Re: Well it may not be as bad as first feared but the "pipe" between where I live............
Arabs cutting lines with hacksaws, I suppose?
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BIGGEST DDoS in history FAILS to slash interweb arteries
You know how your energy bills are so much worse than they were?
Thursday 28th March 2013 22:47 GMT 
Re: CHRIS Huhne.....
> 'UK tea party'
Apart from the fact that the Tea Party is composed of economic ignoramuses on the same level as 99%ers, I don't see why being Tea Partier can be considered a slur. At least on does not do the government-prescribed "KEEP CALM AND PAY YOUR TAXES" thing but is going from some (ill directed) adrenaline release.
Texas judge sends Uniloc packing in Rackspace patent suit
Boffins probe into moons – and associated rings – 'beyond snow line'
Wisconsin man cuffed over Koch-blocking DDoS attack
Thursday 28th March 2013 19:41 GMT 
Attacking the bogeyman of the left is not worth going to jail for.
> Kochs .... bankrolling Wisconsin's Republican governor Scott Walker and his crackdown on public employees' unions.
Good. Apparently the people of Wisconsin agreed, as he won the recall election etc.
Kochs are also for "fracking" and other Bad Things when I interprete hysterical outer-left data dumps correctly.
Could I care less?
I could, but I care little enough.
Reg man bested in geek-to-geek combat - in World War 3 nerve centre
Thursday 28th March 2013 19:09 GMT
Anyone seen At Dawn's Early Light?
It's not the best, but itr's not too shabby.
As a Cold War Brat, these movies always cause me major distress. Even today, these nukes are ready to fly though the talk about busting cities for fun and giggles has abated a bit. For now.
Revealed: Vendors’ worst sales fluff
Thursday 28th March 2013 12:48 GMT
Re: Be Advised that we have Good Results On Target, which is Outstanding.
Actually, ISO9001 is more about controlling specific processes (basically define your process and implement the feeback mechanisms; the ISO9001 manual can be used as a somewhat relevant checklist but I recommend at least learning about BPMN or UML activity diagrams), and TQM is the "holistic" agenda (always vague but opens the door for gurus of various couleurs). Both are not actually on the same level.
Thursday 28th March 2013 08:45 GMT
Be Advised that we have Good Results On Target, which is Outstanding.
I think that's actually straight from the Total Quality Management Manual. I had a course in this.
Consider:
"The Fundamental Concepts of Excellence are the underlying principles of the EFQM Excellence Model which are the essential foundation of achieving Sustainable Excellence for any organisation. They can be used as the basis to describe the attributes of an excellent organisational culture. They also serve as a common language for senior management."
Sounds better than "bunch of pretty general good system-oriented practices [see Deming and Wiener], some of which you may even manage to implement so that customer buy more from you and you don't fuck up your reputation or violate property rights".
The ones about sustainable future etc. just went too far. Who is to decide? Greens? Feminists? A boardroom oracle? Bring out the joss sticks. Confusingly, the course attendants did not seem to see any logical or economic problem with such progressive statements.
Spotting a Big Data faker as you set up Big Data for someone
Chinese game addict MURDERS girlfriend after she leaves him
India’s outsourcers battle for customers in a cloudy universe
Thursday 28th March 2013 01:29 GMT
> Otherwise (as is the most common scenario) we export jobs to India, and they buy nothing from us.
And...how exactly is that supposed to work in your opinion??
> Likewise buying manufactured goods from China doesn't help the British or Yank economies one bit
Says the guy with a 10 quid ADSL modem at home.
Economic illiteracy is rife.
EMC, Carbonite fight off patent pursuer
BIGGEST DDoS ATTACK IN HISTORY hammers Spamhaus
Wednesday 27th March 2013 20:17 GMT
I see.
But that is not actually a "reverse DNS" (nor inverse DNS), it's just DNS, i.e. "interrogate a database at spamhaus, which happens to be a DNS database": You query some record (maybe a TXT) for e.g. "88.77.12.12.isbad.spamhaus.org", which is answered by the spamhaus DNS server exclusively.
No delegation via the arpa domain or anything.
Wednesday 27th March 2013 19:07 GMT
> I send a reverse-lookup request for that IP address to the Spamhaus servers;
Why do you do that? You just need to ask spamhaus about whether the IP is smelly (doesn't work with the larger and evasible IPv6, I would think). Knowing the symbolic name for that IP is uninteresting. Maybe a traceroute would be of interesting. If the trace shows you are vectoring into the vicinity of NETHER.REGION.ZONE and the IP's address name is HOUSE.WITH.TASTY.BEER.COM, your trust levels should drop....
> Spamhaus (and other RBL providers) are vulnerable to DNS attacks because they use a version of the DNS protocol.
I think someone is confused, not sure it's me.
Egyptian navy captures divers trying to cut undersea internet cables
Thursday 28th March 2013 00:28 GMT 
The mystery of the mysterious operatives
> They now face interrogation as to their motivation.
I think that would "interrogation" . Of the kind we used to outsource to places like Libya and Syria before they got onto the shitlist for some reason.
> the same line that was damaged in 2008 by a ship's anchor
Hmm........
After Leveson: The UK gets an Orwellian Ministry of Truth for real
Wednesday 27th March 2013 22:01 GMT
Re: Not everything is covered by existing law
> All thanks to hysterical news paper reporting.
