"for increased public funding as part of a new industrial strategy."
Which implies the current UKG has an existing industrial strategy?
Have people spotted this in the wild?
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"We are here to defend democracy, not to practice it."
You may not like him but I get the sense you get a very clear of what direction he's going in, and what his priorities for Linux are.
Having observed Microsoft at work when it comes to competition I could see it in some peoples interests if the open source Linux kernel was degraded, so people were discouraged from it and encouraged to move to peoples more proprietary versions.
No he doesn't
"Fall back mode" is a tacit admission you not done a good enough job in the first place.
I wonder if people realize the "The kernel keeps running" is exactly the approach of IBM mainframes?
User processes die. So what?
An interesting side view was the Bell systems approach to the first digital PBX, ESS1. They wrote scavenger programs that patrolled the kernel data structures and redundancy into the data structures so that errors would be purged out and memory leaks would not occur.
They indicated it found maybe 100 incidents a day but triggered a full blown reboot once every 4 years.
Something to keep in mind?
Good thing it's not working on anything important or a lot of peoples cash could be seriously f**ked up.
IBM federal Systems developed the process to do this in the 1970's.
1)Do code audits which a)Record bugs but don't fix them on the fly and b)Find bugs, don't blame developers
2)Identify if there are bug "patterns" of error prone (or just wrong) code
3) Use those patterns to scan the whole code base for other examples and fix those before going back into retest
No "deep learning." No neural networks. Just small teams eyeballing the code and writing pattern recognition scripts fed from a code repository where all code changes were tracked by developer and date/time on a line by line basis. SoA in the mid 70's but today....
Of course that was for a code base in MB, when a 1 MHz 32bit processor with 1MB of RAM was screaming performance at a Rolls Royce cost.
You'd think in 2017 people could do a bit better, wouldn't you?
Yet with single processors several 1000x faster and memory several 1000x bigger, with potentially massive MIPS (GIPS?) available on demand, apparently not. :-( .
Or, as Upton Sinclair put it. "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it."
He was the guy whose book was the basis for the film "Oil."
And then there was his book on the US meat trade during the early 1900's
Not something you want to be reading while tucking in to a Big Mac..
Which I think I'm right in saying is the highest authority on what is "legal" in the US.
Which suggests it's time to consider wheather the Houses of Congress are still representative of the people or wheather or not wholesale change of the system itself is needed.
When lawmakers disrespect the Constitution isn't that where the Founding Fathers were expecting the people to take to the streets and exercise their rights under the 2nd Amendment?
Because it really does look like "the State" feels it needs these powers to protect itself from its citizens. IOW the people are the enemy.
Which was pretty much the attitude of the Communist Party of the USSR.
How interesting. Were you abroad when you voted?
I found it very telling that the Scottish Independence Referendum let almost anyone living in Scotland vote.
Because those people would mostly likely have to live with the consequences of their decision.
But you don't live in the UK. For you "Britain" is actually more a place inside your head, whose climate you don't experience and whose taxes (it appears) you don't pay.
I've often wondered how many UK elections have been decided by absentee "subjects" whose actual knowledge of the country is decades out of date.
Only if you saw them in the original B&W.
Which I rather think you did.
"Further I object most strongly the the oft mooted Brexiters are all senile racists line."
That was more an impression of all those Daily Heil editorials and the Leave leadership I think.
There really was something quite funny about people who didn't want furriners wanting to bar Europeans but happy to have a whole load more of a whole lot more darker skinned folk from the former colonies. Utterly non-sensical to the point of delusion.
Then perhaps you shouldn't have voted in the first place?
"f we dont try to move away from a bad system then we are guaranteed the bad system."
Only if you bi**ed about it endlessly while doing nothing constructive about changing it while you are a part of that system. Brexiteers whine about "remoaners," having bi**hed on for 42 years to get another vote.
British people seem to have some hazy, comfortable, idyllic view of the British Countryside which was bul***hit in the 19th century and is a total fantasy in the 21st.
That "patchwork of small fields" got ripped out ASAP during WWII as the UK struggled to live on what supplies it could buy abroad and ship back home without them being sunk by U boats.
What people don't realize is just how capital intensive modern farming is. That's why quite a lot of it is now owned by Insurance and investment companies. A decade ago the average hardware on an arable farm was £1million. That's more than a good few light engineering companies have as assets. BTW It's also a very tax effective way to operate. Write offs and support everywhere. It's no wonder a typcial large farm will have a "Farm Manager" and a full time Tractor Driver, because frankly Farmer Palmer ain't got time to actually farm.
I wonder if the UKG is ready to go on handing that money out to the Country Land and Business Association Limited as they are now called (who are BTW currently looking for a Taxation Adviser )
Membership has it's privileges.
with certain (armed) members of the NI population.
Who Teresa May is not-in-coalition with.
She and Arlene Foster are just good friends and friends do each other favors from time to time.
The Conservative govt gives NI an extra £Bn and they agree to turn out for crucial votes to stop the Conservatives calling another election and BoJo/Rees-Mogg/Other right wing nutter to take over.
Well there you go then.
Planning sorted. *
*Actually I think they believed the Brexit fairy would wave her magic wand and it would all magically sort itself out.
Well how would you explain doing f**k all planning, other than positing the existence of a magical supernatural being with vast powers to sort out such a colossal s**tstorm ?
You bet it is.
A substantial part of the Europe still has the idea of "part time farmers," where they have smallish holdings and day jobs. People who run a few chickens, and/or cows, maybe some rabbits.
But the UK had to "industrialize" it's farming during WWII.
