Posts by John Smith 19 16330 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Jun 2009
Well sometimes having casual affairs with married women just doesn't quite cut it, so to speak. :)
Note that apart from his signature characters he has shown his softer side in "This Means War" and "A for Andromeda."
And Tom Hardy looks like a guy who could do very bad things in a good cause.*
Good point about Craig and some of the rapey moments. I wonder how many people realize that he is in fact a Scouser?
*Although perhaps without those monologues of his (Peaky Blinders, Lawless) that leave people wondering "Err, yes. WTF did he just say?"
"hat means they're not big enough to be certain of having the range of knowledge and skill to realize the things you realize."
That's actually not a question of knowledge.
It's a question of common sense.
The smartest thing I know is that I don't know everything. So I'd hire a company that did specialize in that area and hire them.
Exactly.
Now if these "offensive operations" do that then those SME's some people seem so concerned about don't get to see this threat.
In the 2nd decade of the 21st century all businesses should realize that if they have an internet link anyone from some bored skiddie in Arizona to a unit of the Chinese army to a disgruntled football supporter could rock up at your virtual doorstep.
Cybercrime is like state surveillance. Once you've sunk the development costs you can use the same tools to attack as many targets as you have resources. Get £10 or £10m it's all good (to the criminal). "We're too small to bother with " is no defense because for the criminal it is no bother to hit you as well everyone else.
You mean pay for the work those businesses were too stupid or too penny pinching to do themselves?
If a business is too short sited to realize it's vulnerable, or too short sighted to realize it needs to protect itself why, exactly, should anyone else do it for them?
In the same vein I think the Bank of England should not work out bail out plans for banks, they should work out bail out plans for customers and let the bank go to the wall. Anything else is basically a license to fail.
"Once you’ve found a sub, it is cheaper to drop a small roboat on the surface to track it where ever it moves. Doesn’t need any weapons because you rarely need to actually sink subs and that bit is easy when you know where they are. When the price drops, you can just drop a ring of roboats around the ports to pick up subs when they leave port."
You may have noticed in the story on the £800m MoD business incubator that BAE and Birmingham U have developed a "Quantum Gravitmeter."
Such devices (pioneered by the late Dr Robert L. Forward at Hughes in the late 60's) can detect the gravity anomaly of a hand in front of them based on the difference between gravity in one direction and another.
So I'd guess the mass of a large ICBM submarine even at say a kilometre would still be quite detectable.
What an almighty clusterf**k
Still the UK can still dump all it's data into the US without any problem. Yay.
Not so sure how many other European countries (yes Britain is a part of the European land mass, whatever they think) will want to send any of their data to the UK if they can help it.
One interesting side effect of Brexit will be to see just how "special" the special relationship with the US is once the UK is no longer it's back door stepping stone into Europe.
Which might explain why no one has a laser cannon driven by thermal batteries or LCD's weren't licensed from RSRE Malvern when invented.
The UK has had lots of defense based electronics jobs.
Many of them gone because you're critically dependent on 1 customer, who historically has been a monumental PITA to work with.
processors
Yes, that would be exactly the sort of environment I'd expect it to get used.
I've nothing against self modifying code in principle just as long as people recall Knuth's point that "premature optimization is the root of most (programming) evil," and leave it as a last resort, not a first resort. This is low level stuff and likely to break most efforts at a compilers attempts to optimize the code first.
I was taught about this in high school and it took years for me to find real cases.
The ones I found were.
The Apollo Guidance Computer. Used to extend the instruction set.
The "Blit" bit mapped terminal developed by Bell Labs as the UI for the Plan 9 OS. Used to assemble optimal instruction streams on the stack for certain graphic functions.
Both were work around specific limitations of the architecture, either in terms of word length (allowing an extended instruction set) or processor speed.
It looks like squeezing the last gram of performance out of an architecture remains the reason for doing this.
But boy can it get messy.
It's OUR data, not yours.
As with ALL governments.
Most "government" is actually CITIZENS data, which they demand from their citizens or subjects.
And a lot of the time the voters would prefer neither to give it not that it be stored in the first place.
