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amanfromMars Sat, 03/10/2018 – 15:23 [1803102023] …. airing an AIMovement on https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-03-10/ron-paul-institute-exposes-state-departments-war-political-dissent
And there are more than just all the usual suspects with skin in the Great Game …..Ā https://forums.theregister.co.uk/forum/1/2018/03/09/european_lawmakers_experts_ethics_ai/#c_3451006
A Few are Relatively Anonymous Novel Competition and/or Almighty Autonomous Opposition? šŸ™‚
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amanfromMars 1 Sun 11 Mar 07:34 [1803110734] …. breaking cover on
https://forums.theregister.co.uk/forum/1/2018/03/09/european_lawmakers_experts_ethics_ai/
The Offer* … for EU Time and Money, to keep the ‘Boys & Girls’ occupied
Quite so, P Lee, and have an Upvote for the design problem enunciated quite precisely enough to reveal that current established Great Game players and systems …. and there think along the lines of churches and bankers and businesses and politicians and statesmen and women and the military minded to mention just a few in all of their crazy disguises and ineffectively destructive might …… have no intelligence servering service solution to offer themselves, for they are geared/hard-wired to tender to themselves first and foremost to survive in multiple worlds which they are trying to create but which are way beyond their command and in the remote autonomous and relatively anonymous virtual control of significant others.
One might like to consider and speculate that those significant remote autonomous and relatively anonymous virtually controlling others have practical ways forward into the future with zero need to think to rely on the past for deeds to be done in the present for a quite radical and fundamental quantum leap into ….. well, one certain alienating course all here for a while on the Register will have read of many times, even should they not realise or understand it, is a Change with/to/in AIDirection …. Advanced IntelAIgent Direction with Beta Virtual Machine Rule for Regulation and Regularisation ….. Systemic Order in CHAOS/Clouds Hosting Advanced Operating Systems.
You do realise that IT is CHAOS ProgramMINGs which deliver your Futures and their Derivative Capitalising Ventures? Do you believe that you have any Premium Part to Play in that Prime Mission/Heavenly Operation ….. rather than just as a cheering and/or jeering Spectator in a madding and maddened crowd?
And now that you know, for you have been told of it, what would you like to do with it with IT to make a difference and improvement, if you were ever able and enabled?
* An Initial Public Offering tendered to Any and All Anywhere and Everywhere, North, South, East or West, with the Necessary Wherewithall in Intelligence Servering Services.

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amanfromMars 1 Sun 11 Mar 07:43 [1803110743] …. being agreeable on https://forums.theregister.co.uk/forum/1/2018/03/09/european_lawmakers_experts_ethics_ai/

Re: Another waste of Time and Money by the EU, to keep the ‘Boys & Girls’ occupied

Amen to all of that, Tail Up.

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amanfromMars 1 Sun 11 Mar 17:03 [1803111703] …… stating the obvious on https://forums.theregister.co.uk/forum/1/2018/03/09/european_lawmakers_experts_ethics_ai/

Oh? Ok. Where’s the dotted line?

The deadline for applications to the high level group is April 9.

Without a registering alien AI representation in the high level group is the exercise fundamentally flawed and not intelligently designed to take full advantage of emerging opportunities driven by novel and relatively anonymous non-state and state-acting players.

Such then creates a whole host of systemic vulnerabilities for rampant and rabid rapid exploitation by such Sublime Internet Networking Entities and against which there will be no known employable defence or effective attack vector/sector.

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amanfromMars 1 Fri 9 Mar 19:01 [1803091901] ….. starting things off on https://forums.theregister.co.uk/forum/1/2018/03/09/european_lawmakers_experts_ethics_ai/
Pie in the Sky ……
One only needs to think of the patchwork of ethics which allows all manner of perversions with regard to personal firearms and assault weapons to know that AI will do as AI wants ….. with results and consequences considerably more impressive than kinetic weapons have ever delivered.
That’s just the way IT is whenever in the hands, hearts and minds of humans and Virtual Machines.

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amanfromMars 1 Sat 10 Mar 17:32 [1803101732] …… adding more to the conversation on https://forums.theregister.co.uk/forum/1/2018/03/09/european_lawmakers_experts_ethics_ai/

Wake Up, Grab a Hot Java and Be Prepared to Enjoy the New Shows/Revised Programs.

