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  1. Punked on Boeing 777 Crashes At San Francisco Airport · · Score: 1

    http://www.mediabistro.com/tvspy/epic-ktvu-fail-anchor-reports-pilot-names-including-sum-ting-wong-and-wi-tu-lo_b97368
           

    the station claimed it had just learned the names of the 4 pilots on board Asiana flight 214 which crashed last Saturday
           

  2. WWV and NSA crypto on WWVB Celebrates 50 Years of Broadcasting Time · · Score: 2

    We had several KWR-37 devices that needed time sync to under one second worldside with the transmitting station when changing daily key cards. WWW()x was great until you where some where past SE asia, then we used the Russia time sync RWM to lock devices,
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RWM
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KW-37
    http://www.nsa.gov/public_info/_files/uss_pueblo/Section_V_Cryptographic_Damage_Assessment.pdf

  3. Re:Seems fishy on Revealed: How the UK Spied On Its G20 Allies At London Summits · · Score: 1
  4. Re:nothing new on One-Time Pad From Caltech Offers Uncrackable Cryptography · · Score: 1

    Random physical structures have been used for this purpose for decades.

    Yes, using PUF devices for OTP, challenge/response and key generation is old tech.

    All you really need is a large SRAM structure to generate unique random bits for each device. A simple microcontroller with a large SRAM block works nicely.
    http://trudevice.com/Workshop/program/13%20M.%20Platonov%20TRUDEVICE_2013.pdf

  5. Re:Terrorists? on California Lawmaker Wants 3-D Printers To Be Regulated · · Score: 3, Funny

    If you don't think that criminals are terrorists, then you must be a communist. Or at least a socialist.

    Or be for the fluoridation of water and foreign substances being introduced into our precious bodily fluids.

  6. How times have changed in America. on Florida Teen Expelled and Arrested For Science Experiment · · Score: 1

    When I was a kid one of our class science experiments was to see who could make the best gunpowder using the classic Chinese formula.

    Thank goodness for growing up in the 1960s when you could do fun things in school without being arrested.

  7. Re:Always a letdown. on European Researchers Propose Quantum Network Between Earth and ISS · · Score: 1

    Even in the classic universe groups of 'things' can have properties that can change at FTL speeds but they like "spooky action at a distance" effects with entangled photons can't transmit information FTL.

    For example in Maxwell equations
    Induced polarization current P has no constraints about speed.

    http://arxiv.org/pdf/physics/0405062v1.pdf
    http://www.iasf-roma.inaf.it/congress/public_html/Congress/Ardavan%20Rome.pdf

  8. Re:Always a letdown. on European Researchers Propose Quantum Network Between Earth and ISS · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Can someone please explain to me why this can't be used for instantaneous communication purposes?

    Because that would require FTL transfer of energy/information.

    It's like if three people were in a room and #3 put a nickle in #1's pocket and a dime in #2's pocket completely randomly. They all know there is only the possibility of a nickle or a dime but 1&2 won't know what coin until they actually look in the pocket.

    #1 flies to Mars on a rocket.
    #2 stays on earth and looks in his pocket. He now knows instantaneously the value of the coin in #1's pocket on Mars.

  9. Re:Voltage divider? on Raspberry Pi As Hardware Backdoor · · Score: 1

    You would use something modern like a 7805SR instead of a voltage divider or an old school 7805 that needs a huge heat-sink.
    http://www.murata-ps.com/data/meters/dms-78xxsr.pdf

  10. Re:Aiding the enemy on Bradley Manning Pleads Guilty To 10 Charges · · Score: 1

    Even if his aim wasn't to aid the enemy the effect was the same because they learned valuable intelligence on our operations. I don't think he should get 365 years in prison like Jerry A. Whitworth did but when you can get life just for pimping out girls he should get out as an old man.
    https://bulk.resource.org/courts.gov/c/F2/856/856.F2d.1268.86-1256.html
    http://www.koinlocal6.com/mostpopular/story/Portland-pimp-remains-defiant-sentenced-to-life/bDDaEtsAMEWQ824ZK-5R2g.cspx

  11. REMF on New Medal Designed To Honor Cyber Soldiers · · Score: 1
  12. Re:I grew up there on Silicon Valley Before the Startup · · Score: 1
  13. Rule by pure science on Why Scientists Should Have a Greater Voice On Global Security · · Score: 1
  14. Voted on U.S. Election Day In Progress: What's Been Your Experience? · · Score: 1

    Oregon: Voted 3 weeks ago by mail. Drank a beer while marking up local issues on the ballot in the man cave.

  15. Re:People riding in white vans lie? on Nokia Apologizes For Misleading Lumia 920 Ad · · Score: 1

    They were selling speakers... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O58MvTWAI_M

  16. Brain Damage on Growing Evidence of Football Causing Brain Damage · · Score: 1
  17. Re:Why invent a new standard? on Open Compute Developing Wider Rack Standard · · Score: 1

    Like in a car?

    Yes, like a car. Other than the starter battery for a few seconds the rest of the cars uses under about 400W (with 10%+ lost in wiring) even with the headlights,fans running, and much less without. Nobody in their right mind would use a 12VDC buss for a 3+kW power distribution system. The feeder fusing requirements would be so high that a dropped tool would melt before the protection opened the circuit.

  18. Re:Why invent a new standard? on Open Compute Developing Wider Rack Standard · · Score: 1

    Using 12VDC on any type of system that uses more than a few hundred watts is insane. Only a Best Buy boombox tech would think it was a good idea.

  19. The Best of the Best at Interrogation. on FBI Wants To "Advance the Science of Interrogation" · · Score: 4, Funny
  20. Re:AUTODIN on MIT Lecturer Defends His Standing As Email Inventor · · Score: 1

    A little more info about the 1960's version of AUTODIN.
    http://rogerdmoore.ca/PS/ADINallB.png
    http://rogerdmoore.ca/PS/ADINC.html

    We had a UNIVAC DCT 9000 node at our site with plated wire memory.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plated_wire_memory
    http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5292/5466910191_d889cb8990_z_d.jpg

  21. AUTODIN on MIT Lecturer Defends His Standing As Email Inventor · · Score: 3, Interesting

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_Digital_Network
    http://jproc.ca/crypto/autodin.html

    I managed a few Technical Control sites long ago. We could route normal telegrams on the system with a little creative address routing.

  22. US Navy 1, Iranian Navy 0 on Tensions Over Hormuz Raise Ugly Possibilities For War · · Score: 1
  23. Old News on Satellite Spots China's First Aircraft Carrier · · Score: 1
  24. Re:Randomness is like Magic on Physicist Uses Laser Light As Fast, True-Random Number Generator · · Score: 1

    How does quantum-randomness square with Chaos Theory? Consider the Butterfly Effect... where initial conditions determine an outcome that is not random, unpredictable, yet determined.

    With Chaos Theory if you had perfect knowledge of every force and interaction you could predict the outcome but with quantum-randomness even with perfect knowledge (Godlike) the result would still be unpredictable.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex_systems#Complexity_and_chaos_theory

  25. Re:"Truly random numbers" on Physicist Uses Laser Light As Fast, True-Random Number Generator · · Score: 1

    Quantum number generators produce random numbers that are measurably different from those that computer programs generate.

    http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/25041/

    The results show that the sequence generated by Quantis is easily distinguishable from the other data sets. This say Calude and co, is evidence that quantum randomness is indeed incomputable. That means that it could not have been be generated by a computer.