The
data we've been waiting for! Well, maybe not data, but “assurances”
that the FBI knows what they know and we can trust their wisdom. Do
not consider things like “IP spoofing” or hackers trying to
deliberately mislead law enforcement.
At
the International
Conference on Cyber Security held at Fordham University on
Wednesday, FBI Director James Comey revealed new details about why
the FBI and “the entire
intelligence community” [A
slight exaggeration... Bob] has a “very high
confidence” that North Korea was responsible for the so-called Sony
Hack. The full text of these parts of his remarks are appended at
the end of this post.
Most
importantly, Mr. Comey stated:
“[T]here are a couple things I have urged the intelligence
community to declassify that I will tell you right now.
[S]everal times they got sloppy. Several times
either because they forgot or because they had a technical problem
they connected directly and we could see them. And
we could see that the IP addresses being used to post and to send the
e-mails were coming from IPs that were exclusively used by
the North Koreans.” (my emphasis added).
(Related)
Another revealing talk. This is the best “intelligence” he can
report? I'm underwhelmed.
Director
of National Intelligence James Clapper finally got a chance to watch
“The Interview” over the weekend.
His
review?
“It’s
obvious to me the North Koreans don’t have a sense of humor,” the
intelligence chief said during a speech at Fordham Law School on
Wednesday, ABC News reported.
“Yeah,
but it's really cool!”
DHS
IG Report – Border Patrol Use of Drones Ineffective
U.S.
Customs and Border Protection’s Unmanned Aircraft System Program
Does Not Achieve Intended Results or Recognize All Costs of
Operations, December 24, 2014 OIG-15-17.
“Although
CBP’s Unmanned Aircraft System program contributes to border
security, after 8 years, CBP cannot prove that the program is
effective because it has
not developed performance measures. The program has also
not achieved the expected results. Specifically, the unmanned
aircraft are not meeting flight hour goals, and we found little or no
evidence CBP has met its program expectations. We estimate it
costs $12,255 per flight hour to operate the program;
CBP’s calculation of $2,468 per flight hour does not include all
operating costs. By not recognizing all operating costs, CBP cannot
accurately assess the program’s cost effectiveness or make informed
decisions about program expansion. In addition, Congress and the
public may be unaware of all the resources committed to the program.
As a result, CBP has invested significant funds in a program that has
not achieved the expected results, and it
cannot demonstrate how much the program has improved border security.
The $443 million CBP plans to spend on program expansion could be
put to better use by investing in alternatives.”
If
you already have a 52 inch TV, why not turn it into a computer
monitor?
CES
2015: Intel’s Compute Stick looks like a Chromecast, but puts a
Windows 8.1 PC on your TV for $149
…
Today’s CES announcement of the Intel Compute Stick hints at just
that. It’s a pocket-sized device with a quad-core Atom processor,
and it delivers a full Windows 8.1 computer experience that you can
plug into any display with an HDMI input. And there’s a Linux
version coming as well that’s 40% cheaper.
Documentation
is not easy to find, but this looks like a useful “Big Data”
tool.
Guestrin
is a professor of machine learning at the University of Washington
and the brains behind an open source project called GraphLab, a
freely available tool originally designed to help machines analyze
“graphs”—i.e. the online relationships between people and the
stuff they use on the net. In May 2013, he launched a startup around
this machine learning software, called it GraphLab too. And this
past fall, the startup’s first commercial product was released.
But
on Thursday, in announcing that it had received an additional $18.5
million in funding, the startup also changed its name to Dato.
According to Guestrin, the new name is meant to show that the
company’s software can handle all sorts of machine learning
tasks—not just graph analysis.
For
my students.
5
Sites To Find Your Next Dream Job In A Tech StartUp
…
Some people like the idea of working for a startup. The salary will
be lower and the perks not as flashy, but you earn something else.
Going to work each morning knowing that you’re on the ground floor
of something, that you’re part of building something, instead of
just being another cog in the corporate machine.
But
how can you find these “tech start-up jobs”? Leaving aside the
big sites such as TechCrunch,
and LinkedIn, let’s look at 5 job-hunting sites further down the
totem pole.
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