Posts by David 164

Google open sources $68.2m realtime comm platform

Nice move by Google

Nice move by Google, got to wonder when Google will transferring its own video communication tools over tot this framework.

eBay calls for cheap 4G networks

I am hoping the government spends this money wisely

All I am hoping is that the money raise from the auction is invested in rolling out Fiber to the rest of the country and increasing the speed of the current network.

An not wasted on tories pet projects. Like Labor wasted 3G auction cash on there pet projects.

The bids are sealed

But that put them at risk of a third part coming in and taking the lot.

Google Chrome OS: Too secure to need security?

I do not think Microsoft is doing that bad.

Only 1 and a quarter times that of Apple.

Actually that pretty impressive considering Windows markets is about 8 times bigger than Apple an it only get double the amount of attacks.

They may be doing something right after all. May be Windows is not as easy to hack as Apple cult like us to believe

I think it will be pretty safe

Given that it 2 years to crack Chrome, and even then the exploit is said to rely of flaws with third part software flash. I think the cyber criminals will have a tough time trying to crack ChromeOS. Yes it will be possible, no software is perfect but there is so many ways which google have lock down the system that I suspect it will years before one does appear.

One of the biggest mitigating factor will be chrome OS just being to small of target market, compare to the resources needed to cracked it, for instant the chrome browser exploit is rumor to have needed 6 months to developed, and the security firm admitted it was the most sophisticated attacked it has ever design, and the whole thing could be obsolete with in 6 to 12 weeks which does not give much time for them to make back there profits/. With Google regular update schedule's, aggressive tactics in buying up security flaws found by researchers.

I think Chrome OS will be one of the safest OSes available on the market, outside of government. On other hand Google marketing department should not be setting themselves up for the fall that will happen when chrome OS is eventually crack. An Google must also make sure they respond quickly and fast to any threat, aka not act like apple and take three weeks to recognise the problem and provide a fixed, only for that fixed to become obsolete by an even sophiscated attack.

NASA 'deep space' ship: Humans beyond orbit by 2020?

It was meant to operate like a passenger jet.

The shuttle was design to be like a passenger plane.

An passenger planes do not have any escape system once they are flying, same as the shuttle. An that why there is no escape system included on the shuttle.

Mensk already talking about using it for Mars missions

Mensk was talking about using Falcon Heavy for Mars missions. Which does kind of suggest he plans to get Falcon Heavy Human rated at some point.

Also Falcon heavy is just three Falcon nines strap together, getting human rated will not be that difficult as they are all being built with the same systems and designs.

The law is the law I am afraid.

Except congress made it law that Nasa has to produce a SLS, even if there alternatives on the market, such as the Falcon Heavy.

In fact Nasa only needs to wait 18 months to 24 months to see if Falcon Heavy will be successful. It seems a wast of fund to even think about the SLS at this stage. But NASA need to follow the law and the law requires them to produce a SLS for about 10 billion dollars.

Perhaps it is old news

It old news. but I think most people was expecting NASA and the Whitehouse to have found some way to avoid wasting all this money on projects which are not needed and are not probably funded to begin with. It seem they could not. I personally thought they would try and delay any spending of money until at least 2013, by that stage Falcon Heavy Lift may have prove itself, and then NASA could easily abandon at least the SLS, saving several billion dollars at least. But now we know NASA is almost certain to wast billions spent on a programme which may not be needed at all, all that money down the drain to keep a few senators in congress happy.

NASA could have everything that the SLS is capable of doing, in Falcon Heavy. If the project is successful, and it should be as it is just strapping 3 Falcon 9s together with some a bit of extra plumbing to link the fuel tanks together, the SLS is just money down the drain as Falcon Heavy will cost just a fraction of SLS running costs, estimated to be over half a billion per launch, some have suggest 3 quarters to a billion per launch, and you do not get anything back for the next launch. Even if SpaceX triple its current prices they still provide by far the cheaper option.

