Posts by John Smith 19 16330 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Jun 2009
Mistrust anything that comes from outside your application and anything that a user can overwrite which your application will (or can be made to) read back in.
That idea should be baked into every devs thinking.
But apparently not.
It's good that at least one company is recognizing the compromising of their business starts with the compromising of one of their customers devices.
Netflix is a subscriber service so (potentially) offers a rich haul of personal and financial details for anyone who breaches their security.
It's a start.
AFAIK even when you group book you have to provide passport details for background checks (despite the */11 planes being internal flights) so he should have been advised beforehand he would be be refused entry to the US.
It was a stopover for a party of schoolchildren from his school.
Would you be surprised his name was Mohamed and he was of the darker complexion?
Meanwhile HMG spent 3 years eventually handing over a paltry £60m to Reaction Engines,and in the process changing the rules so REL had to get a prime contractor on board first IE forcing REL to accept a BAe to buy in up front.
But holy s**t 12% tax down to 0.004% tax. F**k me sideways.
That's better than the deal Bernie Eccleston got for his alleged tax evasion of £2Bn.
Which of course is nowhere.
Which is where they pay their taxes.
Apple once again showing why they pay their CFO $60m+ a year.*
For the colossal set of balls to spout this sort of arrogance.
*Well of course it's not really "pay" exactly because that would mean he'd have to be taxed at that level.
This point right here.
"Presentation skills" are the way of the dark side Marketing
Analysis is the way of real management.
Farewell Hans. You had points to make and you made them effectively. Let's see if anyone paid attention.
The first A in NASA
Improving recovery accuracy is one of those "enabler" technologies that should multiply the utility of experiments by getting the results back to the lab faster and hopefully leave the equipment in better condition to be reflown, a key benefit of balloon and sounding rocket development programmes.
So how many FP processors can you put in an FPGA?
How many FPGA's can you put on a board.
I think it was interesting when the EFF built their DES cracker (to finally prove DES was FUBAR) they looked at this and went with ASIC's because it was a more affordable solution.
Those numbers mean either 2^25 or 2^27 elements are being processed. So either those PE's have to be very simple (how much smaller a floating point range can you get away with) or you'll need a lot of chips.
This looks quite sensible, although I'd wish the graphic at the top could be blown up. It's pretty useless at that size.
BTW has anyone else noted someone has been fiddling with the outlining code for icons?
Pity. MISRA's standards for writing reliable C for embedded automotive applications IE engine and gearbox management, were reckoned to be quite good.
Of course the mfg's argument for this is that you no longer have to carry that heaaaaaaaaavy key with you, and you don't have switch off your car alarm after you get in, saving you literally minutes a year.
Given FTP's pretty widespread the former is going to be tough to fix. The latter rather less so.
Obvious I know but is this yet another example of why web external (and most internal) web servers should all services not directly and immediately needed to be either switched off or removed entirely?
Arianna Huffington (often said she thought it Sen. Huffington said it) and Obama's former AG working together.
Now that's what I call "Across the isle" support.
I'm not sure what for exactly.
BTW Ubers business model (burn VC funds to drive competitors out of business to secure a near monopoly on a transport mode) is not unknown in the UK.
Say hello to "Stagecoach" and their destruction of local bus services across the UK. Obviously Uber being USian their goals are more ambitious.
Not at all.
He (or she) has successfully conned their manager into believing their BS and neutralized or enrolled HR into their world view. They have a license to treat their staff like s**t and know they can keep on getting away with it as long as they can persuade or coerce any key subordinates into continuing to do their job for them.
You see the chaos and financial ruin they bring and think "How can we fix this"
They think "Who can I blame for this and how can I get a pay rise out of it?"
Psychopaths don't get why "It's bad" and they don't care about your feelings, unless of course they are manipulating them to do what they want you to do.
And as it's a severe personality disorder, not a disease, it's viewed as incurable.
A press conference in a White House far far away....
"Mr President could you explain what you meat when you tweeted "I wouldn't pay Hilary $5 to suck my inordinately large d**k" ?
The D."What are you talking about. That wasn't me. I've never tweeted anything about sex with Hilary. This is fake news"
"It was received by all your Twitter followers at 1158 last night"
The D "Then it was by my bed while I was asleep. It sounds like I may have been hacked. My people will be looking into this. Next question."
Which implies after the first few weeks months he and and his team will get over their high jinks settle down to run the country in a business like and efficient manner.
It's a nice idea to hope for.
Call me a tad skeptical it's going to happen.
without firing the main engine. Possibly by some tricky solar sail effects on the solar wind, maybe attitude thrusters, if Juno has any.
