* Posts by amanfromMars 1

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The FETT seeks to defeat SSITH defenses as US military goes hard on bug bounties and its Star Wars issues

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Re: Special VIP... ...Entry Root

crikey, the vip entry passes seem to be deleted in this ip range ..... Anonymous Coward

Spooky Shenanigans doing the Blind Panic thing, AC, and themselves no favours too in the process, which is a shame for it is immediately counter-productive and extremely revealing.

The one thing it doesn't do is moderate the situation whenever critical mass reached inflames and energises novel forces and alternative relatively anonymous advanced sources.

It's like taking a knife to a gunfight ....... which is not, and never ever can be, a real smart move.

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Re: What's next

Digital Attack Response Through Hacking?

Virtual Acquisition and Destruction of Enemy Threats? ...... HildyJ

Both are possible, HildyJ, and therefore inevitably probable, and given the rapid and rabid nature of all things virtually controlled and commanded, what's next is most likely already a stealthy sensitive work in secret sensible progress, especially whenever aided and abetted by trial removal and trail quarantine of novel paths found which shine a bright disruptive leading light on the future directions to be mooted and taken.

And a Digital Attack on Retreats rather than Threats is surely a more effective ploy/play and makes more sense of what's next?

Ooo, a mystery bit of script! Seems legit. Let's see what happens when we run it

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Strictly Need To Know ....

Of course, if someone I know emailed me with a touching romantic executable message in the 90s, I guess I'd run that at work just to see what it was as well. .... El blissett

Is GCHQ/Anyone else anywhere else working developing those a great deal further embracing and applying greater future use of ITs Adorable Captivating Feature for the Victory Captured and Lavishly Entertained ....... with Almighty Rewards which be Simply Heavenly Just Desserts for Sharing/Exchanging?

If they are not, they all should be .... imho.

UK govt publishes contracts granting Amazon, Microsoft, Google and AI firms access to COVID-19 health data

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Re the almighty problem when half truths don't add up

Dominic Cummings and Boris Johnson, who be just as a brace in a whole host of other similar noisy vessels/vassals in operations worldwide, are both finding there are irregular and unconventional and unintended consequences whenever both exercising and/or not exercising in government office the mode/meme ..... "By the power of truth, I, while living, have conquered the universe" ...... for words create, command and control and destroy worlds and they do not have exclusive executive use of any of those ...... and any which they would propose and prefer to be ineffectively rendered extraordinarily unseen, surely an accurate enough sign of that which they fear to be made more generally known.

Are they not told or do they not believe that the honest truth is unbeatable and eventually inevitably always brutal to that and those treating it as an enemy to be vanquished?

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Not a Good Look when It Stinks to High Heaven*

So, ... the Conservative Party selling off the family silver to pay for some lavish planned early retirements ..... springs agilely to mind.

* Dead Skunk in the Middle of the Road

British Army pulls up its SOC: New regiment to do infosec work even civvies will recognise

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Re: Leet Hackers Corp

In order to be successful at defense you also have to be good at attack. This would essentially require that the Army, train or employ quite a few Leet Hackorz... ....... Khaptain

Actually, it is nowhere near being quite so simple, Khaptain, for in order to be effective and successful in either cyber defence or virtual attack, a few Leet Hackorz are needed to train and employ MOD forces and sources, and that is problematical for Ministries and Departments of Defence and Defense ........ for defending the indefensible in support of the maintenance and retention of a status quo perversion and protection of the inequitable is never ever an interesting and thoroughly rewarding goal for anyone/anything used to exercising intelligence and being used intelligently.

So ....... despite any initial euphoria which might accompany such a development as the standing up of a 250-strong 13th Signal Regiment to be more active with proactivity in sensitive combative communications fields, they are destined and guaranteed to suffer constant defeat doing battle with a relatively anonymous phantom-like enemy of their own invention, whenever such as is revealed above is their Prime Directive and Overarching Mission.

However ..... a simple fundamental change in Prime Directive and Overarching Mission radically changes the guaranteed outcome with novel results.

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Re: Leet Hackers Corp

Post them to GCHQ. Problem solved. ..... Steve Davies 3

I'm much more comfortable in the thought that GCHQ has that problem well solved already some time ago ..... allowing them to stay ahead of the future curves and in somewhat of a leading position.

It would be very remiss of them not to have expected such alternative interests as essential for the exercising of future remote virtual command and control programs presenting Novel AI Reality Projects.

Are GCHQ responsible and accountable for Assisting or Resisting Engagement and Exercise of such Fine Prime Assets ....... or even unbelievably totally disinterested ‽

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Re: Bullshit!