1) SpaceX is about putting people & supplies in the ISS. That is the ONLY contract that they have with NASA. Perhaps they have others with the EU, but I don't know of them.

But they are not stopping there, they are developing Falcon Heavy, with there own cash. For NASA to just ignore them, which they seem to have done, shows how well or in this case how badly NASA is run. Falcon 9 has been proven a success, if NASA was smart they would wait and see if they are as success with the Falcon Heavy, with a heavy bet that they will be.

As the point made the only current missions for the MPCV is the ISS, there nothing else even on the Horizon, if it not going to the ISS then it effectively sitting on the ground, an on Nasa time table until after 2023. As this meant to be ready by 2016 that 7 years just sitting there with nothing to do.

By the time NASA would even have the money to use it for anything, most likely the MPCV would need an upgrade anyway to take advantage of some of the new technologies available. An MPCV is design to use chemical rockets only, not the VASMIR drive equip with a nuclear power plant for instant. Now it be stupid not to use something like the VASMIR drives on beyond Earth orbit especially if the tests to run it on the International Space station are proven successful, I believe this is to be carried out by 2014. This would make the MPCV even more obsolete than it already is.

To me it look like NASA is running two programmes, the private industry led approach, with NASA backing private projects such as Ad Astra and SpaceX, which are looking likely to have the capabilities to take us to Mars in the foreseeable future.

Why also funding a second programme, basically as an employment programme design to win votes for congressman and repay Boeing an co bribes I mean election funds, rather than actually doing anything useful in space in the foreseeable future. According to this article sometime after 2023 according to NASA current time table.

He would if he could

An Obarma would most likely do that if he could get away with it. In fact he probably reduce NASA role to research and exploration only, again if he could get away with it.

Unfortuantly the Senators in Washington just see NASA as an employment agency for there local voters and care nothing about exploration.

If NASA has sense it would scrap the orion, and all of it own internal cost plus profits rocket building programme.

ESA: British Skylon spaceplane seems perfectly possible

They are developing a other vehicle to boost cargo into GSO orbits.

I believe reaction engines are working on a fully reusable craft able to handle cargo transfere from LEO to GEO. The craft would stay permanently in orbit, to either boost satelites to the require orbits or to refuel them why in orbit. The craft would be service and refueled by Skylon while still in orbit.

There been some suggestion that if something goes wrong with there development of theSabre engine, that development of this craft could still go ahead. But with the launch vehicle would be change to a Falcon 9 or a other launch system.

The costs of developing this vehicle is also included in Skylon costings at least the one produce by the ESA review which was release today. As it is consider essential to make Skylon economically feasible.

London Olympics ticket grab ends with website wobbles

I applied for some tickets

I bought 2 4 sets of tickets of the opening and closing ceremony, as that all I could afford and truth be told they the only events I want to see at this time.

Once we know whether there is going to be British Football team I may apply for some tickets to Wembley and or the Emirates to see a couple of matches in the next round. Presuming they are playing at those venues and there still tickets available.

But this system could have been made so much better with very few simple changes.

Google to sell subscriptions to Chrome OS notebooks?

They will probably include a lot of extras

Through I got the feeling if this does happen, Google will be offering a lot more than just the lap top, I expect Google Music, and online storage solution probably 20gb and perhaps other services and the hardware.

May be but then there always companies, Education institutes, Governments

I am not sure about people, but companies, Education institutes, Governments may jump at the the thought that they pay 240 dollars for two/3 years, free tech support, app account, online storage, and the hardware and on top of that Google repair and up grade the laptop as well.

If this what going to happen, I am betting people at Microsoft, Apply may be sweating a bit and will release a rival to this with in a year.

Microsoft online app melodrama wins federal certification

So Microsoft was lying as well?

An the plot thickens.

Opera uncloaks Gmail challenger from Down Under

Hope you ban every other email host service.

