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  1. Re: You can build them on Can We Build Indoor 'Vertical Farms' Near The World's Major Cities? (vox.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Because we couldn't grow different things in different kinds of farms.

  2. Re:It's the middle of April on Ocean Current That Keeps Europe Warm Is Weakening Because of Climate Change (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 2

    If you have a DC power supply and you increase the voltage at some gradual rate, what happens is you introduce high frequency "ringing" into the signal. In fact, there will be points in time where not only is the voltage decreasing, but it will actually drop below the original value. You can confirm this easily by connecting an oscilloscope and capturing the signal. Will you then begin to doubt that you ever turned the voltage up at all?

    This property is common to all non-linear dynamical systems, that is to say, everything in the Universe. In every field of physics, you see the same pattern.

    The science is settled.

  3. Re:Ha! hah ah hahahahahhahahaha ha ha ha on Trump Proposes Rejoining Trans-Pacific Partnership (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    I think you meant to respond to the parent?

  4. Re:Ha! hah ah hahahahahhahahaha ha ha ha on Trump Proposes Rejoining Trans-Pacific Partnership (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, you keep saying that over and over, but it's still just as nonsensical as the first time. The whole reason he turned down the salary is exactly so people like you would be gullible to believe that he doesn't care about money.

  5. Re:Trump now owned by the Deep State on Trump Proposes Rejoining Trans-Pacific Partnership (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Lol! The irony of this comment could collapse the Earth into a black hole. If we're not careful we could easily hit hypocritical mass.

  6. Re:So agencies actually communicate with DHS? on US Suspects Listening Devices in Washington (apnews.com) · · Score: 2

    I'm pretty sure it's illegal to operate such devices (exception for law enforcement, etc.), so if no domestic agency says "Yep, that's ours," then go and disable/destroy it anyway.

    Unless you're saying that DHS would risk leaving a foreign agency's device functional rather than risk disrupting a domestic agency's device, which I find highly believable. Another example where surveillance has made us less safe, from both our own government and others.

  7. Re:Tourists don't need Visa's on US To Seek Social Media Details From All Visa Applicants (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Guess what the thing they stamp in your passport is for.

  8. Re:Just following the lead from other countries on US To Seek Social Media Details From All Visa Applicants (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    Pretty big difference between a Visa application and a Citizenship application.

  9. Re:Talk to some mathematicians on Justice Department Revives Push To Mandate a Way To Unlock Phones (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Sorry, I meant "Unconditionally Secure", not ITS. Again, RSA is only thought to be, not proven to be.

  10. Re:This seems highly unlikely, and sensationalisti on More Than 75 Percent of Earth's Land Areas Are 'Broken,' Major Report Finds (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Of course not, because if they did that they might actually learn something.

  11. Re:Talk to some mathematicians on Justice Department Revives Push To Mandate a Way To Unlock Phones (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Fair enough. :D

  12. Re:Talk to some mathematicians on Justice Department Revives Push To Mandate a Way To Unlock Phones (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Information theoretic security is based on the idea of OTP/perfect secrecy, but they are not the same. I never said they were.

    E.g. RSA is thought to be ITS, but it is definitely not a OTP.

  13. Re:Just shocking on Justice Department Revives Push To Mandate a Way To Unlock Phones (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Not quite. The first sentence:

    Information-theoretic security is a cryptosystem whose security derives purely from information theory. In other words, it cannot be broken even if the adversary had unlimited computing power. The adversary simply does not have enough information to break the encryption and so the cryptosystems are considered cryptanalytically-unbreakable.

  14. Re:Talk to some mathematicians on Justice Department Revives Push To Mandate a Way To Unlock Phones (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    The mathematicians already know that this is impossible. Remember that in Math, unlike Science, it is actually possible to disprove the negative. "New math" cannot destroy "old math" (provided the old math is proven).

    The concepts of Perfect Secrecy and Information-Theoretic Security have been PROVEN. No matter what you do, introduction of a "master key" or similar idea will always make the scheme insecure.

    It's like you're telling mathematicians to find a number which can be expressed as 2 different products of primes, and that they should just keep looking for it until they find it. Except the Fundamental Theorem of Arithmetic says that every non-prime number has a unique prime factorization, and that has also been PROVEN.

  15. Re:Just Use Waterboarding on Justice Department Revives Push To Mandate a Way To Unlock Phones (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    ... and running into Eighth Amendment issues...

  16. Re:They want this on Justice Department Revives Push To Mandate a Way To Unlock Phones (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    The problem is that the two party system has limited your choices already to those who are vetted by the elites. You dare not vote for a third party due to the spoiler effect.

    Replacing First-Past-the-Post is the only way that your strategy works.

  17. Re: They want this on Justice Department Revives Push To Mandate a Way To Unlock Phones (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Seems to me that the Second Amendment is the One True Amendment To Rule Them All, while they shit all over the rest every chance they get.

  18. Re:They want this on Justice Department Revives Push To Mandate a Way To Unlock Phones (nytimes.com) · · Score: 2

    Campaign finance reform, replace First-Past-the-Post (e.g. with Instant Run-off), draw districts mathematically (e.g. with the shortest split-line method), and make all primaries in every state open to any registered voter.

    Right now we have a system where the incumbency rate is at (or near) an all time high while the approval of Congress is at (or near) an all time low, so why should they give a shit what citizens think?

  19. Re:Leave Venezuela alone on Russia Secretly Helped Venezuela Launch a Cryptocurrency To Evade US Sanctions (time.com) · · Score: 1

    Not disagreeing with your sentiment (e.g. if Trump pulls the NK thing off), but don't you think that this will enable the continuation of the Venezuelan government which is ultimately responsible for its peoples' suffering?

  20. Lol, you sure sound like one.

  21. Re: How long? on Russia Secretly Helped Venezuela Launch a Cryptocurrency To Evade US Sanctions (time.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    OK, so why did Trump's lawyer pay her $130,000 then?

    It's not slander if it's true.

  22. Re:Electronic devices on ACLU Sues TSA Over Electronic Device Searches (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    IANAL, but my understanding is that courts have found that searches at borders or airports are reasonable.

  23. Re:Every time.... on Reddit Admits Russian Trolls Got Into Website During 2016 Election (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Oh please you can do better than that. Dig deeper into the playbook.

  24. Re:Every time.... on Reddit Admits Russian Trolls Got Into Website During 2016 Election (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    I gotta admit, whoever writes your material is very good at it. They must have studied in a Western University.

  25. Re: ... HAS NO COPYRIGHT LAW! We have Urheberrech on Project Gutenberg Blocks German Users After Outrageous Court Ruling (teleread.org) · · Score: 1

    Huh. TIL. Thanks!