Posts by John Smith 19

ALIS?

Isn't that the name of the master computer inside the hive in Resident Evil?

Got to wonder if the registrars check if the return IP addresses are fake

I'm guessing the 10 popular ones don't.

Or implement any other kind of cursory check to see if the outfit doing the registering is remotely legitimate.

Oh dear. Yet another report that's the wrong way round.

You need someone (and they'd better be pretty senior) to realize something needs changing.

Then they need to work out what needs changing and how.

IT is a tool for that, not a reason to change.

When people talk of Billion £ changes you're talking about whole departments changing what they do and how they do it.

Root and branch.

IT is the 0.1% of that process.

The fail is strong in this one.

All over the deep web real criminals are ROTFLMFAO over this fool.

Still, Feds had to catch someone. It's the law of averages.

Keep in mind the FBI's reputation was built on catching Depression era bank robbers.

And at bottom that's what he is.

Me. I will be sending no roses.

Between tw*t and sh*tter

Nice.

Hmm. Intel walks from mobile market but thinks processors for sensors is a good match.

Why?

Yes there may be a more open playing field but don't most of these things have even more stringent power requirements than mobile?

So it's more powerful than an 8051 (but aren't most processors) and it's Intel compatible (but so what. These systems don't run Windows).

Shocking. US company does what it can get away with.

And....

NHS spunks £77K on sperm bank.

Oh dear.

Bu****it language "This is your invoice but is not an invoice" Contract reads like an EULA

And is equally bogus.

Uber is a taxi business enabled by its IT development team.

it's not "tech" firm as such.

Time to start looking at other businesses who are playing the "We're a tech company, employment laws don't count" BS.

Who knows what the next generation of probes might use for comms...

Laser relay to a Mars orbiter?

Quantum entanglement (at least as a demonstration)?

Impressive work nonetheless.

Unlikely to be popular with the Teamsters union

Who've a long history of being very friendly with some sections of the Italian american community*

*Allegedly.

is it 20 years since Xerox PARC proposed "ubiquitous computing"

Actually nearer 30 (1988)

Funny how IT ideas keep getting "reinvented" is it not?

Let's see if this one's interface is any better than previous efforts.

Playing Devils Advocate for a moment.

Why is BCP 38 and DNSSec not being implemented?

I'm serious.

Does it need all ISP/DNS operators to go together?

Is the software too complicated to do the upgrade easily?

Is it because no one asks for it so suppliers don't see the point?

"government programmes ought to be viewed as means of implementing policy"

And it's taken an outside report how long to point this out?

And BTW all big IT systems embody some concept of how a problem is to be solved. That will point you in certain directions and away from others. Anyone not realizing that is likely to find themselves in trouble.

Is anyone thinking...

"Gosh, that reminds me of Tivoli (acquired by IBM) and CA Unicienter"

But presumably a bit cheaper and simpler to deploy.

A filing cabinet full of old PR bumpf can be a remarkably useful tool in the IT game.

Think of it as DevOps for IoT

System is in audit mode at present.

Review logs

Update parameters

So I take away from this

Vaz endorsed greasing kids entry into unit?

I know.

Yes people seem to forget about Saturn and Uranus.

But both are huge and I didn't realize just how odd Uranus's orbit actually is.

Sounds like there are few opportunities to visit it as it rarely crosses the ecliptic plain.

Pity.

But well done for the high density of a**e gags.

" effective governance "

of the Civil Service.

Seems to be an ongoing theme, does it not?

From what I've seen this stuff works best when the departments/organisations/councils/whatever are on quite good terms with each other and are prepared to adapt to standardize around a shared way of doing something.

26 to 2 (and only 2 actually transferred). Sounded over optimistic from day 1.

Provided their assumpions are correct.

Clearly quibit coherence time is a critical parameter here.

What happens if that increases 10x? 1000x? 1000 000x? And yes IIRC a small number of physical processes have improved by that much over their initial versions.

Now how many ASICs are you using? 1? A board full? A server room full?

It was only when the EFF developed a DES cracker ASIC and IIRC about 8 of them dropped the worst case crack time to less than 1/2 a week at 20MHz, when the NSA finally admitted a 50 bit cypher was insecure.

I don't think people should stop worrying just yet.

And that's before the kidnapping and wrench option is considered.

and then the MoD will hand it to the Americans

Isn't that how this usually ends?

Hypernormalization?

Something to do lots of virtual machines?

So conspiracy or cockup?

Cockup.

Over eager IBM bod thinks this is a big deal and doesn't want anyone to know.

Conspiracy.

A big IBM customer cannot/will not update their Websphere installation asks them to suppress details so they don't have to spend the money to do what they should have done.

Key lesson.

Every bit of software you don't write may have to be removed/upgraded/patched and you should have some kind of plan to do so. Think of it as the software operations life cycle.

A small point

In the UK street lights are not run off a separately run power cable. They pick it up off the nearest building supply. They are triggered either by photocells or timers in each light, usually cell as they are a bit cheaper.

I am Programmersaurus Rex. Hear me raw.

Well yes, right now it's more of a squeak, but it's getting there.

Lots of real estate a very long way from Earth

Could someone get Donal Trump interested, perhaps in an on site visit?

Ooops

Still at least no hard coded credentials in there.

"Assume nothing. Believe no one, and Check everything"

Sound advice that should be drummed in starting from kindergarden.

But isn't.

If you do this for a living plan for it happening where "it" is ransomware, data extraction, fraud etc.

No plan survives contact with the enemy but you at least have a framework to guide you.

To put this in perspective this was *another* of Tony Blair's initiatives

The usual TOTC hysterical BS covering the "opportunity" for a clean load of the (currently) defunct National Identity (register) scheme.

Neat idea. Trade cost for convenience. Of course

The joker will be that "cloud update" service, how secure it is and how many will want it.

Time will tell.

Interesting about who *says* they invest in America, and who actually does

Telcos have by definition always been heavy on infrastructure.

Do they still run on 40 year pay back cycles? I'd have thought they'd halved it by now but does anyone know?

Interesting how the internet companies have a "lobby size" totally out of proportion to their actual US investment.

An exciting time for Mars studies.

"Crushable structure" is more like the papiemache honeycombs eggs are packed in.