Posts by Bearshark

Nuclear reactors smaller than a semi truck to be tested in Idaho

This has been done before

How can one get excited about this? Since the late 1950s, the US and other countries have been deploying small reactors to military submarines. Here are some specs on the first nuclear submarine, the USS Nautilus (SSN-571):

"Size: The reactor core itself was relatively compact, designed to fit within the submarine’s pressure hull, which had a diameter of about 28 feet. The entire reactor compartment, including shielding and associated systems, occupied a cylindrical section roughly 30–40 feet long and about 20–25 feet in diameter (estimated based on submarine design constraints)."

Sounds like the size of a Shipping container to me.

"Nautilus was powered by the Submarine Thermal Reactor (STR), later designated the S2W reactor, a pressurized water reactor produced for the US Navy by Westinghouse Electric Corporation".

Westinghouse reactor again. Did that company dust off the old reactor schematic?

Uncanny

*Note* I didn't read the entire article, but... just saying.

Cellebrite buys Corellium to help cops bust phone encryption

Re: And their first customer

You, sir/madame, are a lunatic. No wonder you posted this anonymously. You don't sound like a US citizen, so your comments tell me you don't understand the United States. Americans have guns... lots of them, and most patriots will use them against a tyrannical government to cleanse the tree of liberty with their blood and the tyrants. (parsed from one of Thomas Jefferson's quote)

I clicked on the article because I was curious about how these entities can break phone encryption and participate in a public-private partnership with the fuzz. Your comments don't even speak to the spirit of the article.

~Bearshark

FCC boss starts bringing up Musk's Starlink dominance, antitrust concerns

Re: Leave it to government

The government is trying to be relevant again.

Shots fired as AT&T and Verizon ask FCC to block Starlink's direct-to-cell plans

Ahh telcos getting their panties in a bunch. Now that's entertainment. There used to be much more competition in the telco space. I wouldn't be surprised if the FCC "accommodates" ATT / Verizon with some sort of restrictions for Starlink. The Federal's Governments attempts to control the means of production are easier with fewer Corporate proxies. Just my opinion.

Energy buffs give small modular reactors a gigantic reality check

I guess NGO's (IEEFA) do rule the world. What sort of bullshit are these people talking about???

"(IEEFA) concludes in a report that SMRs are "still too expensive, too slow to build, and too risky to play a significant role in transitioning away from fossil fuels."

We've had SMRs for 70 years in a military capacity. Now these jokers say it is "still too expensive, too slow to build". These people can go F themselves. It is all about keeping their foot on the necks of the populous that they hate so much. Hell, cancer has been cured for at least 30 years, but there isn't any money in that business model.

Giving Windows total recall of everything a user does is a privacy minefield

I would trust my brother "Kuato" who lives inside my stomach, before trusting M$.

Engine cover flies from Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 during takeoff

Re: Is it Just Me??

It may be a little hyperbolic to say but, Boeing bought MD and all their brass went to executive positions. Boeing was an engineering company and they lost that after the merger. What you get now is Safety be damned because its all about the shareholders now and will never be about the customer. Airbus will capitalize hugely in the coming years if it hasn't already.

White House goes to court, not Congress, to renew warrantless spy powers

Re: Power is never willingly rescinded

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Competition is decreasing in enterprise IT – and you’ll be poorer and dumber for it

All the Marxist state leaders in the world envy the CCP. This is the reason for industry consolidation. Following the CCP model of controlling an industry is easier than letting "free market capitalism" dictate the markets. There is no communist control in what you "can't" control.

This is not limited to the IT industry as other industries have also consolidated. How many phone companies are left(well I guess these are IT companies)? How many major airlines are left, how many oil companies are left, and how many, etc... etc... Look 20-30 years ago. There were a lot more companies in these industry sectors back then.

Of course, this is just my observations/opinions and I hope I'm wrong.

US fusion energy dreams edge closer to reality, Congress permitting

Re: Only twenty years..

I've pretty much lost all hope for Science at this point. Science has been politicized for decades now. Sure fusion energy sounds fantastic... 20+ years from now. The reason why I'm bitter toward the Sciences these days is because we could have been using small fission reactors everywhere by now, but politically this never happened. We've had nuclear submarines since 1958 that can run indefinitely, yet there is no terrestrial nuclear power implemented at a small scale to supply power to neighborhoods. Nuclear power is very safe. The waste isn't an issue like politicians want you to think.

Doom is 30, and so is Windows NT. How far we haven't come

Re: No imagination any more

I would also argue that the inventors/engineers have been stifled by the continuing drumbeat of "Policy and compliance" rules companies put on said inventors/engineers. This is cancerous toward innovation.

Nvidia intros the 'SuperNIC' – it's like a SmartNIC, DPU or IPU, but more super

Gold jacket, green jacket, who gives a shit?

Microsoft's 11-year itch: The uncelebrated anniversary of Windows 8

Server 2012 ?

