(as long as the NSA can keep their private key list secret)

Ah, you have found the flaw in your plan. The NSA is not known for flawless performance in keeping secrets.

There's also the problem of controlling the NSA, and making sure it doesn't reveal any keys without a court order, given the secrecy they like. Or possible security breaches in the process, since the NSA will get a lot of requests.

I'm a UK IT Contractor and like most I use a company, my company pays me a salary even if I'm not actually doing billable work. I actually take around 3 months paid leave each year. That is my choice. My company charges my clients a billable rate around ten times the UK minimum wage. This sort of setup is common with contractors in the UK, some take less time off, some more, that is their choice, they get paid a annual salary that is well above the minimum wage including leave. I could work a couple months a year and I would still be better off than these drivers.

Uber drivers are employees, that is what this case has determined, Uber think they should be able to operate under US conventions, the UK employment law has ruled they cannot.

Trump level stupid is beyond that, he cannot even recall the lies he's told in the past so he keep stepping on his crank. He cannot read through any of the legislation he supports so he's constantly contradicting the positions in that legislation. That's not just undermining his own interest, that's too stupid to realize he undermining his own interests. Hell, even attributing "interests" to him beyond honking on about himself seems ludicrous.

There is a library you can download for free that will simulate a number of qubits. But yes, you can use Not and And operations on them. In fact, that is the whole challenge of building an algorithm that takes advantage of them. Because once you apply those rules, and measure the outcome, you collapse the quantum state and they all become a single value, not a superposition. So, think of it this way, it's not that it exists in all states, it is that you don't have to calculate it in all states, you merely need to know some kind of algorithm that tells you which set of states to read. Like I say, it melts my brain, but better people than me are working on the problem.

I saw him and he elaborated on 'the smell of space'. It was the smell of the airlock, or whatever, that had been recently exposed to the vacuum of LEO and then pressurized. He said it was a unique and clearly identifiable smell.

The interesting thing is the vacuum of low earth orbit is pretty dirty. We can make much better and cleaner vacuum on earth on a limited basis, say in a cubic meter or so. Even on earth, after pressurizing a vacuum you can smell the difference. On earth that might be because it is a nitrogen rich atmosphere at that point. But there is smell.

The most poignant thing he said was that he got a call where NASA cut off external communications, like to NASA TV, to talk to him. It was about his sister in law being shot. Each time the channels were cleared after that he wondered what catastrophe happened.

The funniest thing is the difference between Russian and US culture. When there was a possibility of a collision, one that would like destroy the station, the US procedure was to lock everything down in a futile attempt to minimize damage. The Russian response was to accept the inevitable outcome if the station was hit and have lunch. It reminds me of French colleague that always insisted that the problem would still be there in a hour, so there was no reason not to have a peaceful lunch.

You are confusing marketing with intelligence. There is no correlation between the two.

As attributed to P. T. Barnum

"There's a sucker born every minute."

I'm just lazy in updating my /. signature.

I mostly read free ebooks, as most ebook shops have free books all the time. I'm on several mailing lists that promote free ebooks.

Regarding the 'first post', I would not mind if questions like this, especially with hints what to read, are asked/posted once a month.

The last really good big thing I read was a triology from Andreas Christensen, Exodus, Rift, Alive. I believe the first one is Rift.

If he's a lying sack of shit like his Commerce Secretary Ross (claimed to be worth a few billions, Forbes discovered he'd been lying for years and the max he could have is $700 million, and they aren't sure he has that), I doubt Trump is worth as much as his mouth said he was.

I would like to know what the actor would do if the daughter ever saw him out in public somewhere being a "dad/boyfriend/husband" to another customer. That would be really hard to explain.

I finally came back to RTFA.

Most posts here (including some in this thread tree) keep talking about prostitutes and escorts. Which isn't unreasonable given TFS.

But TFA goes further. It's surreal. This sort of acting, of... reality orchestration, is the kind of shit reserved for fiction. The Truman Show. It's unexpectedly similar to Dollhouse, if you've seen it:

This is the stuff of fantasy, Hollywood CIA professionals who replace people (could be friend, could be foe) with a trained lookalike. If you told me such a business existed, I'd mock the sheer practicality of it (many posts have) but it turns out people will take what's available. Limited durations (not if the money keeps flowing) or capabilities aren't a problem for some scenarios. Give TFA a read, people. I can see how various "apology" actors would be useful.

So, just demonstrate being an idiot, instead? (You fucked up "you're")

I usually default to "never ascribe to malice, what can be explained by incompetence" Though I admit the difference is often slight

if Uber didn't tightly control working hours by punishing drivers for not accepting unprofitable trips or not accepting enough trips. Uber has been caught doing both and I imagine a subpoena could find lots of other examples of Uber dangling carrots to force certain behavior if we actually had a working labor board anywhere on earth.

I could probably come up with other reasons why Uber drivers are, for all intents and purposes, employees, but I'll give other's a chance to chime in. Also, you probably don't want to break the employee/employer social contract. Maybe in the UK. In the States it's probably a bad idea. Guns we got, mental health services and a safety net, not so much...

Yeah, TNG does some pretty dumb shit.

1. Let's send humans (with the chance that they could get killed) instead of a probe *facepalm*
2. Tendency to beam in THEN draw their weapons -- they started fixing this in later seasons *double facepalm*
3. Let's use these shitty 14" monitors instead of Wall-to-Wall screens
4. Let's use a flat console that has ZERO tactile feedback instead of having actual physical buttons
5. Let's not put any seat belts or anything else to hold onto in the bridge when the ships gets rocked
6. Riker/Captain telling another officer Shields up" when it would be far faster for them to hit a button right next to them
7. "Shields at maximum strength" - Uh, shouldn't shields always be at max strength if they are on? Again, why isn't there a button next to the captain's char?
8. Constantly using voice commands to _another_ officer who has to listen, and then execute it. This is about a 3+ second DELAY. Good thing they always ran into enemies who were patient!

