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  1. Re:41 years on Nasa's Voyager 2 Probe 'Leaves the Solar System' (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    The oldest company in the world was founded some time around 750 AD. That any company involved in building Voyager no longer exists is abysmal.

  2. Re: Great... on Nasa's Voyager 2 Probe 'Leaves the Solar System' (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    I fitted it with shields and an energy bomb from a Cobra Mk III.

  3. You can't be sure with email on UK Just Banned the National Health Service From Buying Any More Fax Machines (qz.com) · · Score: 0

    Unless certificates are issued to all staff in the form of Class III cards, same as the US military use, and all emails are encrypted using certified correct chips (software is too easily infected as heartbleed showed) then you provide only the illusion of assurance.

  4. The US has not controlled the Internet on Can the US Stop China From Controlling the Next Internet Age? (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    In the early days, it had no significant international capacity. International links were supplied by International Packet Switch Stream.

    Yes, the US forged TCP/IP, but authentication and security were taken from CCITT standards.

    Yes, the US held the root DNS, the IANA and ICANN, but that's by convention. In the 90s, I always cloned the DNS servers of sites I connected to, because DNS was so unreliable and slow. I used my own independent DNS tree first, theirs as backup.

    Control is tenuous, power is a phantom, in a cooperative market/federation like the Internet. If China, or the UN, wanted to take the Internet from the US, all they'd need is something better and sufficient mindshare.

    There are no owners, outside the physical, and no loyalty to any self-proclaimed elite.

  5. Re: Another case of sudden heart attack death on 22-Year-Old Google Engineer Dies At His Work Terminal (nypost.com) · · Score: 1

    That's the one that predicts Satan ruling for a thousand years, right?

    The one that was used as the basis for Left Behind, about a populist tyrant that destroys the free press and moves the embassy to Jerusalem?

    Yeah, I can see people being concerned.

  6. Re: so? on 22-Year-Old Google Engineer Dies At His Work Terminal (nypost.com) · · Score: 2

    So, for you, personally, you have to count every integer that exists before you can define the abstract set of integers?

    No?

    Abstract sets can contain every element, past present and future without having to inspect each one?

    Then I can apply any operation to the entire set without having to apply it individually.

  7. Verification on Linux.org's DNS Got Hijacked (linux.org) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    DNS hijacking has been a problen in the past, resulting in DNS registrars swearing blind that they'll never again change ownership without verfying ownership over the phone.

    NS obviously broke that rule.

    Easy solution - pull their business license for a year.

  8. Re: It's now sunday. on Linux.org's DNS Got Hijacked (linux.org) · · Score: 1

    No, it's been discussed a few times.

  9. Re: It's now sunday. on Linux.org's DNS Got Hijacked (linux.org) · · Score: 2

    I visit it regularly. Ok, that's because I actually am a nerd and many here are only here to scream at each other or use mod points as an offensive weapon.

    It's fairly obvious that the attack was by one of the alt-right morons we seem to be infected with, who aren't interested in the community unless they can hijack it.

  10. Re: Business as unusual on Electron and the Decline of Native Apps (daringfireball.net) · · Score: 1

    You cannot do hard real time over the Internet. It's not about performance, it's about IPv4 offering no guarantees.

    You can't replace native applications with web apps because you don't have the bandwidth (you need 50 gigabits per second to emulate native, the US is downgrading its broadband to 1 megabit per second - 50,000x too slow). Unless the Internet switches to Infiniband, you won't get the performance.

    That's not to say it won't happen. Java applications are obnoxiously slow compared to native but are run anyway.

    And that is the point you miss. Its not about whether it's any good, it's about whether that's what is forced on users.

  11. Re: The summary is a terrible word gumbo. on Electron and the Decline of Native Apps (daringfireball.net) · · Score: 1

    FIFY

  12. Carbon, amazingly, doesn't care where it comes from.

    And yes there are other sources. In the case of the Great Dying, a giant asteroid slammed into Siberia turning it into a gigantic lava bed.

    See any 13 million square kilometre lava beds recently? Or giant asteroid strikes?

    No?

    Then the lesson you learn is that rapid climate change is deadly because it is rapid. The fact that temperatures have been more extreme than during that time doesn't matter.

