Posts by well meaning but ultimately self defeating

Stop trying to make The Machine happen, HPE. It's not going to happen

It happened

They called it the mainframe

Cybereason snags $100m from Softbank to mount distribution, tech offensive

Re: Trust software from Israeli Defense Forces?

Would trust it as much as I trust software from Blighty or the US. Slightly more than I would trust software from Russia and orders of magnitude more than I would trust software from virtually any other country.

Suspect if I was running a Middle Eastern dictatorship I would be a little more leery though and buy it through a reseller instead.

UK trigger-happy over fines for data breaches compared with Europe

Re: Can someone please clarify...

How long have you been waiting to be able to do that?

Next Generation Security: No, Dorothy, there is no magic wand

Come on guys

Mentioning Mandiant and Fireeye on the same list as competitors, and including Nagios as a SIEM damages credibility of article - makes me doubt the bits I don't know already.

View from a Reg reader: My take on the Basic Income

Re: Can't you find a different forum?

I think you miss a fundamental point. One of the drivers of the conversation around basic income is the increasing awareness of the political classes around the impact of automation and AI. Whilst it is easy to look at this as a separate topic, the fact that there are more people than the work that needs to be done, Elon hasn't found a cheap way to ship us off planet and a lack of growth in the west means that there are lots of idle hands and bribing them to STFU as is being done in Spain is a highly relevant topic.

Hollow, world! Netflix premieres Java in-memory database toolkit

Old stuff in financial services

look at openhft http://chronicle.software

Does the job and great for low latency/near real-time systems.

Fintech startup Revolut pulls out of several countries, promises swift return

Hmmmm

To shut down that quickly my guess is someone has not been doing their homework on local regulatory requirements. inclined towards either a breach of Regulation E or an AML linked issue for the US. Seriously folks - if you want to build a business in this space invest in understanding compliance and regulation. It may be as boring as Big Bertha but you gotta know the rules if you wanna play the game.

Search engine results increasingly poisoned with malicious links

1337 alerts?

Seriously folks - are you extracting the urea?

On a more relevant note - how many times as many web pages are there in 2016 vs 2013?

Nutanix slam dunks IPO

Alternatively.....

Bankers underprice IPO meaning lot of money left on the table.

When DIY is not enough: Web-snack firm Graze has an offline awakening

"The open-source Tableau"

That noise you just heard - it was credibility flying out the window.

Bloke flogs $40 B&W printer on Craigslist, gets $12,000 legal bill

Well done sir/madam.

well done

Would YOU start a fire? TRAPPED in a new-build server farm

Could you not

Get a network connection and email someone. Surely you carry a bootable USB with you?

White hats bake TeslaCrypt master key into universal decryptor

Conspiracy Theory Alert

Unless of course, the well-meaning eSet researcher him/her self was indeed the criminal mastermind behind this, and in an attack of conscience decided to atone for the evil they had committed.

Humans get 'aroused' fondling robots in their private areas – study

Location location location

A conference at Fukuoka... surely you jest

Microsoft traps and tortures poor little AI in soulless Minecraft world

Virtual world, with AI slaves bound to pointless tasks.

Uncomfortable analogies aside, it has been revealed. The singularity will occur in Minecraft.....and it will be angry.

Shrub anyone?

Israeli military techies cook up security alerts software

Re: Disparate array of security technologies?

I agree. If you have not handcoded it in assembly language on hardware you have built yourself, it's quite simply unreliable.

China wants encryption cracked on demand because ... er, terrorism

They had no choice. If they did not, then everyone (who had not already realised) would realise they could already crack it, or had backdoored the product you were using in the first place.

IBM CEO Ginni Rometty also cool on EMC/Dell

Praised by faint damn

What she carefully choses to ignore (because the last thing you want to do is encourage a competitor and tell the market it's a good idea) is that it's not the portion of hardware revenue that counts, it's the portion of wallet share at clients that can be incrementally captured by bundling incremental software into a deal where you have locked in revenue due to unremovable mainframes.

Weird ARCHAEAN LIFE FORM found at 'Loki's Castle' DEEP beneath Arctic Circle

You don't know what you are messing with down there.

ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn

Amazon gobbles chips firm Annapurna to speed up cloudy data centers

Pretty scary

What I see as the most interesting aspect of this acquisition is our friends at AWS have bought in a tonne of semiconductor designers. Whilst they are focussed on networking at the moment, do you honestly think that Dr Vogels has not structurally disassembled his workload and identified functional use-case where an ARM based processor will have a price/perf advantage. If I was Intel right now, I would be a little nervous as if the economics of this work our correctly from a unit cost perspective you can be sure that the chocolate factory will be replicating.

Valve showers Debian Linux devs with FREE Steam games

Obviously a cunning plan

Let's destroy Debian by giving all their coders free games so they never update their modules mroo ha ha ha ha ha

Extreme ultraviolet litho: Extremely late and can't even save Moore's Law

6.6 Rhode Islands to a Wales.

A more useful metric is 1 Rhode Island is about 440k Football fields

Virident gives server flash vendors the fear with 'sharing tool'

thin end of the wedgey

The storage Flash vendors are all screwed in the medium term. Micron and who knows who else are building integrated nand and dram capabilities which means that the data placement algorithms and wear management software and all the other funky stuff the pcie Flash vendors produce migrate to the os.