Posts by John Smith 19

Other accounting software accetable to Ukrainian tax office is available.

Handy, that.....

A small FH factoid. It's now within 8.86% of the baseline SLS payload to LEO.

I suspect SX could push it over that line but feel that would embarrass NASA.

OTOH once it's flying....

Seriously, this guy did not think a paper with that title might be a tad provactive?

Really?

Once people start threatening Messers Sue Grabbit & Run from day 1, no request to rebut, no request to mediate you know there's something smelly.

The original paper looks a hell of a lot like corporate astro turfing to me.

So all the details for a nice little phishing scam?

Only question is should it originate from the AA or the card provider?

Remeber all those reports about AI taking white collar jobs.....

Guess what this..

Needless to say any reduction in the costs of developing a new drug (which given the approximate 4x increase in the speed of the process should be substantial) won't be passed on to the customers.

No biggie. the NYSE has been having "flash crashes" for years.

During actual trading time.

Perhaps they should sort this out before business opens again.

"She frets about AI robots that may train children to be ideal customers for their products."

Which TBH is exactly what toy mfgs are doing as the technology advances.

I've often wondered how many staff at toy making companies have moved out of the industry and into more less morally ambiguous industries, like drug dealing, or used car sales.

I think most people were astonishied only a third are thought to be failing.

How many are actually failing is of course another matter.

As is how many are failing because.....

The PM is s**t.

Their staff are s**t.

The supposed "owners" of the project on the business side are s**t.

This is potentially useful to anyone planning to implement a new crypto algorithm with GPU's

Which makes this a pretty valuable result, wheather or not it compromises this particular algorithm.

Proving once again that "Crypto is tricky."

However those who bought Sky TV's premium packages can rest assured their content will not be pirated, as they use at least 2048bit RSA keys for their encryption.

Your content will continue to remain exclusive, and not to be enjoyed by the riff-faff, unwilling to pay the "Murdoch tax."

"Or what if they'd got control of _all_ the toasters, "

Already happened if you use some brands of web cam.

Then they go on to mount a DDOS on some poor ba***rd

It's a standard for disk drives using Non Volatile Memory.

Oh. Right. Good. Yes

Think I'll wait till the actual products start coming out.

Aren't TeleBots and BlackEnergy organized criminal groups?

Although in a kleptocracy it's hard to tell where government ends and criminal gangs begin.

As others have noted it's a cheap way for Russia to disrupt a regime Putin does not like, although the blowback would have been a bit annoying (nothing too serious though, given how well their corporations handled it).

OTOH Attribution is always tricky. The code is a totally artificial structure. You can treat it as a crime scene but you should always beware that any "accidental" slips may have been staged to decoy forensic investigation. That may sound paranoid until a job goes wrong and you p**s off a lot of people, like WanaCrypt with the Chinese and Russian governments.Then it could be the difference between sleeping soundly at night or digging that bag of fake ID out and starting your retirement early

It's the reduction in uncertainty that's most impressive.

Roughly 3:1 in 1 iteration of the measurement procedure.

The potential revision in the Planck constant is also intriguing, given its intimate involvement in a lot of astrophysics.

BTW I had thought Kibble was also a brand of cat food, but it's actually for dogs. :-( .

This is an outstanding idea. Asteroids are the only way to travel round the Solar System.

For the foreseeable future it's going to take a looooong time to get from A to B in our solar system, which means you'll get cooked by a lot of radiation.

Those elaborately crufted Aluminium cans that NASA, ESA, JAXA, ISRO are the Chinese build have roughly the radiation protection equivalence of 0.5% of the Earths atmosphere. OTOH 3m of Mars regolith will give you radiation protection equal to Earths atmosphere.

But that's a damm heavy lump of mass to get into LEO.

Asteroids are already in orbit. Even a small one one packs a huge amount of internal volume, and can still give you 3m thick walls.

This is the start of an actual viable way for humans to explore the Solar System.

Good to see a report that says what's not there yet, rather than just what is.

I'm always suspicious of any presentation that denies they have any loopholes in their product.

I guess the message is "A lot better than it was and mostly there, but still some parts missing."

"The Data Protection Act..not a barrier to innovation, but it does need to be considered

wherever people's data is being used."

and yet, despite the several decades since it was put on the statute books parts of the NHS still don't.

Another excellent (and short) tutorial on this area for the non specialist.

Thank you once again. One especially intriguing nugget was this point.

"Virtualization doesn't just mean x86 hypervisors. "

Now if you want to migrate off a 40YO instruction set design this sounds quite important. It also implies a way to sift out quite a lot of the HCI offerings quickly.

OTOH

"Windows is going to keep on storing profiles and folder redirections on SMB until the bitter end "

Is quite depressing.

Presumably the later versions are a lot more secure than V 1.0.

SMB is still a fine example of the former Chairman's policy of "Grab them by the protocols (at all levels) and the customers will follow you anywhere"

"Well Trump / The President listens to him."*

Hopefully this presidency will give USianns a solid grounding in the "halo" effect and why you shouldn't trust its effects

*Because bu***hitters love bu***hitters who can bul***it.

sounds like a great way to extend the mfg ID chip on some printer cartridges to phones

Y'know, for your own good.

Yes I understand the theory.

No I do not want.

"government doesn’t need to spy on the entire population to fight terrorism."

And it never did.

It was always about the faceless, unelected (and basically unaccountable) data fetishists of the Home Office (has there ever been a Ministry whose incompetence and malevolence has caused as much misery and wrongly directed hatred?) and their like minded (and equally IT illiterate) friends in the Security Service.

Their dream is not a safer Britain.

It's a Britain where they (or their carefully selected friends) have something they can use on every man, woman and child in the country.

Normally people would qualify that statement by "important" men, women etc but this technology means they can afford to do it to everyone.

So they will.

" an underlying fear among the public, "

If only.

Though if "the public" thought for one minute about the issues they should indeed be afraid.

Meanwhile data fetishists continue to walk UK citizens to their virtual, impenetrable cells for lifetime monitoring of every aspect of their lives "for their own good of course."