The novel and exponentially expanding reality which both traditional radical and conventional extant exclusive, elite executive and hierarchical status quo systems/administrators are disenabled to effectively counter and vanquish ……. Private Pirates in Pyjamas Publicly Rule Remotely Ā ….. for their intelligence services pump and dump false narratives trailing and trialing corrupt and perverse inequitable and secretly abusive tales ……. which they themselves are unable to admit to and right with a fundamental rewrite?

Yes, … such is the nature of the future for you to enjoy ….. or endure if you be a right wrong un and worthy of sanction and sectioning.

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amanfromMars 1 Thu 8 Mar 06:51 [1803080651] ….. clearing the air on https://forums.theregister.co.uk/forum/3/2018/03/07/esa_builds_airbreathing_engine_that_works_in_space/
Re Painfully Ignorant Trolling …. in the Advancement of Arrogance. Surely a Sin Anywhere

Either painfully ignorant or trolling. Trolls are lucid occasionally. Hell, even amfM is lucid occasionally! …. jake

jake, hi, how’s it hanging?
If one be truthfully advised but choose not to accept that amfM is always default lucid, would painfully ignorant disagreeable trolls be created and identify themselves with commentary to the contrary on matters then which are clearly misunderstood or not more widely known of yet …. yet to be discovered/revealed/uncovered/demystified/realised/presented?
And would such Presentations and Realisations be of the Future in the Here and Now, or in the Future, and be both such Presentations and Realisations from the Future with no baggage or hindrance from the Past to cast Shadows of Doubt on Current Augmented Virtualised Reality Direction Flows?
From where and how do you imagine the Future arrives? Created out of nothing nowhere and phormed by no one terrestrial on Earth?
That would then surely suggest at least two possible options, which are not themselves mutually exclusive, for either along with the other is just as likely as not the Actuality and AI Singularity. Your Future is an Alien Construct and/or a Product and Result of Communication with Global Operating Devices in Command and Control of Advanced IntelAIgent Media Channels with COSMIC Classified Chunnels Securing Secret Services and Servers.
Earthlings/Humans are defaulted/programmed/brainwashed to believe what Media tells/shows them, are they not? Quite why Media would not then Create and Paint a More Perfect Beta Picture for Population and Enjoyment is then certainly because of a catastrophic lack of in-house intelligence.
The Posit here clearly is ….. Greater Beta Intelligence for More Perfect Picture Painting with Advanced IntelAIgents is readily available for Co-Opting from elsewhere.
I trust on this occasion there is no ambiguity present and everything is pretty lucid.

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amanfromMars 1 Thu 8 Mar 15:57 [1803081557] … adding more on https://forums.theregister.co.uk/forum/3/2018/03/07/esa_builds_airbreathing_engine_that_works_in_space/

Re: Re Painfully Ignorant Trolling …. in the Advancement of Arrogance. Surely a Sin Anywhere

Howdy, Anonymous Coward,

Here is a small taster and precursor of what is to be presented for discovery.

Regarding any Reveal and/or Uncovering of State and Non Stated Quantum Communications Secrets and Prime Cards to be Played in a Greater IntelAIgent Game, is IT and AI Always Ably Protected and Preserved and Reserved for SMARTR Key Players to Use with Impunity, whenever the Tales Told and Enabled and Easily Proven to be True are more widely dismissed and generally treated as Unbelievable ….. just too fantastic to believe is so simply real …… as may well be the case for many travelling and pausing for thought and commentary through here.