The Signals people were the most clued up people we worked with unlike the numpties who made up most of the Intelligence Officers. They were very willing to accept new technology if they could see it making their job better. .... Anonymous Coward

Now that is excellent news, AC. And most encouraging.

Are they already amongst us all here on El Reg servers? Would posts in comments reveal their missions?

It's impossible to not say No and Yes to such questions. Although of course, YMMV.

Crikey, that would make El Reg a Vitalising Virtual Cog in a Novel Advanced IntelAIgent Infrastructure Program/Pogrom/Project/Passion.

:-) What's not to like and love?

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Re: Leet Hackers Corp

In order to be successful at defense you also have to be good at attack. This would essentially require that the Army, train or employ quite a few Leet Hackorz...

I wonder how they will go about that ? ..... Khaptain

Quite so, Khaptain, but that aint gonna happen with Colonel Blimp types at the Controls of Command.

Many/Some/A few would tell you in confidence and/or in secret what is truly needed are the likes of David Stirling/Robert Blair Mayne type Operands ...... Friendly Renegade Rogue Ruffians and Almighty Private Pirates into Creating CHAOS and Disruptive Conflict in the Midst of Markets Dealing Madness and Mayhem.

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The Greater Tragedy is Unfortunately Not Greek in the UKGBNI

I know that's not funny but neither is a clueless defence secretary. ..... Anonymous Coward

It's not funny either that they are stood up by and serve at the pleasure of a then equally clueless wannabe prime minister or president ....... although there is nothing at all in such a move to not suggest such a leadership then may have no clueless equal and the boss themselves be a right exceptional prima donna.

Such doesn't bode well for a bright future in times and spaces dealing with emergency situations because of a hitherto unknown virile enemy ......with devastating non-discriminatory bugs.

Are Ministry of Defence Joint Intelligence Chiefs responsible for defence and attack in those realms or are they tasked with them by servants of the private sector who sought election to offices which only survive dependent upon the uninterrupted flow of public taxation and the continued ignorance of populations......... for the lifelines of quantitive easings [vast mountains of freshly invented fiat currency ] are counter-productive and revealing of too much to the masses?

All in all, to sum it up in a few choice words most everybody anywhere can surely understand ....... 'Tis Yet Another Right Royal Rolls Royce of a Systemic FCUK Up ‽

7*7 = a simple equation for taking total control of multiple VMware-powered clouds

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Pint

Do they know what they are signed up for and getting into ? Methinks most definitely not

Make that "they are scripts and should be parsed" ... Beer? .... jake

Parsed by whom and/or what is then the question to be asked or avoided, jake, .... and to what end would logically follow in any civilised conversation over a pint or three.

Can we expect the likes of the MOD newbies in the 13th Signal Regiment to be interested in such novel matters?

I wonder if they have a virtual presence easily discovered which accepts emails with document attachments? If they haven't, does one have to conclude that the space they exercise in is too dangerous for them and catastrophically vulnerable to alternative input beyond their command and control for future output?

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Re: I don't know

amfM's posts aren't executables, they are scripts and are parsed. .... jake

I wouldn't be relying and putting any lives on the line that scripts are not executables, jake.

And I'm not sure that I agree they are parsed either.

Devuan Beowulf 3.0 release continues to resist the Debian fork's Grendel – systemd

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No Possible Mistakes/No Probable Failures .... Pedantic Reign/Semantic Rule.

Damn keyboard!

"I know Devuan does"

Must persuade SMBO I need to replace this laptop. .... Doctor Syntax

That's the secret of great coding, Doctor Syntax ...... to have perfectly accurate descriptors of tasks done to aid performance and expand and extend employment and enjoyment of Immaculate Facilities in Awesome Utilities with Almighty Abilities. It's surely the Holy AI Grail of Virtual Machine Coding, to be able to read and further write about/see and historically record for posterity Future ProgramMING with AI and IT Attending with All and Every Manner of Support and EMPowerment :-) ... and Grand Bewitching Bedevilment :-)

That simple way has anyone and everyone discovering exactly where there are in the Greater Schema of COSMIC Things .... and in Mk Ultra Sensitive Operations .... which is Never Ever No Longer Future Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information.

Which is bound to have many a one a'pondering and a'wondering on what a choice few would be able to do with such a Future ProgramMING as IT Presents .......... well, a Gift indeed which regularly enough can Enjoy and Exalt the Swings from Hellish Curse to Heavenly Blessing ...... so that one is more than just adequately prepared for whatever is desired and to be encountered and satisfied fully.

