Thorium (Th-232) isn't fissile, it needs to be bred up into U-233 to produce energy. U-233 works quite well in a nuclear weapon core (the US fired off at least two test devices back in the day). The U-233 in a proposed thorium reactor is pure, it has no contaminants that make it difficult to weaponise by an unscrupupous operator.
The president doesn't make arrests, or punish law breakers that is the judicial branches job. The FBI works for the department of Justice not the executive branch.
I agree. What the FBI and executive branch does is more like a punitive action meaning that there is even less due process than that available through the judicial branch. And the DoJ *is* part of the executive branch.
If you want to see what happens to a party without superdelegates, look at the GOP nominee right now. Had the Democrats voted for someone less scrupulous than Bernie without superdelegates, the DNC would be in just as bad a spot if not worse.
If only there was some system of voting which prevents splitting the vote. If nerds just need to nerd harder, then political parties should, um, party harder to solve this unsolvable problem.
He is part of the conspiracy. Aiding and abetting a crime is itself a crime. There was no journalistic reason to release that data.
CNN and the ACLU agree with you. The people only have collective rights so only officially recognized news organizations have a 1st amendment right to view and interpret these documents.
Not just thicker -- with a REPLACEABLE battery. Production batteries start having a problem? Instead of having to recall 3 billion dollars worth of phones, you can send out new batteries made conservatively, or even with completely different tech.
Non-replaceable batteries present a much broader spectrum of risks. All the manufacturers get out of it is a bit of thin, and the hope that your phone will seem unfixable to you when the battery dies.
They're treating the consumer very poorly.
And as long as the customer base can be kept from realizing that, they'll keep almost certainly doing it, too.
My guess is that besides not enforcing obsolescence, they figure replaceable batteries encourage third party batteries which will be even less reliable and more of a safety hazard. Or at least that is the excuse they will use.
If the design is fragile enough, then ambient temperature changes can be enough over time to cause problems and even with low power dissipation
Nope still going with no. A device design may be fragile by design, but individual general purpose components used in consumer devices are entirely unphased through standard ambient temperature changes, especially given we're talking about non-high power devices here. Also if you're picking up heat from neighbouring devices then that's part of the general check and the reason you IR scan devices in the first place.
So no under any normal and a myriad of abnormal cases "ANY" component is not affected.
The reason I do not agree with you is because of my personal experience in designing circuits and laying out circuit boards. Even ignoring the occasional screwup by a parts manufacturer resulting in solder terminations failing or bond wires falling off after a few months, flexing of a circuit board or a mismatch in thermal expansion coefficient can cause all kinds of reliability issues. I hate to imagine what can go wrong with the denser BGA packages and there have been a number of reliability issues with them over a past few years.
Colorado Memory Systems added a further refinement to this; delay accepting the diagnosis of a problem covered under warranty until the warranty period runs out.
Erm no, electronics don't magically burn up. They can only use the power provided and for the vast majority of small signal devices thermal cycling is such a non-issue that many of the parts won't show up at all on a thermal camera. Claiming that all devices exhibit this problem is just plain wrong.
If the design is fragile enough, then ambient temperature changes can be enough over time to cause problems and even with low power dissipation, heat from neighboring devices will increase the temperature change.
Even then, gun trade shows aren't constitutionally protected. The purchase and sale of firearms are not protected. What is, is the right to have firearms. How you get them is up for debate...technically speaking...
The purchase, sale, and production are protected insofar as government may not discriminate against them. Cities have found this out when they refuse to allow firearm sales within their boundaries like any other commercial establishment and are the receiving end of a lawsuit.
It would certainly be pretty big and devastating news if it was discovered that AES was compromised and even more so that it was compromised by design. There are alternatives to AES like the 4 other finalists of the Advanced Encryption Standard process: MARS, RC6, Serpent, and Twofish.
So collective rights will then include the 1st, 4th, 9th, and 10th:
"... or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances." "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures..." "The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people." "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
The ACLU disagrees, with the NRA, on how the 2nd amendment is meant to be read. Many American's do, with many laws. That's why we have courts.
