Doubt it - logistically the favoured attack points would always be the end points anyway. The capabilities of USS Jimmy Carter not withstanding.
Posts by Gordon 10
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UK boffins DOUBLE distance of fiber data: London to New York WITHOUT a repeater
Tom Wheeler flings off dressing gown, dons gloves for net neutrality RUMBLE
O2 notifies data cops 'for courtesy' ... AFTER El Reg intervenes in email phish dustup
Google gets my data, I get search and email and that. Help help, I'm being REPRESSED!
@Andrew
But you have to take that one step further Andrew, and actually look at of those who valued their data at 140 quid - how many actually took their search/email etc business away from Google. And that's without getting into the fact that that 140 was the total for all data and all its uses.
If they didn't move away from Google - all it confirms is that they value Googles services to the tune of £140. all you have done is confirmed Tims point but disputed the actual "fer instance" value he chose.
Now Im hoping that increasing valuation of data is an indicator that the Tech giants are going to get a shock - but the realist in me suspects its going to be over a very long timescale.
And as for Market Destruction - I don't think you should conflate the services Google provides to earn its revenues with what it does with those revenues. For instance you might be perfectly happy with Googles use of your personal data but not with its destructive intentions for Copyright, or vice versa, or be one of a large group that don't like either - but they are essentially 2 separate things.
ICO's data protection tentacles will penetrate NHS bodies
Breaking news: BBC FINALLY spots millions of mugshots on cop database
Mad Frankie Maude hangs up his axe
Tough at the top: IBM CEO Ginni Rometty troughs $10 MEELLION+
Microsoft eyes slice of Raspberry Pi with free Windows 10 sprinkled on top
Super-cookie crumbles: Verizon vows to kill off hated zombie stalkers
Hardboiled, fast-paced, mind-bending fun – Dark Intelligence IS sci-fi
Start with the skinner and gridlinked.
The skinner especially has some of the nastiest alien biospheres known to fiction.
Gridlinked is more thoughtful and is the start of his longest sequence the Agent Cormac series which is probably the strongest set of his novels set in the polity.
Can't remember if the Prador show up directly in either novel but they are some of the ickiest Aliens in fiction.
I would describe the Polity as the Culture crossed with Edward Lear.
Chipotle insider trading: Disproving the efficient markets hypothesis
Re: Much complication.
One flaw with the information going back to the customer. It already does in the form of a receipt.
There is nothing that the customer pays for that entitles them to the aggregate sum of all customers data.
Or to put in a privacy flavoured context. Why should my next door neighbour get to know what CD's I have bought just because he has also bought some CD's from Amazon?
'Boutique' ISPs: Snub the Big 4 AND get great service
Apple CEO: Fandroids are BINNING Android in favour of IPHONES
hahahaaha.
@AC I think fandroid_galaxy_fan29 is still available as a nick.
Got any facts to back up that wild supposition? Its far more likely that as the biggest volume seller of Premium Android Samsungs lunch is getting eaten by mid tier androids that are almost as good. Which co-incidentally explains why nearly all the current Flagship android makers are suffering.
UK official LOSES Mark Duggan shooting discs IN THE POST
What do China, FBI and UK have in common? All three want backdoors in Western technology
Sky sidles up to O2, whispers: 'Fancy a little FOUR-PLAY?'
Strap on fitness finesse: Withings Activité Pop
Supersonic Bloodhound car techies in screaming 650mph comms test
'YOUTUBE is EVIL': Somebody had a tape running, Google...
Care.data refuseniks will be DENIED CANCER SCREENING invites
2 Simple solutions
Use GP surgeries to co-ordinate any screening or similar program. Since they will have a full set of records there wont be a problem.
They will also be able to screen out those people who would normally come into scope but shouldn't. ie avoid sending screening letters to those already in the terminal stages of the disease.
Alternatively give up trying to flog my medical data to the private sector. Ring fence it for the NHS and public (university) research only with a punishment equal to 10 years in prison AND 10% of worldwide turnover for the person AND the company who misuses it.
Since the 10% of worldwide turnover fine is already used in simple anti-trust cases I see no reason to have anything less stringent for my personal data.
Switch it off and on again: How peers failed to sneak Snoopers' Charter into terror bill
Organising the Techies
It seems clear that the snoopers charter is not going to go away having been identified by our lords and masters and their civil service puppet masters as a fundamental part of the bread and circuses needed to fight "the war on terror".
I cant help feeling as techies we are missing a trick relying on the likes of ISP's and the occasional condescension from Google and the like to push it back. Given how deep they have their hooks in the politicians its only a matter of time before they see something to be gained by allowing this legistlation to pass.
So pop quiz - what can we as techies do - that we are uniquely suited to do - to fight this in an organised manner, without necessarily having to closely align with any other protest group?
Answers in replies please......
What's that, Microsoft? Yep, a Lumia and Surface SALES BOOM
Fair play to them
On the hardware front at least. MS seem genuinely committed to producing good quality hardware and whilst the Surface 3 isn't to my taste I've been haunting eBay for a Surface 2 and am likely to take the plunge any day now.
Probably still silly money as a straight out tablet replacement but as an ultraportable laptop it has some legs.
Opera Jon weaves a brand new browser
Lizard Squad threatens Malaysia Airlines with data dump: We DID TOO hack your site
This is when I support the collection of metadata
Identify some of the suspected members of lizard squad, get a warrant to access their *recent (and future)* isp and phone records, *BAM* throw the book at the odious little toads.
