Well crap, shoulda/woulda/coulda done a bit more reading on technical sites before the brain dump: reading out memory without the hardware key means the Bureau's lab would be trying to brute-force a 256 bit AES key instead of a 4 digit PIN. Never mind, bring on the panopticon.
At the risk of a suggestion that may already have been beaten to death and shown impractical: is it possible to expose the logic boards without removing power, and dropping sockets on the SDRAM and NAND memory to enable reading out the contents? Write contents into a suitably configured iOS emulator, and thereby get as many brute force PIN guesses as you need?
[pirate]The Code is more what you call guidelines, than actual rules...[/pirate] and as goes Pirates of the Caribbean, so goes "international law." There are no sovereign rights. There are only guidelines on what is normally allowed to let slide by interested powers. North Korea is allowed to develop nuclear weapons and ICBMs solely due to the crack they fall through in the current balance of power.
13 year Hawaii resident, lacking mod points, so chiming in to say that tlambert hit the nail on the head. The sovereignty and similar aligned organizations have little political power, other than what they can exercise in the state courts.
I used to argue with sovereignty advocates (via Maui News letters to editor) that if they wanted to make some real headway, they should consider forming a party and contesting elective office like the various Puerto Rican independentistas, rather than expending all of their energies in front of judges.
But, those at the pointy end of the Hawaii movements seem to labor under the delusion that a tribunal in The Hague or D.C. can and will separate Hawaii from the remainder of the Union by the stroke of a pen, so back to court we go...
When the (by then diversified) Studebaker Corporation pulled the plug on automobile manufacturing, a couple of Studebaker dealers hui'ed up to create a company to keep making Avantis. Among other things, they bought the existing stock of Lark convertible sedan frames the Avanti body sat on. From '66 through '83, they cranked out about 3000 Avanti II's, basically Studebakers with Chevy engines and transmissions.
When the company ran out of Lark frames, they reworked the car to use the Chevy Monte Carlo chassis.
In the case of the new DeLorean company, I suspect they'll run through the existing stock of parts and call it a day. But, if they are hot sellers, I wouldn't be surprised if the principals drafted new blueprints and sourced some fresh chassis, fiberglas bodies, and stainless steel panels. DeLorean II?
That's an interesting thought, and it wouldn't surprise me if a landlord eventually tries to pull that act on commercial property via an inventive reading of the lease.
However, I'm reasonably sure Sony's lease allows them to pursue normal s/w business activities... unless they sublet to Sony Pictures for a pr0n shoot.
The sharing/gig economic model assumes that someone owns something of economic value that is not already 100% utilized, be it an automobile, a domicile, labor, or what-have-you. If you want to sell use of something you don't own, you either need to stay under the radar of the owner, or have an agreement giving you the right to make the sale.
A comment snarks about whether adding a baby counts as sharing. In the US, usually no, unless you live in a community whose covenant limits permanent residents to 55-and-over.
I don't have to read Dr. Williams' rebuttal to see that Mr. Feinstein was either trolling or lacking knowledge on some fundamentals of wartime economics: if the enemy is using a resource as a weapon in combat, it needs to be in some way destroyed or neutralized... especially if said weapon has and can be used to vape your civilian means of production, along with 100% of the co-located civilians.
Maui County doesn't have any non-automotive noise ordinances, and homes more than 15 years old aren't likely to be insulated. When I was about to move into the neighborhood, I sampled a few Friday and Saturday nights and found the noise level to be commendably low. But, neighbors move, or change their game, so all the research in the world doesn't guarantee long term quiet.
When the neighbor to one side rescued four dogs too many and penned them in the side yard facing our master bed, and the neighbor on the other let her ex-bf set up his drum kit in her garage, but meters from our living room and kitchen, it got a bit sporty. I had a lot of nice talks with the dog lady, and repeatedly called the cops over the drumming. In the end, the solution was six foot high lava rock walls, which provided the added benefit of a modicum of additional privacy.
We also utilized local lore and hung a mirror on the outside wall of the house facing the ex-meth head drummer in the garage, the idea being that his bullshit reflects back on him. He may not have known it was a karmic f-u, but we did, which was good enough.
Per TFA's conclusion:If dynamic thinning continues to increase at the same rate of 4 [gigatons/year] with no offset from further increases in snowfall, the positive balance of the [Antarctic ice sheet] will decrease from the recent 82 [gigatons] to zero in ~20 years. However, compensating increases in snowfall with climate warming may also be expected.
