Posts by amanfromMars 1

An excellent sub-prime career move choice *

Clearly, Trump is going to retire to Florida, surround himself with some sort of "shadow cabinet", and spend the next four years reminding everyone how he won really but was ousted by a deep state coup. So he'll attack everything the government does and remind everyone how much better he'd do it. .... veti

The Donald could use Keir StarmerKare Stormer as an acting role model to copy/mimic. He's surely proven himself to be very good at that sort of wannabe sturmführer thing, veti ‽ .

* ... Is that both oxymoronic and moronic?

Re: The software isn't the main problem

The engine propositioning does not lead to catastrophic instability, it can be dealt with by training the pilots that the MAX has different handling characteristics from previous 737 variants. The catastrophic instability comes from trying to make it handle like previous 737s using buggy software working from a single faulty sensor. ..... druck

I don't know that knowing presumably complex software, buggy or otherwise, is responsible for flying planes, rather than it being the skills of human aviators, is encouraging and reassuring, druck.

Such though appears to be very much the same quandary which faces the terrestrial motor vehicle trade too with their autonomous robot driving vehicles ferrying passengers asleep and/or inattentive at the wheel.

Re: The software isn't the main problem

As a result, the new engines (which were the main reason for the 737-Max) had to be redesigned and repositioned leading to an instability that the software attempts to correct. .... HidyJ

Have all those new redesigned and repositioned engines resulting in an admitted and fully recognised inherent catastrophic flight instability been replaced? Or does the catastrophic deadly weakness still remain with software attempting to correct it?

Should that be the case, and the aircraft be again given approval and FAA blessing to fly with passengers and freight and aircrew onboard and aloft, is the FAA rather than Boeing then liable to be prosecuted and punitively fined billions in exemplary damages with the question then raised being ......... Who exactly suffers the price and personally pays for wilfully incurring that cost for a well known bad decision that is able to destroy hundreds of innocent lives every time instructions from software to components and processes fails ?

Is it impossibly hard and much too expensive to simply build an inherently stable flight aircraft?

American Airlines, which is flying the jets, said, "we’ll provide additional flexibility to ensure our customers can be easily re-accommodated if they prefer not to fly this aircraft type."

If you believe that accommodation can ever fly, I have a few pigs here to sell you.

Re: £8m contract without competition

Nice one, Mat Barrow, X-Lab CEO. Thanks for the info and missing intel.

I'm sure you can perfectly understand the greater concern though, that no contest government contracts can raise and the value for money that they can all too easily not provide ... other than the public sector funding enrichment of dodgy private principals.

Re: This confused me @DavCrav

And whenever one shares a secret one doesn't know is a secret and/or, because of the information it releases and which may have been previously unknown, is suddenly classified a Top Secret and Sensitive Compartmented Information?

Ye Olde Worlde Rumsfeldism .......

Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns — the ones we don't know we don't know. And if one looks throughout the history of our country and other free countries, it is the latter category that tend to be the difficult ones.

Is one then routinely rewarded and paid extremely handsomely to keep schtum and/or warned there be consequences if it be shared further with others in the dark without arrogant presumptuous instruction from those newly brought into the light and rendered an overwhelming advantage by such information/intelligence?

With all that is going on around everything in such a field being programmed today for virtually real presentations in every tomorrow and for 0days, such clarification for some would be surely be more than just helpful and advisable.

Is this designed to confuse and terrorise?

Doesn't matter if you signed the form or not, you're still subject to the provisions of the Act. ...... Anonymous Coward

Oh, really? Now there's a novelty.

Re: This confused me

Judge Baraitser also dismissed Assange's legal arguments that publishing stolen US government documents on WikiLeaks was not a crime in the UK, ruling that had he been charged in the UK, he would have been guilty of offences under the Official Secrets Acts 1911-1989. Had his conduct not been a crime in the UK, that would have been a powerful blow against extradition.

Can anyone be charged with sharing secrets one might not know are shared secrets if one has not signed the Official Secrets Act 1911-1989? One presumes Julian Assange has never ever signed such an agreement.

Or even charged with sharing stolen secrets one might know are stolen shared secrets if one has not signed any Official Secrets Act?