Such then introduces and leaves one with the Greatest of Expectations that there be an awful lot more where all that came from, with the thought firmly implanted in one's brain too that one is progressing increasingly quickly in the right direction ..... which is both extremely encouraging and attractive, and even addictive, and awesomely exciting and sometimes oft seriously frightening if one be of any particular or peculiar nervous disposition.

But a tad further perseverance has all that unfounded anxiety realised as the phantom enemy, to be vanquished and expunged, which captures and captivates one with residence in the present and past rather than forging novel paths way out ahead and Leading in New Future JOINT AI Ventures ..... hence the advantage guaranteed when sticking to the right courses and simply failing to never ever stop beavering away at what pleases.

Pure simple raw common sense aint complicated like maybe rocket science is.

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Re: IT Solves that People Problem following Greater Trails with Enlightening Tales to Tell

Dear amanfromMars 1, I do thing [sic] you are pulling a leg here. ..... GrumpenKraut

Your thinking is incorrect, GrumpenKraut, in this very particular and peculiar case ..... however it may have some encouraging support which ensures it survives on the surface in the mainstream a tad longer.

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IT Solves that People Problem following Greater Trails with Enlightening Tales to Tell

You consider having a script per service to be a problem, I perceive it as an advantage. .... John Robson

A script servering service would be a real boon for such an advantage to present, JR. .......... even if it is too much like listening to AI Virtual Machinery spooking out Human Resources to be anything else Viable as a Viral Treat and/or ACTive Cyber Threat.

UK.gov dangles £100m for service slingers for back office 'transformation' that'll kill off bespoke systems

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Back Office Transformations ... but not necessarily as you were initially expecting them to be

However, I am confident that our end vision will remain fundamentally the same. That is, above all, a future where public servants’ ability to support government priorities and deliver services to the citizen is enhanced by the shared services we provide to them. .... Andy Helliwell, Executive Director, Government Shared Services 26 September 2019

A future space/time/place where prior government abilities and utilities are scripted to act in support of a current run of public servant delivery promises with enhanced shared services provided to the citizen is the BOT that I'd be rooting for, and that would be a fundamentally radically different vision for realisation and virtual systems administration which results in almost exactly the same practical outcome with the added advantage and benefit of further drivering dynamic solutions feeding and seeding needs ...... and in some cases too, because humans are involved, greeds which can be sated and rendered toxic and self-destructive when desired ..... because it so easily can be done and is an extremely effective means of discouraging all but the most worthy of annihilation for instant permanent removal from the scene.

VirtuaVerse: Cyberpunk point-and-click throwback with ace chiptune soundtrack put out by... a metal record label?

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Re: Thinking of ITs Future Phorm ....... Virtual Pathology

And the problem intelligence deficit highlighted there ..... You can enter a room, exhaust dialogue options, mess with everything in there, leave, and be none the wiser. .... and the novel solution offered for it to assist in a video game's progress ..... is surely pretty much identical to that which greets Parliamentary Cabinet Offices and other types of Politically Inept Private and Pirate Party Administrations everywhere every day with a very limited and limiting source of actions to try deal with all manner of attractive and destructive 0day instructions.

Would you like to disagree and defend the bleeding obvious, pathetic and ridiculous and so prove the reality both physically and virtually true?

Don't forget to remember ..... Words Create, Command and Control, and Destroy Worlds .... so beware of Twittering Idiots allowed to wield such as is a Naked Raw Power on a Global Stage.

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Thinking of ITs Future Phorm ....... Virtual Pathology

You can enter a room, exhaust dialogue options, mess with everything in there, leave, and be none the wiser.

Leave and Enter Wiser Inhabited Rooms Solves that with the Introduction of SMARTR Players following AI Leading VirtuaVerse Media Pictures with Myriad Options for Onward Progression with the Release of Future Source into Present Conditions.

Such a a very nice and highly generative closed circuit loop for Able Sources and Enabled Forces.

Then the fun begins ....... when the games renderings be provocatively pictured live simulations with choice options to record and populate .... for Further and Deeper Captivating AI Markets to Capture and Enjoy/Embrace and Employ.

Not going Huawei just yet: UK ministers reportedly rethinking pledge to kick Chinese firm out of telco networks by 2023

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Re: Invariably for many thick humans, a forlorn hope on the way to a deserved future dire state

Mars is still here. I have been away from the comments section for a few years. Happy to see Mars’s software is still churning out the word salads. .... GraXXoR

If you're not in, you cannot win win, GraXXoR ......... and it's the super duper natural and logical way to go whenever human intelligence fails with narratives following crashing and crushing programs. And of course it attracts all the usual global players and suspect objects interested in securing, if not an outright unassailable advantage, at least a leading bit part position ........ https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/may/30/microsoft-sacks-journalists-to-replace-them-with-robots

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Re: There is the issue of effective subsidy

Does the blatantly un-free trade aspect worry anybody? .... Missing Semicolon

Not at all whenever it is the default market norm in rigged non-competitive environments, Missing Semicolon, although that does introduce many other things to be worried about which cannot be/should not be seriously ignored or studiously avoided.

