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You're not wrong but I don't think your chosen method of exhausting their consumables is practical.

Lets start with your 'bomb', its an aircraft with a 2,000 mile total range (you actually need 2,500 to cover cases where you are flying upwind) and a one ton payload capacity. So in flying circles that would be a plane with a 2,500 mile range and one ton capacity. Looking through the various aviation web sites, that would not be available for $10K. Even looking at something like the Spirit of St. Louis which had the range but no cargo capacity is $144K in todays dollars[1].

Then there is the question of speed, if these things are flying at 150 - 200knots (typical of a single engine turboprop) you don't need to shoot them down, you can just buzz them with a fighter yet and let the jetwash destroy them.

And then there is the question of engagement, the larger the circle you start with around the carrier group the more dispersed your incoming bomb-craft can be. But a circle with a radius of 2,000 miles (worst case) is 12,000 miles. There aren't very many circles like that on the planet where they have significant land on the circumference, other places mean that a bulk of your bomb-craft come from a smaller number of locations. And even a 100 aircraft taking off from an airstrip and heading toward the carrier groups is going to get a response to the airstrip pretty quickly.

But the fundamental thesis is sound, if you can overwhelm the defenses with an inexpensive and mass produced threat then you stand a better chance of getting to the carrier.

The only way I know of that you could do something was an idea Jerry Pournelle used to talk about which was a kinetic kill weapon that dropped from orbit. He called it "a crowbar with wings" which would detach from a satellite, re-enter ballistically, and using fins steer itself to the target where the energy from the kinetic impact would destroy the target. However, you then need these satellites with this crowbars and a communications network and launch facilities. So once again it is hard to surprise someone that way.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirit_of_St._Louis
10,000 years is too much to make a valid comparison. Do we even know how kings lived that far back?
This reasoning is really flimsy. Are you suggesting a that a normal user will do better at securing their home grown system than a team of trained security engineers?
It's one of the ones I used to post years ago to show the difference between highly assured security and mainstream security offerings. The hardware, TEMPEST, and maintenance men issues usually drew blank stares. They also rarely knew what a TCB was or why you should care about its complexity. (shakes head)

As usual, mainstream tends to gradually re-discover old concepts and build on them. TEMPEST stuff has been rediscovered as "side-channels" with plenty of attention. They're getting wiser on hardware issues with TAO leaks justifying what we've said all along about what tradeoffs/investments are required to fight nation-states. No it wasn't just red-tape or paranoia haha. Red teams knew about maintenance men and insider threats a long time with companies just mostly ignoring the stuff.

Be interesting to see how long it takes for the rest to seep into their consciousness. Thirty to forty years for some issues this document suggests.
I think I prefer the original bootstrap documentation... having the TOC on the side to jump to various sections, and having a more real-estate to present ideas rather than just a small scope at a time...
I (obviously) meant voluntary on the part of the manufacturers. That is how Phantom do it, and it seems to work well.
From most reports the guy pretty much lived in the studio. It shows on something as utterly amazing as "Plectrumelectrum" though some might disagree with me. Very fitting he was in his creative space when he departed. Will be very much missed for a variety of music and individualistic reasons.
You're conflating the Constitution created by the Federalists, which defined the latter two items, and the different document known as the Bill of Rights which was the price of the Anti-Federalists to accept to that Constitution.

And the very same Congress that drafted the Bill of Rights also defined the militia in law, and basically that same definition holds to this day in 10 U.S. Code § 311 https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/10/311, modulo modern interpretation that holds "men" equals men and women, folding in the National Guard, etc.

Note also that the Founders were hardly of a single mind on the subject, with, say, Jefferson being the most noted, "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure." (see e.g. http://wiki.monticello.org/mediawiki/index.php/The_tree_of_l... ), but he had plenty of company. We've always had seriously ornery factions in the nation....
Good luck with that. "The black market" isn't buying vulnerabilities in 3rd party serverside components at Facebook.
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My apologies, I wasn't clear on that.

I meant that regulations could be enacted for those cultivating marijuana in their home, requiring proper ventilation and filtration.

Nobody wants to smell skunk all the time.
Which is apparently exactly what Facebook does with this thing.
Eric Raymond writes:
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> Fame kills

The cause of death has not been released yet, but reports say he had the flu. That has nothing to do with fame.
So much dislike for Quora! I love it. Well, I don't love it, but I have noticed recently that it's the only site that I actually click through on their e-mail marketing. They put serious energy into their targeted marketing software. So, from a marketer's perspective, I double love it.

