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by zkms 9y ago
Oh god, it's ELIZA! ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA )
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by zkms 9y ago
Lead (and other toxic heavy metal) contamination is so fucked up. I hate how much attention and fear has been given to nuclear power / radioactivity while we cheerfully spent the entire 20th century contaminating everything with bioacc
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by zkms 9y ago
> a keyboard hack that flashes the caps lock key imperceptibly fast but brightly enough so that a remote watcher can see the encoded keystrokes on your curtains or ceiling, it's in that same paper you linked, page 20. Now the real
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by zkms 9y ago
I don't see what's the huge (besides higher data rates and a different modulation waveform) difference between that 2017 paper and this 2002 one: http://applied-math.org/optical_tempest.pdf Did we really need anot
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by zkms 9y ago
https://www.sinog.si/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/SINOG4_Job_S... and https://www.troopers.de/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/TROOPERS1... and https://www.sinog.s
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by zkms 9y ago
> Everything has to be defined. 64 bit would have been so easy. And it would still have been enough I agree. It sucks, 64 bits almost certainly would have worked and languages/libraries/OSes tend to not do their fair share at t
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by zkms 9y ago
As long as it's deterministic it'd be super great -- otherwise some devious programmer is just going to average out the random fuzz factor :)
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by zkms 9y ago
Of all the various reasons to define address lengths and wire formats (that'll get burned into billions of dollars of ASICs over decades), "C doesn't have a default type for it" is frankly the worst.
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by zkms 9y ago
> NAT, for all its problems, has more or less solved the IP address problem. A bunch of very large-scale network operators (like Comcast, T-Mobile USA, Verizon, and Facebook) seem to strongly disagree with that, given how eagerly they&#x
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by zkms 9y ago
> It's not that hard to make a controller that lets you physically turn the wheel using an RC remote > The reason terrorists don't do that has nothing to do with being hard. This is false. Remote-controlled VBIEDs are absolu
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by zkms 9y ago
Let me know if you have stuff to say about that subject, it's something of quite a bit of interest to me, and I'd be eager to read about it.
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by zkms 9y ago
> Cell phone location by cell phone radio towers (not GPS or wifi) is terribly inaccurate. Do you speak about this from hearsay or based in some actual involvement in the mobile telephony industry? I'd be interested in hearing what
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by zkms 9y ago
I frankly wouldn't mind this sort of piece about people with so much wealth that this sort of profligate spending is no big deal for them -- if these weren't the same people who are NIMBYs and have succeeded at preventing the cons
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by zkms 9y ago
> Call your cell phone provider and put a “do not port under any circumstances” hold on your phone number. How do I do this for my cell provider (T-Mobile USA)?
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by zkms 9y ago
The last one (ice storage air conditioning) is going to be a huge one. It doesn't depend on cycling some useless process (like moving water/rocks/air/electrons in and out of some potential gradient) -- rather, it uses a
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by zkms 9y ago
This is a data-acquisition tool made by academics that lives in an environment (hybrid passenger automobile) where some extra weight and some conversion loss is utterly fine. What matters here is reliability -- the device runs without being
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by zkms 9y ago
This reminds me of those blinky goggles that made you see a bunch of trippy patterns (even though the blinkiness was completely diffuse!), here's the instructions ( http://wealoneonearth.blogspot.com/2009/09/ho
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by zkms 9y ago
There was an infamous clinical trial called "PACE" that purported to show that psychotherapy (CBT), along with exercise ("graded exercise therapy", or "GET") gradually increased beyond one's initial limits
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by zkms 9y ago
I don't care about the clickbait, if it gets someone to realise that in most cases, latency is at least as important a figure of merit than bandwidth or packet loss, that article does its job. Long, uncontrolled queues that live at fas
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by zkms 9y ago
This is how "domain fronting" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_fronting ) works as well -- encryption makes blocking an all-or-nothing deal, and blocking everything that goes to an extremely popular IP ra
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by zkms 9y ago
> unbound by human reaction time > requisite hand-eye-coordination of rival human opponents it's totally possible to force an AI enemy to "play" through a harness that simulates human reaction time, limits in human visu
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by zkms 9y ago
> nothing you or I should ever try when we're driving on the highway. I've done exactly that on highways and on non-controlled-access roads. It's not hard to keep a mental model of nearby vehicles (look at mirrors, if you
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by zkms 9y ago
Not to detract from the fact that autonomous driving has the potential to be safer than humans (if only because it doesn't get distracted), but none of these autonomous responses are "freakishly early". I've seen attenti
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by zkms 9y ago
If I typo the card number and there's no JS code to tell me that, I need to submit the form, wait for it to error out, have to re-enter all the billing address information, re-enter the card number, and try this whole process again. I&
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by zkms 9y ago
Seeing slides in BIOS-UEFI-Security.6-Mitigations.pdf that imply that there's critical crypto being done in SMM mode makes me feel unfathomable hopelessness. The whole x86_64 platform security model (which includes all the privilege le
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by zkms 9y ago
I concur. There's some times that running some JS can make the user experience strictly better without taking up any significant amount of memory/CPU time/energy/network (or in fact makes the system use less of those).
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by zkms 9y ago
The internet-draft you linked is not a proposal that anyone should take seriously. Here is an actual, non-mocking review of that I-D: https://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/int-area/current/msg05... . T
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by zkms 9y ago
> Nobody is incentivized to actually deploy servers to IPv6 while there exist zero IPv6-only clients. Facebook is a counterexample. > Over the past few years, Facebook has been transitioning its data center infrastructure from IPv4 to
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by zkms 9y ago
The CPE problem is why mobile has such good IPv6 deployment (along with the LTE people having their act together about IPv6) -- it's the only sector where people will eagerly upgrade their CPEs en masse :)
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by zkms 9y ago
> The IPv6 designers made a fundamental conceptual mistake: they designed the IPv6 address space as an alternative to the IPv4 address space, rather than an extension to the IPv4 address space. I respect djb and his contributions to cryp

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