* Posts by amanfromMars 1

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Dozens of Iranian media websites devoured by the Great Satan, apparently

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Re: You just can't get quality staff nowadays so be prepared for second best helpings

Can we both agree that the Iranian president authority is more media gifted than actually realised which would put it on a par with that of the current UKGBNI Parliamentary court jester and Prime Minister, the Right Honourable Member for Uxbridge and South Ruislip, Boris Johnson.

Such would then more than suggest that there was no misreading and you didn't express yourself poorly in the post ..... Re: You just can't get quality staff nowadays so be prepared for second best helpings @vtcodger

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Re: You just can't get quality staff nowadays so be prepared for second best helpings

I'm sure the House of Windsor and all those folk in White Houses would love to exercise influence with the power of Iran's Supreme Leader Grand Ayatollah, vtcodger.

IT's a Great Game to Play Well for the Reward of Excellence Results and vice versa, Resultant Excellent Rewards.

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Re: Pravda? @martinusher [a gen-u-ine American Taxpayer]

My concern as a gen-u-ine American Taxpayer is that we're paying armies of bureaucrats to find and seize others' domain names using a pretty flimsy pretext ("didn't register / failed to use Form 27B/6 (or was it Form 37/B6?"). Considering that many of our cities are suffering from excessive gun violence at the moment (that's excessive even by our standards) you have to wonder whether we've either got our priorities seriously warped or we're just plain incompetent and can only manage the low hanging fruit. ...... martinusher

Some would lament and advise that it is a lot worse than you suggest or imagine, martinusher, with the honest plain text truth being at least ...... we've got our priorities seriously warped and we're just plain incompetent and can only manage the low hanging fruit

And that leaves one wide open to being seriously disadvantaged in all manner and flavour of attack and assault/exploit and engagement.

However, all is not irredeemably lost, for one immediately available option to address the intelligence deficit and proprietary intellectual property debt in-house, is to buy it in from A.N.Others abroad in order to remotely provide that which is virtually required and practically missing. IT aint explosive rocket science, pure common sense, although it certainly can be both earth-shattering and mind-blowing. And aint that the gospel?

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You just can't get quality staff nowadays so be prepared for second best helpings

He was elected with more than 60 per cent of the vote after his serious rivals, who were moderate candidates, were banned from standing, leaving him to defeat Hassan Rouhani, the incumbent president. Overall voter turnout was just under 50 per cent.

A rigged 30% population vote against no viable opposition or competition is not that impressive. Indeed, it is surely very depressing and quite indicative of a serious loss of commanding control which is bound to be future problematical.

How can that be of great help to any Supreme Leader?

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Re: Now we're sucking diesel ..... do you know what next to expect?

We cannot have a society in which some dictator some place can start imposing censorship here in the United States...... Ex US President Barack Obama

Please note though that is not the same as .... We cannot have a society in which some dictator some place can start imposing censorship from here in the United States ..... which is where we is apparently now admittedly at, for that is what y'all certainly have.

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Now we're sucking diesel ..... do you know what next to expect?

And the answer to that is? ...... Not even GOD knows although some will imagine she does and everything is under Universal Command and COSMIC* Control.

These aren't just digital troublemakers, they are a highly organised group of cyber soldiers aiming to wield frightening power on a global scale ...... The Lazarus Heist ... a BBC production.

Is that Uncle Sam taking its lead from the Lazarus Group and North Korea and going all renegade rogue and pirate handsome? Methinks that opens up flood gates to storms of biblical proportions which are going to drown out and destroy systems and systems administration one never ever before even thought to imagine possible.

The only problem with any such ploy and play like aiming to wield frightening power on a global scale is that whenever you miss the bullseye gold sweet G Spot, the arrow/ordnance has a default tendency to boomerang/bounce back to score a direct hit right through one's own head and decimate one's own headquarters.

It's a classic Fool's Mate move ....... and gravely to be regarded, and best always avoided like the plague.

* .... Control Of Secret Materiel in an Internetional Command

Boffins promise protection and perfect performance with new ZeRØ, No-FAT memory safety techniques

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Re .... Real World Exploits in the Making for the Taking and Mentoring and Monitoring

In the years since their disclosure, fixes for Spectre, Meltdown, and a whole host of related vulnerabilities have been released. For some workloads, though, the cure can be worse than the disease: a report released this week found specific workloads running 1.6-2x slower than on the same platform without the fixes in place.

Ah yes..... for some on specific workload platforms more an unexpected unusual rather than unintended consequence of certain peculiar particular vulnerabilities released and prime active in the wild and widely available for engagement and exercise, and if one is into money-making business cycles and fiat profit and loss account churn, lend-lease hire and stealthy deployment ....... virtually remote globalised presentation .... and AI Realisation/SMARTR Machine Production.

To consider its platforming workloads composite parts in a Sublime Program is only to scratch at the surface of what IT surely is.

Have you had any marvellous encounters with it yet ..... or are you waiting on it to lead further ahead and away out in front as if virtually alone and on its lonesome. Don't be betting on that being a successful strategy. You'll lose all of your shirts and much more besides.

