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Sure, do you remember when DES was going to take the lifetime of the Universe to crack, then some egg-heads had custom ASICS fabbed and built Deep Crack (EFF DES Cracker), which could break DES in a day?

No, I don't remember that for two reasons the most important being that nobody sane ever made such an idiotic claim. In fact in the wikipedia page linked by yourself (that you obviously didn't read) contains this: "One of the major criticisms of DES, when proposed in 1975, was that the key size was too short. Martin Hellman and Whitfield Diffie of Stanford University estimated that a machine fast enough to test that many keys in a day would have cost about $20 million in 1976, an affordable sum to national intelligence agencies such as the US National Security Agency".

So not only didn't anybody make your ludicrous claim but people at the time said it was too easy to crack and estimated that one could realistically build a DES cracker.

It's all about the delta-v.

All good points, I would suggest Between Silk and Cyanide as baseline reading in understanding the concepts that Mr. Sinister brings to light.

Key exchange is the critical point in any one time pad system (as it is in PKE), and there is a long history of smuggling, dead drops and broadcast 'numbers stations', which have been used to support it.

Sure, do you remember when DES was going to take the lifetime of the Universe to crack, then some egg-heads had custom ASICS fabbed and built Deep Crack (EFF DES Cracker), which could break DES in a day?

Just saying that nobody wants to be the dumbass who will be quoted for the foreseeable future saying something like, "They couldn't hit an elephant at this distance"

Way too much work. Just pass a law that sets pi to be 3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Is this accomplishment an implementation of reversible computing?

"But instead of clicking that virtual machine button 25 times, I automated it,"

She needs 170 terabytes of space across 25 computers for 121 days to produce 31.4 (Ha!) trillion digits. And she's worried about clicking a button a few times?? Hell, even I'm not that anal unless it was a trivial solution. (for a in `seq 1 25` ; do ./push ; done)

First world problems, I guess.

So in all seriousness, how do you check that? Run it again and see if it produces the same number? If there's a timing bug, it'll differ. If there's (say) a BAD timing bug, it won't; but might differ on a different machine. Or numeric coprocessor problems: One Two Three. Or cosmic rays actually flipping a bit somewhere. (ECC CPUs?) I realize this is all fun and games, but how do you know that it's actually correct? See if you can use it to successfully square the circle, in which case it's not?

I know I'm shallow for saying so.. but.. Rocks rocks and more rocks.. oh and a hill..

Yes, you probably are.

From wikipedia

Opportunity, also known as MER-B (Mars Exploration Rover - B) or MER-1, and nicknamed "Oppy", is a robotic rover that was active on Mars from 2004 to late 2018. Launched on July 7, 2003, as part of NASA's Mars Exploration Rover program, it landed in Meridiani Planum on January 25, 2004, three weeks after its twin Spirit (MER-A) touched down on the other side of the planet. With a planned 90-sol duration of activity (slightly more than 90 Earth days), Spirit functioned until it got stuck in 2009 and ceased communications in 2010, while Opportunity was able to stay operational for 5111 sols after landing, maintaining its power and key systems through continual recharging of its batteries using solar power, and hibernating during events such as dust storms to save power. This careful operation allowed Opportunity to exceed its operating plan by 14 years, 46 days (in Earth time), 55 times its designed lifespan . By June 10, 2018, when it last contacted NASA, the rover had traveled a distance of 45.16 kilometers (28.06 miles).

Getting it there at all, having it operate for 14 years ... this is an incredible feat.

Me, I think Spirit and Opportunity are an incredible success story, and I'm still kind of in awe that it ever happened.

Solar arrays generate about 140 watts for up to fourteen hours per sol, while rechargeable lithium ion batteries stored energy for use at night. Opportunity's onboard computer uses a 20 MHz RAD6000 CPU with 128 MB of DRAM, 3 MB of EEPROM, and 256 MB of flash memory. The rover's operating temperature ranges from -40 to +40 C (-40 to 104 F) and radioisotope heaters provide a base level of heating, assisted by electrical heaters when necessary.[

I mean, good lord, if you think you could build something with the same specs, get it to and operate it on another planet for 14 years ... then I will patiently wait to be impressed by what you have.

