Posts by elDog 1128 publicly visible posts • joined 23 Oct 2013
And spread your cheeks.
I can't wait until some of the clueless U.S.of.A legislators (mainly republican) get caught up in their own dragnet. They always seem to be the ones who rail against perverts but end up being the ones with naughty bits out there.
In any case, none of this will make any difference. The "legal" and "security" parts of government have always done what they have wanted and freely shared with the megacorps. Sweet dreams, everyone.
Surely we (I'm a resident of this insane place) can blast away at anything that threatens us. After all, that drone could have been delivering a package of puerile purple pulchritude to those young ladies. (Eat your hearts out The Register headline writers.)
I actually think this quote is right on:
Analytics isn't a friendly world for users. The apps are pricey, there are lots of high-priced consultants, and it's a bit like ERP or CRM in that the final software never quite lives up to original expectations. The second you deploy it, it's out of date.
It's pretty rare that anyone can re-invent a full language/support that has some critical mass from the start.
Even Java took several years to be considered a worthy language for business-class apps. Having Ms. Google as the underlying supporter is not bad in the supportive-role sense. And really not bad in the other senses since the dogfood is eaten by everyone.
I'm a big fan of the "C"-class languages vs. the sloppy-indentation style of Python/etc. I also like the strict requirements for dependency management (if you say you're going to use it, you damn well better.)
I'm sure there will be better/different ways of dealing with software development problems. Go is definitely a big step in the right direction.
There's absolutely no way that kiddos are going to be able to hack into the emails of the real movers and shakers. Don't even try to look at Hillary's email accounts. Or Petreaus's.
And, in the end, the NSA and equivalent Chinese, Isreali, Russian, Indian, and Hobbitland agencies have already recorded and analyzed the content. Nothing to see.
But imagine the benefit of the increased speeds of watching your conflagaration at 10Gb! Of course at DSL speeds, it might be fun to watch you squirming your way to their brand of hell.
Just slightly more seriously, I've been a bit amazed at how some of those deep-red-clay-soul places have pretty good infrastructure. Not just mega-churches, but real businesses. The devil works in mysterious ways!
And will have rotted away by now. This has been going on for years. They should be prosecuted for intentionally trying to destroy western civilization, such as it is.
I'm missing the "follow the money" aspect, but do they get a few cents on every flash update they push out? WTF don't they just pull the plug?
One hopes they can't be hijacked by some kid on the ground messing with GPS-type signals.
Or that the inertial on-board systems are damned accurate.
Or that the smaller midshipmen can fit inside the missile while using the sextant and peering out through the 1x1cm quartz window.
Business Intelligence is one area that is blossoming without regard to the Old Guard. Used to be that SPSS and SAS, SAP?, had some real muscle in the game. Open source such as R and Python with incredible packages are eating the big boys' lunches.
Microsoft with its acquisition of Revolution Dynamics version of R and integrated with SQL Server 2016 will be a formidable competitor (I guess SQL Server Analytic Services isn't doing that well.) Putting SS2016 on the Azure cloud looks very promising.
"Weeks, not months" - plenty of time for developing and testing, right?
So much hatred (downvotes) here at elReg today!
I think the Micros~1 flambois couldn't quite understand your clear description of the retards that might not understand @joeldillon's post.
Qt has been around many years and around several blocks multiple times. It is solid, heavily used for real projects (industrial, embedded platforms including undersea rovers, etc.) C++ is a great language with fantastic libraries. Perhaps since it doesn't need a software refresh every 12 months it doesn't put enough bread in the developers' baskets.
Hello, what's new?
Oh, you got an infection and had to reformat your hard disk? Did you backup everything at least once in the last 5 years (NO).
It would be comical except I do have some friends and business acquaintances who LIE about doing backups. "Oh, yes we do them frequently, well perhaps 6 months ago".
I'd like to vote up or down on this, just because it seems like an idea that "should" work but probably won't for a while.
A micro-laser that can singe hair (smelly!) will require quite a bit of power. And of course it will singe anything else that might be caught in its rays, including eyeballs, etc.
I think you'd need a very good imaging system to analyze everything in the path of the laser and very rapid bursts of light to pinpoint the scorching.
Ah, I thought you were about to go in a somewhat different direction...
I can imagine a point in the near future when the fine technology that Google and others have brought forward, that this tech would allow any of us to present one or more fingerprints to the search engine and have it display the owner's anonymized information. Well, anonymized only enough to escape the fine print in the EU agreements.