That will be very comforting when the USSC changes their mind, rules that the 2nd amendment means what the ACLU thinks it means, and that "the people" only have collective rights.
The device always contains a decryption key... it's just a matter of how hard it is to get to... and it may not actually be located in flash memory.
The device may only contain the decryption key in the same sense that the device contains the plaintext. If the decryption key is produced from data stored in the device and data entered by the user, then a brute force attack will depend on whichever one has the least entropy which will normally be the user's key. Usually this is small because large passwords are inconvenient but if the password is strong, then there will be no practical attack which relies only on the device.
I like the thought that this intersects with copyright law. The time and resources needed to brute force the cryptographic key is "limited" in the same sense that the Supreme Court ruled that any definite duration specified by Congress is limited. So if it only takes a "limited" amount of time to brute force any cryptographic key, why is the FBI complaining?
If we say that encryption must have back doors "because terrorists" then aren't we saying that any group that is out of favor politically should loose their 4th & 5th amendment rights?
They want to deny 2nd amendment rights to those placed on the no-fly list so why not?
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The evil libtardos aren't coming for your guns.
Is that their private or public position?
Thorium (Th-232) isn't fissile, it needs to be bred up into U-233 to produce energy. U-233 works quite well in a nuclear weapon core (the US fired off at least two test devices back in the day). The U-233 in a proposed thorium reactor is pure, it has no contaminants that make it difficult to weaponise by an unscrupupous operator.
U-232 is a significant and dangerous contaminant in U-233 produced from Th-232.
The president doesn't make arrests, or punish law breakers that is the judicial branches job. The FBI works for the department of Justice not the executive branch.
I agree. What the FBI and executive branch does is more like a punitive action meaning that there is even less due process than that available through the judicial branch. And the DoJ *is* part of the executive branch.
Break it and see if you go to jail.
Having watched Clinton's successes, I am not reassured.
If you want to see what happens to a party without superdelegates, look at the GOP nominee right now. Had the Democrats voted for someone less scrupulous than Bernie without superdelegates, the DNC would be in just as bad a spot if not worse.
If only there was some system of voting which prevents splitting the vote. If nerds just need to nerd harder, then political parties should, um, party harder to solve this unsolvable problem.
He is part of the conspiracy. Aiding and abetting a crime is itself a crime. There was no journalistic reason to release that data.
CNN and the ACLU agree with you. The people only have collective rights so only officially recognized news organizations have a 1st amendment right to view and interpret these documents.
Fantasy insurrections are all very nice, but if we ever reach that point, then the Great American Experiment will have been well and truly finished.
I *knew* the Battle of Athens was a fantasy! And now I have a citation to prove it!
So the only targets will be tanks and not something softer. That is good to know. Thanks.
Not just thicker -- with a REPLACEABLE battery. Production batteries start having a problem? Instead of having to recall 3 billion dollars worth of phones, you can send out new batteries made conservatively, or even with completely different tech.
Non-replaceable batteries present a much broader spectrum of risks. All the manufacturers get out of it is a bit of thin, and the hope that your phone will seem unfixable to you when the battery dies.
They're treating the consumer very poorly.
And as long as the customer base can be kept from realizing that, they'll keep almost certainly doing it, too.
My guess is that besides not enforcing obsolescence, they figure replaceable batteries encourage third party batteries which will be even less reliable and more of a safety hazard. Or at least that is the excuse they will use.
Is this the same unlimited term that ISPs use in general now? So what is the cap?
I'm not sure what your saying. We don't need gun rights enshrined in the constitution.
Then repeal them instead of sacrificing the meaning of the other rights recognized in the Bill of Rights.
For example, there is no constitutional prohibition on murder. It's just not an appropriate place for that sort of regulation.
We never needed a 5th Amendment anyway. Maybe we can sell it on Ebay.
