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  1. how much will they invest going forward ? on SoftBank Completes $31 Billion Acquisition of ARM (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    The interesting bit will be if they have a long term investment strategy.

    Chip Design and sales are multi year and do they have the ability....

    little sad that ARM are removed from the FTSE

    John Jones

     

  2. equipment... on IPv6 Achieves 50% Reach On Major US Carriers (worldipv6launch.org) · · Score: 1

    IPv6 often is faster to address and has been better monitored however

    end user equipment that route's is lacking for example google OnHub is not IPv6 compliant
    ( https://on.google.com/hub/ )

    whats the process for certification ?

    thanks

    John Jones

  3. Re:And yet he missed... on Vacationing Security Researcher Exposes Austrian ATM Skimmer (carbonblack.com) · · Score: 1

    it is strange he didn't even look for the C&C portion of the skimmer

  4. ironic given the first iPhone on Why UK's Government Digital Service Decided To Ditch Apps (govinsider.asia) · · Score: 2

    the first iPhone relied on the web it didnt have "apps"

    it was only after the terrible web pages did they resort to containerised web pages... That game developers abused and we have the situation today...

    now with the need to support android + iPhone + iPad + windows + Mac are people finally understanding that Marked up Text is much healthier and CHEAPER

    its called a website and there are standards (shocking)

    if your spending the peoples money (government depts) create a website that is useable
    (if you must create a branded app I understand there are tools for that, they will allow you to package a website)

    regards

    John Jones

  5. BBC article with links for family members on EgyptAir Flight 804 Missing (cnn.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    also BBC source

    http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-36309492

  6. promised ? on Google's OnHub Is First WiFi Router To Support IFTTT (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    A promised update to support IPv6

    it has bluetooth but thats not enabled...

    they really need to focus on actual networking...

  7. IPv6 ? multicast ? on Comcast Provides Uncapped 1 Gb Service To 1 Customer -- of 22.4 Million (myajc.com) · · Score: 1

    apart from 1 Gb what else are they doing SCTP in their modern Set Top Box's or IPv6 to bettter handle the contention and streaming ?

    seriously PR stuff give us some details...

  8. huge budgets to hire the best... oh wait.. on What Bell Labs Was Like C.1967 (theguardian.com) · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    bell labs existed because a monopoly ran the telephone system do you think thats a good idea... discuss ?

  9. funny thing that GPS / GCHQ / SatComms on Massive Marine Reserve Created In Atlantic (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    people wonder if anyone would notice any violations of the marine park... YES, yes they would

    however not the reason you might thing the island is crawling with monitoring equipment both for environmental (its quite important to know the weather above and below the water if your a navy) and machines (satellites/networking/radio/sonar) basically its a rather nice outpost on which the British get to say what goes...

    so putting a nature reserve there is rather befitting

    regards

    John Jones

  10. free cache ! on Google's Effort To Speed Up the Mobile Web (ampproject.org) · · Score: 1

    so basically its a set of specs that allow google to cache your webpage and allow you to track it

    WHY OH WHY not simply use the standards outlined here : http://www.w3.org/Mobile/

    and then produce a validator so that sites can be cached by oh I dont know the network operator or anyone including google after all are they not closer to the endpoint ?

    seems very pointless and a reaction to facebook allowing publishers to push articles in their network...

    regards

    John Jones

  11. really would like it to work with thread... on Contiki 3.0 Released, Retains Support For Apple II, C64 · · Score: 1

    Its very cool but I wonder how it will work with thread http://threadgroup.org/Downloads.aspx
    it would be nice if the mesh included nest and other thread hardware

  12. Made for exactly this : PORTADI on Ask Slashdot: New Employee System Access Tracking? · · Score: 1

    It's not a HR system but is a enterprise IAM plus it works great for small teams ( of 3 even )

    https://www.portadi.com

    More than happy to be a reference

    Regards

    John Jones

  13. Elphel rock !! on Ask Slashdot: Are There Any Open and Affordable IPCams? · · Score: 1

    they are damn near perfect and the more people that actually buy them the better !

  14. Compromised by not being wearable on BBC Reveals Its New Microcomputer Design · · Score: 1

    I don't know the reason but this became a lot less interesting as soon as the battery was altered, would have been a useful wearable...