"You see (or I hope you do; or would, if it's pointed out), it stands to reason that the distribution of such raw talent is random and uniform over the entire human population on the planet. And the percentage that would be born in any given country is more-or-less the same as said country's population of the human race.
The UK's is not a particularly-large population, obviously."
So on this theory the largest nation should should win always.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/11926364/Nobel-Prize-winners-Which-country-has-the-most-Nobel-laureates.html
And yet after the US the UK, France, Germany and Sweden are the next biggest winners, not India, China or Russia.
So perhaps it's more quality than quantity to begin with?
Or maybe it's being open and welcoming to foreign talent.
As I noted it depends on your PoV.
Either MF got $10Bn of assets at a 75% discount or they paid close to 3x their revenue for same assets.
But if the MF share priced did rise 20% the UK stock market reckons it was a good deal.
What happened to HP's share price when they bough Autonomy for $10Bn?
I think you'll find they supply the Compilers for a lot of IBM mainframes and their mini range as well.
No, the nearest equivalent to CA in the UK is CA.
Your view on the deal will depend on how you see it.
Either they got $10Bn of assets for just over a quarter of that or they paid close to 3x revenue for this software pick-n-mix deal.
Time will tell who's right.
Literally true.
But balance of probabilities suggests engines (on either stage) not involved given that no engines were switched on at the time..
Rockets store a lot of energy in several different ways. Engines release it in the most efficient way (for moving the payload to orbit).
There are other ways to release that energy.
Just about the last phrase I would ever have considered as a description for you.
"the only point I'm making is that pouring more troops, bombs and weapons into a sectarian civil war zone will only amplify the problems, raise new grievances, whilst not resolving existing sectarian, tribal and ethnic disputes. "
"Libya and Egypt show that removing a despot and creating the space for a liberal democracy fails equally spectacularly."
And of course there was the situation in Northern Ireland, where those grievances were eventually addressed and people decided to stop the killing
Something to think about there.
More likely than you realize, give all these jets are supposedly going to be plumbed into the Pentagons real time logistics management system. Leaving the possibility of the following.
"I see you have loaded cluster bombs and set the navigation system and attack systems for a site that is not on the Approved Enemies List. Would you like to select 1 to abort the mission or 2 to contact the Pentagon with a request to authorize it ?"
Indeed.
As "Alternative energy without the hot air" pointed out solar water heating is one of the few things that always help in the UK, because it takes a lot of energy to heat water and solar water heating panels usually trap enough sunlight (and are insulated enough) to give some benefit.
BTW wasn't this an EU thing?
Brexit --> No mandatory smart meter installation ?
Who saw that coming?
Anyone who thought about the issues for about 5 minutes I'd say.
Actually the move of the EU Medicines agency is likely to upset a lot more people and a lot more money unless people think the EU would leave it in London and have the main offices of a major EU agency outside the EU.
In this universe I don't see that happening although I'm sure Home Secreatry (it's.. just...) Boris would bluffly argue the case.
"But it's only an IT system" whisper the Oxford PPE grads in the ministers ear.
These would be the types who insist on having their secretaries (because of course they still need them) print off their emails for them.
Truly the blind leading the blind in a coalition of the willing.
The theory sounds excellent.
The implementation the usual clusterf**k of no clear idea from the client being played by the con-tractors for every penny they can get and a few more beside.
F**k right off.
I don't want the police behaving like GCHQ.
In truth I'd prefer a large part of GCHQ did not behave like GCHQ.
BB, rather than my usual data fetishist icon for the elimination of warrants and due process, not the wholesale data slurping.
"A perfectly safe propellant. Unless you use a chlorine trifluoride oxidizer "
Quite true.
Few people think of concrete as an effective solid rocket fuel but with enough CTF it can be quite effective. Naturally you need to observe certain safety precautions.
Like standing about 1 county to the side of the flight path
"Now the esteemed traitor/idiot wants in add a backdoor (implementation error) and expects no one will look for."
Actually it's worse than that.
Implementation error --> May not exist || can't be found with methodology attacker is using.
Backdoor --> Definitely exists && has known access process to it
AFAIK this will be "one (code) key to open them all." It will be the most desirable target for every cyber criminal, terrorist or state actor on the face of the planet and they will never stop looking for it
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