Comment Re:So Bloomberg Could Watch/Anticipate Goldman Tra (Score 1) 55

by QuantumPete on Monday May 13, 2013 @07:33AM (#43708765) Attached to: Bloomberg Reporters Caught Spying On Terminal Users

That's factually incorrect. If you read the press release, you will see that journalists (or any internal users for that matter) don't have access to clients' trading or portfolio information at all. What we're talking about here are some user stats, such as log-in/log-out and functionality-used information.

Comment Votes can still be affected (Score 1) 183

by QuantumPete on Monday February 25, 2013 @07:48AM (#43001759) Attached to: Lessons From the Papal Conclave About Election Security

makes it impossible for an outsider to affect the voting in any way

I take issue with this. In history there are many examples where rich families have bought themselves a pope by bribing and intimidating the cardinals. Theory is one thing, in practice Conclave is not completely shut off from the rest of the world.

Comment Re:You're doing it wrong (Score 1) 408

by QuantumPete on Thursday August 09, 2012 @10:24AM (#40931931) Attached to: Secret Security Questions Are a Joke

Or you just put the SHA1 hash of the question as the answer.

Comment Naming conventions in Academia (Score 1) 429

by QuantumPete on Thursday March 08, 2012 @08:13AM (#39286503) Attached to: Server Names For a New Generation

Piled Higher & Deeper had a whole bunch of comics on this topic a while back: http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=1467 and my favourite: http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=1469

Comment Re:Not convinced... (Score 1) 201

by QuantumPete on Wednesday March 07, 2012 @11:08AM (#39275471) Attached to: Training an Immune System To Kill Cancer: a Universal Strategy

You're surprised given the readership demographic?

Comment Re:Wtf? (Score 3, Interesting) 251

by QuantumPete on Tuesday February 28, 2012 @08:30AM (#39184203) Attached to: Apple Threatens To Pull Siri Clone From App Store

English sounds English to a human ear, the syntax is based on the same rules but the usage of the language varies a lot around the world. Meaning is coloured by local culture.

Exactly! After all when a bouncer throws you out of a pub in the UK by saying: "I'm afraid I'm going to have to ask you to leave..." he's neither afraid nor is he asking.

Comment Re:Email is not private unless encrypted. (Score 1) 316

by QuantumPete on Monday November 02, 2009 @11:26AM (#29951308) Attached to: An Inbox Is Not a Glove Compartment

Except that we don't have the option of writing a letter instead and sealing it in an envelope. Or does Amazon send you e-mail in encrypted form, with a properly authenticated public key?

Comment Re:FP (Score 1) 90

by QuantumPete on Monday November 02, 2009 @10:54AM (#29950886) Attached to: Bacteria Could Survive In Martian Soil

Pour a couple of hundred litres of water on the surface and see what grows!

Comment Re:Until they turn against you (Score 1) 104

by QuantumPete on Thursday July 02, 2009 @08:54AM (#28557025) Attached to: NASA Suggests Nano Robots To Explore Mars

Unless they then go ahead and evolve somehow. Random mutation in their replication algorithm, caused by solar radiation interference and bam! you've got yourself an unstoppable self-replicating army of nanobots. Skynet eat your heart out! QuantumPete

Comment Re:Hmm (Score 1) 226

by QuantumPete on Thursday July 02, 2009 @08:50AM (#28556971) Attached to: NSA To Build 20-Acre Data Center In Utah

Not counting the other 99 things that we *don't* hear about. QuantumPete

The Technology Keeping Information Flowing in Iran 174

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday June 29, 2009 @08:00AM from the learn-a-new-word-today dept.

Death Metal writes "Iranians seeking to share videos and other eyewitness accounts of the demonstrations that have roiled their country since disputed elections two weeks ago are using an Internet encryption program originally developed by and for the US Navy. Designed a decade ago to secure Internet communications between US ships at sea, The Onion Router, or TOR, has become one of the most important proxies in Iran for gaining access to Web sites such as Twitter, YouTube and Facebook." A related story was submitted anonymously about the efforts of hactivists to keep the information flowing inside the data-locked nation.

Comment Re:Into affect? (Score 1) 1088

by QuantumPete on Thursday February 12, 2009 @10:40AM (#26828181) Attached to: Iowa Seeks To Remove Electoral College

Amen. It's not like it's that hard. You can affect something. (verb) Or you can have an effect. (noun) Pretty simple, n'est-ce pas?

Comment Re:Manually translated (Score 1) 156

by QuantumPete on Monday February 09, 2009 @07:26AM (#26781803) Attached to: German Bundeswehr Recruiting Hackers

Replace "troupe" with "unit" or "troop", though given the number of graduates the unit would more likely be company strength. Also, I'd replace "subordinate to" with "attached to" or "part of". And it's Brigadier General ;) QuantumPete

Comment Re:funny but. (Score 1) 231

by QuantumPete on Tuesday November 25, 2008 @10:34AM (#25886487) Attached to: New Nanotech Fabric Never Gets Wet

You don't filter your water already??? You obviously don't live in London ;) QuantumPete

Journal Journal: Souperman

Journal by QuantumPete on Thursday May 29, 2008 @07:36AM

From Computing magazine's backbytes section:
"[...] the Co-operative Human Robot Interaction Systems (Chris) project, based at the Bristol Robotics Lab, which has won a £1m grant from the European Commission to find out if they can build a robot to stir soup."