    Pity

    John Jones

  15. how to deal with the rupert problem... on Australia Passes Site-Blocking Legislation · · Score: 2

    there is this old man that controls a lot of media in australia

    eventually all politicians end up having to go see and deal with this bloke rupert and/or his company

    one way is to give in to what they want hence the "internet filter" which blocks "copyright" which they are concerned about...

    what I find sad is they have no interest in actual copyright or paying artists but in shareholder returns (which they should be as its a company).

    regards

    John Jones

  16. Re:Wrong authority on Fake Mobile Phone Towers Found To Be "Actively Listening In" On Calls In UK · · Score: 1

    the cell towers that you connect to depending on the connection type can be "named" differently and in a rural setting you may well see many attempts to connect to geographically far away towers by several providers

    you would need to understand the carrier and software sorry I have no clue to what Llama software is and google is not much help, either way invest in a software defined radio to easily and cheaply scan your environment

    regards

    John Jones

  17. Re:Well that's bollocks on Fake Mobile Phone Towers Found To Be "Actively Listening In" On Calls In UK · · Score: 1

    ok I'll bite...

    the report states :
      "Scotland Yard was said to have bought some of the IMSI towers in 2009 and began using them last November, according to reports"

    If thats a journalist ever hedging their bets... I believe they are there is no proof at all and no statement within the article that the met are doing anything as low sophistication as "stingrays"

    There is absolutely no reason for the force such as the metropolitan police to use or invest in such equipment when all data collation is done by other british agencies already do this and make it available to them.

    regards

    john jones

     

  18. Wrong authority on Fake Mobile Phone Towers Found To Be "Actively Listening In" On Calls In UK · · Score: 3, Informative

    The metropolitan police are not responsible for GSM interference

    Doing so legally they would be run by Government Communications Headquarters ( GCHQ)
    It matters not most UK communications are intercepted quite legally by the NSA and shared back to UK.

    They are most likely test towers or towers created by individuals illegally

    The British have always allowed intercepts legally

    Regards

    John Jones

  19. YEARS and YEARS ago... on Gaming On Linux With Newest AMD Catalyst Driver Remains Slow · · Score: 2

    when there was a ATI rage128 X11 driver written by enthusiast and Linux people it was basically the BEST

    then nvidia saw the marketing and CAD market decided to ship a direct port of their windows driver with all the horrible spec breaking kludges that made it fast...

    AMD now released a good driver that doesn't have too many kludges and sticks fairly well to the spec but its slow... they dont want to reveal all their breaking of the spec and kludges that they do on windows...

    basically we could have a driver that was fast but it wont be a good (without fudging colours and resolutions etc)

    AMD need to look at it like a marketing experience and invest in the software drivers for a couple of years... hey they could blow nvidia out of the water in about 6 months if they had the right team and just went for it...

    regards

    John Jones

  20. you have to be specific... on ARM's Cortex-A72 and Mali-T880 GPU Announced For 2016 Flagship Smartphones · · Score: 1

    Especially when talking about silicon as versions and die shrinks actually matter e.g. the K1 T132 is project denver which is 64bit and uses a JIT compiler to get speedup while version T124 is the Cortex-A15 R3

    interesting thing will be the uptake of unix like OS vs Windows 10 on ARM which is sure to annoy Intel who are loosing market share !

    regards

    John Jones

  21. Finally on Apple Faces Large Penalties In EU Tax Probe · · Score: 4, Insightful

    they should pay tax somewhere... I do and most of the world does... it's that or death...

  22. its on ! on First Shellshock Botnet Attacking Akamai, US DoD Networks · · Score: 4, Interesting

    no venerability should be without a logo :

      https://twitter.com/johnjonesname

  23. Re:god dammit. on Solar Plant Sets Birds On Fire As They Fly Overhead · · Score: 1

    had the same thought...

      what about Airports ?

    deploy the same methods they do chirps/sounds and eagle surly someone thought of that and suggested it already ???

    personally I see this as far better method to generate electricity than polluting photoelectric cells... they deserve a congratulations !

     

  24. at least they did not just attach cache... on NVIDIAs 64-bit Tegra K1: The Ghost of Transmeta Rides Again, Out of Order · · Score: 1

    Scalar design just simply attach more cache... more hits and speculative loads (/MMU) solved it for SPARC/MIPS/Power

    The HP research into Dynamo and later the transmeta design concepts showed promise but delivered no product beyond small samples (under 1 million shipped) and yet peoples houses...

      I was most excited by dynamo and VLIW (itanium promised so much and delivered so little) LLVM provides some interesting concepts

      I would really like Texas Instruments (TI) back in the game as I think a large I and D cache combined with specialised (DSP + crypto) offload engines would blow the socks off the current market...

    it will be interesting as intel have a smaller geometry yet the market is with ARMHY but do manufacturers care ?

    have fun and power consumption matters !

    John Jones

  25. MITM attack on Australian iPhone and iPad Users Waylaid By Ransomware · · Score: 2

    seems like they might have been a target of MITM attack

    personally I would advocate support for DANE in apple products :

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNS-based_Authentication_of_Named_Entities

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNS-based_Authentication_of_Named_Entities

    not a total solution but it would help

    regards

    John Jones