  13. Re: One state == dictator ??? on California Gives Final OK To Require Solar Panels On New Houses (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Whatever is ok for Republicans (one state setting the textbooks, rejecting the Supreme Court over gay marriage and desegregation, the Confederate government) to do, you ipso facto make it ok for everyone else.

    Doesn't matter what you think is right, as soon as you make it acceptable, it's acceptable for everyone.

    Don't blame others for following your example. Neither kids nor adults will do as you say, they'll do as you do.

    In this case, California is not pushing other States. And if it were to push them into compliance with international law, what's wrong with being a nation of laws?

  14. Re: One state == dictator ??? on California Gives Final OK To Require Solar Panels On New Houses (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Solar panels work fine in England, at 55' north.

    That's not Alaska, true, but it's Canada.

  15. Re: One state == dictator ??? on California Gives Final OK To Require Solar Panels On New Houses (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    It's not always even, but between hydrogen storage, vanadium high power batteries and other contraptions, the total energy is important but the distribution is not.

  16. Re: One state == dictator ??? on California Gives Final OK To Require Solar Panels On New Houses (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    We have these things called batterirs. Good for storing power.

  17. Re: Badly Oversold on Scientists Develop 10-Minute Universal Cancer Test (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    I suspected that might be the case. What is your preferred approach?

    DNA sequencing is the obvious one, Illumina's next gen sequencers look nice, but processing the data seems slow. You're the expert, I've merely toyed with BLAST and the NCBI toolkit, perused hardware catalogues and salivated over research papers. Yeah, I'm sick.

  18. Re: A few questions popped into my head... on Scientists Develop 10-Minute Universal Cancer Test (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    That may account for the 10% false reading.

    Although the obvious solution - pun possibly intended - would involve the peptides used to duplicate dna in dna testing.

    The ratios aught to remain the same.

  19. Re:Decrypt This Blockchain! on Australia Passes Anti-Encryption Laws [Update] (zdnet.com) · · Score: 2

    Don't need it. You just need to convey by multipath the coordinates of a pulsar and a precise range of times. It's a near-perfect source of random numbers. There's effectively an infinite number of windows and a very large number of pulsars. The odds of intercepting the four numbers, identifying their meaning and then collecting the radio data in the designated time, especially if you send the packets by differing routes, is pretty close to zero.

  20. Re:Decrypt This Blockchain! on Australia Passes Anti-Encryption Laws [Update] (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    AES has known weaknesses and may well be broken at some point.

    On a quantum computer, you can run any number of those calculations simultaneously. You don't need an exact number, if you can identify a region of keys such that you have reduced the effective key length to 40 bits, you can solve the problem in under half a second.

  21. Re:Decrypt This Blockchain! on Australia Passes Anti-Encryption Laws [Update] (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    I take it you read FiveThirtyEight's analysis?

  22. Re:Decrypt This Blockchain! on Australia Passes Anti-Encryption Laws [Update] (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    If you go far enough round the circle, does it matter which way you went? If you reach the north pole, how far east can you go?

    Stalin was fascist, but he had ceased to be left-wing, Nor was he right-wing. All extremes are the same point.

  23. Re:Decrypt This Blockchain! on Australia Passes Anti-Encryption Laws [Update] (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Neither of those two was socialist by any recognized definition of the word. You are not Humpty Dumpty, words do not mean whatever you want them to mean, and I hate to break it to you, but you're not The Master.

  24. Re:Decrypt This Blockchain! on Australia Passes Anti-Encryption Laws [Update] (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    In corporate socialism, and yes it exists, corporations own corporations.
    In syndicalism, unions own the corporations.
    In democratic socialism, the public own the corporations.
    In anarchy (a form of socialism), nobody owns anything at all.

    There are around 35 other forms listed on Wikipedia and political sites.

    Only state socialism is involved in government ownership, and there's something like a dozen versions of that.

    It's like discussing fruit when one person is determined that only oranges are the only sort.

  25. Re:Update: on Australia Passes Anti-Encryption Laws [Update] (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Ever since the Salties escaped the swamps and lagoons, learned to dress and became politicians, you've had no chance.

    It's a matter of finding the kryptonite they've been using. It's out there, somewhere...