So that's what "Pointless Albatross" is.....
I know.
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This may be either quite easy or quite difficult to counter.
Basically you need to keep a constant(ish) power level in the system. If that's possible then it will be more difficult to pick the signal out of the noise. Keep the data paths filled with dummy data so there are no (or quite shallow) spikes in the noise.
It's intriguing that they were able to chop the search space into byte size segments and thereby exclude a lot of it.
Clever but depressing, give AES256 seemed pretty strong.
Some people seem to think this will be one way IE it's SCADA without the SCA part.
Sorry but I'm baffled. AFAIK everyone who does this already has this level of access. Everyone who needs remote telemetry (and can afford it) does this already.
BTW the UK does have a private trunked digital data network already called TETRA. I think Tescos use it to link all their site internally and can allow break out calls between sites. Much cheaper than mobile phone charges.
So where is this massive market of people who a) Want to collect lots of data from lots of places about "stuff" and b) Can pay what this network will charge.
Or is this to implement tracking of all UK suspects citizens who don't have a mobile phone to track?
In the early 90s 5-6 companies said they wanted to do this.
3 got to launch of which Iridium was the expensive, with Orbcomm and Globestar.
Only Iridium delivered voice comms. The others went with M2M for driver dispatch, high value asset tracking and SCADA tasks using essentially SMS.
All went Chapter 11. Iridium got a big boost when the USG bought a lot of minutes for use by staff globally (provided they are not inside buildings of course).
OTOH with cable companies having virtual area monopolies in different areas of the US for internet access this story may have a different ending.
As noted above if you can't convert the source through the same tool chain and then do a byte for byte comparison, using your own comparison tools, and account for all discrepancies found then who knows what's actually running in the box?
And then of course there's the massive open hole of the Intel server admin co processor.....
They like to feel that if they take care of the little things you won't mind so much about the ongoing bandwidth they're soaking up shipping their "telemetry" back to Redmond.
Not working in my case.
I'm still p**sed off at this s**t.
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Your failure to understand that some people do not share your PoV probably explains your rising number of down votes.
Perhaps a significant number of readers view the lone-hacker-sitting-in-a-coffee-shop-writing-awsome-code-on-their-tablet trope to be bu***hit?
He's more a "person" guy than a "technology" guy.
And he's in the moment, not a real deep planner. What's said is said and tomorrow it'll all be different.
Not like Nixon, always working out the various directions, friends to have, friends to dump etc.
But while the theatre of public opinion may run on sound bites, in Washington people store up comments and actions. Anything can (and will) be used in evidence against you.
Trump either believes himself to be completely immune to this or thinks he's got more control (and more dirt) than anyone else.
I'll note the oath does not talk about defending the President. It talks about "Defending the Constitution, from all enemies, both foreign and domestic."
IOW the President is not the most important thing to be protected, it's the Constitution.
That implies the President sacrifices themselves to protect the Constitution.
No way can I see Trump doing that.
and it's pretty obvious to anyone who's been on the wrong end of one of these people that it's a sales call, not a "Survey" call from both the questions and script around them.
The product being sold is either a) The Conservative Party" or b) The actual candidate in that constituency.
And since these are marginal constituencies (especially in Wales) I'd say there is a "public interest" call for the CPS to prosecute to clear the air and make sure the last British election was run cleanly and fairly and that Teresa May "almost won" on a level playing field.
Because if she didn't you'd have to wonder how badly the Conservative Party would have been thrashed. 28, rather than 8 below an absolute majority perhaps?
Shambles is (IIRC) "The mess left in a slaughterhouse at the end of a days work."
OTOH if you treat "slaughterhouse" as a metaphor for the results of the last UK election, with the Conservatives absolute actual majority destroyed by Labour (in Scotland and elsewhere) and the Lib Dems coming back from the dead, then "mess left" is a pretty good metaphor for the Conservative party.
IOW Conservative Party --> Shambles is metaphorically true.
