michael1999

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by michael1999 1y ago
The big ones can be really loud. As the blades get longer, tip speed becomes truly impressive.
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by michael1999 1y ago
My mother received ultrasound ablation as brain surgery to treat idiopathic tremors. It was wild.
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by michael1999 1y ago
Power-only usb next to nema is common and convenient. Power with network is less common since nobody wants to mix high and low voltage runs. https://www.amazon.ca/TOPGREENER-Ultra-High-Speed-Receptacle...
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by michael1999 1y ago
So Powell volunteered to sell Cheney's lie to the UN, knowing it to be a lie, because he wanted to stay in power rather than tell the truth like Shinseki? If Powell knew it to be false, and presented it with his credibility, I see no
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by michael1999 1y ago
It was normal for large firms to build schools. All the big 5 accounting consultancies had a month or two of residential boot camp. Toyota built a school. GM too. When you’re that big, you can make your own weather.
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by michael1999 1y ago
You could call that excess capital as easily as a labour shortage. Or a shortage of training pipelines in an irresponsible industry. When GM realized they needed more mechanical engineers than existed, they built a whole university. These
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by michael1999 1y ago
The crypto movement often advocates for this (e.g. code is law, not-your-keys), but their perception and commitment to it is usually paper thin.
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by michael1999 1y ago
That's only true for the young. As they get older, or the exit grows large enough, some people smell that last iteration and defect hard.
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by michael1999 1y ago
I think it's the latter -- Microsoft was unable to look internally, or able to pretend they were ignorant. But the Guardian report was just too detailed to ignore.
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by michael1999 1y ago
And remember how quickly Powell’s “Yellow Cake” fairytale fell apart once they resorted to sharing the docs. The docs were fake! Actual evidence can be interrogated and disproven. While anonymous, evidence-free reporting is unfalsifiable.
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by michael1999 1y ago
Correct. I got lost in the threads, and lost context here. I have never heard of the NYT deliberately inventing falsehoods. They do have a history of credulously repeating falsehoods as truth to serve an editorial goal. I’ll grant that dis
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by michael1999 1y ago
You completely miss my complaint. Perhaps I was unclear. The Pentagon Papers is the exact opposite! Ellsberg actually shared the documents; there were literal "papers" involved in the Pentagon Papers. That's the "real
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by michael1999 1y ago
Judith Miller reported total fabrications and helped lead the entire country into a disastrous invasion of Iraq.
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by michael1999 1y ago
Judith Miller taught me that either the NYT is totally corrupt, or easily misled. It is completely reasonable to place almost zero weight on stories they report on "national security" from nothing but anonymous sources from the i
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by michael1999 1y ago
If you ever get a chance, the Hunterian Museum at Glasgow has a permanent display of some of Lord Kevlin's instruments. You can look at the actual tools used to characterize the volt, the amp, and the electro-static forces. https:&#x
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by michael1999 1y ago
This is going to be fascinating. States like Texas use property tax to replace income taxes. So where do they go for revenue if the red guards demand the repeal of property tax? Are they wild enough to implement a head-tax? Or do they cl
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by michael1999 1y ago
No. That’s what makes CALEA so damaging. It is ILLEGAL to encrypt covered traffic in a way that isn’t intercept-able by any random sheriff’s office in any county of the USA.
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by michael1999 1y ago
I wish. They are mostly dumb racists who believe you can invent magic encryption that only white Americans can crack.
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by michael1999 1y ago
Yeah. Turning exploit production into a “respectable” business didn’t help.
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by michael1999 1y ago
That’s what makes CALEA so toxic. Any covered comms must be effectively-plain-text, or it doesn’t work. Once you impose a plain-text architecture, a mass-breach is inevitable.
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by michael1999 1y ago
The simple answer is that CALEA requires all traffic to be effectively in plain text. Once you impose that constraint, any decent router exploit gives you everything.
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by michael1999 1y ago
The security community warned that making Lawful Access easy and automated would guarantee that bad people would penetrate the network. And now we have China using CALEA-crippled systems to slurp up the entire USA network. Exactly as predi
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by michael1999 1y ago
This is the essence of why using a "business mindset" in government is doomed. A central question of business is market - who am I trying to reach, and who do I exclude? Trying to sell to every one is doomed. Ignoring market seg
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by michael1999 1y ago
Have you met Microsoft? This is the organization that pushed code-signing as their security posture for a decade.
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by michael1999 1y ago
If you think the NSA didn't build this during Pointdexter's TIA program, I don't know that to tell you. The USA 100% has this, it's just secret and much less useful for it. The SSA is 95% there.
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by michael1999 1y ago
The number of times the US bombed a wedding because the comms traffic looks the same as a big op was evil.
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by michael1999 1y ago
I'd refine Doctorow's claims to "Privacy preserving age verification is bullshit in the Common Law Anglo world". You are completely correct that civil law jurisdictions have already solved this: Germany, Estonia, and man
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by michael1999 1y ago
I'm amazed that Egypt still uses gas for 80% of their electricity. I would think they'd be perfect for wind and solar.
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by michael1999 1y ago
The article explains that the crash snapshot shows: - hands off wheel - autosteer had the steering wheel despite a geofence flag - no take-over warnings, despite approaching a T intersection at speed Letting people use autopilot in unsafe c
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by michael1999 1y ago
I think you could just use lean, and progressively elaborate the inference graph. But you might find a historical/journalistic/investigative angle more profitable. I heard a software product pitch from a small law practice who wer

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