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by shabble 13y ago
I have a rather vague recollection that gold has been transmuted from other elements in experimental (fission, I presume) reactors as well, although the best reference I can find right now is [1]. Accelerators do seem to be the modern/
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by shabble 13y ago
http://bl.ocks.org/rkirsling/5001347 is a cute example I came across recently, if I'm understanding the description correctly.
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by shabble 13y ago
1. Find harmless/odourless/cheap chemical with some nitro groups or otherwise molecular shifty character. 2. Refill electronic air-freshener dispenser with said liquid. 3. Deploy dispenser in pre-security airport coffee shop or ot
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by shabble 13y ago
slightly tangential, but I wonder how they would/could treat sterile medical equipment (insulin vials, syringes, epi-pens, etc). It's not something that's exactly conducive to hasty disassembly and swab analysis. I suppose th
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by shabble 13y ago
Old tech is (currently) still much harder to ubiquitously surveil. See the US Millenium Challenge wargame[1] for some ideas. Widely deployed domestic drone surveillance, automatic license-plate scanning cameras, and facial/object recog
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by shabble 13y ago
An alternative interpretation is that by forbidding the host from issuing any commands for that initial period, the target device could (if it happens to be expedient) do all sorts of otherwise spec-violating things, safe in the knowledge t
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by shabble 13y ago
http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/FootSwitches
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by shabble 13y ago
The Crest advocate, Selena Parmenter, is in her early thirties if appearances can be trusted, and she acts bored. She has said little to Mary as they wait for the deputy district director of Seattle Oversight, the honorable Clarens Lodge,
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by shabble 13y ago
Does anyone make e-paper/transflective vehicle signage yet? I'm sure it'd pay for itself in seized assets fairly quickly :)
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by shabble 13y ago
There are, I believe (IANAL) quite specific rules around the use of 'adverse inference'[1], which is the way in which your lack of answers can be used. On reading through the CPS guidance linked, the sheer complexity and number of
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by shabble 13y ago
Oops, indeed I did.
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by shabble 13y ago
They got into an utterly pointless fight with Sparkfun Electronics[1] which took some minor Streislanding by The Internet to resolve. I suspect even in-house legal depts think in terms of billable hours... [1] https://www.sparkfu
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by shabble 13y ago
> Jamming doesn't need to always block the source transmitter, you can also block the receivers on the drones by flooding the frequencies, or spoofing GPS, etc etc. AFAIK it works by lowering the signal/noise ratio to the poi
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by shabble 13y ago
> Also, if the mission is something like transport astronauts to the ISS, why eject any stages at all? Why not just make the rocket capable of flying to the ISS, let the whole thing dock to the ISS Essentially, Physics. To a lesser ext
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by shabble 13y ago
I imagine it's not a novel idea, but taking something along the lines of an airliner/AWACS platform and stuffing it full of drone pilots in cubicles and using line-of-sight optical or tightbeam microwave comms direct to your drone
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by shabble 13y ago
I imagine in a year or three he'll settle down and live like a king in Patagonia :) Regarding the money exfiltration, from what I recall, there are several money laundering "consultants" active on SR, there was a relatively r
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by shabble 13y ago
I imagine you might be able to locate flaws with a custom capsule along the lines of a pipeline pig[1]. It would be exceptionally hard to actually fix it from the inside whilst travelling, so you either need to do it from the outside (which
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by shabble 13y ago
I've been hoping for a long time that Mann's EyeTap stuff could be more widely available, so here's hoping they deliver something amazing (and maybe affordable too, in my dreams)
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by shabble 13y ago
“Right.” Rachel sat. She made a steeple of her fingers, then sighed. “How sure are you that this is genuine?” “The first thing anyone knew about it was when the building’s passive neutron sniffer jumped off the wall. At first the block mana
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by shabble 13y ago
Lots of enterprise setups have complicated RBAC/ACL/audit setups where sysadmins/DBAs are only given the bare minimum permissions necessary to complete their required roles. I seem to recall an article from a while back about
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by shabble 13y ago
There's already a good chunk of effort gone into solving the problem of access to Scary Things for nukes & master crypto keying material, such as the Two Man/No Lone Zone[1] rules. I'm not sure how well it would translate
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by shabble 13y ago
For those wondering, https://pond.imperialviolet.org/
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by shabble 13y ago
I'm reminded of the first half of the fictional short(ish) story "Manna"[1] by Marshall Brain. [1] http://marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm
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by shabble 13y ago
If doing this (or using canned air) it's a good idea to use a small stick or bit of plastic to jam any fans to stop them spinning too hard and ruining their bearings or throwing a blade, both of which I've had happen. Laptop ones
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by shabble 13y ago
One of the efficiency issues is the relatively large percentage of cow that isn't edible if you're using it solely for meat. Of course, there are uses for the other bits - pet food, bonemeal, leather, and gelatin are all things yo
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by shabble 13y ago
I'm sure I've seen a nicely crossplatform command-line tool for this, but I can't seem to find it. The closest (by support for non-poll APIs) seems to be 'simplefilewatcher'[1], but that's just a C++ library. i
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by shabble 13y ago
<tinfoil> Or, due to recent publicity surrounding internet monitoring capabilities of various agencies, they decided to move fast before countermeasures appear. If it were still a secret, they probably wouldn't risk tipping off t
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by shabble 13y ago
Assuming it's true, this quote from the article: A Freedom Hosting account cost a one time fee of $5 or was free with an invite from an existing member. It offered unlimited space and bandwidth, an onion domain (“xxx.onion”), “Fast Ne
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by shabble 13y ago
Is that specifically for "serious"[1] accidents though? My point was more that there are plenty of accidents which you can brush yourself off and walk away from, that would lead to almost certain major damage to an unprotected ph
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by shabble 13y ago
> Once you execute pretty much any (non-sandboxed) code on a machine, you can bypass something like TOR easily. From this point, any network packet sent by the payload to the feds effectively de-anonymizes the user completely. One part

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