Posts by John Smith 19 16330 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Jun 2009
Indeed it looks like this "written" by some representatives of the "code-monkeys-R-us" school.
The Linux Foundation has put out some reference implementations for industrial IoT, which this is.
I don't know if it's better, but can it be much worse?
I think you'll find that KE rounds fired from tanks can hit 1700m/s or about M5.
The challenge is to build essentially a cup that acts as a 1 shot gun barrel to contain the propellant load long enough to accelerate it before it disintegrates with the drone (or at least the shell) pointed at the deck.
I think a M5 Tungsten Carbide or DU sabot will go through any steel deck thickness a carrier could reasonably carry. There's a lot of deck to cover and every mm extra adds a serious amount of weight.
My instinct is that a sufficiently large force of subsonic drones, fitted with artillery shells (the dumb kind. No GPS) on their noses should be able to overwhelm the defenses until at least one points straight down at the deck, triggering the shell as a sort of 1 shot zip gun, blowing out the keel of the ship.
Such a force could cost several 100 £m to deploy, but when you've just trashed an asset costing several £Bn (What was the final cost? I dimly recall £3Bn, but this is BAe we're talking about) you've just put your opponent back to the Victorian era.
Better hope the fleets AEW is top notch.
It's a flying jacket with a high visibility lining.
Ah yes, the "One bad developer"
You would just not believe how many jobs this person has had traveling the globe as they ply their trade.
All distinguished by the level of s**t code they leave behind. :-(
The day they retire world software quality will rise dramatically.
As if.
Because Y'know, we're banks. We're special.*
This story smells all kinds of fishy. The ATM hardware is standard from various mfgs.
So is this a fault in the ATM code for transaction reporting at source, or a fail in the banks in house SW that crunches that data to produce a "suspect accounts list" ? Who writes ATM code? The banks provide the graphics but do they do detailed internal functions as well?
Wouldn't that be a pretty strange ATM reporting fault? Doesn't report some transactions, does report others? Keep in mind, those transactions are partly how the bank knows how much money is in a customers account. Sounds like the bank should be suing the ATM mfg. OTOH if it's in house they should sue their IT supplier.
*When I look at a bank I see a business. If it can't meet it's obligations due to fines then it's an ex business. It's customers need to find a new business to do their business through (after they've been compensated by the personal protection scheme most governments run) and shift their payments. It's loan book gets sold off and eventually everyone with a loan or mortgage through them gets a letter telling them the new arrangements.
What may complicate things is wheather they are still using that BS "insurance" process where by a claim on their "insurance" triggers multiple other bets (which is what they are) to fail.
It's way past time more banks were put out of their misery.
"Business without bankruptcy is like Heaven without Hell" as IIRC George Sorros put it.
Other questions would indeed be is this for the towns or everywhere?
And seriously they only roll out to individual subscribers who ask for it at present?
Are you f**king kidding me?
BTW IIRC all UK homes were wired up with 3 pair cabling. IOW all UK landline subscribers could have 3 lines into their homes (from the same exchange) provided they were still in working order from the day their first phone line was installed.
So forward deployment was not unknown at BT.
Now watch how real professionals do it.
Available soon from your local darknet souk for the right level of BTC
"Kid Finder" will let you find all the "perfect princesses" in your area in convenient driving range. Just enter their preferred characteristics and our app will show you exactly where they are and what they are doing.
Never miss an opportunity to get closer to that special one.
For a small extra charge we can also arrange on demand access to their phones sound and camera system, so you can see exactly who their friends are as well.
* Allegedly as case still pending.
IIRC correctly he thought it a corking wheeze to change the tax rules on employer contributions to final value pensions and bag the govt some serious extra cash.
AFAIK no later govt has seen fit to reverse his changes.
Naturally the pension offered to senior civil servants and MP's remains fully Gold plated.
Still who needs a company pension scheme these days? Pension schemes are about rewarding long term loyalty and staff spending their whole working lives in the same company. Since CEO's now seem to be playing a game of perpetual musical chairs I imagine they find it hard to see why anyone else should have their loyalty rewarded for decades of work.
