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> I know of Niven's "The Legacy of Heorot", but it only takes place on one planet.

The chronologically earlier novels in his Known Space universe (the Ringworld one) are mostly around near-c Bussard ramjets.

> Most of Alastair Reynold's novels have FTL

Hmm, wait, which ones? Only one I can think of is House of Suns, in a very restricted manner.

> The 3-body problem has FTL also.

It has FTL communications, but not travel.
About time. The ones protesting about those searches have something to hide and they should be searched first and more frequently. As article stated, children are our most valuable asset and the future.

In addition if this works out well we might be able to detect many other crimes as well, maybe even before they are committed. We could for example do some data analysis to find out which household items criminals are likely to own and we could correlate owning those items with potential criminals.
Are productivity and successfully playing office politics to get a promotion related?
Photons do have mass, because energy has mass & photons carry energy. They have no rest mass, which is why they are usually described as massless, but this isn't the whole story!
Well, it can serve as a Schelling point. But it's interesting, even without any game theory.
> I seriously doubt governments actually care about children.

Goverments don't care about children. Twenty-six first graders were massacred and the US government did nothing.
You can read studies of people who had their corpus callosum severed. This cuts off all communication between left and right hemispheres permanently. They maintain full and normal function, but the left and right halves of their bodies seem to take on independent lives mostly unaware of each other. You can ask a question and the mouth will give one answer but the left hand may write out a completely different answer (vocal language processing is controlled by the left hemisphere, where left arm is controlled by the right hemisphere).

This suggests even just half the brain can maintain the full set of higher cognitive abilities of a normal healthy human, but only half the motor control, which is presumably more dependent on hard-coded IO ports between the brain itself and the nerve buses running to the actual body part being controlled.

Which is to say there is an actual "right side of the face" zone, but there is no zone for higher reasoning in general. Unless you destroy the entire frontal cortex, much smaller subsets of it can fully function as if whole.

I think Daniel Dennett used this evidence to argue that the entire notion of self is an illusion. The brain is so highly redundant that it really consists of countless selves, a distributed system that dynamically comes to consensus but each component is fully capable of operating on its own or as part of a smaller distributed system when the network gets partitioned.
I was wondering this too. Could he not just register his home address as a museum?
> and was trying to rearm it.

Where does it say that in the BBC or Spiegel article?
What we call "mass" is actually "rest mass" - ie. the mass when the thing is not moving. Photons don't have rest mass because they don't rest.

What photons do have is momentum, and so due to conservation of momentum, hitting a photon will slow you down.
In China we used to have those after-hour classes too. Nowadays they charge a lot of money and the material declines in quality as well. Back then they hired some professors from the top universities to do the teaching of after-hour classes and nowadays who knows those guys are...
Thanks for your opinion! There's a plan to implement travel planner
WeWork to Run Co-Working Spaces in Some Saks Fifth Avenue Stores
Except that seems to be in the minds of a large chunk of FAANG employees... They can't let them all go. So they give payrises instead
Once internet comes from satellites as a matter of course, I have little doubt we'll all be living in airships.
> “That's because you never get prompted for your Google account password on your phone. […] then you might never need to know your password.”

This is so true. 1Password silently changed their UX on iPhone app 4 years (?) ago and the primary password was not required between app-quit. I had tweaked my password after using it every minute one weekend installing a new system. When I finally needed the master password, the new password was not accepted. Evidently I misremembered the tweak. That experience still burns me. Not forgotten, not forgiven.

iPhone requires iCloud for purchases, but I use touch password and bypass this. I never need to use iCloud password.
Maybe in some countries it is obscure and not easily available. Here (Central Europe) it is commonly used in broths and herbal teas.

It is sometimes called Maggi-herb because the taste or aroma is perceived to be similar to the Maggi seasoning sauce.
He told me about it back in the early 90s, and it had happened years before that, though I don't know how many.

