MertsA

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by MertsA 9y ago
To actually detonate a nuke it pretty much has to be armed and intentionally dropped. That said, there's a much lower barrier for scattering nuclear material all over the countryside. As an example, an implosion type bomb needs to be d
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by MertsA 9y ago
It's simple orbital mechanics to calculate the trajectory. ICBMs aren't like planes, it's not like they just fly to the target and stop. It's powered during the first minutes of flight and then it just coasts from there.
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by MertsA 9y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMas0tWc0sg
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by MertsA 9y ago
I disagree, human vision is pretty amazing with a huge field of view and while the amount of detail is only really high at the center of vision to match what an officer can make out you'd pretty much need a lot of detail everywhere. I
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by MertsA 9y ago
>Macs seem to be hit less. Yes but my point is that this is completely irrelevant to an APT. When an attacker moves from opportunistic to targeted having an OS with a lower adoption rate isn't going to matter. They aren't going
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by MertsA 9y ago
How would switching to macOS provide any protection against an APT? Against Malware in general yeah sure but against the NSA or FSB in a targeted attack I don't see how that benefits you at all. If the NSA can put the screws on Microso
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by MertsA 9y ago
This is the real answer here. For the only alternatives you're forced to trust yet another party and with something like AV that basically equates to the third party having full control over your machine should they decide to do so. At
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by MertsA 9y ago
If we're talking about Coinbase in particular then yes but you can have secure off chain transactions like Lightning network where either both parties agree or the funds are locked until the channel closes and returns them to the sende
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by MertsA 9y ago
It's not as simple as that, with lightning network you basically lock your Bitcoins for a month or whatever time period and within that delay where they're locked you can still move them if you and the supernode both agree to it.
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by MertsA 9y ago
What irks me the most is that they went through all of that trouble to make sure that you can't use the mouse like a wired mouse. You shouldn't ever have to take steps to hinder your customers using their devices just to protect y
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by MertsA 9y ago
You aren't their customer.
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by MertsA 9y ago
> The cop was nice The man was looking to imprison you over a ridiculous perversion of a law that no reasonable person would ever conclude they were violating. I don't care about the B.S. legalese justification for it, if a law is t
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by MertsA 9y ago
> I shouldn't talk about GPL licensing because only lawyers understand licensing! Clearly that person has never read the GPL, all of the legalese is clearly explained in the license. The GPL has always been my go to as an example of
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by MertsA 9y ago
Well yeah, it's a rocket, it's going to have range safety. The space shuttle had range safety as well.
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by MertsA 9y ago
That seemed really out of place for Elon. Compared to last year's speech and many other interviews he sounded impaired quite frankly. I guess that's what chronic sleep deprivation will do to a man.
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by MertsA 9y ago
> Perhaps China wants to annex NK. That would seem to be a good thing, both for NK and the rest of us.
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by MertsA 9y ago
Well, technically you can still power it down with the power button, but that's not so graceful to say the least.
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by MertsA 9y ago
What's really interesting is that there are some commercial receivers out there that will use P(Y) Code even though they can't decrypt it. IIRC the weakness was something along the lines of the lower rate W code made it so that wh
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by MertsA 9y ago
No, I'm talking about the P code or precise code. It's modulated with the encrypted W code to create the encrypted Y code.
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by MertsA 9y ago
More specifically you can use differential GPS for stuff like surveying with a reference receiver at a known location. Depending on how far away you are from the reference station you can get even better than 15 cm accuracy and just have a
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by MertsA 9y ago
Good luck. You're right but implementing a GPS receiver using a SDR is quite a feat. It's sort of been done but not in a way that would make it practical to use for e.g. a hypothetical terrorist cruise missile.
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by MertsA 9y ago
>The military has better precision, only because they buy better hardware. That's not true. Military receivers can use the Y Code which is encrypted for military use only. There are some really fancy civilian receivers out there tha
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by MertsA 9y ago
I don't think there's really a fair way to do that. From a strictly monetary standpoint, smokers die many years earlier than non smokers. They also often live past the prime of their working life so those lost years equate to a tr
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by MertsA 9y ago
Don't forget Chromodo which was a reskin of Chrome with --disable-web-security set. Because that totally makes their browser super secure!
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by MertsA 9y ago
I think the funniest part is that fiber optics are irrelevant in space, you'd be better off just pointing a laser at another satellite and just using space as the medium.
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by MertsA 9y ago
Then it's much more flawed if it's for anything but geostationary orbits. The way it's written it sounds like he doesn't understand that geostationary satellites have to be high up in the equatorial plane as he mentions
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by MertsA 9y ago
Is this the original title of the submission or did it get changed?
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by MertsA 9y ago
AFAIK, detonating at altitude is done for fallout reasons. Detonating at the ground would make the fallout much worse.
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by MertsA 9y ago
Arctic silver is not electrically conductive. It is slightly capacitive, but even getting gobs of it randomly across a motherboard is most likely not going to do anything.
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by MertsA 9y ago
This is pretty off base. Backhaul is the "easy" part here. It's easy to get way more bandwidth available on a microwave link than the bandwidth available to clients.

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