Adam D'Angelo has to be one of the smartest people I've ever met, and there is a lot of very interesting content on Quora; I rarely read just one Q/A thread when I end up on the site.

As compared to a site that mostly shows friends pictures of people's lunch, I propose it provides useful and useable content, and is an interesting service.
I use Quora a lot. It seems that 70-90% of people who upvote my answers or new followers are from India. Not saying that's a bad thing at all. From an advertising standpoint, though, they would make much more money per capita with more engaged users from the United States, England, or other English speaking nations.

Note: Quora is only available in English at the moment.
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You're confused. The unfortunate matter is that it has few to no technical merits. It defined technological churn with total absence of technical innovation. THAT is why it failed. Not because "everyone is lazy".

Python3 was lazy. Demanding that everyone including PyPy port, is lazy. Let Python3 live or die based on its technical merits like every other piece of technology.

Not to mention I wish the sword you're wielding cut both ways. You aren't entitled to demand someone else's labor any more than your buddies that litter every PyPy post demanding better Python3 support are. I hope you're harassing them for being lazy.

You made your own choice. You should have picked based on technical superiority rather than propaganda. To be honest with you, you should be ignored as you chose VERY poorly. Don't dare tell someone else what to use.

There are so many better choices to build new software in today than Python3. Python2 on PyPy is one of those. Those people can still port to Python3 if it ever does make sense. Even if that idea clearly threatens some of you, that's the smart play.
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My comment definitely didn't come off with my intended attitude. I am not looking down on anyone, and I think bootstrap's success speaks for itself.

Just observing what I see -- that nobody is making fun of people who use bootstrap for a dashboard interface or an app, rather the complaints against bootstrap I think revolve around seeing it used for marketing / informational / portfolio sites all over the place, thus resulting in a company or organization or person not really having a site designed with their own brand/personality/messaging in mind.
>Classic HN. Jumping from someone's annoyance to "create a startup" that "definitely has value" without knowing anything about the space.

Haha joke's on you buddy, I grew up around aviation and know that log books and maps are what pilots must always have at all times in all situations otherwise they'll get popped by the FAA. Only recently have digital devices been allowed anywhere NEAR professional cockpits, having been slowly tested in civil aviation. Thus I concluded that an expanding sector with limited knowledge of traditional expectations - airspace 'n shit - might be marketable. Watching your comment turn grey and then to vapor is more "Classic HN" to me.
I'd say that if it wasn't for Facebook, a lot of communication would take place over safer channels. If you doubt whether Facebook is insecure, click the "include 'only me' activity" in your activity log and imagine how much damage would happen if that leaked.
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So much of Quora is knowing who to follow.
Doesn't Facebook's policy prohibit privilege escalation? The write the following:

You do not exploit a security issue you discover for any reason. (This includes demonstrating additional risk, such as attempted compromise of sensitive company data or probing for additional issues.) [0]

It's no wonder other bounty researchers didn't find further vectors for exploiting their privileges. There was a researcher not too long ago hit by the book for this.

[0] https://www.facebook.com/whitehat
An AMD 7950 was the high end card when his computer was built, and is only ~20% slower than the minimum recommendation. It should run most VR games just fine.
I'm not really familiar with the intricacies of flight processing, I think you mean the neuromuscular mechanisms used by birds to accomplish flight. It is amazing to watch, though it's interesting how birds vary in coordination ability. Our jay friends aren't as graceful as other species, like the northern flicker, when landing on the suet cage. It can take 2 or 3 tries for jays to find the right balance point.

My thought is that the birds with superior problem-solving skills are accomplishing it with a much less massive brain that primates, perhaps their neural arrangements are more space efficient, packing more processing power into the available volume by having less redundancy of "wiring" or more direct interconnections among "subprocessors" vs. the layered organization of mammalian brain.

It's sort of like the discussions around computer/processor architectures. The standard von Neumann organization may not be the most efficient and alternatives are possible. Not that I know a lot about it, but seems to be an idea that parallels avian/mammalian comparisons.
>No, we don't want useless technological measures mandated that claim to block drones from airports, but fail to actually help in a real security context. Because those useless security rules have only one real purpose - banning civilians from inconvenient things.

It's not useless. Do you fly planes? If you look at the youtube video I posted elsewhere in this thread you'll see that the guy wanted to fly near the airport on the beach, but the geo fence wouldn't let him. The beach is <0.5nm from the end of the runways, so planes will be at <300ft crossing the beach. I fly there myself, and I don't want to hit a drone and risk losing the engine or having it crash through the windshield into my face.