JPL put a lot of work in engine design for hypergols during the 1960's and 70's that's served them pretty well. Valve sticking is one of the areas they spent a lot of work on . It's quite tricky. You want a hard coating to resist attack by aggressive chemicals (and both propellants are aggressive) but you'd like a soft coating like a rubber O ring to seal well and stop leakage.
They also developed some of the baseline ways to model injector sprays and develop injectors capable of 10:1 thrust modulation.
I hate to say this but just for once that TOTC BS could actually be useful.
And let's be honest what sort of people want to mass compromise a doll mostly aimed at young girls?
A) People wanting to build the next IoT botnet.
B)People with a keen interest in young girls.
Some of those might be boys their age but what are the odds they are not?
written by who?
And that opening move with "You do agree the Chairmen should be able to force through changes (in an emergency)"
Is it just me or does this sound like the internet equivalent of the "Act of Enablement" routine?
I'd love to find out a)Who wrote this document and b)Who agreed to it being submitted to the members in the first place.
should read
"I think it's been the plan of a cabal of unelected data fetishists mostly based in the HO policy for a long time and they usually manage to have Home Secs brainwashed into believing their apocalyptic, unargued and unconformable BS"
May was what the 9th of them to spout the line?
Sounds like a UL to me.. or another Mark Zuckerberg (6Bn+ on the planet. Got to be at least two of them).
Because
a)The FB Zuckerberg doesn't look the sort to handle the amount of pain that would involve
b)He seems to lack the introspection needed to realize he actually is a bit of a c**t a lot of the time.
But who knows? Perhaps he's a deeply thoughtful individual who often ponders the human condition and the plight of humanity and is often disappointed by his own behavior.
No, I don't believe that for a second, but there's just a snowballs chance in Hell it might be true.
a) It's his well meaning but misguided view of to create (to coin a phrase) "Better living through Facebook." It's not bad, it's just sad.
b) It's self serving BS from a megalomaniacal narcissistic designed to make him look better and generate more attention on FB (I presume it's on FB), possibly with a view to entering politics.
I'll leave others to answer that one.
If FB is "new media" does this make Z the first challenger to Rupert Murdoch?
I think you're right.
Or possibly the next Messiah?
I've only seen the start of "The Social Network" but the line from his ex-girlfriend seems spot on.
Roughly
"You think people don't like you because you're a geek. It's not. It's because you're an a**hole"
It'd tend to agree.
Steve Connell in "Code Complete" described how he wrote a DES encryption routine to do real time code coding on an original (4MHz) PC to drive a serial line and how he re-wrote it about 20 times to get the necessary speedup.
Implementing a high security encryption / decryption may be some of the smallest but most demanding software anyone can be asked to write.
Actually you do.
It's built into any kind of "standing charge" or it's delivered by raising the rates per unit of whatever charged.
OTOH the concept of "line rental" on a mobile phone is complete BS, since part of a line rental is to guarantee access to the network, which is an obvious lie on a mobile.
Now back in the day the SP2 boxes where the choice for oil companies crunching through their geophysical data for the umpteenth time. I'm not sure if this is still the case.
If anyone has the right to say they originated "data mining" it's the oil and gas industries because the data sets were (and are) vast and the cost of repeating a survey eye watering.
Err, it's an IT site. IBM manuals tend to describe protocols using state diagrams.
Obviously such practices are less common than I thought.
Perhaps that's why such work is so hard. *
Note. True FSM's are not Turing complete. The question is how much of the functionality in the kernel needs needs something more powerful than an FSM to deal with situations due to massive growth in the number of possible states.
Ideally there's a balance of some innovation delivered with solid program running.
My instinct is a lot of a Linux kernel is about protocols and protocol implementation.
I wonder how many of the developers do this as an FSM with the code written by the tool?
Or how many (eventually) implement it as a bodged up FSM?
Because WTF should we spend money testing our code when you can do it for free (to us)?
Does it need to be said any outfit looking to buy into this should set aside separate machines to be contaminated with this and a full regression test list so the stuff staff really need (like this key for example) goes on working ?
IE How much does this beast cost to support and how many actual terrorist incidents has it stopped?
My WAG is a "shedload" and "not many."
Maybe America is awash with terrorist sleeper cells.
TBH though I kind of doubt it.
Americans should fear a takeover of their government alright. By unelected data fetishists and a "coalition of the willing"(ly stupid).
Then you do a breakdown showing that a)It's not minor b)This is what it will cost in development time and c)If they want it done right now there is a real risk it will break the release.
All project management requires you a)Manage the team below you b)Manage the manager above you.
Did you not know this?
That's the difference between a professional development environment and and making it up as you go along.
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