Perhaps, like photo/image recognition, the search results could just show where the owner's prints were last seen.
Next, retinal scans, saliva, other bodily fluids, walking patterns, voice inflections. Damn, I'm getting hot here!
Calm down. There were some mistakes made.
We'll happily take our 8Bn U$ as a fine since we made 20Bn U$ in sales we otherwise wouldn't have made.
And since we're part of the top echelon CEOs/appartchiks of industry, we don't expect to have to change our vacation schedules. After all, "we're too big to fail!"
So some Carlyle/Halliburton-group thug group get together and set up a new shell company(XYZ Group) to bid on this nice little contract. Maybe have Ed Snowden as CEO to lend a bit of panache.
All communications between the "official DC" and this new XYZ Group will be done using rats in the sewers - no traceability.
When the XYZ Group starts WW3 official DC can deny any knowledge. Of course it might not matter, but better play by the rules!
The last thing in the world I want is one of these "credit monitoring agencies" looking at my private bits.
And yet that is exactly what you get if you are targeted by Target.com, Walmart, Gap, Whatever. After you have had all your privates lifted, you are supposed to trust them again to some fine group of spies to keep an eye on them.
Shit, do they think we're that stupid? (rhetorical only.)
None of those "credit monitoring agencies" hire any of the best or the brightest as far as the technical side of things.
They may be good at marketing, especially to other mega-corps. All it takes is booze, some gals with died hair and long legs. (And my apologies to women, maybe booze/stuff is enough.)
rating services via Experian and other gobsnackers. And they'll need all your vitals to do their credit analysis. Altho this analysis flows via pipes into China, Russia, Israel and other technologically advanced countries. No sense piping it to the USofA since we're so brain-focked. Sad!
I realize this deal is only for real grown-ups - like $100,000,000 ones. But perhaps the rest of us could use it as a conduit to move our funds into a non-taxable off-shore.
If there isn't already something for people of modest means ($10,000 +/-), then it seems like a good business model for some other shyster (Kim?).
Why should only the fat cats be able to play with the IRS mice?
While Teddie Cruse and other US politicians have millions to spend on their minions and lots of help from government-funded private interests to advise, I would like the representatives to actually have a real knowledge of the issues that they spout.
Back in the old days of the US of A, reps were actually working people. They ran farms, businesses, possibly enslaved some workers. But they knew what made the world really go around, back in those days.
Nowadays, most of the pontificators (mea culpa, monseigneur) are paid sycophants for vested interests. They have no knowledge of the real world.
Yes, they can cite many industry/interest studies to support their demented POV, but they would be totally helpless in a true debate on the merits of ANY issue.
The main reason HP and most of the other large U.S. corporations have huge IP holdings is because they could, and that was the way that behemoths communicated so long ago.
Not so long ago the internet was really pretty private - a few companies and a few universities/research institutions. Not so long ago everything was transmitted through a few hubs around this country (US) in a totally insecure way. This has changed dramatically. Life moves on and usually gets better. HP, unfortunately, didn't move on very well.
For doing very sensitive work. Such as accounting, HIPAA transactions, legal transcriptions, security analyses.
While it may be true that all supposedly secure companies have "your security and best interest in mind" it is just astounding that another country's government is as stupid as our own (US/DHS/DoJ/EtC.)
Usually they are short-term and the competition is fierce. But if there is some field that you are interested in (gaming?) and you have the time/energy to learn the skillset to tackle one of the advertised tasks, it might be a good way of getting a toe in the door. Since you aren't particularly interested in earning much income until you can earn a lot, this might be a good avenue for building a portfolio.
If you're not a programmer; web site design, search-engine-optimization, user-experience recommendations all come to mind.
Also there are some wonderful online and free courseware available on every subject under the sun. If you have a field that you've long been interested in, try out Coursera or KhanAcadamy. Sometimes just being participatory in the classes leads to contacts and is stimulating.
Good luck!
again. And again probably not. I doubt they have another $20M firing bonus for her, again.
HP is a company that did well at what its founders knew and could manage. Once the MBA suits started taking over its everyone for themselves.
Not reading the background information, I also have to wonder if the fine folks in the Michigan Agency of Bullocks and Computer Machines weren't at least partially complicit, or perhaps totally complicit in screwing the taxpayers for years without having anything to show for it. Unless you count bags of shredded documents evidence of hard work.
You know, redistributed dusty bunnies or reseated a board or CPU.
Then you hear about frustrated users pulling out their concealed weapon and plugging the beast. Perhaps just waving it around would be enough to make it start to behave...
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