A quick google doesn't bring anything up, but a local newspaper would have had to put their old archives online without paywall.
You seem to be confused. As you said yourself, steganographic concealment would, by its very nature, not change the perceptual hash of the visible image. If the visible image doesn't match an known hash, the steganographically modified version isn't going to either.
> If you assume that cops will just arrest people without doing any further research... Then yeah.

Like when they arrested & charged someone for a poor facial recognition match that never had a hope of passing human review? [0] Just glancing at the original photo would have stopped that. Or checking his rock-solid alibi. Neither of those things happened.

[0] https://www.wired.com/story/flawed-facial-recognition-system...
> and I accelerate at 2x m/s^2

A constant lab frame acceleration is incompatible with special relativity.
I'm confused. I was under the assumption that they were only going to do client side detection, is this article claiming they will be running the scans in the cloud as well?
I first came across this form of misunderstanding in a radio interview on the BBC (probably Radio 3..) with John Searle. This would have been early 80s. His seemingly deep misunderstanding of the domain triggered a lifelong interest in the subject.

The failing seems to be to do with drawing the system boundary in the wrong place (at the walls of the Chinese Room).
The tank had some maintenance from an official German army depot, it seems.
My solution is simple: When I feel like I have a lot of tabs [0], I close all of them. What happens when I close a tab I wanted open? I use browser history.

Browser history is one of those things that I feel most people don’t use enough. It’s easy to search, it contains everything you visited, and (for the macOS/iOS ecosystem at least) is synced across devices. A quick cmd-Y and search makes for a very efficient user experience for me.

[0] A “lot” is typically 10-20. I close all of my tabs probably 5-10 times during a typical work day.
The Vue community is not against JSX. I know many Vue devs that use it and it works great. Have you encountered any problems with vue+jsx/tsx?
How to automate your smart contract executions
If anyone's curious about the underlying details:

Each state has an associated salary band. For certain metropolitan statistical areas (defined by the OMB to encompass certain counties), as noted in the article, there is an overriding (typically higher) salary band.

This leads to quirks like someone in Milford, PA (~70 miles northwest of NYC) being paid top dollar, as part of the NYC metro area, but someone in Bethlehem (80 miles west of NYC) being paid 15% less. Or, if you live in Santa Cruz, you'd be paid about 10% less than if you continued working out of the Mountain View office (just 30-40 miles to the north).

(The 15% paycut for moving to Tahoe is most likely cherrypicked as crossing the state border into Nevada, which is in a lower band than California.)
I never heard of that. If he did indeed try, the sentencing is quite light.
Linux, dumbphone (sms/calls only) Fastmail, no other cloud services.

I’ve been on the verge of doing this for a few years so had my exit strategy well planned.
Facebook looked at them after they hash matched known CP. That is how all these providers do it.

If you think that this is 20 million people mashing the report button, that is almost certainly wrong
> However, if the type is Copy and all the bytes are zeros, then you know it can be calloc

That's not as easy to check as one would think since Copy types can still contain uninitialized bytes.
"Previously violated weapon control laws" is not exactly helpful to obtaining a license to legally own them. (And I'm not sure how they apply in the case of a tank, even though collection licenses cover a lot I don't think the usual ones apply). If the alternative is seizure without compensation, being allowed to sell it seems fairly nice.
Few years back Google informed authorities about a person who stored vile images of child porn in Google Drive. How is Apple’s implementation any different from that of Google. Aren’t both the same? However, I did not see lot of protests against Google at that time.
I bought a Sansa Clip+ (or some Clip) about 10 years ago. Its insistence on scanning every file on it every time I started it was annoying. Then I discovered Rockbox and it made everything about the Clip awesome.
I'm baffled by their choices as well. I'm no manufacturing expert but the misaligned chapter rings seem so comically easy for Seiko to avoid - why not design the case and chapter ring with a notch or something so it can't be misaligned? If that's not feasible, how is this stuff passing even a cursory QC inspection?

