Posts by Destroy All Monsters 16005 publicly visible posts • joined 3 Jun 2008
A Pied Data Piper offering amazing-tech pleasure rides with negative externalities in a state in which coffee and WLAN are carcinogenic.
Only some reference to sanctuary cities and the #Resistance with multi billion-dollar payout due to perceived racially-charged microaggressions could top that.
How do you lose all that information and 1) no one cares 2) they got away with it???
Because no-one in charge cares as long as they can have the next swimming pool while mumbling inanities while receiving money.
> There has been nonstop war since that 9/11 weirdness, no-one cares. In fact, rolling up to the next with glee.
> There has been money printing to a degree unprecedented in human history, no-one cares.
> More and more money and power goes to two ME countries with very strong political influence, no-one cares.
> Europe is manoeuvered into a confrontation with a very fat trading partner on thge say-so of publicly unwell people, no-one cares.
> Population replacement is foisted on countries that do not need, want or are even able manage it, no-one cares. Actually that will probably put the kibosh on Moore's Revenge before long.
The story is about a tech-corp slurping source code from free software movement.
But why would one want to do that?
The source code is useless. The skills that come with it is what counts.
Unless the company is manned by Alien Students doing Galactic Anthropology Studies....
Apparently not everbody is a hater
AI-fueled fast trading algorithms will buy ANYTHING.
The total crash of putrescent death can't come too soon.
We will yet see pigeons roost in the gutted remains of F-35, sheltering from the cold rain as elder people shuffle around on the tarmac, moaning for pension payouts and food packages.
Well, it's not as if this work had the difficulty of a hydrogen bomb program.
On second thought, it actually has, but mainstreamed.
Wait until everyone can buy a gene sequencer, that's gonna be phun. Not talking about nanotech assemblers, because these may or may not be possible but they are definitely far out.
(Now, the real question is - will Poland be spooked into transferring a few more billions to US coffers for a "NATO presence" on its territory by a fake Putin head repeatedly saying "Boo" on TV?)
"The real NIPS website is nips.cc. Please do not visit nips2018.org."
Gorillahand Facepalm!!
I would totally trust a website registered in the Cocos Islands, I would. (insert random Monty Python meme here).
But the real question is: does nips.cc deliver? Capitalism in action and all that.
It's like those "inoffical taxi services" that are being cracked down on by authorities .. cruelly delivering customers to the place they want to go.
Solzhenitsyn wrote about his service in the Soviet Army as operator on an acoustic direction & ranging in an Arty brigade: "At the Jeliabuga hamlet" (Zelâbugskie vyselki) in Deux récits de guerre. I must be about 60km from Orel, it's not the Yeliabuga in Tatarstan ... I didn't find it on Google Maps. Next to Setoukha and Blagodatnoïé. Didn't find those either.
He's talking about a "Fenyuchkine Computer" that corrects for wind speed, temperature & hygrometrics. No idea what that is. Something for the Computer Museum to clarify.
That concrete sound mirror looks like a cargo-cult version of a phased array radar.
But while we popularly imagine the conflict as confined to the trenches of Flanders
...not forgetting about the trenches and deep manoeuvering on the Eastern Front or the senseless slaughter on the italian front in the imperialist freakshow.
> correlation has a massive effect on causation.
You are mishandling this.
(The idea is that correlation between events may "indicate* causation between events. Correlation does not have an effect on anything. The correlation here would be between death and age. But we do know that the die-off of people is not exponentially distributed, and old people are more likely to die, so there is no problem in any case)
If you are offended by my error I must proffer my complete and utter apathy to you, I really truly and deeply don't care. Thank you.
Ah, I sensed some disturbance in the Safe Space.
"This statement is abhorrent, repugnant and inconsistent with our values. This is not who we are."
"Thanks to the magic of Cloudflare edge workers, we were able to implement this host header check entirely in JavaScript. Unfortunately, our host header parsing had a bug. It failed to account for port numbers appended to the host name."
Modern "development" in a pithy description.
(The other part consist in observing that our "skilled consultant" demaning much buckos for his skills is running Node as root on the Internet-facing server.)
Looking ahead, the auditor general is recommending a set of new requirements for how the Canadian government should handle major IT projects, including the use of internal audits and oversight groups that would help keep a close eye on how projects are being rolled out.
So you have to have greater, more adult adults to oversee the supposed adults in charge of the project?
Why won't anyone read the classics? Or apply lessons learnt during the last 70 years?
Why, I have a 620-page manual on my desk full off good, classic advice: "Software Engineering
in the Systems Context - Addressing Frontiers, Practice and Education" (Ivar Jacobson, Harold “Bud” Lawson, Eds).
It's frankly required reading, but of course when you put this in front of the PM or The Decider, he/she will immediately ask "Do you expect me to read this?". Upon which the correct comeback is "No, I expect you to fail". "We need to have this done by X" shall be answered with "You won't". "Failure is not an option" will lead to "It is now". "I have an MBA" can only be countered with "LOL".
From said book:
1. The ignorant do not know known good software engineering practice.
2. The neglectful may know known good software engineering practice but lack the respect and discipline to apply it rigorously as intended.
3. Those who intentionally defer work or take expedient shortcuts are arrogant practitioners who believe their superior skills will permit them to dodge the bullet of consequences for their action.
I often hear that PeopleSoft is a hazard zone of well-remunerated dark consultancery that delects to remora onto deep-pocketed, possibly taxpayer-funded organizations that are too big to fail.
IBM was chosen as the contractor to deliver a system based on Oracle's PeopleSoft system.
It could be true.
> They were all the result of the Snowden revelations.
