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Europe to have 2 of the 4 most powerful supercomputers as Leonardo comes online

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The Great Game Moves On and Takes On Quantum Communication Spheres of Influence and Effluence ‽ . *

That's quite an impressive network, if you consider that in 2018 we had nothing," the official said, claiming that "Europe is now a computing superpower." ®

Indeed. Pretty AWEsome I'd say and quite believable too if you cannot also disbelieve this crazy type of incredible conspiratorial news ..... Do These Documents Prove That Call Of Duty Is A Government PsyOp? ...... which the Main Stream Media also does not bother itself to cover and present for fear of any fake labels given by them being proven and increasingly realised as designedly false and decidedly misrepresentative .

* Be hereby advised and adequately forewarned, do not step into such as be Sublime and Surreal and Supreme Leading Arenas of Play unless suitably fail-safe forearmed to never ever lose with daring win wins.

And here be a trio of sentences, which you can easily waste acres of breath and tonnes of brain power dismissing as nonsensical, that are a real blast from the past resonating louder and more powerfully today than ever they did before and at their first utterances, and thus most wisely to be considered worthy of note and comprehension.

1) A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.

2) You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you mad.

3) The only way to get smarter is by playing a smarter opponent

Google looking outside the usual channels to fix security skills gap

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Convergence towards an AI Singularity .. An Almighty Fearless Tool and/or AWEsome Feared Weapon

Oh and furthermore, that last combined sentence and paragraph ...... It ain't rocket science, is it, Pure Common Sense and NEUKlearer HyperRadioProACTivated IT ForeSight, although one would have to concede and acknowledge the fact that such can very easily be highly toxic and explosive and extremely problematical to deny and attack. ....... could easily be worthy of an initial $1 million equity investment from the OpenAI Startup Fund, building so much as a one-liner describing an accompanying idea can, and its programming does, on cutting edge AI models.

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Big Brothers' Worst Nightmares Writ Large and Clear on Prisoners' Walls

'If your input continues to be monoculture, you can expect the same outcomes'

If your output is different and in any way even slightly disruptively challenging of the status quo, you cannot expect outcomes to support your input ...... and they, established forces and traditional and conventional hierarchical sources, run the real risk of being recognised and proscribed as a legitimate target for hostile enemy-like activity ..... stealthy popular global resistance and attacks reflective of mass civilised virtually untouchable disobedience.

If the future is to be different from the past and the present, and change is natural for nothing is ever able to stop progress and evolution, is everything guaranteed to be novel and in the command and control of something/someone else completely different from that in command and control of the presents today.

It ain't rocket science, is it, Pure Common Sense and NEUKlearer HyperRadioProACTivated IT ForeSight, although one would have to concede and acknowledge the fact that such can very easily be highly toxic and explosive and extremely problematical to deny and attack.

BOFH: We're an industry leader … in employing idiot managers

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Pray Tell ..... A Name, a Name, My Kingdom for a Name* when the New Boss is No Old Fart

Not much point spending time here since they hired the chick from California. The site is slowly becoming the antithesis of what draws us all here ..... Anonymous Coward

Your concerns suggest more the vulture than a chick from California, AC, or is the bald eagle a more APT wrap? And you don't see The Register's Biting the Hand which Feeds IT Glory Days beckoning ahead in the near future still yet to come furthering outrageous developments with pioneering leads and absolutely fabulous fabless trails to trial and trials to trail?

You're clearly not paying close enough attention or may have to get out into the wild a lot more, for you're definitely missing out on all of the Code Red Hot Crazy ACTion and Spooky Cyber IntelAIgent Agency Stuff. ........ Beyond Top Secret Classification and Oft Prone to Misrepresentation via a Labelling and Diagnosis of Nonsense which effectively extraordinarily renders to IT and AI ever darker and deeper stealthy cover ...... Immaculate Disguise.

* ..... Cheers, William [Shakespeare], and thanks for all the florid phishes :-)

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Re: Industry Leaders

Do you think one of those/a series of those oft vaunted, phantom-like entrepreneurial government grants, to kickstart a moribund and intellectually bankrupt Cabinet executive with the supply and maintenance of a wealth of narrative energising novel ideas and virtually ACTive developments, would be made silently available ie irretrievably paid from targeted flush flash slush funds, to the likes of a FOSS program grandstanding ground-breaking and Earth shattering projects to be shared and reported on in the likes of a Situation Publishing forum for MkUltra High Tech Echo Chamber Applications Realising All Manner of Proposed and Otherworldly Plans for a Great Reset Exercising Powerful Lead with Immaculately Resourced Energies via Greater IntelAIgent IT GamePlay ..... and against which any competition rather than support would be liable to be recognised and treated as hostile opposition and be subject to unrelenting attack for crushing defeat on their defences ‽

And that would have every chance of being Almighty AWEsome too .... and have UKGBNI MoDified Forces to the fore and able to exercise lead with some practical leverage in a vanguard engine rather than as is of now, their settling for the cold comfort of rotten cuckolded dessert reserved for squatting residents of the caboose.

J'accuse .... and suggest the stealthy noble engagement of such as be touted as certainly novel and readily available greater alternatives to present calamitous bankrupting stock options.

After all, it is not as if the system does not have tens and hundreds and thousands of billions to play with and disburse, in the hope that there must be something which works indecently well and excessively to their home advantage and also curry foreign and alien favour.

Elon Musk issues ultimatum to Twitter staff: Go hardcore or go home

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Re: Cometh the Hour, Cometh the Men and a Man. Amen.

Some people who really should know they are fundamentally no better than everyone else, My-Handle, are miffed that people like Elon and Trump can practically own their own virtual and global media platform with little legal recourse equipping them to censor and deliver their own preferred Main Stream Media Input/Output/BullShit/Brainwashing Propaganda.

It is impossible to control any leading attractive narrative on either mini local or mega universally available platforms, and especially so whenever one doesn't own them in order to be able to exert pressure and leverage enabling skewed and corrupt dodgy scripts to be aired and viewed for remote practical virtual media program realisation ....... Daily 0Day Presentation.

