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China builds worldâ(TM)s fastest supercomputer without U.S. chips
Chinaâ(TM)s New Supercomputer Puts the US Even Further Behind

The next one is going to be 10 times as fast:
Tianhe-3 will be 10 times faster than the current fastest supercomputer in the world, the Sunway TaihuLight

Re "Unless your phone will reveal its passwords to anyone who shakes it in a particular way, there's no real attack surface here."
Clever Attack Uses the Sound of a Computer’s Fan to Steal Data (06.28.16)
https://www.wired.com/2016/06/...
shows what can be done on the output side.
The input side would be a way to open the device OS in some way to accept malware once its security was altered and a network opened.
How would a device respond at code at 15 to 20 bits per minute in its own trusted hardware?

Great comment.

I think a lot of the scientific debate has been about the models that project the changes into the future. I'm amazed at how accurate the Shell Oil researchers were with their predictions.

Read the article...

30-50% of the warming is due to natural, not man made, effects.

Or, as scientists have been saying for decades, the majority of the warming (50 - 70%) is due to man made effects.

This includes scientists at shell oil and Exxon-Mobil. I remember debate class in high school, fall of 1979, our team was 'pro' nuclear power. We used research from oil companies about the dangers of global warming as one one the arguments in favor of expanding nuclear power use. We won the debate, despite the fact that the 3 mile island accident happened in spring of '79. That made it a very tough debate to win the pro nuclear side of the argument.

they can look at individual apartment buildings and decide that the demographic living in that building is too poor, or too likely to chose the competition

Well, that would seem like a perfectly normal line of reasoning — why sue them over it?

But I doubt, that's the full reason. In the suburbs of NYC they are perfectly willing to hook-up individual standalone houses — a proposition that seems costlier, than wiring even a small share (like 10%) of apartments in a building. They are willing compete with other providers too. Indeed, my monthly FiOS fee is the same today as it was 6 years ago, but the throughput is up from 35Mbps up/down to 75Mbps — because they are well aware of the "introductory offers" I am getting from Comcast.

So, why are they willing to "leave the money on the table" in NYC? I think, this story indicates, there is no money on the table there — that the city's regulatory climate is so suffocating, only the highest-paying customers get served. This explanation would be consistent with what we already know about the culpability of local governments for the dearth of Internet-service options, and with Google Fiber's unwillingness to touch NYC and other large (hence corrupt) cities with a 10-feet pole...

FLASHBACK: This was the same President Obama that was caught by his own DoJ having illegally seized the phone records of 20+ lines, including of journalists' personal cell-phones, AP news lines, and a phone used by reporters covering the House of Representatives. Forgot that one, didn't ya?

https://www.wired.com/2013/05/...
http://www.politifact.com/pund...

So please do tell me how the US Intelligence Services, or President Barak Obama, have ANY more credibility on this issue than President Donald Trump.

I'm waiting...

The accusation is quite plausible, even likely given the players. And the only thing that's actually been denied is Obama's personal ordering of the supposed wiretap. Nobody to my knowledge has denied that the tap actually happened.

He could reside in "flyover country". https://www.wired.com/2017/03/...

Based on my own experience, bus lanes often do create congestion.

Causes of congestion are well understood, and more lanes for cars doesn't help

Anyway the real problem is city planning. Because of traditions, everyone believes that higher density is the way to go. But it is the opposite. We should lower density by spreading out cities. Lower density not only means higher quality of life, but also lower congestion. More particularly, city centers should be eliminated. Office and shops should be spread out. to avoid everyone going at the same place at the same time.

Most cities have growing populations, and to cater for more people you can only go out (sprawl), or go up (density).
Sprawl means you need a car to get around, but the car simply does not scale as a solution in large cities, it is the cause of congestion. Underground/overhead rail is the only transport solution that scales to city sized populations. And Rail works best when everyone is within walking distance of a station (ie higher density).

You mean like when the Obama administration said that benghazi was caused by a video? Then flapped their arms over and over again saying it really was caused by a video.