It's not like they're a public company being squeezed for profit at the cost of quality by a private equity firm or something. I have some faith they will right their ship but who knows.
> That's why the Tank Museum in Munster is the only museum in Germany where you can see tanks without modifications

That can't be right, there's also the Militärhistorisches Museum der Bundeswehr in Dresden.
Yes, and as far as I know that's down to tariffs and subsidies in the EU.

See https://www.researchgate.net/figure/White-Sugar-Prices-Euro-... to see that sugar is much more expensive inside the EU than on the world market.

And https://www.reuters.com/article/us-eu-sugar-prices-graphic-i... and https://ec.europa.eu/info/sites/default/files/food-farming-f...

https://www.ragus.co.uk/tariffs-on-sugars-explained/ also seemed interesting. They say:

> The basic tariff for importing direct consumption sugar into the EU is €419 per tonne. So, every tonne of sugar imported from a non-EU country costs an extra €419. Raw sugar imported into the EU is to be further refined into white sugar attracts a tariff of €339 per tonne.
Interesting. I always assumed the radiation was from the target.
> And the government didn’t ask: they volunteered.

This betrays a very naive understanding of how changes like this come about.
Yes I’m fully aware of all the flaws in the technical, ethical and political arenas.
Kids these days have it so easy. It used to be you needed to scrape html pages and submit forms to get at someone else‘s data.

Now all you need to do is grab their GraphQL endpoint from devtools and you‘re off to the races.
Oh, the police will get a search warrant, and find exactly what they were told would be on your device. The police aren't in the business of discovering your innocence. It's then up to you and your lawyer to prove you didn't put it on your device. Meanwhile your life will fall apart as you get fired, your wife divorces you, you lose all custody of your kids, etc.
Or the good enough classic Sony 7506s.

Studio mainstay of the last 30+ years. Comfy as hell. Accurate enough, if flattering. <$100. I have a 20 year old pair that got a few new sets of earpads but sound as good as day one.
This is what you see, but the whole system is a black box. All this speculation exist already. All you have is the trust.
Same "if" argument is as strong as before and after this feature. People don't seem to understand, that the way they see how the system works does not mean that it works that way.

For example if Apple releases iCloud Photo app, how do you know that it is actually removed when it is removed? Same party is responsible about the OS and the app. Again, you have to trust their word. If they are saying, that they only scan photos which are going into cloud, then it is the same thing. You have to trust what they say and final functionality does not get any different.

> If you're an iCloud user, it's not much different. But if you're not, you're basically safe from that particular feature creep of extending the scan to other parts of the system (like whole photo-roll, documents, data from other apps, etc)

If you read their protocol, you would see that they can't send data alone. They have 30 pages long whitepaper which explains how scan analysis is cryptografically embedded into voucher with original data, and is not possible to send alone. Again, all you can do is to trust their word.

If you look at the past, Apple has invested a lot of things, that it can lock itself out. There are no history of misuse in the past, yet this is speculated all the day.

"Scanning other parts of the system" is like only 10 lines of code without this new feature, and many don't realize that. Antivirus engines has existed since 1980s and if Apple wants to allow some government to scan your files by changing their model, it has happened already. Once they allow that, then we should be mad. We should not be mad about speculation everything.

For example giving private keys to China government to access their iCloud data is not an example if someone tries to mention that. They haven't change the underlying model in their operating system. They gave out the data, which was result of their operating system unchanged.
The first time I've stepped out of the shadows as a lurker just to +1 your comment on "squishy" buttons. I recently saw this technique used on matcha.xyz/blog and I must say I am also a big fan.
uhh how is it not cp if someone is a minor
You'd have to ask the kids who just took that class. I'm too old to remember ;-)
7 Days of Bootstraps: Day 1
As long as you don't have any international customers that would necessitate VAT support...
And that’s how France still has VAT & revenue taxes.

