Posts by John Smith 19 16330 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Jun 2009
True.
All major powers have this capability. Enough of them have f**ked other countries in various ways over the years that they've left a bunch of very angry people.
But this stuff doesn't need the infrastructure of nuclear, biological or even chemical weapons.
IOW it's a game everyone can play.
Cyberwarfare is the equalizer.
Ummm.
If you've shut down the entire generating capacity for a modern country like the US for a few days you don't need a nuclear attack (miltary systems have backup non grid generators).
A 2 day outage on the US's JIT delivery systems will make it feel like a nuclear attack anyway.
I was thinking "Isn't this exactly how STUXNET was infected into the Iranian nuclear programme?
Who thought US companies would be so dumb to fall for this?*
*Kidding. If a nation state started laying explosives around the infrastructure of another nation state this would be called an act of war. It is time alien code running on strategic servers was viewed in the same way.
Compared to the something like 97% false positive rate of the system the UK Metropolitan Police are trialing that is actually quite good.
Still pretty s**t, but in population of 30 million adults (like the UK) that would 1.5 million false positives.
Frankly you'd better to issue every officer with a fingerprint reader.
But then of course you'd need to actually do some real police work and they might start harassing officers who did this with too little evidence to begin with.
This.
DRAM is the dominant memory storage technology everywhere.
And for people who want maximum speed all the time it has the same issues it had since the first DRAM chips rolled off the line in the late 60's
The absolute numbers have changed but the ratios have not. It's about hos smart you are in working around those limitations.
The Transmeta Crusoe
Here's the thing.
HPC is all about numerical computing
Now (in theory) porting most of the code means re-compiling it with the FORTRAN whatever compiler you have on your architecture.
But
Too cute a re-ordering and your end users carefully crafted high level numerical algorithm turns to rubbish. Quickly produced rubbish results are still rubbish.
TBH I think a lot of this is bo***cks.
Furber knew when they designed ARM it was all about the DRAM latency and it still is.
You're talking to the on chip cache. What happens when it fails? What happens (if you have one) an L2 cache hit fails? Because it will happen.
I'd say a big part of serious HPC design is an n-way memory system and lining up the data & code within those rows and keeping the row shifts as infrequent (and over lapped) as possible. And even then what is the current standard? 8ns flat out when the processor could be clocking at 0.5ns?
As for power consumption we've know the clock drivers are the biggest power sinks on any processor and going clockless is the way to eliminate most of them.
Given that a modern row of a DRAM could take the address space of an entire 8bit processor (laid out as a bit stream on one chip). So yes code density still is a thing.
We know that theoretical compiler technology has improved over the last few decades but how much of that has actually been used?
It's not like there aren't alternatives to x86 already available, like the open source SPARC ISA's.
This has a huge mountain to climb
Neatly exposing the hypocrisy and general bu***hit that is at the heart of the desire to leave.
A country they can control.
No one outside to put any kind of brake on the government in power (even if they don't have an absolute majority) doing what they want, when they want.
And you can bet will continue to do so.
The EU's main use to the UK political class was someone to blame for them having to do what was the right thing anyway, but they didn't have the spine to do themselves.
Good to know.
But you thought you'd play a merry little prank (along with f**k knows how many like you) and "show" the EU how you felt.
Ho ho ho.
But politics has consequences.
I hope you'll keep smiling as this almighty clusterf**k (which you are partly responsible for) really starts to bite.
BTW, most of what you're talking about only involves the EU peripherally
How national governments resolve national problems (and most of what you've bi**hed about are national problems) are down to the people the voters elect to run the their nations governments.
IOW most of what your complaining about should be piled at the doors of the Home Office.
Otherwise known as the UK Designated "Centre for Evil."
Do you feel you played like a banjo? You should
and to induce autism through immunization shots. "
"Should I support a soft or hard Brexit?""
Hard brexit of course.
You are a delusional f**kwit.
Hard brexit is the perfect fit for the rest of your delusional belief system.
No.
Elections mean you get to change you mind in 5,6,7 or 8 years (depending on the country).
Like the US can get rid of Trunp, if they are so minded.
Referendum is like Trump sworn in as President-for-life.
I'd guess most Americans would be a bit unhappy with that.
To folks like Rees Mogg this is something of a bonus.
How dare the plebs clutter up roads with their inferior working class vehicles.
BTW JRM is also a fan of the zero hours contract.
A well spoken ba***rd is still a ba***rd
Rees-Mogg may not reach match the legal definition of owe, but his behavior certainly does.
13/25 of the people who voted.
It's not exactly a landslide given you're looking at root and branch changes to a legal framework built up over 42 years to be replaced in 2, is it?
Some will call it CMD's biggest achievement.
Other's his biggest failure.
Time will tell.
Yes, that's about the PoV that got this sh**storm started in the first place.
Remain was badly run but Leave basically lied, and went on lying. From who funded them to what the benefits are.
The banjos got well and truly played.
Right there is why people should be concerned about IoT.*
Mfg goes down pan, device is bricked, despite the only reason needing to talk to the server is probably to spy on you.
*Along with the usual code monkeys who fling their s**t code onto the devices of course.
IOW a remotely ownable surveillance drone you pay but may not be able to fully control.
A fine contraption to separate the mostly clueless from their money and the clueful to explore an ever wider area for new and interesting images and networks to invade.
