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Windows is leagues ahead of MacOS in terms of granularity of permissions and remote management tools. It's not even close. That's mainly why enterprise IT prefers it to alternatives.
I don’t disagree, but a counter point is that no one has ever agreed on everything - and colloquial names for species already exist — and that language drifts to and fro like a fog. Statis in connotation or denotation sounds somehow totalitarian to me. Even outside of colloquial speech and in the world of science, everything should be in flux, shouldn’t it?

The idea that the whole world would use the same language sounds much worse than the opposite: that different people would act differently.
Take whatever drugs you like. You just seem a little bewildered why people aren't more fired up about what you have to say about the halting problem. Just trying to suggest that it may be because this isn't the right venue for it. I wish you many happy mathematical returns. :-)
Not entirely true. The company I worked for, major network equipment provider, had a customer user group that had self-organised to take it in turns to be the first customer to deploy major new software builds. It mostly worked well.
WTF? Trust in the kernel should be Microsoft's responsibility and only theirs. Actually why is MS even allowing this crap code to run in their kernel? Isn't that a trust-destroying event?
Do you believe someone who had been released from prison with no housing, no income, no phone, no computer, and no job, trying to get on their feet, would have the time or money to hire a lawyer and submit a petition within their first two months?
Google had an employee revolt over project Maven. However, there were suggestions that this was overblown and mostly driven by foreign national employees. Which, to be clear, does not make their opinions invalid but it does mean it's not necessarily representative of the whole if for example lots of mainland Chinese employees aren't enthusiastic about working for American military capabilities.
If you'd like to know about the early history of Smalltalk, then I'd recommend Alan Kay's "The Early History of Smalltalk" (in this case say pages 19-31)

[pdf] https://web.archive.org/web/20230503050530/http://www.metaob...

"… since things can be done with a dynamic language that are difficult with a statically compiled one, I just decided to leave inheritance out as a feature in Smalltalk-72, knowing that we could simulate it back using Smalltalk's LISPlike flexibility.
… By the time Smalltalk-76 came along, Dan Ingalls had come up with a scheme that was Simula-like in its semantics but could be incrementally changed on the fly to be in accord with our goals of close interaction." p31
> In hindsight it's almost like a public/national research laboratory, that happened to be privately held.

In more ways than one. Sandia National Laboratories (mentioned in the article) is a national research laboratory, and since it was managed by AT&T from its inception in 1948 it was organized like Bell Labs. It's no longer managed by AT&T and its culture today feels a lot less like Bell Labs, but in the early days the employees called it "Bell Labs West." Sandia is the only national lab that has an AT&T origin story.
> It astounds me that these things do not catch on.

Basements are very common throughout the country. Once you've built a basement, you might as well put a house on the next floor up.

Modern insulation technology is very effective. It's much cheaper to put a lot of insulation in the above-ground portion of a house than to try to build the equivalent area entirely below the grade.

Building entirely below the surface without putting anything on top would be massively expensive compared to the same square footage in a traditional home, even if you accounted for equivalent insulation and cooling costs. It's not even close.
The timing of this is so absurd it's almost more believable that the poster was shorting this stock.
most security problems are not memory safety problems.
Isn't that just what neural networks do? The way light falls on an object is physically deterministic, but the neural network in the brain of a human painter doesn't actually calculate rays to determine where highlights should be. A center fielder knows where to run to catch a fly ball without having to understand the physics acting on it. Similarly, we can spot things that look wrong, not because we're refering to physical math but because we have endless kludged-together rules that supercede other rules. Like: Heavy objects don't float. Except for boats which do float. Except for boats that are leaking, which don't. To then explain why something is happening we refer to specialized models, and these image generation models are too general for that, but there's no reason they couldn't refer to separate physical models to assist their output in the future.
It's in a Maryland clinic doing plastic surgery.

Edit: Found it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nS9nLvGMLH0&t=947s
Indeed, but the difference is the high humidity cooled air is used to cool low humidity air, so you don't get the humidity increase inside.
Is it just me or is that headline impossible to parse? I have read it several times and still I have no idea what it is saying.
Sounds like the all too common dynamic of centralized top-down government/corporate "security" mandates destroying distributed real security. See also TSA making me splay my laptops out into a bunch of plastic bins while showing everyone where and how I was wearing a money belt. (I haven't flown for quite some time, I'm sure it's much worse now)

There's a highly problematic underlying dynamic where 364 days out of the year, when you talk about the dangers of centralized control and proprietary software, you get flat out ignored as being overly paranoid and even weird (don't you know that "normal" people have zero ability or agency when it comes to anything involving computers?!). Then something like this happens and we get a day or two to say "I told you so". After which the managerial class goes right back to pushing ever-more centralized control. Gotta check off those bullet point action items.
Given how obvious the vector is for targeting after its so widespread, stands reason to believe the same state actors would push phishing schemes and other such efforts in order to justify having a tool like crowdsrike used everywhere. We are focusing on the bear trap snapping shut here, but someone took the time to set up that trap right where we'd be stepping in the first place.
They still run Windows XP (og edition, not this patched rubbish) to make sure national security isn't compromised.