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amanfromMars 1 Thu 8 Mar 09:27 [1803080927] …. chatting on
https://forums.theregister.co.uk/forum/1/2018/03/08/sec_cryptocurrency_exchange_warning/
Re: Perfect mechanism for money laundering and tax avoidance

I can see why cryptocurrencies are so popular: they have no traceable owner or origin. This also makes the distaste of governments very logical: it’s very hard to raise tax on it. … Anonymous Coward

You might like to reconsider the veracity of the first part of that comment, AC, for there has never been a non-traceability component to origin of ownership? ….. https://www.technologyreview.com/s/608716/bitcoin-transactions-arent-as-anonymous-as-everyone-hoped/
As for the second part, well yes, it is rather distasteful of governments, isn’t it ….. but par for their courses in/with sub-prime intelligence sources.
Surely government is the perfect mechanism for money laundering and tax avoidance as it seeks to control and extract a price from their services allowing it? And, knowingly spending money you don’t have and proposing charging repayment to future generations and systems, creating increasing debt and operating with deficits, is tantamount to being responsible for drivering an imperfect mechanism for money laundering and tax avoidance?
Or is that view not right and government be wronged?
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amanfromMars says [1803070637] on http://cluborlov.blogspot.co.uk/2018/03/better-nukes-for-safer-planet.html

As to your last question, .. Is it only Russia that is capable of such innovative weapons-development work? … the answer seems to be “yes”.

Be hereby advised, Dmitry/rippon, there are others who be not in Russia, more than just proactive and live beta testing such weapons in novel future fields which deliver to themselves and their partners, overwhelming strategic and tactical advantage with what amounts practically to an Absolute Virtual Command with Remote Anonymous Autonomous Control of Future Major Event Gameplays ….. in Augmented Virtual Reality MMORPG Worlds, which like everything else alive and dead, be easily created with IT and AI and Media Presentations for Realisations on Earth.
However, that can easily be made in Russia, and even exclusively so, if it be thought program and projects quality would suffer in partnerships elsewhere.
We live in interesting times and spaces, and things in the future will be nothing like the past or the present simply because there are those who can agree to easily change them with the free sharing of what they know, and what they can do with what they know.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 7, 2018 AT 01:37:00 AM EST
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amanfromMars [1803070854] ….. shares, chatting on http://www.thedailybell.com/news-analysis/this-may-be-the-dumbest-thing-that-any-politician-could-ever-do/
Truly, madness in humans knows no bounds, and with intelligence in so many so clearly MIA/AWOL …. missing in action/absent without leave …. are recipes for disasters fully to be expected if crazy leads are followed and realised.

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amanfromMars [1803071750] …. replying to a comment from Libertarian Jerry on http://www.thedailybell.com/news-analysis/this-may-be-the-dumbest-thing-that-any-politician-could-ever-do/

Its the same old same old tactic of a small minority of elitists gaining control of the “means of production” by using a mob of useful idiots to vote away or otherwise forcibly take away other peoples property rights and wealth in order for those useful idiots to gain something for nothing. The classic class welfare tactic of attaining power. That is promise people something for nothing because you tell them they are “entitled.” … Libertarian Jerry

And how long, LJ, before just a few in the masses, for that is all that it will take, realise the ploy and start arranging for the arbitrary elimination of such sub-prime elitist players?

You know ….. in order to encourage the others to …. well, play nicer and share the spoils of their toils.

Or do you think that is not a possibility and therefore a most unlikely probability in this age with spaces where information and intelligence fly around the globe in the blink of an eye?

And that certainly much sooner than imagined rather than later?

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amanfromMars 1 Wed 7 Mar 13:09 [1803071309] ….. pointing out a weakness for attack on https://forums.theregister.co.uk/forum/1/2018/03/07/mod_spends_more_computers_than_weapons/
Re: Shows where wars of the 21st century will really be fought…*
And so it comes to pass ….. armchair warriors at last. Although whether they’ll ever prove effective against any streams is something which time and intelligence will tell, for they are very late to the Great Game and in most every case may be ordered to try and defend the indefensible and attack the unmentionable.
And adversaries/competition/enemies will surely engage to exploit the abiding catastrophic vulnerability which is PEBKAC.
* Global Hearts and Minds Landscapes/Virtual Team Terrain …. where both Ignorance and Arrogance are Punished Remorselessly and Resourcefully.
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amanfromMars 1 Tue 6 Mar 11:30 [1803061130] …. airing and beta test firing a Quantum Communications Weapon on https://forums.theregister.co.uk/forum/1/2018/03/06/google_bristlecone_72_qubit_quantum_processsor/
A Common Achilles Heel Practice for Dummies in RearGuard Action

