebody thought it was unrealistic...
Posts by Reliance
16 publicly visible posts • joined 1 May 2014
French pensioner ejected from fighter jet after accidentally grabbing bang seat* handle
Boeing big cheese repeats pledge of 737 Max software updates following fatal crashes
Monday 25th March 2019 16:45 GMT
Re: Want to try to reprogram it so it feels and drives like an F1?
There is no way you can make software fool physics and force physics to turn an unstable system into a stable one.
The US F-117, for example, is an unstable aerodynamic platform run by software that makes it act stably. There are others.
China's first space station to – ahem – de-orbit in late March
WikiLeaks drama alert: CIA forged digital certs imitating Kaspersky Lab
DeX Station: Samsung's Windows-killer is ready for prime time
Sunday 12th November 2017 16:18 GMT
Re: Nice work
"And the insane position of the fingerprint sensor."
It is actually more convenient if you just loop your finger over the top and scan from left to right feeling for the edge.
And it recognizes the fingerprint upside down. I had registered my fingerprint by turning the phone around when I got it. But now that I loop over the top, it still recognizes it, even though the finger lands upside down!
LastPass now supports 2FA auth, completely undermines 2FA auth
Thursday 25th May 2017 04:04 GMT
Fewer Secrets
I feel it helps to limit on-line access to financial accounts. I can logon to my bank, but my account type won't let me move money around. The hacker in Moldavia can't transfer fund from my bank to his.
So the weakest point is online shopping. If they can logon and ship something from Amazon to their place, they got me. But Amazon has the address. Not a good way for the Moldovan hacker to get rich.
So what's left? They can hack into my Register account and put comments in under my name. So maybe, worst case, this message is from the hacker, not "Me".
Seven pet h8s: Verity is sorely vexed
ISP GMX attempts the nigh impossible: PGP for the masses
Monday 10th October 2016 15:28 GMT
The Browser Can Be Spoofed
It's pretty simple to install, or just run, JavaScript malware in the browser. So it shouldn't be too hard to spoof the user into entering the plaintext to the malware. Afterwards, the malware could run the GMX code to send the message as intended.
The browser itself is a security hole.
'Hey, Elon? You broke it, you bought it' says owner of SpaceX's satellite cinder
LogMeIn adds emergency break-in feature to LastPass
Massive global cooling process discovered as Paris climate deal looms
What makes our planet's clouds? Tiny INVISIBLE CREATURES. True story
Today's bugs have BRANDS? Be still my bleeding heart [logo]
Friday 2nd May 2014 00:48 GMT
Re: Bring back Ada
The new Go language is efficient and type-safe, and is excellent for the sort of web software that has been botched in these examples. It's easier to learn than C and has nice concurrency baked in. See golang.org
Go generates machine code, and is garbage collected, which has only one bad side-effect in practice. You can't call Go code from C or C++ code in a way that you like. The other way around works very well.
We need a nicer type-safe language for writing critical code modules that can be linked in as libraries (static or dynamic) to existing C/C++ programs. Will ADA do that?
Biting the hand that feeds IT