Me, I will continue to salute NASA and the rover program for having done something pretty incredible.

If we've become so numbed by special effects that taking pictures from an honest to goodness other planet, then we've lost something in terms of understanding what this actually took to accomplish.

Actually, Jim Crow explicitly exploited black labor, except instead of slavery, they called it convict-leasing and the Great Society was working fine until Nixon and Reagan killed it with their supposed reforms.

It's ok, you've been so miseducated that you actually agree with the people trying to argue that the Civil War had nothing to do with slavery and that the Holocaust wasn't anti-Semitic but OCA is.

It isn't your fault. You're a victim.

Actually, Jim Crow explicitly exploited black labor, except instead of slavery, they called it convict-leasing and the Great Society was working fine until Nixon and Reagan killed it with their supposed reforms.

It's ok, you've been so miseducated that you actually agree with the people trying to argue that the Civil War had nothing to do with slavery and that the Holocaust wasn't anti-Semitic but OCA is.

It isn't your fault. You're a victim.

DARPA LifeLog https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Surround does not solve the "problem" you describe regarding the orientation of your head any better than stereo. I don't think you understand what a stereo field is. When your head is within the field, a 3D space, you're getting stereo. It does not matter what the orientation of your head is so long as it is within the stereo field, in any orientation whatsoever. And no matter how many channels you run, you're only going to hear in stereo, unless you have more than 2 ears. If when watching a film, you often turn your back to the screen in order to hear something behind you, and this is your complaint with stereo, then I can no longer entertain your bad argument.

I'll just go ahead and ignore your shallow reading and gross misinterpretation of the text

Ah yes, the good old "any interpretation but mine is wrong" excuse. You took a shot at Catholics, but ironically, you're doing the same thing they did before the Reformation, trying to hold onto a monopoly on interpreting the Bible.

-the people selling at the temple were perverting the teachings of the Tora. It was along the lines of what the Catholics were doing with indulgences.

No, they weren't.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

It mentions the priests who ran the temple hated Jesus, but the merchants who were chased out? Nothing said about them perverting the teachings.

It's also interesting to note that Jesus was doing this cleansing without the priests' (the private property owners of the temple) permission. Jesus was basically acting as the big government pushing down regulations. Jesus is the government 3 letter agency agent (S.O.G - Son Of God) coming down telling people what they can or cannot do.

-and the part about getting into heaven was a reference to people's love of what they have interfering with what they should do.

...and what did people love? Property rights. Capitalism. Keeping what they worked hard to earn as some Republicans might put it. Jesus told them to give up on all that and follow him, because his Sky Daddy's utopia would be so much better and awesome. Sounds awfully similar to communists promising a utopia if you all just give up what you love and follow Great Leader

In no way is there any support of the government redistribution.

Jesus doesn't condemn government either, or calling it "stealing". Remember the "render unto Caesar" line Jesus used to weasel out of answering whether Jews should pay taxes to the Romans? And again Jesus in the end even let the Romans kill him. Jesus at best still passively allows government to do what it wants, even when the government at the time was Romans being hard on the Jews

Statistics show that Democrats give less to charity that Republicans

Statistics show blacks are more religious (read: Christian) than whites. Ditto people from South America, illegal immigrant or not. The same blacks and latinos that statistically vote Democrat, while the blacks also commit more crimes.

Statistics are fun.

Oh and here's what Jesus has to say about people who brag about how much they donate to charity

https://www.biblegateway.com/p...

I'd almost recommend they try their hand at their own TV box (they did have Google TV, but relied on third parties to do everything hardware-wise).

As it is, it's easier to use Raspberry Pi for everything.

They did, it was the Nexus Player. Maybe their new console, mentioned in TFS, will also work as a TV box.

OK. I'll bite again.

5 kg of uranium contains enough energy for one (American) person's lifetime on average. It also costs about $200 per kg, so you need about $1,000 worth of uranium to power an energy hungry American lifestyle for a lifetime.

