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"> a transactional risk engine based on feedback from 50 billion data points
WTF does that shite even mean?"
Hire a con-sultant and I'm sure they will tell you for a modest fee.
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"To me the most obvious problem with this solution, besides the outrageous cost, is what would happen if this multi-megawatt death ray misses it's intended target? "
The power level for that "death ray" as you call it was set to be about the leakage power level of a microwave oven. The system needs a unit on the receiving end to focus the beam and de-focuses if it drifts off. The focussed beam is still about 2km square and was designed to allow people to stand underneath it.
Microwave converters run around 95%+ efficient but sunlight -> AC conversion is around 70%. BTW above c800Km altitude the system generates 24/7.
Voted down because you were ignorant enough to make the comment without a few minutes (or even check the ElReg) to find out the real story.
"@kb - so what you are saying is that in spite of the millions and millions of legitimate licenses that M$ sells in a year, those of us in IT would have to suffer thru SecureBoot because M$ is worried about a few percent being pirated? "
He is.
"The whole PC industry shouldn't be borked just because M$ is losing a few percent of sales. "
It's not like they have not done this before.
"We've already had to bend over and kiss our own asses for years to keep M$ happy."
And MS see no reason why you the mark customer should not continue to do so.
"Not all of us are total M$ whores, some of us have real work to do on these toy computers."
But you're not using a copy of their OS to do it.
The bald turkey dancer hates that.
"If the glass has heavy metal in it then it blocks UV."
I did not know this.
I thought window glass was UV opaque but it's mostly sodium, calcium and potassium oxides, all of which I'd describe as "light," rather than say Iron or Lead (handy for windows on radioactive stuff).
"My greeting home was a privilege previously only permitted for my wife, a complementary scrotum squeeze by a TSA agent."
Does anything make you feel quite like a suspect in your own country than that little greeting?
And remember, it's complementary, it's not free (whose paying for the TSA?)
TBF The question I've always wondered about DHS is as it was built (AFAIK) from 24 separate agencies, how do they even decide where to hold the office Christmas party?
"Taking bets on how long that will take to bite him in the ass. I reckon less than 6 months."
I bid 6 weeks, but I think that's generous, but when it's discovered is another matter
For the successful cracker (who keeps it secret) this is the perfect target.
The sense of smug complacency that will set in could allow them to establish the biggest botnet the internet has ever seen. OK that's a bit of hype but certainly quite large.
I've heard this "It's uncrackable" spiel a few times. A classic was the SKy digital TV encryption system.
The channel coding remains (AFAIK) unbroken with a 2048bit PKA key.
The cards were not. Giving free TV channels to those in the know.
Obtain multiple Linux distributions.
Select apps and kernel source code you want to run. Avoid ones that require a virtual machine running on top of the hardware.
Cross reference across versions to locate any changes between them IE potential trap doors. Do this with 2 different comparison tools to avoid one that's fixed to ignore trapdoor code if it receives a specific marker, or code your own. You'll do this for any future apps you load.
Define new processor architecture with opcode bit patterns chosen at random (to prevent guessing if samples of your object code fall into the wrong hands) and implement it. For extra obfuscation make it a stack architecture running an unusual bit length.
Hack code generators for the apps and kernel languages you're going to compile.
Re-build kernel & apps to new architecture & install on system.
Change delete any default accounts/passwords. Set up low privilege working account(s) where you do most of your work, view your p0rn etc.
Change default router password and set router to ignore all calls from the internet to your address (so you're invisible except to your ISP). Disable universal plug and play (and most other things).
Congratulations. You should be malware free and anything that gets into your system (infected email attachment?) will have no way to execute. Like a border post backed by a 1000 Km of desert. Anything that gets in will die.
Now how many of you are paranoid enough to actually implement this strategy?
"At least, when installed on a Galaxy Nexus, it can make phone calls and send SMS (and receive them) "
Some say this is the iPhone's less developed ability.
"enough different hardware so getting it ported to as much hardware as possible is a sensible way to find issues early and fix them."
Agreed provided they get on the case and fix it.
"I for one am very interested to see how quickly they will get to something usable as I need a new phone :-)"
Not tempted to dev/port an app or two to the UI yourself?
That is the point. This is a dev version. I don't think they seriously think anyone is going to dump their current phone OS and flash a copy of this on there.
"I have Ubuntu running on Android running on my Nexus One and it runs like a dog, a dog that's been shot in the leg, no, two of it's legs."