Reasonable misapprehension to make, given the timing of events. I can also respect the possibility that they didn't want to give away sensitive intelligence information so they gave a cover story.

In any case? Like Obama not calling it a terrorist act, it was quickly repudiated. Meanwhile, Trump still insists on illegal voters, winning the electoral college by a landslide, and he's probably lying about Ryancare.

Or started assassinating americans because "reasons" when they were in foreign countries?

I'm afraid you're not going to get far with that one.

How about when they said that fast and furious(gunrunning into mexico) really wasn't a problem and they were tracking them all.

Never was a problem, Mexican gangs already had plenty of guns, therefore, the ATF did not quantitatively add to the supply of arms.

The fact is, that hand-wringing says more about you, than it does about anybody else. You're concerned about appearances, not the facts that even if the US government dropped a C-5 Galaxy load of firearms onto Mexico, it'd make no difference in terms of total supply.

Or that the AG was held in contempt over it.

Oh noes! The mean old Republicans held a partisan vote.

Now what did they do that was effective? Apparently nothing. Thanks, GOP, you're such useful guys.

How about when the obama administration decided to wiretap reporters and journalist communications?

Oh noes! Gosh, what horrors!.

The people prosecuted? They disclosed classified information, now let me check, but who complained about that one, so loudly? Who?

Does it rhyme with Cramp? Tramp? Chump?

Never mind that if we take various media at their face value Trump is correct, since they stated that there were multiple taps against people in the Trump campaign. Some of who were in Trump Tower, which means that yes -- they tapped his building/lines of communication in order to conduct surveillance on those people. You also can't forget that some warrants like FISA can be ordered by the president and fulfilled at the behest of the AG too.

You also can't forget that you never proved any such thing, and taking Breitbart and WND at face value is like believing a kindergarten class knows how to send a rocket to the moon.

Of course, if they did, then they had evidence that the Trump campaign was up to no good, which wait for it, we already have the AG and the former National Security Adviser, already admitting they were communicating with a foreign power.

The WAPO article is shit, it's even worse shit to anyone who's ever seen a warrant application being filed and the requirements. Hell FISA warrants have such specific thresholds that them being refused is so rare you can count them on all your fingers and toes over the last ~40 years.

Translation, you still have no evidence, but want to believe, because well, it must be so.

Look, Mashiki, you don't have to keep pandering to the retarded toddler in the Oval Office, you can say he's a lying fraud any time.

Just look at how they're trying to rush through Ryancare. Now the ACA, it went over a year before it was passed, but they want this to happen in a month?

Huh.

Set up your own DNS server to gain direct access to the root servers and use DNSSEC.

If you believe that TOR is not compromised, then you should read this excerpt from this article in WIRED magazine...there are similar stories from many other outlets as well.

"The Feds Would Rather Drop a Child Porn Case Than Give Up a Tor Exploit

The Department of Justice filed a motion in Washington State federal court on Friday to dismiss its indictment against a child porn site. It wasn’t for lack of evidence; it was because the FBI didn’t want to disclose details of a hacking tool to the defense as part of discovery. Evidence in United States v. Jay Michaud hinged at least in part on information federal investigators had gathered by exploiting a vulnerability in the Tor anonymity network.

“Because the government remains unwilling to disclose certain discovery related to the FBI’s deployment of a ‘Network Investigative Technique’ (‘NIT’) as part of its investigation into the Playpen child pornography site, the government has no choice but to seek dismissal of the indictment,” federal prosecutor Annette Hayes wrote in the court filing on Friday. She noted that the DoJ’s work to resist disclosing the NIT was part of “an effort to balance the many competing interests that are at play when sensitive law enforcement technology becomes the subject of a request for criminal discovery.”

In other words, the feds are letting an alleged child pornographer free so that officials can potentially catch other dark-web using criminals in the future."

https://www.wired.com/2017/03/...

Though I HATE Wired, they have this to say:

Last Friday [Oct 28, 2016], a new exemption to the decades-old law known as the Digital Millennium Copyright Act quietly kicked in, carving out protections for Americans to hack their own devices without fear that the DMCA’s ban on circumventing protections on copyrighted systems would allow manufacturers to sue them. One exemption, crucially, will allow new forms of security research on those consumer devices. Another allows for the digital repair of vehicles.

