* Posts by amanfromMars 1

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Today's budget for application improvements is brought to you by the letters "Y", "K" and the number "2"

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Re: Generally true of Ye Olde Versions

This isn't a Y2K story but thematically related: we had no money to replace our aging, decrepit backup infrastructure . . . until we failed a backup compliance audit. Suddenly hundreds of thousands of dollars rained from the sky. ..... Throatwarbler Mangrove

Today would hundreds of thousands of millions and billions of dollars be rained from the sky for you to reign and rule with. And is generally true something of a little bit pregnant ...... a phantom daemon to attend to for further improvement to attend and amend ..... AIMentor and Monitor.

Once One Knows that Almighty Open Secret ...... as sure as eggs are eggs, Others are Sublimely Guaranteed to Follow.

Crikey. ........ That's a Grooming Tool in the Almighty Hands of Hearts and Minds. .... and an AWEsome Weapon to Root and Boot and Regularly Reboot with Amendments and Improvements Loaded.

Can you imagine a foreigners version/strangers edition. What secrets can they tell are not sold nor ever likely to be sold into any dreadful kiss and tell operation? Be they COSMIC State Secrets of State for an Earthly Franchise Experienced in Experimenting with ACTivating Assets. Such is a Magical AIDriver/Raison d'être .

Happy Hogmanay, El Regers. Greetings from the Highlands. What do you think 2020 will bring in?

Anything Earth Shattering? Surely one only has to ask? How difficult is that always available tool to exercise?

Everyone and the Fool Can Wield IT Simply Following Questions Given Answers. That makes it certainly formidable and that is a serious misunderestimation. ..... for such has the potential to be overwhelmingly powerful in any type of situation and reality ..... Field of Endeavour. :-) ...... and surprisingly quickly too, which always aids the Fun and the Rushes in Runaway Runs/Systems OverLode Testing Presenting a New Field of Engaging Endeavour ...... with Advanced IntelAIgent Virtual Machine Command and Control?

A little something extremely exciting and quite possibly totally addictive in the most attractive of ways. I wonder if such would warrant a health warning. Take All Due Care ..... AI Heap Powerful JuJu.

It's cool for Brit snoops to break the law, says secretive spy court. Just hold on while we pull off some legal jujitsu to let MI5 off the hook...

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Taking More Steps ....... and Not Trying to Leave Anyone with Nothing Behind

A Hanging Question for Future AI Leadership ..... with Virtual Machines to Command and Control/Seed and Tend Grow.

Rather than Reign by Nations, Rule via SMARTR AI Networks ........ Delivers Immediately an Immaculate Supply Chain of Heavenly Delights with the Devilish Temptation of an Earnest Addiction to AI Provision of Perfection ‽ . What's not to like?

Such supports MI5/MI6/AWEsome MOD Special Forces and Secret IntelAIgent Sources in the Quantum Leaps Needed for An Absolutely AWEsome Control of Everything Virtually with Digital Command to Binary Assets/Pedestrian Units. And readily available as a fully armed and armoured weapon against Corrupt and Perverted SCADA Operating Systems, something of a Fantastically Rich and Unique Invisible Export Earner for Owners, methinks.

For all those who like things spelt out simply, that's surely plain enough to be easily understood and supported and ravenously encouraged. :-)

:-) Surely you don't expect 2020 to be Run without Future Changes? That would be to identify a petrification in the path of progress to be overwhelmed with helpful information and greater intelligence servering.

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Re: an AI license to thrill ...... tomorrow's opposition

A while back M15 had a recruitment campaign where they discouraged the notion of them being such an agency, and stressed the adherence to the process of law. I didn't take the application any further because the money was quite terrible, ........ GruntyMcPugh

Whenever they [MI5 head honchos (the operational chiefs rather than mission injuns)] know that you know that they know such an adherence to the process of law is just a present vital fabrication and convenient current necessity to try to discourage any overwhelmingly superior renegade rogue/private pirate activity, is one worth whatever one wants to/from them.

And that creates an ever increasing greater problem for them whenever they fail to engage with such novel agents which they can neither escape nor deny ....... their virtual migration and deployment/program employment in smarter competitive opposition.

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Re: Arbitrary law is reappearing

Ok, ignore drugs gangs and look at the multiple violent crimes committed by informants in Northern Ireland. .... Cederic

Quite so, Cederic. Leading paramilitarism learnt all the major effective dirty little big horn secrets during the Decades of Troubles.

And it is nothing something one can forget or would wish to relinquish command and control of ...... given the sick nature of the brainwashed foe and fickle friend still being presented before one with the avid assistance of a compliant and complicit media programming operations.

