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There is a window of vulnerability between a theoretically malicious update being pushed and the security community noticing that it doesn't correspond to a build of the published source. That might only be a few hours, or even minutes - but milliseconds would be enough to do most of its work.

Which is what frustrates me with the invention of Markdown.

A ten minute web search would have revealed it was already a solved problem, instead of splintering and inventing a new 'standard'. But that was somehow too much effort.

Inflation is calculated on a basket of consumer goods including electronic items. So, you can't just explain away prices by hand-waving "because inflation" when they define inflation themselves.

I once tested the UK system like that by sending an envelope to myself with just house number and postcode. It worked perfectly, yet convention remains to laboriously write redundant information every time.

Back from the days when the BBC was a huge part of British society and culture. Listeners and viewers knew the names of the Directors and comedians could make gently mocking jokes at their expense, and we understood and laughed along.

Nowadays I don't even know how many channels the BBC has, radio or TV. Britain and the BBC seem to have grown apart and now it's almost just another commercial broadcaster. It's remarkable, even terrifying, how society has changed in 30 years.

> the session key cannot be recovered

Of course it can, but only for that specific session.

> Why are client certs not more popular?

They needed a cool name. I present: Passkeys

Your comment looks like a good one but you've posted it as an answer so I've no choice but to delete it.

When you earn enough reputation please come back and re-post your comment.

EMBRAER of Brazil has been slowly expanding its market for 60 years but they've been reluctant to move into the A320/737 category. I don't understand why - there are over 12,000 orders backlogged with Airbus and Boeing, surely that's the strongest possible indicator of potential demand.

An airline placing an order for an A320 or 737 now will have a decade to wait for delivery.

Instead EMBRAER keep themselves locked in the regional jet market and are lucky to get 80 orders a year.

> though they probably got the iPod HD exclusivity very cheap and weren't so big then.

Toshiba were struggling to find a market for the 1.8" disk they'd invented. It was mentioned in passing after a routine meeting with Apple engineers and, to the latters' credit, they immediately saw the potential and called Steve Jobs to get the cash to sign an exclusivity deal. It cost them $10 million, absolute peanuts.

The Creative Nomad had a vast capacity but used standard 2.5" disks to minimise costs, making it bulky. If Creative had had the opportunity and foresight to grab the 1.8" supply chain, history might have been very different. If...

ADAS is generally considered 'adverserial software', few drivers welcome it and many switch it off at ignition.

So unfortunately regardless of Toyota's possible prowess in the field it's unlikely to receive many plaudits for focusing its efforts there.

McDonnell's Phantom Works is still running, as a division of Boeing now, and seems to be doing innovative work despite the lack of innovation in the name.

They were responsible for the tailless X-36, the X-37 space plane and, allegedly, much of the groundwork for the winning NGAD design.

Re: dog walks

The rule I apply is that I can only use my phone if I'm walking on hard surfaces.

Once I'm on a beach, a country path or rolling fields then it gets turned to flight mode and put away.

Few people have the time to sit and write a journal each day. I tried and it became a burden, a dread before bed time. Sleep won out.

Journals can also be electively subjective. Yes, a photo can be framed or posed, but it's harder to edit awkward truths out of a photo rather than omitting them from a journal.

Well the first 'A' in NASA is for Aeronautics, which since the 1960s has been the poor relation in the Agency. Unfortunately this proposal seems to make that situation even worse.

> The Bose Magic Carpet was the original version of all of these powered suspension cars 20 years ago.

No, the Citroen Activa active suspension was in production from 1996.

Intercept and capture was one of the functional purposes of the shuttle. It was intended to refuel KH-12 recce sats.

> The last time I checked Facebook, maybe 10% of my feed was updates from friends.

That's bizarre.

When I go to m.facebook.com it consists of posts from people I know and groups I'm in.

There are occasional carousels of People You Might Know or Groups You Might Like, but other than that it's just words and photos from real people.

> And Ulster English is even spoken within the Republic of Ireland

Not surprisingly so since Donegal, Cavan and Monaghan were also extensively settled by Scots immigrants, but were cut off from what's now casually called Ulster in 1922. So they had 300+ years of shared language versus 100 of separation.

> Fools was not only popular, it was > well-liked. And I mean really well-liked.

Maybe outside London, but it wasn't well-liked in much of the capital. OF&H was seen as mocking and stereotyping the Cockney trader, whereas Minder ( which inspired it ) paid much more respect.

The difference between laughing at and laughing with.

A product of Lear-Siegler so it shares heritage with the Learjet family, through Bill Lear.

If you're going to spend time doing that, why not just wash the dishes by hand anyway?

> This is like asking why the government is responsible for roads.

Thought experiment:

If roads were built by private companies, could a Government justify the expense maintaining a database of all the potholes?

> The fact that they have shifted from talking about economics ...

You're a bit late complaining about that, they've been covering non-economics topics since about 1846 when the Corn Laws were abolished.

> Presumably scattered radar receivers can detect faint reflections using similar correlation.

Yes, multistatic radars are already in service. An advance on the concept is that the active transmitter can be placed outside anticipated weapons range and those within range are merely passive receivers.

There have been proposals to build such systems that use 'oblivious' transmitter sources such as commercial radio broadcasts.

Thankfully it was broadcast in the UK without the laugh track.

Obviously it still wasn't as darkly observant as the movie, but it did have a edge.

In the UK, charity shops got savvy to this and now do their own 'mining'. Valuable items go to HQ to list on eBay for a lucrative price, the remaining dross goes onto the shop shelves.

There are some exceptions to this such as specialist charity bookshops which keep the stock locally, but do make sure to price match with the going rate online.

Few diamonds to be found in the rough nowadays.

It's still Scotland's leading soft drink and you can buy the original high-sugar recipie:

https://irn-bru.co.uk/products/1901

I think that's a bit of a straw man, onshoring doesn't demand that it re-implements 1910-style production.

Maybe a new-tech pencil factory would only require 10 staff to run it 24/7. That's fine. Onshoring doesn't equate to full employment, but it does result in skills, knowledge and revenue remaining within a local OODA loop instead of being exported along with the actual production.

> The F-35 jet will cost over $1.5 Trillion, doesn't work and won't be used

Over 1,100 of them have been built so far and they seem to be working quite well.