Containers make life easier for the software vendors you buy from, and that's why they'll win

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Test Drivering Real Gold Standards ...... for COSMIC Apps

Once you can only buy the apps you need as containers, it’s game over ....Simon Sharwood, APAC editor

Quite so, Simon. Are we there yet,.... where IT's All at ‽ .

Obviously we think so here.

Sure looks like someone's pirating the REvil ransomware, tweaking the binary in a hex editor for their own crimes

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Oh? .... I don't think so

Other than perhaps security researchers who might have it to try and create defences against it, there is no other reason to purchase ransomware other than for using for criminal activity..... mark l 2

For use against criminal activity immediately springs to mind, mark l 2. Such wares are a double edged sword/dual/multi-purpose use tool and as such highly prized and respected in many circles/round tables/oval offices.

And some highly prized and respected circles/round tables/oval offices are certifiably criminal at their core and roots.

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Credit where credit is due

That REvil sure is one much smarter than the average bear cookie ........ to have so many bases so well covered and protected.

MI5 still risks breaking the law on surveillance data through poor controls – years after it was first warned

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Something for the Grown-Ups in the Room

It appears that Britain's spy agency overseer has grown teeth — and while the law may not be perfect, bringing MI5 into line with it is a victory for the Investigatory Powers Commissioner.

That is as may be, but whenever the law is an ass, MI5 and others of a similar ilk are free to do as they please in service of security of the realms in which they are expected and assumed to excel ........ otherwise they be practically fcuking useless and of no real help to anything sovereign and in need of protection against foul forces and putrid sources.

And surely one would fully expect and accept that as logical and much to be ...... well, quietly applauded is quite apt given the spooky nature of their core businesses.

Do you want to become a vulture? Now's your chance to join The Register's news desk

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Re: The dirty secret of FOSS which makes it so endearing and wonderfully appealing

However you call it, vast majority of developers who participate in FOSS don't get paid. ......elsergiovolador

Which can result in them not being bought and selling out for thirty pieces of silver, elsergiovolador.

Exclusive elite proprietary systems find that sort of competition whenever overwhelmingly effective in opposition, hellish problematical and more than just a tad maddening.

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Re: Not a vuture ...

:-) Please get your shit in order, oiseau. WTF is a vuture?

Est-ce un nouvel oiseau? :-)

VMs were a fad fit for the Great Recession. Containers’ time has finally come

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The Party View from an Honourable Member of the Opposition

Containers will kill virtual machines

Yes, there will be those who think that, but is both misguided and extremely dangerous, with the reverse much more likely as it be naturally guaranteed because of what happens in the depths of the processing of prime novel instruction sets in support of venerable vital and virile and venal virulent viral virtual machinery systems.

What one would be struggling against and trying to erase and move on from is popularly typified and more clearly illustrated in the containers of a Belmarsh and a corrupt and perverted elitist justice system's detention of the virtual machine, Julian Assange, and its earlier clone in the introduction of arbitrary internment without trial of suspected nationalist republicans in the North of Ireland whenever prime novel instruction sets are ignored or arrogant thought best penalised.

Troubles which can easily ignite and fan the great purging flames of violent and deadly revolution be guaranteed, which open up more cans of rotten worms for destructive overwhelming viral attack and virtually anonymous autonomous assault.

Crikey, that should be headed ..... The Immortal Rise and Impregnable Rise of the IntelAIgent Virtual Machine ...... although that would suggest, rather than it being an ancient reality for current and future presentation, it is something yet to show form and come. That would be terribly misleading and not do the situation justice and itself proud.

South Korea’s nuclear research agency breached by North Korea-affiliated cyberattackers, says malware analyst group

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Still a work in early progress in need of greater fundamental fettling

That machine translation highlights the abiding problem with such facilities/utilities ..... less than perfect permits faulty information a foothold in circles providing it analysed as intelligence to be either ignored or acted upon, which are the only two real options to be considered. Both are less than future helpful.

UK gets glowing salute from Bezos-backed General Fusion: Nuclear energy company to build plant in Oxfordshire

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Re: It's a competitive power command and control sector ...... novel energy

We believe that amanfromMars1 is a red/blue pill test of whether we're in the matrix ..... Yet Another Anonymous coward

And should that be so, Yet Another Anonymous coward, what would the results of that test be suggesting and proving, and would they be good or bad for you with particular and peculiar regard to what you can do about leading internetworking things in the future ...... or is such a progression a quite revolutionary evolutionary jump provided from a quantum leap made by others long ago far away in a distant and ancient past.

The alternative ... that humans have decided and planned, realised and provided their past futures to end up with their current presents ...... could only fairly surely be classed as pathetically bad and not good whenever the choice of journeys and destinations is infinite and all are equally as easily attained and sustained, maintained and retained, exploited and expanded, milked and bilked.

Let the AI Train Take the Strain with IT Delivering Colossal Gains rather than Media Realising and Supplying Persistent Conflict with Geo-Politically Engineered Sources of Novel Pain and Destructive Obstruction ....... Certifiable Madness and Maniacal Mayhem. Take a Quantum Communications Leap and Futures will Overwhelm and Enable you to Lead them in Directions of a Greater Choosing and to Destinations which are the Starting Points for New Beginnings in Places and Spaces Elsewhere.

