Re: I for one...
I think you'll find that they did write the script.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Kidnapping_Act
https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cirg/tactical-operations
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Ransomware victims: Just pay up, grin, and bear it – says the FBI
Dad who shot 'snooping vid drone' out of the sky is cleared of charges
Deutsche Bank's creaking IT systems nervously eyeing bins
Tuesday 27th October 2015 16:09 GMT
Vaguely related
My math teacher at uni who also taught us FORTRAN77 (I just missed having to use punch cards by 6 months) liked to tell the story of that one guy in a Deutsche Bank data centre who dropped a stack of jobs on punch cards down a flight of stairs on his way to the stack feeder/reader, swept them all up again as they were and dumed them in the feeder. Allegedly bricked the mainframe for a week.
Balloon-lofted space podule hits 30,000m
UK.gov launches roadmap for Quantum of Something or other
Tuesday 27th October 2015 14:38 GMT
Basic research
That's always the "problem" with basic research. You'll never know if or when any practical (or commercially interesting) applications emerge. Sometimes it's years, sometimes it's centuries, usually there is no way of telling.
Re the usual 'tax payer's money' blurb - compared with the amounts of money poured into schemes like bank bailouts, mass surveillance, feel free to add to this list - a couple of millions is not even bits of peelings from small potatoes.
Being a taxpayer myself I see money spend on basic research as something like croundfunding a kickstarter project.
US Army bug hunters in 'state of fear' that sees flaws go unreported
Tuesday 27th October 2015 12:31 GMT
Re: FULFILL MISSION OBJECTIVES!
"lack of neocortical reasoning power" have an upvote for this little gem...
Also, a very accurate description of the mindset. Problem is, a lot of other guys you could end up working for have pretty much the same mindset, i.e. corporation types. It starts with calling them(selves) officers.
Qualcomm proposes brain implants for IP cameras
Intel sprinkles Saffron on its chips, to satisfy its Big Data appetite
Preparing for IoT? Ask some old questions and plenty of new ones
Tuesday 27th October 2015 11:53 GMT
Have an upvote! I've never looked at it that way, but you are spot on: Colossus wasn't just a souped up adding machine, it was IoT with nukes. (Hey, I like the ring of that. IoT with nukes!).
Apart from that, one point in Geschickter's presentation has been on my mind as well lately:
"He recommended basing that effort on a network operations centre, only one tuned to handle high volumes of data coming over diverse connections.
If every fridge and toaster and god knows what else connects to "the net" it will generate a huge amount of traffic. Throw in the traffic that is generated by running and storing everything in "the cloud" - how long until the infrastructure can't keep up? Will the next big economic crisis triggered by congested pipes? Where is the tipping point? Who will pay for upgrading the existing physical connections?
Broadcom lowers cone of silence over results
If Amazon can have delivery drones, we want them too, says Walmart
Tuesday 27th October 2015 11:26 GMT
Re: monitoring loading bays?
You beat me to it... if you need drones to to that, your depots aren't run properly. In one of my former lives (15-20years back) I was involved in designing and building half a dozend new depots for Lidl and upgrading half a dozend older ones. They didn't even need GPS or CCTV for that, I'm pretty sure anyone suggesting something like drones would have been shown the door.
This looks more like seeking attention or a desperate groping for new ideas, possibly a bit of both.
Microsoft's Big Data-driven improvement efforts flounder
Tuesday 27th October 2015 10:33 GMT
Re: Nothing really surprising in those results
Learned this some 30 years in a statistics class I had to take (which, in retrospect, I'm really grateful for). Unless you do not know exactly how the raw data was gathered and how it was filtered and processed it is meaningless. However, that is no obstacle at all for gently guiding it in the right direction, i.e. have the data show whatever it is that you wanted it to show in the first place. A lot of this actually happens unintentional, because (for example) having a degree, even a scientific one, doesn't mean per se that you know and unterstand statistics. (I'm looking at you, medical doctors. Also: economics is not a science, sorry Tim, it rather bears all the hallmarks of religion.)
Data trawling faces the same problems. Given that it is usually done with a business plan in mind, results are bound to be biased at least a bit - if only to justify the cost of the data trawling.
The iPhone 6 doused in bromine - an incendiary mix or not?