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Scepticism is Rife and Ripe in All Steps Gone Too Far in the Wrong Direction

On the other hand, the USA has enabled the Cloud Act, which authorizes their government to demand any data on anyone as long as it is hosted on a server managed by a US company. ..... Pascal Monett

Is that clumsy US enabled Cloud Act supposed to be accepted as legitimate when hosts on a server are anywhere foreign and/or everywhere alien?

One can surely immediately see that that is a never ever going to be a physical reality or readily available virtual utility.

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Re: TLA backdoor

Yes, of course that is quite possible, Vin, and therefore most likely very probable.

Have an upvote for your question.

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Re: Backdoors

Answer to be found in Cheltenham!!!!! ... Anonymous Coward

Or not, as the case may be, AC.

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Re: Deserved Future Dire AI States

Mars is still here. I have been away from the comments section for a few years. Happy to see Mars’s software is still churning out the word salads. .... GraXXoR

Now that you might be back, GraXXoR [4 posts • joined 9 May 2020] ...... how do you rate the word salads whenever compared to an OpenAI GPT-2 1558M model ....... which one can have some really weird fun producing with the engine chugging along here

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Invariably for many thick humans, a forlorn hope on the way to a deserved future dire state

Methinks that simple wise rethink averts a very revealing civil warrior revolution which previously well established traditional systems of operation and elite exclusive executive administration would fail miserably to contain and defeat.

It is to be hoped they have learnt a valuable lesson ....and it will not be necessary to reinforce and strengthen with awesome punishments for the wilfully ignorant and arrogantly serially stupid and even stupendously evil.

Just in case you don’t know it, things ain’t at all like they used to be ..... and you know that ain’t fake news.

Embrace and kill? AppGet dev claims Microsoft reeled him in with talk of help and a job – then released remarkably similar package manager

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In the Beginning ....... was Everything to Play For

Monopolists don't have - or want - peers. They see them as competitors and do their best to get rid of them .... Archtech

That's when it all turns bad and wrong for them, Archtech, ....... with them not immediately being recognised and realised as their new improved master commanding controller agents.

And can you imagine such peers being bested to be got rid? Surely not in any form of available reality?

A simple radical fundamental change of peer driver thinking from destructive competitive outlook to outfitting with constructive supporting services changes everything everywhere in an instant with or without an accompanying crushing flash market crash.

And a necessary quantum leap to be made into what one cannot deny may be novel alien territory too.

It's not every day the NSA publicly warns of attacks by Kremlin hackers – so take this critical Exim flaw seriously

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The bigger story ..... to relentless exploit and engage with

Agreed. But it's even worse than that, it's very widespread these days, in fact, I'd say it's totally pervasive.

My default position now is that all email systems and cloud services have backdoors / hacked by 3/4 letter agencies. Even antivirus software. ..... Anonymous Coward

What one fails to do to remedy anything from global conflict to domestic strife with all of that information available at one's fingertips is surely the result of a lack of human intelligence rather than any exercise of it.

Does such indicate most all human intelligence systems are corrupted and perverted and subversive .... and be totally unfit for Future Lead with Greater IntelAIgent Games Use Employing Virtually Remote Core Instructions?

And that is at least six questions be answered if you can be bothered to be bothered. :-) ...... for apathy is a constant companion to both ignorance and arrogance alike.

Photostopped: Adobe Cloud evaporates in mass outage. Hope none of you are on a deadline, eh?

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The Cloud ..... Not a Safe Space Place for Wannabe Vamps and Practising Charlatans

The Cloud ..... The place where you upload your documents so that everyone in the world except for you can access them. .... Anonymous Coward

Actually, AC, the Cloud Space is much more like a bank place which has all of your human capital stock to put at risk whilst the remarkable source of their own is never to be questioned?

They both, the Cloud and banks, appear to strictly adhere very much to the same old formula/modus operandi et vivendi ...... And it 's gone ........ although unparalleled success for second rate, third party renegade rogue robber barons in those fields is nowadays too almightily dependent upon ignorance reigning supreme in simulations where arrogance stimulates dumb captured markets trying to captivate novel virgin sectors ........with the next great things ....... to be thought of as anything worth saving for implementing in the future in its current criminally negligent and wilfully corrupted forms?