Apparently, warming has added mass via more snow, and the paper doesn't appear to address possible bedrock rebound from thinning ice. At some point, temperature will likely increase to the point where added snowfall can't keep up with the ice outflow. At the moment, the changing dynamic of the climate seems to be causing counterintuitive local changes, like added snowfall in the eastern US and eastern Antarctica, due to added water vapor in the air.
Our experience thus far is that Mr Ridley is wrong. Industry *can* fund basic R&D by itself, but we wouldn’t be at the level of development we are now with only private investment. In any case, innovation is limited without some data into the basics that it will stand upon. He’s assuming innovation by accident. It happens, but you can’t count on it.
So, the Indian Govt thinks that intentionally weak crypto and forced plain text long term storage is a good idea? Never mind what the US might do with this. India's strategic and economic competitor is China, which will thus get so much more info product with so much less effort.
On the flip side, this may be so unacceptable to the business sector that it'll become another source of graft for officials to look the other way. Aka, The "Bureaucrat Bonus" Bill. Something for everyone.
I read about the Finial laser turntable in '88, and by the time the new owner of the technology finally got them to market in the late '90's, I had gone CD and didn't care. But, I still have the LPs stored vertically, still have a turntable, and maybe one of these days I'll eBay an ELP laser turntable.
As others have been noting, the editors' math was off. 600,000,000 years is consistent. The nebula and stars would be extremely metal-poor (i.e. hardly any elements other than H and He).
In most circumstances, an area where fire retardant is being dropped is way rural, if not straight on wilderness, and falling buckshot worth the falling drone debris.
About 30% of Australian high school age kids are in work training or just straight on work, rather than full time students, and are exiting with not much more than middle school level language and maths skills in a US context. So that PM Abbott isn't keen on coding classes isn't a huge surprise.
This isn't new. In the 20's and 30's, Jewish Americans were the up and coming academic top achievers, and based on merit would have become the largest ethnic fraction of the school. So, the administration found ways to get the kind of WASP-heavy demographic they wanted. Harvard (and the other Ivys) aren't just universities, they are positional goods and attendance is a form of signaling: our next class of business/political elites. To have a demographic that doesn't look like the parents of the current 1% (never mind 0.1%) would signal to them that the school was no longer providing the economic good they send their kids there for.
I appreciate Fiorina standing up a campaign as her personal contribution to the trickle down economy, but I don't think it will remain active long enough to employ more than a handful of people for a few months.
As part of a '70's memorandum of understanding between the US and ROK, giving the ROK access to some US missile technologies, they agreed to limit the range of their missiles, about 180km. Recently, the MoU has been modified, allowing the ROK to design and deploy a ballistic missile that can hit any part of the DPRK.
And, to reply to dj245's comment as to exactly who's to blame for tensions on the DMZ, tension is the very thing that gives the DPRK government legitimacy. They deploy tension whenever they feel the political and/or economic need. It is possible that if the US unilaterally withdrew its forces, the result would be nothing. But, that's a guess. What's known is that with US forces in harm's way, the DPRK's military commission has to take the possibility of massive US intervention into account.
Abstracted, what Davidow, Malone, et al are describing is an economy where the endeavors of the greater mass of people is almost completely divorced from that of the owners of capital. We can already see examples of this in a number of countries where the formal, taxed, audited economy is dominated by extraction industries, where the elite skim a major fraction of the income from mining/petro, import most of their consumption goods from abroad, and leave most citizens to make their own luck.
The "make their own luck" segment is the informal economy that most people in the third world depend on for their daily bread. Public services are slim to none, and what infrastructure there is oftentimes depends on the bribes/unofficial payments, since the state intents most formally budgeted public enterprises to be self-financing. Luanda, Angola and Kinshasa, Zaire are excellent living laboratories. But, we expect this in Africa, parts of the Mideast, and swaths of Asia. What the HBR study is really anticipating is the transition of the greater fraction of First World economies to this mode.
The idea that we can survive this transition via the sharing economy, the maker economy, the decentralized manufacturing economy is theoretically possible. But, exactly what level of "survival" are we talking? Given the current politics in the US, we are draining capital and resources from the bottom 99% faster than they (we) can reorganize to optimize an economic readjustment.
dgatwood's observations on US political tendencies starts off well, but I think goes off the rails at the bullet points.
