MertsA

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901.
by MertsA 10y ago
>Energy consumption does not equate to thermal design power. Sure it does, the energy has to go somewhere. If it's not being stored in some way or emitted as EM then heat is pretty much all that is left. If you measure voltage and c
902.
by MertsA 10y ago
That brings up an interesting question though. How long is long enough for disclosure in cases where the company has made it impossible to notify them of a vulnerability? If someone tries 10 different ways to get in touch and makes absolute
903.
by MertsA 10y ago
Or even worse, there are very real and very large incentives to build a real skynet. AI can lead to soldiers who never sleep, never hesitate, are always in communication, and can calculate the amount of drift a bullet will experience in fl
904.
by MertsA 10y ago
On the Mill, you tell it the address that you want to read and when you want to read it. So you could issue a load for XYZ as soon as you know what XYZ is and if there's a subsequent store to XYZ that will update the result so when the
905.
by MertsA 10y ago
No, he advocated for making design decisions based on what's best for Linux, not a compromise for other operating systems.
906.
by MertsA 10y ago
>the best thing they could have done would have been to make it modular. They did, systemd is very modular in nature. The only things that aren't modular that spring to mind is the journal and systemd the init requires dbus (sort of
907.
by MertsA 10y ago
Just because you only have one authorized distributor does not in any way mean that stock being sold by another party is counterfeit. After your product is sold there's nothing preventing the buyer from reselling it themselves. Clearly
908.
by MertsA 10y ago
Hamming code.
909.
by MertsA 10y ago
What laptop? That still wouldn't meet Microsoft's requirements for Windows certification.
910.
by MertsA 10y ago
>1. I bought a laptop with Windows 10 with secure boot that cannot be disabled. I am stuck with it. FOREVER. I really doubt this is the case. Microsoft actually mandated that all OEMs provide a method to disable Secure Boot and allow for
911.
by MertsA 10y ago
So what happens when someone asks a good samaritan to help them get some expensive item off of a high shelf? How does this deal with things like a couple shopping together, one with an Amazon account and one without where both of them are g
912.
by MertsA 10y ago
I was referring to a literal jammer as opposed to using a cell site simulator and null routing everyone's data. Using an actual jammer is simple and cheap but it's also illegal and I don't believe the FBI could use one outsid
913.
by MertsA 10y ago
"Why do you think, when performing any other manner of illegal and unconstitutional things, they wouldn't add one more to the list, especially when there seems to be no repercussions?" Because there's just no incentive f
914.
by MertsA 10y ago
There's no way they would stoop that low. They can just as easily block service with a stingray and avoid causing interference for everything other than the target. There's also the issue that a jammer will also block 911 calls so
915.
by MertsA 10y ago
I can see something simple like redirecting random pages to a fake login page. The average person will fall for the simplest of attacks so it wouldn't surprise me to hear that they were just using a captive portal that asked for their
916.
by MertsA 10y ago
That's the real crime here.
917.
by MertsA 10y ago
Do you have an extension that is trying to redirect you to https? It's an http link but I can see that https doesn't work on cracked.com.
918.
by MertsA 10y ago
I really wish they would have confirmed that the attacker was in a plane. If this really was the FBI, has there ever been a case where the U.S. government was this flagrant at hacking citizens?
919.
Signs of a Creepy Government Conspiracy at Standing Rock(cracked.com)
169 points by MertsA 10y ago|87 comments
920.
by MertsA 10y ago
That is a great way to explain units to people.
921.
by MertsA 10y ago
So they deliberately made it so that the end user has control over their own computer to avoid looking evil! How dastardly of them. Either way, right now Secure Boot gives me more control over what runs on my computer, that's a fact.
922.
by MertsA 10y ago
I think he's suggesting that the carbon fiber is much more RF transparent than metal.
923.
by MertsA 10y ago
Nobody is forcing you to use Debian, if you really think you know better than Debian and Redhat then move to Slackware or Devuan.
924.
by MertsA 10y ago
That just isn't true, especially on x86. I can and have loaded my own keys and made secure boot validate against my keys to force it to only run what I wanted it to. The standard actually mandates this so it's pretty disingenuous
925.
by MertsA 10y ago
>So it doesn't have to do the 'minimum' moves as they say, might waste time working it out. Maybe they're counting moving the top and bottom at the same time as two separate moves? I don't know why it wouldn&#x27
926.
by MertsA 10y ago
>(I can't/won't watch videos, so will have missed anything that was only in videos) There's something like 15 hours worth of talks on the Mill. If you don't want to watch any of them then you're missing out
927.
by MertsA 10y ago
Is there anything like a chop gun for conductive fibers? I know it wouldn't make some perfect faraday shield but a conductive epoxy like material and some ultra fine metal fibers sound like that should be decent at blocking RF and I th
928.
by MertsA 10y ago
I don't think jamming would really be reasonable in a building. If the walls can contain the jamming signal to their building then the walls will keep out the original signal anyways. I think just RF blocking paint would be a more reas
929.
by MertsA 10y ago
And look at how many accidents that causes. We also have a highly refined system to process that input and from the looks of it, this is a very hard problem to solve with a computer. I don't think stereoscopic vision and a few micropho
930.
by MertsA 10y ago
But you can't really harshly limit their methods. So long as a scammer uses the exact same method as a real customer would use he can get away with it. The effectiveness of fraud detection is finding where the scammer slipped up.

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