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I see, so thus guy was probably licensed to carry passengers. Thanks.

The seating arrangement was pilot in the front, passenger behind. When my son (about 8) get off his ride and was asked if he enjoyed it, he said "I prefer planes with doors".

> One massive restriction on ultralight airplanes is that you can't carry passengers. Again, on paper, because of risk, but it ends up having some controversial effects. If you want to occasionally carry passengers, as many pilots do, you can't fly a cheap, simple, light, and slow ultralight aircraft.

Ineresting. I get a ride as a passenger in an ultralight two-seater. The pilot was a Vietnam vet. It was in Virginia, and we overflew part of the Great Dismal Swamp, which has alligators.

"Voter literacy" is obviously a good thing; but blockchain and encryption are not part of that. Very few software developers, for example, are qualified to evaluate a crypto scheme.

> But it is possible that every extended family will have at least one member who can run a server

That's as may be; but many, many people have no access to an "extended family". And extended families are not necessarily warm, safe spaces where everyone trusts everyone else; extended families are more likely to be "broken" than nuclear families.

> How costly can it be to test the file fully in a CI job?

It didn't need a CI job. It just needed one person to actually boot and run a Windows instance with the Crowdstrike software installed: a smoke test.

TFA is mostly an irrelevent discourse on the product architecture, stuffed with proprietary Crowdstrike jargon, with about a couple of paragraphs dedicated to the actual problem; and they don't mention the non-existence of a smoke test.

To me, TFA is not a signal that Crowdstrike has a plan to remediate the problem, yet.

> or there is no internal testing

Thing is, as far as I can see, deploying this database update to a Windows machine will result promptly and unconditionally in a BSOD. That implies that this update was tried on exactly zero machines before it was shipped.

The bug can't have "slipped through internal testing"; it would have failed immediately on any machine it was loaded on.

> Respect and endorsement are not the same thing.

This is true, but has no bearing on posters that command neither my endorsement not my respect.

You get my endorsement if I agree with you. You get my respect even if I don't agree with you, provided you don't post lies and nonsense, AND are amenable to rational argument.

But isn't that a fairly tiny risk, compared with letting a third party meddle with your kernel modules without asking nicely? I've never been hit by a zero-day (unless Drupageddon counts).

UK courts can also order a newspaper to publish a retraction or an apology, and can specify the prominence that should be given to it.

> (or in some cases that you have been abducted by aliens)

Really? There are therapists who will try to convince you that you were abducted by aliens?

Back in the 80s, we used to draw network diagrams on the whiteboard; those parts of the network that belonged neither to us nor to our users was represented by an outline of a cloud. This cloud didn't provide storage or (useable) computing resource. If you pushed stuff in here, it came out there.

I think it was a reasonable analogy. You can't see inside it; you don't know how it works, and you don't need to. Note that at this time, 'the internet' wasn't the only way of joining heterogenous networks; there was also the OSI stack.

So I was annoyed when some bunch of kids who had never seen such whiteboard diagrams decided to re-purpose the term to refer to whatever piece of the internet they had decided to appropriate, fence-in and then rent out.

That sounds a bit like the patch cards for the EMS VCS3; you puhed pins into the square patchboard to connect-up the modules. If you mounted a piece of card over the patchboard and pushed the pins through that, the card became a record of your patch.

Of course, you couldn't "read" the card and guess what it souned like; the patchcard didn't record the settings of the knobs either.

Didn't Stockhausen create a notation for electronic music? I was surprised TFA didn't mention it.

That ball of ionized air is opaque to radar, making the rocket hard to detect. Or, so I read somewhere.

I don't know at what speed a rocket has to be going, before the kinetic impact of 200Kg of solid metal exceeds the energy of 200Kg of explosives.

Thd only time I've ever heard a sonic boom was as a kid, on holiday in the south of France. They would regularly fly Mirage jets over the beach resorts. I suspect these flights were for when Gen. de Gaulle was in residence at the Chateau d'If.