Unfortunately we need laws like this because people aren't responsible, as that youtube video proves.
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No, because they are both legacy software. I understand momentum in codebases - that's why I'm reserving my vitriol for fresh bluesky projects like this one.

As for exploitability, privilege escalation and shellcode injection is still very much a thing, internet-facing or not.
Is there an approximation you can give, such as a magnitude? Is it around 1 transistor per million, per billion, per thousand?
My understanding of the situation: the grandparent's comment provided little value, and could be reasonably applied to virtually any comment without adding much opportunity for the reader to educate themselves or to respond. nightfly apparently noticed that "any comment", of course, includes the comment itself.

I found that amusing, and carried on in kind.
From what I understand, much of the dogma and propaganda used to recruit religious extremists is sourced from SA universities, and academia. The people behind it hold a priviliged position in SA society due to the culture's emphasis on religious values and the nation's role as the center of Islam (ie Mecca).

It's not necessarily the fault of the ruling family (although the ruling family may be sympathetic to the cause) but the propagation of Islamic fundamentalist dogma has become an international problem leading to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of innocents. If SA wants to remain in good standing with the rest of the world the ruling family will need to take action or suffer the consequences.

You don't win an ideological war by going after suicide bombers, you starve and alienate the few Developing and broadcasting the message to the impressionable youth.

SA shit the bed and they were previously given a 'free pass' because their control over oil supply. Meanwhile the US has dramatically shifted the energy production landscape where SA's dominant position is no longer a serious threat.

What was previously their greatest strength is now their greatest weakness. They're stuck between a rock and a hard place. Acknowledge that violence motivated by religious dogma is unacceptable and take action to fight it, or watch their enemies grow stronger each passing day with growing support from the West.
That article makes it sound like is name change was more of an artistic choice, but what I've read more recently was that it was all about getting out of his contract with Warner Brothers. Trying to find a concise article -- this one is currently top of my list:

https://storify.com/joesteinbcpop/conflicts-between-record-l...

edit: This one is a bit more thorough - http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2011/10/prince-bio-201110
>> "Tensions between artist and label first came to a boil in early 1994, when he decided to drop the name Prince and asked that people start identifying him by an unpronounceable symbol--thus disassociating himself, in a most burdensome way, from the guy who recorded some of the most popular and acclaimed albums of the '80s."

I might be wrong but my understanding is that it was a way to get around his contract with his record label (not to disassociate himself from past material).
The term "midrange computer" to me is more synonymous with "minicomputer" (ala AS/400, etc.) than it is with "desktop tower PC" or whatever. My guess would be that most people would interpret it the same way, given that "midrange systems" is a pretty established and well known term:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midrange_computer
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That is not what I saying.

Basically hypothesis: back in the day, programming is niche and needs self-motivation -> More boys were interested in video games -> Became programmers latter.

And if you really read through my post, the sampling is here not to be about women programmers...it is about gamers population in male programmer.
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It's TECHN actually. I guess I was right about it not being clear enough :(
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I don't think I would suggest trade embargo, seems that US lost ability to talk, embargo is only way we can give feedback.

We don't really need their oil that much. We could mend relationships with Venezuela which is closer (again, mend,not make a coup) and most of our production is local anyway with fracking being popular. So it is not like we don't have any choice.

I am disqusted with SA, over many things.

Also, to be clear, as someone who is not politician, I am just suggestion options, I wouldn't presume I know exactly what US government should do, but this can give you idea where I am coming from.
'done and get things smart' is such a good take on people & work. It gets to the heart of what everyone wants to be, I think.
If my kids are smart and they do good work, why would I want to limit their college opportunities by forcing them to go to a state school? In my state there is one really good state institution (University of Maryland, College Park), and that's how it is for many states (or there are zero good state schools). And if my kids want to do research or study engineering or computer science, it's a very good school for that, but almost every school has weaker areas (and some have none they are particularly good at).

On a micro level, sure you can say maybe send your kids to cheap schools. On a macro level, college costs are getting way out of hand. Private schools should be able to serve more than the 1 percent and the really poor on full rides.

I graduated 10 years ago from an elite private university. It was expensive then, but it's a complete bargain today. Prices are raising much faster than inflation. I'm trying to save a few hundred thousand for each kid for college, but in 16-18 years, that won't go that far.