The really important machines are still on Win 3.1.
That example is also a good one to rename though. Everyone is imperfect, but there's nothing sacrosanct about this naming tradition, or any particular name emerging from it. As pointed out elsewhere species names change all the time for a variety of reasons: this is just one of them.

As for your personal aesthetic feelings about specific slurs I don't find them interesting, useful or compelling at all. I frankly cannot even guess what you thought that was adding to this conversation.
It's why it's not worse - an ongoing threat means only small amount of systems are affected at a time, and there is time to develop countermeasures. An attack on everything all at once is much more damaging, especially when it eliminates fallback options - like the hospital that can't divert their patients because every other hospital in the country is down too, and so is 911.
Being able to take down half the internet is a pretty good demonstration of a company’s power. I’d say it’s definitely worth at least 83B.
Probably, implicitly. Have automated regular backups, and don’t let your AV automatically update, or even if it does, don’t log into all your computers simultaneously. If you update/login serially, then the first BSOD would maybe prevent you from doing the same thing on the other (or possibly, send you running to the other to accomplish your task, and BSODing that one too!)

But yeah this is one reason why I don’t have automatic updates enabled for anything, the other major one being that companies just can’t resist screwing with their UIs.
It’s gonna bounce next week. Buying calls. Shows how pathetic global companies are to purchase their bullshit unnecessary software.
Don't forget the golden parachute. These guys always seem to fail upward.
Centralized management is very useful, just a random delay is not enough. One of the (big) companies I worked with had jury rigged something with chef I believe to show different machines different "repositories" and roll things out progressively (1% of the fleet, 5%...).
Yet their stock tanked only a couple of dollars. They (and their customers) should face some rather unpleasant lawsuits. If you let others own your systems, you should not be allowed to provide critical infrastructure.
Globally or locally?

To each individual company, it’s better to have the big single point of failure. That’s the problem.
> I also blame us, the SWE engineers, we are waay to easily busied around by these types of people who have no clue. Have professional integrity, tests is not optional or something that can be cut, it's part of SWE.

Then maybe most of what's done in the "tech-industry" isn't, in any real sense, "engineering"?

I'd argue the areas where there's actual "engineering" in software are the least discussed---example being hard real-time systems for Engine Control Units/ABS systems etc.

That _has_ to work, unlike the latest CRUD/React thingy that had "engineering" processes of cargo-culting whatever framework is cool now and subjective nonsense like "code smells" and whatever design pattern is "needed" for "scale" or some such crap.

Perhaps actual engineering approaches could be applied to software development at large, but it wouldn't look like what most programmers do, day to day, now.

How is mission-critical software designed, tested, and QA'd? Why not try those approaches?
They are also taking discoverer's names off plants. How many wrightii or thurberii's do we need. So you can't even get a single fact wrightii.
> Google FB etc are inherently global. Military is inherently regional

Military is often global, too. We have the term "world wars" for a reason. Boeing has been doing military work long before it's contemporary issue. Most aerospace companies do. In fact a lot of tankers and airborne radars are built on top of civilian aircraft frames.
By chance, I watched a few episodes of 911 and kept thinking that it was all completely unrealistic nonsense. Then there's an episode where the entire emergency call system for LA goes down, and even though there were different reasons in the episode (a transformer fire), I couldn't have imagined that it was actually possible to completely disable the emergency call system (and what else) of a city.
> Nothing will warn you that the variable wasn't declared because that's also a normal thing to do.

Minor nitpick regarding an otherwise good answer: Prolog systems will warn you about "singleton variables", that is, variables with exactly one occurrence. This does catch the usual cases of this kind of error.
That is what has surprised me. I can understand if small businesses were caught here because they lack financial resources for the infrastructure and staff, but those large corporations like airlines etc... Why don't they have a staging environment where everything goes first? I naively assumed this was established best practice due to the risk of update issues bricking your organization.