As a result it's got a relatively small number of very large (by European standards) farm holdings in a small number of hands.
And a lot of them are on a nice fat subsidy check from the EU, along with assorted MP's and TV presenters.
A lot of them are also in what was the "Country Landowners Association" and (surprise surprise) are part of the Tory rump.
Fat cats don't like having their cream supply cut off, so don't be too surprised if your little free market fantasy "suddenly" develops a few hitches.
It may not be what it's called.
But it's certainly looking like that will be the outcome.
If I downed a load of anti-depressants I might just about think that yes there is enough time to design, develop, test, re-work and roll out a new system (and all the interfaces to all the other systems it has to interface to) in the time allowed. It will also be flexible enough to allow on the fly updating of the system (by authorized personnel only of course) by updating various database entries in the configuration system, and one of the configurations pre configured into the system will be a close(ish) match to what is finally needed from day one.
However with that many pills inside of me I'd a) Be close to needing my stomach pumped and b) Actually think Brexit was a good idea to start with IOW I'd be tripping off my tits.
Indeed. Who could have foreseen that (see icon) ?
What are the two things we know about all government specific IT systems?
1) The rules they have to implement are under constant change. From Ministers, lobbyists, the EU, the WTO etc etc.
2) Outsourced IT seem to go for the most rigid system they can with the most amount of rules hard coded in the logic.
We all know why they do this. It means more change requests which normally (because they pretty much wrote the contract, not the UKG) means more money,
Admittedly this one will be tougher because it's a)Got a hard deadline and b)The rules being moved to are (literally) unknown. Nope. Not a clue. Somewhere between current (but not exactly) rule set and up to (and including) full WTO tariffs.
In fact I'm not sure if the current rules implemented within CHIEFS (in ICL 4GL dating from the 70's) are fully documented.
But that doesn't matter because the UK is "Taking Back Control (C Linton Kwesi Crosby 2017) and because deep down..
<gollum>
We wants it
We needs it.
We must have hard brexit
</gollum>
Oh no, that was supposed to be the increase in NHS funding.
Although latest thinking seems to be that will be lost in Brexit costing.
So no my little Brexit voters, your NHS won't be getting that money after all.
Perhaps in a few decades, once all the other Brexit bills have been settled.
Maybe.
NSA Supports BYOD
NSA lets devs run Kaspersky
Devs will pirate MS Office
And in process open themselves up to being penetrated by Chinese hackers, which is stopped by Kaspersky AV.
Hard to decide which element of this situation is more disturbing.
Does kind of explain how the Equation tools got onto the open market though, doesn't it?
Shadow Robotics idea was quite simple.
Robots live in the human world.
Not humans live in a world made convenient for robots.
Hence a literal human skeleton (made of plywood IIRC, because it matched human levels of strength and mass better than steel) with equivalents to every muscle in the human hand (and there are lot more than the 17 joints up to the shoulder of a normal arm).
They also use a very clever, every light pneumatic muscle to keep the weight down and the response adequate (but they had trouble finding/building a noiseless 3Kw 4-8 bar air compressor, which is what a full unit needed).
AFAIK some of their work is still the SoA.
IOW All information about wheather a researcher is even looking for ways in disappears into an information black hole.
Which means they can claim "We have no security issues. You can ask any of the researchers in this area."
Reporter asks researcher (who's signed NDA). "I know nothing of any bugs. I can neither confirm nor deny that I am investigating any vulnerabilities. I cannot comment on their security. Goodbye."
It may be like those "National Security Letters" the FBI have been issuing to ISP's. They can't tell a customer they're being spied on. They can't tell them if the customer asks them and they can't even answer if the customer asks "Have you received an NSL on my account?"
If I'm right would that sound somewhat Orwellian to you?
Of course releasing a copy of the full NDA would settle matters more or less instantly.
After all if DJI has nothing to hide, they have nothing to fear. Right?
That's what I think is a big driver.*
Let's be real f**king honest here. Historically it has taken actual deaths for industries to start seriously caring about safety, and it looks like IoT security will be another such issue. These are the sort of borderline psychopaths for whom "Carter Burke" in "Aliens" is a (flawed) role mode whose success is to be emulated.
*Who then hire code monkeys too ignorant, or scared of them, or harassed, to find secure implementations of functions even when they exist and are too exhausted/lazy/stupid to implement from scratch when it does not.
Fun fact.
One of the issues with setting up a UK cable TV network was that once the cable was laid it's recovery process was so expensive it's "asset" value was basically zero.
So once it's down, it's basically not an asset, it's a sunk capital cost.
How good is the PNRG?
In fact is a real PNRG being used or is it just "Multiply" by 1?
I think this is the first (or at least first that's got some traction) privacy preserving technology for this task.
The root cause problem is that web sites cost money and the question is how do you fund them? People talk about advertising, but it's not just the ads, it's the data collection and endless tracking of who you are and where you are and what you have and are doing.
Not at all.
All major players have spun up something that they have claimed will be "The next big thing, honest" and it's gone nowhere.
I think MS is the one that was most willing to do so simply to destroy a competitor and preserve it's not-a-monopoly-other-OS's-are-available market.
Some will rise, some will rise as the preferred way to access the environment that drove their creation (EG Android today, SAP or Oracle yesterday) and some will curl up in a ball in the corner and die. Maybe the implementation of their ideas was rubbish, maybe the ideas were just not that big an advance over what you can get already, maybe they were but the learning curve was just too big to go there for the benefits (the old HP calculator story. RPN is great if you were prepared to swallow the learning curve, and many weren't).