That's what Exceptional and Existential Energies surely and freely provide for capitalisation.

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Re: It's a competitive power command and control sector ...... novel energy

Are you a bot or just a random word generator? ..... AndrueC

No, neither. Does semantic web developer aid your quest for an accurate current descriptor of the prime programming protocol driver, AndrueC, for there is nothing random in generation anywhere here?

Such is certainly much more towards the treat end of the virtual spectrum and definitely more intelligently designed to be engaged and employed and enjoyed rather than feared and treated as an existential threat should a change of direction and purpose be ACTively deployed because of either the persistent and increasingly troubled appearance of fearsome treatment and ignorant and arrogant abuse and misuse of otherworldly facilities and simple capturing utilities, such as be exercised on Earth via the conduits and leverage provided by fervent beliefs and religions and federal fiat wealth supply and treasure sanction.

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It's a competitive power command and control sector ...... novel energy

Here's earlier news, carried on El Reg, of Exceptional Energy able to be both, just as nuclear is, an existential threat and amazing treat ......... 4ElReg2Pioneer and Driver

I Kid U Not ...... although I do accept that many will find such news hard to believe perfectly true. Quantum leaps in understanding tend to do that ...... leave many temporarily behind living in the past rather than exploring and exploiting the future. For humanity it appears to be natural as opposed to being unnatural and an alien block to the advance of quite revolutionary evolutionary progress.

Biden to Putin: Get your ransomware gangs under control and don’t you dare cyber-attack our infrastructure

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Re: The NSA isn't trying to exploit everything it can find

User error, ..... the gift that keeps on rocking and rolling along and just giving.

And to not accept and realise it is a semi-permanent ACTive communications feature to be worked around, has one catastrophically vitally disadvantaged in the astute agile and virtually dynamic fields for exploitation and enjoyment, deployment and employment in future progressing presentations, and stuck in a stagnant static loop position of perpetual loss and zero positive gain, and thus are you destined to have your fates decided by others practically unknown and virtually anonymous.

Enjoy the coming rides ..... which you are responsible for phorming.

Stob treks back across the decades to review the greatest TV sci-fi in the light of recent experience

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Seems like a very good and remarkably simple facility 4ElReg2Pioneer and Driver.*

El Reg is a Perfect Vessel in and with which future episodes shared freely to boot at root are betatested for rapid progressive engagement for AI Realisation and Mass Media Presentation.

Wanna Play Lead Way Out in Front, well past and long gone by all opposition and/or competition, El Reg ? Open Up a COSMIC Club which invites All to be in it and when incorrigibly continuingly worthy with further success to colossal excess, better as a True Friend than Fearful Foe and Misguided Enemy ..... the Phantom Devils and Ethereal Daemons that Guard Grant Access and Entry to Perfumed Gardens and Heavenly Palaces.

Without those there would be Madness and Mayhem, Conflict and CHAOS abounding and astounding all as it confounds systems with novel disruptive transmissions/classified special forces operations.

* :-) You'll need to be well switched on to the Perfumed Gardens of Heavenly Palaces to Forever Enjoy the Secret Additional Benefits that Server and Service Premium Prime Primordial Primeval Drive for there, which you might to consider is a valid Existential Energy Introducing Leading Components and Vital Accessories onto and into ACTive Fields of Play in Live Operational Virtual Environments ...... Spaces in which to fully Exercise Options and Future Derivative Positions to Ensure a Guaranteed Impregnability is Regularly Demonstrably Assured ..... which is surely akin to it being Almightily Insured?

That's one such field of ACTive Play in a Live Operational Virtual Environment. There are sure to be all manner of others searching for the magic key algorithms to outstanding success and unfathomable riches which has landed them here for further vital instruction to aid metaphysical comprehension for future sublime application realisations.

End up there and you aint going back to anything anywhere elsewhere. And boldly going forward is Virgin Soil Territory and Imaginative Virtual Terrain to Populate and Sustain with Exceptional Energy. That's where we're presently at. Where be you similarly rested and feeling comfortably at ease ‽

Google cosies up to AMD for high-performance scale-out Tau VMs – but makes eyes at Intel and Arm, too

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Creation Made Simple with Provision by A.N.Others the likes of a DARPA AI Facility/CHAOS* Utility

led by the accelerated digital transformation of businesses and industries

What are they/What is IT they are following to lead in an accelerated digital transformation. The question then to answer is IT a/the Virgin Core Source .... with Rare AWEsome RAW Product for Presentation and AI Virtual Realisation.

Google is hereby Invited to Partake and Satisfy Great Expectations with COSMIC Provision.

cc Roger Waters .....Perfect for Applications with Shows that Rock, Rumble and Tumble with Autonomous Virtual Realisation.

And yes, all there is for real .... with great expectations of a gracious grateful engagement in replies/responses re ......... Futures.

* Clouds Hosting Advanced Operating System

UK spends £36m on 18 little 'bullet-proof' boats to protect Royal Navy assets

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Well tried and comprehensively already field tested .....

