Posts by James 51 3426 publicly visible posts • joined 23 Jun 2009
At the moment BT is content to leave large swathes of the country with little more than a string and two tin cans hooked up to an acoustic coupler. They are having to be proded or bribed into every extra ounce of effort unless it's to squash a local competitor. If we're going to bribe them into doing nationally important work, why allow them to skim the cash off as dividends?
Lots of new teachers are getting hired on fixed term 10 month contracts. Not much security in teaching these days.
Luring professionals into teaching would seem to be more efficient than trying to turn teachers into programmers. Problem might be if those teachers are expected to stray too far outside of their area expertise.
Perhaps but the article implies that the code is continiously shifting and so has a better chance of staying obscure. Even if you manage to sucessfully attack the site once, it will change the next time you visit the page rending the previous attack less effective without any extra action by the owners of the site. Clever if it works.
Can't help but be reminded a little of the cyber warfare in GitS, in particular viruses that used the defenses of a system as an essential piece of their functionality. Let the arms race begin.
You need countries to co-operate on a truely global scale and it's hard to convince the few benefiting that they should stop. Plus you've forgotten about companies using their slush piles in tax havens to do business so a lot of that money might never reach the share holder.
What about building the tech into a sensor embedded under the skin? Take a quick look at your 'tatoo' and see what your quicksilver sugar levels are like. Any energy required can be harvest from the 'host' and transmitted to some small convienent computer people will keep on their persons for just such an emergancy. Might cause a few false alarms but dangerously low levels (as opposed to signal lost) could cause a message to appear on the computer or contact the emergancy services.
I have a Sky+ box left over from my contract with them and I have the French equivelent of FreeSat as well. I'd like to get rid of two boxes and replace them with one (though how to get the decoder card to work for the French one might be interesting). If the GPU was good enough I might get rid of my xbox as well.
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