Revenue tax? Have to pay for that expensive WWI war effort, you understand? For all the good it did.

Same with the VAT. Have to rebuild after WWII, you understand.

We also have an "Exceptional and Temporary Contribution" (CET), recently renamed to "Technical Equilibrium Contribution" (still CET. Smart one, that one).

A funny one, for a change?

When the Germans invaded in WWII, they changed France's timezone to theirs. After the war, we still called it "the German time". There were talks of going back for a few years…

Guess who still has noon at 2pm in the summer, decades later?

Change, no matter how ridiculously small or sensical, even when nobody benefits from the status quo (ie the damn timezone) is horrendously difficult.

Thus one should always assume that once it’s here, whatever "it" is, it’s here to stay.
At most this is as legitimate as seizing someone's house because they once sold some pot to a friend in said house. Yeah it's within the letter of the law but it's still dumb and wrong.

"Rearming" a 70yo tank is fundamentally a historical restoration project and the kind of people who do it are no hazard to public health. The law was not written for these kinds of people. It was written for people who are actually up to no good. It's pretty clear from patterns of behavior who is arming tanks to have a cool historically accurate tank and who is doing that sort of thing as a means to a more nefarious end.

Defending this sentence is only a hair away from defending insane drug sentencing "because the law is the law". The law is dumb and if this were the US I'd say the judge has poor judgement for not using his discretion to hand down a practically nonexistent sentence. I don't know to what extent German judges can influence sentencing.
The cheapest and most effective climate change intervention we could stage would be to get a few busses of activists and shut down the entry of workers and coal shipments into power plants, and to disable equipment.

The EU has about 300 coal power plants.

With 100 people at each, that's only 30,000 people.

In 2019, 300,000 people joined the 'climate strike' in the UK alone:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_2019_climate_strikes....

At this coal plant in Germany, just five people were able to shut it down for several hours, saving 26,000 tonnes of CO2:

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/dec/04/no-regre...

We could probably pull this off just with the backing and resources of a multi-millionaire, to pay someone to organise the activists, identify the locations and equipment, and to bail them out of jail and defend them in courts.
I think it's just like anything that's gotten popular. SPAs are all over the place now, which means there are plenty of bad implementations along with the good ones. But generally you only notice the bad ones due to frustration. This isn't SPA-specific IMO. I've seen plenty of server rendered pages/sites that were also poorly done back when those were more the norm. Heck, I still help maintain a set of CGI scripts that are horrible and slow.
Answering myself;

https://medium.com/@elcomsoft/forensic-guide-to-imessage-wha...

Signal;
-Legal requests: Signal does not keep communication histories its servers. Since there is nothing to request, Signal conversations cannot be obtained with legal requests.
-Vendor cloud: Signal does not keep conversations on its servers. Cloud acquisition is not possible.
-Local backups: Signal does not store conversations in local (iTunes) backups.
-iCloud backups: Same as above. Signal does not store conversation histories in iCloud backups.
-iCloud Drive: No stand-alone backups in iCloud Drive.
-File system: Signal database is encrypted. The encryption key is stored in the keychain with the highest protection class. Extracting and decrypting the keychain (e.g. with Elcomsoft iOS Forensic Toolkit) is required in order to decrypt the Signal database.

Telegram;
-Legal requests: Telegram keeps a comprehensive history of the user’s regular (non-secret) chats on its servers. Regular and group chats can be obtained with a legal request depending on jurisdiction. Secret chats are never stored and cannot be obtained with a legal request. Telegram is notable for ignoring legal requests in some jurisdictions, which had led the service banned in several countries.
-Vendor cloud: As mentioned above, Telegram keeps the history on its own servers. By authenticating as a user, one can retrieve those communications (except secret chats) from Telegram servers.
-Local backups: Telegram does not store conversations in local backups. Instead, conversation histories are synchronized using Telegram’s own cloud service.
-iCloud backups: Same as above. Telegram does not store conversation histories in iCloud backups.
-iCloud Drive: There are no stand-alone backups in iCloud Drive.
-File system: Telegram does not feature any additional protection to the working database. Once a file system image is captured from the iPhone, extracting and analyzing Telegram conversations including secret chats and attachments is trivial.
This is a ridiculous argument. How could a company continue to function in this case? A pot of gold or some other form of magic?