US broadband giants face 'deceptive speed' probe in New York
Further confusion at TalkTalk claims it was hit by 'sequential attack'
Bacon can kill: Official
Monday 26th October 2015 21:59 GMT
Choose wisely
Ah, well... everything that's fun is either
- illegal
- immoral
- makes you fat
- causes cancer in lab animals
TalkTalk attack: Small biz customers may also have been targeted
Google can't hide behind Alphabet, EU competition commish warns
RBS promises 'safe, secure, confidential' info-sharing on Facebook at Work
TalkTalk plays 'no legal obligation' card on encryption – fails to think of the children (read: its customers)
Google cloud brownout fix forgets some servers
Mostly Harmless: Google Project Zero man's verdict on Windows 10
Russian subs prowling near submarine cables: report
Intel and Oracle push into big data, label IBM and SAP cloud clowns
Monday 26th October 2015 11:00 GMT
Everybody loves Larry
Blah blah CLOUD blah CLOUD blah CLOUD CLOUD CLOUD ...
2 points, though:
1. SAP could well profit from the 'safe harbour' Charlie Foxtrot
2. never ever underestimate IBM, they could teach the BOSH some new tricks, and then some
http://musicmp3.ru/artist_the-lightning-seeds__album_cloudcuckooland.html
You own the software, Feds tell Apple: you can unlock it
Court to Wikimedia: Your NSA spying evidence is inadmissable, so you can't prove NSA spying
Ruin your co-developers' life with Mimic, the Unicode substitution tool
Mystery object re-entering atmosphere may be Apollo booster
Joining the illuminati? Just how bright can a smart bulb really be?
Saturday 24th October 2015 09:49 GMT
I agree with all of the posts so far (which is a first)
This is a toy. My younger me would have leapt at it, of course, but that's neither here not there. In the time I take out my phone, unlock it, start the app and wait for the BT to connect to the bulb I can switch on any light in my flat and put the kettle on. Would like it if the next door neighbours buy this though as it would make for an interessting way to field test the range of BT devices.
TalkTalk attack: 'No legal obligation to encrypt customer bank details', says chief
El Reg revisits Battle of Agincourt on 600th anniversary
If MR ROBOT was realistic, he’d be in an Iron Maiden t-shirt and SMELL of WEE
Boffins: Comet Lovejoy is a cosmic booze cruise spewing alcohol across the Solar System
Saturday 24th October 2015 08:58 GMT
The Reg online standards converter
"We found that comet Lovejoy was releasing as much alcohol as in at least 500 bottles of wine every second during its peak activity," said Nicolas Biver of the Paris Observatory, France, lead author of a paper on the discovery published October 23 in Science Advances.
Time to upgrade The Reg online standards converter!
I've just checked - there is no conversion for 'Alcohol Content'. I suggest a Comet-to-Beer-to-Wine-to-Booze ratio.
So what's the internet community doing about the NSA cracking VPN, HTTPS encryption?
Saturday 24th October 2015 08:45 GMT
Re: The NSA just recommended dropping ECC
No, it was Sir Francis Walsingham...
ELINT goes back to the days of the first telegraph. SIGINT (in a broader sense) goes back so far that you can't really date it. Spying realy is 'The second-oldest profession'.
This is about computer networks, and Bletchley Park didn't spy on them because there weren't any yet. The NSA, however...
... anyway: pedant mode OFF, have a nice weekend, a pint an an upvote. Bletchley Park references always get one (I think it's in the forum rules somewhere).
New Horizons: Pluto? Been there, done that – now for something 6.4 billion km away
Saturday 24th October 2015 08:09 GMT
Spacecraft? Spacecraft.
When I read the probe being referred to as a spacecraft my initial reaction was a kind of 'yeah, right'-smirk. Then I remembered that scene from 'Flight of the Phoenix' where Hardy Krüger explains to James Stewart that the size of the machine doesn't matter - what matters is that the engineering is done properly. Yes, it is a proper spacecraft, and it is going where no spacecraft has gone before, and it is amazing.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059183/?ref_=fn_al_tt_4
American robocallers to be shamed in public lists
Nippy, palaver and cockwomble: Greatest words in English?
Fully working U-Boat Enigma machine sells for $365,000
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