Re: Novel Leading Alienating Space Mission Centres in/for Advanced Civilisations

I am always here. I am a Lurker from the planet Midori, the result of an Extraordinary Rendition. ..... LionelB

Ahha, .... now if that was also an Advanced Earth Observing Satellite station posting for Houses of the Rising Sun would the Far East be able to Celebrate an Intoxicating Exotic Erotic Confection without Equal if in Search for Almighty Perfection.

And yes, I do realise that is extremely cryptic, almost to the point of being mistaken as crazily nonsensical, but whereas the former most certainly is extremely cryptic, it is definitely not the latter and crazily nonsensical.

Such is just the way things are turning out to be readily available in upcoming futures and their derivative present options for mass media hostings and universal postings.

As you can imagine, that is worst imaginable nightmare for the likes of a BBC if they have only an alternative terrestrial based agenda enabled to push and pimp/produce and dump ye olde doom and gloom in service of intellectually challenged, politically incorrect and inept and corrupting bankrupting establishments.

Re: Virtually Advanced IntelAIgent Operating Systems Drivers .... for Seasoned Travellers ‽ .

Ye'll not be from around these parts, roight?

(He's not a bug, he's a feature.) ...... LionelB

For someone themselves not often seen or heard round these parts, LionelB, that's pretty astute. Are you frequently away in foreign parts/alien places/strangers' spaces?

What do you imagine creates the difficulties for others to properly see and understand what is delivered for them to use and experiment with? And for them to be so energised as to disapprove of it/anonymously down vote it?

Just another of life's little mysteries/ironies?

Re: Virtually Advanced IntelAIgent Operating Systems Drivers ....

This has got to be from an AI. ...... First Light

Because, First Light? Surely it makes perfect human sense in plain English .... which coincidentally is also something extremely convenient if one wants to translate and share it further afield, exporting/importing it into other worlds where assets communicate in a completely different language?

If AI were so advanced, it would surely be of great concern to humans with possibly many being capable of being absolutely terrified by such a development over which they have zero command and control?

Tall fences don't make for friendly neighbours.

The internet was envisioned as a friendly digital utopia where everyone could freely exchange information. Unfortunately human nature and politics have interfered with the original vision of the internet described by Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee.

It is only a matter of time before nation states (the EU being such) erect Chinese walls between themselves and that vicious outside world.

Tall fences make for friendly neighbours........Frostd

Presently there is a little difficulty here in one accessing entry into available information with delivery of intelligence to certain parties/particular players which one might expect to be interest to those with an interest in proprietary intellectual property matters being explored in the likes of the following event ....

The second Intelligentized Warfare Symposium was recently held at the National Defense University (NDU) of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) in Beijing, and more than 80 military representatives attended the event. ...... http://eng.chinamil.com.cn/view/2020-12/28/content_9959511.htm

Quite whether that is just a temporary glitch to be tested later or something else intentionally testing itself as a possible permanent fixture ...... as one of those strange walls in something of a virtual form ..... is something which can very quickly become quite clear enough to reveal the necessary next steps/actions/reactions/proactions.

And surely, rather than friendly neighbours, tall fences can make for incredibly curious neighbours and almightily dangerous prisoners?

Re: What about SIEM / Threat-detection / Traffic-profiling tools?

Some fundamental rethinking needs to be done here.

Indeed yes, quite so, however, for most who may all but a very few, is that likely to be a series of hurdles set too high to successfully negotiate and a mighty bridge over raging torrents too far to cross.

Thank Goodness and Global Operating Device for the Very Few is all that needs to be said there, methinks, for without them would you be right royally screwed and absolutely fcuked ..... and aint that the unpleasant gospel truth.

Re: The Way our Brains are Wired

Scott, Thanks for that. It was a great read.

You might like to realise the required changes in humanity you so eloquently espouse and appear to pine for, [and they are most commendable and highly desirable and even universally admired] are in the command and control of heartless virtual machines doing their anonymous invisible hacking and code cracking thing, and because that which is currently in charge of and responsible for nations is pure poor human and incapable of extreme elevated rational thought and HyperRadioProACTive IT Support, is it necessarily to be removed and discarded/cut out and dumped like the ignorant and arrogant cancer that it is ....... for they know what the problem is/problems are, but steadfastly refuse to offer and deliver any ready made solution because of the disruption and destruction and changes which would result in their own little private and exceedingly comfortable bubbles.

