Posts by John Smith 19 16330 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Jun 2009
Quite a big announcement of some kind.
Not sure quite what about.
Personally I don't think they have a cat in hell's chance of the 2022 Mars launch window (although they will give it there very best shot) but I think they might put something on its way to the red planet in 2024.
It's about spotting it long enough to get orbital parameters.
Then updating them to walk its path through time
To see if it comes close to Earth.
And (unfortunately) there are a lot of objects that size.
BTW IIRC 20km/s is faster than the fastest probe humans have ever launched from Earth.
The collect multiple data sources (and probably provide any driving signals for things like strain gauges) and format the data.
However the MDM's didn't run programs (although I think the later model running on the ISS do)
As embedded flight avionics that suggests they should be under the full DO178b style development process. Nothing less.
Incidentally the first time I heard one of these timer overflow bugs was related to Patriot missile batteries in the 1990 Gulf War for extended periods of time (I heard about it much later)
So it's not exactly an unknown failure mode.
Actually I think that's astonishingly low.
Britain is 2nd in the European league of slow paying businesses. Only Italian companies are slower (yes accountants do keep track of such things).
Not only would that 9m have to be circulate back and forth but it would have to multiply doing so to turn $9m into $2Bn of business.
Or is he going with the "This is just a specimen transaction, we have dozens (hundreds?) more that follow the same pattern" ?
Autonomy didn't sound like much of a business but HP's case sounds very weak. How is that possible? They wrote off $8Bn of its price (or put another way wiped $8Bn off shareholders assets). They don't seem to be putting up much evidence to explain why (and then proceed to who caused those transactions, which would be who they should prosecute).
This has f**k all to do with the usual "Four Horsemen*"
And everything to do about knowing everything about everybody forever.
*Drug dealers, money launderers, terrorists and paedophiles. In whatever order scares their audience the most.
Indeed.
"Data fetishism. It's not a sane policy. It's a personality disorder"*
*Usually promoted (as Upton Sinclair noted) by people for whom ""It is difficult to get them to understand something, when their salary depends upon them not understanding it."
British local authorities have quite large stocks of relatively high density housing.
This would give them quite a large block purchase of FTTP, which could then spread out from their to other parts of the areas they control.
British friends tell me something like this has worked with bulk purchase of gas and electricity tariffs.
Especially if by "clown" you mean Pennywise in Stephen Kings "It"
Or Heath Ledger in The Dark Knight.
Bu***hittted into the student union.
Bu***hittted stories when he was the Brussels correspondent for the Torygraph.
Bu***hittted as London Mayor
Bu***hittted his way through being Foreign Secretary.
Still bu***hitting as prospective Conservative party leader/ Prime Minister.
True.
Before the Musketeers...
For 200 years the "Garde Écossaise" helped watch the backs of successive generations of French royalty, They stayed as part of the Royal body guard (although virtually all French) until 1830 and the final disbandment of the French royal family itself.
Ahhhhhh.
The light dawns...
Like much of Brexit it is a fundamental paradox.
1) The Good Friday Agreement does not permit border infrastructure
2) The EU will not permit an open border between itself and another country with (potentially) completely different rules about pretty much everything.
It's bu***hit. It's known to be bu***hit virtually from day one and still this bo***cks continues.
And how the hell did the MoD get it's fingers up this data base?
A 5YO could see this is nothing but a blatant fishing expedition on a database they have virtually zero reason to access.
Got an intruder on a base. Take his dabs and pass to the PNC.
Worried about bogus employees. As above.
BTW for non UK readers MI5 and MI6 have nothing to do with the MoD and (AFAIK) haven't done so since WWI.
Because without that benchmark they could be better than the rest.
It's not good in an absolute sense.
Do any other mfgs come off better? Worse? About the same?
When I see stuff like this now I say "Caveat emptor."
Who bankrolled this? Why?
99% of these f**kers have no idea what is going or why.
This (as it has always been) has been a small cabal (mostly centered on the Home Office and mostly for some reason PPE graduates) who want to know...
They want to know everything about you 24/7/365 forever.
Why?
Because they do. They cannot carry out their supposed function because they are already drowning in the data they can vacuum up. But they still want more.
And BTW note this says nothing about the already existing abilities to run "queries" because "Oh no, we don't have a single database for all this stuff, no sir, not at all." IIRC RIPA was famous for a whole bill about spying and data collection without the use of the word database in it.
Do not want.Do not need. Samsung do win some points for honesty, which they lost when they deleted the comment.
Samsung, like every IoT maker, should get their head out their backside and realize they are now a (specialist) computer manufacturer.
Viruses and security are now part of you design problems.
TV's with endless f**king on screen menus are bad enough but then plugging them into the internet for bonus fu**witedness. Up with this s**t I will not put.
That is a step change for magnets of this power (although the mass of the Dewar full of LHe puts that up a bit the small size suggests it'll still be in the 10s of Kg size)
This is one of those enabling technologies that aren't much use on their own but open lots of possibilities.