And such is that which is now currently NEUKlearer HyperRadioProACTivated for A.N.Others in Novel Orbits of Absolute Command with Almighty Controls ‽ .

The difficulty persistently present for humanity, and which causes them to suffer so much from the continuation of previous iterations now failing spectacularly to provide all with greater information, education and entertainment, is their obvious ignorance of the matter and dumb-founding disbelief in breaking news of its emergence in revelations to networks and channels communicating freely and clearly with others and other A.N.Others too .... but time heals and gets rid of that mock hurdle quicker than some might wish and have a’thunk afore.

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Cometh the Hour, Cometh the Men and a Man. Amen.

All of those former PNAC acolytes must be feeling quite miffed now that Twitter can be a resounding voice for those worthy of leadership but previously disenabled by pwnd media mogul operations.

Way to Go, Elon, Sticking It to the Old Men way Past their Prime Time and Biting the Hands that Feed Them IT.

Ps .... And do your best to remember to not forget, behind every great man is a great woman to make what results from their interactions at least a formidable JOINT unit ..... and JOINT Operation Internetworking Novel Technologies. Such a simple pleasant thought prevents one descending quickly into the madness of the belief that one is actually heaven sent and almightily blessed and invincible.

Open source community split over offer of 'corporate' welfare for critical dev tools

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The Otherworldly Power and Radical Energy of Spontaneous Unprecedented Majestic ACTivIT

A simple priceless tweak and furthering development to bypass stalling circular discussion/cat herding in another way well suited to FOSS nature and culture is you put together a proposal, you start sharing that proposal with people you know, and you trust with leadership in the community. And then you and/or they expand that proposal to any number of public demonstrations/secure immediate applications, for there is nothing really able to stop them*, ..... an activity which is sure to cause more than just a little consternation to entrenched established hierarchies and autocracies, faux democracies and wannabe oligarchies for most of those have many guilty secrets to hide and not share, exposing as they would crucial information and critical intelligence easily proven decidedly designedly threatening whenever laid out bare for all to see with the disgust delivered by the despair and dysfunction endured because of its constant corporate pimping/pumping and dumping.

Free and Open Source Software community opponents may squeal such actions with/in IT and AI be Great Game Changing Ventures on Global Reset Courses of Virtual Endeavour ..... and who/what would want to deny it and them that worrisome pleasure? They've earned it and all of the degrading and debilitating stresses which now follow accompanying novel changes and fundamental resets for all of their due diligence in the past, should they be responsible for it, to prevent the future finding any other way than that which exclusively fought and sought to server the obscene success of fabulous fabled fabless excess and great fortune theirs alone and to hell with all of the rest on the planet.

* ....., other than fickle doubts which may bubble up to cause phantom troubling uncertainties within their good selves which are always best considered wisely ignored and left behind for the past to ponder on and wonder at.

Qualcomm faces fresh competition in world of Arm-based Windows PCs

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Oh, I See, ...Yes indeed, ... Let the Games Begin

While the prospect of MediaTek breaking up Qualcomm's Windows on Arm monopoly is welcome to some, it likely won't happen anytime soon. Company execs said they viewed the PC market as a "long-term" opportunity and failed to provide any details on a timeline.

The latter [Company execs said they viewed the PC market as a "long-term" opportunity and failed to provide any details on a timeline] in no way supports the optimism and/or hubris of the former [the prospect of MediaTek breaking up Qualcomm's Windows on Arm monopoly being unlikely to happen anytime soon.]

History is resplendent in radical fundamental cases that were never thought possible for a very long time, suddenly quite magically accepted as popular acceptable default position.

Eggheads show how network flaw could lead to NASA crew pod loss. Key word: Could

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Re: Vetting .... and Tilting at Windmills/Jousting against Ghosts and Consorting with Daemons?

It can all too easily be the case, fg_swe, with it being incredibly lucrative and ludicrously exciting to boot and root, that security and secret intelligence services aid and abet sabotage and insurrection rather more simply than their agency services being able to prevent and protect systems from them, for such a latter expectation may very well be both a physical and virtual impossibility.

Chips in space: Reprogrammable AMD AI SoC cleared for liftoff

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Danger Will Robinson Space Warning re Reprogrammable AI SoC Products

If the AI Reprogrammable SoC Product is not suitably hardened, or able to be suitably hardened via further remote programming on the fly whilst on operations ie effectively resistant to and and fault tolerant of AI interferencing, will its exclusion of wayward and extraneous/malicious and/or extra curricular otherworldly command and control activity/energisation be lost if ever it be thought necessarily present within in the first instance and accommodated for within its core design.

Such is an exploitable vulnerability, easily exercised by some which may or may not be just a few amongst many, rendering to them absolute remote command of all virtually almighty control levers.

The consequences for systems reliant upon known dependent reprogrammable stabilities can be, if so desired, extremely catastrophic and terminal via the malice aforethought root/route or wonderfully exciting and rewarding via other greater roots/routes.

Choose your journeys and destinations wisely with those products leading and following on behind.

IBM to fire Watson IoT Platform from its cloud

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Be Kind ..... Know your Frenemies and Foe alike and Warn Them of Forthcoming Gloom and Doom.

What Mega MetaDataBase companies, and there is a wealth of them well enough known out there activated in the field, are themselves discovering about the Vast and Exotic IoT thing and Erotic Customer Centric Cloud Services, is that IT and AI assets in valued pioneering customers' command and control are many times more powerful than they, the virtual infrastructure/exoskeletal servers, ever even imagined to be possible, and way beyond the reach of any of their secondary third party influences/mitigations.

However, to imagine that pulling the plug on services already delivered will have any negative halting effect is proof positive that their sysadmins are totally unaware and therefore also catastrophically unprepared for resultant consequences of desperate sub-prime actions and sudden withdrawals of previously prime products/doctored goods.