Humans in the loop--that is the never ending problem. AI would work perfectly if we can eliminate the human factor. I recommend ovens.

local regulators won't issue data center operating licenses to foreign companies

It appears AliBaba (and other Chinese companies) have caught on to the American trick of using the government to guarantee their markets.

Brain Pinky are you thinking what I'm thinking ? Pinky Yeah, but where are we going to get rubber pants that size ?

Single's day is just how it all started. It has since become a mere hollow name.

Never, EVER, cooperate with the police. Nothing good can ever come of it.

He does talk about what it is like coming down on Russian hardware. You are crammed into a small space. Piece of the vehicle are flying off and passing in front of the viewport, which is inches away from your face. It is so exciting he said, it is the main reason he would go up again.

My thoughts exactly, So many times in my work life I've found - less than adequate coworkers slacking or sabotaging - like they needed to work at being bad. Sometimes I wonder how any progress happens.

Very true. They keep building crap we don't need like computers, power plants, stores, and stuff. Let's give that materialistic life up and move back to a more basic life. Personally I like the smell of dinner cooking over an open dung fire.

Touche!

It's likely a proprietary encryption algorithm, not something industry-standard like SHA-1.

And therein may lie the rub.

The easy way to do this is just end manufacturing. We can all move to the country and engage in subsistence farming. How're your farming skills?

Allegedly...

I'm not a fan of the phrase "get through" when talking about reading or listening to books. It conveys the importance of throughput over digestion.

I usually read slowly, often a paragraph or a sentence at a time, to really think about what's being said and how's it's being said, and to revel in powerful moments. (I often joke to myself that it takes me longer to read a book than it took to write.) Often, when read, I toss a book around in my mind for some months, reading online discussion, and writing my own review, before starting another.

FYI: the iPhone 5 and 5c were the last that had the countermeasures in flashable firmware. iPhones since have had a "secure enclave" that would do all the deciphering, with no possibility of reading the key from it by normal means, and doing its own counting of invalid passwords. I'm sure there's some way to break into them, but the security is much, much improved.

No thanks. Everyone knows that using Go 2 in your code is bad programming practice.

macbook — because you can run all three: i) macOS, ii) linux, and iii) windows — the hardware will boot all three natively. also — you get to run UNIX + have adobe and microsoft office at the same time — no need to install cygwin.

the combo of being able to boot every OS + native unix + adobe and microsoft apps — and decent hardware specs that take a beating makes the macbook pro a great machine — they stand up to abuse and keep on ticking, and are beautifully designed.

i just upgraded from a 2009 macbook pro to a 2016 macbook pro — they boosted the speed of the processor, went retina, and went with all usbC ports — yet, im still running the same monitor and usb hub + audio interface — the cables changed with usbC, but the hardware and peripherals didnt, so its not as big a deal as some make it. best machine ever made.

2cents from toronto island,
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Out of curiosity though, doesnâ(TM)t Houston need to know how much weight remains on the station for stationkeeping maneuvers and whatnot?

who don't take enough rides or who turn down rides that aren't profitable. Uber does lots of stuff to control it's workforce. Sorta like an employer (hmmmm....).

I think the language is alright, and I use it regularly because it is the best alternative to C and C++ that I have discovered so far (need to look into rust). That said, I share your annoyances and add some more: * No method overloading. Itâ(TM)s annoying to have to come up with a new name for permutations like: func (matrix *Matrix4) SetTranslation(x, y, z float32), func (..) SetTranslationVector3(vector *Vector3), SetTranslationMatrix4(matrix *Matrix4), ad infinitum. * I find the previous issue ironic given their reason for omitting overloads, that it makes code less readable, yet their habit of using abstract, one or two character identifiers for everything * Public members are PascalCase, private are camelCase as a rule. This was especially annoying before go-aware refactor tools were available.

I think what you mean by Trump level stupid, is that this guy, like Trump, undermines his own interests by bragging about what he has done and gotten away with.

Although I will agree it is Trump level stupid, this particular kind of stupid is actually a fairly common type of dumb criminal stupid.

OTP is not all that rare. And on extremely high-volume products, ROM is still a "Thing".

BTW, just because a microcontroller is Flash-based; doesn't mean the device itself has the ability to (re)program it. They can't assume that everyone has a JTAG programmer at their disposal, and even if the device itself can (re)program its own Flash, there has to be code to support the flashing, and SPACE to store a downloaded "Update" while the device continues to function and (re)program.

Considering the longstanding bugs in my Harmony Remote, I would say that self-programming was not a design consideration.

you'll have more snooping. See, you're never really going to get less government because the ruling elite, the billionaires, want it. Your only real hope is to take control of it from them using democracy. If you just try to cut it back all that really happens is they seize control of it while you're busy not participating.

I found it useful to have a coach. I'd been soldering for years, but a few hours with a stereo microscope and an anal retentive trainer broke me of some bad habits that I wasn't aware of.

So we can't have a story about the DDoS attacks on banks and we can only hear the real story mentioned once they have an example of some one they caught for being barely involved?

I'm beginning to wonder if the media isn't one consolidated entity under the control of the banks and if law enforcement isn't similar....

It seems odd to wait to buy something until a holiday if you're single. If I was single, I'd just buy what I wanted when I wanted. :shrugs:

or trolling. Or being paid to spout this nonsense. It really doesn't matter which. And yes, you can still find information using google. Information on studies that are fully sourced.