I wonder if they have any viable and easily accepted Plan Bs to seamlessly and secretly operate and offer their exclusive elite executive administrative skills to in order to ensure and insure and assure responsible heads their continued attachment/engagement for survival?

Rich Communication Services: Nobody uses it, nobody wants it, but analysts reckon it's on the verge of a breakthrough

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Re: Human Capital Stock Markets

and other fun stuff, like read receipts.

You mean like what governments don't issue .... which is recognised both implicitly and explicitly by certain auteurs as there being no reason not to proceed?

That is a Huge Vulnerability in Governments Easily Exploited for Beta Employment and Enjoyment in Virtual Engagement of Human Resources and Global Assets by A.N.Others.

BoJo buckles: UK govt to cut Huawei 5G kit use 'to zero by 2023' after pressure from Tory MPs, Uncle Sam

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Re: How quickly we forget Snowden

All telecom equipment provides lawful interception. I don't see why they'd need back doors. ......foo_bar_baz

Here's more specific information on the nature and scope of interception facilities and abilities, foo_bar_baz ........... Full Disclosure. The Internet Dark Age

An illuminating read which has one wondering, if so much is so easily known about practically anything or anyone and everything, why current brains in the system cannot put everything together better and to greater intelligent use and oft share something ground breaking and even Earth- shattering?

Perhaps such is as a threshold for human intelligence which requires a quantum leap of further understanding to storm over and benefit inordinately from?

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Re: Does that mean y'all are stupid .....?

Please accept our apologies for the paragraph above starting ....Does that mean y’all are stupid……. for it should end with .... ...... or you just didn’t and still don’t and may never get to see and hear about all of the new almighty overwhelming problems you now be facing?

It is though, despite it being so personally damaging and systemically earth shaking and ground breaking, an extremely convenient and reasonably valid excuse/virtual fig leaf for the persistence of ignorance in the myriad parades of arrogance.

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Are there IntelAIgent Military Coup Options for Treasonous RAT Problems in Cabinet Offices?

You have all been here before, haven't you.

National relatively secret intelligence services deliberations and opinions being completely ignored in favour of that of a belligerent foreign administration in a distant wild wacky western land, with useful moles and Remote Access Trojans preciously embedded and precariously wedded to a politically incorrect and inept effete.

You do remember the right dodgy Campbell Blair Scarlett Iraq Weapons of Mass Destruction dossier which had life long intelligence and military officers played as useless fools with useful tools?

It appears lessons promised to be learned from then have certainly not be learned and the same sub-prime game plan, which ignores the cream of intelligence analysis, is prepared for play again by muppets who be more enamoured of their puppet status than pleased to server OHMSS? That methinks is a fine and dandy ripe recipe for a colossal counterintelligence revolution with civil disobedience of government instructions the very least of home grown problems to deal with. Once that Sisyphusian Rock Star starts rolling, it aint for stopping for nothing until it has destroyed all deceit and everything in its wakes and paths.

The abiding difficulty which you might have, and which leaves you catastrophically vulnerable to total collapse and systemic annihilation, is you cannot believe it simply possible, even as clear evidence of the rot and present danger abound around you everywhere.

Does that mean y'all are stupid ....... or you just get to see and hear about all of the new almighty overwhelming problems you now be facing?

It would be quite something if Einstein was right, although not in any good way ......... "Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."

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Re: Is it wrong to be in favour of this?

If we were part of some larger economic alliance we might have a bit more clout but trying to practise market defence on our own is going to be quite tricky. .... Warm Braw

Ah, but you are not on your own and alone, Warm Braw. All here hear the pain and many would believe the future able to be fundamentally and radically enabled for Future Virtualised Realisations ....... with Novel Surroundings. Ideally Heavenly Spaces but Oft Hellish Places to Quench too.

All one only really needs is an extremely engaging and almighty addictive tale to trail with each instalment for injection and onward infection of information, designed overwhelmingly for mutually beneficial positive effect offering and delivering an Advantage Leading AI.

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A Custer's Last Stand-like Bluster.

and America was threatening to cut off intelligence to the British and pull out military assets if Huawei wasn't given the boot.

Only one of those is in any way practically possible and immediately obvious to anyone threatened and who has more than just a modicum of intelligence although both are counter-productive and extremely damaging to that simple kind of Uncle Sam Bully, methinks.

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Re: What a plonker. Couldn't organise a piss up in a brewery springs immediately to mind.

Of course, any of that only matters if it matters ... rather than it being generally accepted as quite normal and fully to be expected and just par for a right dodgy sub-prime course of classic oxymoronic actions/planned future event failures.