Let me see if I have this correct.
You have Ubuntu running apps running on top of Android.
And it runs kind of slow.
Had you complained about it's UI fair enough but you don't seem to understand what the word "replacement" means.
Perhaps you should look it up.
" The key issue is not the car itself, but the location of charging stations, since the Tesla (TSLA) battery pack is good for only 270 miles.
The most scary part of the trip: the 200 miles between charging stations in Newark, Del., and Milford, Conn. That's not a lot of cushion, especially after I missed an exit adding a few miles to that leg"
" Tesla has a load of instructions to maximize battery power, and I think I followed them pretty well.
I kept the cruise control pegged to between 60 and 65 much of the way, and kept the climate control at 72 degrees. I minimized stops. "
"sitting in the middle lane, I was keeping up with traffic. I certainly didn't feel out of place -- except for the fact that I wasn't burning any gasoline....I certainly didn't feel out of place"
"But as I drove into Connecticut, I realized something amazing. Not only did I have enough battery range left, I had plenty. I had at least 40 miles -- more than an entire Chevy Volt's worth of electricity"
"In the end, I made it -- and it wasn't that hard....The weather for mine was about 10 (F?) degrees warmer. And I did mine in one day; the reviewer from the Times split it into two. "
" it would be even easier if Tesla would install one of their fast-charging Superchargers along the New Jersey Turnpike."
"Tesla's working on that, spokeswoman Shanna Hendricks said. "
"But I didn't have to take it that easy, which is good because the Model S provides a pretty amazing mix of smooth and silent performance along with brain-squishing acceleration."
So you don't have a degree but 10 years experience.
10 years experience of different stuff or 1 years new stuff done 10 times over?
You didn't follow a curriculum.
Do you know what areas you don't know enough about that can bite you on the ass?
What are you doing about them?
Those last 2 are critical. Self taughts cover the stuff that interests them but can miss the stuff the that does not ("So what if all my variables are 2 characters long. I get bored typing." Bring them back to the code 6 months later and I guarantee it'll be "who wrote this PoS code?")
But really. Set up a test server/network and see if they can break into it or find/fix the (relatively) obvious security fails you've put in the set up.
Do you want someone who can tell you how good they are (even if they are rubbish) or someone who is good, wheather or not they are articulate enough to convince the suit from HR?
But now someone had gone out and found one.
Good work.
Yes the global weather system is damm complicated.
But as long as we don't throw up our hands and go "It's all in $deity's hands, who knows what will happen next" and actually do some science we might get more certainty and fewer surprises.
"I wish you were more wrong, I asked a good number of people if there were yet any qualifications they'd respect in this field and the response was entirely negative, so it's the standard model of buzzwords and random interview questions."
Oh that was just my experience of recruitment agency SOP. One of the best recruitment experiences I ever had was on an employer 2nd interview when they put me in a room with a login, a work description, the language manuals and told me they'd be back in 2 hours. It runs. I'm in.
Of course for that to work management has to understand what they want in the first place.
I'd agree with other posters it's not the size of any single database table, it's the cross-referencing (across multiple tables/databases/sites/clouds). ETL on the grand scale.
Not to mention the contents of Damian-in-Marketing's spreadsheet which hold the (very secret) weightings for how to spot a sure fire prospect from a tire kicking time waster.
And then there's all that "unstructured" data from fapbook (and possibly myspunk) you want to snaffle off the kiddies before they wise up....
Highly entertaining but also informative.
Sadly the dumbos who feel they need this (PHB has been on a conference) will probably hire an agency that will run a keyword search on their CV bank and find the people with the best engineered CV in this area.
Who will probably be some of the least equipped players to actually do it, prompting the first (next?) round of "XXXX's Big Data project goes titsup" headlines.
Let the games begin.
"Is it, in fact, actually a phone?"
It's claimed to be an OS for "smartphones" but as people have said of the iPhone it's not very good for making calls.
I don't want a lifestyle. I just want to be able to punch a number and get connected to the person I'm calling.
Anywhere above ground (and preferably some way below) in my service providers alleged coverage area.
A v 0.1 UI is not necessarily a problem for an apps developer. But a 0.1 API is hence my comment about the frequent updates needed to get this into shape.
Just a thought.
Linuxes have update managers. I'd guess there should be many incremental updates on this provided Umbuntu are on the case of course. This is clearly a long way from being fully cooked.