Abstracted: “There’s not a dime’s difference between the Democrats and Republicans.” (coined by George Wallace; reused by Ralph Nader)
It's this sort of thinking that led a significant number of useful idiots to play at left-wing politics by voting Nader in 2000. I think the differences in outcomes between what we'd have likely seen from a Gore Administration and what we actually got from GWB are self-evident. It was certainly obvious to voters between '00 and '04, when Nader's national total dropped from 2.8 million to
Underestimating what brownish people are capable of, wasting hundreds of thousands of lives, pissing away trillions in treasure, and scamming via a mirror image of LBJ's guns and butter budget with a Republican guns and diamonds if that's a dime, my da kine is a redwood.
A few years back, Maui Electric upgraded their power distribution system by replacing wooden poles with steel towers. The claim was that the towers are much more typhoon-resistant, and I'm sure they are. However, given the aerodynamics of round cable, it's a given that the lines will still part in a gale. Why not bury the line? Because for most parts of the island, you hit blue rock (solid lava) within a few feet, and it's expensive to trench through. On the flip side, you only need to trench once, but Maui Electric decided to play the odds and go cheap.
According to the US constitution, arms is the correct approach to governmental oppression.
Ah, no, but thanks for playing. We are currently at a phase when civil participation in the political process is the correct approach. An armed approach is inefficient, and repeated resort to that approach leads to repeated resort to that approach. In addition, to burst a popular bubble, if you're imaging armed participation, it's very likely someone will pry it out of your cold, dead hands.
If you let a reasonably open and civil political system get to the point where an armed approach is the efficient solution, you've been sitting on the sidelines and/or remained clueless for too long. Just to be clear regarding our current situation, how you feel about cultural issues, "Obamacare", or abortion aren't relevant.... until someone comes along who really does care how you feel about it, and uses all that neat anti-terrorist infrastructure to show just how much.
Changing the oil is greatly preferable to replacing the engine.
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Well crap, shoulda/woulda/coulda done a bit more reading on technical sites before the brain dump: reading out memory without the hardware key means the Bureau's lab would be trying to brute-force a 256 bit AES key instead of a 4 digit PIN. Never mind, bring on the panopticon.
At the risk of a suggestion that may already have been beaten to death and shown impractical: is it possible to expose the logic boards without removing power, and dropping sockets on the SDRAM and NAND memory to enable reading out the contents? Write contents into a suitably configured iOS emulator, and thereby get as many brute force PIN guesses as you need?
[pirate]The Code is more what you call guidelines, than actual rules...[/pirate] and as goes Pirates of the Caribbean, so goes "international law." There are no sovereign rights. There are only guidelines on what is normally allowed to let slide by interested powers. North Korea is allowed to develop nuclear weapons and ICBMs solely due to the crack they fall through in the current balance of power.
13 year Hawaii resident, lacking mod points, so chiming in to say that tlambert hit the nail on the head. The sovereignty and similar aligned organizations have little political power, other than what they can exercise in the state courts.
I used to argue with sovereignty advocates (via Maui News letters to editor) that if they wanted to make some real headway, they should consider forming a party and contesting elective office like the various Puerto Rican independentistas, rather than expending all of their energies in front of judges.
But, those at the pointy end of the Hawaii movements seem to labor under the delusion that a tribunal in The Hague or D.C. can and will separate Hawaii from the remainder of the Union by the stroke of a pen, so back to court we go...
When the (by then diversified) Studebaker Corporation pulled the plug on automobile manufacturing, a couple of Studebaker dealers hui'ed up to create a company to keep making Avantis. Among other things, they bought the existing stock of Lark convertible sedan frames the Avanti body sat on. From '66 through '83, they cranked out about 3000 Avanti II's, basically Studebakers with Chevy engines and transmissions.
When the company ran out of Lark frames, they reworked the car to use the Chevy Monte Carlo chassis.
In the case of the new DeLorean company, I suspect they'll run through the existing stock of parts and call it a day. But, if they are hot sellers, I wouldn't be surprised if the principals drafted new blueprints and sourced some fresh chassis, fiberglas bodies, and stainless steel panels. DeLorean II?
That's an interesting thought, and it wouldn't surprise me if a landlord eventually tries to pull that act on commercial property via an inventive reading of the lease.