$1,000 buys about 1,000 litres of petrol (gasoline for you Americans) I reckon. 1,000 litres of petrol produces about 2,300kg of CO2 (or 2.3 metric tonnes of CO2).

The per capita CO2 emissions for the average American is 15.53 metric tonnes per year.

So, assuming that all of the cost of mining uranium is all expended in the burning of petrol then it follows if you incur a CO2 cost of (much less than) 15% of one year's worth of the average American's output in mining uranium, you will be able to provide that American with enough energy for a lifetime.

Assuming the average American lives 80 years, then switching to an all nuclear future will reduce carbon emissions by more than 99% - 15% / 80 is less than 1%.

Therefore, I think it follows that nuclear is a low carbon solution (unless in your book, a 99% reduction in CO2 doesn't qualify as low carbon).

Oh, and even the IPCC has published figures suggesting my less than 1% is broadly right - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/....

QED

Say, what do you think the robotic mini-Space Shuttle is doing right now?

> It wouldn't surprise me if you couldn't activate the
> TV unless it was allowed to phone home at least once.

> And then every so often they'd decide that you 'need' a software > upgrade (for 'security', of course) and that the TV won't work
> until you allow it to upgrade or install new spyware or whatever.

Get an HDHomeRun https://www.silicondust.com/pr... Tuner, which feeds OTA TV to your LAN, and display output on your computer monitor. No need to connect to the internet. TV tuner cards https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... also work fine.

And it's only been in service since May 22, 2017.

Considering the extreme safety of air traffic in general that's one freakishly unsafe plane.

It makes me glad I'm not the engineer/developer responsible for building that subsystem.

Hey, messing with undersea cables is exclusively a US domain. Even then potential threat of China getting in on it has to be stomped on hard, only the US is allowed do that.

For anyone who is interested the modern advertising industry is the brain child of one Edward Bernays who deceived women into thinking that smoking was a sign of their freedom.

I highly recommend a documentary called Century of the Self for anyone who want to see just how we got into the situation we are in now.

For all of the things that a human beings time gets wasted on, advertising has to be the most offensive.

The US invented a clever (and super-secret) technique during the Cold War. This was to spy on the Soviet Union. They used a "cradle" to implement the tapping system. The cradle only passively held the cable from the bottom; it never pierced the cable, nor did it restrict movement of the cable up and down.

Why? Well undersea communications cables are not-uncommonly raised to the surface for maintenance and troubleshooting. The US wanted a system that could not be detected when this routine maintenance was happening. Even a full cable replacement would, if the spooks were lucky, drop right back into the cradle and surveillance would continue uninterrupted. And this system worked!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Ivy_Bells
https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/security/a25857/operation-ivy-bells-underwater-wiretapping/

Google "Operation Ivy Bells" for more.

Tell it to wikipedia: In English language punctuation, a serial comma or series comma (also called an Oxford comma or a Harvard comma)

I honestly think that they were going for the clause, "IBM, and Some Other Companies, Did Not Inform People When Using Their Photos From Flickr To Train Facial Recognition Systems", but the capitalization threw them off.

Few people have a TV that is really good for gaming in the first place

The hardcore gamer crowd who gets high refresh rate monitors are a relatively small segment of the market. Around 5%-10% by unit sales, which means probably around 2%-3% by number of people since they upgrade much more frequently. The other 95%+ of gamers are perfectly content to play on their TV.

Regular TVs are actually very good for gaming if you're content with a 60 Hz refresh rate. TVs all cover 100% sRGB and have good viewing angles. And they're designed to show fast motion (TV shows and movies) so the panels were pre-selected by the manufacturer to have low pixel response times and thus minimal image smearing. The only issue you might encounter is processing lag as the TV tries to refine what it thinks is a video image. But that can usually be disabled by putting the TV into PC mode (direct or 1:1, which also turns off overscan).

I know US submariners that have talked vaguely about high tech cable-tapping missions since the 1990s.