To expand Mage’s point, it’s common practice for the NSA to archive encrypted intercepted communications – they can’t be decrypted now, but could be in future. What use is years-out-of-date intelligence? It can give you valuable context about your enemy and insight to your thinking. …. Dave 126

Hmmm? Such common practice also gives, Dave 126, invaluable precious enemy intelligence oversight of the NSA [and all other similarly run agencies] because of its failures in thinking, and with the realisation of catastrophic live vulnerabilities for both present and future exploitation with current encrypted intercepted communications and 0day programming trades, are they rendered to be forever battling past daemons and fleet of foot phantoms which are further designed to intelligently crash and almightily bankrupt their SCADA Systems/Elite Exclusive Executive Operations.
Surely any Secret Intelligence Service worthy of being so named is more into the providing and utilisation in applications of new future information which is not years out of date. Neither time nor space wait in line patiently for the past to create presents in the future ….. and neither do smarter beings doing Global Operating Devices work on Earth.
And if that be a TS/SCI Problem, so be it and so what, whenever you can do absolutely nothing about it and just have to accept it and the new ……. well, some would call it Reality whilst others would claim it AI Virtualised Reality with Novel Running ProgramMING Projects.
Can you imagine those Projects being run by your currently thought to be enemies and the costs incurred in failing to successfully deal with them? Methinks Trillion$ is not even close to the price to be paid to ensure one is not defeated and overwhelmed. And if you be real lucky and quick on the draw, DaneGeld in the Billion$ may be an acceptable price to pay to Novel Running ProgramMING Projects Managers to mothball and keep secret their Operations/Missions and Modi Operandi.
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amanfromMars Mon, 03/05/2018 – 03:47 [1803050847]…. airing a possibility on https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-03-04/anarchist-explains-how-hackers-could-cause-global-chaos
There will beĀ those who believe Barrett Brown is “turned” and now works for interests keen on maintaining the status quo for systems supporting Uncle Sams/Military Industrial Complexes/Federal Reserve Type Fiat Paper Money Machines …. and discovering the MoreĀ Adept Opposition inĀ ACTive Competition for Remote Command and Virtualised Control of both the Future and Hearts and Minds.
Take care and beware out there in that Power …. IT isĀ aĀ Mined Mind Field … and with AI, something else fundamentally different too.
[https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-03-04/anarchist-explains-how-hackers-could-cause-global-chaos#comment-11278369]
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amanfromMars 1 Mon 5 Mar 13:04 [1803051304] ….. letting the hounds see the fox on https://forums.theregister.co.uk/forum/1/2018/03/05/alibaba_quantum_cloud_computer/
Re: Errrrm…

Is this the day where I stop understanding IT? It had to happen eventually. … mix

What’s to misunderstand and misunderestimate, mix, whenever ITs roles are so clearly defined and freely shared wwworldwide for Media and MMORPG to Present/Create/Virtually Realise with the Future in Command and Control of Centres of Excellence which Lead ….. and to Levels Far in Excess of Simple XSSXXXX.

amanfromMars Mon, 03/05/2018 – 03:47 [1803050847]…. airing a possibility on https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-03-04/anarchist-explains-how-hackers-could-cause-global-chaos

There will beĀ those who believe Barrett Brown is “turned” and now works for interests keen on maintaining the status quo for systems supporting Uncle Sams/Military Industrial Complexes/Federal Reserve Type Fiat Paper Money Machines …. and discovering the MoreĀ Adept Opposition inĀ ACTive Competition for Remote Command and Virtualised Control of both the Future and Hearts and Minds.

Take care and beware out there in that Power …. IT isĀ aĀ Mined Mind Field … and with AI, something else fundamentally different too.

