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Put away the pitchforks.

OIG is internal affairs. The people they investigate are employees, not the public.

https://www.oig.dhs.gov
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Don't we already have "true" random number generators embedded on most modern processors? I was under the impression most motherboards have some sensors strictly for this purpose--to read data from static or thermal sensors in order to add entropy to the pool.
I don't get it either. We have no technology in view that would not produce a lot more noise and energy usage over current cars. It may work once energy costs almost nothing and can be produced in abundance (fusion?).
I've been intending to get around to learning icon for five or six years. It might actually happen this year, if I'm not busy.
2001 can never be remade. It’s a singular vision, and it’s photography is still extraordinary, and it’s special effects still fine.

The weakest part was the hominid/monkey costumes. But in those scenes was also the amazing shot of the leopard. A modern director gets you more realistic hominids, burt you lose the amazing framing, coloring, and composition of the leopard scene and a hundred others.

And the story is definitive. It says exactly what Kubrick and Clarke wanted it to, no more, no less. There is no perspective a millennial can add to it without utterly ruining it.
What about self-driving flying cars? If people aren't driving the flying cars and they just navigate automatically then most of these sort of issues go away.
A Cessna 172 gets about 12-13 mpg at about 120 mph. [1] That may not be an unreasonable tradeoff of performance versus cost per mile if considerations other than fuel consumption are in play.

On the other hand, you'll never get a flying car because FAA regulations form a moat around widespread cheap aircraft. A 40 year old Cessna 172 can only have an engine provided by Lycoming, can only be overhauled or repaired with Lycoming and Cessna parts, and can only be serviced by FAA certified mechanics (even though the design is only slightly more sophisticated than a VW aircooled engine and is based on 1930's technology).

[1]: https://www.quora.com/How-many-miles-per-gallon-mpg-does-a-C...
and that's a false equivalence. It is provably true that Obama wasn't born in Kenya. However, it is plausible that some in government (not just W) wanted that war. The survey you refer to does not compare to the simple yes/no of the Birther idiocy
That's because Firefox Focus doesn't actually have an ad blocker. What it has is a tracking blocker. It just so happens that almost all ads have trackers in them, that's why it still blocks most ads.

The ad results on web search engines generally don't have trackers in them, that's why they for example don't get blocked. Also, webpages with privacy-conscious users tend to have privacy respecting ads and webpages that are typically opened in Private Browsing tend to at least have privacy-respecting ads as backup, since Firefox's Private Browsing has this same tracking blocker.
Probably a typo, but in the CIA world, there is a lot of 'authorized unauthorized' "off the books" activity.
Design teams at large companies that have a strong design culture, ad agencies, and design studios working on contract work (particularly installations for music events etc) are the kind of day jobs where you can work on these kind of things.

It definitely takes some time (and a lot of personal work) to break in in this field though. Like most artistic practices sold to the Market, deadlines are usually tight, pay isn't the highest, and there are more people who would like to make a full time living from it than there is available paid work.

Get in a routine (make things with regularity, many artists make something daily), make your work public (post it on Instagram/Twitter/art subreddits/etc.), make it clear that you're available for paid work, and after some time you might make it happen. Good luck!
Yes. For example, they've said that you could use a blockchain to keep track of book borrowing in a book club, where people expect to use the blockchain to get books and not to get rich.

I do think this is pretty reasonable, but it sounds like you meant something else.
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That was a good retrospective. I've watched so many of Niko's talks I could hear his voice in my head while I was reading.

Was the "Libz Blitz" a part of the "Impl Period" work, or was that a separate thing? (I noticed it wasn't mentioned here.)
What method would you propose could be used to allow only US citizens to use a piece of software?

The law is pretty damn clear. Create strong encryption, go to jail.
In a sense air roads could be safer. You have more flexibility for avoiding obstacles. I think it only makes sense if the vehicles on them are fully automated and operate in a highly regulated environment.
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I mostly agree with that, actually. I think it could be reasonably re-adapted... it is still future tech, even if it's closer to something we can at least imagine building now.

The only thing I'd grumble about, which isn't even strictly speaking disagreement, is that while I agree that Hollywood today would inevitably want to film a different story than what 2001-the-movie was, I don't know that that's a necessity brought on by our times so much as a sign of how culturally enfeebled Hollywood has become underneath the protective coating of the world's best special effects. Hollywood's horizons have really closed off in the past couple of decades. Nolan is notable here as one of the few people who still push back against this somewhat, IMHO. The ever-increasing growth of thoughtcrime in their philosophy/philosophies can be seen in how every year more and more movies of the past become unthinkable that they'd be made today.
"The breach of the DHS OIG Case Files included individuals associated with DHS OIG investigations. Family members and close associates were impacted by this privacy incident only if they were involved in a DHS OIG investigation."
> The vast majority of humanity can't accomplish that.