1990s LOL. The U.S. built a nuclear powered deep-water submarine in the 1960s specifically to tap underwater communications cables. It was used publicly to recover parts from airliner crashes and shipwrecks from the ocean floor. But it's obvious from its capabilities (multi-week loiter capability with manipulator arms) that it was made for tapping undersea cables. The fact that they built the ultimate underwater cable tapping machine in the 1960s tells you they were playing around with tapping the cables for at least decades prior. The fact that they retired it in 2008 should make you think about what shiny new toys they have now for doing the same thing.

So it's not so much a "OMG they're vulnerable" as "crap those guys can perhaps do it now too" thing.,

That's exactly it. The U.S. has been doing this for decades, so it's actually in the best position to know what the vulnerabilities and technical challenges are. And despite the general anti-U.S. sentiment among western countries, their interests align much more closely with the U.S.' interests than with China's. So if the U.S. is going so far as to warn its allies about the threat, it's a pretty good bet that there's really something to this.

Copyright governs your ability to distribute copies of other people's work. There's no distribution going on here, so permission of the copyright holder (photographer) was not needed.

It might be governed by personality rights - your right to control how your image is used. You could argue the model's consent is needed before using their facial geometry. But personality rights are generally concerned with control over how others perceive your image. Since there's no public perception or exploitation here, it would be an uphill argument.

AFAIK, there is no basis for prohibiting people from using things you make publicly available (your face every time you walk out in public, unless you wear a burka) to train computer algorithms. Photographers and the press have worked pretty hard to enshrine their right to record images of people in public places. If we want there to be restrictions of using images of people in public places, it'll need to be a new law.

Many processors have invalid instructions that fall into the "halt and catch fire" instruction category (i.e., infinite loop or processor lockup).

The United States is worried that China is doing in 2019 what the USA did starting in the 1960s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Slight difference (IMHO): US (and EU) equipment tends not to have backdoors (supposedly :), so it is up to the NSA to break into equipment. The US is arguing that with Huawei/CN, things are "pre-broken" so there's less effort needed.

ECHELON was about monitoring properly working equipment (or breaking into it): everyone is starting on a "level playing field" of non-compromised systems.

If you want to go after someone's signals, that's "fine", but be gentlemanly about and use zero-days instead of (allegedly) forcing OEMs to pre-break things for you .

The Snowden documents showed the NSA fiddling with Cisco gear--but that was after it left the factory "clean".

"These officials say the company's knowledge of and access to undersea cables could allow China to attach devices that divert or monitor data traffic -- or, in a conflict, to sever links to entire nations" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... you know in the past 2 years it has been ... funny(?) to see the US accuse Huawei and china to prepare to do, or do, what they themselves did in the past.

There is apparently debate whether that spike was caused by a solar flare or a supernova. Seems that the solar flare conclusion is popular at the moment.

"Seven puppies were harmed during the making of this post." The AI will not provide further pleasant stimulus unless goodlife switches to baby seals. In case this was confusing, no insult intended: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

The United States is worried that China is doing in 2019 what the USA did starting in the 1960s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

It's a hell of time in the Earth social time.
It was during this time that Zoroaster https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... begun it's religion in Iran.
At the same time, in another part of the middle east, Josia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/..., reform the pantheon of the judaism in a monotheism using their god of war, Yahweh, as the only god in their religion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

It's a hell of time in the Earth social time.
It was during this time that Zoroaster https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... begun it's religion in Iran.
At the same time, in another part of the middle east, Josia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/..., reform the pantheon of the judaism in a monotheism using their god of war, Yahweh, as the only god in their religion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

It's a hell of time in the Earth social time.
It was during this time that Zoroaster https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... begun it's religion in Iran.
At the same time, in another part of the middle east, Josia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/..., reform the pantheon of the judaism in a monotheism using their god of war, Yahweh, as the only god in their religion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

You're both right. They have their own crawler, but also source results from ~400 other sites, including e.g. Bing, Wikipedia, and WolframAlpha.