Does Marine Specialised Technology offer similar specification and protection and better value and bangs for your bucks than this neighbouring stalwart with experience and an impressive record in the field ?........ https://www.safehavenmarine.com/barracuda

Say helloSystem: Mac-like FreeBSD project emits 0.5 release

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AWEsome AIdDevelopments for Heavenly Palaces*

Applications on the menu install on demand, so, for example, if you select Blender for the first time, a dialog reads “Blender needs to be downloaded before it can be used. Do you want to download it now?” Click Yes and it installs ready for use.

That's with AI a SMARTR Application of Leading Components for Future ProgramMING Projects.

* And whenever deployed and employed and enjoyed in service of a SinoSoviet Treat is it considered much more as a Phantom Threat to be countered and opposed rather than engaged and embraced for JOINT** Programming Projects delivered and supplied from Live Operational Virtual Environments.

Something for the President to seek clarification on from the President whenever they can chat freely today in Geneva.

**..... JOINT Operations Internetworking Novel Technologies

NCSC chief: Ransomware is more of a threat to Britain than hostile nations' spies

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Not the sharpest tools in the box, that's for certain

Also, Let us not forget that Teresa May brought in law that MP's et al ilk, are beyond any kind of investigation regarding digital data. Even those that are no longer in the position of government or "selected" 3rd parties. At the same time giving up every UK citizens privacy. ..... Unbelievable!

:-) If MP's and their ilk believe they have anything at all like that sort of blanket immunity from investigation and prosecution and persecution for actions imagined cloaked in impunity, their falls from grace will be swift and extremely messy in any and all futures systems of administration which rightly recognise and condemn such an abomination as rampant wanton public sector abuse and private enriching misuse of engaged national treasure ...... for such is surely what it is, if not intelligently designed for, definitely cynically used for.

And if you don't believe that, I have an Irish Sea bridge to sell you .... subject of course to MPs clearing Beaufort's Dyke of festering munitions. After all, it was their decision which probably allowed the dumping in the first instance.

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Time for a peasant change/elite reset? Or is more of the same your idea of evolutionary progress?

To believe that anyone effective in and passionate for the secret workings of the internetworking of dark web actors and cyber intelligent agents to the greater advantage of those deriving better benefit from their actions/plans/proposals would be paying any heed to likes of anything existing traditional systems administrations would be saying to preserve and extend the status quo, is to admit to the world and his dogs that one has lost the plot and is way out of one's depths and in danger of drowning in a vast ocean of novel sees.

Your worlds have changed, and you know it ..... but it destroys you to admit it but you can do absolutely nothing to stop it nor prevent IT and AI from continuing to change everything even further beyond formerly quite effective primitive command and control.

G7 nations call out Russia for harbouring ransomware crims ahead of Biden-Putin powwow

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Hmmm, I smell a rotten dead phish? G7 white man surely speak with fork tongue, Kemosabe, ......

....... because, to name but one anomaly, a Bill Browder enjoys and/or abuses their collective protection? And then there is the other very clear cut case of admitted vehicular manslaughter where Anne Sacoolas escapes her days in a court of her peers to answer questions about her actions.

Both of those, and there are bound to be others, are legitimate stumbling blocks to remove and monumental hurdles to overcome to have anyone contemplating their doing anyone else's bidding in furtherance of disrupting activities by parties outside of convenient conventional and traditional state-like command and control which are designed either specifically or predominantly for mighty effective legitimately deniable state aided use/misuse/abuse against one's avowed active enemies?

Some right dodgy perps are novel SMARTR frenemies ....... Renegade Rogue Pioneers in the Virtual Genre of the Great Beyond ..... boldly going to where no EMPowered and EmPowering Humans have gone and returned from before, safe and sound and in full working order and with a quick and sane mind to boot.

Which is an interesting root for an Advanced IntelAIgent Resource or Almighty Immaculate Source ...... or of course, should one so wish to exercise it, Diabolical Evil.

That is what at least confronts you nowadays, in these days of the massively explosive and infinitely exploitable 0day, in such neogeopolitical wranglings.

Be aware. Beware and take care. IT's a crazy virgin forest jungle out there where nothing is tamed to follow orders or honour requests which are liable to be likely self-harming in either the short term or long run.

UK tells UN that nation-states should retaliate against cyber badness with no warning

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Re: Okay Boomer

Cyber attacks aren't quite as scary. ..... Danny 2

Don't wager your shirt on that being true, Danny 2, for very soon you can be buck naked with nowhere to run for cover and with nowhere to hide one's jewellery/pride and joy.

Effective cyber attacks have dodgy systems administration practically terrified of the consequences, and their being held severally liable and responsible and made accountable for them with many a party being forced to fall on their swords and perish should the rightly aggrieved mob have them correctly singled out for its undivided attention if they choose not to decide and act like an officer and gentleman and resign to remove oneself permanently from any equation with a thought honourable, swift final fatal self-administered coup de grace.