TFA

1. Start reading the tech news and books about past NSA, GCHQ, CIA projects over the decades.
e.g. CIA Chief: We’ll Spy On You Through Your Dishwasher (03.15.12)
https://www.wired.com/2012/03/...
Past project shape new projects in the US gov. Electronic collection is the only growth area so that is what gets funding and political support.
Collect it all is policy that can be understood by most people.
2. Work out if the NSA, CIA or any other part of the US gov think your company or work is interesting.
Is your brand in trade publications with glowing reports of encryption, advancement, new patents, funding, international support, rapid advancement in fields of tech the USA has always considered their own?
3. Are you a member of the press seeking whistleblowers or are understood to be a good person to be contracted by a gov/mil whistleblower?
4. Encryption seems to be holding as so much of it is now international and has faced open discussion rather than the junk closed efforts of the 1970's.
The US has moved from supporting junk encryption to generations of junk consumer devices, expensive professional services that give away plain text.
The crypto tests as safe and device/OS just gives away all the plain text as decrypted or entered.
5. If it is vital to your company use paper and meet without a room full of smartphones, trendy smart consumer devices, reconsider that networked TV with a mic and webcam in the conference room.
Air gap all devices and archives. Work on projects as if every network is giving data to your competitions.
6. Staff risks? The CIA knows most of the staff will use a smart phone and a company is networked to the outside world. The digital way in is national, international.
Most workers know to report any direct offers of cash to their own company or nations security services. Why? It could be a test and not reporting such contact is a huge risk.
But that same security aware staff member will walk in with a smart phone and connect all networks to the internet for productivity.
Secure your networks, hide your advanced work, tell staff to report any new friends, unexpected offers of cash.

Big brand staff, academics, security researches will say crypto is safe, that the device is fixed, the OS is trustworthy, just like they did for decades.
Smart phones and other US brands will be reported as been secured again. Then crypto will then be weakened. Once the faulty crypto is discovered the devices hardware/OS will leak plain text again but the crypto will work.
The only constant over the years is the device will give up all data to the clandestine services.
Stop using a smart phone for work that should be kept secure and all such issues stop over the decades.
7. If none of that is possible, flood your networks that face the internet with junk files and reports. Amazing alpha, beta, internal testing files, projects. Interesting project names, connections with governments, how other brands projects are generations behind.
Have a few workers just churn out the most amazing projects that link to or hint at other files that are secure. Reports to management of amazing results on projects that are pure fiction.
Create other front companies, use the cloud and ensure their networked computers are more interesting than any real work been done.
8. Only hire local staff and ensure they report issues, contact attempts, cash offers.

You'd think, for instance, somewhere someone should be experimenting with the minimum requirements for rendering Martian regolith into non-toxic, fertile ground.

You would think that, yeah. Indeed, we probably have some sort of simulated martian regolith that can be used for this sort of research.

Toying around with the power requirements to augment Martian sunlight and temperatures to levels required to support Terran plants or trying to engineer plants that will grow and thrive at Martian insolation levels.

That sounds quite handy.

Or playing around with in situ production of building materials, automated mining and refining equipment, etc.

Yes, it would be handy if you could make bricks, or perhaps concrete.

I'd certainly be up for a really inhumane experiment

When can you be ready to go?

The problem is that garbage expands to fill the space allotted. If you add more lanes, more people will use the freeway and you end up with the same problem in a few years.

Let's say I'm deciding on a house. Well, I work here and there's a nice house 10 miles from work. But there's a house that's just as nice but a bit cheaper 40 miles from work. So I'll buy that house and drive on the freeway. Other people have the same idea and pretty soon that freeway is full of commuters going to-and-from work. If you add capacity, you just end up with more people making that same decision to live further away because the freeway makes it so convenient.

Not a scholarly article, but food for thought:

https://www.wired.com/2016/03/...

And for an opposing viewpoint: Comparing oil sands to lithium extraction is just plain stupid.