But maybe anti-malware is given a blind eye because instant updates for zero day security issues are obviously attractive.

Still, though... In hindsight it's not workable for especially anything running system drivers with liberal kernel access.
The company developing that probably operates under a different name.
I feel like a GAN method might work better, building a detector, and training the model to defeat the detector.
This is just generic speculation
You’re almost certainly right and your timing is almost certainly wrong. This is the problem with betting against stocks with insane market support. See TSLA.
If they are offline it should not matter which OS they run, maybe a RTOS for the control software but anything goes for the ux.

If they are online, well...
They're up more than double YoY as of right now. Down ~30% from peak mostly due to the events today. It's not clear to me if the OP on this is "in the money". I don't fully grok options trading.

She says:
> My Position:

CRWD $185 Put, 11/21/25 expiration date,.
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CrowdStrike let's you create update strategies and rollout groups.

This update bypassed all of those settings.
I don't have "2 buttons" on the screen titled "Permission not granted", and no file dialog. Also not working, when asking VLC to play the file from another program. Must be a bug or incompatibility somewhere. Also this must be the reason why I wasn't able to find a music player on F-Droid then :| Thank you for checking!
The worst part is that nobody will be held accountable. A F up like this should wipe out the entire company but instead everyone will just shrug it off as an opposie a few low level employees will get punished and nothing will change.
I literally just dumped 30 switches yesterday across an entire facility and had to walk 30 closets by foot to recover from ROMMON.

Shit happens. We learn.
So there's the control freak at the top who made this decision, and then there are the front lines who are feverishly booting into safe mode and removing the update, and then there are the people who can't get the data they need to safely perform surgeries.

So yeah, screw 'em. But let's be specific about it.
If I were to hazard a guess I think the OP is attempting to say they are incompetent and wrong in fingering the GRU as the cause of the DNC hacks (even though they were one of many groups that made that very obvious conclusion).
We could also rename Harry Potter to Harry Clerk, to avoid the nasty racism of the producers of China Pottery.

Without asking J.K. what thinks about it of course. The opinion of the scientists that choose Erythrina caffra instead the much more acceptable "Soylent bland", does not matter anymore.
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Not really disagreeing with you, but "staying up for months" isn't a serious bar to clear, it really provides no information in 2024 everything you can install should clear that bar.
Termination shock wasn’t great, no - Kim Stanley Robinson’s Ministry for the Future was a much better work in that vein. I think Cryptonomicon is very good, I really liked Seveneves, Anathem is fantastic, and I liked REAMDE as well, as far as his latter day works go. Snow Crash and The Diamond Age are what made him famous and are both Very good, if a bit dated now.
Probably history and then some possible anti-trust litigation. As asking market leader not allow access to kernel like this would somehow be anti-trust violation...
There are WSB posts all the time both positive and negative about all large companies. Simply search "crowdstrike" or "crwd" in the subreddit for evidence of regular posts. Just a coincidence, and not really that special of one.
The post says they hold a short position.
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WTF is CrowdStrike and why is it affecting so many people and companies? I've never heard of it before. And apparently it isn't anything relevant to all Windows users as it didn't affect any computer of any person I personally know.
Yeah this is the fringe view. The fact that the GRU is responsible is the closest thing you can get to settled in infosec.

Especially since the alternative scenarios described usually devolve into conspiracy theories about inside jobs
Beijing's attack gang Volt Typhoon was a false flag inside job conspiracy: China
What does 'put a rocket up' mean in that headline?
Crowdstrike is worth whatever they can get people to pay for it. It might not provide that level of value to its clients, but it certainly sells at that price in the market.
This is good nuance to add to the conversation, thanks.

I think in most cases you have to trust some group of parties. As an individual you likely don't have enough time and expertise to fully validate everything that runs on your hardware.

Do you trust the OSS community, hardware vendors, OS vendors like IBM, Apple, M$, do you trust third party vendors like Crowdstrike?

For me, I prefer to minimize the number of parties I have to trust, and my trust is based on historical track record. I don't mind paying and giving up functionality.
Do you realize this isn't a precedent being set now though? Species names change all the time, for a variety of reasons only some of them strictly scientific or out of actual taxonomic necessity. The hypotheticals you're alarmed at have already happened, in some cases over a century ago.
I don't think AA batteries have improved a whole lot over the past 40 years, but power requirements have definitely gone up. The linked SBC needs a 12v/2A power supply minimum. I think the CPU in the Model 100 used something like 1 watt max and even then I recall reading somewhere that it went as far as suspending clock cycles in between key strokes to conserve energy (this may have been something else, I can't find where I read it).

