174902186
submission
Tesseractic writes:
I am from Oz, and I'm currently having something of a dispute with our monarch. (I must read No Truce With Kings sometime.) I sometimes start my emails with "Greetings from Oz," and I am currently the holder of a WWVP card in the Australian Capital Territory; they don't give these away to criminals, enemies of the state, or (and particularly) pedophiles. This is the sort of card that _any_ Scout Leader should possess, for example, and which Richard Stallman in particular, should seek, should he never have actually been a member of such organizations as NAMBLA or the like. With a card of similar significance, Stallman could confidently resume a leadership role in the FSF and take the FSF onward.) For my part, it sometimes really makes my day when a kid in the supermarket mistakes me for Santa and I can feel free to interact with the kid, secure in the knowledge that I can produce the WWVP card to placate any concerned adult if needed. I actually got the card because I had planned to volunteer some of my time at Questacon in Parkes (the suburb of Canberra, ACT, not the town with the big dish in NSW): https://visitcanberra.com.au/a...
On FSF stuff:
The GNU Software Defined Radio project is key. With it and an appropriate amplifier and antenna you could even send ELF signals that might be picked up by submarines. Maybe send them, slowly, an ogg file, perhaps uuencoded. I wonder how long it would take to send Deep Purple's Space Truckin' over the ELF.
GNU TeXmacs is also key — could the FSF please release a version that uses _only_ the latest STIX fonts, and restore the AXIOM session plugin? I have a copy of Mathematica on one of my machines but I find it tedious.
FWIW, On Fidonet I often used a tagline very like: — C and C++ Programming, Analog and Digital design too.
FSF supporters, if you don't think the author of this post is insane, please check out my other recent post at https://slashdot.org/submissio... and please grade it NOTSPAM , perhaps on the firehose so we can discuss it on Slashdot's regular system. There is a plea for Bitcoin but read it first and then decide if it makes sense. I really only want help from those who are interested in the Internal Combustion Engine tech I've been sitting on for decades and in fuels for them that are carbon-neutral. MIT and integer factoring get a mention, too.
Enough from me, please vote it up.
174901706
submission
Tesseractic writes:
SDAPPEAL-A-6.txt
This is a big ask, Logan, but please let it run as it stands; the U.S.A. _owes_ me.
I'm currently trying out for the position of Planetary Guardian.
VERY VERY LONG — SAVE SECURELY AND READ WHEN YOU HAVE SPARE TIME.
(Or just skip to the bottom and just deposit your Bitcoin.)
As Don Mclean sang: "The more you pay, the more it's worth."
MORE HINTS FROM ME IN THE COMMENTS IFF IT MAKES THE FRONT PAGE _AND_ THE MONEY STARTS ROLLING IN, and perhaps discussion of what Tesseractic means to me and which Japanese and American companies stand to gain from it.
The Bitcoin wallet address for this appeal is at the bottom.
Some of you may have missed me for an extended period until fairly
recently. I had inadvertently trodden on some US intelligence toes
by casting aspersions on the reputation of a particular thing that
I shall _not_ name here. The less than 70 visitors in a year to my
first and so far only blog (WIX would simply not give me the search
terms I wanted) might recognise the site if I mentioned its name,
and there were less than a dozen postings in total. The raw data is
backed up, of course, but _don't_ go looking for it. Anyhow, after
a long delay and then a substantial and serious appeal to Logan
Abbot himself, in particular asserting that I am not now, nor have
I ever been an Officer or an Agent of any country's intelligence organisations (except for Mensa,) I got reinstated on Slashdot.
(I could always read, and still had excellent Karma, but I couldn't
post anything at all. What's the point of reading it if you can't express an opinion from time to time?)