"HTTPS Everywhere", maybe.
"Privacy Shield and GDPR" I doubt this very much. These are the result of politicians getting a move on because of corporate overreach. I don't believe TLAs are particulary fazed by such initiatives, nor are they targeted.
But these are scant improvements. Improvements would be dropping all unnecessary complexity from the systems, get back to some kind of sanity, implement QubesOS-like compartimentalization, those kind of things. That would be a "next step".
Instead we are being handed more slurping, Management Engines and bugfests, with JavaScript on top.
Sadly, the road to hell is being travelled still.
The world has changed since former NSA sysadmin Edward Snowden revealed the levels of mass surveillance being done by the world's governments on their citizens, said Levy. The quality and availability of encryption schemes and security engineering have both improved. Agencies such as GCHQ and the NSA have become more open and transparent about their work, he added.
Really? Things have improved a lot since the Summer of Surveillance? Remember that was ... 2013. I don't see any improvement anywhere whatsoever. But maybe I'm just reading Evil Newspapers.
Now going back in time, all through the the War on Stuff, through Echelon, through Gulf War 1, through the time when Clinton ruled the shitheap and pushed Clipper, through moral panics about encryption and Sex On The Internet, through AOL, we arrive at the moment when PGP was released in the wild while pretending that RSA somehow had mumbled their agreement for this over a beer. That was 1991.
Yes, things have improved regarding encryption since 1991. Not so much for regarding TLAs
> Bad Vlad won't care
So has election-ware even ever been hacked by Bad Vlad?
Curious minds not hooked into the US propaganda machine want to know etc.
> But this puts voting infrastructure on par with DNS and BGP
I dunno. It's mostly closed source created by lowest-bid programmers and sol dear, possibly running Windows Embedded, and unaudited because "muh trade secrets". So not the same at all.
“In the coming years, Internet of Things (IoT) devices embedded with AI [what does that even mean] will generate a vast array of data that can provide fascinating insights about our lives, analysing complex usage patterns and seamlessly enabling us to take advantage of intelligent services optimised for our own personal preferences and behaviours,”
Looking forward to the the day when the central heating IoT embedded with AI analyzes complex usage patterns, detects that you just want to kill yourself due to extreme exposure to AI hype, and seamlessly ramps up the carbon monoxide because it just wants to helpoptimize for personal preferences.
These pirate radios could be emitting mind-altering waves about tasty, buttered Shia Crescents, Deep-Hearted Anti-Semiticism, Austrian Economics or Russian Ties.
It's a menace. One moment you think you are in America, and the next you are in Philip K. Dick's "The Hanging Stranger".
In other new, Michelle Obama has received a cheque for USD 65 million for a book she hasn't even written yet.
It's America.
Which is why in all those cases the human behind the wheel is still responsible for the safe operation of the vehicle.
Yeah, why have the autonomous thingamabob then?
I think reading just the introductory notices about how human-machine systems work would reveal that this is a pious wish that will never come true. Or a marketing trick to shift blame to the customer.
Fragile: Pentagon report raises alarm that US industry can’t support war for much longer
The Annual Industrial Capabilities report, published by the Pentagon’s Office of Manufacturing and Industrial Base Policy, warns that reliance on foreign-sourced materials combined with “twenty years of intermittent conflict,” have put a strain on US manufacturers of weapons, parts and ammunition.
“While US national defense demands for materials are seldom unmet, there exist risks to their supply now and risks are anticipated in the foreseeable future,” the report says, describing the two broad trends as the scarcity of materials used in new technologies and the US’ growing reliance on foreign supply sources.
“We may be too far down the path to resurrect an authentic munitions industrial base,” Mackenzie Eaglen of the American Enterprise Institute told Defense News, commenting on the report. “So then the question becomes: Now what?”
Gee, I dunno. One could just, you know, stop?
What's Russia got to do with any of this?
If you want to do Russia instead of doing a good old "Danzig is ours" show on somewhat sitting-duck Iran with those RN boats, you have got other trouble coming.
A couple of Kalibrs into the side would fix this up good and it's off to the showers.
Hillary's excuse has become the Emmanuel Goldstein of the politshits unsure about what to dish out this evening. Using the THREAT TO DEMOCRACY "15 seconds of information", they can keep the populace excited and remind them every other day that BAD PEOPLE are influencing THEIR DUHMOCKRACY BUTOON BUSHING and they don't even notice.
And let's face it - when America wants to influence elections, they just make loud proclamations on radio, then have the inconvenient guy beaten to death by local muscle. Definitely beats faffing around with Facebook & Twitter.
Talking about making stuff up, yesterday Pompeo was talking about an Iranian assassination ops in Europe, something that nobody has heard of since the 80s. My bet is on the US delusionally trying a repeat of the Ghaddafi theater on Iran by July. Maybe we will see Nikky talk shit about Ayatollahs distributing Viagra to the Revolutionary Guard to keep it up during mass rape, too. Then a crazed general comes in and holds up vials of white powder as proof of the mushroom cloud.
By focusing on skills from computer science and STEM, the government and industry are narrowing their pool for general diversity.
So they want the bizzaredly specific "cyber security geek" (best brown, female, LBQT) but think such peoiple can be had from the near infinite pool of literary types, sportsy jokers and rappers?
AlphaGo Zero tops the list, guzzling more than 1000 petaflops per second per day
That would be an accelerating, possibly driven by Dark Energy.
The actual number is "petaflops per second times days", i.e. "petaflops".
"1000 petaflops per second days" is 1000 petaflops/s for 1 day or 1 petaflops/s for 1000 days. Ergo, 86400 exaflops.
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