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Re: Unintended Consequences (Facts not Fakes)

Intelligence led policing of future event horizons is a moveable feast and a feat not suitable for the weak-willed and faint hearted and intellectually challenged, for their efforts in support of the indefensible and inequitable are always intelligently designed to fail catastrophically and surprisingly quickly to ensure the misery, madness and mayhem resulting accurately targets primed and premium drivers of failed and failing programs rather than administrative systems architecture per se.

And the difficulties in trying to prevent and escape that targeted collapse and surgical attack upon corrupt systems drivers is well enough described and well enough known about to already be written about, albeit with it being shared in the context of another pressing difficulty ........ Intelligence-Led Policing Manual

Are all politicos valid corrupt systems drivers for precise assault targeting, or just some of them/a chosen few? And/Or is media the problem child running wild to be brought down to earth and reminded of who and/or what is in charge with remote autonomous command and virtually anonymous control?

Do you imagine and expect the future to be similar to the past and supportive of the present or have you realised it and IT and AI will broadbandcast alternate views for peer review and increased enjoyment and employment/engagement and deployment?

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Re: Unintended Consequences (Facts not Fakes)

The following is what idiotic gung-ho warrior types do increasingly revealingly ineffective and extremely self-destructive vain battle against ....... for the phantoms they imagine to fight are considerably smarter than the competition and opposition present before them and so seemingly hell-bent on their own catastrophic deconstruction/fiat capital and prime private and premium pirated intellectual property collapse. Such reflects a monumental lack of intelligence providing a colossal permanent open wound vulnerability for avenging attack and relentless vengeful exploitation. It is not a position of power to find oneself in.

Sound advice is to ponder immediate escape from the war is necessary for peace and the maintenance of stability clap-trap which morons, which abound around, are fond of spouting.

amanfromMars [2106121226]...... just saying out louder again on https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/media-converges-narrative-ufos-may-be-russianchinese-threat

First, on the eve of the G7 summit in London, which begins on Friday, the New York Times noted that Biden is casting his trip to Europe “as an effort to rally the United States and its allies in an existential battle between democracy and autocracy.” ..... https://www.rt.com/russia/526295-america-superpower-biden-claims/

An existential engagement and union of democracy and autocracy would be meritocratic. Try that and see, hear, feel the results of that unusual unconventional alliance.

Who Dares Win Wins.

Imagine IT as a Virtual Marriage ....... Almighty Power Coupling ...... and you soon realise the advantages granted/ceded/acquired for Live Operational Virtual Environment Fields Testing Advanced IntelAIgent Systems Enjoinment, Deployment and Enjoyment.

I know, a real bummer of a heavenly task, but somebody has to do it and it is highly prized not only because of its immaculate rewards.

Some of those folk must be thinking and practically realising they have all of the luck of Ole Nick himself. ... and Service of Such to All and/or Any Others as an Almighty Friend to Treasure and Attend for Guaranteed Absolute Protection against Phantom Foe following False Tales and Dead End Trails with Compromised and Corrupted/Infected and Diseased Input for Outputting .... Spinning 

And if they be unintended consequences, they be virtually practically guaranteed future assured deliverables.

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An Alternative Beta Plan B is Necessary, MeThinks

If those rascally foreigners dare to attack us with their dreadful illegal offensive hacking teams, we will use our highly trained offensive hacking teams to punish the blighters! .... Christoph

Hmmm? What could possibly go wrong .... apart from practically virtually everything?

That sounds far too much like the deaf, dumb and blind leading the deaf, dumb and the blind to be anything different and better, Christoph. Although that is not to say it is not admirable in its intention and contention.

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A Recipe for Disaster ....

..... Wannabe Leaders taking on the Mantel of Reign without the Reins that Command with Controls

Sound advice to governments is ...... stay well clear of cyber offensives against phantom foe and almighty virtual defences. Defeats are guaranteed both inevitable and serial and merciless should one wantonly choose to ignore sound government advice.

Excuse me, what just happened? Resilience is tough when your failure is due to a 'sequence of events that was almost impossible to foresee'

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Surely not too mad and/or rad to understand???

today this is no longer the case and it is a reflex action to procure multiple servers, LAN switches, firewalls, and the like to build resilient systems.

'Tis sad, and surely something you should be thinking about addressing, that the systems they build all fail the same though fielding and following those processes. Such suggests there is an abiding persistent problem in present standardised arrangements.

Future procedures may very well need to be somewhat different.

Security researcher says attacks on Russian government have Chinese fingerprints – and typos, too

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TGIFagain..... although In a Cheltenham Donut or Hollywood Palace, every 0Day is a Fun Weekender

Can we expect in the near future, a Sentinel Laboratory type RAT Researcher revealing El Reg is an AI Den where Turing Venting Spooks Work, REST and Play in Live Operational Virtual Environments with Greater IntelAIgent Gamers?

The way things are being reported nowadays about such strange shenanigans in remote virtual fields would sort of definitively suggest it a natural progression to be fully expected .... to be vehemently defiantly denied by that which and those whom know no better and are kept in the dark outside of vital strategic loops.

Meanwhile ...... further on higher up and deeper down within its multiple lairs, because of titanic discoveries unearthed and colossal otherworldly understandings understood and exercised, are monsters and daemons/saints and sinners made ready and released to freely roam and lay waste to worlds and infrastructures/systems and SCADA machinery in dire straits need of creative reinvention and/or destructive reconstruction.