Hope you ban Yahoo Mail, Opera Mail or in fact anything else that have a spam filter, as this analyse the mail and the text in that mail to detect spam.

Richard Branson to prowl oceans' hadal depths in flying sub

Hopefully the BBC will produce a other series

Hopefully if this craft turn out to be successfully, a follow series of blue can be created with the Sub in a starring role.

Phishers dodge fraud protections in Firefox, Chrome

Someone did do this once upon a time but

This approach was use a few years ago against spammers, it was declared illegal in several countries. As is vigilantism is general forbidden.

Google man opens curtain on cloud apps firewall glitch

Web Sockets as currently written are riddle with security holes.

The current Web Sockets specification are not suitable for practical use as there are numerous security flaws that have been discovered with in the current draft specification.

Which is why the code has been disable on most of the current browsers, Safari, Firefox 4 has disabled and Microsoft did not even brother with it. . I believe Chrome still has it has standard but if people are complaining about about reconfiguring there fire walls, imagine the complaints google would get if Google Docs only worked on Chrome.

I believe the current specification is being rewritten to be secured. When this will be done to a level where it is practical to implement this in a mainstream product is anyone guest, unless it already have been and I have heard about it.

Mobile Trojan mimics Android clean-up tool

confusing article.

doperative

I think so, what I got from the article is that Google release there back-door virus, design to seek out handsets with the rogue applications which contained the original malware and delete them.

The hackers manage to keep a version of google purging software, which is suppose to be self deleting and reversed engineer it so that it can penetrate any Android device and instead of deleting software, it create a back door and share you phone numbers with a server and create a way for the hand sets to receive SMS messages and probably other Malware..

That what I got from a difficult to understand article.

I will have to go to other sources and see if this interpretation is right.

Google guilty of copyright wrong

Google has not made a ton of money from Youtube

Actually google have not made a ton of cash.

In fact it a loss earner for the company. I only just made profit of 100 million dollars or so, to put into context Google is said have loss anyware from 2-5 billion propping up Youtube since it bought it.

So no Google has not made a ton of money it made a ton of losses.

It may make a ton of money in the future but that the future not the past.

Libya's internet goes dark as upheaval spreads

This demonstrate that Gadaffi is slowly moving back into control of the country

If Gadaffi still have this much control of the country, then the likely hood of the rebellion there succeeding is growing less likely as the days go by.

Of cause they have got the SAS on there side now so they will probably win in the end.

NASA's Glory climate-data sat crashes into Pacific on launch

Obvious sabotage

Obvious it sabotage by the oil industry and there government insiders or by green peace have not decided which yet.

Either way we have just lost several years worth of work which would of increase our understanding and knowledge of our environment.

Google preps YouTube movie service 'for UK'

I have not yet retrieve a complaint.

zero, I have yet to retrieve a single complaint about my usage on Virgin broadband network, which regularly goes over 50GB a month if not way more.

Huawei to gift underground coverage to London

The Chinese got money to throw away,

Well the Chinese got money to throw around.

But I swear murder rates on the tube will climb especially during the summer.

An the temperature will also rise on the tube, with all those hot phones being use.

An what am I meant to say when the boss trying to phone me, being on the tube was such a handy excuse. An much better than the truth.

Google 'Arctic Sea' – Chrome native code, ahoy!

Stop talking crap azimutha

azimutha, no you will not need to open Chrome first.

You will simply just create a shortcut that excist in the OS desktop an one click is all you will need to open any application, an then it will just launch the application.

This is already possible to do in Chrome and Firefox.

Google opens curtain on 'manual' search penalties

But all this is based on the the idea of Whitelist existing,

and from what I understand, Google deny there being any such thing as white List, Foundem(Microsoft) have yet to show any evidence that such lists within Google excist, apart from there of theories.

I am pretty sure Google not dumb to keep any such lists around either. Same I am sure Google not dumb enough to send emails admitting such whitelist exists.