Can any nation or company? I know SpaceX aim to be able but I didn’t think anyone was capable at the moment.
You should tell Coinbase and get a bug bounty.
It doesn't have to be black and white. The purpose of democracy is to reflect the will of the people, but it's not efficient. If more people agree with Uber than some antiquated laws, I have no problem with supporting Uber. Tesla also broke laws by selling their cars without going through a dealership, but I don't think anyone has a problem with that.
Wow, the certificate isn't even valid...
Maybe a big part of the solution is self-driving flying cars? Of course they would use Tesla batteries. And let's not forget to use Fuschia, while we're at it.
Follow me on this one. If I hold all my currency in a service like Coinbase, how do I know that I actually bought bitcoins? All I see is a pretty interface that says "you have x bitcoins" and maybe a list of hashes and whatnot.

To a non-technical, these hashes and numbers are totally meaningless. As long as everything is done through my service (coinbase, for example) nobody has any idea if there are actually bitcoins behind these numbers or not. You can't hold a bitcoin, I can't ask you to mail me them so I can verify that they exist. The only thing you can do is trust the blockchain, which you definitely need a technical background to understand.

So yes, with enough smoke and mirrors, I believe you could setup a service to sell people UUIDs. It hinges on non-technicals using only my service though. Obviously you couldn't do this with a real cryptocurrency, because the blockchain would tell you if the coins actually exist or not.
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That does make it a bit less... totally horrifying. I imagine that there're still plenty of normal people in the "witnesses and complainants" category, so I can't imagine that this only affects DHS employees, but if nothing else that should dramatically reduce the size of the data set.
I hear what you are saying. But isn't it interesting... If I play a solo over "Ask Me Now", the Monk estate doesn't own it, but I don't think I "own" it either. But if I did it on a recording made by Monk, with his group, I think then he owns it, depending on the recording contract I sign (which is usually like a gig - I get paid for the recording once, like a gig, but I don't own it) But if I play in his band one night at a club and he hears my solo and digs some section of it and makes a tune out of that, note for note-- I can make no claim against him, because it was an improvised solo. But what I'm wondering, and it is really strange, is it different in John Cage's work because he's claiming to own the idea of framing what sounds randomly occur in that space in his composition as music? (I mean, if he made a recording of the concert)If this is true, then there's an interesting article to be written about you-know-what as it relates to classical and jazz and what each represents and the kinds of entitlements offered by our culture as a result of these pervasive race issues. Thank you! I'd never thought of this idea before as it relates to John Cage and jazz improv and ownership. It is certainly something to think about. Cheers!
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Give the entire case is about access to evidence (which Kansas denied previous request for), I'm not sure how the story could have been written any other way.

If election tampering were occurring, how would one discover that? How would one confirm it?

If the answer to the above questions is "Trust us, vote tampering isn't happening," then election laws in that state probably need to be changed.
Personally, I think many of your time estimates are wildly pessimistic. Humanity is on an improvement graph that almost seems exponential - I don't think it would be crazy to see driverless cars in the next 5-10 years, considering how many people continue to get in to this space. There may be strict legislation around it, but that's a different discussion. Similarly, look how far we've come in "assistants" in the last 6 years since Siri was released... 2090 definitely seems like a stretch.
Well, it's for the wrong domain. Because they don't use SSL on their blog.
You are partly missing the point. 2001 was made for an audience that doesn't exist anymore. If Kubrick somehow made the movie today, it would not look the same,and possibly could be made to all. Not because "reeeeeee millennials",but because it was a work of art made for a very specific time and place in history.
Intel CPUs do indeed have a random number generator onboard: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RdRand

Probably the safest thing to do is to use a combination of this and other sources (multiple entropy sources), just in case there's an NSA backdoor or it's otherwise broken. Things like microphones, cameras, input devices, and other sensors are nearly ubiquitous now.
Danger in the forest
I am personally a huge advocate of not forcing this stuff on high schoolers, on the grounds that it has the effect of inhibiting them from ever getting into ever again because they think they already tried it. I believe we should find ways to get the same ideas across, but with works that are more approachable to people of that age, and build a pathway for them forward into the great works of the past instead of trying to teleport them directly to the end goal. But until people in general stop essentially celebrating how awesome it is that we force students into unpleasant and unapproachable works, and consider their distaste and writing off of literature forever as a sign that things are being done correctly, nothing will change.

