The other side of the story is using hydrophones (waterproof microphones) to listen to the deep.
Every major country has these permanent stations anchored out across the oceans.
An audio spectrum analyzer sweeps the apparently random noise with tones from near zero up to the khz.
Obviously, when noise from the sea is the same frequency as the artificial pure tone, they are added together.
Rinse, repeat.
The results are charted with frequency on the X axis and amplitude on the Y.
A computer alerts when it sees a straight line, created over time.
That's the tone and sea noise agreeing when they coincide with the sounds of reefers (ice boxes), generators, prop cavitation, screw bearings, engine noises, and miscellaneous unwanted fingerprints.
We could tell you the fucking captain's name by the signature.
Aircraft drop sonobouys to do the same.
--
Then there's this:
Submarines, to date, have a lot of fucking metal that distorts the Earth's magnetic field locally.
Permanent or airborne magnetometers can pick up these small anomalies.
Sunken ships have long been logged and they don't move.
--
Then, there are active sonar devices, permanent or airborne (tethered from helicopters) that map the surroundings and alarm on novel or moving objects.
--
The submarine/anti-submarine balance of technology is similar to the battle of virus/antivirus one.
This latest improvement by the Japanese may or may not be better than existing or future state of the art detection.
The trick to taming inherited code (Lord knows there's never documentation) is to get inside the head of the creator and train of of thoughts of those who followed her.
In some instances, I totally refused to go there.
When management threatened me, I called their bluff.
Being an isolated code jockey, pestering end users for specs that are no-shows or ever-changing is a death sentence for an outgoing people-person like me.
I helped the firm choose independent contractors to come in and do that shitty work, and I told the contractor that I would provide free coffee, cokes, and donuts if they would swear to God that they would not tell me one goddam thing about what they were doing so I would have plausible deniability when the contractor was dismissed for not having ESP and costing too much.
Reminds me of when I was a little kid and first held my breath under water yelling, "Look Ma! I'm swimming!"
Sure, it was progress, but I had a long way to go.
--
It's unfortunate, but necessary, that we lose lives and equipment, with budget-busting efforts, in order to learn enough to get on down the road.
While I am very impressed with the space shuttle program and appreciate the lives of those lost to make advances, I'm totally goddam pissed that we gave up.
I'm retired and this is something I haven't thought of in the 3 years since.
Restoring from tape backup (in the day) was a pain because it's a matter of finding the right data set for the date of last known good.
I rarely had to use that method for an unintentionally deleted, or corrupted, file.
ETA was usually measured in hours.
Restoring a file from just moments ago was also measured in hours.
With shadow copies, I was a hero. For the few people who were interested, I taught them the simple, quick steps.
--
Ransomware can wreak total hell.
After I left, the firm (law) got hit with ransomware (phishing email) and I talked to my replacement IT guy and it was several days of stress just to come back on line from fragments of shit laying here and there.
They did not get a full recovery and they don't know precisely what's missing.
I asked what steps the firm was taking regarding ransomware, and he said they bought ransomware insurance.
I don't know, and don't care, if he was shitting me or not.
We're not sure if these are just a few isolated cases and how many users are affected, but this should be taken as a reminder of the importance of creating a backup of your computer before going through any upgrade.
They are going back and forth using the terms "updates" and "upgrades."
Also, there's a reference to an "Update Assistant tool."
I'm running a Windows XP machine (security camera duty only) with a registry hack that makes it think it's a goddam ATM and I receive security updates pretty regularly.
I'm betting that, by now, hackers at large don't consider it low hanging fruit.
Windows XP registry hack keeps security updates rolling for the dead operating system
Certainly not specific to Windows Updates, but those folders are not immune to encryption and cannot be labeled as, "Do Not Encrypt," for those of us who would like some protection against ransomware.
I've been studying quantum theory for about 50 years and continue to absorb current progress.
We cannot know, precisely, any characteristic of a quantum. The best we can do is a good guess.
A quantum computer (QC) can spit out good guesses rather rapidly, and that can be useful for optimization problems, but not very useful for other problems.
Classical computers either know, or they don't know.