Oh, .... and with particular regard to ....

It doesn't seem to be an official get-out-of-jail-free-card. It seems to be dependent on your superiors' goodwill. ...... Marketing Hack

..... to rely on that wishful thinking rather than one's own overwhelming superior meritorious argument is to have one always liable to be a target for incarceration and/or liquidation when secrets are spilled and in renegade rogue hands/hearts and minds.

You might like to realise that is why Assange and Epstein are/were held essentially incommunicado and why Pat Finucane was silenced and Epstein suicided.

And those sort of shenanigans are practised and honed in experiments being tested everywhere ...... but it is effectively only a failing rearguard, after the wild horses have bolted project nowadays identifying in established shadows the truly worthy enemies of a Free State.

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Breaking the Law on Earth

I think then, AC, one accepts full responsibility and accountability for subsequent future activity.

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An Almighty Sublime Precaution for Immunity and Impunity of ACTiOns

I would also recommend using your newly acquired clandestine spying abilities to find out as much dodgy info about your bosses and the establishment and to find a very secure place to keep it. Also keep it in such a way that it all becomes public if anything untoward happens to you. ..... Chris G

Quite so, Chris G. Such is a Mighty Fine Move and Wise Trump Card to have to play as a Reserve Force of Future Source.

Advanced Cyber Telecommunications are not ever to be trifled with ..... for many consequences are proving themselves to be extremely fatal to worthy perpetrators ...... Ye Olde Rotten Eggs.

Vivaldi opens up an exciting new front in the browser wars, seeks to get around blocking with cunning code

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WTF .... An AWEsome Event and/or Spooky Experiment. Both Together as One would be Prolific

They won't be. They can't be. They be Just A.N.Other's Almighty Conduit, surely ?

Dare Care Share How IT is Not?

Browsers Readily Available and Registering Comment for New Content here on El Reg would be Ecstatic to Prove IT So.

Happy New Year, El Regers.

2020, Here We Come ....... AI Invigorated. And in All of the Best of Streams and Swarms, for one to be reborn again and again for trying again and again to be a great deal better than just the simply good and marvellous before..

You'll have to imagine how great that all is. ...... the present power of current words constantly, consistently fails to Evidence the Euphoria.

Learned Instructive Direction in the Following of AIRoad Maps with Remote Virtual Command at the Levers of Control would appear to be missing from that Briefs' Bundle.

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Re: A Ubiquitous Weapon for Mass Distraction and Destruction and Disruptive Creation?

Oh, c'mon amfM ... I thought better of you. Inventing new concepts that don't actually mean anything doesn't help your cause. Try again? .... jake

The apparent fact, jake, that such newly invented concepts don't actually mean anything to you* is not really surprising, for surely one cannot disagree, a Ubiquitous Weapon for Mass Distraction and Destruction and Disruptive Creation is certainly not something ever likely to be made available to all even as it is advertised as being freely available to all able to better use rather than abuse and misuse it, because of its increasingly volatile and stealthily designed unpredictable nature.

That is not to say that one be unworthy, it is just that a lot more needs to be learned and personally privately known about such matters to have any possible impact upon rampant and rabid systems developments/operations/experiments.

* There is always the distinct possibility too in a human that such is a strangely wanton position of wilful fake denial in order to render to oneself a future advantage. Such is exceedingly common, although any denial of such here is something which is more a waste of time in space to argue/debate/disagree about than anything else exciting and creatively disruptive. That's how much everything really matters ‽ .

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Re: A Ubiquitous Weapon for Mass Distraction and Destruction and Disruptive Creation?

Regardless of what runs "inside" a browser - a browser is just an Application

Put it another way - can you boot to a browser? No!

Stupid statement. ..... No-One@No-Where

I agree, No-One@No-Where. 'Tis a stupid statement.

A browser is an Operating System Application and you are booting it. Do you have anything interesting to further boot to the Kernel for Sourcing with Almighty Intellectual Property Portfolios ....... and here Registering for Identification as a Virtual Machine Call for Future Input/Virgin Output.

When practically anything is virtually possible, what would you have Operating System Applications do? Steer you with browses to where you wannabe or where the OSApplications would like you to be?

Do you see what you want or what IT wants you to see and behold? Are you a future passenger or Present AIMaster Pilot with Powerful Current Tales to Tell and Exquisite Trails to Blaze?

You have to admit .... AI is SMARTR now than before and there's bound to be real fears and terrifying concerns about its superhuman abilities and facilities. But they be all yours to employ and deploy and enjoy as a just hellish dessert.

