Posts by John Smith 19

"“lamentable archiving and data-sharing practices”"

Yes that did put me in mind of The Climate "Research" Unit and the harryreadme file.

I've heard people comment that functional MRI has been used by drinks companies to identify brain activation and response to various drinks. Yes that really is your brain on Coke.

That research has been very quietly done and is obviously worth billions in a global market.

"Know your tools" is a good moto but of course with tools this complex there is a reason for "we have to trust the developers knew what they were doing."

This looks like the situation in CFD,but without the approach. In that field no software (or new major release) gets accepted without multiple test runs amongst known test cases (many from live wind tunnel tests). First they test, then they trust.

BTW doing it with dead samples brought up the interesting factoid that about 500 genes were firing after death, presumably as part of the organisms last ditch attempts to self heal.

Astonishing achievement

Not this is an orbit around a non-uniform (but shallow) gravity well.

Which is a pretty incredible concept.

I trust the data haul will be every bit as productive as ESA hope.

Farewell Roseta, you have served us well. :( .

All female ticket, brings in people Hilary can't. Stood up to "The D."

Sounds like a pretty good tactical choice for Hilary.

"The Economic League" goes global.

Unchecked assertions ?

Used by people with murky affliations?

People put on list due to personal malice?

Maintained by some sort of quasi private company with links to government departments?

Yea. Let's here for the return of uncheckable, unanswerable black lists.

But it's more difficult if you don't run paper only than it used to be.

"Australian Signals Directorate's lauded but non-compulsory top four security controls"

But still 4 too many for them to implement.

good looking blond x psycopathic levels of self confidence x gullible investors --> trouble.

If that sounds superficial would this have gone anywhere if proposed by some 5'4" 200lb male undergrad instead? I rather doubt it.

Instead she drops out and starts a company.

Turns out engineering stuff is harder than writing code, or learning to write code for that matter. Hence a decade later still no product, just a service.

The idea is clever (multiple tests using nanolitre sized blood samples) but implementing stuff like this is hard. Blood is just nasty stuff to handle, starting with it being a mix of multiple liquids and solids.

The loop hole in the law has stopped close examination of their hardware but personally if I were an investor or a medical care provider I would not touch them with a barge pole.

£74Bn+ wiped off the FTSE 100. Good thing no ones got any of their pension in shares isn't it?

Oh you do.

Ooops.

Still never mind.

As David Gerrold wrote "Freedom is the right to be uncomfortable."

I'm sure we're all excited by the chance for so many people to exercise this particular right.

actually 600lb, 272Kg, can make quite a fair sized bang

On a human scale.

Against a squadron of tanks not so much.

We've come a long way since people took effort tuning a model for galaxy formation

on a PDP 11/780 to run from 1 year down to 1 day.

But we've still got a long way to go.

Mine's the one with a copy of "Programming Pearls" in the side pocket.

Dumb enough to put them in, smart enough to offer a reward to find them.

Let's hope smart enough to fix them promptly as well.

Basicall Uber is the first, last and only line of defense to ensure that the total stranger who's giving the ride is "safe" in some sense of the word.

What an utter PoS idea.

Where OS is concerned less is more.

Below the OS less is much better.

Has to be asked who else has had this "bright" idea as well?

Is 2% an "overwhelming" majority ? In most opinion polls that in the margin of error.

Now 10%+ indicates a definite preference.

the Briitsh people will keep getting the government they wanted.

Some will say it's the government they deserve.

But as others have noticed the entrenched senior civil servants have a lot to do with this.

We're doing comments now. How nice.

"Laguna thinks that for all its faults, the superstate has done a better job of protecting data than individual states"

Pretty much tells us the authors view.

And let's recall what the UK has given the EU in return.

The EU Data Retention Directive. Written by data fetishists UK civil servants and introduced in a meeting chaired by Charles Clarke following a bomb explosion in Spain the Spanish were handling without it.

I think quite a lot of European data protection campaigners will be quite happy to see the UK "influence" on this subject end.

Too bad UK citizens can't end their civil servants involvement in their own affairs.

400 patents in 1 day?

Troll alert?

"it’s about the FBI not wanting to do paperwork,”

Data fetishists.

There everywhere.

What's the current estimate of the computing power of the human brain?

Maybe 10 Pefaflops?

In a 2Kg package dissipating about 400W?

The end point for Moore Observation is a 1 atom wide gate with a 1 atom thick insulator on top.

And that's it.

You want more processing power per unit area? Start stacking wafers.

Not impressed.

Or perhaps get rid of the millions of junk fragments already in space?

My instinct says laser charge them, then get them to spiral through the Earth's mag field to burn up.

But that's not going to happen.

"TalkTalk's CEO Dido Harding, who earned £2.8m "

Should be

TalkTalk's CEO Dido Harding, who "earned" £2.8m

FTFY.

I see. So use the thermostats security credentials as way into the res of your data.

The Internet of S**t

Expanding your attack surface exponentially*

*Sounded like a solution looking for a problem when I first heard of it.

Still does.

so it' s the V8 Instruction Set that Fujitsu are using.

Which they reckon is pretty good.

Because it is?

"..had to teach a person.. " "..remain available for consultation... "

Should this happen to you it's time for the scorched earth protocol.

1) Accept you'd job is over as at some level the firm has become infected with a***ole management.

2) Is "training" part of your job description? If not this is an increase in your responsibilities. That means a pay rise.

3)Having management sign off on your training skills means they should now go on your CV. Coping with a non native language speaker is bonus points.

4) Make sure HR sign off on this as well so they can't pass the buck.

5) Consultation implies consultation fees, not life time technical support. Ideally leave the rate to be determined later. If they insist on a specific rat and it's too steep they will never let you leave until every last fact is pumped into the PFY's (or his foreign equivalent) head. Charge by the hour, and make sure the first hour is mandatory, so if it's an easy fix (because he doesn't know what he's doing) you don't miss out.

6) Should they ask to hire you back permanently check how many hours you've billed them and get the pay rise in writing from them before you accept. I'd also suggest you ensure they get rid of your replacement and get authority to select your own replacement.

They gamble that the job is simple enough and the newbie competent enough that they don't need your level of skills (and cost).

Accept they may be right.

Otherwise make sure they pay through the nose.

Wow. 55 is practically nothing these days.

Damm.

the key issue is what does this do to the FH first launch and 1st Dragon to Mars.

Since it looks like they will need to divert at least some resources to deal with this.