I offer this blurb because it comes from D-Wave and correctly sums it all up:
Pakin says his team are believers in D-Wave’s potential, even though they admit its systems might not yet offer performance improvements except in very narrow cases. He also explains that D-Wave's computers don't necessarily provide the most efficient answers to an optimization problem—or even a correct one. Instead, the idea is to provide solutions that are probably good, if not perfect solutions, and to do it very quickly. That narrows the D-Wave machines' usefulness to optimization problems that need to be solved fast but don't need to be perfect. That could include many artificial intelligence applications.
Pakin says his team are believers in D-Wave’s potential, even though they admit its systems might not yet offer performance improvements except in very narrow cases. He also explains that D-Wave's computers don't necessarily provide the most efficient answers to an optimization problem—or even a correct one. Instead, the idea is to provide solutions that are probably good, if not perfect solutions, and to do it very quickly. That narrows the D-Wave machines' usefulness to optimization problems that need to be solved fast but don't need to be perfect. That could include many artificial intelligence applications.
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... the difficulties of reporting stories of this magnitude with anonymous sources. An anonymous reader shares an excerpt from his report:
... out on the Big Pond.
Aviation Anti-Submarine Warfare Technician 2nd class.
The other side of the story is using hydrophones (waterproof microphones) to listen to the deep.
Every major country has these permanent stations anchored out across the oceans.
An audio spectrum analyzer sweeps the apparently random noise with tones from near zero up to the khz.
Obviously, when noise from the sea is the same frequency as the artificial pure tone, they are added together.
Rinse, repeat.
The results are charted with frequency on the X axis and amplitude on the Y.
A computer alerts when it sees a straight line, created over time.
That's the tone and sea noise agreeing when they coincide with the sounds of reefers (ice boxes), generators, prop cavitation, screw bearings, engine noises, and miscellaneous unwanted fingerprints.
We could tell you the fucking captain's name by the signature.
Aircraft drop sonobouys to do the same.
--
Then there's this:
Submarines, to date, have a lot of fucking metal that distorts the Earth's magnetic field locally.
Permanent or airborne magnetometers can pick up these small anomalies.
Sunken ships have long been logged and they don't move.
--
Then, there are active sonar devices, permanent or airborne (tethered from helicopters) that map the surroundings and alarm on novel or moving objects.
--
The submarine/anti-submarine balance of technology is similar to the battle of virus/antivirus one.
This latest improvement by the Japanese may or may not be better than existing or future state of the art detection.
... is a brain-numbing nightmare.
The trick to taming inherited code (Lord knows there's never documentation) is to get inside the head of the creator and train of of thoughts of those who followed her.
In some instances, I totally refused to go there.
When management threatened me, I called their bluff.
Being an isolated code jockey, pestering end users for specs that are no-shows or ever-changing is a death sentence for an outgoing people-person like me.
I helped the firm choose independent contractors to come in and do that shitty work, and I told the contractor that I would provide free coffee, cokes, and donuts if they would swear to God that they would not tell me one goddam thing about what they were doing so I would have plausible deniability when the contractor was dismissed for not having ESP and costing too much.
... you never had to call.
Yeah.
Reminds me of when I was a little kid and first held my breath under water yelling, "Look Ma! I'm swimming!"
Sure, it was progress, but I had a long way to go.
--
It's unfortunate, but necessary, that we lose lives and equipment, with budget-busting efforts, in order to learn enough to get on down the road.
While I am very impressed with the space shuttle program and appreciate the lives of those lost to make advances, I'm totally goddam pissed that we gave up.
And don't get me started on Waxahachie.
Busted!
That's why I suffer from imposter syndrome.
I faked a 36-year career and stuff.
Thanks. I missed the feature upgrade part.
As I said, I'm retired, so my observations are dated.
For production devices, I was never an early adopter.
I waited a week or so (except for zero day patch) just in case something like this screw-up happened.
Only after their announcement to go to the Moon and set up shop did the space race really get off the ground (see what I did there).
Industrializing the Moon is an obvious strategy that should have been an extension of America's thrust (see what I did there) back in the 60s.
The only reason JFK sent us to the Moon was to outperform the USSR.
The only reason we're going back is to outperform Japan and a host of other countries.
I don't know why in simple hell the Mars batshit crazy fanbois didn't choose the Moon as a beta site in the first goddam place.
I recall, as I'm sure you do, when provisioning costs to mitigate this kind of disaster was prohibitive.