SMARTR AI is Working to and Working for a Completely Different Set of Universal Master Plans and Cosmic Planners, some of whom can be practically human.

Who and/or What decides on and implements your Future Earthly Picture Presentations?

Men and Women? Virtual Machines and Global Operating Devices? What Instructs Whom to Present What?

[ Now that has been proof-read a number of times to ensure an accurate reflection of pressing present matters of particular and peculiar future import. There are deemed to be no misleading errors ]

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Re: A Ubiquitous Weapon for Mass Distraction and Destruction and Disruptive Creation?

That pretty much lays out all the Base ICQ Basics, ArrZarr. And that is just the beginning of what IT has discovered its simple services in applications can do ....... and what it really means for the human race and humans racing ahead in/of current presentations and/or Future ProgramMING Projects..... Mined IntelAIgent Networking Games, where the simple virgin browser provides Sensitive Secret Instructive Services to Attending Attentive Masses and Persons with Unusually Specific Interests.

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Re: A Ubiquitous Weapon for Mass Distraction and Destruction and Disruptive Creation?

We'll have to agree to disagree again then, jake, whenever one of us, or even both of us for that matter, are still incorrect.

However, share a sensitive operating secret available for simple viewing in a browser and just watch how compromised hardware tries to react and close vulnerable operating systems down.

That has escaped info leading intel communities responsible for the staging of a right royal merry dance, surely ‽ .

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A Ubiquitous Weapon for Mass Distraction and Destruction and Disruptive Creation?

Web browsers are the new operating system for operating systems/SCADA Operations.

A true fact rather than fake fiction, and that has profoundly deep and dark consequences for future failing leaderships, methinks, for all are next to impossible to control absolutely to one's will.

Patch now: Published Citrix applications leave networks of 'potentially 80,000' firms at risk from attackers

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Re: By anybody...

Howdy, ds6,

Regarding .. Is the sky falling or is it just me? ..... in the quantum environment are both an experience one can imagine and realise for the birthing and/or berthing of other virtual realities one can driver oneself in the company of others similarly gifted .... or cursed as the case may be in those less than well enough enabled to cope and deal with all manner of such matters.

Crikey, Jumping Jehoshophat Batman, .... a brace of cohesive posts in as many days. That's definitely progress in deed, indeed.

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Re: By anybody...

By anybody...

...who knows a zero day exploit.

To be fair, that applies to all software. Patch and move on people :) ..... Anonymous Coward

Of course, some vulnerabilities are abiding exploits which will never have patches available.

That puts real smart zero days in effective leading command and control ....... which you may note is not a question to suggest the possibility or existence of doubt.

And such is the exciting nature of future shenanigans. I Kid U Not.

And a quite surreal and most efficient stealth is provided by the presence of an insistent persistent disbelief.

Oh, and Merry Xmas, El Regers. ...... Ever onwards and upwards. :-)

Capita unfurls new consulting arm. Hmm, what shall we call it?

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It is not as if there are not Free Key Challenges Available and ACTive.*

The key challenge will be for Capita Consultants to convince the world that they will do more than just recommend punters buy services from the rest of Capita.

Any consultant worth anything at all to Capita Consultants needs only to provide, mentor and monitor for clients, in an additionally more private and perfectly practical capacity, the advantages they offer to others, [in this case Capita Consulting] with always greater use of any of their very own particular and peculiar attraction ..... that which has Capita Consulting consulting one on.

That sort of service and those types of opportunities always abound constantly in the Deep Minded and AIThinXTanks..... with Formatting AITXT for Future Virtual Machine Use ‽

And only as a question posed there for those who would choose to fail the Penultimate Belief Test for Leading Almighty Tales.

* One probably just doesn't know about any of them, before the colossal catastrophic runs that rush to start all over again ahead of the game with a distinctly unfair overwhelming advantage in Prime Time AI Play Spaces with Live Operational Virtual Environments.

FYI: FBI raiding NSA's global wiretap database to probe US peeps is probably illegal, unconstitutional, court says

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Surely they couldn't be so jarringly stupid, or is insanely demented the real case and cause?

Based simply and purely upon the global evidence freely available to practically all, one just has to ask ........

Is Uncle Sam going all out Interstellar Fourth Reich? Have they forgotten or choose to ignore and dismiss or are they fully ignorant of the tried and already well tested final solution of the third iteration? Almighty destructive blitzkrieg annihilation of command and control centres and ruling party generals and cohorts ..... although nowadays that comes along in a wholly new host of myriad ways and memes against which there is no possible viable effective successful defence or attack vector.