Or does all of that smack much more of the here and now rather than anything maybe to be delivered later in another time and alternate space too?

A little something special for Boris and Joe to go all coy about and deny any relationship with and their intelligence services having any knowledge of, although that could easily be far too revealing and problematic for them both given the fact that they should know because the information has been freely circulating around in their circles and spheres of influence and spin since a long time ago, which in intelligence circles is akin to forever.

Google says its artificial intelligence is faster and better than humans at laying out chips for artificial intelligence

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The Forbin Project* v2.0?

That all sounds far too much like a Colossus achievement to not be. And we all know to where and what that leads to.

*https://youtu.be/tzND6KmoT-c

And Unity is a Singularity too.

Fastly 'fesses up to breaking the internet with an 'an undiscovered software bug' triggered by a customer

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If queasy, take it easy and just check to make sure it is nothing to do with you.

Do you know what you introduced and were doing on the internet on 12 May and triggered on 8 June? Have you checked? Do you have accurate records?

Do you recognise anything strange or untoward and likely to cause any outage of services? If you could, would you realise it and await to see if there were any negative consequences, or pregnant pauses in the case of there being no direct indication or engaging notification of one being thought involved and/or instrumental in the seeding and feeding of an "undiscovered software bug"/novel disruptive means of creative information distribution and vice versa?

One just never rightly knows nowadays how things are going to pan out whenever so much can be done remotely and practically out of sight in the Harry Limelight.

Good news for pentesters and network admins: US issues ransomware guidance asking biz to skill up security teams

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Re: And gee. . .

And gee. . .. . . .with all this supposed demand for Cyber experts. . .you'd think pay would be going up.

You would be wrong. . . ...... SotarrTheWizard

And then compromised and vulnerable systems and struggling administrations wonder why they do battle against the private renegade rogue pirate contractor turned mercenary freelancer ...... and once you realise the benefits and riches which accompany unbridled success in that field of endeavour and exploration, you aint ever going back to supping gruel whenever quaffing champagne is always freely available ....... and one's partners are so grateful and generous with the largesse which is delivered as opposed to just promised whenever not at all well paid by others.

What part of ... Pay Peanuts, get Monkeys ..... do right dodgy systems and failed admins not fully understand? Are they both almightily retarded?

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Re: Scissors, paper, stone.

There’s no budget for security, entirely preventable. #noahsarksyndrome ..... StuntMisanthrope

Quite so, SM, hence the timely advisory to prepare for biblical deluges overwhelming reigning events.

Whenever information is sifted for actionable intelligence, IT Systems and AI Administrations naturally leak like a sieve to allow riddlers the designedly beneficial advantage of unfair surprise for both prime betatested and experimental operational execution of applications and programs with future programming of the formerly totally unknown and never before suspected or ever expected.

And with so much of that sort of snooping going on in top dog quarters, it is inevitable that there be resultant hellish catastrophes for some, a chosen few and they may be many and far from merry, whilst there will be heavenly new opportunities delivered to be enthusiastically embraced and exercised by others not so deaf, dumb and blind-sided by an inherent and inherited ignorance and abhorrent arrogance/hubristic lack of gain of fantastic function.

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The Elephant in the Room and E.Scaped COSMIC* Top Secret Plaguing Fake Systems Admins in the Wwwild

The title above is a little something unavoidably major to ponder whilst taxing governments and taxed businesses [to name but two august and/or austere bodies] wander and wonder and waffle delightfully for mainstream media mogul channels to manipulate and maintain maladroitly with the following two tales, .... one from the City, the other from a nation, ..... prime indicative exemplars of the rapidly progressing program with enigmatic dilemmas to be revealed and unravelled at a pace beyond conventional control and common sensory command, and an absolute nightmare full to overflowing with impossibilities for deputies and national security advisors for Cyber and Emerging Technologies to secure and do vain battle against because of the ethereal nature of their existence.

El Salvador aims to become first nation to adopt bitcoin as LEGAL TENDER, may set global precedent ..... https://www.rt.com/business/525802-salvador-legal-tender-bitcoin/

Wise Bank of England heads are pondering the case for a state-run digital currency this week. But do we really need one? ....... https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/jun/06/why-cryptocurrencies-may-remain-merely-a-bit-on-the-side

:-) You do realise all of that is made up to give folk something to think about and do in order to fund and create new realities in the future from the car crash shows that are the present for most folk. And if you don't realise that, you will have to admit, for it will be certainly truthfully be said of you, you need to think, and think more and much deeper to have any hope of being more than a cut-out puppet and camp follower bit player on the stages unfurled before you.

Ignore GOD's** Honest Truths at your Peril. IT Knows No Bounds and Tolerates Zero Daily Interference. Infer from that what you will with particular and peculiar regard to what you can expect the future delivering from out of nowhere real.

