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841.
by 21 9y ago
Stuxnet used malicious drivers signed with a stolen Realtek certificate.
842.
by 21 9y ago
Taleb has a lot of disdain for the LTCM guys: "Mr Taleb argues convincingly that the spectacular collapse in 1998 of Long-Term Capital Management was caused by the inability of the hedge fund's managers to see a world that lay out
843.
by 21 9y ago
This is more like a plumber finding a human bone in the pipes.
844.
by 21 9y ago
They can guide our behavior somehow. For example, they can safely assume that the moment we catch a glimpse of a message we will point all our receivers towards the source, thus they got us to amplify their signal and look for it all over t
845.
by 21 9y ago
I get you point, I also thought of this. But at the same time, with long enough messages you could sample a lot of possible IT system structures. The unknown danger here is that there might be some underlying generic exploitable structure i
846.
by 21 9y ago
Let's go one step further. Even receiving and recording the message might be very dangerous. There have been cases in the past where contaminated MP3 or video files took over the media players (because of decoding bugs in them). Imagin
847.
by 21 9y ago
This is one of the reason of the obesity epidemic. Our body loves sugar which was very hard to come by, but which now is cheap and abundant. Also keep in mind that up to 200 years ago average life span was ~35, so cancer didn't really
848.
by 21 9y ago
Phone LEDs which put out 1W in a much smaller package somehow survive.
849.
by 21 9y ago
There are for-hire physicist you could pay for consultations: https://aeon.co/ideas/what-i-learned-as-a-hired-consultant-f...
850.
by 21 9y ago
Chrome, Firefox and IE ship with very strong encryption (128 bit AES) just fine for many years now. That cat is out of the bag.
851.
by 21 9y ago
Me and the persons I want to communicate with are perfectly capable of finding eachother through other means - ids, qr codes, ... At the same time, maybe I don't want everybody who has my phone number to see that I am on Signal.
852.
by 21 9y ago
> State actors can't yet kill anyone in any other country from the comfort of their chairs. This is what the CIA/Mossad/FSB/... does Sure, cars will make it cheaper and more convenient, and will open up the "mark
853.
by 21 9y ago
News flash: state actors can already track and kill anyone they want
854.
by 21 9y ago
> Ah yes, I love when my government hassles innocent people to make a point to everyone else. I also love it when some people are just "Too Big To Jail (TM)" > Those investigations uncovered substantial evidence "that s
855.
by 21 9y ago
Gold is much harder to move around, and when you'll try to convert it back into dollars you'll find out that nobody buys bars of gold without extensive origin paper trail.
856.
by 21 9y ago
This is why I've always found the "be your own bank" rallying point crazy. I don't want to be my own bank. There are many reasons why people stopped keeping their liquid wealth under their mattress.
857.
by 21 9y ago
Initially I got the same vibe. I could read it as "hey AI researcher, come here, and you'll be sitting and eating next to the CEO". But then again, it talks about Google, Facebook and Overstock. So it's not so clear who
858.
by 21 9y ago
Apple sells not so much a tech product as an aspiration. By buying Apple you are a better person, and better persons care about the environment. It would be against their brand to not care. One day, it will be very cool and "woke"
859.
by 21 9y ago
> The IIT answer is that the cerebellum is highly regular, like a GPU having many units, but all doing the same thing. Isn't the cortex also the same unit (the cortical column) repeated over and over again?
860.
by 21 9y ago
They say it was a long exposure. The atom was illuminated and irradiated light for a long enough time to register on the sensor.
861.
by 21 9y ago
Because then we're back to square one: how do you store Unicode and Emojicode in the same text file? How do you know which bytes should be interpreted as Unicode and which as the other?
862.
by 21 9y ago
No sad poop emoji... How disappointing :( Well, at least we have a toilet roll - https://emojipedia.org/roll-of-toilet-paper/
863.
by 21 9y ago
I think the point here is that some "dumb" (brute force) software found something missed by all the field experts. I'm sure that in the next 20 years some "dumb" math software, some sort of "Coq neural network
864.
by 21 9y ago
Not a physicists either, These "non-physical redundancy" you are referring to can't be picked out totally at random. They do have some interdepencencies. My understanding is that at each point in space you can pick a DIFFEREN
865.
by 21 9y ago
So I've read that it's enough to know that "there is a U(1) gauge symmetry in the Lagrangian" to derive the Maxwell equations from. Basically U(1) => Maxwell equations. Is that true? Are there any other assumptions re
866.
by 21 9y ago
The only thing that matters is if mining brings in more money than it costs to operate. Sunken costs (buildings, hardware) are just that - sunken. Just like the shale oil industry where people were predicting that drilling would stop after
867.
by 21 9y ago
On the other hand a self driving car would have a crystal clear record of you driving unsafely, which could be immediately uploaded to police.
868.
by 21 9y ago
You can use ML to summarize the video and you can store the most interesting bits in low quality - instead of actual video you can just store something like "red car crossed intersection going northbound, male with blue cap stopped at
869.
by 21 9y ago
When Microsoft enabled DoNotTrack by default in IE, there was a huge outrage along the lines "how do they dare assume by default that I don't want to be tracked on the net?" Where is the outrage now "how do they dare ass
870.
by 21 9y ago
In the previous 3 bubbles bitcoin stabilized after the crash around 2-3 times the top of the previous bubble. So applying this logic, the bottom of this bubble should be around $2-4k. For a couple of reasons however this bubble is different

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