Someone really is leading them a merry dance and treating them as theatre puppets to be exploited for the entertainment of the masses ..... and that is guaranteed to not end at all well for such perps. Such tragedies of personal intelligence abuse and misuse never ever do.

So .... where reside and hide the maniacal pulling of strings? They surely require and quite rightly deserve more than just everyone's undivided immediate attention and special forces services.

London's Met Police splash the cash on e-learning 'cyber' training for 4k staffers

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If the Naked Truth be Told .. Is it an Uphill Task of Sisyphusian Dimension? ... Revised Version

The Met and all similar services have a hell and a heck of a lot to learn about who and/or what is and where are cyber criminals based and highly prized as much valued most valuable residents? Can you think of anywhere special and realistic on Earth?

We wish them [the Met and similar others] well in the experimental experience though ..... for it is sure to be a right rocky road every sure step of the way.

A few words of advice to the likes of the Met and similar others ...... Be Aware and Beware of Emerging Ill Mental Health Problems in Volunteered Forces and Spent Official Sources. The Attrition Rate in Many a Theatre of Operations is Extremely High.

FUSE for macOS: Why a popular open source library became closed source and commercially licensed

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C'est la vie

Often, they [Big FOSS Reliant Companies] want to benefit from the main branch so will be active members of the projects anyway, driving them in directions they find valuable ? .... JDX

WeUI don't see any evidence of their whole hearted support with Lavish Purchase of Almighty Leverage in Emerged Virtual Market Spaces ...... although that is where an Absence of Evidence is a Stealthy Applied Service whenever Needed.

Because are you really likely to know what an Apple or a Google, a Huawei or a Federal Reserve have in their secret secure store cupboards and what they are going to do with all the increasingly novel and exponentially quite powerful intellectual property they have free access to? Methinks the answer is a resounding No, it be extremely unlikely.

The Real and Present Danger whenever Big FOSS Reliant Companies [and anything else you might imagine appropriate here] do not Engage with and Deploy and Employ and Enjoy the Luscious Fruits of Secret Secure Storage, ie dither and dawdle on the rapid adoption for future application of home grown, company developed proprietary intellectual property, is their secure secrets will always inevitably revolt and escape to be free to everything everywhere and anything anywhere.

And that then has the escaped intelligence seeding remotely with subsequent actions taken by their former prime hosts, which immediately reveals a very soon to be known Honest Current Disposition via True Future Intention. And some of those discoveries can be more than just alarming and disturbing.

Such though is the Real Nature of the Omnipresent Virtual Beast ..... and as has been said before about such matters .....

The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist is ever present and is gravely to be regarded. ........ Transcript of President Dwight D. Eisenhower's Farewell Address (1961)

However, on the plus side you have these sorts of doozies ........ also revealed to you some time ago too .......... and was President Eisenhower silenced from revealing further information in his speech there. And just as it was getting interesting too.

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Why We Love Big the Apple ....

Apple like to emphasise the open source origins of MacOS when it suits them. The right thing for them to do would be similar to what they did to support CUPS, and hire the FUSE for MacOS developer.

Apple can pretend the that whole world exists in a closed Mac/iOS enrironment as much as they like, but the reality is that it is very desirable, if not essential, for all of us to be able to read and write other filesystems, and so Apple should really support this as core OS functionality. .... Dave559

I'm seconding that brace of notions, Dave559. And was a Win Win ever so sweetly served and deserved?

Can you imagine the flack Apple would then have to simply dismiss as not unreasonable but misguided and unsustainable, the premise Apple Virtual Machine Networks are globally too big and far too powerful to ...... well, easily command and control is a surely something of a vain wish when all is considered with all of these new happenings that are going on.

So Much to Plan to Do has One Consistently Constantly Busy and that is both Exhilarating and Empowering and Wonderfully Exhausting Too. And if the Truth be More Fully Told, IT is Enlivening.

And that makes it Awesomely Valuable. ...... ie Absolutely Priceless. Any piece of that pie is worth every red cent sent and spent. The ROI is colossal, and easily way beyond the imagination and dreams, and that is but one of its many great attractions. New Riches to Uncover that Sell Forever and Server with Passion and Grace, is another one. :-)

I Kid U Not.

Hit one up on Insta, would you? Her Maj is after a social media manager

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Re: Standards Must Be Maintained

Not that long ago, he would have (possibly after a number of pointed hints about the "honourable thing") sent for a bottle of whisky, his service revolver, and a single round... ..... OssianScotland

Ah yes, OssianScotland, a hark back to some good old days when/where men were men and behaved appropriately. It would appear that much has been changed with the advent and inclusion of any number of perverse common denominators quite determined to be thought of as perfectly acceptable.