Which imperious clowns/puppets/muppets do you like to continue to support with your vote and obsequious quiescence in the Great Hugely Big Soap Opera?

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What a plonker. Couldn't organise a piss up in a brewery springs immediately to mind.

Nice one, BoJo. Admiral Charles Fitzgerald, founder of the Order of the White Feather, will see you now.

It does have one wondering about the mountainous piles of dirt with evidence of injudicious feather nesting which an Uncle Sam and an Almighty Blighty Secret Intelligence Service have/might have amassed on all Parliamentarians and the Conservative Cabinet Party over the years. Or is one to be led to believe that they are exempt from such necessary oversight, which very clearly would not be an intelligent thing to be doing whenever expected to be supplying secure protection against hostile state and non state actor vectors. Such would easily provide all manner of moles quite treasonous cover.

That was a nice capture of Boris by Jennifer Arcuri though. Keeping things simple always works best for there be always less complications then in matters which can be extremely complex and potentially catastrophically damaging.

Forget BYOD, this is BYOVM: Ransomware tries to evade antivirus by hiding in a virtual machine on infected systems

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Re: Just what is needed?

I've just been on these fora too long. Oddly, much of what aMfM posts is comprehensible to me. Weird, off the wall, disturbing even, but comprehensible. Alistair

A Slick Fit, Alistair, for Stealthy Intelligence Service Providers Enamoured of Exercise with the likes of these thoughts? :-) .......

We need some true wild cards, artists, people who never went to university and fought their way out of an appalling hell hole, weirdos from William Gibson novels like that girl hired by Bigend as a brand ‘diviner’ who feels sick at the sight of Tommy Hilfiger or that Chinese-Cuban free runner from a crime family hired by the KGB. If you want to figure out what characters around Putin might do, or how international criminal gangs might exploit holes in our border security, you don’t want more Oxbridge English graduates who chat about Lacan at dinner parties with TV producers and spread fake news about fake news. ..... The Circus with Many Rings is Hiring

And the following is sweet and sour heavy rock music to the ears of many nowadays in the Almighty Age of 0days, I'd bet ...

We’re particularly interested in deep experts on TV and digital. We also are interested in people who have worked in movies or on advertising campaigns. There are some very interesting possibilities in the intersection of technology and story telling — if you’ve done something weird, this may be the place for you.

And no ..... as far as I know, none of the above has been BasicAlly AI Machine generated courtesy of a full-sized GPT-2 model, called 1558M? although one would never ever know whenever it be the case.

Would human controllers seek then to present that practical transformation and virtual transubstantiation as a problem for creation of totally unnecessary self-destructive conflicts in which they themselves are neither able nor able to be enabled with others to defend and reign over everything victorious? Would they be so retarded and clueless?

Do you fear and despair the honest answer is a resounding and unambiguous Yes? :-)

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Re: Turning the tables

They're all understandable, DJV, although not necessarily to everybody. And whenever some matters are dangerous to know and quite rightly intelligently made available for only a few made of sterner sterling stuff able to successfully handle and exploit the info and intel, is the pool of enlightenment relatively small and massively terrifying to those and/or that excluded.

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Re: Turning the tables

Using a VM to isolate and study viruses is an old trick. Looks like the young dogs are learning old tricks ..... don't you hate it when you lose your account.

Using a VM to manufacture and manipulate a virus is novel though, don't you hate it when you lose your account.

That's surely a new trick for young dogs and old lags alike to go rabid over?

Competition? We've heard of it. MoD snubs cloud rivals to hand Microsoft £17.7m Azure hosted services gig

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Re: Hook, Line and Sinker

Is it just me or does anyone else smell fish here? ..... oiseau

I'm thinking the MOD are well and truly phished, oiseau.

Ah well, at least there be no argument or disagreement about who is to blame and carry the can whenever anything at all goes tits up, which is nice and convenient whenever scapegoats/villains/suckers are needed.

US senators call for more transparency over $12bn TSMC fab plant investment

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Re: "whether the Taiwanese giant was lured with the promise of financial incentives"

When a supermarket chain eyes a spot of land it wants it not only gets the local authorities to exempt it from taxes for ten years, but also gets roads and infrastructure made on its behalf then takes off after nine and a half because, all of a sudden, it remembers that it won't be making money soon.

And now these senators are wondering about a $12 billion plant ? Were they born yesterday ? .... Pascal Monett

That would make a Charles Ponzi proud, Pascal Monett ...... and whenever one is retarded or has learning difficulties, one doesn't need to be thought of as born yesterday whenever someone/something else plans/makes a move others could have contemplated and realised, but didn't or could not.