UK.gov 'HyperHighway' aims to 'speed up the internet by 100x'

Not there Job

Not there job, the protocol has be written, coded up , agreed upon by everyone but no likes spending money so industry never brother implementing it, which is why there will be a mad rush over the next couple of years as the current addresses run out.

If it any fault it Government they should of force companies upgrade there equipement years ago.

Hardware vendors have only just launch IPV6, But I am sure they will jack up there prices once the crisis hit an we ran out of addresses. I am pretty sure some Hardware CEOs will be laughing all the way to the bank.

It not as far fetch as you make it out to be

Most likely given the pedigree of the team they have industry funding to an University internal grant an there own pot of money to, which could double or triple the pot of money they have available of the length of the research project.

An us Brits always get stuff done cheaply anyway an usually still better than anyone else, so I would not be entirely surprise if they achieve all there goals.

Commercialisation of new technologies is often the expensive bit an the part which the UK is terrible at an has been for a long time.

Amazon blames hardware – not hackers – for European outage

I say amazon are lying

So Amazon are saying there infrastructure is so poor that a single hardware failure can bring down there entire website.

I will consider my self lucky I do not own shares in Amazon.

Me, myself and Eric: Google delays social network effort, says report

Facebook fears Google an Google have not even flinch in the social circle yet.

Justin Clements

Except a lot of Facebook users are Gmail users an Youtube users an google search users.

People still use them an there use is about equal or just below that of Facebook.

If Google can design a easy way for people to use there network connect there friends, then very quickly I imagine saying why do I have to go to a other site when my friends on Youtube, I can use my gmail address, an I can even phone, video conversations an instant message my friends, why watching Youtube videos together.

If Google can get this to work, design a easy to use interface that seamlessly with there products, this got a chance to be a huge hit an people could well start using with out even reliesing they using it, an once they are suck in they could well forget facebook.

Will this happen over night nope but if anyone can do it Google.

In many area Google services exceeds Facebook by an order of magitude in functuality. There a reason Facebook developer team went into lock down mode, it because they fear Google an what they have the capabilities of doing.

Not surprise

Not surprising really.

Google music service has been delayed, various other products with in Google has already been delayed.

An the new product has probably been receiving a lot of feed back an new designs ideas from the acquisitions Google has made over the last year.

An it obvious that they current laying the foundations for a social network service in many of Google current products.

Renta-spook: GCHQ commercialisation 'is a live issue'

May be they are just planning an plotting something else

Or this is just cover for our secret services to move into cooperate systems undetected as there security is under GCHQ control anyway an can be turn off at there pleasure.

It be a good move if this is the case as it is the ultimate corporate espiage an the best hack are those that go undetected.

Google sued for scanning emails of non-Gmail users

The law is outdated an useless then

But the law is clearly useless then. As it rule out the use of spam filters an virus scans by anyone, including Microsoft an Yahoo of this world. .

The law is clearly outdated what a surprise an not meant for digital files. An argument for updating the law, perhaps,suing google no.

An Hotmail, Yahoo does the same except they do not use to targeted advertising, instead you get a load irrelevant an useless adverts which are more likely pissed me off than persuade me to buy stuff.

Ofcom sets out mega-auction timetable

I wonder where the money will go

I think we need a campagn to make sure that any money raise from this auction is invested in Fiber to the Home network.

Health records get clean bill of health

It pretty easy to protect any computer from viruses actually.

By constant virus scanning, only use the GP surgeries for official business, aka limit there use to NHS sites an medical sites an medical journals sites by using filters to block any other site. An I am receptionist an nurses an GP got enough work to be getting on with so they will not have to go to other sites anyway.

Never download attachments to the GP computer, full stop.

Run a virus an spyware scan every single day like you should.

An use a descent secure browser, not IE 6 like my last three GPs still does.

but the biggest thing just use your common sense an may be use some of that 100 ground salary for IT training an security training.