So in my very-much-not-an-expert opinion, I don't think it would be feasible to run a modern computer off of AA batteries, let alone for weeks.
"put a rocket up" is a completely weird phrase and the author clearly tried really hard to jam some rocket pun into the title but it just doesn't work.
Exactly. They’re going to fix this and then what? Back to business as usual.
> that gradient descent finds it easier to learn the actual physics, then it'll learn the physics.

I guess it really depends on what the meaning of gradient decent learning the physics is.

Maybe you define it to mean that the actually correct equations appear encoded in the computation of the net. But this would still be tacit knowledge. It would be kind of like a math software being aware of physics at best.
Yup - my mom went into the ER for stroke symptoms last night and was put under MRI. The MRI imaging could NOT be sent to the off-site radiologist and they had to come in -- turned out the MRI outputs weren't working at all.

We were discharged at midnight by the doctor, the nurse didn't come into our exam room to tell us until 4am. I can't imagine the mess this has caused.
I don't think took down "half the internet" since the internet runs majority Linux.
This is the silver lining of global capitalism. When every power on earth is invested in the same assets there is little interest in rocking the boat unless the financial justification to do so is sufficiently massive.
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I think it's supposed to be a play on the word "racket." As in, "to put up a racket" or "make a racket" meaning make a bunch of noise.

I agree that it's horrendously written and really forced.
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Indeed,

“If they really confirm phosphine and ammonia robustly it raises the chances of biological origin. The natural next thing will be new people will look at it and give support or counter-arguments. The story will be resolved by more data.”

He added: “All of this is grounds for optimism. If they can demonstrate the signals are there, good for them.”
Well we all know where Microsoft is in security… even the government acknowledges it’s terrible
Yes, we're in a complexity crisis.
Even after reading the article I'm not sure what the headline means. It seems to be some sort of a debt dispute (unpaid contractors). Is the rocket put up as collateral on the lien? Are the contractors refusing to hand over the physical rocket to SpaceX until they are paid?
Talking to non-tech people means you're going to be copy-pasting screenshots and replying in blue text next to their bullet points that was written in black text.

To say nothing of legitimate marketing emails (which many people rely on to get coupons and deals) that has to feature pictures and the like.
No it really is not. If you have a service contract, you do not touch it.
> If you’ve got physical access to the machine it’s your machine. All you need is a USB port.

You're a few years out of date here. Physical access is not the end like it used to be. We live in an era of hardware-backed anti-tamper and signed loaders/kernels.

If you have a way around it, I suggest you start reaching out these companies because you could make a lot of money.
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For the confused about the headline here is another article that explains the concept

https://www.theregister.com/2012/07/31/firework_up_bottom_to...
One option may be to use locked read-only systems. Many of these computers at airports etc do not need a writeable local filesystem.
Isn't this kinda the hardware model for Apple devices too? Eg batterygate
Not just you… Seems like it might be a Britishism? I think it’s saying something like “construction workers light up SpaceX”, like say bad things about them?
Ayn Rand, is that you? I guess technically speaking you are correct - but that value proposition has evaporated now. They've likely lost all trust with their customers at this point.

I do hold IT departments accountable, though. A third party vendor software update should not be able to cripple your entire organization like this.
It used to be about playing people back when no one knew anything. Now that people study GTO, it's definitely more about the cards.
Yep. The whole point is that the GPIOs are owned by the RP2040 and you use it as a I/O coprocessor.
Only the server side
> This whole industry is depressing....

I'll take it a step further and say that every industry is depressing when it comes to computers at scale.

Rather than build efficient, robust, fault-tolerant, deterministic systems built for correctness, we somehow manage to do the exact opposite. We have zettabytes and exaflops at our fingertips, and yet, we somehow keep making things slower. Our user interfaces are noisier than ever, and our helpdesks are less helpful than they used to be.
That's why I am using aerc so that even HTML mails are presented as text in my terminal.

Another problem are mails that don't have the TXT part and *only* HTML.
Show HN: CrowdStrike shows why we need to supercharge software testing with LLMs
I always think it's easy for state actors to pull out this trick.

Considering PR review is usually done within the team. A state actor can simply insert a manager, a couple of senior developers and maybe a couple of junior developers into a large team to do the job. Push something in Friday so few people bother to check, gets approved by another implant and here you go.

All people can then leave leisurely.
Take the statement seriously but not literally