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by yk 13y ago
And Flame [1] and Duqu [2]. There is of course a lot of technical discussion, but not much about the organizational side of things. So we do not know for example, how the NSA obtains 0days. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&
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by yk 13y ago
Of course, but unfortunately the Minitrue sometimes confuses Eastasia with Oceania.
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by yk 13y ago
Gibson, like everybody else, had completely missed cell phones.
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by yk 13y ago
And another proof that GNU Hurd is superior to every existing OS.
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The Mother Ditch(bit-player.org)
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by yk 13y ago
Probably, if FF implements a 'native Tor button.' The other possibility would be, to only support hidden services natively for .onion URLs. ( And use standard TCP/IP for everything else.)
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by yk 13y ago
There are important surveillance laws, those that give the NSA power, and less important ones.
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by yk 13y ago
For some reason, I think that Manning will be free much sooner, or the US will be in deep trouble. Not so much because of him, but I think that there are only two possibilities, either the US cut the security industrial complex serverly, or
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by yk 13y ago
No, you are confusing special and general relativity. In a flat spacetime your only chance at getting faster than light travel is by violating local Lorentz invariance. In general realtivity, you can essentially go faster than light in two
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by yk 13y ago
Weak energy condition[1]. In general the energy conditions are useful for analysis of the Einstein equations, but general relativity does not demand them. So violating the energy conditions is somewhat theoretically sound, but one can only
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by yk 13y ago
Dark energy has negative energy density... so I think there is hope that this is just a engineering problem ;)
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by yk 13y ago
If you believe that the security interests of the state should always take precedent, then this argument could be made. However, this is of course a totalitarian position.
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by yk 13y ago
It is not pushed with especial sense of urgency, there were the crypto wars in the nineties for example[1]. On the other hand, if there is a special sense of urgency then it is probably more future shock than anything concrete. From the per
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by yk 13y ago
I think as long as we do not understand the relation between intelligence and conscience, we should probably assume that a AGI has moral issues and personal needs.
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by yk 13y ago
See anologwintermut's comment. But if anything, the faster Hyperloop needs a larger capacity, since there would be more demand.
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by yk 13y ago
IANAL, but I believe that it is actually cloudy, since you have a license for the content and a copy of the file. ( Actually I believe it comes down to the precise wording of the license, the exact implementations of 'fair use' in
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by yk 13y ago
The problem is not so much GDP, as it is to measure the economy in one float. So GDP is a somewhat good measure, if you want a quick handle on production capacity, for standard of living something like purchase parity median income is bette
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by yk 13y ago
I have somewhere read, that large cities are usually the size one can travel in under an hour. So this could have quite interesting effects in effectively joining LA and SF.
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by yk 13y ago
Probably not, the pressure and thus the density of the air is really low and therefore it simply does not have the energy density needed to cause problems.
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by yk 13y ago
> one important reason I have to deal with is that the speed of shear waves through soil is only on the order of a couple of hundred miles per hour. Perhaps a stupid question, but the shock wave forms because the trains is moving contin
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by yk 13y ago
Well, this may or may not be a case of "watch the hands, not the mouth." But at the moment we simply do not have enough information to speculate how the WP will develop under new ownership.
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by yk 13y ago
I think it should be noted explicitly, that this is just quantum encryption on the link level, so the data is secure on the fibre, but apparently needs to be decrypted at the router. So this is a nice application, but simply does not solve
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by yk 13y ago
I will guess: By looking at a nuclide map, the neutron flux in seawater should activate the NaCl, and produce 36Cl, 38Cl with a half life of 3e5 years and 38 minutes respectively. And 24Na with 15h half life. Additionally there may or may n
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by yk 13y ago
Well, the question is where is the tritium. If it comes in the form of heavy water, then the biological half life is indeed short. But tritium can substitute essentially any hydrogen, and so it can also come in the form of amino acids, whic
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by yk 13y ago
But Tritium can be quite ugly if it gets into the body, since it can replace hydrogen. (And can therefore accumulate in the body.) This depends on the molecules tritium is attached to. And on a further note, I believe that websites which ne
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by yk 13y ago
So, is there actually somewhere some news? All I have seen ( I did not check too carefully) that some people claim that the script includes some 0days, but without any detail that would convince me that it is not trolling by 12 year olds...
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by yk 13y ago
> So I don't think it's impossible, but even the NSA is finite. They probably have better ways to spend their time. IMHO, this is the best argument against such theoretical attacks. For more regular attacks against applications
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by yk 13y ago
Assuming that the visit is actually related to Internet monitoring, then the monitoring algorithm is certainly not 'everybody who searches X AND Y AND NOT Z,' but rather some calculated terrorism score. Actually I think it is enti
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by yk 13y ago
Or he just randomly fails a background check.
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by yk 13y ago
Clicked both and compared the search results, they are the same except that there is a advertisement for backpacks from amazon at the top of the https version. ( I am outside of the US, so probably rather UAVs than goons... )

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