Mainly due to people who cannot think their arse out of a paperbag. And due to some of the medical profession who think they are the saviours of the human race but are actually run-of-the-mill quacks.
Opening a paper doesn not mean "disengage brain".
Like with El Reg. There is good stuff, there is bad stuff. Sometimes by the same author.
Then there is utter tripe, best avoided.
Wednesday 27th March 2013 21:42 GMT
Re: The Difference Between Communism And Capitalism
> The fact that most Communist states have been totalitarian
You mean, 100% of them?
> more probably linked to the propensity for greed in the human race
More probably linked to the propensity of control in the sociopaths.
Orwell knew exactly what he was writing about when he described the end result of the Fabian's drive to societal "good management".
Wednesday 27th March 2013 12:45 GMT
“Given a choice between the government and the press, I'd trust the government's honesty and integrity more than the press.”
Woah someone sure is looking forward to his Kool Aid.
Hope he's "working" in the military and being experimented upon (either in the political or the actual medical sense) for Great Honesty and Integrity.
Blighty's revolutionary Cold War teashop computer - and Nigella Lawson
Wednesday 27th March 2013 15:19 GMT
Re: technology exports
More on the Collectivist Techno FAIL at
Engineering Communism: How Two Americans Spied for Stalin and Founded the Soviet Silicon Valley and Joel Barr.
That was another architecture than the 360 though.
Ellison aims his first Oracle 'mainframe' at Big Blue
Wednesday 27th March 2013 09:36 GMT
Re: Fastest?
Don't remind me of the stark raving bonkers price-setting by Oracle, list price vs. actual price or not. Do they have any other customer than the financial "industry"?
Instrumented JVM:
If sold at < USD 500 per node + yearly maintenance: count me in.
Actual price is USD 15'000 per CPU (whatever that is): LOLNO!
Oracle's new T5 Sparcs boost scalability in chip and chassis
Slime mould mashup models fiendish computing problem
Wednesday 27th March 2013 00:50 GMT 
I also recommend that interested readers check NP-complete Problems and Physical Reality if they haven't yet done so. It's pretty eye-opening.
Can NP-complete problems be solved efficiently in the physical universe? I survey proposals including soap bubbles, protein folding, quantum computing, quantum advice, quantum adiabatic algorithms, quantum-mechanical nonlinearities, hidden variables, relativistic time dilation, analog computing, Malament-Hogarth spacetimes, quantum gravity, closed timelike curves, and "anthropic computing." The section on soap bubbles even includes some "experimental" results. While I do not believe that any of the proposals will let us solve NP-complete problems efficiently, I argue that by studying them, we can learn something not only about computation but also about physics.
Wednesday 27th March 2013 00:22 GMT 
"it becomes increasingly difficult to test a solution in polynomial time (that is, the travelling salesman problem is NP-hard)"
Hmm... I actually had to look this up, getting alzheimerish and all, but it is immediately clear that this is not a good definition.
NP-hard means that the problem is "at least as hard as" (and probably harder than) a problem in NP-complete.
How hard is that? Simples:
NP-complete problems are those problems which are easy to check if you are given a solution. "Easy to check" means there is a Turing Machine which can verify that a purported solution actually is a solution in polynomial time of the input size. This is the "P" of "NP".
However, getting a solution may be difficult. Generally you need to search through a large space, moving back and forth through it. If you have a super-parallel (exponentially large or more) Turing Machine that can run all the possible searches through the space simultaneously, and then verify each solution in polynomial time (as described above under "P") and then just print to the common tape if a correct solution was found (if it exists), then you can relax as you just need polynomial time to solve the problem overall. This is the "N" of "NP"
Actual Turing Machines do not have the luxury of being exponentially (or better) parallel, and thus reality imposes that you wait a long time (exponentially or worse) for the solution to your NP-complete problem.
Now, the NP-hard problems are even more difficult (in terms of number of operations till solution) than the ones that can be solved by the magic machine described above, so they sure are harrrd.
'End the commercial-in-confidence CROOKS' CHARTER', gov told
Tuesday 26th March 2013 17:16 GMT
Milton Friedman said it...
"There are four ways in which you can spend money. You can spend your own money on yourself. When you do that, why then you really watch out what you’re doing, and you try to get the most for your money. Then you can spend your own money on somebody else. For example, I buy a birthday present for someone. Well, then I’m not so careful about the content of the present, but I’m very careful about the cost. Then, I can spend somebody else’s money on myself. And if I spend somebody else’s money on myself, then I’m sure going to have a good lunch! Finally, I can spend somebody else’s money on somebody else. And if I spend somebody else’s money on somebody else, I’m not concerned about how much it is, and I’m not concerned about what I get. And that’s government. And that’s close to 40% of our national income."
Experts doubt Anonymous Mossad spy outing claims are kosher
Whoops! Tiny bug in NetBSD 6.0 code ruins SSH crypto keys
Tuesday 26th March 2013 12:04 GMT
Re: Hardware RNG's are already here
Id didn't know about the VIA implementation. Since January 2003, too.
So what's keeping the others?
You can also buy pricey add-on cards, I see.
Tuesday 26th March 2013 10:25 GMT
Also, when french-propelled cows fall from the sky they may land on your valet.
Seriously, the tests on these pieces of kit are pretty good and not at webmonkey level.
US democracy activists lose case against Baidu and China
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