Posts by John Smith 19

Non adobe web site says "you need to update your flash player."

I say "F**k right off"

Interesting point about setting the phone to Russian.

So to sum up.

Internet email was invented by Mr Postel.

Come on, did no one think that mildly amusing?

Email does have to get upgraded, especially establishing who really sent it and in transit security.

We no longer live in a world where people can be trusted only to send "safe" messages and neither can the relay stations between them and us be trusted to either not peek nor actively change the message.

"they keep buying smaller..companies and integrating them into their borg collective."

Because today's small competitor could become tomorrow's competent large competitor.

Think of it as the "King Herrod" strategy.

So it's Core War played with "real" virtual processors between machines

Imagine that.

And it's only taken 33 years for someone to try it.

Core War here

The joker of course is have you developed a system perfectly adapted for finding only the malware that the attacking ML system produces.

BTW there is also a Linux GCC optimizer that builds optimally efficient assembler instruction sequences for very frequently executed code. IIRC it was limited to 5 instructions, but recent versions can do sequences up to 7 instructions long (this is one of those combinatoric explosion problems)

"Summary only and no methodology"

Does indeed smell like they wrote the results to prove the conclusions.

SOP for any con-sultancy.

Which is why any such "independent" report should be read with a more or less large bag of salt.

Factoid. IIRC BALPA chairman was at one time Conservative Chairman Norman Tebbett.

Actually the first attempt at artifical muscle

was developed in the mid 60''s for use in prosthetics.

The design was literally a nylon stocking with a balloon inside it driven by air pressure (< 3 atm, which is low for pneumatic systems).

It was later used by Shadow Robotics to develop huamn scale (in size, weight and strength) robots.

I'm not sure how non linear it was.

The Hayes modem command set.

The gift that just keeps giving.

Seriously my first thought was "This is still a thing in 2017"

But

It's been around for decades, it's core is well understood, it's easy to extend and anyone wanting to replace it would have the uphill battle of getting everyone to use their language instead.

What did surprise me is it's even used inside mobile phones between chips. Who would know what was used inside those, and who would care?

NHS Spine II.... Isn't that on Riak?

Isn't that the point of FOSS?

Take a copy of the source code.

The company dies, the app (and the systems built on top of it) live on. As others have noticed the NHS as a whole is quite large enough to support a health care Linux distro and Moorefields eye hospital already has a baseline FOSS EMR system which could be extended to other specialties.

Sounds like the VC wanted to run the company into the ground so they could get it sold ASAP and cash out.

Broadcom --> binary blob you can't control ?

No doubt more to come.

Small steps. Fixed routes. Large payloads and use internally in warehouses

Although I'd thought AGV became a thing in large warehouses in large companies in the 90's.

Once you get into taking individual customers (and will this be a "Johnnycab" taxi?) or do you want people to buy a whole vehicle to do this?

The question is do you really want fully autonomous vehicles? Or vehicles that can radically reduce the number of drivers a business needs to employ?

The latter could give significant business benefits and start ratcheting up the competence of these systems toward full autonomy.

The former is very much harder.

The Ahole who ran that mock construction company suckerd Westinghouse good

And they in turn suckered Toshiba good too. I'll bet it wasn't a happy day when the Tosh Board realized what had happened. :-(

Lots of fail to go round here.

The problem is the Westinghouse. section.

Cut it loose, dig a big hole and drop it down it.

Now if only this was applied to the development of development support tools.

Something capable of both binary object recognition and generation.

But what to call it?

That "Bayes factor == 2" is scientist code for "Don't get your hopes up."

Bayes factor is meant to compare 2 hypotheses to see which is more likely.

If both are equal then it's 0.5. However wikipedia has a list of 6 possible candidate exo-moons, so this would not be the first possible detection IOW there is some statistical data that can shift the probabilities.

I guess if its 2 then it's "Somewhat more likely, but by no means certain."

(Probably) nothing to see here even after the results from Hubble arrive. Move along.

"Why are we concerned about this. Simple"

We know how susceptible US companies have been to pressure from government spooks asking them to put back doors in their code and set default encryption algorithms to have weaker default choices.

If you're used to behaving a certain way it's not very surprising that you expect everyone else to do the same.

And following Snowden it's clear that some parts of the US govt are very used to behaving a certain way.