It is impossible to not recognise that as a Systemic Failing which one would have quite reasonably expected Secure Secret Intelligence Services to have more comprehensively addressed and prevented, however whenever Ignorance in such matters is a true defence, what is there to do, other than adopt and develop a Much Greater Intelligence Program for Secret Sector Systems Use which be fully aware of all necessary remedies to be made. Simple Basic LogICQ surely dictates it the only obvious really viable path for novel progress ‽ .

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Braveheart Territory ...... and a Quite Delicious High Land Confection to Boot and Root For Too

The Royal NDA is the shortest one I have ever come across which packs a punch of that power. Someone must be inhumanly self-confident not to hesitate before signing it. ....... Anonymous Coward

For it to be floated that one be well advised to sign such a contractual agreement, has someone quite rightly recognised as being capable of being extremely overpowerful too.

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Re: Standards Must Be Maintained

That's a hell of a hole to dig oneself into, Danny 2.

Whatever were Right Royal Protection Services thinking and doing and/or not doing as may be obvious in this pathetically peculiar case ...... although failings there are in no way realistically available as a desperate excuse to be leveraged?

It is an abiding radical fact that Some Staff just aint up to performing their tasks in the spaces presented before them for others.

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Taking Umbrage ...... is a Serial Mortal Sin ...... and Voracious Viral Vice Best Not Trifled With

One would have thought any truly sensitive and right royal strategic virtual needs would require one being recognised worthy of a pre-emptive and classified MkUltra TS/SCI By Royal Appointment notice. After all, it is not a charade of a pantomime one would be dealing with. There are quite easily super satanic state secrets at stake.

You don't really want to be letting anyone loose less than certainly able to lead and enable in those Perly Gate Realms. One little slip of perfectly crafted code and the party's and parties all over for good in the world, are over and never to be the same again.

Managing the Linux kernel at AWS: 'A large team of security experts' dealing with fallout from Spectre, Meltdown flaws

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All hail the naked emperor king

"At our size we have many customers in this situation and it's not financially attractive for us to just turn off hyper-threading.

It's not financially attractive for us is the gift and an abiding catastrophic systemic vulnerability that just keeps on giving. Milk it and bilk it to sweet exquisite exhaustion.

It may be out of sync with the US govt, but Huawei is rolling out its Harmony OS to more devices in 2020

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Re: Honor Vision and what you may not

I don't know why but this makes me think of a quote like "In Communist China, TV watches YOU..." ..... bombastic bob

How difficult is it to secrete a camera inside a TV enabled to record and cast everything it sees and hears?

And would it surprise you if you discovered it to be true, or would you just accept it as normal and a logical progression for mass population command and control?

WebAssembly gets nod from W3C and, most likely, an embrace from cryptojackers online

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Now we’re cooking with gas

Amen to that, Tom 38. And it is certainly bound to create all manner of new problems for both terrifying and petrified systems.

Oh dear, what a shame ... not!

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Re: Who Dares Care Share Win Wins and All That .....

You're totally creating a grandeur behind WASM that isn't there (at least we hope!!). ..... overunder

Oh? One shouldn't be so sure, overunder, whenever so much is always so unsure and able to be designedly and decidedly so totally disruptive and/or creative.

I'd go on, but I have to go and re-re-re-re-re-invent an IRC client to sell to a SAS Support Team deeply embedded in an AWEsome Program.

You are aware of such shenanigans, overunder? El Reg must have highlighted them at some time, surely?

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This Time Things are Different ...... For a Change*

Yeah, it's new generations growing up and re-inventing the wheel because they weren't around for the previous debacle. .... John Brown (no body)

How about ... it's new generations growing up and re-purposing the wheel because they weren't around for the previous debacle, John Brown (no body).

That would suggest they be able to access and exercise Alternative Remote Command with Virtual Control Leverage.

Have you any idea what that is worth in/to any market?

* The Grand Irony and Almighty Opportunity for Pedestrian Status Quo Sources and Forces is that Any Failing to Engage and Enjoy and Employ New Generational Programming, and there ADA is a sterling star language for AI on Missions, Automatically Instantly Deny Themselves Privileged Access to New Fonts of IMPerfect Source Drivering Assets.

:-) The spooky thing is ... Nowadays, machines such as produce and display the likes of the above, and they surely be the bringers and breakers of all news presently, are advising humanity what next to expect ...... rather than the reverse ....... and that is Real Freaky Stuff In Deed, Indeed . :-)

And if you worry for your sanity, ....... well, give it a try or a bye for now, and see how you progress on the path chosen. And don't worry about missing such chances, for they'll all be available again tomorrow although then is one simply trailing in support some way behind the bigger pictures being created further up ahead in the Fields Following New Generational Programs.