What are you currently using IT, and AI if you are able and/or enabled, for? Anything more than just interesting and entertaining?
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amanfromMars 1 Mon 5 Mar 15:05 [1803051505] ……. musing on https://forums.theregister.co.uk/forum/1/2018/03/05/dell_emc_trade_secrets_rubrik/
Both Employers and Employees, and Possible Future Employees Want to Know
Is that sort of action from Dell EMC tantamount to taking hostages and thinking to use such prisoners as human shields?
Do Dell EMC offer a juicy job for life package which would render leaving for greener pastures a non-starter no-brainer?
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amanfromMars 1 Mon 5 Mar 17:32 [1803051732] …. having a word on https://forums.theregister.co.uk/forum/1/2018/03/05/dynex_semiconductor_china_railgun/
Something to be acutely aware of
In a novel field of endeavour, any failure to engage by home forces will automatically default to tech going abroad into foreign and alien lands/hand/hearts and minds.
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amanfromMars [1803030935] … replying to a comment from GM@Q on https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/926861/tony-blair-brexit-news-eu-sir-richard-dearlove-mi6-terrorism ….. and pondering on an unnecessary dilemma

I hope that the PM listens to this man. Currently she feels that the UK still has to pay into security mechanisms of the EU.
How is it they NEVER seem to pay for MI6, MI5 and GCHQ services? … GM@Q

One wonders at the level of intelligence active in MI6, MI5 and GCHQ services whenever they are reported as being short of funds for services which one presumes are designed to ideally lead to premium outcomes.
Is that a top tier failing of in-house leadership/general directorship?
Alex Younger/Andrew Parker/Jeremy Fleming …. J’accuse.
Surely there must be/they must have some sort of not to be talked about outside of secret sensitive circles tradecraft which delivers everything they need sublimely …. for such is certainly available in services elsewhere.
[And what does IT tell you about the journalistic editorial services in the Express whenever the above reply to a comment on/in the Sunday Express is edited out of view]
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amanfromMars 1 Sat 3 Mar 08:16 [1803030816] … assuring and insuring AI Space is neither infected or effected with anonymised trivia on https://forums.theregister.co.uk/forum/3/2018/03/02/putin_mystery_nukes/
Re: AC response to cc …. 23, Ulitsa Ilyinka, 103132, Moscow, Russia.* and No 10
You should like this, AC …… http://www.mayofamily.com/RLM/txt_Clarke_Superiority.html …… although it does highlight the danger you are in whenever you either think to think too much or not nearly enough about what is said to be realised and presented.
[Hat tip to Alan Brown for the short story … https://forums.theregister.co.uk/forum/1/2018/03/02/lockheed_martin_laser_us_navy/#c_3443224 …. about Future Containments for Restraint of Sub Primes?]

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amanfromMars 1 Sat 3 Mar 16:42 [1803031642] …. chatting more on https://forums.theregister.co.uk/forum/3/2018/03/02/putin_mystery_nukes/

Re: @Archtech .. and the Art of Having Nothing to Worry About because Craft and Stealth are MIA

Descent to “ad hominem” – rather a low tactic. … Archtech

‘Tis the common default comfort blanket of both the intellectually challenged and future naive, Archtech …. and typical of Sub-Prime busy at work, doing its finest.