However, I'm reasonably sure Sony's lease allows them to pursue normal s/w business activities... unless they sublet to Sony Pictures for a pr0n shoot.
The sharing/gig economic model assumes that someone owns something of economic value that is not already 100% utilized, be it an automobile, a domicile, labor, or what-have-you. If you want to sell use of something you don't own, you either need to stay under the radar of the owner, or have an agreement giving you the right to make the sale.
A comment snarks about whether adding a baby counts as sharing. In the US, usually no, unless you live in a community whose covenant limits permanent residents to 55-and-over.
I don't have to read Dr. Williams' rebuttal to see that Mr. Feinstein was either trolling or lacking knowledge on some fundamentals of wartime economics: if the enemy is using a resource as a weapon in combat, it needs to be in some way destroyed or neutralized... especially if said weapon has and can be used to vape your civilian means of production, along with 100% of the co-located civilians.
Maui County doesn't have any non-automotive noise ordinances, and homes more than 15 years old aren't likely to be insulated. When I was about to move into the neighborhood, I sampled a few Friday and Saturday nights and found the noise level to be commendably low. But, neighbors move, or change their game, so all the research in the world doesn't guarantee long term quiet.
When the neighbor to one side rescued four dogs too many and penned them in the side yard facing our master bed, and the neighbor on the other let her ex-bf set up his drum kit in her garage, but meters from our living room and kitchen, it got a bit sporty. I had a lot of nice talks with the dog lady, and repeatedly called the cops over the drumming. In the end, the solution was six foot high lava rock walls, which provided the added benefit of a modicum of additional privacy.
We also utilized local lore and hung a mirror on the outside wall of the house facing the ex-meth head drummer in the garage, the idea being that his bullshit reflects back on him. He may not have known it was a karmic f-u, but we did, which was good enough.
Per TFA's conclusion: If dynamic thinning continues to increase at the same rate of 4 [gigatons/year] with no offset from further increases in snowfall, the positive balance of the [Antarctic ice sheet] will decrease from the recent 82 [gigatons] to zero in ~20 years. However, compensating increases in snowfall with climate warming may also be expected.
Apparently, warming has added mass via more snow, and the paper doesn't appear to address possible bedrock rebound from thinning ice. At some point, temperature will likely increase to the point where added snowfall can't keep up with the ice outflow. At the moment, the changing dynamic of the climate seems to be causing counterintuitive local changes, like added snowfall in the eastern US and eastern Antarctica, due to added water vapor in the air.
Our experience thus far is that Mr Ridley is wrong. Industry *can* fund basic R&D by itself, but we wouldn’t be at the level of development we are now with only private investment. In any case, innovation is limited without some data into the basics that it will stand upon. He’s assuming innovation by accident. It happens, but you can’t count on it.
So, the Indian Govt thinks that intentionally weak crypto and forced plain text long term storage is a good idea? Never mind what the US might do with this. India's strategic and economic competitor is China, which will thus get so much more info product with so much less effort.
On the flip side, this may be so unacceptable to the business sector that it'll become another source of graft for officials to look the other way. Aka, The "Bureaucrat Bonus" Bill. Something for everyone.
I read about the Finial laser turntable in '88, and by the time the new owner of the technology finally got them to market in the late '90's, I had gone CD and didn't care. But, I still have the LPs stored vertically, still have a turntable, and maybe one of these days I'll eBay an ELP laser turntable.
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As others have been noting, the editors' math was off. 600,000,000 years is consistent. The nebula and stars would be extremely metal-poor (i.e. hardly any elements other than H and He).
Based on a range from 1.6 to 3.5 gigatons: 1.3b cows * [50|110kgCH4] * 25kg CO2 GHG effect (beef = 50kg, dairy = 110kg)
In most circumstances, an area where fire retardant is being dropped is way rural, if not straight on wilderness, and falling buckshot worth the falling drone debris.
About 30% of Australian high school age kids are in work training or just straight on work, rather than full time students, and are exiting with not much more than middle school level language and maths skills in a US context. So that PM Abbott isn't keen on coding classes isn't a huge surprise.