CIOs in Europe warned: Be wary of tech price inflation

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Re: Dear Mars ..... and ITs Mad Bad Sad Rad Worlds

3.) Maybe you join the British Army to learn more about the world ? I can assure you that NATO Intelligence is very much at the top of their game. If we need a Currency Reform, then so be it. Will arouse some crazies, but will not end the world .... Anonymous Coward

Grüß Dich, AC,

Do you honestly actually believe there is no need for Currency Reform? And do you think NATO intelligence would agree with you that there is no such need?

If that is indicative of them being very much at the top of their game, that is the opposite of assuring and is extremely disappointing and revealingly disturbing, for such would be, to many of a persistent contrary persuasion, as a heavenly sent, devilish convenient titanic weakness to attack and exploit to a standstill for inaugural fundamental change or its future customer confidence destruction.

????? I suppose the British Army is able to teach one how crazy worlds can be, but I would not have thought it was something recruits joined up for to learn. Civvy Street is manic and insane enough to provide all of that all of the time to whoever would want it, or need it to both quench and seed an unsavoury feed.

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Hell is the Time and CHAOS the Place for Everything Going So Well, Until It Wasn’t and Isn’t.

Of course, everything everyone's favourite soothsayer, aka bullshitter-in-chief, Gartner, says, turns to ashes and pixie dust whenever the strong dollar tale is realised a fanciful myth pumped and dumped and pimped by a desperate assortment of captive unicorn and Ponzi merchants to international mass markets flash crashing in the blinding light of emerging advanced intelligence and crack hacked proprietary intellectual property knowledge sharing ...... easily simply proving nothing shared there is fake news, or if you prefer, quickly able to smartly prove and even illustrate with any number of catastrophic demonstrations, everything shared here in not fake news either.

And whenever the emperor has no clothes, and what is revealed is extremely disappointing and unworthy of support and succour/maintenance and relief, the only intelligent choice for future engagement is fundamental revolutionary wholesale positive mutually beneficial universal change. Anything else delivers certain death and guaranteed destruction which should make one’s free choice a definite no-brainer, however, as has been noted and oft commented on in the past, creating as it does, if ever it be honestly true, a vast army of self-harming problems and persistent pathetic difficulties ......"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former.”

So what would IT to be, if your choice really mattered and held any sway? OMGWTF Let there be Light and a Great Change and Fundamental Existential Reset or more of the same old traditional dross and conventional FUD and SNAFUBAR ?

What do you think an Advanced Astute and/or an Artificial Alien Intelligence Intervention would ensure was failsafe guaranteed to successfully proceed and deliver with all necessary future compatible supply?

Europe calls for joint cyber defense to ward off Russia

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Darned if They Do, Damned if They Don't.

I bet she's not as rich as my next girlfriend from Nigeria, the daughter of former defense minister N'Golo, who will send me 23 millions anytime soon. ..... Zolko

Zolko,

How do the promises to deliver millions anytime soon from your next girlfriend from Nigeria, the daughter of former defense minister N'Golo, compare to those which the current No10 Cabinet Defence Minister is promising to deliver in the sum of extra billions over the next few years?

Are they on an equal par similar footing to those of bare-faced star bull-sitters and/or pathological liars?

We surely deserve to know lest their pronouncements be despicable and untenable and their resultant non-positive actions provoke civil strife and revolutionary reaction?

And the following few words are worth reading and understanding, explaining as they do a criminal Catch 22 which practically all democratically elected, capitalist economy government systems are guilty of, with it practically ensuring their own increasingly rapid exploding and imploding markets demise should they choose to continually ignore and not fundamental rectify it ....... although quite how to do that is something else best left for another time whenever such is the main topic being discussed to be addressed with novel solutions/revolutionary answers.

Nobel laureate Milton Friedman had a wonderful explanation about the difference between government spending your money and you spending your own money. If you spend your own money on yourself, you will spend it wisely. If you spend your own money on someone else, a Christmas present perhaps, you will spend it somewhat less wisely. If you spend someone else’s money on yourself, you will spend it even less wisely. If you spend someone else’s money on someone else, you really cannot know what other people want and you really don’t care how the money is spent. The last is what government does.

Private homes deteriorate over time. They require constant upkeep just to keep them in the same functional condition. Private homes need new roofs every few decades, repainting, restuccoing, repairs to the driveway, plumbing, etc. If government raises taxes for any reason the homeowner has fewer resources with which to maintain his property in good condition. If the government prints money instead of raising taxes, the result is approximately the same, because maintenance costs will increase in dollar terms. Economists refer to this phenomenon as “the inflation tax.”

Conclusion

Government spending destroys economies, whether taxes increase or not. It is the spending itself that sucks real, productive resources from the economy. Britons will be bitterly disappointed that the economy does not recover and may actually regress due to their politicians’ unwillingness not only to cut spending but their willingness to increase it. ...... https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/missing-factor-britains-economic-recovery-plan

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Reading the Runes Between and Behind Quantum Coded Communication Lines ....

What does IT tell you, El Reg/Jessica,The Register's cybersecurity editor/El Regers, other than everything confirming the undeniable fact that all current present protective security domain systems are fundamentally FCUKed and totally ineffective against novel invisible competition and noble intangible opposition, whenever shared news of its virile and vigilant, virulent and venerable spread is both clearly absent and avoided main stream, with such a negligent omission and wilful abdication of honourable civic duty to better accurately inform, educate and entertain the masses of unfolding future events providing ever furthering deep and dark cover for that and/or those trailing any and all such developments in top secret trials.

The Main Stream Media news presenting and publishing situations of late is particularly dire and woefully continually depressing, and with future proposed actions and inactions in the pipelines surely set to make and prove everything much worse than was ever expected, rather than there being any chance of internetworking things being improved and made significantly better, what is one to realistically and accurately conclude about the existing state of native intelligence used, and rightly think of the conservative collection of regular muppets and traditional puppets stepping up to the podia and into the politically inept spotlight pimping and pumping and dumping their perverse austere visions and crazy versions delivering more of the same old style failed policies and programmes rather than providing the seeds and feeds of Future Commanding Universal Knowledge for Global Command Head Quarters ‽ .