If the design is fragile enough, then ambient temperature changes can be enough over time to cause problems and even with low power dissipation
Nope still going with no. A device design may be fragile by design, but individual general purpose components used in consumer devices are entirely unphased through standard ambient temperature changes, especially given we're talking about non-high power devices here. Also if you're picking up heat from neighbouring devices then that's part of the general check and the reason you IR scan devices in the first place.
So no under any normal and a myriad of abnormal cases "ANY" component is not affected.
The reason I do not agree with you is because of my personal experience in designing circuits and laying out circuit boards. Even ignoring the occasional screwup by a parts manufacturer resulting in solder terminations failing or bond wires falling off after a few months, flexing of a circuit board or a mismatch in thermal expansion coefficient can cause all kinds of reliability issues. I hate to imagine what can go wrong with the denser BGA packages and there have been a number of reliability issues with them over a past few years.
Colorado Memory Systems added a further refinement to this; delay accepting the diagnosis of a problem covered under warranty until the warranty period runs out.
Erm no, electronics don't magically burn up. They can only use the power provided and for the vast majority of small signal devices thermal cycling is such a non-issue that many of the parts won't show up at all on a thermal camera. Claiming that all devices exhibit this problem is just plain wrong.
If the design is fragile enough, then ambient temperature changes can be enough over time to cause problems and even with low power dissipation, heat from neighboring devices will increase the temperature change.
Even then, gun trade shows aren't constitutionally protected. The purchase and sale of firearms are not protected. What is, is the right to have firearms. How you get them is up for debate...technically speaking...
The purchase, sale, and production are protected insofar as government may not discriminate against them. Cities have found this out when they refuse to allow firearm sales within their boundaries like any other commercial establishment and are the receiving end of a lawsuit.
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It would certainly be pretty big and devastating news if it was discovered that AES was compromised and even more so that it was compromised by design. There are alternatives to AES like the 4 other finalists of the Advanced Encryption Standard process: MARS, RC6, Serpent, and Twofish.
So collective rights will then include the 1st, 4th, 9th, and 10th:
"... or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances." ..."
"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures
"The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people."
"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
Ya, that seems like a great idea for the ACLU.
The ACLU disagrees, with the NRA, on how the 2nd amendment is meant to be read. Many American's do, with many laws. That's why we have courts.
That will be very comforting when the USSC changes their mind, rules that the 2nd amendment means what the ACLU thinks it means, and that "the people" only have collective rights.
Local mall. Local police. Why is the FBI in on this gig?
The knife traveled in or affected interstate commerce.
How much time and money and leverage do you need to decipher a message encrypted with a one time pad that was burned to ash in the explosion?
It takes the same amount of time and money to decipher a message encrypted with 128 bit AES or any equivalently strong cypher and key, all of it.
That's an easy answer, nothing for free. The government is willing to pay for this work. No involved is talking about unpaid work.
I want to see the government pay for a brute force attack against a strong key. Given the rate of currency inflation, it will be practically free.
The device always contains a decryption key... it's just a matter of how hard it is to get to... and it may not actually be located in flash memory.
The device may only contain the decryption key in the same sense that the device contains the plaintext. If the decryption key is produced from data stored in the device and data entered by the user, then a brute force attack will depend on whichever one has the least entropy which will normally be the user's key. Usually this is small because large passwords are inconvenient but if the password is strong, then there will be no practical attack which relies only on the device.
I like the thought that this intersects with copyright law. The time and resources needed to brute force the cryptographic key is "limited" in the same sense that the Supreme Court ruled that any definite duration specified by Congress is limited. So if it only takes a "limited" amount of time to brute force any cryptographic key, why is the FBI complaining?
If we say that encryption must have back doors "because terrorists" then aren't we saying that any group that is out of favor politically should loose their 4th & 5th amendment rights?
They want to deny 2nd amendment rights to those placed on the no-fly list so why not?
Why should the ACLU waste their resources on the 2nd amendment. There are plenty of other organizations.
So it is a waste of ACLU resources to defend the 2nd Amendment but not a waste to attack it?