The point is, compensation is inequitable. Upper management at most tech companies is paid 20-50x what a worker is paid. Do you think that is reasonable?
Yeah, I know. And still some years ago the Army did an engine revision on that particular tank. Through official channels and properly invoiced. Not saying that owning a tank is good, bit having thousands of rounds of ammo might be more critical. I'd have to look up the details so to be sure.
I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or if you are being serious? But, in case you were being serious, I think the blog post does not quite come to the same conclusions you seem have come to
NCMEC's CSAM database already includes images that are not necessarily illegal. If _your particular_ photos have been flagged in the past, they may well be part of the database.
As Sir Humphrey said, education policies are not for children and parents, but for teachers.
> "But they said they expected any such attacks to be very rare ..."

Well, ransomware has been rare almost forever, then suddenly became the norm.

> "and that in any case a review would then look for other signs of criminal hacking."

Good luck finding a malicious app that downloads child porn from an encrypted remote
server, plants it in the target device, sends "by mistake" an example to social media using
the owner credentials, then deletes itself.

This is crazy. Child porn traffickers will find a way to circumvent this while it would offer
governments just another weapon against people they don't like.

Also they completely ignore that we're talking about child porn; if someone is wrongly linked with the subject for just one second by the media, no matter how many times the news is being rectified afterwards, his life may be ruined forever. It's not like being accused of avoiding taxes or theft; any mental association with things like child porn or rape is not going away easily.

Any technology that could be (ab)used to plant evidence in such cases would be the ultimate weapon to destroy individuals without actually killing them. Better not to have it than to risk that it ends in the wrong hands.
If you want ammo, just get yourself some field where a trench war has been fought. It will spit out unexploded ammo, bombs and mines at an alarming rate. You'll fill about a shed every year.

It is of course illegal to own these things. You're supposed to call the army (DOVO in my case), who will then tell you they have no time, have lost the capability to process these things, are on holiday for the next 5 years, whatever.

If this bothers you, you might drop them in a truck and dump them off at an army base, which will scare the bejeesus out of the poor soldiers, especially if you start jumping up and down on the heap like an angry madman (this might make it to some local newspaper). The army will declare this stuff far too dangerous for their base, and demand you to drag them back to your own field. If you can get kids to steal the stuff, this solves your problems with both the ammo and the kids. You might have a new complaint about noise levels.

What exactly is the problem with an old farth owning a few sheds full of world war ammo? Damn, my sarcasmometer just broke.
hybrid for me allows me to be a father, but also have some sort of office life.

A lot of my colleagues are going this way. It allows them to have some deep focus time, but also have meeting times. Its clearly delineated too.

Its not for everyone, but for parents, it can be good.
Seems a bit silly, the amount of armour on most WW2 tanks is trivial to penetrate for nearly anything made post-WW2.
Yeah, especially when it's multiple sequential loads, so instead of a large HTML blob it takes forever. Usually with 270ms+ if it's US East (from Australia).
You’re missing something. Metaphorically it is like the difference between having a long lived process that services web requests and spinning up your whole environment per request.
I agree. This is extremely frustrating. One work around I found, was to also use Google Fi. Then I would use my Google Fi number, which would route to Google Hangout. Then I could get the code from there.

However, Google just killed my Google Fi account because I'm abroad to much. So now I need a new workaround.

If you're in the US a lot this could work for you.
Can someone please explain to me how this comparison would work? It seems so trivial to alter any image containing CP slightly such that its hash doesn't compare anymore?