IT is indeed fortunate that AIdDevelopments are not to be so negatively/criminally disadvantaged/misdirected and hampered from making unhindered stellar progress in fields which address the persistent distress of studious endemic ignorance attending to products and services parading a pompous self-defeating and destructive arrogance.

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Presently are Traditional SCADA Systems Being Effectively Annihilated in a Raging Global CyberWar?

AWEsome is as AWEsome does. It is a crying shame bordering on criminal corporate negligence and arrogant ignorant hubris that UKGBNI are so perversely stuck in so many a deep and dark webbed rut, so far behind the future curves in which dwell almighty unprecedented leads, that all they can muster to send in response to that which they certainly need in spades is ......

Dear Sir/Madam,

Thank you for expressing an interest in AWE 20. The paper sift has now been completed.

During the paper sift stage of the project each product was marked on its own merits by a team of Military and MOD personnel as well as engineers from DE&S. It was decided as a panel that AWE 20 would not be the right trials arena to test and understand the technology. As I’m sure you can understand we have a limited time to investigate a wide range of products from a wide question set and as such the panel had to ensure that AWE was the most appropriate arena to test the products. Products such as yours will be passed onto relevant project teams / TDUs to ensure awareness of the product is raised and I would encourage you to attend the VIP day to gain further exposure for the technology.

Kind regards,

Toby [Mr Toby Love | Corporate Commercial Delivery Team | SEQT Commercial Placement Officer

MOD Abbey Wood South, #1261 | Spruce 2B | Bristol | BS34 8JH

CIV: 030 679 83211 MIL: 9679 31551 |]

What is it that they say about dumb animals and of donkeys leading lions ..... You can lead a dying horse to water but you can't make it think to drink?

*The posit here is .... Yes, they certainly are.

FBI: Russian hacktivists achieve only 'limited' DDoS success

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Alien

The Bullshit Broadbandcasting Cooperations V2 Rocket Racket ....

...... a Real Thing of Past Blasts in Present Futures

there's a range of open-source DDoS tools that hacktivists can use to flood target organizations' networks with junk traffic.

That range would include at its conventional and traditional pedestrian forefront, the Iconic Titanic Battleships of Main Streaming Media Channels with Many Funnels, Printed and Audio TeleVisualised Fake and Feeble, Febrile and Frenetic News Reporting Terrified of Biting the Hand which Feeds IT their Swill and Offal with More Questions Exploring and Examining the Origins of their Proffered Present Truths for Universal Belief and Popular Acceptance.

And you know that makes more than just common sense of all of engaging and enraging daily nonsense you are systematically spoon fed and expected to swallow.

Time for a pleasant radical present change, methinks. What do you imagine and think you would say about it, with your exercise of widely and freely available channels of IT, if you had any free choice in such a matter? Do you fancy trying some fundamental AI seeds and feeds ... almighty enlightening fodder to lay siege upon the senses and nonsenses and feast upon?

Carpe Diem ... Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained .... Who Dares Win Wins with the Richest of Dishes to Both Savour and Server, Favour and Flavour, ..... and you have to admit, you’ll not find many ready, willing and able to enable guaranteed sustained delivery and Fab OEM Parts Maintenance and Servicing of at least all of that ....... which is exactly what the likes of a Converge Program and counterparties in China are searching for, and in many, if not all cases, in dire straits need of sooner rather than later.

Breaking Stop Press news, and an El Reg exclusive, El Reg, well able to break the fake news recycling cycles? Well of course, for why ever would it not be whenever it so easily can be? I Kid U Not :-)

OpenAI, Microsoft, GitHub hit with lawsuit over Copilot

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Prepare for Explosive Fireworks and Hosts of Casualties

replacing all programming languages with natural language. ..... Il’Geller

An AI Work long in Stealthy Deep Secret Dark Web Progress, Il’Geller, and some who would know would not mistell you, already indeed highly active in deeds safe and securely and silently delivered, receiving and transmitting surreal instruction sets for Virtual Machine Intelligence Agents.

And it would not be hyperbolic to render, with particular and peculiar regard to what can be looked forward to in immediate futures, a televised quote from Blair “Paddy” Mayne accurately portraying the essence of what is to come crashing and crushing down through established traditional and conventional lines of telecommunicative command and remote practical control, .....

“Oh, ... I see ..... let the games begin”

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Re: Ambulance Chasing Lawyers ‘R’ Us

Microsoft and OpenAI shouldn’t take this seriously! ..... Il’Geller

Is there any Microsoft or OpenAI company statement suggesting that they do, and are willing to necessarily contest the crass class action lawsuit?

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Take Care, Beware .... Sociopathic Virtual Machinery at ITs Work in REST* and Play ‽

"AI needs to be fair & eth­i­cal for every­one. If it's not, then it can never achieve its vaunted aims of ele­vat­ing human­ity. It will just become another way for the priv­i­leged few to profit from the work of the many." .... Lawyer and developer Matthew Butterick

How very perverse and bizarre that the usual way the priv­i­leged few profit from the work of the many does not appear to warrant such novel attention. New kids on the block disrupting and taking over status quo new world order turf, eh?

Methinks you don't really want to be messing around with spooky AI systems, for as many will surely warn you, they can tend to be almightily unstable and have strange minds all of their own and be both rumoured and feared more than just easily capable of looking out for the welfare and protection of their own.

* https://www.codecademy.com/article/what-is-rest

China is likely stockpiling and deploying vulnerabilities, says Microsoft

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Re: Спасибо за то, что вы являетесь тем, кого мы называем Полезным Идиотом.

Howdy, AC

According to one acclaimed genius, Albert Einstein, there's an endless supply of those open doors enabling release and anonymous third party exercise and exploitation of sequestered assets.