As for this "Google is Linux" line that was forked off some time ago.
With a classic everything-but-the-kitchen-sink patent listing every conceivable implementation method.
Well let's see, I've got Vernor Vinge (A Deepness in the Sky) Charles Stross (Accelerado, Glass House, Halting State) and Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash for the direct laser write on retina display tech.
I note that Frank Herbert said the TV periscope he described in The Dragon in the Sea made the idea unpatentable.
And I'll be there are a number of much earlier references as well.
So just like when 3g came out really.
Back then I heard of one fellow who got 2 handsets so he could demonstrate this new fangled video calling.
The UK 3G auction was apparently planed with lots of theory to structure it and was a triumph of the Broon Treasury. IE It got the govt a lot of money.
Perhaps the Osborne team should have factored in the companies were on a learning curve and no one wants to look like they over paid for a huge asset twice
"'Former Dr Who actress Karen Gillan, who played Amy Pond in the series, was stung by a similar diet-pushing spambot. She did not respond to the intrusion with threats on the lives of the perpetrators."
Beware angry ginger women.
They are not to be trifled with.
"So, yeah, it's Clarkson. He's a bit of a gobsh!te, plays up his anti-environment, right-of-centre persona to the hilt and is a popular target for the PC, right-on and left-of-centre brigades - many of whom seem to get themselves rather hot under the collar by taking him far too seriously and literally."
That doesn't bother me.
His standing invite to the Rupert Murdoch party makes me.
It suggests the amiable old misogynist buffoon is merely the surface veneer for someone much nastier.
I'm wondering if the disk spins while it's being written?
I suspect at least part of the "supercapacitiance" is the fact the layer is 1 atom thick and so could be stacked to give a high capacitance level on that basis.
Thumbs up not so much for the technique as the implementation on hardware that does not need a vacuum chamber and a couple of $m to buy.
Carver Mead and...
John McAfee
http://mugshots.com/US-Counties/Florida/Broward-County-FL/Charles-John-Mcafee.6849678.html
Although Mead has it hands down for his work on sub-threshold transistors and the application of OTS CMOS tech to devices that work like biology.
I've always thought that should have gone much further
"Traveling to distant planetary systems is impossible."
No, just highly prohibitive in terms of money, energy and time. There is no law of nature that prevents it happening. The Voyagers are already doing it, but at a very slow pace given the size of the universe.
Would that be one of those "facts" like the assertion by the UK Astronomer Royal that space travel is "Utter bilge"?
Perhaps, because the context of the quote was the proceeding line that "It would cost as much as a major war just to put a man on the moon."
Currently its impossible for someone to start a journey to another star and be alive at arrival.
But more technological progress has been made since (roughly) the mid 19th century than the previous 18 centuries combined.
Things change.
"Anyone who wants to address defences against meteorites will have to address this attitude first..."
For a lot of people space is a prgramme, not a place.
But as it is a place, stuff can come from there as easily as it goes to there (actually it's rather easier).
"The data on the Tesla blog clearly proves Broder is a lying scumbag."
I'd qualify that and say they appear to show that.
But there is no independent chain of evidence one way or the other.
There might be an argument for an independent body to fit some kind of black box to all cars sent on road tests by companies. If anyone complains they take the test out of archive and publish it for everyone to see. All road tests are subjective after all and you're reading the reviewers impression of the vehicle as much as it's detailed handling and driving qualities.
Finding (or forming) a body everybody would trust is likely to be tricky.
"he density seems to be 4 bits in a cubic micron (assuming a 2D layer of cells, that would be a feature size of 250 nm -- not too impressive)"
I'll make 2 points.
How many layers of those memory elements can you lay down on a semiconductor chip, not material layers. Actually unified working components?
Because that's pretty much 1 layer (3d chips with multiple layers of logic and/or memory have not worked out well), versus as many as you like with a protein/DNA system. Those DNA layers are likely to be 10-100x thinner than any viable semiconductor layer (which on conventional wafers sits on about a 300-500 micrometre thick silicon layer).
Secondly this is v0.1 technology. It's not got data input and to make proper use of existing data mechanisms (the ribosome) you'd want to store in codons and a double helix with 1 twist giving six bits of storage.
DNA give you volumetric density in way conventional semiconductor processing simply does not.
Changing the mindset to play to its strengths and adapt to its weaknesses will be challenging.