Not a scholarly article, but food for thought: https://www.wired.com/2016/03/...

Concrete blocks would probably be the simplest.

There is a raised mass storage system that uses an old mining railroad spur to pull rail cars uphill.

https://www.wired.com/2016/05/...

What I was thinking of though was something that could pull individual masses as light as a couple of tons each up about 100 feet. Think of the weights used to run a grandfather clock.

Although I'm pleased to see this announcement, living here in Lakeland, FL where there's a fairly large Amazon distribution center I'm really disappointed that there's no move this year to put these here, when they're going to be putting them in Delaware, Maryland, and New Jersey. In virtually every solar radiation average exposure map I've seen, Florida generally receives more solar radiation than all three of those states - and sometimes more than areas of California as well. This area is ripe for this, at least from a physical standpoint. I have to assume there's some sort of governmental roadblock in the way at the moment that isn't to their tastes, because it certainly can't be because they won't generate enough power down here.

Yes, it is harder to get solar in Florida. If you voted in November, don't you remember the solar amendment?

https://www.wired.com/2016/10/...

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/op...

I propose the next Tesla to look like this: https://www.wired.com/2014/07/homer-simpson-car/

BTW, did you know, you can be prosecuted for possession child pornography [unh.edu], for example, if such is simply found in your e-mail? That you didn't put it there — and it was sent to you by others will not save you...

Actually, it will, when you can make an argument that it was done for harassment.

Your link doesn't even mention that possibility. Or accident. Or non-awareness.

You should really look into things more than superficially.

looks that way.

Here are the links as text: https://www.wired.com/2015/04/...
http://modernfarmer.com/2016/0...
http://www.npr.org/sections/al...

Put another way, even Google with their near-bottomless buckets of money has said it's too hard for them.

Exactly the example I wanted to cite. Google can count. They know, what cables cost and how hard it is to run it. But the costs and, more importantly, the intangible difficulties of obtaining the permits can not be estimated in advance.

And so it follows, that it were these government-imposed costs and difficulties, that scuttled Google Fiber — because, had it been anything else, they wouldn't have even attempted. Indeed, we already know it quite well, that the real barrier for having nice Internet-connectivity is not the ISPs, who want your money, but the local mayors and city councils, who want free stuff and favors.

And you would notice too, that where they started (and continue to operate) is not exactly the thickly settled — and thus Illiberal-dominated — coastal city... Even though "thickly settled" is the most attractive part for an ISP.

As long as the government can throttle an upstart ISPs — such as by holding them to the letter of some regulation, however imprecise and unclear — the incumbent, who can take the President for a round of golf, will thrive. Thrive without improving service and lower prices.

The way you THINK it should work usually

The way I KNOW it works, where I live. Fixed that for you. Comcast sends their promotions monthly, and FiOS is well aware of it...

Your anecdotal evidence may be different and I do not doubt your truthfulness. But absence of ISP-choice is in itself the government's fault — it is too easy for the local mayors and city councils to block an ISP. So easy, even the mighty Google gave up.

Between Fowler's accusations, the recent NYT article on Uber's company culture and Waymo's suit for theft of autonomous driving sensor designs, Kalanick & co are going to have a lot of face time with investigators

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/0...

https://www.wired.com/2017/02/...

Right. Amazon is the king of A/B testing.

It DOES matter. A hacked phone allows the hacker to access everything in the phone, like the camera, the microphone, the GPS. Trump is known to be using an out of date, hackable phone for his Twitter nonesense. Nevermind that Twitter-time should be over... you won, damn-it, now get on with doing the job instead of bitching about Hillary, who likely has already gotten rip-roaring drunk, yelled, screamed, ranted, fallen down, puked all over Bill and herself, slept it off for about a week, and moved on. Trump's still chasing invisible enemies with his Tweet phone. He needs to get down to the incredibly boring, tedious business of keeping the machinery of the country running smoothly and reliably. Instead, he's Tweeting on an old Android phone like he's still running for office, signing orders as vague as campaign slogans, and people charged with getting the job done don't know what the fuck. And all the time, Putin's listening and watching through his unsecure Tweet phone? Four years of this shit! Pray to Christ he doesn't start a war just so he can blame someone and throw all the mean people calling him names into camps!

