I don't remember. It was many years ago -- circa 2015. Nevertheless, I'm irritated by the implication that it's the user's responsibility to do this. At least as recently as last year, I've discovered instances where…
They held my number hostage for a while after I switched off iPhone. I think it took months for iPhone users to be able to message my number before it actually started reaching me again. I think there's a lot of truth…
I'm getting the impression that the new job I'm starting very soon uses something like this. Any suggestions on most convenient way to cover up camera when not using it? I've looked at a few "webcam camera slide"…
AFAIK the only player to have tested positive for COVID in that outbreak is Gleyber Torres (the rest were support staff), who had an actual COVID infection before, which undermines your idea that getting COVID is…
Not the best example since there was a severe earthquake in Pompeii in 62 AD. They were still rebuilding in 79 AD when the town was destroyed by Vesuvius.
From a great coffee table book, "100 Facts About Pandas", by David O'Doherty and Claudia O'Doherty (no relation). https://www.amazon.com/Facts-About-Pandas-David-ODoherty/dp/... One of my other favorite "facts" in there…
Don't forget about Keith B. Alexander, the director of the NSA at that time. He testified to congress that this program helped foil 54 terror plots. Weeks later, he conceded that it was helpful in "only one or two". We…
> There's so much to learning where the sharp bits of math are; proofs are the razor-thin path through the briar patch. This is an excellent metaphor using beautiful language. Did you just coin this yourself or is it…
Isn't this article missing the point of the internet? It talks about an ambitious (but ultimately aborted) top-down project to build thousands of interlinking mainframes. But building large networks wasn't particularly…
Billions? Ridiculous. There's a lot of suggestions of what one might accomplish with this exploit, but I'm not sure they would be obviously more lucrative than this. Any time you use it, you're likely to lose it, so its…
I'd like to believe we will start mass manufacturing all promising candidates long before testing is complete. The stakes are so high this time that it's important _as soon as_ testing results are deemed adequate, they…
The Astros hid behind the guise that they were outstanding at picking up "tipping" from opposing pitchers. i.e. The smallest difference in a pitcher's delivery, imperceptible to you or I, would indicate what kind of…
To all appearances, this looked like an actual kidnapping. For myself, I'm happy to receive an amber alert on my phone even if it sometimes ends up being a false alarm. About your point of "productivity", I can't really…
I don't know specifically about secp256r1, but in general, I think there were already a lot of suspicions and most people were wary of any ECC curves NIST or NSA had chosen by 2008 when Bitcoin was developed. [1] In a…
> At any time in the past five years, Google could have leveraged Android’s 80-plus-percent market share and told carriers that it was launching a default messaging service that works like iMessage, falling back to SMS…
Ah, thank you! That explains it.
As far as I can tell, he uses "word" in the same way it's used today. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_(computer_architecture) But, he does say a "word" is the information of 6 letters or 10 numbers, which is a bit…
This post is running around BSV-associated social media outlets. [1] [2] BSV is a project almost entirely propped up by a billionaire gambling tycoon named Calvin Ayre who is promoting a known con-artist named Craig…
I'm still enraged over the fact that Oracle got $300 million to make a website for Oregon's healthcare and failed. The website wasn't ready (nor would it ever be ready), and the whole state's healthcare was in tatters…
You mentioned in another comment that haplogroups would be too foreign a classification for you, but that would likely be the most specific/differentiated classifier. If somebody says they're a "quarter French" --…
It doesn't mean _nothing_ -- it's just prone to the same type of problems and edge cases affecting pretty much every attempt at categorizing in a very complex system.