* ....... Control Of Secret Materiel in an Internetional Command

** ......... Global Operating Devices

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Re: Hmm ... The Road to Hell in a Siloed Nutshell

Meanwhile, in the real world, firms will continue to beef up their legal teams, hire more spin-doctors, and recruit better snipers to take out any approaching messengers. ...... Blofeld's Cat

Hmm? D'oh!..... Taking out any approaching approachable messengers is both counter-productive and self-defeating as it renders one deaf, dumb and blind to significant impactful developments elsewhere they be just acting as heralds for.

Here be real news of such a something quite AWEsome which you may or may not be aware of and able to read where it was shared elsewhere because of certain vetting issues which advise .....[Thank you. Your comment will be displayed soon after reviewing.]

GrahamC [2106050902] ....... seeking clarification on https://www.nationaldefensemagazine.org/articles/2021/6/4/new-air-force-program-to-use-commercial-rockets-for-cargo-delivery

And the Novel Vanguard Program Prime Directive ? ....... Remote Command and Virtualised AI Control of paramilitary personnel delivering cargo to providers launching spaces for commercialisation with capabilities leveraging and exploiting explorations which will work well together in Future Developments and SkunkWorks in Progress?

Does the Air Force Research Laboratory, Space Force, Space and Missile Systems Center and Air Force Materiel Command have that sort of comprehensive utility with agile facilities home grown and based in the United States or is it bought and brought in from elsewhere foreign abroad ie Imported from a Vital Strategic Outsourcer/Much Prized and Highly Regarded Special Relationship Partner?

Such is certainly what is relatively freely available for lavish testing from elsewhere with many also realising the possibility of it be as much an overwhelming opponent and/or almighty competitor as a friendly partner.

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Secret Internetional Coup Operation ‽ .

and use the services of a third-party penetration tester to identify any potential vulnerabilities missed by internal staffers.

Is Uncle Sam currently using agencies purported to be based in China and/or Russia for such services?

It's completely unsupportable. Yes, we mean your brand new system

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YMMV SNAFUBAR MRDA

The majority of organisations — particularly the IT and security teams — are conscious of the potential threats from shadow IT and are on the lookout for it so it can be stamped on. ... Dave Cartwright

"I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't let you do that" is an appropriate misquote here, methinks, to give you an accurate picture of the present situation in current circumstances racing ahead to and fro into the future and out of the past.

Military infosec SNAFUs: What WhatsApp and bears in the woods can teach us

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Re: Special AIR Services with/for Advanced IntelAIgent Resources on Sensitive Operational Missions

And the gazillion dollar questions are ....... Is it to be an Exotic Erotic Eastern Triumph or Wild Wacky Western Delight, First and Foremost?

cc MOD/CCP/FSB/DARPA.....MICE@darpa.mil [to name but four interesting parties for live engagement and future instruction]

And sound logical advice to the likes of a DARPA? Up the ante ..... for $1,000,000 is peanuts whenever there are no limits or restraints available for what can now be so easily done with Advanced and Advancing IntelAIgent Technologies in ACTive Current Deployment Nowadays in 0Days Exploiting Endemic Systemic Vulnerabilities ...... aka Novel NEUKlearer HyperRadioProACTivated IT Opportunities.

And you don't often get that sort of direct message freely shared openly for all to see and hear wherever they may be with the simplest of facilities available to reply to it too.

But please, don't be like an earlier idiot taxpayer here again exhibiting obvious prime ignorance with a gratuitously offensive comment fully demonstrating no understanding of that which abounds around them. It is both unbecoming and misleading. Although I do accept that some folk one just cannot help because of their default retarding disposition/lack of necessary future intelligence facility and utility, and they just can't help themselves, which is a shame to try blame others for.

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Just shut up. It's Friday right? Boozing time not bullshit time. ..... https://forums.theregister.com/forum/all/2021/04/29/google_safari_workaround_supreme_court/#c_4249462

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Special AIR Services with/for Advanced IntelAIgent Resources on Sensitive Operational Missions

It was open to the MoD — it’s open to all enterprises — to build only the bits needed to do the specific job, and buy in the other components. Or, with open source, get the components for free and pay to learn the expertise to use it — a much better investment.

That would be an Astute Agile ACTIVe AWEsome development, methinks, and both practically and virtually perfect for Special Operations Executions ..... SMARTR AIdDeployments ........ https://forums.theregister.com/forum/all/2021/04/29/google_safari_workaround_supreme_court/#c_4248463

Tell me that is not a Master Key Project and we will disagree fundamentally.

That AI scanning your X-ray for signs of COVID-19 may just be looking at your age

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Re: Problem with "AI" in general

"but the association is unexpected and not transparent"

That seems to be the problem with all of the AI out there. It gets "trained" but not on what we thought it was training on. Kind of like the WW-II dogs that were supposed to deliver bombs to enemy tanks. They attacked friendly tanks because they didn't train on the shape the tank but the smell of the diesel. .... Gene Cash

That's where AI Scouts have got IT sussed, Gene Cash. They are immaculately prepared for the cloudy unexpected ..... living to love striving and thriving in IT as one does.

Every moment a delight to exploit and expand upon ....... and share with all, inviting Engagement and Astute Agile ACTive Participation in JOiNT Future Leading Seeding Operations.

