Posts by Wzrd1

Re: In the words

Well, to judge from my own experience as a US DoD IA contractor, the contract isn't at risk due to underperofmance.

I've watched that one firsthand, with a one billion dollar recovery for one incident and a classified cost for the month later recurrance.

Said company was *awarded*, based upon the response to the monster they created by their non-compliance with US DoD standards.

Now, as a victim, I'd usually minimize the impact in a press release.

But, the impact was a pitiful 800 megs or so. In an age where terabytes are normally sent astray.

Knowing information systems rather intimately and, erm, knowing something about guided missile systems, 800 megs would give them some fuel formuae and general construction data only and more likely, granted access to laundry and food consumption data as well.

Leaving them at best, fuel formua data and sparse information on anything *really* of import.

But then, I've dealt with compromises, *real* data and know what file size files actually are for designs.

So, it's most likely that the data compromized was chow hall consumption and sparse unclassified data that is of little import.

Hence, "downgraded".

Re: Where did it all go wrong?

It was all a gambit in the Cold War.

We got there first. Things cooled in space, didn't cool Earthside.

Reagan came along and his advisors dreamed up Star Wars. Not as a national defense, but as a money drain on the Soviet economy reflecting our efforts.

It worked.

Then, Bush the Elder found we needed a service economy. In an economy gearded toward the Reagan professional.

The rest is attempting to achieve third world status.

For, the well educated populace is impossible to control. The ill educated populace, triviial to control.

As for paranoia, I learned about OBL back in 1982.

Do you *still* want to play and attract *more* NSA attention?

Re: the Age of Miracles & Wonders

If it's all the same to you, I'll pass on the flying cars.

People can't drive them on the ground, I'd hate to see what a crash in mid-air would bring raining down on my roof.

Re: Why am I not surprised by this?

" But I wonder, if they intercept a 13 year old's sexy pic, will someone charge them with child porn?"

Actually, yes. The NSA is part of the US DoD and hence, has anyone viewing, trading or collecting child porn arrested and charged for the crime.

Re: Congratulations to the Chinese for ...

You're not much of an IA type.

The baseline configurations were DISA issued, via the gold disk. They most certainly were not NSA issued.

The NSA likely had input, but so did NIST and JTF-GNO.

Heh, same here.

Though, it's long been a dream of mine to meet Buzz and tell him happily, "Buzz, you most certainly did *not* walk on the moon! You shuffled, you hopped, you fell on your, well, everything save the top of your helmet. What you did *not* do was walk.

That is something reserved for much nearer one G or a bit more (much more ends up a different shuffle).

I suspect I'd not get punched, but receive a rueful chuckle.

For, indeed, it *is* the truth.

Walking isn't an option under lunar gravity from someone born, raised and *very* recently still living under one G.

And something I learned from NASA lunar archives that were suppressed for decades. The Lunar Follies, where astronauts were spending more time falling than walking. The shuffle being the worst for causing falls, due to unseen rocks beneath the regolith dust.

"You can make a diode out of a piece of coal and a wire."

Forgot about that one, did remember POW's using a razor blade and a wire for a diode for a radio.

Years ago I considered gathering and rectifying stray currents from mains current usage. Right until I calculated the wavelength.

Of course, today, our environment is so much richer in frequencies and "lost" signals of a much more easily utilized wavelength.

Re: No cloud is still the best option

Why, you're absolutely right!

Why, in 2008, the US DoD networks were able to ignore cloud attacks.

By actioning other vulnerabilities to over one billion dollars on first response, the second response (due to your thinking pattern) was classified, but more.

In the civilian world, the cost ends up confidential, but an onus enough to bear significant expenditures in protecting.

Under your candle, everything will be compromised, hence isn't worthy of protection.

The *reality* is, one monitors, then proceeds on a value based computation of a plan.

Rather than jump into a bear trap, leaping for some rabbit.

Or be Target II...

Re: "terrorism-related investigations"

"IOW the other 500million+ US citizens being spied on 24/7"

So, somehow the US acquired 200 million additional citizens this week, huh?

Learn about what you're going to go on about, you'll look a lot less foolish when you comment.

Re: Oh dear

Well, gamma ray or particle moving at relativistic velocity.

One determines which is which by the amount of energy in the signature.

A patent does not equal a product.

The capability is present, hence, Apple patents it and can then generate income from those who would, on good faith, create a product that did perform as this patent suggests.

Re: dot and slash

"...could be hijacked by hackers abusing a hard-coded vuln that allows them to inject arbitrary commands into shell scripts executed by high-privilege users."

Erm, compromise the high-privilege user, own the system anyway. Be it a user with ill will or a user managing to have a malware product installed.

The simple truth is, anyone with high-privilege access essentially owns the system at worst, the entire network at more worst. Hence, the story is nonsense fluff that warns about excessive privilege granting.

In short, something that *should* and largely is, industry standard.

Re: Damn - now I need to go off-grid as well

Gotta go with you on psyops, but I suspect it's more innocuous, a factor of poor understanding of what is required to track *global* power fluctuations in manpower alone.

It'd be annoying to just track London, bewildering to track New York city. Incomprehensibly man hours horrific globally. Even for remote monitors to send data on grid fluctuations in a particular area (which would be, by necessity small, due to ground current differentials and assorted other phenomena.

So, I'll go with an ill informed (sparse are those truly informed on the subject) correspondent reporting on "well, I don't know, it *might* be possible".

Hell, with the saturation level required, we'd have a massive payoff in monitoring wind, temperature and humidity and get 100% forecast accuracy.

Re: Is one of the experiments...

"Mind you, they taste so awful that actually they'll probably find that there is some medicinal quality to them!"

Strange, I have heard the very same thing said of Marmite.