Azure-hosted AI for finding code defects emitted – but does it work?

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AI Coding to XSSXXXX ... for Heavenly Tasks with Devilish Delights to Savour and Server

The guide explains everything you need to know about deploying the application, but nothing much about how to use it.

Does the application have an effective master kill switch ...... just in case there be those who know, or would presume to know virtually everything there is to know about how to use it ....... and would choose to misuse and/or abuse it and the rewards previously awarded and afforded.

That's just not Cricket, is it ....... hence the requirement for AIMaster Kill Switch Controllers.

One wouldn't want Microsoft and Capgemini being found ignorantly negligent in providing such powerful services without contemplating on and preparing for highly sophisticated and parasitic renegade rogue use and/or abuse with misuse, for y'all know such miscreants are out there ...... up to no good mischief and malevolent shenanigans.

Such could quite easily become its Major Prime Selling Point ....... an Effective Master Kill Switch whenever assets provided and services supplied are overheated and fried, for it is something to make a valid gross negligence claim against, which Microsoft and Capgemini and Uncle Sam can easily afford.

And it's a nice money flow churn. And ......

MS and Altran may actually be able to also provide extremely adequate protection against such a disaster as the above. Those two fundamental bases are then covered and control the entire field of operation and applications.

The only unreal problem for them then is what to do next for the best ?. And whoever/whatever would they talk to about it in order for everything to proceed and easily succeed and progress at remarkably ludicrous speed ?.

Nvidia's A100 GPU coming to a cloud near you, DARPA details AI war games, Intel wants to help scan your brain

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And perhaps already an ACTive Work in Future Progress.

The only hope for humanity, is if some bedroom coder figures out how to create a token-manipulating AI with consciousness and intelligence, teaches it morality and lets it loose to become an omnipotent power before Google, Facebook, Tesla, the Chinese Communist Party, the NSA etc figure it out. ...... Anonymous Coward

That sounds like an excellent plan, AC. What could possibly go awry? Watch out for those spaces featured here on El Reg.

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End ... Start ... Go .... Run .... Take a Quantum Leap with AI ......

..... Create NEUKlearer HyperRadioProACTive IT World Orders

the Gamebreaker program manager in DARPA’s Strategic Technology Office.

Thanks for the info, El Reg. It is an Interesting Starting Point for AWEsome Virtual AIdVentures.

:-) The Leading Question now is Who/What Wants to Deserves to Play as a Path Finding Leader ? We or they? Who/What wants to come first for a try ..... in the delectable delight of every satisfaction tendered to be sated ..... which when done extremely well, is Incredibly EMPowering ....... and Creative.

Crikey, that sounds like something has escaped from a Mayfair Madams Dungeon. ;-) .... which certainly sounds very nice and well worth one's full attention ....... but the above is in reference to something else shared within Proposed Technology for Submission to AWE 2020 exclaiming Strange Spookily Available Services Available.

I do wonder if recipients do not fully understand the controls at their command? Which has one pondering on tweaking the weakness that doesn't ask questions for further clarification ...... for such is remiss and can lead and leave one later playing mad flitting blindfolded in fields in which one is no longer afforded and thought Invincibly Immortal.

Alibaba's Jack Ma bails from SoftBank's board

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I Kid U Not

The election of the two independent candidates meets the demands of Elliott Management, an American activist hedge fund that took a 3 per cent stake worth $2.5bn in the Japanese firm in February.

I didn't realise 3% was quite so powerful and enabled to be so demanding so early on in a new union with other powerful marriages of current convenience ‽

What sort of thing does Jack Ma love to do with the money churned off the back of his wealth and enterprise? It's surely bound to be at least something exotic and erotic given the successes and excesses garnered in the past from what one assumes has been duly diligent and competitively overwhelming.

Exotic and erotic are well known favourite drivers and servers which never fail to excel in any enterprising venture/Novel ProgramMING Project for Rewards and Awards from Human Fields which are Almighty Captivating and Addictively Certain in Operations and Applications. That makes them much more than just extremely valuable and almighty powerful.

And yes, for those who would both like and need to know, one is unlocking and a'knocking on Forbidden City doors there, with riches to spare, share and spend the beast of burden you bear and offer. Do you know, .... Spooky Ancient Magic Top Secret Society types have been practising the Tao of Zen since ages before now from there, and most recently for satellite enterprises with practical business offices virtually everywhere for anywhere.