An I hope your GP is based in a bank vault because short of that, I would not be convince that my records would be safe on site, I know the last GP went into left there filing cabinate open an left there computer unlock why they went to get my results, I could have quite a bit of fun there in the ten minutes he was gone an would not of known that I done a thing, his software did not keep track of which records been access an when for instant.

An patents should be given the chance to make there own decisions an the GP should never limit a patent choice just because he does not like it.

Czechs tell Google to stop StreetView

mamsey It actually very simple

mamsey

The reason is actually quite simple, the data was recorded why the cars were going around because thought they would in the future integrate it WI-FI hotspots locations data into the software in some future update. So the data was recorded to the hard drives as the car drove around but when they went back to there headquarters instead of checking the data they simple chose to store the hard disks in a secure location until Google decided to integrate it into Google street view as a update an that where they found an reported to the authorities that they collected data from private but publically available unsecured Wi-fi networks.

It not a mystery an it not conspiracy an it goes on all the time in all fields, data is collected but not look at or analyse until years into the future because lack of man power an resources an because it not essential to the project.

Site auto-trawls embarrassing Facebook posts

What a load of rubbish

Actually the facebook settings are far easier to set up, my 9 year niece manage to do it herself in five minutes, facebook profile completly lock down, she gave up trying to programme a vcr after 10 minutes, a little experiment I did especially for this site an the article .

Fact is people are lazy an will not spend the five minutes it takes to lock down a facebook profile to keep everything private, there fault not facebook.

Yeah may be what I am doing is taking the lazy open source approach, it aint the software it the users, but then again a nine year old girl can do it, so I cannot understand while these supposedly privacy expert, IT experts find it so hard to do, may be they have a alterior to make it seem hard to do.

NHS denies pre-election stitch-up

I do not think so somehow

Well we know that one there plans would be for local GPs to manage there IT systems, presumable keeping the data stored locally, well that what cameron said in one of his speeches, in a GP building which are usually unsecured an easily broken into, one of the locals ones be done twist in that last year.

Give than they are also unlikely to have anyone above them to check that there passwords are to scratch, security software are updated regularly, an consider my local GP secretary writse her passwords on a piece of paper which is left it on the desk for the world to see, hell I could of swipe the peace of paper an she probably would not even notice, I would bet security would be a utter disgrace if the conservatives get there way. Also local GPs are run like a business nowadays, an are generally very efficient which is why they can afford to pay themselves so much. I can guarantee many of them will go for the cheapest one they can buy.

Also under conservatives plans they have yet to announce how much there ideas will cost or how long it will take to implement there plans, this despite an 6 months review into the nhs IT scheme. An one thing they fail to announce is how they will fund there plans.

Also a other big problem they will face is all these companies will see a chance to gain money for nothing, I mean it the buyer that is redrawing from the contracts an there all those get out clauses , I guaranteed they will walk away from the contracts with hundreds of millions for delivering nothing.

An if you do not think this is the case, one company already demanding 700hundred million for getting fired from the project.

I suspect that once the conservatives are in power they will very quickly relies that cancelling the contracts are impossible or simply cost to much to do so. They will eventually swallow there pride, make some round edges changes, which will change nothing but probably add some more costs to the project but make them appear to do something, which will result in very little change to the current plans.

EA exec predicts PlayStation 3.5, Xbox 560

The future is clear for Sony but blury for Xbox.

I completely agree with the above to poster.

But the PS4 have got a clear road map out and that anyone with half a brain can tell you the rough specs of it. new version of Xbox360 will be more difficult to predict as many of the core components of the 360 are already in need of upgrade just to make it reliable let along comparable to the ps3 overall spec.

I will be shock if someone have not already got the ps4 hardware map out and ready to launch any time Sony need it, Which is the first sign that Microsoft got a plan for a new console. Sony will probably jump the gun and an beat Microsoft to market.