Note to "CallMeDave" & TheMillipede all done within the remit of existing legislation.
Not withstanding the Fed's are probably working over the next "Sabu" as we speak.
Hoaxer posing as GCHQ boss prank-calls PM Cameron
Shareholders pen outraged letter about Ellison's bulging package
Re: Can it be clarified?
According to Reuters - sweet fa
http://uk.reuters.com/article/2015/01/26/uk-oracle-shareholders-idUKKBN0KZ07K20150126
"PGGM owns 0.08 percent of Oracle's shares, according to Thomson Reuters data. It was not immediately clear how many shares Railpen holds."
On that basis they should take their money and walk if they don't like what Larry is doing.
Their FAIL - they cant claim they didn't enter in a shareholding in Oracle with their eyes wide open. Even if their motives are benign they are effectively no better than Icann. If you want to effect change at a company pony up the funds to increase your shareholding or get together with a syndicate of similarly interested parties. Otherwise STFU.
FBI-baiter Barrett Brown gets five years in chokey plus $890,000 fine
SCREW you, GLASSHOLES! Microsoft unveils HoloLens
Elon Musk snowed under with Googley dollars for Space Internet
'Success'? Verify FAILED for 40% in self-assess tax trial
Re: Cause and Effect?
What loon thought farmers were a good set of first candidates, they must have some of the most complex financial profiles out there.
And that's without factoring in red diesel sales, badger baiting clubs and compensation payments to wounded walkers who wouldn't "get orf my laaaaannndd"
Can some one explain
Wtf Verify is meant to do and why are they spending my money on it?
According to the blurb it seems to be outsourcing the simple aspect of logging on to a Govt portal with a user id, in favour of some nebulous identify matching guessing process run by commercial interests.
What lunatic thought that this was worth spending money on? Im usually against big Govt databases, but if the alternative is spreading my details across a whole host of commercial interested parties - give me Big Brother any day of the week.
Blurb
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/introducing-govuk-verify/introducing-govuk-verify
Facebook worth more than Portugal? Hell, it's worth a LOT more than THAT
Re: Wasting twice the time
This - tie it together with the Opportunity Cost argument above you could argue that all we have done is swapped one leisure activity for another and any gain in utility (let alone something more concrete) is marginal at best.
And that's without factoring in the fact that facebooking is an asynchronous activity that can be performed in the "quiet times" between other leisure activities.
Indeed there's probably a delicious irony that advertisers are paying twice to get our attention for less time than they previously would have. ie We skip the TV adbreak to Twitbook, then ignore their ads to concentrate on the Kitten Video or Doris's latest colostomy adventure.
Polish chap builds computer into a mouse
Re: 128 GB flash ... nobody will be able to work for long with so little storage
I agree - my MBA has 128Gb - with my ITunes library on a Nas - there is plenty of space to run any application I need, all store my core documents AND a copy of Win 7 running over Parallels.
I have a 32gb thumbnail sized USB key sticking out the side as my "just in case" that's never been used for anything but adhoc data transfers.
MYSTERY RADIO SIGNAL picked up from BEYOND our GALAXY
Microsoft and mate release Azure transporter beam
Scientific consensus that 2014 was record hottest year? No
Re: Cut the sh*t! @Stuart 22
Try addressing the point of the article. As a statistician would you be comfortable saying "xxxx EVER" if its within the bounds of the margins of error.
In this article that isn't the crux of what Lewis is saying.
He's saying the previous 3 increments that led to the "hottest years ever" were all well within the margins of error for his dataset - if the same is true for the NOAA and other datasets then saying "hottest ever" is a bit dubious.
Forget whether Lewis is a warmist or denier - he's saying its very disingenuous to be making such headline grabbing statements.
Snowden doc leak 'confirms' China stole F-35 data
Ski MOUNT DOOM or take top coffee to the beach? Your choice
LIFELESS BEAGLE on MARS: A British TRIUMPH!
28hrs apparently!
According to these links Beagle and Curiosity are about 4km from each other - and Curiosity's max speed is 0.14 KM/h it should take Curiosity just 28hrs at full chat to get there.
Although I'm not convinced the scale on that map is at all right -I think there are a few zeros missing off the scale which may slow Curiosity up a bit.
Olympus Mons is meant to be 600 odd KM wide.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/mars-map/
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=curiosity+top+speed&sourceid=ie7&rls=com.microsoft:en-GB:IE-SearchBox&ie=&oe=&gfe_rd=cr&ei=ZQW5VJXTOoqA5gbUpoCICw&gws_rd=ssl
US and UK declare red-team cyber war – on each other
Re: So are we saying...
Not at all - we're saying we should test whether those tiger teams have done a good job - not assume they have, and since the threat surface is continually evolving and that State hackers would potentially have new & different insights to other professional testers it does no harm and possibly a lot of good.
Did you know that but just wanted to take a cheap shot at banks, or did you not think before commenting?
CIA exonerates CIA of all wrongdoing in Senate hacking probe
wankers
with this kind of crap endemic within Govt organisations its no wonder any techie worth their salt would slag "callmeDaves" encryption disposal proposals at every opportunity.
When you can't even rely on an organisation to admit complete malfeasance there is something majorly wrong.
Lets not forget they tried to get criminal charges raised against the committee.
Govt powers or any sort - take a leaf from Zammo's book - just say no.