Yeah, actually.

Yahoo’s Very Bad Idea to Release Email Addresses | WIRED

That would be a valid argument in the product development stage. The FM receiver is already in your phone. It's just been disabled at the request of carriers so they can make more money via data plans used to listen to music, or in the case of Apple because the manufacturer makes money from streaming services.

Bullshit. Apple doesn't bother with the FM section in its WiFi/BT module, because their own market research with the iPod Nano with the FM radio shows that nobody cares, and it's just one more standards-compliance-procedure to deal with, worldwide.

I would wonder more about whether the new FCC Chair has financial ties to the NextRadioApp people.

Given the rest of Trump's cronies, that is a far more likely possibility.

There's a saying in Texas: "All hat and no cattle." And yet, "all hat" keeps winning, even when it's losing. Because the Twitter/Youtube economy is about clicks and views, regardless if you find the content compelling or appalling. Trump got the White House in part because his Tweets got him so much free publicity - news media making his Tweets into front-page stuff while his GOP opponents wasted their time and money trying to go it old-school. Now, people like me who'd never heard or cared about PewDiePie are all reading about him on Wired.com for the first time, amazed at his epic rise and fall as a juvenile asshole, doing on the Internet what would otherwise get him smacked in the face until he learns his lesson and stops... all that really matters is how every click records something about you on a server somewhere, and makes somebody a buck.

This is fucking ridiculous. We are all getting Played, and the Players are studying all this carefully and perfecting the craft... for pay.

There's a saying in Texas: "All hat and no cattle." And yet, "all hat" keeps winning, even when it's losing. Because the Twitter/Youtube economy is about clicks and views, regardless if you find the content compelling or appalling. Trump got the White House in part because his Tweets got him so much free publicity - news media making his Tweets into front-page stuff while his GOP opponents wasted their time and money trying to go it old-school. Now, people like me who'd never heard or cared about PewDiePie are all reading about him on Wired.com for the first time, amazed at his epic rise and fall as a juvenile asshole, doing on the Internet what would otherwise get him smacked in the face until he learns his lesson and stops... all that really matters is how every click records something about you on a server somewhere, and makes somebody a buck.

This is fucking ridiculous. We are all getting Played, and the Players are studying all this carefully and perfecting the craft... for pay.

That would be a valid argument in the product development stage.

The FM receiver is already in your phone. It's just been disabled at the request of carriers so they can make more money via data plans used to listen to music, or in the case of Apple because the manufacturer makes money from streaming services.

Carriers have little financial incentive to do so because they profit from streaming data, says Barry Rooke of the National Campus and Community Radio Association.

just for you...

https://motivps.com/portfolio/...

https://www.wired.com/2016/07/...

I was looking into the deep learning celery diet earlier today.

Uber Buys a Mysterious Startup to Make Itself an AI Company

Many smart people in deep stealth.

Vicarious (company)

The company received 40 million dollars in its Series B round of funding. The round was led by such notables as Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Vinod Khosla, and Ashton Kutcher.

When has Peter Thiel ever been wrong?

If President Trump really wants to create American jobs I can think of a trillion's worth of core infrastructure projects that are "shovel ready".

ASCE 2013 Report Card for America's Infrastructure[Spoiler: It's a D.]

It’s Time to Fix America’s Infrastructure. Here’s Where to Start

New USDOT Report on Highway, Transit Conditions Reveals America’s $926 Billion Infrastructure Investment Need

Some more up to date advice:

https://www.wired.com/2017/02/...

Coloring isn't creative.

Come on, that's just a slightly more advanced version of Paint's fill bucket. A task that can be done by anyone with a few simple instructions isn't creative. It's probably boring work that was begging to become automated.

For a better example of computer creativity look here https://www.wired.com/2016/03/...

Do you see what I mean?

Maybe you forgot that Google has been in that market for two years already.