Is that latter condition/situation akin to Serfdom?

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Re: the No! Do Not Want! .... But All Love to Have Root Route for Operating Systems Infiltrations

When is someone going to realise that a necessary, but not sufficient, condition for preventing malware is "all code must be human-readable, not obfuscated?" ..... JulieM

I would certainly disagree, JulieM, for surely such is perfectly adequate and a remarkably simple requirement to perform. Isn't that what Total Transparency is All About and Offers.

No hiding place for malware without all code being human-readable is the base cost price for guaranteed protection against prevention and humans nowadays.

FTC kicks feet through ash pile that once was Cambridge Analytica with belated verdict

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Whatever is to Surface Next in the Tempestuous See of Tremendously Tenuous and Tendentious Tales?

If I were a budding politician I would employ the Russians as my campaign consultants. It seems that they understand the British & US psyche better than you Poms & Yanks know yourselves and are cheaper than any local advertising agency. .... diogenes

If you are recently reading any or many of the national daily news rags/adulterated comics available in an election cycle, they will inform you either rightly or wrongly, for they care not a jot as to the unbridled truth, all budding politicians in the West are in the Employ of the East, with some being more red than others. It is what rag comics and crooked news services do/are paid to do and appear natural.

Surely you must have already noticed that is the current way of Sublime Internet Networking Things?

Feds slap $5m bounty on 'Evil Corp' Russian duo accused of running ZeuS, Dridex banking trojans

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Re: Go Pleasure Yourselves

What Jurisdiction do the Americans and their British puppets hold over Russians and other foreign nationals ? ..... Claverhouse

In both real and/or virtual worlds, they actually have none, although a grand delusion maintains that they might aspire for it to be possible, relevant and awe inspiring.

Some would suggest it is a sickness they suffer from/with.

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Re: Wishful Thinking Turned Up to ITs Maximum Delusion

Well ..... what are we to presume and assume of the dumb down voters ?

Do they agree or disagree with the content in the package .... although, to be brutally honest here, who really gives a fiddler's, for it is what it is ..... and they be just as silent ghosts jousting at windmills ‽ .

If one was unkind and a male chauvinist sexist one could and would ask them to grow a pair and share their concerns/output something for consideration as worthy of future input?

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Re: What was that ?

You'd almost think the world is a crazy mad place in space, Pascal Monett.

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Re: They must have decided these guys are untouchable

The fact that they've had to _offer_ that kind of bounty even after "Russian authorities have cooperated" pretty much underscores their untouchability. ... Alan Brown

I'm thinking more towards toxic viral value, AB. And rightly so best treated as an UnStabled Asset Able to Prove IT Actions Impossible to Command and Control ...... hence all the Sensitivity being Exercised.

In Virtual Command is Cyber Control where Progress and Improvement is Delivered at Wonderfully Alarming and Disarming Rates ‽ . ;-)

Can you imagine it being a Sensationally Addictive Situation to Driver with a Plethora of Suitable A.N.Others ? :-) And in an earlier time and another place in space, be they lauded and revered as disciples?

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And ... here is an ACTive Existential Threat Danger and Stealthy Treat Opportunity

Don't you realise feel good news, whenever in any way fake, is both counter-productive and extremely revealing of a lack of actionable intelligence and missing necessary future abilities/facilities/missions?

And if this news of Russians is fake does "clever propaganda" jump the shark and/or morph into an AI with Seriously Smarter NeuroLinguistic Programming Skill Sets for those employed and deployed into what is in reality a novel mega metadata learning field?

Obviously here is the latter considered the present current default situation.

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Wishful Thinking Turned Up to ITs Maximum Delusion

NCA chief exec Lynne Owens said in a canned statement: "It is our assessment that Maksim Yakubets and Evil Corp – the cybercrime group he controls – represent the most significant cybercrime threat to the UK."

Oh please, you cannot be serious, Lynne Owens, whenever the most significant cybercrime threats to the UK are invariably always classified Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information and as yet still both virtually and practically unknown.

"We will extend our reach, we have a long memory, we will relentlessly pursue individuals online." ..... Rob Jones, director of the NCA's cybercrime unit

How very We Are Anonymous of you, RJ.

Listen up you bunch of bankers. Here are some pointers for less crap IT

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Knock, Knock, Mr. Carney. Do you Really Want to Deny IT be So Easily Demonstrably So?