I've often thought I could make a pretty decent literature-appreciation course around the TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, which, no sarcasm, is what really opened my eyes to these issues for the first time, somewhere in my mid-20s. It would piss people off who would assume that it simply can't be possible that we could learn how to appreciate literature from such an accessible and fun (and not-stuffy) source, but I know it can be.
True- though it does not have to be binary. Our current levels of meat consumption are unsustainable and the levels of production required make treating the animals well a laughable proposition. I've tried to greatly reduce my meat consumption recently.
... the PR would do that as well
Sorry there may be a cultural gap here. I'm not familiar with that phrase at all.
> there are perhaps a couple hundred accounts that the LoC archives

The article states that it was archiving _all_ of public twitter. It is moving to the selectivity that you have assumed was status quo.
I lost over 50 pounds in the last 18 months, so very much the case. Plus a couple very expensive pieces that should last for life.
Apologies if it came across as exaggerating your point, I didn't mean to equate what you wrote to Jim Crow laws at all but rather to provide an extreme example to illustrate how preferences of the majority are not related to whether an environment is good or bad.

I'm also not looking to argue really. I just find it frustrating when women raise what strike me as some pretty valid points and it gets shot down immediately (such as this original post being flagged and having pretty defensive/dismissive comments immediately).

The original link has a references link for each point, which point to things such as the National Science Foundation rather than personal opinion blogs. Nothing on that page is a big rant about how all men are evil, etc., and I think the sources provided are pretty solid. The reaction is telling and as another commented noted, does to some degree prove the point.
3 so far:

1. Elements of Computing Systems

2. On Lisp

3. Game Engine Architecture

Edit: 2 -> 3
And I'm saying, why? What does it matter what species they are?

Your original claim implied that you believe this is because lower IQ equates to a lack of consciousness, which as I've already described cannot be objectively determined and is therefore a poor metric. If I understand you correctly, you are now saying that it's really the species that determines consciousness, which is equally invalid.

Either you are taking it on pure faith that certain species have consciousness and others do not, in which case there is little point in further discussion, or you are trying to claim that certain species are worth more than others because they seem to have a greater aptitude in certain categories. For some reason, this does not apply on an individual basis. How convenient for you, then, that these categories align perfectly with all the areas your species has great aptitude!

I invite you to consider this possibility: Your belief is not based on rational reasoning, you are just rationalizing your behavior.
Bitcoin excepted...
You might build on your EDI x12 experience. That protocol is not dominant but B2B e-commerce (say your doctor and insurance co) is a huge field -- there are many other protocols, but to attain the same ends they solve the same problems, sometimes in different ways.

Philly has banking, insurance, business headquarters, pharma, etc. There certainly are COBOL programmers your age in your town, your best bet could be to find one and look at where they are employed.
> But if there can be no data about it. Does it even make sense to talk about it as existing?

To be honest, that question never made any sense to me, because this whole discussion is merely about refining a semantic detail of the common word "existing". It says nothing about the particle itself, but just about our language.

For me, a far more interesting question is: Is it relevant? (for science?)

And the answer is: As long as it doesn't interact in any way with us, it is certainly not relevant whatsoever.
Control Flow Enforcement (ENDBRANCH requirement at branch targets) looks like a nice feature, looking forward to it.
i find it 10% slow, and 90% thrilling, which is basically as close to perfection as a film can get. Ask wrote separately, Stephen Soderbergh recut 2001 to remove dead space and “unimportant” scenes, and it’s no where near as good as the original.
With all the news about these attacks lately, this is one of the best posts I've seen in explaining to less knowledgable people how exactly speculation causes a problem.

One question I still have that gets glossed over is how timing of instructions is captured.
I am literally the CEO of LitePay, I know the CEO's of the other infrastructure companies, and it is NOT what our business are doing with the Debit Card product.

We take the risk as a service to the community, and the product is a cost center.
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> you can interpret it yourself

Or, that you cannot interpret it. At the beginning of the movie, the monolith changed monkeys to be intelligent enough to use tools. At the end of the movie, another encounter with the monolith causes a similar change that - to our unchanged, stupid minds - looks like a chaotic mess that cannot be understood.

Being confused about the ending was the goal.
I think it's incredible that her health insurance didn't cover electronic prosthetics.

The hook prosthetic is just a simple open/close grabber tool. Imagine trying to navigate through life with two grabbers. The modern myoelectric prosthetics offer way more functionality and freedom. You can use a computer, dress yourself, drive a car, and feed yourself (of course the author can't do all these yet, it does take time to learn). You can't do this at all with hooks.