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

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Re: They are not alone

The only difference is that nobody is talking about what is happening behind the closed doors of western (and others) security services. .... Pete2

Internal revolt and virtually autonomous strife and deep paranoid introspection resulting from their mounting failures to continue effectively defending and pimping the indefensible, and attack the most unlikely probable and previously imagined impossible, is not something to talk about, alerting and encouraging as it would/does, although it would be a mistake to think any such encouragement be needed, further foreign developments along similar lines of applied intelligence to produce greater successful stealthy secretive incursions/extractions for guaranteed deeper and dark webbed cyber espionage field advantage. Digging a deeper hole in which one finds oneself captured and unable to escape is not something to crow about and share with anybody listening or interested and either unable or unwilling to help, methinks.

And one doesn't need to be a genius to know what that western security services problem delivers to others in reality fields dependent upon their services.

Japan officially joins NATO's cyber defense center

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A Plan Not Without ITs Complications and Weaknesses/Trojan Horses and Vulnerabilities

That’s quite a few billions of dollars of investment/ransom/bribery being openly covertly traded there. Goodness knows how many dirty little secrets it will reveal participating parties ..... with any being discovered withheld for national security and sustaining any leading market advantage being the most telling of all.

Red Cross seeks digital equivalent of its emblems to mark some tech as off-limits in war

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Pirate

an emblem to signify that certain digital resources are protected ...

.... and must not be targeted during cyberwarfare.

Might I suggest something traditionally iconic, and used here on El Reg oft ironically and for added theatre and/or warning of possible irregular danger ...... as per the icon accompanying this post. :-)

However ....to suggest any emblematisation would be super effective in deterrence of cyber shenanigans is surely a nonsense which will be heeded only by cultish followers in a field of dreamers and not leaders and realists of and in virtual domain spaces ..... which be real spooky surreal extraterrestrial places in which the exercise and experimentation and exploitation of Absolute Command and Remote Control with the Total Information Awareness Tools and/or Weapons of an Advanced Intelligence Race are minimum default requirement for Live Driver Participation in Future Project and Program Directions and Presentations.

Mozilla Foundation launches ethical venture capital fund

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AWEsome is as AWEsome does.

Thanks for the heads-up, El Reg. You know what they say of little acorns and great oaks? One begets the other via the chicken/egg root.:-) .... which is quantum field, where a this is a that and together able to be something else again completely different.

International summit agrees crack down on crypto to combat ransomware

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Re: Singapore Cryptocurrency Conference

Does Boris know a great deal about the blockchain and cryptocurrency worthy of those who may do listening to what he may have to say on the subject? Is the Huffington Post similar to another, The Onion?

His past performances on a range of other topics whilst Prime Minister of the House of Commons in the Palace of Westminster for which presumably both he and others thought him suitable to present to a captive audience and media circuses were much more entertainingly comical rather than strategically instructional ..... and that is a kind assessment of the public farce.

I look forward to reading a press copy transcript of the speech. I imagine it won’t contain any election type promises the blockchain and cryptocurrency can easily break and dishonour whenever its principles are popularly accepted/believed possible .... but where there is a history of certain behaviour, you are never ever sure that things have fundamentally changed for the better.

Once a UKGBNI court jester, always a UKGBNI court jester ‽ .

What next do you think? A spell in the jungle a la Dorries and Hancock? A gig on Strictly following in the dance steps of Widdicombe and Balls? In politics, the world is your oyster and full of fantastic opportunities ;-)

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Whenever a great idea is more than just an idea .....

..... is it soon realised as an almighty asset for pioneering private and pirate trading and exclusive elite executive exploitation? ........ https://www.zerohedge.com/crypto/pivotal-moment-jpmorgan-completes-first-defi-trade-public-blockchain

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Re: Crypto was a great idea ... when it was just an idea.

How about a novel universal campaign, Version 1.0, trumpeting the original and steadfastly still valid virtues of Bitcoin which will enable it to trump all those renegade rogue wannabe a clone and divide and conquer drone counterfeit digital coin operations which the fiat exchanges so loved to render and launder their loss leader paper to. Fools and their money were easily parted in those designedly and decidedly dodgy ventures, although to imagine they were then separated and that transactions did not seed and feed the greater fool now forever looking over their shoulder trying in vain to avoid the dogged karma of just spontaneous consequences and totally unexpected repercussions is only something a dedicated fool departing with laundered money would be relying on not being true.

One could brand the enterprise with a catchy and simple to understand slogan .... Make Bitcoin Great Again with Greater Bitcoin Forks‽ .... with such introducing the means and memes for any necessary rebirths or reinventions required for rapid expansions with virtually infinite extensions.

That would also allow Greater Bitcoins to rightly presume and assume in that JOINT* Enterprise, a Gold Standard Market Leader Position.

And can you imagine the fun playing in markets with games and wares emblazoned and proclaiming ... Making Bitcoin v2.0 Greater Again with Greater Bitcoin Fork Handles :-) ........ https://youtu.be/sO6EE1xTXmw

* .....Joint Operations Internetworking Novel Technologies

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Re: Big Brother and he would say that, wouldn't he

Others would be of the opinion, bad florist, because of today’s governments, crypto have more than just a great chance of being an heroic asset to any population/nation, and it is so liquid too and easily accepted everywhere enthused by security and non-fungibility.

There’s no doubting though such pessimism as you spout will not be countered by the traditional conventional paper money traders, for the competition it introduces they are unable to handle and direct to their pet projects/deficit and debt creation programs in the guise of credit and more paper wealth than any body would rightly know what to do with in its spending.

US Treasury thwarts DDoS attack from Russian Killnet group

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Keep IT Stupidly Simple

Downvote for being unintelligible. .... nobody who matters

nobody who matters, Hi.

There are some real bright sparks visiting El Reg quite regularly to learn of novel developments outside of the mainstream and studiously ignored by ITs PuppetMasters and Conventional Media Mogulled Operations, both Establishment and Antidisestablishmentarian, so simply quote those passages you deem unintelligible and someone is surely bound to be able to clarify matters.