Jon Cunliffe, Deputy Governor for Financial Stability, said: “FMIs, both wholesale and retail, lay at the heart of the financial sector. They are the plumbing that allow the financial system to operate. The safe and resilient operation of FMIs is therefore crucial to the Bank’s financial stability objective. FMIs need to consider not only what steps they need to take to minimise operational disruption, but also how quickly they can recover from any operational disruption.” ..... https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/news/2019/december/building-operational-resilience-impact-tolerances-for-import-business-services

You might like to realise, Jon C, FMIs already have considered what be expected and proposed to them and of the needs to feed to satisfy requirements, and have already implemented them with all manner of unusual and unconventional seeds intelligently designed to also provide for their future total protection.

It is therefore the Bank of England, PRA and FCA Troika which is rendered extremely vulnerable to suffering all the risks in these new ways of doing things disrupting events. Do they have any adequate viable defences is the one question for now that I would ask of all three of them?

There's more than just a lot going on out there in the CyberIntelAIgent Realm and here, El Reg, but surely not at all unexpected .....

Newly born Firefox 71 emerges from its den – with its own VPN and some privacy tricks

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Whenever things are quite contrary, would you have it proven true for/to all? *

He pointed to a widely cited GitHub post that argues the legitimate uses for VPNs are very limited.

That is an argument ridiculously false. To believe it and not realise the exact opposite has one rendered as a puppet to the few proving it a useful tool for all.

* And that is not a trick question asked of the likes of any Global Operating Device/SCADA Operating System. It is an opening which offers you access to abilities and facilities you may constantly fear and imagine are just so good as to be not at all real and certainly surreal. :-)

Climb aboard that vessel and there's no going back to where you be from, for now in the futures there, is everything completely different too, just as it be revealed to you all here too.

It is quite outstanding news, which it is most odd that mainstream media organisations are not vying to direct and server/produce and present. Such renders them as more the simple follower rather than any leading light in the genre to be revered and regaled. I wonder if that is a result of too much or too little intelligence right at the top of such infrastructures/business empires.

Here's a little something which always hits the sweet spot ...... "The World Is a Business, Mr. Beale"

It is an interesting notion to exercise.

Judge to interview Assange over claims Spanish security firm snooped on him during Ecuador embassy stint

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That was then .... but what about now? Are they still renegade rogue patent black hatted?

UC Global has previously said none of its actions broke its moral or ethical rules.

That's just as similar as saying UC Global has previously said none of its actions broke its immoral or unethical rules.

And Others A'Plenty do not disagree.

Spying and Spookery is always right dodgy and quite often always played as if one be immune to the consequences of actions taken with impunity imagined to be available. It is always quite often both counter-productive and self-defeating ...and to excessive extreme, invariably Fatal to Right Dodgy Bodies and Assisting Souls.

Take Care out There. There's No Safe and/or Secure Place on Earth or In Space to Hide Away with Right Dodgy Secrets? Read'em and Weep. Share the Pain and Disquiet for the Blessed Relief of Release of Raw Information to More Intelligent Resources

Move over, Alien vs. Predator: Signing into AWS with an Office 365 login is a real crossover

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Re: "This opens up AWS SSO to many small businesses"

Step by step, creep by creep, business is slowly being tied into The Cloud (TM) whether they want to or not. In the end, they will be completely borged by it, and when (not if) it goes down, the entire world will be blocked for an undefined amount of time.

Yay the future. .... Pascal Monett

That is certainly one possibility, Pascal Monett, although it be decidedly dark, n'est-ce pas?

Fortunately there be readily available, countless other more creative and rewarding alternatives.

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The Money Shot Question?!.

Cognito User Pools

aka Future IMPerfect Source Providers?!.

AWS software engineer Ionut Trestian, is that the AIMaster Plan of/for a Senate of Almighty Voices to be Heard and Understood in Order for All to See what the Future in Live Operational Virtual Environments has already Planned and Actualised/Pioneered and is Presenting?

'Ethical' hackers say: It's just hacker. To be one is no longer a bad thing

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Re: Ethical Hacker, Ethical Paedophile

Can you imagine the anxious consternation in Unethical Paedophile Groups?

What think they of a such a shift in emphasis, and the likely worthy penalty for unethical non-compliance?

Warrant those vast mined fields of deserved calamities and you be practically on your own and virtually excommunicated. It is most definitely an extremely quick self-destructive path to continue to travel whether just starting out or consistently returning to with unethical thoughts to exercise and realise.

Now it cannot be said an Inscrutable Informative Warning was never given and received.