Re: How about using a magnestrictive or piezo substrate...

I was thinking of that initially.

Then, I started thinking of standing waves acting as waveguides...

By the principle used by Microsoft, I can claim control of any superhighway, as criminals use them for a quick get-away.

No proof needed, only some logs of activity and claims that the activity is illicit and the superhighway is mine. Just as the domain is Microsoft's.

Who needs law enforcement? We have the corporations rescuing us from our wallets contents.

Re: "whoever successfully builds a reliable, mass-producable qubit"

"Do you honestly think that an HP or an IBM is going to let Bob's Bit Shack and Hot Dog Emporium come to market with a technology that could render them obsolete..."

Erm, you *do* realize that quantum computers won't replace those companies "bread and butter" product lines, don't you?

That said, both corporations would likely license any mass produce-able quantum computer technology and produce their own high end products. Especially Big Blue.

You're not even comparing apples to oranges, you're comparing apples to granite slabs. Not even in the same kingdom, vegetable and mineral, quantum and binary.

Re: Say what???

Gotta go with Mark there, otherwise we have to change all of the laws of aerodynamics.

As aircraft *do* fly under those laws, I'll discard the nonsense about the atmosphere being super dense and requiring more lifting surface in that denser medium.

Or as a hint, fish "fly" in a far, far, far denser medium than the claimed four times denser atmosphere. Note how their fins are tiny, compared to wings on a bird.

Now, speaking of birds...

Remember them? The surviving dinosaurs? That rather knocks the global notion of all dinosaurs being of a tepid temperature blood.

Other theories suggest a mixture of exothermic and endothermic dinosaurs, which, considering the wide variety of dinosaurs, one could conceive of a wide variety of body temperature.

Mother nature seems to have been experimenting quite with abandon, throwing all manner of thing against the wall to see what stuck.

"You're making the classic mistake in assuming that 'Anonymous' is some big sinister organisation..."

Which is why the vast majority of the "group" are simple script kiddies.

Of whom stealth hacking is an unknown art.

Frankly, being threatened by Osama bin Laden or being threatened by Anonymous, I'd be more worried about OBL.

And he's well and truly dead.

Re: Alternative Title

It's security theater.

That said, I'd be a bit interested to see the scheme. It could eventually proliferate where a MAC collision would occur.

Re: Eh Hello?

Already done.

"assuming weekend visitors don't let their wives/girlfriends venture out alone at night."

Mothers in law are encouraged to venture out alone at night.

Re: Yank my chain

Methinks El Reg fumbled this one a bit.

I know quite a few Brits who *love* crispy bacon, aka American bacon.

That is a great effort at a first go!

Let's see now.

They launched a rocket into orbit. They escaped low Earth orbit and successfully transitioned into Lunar orbit. They then managed to soft land the probe.

Of course, the Chinese didn't have to contend with two incompatible measurement systems, like we do in the US.

They then managed to activate that probe for a bit.

Now, likely as not, they'll have better materials science to support future and even more successful space operations.

Space is hostile enough, adding a solid body into the mix complicated things tremendously.

As NASA learned when Armstrong nearly ran out of fuel landing, then learned that lunar dust was a tenacious beast that followed astronauts everywhere.

Re: umm, no

"Also include the ancillary costs of compliance for US here in everyone-is-free-land..."

Tell me about it. I noticed our township has a bucketload of ordinances on solar panels alone.

Thankfully, we have no homeowner association to contend with. We refused to buy any home where the literal tyranny of a homeowner association exists.

Re: Is that the 'globe' of helium that remains for a few frames?

"Probably talc for the abovestated reason."

Probably, but it sure remained in close to the same volume for a *very* long time. I believe that model records at 60 FPS, which is quite a long time when gas (and debris within that gas) becomes rapidly decompressed by confinement loss.

Re: This is very puzzling

It's called punitive damages. Destroying senseless items as punishment for an "offense".

Law enforcement in the US used to be infamous for it, destroying random items during the course of a search and seizure under a search warrant.

Eventually, the courts explained to law enforcement that a search warrant was *not* a search and destroy order and that law enforcement had to compensate for damages done to private property.

Re: Hang on...

The problem with Red's theory is, explosives don't create a vacuum (there is a low pressure component behind a shockwave, but it's not a vacuum). They don't consume oxygen, as their oxidizer is included in the mixture.

It was a combination of crushing the well head, covering it with debris and flame separation that was pretty much dumb lucked into the original research.

Now, what can go wrong with a brush fire and explosives?

Other than blowing hot fuel, vaporized oils and embers about?

Re: Very nice

Give it time, the far right lunatics will come out blasting how the money shouldn't be allowed to be wasted.

It seems that if they don't like something, tax dollars *and* everyone else' money should be prohibited from being spent upon it.

OK, to simplify it by a lot. There is no such thing as matter, it's all energy vibrating in the form of strings.

Those strings that sit around, combined with other strings can create that stuff we normally refer to as matter.

Now, take a gamma ray photon, let it slam into an electron, it'll release an electron and positron in opposite directions. Combine those (or any positrons and electrons), you'll get a gamma photon flying out in opposite directions.

Now, to get really strange. Loads of energy in a confined area won't permit that matter stuff to form, too hot and energetic for that rest thing (OK, trainloads of math there). Expand things and let things cool off, matter can form. There is charge-particle symmetry. For all matter particles, there should have been equal antimatter particles. Something double plus ungood if one is trying to make stars and planets. But, there isn't. So, symmetry is broken and some ideas are about that suggest why and how that is.

Proving which one idea is right (or every one of them wrong) is why high energy experiments are performed.

With more knowledge about how the universe works, the more cool things can be invented. Tunneling diodes immediately come to mind, which makes microwave communications cheap and easy. Like with cell phones.