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by Stierlitz 7y ago
> I want to be able to secure my computer (an ATM, say) against people with physical access to it. A root of trust (that the original purchaser of the device controls) allows for that. Why not generate a unique key for each device on fir
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by Stierlitz 7y ago
You didn't wake up before the alarm went off. What happens is your mind is dreaming about a minutes worth of some random scenario. At the moment the alarm sounds, this scenario undergoes an alternation to incorporate the alarm into the
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by Stierlitz 7y ago
> Pretty bad when the FBI has to step in and alert you that someone has brute forced their way into your servers. Yes ..
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by Stierlitz 7y ago
If the hack was conducted through the use of account hijacking then why didn't anybody at Citrix notice. Unless once the hackers got in they migrated within the network using as yet unknown vulnerabilities. Makes one wonder of there ar
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by Stierlitz 7y ago
"Tracing the US opioid crisis to its roots" https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02686-2
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by Stierlitz 7y ago
LKRG sounds brilliant, why not integrate such features directly into the kernel?
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by Stierlitz 7y ago
“Instead of a conventional linear power supply, Holt built one like those used in oscilloscopes. It switched the power on and off not sixty times per second, but thousands of times; this allowed it to store the power for far less time, and
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by Stierlitz 7y ago
“there's a red-thingy moving toward the green-thingy .. I think we're the green-thingy.”
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by Stierlitz 7y ago
“a spike in CPU usage might indicate a compromised server being used for cryptocurrency mining.” What's abnormal about that statement is that it is now considered normal.
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by Stierlitz 7y ago
@MDWolinski “.. while the MCAS system relied on two sensors ..” MCAS used only the one sensor, this decision made so as to avoid recertification. http://www.b737.org.uk/mcas.htm “Are we vulnerable to single AOA sensor failu
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by Stierlitz 7y ago
Have they ever given consideration to not connecting the Electric Grid to the Internet?
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by Stierlitz 7y ago
@smartsystems The browser was about garnering mind-share™, making sure you see ‘Microsoft Internet Explorer’ when you boot up the computer. That why some people used talk about getting on to the ‘Microsoft Internet’ presumably using the Mic
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by Stierlitz 7y ago
Firefox and lack of diveresity in the browser ecosystem? http://edge-op.org/iowa/www.iowaconsumercase.org/122106/PLEX... “ Here is final copy of the memo we sent to BillG for think week about what we should d
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by Stierlitz 7y ago
> He definitely meant a different type of healthy solitude, rather than the one on which newspapers and studies report when they assert loneliness and isolation among young people is at an all-time high. Maybe it's because people sp
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by Stierlitz 7y ago
For a technology company, the site is sluggish and difficult to use. Argos would provide a better user experience. They don't allow Linux on the 'build your own' option, but at least you do get McAfee. The Linux ThinkStation
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Qantas Flight 72 uncommanded pitch-down manoeuvres
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by Stierlitz 7y ago
> Would such a brain be conscious? Why or why not? If the brain was stimulated by inputs from the surrounding environment then YES!
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> .. What, materially, is that property .. Synapses firing .. > .. what physical laws explain it .. Physics .. > .. and by what mechanism does it emerge from mere electrical impulses? Through the senses and acting on the environmen
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by Stierlitz 7y ago
> Does Consciousness Pervade the Universe? NO! > Where does consciousness come from? Emergent properties of a functional brain.
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by Stierlitz 7y ago
https://www.rug.nl/rechten/onderzoek/expertisecentra/ghlg/bl... “The WHO identified burial rites for the dead as one of the contributing factors in the disease’s spread. The burial rites included family
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by Stierlitz 7y ago
Why didn't the modem makers pick this up in the debugging phase of the manufacturing process. They do have such a department?
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by Stierlitz 7y ago
covered earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21947924
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by Stierlitz 7y ago
@mox1: ‘The "mimikatz" problem (aka memory protections on the lsass.exe process) has basically been solved by Microsoft, they call it "Credential Guard". It works by doing some trusted boot stuff and using the hyper-v hy
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by Stierlitz 7y ago
https://krebsonsecurity.com/tag/vcpi/ “In mid-November 2019, Wisconsin-based Virtual Care Provider Inc. (VCPI) was hit by the Ryuk ransomware strain.” In 2020, this is not acceptable in terms of “computer” securit
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by Stierlitz 7y ago
McDonnell Douglas to blame for 737 Max crisis? I don't think so. But full marks to the PR team that thought up that retrospective self serving disinformation.
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by Stierlitz 7y ago
‘In March 1983 Compaq introduced an "IBM PC compatible" called the "Compaq Portable"’ .. but Columbia Data Products got there first in June 1982. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_Data_Products
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Just how much AI is required to keep a mirror aligned with a target. If I see another article on AI, cloud or blockchain then I'll eat my keyboard :]
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Coincidentally I happen to be reading a book on the same subject. From memory, how the commies picked up the signal was even more interesting. In a false chimney attached to the Embassy they installed a remotely controlled Yagi antenna, tha