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Comment Re:Dependance on electronics is always a fail (Score 1) 153

20+ years of owning big dogs. I've lived in several "rough" neighborhoods and I have never had anyone try to break in. A German Shepard's bark is far more effective than any form of electronic protection.

The best security system you can have is a dog, You have a lot of what if replies but it's a known fact. Nobody gets close to my place
without my dog letting me know, he also does this without being a nuisance.

Security companies also make more money than one would think just selling signs or decals claiming a home alarm is installed for those
with or without pets.

Comment Re:That's not a "home security system". (Score 1) 153

That's not a "consumer grade home security system". It's a motion sensor alarm. A cheap, pitiful motion sensor alarm. That a $7.80 alarm doesn't use a sophisticated or even up-to-date remote shouldn't be a surprise to anyone

Yes, something someone would take with them on a trip. a take along security system. How many people you think are going to be waiting for
them to record their code :}

Comment Re:Nothing but an extremely long (in our terms) cy (Score 1) 164

Which means that through some process Penrose has never explicated - if that's a word - the ultimate future can wrap onto the ultimate past and suddenly there's a new Big Bang.

(TIC)

So there is life after death, see ya all on the rebound.

What would one use to accelerate fast enough to get out of this time loop?

Comment Quantum foam just joined Dark matter, energy as FM (Score 2) 164

One astrophysicist now claims Black Holes are made by Freaking Magic...

This comes after NuSTAR found Black Holes "wherever it looked" {my words}, ""We found the black holes serendipitously," explained David Alexander, "We were looking at known targets and spotted the black holes in the background of the images."" anywhere between 0.3 and 11.4 billion light-years from Earth. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/09/130909154918.htm

NuSTAR http://www.nustar.caltech.edu/ and http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/nustar/main/index.html#.UjDw25I03n0

Now it's a race to explain this, and in the lead is Marco Spaans with mini black holes aka "Quantum uctuations in the form" that I would
tend to think would of made itself more pronounced than just adding substance to a Black Hole.

Comment Every HDTV ad will lie to you. (Score 1) 418

The best HDTV you can purchase is LED with LCD back lighting. You have to investigate the HDTV to ensure it's a full LCD
backLighting and not just side lighting with baffles to spread the light, sometimes it takes a lot of digging.

The best 3D is through Flicker glasses or one who's lens blink alternately. Mine are battery operated.
would cost a fortune replacing them if I used that option a lot. If you go 3D make sure they are rechargeable or USB power cord.

I purchased a HDTV recently and researched them first to be sure I got the right one. Only to purchase one when Costco dropped them
from $1000 to $300. I thought I made the right choice as well as it's a 600Hz. but a no return purchase.

The key is 24 fps, HDTV's resolution needs to be divisible evenly by 24 or "tricks" have to be used; 600Hz was so I was happy,
3D games were possible only to find out I fell for Panasonic big lie.

It's actually a 60 HZ, a plasma fires 10 times a second, so they multiply that by 60HZ = 600HZ to Panasonic.
My 3D games come in at 30 FPS. Plasma is the best picture but nobody mentioned white is 105 F, during the
summer the HDTV and air conditioner have a stand off. Then there's the burn in and a 100,000 hour life time of the screen.
While it comes across as a lot of time, it's dimming from day one.

My Panasonic TC-P42GT25 also can't be calibrated the contrast breaks at 30%, it's actually too dark to view, I have it on game or vivid mode
(very bright) to see. It's a "smart TV" so I can watch Netflix, youtube, HULU, what have you; but the processor can barely run Netflix - captions aren't an option.

Weary be the purchaser of a HDTV.

Here's a PDF that may help some- Display Myths Shattered: How Monitor & HDTV Companies Cook Their Specs
www.hephnertv.com/pdf/DisplayMythsShattered.pdf

Comment Re:huh? (Score 3, Interesting) 78

He knew the exact time he made the transaction. He knew the amount. He knew other details.

So, really, wtf?

I am not going to read the article. This is some sort of fear mongering.

Ya stupid article (I didn't read it either). They purchase something safe like marijuana then have the balls to say they purchased drugs.
Buy some Adderall I've seen lots of that for sale on the silk road.

Comment Re:Truecrypt Re:Not much worry with a source build (Score 4, Informative) 472

Digitial Forensics for Prosecutors presentation suggests Truecrypt has a backdoor.
http://www.techarp.com/showarticle.aspx?artno=770&pgno=0

The entire link inadvertently explains why cloud storage shouldn't be used, and that mobile devices are your worst enemy.

The only mention of TrueCrypt is this sentence:
  "Currently available for major software - Microsoft bitlocker,
  FileVault, BestCrypt, TrueCrypt, Etc" (sic)

  It does have these gems

  "The Patriot Act allows for the use of backdoors for counter terrorist investigations"

  The use of backdoors cannot be detected or proven.

  Vendors are legally and commercially prevented from acknowledging their backdoors.
  Defense will not be able to prove their existence.

  The files can be described as "forensically obtained"

Users of mobile devices and cloud storage sign off on their rights to data scanning.
There is no opt our option.

Lots more...

PDF can be downloaded here:
  http://www.techarp.com/article/LEA/Encryption_Backdoor/Computer_Forensics_for_Prosecutors_(2013)_Part_1.pdf

Comment Re:Ken Thompson, Anyone? (Score 2) 472

http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/ken/trust.html">http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/ken/trust.html

quoting Ken Thompson
  I would like to criticize the press in its handling of the "hackers," the 414 gang
 

God I guess...
   

The 414s gained notoriety in the early 1980s as a group of friends and computer hackers who broke into dozens of high-profile computer systems, including ones at Los Alamos National Laboratory, Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, and Security Pacific Bank.