Conspiracy Theory: Vincent Cerf while employed for Google argues for a 'level playing field' that ultimately helps Google escape the transportation costs of it's massive as-snooping traffic that the NSA considers a benefit to national security. Perhaps less sellable under Trump than Obama post-Snowden. Because despite what the FCC said in 10-201 about the nature of the 'level playing field' I always said to myself that I'd believe it when I saw it. And I've never seen it.

The bottom line- while I may also be able to compete by partnering with
existing cloud infrastructure services companies, am I free to compete on my own, paying the
same published rates for my data traffic on the 'general purpose technology'6 of the internet as
my neighbor?

https://lwn.net/Articles/657561/

http://apps.fcc.gov/ecfs/document/view?id=7522219498

http://cloudsession.com/dawg/downloads/misc/kag-draft-k121024.pdf

https://www.wired.com/2013/07/google-neutrality/

http://www.seattletimes.com/business/google-accused-of-betraying-its-net-neutrality-stance/ (some facts wrong in article)

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/10/google-fiber-now-explicitly-permits-home-servers/

The problem is that we don't know how to make friendly AI. As in at some point, Artificial Intelligences will be able to beat humans at any task, at which point, how do you make sure that they don't destroy humanity (possibly through indifference). Even if you don't care about humanity, how do you make sure they do something interesting with the universe?

Various articles:
Stuart Armstrong's book Smarter than us discusses what happens when machines are smarter than humans:
https://intelligence.org/smart...
http://jjc.freeshell.org/Smart...
Bill Joy's article Why the Future doesn't need us on the dangers of robotics:
https://www.wired.com/2000/04/...
Tim Urban's article on superintelligence:
http://waitbutwhy.com/2015/01/...
http://waitbutwhy.com/2015/01/...

Why the Future Doesn't Need US

Hmmm, maybe some idiot cultures were onto something when they eschewed technology and banished themselves to a banal existence of drudgerous labour.

Well, gentleman, we've been sold out.

What do you mean? If you like net neutrality (something that obviously has helped small companies and the internet grow all these years), then you should already know Republicans have always been against it, and you should have been against Trump especially. There should be no surprises here. But it should be a wake up call: Republicans are on track to kill net neutrality soon.

Under your definition of net neutrality my cell phone and cable bills have tripled. I've seen no increase in coverage and in fact have seen my coverage shrink in my state. There's been no new rollouts, no new providers and the market has been stagnant for the better part of 10 years.

Well, gentleman, we've been sold out.

What do you mean? If you like net neutrality (something that obviously has helped small companies and the internet grow all these years), then you should already know Republicans have always been against it, and you should have been against Trump especially. There should be no surprises here. But it should be a wake up call: Republicans are on track to kill net neutrality soon.

Compare that to a game like Pictionary. Pictionary is vastly, vastly more complex than poker. When two computers with cameras and screens can beat a pair of humans at pictionary, I'll be impressed.

It's not exactly what you're asking for, but...

The solution has been known for a long time; it was published 50 years ago. Time magazine ran an article on the solution; here's a Wired article https://www.wired.com/2012/03/mit-saves-the-world-project-icarus-1967/.

Long story short, we have to be able to launch a number of nuclear-tipped Saturn V missiles starting 90 days before predicted impact.

Add to this, the question about the elephant in the room:

"Free," is paid for, precisely how?

Google provides a free lunch if you agree to buy the plate.

They scan their docs to fine-tune advertisement delivery.

And they are not bullet proof:

Google announced Tuesday that it had been the target of a “highly sophisticated” and coordinated hack attack against its corporate network. It said the hackers had stolen intellectual property and sought access to the Gmail accounts of human rights activists. The attack originated from China, the company said.

Hackers are trading millions of Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo logins

5 million Gmail passwords leaked

It's not a matter of, "if," it's, "when."

Enough said.

Except that there is no evidence that he actually said it. Go ahead. Find an irrefutable citation that he actually said it. We'll wait.

Here is something interesting.
Here is a little article about it.

But, so many here, have such knowledge of the world and what it is all about.
Shesh. How the fuck does ACs with no intelligence get modded up?