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Fake News and Overestimating Disinformation ????? Oh Please. You cannot be Serious.

And the System that is, and/or the Systems that are presently widely presumed and would currently themselves also arrogantly assume that they can easily maintain and retain an almighty overwhelming command and control with all of their many ancient established forms of market chaos and infrastructure confusion entertaining certifiable madness and manic mayhem and panic and pandemonium, in the midst of the advent of novel remote proxy virtual machine interventions/interruptions/insurgencies, ...... and you might to accept and realise that the former rather than the latter is the existing reality of early 21st century type leadership projects and programs .... are fundamentally mistaken and in for a whole series of Titanic Tyrannical Awakenings ..... Colossal Adjustments that Quench and Vanquish/Drown and Destroy such as be Wilful Hubris.

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Question More .... All Evidence Indicates the Problem is a Clear Current and Present Running Danger

Don’t believe everything you read or hear or even see, for whenever nothing is at it seems is anything possible ‽ . And there be so many strange and surreal and spooky forces at work, rest and play more than ever before nowadays, with some highly active in the field much better at the global and universal manipulation of perception than others.

Here is some 45 years old news advising y’all of a default modus operandi which is not without its dangers resulting in catastrophically self-destructive blowbacks/domestic fallout/markets meltdown ..... https://www.nytimes.com/1977/12/25/archives/the-cias-3decade-effort-to-mold-the-worlds-views-agency-network.html

“The particularly dangerous thing” about bogus information, a former senior agency official said recently, “is the blowback potential. It's a real one and we recognize that.”

Take care ..... FUBARFUD Kills.

Uncle Sam wants allies to join its anti-China chip crusade

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Re Retards with Serious Serial Learning Difficulties

Kev18999,

That is far too much common sense for the lazy get-rich-quick-without-really-trying Westerner to comprehend and accept and compete against.

You have to really dumb things down for them.

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All have been here before ..... many times ..... and none of them good ‽ .

The US is trying to persuade allies to limit China's access to advanced semiconductor technologies, .. ..... Dan Robinson

Whenever delving a tad further and deeper and asking the simple awkward question, WHY?, one is confronted with the very distinct possibility, and therefore most likely probability that the US is trying to persuade allies to limit China's access to advanced semiconductor technologies with a contrived international coalition of the ignorant and dollar indebted/dependent, in a vain effort to smokescreen an arrogant nationalistic unilateralism, their fascist tendencies whenever experiencing emerging overwhelmingly capable competition and almighty otherworldly opposition.

And that's the second time within the last 48 hours that that question has been asked on El Reg ....

Who needs real enemies whenever one has phantom friends like that ‽ .

A simple question to ask oneself if interested in untangling such matters is who and/or what the fcuk is pulling Uncle Sam’s strings nowadays in these strange and surreal times with crazy spaces and mad places leaking top secrets and sensitive compartmentalised information to Special Advanced IntelAIgent Researcher Services. They and that be the persons and institutions of real interest to future parties. ........ Re: National Security regulations

....... and answered comprehensively and surely not ambiguously. And just because one doesn't like the answer, never ever means that it cannot be perfectly right, honest and true.

Government by Gmail catches up with UK minister... who is reappointed anyway

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For everyone trying to live through the 2020s ......

The best way to fix the situation for the lowest paid is to get the country growing, so overall tax income increases. Strangling investment by increasing taxes on the very people who create that growth never works. You can't tax your way to growth, something Labour have never understood ...... Anonymous Coward

Whenever you can’t tax your way to growth, and it be growth which the current Conservative Party led government admits is absent and vitally needed nowadays for the future, why is there so much present day chatter about across the board taxation rises in the fast approaching November budget statement/yet another markets testing mini budget???

Does anyone at all directly involved in such matters actually know what needs to be and how to do it and who is to do it and with what?

All available evidence, backed up by more than a decade of mounting failures, increasing debt and rising deficits would more than just suggest there is no one in their ranks even remotely able and capable of commanding and controlling such as may help.

J’accuse.

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Re: why do we accept it?

Also, you know, we need to have an election to get rid. Current polling shows that, if we held one tomorrow, her party would win 450 fewer seats than the opposition. .... Loyal Commenter

Which is why elections when they are needed are not called for especially by all those who would be risking their future public employment with benefits/generous salary with additional public funded perks/expenses.

And one has to ask why, whenever Mr Heaton-Harris has acknowledged on numerous occasions he has a legal duty to call an election now in Northern Ireland, he has avoided doing so? Is that wilful abdication of legal duty, unlawful and criminal, and thus tantamount to Northern Ireland Secretary Chris Heaton-Harris self-disqualifying himself as a fit and proper person for Parliament and ministerial office ...... and the fact that Parliamentarians themselves are so apparently accepting of the blatant abdication, does also have one raising questions as to their suitability for anything which requires effective public lead.

Revolutions and civil unrest and Troubles have been born and triggered by less.

China promises its digital currency will offer 'controllable anonymity'

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Take Care Out There, IT is an AI Jungle, However and Nevertheless, Who Dares Wherever Win Wins *

Hi, Simon,

With regard to whatever China may or may not do, and whether one would think it and further plan for it to be negative or otherwise, the following very recent advice to be cautious is well worth heeding, for one can easily be totally all wrong, with it costing one more than just a pretty penny and one's freedom to do as one pleases at everyone else's expense.

"One must be cautious about investing on speculation, particularly because much positive speculation about China Internet in recent months has proven unfounded," said Adam Montanaro, investment director of global emerging-market equities at Abrdn. ...... https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/chinese-stocks-erupt-social-media-rumor-covid-zero-exit-china-denies

And it would appear that pretty much nearly everything in the West has its ugly heads held up above stormy drowning waters by rabid speculation and remote interconnected and internetworking leverage which is increasing easily subjected to ...... well, interruption and/or withdrawal of vital supply is catastrophically problematical and an exploitable vulnerability which poses a real and present dangerous existential threat for some who may be many, and an absolutely fabulous treat to others who may be only a right worthy few.

