Posts by John Smith 19

I'm not worried..

Now had it been acquired by these guys I might be a little bit more concerned.

So rubbish comms security not just for IoT suppliers

Nobody else does it very well either.

I'm sure most people thought Michael Creighton's film "Runaway" was just a cheap techno thriller.

Not a documentary.

Sounds like one of those unglamrous but profitable niche markets

Which suggests their sales pipeline is a bit empty and they losing of those existing customers does not sound good either.

Internally an iSeries (AS400) also runs on POWER architecture.

But all languages compile down to the "Machine Interface" level with is like an object aware assembler which shields you from the underlying actual hardware.

I think the most frequently useful thing about PHB's pushing for "The Cloud" is it gets IT to look at what the real costs of hardware, software, training and support are.

For some it will work out cheaper (provided the legal implications, which are huge, are worked out).

For others, not so much.

Well it sounds quite clever and quite fast and quite reliable

And therefor quite expensive.

But then you've got to consider what's the cost to your business if your cloud storage and/or processing fails?

I'd be intrigued if this was my thing.

Hmmm.

OK it's possible, but it seems kind of sketchy.

And extrapolating that to Mars?

Mars is very much less volcanic that Earth (it's go magnetic field so no spinning iron core, solid or liquid).

I'll go with common evolution over some extrasolar "seeding" idea every time.

But what's not been mentioned is its relation to the transputer

Stack based architecture with in memory register set.

The biggest issue with the transputer seems to have been that word length equal to the address length. I was never really clear if this was a policy or just a rather bad design decision, given the common SoA was 8 bit processors with 16 bit addresses.

"told a court last year Martin had 50TB of potentially secret and top-secret data "

or maybe 10TB of top secret data and 40TB of cat videos?

Just saying.

That's a lot of data to move anywhere. It suggests he has been moving data outside the NSA buildings (Which I thought was absolutely forbidden. As in not allowed under any circumstances, ever) for quite a while.

Personally I've always had a soft spot for a company that can incorporate the word booze in their name.

Welcome new members JCD56843, Ketansheth and AC

Well you certainly sound very excited, and in a first ever post for at least two of you.

Software compression/decompression is quite processor intensive and should be farmed out to an ASIC for maximum benefit, although I guess a GPU could help as well (which is also a sort of ASIC given they are usually single source).

Yet quite a lot of embedded Linux hardware does this in software to save on flash storage for the software.

What we're having trouble with is just how "novel" is this IP? Most of the parts seem to have been done before and never achieved what seems to be a massive speedup on an architecture that's existed for decades.

As for things like real time 3d rendering this was a demos for a single and 4 transputer systems back in the 80's.

However I've been in situations where I'm looking at a product and I can't see what the USP is until I dug below the surface to understand what really made it different.

Right now I'm not seeing how what they say they are doing is giving the benefits they say they are getting. Perhaps the company should try to improve it's communication shills a bit more.

once again The Home Office shows it's completely out of control.

They've either turned a blind eye or actively supported

CCTV with ANPR

DNA retention

Unlimited facial storage in a system designed for facial recognition.

With no expiry date.

Even splitting it into DoJ and HO did not put a leash on them.

Sweet Pai demonstrates the old French adage of an honest politician

Or in his case an honest civil servant (which AFAIK he technically is).

Once they are bought, they stay bought.

As for "light touch" regulation I think that was a popular phrase with the British Treasury Minister Gordon Brown before 2008.

Which is why HMG still owns RBS and RBS is still loosing money.

11 years to catch 30 months in jail.

That's what, a year and half with good behavior?

Now getting him to cough up $53m is better.

I wonder how much he got away with?

Backdated stock options for executives.

Heads we win. Tails we wing bigger.

Not sure if it's Ragel or the dev whose at fault here.

Ragel can write an FSM in C to parse a language.

But it also allows inlining of code by the dev.

It's not clear if the problem code was written by Ragel as part of the FSM or inserted by the dev.

If it's the dev then problem probably solved (although you should check the rest of the codebase to see if this idom shows up again).

If it was Ragel generated then any FSM generated by Ragel could have issues.

One afternoon in Hawai...

Hi Edward.

We've noticed you've downloaded a high number of files to a local flash drive. This is against NSA policy and we cannot find any work order authorizing this task.

Can you please notify us of the relevant work order #?

The Amazon Echo is always on

All the better to serve your needs, citizen.

We are looking forward to incorporating our technology into the new always on "Telescreen (TM)"

Genius defense if it holds up.

Yes turns out being a BOFH IRL has fairly serious consequences.

The back story here is that looks like an IT company with no actual IT capabilities.

IOW it's a sales operation for what sound like a bunch of fast talking sales types, with this guy (and his predecessor) doing the real work and who stabbed his mate in the back to avoid dividing up the spoils when the business is sold on, and thought they could buy him off with a bit of a raise.

Whey you behave like that as an employer you'd better be pretty sure the guy whose taking over actually likes and trusts you.

I wonder if anyone would buy this company now that they realize it's basically a shell, with no actually in house IT skills?

This is one of those tricky to get right enabling technologies

In fact this is more than a simple hollow plastic tube. It's a waveguide, 2 tubes and 6 micro electrodes co-extruded together. so it can inspect (optically or electrically) or sample in many places. It can then alter it's environment by injecting a fluid or sending some kind of electrical or optical signal into that environment.

I suspect it will be pretty widely used if it can be made at a reasonable price.

services like sentiment analysis.

You need an AI to tell you what people think of you (you're a greed ba***rd) or your company (which has no respect for anyone's privacy)? You're not someone from a reality TV show by any chance?

I am curious. 152 layers to do 1000 different classification. Now obviously "deep learning" or multi-layer NN to dispel some of the mystery around this term, is only a model of human brain function but how many layers does the brain have? I've seen one suggestion that there are only about 7 distinct tissue layers in the pre frontal cortex.

AFAICT this is nice round up of the development options available for people who want to get into to doing something like this.

BT, O2, Vodaphone

3 companies you can now rest assured will f**k your privacy.

Good to know, so you can avoid.

""Information and data is power,"

Indeed, as GCHQ know well.

Perhaps a bit more transparency on what needs to be collected (and why it's a "need") would be helpful as well?

Identity cards or

USB cards and Win10 running PCs?

Inquiring minds want to know, as soon as someone can log in of course.

This is an OPM grade f**k up.

TBH I suppose you can't expect too much from an agency that's stitched together from 22 separate organizations.

Although after 15 years you think they might have bedded down by now.

As others have noted recursion isn't a big issue but data logging may be

Since that's what Stuxnet did to have something to play back to the operators while it was f**king up the centrifuges it was targeting.

I'm aware of relay ladder logic and seen a bit of it on PIC microcontrollers. I'd always wondered if the more "language" like PLC's had started to take over but apparently not. RLC seems to be a)Simple enough and b)Expressive enough to get the job done for the foreseeable future.