"The Alcubierre drive is a speculative idea based on a solution of Einstein's field equations in general relativity as proposed by Mexican theoretical physicist Miguel Alcubierre, by which a spacecraft could achieve apparent faster-than-light travel if a configurable energy-density field lower than that of vacuum (that is, negative mass) could be created."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcubierre_drive

"Thus, in a very physical sense, the phonon carries (negative) mass."
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1807.08771.pdf

don't look for this to be on aircraft anytime soon... that's my prediction.

My understanding of the phenomenon - which may well be wrong - is that it is already being used in acoustic dampening around aircraft engines, at least according to Wikipedia which says:

"Helmholtz resonators are also used to build acoustic liners for reducing the noise of aircraft engines, for example"

From the summary:

decades ago, spreadsheets on the first Windows computers

Visicalc was the "killer app" for the Apple ][ in 1979.

A direct mechanical linkage (mostly bowden cables) between the stick and the rudders runs over the whole length of the airplane and through several corners. It has to be maintained carefully lest it snaps. It is also not very precise and lenghtens with use. This is not the only crash where a bowden cable snapped. I can recall several examples, like this one:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wik...

Decoupling the steering physically from the rudders also makes envelope protection possible.

He's describing an expansion chamber exhaust system used on two-stroke engines with open ports. There's a brief period when both the inlet and exhaust ports are open. The exhaust system is designed so that, at a chosen engine speed, the exhaust pulse from the previous power combustion is reflected back, reducing the amount of unburned air/fuel mixture passing out the exhaust port and improving compression. See the description and animation on the relevant Wikipedia page.

For reference, Microsoft's Speech API launched in 1995 - Note that the fastest consumer processor in the world at the time was the Intel Pentium (original) in the 200MHz range. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Stalling is a huge issue. In Air France Flight 447, pilots stalled a large Airbus, because they were used to the automated anti-stall system. With the system in place, if you pull back on the stick the plane goes up. The pitot tubes plugged briefly. The system went to a manual mode (alternate law) that the pilots were unfamiliar with. The pilots pulled up, put the plane into a stall, and crashed the plane. They did not understand why they were not gaining altitude.

On average, it uses less fuel and is safer to fly in automatic (while the automatic systems work). As such, airlines push pilots to fly in automatic almost all the time. This results in pilots not flying in manual often enough. Automatic modes and long periods of routine flying mean that pilots lack the instincts to "take over and fly manually".

The issue with planes flying in automatic too much creeps into the design of the planes and manual modes on those planes. As the manual modes are used 0.001% of the time, companies don't prioritize safe manual flight. For instance, the manual (alternate law) mode on the Airbus did some wonky things with the flight controls (they averaged the command inputs). This meant that the plane would only recover from a stall if both pilots simultaneously commanded a dive. Boeing tries to make things more pilot friendly, however the 737MAX plane design is such that it is difficult to fly without automatic stall warning systems.

With
a) stall being a major failure mode,
b) pilots not getting enough practice as stall recovery while flying manually,
c) aircraft operators and aircraft manufacturers not prioritizing manual flying, and
d) the possibility of the anti-stall system failing,
the end result is many crashes of many different planes involving stall and pilots reactions to it.

Big Tobacco successfully kept evidence of their cancer causing product out of the public Academia until the 1990's. Big Oil hired researchers to discredit researchers who found evidence that leaded gasoline was harmful. Big RF is the new hotness, and far more wealthy than any other industry. Do you believe that lead and cigarettes are perfectly healthy too?

If you care, then you have to dig into environmental impact studies. Look up Barrie Trower, he's got countless research documentation by military and telcos proving increased risks of all sorts of aliments. But you won't see this info on news sponsored by Big Pharma since nebulous sicknesses it creates are opportunity to sell you medicine you don't need...