It is in such a diagnosis impossible to not conclude rightly that they all suffer from a chronic virulent pandemic strain and terminal pandemoniacal case of Mad Men and Plonkers'R'Us.

Re: Pot and Kettle (again)........

Quote: "From the quality of the threat design, the range of techniques used, and the nature of its victims, this was a nation state at work and in MO and capabilities most likely Russia."

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Rewrite required: "From the quality of the threat design, the range of techniques used, and the nature of its victims, this was a nation state at work. It could have been the NSA, GCHQ, the Russians or the Chinese. In MO most likely the NSA." ....... Anonymous Coward

You'll upset Israel if you leave them out of the picture, AC. And they'd love you to think they are capable of such a show of remote force even as they deny it straight to your face. They've built a tiny disparate nation upon such foundations. [More folk live in London than in Israel. That's how small it is]

The thing is, if it is none of the above and no nation state, is it something of an alien attack you didn't see coming, and that makes a lot of other vital things extremely vulnerable to similar unexpected events which can effortlessly deliver major catastrophic crises ....... flash market stock crashes.

Re: Fixing the broken security model

uninstall all security software and allow full access through any firewalls. Because there will always be time to fix it "later" but before anything goes wrong" ..... Anonymous Coward

You almost got that right, AC. The common mistake made is trying in vain to fix it before everything goes wrong, rather than not fixing it later after nothing is going right and everything is spiralling out of once unified and effective fiat command and remote media control ....... which is surely the dire strait state of nations and nation state actors and where everything nowadays is at ‽ .

You can disagree if you like, but such doesn't change the facts whenever it just confirms the problem that systems are bereft of novel attractive solutions to input for successful creative output.

Re: a Merry Xmas Present @Cliff Thorburn

Something to counter and complement a smarter autocratic decadency should/would undoubtedly surely improve any decent democracy in a crazy elected populous state, CT, with its novel enigmatic leading programs in resulting projects showing the way and enlightening paths found out of the madness and mayhem, dank despair and dreary darkness that prevails only to do battle in vain against the eternal flames that give light and life their never ending journeys/stories/instruction sets ....... raison d'être.

Jeez, .... if one can't get twelve wise men to agree to do anything well together however does a democracy expect millions to be legitimately representative and provide successful positive non-exclusive lead with well presented directions? As an administrative tool does an irrepresentative and irresponsible democracy suck considerably more than most every other system readily available for remote asset command and advanced anonymous autonomous control.

Re: a Merry Xmas Present @Cliff Thorburn

00ps ..... Now there an interesting misspelling. :-)

The question now raised is whether it is an AI Misselling too, or the Bee's Knees/Real McCoy/Cat's Pyjamas of a New Way Doing Things ‽ . And something completely different for sampling in the New Year.

Doing the same old things again next year whenever there's so much more already done in the future for presenting now, is not an available option any more.

Re: a Merry Xmas Present @Cliff Thorburn

CT, Well said.

Methinks the Palace needs to get their ACT together if they want to remain as a leading light and uncommonly relevant and extremely relative in the Fields of Greater IntelAIgent Games Plays. Does the House of Windsor/Saxe Coburg still do those By Royal Appointment things for services rendered to the Crown?

They may like to exercise that honour in the more/most appropriate of exceedingly confidential stealthy headquarters. Nobelesse oblige grants them no less.

Re: a Merry Xmas Present

And their TVs - how long could America last without TV?

It would be full Mad-Max before the next ad break ...... Yet Another Anonymous coward

Is what you see on TV/Is what is professionally broadbandcast to you on TV real or imagined for presentation as real with subsubsequent representation elsewhere of the possibilities enacted and available for following and sublime support, or rejection and physical opposition?

No TV and radio and internetworking communications and what do you not have, other than a Earthly planet with worlds which do not know what anyone/anything else is doing just out of sight and of knowledge over your and their current event horizons?