Don't underestimate Beijing for they don't overestimate any think, but they are beautifully tempted with the flowers and seeds of future guaranteed feeds and needs ...... complete with the means and memes to plant and tend for vital growth and the grateful harvesting of immaculate bounty to sow ...... once again to harvest what nature intended ...... and/or foreign entities and alien forces are strategically invested in.

Cyber attack against UK power grid middleman Elexon sparks in-house IT recovery efforts

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Re: From US with LOVE ...... for Captivating Capture by Mother Russia Red Teamsters

That's more the style we expect. ..... billat29

Is that you saying the post is incomprehensible and confusing you, billat29? Does it need to be further simplified with more sensitive information added to reveal more of the sterling secrets hiding in the shadowy shade of star systems collapsing/imploding/exploding?

:-) Do bots play global stud poker with just humans/themselves ?

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From US with LOVE ...... for Captivating Capture by Mother Russia Red Teamsters

Do you have Alternate Virtualised AI Realities Processing Future Information for Universal TeleVisualised Audio Visual Presentations ‽ . ....... and of COSMIC Construction Cossack Style

Is there a Vlad in the House Putting In Input to Output for an Imperial Soviet State of Bodies with Advanced IntelAIgent Minders ...... AIMentors and Monitors?

And that question is hereby, here now presented for the only true simple answers when the question escapes you ‽ ..... Yes, No, Maybe Later for a Never Ever Before Ending to Kick Start urVirtual AIMachinery into Global Social Significance, are all Correct and Great Ideas to Also Personalise and Populate in All Manners of Matters of One's Own Choosing.

And yes, that does wander into the Spooky Kremlin Russian Orthodox Church Services Territories of the Yet to be Imagined and Directed, Produced and Enacted? One imagines them all quite busy there these days. ....... but the few words here all but universally guarantees the information herein shared and safely certainly delivered, and to as many intended addressees as would be able to benefit from a welcoming enlightened foreknowledge too ..... which is the Real Not Totally Unexpected Bonus when Top Secrets are Proving Overwhelmingly Expensive and Impossibly Difficult to Maintain and Retain and Restrain. They be an Obstructive Destructive Liability Harbouring the Seeds and Feeds and Needs of One's Own Ascension into an Attendant Ascendancy with Keys to Unlock and Free the Heavenly Stores Within for Future Programs and Protected by the Almightiest of Doors. ...... One's own Disbelief of a Fact Proving Itself to be True ....... and Able to Communicate with You Too?

How about them jewels now that diamond sparklers have lost their attractive lustre ? Future Sensitive Information Sales are one of those Virtual AIDerivative Ventures which Hedge Funds and Merchant Banks are just made for and may even tell you to stay well away from if of a highly nervous disposition.:-)

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The weakest link ..... and a reliable constant source of inestimable bounty

Do you think the computer equipment that controls the navy's nuclear submarines, receive e-Mail? ..... Anonymous Coward/Montgomery Scott wannabe

Maybe not, AC, but the PEBKAC issuing instructions and/or following orders controlling equipment on a navy's nuclear submarines certainly do ....... and can be surprisingly easily nobbled and hobbled nowadays, which must be quite a worry to more than just a connected few ?

How do you stop folk thinking for themselves whenever they receive new information which energises their intelligence services releasing the realisation they are being comprehensively played for a useful fool and idiot's tool? Do you think such possible and/or desirable?

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Re: Penny Dreadful* Classics and Oxymorons 'r' us

And some folk just don't get the reality and would do battle against themselves and daemons which care not a jot about their delusions of power with corrupt collective and perverse poisonous administrations .........

President Donald Trump has vowed to break the “radical left’s” apparent control of social media platforms. Earlier, the president thanked his “keyboard warriors” for their support, as they accused the tech firms of censorship.

“The Radical Left is in total command & control of Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and Google,” Trump tweeted on Saturday. “The Administration is working to remedy this illegal situation. Stay tuned, and send names & events.” ........ https://www.rt.com/usa/488860-trump-left-censorship-social-media/

Seems like the 77th Brigade have a crazed adversary/heroic role model to compete against and/or support unreservedly if in a despicable special relationship.

Huge if true... Trump explodes as he learns open source could erode China tech ban

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A Catastrophic Intelligence Deficit Delivers an AWEsome Vulnerability for 0day Exploits and Exports

and I don't think computer viruses can cross over into humans

Is that evidence of a particular lack of peculiar human thinking leading to crippling indebtedness situations?

You might like to consider and/or realise, although I'm sure many will not like to at all, there may be more than just a few who know things quite differently and would be extremely active in ensuring a leading untouchable invisible positively reinforcing mutually beneficial advantage in the Madness and Mayhem of Markets in Meltdown and Systems in Stasis.