The chaff bugs would be inserted by an automated tool. No need for programmers to make up anything.

They would not be indistinguishable from the real thing to a skilled hacker; the idea is that they would be so numerous as to make the effort of finding the actual exploitable bugs uneconomical.

The paper says the injected bugs are triggered by comparing an input value to a trigger constant. Dead code elimination cannot remove them because they depend on values that will not be known until run time.

It also explains that they make the chaff bugs unexploitable (or at least, attempt to do so) by limiting what memory locations they overwrite or which values are written.

We already have relevant laws:

The Fourth Amendment prohibits legislation that forbids people from keeping their "papers and effects" encrypted when no warrant has been issued. When a warrant has been issued:

The Fifth Amendment forbids compelling anyone to provide self-incriminating testimony, why should compelling anyone to provide self-incriminating evidence be any different?

Mandating key escrow might be constitutional. Then they could convict for the crime of having an un-escrowed encrypted device even if they couldn't prove terrorism or pedo charges. Remember, Al Capone was convicted of tax evasion, not murder or racketeering.

Towers that are currently decades old would probably need to be replaced by taller ones because the most cost-effective blade size has gone up over the past few decades (https://www.wind-energy-the-facts.org/growth-of-wind-turbine-size.html).

We cannot have a sustainable society based on fossil energy anyway. Add the problem of CO2 emissions and it becomes apparent that the transition to renewable energy sources must accelerate.

Build them shelters out of decommissioned wind turbine blades?

I don't use a Model M because they make that infernal racket, the actuation force is too high, and the key travel is too long.

If that's what you like, fine, but I hope I don't have to sit nearby.

Back in my university days, there was one bank of terminals (yes kids, multiple students shared one computer!) that were always in use because they had great Hall-effect keyboards--sadly I don't remember the make or model.

For years, industry watchers have debated which would come first: Intel lowering power consumption enough to create viable mobile chips, or ARM increasing performance enough to create viable desktop and server chips.

IF Intel wins, why do you think "the entire mobile market moves to x86"? If anything, the legacy software shoe is on the other foot.

I really want basketball to switch from free-throw shooting to a hockey-style penalty box.

He wrote that he wasn't around when the first movie came out. Probably not aware that the spaceships were physical models shot with (computer-controlled) physical cameras.

When they say "supercomputer in your pocket" they are comparing a modern cell phone to a supercomputer from 20 years ago.

This chip doesn't need to keep up with the latest powerhouse desktop chips from Intel and AMD. If it runs a web browser as well as a 10 year old desktop chip, but with 12W TDP, it'll be fine for the target market.

A peace treaty is being discussed. The formal ending comes when the treaty is signed.

No President was stupid enough to give the North Korean leader what he wanted and get nothing of substance in return.

I bet you were brilliant on the high school debate team. We shall see whether you can resist the temptation to post more farcical inanities.

We could have gotten to the exact same point where we are now without any of Trump's puerile rhetoric.

Coming to the table, one-on-one, appearing on the world stage as an equal, was exactly what Dear Leader wanted. The Great Negotiator gave him that in exchange for basically nothing.

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In many places, there is indeed "regulatory crap" the holds back electric utilities from providing Internet service.