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Re:Torn by Nethemas+the+Great · 2016-02-24 14:06 · Score: 4, Informative · on Apple Is Said To Be Working On an iPhone Even It Can't Hack (nytimes.com)

In case I wasn't clear with my above post. This is the physical version of what I'm talking about.

Not yet replicated [Re:But...] by Geoffrey.landis · 2016-02-24 08:00 · Score: 2 · on Sorry, But Lasers Aren't Taking You To Mars Anytime Soon

It is unlikely to be real but your claim that the error level is higher than the measured effect is AFAIK wrong. We also have replication in 3 separate places with separate groups of people using different hardware which reduces some error sources.

No, sorry, but I will challenge that last statement. There are three separate groups which have produced different results which are inconsistent with each other.

Most recently, the NASA Johnson "Eagleworks" group has tried to replicate both the EM drive proposed by Shawer and a result on a similar concept in China claimed by Yang-- and falsified both of these results. The EM drive proposal stated that the purported drive worked because of a specific asymmetry, but the Eagleworks test showed that the result was the same whether or not the asymmetry is present: the Shawer driver does not work as proposed. They also tested the Yang result, and got a result... but the result was orders of magnitude different than the claimed Yang result. The net answer is that neither result was replicated.

Also, the test that was reported at a conference was not done in vacuum (although they only mentioned this detail in the "further work" section of their paper.) There has been a post to an internet forum saying that they have now tested it in vacuum, and gotten yet different results-- but internet forums are not scientific publications.

I'm in favor of good experimental work testing these ideas... but so far, it's way premature to suggest that the results have been replicated. They're not. The results are very, very small, and no two experiments seem to show the same thing.

Here's a Wired article from last year (which was the last anybody heard anything new) with some more discussion. (Sorry it's in Wired, which apparently everybody hates now, but that's where it is.) http://www.wired.com/2015/05/n...

Re:Well, there go those last remaining factory job by anzha · 2016-02-24 07:20 · Score: 1 · on Boston Dynamics' Next-Gen ATLAS Sheds the Tether (roboticstrends.com)

Well, at least don't try to get a job in a warehouse.

Or as a taxi driver.

Or in a restaurant.

crap. Looks like the Robopocalypse is nigh.

Re:And there you are... by mitcheli · 2016-02-22 08:05 · Score: 2 · on HTTP GZIP Compression Leaks Data On the Location of Tor Web Servers

Let's see... FBI takes over Onion servers, supposedly paid universities for "research", managed to find the operator to silk road 2.0, and managed a rather large bust of criminals. Then you've got the issue of "fake tor clients"... Seems to me that considering tor (be it with a VPN before or after) is really irrelevant and that the underlying technology of tor has just been under attack for two long and needs to be replaced.

Re:And there you are... by mitcheli · 2016-02-22 08:05 · Score: 2 · on HTTP GZIP Compression Leaks Data On the Location of Tor Web Servers

Let's see... FBI takes over Onion servers, supposedly paid universities for "research", managed to find the operator to silk road 2.0, and managed a rather large bust of criminals. Then you've got the issue of "fake tor clients"... Seems to me that considering tor (be it with a VPN before or after) is really irrelevant and that the underlying technology of tor has just been under attack for two long and needs to be replaced.

Re:And there you are... by mitcheli · 2016-02-22 08:05 · Score: 2 · on HTTP GZIP Compression Leaks Data On the Location of Tor Web Servers

Let's see... FBI takes over Onion servers, supposedly paid universities for "research", managed to find the operator to silk road 2.0, and managed a rather large bust of criminals. Then you've got the issue of "fake tor clients"... Seems to me that considering tor (be it with a VPN before or after) is really irrelevant and that the underlying technology of tor has just been under attack for two long and needs to be replaced.

Re:Could the FBI hide behind 3rd party code? by Solandri · 2016-02-20 21:42 · Score: 2 · on FBI Must Reveal The Code It Used To Hack Dark Web Pedophiles (engadget.com)

Yeah, the court seems to be following the same line of reasoning which got the source code for breathalyzers released.

It's too bad for the FBI since it turns their tactic into a one-trick pony. But I believe the strategy around that in the gangster days was to not use the testimony of the stool pigeon directly in court against a suspect. Rather, use the info learned to set up other stings which would generate enough evidence to charge the suspect. Then they wouldn't have to reveal who their inside source was.

Re:I'm not sure what conclusions to draw from here by quantaman · 2016-02-19 16:08 · Score: 1 · on Study: Mice Gain Weight In Cold Temperatures Due To Gut Changes (economist.com)

I'm drawing two conclusions from this:

1) Exposing yourself to cold doesn't seem to be a viable weight loss strategy. This actually makes sense since the best response to be being cold is adding insulation, either way trying to lose weight by making yourself cold is apparently a thing.

2) Probiotics may be overrated. Its true they're really critical to regulating body weight but it looks like the body has already figured that out. As much as you're eating yogurt to push the culture one way your body may be trying to push it somewhere else.

Re:I can see it now... by kelarius · 2016-02-17 03:00 · Score: 1 · on Judge Tells Apple To Help FBI Access San Bernardino Shooters' iPhone (engadget.com)

Wiredhas a much better article about what's going on with this order, they say that 1. the order leaves open the possibility that what the court is asking isn't possible, and 2. that the FBI isn't specifically asking Apple to unlock the phone but wants Apple to disable the feature that wipes the phone after 10 bad password attempts (they want to brute-force it).

Re:perspective. by DNS-and-BIND · 2016-02-15 13:56 · Score: 1 · on Iranian App Helps Users Avoid Morality Police (reuters.com)

Tor was developed by American spooks at the US Naval Research Laboratory, nimrod. It can be penetrated by the NSA anytime they choose. Please make sense before posting. The only morality police in America are the ones on campus.

Routers alone = shit (here's proof #14/15) by Anonymous Coward · 2016-02-14 11:48 · Score: 0 · on Firefox 44 Deletes Fine-Grained Cookie Management (mozilla.org)

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P.S.=> So much for your faith in routers alone stupid (225 in total, 15 posts with 15 items each)... apk

Re:Two things: by Wraithlyn · 2016-02-14 05:48 · Score: 1 · on Would You Bet Against Sex Robots? AI 'Could Leave Half Of World Unemployed'

Google's pet AI just got good at Go, a feat considered insurmountable for current AIs until, well, it happened.

And the kicker is, it wasn't even programmed to play Go.

I'm no longer so sure that general-purpose AI capable of self-taught complex problem solving is decades away...

Ads steal our speed & infect us #1/2... apk by Anonymous Coward · 2016-02-10 13:54 · Score: 0 · on Why Stack Overflow Doesn't Care About Ad Blockers

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