roman_savchuk (u/roman_savchuk)

roman_savchuk commented on The death of Don Draper? newstatesman.com/science-... · Posted by u/okket

>The brand getting the most buzz in the car industry is Tesla

Nope, It’s nowhere near that. The fact that tech media writes a lot about a car manufacturer doesn’t make it the most popular manufacturer in the world and brief google trends research shows that.

roman_savchuk commented on 'Murdered' Journalist Is Alive and Well bbc.co.uk/news/world-euro... · Posted by u/smarri

mhneu · 8 years ago

Great that he is alive.

But if this was a sting, it's not a good move by Ukraine/Kiev. It's just going to help future disinformation by the Putin regime. I wonder what their intended goal was?

>John Schindler @20committee

Exactly.

Incredibly stupid move by Kyiv.

Lots of ways to deter Kremlin wetwork without playing Western media for idiots.

>Steven Sullivan @compliancedivis

Right. The next time the Kremlin orders someone's ticket punched they're going to claim they're not really dead.

https://twitter.com/20committee/status/1001834917054042112 (John Schindler: ex-NSA, deep knowledge of Western intel, has had some scandals but is a reliable source and has editorial indep at his current pub.)

roman_savchuk · 8 years ago

>"The next time the Kremlin orders someone's ticket punched they're going to claim they're not really dead."

Right, like Kremlin never made claims like this before. i.e., https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/russian...

roman_savchuk commented on Honda Aircraft Launches HondaJet Elite flyingmag.com/honda-aircr... · Posted by u/nwatson

oh_sigh · 8 years ago

Not for me - last week I signed a contract on the now-deprecated HA-420.

One thing that made me giggle is that in the elite they threw a seatbelt in the lavatory, meaning you can legally carry one more passenger now. Who's the lucky person that get's strapped in the shitter?

roman_savchuk · 8 years ago

That's clearly for customers who are carrying captives in their jets.

roman_savchuk commented on How today's billionaires plan to improve the world economist.com/news/leader... · Posted by u/godelmachine

roman_savchuk · 8 years ago

>Mr Musk has gone further still. Rather than using his business wealth to support philanthropy in an unrelated area, he runs two giant companies, Tesla (a clean-energy firm that sells electric cars) and SpaceX (which builds the Falcon rockets), that further his ambitious goals directly.

Well, by launching many rockets burning hundreds of tons of kerosene each, SpaceX kinda offsets Tesla's clean energy efforts.

roman_savchuk commented on Larry Page’s Flying Taxis, Now Exiting Stealth Mode nytimes.com/2018/03/12/bu... · Posted by u/fallingmeat

roman_savchuk · 8 years ago

I'm not going to criticize that particular aircraft, no. I respect the effort it took to get it up in the air. But everyone is building an electric, pilotless vehicle for ride sharing, which also happens to be an oversized RC multicopter. Like trying to put Tesla, Uber and DJI products and business models into the blender and get guaranteed receipt for success. I'd love to see more thinking outside of context here.

roman_savchuk commented on Robinhood Crypto – Invest in Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies crypto.robinhood.com/... · Posted by u/uptown

roman_savchuk · 8 years ago

Here is a thing about Robinhood: it does advertising in ineligible countries, apps are allowed to be downloaded, profiles must be filled in down to the last field and only then there is a message saying that you're not allowed to use the app because it's unavailable (really?) in your country. Guerilla data collection at its finest.

roman_savchuk commented on Illegal Prime Number? (2001) fatphil.org/maths/illegal... · Posted by u/ColinWright

snarfy · 8 years ago

I recall a version that was an ascii string that you could save as a file with a .zip extension and it would unzip into the source.

roman_savchuk · 8 years ago

And I remember someone was selling t-shirts with that string!

roman_savchuk commented on Teenagers are growing more anxious and depressed economist.com/news/united... · Posted by u/known

roman_savchuk · 8 years ago

“People only post what they want you to see, so it can seem like their life is better than yours.”

Not mention how often these displays of a better person/better life are exaggerations or straightforward lies.

roman_savchuk commented on VW engineer sentenced to 40-month prison term in diesel case reuters.com/article/us-vo... · Posted by u/doener

wslh · 8 years ago

Are you saying that once the configuration is fonr there is not a QA environment?

roman_savchuk · 8 years ago

No, I'm only saying this calibration QA has no readable source code to work with. And there are ways to obscure some parts of the ECU behaviour.

roman_savchuk commented on VW engineer sentenced to 40-month prison term in diesel case reuters.com/article/us-vo... · Posted by u/doener

wslh · 8 years ago

And QA engineers or security reviewers never detected this in the source code? I would love to see how many people participated in those source code repositories.

roman_savchuk · 8 years ago

Except, they don't work with actual source code. An engineering team responsible for adaptation for certain market, most likely works in calibration space, that's it, just data (flags, thresholds and tables, thousands of them). To access this data they rely on ASAP2 description databases which are simply very large text files [1] containing ROM addresses, parameter names, etc. I don't know the whole VW workflow, but can imagine how one could define a set of switching parameters for cheating, and then delete their definitions, leaving these parameters invisible.

[1] https://vector.com/vi_datadescription_ecu1_en.html

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