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> If the interfaces that controlled all the laptop goodies were exposed as normal hardware (and documented) instead of gatekept behind ACPI methods that have to be written by firmware vendors that can often barely spell the menu options
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Good ol' Oven Standard Time (OST).
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Routing signals through PCB vias requires greater voltage and has lower available bandwidth than silicon-to-silicon bridges. AMD's first generation of cache dies bonded to the top of the CPU, but their second generation bonded to the
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The Epstein debacle seems to indicate that child sexual exploitation is a preferred method of entrapping, blackmailing, and controlling world political and science leaders and the wealthy. And implicates the same intelligence agencies call
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Similarly, the 4th amendment to the US Constitution reads in full: "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants
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What does this say about the post's author's approach to discussion? "It suggests the author treats the thread less like a joint search for truth and more like an adversarial contest they intend to win—mainly by controlling t
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OR you respect individual liberty and agency, hold individuals responsible for their actions, instead of tools, and avoid becoming everyone's condescending nanny. Your pre-judgement of acceptable hammer uses would rob hammer owners of
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Every tool can be misused. Hammers are as good for bashing heads as building houses. Restricting hammers would be silly and counterproductive.
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My understanding is that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIPS_140-2 required Dual-EC DRBG to be implemented in any crypto system used by government, including such protocols as SSL/TLS, these algorithms are typicall
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In the US, the laws permitting mass surveillance are, at least in part, secret: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Foreign_Intellig...
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> but they're not mandating encryption backdoors https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_EC_DRBG#Weakness:_a_poten...
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> you're the one > Utter nonsense > conspiracy theories > tin foil hats > assorted claims that direct quotes, posted documents, contain or do not contain things contrary to what anyone can read in them So, just more of t
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by timschmidt 10mo ago
> You're the one who chopped it up. > Or are you quietly dropping your claim Is that what posting the quote in full with a link to the original source means? Certainly not. I also recognize https://en.wikipedia.org&#
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I believe the simulation I spoke to the researcher about was around 100 atoms cubed. So 1,000,000 atoms. Numbers vary wildly with cell size, but a typical cell might contain 100 trillion atoms. So, a factor of 100,000 difference in scale
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I spoke to some researchers about this while working for a Science and Technology Research center affiliated with the regional supercomputer center. I was told that there are still far too many molecules in a single cell to simulate fully,
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I find that a good rule is that the smaller the system, the faster the interactions. Also you may be interested in flagellar motors: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPSm9gJkPxU
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"After 9/11, they took one of the programs I had done, or the backend part of it, and started to use it to spy on everybody in this country. That was a program I created called Stellar Wind. That was seperate and compartmented fro
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> doesn't claim to have been there when it was implemented "After 9/11, they took one of the programs I had done, or the backend part of it, and started to use it to spy on everybody in this country. That was a program I c
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by timschmidt 10mo ago
Yes I am familiar with the official statements. They do not constitute "independently verifiable proof ... that US persons are not targeted by this program." and carry far less weight than the previously quoted and linked testimo
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> The only mass collection was phone metadata collection "email, chat, video, voice, photos, stored data, VoIP, file transfers, video conferencing, notifications, social networking details, and the ever ominous "Special Request
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by timschmidt 10mo ago
> Did you look at the slides you linked to? Many times. They detail methods and partners used in mass surveillance on US soil involving US corporations and US routed internet backbone connections. No independently verifiable proof is p
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It is, in fact, a direct contradiction of what you've said. There is no independently verifiable proof that NSA mass surveillance has stopped or even slowed. And a great deal of evidence to the contrary. EFF maintains a lovely list
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> There was no record of mass domestic surveillance in Snowden's docs. That's funny, because there's a full slide deck from NSA about it here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM#The_slides Notably, a
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> This was for extracting email envelope metadata to build a graph of who was contacting whom, a program that Snowden's leaks showed had already been shut down. "According to Victor Marchetti, a former special assistant to the
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"NSA Secretly Tapped Google, Yahoo Data Centers, Report Says" https://www.networkcomputing.com/data-center-networking/nsa-... "A striking feature of proceedings at the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance C
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"Binney was the agency official responsible for automating much of the NSA’s worldwide monitoring networks." https://www.wired.com/2012/04/shady-companies-nsa/
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Every human has ideas and opinions others disagree with. However, as Technical Director and later geopolitical world Technical Director of NSA with over 30 years of SIGINT service, literally no one is in a better position to know about NSA
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That's a funny response to well-sourced facts and a document outlining strategy which was later enacted by the same folks who wrote it. Plenty of actual conspiracies throughout history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2
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According to Sandvine, the vast majority of internet traffic from 2013 (chosen to coincide with the Forbes storage estimates) was video such as Netflix and Youtube[1] and remains so today[2]. Assuming NSA is aware of industry standard tech
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> Further, the process of transformation, even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event – like a new Pearl Harbor. You may not see this as calling for a new Pearl Harbor

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