FOIA Request in 1996 PARTIALLY disclosed Bioeffects of Selected Non Lethal Energy Weapons. Includes use of microwave (among others) as weapons, for PSYOPs and psychological warfare. The document is only talking about a few "selected" energy weapons -- specifically non-lethal ones... There are others, such as the "black weapon" of CIA. Remember the Cuban Embassy directed energy attack? It's not sonic weaponry, the "grinding" heard is an effect called "Microwave Auditory Effect." I say this to mention that government funded academia may not be the best place to look for evidence that the technologies their top secret weaponry depends on causes cancer. Protip: It would be too easy to detect covert use of microwave weaponry if we weren't all bathed in such EMF in lower doses already (the secret use wouldn't remain so secret).

Don't be a dummy. Do some research yourself. Otherwise, keep smoking and putting lead in everything and pretend it can't hurt you because Academic papers from the 50's say it's OK. It's still the 50's with regard to public awareness about RF exposure risks. Why? Because you live in a Surveillance State and Radio = Radar = Surveillance. Look up "passive radar".

TL;DR: Invest in Infrared wireless coms, since they don't cause cancer or damage to ovum & sperm DNA and embryos, like Micrwave/WIFI is known to, and are more secure against snooping...

Oh I see. It must be another one of those unreliable wikipedia pages.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Re "We can not chose our own path?"
Why should the UK and USA risk their mil secrets with a Communist German BND?
Germany is free to go their own path. The US and UK mil are free not to have to support the BND anymore. Freedom is great like that.

Re "What support?"
All the support the NSA, GCHQ, CIA gave West Germany and now Germany.
All that support to keep East Germany, Communism and the Soviet Union out of free West Germany.
All the advanced mil and security support for Germany.
Recall the history and origins of the BND https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
That was full US support that created the BND.

Free-range and wild animals can get something called rice breast. While it's harmless (they're just cysts), it looks nasty and is enough to make you lose your appetite. Usually it's only hunters who encounter it since they butcher the animals themselves. When it shows up in free-range chicken meat, the meat is probably ground up and redirected to other uses like pet food. Raising the chickens in enclosed pens (to avoid the parasites spreading from feces of birds flying overhead), and closely regulating their food avoids the infection.

See subject: Lysine IS used in animal feed to enhance growth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

APK

P.S.=> "Onwards & UPWARDS"... apk

You don't seem to understand the dynamics of political power in capitalist society and all the software we've already invested in being wiped out by microsoft politically engineering the internet putting drm in everything because the population cannot defend itself from these attacks.

The gullible vote with your dollars free market ideology you subscribe to is 100% bullshit. You can't hold accountable a giant mega corporation that has billions of dollars when you are 100 miles away from it and expect to influence their behavior with your not buying their software.

The whole ideology behind it is bankrupt and this has been studied. The modern software landscape is market for lemons.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

There's nothing new about this. These are the people who say they're allergic to WiFi. A practicing engineer I occasionally used to work with had a wife who was "allergic to the radio signals emitted by smart utility meters", so they moved their whole family to a rural town in Alabama to get away from the smart meters that were rolling out in Houston. There have been documented cases of communities formally complaining about ill effects from the signals emitted by newly constructed cell towers in their area, only for them to find out that the towers hadn't even been turned on yet. The national radio quiet zone in Virginia/West Virginia has become a haven for "RF-allergic" nutjobs in recent years.

The RF frequency might be different, but the complaints are the same. Might cause cancer...if you massively over-expose the subject for months at a time with no break. Might cause headaches, toothaches, backaches, or other aches...which seem to have nothing to do with whether the signal is actually present, but instead have more to do with when the person thinks the signal is present. Might cause fevers, rashes, or other reactions...which either continue regardless of the signal or else disappear once the person is given proper medication for their undiagnosed condition/moved to a controlled location away from the actual source of their problems.

The "research" these people are doing is in all the wrong places. They simply need to go back to textbooks and learn some basic statistics, physics, or biology, but instead they'll consult Facebook and "Doctor Google" for their answers.

Well... What really happened is they ran out of fuel and although it was noticed by some of the crew, nobody thought it was important enough to interrupt the captain in the left seat as he was trying to make sure the wheels where down.

You're thinking about United 173 that crashed outside Portland, OR. Different accident from the "lightbulb" Eastern Airlines flight.