Posts by John Smith 19 16330 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Jun 2009
No one's.
It is a consequence of an idea.
The idea that "Brexit means Brexit," despite no one having a f**king clue what that tautology actually meant
But they are starting to get a clue now.
And I think most people have found they don't like it.
Too bad those banjos didn't realize they were being played when they voted for it.
Correct.
This is Tony Blairs "National Identity Register" back end re-born (some might think it never died, and in the minds of the senior civil servants who think it's a great idea it never did).
IOW a cradle-to-grave surveillance system.
The wet dream of every Authoritarian politician who demands to know what people are doing 24/7/365 forever.
Translation
"You are already several major US corporations b**ch. It's no bother to make you the British Governments one as well."
Now that Rudd's no longer Home Sec she's looking less like a sock puppet and more like one of the True Believers in data fetishism.
In politics there are Democrats (who believe in the idea of democracy) and Authoritarians (for whom it is an inconvenience to stopping them getting there own way).
I think it's clear which side Rudd is on.
I think that's a fairly accurate sitrep on all of them. But, but...
<gollum>
We wants it
We needs it
We must have hard Brexit.
</gollum>
I will guarantee one thing about Brexit
Jacob Rees-Moggs company will make a shedload of cash out of it, either directly or through it's (newly opened) Dublin branch.
spare me the "think of the children" rhetoric."
Wrong.
This is the thin end of a very thick pole that data fetishists want to bury right up you.
This s**t is already showing "feature creep" with stuff like anorexia advocacy ("Pro-ana") sites on the list and WTF is "Estoterica"??? (no that's not a typo).
This is profiling the UK internet user population by the back door (the only way data fetishists know how to operate).
I'd suggest "peopleware" that dates from 1987
The discussion of "The Black Team" would be the area to look.
I guess this shows the difference between software and hardware.
Software manual. Functions do what they say but lack checking.
Hardware manual (Intel memory management) functions don't do what they say.
1) Read what the manual says a Windows function can do and will allow
2) See if its parameter checking stops you from doing whatever you want.
3) Check next function.
It shouldn't be possible to change access permissions to system files without Admin privileges.
But it turns out it is.
I wonder if the code to check was in a dev version but some PHB decreed "Nah, that slugs performance, and it'll never be a problem IRL"
Or did they just not bother to write parameter checking code?
They are both patient and obsessive in a way only the truly irrational can be.
Start with the PPE graduates.
There seems to be something in the combination of going to an Oxbridge college and doing this course that creates a level of self belief and entitlement that many would characterize as "Arrogant pr**ks" (if they weren't already that way to begin with).
Simple.
1) Some code monkey that cut and pasted the code from stack exchange
2) Some code monkey that cut and pasted the code from a higher end product and didn't consider if these functions were necessary.
A code monkey is not a code monkey because their coding skills are s**t.
They're a code monkey because of what they choose to do about it.
That, right there, is the key to getting these companies on a leash.
Once people see what a staggering amount of cash these companies make from the data they slurp from the flock they farm it might start occurring to the members of the flock they should start charging.
IOW the corporations might have to start paying for some of their free content.
That sounds fair to me.
But you can bet it doesn't to them.
This is clearly not a casual attack.
So professional crims looking to harvest high value targets creds in expensive hotels might find it quite useful.
Likewise anyone else who's a paid spy might find it useful. Not necessarily a go to approach, but in the toolkit.
Maybe the takeaway is "Autofill is not a good idea for login details" ?
And knowing who you're talking to (at the network level) is a part of making sure your packets are not getting slurped by malicious actors.*
So potentially a good start.
*Choose your preferred MA depending on political outlook and area of the world.
VIPER was designed by RSRE Malvern (now part of Quinetq?)
Hardware wise it was implemented as a gate array (physically different wiring) and ran at 1MHz in the test version.
Software wise the PLA implemented a set of finite state machines. It was an accumulator and 2 registers architecture. It's nearest equivalent would have been the 6502
While all the high level verification seemed to work fine what scuppered them was they assumed the conversion from logic design to gate wiring was perfect and (IIRC) the development tools to do so (provided by the PLA mfg) had bugs.
Here's the thing. Although I keep hearing about how foundry processes can deliver GHz capability, and individual gate on FPGA can go very high how is it I never see an actual product (connected gates) clocking at >1GHz?
My suspicion is
a) Individual FPGA cells have acquired a lot of cruft in their design. Too much flexibility slugs raw speed.
b) FPGA cell layout on the chip hinders low latency
c) Place & Route is not nearly as good as FPGA mfg's claim it is. OK you don't have a clock driver circuit every half a dozen gates but surely you can build at least MSI level (an LS 74171 ALU was 96 gates for a 4 bit slice) that has total worst case gate delay on longest path of < 1ns?
BTW regarding "RISC" ME Conway proposed a 2 instruction processor in the 1950's for (IIRC) the Lambda calculus. In the 80's an Israeli team went to the limit with a 1 instruction machine.
Effectively every sub function in the design has its own address. Want to add 3 numbers together? MOV them to the "ACC" address. Want to zero it? Move from the "Zero adder" address.
written to prosecute.
TBH I don't really trust the claims of either side.
Do I think SAP could have studied the competition and used "Project Bridge" as a trap to get them to cough up trade secrets? Yes.
Do I think Terradata has had few new wins lately? Yes.
Would I trust either of their claims without a team of independent experts going through them? F**k no.
Which is great. For Google.
Anyone remember the story of the Florida man who killed his wife?. Police found the body by asking the supplier of his flashlight app for the GPS coordinates of the phone while they suspected he was dumping the body.
