I know, right? I had all my money on voodoo and child sacrifice, but damned if mathematics isn't uncannily useful.

Naw just use the RightwingNutjobPhone. It's totally secure. I came up with the otp myself by rolling a fair die with my own hands. It was such a perfect source of entropy I just had to hardcode it into my system...

$1 for the chalk mark, the rest for knowing where to put it, and all that.

I remember being a kid in the 90s and watching scare stories on the TV about other kids in the 90s who were so addicted to the computers they were writing software and making their own websites! As kids!

I wasn't one of those kids. I didn't LearnToCode until college. But I was good friends with one of those kids while in college. He's worth at least 10 or 20 times more than me now.

And the other millenial parents on my street are grabbing up spots at after school coding classes for their elementary school aged kids.

Not that I think it's gonna go anywhere. Unless your kid is significantly smarter than your average bear, coding won't stick until high school at the earliest. But I'm sure there were fads in the 90s that my parents were too poor to pay for that I just wasn't aware of that also went nowhere but elicited equally strong visceral reactions over what turned out to be nothing.

On an unrelated note, let's everyone refrain from utilizing the faculty of recollection to the cave days of five years ago. Just because.

I know, right? It's funny because it didn't happen to anything I'm working on.

If it had, it would of course be a national tragedy and it'd be one of the bad isms if flags didn't fly at half-staff out of solidarity.

But it wasn't anything of mine so fuck yeah!

Retard.

So this side channel signal can be obfuscated with randomly timed broad frequency reads and writes to the filesystem, presumably? Since the signal it is looking for is latency caused by patterns of reads and writes that fingerprint an application?

How about we don't? And as an added bonus of "don't," you get the benefits of not subverting property rights, not creating another expensive enforcement regime, and not failing to solve the problem of "he's got something I don't therefore he stole it from me and I must punish him" but saying you did.

but it *is* cheaper than carpet bombing the whole jungle to take out one tent, at least.

Sigh...

When you buy stock in a company, you have a claim on a portion of a (nominally) productive asset (seize the means of production, comrade!) in addition to some expected gain or loss in value based as much on random variations in perception of value or random exogenous events.

When you bet on which politico more prodigiously panders to palm oil producers, what productive asset serves as the figleaf behind which you claim you are not gambling?

better working conditions for all, with absolutely no downsides for anyone anywhere!

Bottom line: if you're a US company and you make sneakers, you can be (and many are) a design-only shop and your stuff can be made abroad. And the design work can happen overseas too. With aerospace this just isn't possible.

The economics and methodology are different. Here, labor costs dominate so labor is what gets skimped on. There, labor is cheap and material costs dominate, so the materials are what gets skimped on. You can design something to minimize touch labor but still not fall apart it you look at it funny, but if you cheap out on the plastic or the adhesives it's going to fall apart fast.

I mean exactly what I said. If you run an aerospace company in the US, you can't hire foreign nationals, subcontract parts of your rocket or satellite to foreign companies without an export license *for the system requirements in your rfp* and you can't have it launched abroad without an export license.

In practice this doesn't mean you can't have foreign parts, just that they need to be entirely off-the-shelf, which most specialized aerospace components are not.

Pissing on a whole service branch as "cosplay" by association because you don't like the guy who signed the legislation is boorish when a civilian does it and poor stewardship of the machinery of the state when an elected official does it.