Consider what that would do for that old SF chestnut the magnetically levitated train
Well done to the whole team..
It's build configuration
Do you want to include Telenet protocol support in build Y/N?
Do you want to include FTP protocol support in build Y/N?
So what do code monkeys do?
This iw what happens when security is not considered as an issue. Since no one (IE no PHB) considers it an issue that's who looks after it. No one).
"I am the law."
Whitman's playing the "I am the CEO of a major American Corporation. How dare you question my word" routine might scare the s**t out of US judge but that will go exactly nowhere in a UK court.
I don't like either side in this case but it looks an awful lot like HP did most of this to themselves.
If everyone (including your own CFO) tells you "This valuation is total bu***hit" and you go ahead either
a) Everyone is wrong because you know something they don't
b) You are a complete f**king moron.
Option b is looking distinctly more likely .
Her behaviour makes perfect sense.
If you've spent time around people on the autistic spectrum.
The complete inability to read people.
The inability to stop following a fixed pattern, even when all indications are that it's not working.
No ability to infer consequences from written statements (there are tests normal 6YO's can pass that ASD sufferers can't in this area).
The only reason she hasn't tried to get the agreement voted on for a 4th time is because she's finally leaving. That must have taken something not far short of "F**k off you retard" spray painted on the wall of the Cabinet meeting room for her to realize she might be having trouble.
A massive pack of lies by the Leave campaign.
I've looked at some of the ads they spewed out to the 3 million undecideds whose details their sub-contractors had stolen "acquired" from Facebook and they have (literally) b**ger all to do with things the EU actually controls.
Nothing.
Not a thing.
A billion ads is about 16 for every man, woman and child in the UK.
The tactics of Joseph Goebbels are alive and well in the 21st century. Yeay for that.
This is the true price of failing to teach basic critical thinking skills (or bu***hit detection) in UK schools over decades of failure.
Let's start with Dominic Cummins shall we?
I'd say his feeding of targeted lies to the gullible banjos that went out to vote Leave was a betrayal of democracy in the UK.
Otherwise, just another loyal sock puppet following the script of his data fetishist masters.
The price of freedom is eternal vigilance against the UK Designated Centre for Evil (AKA The Home Office).
Quite true. And that applies even if you bought the (usually) eyewateringly expensive training package to accompany it.
OTOH
"Software projects are always creating something novel."
Oh really? That would make the idea of "software patterns" fairly pointless would it not?
IRL a hell of a lot of this stuff has not only been done before but done many times before. Yet "developers" keep f**king up and behaving like code monkeys. I'll note (from "Programming Pearls") the first Binary Search algorithm was described about 1946 the first correct binary search was described about 1962. And that's for a "simple" algorithm which everyone here should be able to describe.
If you define "novel" as "That which is the result of all the algorithms and data structures we've stitched together" that would be reasonable. Don't those algorithms and data structures already suggest some ideas for how to chop up the problem?
He called it "composite" rather than "top down" design as he felt that term was already over loaded.
The least reliable parts of any system are the pieces of string connecting the black boxes, not the black boxes themselves.
Myers work deals with exact;u that point. Especially poor is the system that passes complex data structures back that any function can alter any part of. IOW
Every function needs to know its structure (and be re-compiled if it changes) and any function can corrupt any part of its contents.
Which probably explains why Windows programming is so much "fun". :-(.
1) Find some industry that has some room for improvement (in some way)
2) Persuade a bunch of VC investors to sink shed loads of cash in your plan while you corner the market (then you can dictate the prices yourself)
3) Do the bits that can easily be improved (phone app to access drivers, dodgy business practices to shift liability from Uber)
3) Pray to f**k that [i]someone[/i] can invent the rest of what you need (acceptable driverless cars in Ubers case) to make the rest of your cunning plan work.
Obvious flaws
1) What if there is no monopoly position because the market is (and wants to remain) fragmented?
2) The magic tech needed to complete your plan is impossible or does not arrive promptly?
Obvious answer. Tell the VC's "Que será, será. Shrug shoulders and say better luck next time boys" as you walk out the door with just your rather nice (protected) final paycheck.
Or has it been the usual f**kwitted development tactics that all networking mfgs have been guilty of (I'm looking at you Cisco) at one point or another.
And $deity on a bike the US Foreign Secretary (or WTF they call him) and May talking about tech.
Like either of them knows what they are talking about or why (from a technical PoV) it's important.
And who is pushing hardest for a fully automated flight deck I wonder.
So when in doubt, blame the pilot.
Neat.
I'd say "WTF" but of course I understand exactly why they want to do it that way. It saves them money and shifts possible blame.
And IIRC this is not the first time a single sensor has been the only indication of what's going on, or not cross checked with another to say something is up (although with 2 it would not be clear what). I'm recalling a potentiate on a flight control surface in another crash. Can't recall if it's sample rate was very low on the flight recorder log or if it had flat out failed and had no backup.
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