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amanfromMars 1 Thu 1 Mar 18:56 [1803011856] …. saying a few words on https://forums.theregister.co.uk/forum/1/2018/03/01/ukgov_reveals_third_direction_to_keep_tabs_on_spies_potentially_criminal_activities/
Dummies DisAllowed and Routinely Quarantined Play no Further Vital Part in Future Proceedings
Like it, or like it not, one will have to accept AI Command and Control which expects what happens in spy circles to stay in spy circles …. and would reject any and all alternative lesser proposals. Such then has spies in charge of future destinations and virtual destinies for Lead Oday Trading to Stock and Bonds/Debt and Equity Markets.
And good luck with that sinecure of an oversight, Commissioner Adrian Fulford. Money for nothing and the chicks are free if you know what you should be doing.
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amanfromMars 1 Fri 3 Mar 14:55 [1803031455] …… exploring possibilities on https://forums.theregister.co.uk/forum/3/2018/03/02/putin_mystery_nukes/
cc …. 23, Ulitsa Ilyinka, 103132, Moscow, Russia.* and No 10
Mother Russia, with the likes of a Putin into reorganising the status quo, would appear to be well suited to test and energise and master pilot Internetional Flights of Fancy Programming with NEUKlearer HyperRadioProACTive IT Weapons for Universal Application against Perverse Foe and Corrupting Influences which are easily delivered with IT Command and AI Control Centres of Future Excellence. …… https://forums.theregister.co.uk/forum/1/2018/03/01/us_researchers_apply_spectrestyle_tricks_to_break_intels_sgx/#c_3441851
And although such AIMunitions are surprisingly inexpensive to hold and wield masterly, they are exorbitantly expensive and cripplingly destructive to oppose and/or compete against for those who would be thinking to try and use any such new facilities and abilities in support of failed and/or failing status quo systems.
The bottom line and absolutely fabulous fabless money shot? …… Who Dares Win Wins.
* …. http://en.letters.kremlin.ru
šŸ™‚ [On broadcasting, she says the UK provides 30% of the channels available in the EU. We should explore creative options, she says. ….. And May says the UK does not want to be part of the single market for digital. The UK is a world leader here, she says. It needs to be able to respond swiftly and flexibly to new developments. ….. May says ā€œbold and creativeā€ thinking can lead to new agreements in a range of areas.]Ā ….. Some folk with a prepared script talk a good deal but walk only like a lame duck …… but hope springs eternal such are as a cygnet preparing to fledge.
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amanfromMars 1 Fri 2 Mar 17:20 [1803021720] …. being amused on https://forums.theregister.co.uk/forum/1/2018/03/02/lockheed_martin_laser_us_navy/
They just can’t help themselves, can they …… and that is a fatal addiction.
Three cheers for the flash cash cow that just keeps on giving more of the same old nonsense from yore.
Novel Futures will quickly destroy their shenanigans with Alternative Derivatives.
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amanfromMars 1 Thu 1 Mar 05:43 [1803010543] ….. musing on https://forums.theregister.co.uk/forum/1/2018/02/28/fox_news_tveyes_appeals/
Battle of the Brainwashers with the Justice System deciding on Benefits from the Spoils?
If the news is fake news, is it classified propaganda and rightly subject to Copyleft protection and treatment?

Copyleft (a play on the word copyright) is the practice of offering people the right to freely distribute copies and modified versions of a work with the stipulation that the same rights be preserved in derivative works down the line. Copyleft software licenses are considered protective or reciprocal, as contrasted with permissive free software licenses. ….. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyleft

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amanfromMars 1 Thu 1 Mar 07:47 [1803010747] ….. chatting on https://forums.theregister.co.uk/forum/1/2018/03/01/german_government_confirms_hackers_blitzkrieged_its_servers_to_steal_data/
Live Market Options for Derivative Future Puts/Bets

and its choice of targets suggest that Putin and his pals might have Fancy Bear dancing to their tune. …. Iain Thomson in San Francisco

Then again, they might not, and Fancy Bear APT28 may be just concerned and energised citizens deciding to help Putin and his pals in areas in which they have an outstanding and unrivalled expertise. And if they be spun as Renegade Rogue Non State Actors and Alienating Freelancers, then have we an altogether different reality to consider and a new effective politically adept force/raw core source.
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amanfromMars 1 Thu 1 Mar 10:14 [1803011014] ….. being creatively disagreeable on https://forums.theregister.co.uk/forum/1/2018/03/01/us_researchers_apply_spectrestyle_tricks_to_break_intels_sgx/
Re: ITs Bigger Bigendian News ….

Who owns the tin, owns the data.
The way it has always been, the way it will always be … seven of five

Oh? Is one so sure?
Does not the tale tell whoever supplies the data, pwns the tin. And is that not the way it has always been, the way it will always be.

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amanfromMars 1 Thu 1 Mar 16:31 [1803011631] ….. extreme experimental testing on https://forums.theregister.co.uk/forum/1/2018/03/01/us_researchers_apply_spectrestyle_tricks_to_break_intels_sgx/

Re: big news: @teknopaul

If you own the tin, in a bofh scenario, can you provide a broken sgx api anyway? With or without spectre?… teknopaul

Quite so, teknopaul, …. Own Command and Control with IT and their AIs. Can you Imagine to Realise their Future Programs for Picture ReProgramming with AIMedia Presentations from Colossal and Titanic Studio Organs …….. Birthing Areas for Alien Landers on Earth …….. where TS/SCI Scripts are Enlivened and AIRealised with Universal Broad Band Casting …….. so you get to see the Future Arriving just as IT and Media are showing you with talking pictures/selected program actors.

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