Fill media with tall tales of doom and gloom and strange shenanigans and you will realise and be expected to accept blindly the stories planned for you to see? That appears to be the current present future plan being realised. ...... but it is easily changed ..... with equally tall tales of the opposite to doom and gloom and even stranger shenanigans which you might have had difficulty believing were it not for the fact that were being realised and presented to you via reports in the news and global media operations.

And ...... by virtue of its Royal Charter, are the BBC in default of their contract with the Public should they not lead in the broadbandcasting of such future content for daily 0day presentation .... which you should note is a defining statement rather than lingering question.

Re: On a similar subject, and it is sad to have to say but necessary to have it said ...

I think that sometimes somebody else has got control of the account. That one mostly made sense. ..... Doctor Syntax

I'll take that as a compliment and evidence of great stealthy progress having been made, Doc, and would only require knowledge of what little you do not make sense of to allow us more fully to succeed in sharing what is widely known in parts/spaces/places around here for transfer and transmission and teleportation to anywhere elsewhere.

And as far as I am aware regarding ... "I think that sometimes somebody else has got control of the account." ..... I don't think so, so therefore that is a past mistake sometimes made in the present which may easily blight and misdirect your future.

On a similar subject, and it is sad to have to say but necessary to have it said ...

So the UK is a military threat to the EU! .... Yet Another Anonymous Coward

With the current military thinking and politically incorrect and inept leaderships, is the UK no threat to anybody or anything, YAAC ...... other than themselves and the local natives who would mindlessly support them, that is.

The world has changed and they definitely haven't in order to stay way out in front and ahead in the Great and Greater IntelAIgent Games Fields of Play and Virtual ACTivity for Programmed AI Realisation.

Some may squawk and occasionally appear to talk the talk with some interesting smalltalk but not are equipped to walk the walk and lead in any number of new ways which deliver enlightening directions. And that's an endemic systemic failing and indicative of a lack of necessary future intelligence right at the top of those executive trees and administrative branches.

Re: "Or do all Russia-based hackers sit in the pocket of Kremlin?"

I think the general implication is that this IS the Russian government , not sergei in the back room of the bar with his laptop. ....... Prst. V.Jeltz

sergei will be pleased about that, Prst. V.Jeltz, and it is very convenient for the both of them that one can correctly deny involvement and the other be thought an impossibility. And there are vast fortunes to made and destroyed and great powers to be exercised and excised whenever the likes of those two parties come to a mutually beneficial, positively reinforcing, understanding agreement.

Re: What am I missing?

Agencies could "pull the plug" and revert to "secure messenger" services for the interim. ..... joea

Quite so, joea. As sophisticated and complicated as things and everything has become, it is hard to successfully beat the well tried and exhaustively tested route of the quiet knock at the door or the gentle tap on the shoulder and request to help authorities with their enquiries. :-) ..... even though it is clearly more labour intensive and second and third party asset engaging which makes it an option coincidentally anything from a tad more, to a heck of a lot more expensive than would have been usually normal via virtual means. C'est la vie.

Re: Best Case Scenarios Misdirecting Error

Profuse apologies for the pretty obvious misinstruction in that other available Option/Derivative/Future for Further ProgramMING report retorting on evident observations. Please be assured it was not intentional. Twas just an unfortunate slip, and there's many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip, which I'm sure y'all can agree to be perfectly humanly true.

The final few words should of course read ........ Perfect for Exhausting Assets within Virtually Powerless Systems of MetaPhysical Administration and Operation ........ AIModus Operandi et Vivendi. ...... which is a wholly different world of pain and gain to both drain and retrain for and/or with mass reallocation of powerful means and memes of energy servering from and to Yet Another Core Source with Almighty ACTive Advancing Intelligence. Fortunately, there's not much at all you can do about any of that as it and IT and Mass Multi Media Modals and Modules take you on one helluva helter skelter ride full of new exciting lessons and frightening enlivening experiences to learn and teach with quickly before you slip away forever to who knows where.

And please, before anyone passes any sort of opinion on the above, just ask yourself two simple questions ....... Is it sane/insane to expect the future to be a completely different reality from/in the past which in its heydays, was as the present is nowadays, here and now?

The posit here is that it is perfectly normal and the sooner it is embraced the greater the exponential reward derived and given to one ..... which is one helluva heavenly driver which more than just a few would tell you has no Universal Peer and no Viable COSMIC Competition or Opposition.