These days, solutions are cheap and it's a best practice to have copies of stuff crammed everywhere.
Hell, I used to pack user desktop unused HD space with crucial data.
I'm retired and this is something I haven't thought of in the 3 years since.
Restoring from tape backup (in the day) was a pain because it's a matter of finding the right data set for the date of last known good.
I rarely had to use that method for an unintentionally deleted, or corrupted, file.
ETA was usually measured in hours.
Restoring a file from just moments ago was also measured in hours.
With shadow copies, I was a hero. For the few people who were interested, I taught them the simple, quick steps.
--
Ransomware can wreak total hell.
After I left, the firm (law) got hit with ransomware (phishing email) and I talked to my replacement IT guy and it was several days of stress just to come back on line from fragments of shit laying here and there.
They did not get a full recovery and they don't know precisely what's missing.
I asked what steps the firm was taking regarding ransomware, and he said they bought ransomware insurance.
I don't know, and don't care, if he was shitting me or not.
Why in simple hell is this modded down?
We all know what snapshots are and how they work.
Ransomware often propagates to connected storage.
That shit can even ride the wire to cloud storage.
AC and I have seen that happen.
I use EHDs rotated out daily, completely disconnected from the network.
When I walked in and saw the ransomware lock, I had 5 individual drives with the prior 5 day's data.
Seriously?
this is.
We're not sure if these are just a few isolated cases and how many users are affected, but this should be taken as a reminder of the importance of creating a backup of your computer before going through any upgrade .
They are going back and forth using the terms "updates" and "upgrades."
Also, there's a reference to an "Update Assistant tool."
I'm running a Windows XP machine (security camera duty only) with a registry hack that makes it think it's a goddam ATM and I receive security updates pretty regularly.
I'm betting that, by now, hackers at large don't consider it low hanging fruit.
Windows XP registry hack keeps security updates rolling for the dead operating system
Certainly not specific to Windows Updates, but those folders are not immune to encryption and cannot be labeled as, "Do Not Encrypt," for those of us who would like some protection against ransomware.
And, we eat rocks.
Actually only one rock: salt.
Yes, I'm sure.
I've been studying quantum theory for about 50 years and continue to absorb current progress.
We cannot know, precisely, any characteristic of a quantum. The best we can do is a good guess.
A quantum computer (QC) can spit out good guesses rather rapidly, and that can be useful for optimization problems, but not very useful for other problems.
Classical computers either know, or they don't know.
I offer this blurb because it comes from D-Wave and correctly sums it all up:
Pakin says his team are believers in D-Wave’s potential, even though they admit its systems might not yet offer performance improvements except in very narrow cases. He also explains that D-Wave's computers don't necessarily provide the most efficient answers to an optimization problem—or even a correct one. Instead, the idea is to provide solutions that are probably good, if not perfect solutions, and to do it very quickly. That narrows the D-Wave machines' usefulness to optimization problems that need to be solved fast but don't need to be perfect. That could include many artificial intelligence applications.
Yes and no:
Pakin says his team are believers in D-Wave’s potential, even though they admit its systems might not yet offer performance improvements except in very narrow cases. He also explains that D-Wave's computers don't necessarily provide the most efficient answers to an optimization problem—or even a correct one. Instead, the idea is to provide solutions that are probably good, if not perfect solutions, and to do it very quickly. That narrows the D-Wave machines' usefulness to optimization problems that need to be solved fast but don't need to be perfect. That could include many artificial intelligence applications.
There are some problems that a quantum computer will not handle any faster than a classical computer.
Mining is one of those.
They could have saved a lot of money by scrubbing the project early on.
The F-35 is a piece of shit.
Is creimer orange?
Nah.
You're as bad as "they" are, because you're so tribal.
The facts are that the Democrats did not bother to court the poor, undereducated, evangelical Christian white women of the rust belt.
Clinton had a shit load of baggage (I voted for her) and Bernie was batshit crazy.
America has voted and it is what it is.
I am not going to convert you and you are not going to convert me.
See you at the polls.
Nah.
Baby steps.
Proof of concept.
Beta testing.
We have a goddam test site three days away.
It would take that long to to get a presidential text message to fucking Mars.
... the goddam F-35.
... and compromise the privacy of Chinese customers."
WHAT ABOUT AMERICA FIRST?