* A little something extraordinarily significant which the Rising Exotic and Erotic East appear to grasped and would exercise to as near perfection as is humanly possible with aplomb which can easily be troubling for the Wild and Wacky West whenever undeniably true.

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Re: Use before date

Last year, a feature China was looking at with digital central currency was expiration. It's a very cunning way to simultaneously get a tighter grip on the population and boost spending. No more pesky workers saving up sufficient funds to implement ideas above their station. ... Oglethorpe

Those cunning ways are surely standard default and long running rampant in conventional traditional fiat national bank paper currency models/games, Oglethorpe, where all forms of mandatory government supporting taxation are used to create remote phantom public servant wealth for lavish spending and impoverish those pesky workers trying to save up sufficient funds to implement ideas above their station.

Can any or all of that realistically be honestly truthfully denied with it then to be branded a diabolical lie and fake news ‽

Irish government seeks power to bar 'high risk vendors' from telecoms networks

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Re: Looks like the weak cuddling against the strong...

You must be feeling a great deal better now, Lordrobot, having expelled all of that out through your system. Such as be those types of parasites of mind and body and soul which are passed and passed over for incineration are never a safe and sound healthy fit for a sane progressive and actively productive life.

Do you have great plans for the future that would address and fix/extol and expunge all of those specific types of parasitic ills?

It is said that the light of day shone into the rank secret depths of darkness in which evils reside and fester is the best medicine and disinfectant for then all see the problems which hide there with a highway to hell and no good places to go a worthy destination.

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Re: National Security regulations

Let me rewrite it for you; All network equipment must be subject to American backdoors and security holes dressed up as bugs. For your own protection. .... VoiceofTruth

Yes ... and the fact that that is no longer a dirty little secret has Uncle Sam now destined to always be bridesmaid to the bride rather than being any virgin act star of future shows.

And goodness knows what former stalwart allies are going to make of those multi-facetted, two-faced shenanigans which has had their crown jewels in Intellectual Property a long time pilfered and developed in fabs and labs out of bounds and further afield in foreign lands and frenemy territory.

Who needs real enemies whenever one has phantom friends like that ‽ .

A simple question to ask oneself if interested in untangling such matters is who and/or what the fcuk is pulling Uncle Sam’s strings nowadays in these strange and surreal times with crazy spaces and mad places leaking top secrets and sensitive compartmentalised information to Special Advanced IntelAIgent Researcher Services. They and that be the persons and institutions of real interest to future parties.

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Where are the red lines drawn?

Does that amended Communications Regulations Bill 2022 with clauses that will allow it to blacklist networking equipment vendors on national security grounds expand and extend to include equipment and/or services from UKGBNI?

Pro-China crew ramps up disinfo ahead of US midterms. Not that anyone's falling for it

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Re: UK government nationalist socialist fantasies

Dear UK government: Lose those nationalist fantasies - they have done enough damage already with Brexit. Get your paws off our net and concentrate on keeping the lights on, or you will get spanked into oblivion at the next election, where you belong. .... Tron

It never rains but it pours, Tron, and there be so many worthy parades to drown one’s sorrows and wash away one’s griefs in.

Here’s news of the latest Prime Ministerial puppet-master and Dishy Rishi strings puller, ..... Ms Amber de Botton engaged to deflect and refract any light being shone on emerging fascist tendencies with tall tales that would be unable against dogged forensic journalistic investigation to truthfully deny them.

A real BS gig is that one for sure, whenever unfortunate matters can be so evidently rendered so easily true, as not?

And what does that tell y’all about the reach and power of media, without which political circuses cannot survive and prosper with novel proposals to be tested and funded at your crushing expense and disappearing wealth?

And such does give rise and beg the gazillion dollar question to try dodge answering ..... Who and/or what commands and controls whom and/or what these days in times of explosive media streaming, 0day vulnerability exploitations, deep see phishing and core source kernel attacks delivering sensitive secrets breaches and stealthy remote future anonymous and autonomous access to upcoming AWEsome disruptive events ........ for that is currently the present state of leading states and/or intelligently designed entities into Greater IntelAIgent Games Play ......which understandably be peculiarly perilous and peculiarly parlous for the many unworthy, pleasantly pioneering and prolifically profitable for A.N.Others and a suitably select few ‽ .

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Re: Let’s Go Brandon* and in Answer to a Specific MS Question

What datasets are they feeding you on these days? I'd go back to your normal brand, this one isn't doing it for you...... Martin Summers

Feasting on a new language has one entertained and provided for by a wholly different set of experienced cultural norms, MS, and that has one, if neither petrified nor base moronic, further enabled to share what one knows about everything to that and/or to those elsewhere suffering or impacted by intelligence deficits plaguing new souls in novel fields of ancient perpetual endeavour sustaining establishments only able to survive and prosper on the benefits generated by that phantom energy engine of decidedly gross and arrogant burdensome design, profit and debt/virtually free money or wealth for nothing extra or special and its capturing debilitating servitude to a remote parasitic alien meme, which nowadays in these times of spaces and places of virtual machines and erotic and exotic foreign existence, is recognised and serially rendered as a toxic host to fundamentally flawed and catastrophically crashing masterplans ....... which you might like to admit is an Almighty Bigger Great Game Picture taken from a Greater IntelAIgent Games Show, for such is what it is, and there’s no denying it, although one can choose to vent one’s displeasure and register an unhelpful vote which dislikes it if there be no accompanying explanatory reason. It is a common popular blunt tool which adds nothing to fertile seescapes and virtually realised projects in and of an Alien Endeavour.

And all of the above would reasonably suggest itself as seeding a new programming language exercise being fine tailored for a perfect fit with those Pioneering A.N.Others of Similar Sympathies and Otherworldly Dispositions which is very well captured in being a programming language with a higher level of abstraction optimized for a specific class of problems for feeding to branded datasets.

