Re: Private Enterprise Has Started
Luck shouldn't be a factor in robust encryption.
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NIST requests ideas for crypto that can survive quantum computers
Firefox to give all extensions their own process in January
White House report cautiously optimistic about job-killing AI
Thursday 22nd December 2016 08:17 GMT
"The situation might be likened to that of the Titanic, which had lifeboats – just not enough for everyone."
As even the article strays a bit off topic... interesting factoid: the Titanic actually had more lifeboats than it was required to have per the regulations at that time. Which goes to show that policy and regulations should be updated from time to time in order to keep up with technology.
BTW: China is building a theme park that will have a full-scale replica of the Titanic. Which means there will be a guy whose job it is to arrange the deckchairs.
Microsoft scores nearly $1bn non-compete contract with US military
Thursday 22nd December 2016 07:58 GMT
Useless Movie Trivia Time:
As the article uses a picture from Kubrick's film Dr. Strangelove - the mainframe at Burpelson AFB in an IBM 7090/94.
Apple sues Nokia's pet patent trolls
Snapchat coding error nearly destroys all of time for the internet
Europe trials air-traffic-control-over-IP-and-satellite
Google's latest legal opponents: Shooting victims' families – and a cheesed-off ex-manager
Did webcam 'performer' offer support chap payment in kind?
Oracle exec quits over co-CEO Safra Catz's promise to assist Trump
Wednesday 21st December 2016 14:51 GMT
Book tip for the upcoming holidays:
Sinclair Lewis' "It Can't Happen Here", free e-copy here.
It Can't Happen Here is a semi-satirical political novel by Sinclair Lewis published in 1935. It features newspaperman Doremus Jessup struggling against the fascist regime of President Berzelius "Buzz" Windrip, who resembles Gerald B. Winrod, the Kansas evangelist whose far-right views earned him the nickname "The Jayhawk Nazi". It serves as a warning that political movements akin to Nazism can come to power in countries such as the United States when people blindly support their leaders.
NASA explains how 'Spiders' grow on Mars
No Soylent for Santa after key ingredient supply is choked off
China gives America its underwater drone back – with a warning
Seriously, VMware? Two bugs in the week before Christmas?
Non-existent sex robots already burning holes in men’s pockets
Zuckerberg turns his home into Creepy Robot Buddy
Technology as a catalyst for cultural change
This is your captain speaking ... or is it?
Why does Skype only show me from the chin down?
Why don't people secure their IoT gadgets? 'It's not my problem'
Screw EU! Apple to fight back over €13bn tax bill
Tuesday 20th December 2016 06:29 GMT
Re: Apple
Dave, as I assume you are an American TaxpayerTM, I'd like to hear your take on this:
Bloomberg, 2016-12-07: Americans Are Paying Apple Millions to Shelter Overseas Profits
Uber's self-driving cars can't handle bike lanes, forcing drivers to kill autonomous mode
Tuesday 20th December 2016 06:22 GMT
The whole self-driving-cars thing (not just Uber's, all of them) is starting to remind me of the SDI project. Remember that? The parallels are striking:
Seems like a good idea. The technology is basically there, just needs a bit of honing and debugging. The money is there. The market is there. And yet...
Sexbots could ‘over-exert’ their human lovers, academic warns
'Upset' Linus Torvalds gets sweary and gets results
Elon Musk wants to get into the boring business, literally
Facebook's internet drone crash-landed after wing 'deformed' in flight
Monday 19th December 2016 05:44 GMT
Re: Should have gone for a Zeppelin
Nah, too much like Google's balloons, and we can't have that, now can we? Okay, the eagle has landed crashed, but as Ford Prefect used to say, Rome wasn't burned in a day.
As to dystopian futures with ballons as transmitter stations, airships and over-dominant media: try Howard Chaykin's American Flagg!.
London's Winter Wonderland URGENTLY seeks Windows 10 desk support
Banks 'not doing enough' to protect against bank-transfer scams
Sunday 18th December 2016 17:06 GMT
No, damage it may be, but it's not collateral.
Hint: it's called a share because when you buy some, you actually own a part of the company. And have a say in who runs it and how. And as such get not only to share (there it is again) profits and losses, but also responsibilities. Stuff everybody should be aware of before buying stocks.
Beauty is in the AI of the beholder: Young blokes teach computer to judge women by their looks
If at first you don't succeed, send another Mars lander – this time a deep driller
Hack attack fear scares Canadian exam board away from online tests
Don't panic, friends, but the Chinese navy just nicked one of America's underwater drones
Sunday 18th December 2016 10:02 GMT
Re: South China Sea
"I visited USSR during Andropov days and I still remember the smell of the death in the air in those days."
That was just the exhaust from all those two-stroke engines, and burning sulphur-heavy lignite in stoves and power stations without any kind of filter.
Oh, and that mysterious disinfectant / cleansing agent that smelled like it was an accidental by-product from chemical weapons research that they used everywhere.
USPTO: Hi, Ask Me Anything. Reddit: Can we trademark 'AMA'? USPTO: No.
Houston, we have a problem: 'App dev stole our radio station'
New US rules on 'vehicle-to-vehicle' communications under consultation
Saturday 17th December 2016 23:05 GMT
Re: I can see the future from here
I hate* to be pedantic about this, but there already is a 21st century version of The Italian Job. (Not bad... but also not as good as the 1969 version. Bloody doors and all that.)
* Yes, totally lying through my teeth here. Well spotted.
'I told him to cut it out' – Obama is convinced Putin's hackers swung the election for Trump
Saturday 17th December 2016 09:42 GMT
."And so what are you gonna do about it, Barry?"
For starters, the USA could un-friend Russia on FaceBook. I understand their relationship status has been "it's complicated" for some time now anyway.
Kids, look at the Deep Learnings! (We’re just going to slurp your data)
Friday 16th December 2016 11:59 GMT
Re: Listen, and understand ! / It's out there
Reminds me of Forbidden Planet. It's out there, and we created it ourselves, and it can destroy us. Hmm... Nuke it from orbit?
NASA – get this – just launched 8 satellites from a rocket dropped from a plane at 40,000ft
Friday 16th December 2016 11:18 GMT
Re: hmmmm
This was tested with a Minuteman ICBM from a C-5: Watch a C-5 Galaxy drop a Minuteman Intercontinental Ballistic Missile during a test.
Sysadmin 'fixed' PC by hiding it on a bookshelf for a few weeks
Friday 16th December 2016 11:09 GMT
Re: deja vu
And during the valohoito interval, there is time for some kalsarikännit*.
* 14 to 1 chance I didn't get the grammar right. Syyllisyytensä...
Friday 16th December 2016 10:55 GMT
"Do you have a similar story about exercising minimal effort to satisfy a user?"
Sure. One of my projects in the past was an office block, national HQ for a 4-letter discounter. The ventilation system for the whole building is regulated by a computer in the ventilation centre. Each and every individual office has a little plastic box on the wall next to the door, sporting a control dial, with a cable leading from the box into the suspended ceiling and not any further. Not a single complaint about the ventilation system so far.
Amazon's first live drone delivery flew last week in Cambridge, UK
Not OK Google: Tree-loving family turns down Page and pals' $7m
Friday 16th December 2016 08:38 GMT
"Like real-life versions of Up's Carl Fredricksen,... "
Or Batteries Not Included, Joe's Apartment, and probably another dozend. Nice to watch anyway.
@jake: some say it's just a market economy thing.
German infosec agency urges security review after Yahoo! flensing
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