"There is not universal agreement on the region’s components." [1] "It can be difficult to define exactly which countries are included in the Balkan States. It is a name that has both geographic and political…
What are the characteristics of those who generated an RSA key sharing a prime factor? Can they be linked back to a few bad CSPRNG implementations? What are practical steps to be responsible about it? It's contrived,…
> That doesn't mean "there are truths that humans can never prove", all it means is that we have to extend our axiomatic systems in order to prove some truths. If you believe that the only consequence to Gödel's theorem…
Speaking mostly about my experience with Baldur's Gate II: Enhanced Edition, but my impression is it's pretty similar for the other games: The early EE release was a bit buggy. When you're just re-releasing an old game…
I don't remember. It was many years ago -- circa 2015. Nevertheless, I'm irritated by the implication that it's the user's responsibility to do this. At least as recently as last year, I've discovered instances where…
They held my number hostage for a while after I switched off iPhone. I think it took months for iPhone users to be able to message my number before it actually started reaching me again. I think there's a lot of truth…
I'm getting the impression that the new job I'm starting very soon uses something like this. Any suggestions on most convenient way to cover up camera when not using it? I've looked at a few "webcam camera slide"…
AFAIK the only player to have tested positive for COVID in that outbreak is Gleyber Torres (the rest were support staff), who had an actual COVID infection before, which undermines your idea that getting COVID is…
Not the best example since there was a severe earthquake in Pompeii in 62 AD. They were still rebuilding in 79 AD when the town was destroyed by Vesuvius.
From a great coffee table book, "100 Facts About Pandas", by David O'Doherty and Claudia O'Doherty (no relation). https://www.amazon.com/Facts-About-Pandas-David-ODoherty/dp/... One of my other favorite "facts" in there…
Don't forget about Keith B. Alexander, the director of the NSA at that time. He testified to congress that this program helped foil 54 terror plots. Weeks later, he conceded that it was helpful in "only one or two". We…
> There's so much to learning where the sharp bits of math are; proofs are the razor-thin path through the briar patch. This is an excellent metaphor using beautiful language. Did you just coin this yourself or is it…
Isn't this article missing the point of the internet? It talks about an ambitious (but ultimately aborted) top-down project to build thousands of interlinking mainframes. But building large networks wasn't particularly…
Billions? Ridiculous. There's a lot of suggestions of what one might accomplish with this exploit, but I'm not sure they would be obviously more lucrative than this. Any time you use it, you're likely to lose it, so its…
I'd like to believe we will start mass manufacturing all promising candidates long before testing is complete. The stakes are so high this time that it's important _as soon as_ testing results are deemed adequate, they…
The Astros hid behind the guise that they were outstanding at picking up "tipping" from opposing pitchers. i.e. The smallest difference in a pitcher's delivery, imperceptible to you or I, would indicate what kind of…
To all appearances, this looked like an actual kidnapping. For myself, I'm happy to receive an amber alert on my phone even if it sometimes ends up being a false alarm. About your point of "productivity", I can't really…
I don't know specifically about secp256r1, but in general, I think there were already a lot of suspicions and most people were wary of any ECC curves NIST or NSA had chosen by 2008 when Bitcoin was developed. [1] In a…
> At any time in the past five years, Google could have leveraged Android’s 80-plus-percent market share and told carriers that it was launching a default messaging service that works like iMessage, falling back to SMS…
Ah, thank you! That explains it.
As far as I can tell, he uses "word" in the same way it's used today. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_(computer_architecture) But, he does say a "word" is the information of 6 letters or 10 numbers, which is a bit…
This post is running around BSV-associated social media outlets. [1] [2] BSV is a project almost entirely propped up by a billionaire gambling tycoon named Calvin Ayre who is promoting a known con-artist named Craig…
I'm still enraged over the fact that Oracle got $300 million to make a website for Oregon's healthcare and failed. The website wasn't ready (nor would it ever be ready), and the whole state's healthcare was in tatters…
You mentioned in another comment that haplogroups would be too foreign a classification for you, but that would likely be the most specific/differentiated classifier. If somebody says they're a "quarter French" --…
It doesn't mean _nothing_ -- it's just prone to the same type of problems and edge cases affecting pretty much every attempt at categorizing in a very complex system.
"There is not universal agreement on the region’s components." [1] "It can be difficult to define exactly which countries are included in the Balkan States. It is a name that has both geographic and political…
What are the characteristics of those who generated an RSA key sharing a prime factor? Can they be linked back to a few bad CSPRNG implementations? What are practical steps to be responsible about it? It's contrived,…
> That doesn't mean "there are truths that humans can never prove", all it means is that we have to extend our axiomatic systems in order to prove some truths. If you believe that the only consequence to Gödel's theorem…
Speaking mostly about my experience with Baldur's Gate II: Enhanced Edition, but my impression is it's pretty similar for the other games: The early EE release was a bit buggy. When you're just re-releasing an old game…