Server 2012 had the metro interface as well. Who @ M$ decided that was a good idea? Luckily Server "core" came out at the same time. Switched any new 2012 servers to the core version. Now I don't have a GUI on their server 2012 products. That works for me.

Tor turns to proof-of-work puzzles to defend onion network from DDoS attacks

I don't think the current build of 'TOR' resembles anything close to what the United States Naval Research Laboratory built back in the day, IMO. This software is completely open source. That being said, I'm sure the source code has been audited many times. It's all about your trust tolerance I guess.

Two US Navy sailors charged with giving Chinese spies secret military info

Re: Does the US pay that badly?

Keep on topic, please. No one cares about your political views.

Google's browser security plan slammed as dangerous, terrible, DRM for websites

Re: Scraping

Then what is archive.org for? Aren't they one of the biggest scrapers?

Lawyers join forces to fight common enemy: The SEC and its probes into cyber-victims

Re: No choice.

And you expect me to trust a 3-letter agency?

Fortinet's latest ASIC promises 2.5Gbps of SSL inspection at the edge

Fix my silicon

Maybe they should fix the silicon on my 300E first. SSL HW acceleration kept spiking the CPU so I had to turn it off. Now "proxyd" and "wad" are crashing causing any new VPN connections to not connect.

Don't pay for their rapid replacement service cause they've never rapidly sent me anything since this problem cropped up over a year ago.

Microsoft launches full-court press to save $69B Activision deal

Re: This is all stupid.

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Exchange Online and Microsoft Teams went down in APAC because Microsoft broke itself

New verbiage for sh*t being down

Network Infrastructure DOWN...

We don't like the word DOWN anymore. Here's the new industry verbiage:

"service infrastructure is performing at a sub-optimal level"

Brilliant! Ship it!

Remote work wipes $453b off office real estate

Re: Economics

"Does this mean that there will be more reasonably priced offices for startups and small businesses..."

NO!

Just search for Louis Rossmann & real estate. He has some on-the-ground videos of the shame that 'IS' New York City real estate.

FTC presses ahead in its war on 'free' Turbo Tax

Intuit deserves all that they get. They're a horrible company. My accountant curses Quick Books every time I pay him a visit. I stopped using turbo tax when I tried to open a previous year's .tax file with the most current version of TT and it couldn't. They have a paid service for that. That was inconvenient since I was being audited at the time. Intuit can go to hell.

So long, Top Gun... AI software waxes US F-16 pilot's tail 5-0 during virtual dogfight drills

Making a correction to this article. Heron Systems is based out of 'California, Maryland'. Not the state of California. (Hollywood MD is only 5 miles north :-)

-BS

NASA trusted 'traditional' Boeing to program its Starliner without close supervision... It failed to dock due to bugs

Re: So what happened?

Boeing troubles started immediately after the McDonald Douglas acquisition in the late '90s. As aki009 noted:

"Boeing shifted its focus from engineering to "share holder value"

People ask even today, "Who really bought who" during that acquisition. Once the transaction was complete, the MD executives basically took over. MD's culture has always been the "Share Holder" comes first.

That's 20years Boeing will never get back. And it seems this culture has spread to their industrial military complex businesses (including NASA).

Such a shame, Boeing used to the one of the worlds premier engineering companies.

China successfully launches its biggest-ever space truck to fire up its space station ambitions

Well I guess China will need to mine (steal) more intellectual property in order to make the space program a little safer.

Remember Unrollme, the biz that helped you automatically ditch unwanted emails? Yeah, it was selling your data

Re: In this day and age

@JohnFen gets it,

If anybody actually trusts ANY company to keep your data private, including government institutions, then you are a fool. In my opinion it goes this way:

Private companies sell 80% of our data where the other 20% is stolen.

Government(s) in general sell 10% of our data and 90% of our data gets stolen due to Government incompetence.

Trump continues on the warpath: Now US tariffs cover nearly everything arriving from China

Re: Orange Fool

He's just poking and twisting a 'hot iron' into this so called "New World Order" which does absolutely nothing for humanity other than offer misery on a cold plate.

Windows 10 1809 looks unlikely to overtake prior build before 19H1 lands

Operating Systems

Operating Systems present users access to the hardware on which the OS resides. That's all it should be, nothing more. Then the user then has the freedom to run / install applications that interact with the hardware. (i.e. spreadsheet on the monitor, spread sheet using floating point calculations on a CPU).

Windows has grown to a bloated piece of crap and this update model just doesn't work well.

It's like the United States Federal Government. At it's constitutional core, I am to be protected from foreign aggression and have the freedom to prosper. In its current iteration, The United States Federal Government is there just to impede my pursuit of liberty and happiness.

So I can draw parallels with Windows :-)

Script kiddies pwn 1000s of Windows boxes using leaked NSA hack tools

Most Bank ATM's still use an embedded version of XP. Now banks and technology don't mix very well (yelling at my bank for no 2FA)

That being said, how many banks are too nub to block these ATM's from the internet???