So much like Canada, but with more TV evangelists, mass shootings and crazy drink and sex laws?
I think I'll go with Canada, where various interesting herbs are also to be found in the forests of BC.
Should tell you exactly all you need to know about the prime goals of such "reform"
But the fact it's p**sing off Google and FB is a good thing.
As for "consensus" in Congress only in America, where the Republican party has an absolute majority in both houses (y'known, like Teresa May had, before she called the unnecessary election and the British public discovered she won the internal Conservative power struggle by being the unity candidate IE a personality free chatbot) would you still need this to be the case before you can get legislation passed.
A remote admin tool that does not ask for a password by default.
Very impressive. :-(
I can sort of get why Siemens would not release updates unless they were internally checked for compatibility with their embedded apps but this should be an existing, ongoing process in Siemens for Windows updates, IE more or less automated.
"I do not recall"
"I cannot remember that exact event"
"I am unfamiliar with the details of that subject"
Etc.
An early example of this was the ITT CEO in the early 70's before a Congressional committee.
A notorious micro-manager and control freak he appeared to have no idea who was working for him, what they did or what decisions they made on any subject.
My first thought was that Kieran had realized most non Californians think Californians are barking mad (an extraordinary degree of self awareness) and created a spoof. But then I read the transcript.
Nice work Kieran.
So this guy with serious eyesight problems is texting in public about child molestation where anyone can see him do this in a way that practically screams "look at me."
This is because
a) He is the worlds most brazen child molester (We're talking Michael Jackson levels of brazen)
b) There is more to this story.
Still TOTC and all that. Since there really were 2 children involved it seems wise to take them somewhere and find out what's really going on
That's not what cuts out the corrosion in their design.
The reactor parts are galvanized so the galvanizing is preferentially attacked, rather than the metallic structural components like the fuel rods or the core.
Gas, like PWR also runs in the 100s of atm. Sodium was tried on a USN sub. Surprise, it reacts badly with seawater.
BTW U02 is a very poor conductor of heat (much worse than UC or UN) but relatively unreactive with sea water, which is why it was used.
MSR's are good but they lack the development history. They can have fission products stripped out of the flow (but that's never been tested on a live reactor) they can "incinerate" trans uranics but in principle any reactor can with a suitable loading. They can breed, but in fact a lot of PWRs do, cooking U238 to Pu.
NB Moltex is a non-Thorium (although I presume it could use it) molten salt fast reactor that uses fuel rods, so leverages a huge amount of experience with that design in a way that the "salt pool" designs do not. It allows the fission poisons to bleed off (like the ORNL MSR design does) but immobilizes the main dangerous nasties (Cs and I) in the salt mixture.
In terms of high TRL and low pressure and relatively inert coolant and in principle low enrichment the lead reactor is a pretty good choice. My instinct is as an alloy with Bismuth to lower the Mp and develop ways to purge the Polonium from the coolant.
Incidentally I notice the Alvin Weinberg Foundation has shut down.
Moltex have either moved, or are in the process of moving, to Canada.
Dr Ian Scott of the company said they could not get access to the UK nuclear regulator in the UK.
Basically they've applied high TRL elements to the idea of an MSR to deliver something which is stable by physics, not by having a very reliable control system, while bleeding off the main neutron poisons (like other MSR designs) but locking up the main human poisons, Iodine and Cesium.
IOW it's an MSR designed by adults.
Most amazing factoid? PWR steam turbines are 6-10x the cost of those used in all combustion driven systems (which run at c520 c, rather than the PWR standard of about 312c). The UK AGR designers were right. Targeting the design to match SOP for coal, oil and gas plants was the way to go.
Moltex's goal. Make coal obsolete as a fuel.
I think they might succeed. But not in the UK.
"Lookup the Oak Ridge Experiment."
I'm aware of it, along with their design plan for a full size MSR reactor in the GW range, and it's industrial support.
Sadly when the USG decided to look at alternatives they went all in with the Sodium cooled fast breeder concept.
Which has worked out so well for all concerned.
Amazon 2.0 ?
Either you buy them and hold them, but they give you no value, or you buy them and hope they will rise, then off load them on bigger mug than you.