This isn't new. In the 20's and 30's, Jewish Americans were the up and coming academic top achievers, and based on merit would have become the largest ethnic fraction of the school. So, the administration found ways to get the kind of WASP-heavy demographic they wanted. Harvard (and the other Ivys) aren't just universities, they are positional goods and attendance is a form of signaling: our next class of business/political elites. To have a demographic that doesn't look like the parents of the current 1% (never mind 0.1%) would signal to them that the school was no longer providing the economic good they send their kids there for.
Man, those are some brass ones, even for a company flack. "Think of the children!" has hit a new level of self-serving.
I appreciate Fiorina standing up a campaign as her personal contribution to the trickle down economy, but I don't think it will remain active long enough to employ more than a handful of people for a few months.
As part of a '70's memorandum of understanding between the US and ROK, giving the ROK access to some US missile technologies, they agreed to limit the range of their missiles, about 180km. Recently, the MoU has been modified, allowing the ROK to design and deploy a ballistic missile that can hit any part of the DPRK.
And, to reply to dj245's comment as to exactly who's to blame for tensions on the DMZ, tension is the very thing that gives the DPRK government legitimacy. They deploy tension whenever they feel the political and/or economic need. It is possible that if the US unilaterally withdrew its forces, the result would be nothing. But, that's a guess. What's known is that with US forces in harm's way, the DPRK's military commission has to take the possibility of massive US intervention into account.
Abstracted, what Davidow, Malone, et al are describing is an economy where the endeavors of the greater mass of people is almost completely divorced from that of the owners of capital. We can already see examples of this in a number of countries where the formal, taxed, audited economy is dominated by extraction industries, where the elite skim a major fraction of the income from mining/petro, import most of their consumption goods from abroad, and leave most citizens to make their own luck.
The "make their own luck" segment is the informal economy that most people in the third world depend on for their daily bread. Public services are slim to none, and what infrastructure there is oftentimes depends on the bribes/unofficial payments, since the state intents most formally budgeted public enterprises to be self-financing. Luanda, Angola and Kinshasa, Zaire are excellent living laboratories. But, we expect this in Africa, parts of the Mideast, and swaths of Asia. What the HBR study is really anticipating is the transition of the greater fraction of First World economies to this mode.
The idea that we can survive this transition via the sharing economy, the maker economy, the decentralized manufacturing economy is theoretically possible. But, exactly what level of "survival" are we talking? Given the current politics in the US, we are draining capital and resources from the bottom 99% faster than they (we) can reorganize to optimize an economic readjustment.
dgatwood's observations on US political tendencies starts off well, but I think goes off the rails at the bullet points.
Abstracted: “There’s not a dime’s difference between the Democrats and Republicans.” (coined by George Wallace; reused by Ralph Nader)
It's this sort of thinking that led a significant number of useful idiots to play at left-wing politics by voting Nader in 2000. I think the differences in outcomes between what we'd have likely seen from a Gore Administration and what we actually got from GWB are self-evident. It was certainly obvious to voters between '00 and '04, when Nader's national total dropped from 2.8 million to
Underestimating what brownish people are capable of, wasting hundreds of thousands of lives, pissing away trillions in treasure, and scamming via a mirror image of LBJ's guns and butter budget with a Republican guns and diamonds if that's a dime, my da kine is a redwood.
A few years back, Maui Electric upgraded their power distribution system by replacing wooden poles with steel towers. The claim was that the towers are much more typhoon-resistant, and I'm sure they are. However, given the aerodynamics of round cable, it's a given that the lines will still part in a gale. Why not bury the line? Because for most parts of the island, you hit blue rock (solid lava) within a few feet, and it's expensive to trench through. On the flip side, you only need to trench once, but Maui Electric decided to play the odds and go cheap.
According to the US constitution, arms is the correct approach to governmental oppression.
Ah, no, but thanks for playing. We are currently at a phase when civil participation in the political process is the correct approach. An armed approach is inefficient, and repeated resort to that approach leads to repeated resort to that approach. In addition, to burst a popular bubble, if you're imaging armed participation, it's very likely someone will pry it out of your cold, dead hands.
If you let a reasonably open and civil political system get to the point where an armed approach is the efficient solution, you've been sitting on the sidelines and/or remained clueless for too long. Just to be clear regarding our current situation, how you feel about cultural issues, "Obamacare", or abortion aren't relevant.... until someone comes along who really does care how you feel about it, and uses all that neat anti-terrorist infrastructure to show just how much.
Changing the oil is greatly preferable to replacing the engine.