Which the app suppliers had on their servers.
WTF is that app doing collecting that information. For what? And sending it home?
I know, that's Apple not Android, but (at the very least) there should be something that can basically feed (or generate) Bu***hit data if some app demands that access
number of permits to go around the entire British haulage industry after Brexit."
So you're saying that basically Brexit is quite likely to f**k up the whole UK road haulage industry?
Still since most of the "White van man" types that voted to Leave don't run long distance that's not going to be a problem for them.
Except of course when the companies they drive for go down the sh***er as the stuff they collect or drop off ceases to be affordable.
The thing about that's really had be ROTFLMFAO is all those who basically voted Leave under the "We'll stop the foreigns getting in" idea.
Good news for them is all those nasty Europeans can go back to the continent.
Leaving plenty more room for all their those Chinese and Indians can move into those vacant properties.
Who they will no doubt find infinitely more preferable.
Good point.
I guess I'd always figured Frankfurt and Paris as the big Continental financial centres, and somehow I got the idea Amsterdam is a bit crammed.
But yes, closer to London, good comms, high probability of English language speakers and a refreshingly low key but hostile attitude to the Germans.
What is not to like?
2 Problems with that.
1) Not imposed by the EU. Imposed by Tony Blair on Gordon Brown's government as a little outgoing f***you to ol' Mad Eye.
2)) The Peer who took a cash-for-clauses deal to require smart meters in British homes has already spent the money.
Another little EU fairly story that turns out to be just a fairly story (but with a British, not EU law behind it).
Multiplied by the more highly distributed supply chains driven by JIT mfg and distribution over the last 42 years of EEC/EU membership.
Example.
Most European Avon beauty products come from a gigantic factory/warehouse site in Poland.
Consider how many borders they will come through to get to the UK.
The best observation Brexit I've seen is this.
Leave campaign bus "An extra £350m/week into the NHS" (this was admitted as BS within days but left on the side of the bus anyway)
HMG last week "We are asking the food and drug industries to substantially increase their stockpiles to cope with delays in the supply chain."
I predict the number of people who will admit to voting Leave within 2 years of the actual event (which hasn't happened yet) will be about the same as the number of people on VE Day 1945 who admitted they voted for Oswald Mosely before WWII. IE approximately f**k all.
Funny, he seems to be in complete agreement with the Agriculture & Horticulture Development Board impact assessments.
In the worst case Brexit scenario only pig farming is left standing.
Everything else is road kill.
Still, that's Natures way, isn't it, unless the government continues the entire CAP system, with its associated costs.
BTW New Zealand is often touted as a possible no subsidy model for UK farming.
It's GDP is bigger than Iran and smaller than Romania.
You're right about the smiling.
You're wrong about the source.
The British did this to themselves (with the help of one Australian advertising guru and a load of illegal campaign funding and illegally acquired FB profile data)
And in line with the "testing" of the Universal Credit system they will be the simplest cases with the smallest number of transactions to the fewest number of countries.
Which will then be used to prove the system "works".
Why can I still hear a funny little voice going "We wants it. we wants it" ?
And remember financial services is still about 3x bigger than any physical exports to the EU.
"No deal" on those and the UK tax base is very seriously f**ked. The businesses will simply relocate most of their operations to Dublin/Frankfurt/Paris depending on the language skills of their staff and living costs.
It's August 2018 and stilllllll this s**t.
F**king code monkeys, slinging more software s**t.
I tell myself "You shouldn't get so upset. It's no worse than most other s**t"
Somehow being no worse than other s**t, is not making me feel better.
Yes, that would be the IT question related to Brexit.
The thinking behind it will probably be protected under a "year rule"
30,40,50 or 70 do you think?
It'll be at least 30 before this bunch want anyone to know the discussions on this clusterf**k were as shambolic as everything else.
The mechanical thermostat has hysteresis, slow(ish) response and mechanical failure modes.
So more likely a network of thermistors feeding a control station even without the AI.
TBH though I would have thought the problem is sufficiently constrained in dimensions that something rather simpler would have done.
OTOH if you do have all that "Deep learning" stuff set up maybe re-purposing it is pretty cheap (and as we know to the man with the hammer everything is a nail).
For PHB who are think the SoA in vehicle tracking is "I got a tab for every car. I just go to it and there's its position."
unfu**ingbelieveable.
Now the default password is not necessarily an issue.
Provided (after you use it) it says "For security reasons please change this password to your preferred password, and record the new one in a safe place."
The first bit should be easy. It's usually the latter (and tracking all of them together) where it get tricky.
Except that's pretty f**king hard to prove when all the evidence is that they aren't.
It's amazing just how many times, when given a chance to do the right thing (provide an audit trail data subjects can look at, require judicial oversight for data collection requests etc etc) they do the wrong thing
IOW exactly how a data fetishist thinks.
More data --> better data
All data, all the time, forever --> best of all.
I find myself strangely unsurprised at this discovery.
But it sounds like a neat trick.
Proving once again "Never f**king trust anything that comes in from a user to your server"
Ever.
IRL you may never meet a real Black hat. But on the internet your web site is just its IP address from all of them. From Moscow to Berlin, from Islamabad to Kazakhstan, from Kuala Lumpor to Perth.
So still a ways to go before the end of Moore's law.
But I do like the thinking behind it.
And metal is a better conductor than Silicon will ever be (the clue is in the name. semi-conductor).
Now, can they do a normally on transistor that switches off when you add an atom?
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