Posts by John Smith 19

The Programmers Apprentice reborn!

Note that DARPA is the almost impossible mission force.

But when you think about it this does seem a good question. Why can't you use software to help fix your problems with software?

But as people have pointed out how many of these problems could have avoided if existing tools were used at the right time in the development process?

Fine work.

Actual field work and lab work follow up.

Mfg don't seem to get it. The search for vulnerabilities *will* take place.

Wheather they want it to or not.

The word will get round if you kit is s**t.

And while I'll not it's on the internal side rather than the external side it is wireless, so not quite as "internal" as I'd like for a start.

I like my privacy so I disable wireless access to the router by default. But that's not always an option.

Thumbs up for finding it. The mfg can have a thumbs down for putting it there in the first place.

Regardez vous mai visage.

Bothered.

Moi?

Translation.

Hahahahahahahahahahahaha.

The biggest problem is *not* the technical one.

It's the legal one.

But I agree this should open up different business models.

But for starters NO US staff/offices/servers is a good idea.

Switzerland looks to be the only country that takes personal privacy seriously with a well functioning government, but there must be others?

All those *automatically* started "services" perhaps?

And that PoS "indexing" service,

WTF that about?

Do you get the feeling that MS work really hard to stop people figuring out what does not need loading/starting/running ?

Interesting PoV.

So the only way to decide what your decision is going to be is to actually apply all the logic and then make the decision.

Nothing less will do.

Intriguing.

Oh look, the "benefits" of "security."

"So in the US, you can walk into any Starbucks and get free Internet without even logging in (but you may have to watch an ad). In China, that would be illegal, as all the real identity of all Internet users must be known at all times."

So instead you get rampant identify theft.

Sounds like you need to run any access through your phone if you want to cut down the number of people who can steal your identity.

Remember folks, the atmosphere acknoledges *no* borders.

Sooner or later we will all be inhaling some of that.

Impressive work

Note they have already ruled out certain theories about such black holes.

Personally I've never understood the interaction between masses at high velocity and gravity waves.

It always seemed obvious that a GW detector near a big particle accelerator should be picking up feint but repetitive pulses when the accelerator was running.

But thumbs up for reducing the search range and pinning things down.

Google operating like Microsoft.

Surely not.

They said they'd "Do no evil"

Aluminium lots cheaper than gold or silver

So in principal a good idea.

Unless of course you can only put this layer on inside a hugely expensive (and small) UHV chamber of course.

It's V 0.1 tech but applied to ultra cheap thin film cells (the kind that really do come on a roll) or the ultra high performance triple junction cells (>43% already) this sounds like a winner.

If they can only get the commercialization right.. :( .

So what AV's *do* detect it?

Obvious question really.

Funny how that works.

Big Corp gets a tech presentation from Small Co and later releases product it was working on "All along."

Yeah.

Amazing. The country with the most extensive system of spying on it's citizens can't

stop it.

Unimpressive for all that spying is it not?

Perhaps educating those merkins a bit more could make all our lives a bit better?

*Ultimate* security needs open source standard x open source implementation.

So you can trace the flow from the idea to the software that carries it out.

For the full "tin foil hat experience" you will need to avoid the banally obvious hole of a compromised compiler, so yes you will need to verify your compiler, which you will have personally boot strapped from a copy of the source code by directly keying the bits into the file (can't be sure the assembler has been compromised, can we?)

For the rest of us the first 2 items and free communications between testers should suffice.

But remember 2 things. 1) Mono cultures are susceptible to single (but complex) attacks, hitting everyone at the same time. 2)Patching, proper staff training, limiting what parts of your stuff are visible to the global internet and requiring your apps suppliers not need to run with root privileges for basically trivial tasks will (probably) end most of the security issues of most companies and institutions.

But that's too much like work for too many PHB's

Just think an LED dedicated to every citizen.

The dream of every "security conscious" dictatorship society.

Clever stuff. Of course for 2 dies you could do face to face bonding.

That should give phenomenal contact density, but only for every 2 die pair in the package.

I guess they're seen the layers between the dies as sort of stress relief layers to absorb some of the forces involved, deforming to accommodate any forces in the dies.

Intriguing to see if they will go to some kind of processing-in-memory that has been proposed off and on since the mid 80's.

So wafer sizes moving up from "carpet tile" to "family pizza" size?

Here's a though.

Instead of sticking transistors on one chip you make more chips, the same size, and lower their prices instead.

"Wu Ha" becomes "Oh Whoops"

Tai Chi is also the exercise being practiced by the John Hillerman in the opening titles for Magnum PI.

so Old Codger 1, robot 0.

Top Crytographer "admits" "There are terrorists int the NSA membership."

Give me 6 lines from an honest man (or even one with a dry sense of humour)....

That sound you hear in the background is Osama Bin Laden ROFLAO.

He wanted to destroy peace and freedom in the West.

He succeeded.

Just think the UK could have enjoyed similar "benefits" if Tony Blair had had his way.

I wish govt ministers would take one simple point away.

If a country of 5.6m is going to f**k this up why do you think a country of 66m is going to do better?

But *this* time it didn't get away.

Hoorarh.

*Theoretecial* benefits versus practical implementation f**kups. Hmmmm.

Decisions decisions.

Big Media. Make the price reasonable and the collection process fast and people pay.

"Yes I know you make most of the money on the popcorn, but think.

No more film copying and distribution.

Instant cash in the bank. Release on Monday. Profit on Tuesday.

Some will do it slower, some will do it faster.

And all those staff you pay for copyright enforcement are no longer needed.

Result. $$$$."

And then of course I woke up.

You know it makes sense.

So who *is* the reincarnation of Steve Jobs?

Look for

Bit of a s**t

Bit of a s**t with women.

Lots of money.

Huge sense of self worth.

I don't know. In a world full of ar**holes it's going to be tough to find one that really stands out.

We thank ARPA for funding the TCP/IP protocols and inital implementation.

But that was a long time ago.

The formal administration of the internet (insofar as it has any formal administration) should be a non governmental body and moved to a country which respects all rights.

I would suggest Switzerland