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Comment SEP field activated: (Score 1) 422

What's done with my house after I no longer need it is shielded from me by the most powerful invisibility field there is.

From The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The SEP field.
It simply makes whatever it is seem to be "Someone Else's Problem".

At that point it is utterly invisible to me!

And I can have engraved as my epitaph "No Longer My Problem!"

Comment Re:Totally possible to not be tracked (Score 4, Insightful) 73

Better: Don't have a cell phone.

Bicycle? Feetmobile? Sorry, but unless you live in pretty rural areas you'll still get picked up by traffic cameras. Law enforcement may not have your identity immediately, but if you regularly ride the same routes, if they get interested enough in you, they can figure it out. And public transport buses nearly all have cameras.

Yes, it can be done, but it's pretty hard.

Comment Heretic! (Score -1, Offtopic) 334

You have blasphemed and are thus mod-warred.

You are free to say uncomfortable truth about power sources the particular reader dislikes, but not the ones they like.

(It's not just the wind power fans. Try criticizing molten thorium salt reactors around those particular true believers)

Comment Old news: (Score 1) 27

The furries have been making much better ones that don't need tethers, and have a wider variety of tail motion algorithms for decades.
The first I know of was in the late 90s and had myoelectronic pickups on the wearers leg muscles to synchronize it. (That's frankly a poor idea. A couple of switches/sensors in the costume feet work much better and aren't noise sensitive.)

They really do alter your gate a lot. It's hard to walk with one that's been programmed intentionally to be out of synch.

Microsoft

Microsoft To Explore Using Rust (zdnet.com) 146

Microsoft plans to explore using the Rust programming language as an alternative to C, C++, and others, as a way to improve the security posture of its and everyone else's apps. From a report: The announcement was made yesterday by Gavin Thomas, Principal Security Engineering Manager for the Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC). "You're probably used to thinking about the Microsoft Security Response Center as a group that responds to incidents and vulnerabilities," Thomas said. "We are a response organization, but we also have a proactive role, and in a new blog series we will highlight Microsoft's exploration of safer system programming languages, starting with Rust." The end game is to find a way to move developers from the aging C and C++ programming language to so-called "memory-safe languages." Memory-safe languages, such as Rust, are designed from the ground up with protections against memory corruption vulnerabilities, such as buffer overflows, race conditions, memory leaks, use-after free and memory pointer-related bugs.

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