Posts by Stoic Skeptic 34 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Jan 2024
I was one of the biggest fans of CISA at one time.
Thought that they were one of the only agencies that was worth its cost.
Then the beans were spilled on the censorship efforts that the government pushed on were driven by CISA.
So, yes Cybersecurity is National Security, however censorship is not.
Let the downvotes begin!!
" Despite the creative effort that went into these demands, GuidePoint’s North and fellow threat analysts Stephen Brzozowski and Hermes Bojaxhi have “a high level of confidence that the extortion demands contained within are illegitimate and do not originate from the BianLian ransomware group.”
Some will fall for it and it doesn't take a high hit rate to make money.
Everyone jump to the down arrow, but a reality check.
The budget for the project is £750 million. Which means it will really cost £1.5 billion before all is said and done.
Don't for a minute believe that it won't be the rate-payers that pick that up somewhere.
The UK already has some of the highest electric costs on the planet and the impoverishment of the country will do absolutely nothing for CO2 levels.
Those levels will be determined by China and India.
Electricity prices
UK (From 1 Apr) - 27.03 p/kWh
China - 6.00 p/kWh
China - 6.00 p/kWh
US - 12.20 p/kWh
Iceland - 14.47
Japan - 15.75 p/kWh
Australia - 19.50 p/kWh
Datacenters and factories run on electricity. Wouldn't expect many of those coming to the UK anytime soon.
Let the downvoting begin, but as an old colleague of mine used to tell me: "Reality causes stress".
There was a big push in the wireless world at timeframe for a concept called NFV (Network Function Virtualization) where in all the discrete hardware based network functions were to be virtualized and auto-scaled. Openstack was one of the contenders to be the standard orchestrator in that eco-system. Don't know where things have gone since then as I left that space 8 years ago.
The WSJ published an article a few months back stating that the ROI on AI/ML projects in the real world was averaging 4%.
While there are some niches that suit the current flavor of AI/ML very well and have a much higher ROI than that, many do not.
The great experiment in enterprise AI/ML will be coming to an end soon.
The root of the problem (as I see it) is that software development is no longer the domain of software developers and now controlled by corporate managers with no background in software development. They grasp for metrics that they can relate to and software greatness is not one of those things they can measure to put on a weekly/monthly report to upper management; you get what you measure.
The analogy of this is the result of Boeing making an accountant the CEO rather than an engineer.
AI as it is defined today will have niches where it performs very well, but according to Deloitte: experienced organizations that are leaders in AI implementation typically see an average ROI of 4.3%, while those just starting out may only see a 0.2% ROI.
Those kinds of numbers aren't going to support the kinds of multiples and money currently on the board
There were many billions more lost here in the states. It is just another example of the inefficiency and incompetence of government. Whenever programs are run by political appointees instead of actually competent people, there will always be failures such as this. More money = more failure.
Anything that can be done by private enterprise should be done by private enterprise.
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