As for LH2
It costs about 3x more to compress or cool than to make in the first place. It's intellectually satisfying ("pollution" is water) but otherwise it's an enormous waste of money, given most of it made in CA is from natural gas anyway.
Unfortunate result but they seem to be handling it in a more focused way than I suspect would happen in the NHS, although they are considerably smaller. So thumbs up for that.
So this weeks Top Tip:
Confirm all characters that can be entered on a data record can both be displayed on screen and on reports, or some sort of commonly understood equivalent is done so instead.
"<" (and while they're at it perhaps they should check ">" as well) are IIRC standard parts of ASCII, EBCDIC and Unicode. Others have suggested HTML and XML is where it gets tricky. :-(
Which is surely going through Con-gress as we speak. *
As others have point out where is the evidence?
*As soon as its sponsors run it through the clever backronym generator package they've just bought.
Indeed. Not known as the "Torygraph" for nothing.
But I think my favorite comment on the article she has allegedly written was from Telegraph commentard "Number Seven" who wrote.
"More socialist totalitarianism from this woman.
Quelle surprise."
Possibly not the most obvious analysis of her comments.
But the totalitarianism bit sounds right.
Making pi = 3 "breaks" all formulas using it because they now give you the wrong answer.
You wouldn't do that because you're not stupid Ms Home Secretary.
Well encryption that can be broken is like making pi = 3 in its effects on the users.
That's why it's a bad idea. Encryption is also like pregnancy. You can't just be a bit pregnant.
(I loath analogical thinking but this is the only stuff simple enough I can think of to use on her).
Indeed.
In truth there are "authoritarians" to either extreme end of the political spectrum.
In fact it's their views that make them extremists.
The real split, whatever your broad political views is between the "democrats" who believe in the rule of the people, and the authoritarians, who believe in the rule of themselves.
Find out what sort of person you're dealing with and act accordingly.
IOW "When in doubt the end users come first."
Period.
End of discussion.
Then you can run any proposal through that filter and see how it comes out.
No doubt there will be cases where people will complain but at the end of the day the end users err use the internet.
All because some company bunged a peer to have this BS included in the relevant "Green" (as in cash, not environment) Energy Bill.
The UKG could save itself some cash by dumping this.
But note the consumers pay for the bills through raised bills.
IIRC one of these costs about £400. Obviously different utility companies will have different ideas about how long they can retain a customer and add the charge for the meter accordingly.
So you've never seen this short orientation film put out by the Newport Tourism Authority? *
Mines the one with "Staff" on the back.
*No I've never been to Newport. Yes this was taken from a real show.
The US Congress runs some kind of FB where you have to pick up "likes" to get it voted on?
Incidentally doesn't that "protection" all feed into the debate on wheather the internet is a "common carrier" like the phone system IE udner the 1934 Telecommunications Act?
"Sweet" Pai will have something to say about that.
As soon as he's checked back with his former employers to know what that should be.
So it's like the update systems that Linux distros use, but anyone can contribute to it?
What could possibly go wrong with that?
Obvious question would be did El Reg developers pick up any packages from here?
TBH I've been finding the site a bit slow and flaky for the last few days.
Where you can view the atmosphere as composed of great "mountains" of air forming over individual local peaks in the local gravitational field.
Excellent work, which should refine the models of star formation, and our stars long term stability.
Is anyone else hearing hearing the voice of Danny Trejo saying "$70 day for yard work, $100 for roofing, $125 for septic"
Only in this case it's the passenger who asks "Have you ever killed anyone before?"
Sounds nasty.
Is.
and other s**t coding patterns I'm all for it.
Maybe some of those code monkeys who "write" the s**t for IoT tat might drop that in, rather than whatever b**locks code source they normally cut and paste their vuln ridden code from.
You have to ask what's the goal you want to achieve?
I think most IoT ideas are s**t, but do we all agree that secure IoT is better than insecure IoT?
The next PC that a botnet of compromised IoT things attacks could be yours.
Or worse yet, mine.
The Register 
Biting the hand that feeds IT
Copyright. All rights reserved © 1998–2024
