- I've been working part time on a Medical Search Engine. During this time I've figured that bio-organic DNA based organisms often doesn't seem that random, it can often feel 'built'. I wanted to do a statistical comparison between computer/binary code and human DNA code. I've therefore written a program to disassemble Linux ELF binaries and examine them and see how it stacks up against DNA based coding (I'll provide details on the DNA side of things later). You can download it here:
- details are as follows:
# I wanted a way to check which assembly commands were used in
# what frequency for various binaries. This script obviously does this
# by disassembling binaries from the BINARY_PATH variable, counting
# up which commands are used most often, and generating statistics
# from this.
#
# It's obviously useful for forensic and security analysis as well
# as general interest. It's not designed to be perfect, it just gives
# you an overview of things.
#
# As this is the very first version of the program it may be VERY buggy.
# Please test prior to deployment in a production environment.
#
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- Earlier this week, the National Interest magazine published a report examining Iran’s military industry.
“Whereas [Persian] Gulf Cooperation Council states spend lavishly on high-end, off-the-shelf, US-built platforms, decades of sanctions and post-revolutionary strategic decisions to be militarily self-sufficient has led Islamic Republic to focus more on its own indigenous industries” it wrote.
The report examined ongoing research and advances in Iran’s nuclear energy program, satellite program, nanotechnology research and drone systems, concluding that “Iranian engineers and scientists are adept at developing cutting edge military technologies.”
The report also highlighted Iran’s long-term research initiatives, stating that Iran has historically been a regional pioneer in adapting modern technologies.
The article also added that “Iranian military tacticians” were increasingly “incorporating artificial intelligence if not fully autonomous systems into their platforms”, to be used in military maneuvers, missile defense capabilities and drones.
The report added that based on Iran’s current ongoing military hardware improvements, Iran may soon manage to greatly reduce the gap between its military technological capabilities and that of established military technological powers.
Iran is "making strides into twenty-first century technology”, it wrote.
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Zenz's personal story is also tied up in a shift in global priorities, which favors investment in cyber operations. "The role of cybersecurity in the Russian understanding of strategic security is huge," she said. "And because it's so important, that's why there's so much infighting now.
"You have to do it if you're there, because if you don't your rivals will and will use it to crush you."
- The Prince is the repository of all the colonial past and all the class privileges of the present. His racist remarks should not be whitewashed or camouflaged. They need to be properly, accurately, and verbatim catalogued in the British Library and made available to future generations of scholars and critical thinkers, anthropologists of the racist foregrounding of European imperialism for careful and close analysis. They are the insignia of an entire semiology of colonial racism in full-blown aristocratic diction. From the rampant racism now dominant in Israel to pernicious xenophobia evident in Trump's America, it's all there: rooted in these unhinged expletives in polite, aristocratic British English.
Expressions of Prince Philip's racism are not "gaffes" as the BBC and other British outlets embarrassed by their vulgarity brand them - though one can see why the BBC is rushing to term them as such and brush them quickly under the proverbial carpet. For the world at large, however, at the receiving end of British and European racist colonialism, these "gaffes" are in fact priceless relics of an age now deeply camouflaged under lovely-looking and liberal euphemisms. We as a result need to treat them as archaeologists treat any other relic and fragment they find. Based on such remains, they reconstruct bygone ages and the forgotten truths they reveal and conceal at one and the same time.
- Since the end of the Cold War, Turkey and the United States had disappointed each other many times before things came to the current point. In 2003, after protracted negotiations, Turkey refused to allow US troops to invade Iraq from its territory. Soon after the invasion, US forces arrested and hooded Turkish soldiers in Sulaimaniyah. Then, in 2004, the PKK resumed attacks on Turkey from its bases in northern Iraq, but up until 2008, Turkey was not allowed to conduct any ground operations against those bases. All those frictions fueled mistrust in the already uneasy relationship between the militaries of the two NATO allies.
The bilateral crisis had further deepened before the coup attempt, as Turkey defied US expectations to engage more actively in the fight against the Islamic State (IS), and the United States, in turn, began arming the Kurdish People’s Protection Units against IS, overriding Ankara’s concerns over the group’s affiliation with the PKK.
In sum, Turkish-US relations, which were in rapport with European geopolitics during the Cold War, failed to adapt to the shift of the security axis to the Middle East after the Cold War ended. And the failure to manage the contradictions between the regional agenda of Turkey’s Islamist government and the American quest for security against jihadist groups led to an inevitable outcome of rupture and collision.