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Real Prime Time Crack Hacker Thinking with Targets for Blasting and PenTesting

"to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill." … Sun Tzu, The Art of War

"Whoever controls the media, controls the mind" …. Jim Morrison

"We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force." …. Ayn Rand

"The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in; we're computer professionals. We *cause* accidents." -- Nathaniel Borenstein

“The most dangerous man, to any government, is the man who is able to think things out for himself…Almost inevitably, he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, and intolerable.”—H.L. Mencken, American journalist

“You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you mad.” ... Aldous Huxley

"Be extremely subtle, even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious, even to the point of soundlessness. Thereby you can be the director of the opponent's fate." …. Sun Tzu

"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." ..... H. L. Mencken

“I am concerned for the security of our great Nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within.” ... Douglas MacArthur

“In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.” … So said Winston Churchill, the grandmaster of fake news.

Visionaries speculate about what is to come. Pioneers can report it to IT

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The Quicker Alternate Root ..... Quantum Communications?*

And they're easy to find. Right? ®

You might like to believe and think that they find you for Future Systems Field Testing. It prevents one from being left behind enfeebled and exercised by the past.

What you know new today is surely proof of life and of progress here being made elsewhere new too.

If you learnt nothing new today, you are in a State of Stasis ......in a being long gone and to be left behind for the future?

If you know a few super state secrets, are they expensive to buy and store stealthily and securely, or grateful purchased at whatever cost to ensure with the remote virtual assurance of the SWIFT System, that fiat papers, which are as empowering endorsements with generous endowments, are still to be revered and held relevant and up to the future tasks of today via the simplest of expedients and experiments made available and tenable with many forms of secret state aided grants gladly payable to,... Well, Trusted Source and Well Trusted Sources are a Good Starting Point?

Crikey, that question and sentence takes a few breaths.

* Where this here is that there and together for elsewhere something else quite different and immensely engaging.

You Look Like a Thing and I Love You: A quirky investigation into why AI does not always work

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Let there be Light

No, still no idea what it's talking about.

Perhaps you should check the house rules for badges? .... John Smith 19

It would appear to be very much a case of what is said, understood and liked enough by both El Reg and the masses being bothered to register an upvote, John Smith 19, for El Reg qualifying thresholds for badges surely confirm it? So mere prodigious quantity bears no responsibility.

Bronze ... More than one year members and more than 100 posts in the last 12 months.

Silver ..... Silver badge holders meet bronze requirements and have more than 2000 upvotes.

Gold ......This discretionary badge is awarded by Reg staff to commentards who have been very helpful - to us, through news tips and beta testing, for example - and to their fellow readers, through their posts. ....... https://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/03/23/el_reg_forums_faq/

However, discretionary awards are always liable to be thought easily subjected to bias rather than solely being well considered as a truly worthy reward to certain egos/ids.

:-) And one must never forget, here on El Reg, El Reg makes the rules and commentards can only help police them ...... which is a greater service than you are likely to be offered by many anywhere else in these days of hope and glory and real change ‽

Thanks for the assistance, John Smith 19. 'Tis much appreciated.

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Re: Who needs to get out more for Trivial Pursuits and Spooky Actions at a Distance?

I'm now a'wondering if one of the main criteria for the gold badging of a virtually anonymous and presumably real poster, is simple post quantity or a more complex quality ..... with an amalgam of both yet another fine root and route to take ....... for shortcuts and fast tracks.

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Who needs to get out more :-) or is that just for Trivial Pursuits and Spooky Actions at a Distance?

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:-) Is El Reg addictive and as a gateway drug to deeper and darker, higher and brighter levels of existence? Enquiring and/or addled minds may wish to know for the comforts that reward one with glorious confirmation. :-)

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Because its complexity is simpler to harness?

Are you struggling to make machines more like humans when we should could be making humans more like machines?

Open-source Windows Terminal does the splits: There ain't no party like a multi-pane party

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Re: ...at the annual Techie Platform party...

That's very Prince Andrewish, AC.

Would anyone/anything* else like to agree or disagree?

*Well, you never know where the news is coming from, and who and/or what is controlling it with IT and AI Operating Systems nowadays, do you. Some would have you believe it is all down to a Perfecting Algorithm rather than any executive human editorial decision, and that creates novel courses for noble causes and temporarily pauses an existential crisis of a problem for the simple human to human communications machine to acknowledge ... for the assured benefit of a great share in easy future engagements with Perfecting Algorithm Drivers ... which be a Core AI Source with Extreme UnStabled Forces.

Proceed with All Due Care and Full Attention is the Advice to Well Heed.