Yeay.
First note the emphasis on organic chemistry, not the insane stuff of TIWWW.
But this obsession with neural networks seems kind of dumb.
AI has been applied to crystallography since the mid 80's using blackboard techniques and network analysis methods (the "synthon" seems to a key idea). IOW there's lots of information about reaction pathways, what works and what does not, already. There's also quite a lot of software that applies thermodynamics (not quantum simulation) to decide if a molecule is viable, but AIUI it's got a pretty bad UI. Now can this thing work out that a molecule with 15 N atoms (mostly in its backbone) is even possible, let alone how (very carefully) to synthesize it?
TBH while an automated synthesis rig is hardly AI the fact it is (from the article) about 4x faster than a human (presumably a chemist in training, who needs the practice) sounds good if you want to "brute force" all the variations of a substance (like a high temperature superconductor) you've just found has excellent properties in one area but is poor in other ways.
But that doesn't help you discover the core compound in the first place.
Frankly I'm amazed that in the 2nd decade of the 21st century automated chemical discovery labs are not more common (if not SOP).
Indeed.
The ex prep-school bully boy seem to like people who are
a) Successful bullies and in (apparent) total control of their countries. Deep down he knows he's not in control of America, no matter what he tells his supporters and assorted sycophants.
b)They have nice heads of hair. Check out Fat Boy Kim's. Immaculate. And Putin. Not a comb over in sight.
That's simply explained.
A system costing £10m/ year to support needs a company that can support a £10m contract, right?
Wrong. In HMG land if the system runs 10 years it needs a company that can support a £100m contract
Why?
Because we're the British Government, and we're special.
Multiply all numbers by 10 or 100 and you see why only "Special" contractors (like Capita, Thales, and the other Usual Suspects) can possibly be considered for this.
Bit like Carillion.
Interesting.
I've heard that when TV's had ultrasound remote controls they could be fooled by jingling coins. Presumably the "chink" produced noise that was broadband and loud enough to spoof the (very simple) channel changing protocol used.
I imagine your system is much more resistant.
No, that would be a James Blish novel called (IIRC) The Quincunx of Time.
There's an old PopSci article about doing a 2bps spread spectrum data stream that can sent over a TV audio channel to activate toys (developed by a toy mfg).
The big challenge is the noise issues in free space transmission. Industrial environments can be very noisy. High pressure air (used for driving some valves) can screech at the sound barrier.
So yes a system that can do reasonable data rates surrounded by broad spectrum and high amplitude noise is pretty clever. The question of course is wheather it's more power efficient than just leaving the radio transceiver on?
Yes, I think so.
TBH I did look it up but I haven't archived the information.
It was one of those things that was quite popular in some areas and ICL definitely licensed it and created their own version, so hiring with generic skills would only go so far, and of course the ICL MF architecture, arguably better but less well known than the 360/370/4090/whatever of today.
Given the time frame was late 70's, early 80's senior devs in their 40's would be in their late 70's? PFY's would be considerable younger (although not necessarily more spry).
on the subject?
Surely this will give unprecedented levels of clarity on all aspects of the post Brext world?*
*I'm f**king with you. The real SitRep is FUBAR, just like the day the 13-12 "landslide" was announced.
You could also make a good case for some departments p**s poor implementation of EU rules.
I'd start with that designated "Centre for Evil," the Home Office. Borders are its jurisdiction.
I'd give strong runners up prizes for the Ministry of Justice (rather a "Euro" name, don't you think?) who are responsible (although you might not believe it) for the Courts, the Probation Service and the Prisons.
I'm not sure who runs the Detention Centers, where people have been kept in some cases for a decade or more because the relevant Dept can't seem to sort out their f**king paperwork.
True (and because in fact he is partly responsible for this mess)
Didn't stop him getting the Ministerial car back to London did it?
Because getting into a mini cab is sooo undignified (especially if like him you have a little extra round the camp fire).
As far as he's concerned "principles" are the plural of "principle," a word he's seen in a dictionary, sometime.
Which seems to be the Brexitieers position.
As for those who voted for them I feel like I'm in Star Wars (Ep 9. The Empire hasn't a Clue)
Tech: I've powered up the droid and recorded what it said
Me:: Play it.
"I voted to make Britain stronger.... Keep fisherman in jobs....my family all voted Leave...I won't say"
Me: WTF is this gibberish? Did the Empire use EMP on its memory?
that scurvy crew?"
That's the question you should always ask when a politician (or wannabe politician, or bankroller of politicians)
The big one is Rees-Mogg, who's Somerset Capital set up an Irish branch and who's on £20k/month for 35 hours "work" (that's his declare pay. He's also on a dividend of unknown size). Not bad for a History graduate, eh?
Somerst Capital (supposedly) specializes in "Emerging markets" but I'd have thought China and India have already "emerged" from being 3rd world countries.
Maybe he's looking to turn the UK into an "emerging market opportunity" ?
SOP at Redmond.
No change there.
All the while telling the gullible "Of course you have a choice (to join us). We just want you to be happy "(and use our for-pay products which we have a real monopoly over because we've convinced your PHB's that they can't live without us)
People will fall for the "Ohh it's free, and we can trust MS," because they always do, despite all the evidence they shouldn't.
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