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130 publicly visible posts • joined 5 Jan 2015
Budget 2018: UK goes it alone on digital sales tax for tech giants
Chinese biz baron wants to shove his artificial moon where the sun doesn't shine – literally
Apple's magical quality engineering strikes again: You may want to hold off that macOS High Sierra update...
With sorry Soyuz stuffed, who's going to run NASA's space station taxi service now?
UK.gov withdraws life support from flagship digital identity system
Chinese Super Micro 'spy chip' story gets even more strange as everyone doubles down
Wednesday 10th October 2018 14:23 GMT
Discredit Bloomberg Pres. Bid ?
Just read (on BBC News) that Michael Bloomberg has elected to become part of Democrats and may bid to become US President.
Could Bb have been seeded with a fake (mal-hw) story as part of campaign to discredit him (and his news org) early-on ?
Plame described most of her colleagues (back then) as being Fox (TV) lovers.
US may have by far the world's biggest military budget but it's not showing in security
Hate to burst your Hubble: Science stops as boffins scramble to diagnose gyro problem
It's over 9,000! Boffin-baffling microquasar has power that makes the LHC look like a kid's toy
China's going to make a mobile OS and everyone will love it, predict ball-gazing analysts
Friday 5th October 2018 08:43 GMT
Re: What could go wrong?
From that Bloomberg article: You end up with a classic Satan’s bargain,” one former U.S. official says. “You can have less supply than you want and guarantee it’s secure, or you can have the supply you need, but there will be risk. Every organization has accepted the second proposition.”
Apple macOS Mojave: There's goth mode but developers will have to wait for the juicy stuff
UK space comes to an 'understanding' with Australia as Brexit looms
NASA's Kepler telescope is sent back to sleep as scientists preserve fuel for the next data dump
The ink's not dry on California'a new net neutrality law and the US govt is already suing
Holy smokes! US watchdog sues Elon Musk after he makes hash of $420 Tesla tweet
iFixit engineers have an L of a time pulling apart Apple's iPhone XS
Shields up! Shields up! ASTRONAUTS flying to MARS will arrive BRAIN DAMAGED, boffins claim
Russia: The hole in the ISS Soyuz lifeboat – was it the crew wot dunnit?
The Reg takes the US government's insider threat training course
Martian weather has cleared at last: Now NASA's wondering, will Opportunity knock?
Roskosmos admits that Soyuz 'meteorite' hole had more earthly origins
Space station springs a leak while astronauts are asleep (but don't panic)
Wearable hybrids prove the bloated smartwatch is one of Silly Valley's biggest mistakes
I see you're trying to leak a file! US military seeks Clippy-like AI to stop future Snowdens
Wednesday 11th July 2018 09:44 GMT
AI Automation is a “lever” - relying on expert maintenance else it will eventually fail. Maintenance - e.g. rule base formulation, training (induction, neural) is a specialist activity requiring knowledge not only of the technology but of the domain. Both of which evolve. Moral: long term success depends on sufficient (quality and number of) wizards retained.
Infrastructure wonks: Tear up Britain's copper phone networks by 2025
NASA finds more stuff suggesting Mars could have hosted life, maybe
NASA spots asteroid on crash course with Earth – with just hours to go
Brit govt told to do its homework ahead of talks over post-Brexit spy laws and data flows
NSA sought data on 534 MILLION phone calls in 2017
IT systems still in limbo as UK.gov departments await Brexit policy – MPs
Sunday 6th May 2018 07:43 GMT
Re: I knew it, M'lord, there was a cunning plan
It’s still software. The first flowcharts were for organising big buildings full of humans. Humans that can inherently cope by mending/bending rules and hiding issues.
Problem 1: New sets of humans will likewise need to be programmed - with knowledge, processes and training.
Problem 2: Such approaches might interact ok with similar approaches elsewhere, but how well are they likely to interact with computer based systems ? A ripe scenario for exploitation (as deliberate obstruction).
Safety Net: Return to Brit default - shouting louder at the foreigners when they “don’t understand” and threatening to take the football (our trade) away. Working well at the moment...
Apple and The Notched One: It can't hide the X-sized iPhone let-down
Bill Gates declined offer to serve as Donald Trump's science advisor
Javid's in, Rudd's out: UK Home Sec quits over immigration targets scandal
If you guessed China’s heavy lifter failed due to a liquid hydrogen turbo engine fault, well done!
UK rocket-botherers rattle SABRE, snaffle big bucks
China to offer recoverable satellites-as-a-service
Monday 19th March 2018 10:19 GMT
“Truth to power” hits power and gets bent
Webbing for oaken heat shield produced this confirmatory article:
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg14619738-300-space-oddities/amp/
...BUT same article refers to a nuclear test site manhole cover being the first object launched (unintentionally) into space (nuclear cannon) - which (sadly) from the following article appears to be urban myth:
https://io9.gizmodo.com/no-a-nuclear-explosion-did-not-launch-a-manhole-cover-1715340946
Biting the hand that feeds IT