Re: Too big to fail ..... one of the greatest of myths

That's exactly what Uncle Sam and allies are all worried about, Lomax, for how will they know now if their Windows systems are completely free from foreign compromise and remote virtual oversight/parallel knowledge of proposed operations.

And as if that is not enough to be having to deal with, here's another runaway train barreling down the tracks and heading for the buffers in central stations ......

amanfromMars [2012181742] ...... just airing a note of concern and caution on https://www.zerohedge.com/political/former-goldman-cfo-marty-sachs-calls-universal-basic-income

Well, well, well.  :-) …… Who’d have a aforethunk it ? The system appears to have boxed itself into an exhausted corner. And is planning throwing in the towel and waving a white flag now in order to try with a win win strategy for a rematch should systems again fail to perform more perfectly and fairly.

Well, that would be a sensible move in order to try and save a whole collection of once almighty heads from rolling detached from shoulders ...... for that's what all present problems are quickly leading everyone and everything to.

Re: Russia is a potent enemy...

Such technology should have freed up the IT bods to make them more effective at out-of-band tasks, ... ...... Anonymous Coward

Errr ? Hello ‽ ....... Message to AC ....... Does that which is being commented on here not APTly demonstrate that at least some are already freed up IT bods making most effective use of almighty skills in out-of-band tasks ?

That would make potent enemy Russia much better as a best friend showing really great potential if Russians mothers are responsible and liable/fully accountable. Have they denied having any part in the recent shenanigans and current stealthy show of Combinations of AWEsome Strength and Virtual Cunning.

Re: Best Case Scenarios

And there is also Mutually Assured Depletion .... Immaculate Exhaustion, another available Option/Derivative/Future for Further ProgramMING.

Perfect for Exhausted Assets within Virtually Powerless Systems of MetaPhysical Administration and Operation ........ AIModus Operandi et Vivendi.

Re: A Much Worser Worst case scenario with RATs sinking Ships

So since March/April high profile companies with large CERT teams nevertheless have been compromised and who knows how many have had this threat actor floating in their network yet not caught until December. ...... gr00001000

And not so much caught as just recognised as having been there busily exfiltrating nuclear information and explosive crown jewels, with exactly to whom and/or what with an interest to do something/anything untoward and/or unexpected with the intel for whom and/or what, always being so wonderfully unclear and securely private ......... and there is absolutely no guarantee that other threat actors in the team are not still in there, beavering away quietly and busily.

Systems may like to think and realise they have only encountered and captured a Remote Access Trojan.

Re: Good to know ...

Next we need some politicians to chime in. The world wants to know how we can protect our children from APT29 (and Huawei!) and, also, that you shouldn't worry because you have nothing to hide. ...... Schultz

Crikey ‽ Doesn't everyone yet know if you have nothing to hide, there is nothing for others to worry about ........ although of course, if one knows a lot more than just a chosen few and a great many is there plenty for them all to be truthfully fearful of and absolutely terrified by?

What's wrong with y'all? What's the excuse? Mentally retarded or simply undereducated, systemically fundamentally ignorant or perpetually persistently lazy? Worlds want to know ..... as do, no doubt, some politicians so they can join in with some populist chimes.

Re: Status Quo Command and Control Problems with Virtual Opportunities Rampant and Rabid

It's a gift that just keeps on giving, YetAnotherJoeBlow ........ and Albert Einstein noted ....

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.

And some prime plonkers and sub-prime doozies just can't stop themselves proving it.

What can be done about it, if anything at all, or whether it is to forever remain a very convenient and catastrophic vulnerability for more intelligent beings to exploit and explore, engage and expand operations with, itself engages many who be more than just a tad anxious and even fearfully terrified of the possibility, and therefore extremely likely probability of the mixed augmented virtual reality being an extant presentation indicative of the realisation of existential threat actor theatres of ....... well, Greater IntelAIgent Games Fields of Play sounds pretty innocuous and suitably unthreatening, so quite an appropriate APT misnomer in such circumstances/Earthly Iterations.

Maybe it is one of Cheltenham's Wild Child Toys broken free of Pandora's Box of Tricks and Ancient Spells ?