I'm only going to pay to send my kids to a private school if its a really good one, but I'm not going to tell them there is a whole class of schools they can't go to just because I'm cheap.
> If an alien makes it all the way to the moon with the tech to read the disc why wouldn't they hop on over to Earth where there would be much more data?

If you read the FAQ[1], it says:

> [aliens] Probably not … but well, who knows? No, the Lunar challenge is mainly about pioneer spirit, curiosity, and visions for humanity. So, with the symbolic act of leaving a snapshot of human history on the surface of the Moon, we are thinking more about future generations than aliens.

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_to_the_Moon/FAQ
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Not that I've found yet, but the actual hardware on that board costs something like $10-15, so someone could easily make one.

The high price is because it's a development board. (I think it's a silly to price development boards highly, but it is very common.)
It does have wake word detection, and even has that code right there in the article. It matches on jarvis/nervous/service/travis as the first word in the phrase, because those are the words that get returned by the speech recognition when he says 'jarvis'.
So it's not common to use a layer-by-layer training approach for deep nets? I thought that was one of the main things that made a huge difference and enabled the "deep" revolution. Anyways, isn't vanishing gradients still a problem? If so, how do people use these frameworks for deep nets? Otherwise, how is the problem resolved? I thought vanishing gradients was an issue for anything with more than 2 or 3 layers.
You helped prove my point by mentioning that he could easily make his machine VR ready by buying a $600 GPU for a workstation he already considers overkill :).
Couple of thoughts - I feel that those complicated stings are almost entrapment. And cannot help but feel just sad about some of the guys. The skills that they learn in the military are hardly marketable in the civil society.

And the series fail to deliver - it started promising, but it lacks the big crimes and operations outside of the pill business. It is serialized novel of "Pivoting Bad with Mediocrity."
Well, there was also the whole 'suppression of slave revolts' thing too.
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I didn't mean to shit on it, only the disingenuous title.
Pretty sensationalist article. The important parts are buried about halfway through:

> Amazon, he says, has a “radical sensitivity” to any suggestion that neighborhoods are being singled out by race. “Demographics play no role in it. Zero.”

> Amazon says its plan is to focus its same-day service on ZIP codes where there’s a high concentration of Prime members

The areas Amazon does same-day delivery are likely just driven by pure numbers and algorithms -- larger order counts/sums will result in a higher chance of same-day delivery to a certain area and low numbers for an area means it will get it later.
this drones you speak of would be pretty small and each one could be taken down with much smaller guns from air or sea. no need to use a missle, they are designed to take out heavily armored air/sea craft. thus i think it would take a lot more then 10k cheap drones to take out a carrier group.
settling with trolls just motivates them to keep coming, leading to a world where 88% of patent cases filed against tech companies are brought by patent trolls and 82% of patent troll victims are small and medium sized businesses.

What about a tax on Non Practicing Entities, based on the degree to which they are non practicing? (Ratio of patent-generated revenue vs. other revenue and practical investment.) Let's make it more expensive to use patents to block innovation than to foster it.
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Ok, so less "prototype in the browser, then offload to a server once it works", but more for local "app" type things? Interesting idea, has some limitations but also opens up tons of interactions that are harder for a server-based solution (webcam, ...)
They were able to snarf passwords plaintext.
Why isn't just upgrading OpenSSL to version 1.0.2 enough? Seems easier than a wholesale OS upgrade.
Treason would be a hard one because I think it only applies during wartime. But would any of our various unending wars qualify? War on terror, war on drugs? Maybe not since they weren't declared by congress.

It could be considered "light treason" however...
That's an oversimplification. What actually happened was: a researcher found a serverside bug in a random backend box, got RCE, logged in, scraped and banked all the creds off the box, reported the bug, and then a month later during a dispute used the creds he stored to attack other Fb properties.

Dumping directories from machines and banking their creds isn't "escalating privileges". If you did that on a pro red team project, saving the creds to use a month or two later, you'd get fired.
It's a 7 part series I believe,not sure if you were saying this article is the definitive account, perhaps you meant the whole series.
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"Only hire people better than you"

I've got a few issues with that. First, and I know it's ego-centric, but I don't get a chance to hire many coders who are better than me. I've only met a few of them, IMO. That's partially because it's so hard to judge others, but partially because I honestly don't think they code as well as I do.

Second, just because they aren't better than me right now doesn't mean they can't surpass me in the future. If I rejected people just because they aren't better than me, I'm denying them the chance to grow and the company the chance to help and prosper from that growth.

I'm sure I'd have other objections if I sat and thought about it for a while, but those 2 came to mind rather quickly.
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