However current thinking seems to be to keep May in the job till after Brexit, and then blame all failures on her (even if David Davis and his team delivers anything close to Brexiteers delusions aspirations. A mission even Jim Phelps would have rejected as impossible).
And those are their more sane policies.
The big one coming down the pike is likely to be the fact that a lot of DUP supporters work for the NI equivalent of the "Federal" government. As such they have been subject to the nationwide sub-inflation-rate pay cap for the last 8 years.
This makes them very unhappy.
And what makes DUP supporters unhappy makes DUP MP's unhappy. The joker in this pack is the UK government has a formula for fairly sharing funds to the regions. Any increases to NI requires matching increases to Wales, England, Scotland as well.
Payrise to counter 8 yrs of sub inflation pay rises x all UK public sector workers --> Lots of money.
The tricky bits are buried in how exactly do you define "odd", "some" and "resources" ?
Starting with the the point that one persons outlying (but valid) observation is another persons probable instrument error.
And that's the easy part. You can just crunch it overnight on a NASA server farm.
The SoA for on board space computers is roughly a Power PC running about 400MHz flash drive (NASA never seemed to like spinning rust on orbit). Capacity isn't too much of a problem but main memory is also fairly limited. I'm not sure if NASA has run any GPU's or GPU arrays on orbit yet. Very handy to have in this sort of situation but difficult to get in rad hard Mil Spec versions.
Keep in mind that beyond Jupiter by the time a probe has sent back a report of something interesting and NASA has a)Agreed it is interesting and b)What to do about it
the phenomena could have disappeared. If the mission is a flyby then the probe may already have gone past it.
Exciting times.
I see what you did there.
Don't you know that May's er "special" relationship with the D "will bring Yuuuuge benefits to the UK?"*
I'm sure he'll probably tweet something along those lines any day now.
*Not fake news as it is not claimed he has tweeted this, just that he might.
I think one of the recommendations of the 2009 fire report was sprinklers outside the block spraying into the gap between the cladding and the building.
At least 3 (and probably more) things had to fail to turn a fridge fire (WTF makes a fridge catch fire?) into a RL reboot of "The Towering Inferno". :-(
Any one of those not happening could have broken the chain of failure and saved the day.
But they all did.
In theory the insulation is meant to reduce heat losses and gains.
But you've got to wonder how effective it is if it's standing off from the building surface and apparently nothing stopping the airflow.
IOW a chimmney lined with combustible insulation that's just about fire resistant.
It's hard to conceive of a more effective way to turn an ugly (but highly fire resistant) building into a human incinerator, short of spraying it with napalm and setting light to it.
According to the Torygraph the difference between this stuff and the properly non combustible insulation was £2/ Sq metre. Apparently the grade they used is made in the US but no longer available for use there.
A building material too s**t even for the US to use.
It is true that Grenfell House killed in 1 night more than double the people that all the terrorist incidents in the UK in the previous 12 years have killed.
And there's a potential 4 000+ other buildings that are at risk of their cladding going "whoosh."
And there have been persistent warnings from an all party group on this issue since 2009 that have been ignored.
But, y'know, "Terrorism, innit."
And inside Conservative Central Office can you doubt they are thinking "Well that's one seat we won't have any trouble taking back."
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Big Brother.
In the sense of task scheduling and planning problem diagnosing systems.
Not exactly HAL but handy for lightening the routing burden of looking reams of stuff for any suspect patterns (or rather looking through those reams for a pattern after something has happened).
And thought
"S**t. After Windows for Warships....
Outlook for fighters."
Obviously my bad.
BTW. That data burst may be encrypted but wouldn't it's operating frequency and its very existence indicate a carrier was in the area which could be found by direction finding?
They are probably the biggest SW company most people have never heard of. $13Bn is no small mound of cucumbers.
They do focus on the legacy market, however I'm not sure how much actual upgrading their products get, because that would require them to hire devs and that costs money.