Why so little parallelism?
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From: Nick Maclaren on 9 Nov 2006 06:21 In article <4rgbc7FraovaU1(a)mid.individual.net>, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jan_Vorbr=FCggen?= <jvorbrueggen(a)not-mediasec.de> writes: |> > Why would the US be the best place to research the UK's security and |> > intelligence agencies? |> |> While the US has the laudable FOIA - something we are trying to put in place |> hereabouts - the UK has quite the opposite: the Official Secrets Act, which I |> have always thought to be unconstitutional in a democracy. But then, as I |> understand it the UK doesn't _have_ a constitution... What makes you think that we are a democracy? Regards, Nick Maclaren.
From: Del Cecchi on 9 Nov 2006 07:55 "Jan Vorbr?ggen" <jvorbrueggen(a)not-mediasec.de> wrote in message news:4rgb16Fr7h67U1(a)mid.individual.net... >>> Well tell us every thing you know about your MI organizations and >>> GCHQ? >> I think Nick might be one of the folks who like to make snarky little >> remarks about the folks who are trying to protect us from other folks >> who would like to kill as many of us as possible. > > ...with the point being that with all those resources at their > disposal, they have failed miserably. And where they didn't fail, the > political level failed (cue WMD in the Near East (near for us, guys!)). > So why exactly did you, and are you, spending those resources? > > Yeah, there are likely hundreds of unpublishable success stories. Well, > if the tree falls in the forest and nobody heard and saw it - did it > really fall? > > Jan > Of course it did. If the big bang happened and no one saw it, did it really bang? del
From: Eugene Miya on 9 Nov 2006 11:41 >>>|> Architecture, and a place for lots of different systems. In article <4rgamnFqm6niU1(a)mid.individual.net>, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jan_Vorbr=FCggen?= <jvorbrueggen(a)not-mediasec.de> wrote: >Power(PC) is still around and going strong, ARM and even MIPS (mostly >embedded, to be sure), and it appears there is substantial investment in the >S/370 follow-ons from IBM. Not to mention IA-64 8-|. I appreciate your elaboration, but my problem is that I don't see much difference. They are all pretty much von Neumann architectures with little bells and whistles like differing registers and caches, etc. Even a Transputer is fairly von Neumann and you didn't bring that up (but that's OK) much less other systems. --
From: Eugene Miya on 9 Nov 2006 11:46 >> A lot is in the public domain. They fund lots of research in industry >> and universities. Some of this I just saw in an article in US NWP while >> waiting in my dentist's office just now. I first heard of Wikis on one of >> my CIA visits and there is a big side bar on their use internally now. In article <6vudnU_hm_KYXc_YnZ2dnUVZ_qednZ2d(a)speakeasy.net>, Erik Magnuson <mekire(a)easyspeak.net> wrote: >Would have been really interesting if your dentist was the late James P. >Crutchfield, DDS... No, but I finally met a friend's former stupid Jim Crutchfield of the Santa Cruz Chaos cabral last year. >Kind of funny in that the last things that CDC that had a significant >impact on the computer field were related to small disk drives. The >'IDE/ATA' interface was, IIRC, jointly developed by CDC and Compaq - my >Deskpro 386 had a CDC Wren drive. Zoned bit encoding was another. Years ago I worked at a firm on a team which designed r/w heads for CDC disks (in the Winchester era). People have a fixation on CPUs. Storage (at all levels) is really in many ways "more" essential (actually at best 1 of 3 aspects to system balance). In the micro market (not mine), Woz's really really important development to the Apple 2 floppy disk, even more so than the Apple 2 itself. Otherwise hobbiests wuld have stayed on audio tape much longer. And that says nothing of aspect 3. --
From: Eugene Miya on 9 Nov 2006 11:53
>>snarky little remarks In article <+qp*bmjvr(a)news.chiark.greenend.org.uk>, Thomas Womack <twomack(a)chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote: >It is hard to avoid making snarky remarks >laudable their goals, who have so little visible oversight and so ... >waste money by bucketloads .... >is invisibly wasted. Some. That's the nature of research. They put money in to Larry and Sergey along with other agencies and we have google. >no actual competition anywhere. Enron comes somehow to mind. 8^) Ah if you only knew..... Enron started so seemingly "green" in many places. >Money is invisibly wasted many places, but usually you end up with >reasonably detailed questions in the House of Parliament (consider NHS >IT projects, the cost over-run of which exceeds most estimates of the >budget of Thames House, Vauxhall Cross and the Doughnut taken >together); huge budgets spent in ways expensively proofed against >investigative journalism are intrinsically snarkworthy. We have our doughnut buildings here (both types). I did actually find and locate Vauxhall and walk by it (one of those Bond films pre-9/11 [very interesting looking building]) but am less familiar with the House (likely older non descript govt. bldg.). Likely photos of all searchable. I know Vauxhall is there, as a test case. -- |