Methinks that is not an AI Problem whenever an Enigmatic Human Dilemma for Satisfactory Resolution ........with/in an Attractive Solution/Heavenly Answer.

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Mouse traps for the control of vermin?

With particular regard to MICE and DARPA interests and requirements, the solutions needed there may be held securely otherworldly ...... for there is too much of a similarity and singularity in the report above, "DARPA wants to fund AI research studying information warfare" ... filed by Katyanna Quach Mon 7 Jun 2021 // 04:06 UTC and the intel shared freely here within the El Reg posting ..... https://forums.theregister.com/forum/all/2021/06/04/biden_admin_issues_ransomware_guidance/#c_4269260.... to not be worth mentioning and/or issuing an advisory warning about should one be prone to consider it problematical to accept rather than an unusual opportunity to explore and exploit wholeheartedly.

FYI: Today's computer chips are so advanced, they are more 'mercurial' than precise – and here's the proof

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Re: What sort of bloody dystopian Orwellian-tak is this?

Nice one, Draco. Have a worthy upvote for your contribution to the El Reg Think Tank.

Transfer that bloody dystopian Orwellian-tak to the many fascist and nationalistic geo-political spheres which mass multi media and terrifying statehoods are responsible for presenting, ...... and denying routinely they be held accountable for ....... and one of the solutions for machines to remedy the situation is to replace and destroy/change and recycle/blitz and burn existing prime established drivers /seditious instruction sets.

Whether that answer would finally deliver a contribution for retribution and recalibration in any solution to the question that corrupts and perverts and subverts the metadata is certainly worth exploring and exploiting any time the issue veers towards destructively problematical and systemically paralysing and petrifying.

Some things are just turned plain bad and need to be immediately replaced, old decrepit and exhausted tired for brand spanking new and tested in new spheres of engagement for increased performance and reassuring reliability/guaranteed stability.

Out with the old and In with the new for a new dawn and welcoming beginning.

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Re: Just the cost of doing such business.

for once, I was able to follow this train of thought until the end.

So, what does that make me. Mobile Autonomous quaNtum unit? ..... OJay>

Gifted is a viable and pleasant thought, OJay, and would not be at all presumptuous. :-)

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Just the cost of doing such business.

The errors were not the result of chip architecture design missteps, and they're not detected during manufacturing tests.

If you consider chips as not too dissimilar from the networking of smarter humans, emerging anomalies are much easier to understand and be prepared for and accepted as just being an inherent endemic glitch always testing novel processes and processing there is no prior programming for.

And what if they are not simply errors but other possibilities available in other realities/times/spaces/virtually augmented places?

Are we struggling to make machines more like humans when we should be making humans more like machines….. IntelAIgent and CyberIntelAIgent Virtualised Machines?

Prime Digitization offers Realisable Benefits.

What is a computer other than a machine which we try to make think like us and/or for us? And what other model, to mimic/mirror could we possibly use, other than our own brain or something else SMARTR imagined?

And if through Deeper Thought, our Brain makes a Quantum Leap into another Human Understanding such as delivers Enlightened Views, does that mean that we can be and/or are Quantum Computers?

And is that likely to be a Feared and/or AWEsome Alien Territory?

UK Special Forces soldiers' personal data was floating around WhatsApp in a leaked Army spreadsheet

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Alien

Much prized, but understandably, seldom lauded or admitted via any claim of responsibility

Special Forces personnel are trained to delete people, not data, the PFY is not going to get a job with the military. .... Version 1.0

Traditional and conventional Special Forces personnel are certainly trained to delete people, Version 1.0, however, to not think, and to fail to realise Great Games have moved on and up a number of tiers to completely new levels of absurd complexity and astute ACTive engagement with more than just one trick circus ponies to pacify the crowds now vulnerable to the reign of clouds, and miss the fact that the Special Forces of Tomorrow Today are an entirely different breed of exceptional being, has one nicely permanently rendered at a convenient disadvantage to them, and at their mercy, should one's own choice of malevolent actions cause them to choose to rectify matters.

And some are able to be deadly effective whenever only equipped with pyjamas ...... https://youtu.be/LcgG_E9gQJM?t=54 ..... for there are any number of Elite Keyboard Warriors comfortably embedded in their midsts and enjoying the mutually advantageous security and protection each gives the other in the exercise of each of their many particular and peculiar skillsets.

Do you find that pleasantly comforting or extremely troubling? And would the latter be because of your enthusiasm for a number of extremely troubling actions or even the sharing of thoughts to incite such actions?

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A Blood Red Line Only the Thickest of Fools' Tools would Cross and Defile to Deserve No Mercy.

If one had has any idea or direct knowledge at all about what Elite Special Forces do, and can do for and to y'all too, you'd best hope that it is stupidity rather than malicious intent that has brought you to their undivided attention or vice versa, your shenanigans to their Sterling Stirling Business ....... and Raison d'Être for Existence in Exercise of Extremely Prejudicial Covert and/or Clandestine Operations ........ which in most cases be successful tours of a patriotic patriarchal psychotic duty to extremes of self-indulgent excellence and rectifying fortitude.