- But the threats to the carrier are mounting, experts say. With the advent of ground-launched hypersonic missiles, it’s a matter of time before air-launched hypersonic missiles present a nearly insurmountable threat, barring a significant development to counter them.
“I think what King’s comments reflect is that he sees the vulnerability of the aircraft carrier only getting worse,” said Bryan Clark, a retired submarine officer and analyst with the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments. “Specifically, maybe not so much these kind of boost-glide weapons, but its more about cruise missiles that are hypersonic – air launched perhaps.
“Then you are talking about something that is relatively inexpensive and could be delivered in large numbers and that would be a bigger deal. Because missile defenses are not necessarily built for hypersonic weapons.
“So we’ll have to find a way to deal with this new challenge, or we’ll have to rethink how we do things.”
- A startling new investigative report by the news agency Reuters published on Thursday paints a bleak picture for the United States military if it ever finds itself in a shooting war with China.
According to the Reuters findings, the Chinese — who never signed the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty that restricts missile development by the U.S. and Russia, as The Diplomat chronicles — have used the last three decades to develop a new generation of missiles that “rival or outperform their counterparts in the armories of the United States and its allies.”
China’s missiles are capable of taking out American aircraft carriers in Asia, and have the range to strike and destroy U.S. military bases there, according to the report. In fact, the maximum range of one Chinese land-based missile is reportedly 2,485 miles — compared to a maximum of 300 miles for U.S ground-launched missiles, according to a summary of the Reuters report by Britain’s The Daily Mail newspaper.
In addition, China is making “rapid strides” in developing hypersonic missiles which can travel at incredible speeds up to 15 times the speed of sound, while also executing precision in-flight maneuvers. Pentagon officials who spoke to Reuters admitted that the U.S. currently has no defense capable of stopping a hypersonic missile of the kind developed by China.
- An unidentified policy research director at the ministry's Institutes for American Studies said Seoul's purchase of the U.S. jets was meant to "please the United States, their master, like eating mustard in tears," though Seoul knows well the project is an "extremely dangerous action" that will increase military tensions.
- “F-35 aircraft were unable to fly nearly 30 percent of the May — November 2018 time period due to spare parts shortages,” the GAO said, noting that the Department of Defense has a “repair backlog of about 4,300 F-35 parts.”
The pair of reports released Thursday raise additional questions about the state of the world’s most expensive weapon system. Specifically, the inspector general report makes it clear that investigators considered the fact that Shanahan had told them he was not criticizing the aircraft itself but the program as a whole, when assessing whether he had violated any ethics agreements.
“Mr. Shanahan told us that he did not say that the F-35 aircraft was ‘f—-d up.’ He told us that the F-35 aircraft is ‘awesome,’ the report states.”Mr. Shanahan told us that he said the F-35 program was ‘f—-d up.’ “
“He added that these comments were “always relative to a level of performance, and the number of categories where you have … fundamental problems,” it adds, noting Shanahan’s overall criticisms of the F-35 program were based on a variety of issues, including “insufficient spare parts in the inventory” and the cost per flight hour not decreasing fast enough.”
- Tapered shafts are manufactured where each shaft is sized lengthwise to an individual iron. Any sizing is done by cutting the butt end. Parallel shafts are manufactured all the same length, the tips must be cut for each individual iron for flex, and then length adjustments are made by cutting the butt end. Typcally Taper tip iron shafts are have a .355 diameter and parallel shafts have .370 tips The shaft band stickers are made such that X-100 is on one side and X-100U is on the other. Depending on how they are wrapped onto the shaft determines which one will be displayed. The other will be covered with the overlap. Cheaper to make one band that serves both purposes.
- Canada now finds itself stuck in a fight with China. It’s a fight Canada never asked for, but China’s nature as a totalitarian state made it inevitable. It was a matter of when, not whether.
And in this fight, Canada is at a clear disadvantage. But Ottawa can’t simply roll over. If it does, China will know that when it pushes, we will cave in.
Huawei and its 5G mobile-network equipment present a target for Ottawa. The government has said cabinet will decide before the fall election whether it will allow Huawei equipment to be used in next-generation networks here. There are believed to be strong reasons to decide against Huawei 5G on national-security grounds, a conclusion reached by Australia and the United States.
Until recently, the name of the game in Ottawa was avoiding giving offence to Beijing, in the hope that corporate Canada would be rewarded. After Meng and canola, the game has changed.