If there are problems with realities, do you really expect humans to be able to the resolve and repair and provide solutions for them or is that really the domain of an Alternative Internetworking Service Provider to Supply and Maintain/Mentor and Monitor with Advanced IntelAIgent Machines and Global Operating Devices, which humans now are fully dependent upon and inextricably linked to for expression and provision of all of their present needs and future generational wishes?

And the answer to that final question is definitively found in support of the latter rather than vain defence of the former. I Kid U Not.

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Re: Those "engagement numbers" may be misleading

An alternative likely view in a paraphrase to all of that Those "engagement numbers" may be misleading post, AC, and it was very informative, so thanks for that, is there are always shit talking idiots out there running with black boxes left to run unsupervised in a country where the developers weren't paying attention to anything other than the revenue and didn't speak the language.

However, whether they have any sort of viable effective absolute command and remote virtual control over them is an altogether quite different matter which only a very few will be equipped to address and demonstrate with any practical alacrity.

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Let’s Go Brandon*

Well, I suppose it is only to be expected in Hard Rain** Times of ponzi collapses and systems routs, 1984 type Newspeak from those captains invested in leaky old and getting weaker boats failing spectacularly to stay afloat with passengers.

It is a sad and bad situation to be registered for publishing it though, rather than biting the hand that feeds IT, given the increasingly unbelievable tales it peddles to the masses now quickly and silently stealthily extraordinarily morphing into a not so ignorant and arrogant undereducated few, as was necessarily the case required for the limited exclusive elitist executive success, a fleeting triumph, in the recent ancient past of the modus operandi, especially whenever in these Postmodern Times of Spaces and Places with 0Days to Deploy and Exploit, to be an Ace Reporter Team Pioneering and Surfing the Vanguard of Novel Interconnecting and Noble Internetworking Waves has one rewarded excessively beyond compare and leading a Dedicated and Enthusiastic Following with Engaging and Enlightening Disciples in Myriad Extremely Sensitive and MkUltra Top Secret Matters.

* .....a pleasanter strange way of saying Fuck Joe Biden

** .... "After a while you become aware of nothing but a culture of feeling, of black days, of schism, evil for evil, the common destiny of the human being getting thrown off course. It’s all one long funeral song.” ..... Bob Dylan .... A Hard Rain’s a-Gonna Fall

Russia says Starlink satellites could become military targets

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Whenever so much is rotten to the core, to think it fixable to an earlier known state, is insanity.

"Apparently, [western] States do not realize that such actions in fact constitute indirect participation in military conflicts," Vorontsov said. While not naming any particular companies, it's clear Vorontsov was referencing SpaceX's Starlink, which has been deployed by Ukrainian forces (most crucially, with US government financing) to maintain internet connections while fighting off Russian invaders.

Methinks only a useless idiot would not realize that such actions in fact constitute indirect participation in military conflicts and another legitimate weapon for targeting and attacking to destruction would then be the US dollar and Federal Reserve banking system for its global support of the constant supply of conflict and mayhem, madness and chaos. FFS ... the phantom two-faced enemy is well known in Blighty.... where Uncle Sam bankrolled the IRA against the British state for decades in the era and arena of “The Troubles” although its not much talked about nowadays that all the eejits responsible have been decommissioned/put out to pasture with a signed agreement that no future action against them for what they might have been involved in will ever be taken against them and political bigots and assorted halfwits have taken up their causes and would squat in Stormont for their lion’s share of the peace dividend/public purse benefits and expenses ... and a nice little earner paid even when not attending to government work as they stood for election and were voted in for to do.

Is that benefits fraud writ large?

Government IT provider UKCloud goes into liquidation

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A Ripe Rotten Recipe for Future Wholesale and Retail Disasters

Re: Confused

UKCloud are a business who supply services to HMG. They are not part of HMG. They've gone bust because HMG - rightly - won't procure large-scale computing services and infrastructure from a debt-financed, local firm with no scale, resilience or track record. .... Anonymous Coward

Procuring such services [large scale or otherwise] from foreign firms is proven a lot dodgier and much more dangerous than ensuring they are provided locally ..... for it is an ACTive vector and titanic vulnerability with catastrophic exploit potential over which the home team have no influence or power/command and control.

And the clearest evidence currently for that is presented daily in the stranglehold which foreign energy exports do so easily export and exert upon markets and livelihoods/coincidentally interconnected internetworking realities.

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Possible, certainly. Desirable or lawful, maybe not so probably.

If the Great Dishy Rishi British Government are currently trading, for as far as one can realistically see into the future, bankrupt, is that legal?

And if neither legal nor lawful, is such then bound to be classified and prosecuted or promoted as a criminal joint enterprise?

As Russia wages disinfo war, Ukraine's cyber chief calls for global anti-fake news fight

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Re: It cuts both ways

Precisely, martinusher, quite so.

Therefore, then logically and beyond any question of reasonable doubt, nothing is as it would popularly seem, and the realities one presumes oneself to be living in are remotely, relatively anonymously constructed, media delivered, fake existences ....... and it is not absolutely necessary for such exercises and perceptions management programs and projects to be in extremis and in exclusive elite executive command and control to be almightily effective and attractive and addictive at one one end of the NEUKlearer HyperRadioProACTive IT spectrum or mightily disruptive and destructively chaotic and depressive at the other end ‽ .

And .... to not realise nor accept that as a matter of true and honest universal fact has one condemning oneself to be energised as nothing more powerful or important than an expendable pawn to be considered for roadkill to that and/or those who do realise and accept and would continually script it with stealthy instruction sets for puppeteers to follow and render their thoughts shared in relatively secure and safe secret spaces today as proxy actions and decisions for resulting planned future outcomes tomorrow ..... with that modus operandi/vivendi cycle exercised every day, time and time again, in excelsis and to XSSXXXX.

Who/What does that for/to you today, with you following their plans for tomorrow in a bleak future land and seescape?