They were eventually identified as six teenagers, taking their name after the area code of their hometown of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Ranging in age from 16 to 22, they met as members of a local Explorer Scout troop. The 414s were investigated and identified by the FBI in 1983. There was widespread media coverage of them at the time, and 17-year-old Neal Patrick, a student at Rufus King High School, emerged as spokesman and "instant celebrity" during the brief frenzy of interest, which included Patrick appearing on the September 5, 1983 cover of Newsweek.
 

September 5, 1983 cover of Newsweek
  http://mimg.ugo.com/201102/0/6/5/175560/cuts/4c6de9daa1c16-23680n_480x480.jpg

Text from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_414s

Comment Re:Ken Thompson, Anyone? (Score 5, Interesting) 472

Moral

The moral is obvious. You can't trust code that you did not totally create yourself..... A well installed microcode bug will be almost impossible to detect.

http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/ken/trust.html

You and the submitter in on this one? As the answer is a resounding NO.

A well installed microcode bug will be almost impossible to detect.

For people like me that didn't know, microcode can also be known as firmware, bios update
or "code in a device" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microcode

Ken Thompson's Acknowledgment

I first read of the possibility of such a Trojan horse in an Air Force critique (4) of the security of an early implementation of Multics.

(4.) Karger, P.A., and Schell, R.R. Multics Security Evaluation: Vulnerability Analysis. ESD-TR-74-193, Vol II, June 1974, p 52.

So in theory you can't even trust the code you write as your video card could change it.

--
If you aren't paranoid yet, just wait

Comment Re:Empire (Score 1) 562

This is because "the country" is really an empire, not a country. Would you find it odd that people in places under the US's imperial control (either formally or informally) don't always speak English?

I don't know if it counts but the Philippines. -It used to be under US control formally if for only a little while, informally a long time.

They have the same problem China does and it's a smaller area, The most spoken language is Tagalog and even then
so many distance regional differences many can't talk to each other.

That's the way it was when I lived there; hitting the wikipedia it's much worse than I thought, as Tagalog has been replaced
with Filipino and English

Official status
Filipino is constitutionally designated as the national language of the Philippines and, along with English, one of two official languages.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filipino_language

Comment Re:Diamond Beats Everything (Score 2) 133

If they were really high-end they would be Gold.

It's a little known fact, but diamond has the highest thermal conductivity of any substance you're ever likely to encounter, beating silver by a whopping 350%. The only reason it's never used for thermal applications is that forming it into arbitrary shapes is almost beyond mankind's capability, and even if we did manage to do it, the cost would be astronomical. However, if it could somehow be done, and done cheaply, it would be the ultimate heat sink material.

Thanks for that!

Just recently saw a thermal compound with diamonds http://www.amazon.com/Innovation-Cooling-Diamond-Thermal-Compound/dp/B0042IEVD8 I didn't give it a second thought as someones always pushing a newer better compound. Guess I'll pick some up and give it a try.

Comment Re:Silver (Score 1) 133

If they were really high-end they would be Gold.

But seriously, I use the stock fan/heatsink that comes with the CPU and even with video encoding pushing all 6 cores to almost 100% I have no problems. "High End CPU Cooler" is as much of a scam as "High End Bottled Water".

Ever read the booklet (Installation instructions) that comes with the Intel CPUs? I did cause I wanted to know just what temperature the chip should run at? For my i7-950 the "internal ambient temperature should be at or below 38 C, this is maintained with the integration of of a Thermally Advantaged Chassis". :}

(The ambient temperature is measured at the inlet to the processor thermal solution)
-From my booklet, it's been changed and that entry removed so I can't link to it..

The stock Intel CPU cooler can't come close to maintaining that limit.

Comment Re:Silver (Score 0) 133

"High End CPU Cooler" is as much of a scam as "High End Bottled Water".

No, it really isn't. Besides having quantifiably better cooling capabilities, these high-end coolers are often much quieter. I have a Noctua NH-D14, and while it's not as pretty as, say, the Thermaltake FioOCK from TFA, I find it far superior to any stock solution I've ever used. I can't even hear the thing, despite it having two 120mm fans.

So you have 2.4 pounds, that extends 5" above the mother board, then more than likely it sits sideways.
That's a lot of stress on anything over a period of time. Moving your system at all increase the chance of spider cracks.

And my feelings over these type of coolers, I've always gone with an enclosed water cooling system
http://www.newegg.com/Water-Liquid-Cooling/SubCategory/ID-575?Tpk=water%20coolers

They are small, light weight and can remove a lot of heat Using a CORSAIR H50 (no longer being sold),
i7-950 chip at 4.4Ghz running OCCT for a hour and never got above 65 C

I now use a Thermaltake CLW0217 It keeps my system very cool. But I wouldn't recommend it to anybody, as it takes up
an entire USB header and requires Windows software to operate it (fan control). I just want it full on, so soon to be rewiring it that way.

Comment Re:Do you admit to smoking marijuana? (Score 1) 213

Ah but the feds have blinked and said what is planned is good with them.

No, no they haven't, and if you think they have, you are only fooling yourself. Until the law is actually changed, or the drug rescheduled, it continues to be a violation of federal law to put THC into your body by any means. That means that you're confessing to a federal crime on the internet. Good plan!

Nothing they could do to me would come close, anywhere near what could of happened to me 40 years ago over marijuana in Texas.
After that anything is better.

I've been able admit it once before, I lived in Fairbanks Alaska when marijuana was legalized, nothing changed just an an option to alcohol for many.
Then to the lower 48 where it was illegal again.

So I've gone through the U.S legal swing on this marijuana thing,

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