I fractured/dislocated multiple wrist bones two years ago and it wasn't life threatening but I would have had diminished functionality without surgery -- insurance covered it no problem. My hand is great.

How the hell does it make sense to fix a wrist in order to allow someone to do the activities of daily living but it doesn't make sense to give them a common commercial prosthetic in order to do the same thing?
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weather predictions ("forecasts" for the lay person) seem pretty popular. might have something to do with all the lives saved?
I think the advantage is that it's easier for _anyone_ to be able to keep a site/file alive without having to implement an archive.org style of rewriting all the URLs/links. If you want, you could pin that medium article you talk about and now even if the medium node(s) decide its no longer worth pinning, you've still got it pinned so it's accessible to anyone at the expected "location".

Similarly, this makes take-downs harder. It's no longer one node/machine hosting a file, but as many nodes as who find it valuable.

If users never pinned anything, you'd be correct, it would be basically the same as the current internet, with one organization maintaining everything. But IPFS gives you the ability to change that.
The answer is unfortunately a common trope. There’s no reason at all it should be this way. It contradicts the principles and spirit of science. It chaps my hide.

But it hasn’t changed, because it’s incredibly hard to fight inertia of a large and long standing system where parties who disproportionately benefit, or stand to lose something, will do everything in their formidable power to stop it, with no regard for what’s best for the world.

These are not piss-ant companies involved, most people don’t realize how incredibly profitable the major player is, raking in billions and billions every year. That money is their war chest.

Then you have parties involved who don’t really like the system, but don’t [choose one: have the balls to, or, cant afford to foolishly risk damaging their career or livelyhood to] all out buck the system. The path to jobs, promotions, prestige, and other rewards winds through this anachronistic, corporate interest driven system.

Also common with good vs. evil wars like this, is there are some stories of heros to be told. Courageous people who have taken a stand, in various ways, and made real progress. Every one of those small wins helps clear the path for the next attack.

This gain was particularly delicious - their own arrogance caused them to overestimate their hand. I guess it’s possible it wasn’t arrogance, rather, a strategic bluff, but in either case, they just sat down at the poker table and lost a big pot.
Whatever the rest of the team uses. For personal projects: whatever is idiomatic for that language.
Related question for the GDB experts:

My day-job involves GDBing C code. I use a handful of functions regularly when I'm trying to pin down a bug, mostly just to double-check why the code is following a given branch. So I'm heavily dependent on memcmp, strncmp, etc.

I've noticed that those functions fail if I start trying to use them too early, so I end up having to add a "b main" first and wait until I get to the breakpoint before they become available.

Can someone explain why? I assume it has to do with getting far enough along in the program's execution that the shared libs have been loaded into memory?
I used to do IT for a large research university. I can confirm that we were practically drowning in funding for new hardware. If we made a business case for upgrading our infrastructure it wasn't uncommon to get an extra million or so dollars in the budget without much thought.
That sounds so slimy but I guess if all the big players are doing it too, then, if you can't beat 'em...
> compiler is always into machine readable code

The frustrating bit is that this is absolutely not true. A compiler is anything that parses some text according to some grammar, manipulates it, and emits it in a different format. While the most well-known and popular compilers are for C, to emit machine code, there's nothing inherent in the definition of a compiler that means it can't emit something human-readable.

I wouldn't have nearly as much issue with this if the JavaScript community instead had decided "compiler isn't specific enough: we need different words for compilers that drop vs. maintain a level of abstraction", rather than "we need a word for a thing like a compiler, but that doesn't, as compilers apparently inherently do, drop a level of abstraction".
Maybe you'll find an article interesting and want to pin it yourself. Maybe you yourself will link to it and want to pin it for that purpose. Maybe someone else will link to a very influential article you wrote and that will make it stay.

Overall, it's a subset of the availability of a single server, plus the page always stays at the same "place" and never moves.
> (where "other team" includes the citizens of the US apparently).

Not really. It's not like stuff like that Dual_EC_DRBG were export only, and IIRC, they did hold on to zero days that would affect American systems, leaving those system vulnerable, while they exploited them elsewhere.
Are you asking why people don’t use functional programming languages? If so, I’d say it’s the same reason most people don’t use procedural programming languages: because multi-paradigm programming languages (that combine procedural and functional features) give us both with minimal cost. :)
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I remember my university had to make special exceptions to the network for the WoW and LoL patchers. A few students figured out how to spoof their torrents to look like the LoL patcher in order to torrent on campus. Not really that wise though since your network access was tied to your student credentials.