I am from Oz, and I'm currently having something of a dispute with our monarch. (I must read No Truce With Kings sometime.) I sometimes start my emails with "Greetings from Oz," and I am currently the holder of a WWVP card in what is now known as the Australian Capital Territory, (The sort of card that _any_ Scout Leader should possess, for example, and which Richard Stallman in particular, should seek, should he never have actually been a member of such organisations as NAMBLA or the like. With a card of similar significance, Stallman could confidently resume a leadership role in the FSF and take the FSF onward.) For my part, it sometimes really makes my day when a kid in the supermarket mistakes me for Santa and I can feel free to interact with the kid secure in the knowledge that I can produce the WWVP card to placate a concerned adult if needed. The GNU Software Defined Radio project is key. The Australian Capital Territory (actually, its logical expansion to nearby Lake George) should, IMNSHO be, at some time in the future, be called the Oceania Capital Territory, and the sooner the better. Oceania would encompass the entire region of Oceania, but have absolute respect for the national sovereignty of any currently existing nation(s) in this region who do not choose to join with Australia. Penny Wong should be very busy indeed. At some point, either Australia or Oceania must secede from the British Commonwealth and become a Republic, taking New Zealand and Canada with us. I have plans for how to develop a great constitution using a small, carefully chosen committee, the possible sitting of both houses of Parliament for up to a fortnight, and a subsequent referendum. You read that right. The Canada connection deserves special mention — I don't mind if Canada retains national sovereignty and isn't an out-of-place part of Oceania, but they _must_not_ remain a part of the British Commonwealth. Thereby hangs a tale or three — perhaps to be told in the comments. Quite a few existing contracts with the Chinese should be torn up. I respect the Chinese for their single-minded dedication, but this is a multidimensional problem and the Chinese mindset does _not_ seem to me to be aligned with the interests of the Planet. (Note the KPAX — inspired spelling.) I have made myself a target to a certain former cagey bee type (see my most recent message(s) in a previous discussion's comments). I may soon change my name again, and this time the date of birth as well, I have been assured that this is within the rules at this level. The restoration and extension of my firearms license(s) seems to be a matter of getting a BB gun, some glasses, joining some clubs and filling out some paperwork and buying a car (This time I'll be able to lock the weapons in the car and have a drink with the other club members without worrying about breaking the rules by keeping the gun(s) in the pack I often carry (these days an old Empire Builder from Tom Bihn) on my motorcycle (was an old 1985 YAMAHA RZ350R, now a 2020 YAMAHA R6 — The penultimate road-going model, with a _great_ number on the engine.) Fuzzer is currently off the road: I MUST pick it up. and somehow make it roadworthy. I hope to acquire a certain old YAMAHA RZ500 (I have ridden precisely one of that type and the _only_ reason I didn't buy the example I rode (A _longish_ trip around my favorite loop near Brisbane) was that the thing simply failed to lift the front wheel to the opening of the throttle, even in first gear. I diagnosed the fault as a bunch of stuck-shut Power Valves, but the precise problem couldn't, of course be pinpointed merely by riding it, and it could have been a very expensive electronic fault to fix: the genuine parts to fix it might have exceeded the value of the (second-hand) bike. I actually intend to acquire quite a few RZ500s and RZ350s and RZ250s (largely parts-compatible and more common than the 350s) Suzuki enthusiasts are encouraged to collect old RGs of that era (1984 for the 500cc and 1985 for the 350s and 250s) and Honda enthusiasts likewise for their comparable 500cc, 350cc, and 250cc Grand Prix — style bikes. The powers that be seem to think that the (hopefully annual) race should be held from 2026 onwards, but they are NOT in control and this is MY idea, first communicated to others in 2013 during a previous visit to Canberra. The ACTTT, as I have dubbed it (hopefully the OCTTT by the time it runs) will be a combination of events including with a group of old-time Grand Prix bikes from the mid-1980s and a more modern, Isle of Man style event and a special 'keep the front wheel in the air for the largest fraction of the course' event which I expect will be one by a Moto Trials rider. I expect excellent data from that one. The event will have a minimum age requirement, at least initially, of 46 years and will be open to anyone who has ever had, at the time of the official announcement, an open license for competition motorcycling and competed in at least one open competition. The upper age limit will be set at the maximum age of Mick Doohan and all those who placed first, second or third in any 500cc race in any year in which Mick Doohan won the championship. All those riders will always be eligible to participate for as long as the race keeps being staged. My plan is for a late Autumn event (Southern Hemisphere) when some parts of the course will have leaves as a natural hazard. The event should also be a scientific experiment on the effects of Cannabis, conducted by academics from Canberra universities to high scientific standards. The main scientific aim would be to guide the development of appropriate procedures and legislation relating to Cannabis that might form a useful guide for other jurisdictions as well as the ACT/OCT itself. There would be associated events like concerts and cinema, some perhaps near the old Parliament House. One run that is a must-have is the road out to Cotter dam, which I'm told is the only route along which the Australian Federal Police tolerate speeding motorcycles under normal circumstances. It's one road out and the same road back, so it's imperative that a bike stay on the _left_ side of the road. I fully expect there to be deaths and insurance for the event will be difficult and expensive but hopefully not impossibly so.
I have lived here now in the same house since January 2022 and it's just a matter of time until I _own_ this house, but that's not soon enough for Kat DeLorean, who seems to muck about on Instagram and consistently FAIL to follow instructions on how to Authenticate Herself to Me by sending an email to my (paid) Proton.me email accounts (using Tor) including a good photo of her driver license as an attachment. As I promised, Kat is free to do anything she likes with the DeLorean Mark II. I _suggest_ that she let both Ford and Chrysler develop conventional drop-in replacements for the GM power plant she seems to plan for the Mark II. It may be the only way the DNG vehicles avoid the fate of the Tucker. (Remember the movie?)
Kat defines the interface specs in active collaboration with Ford and Chrysler and they should plan for the resulting three machines to meet the CAMS rules to be competitive in the annual Bathurst race where Holden fans could root for the GM-powered machines, the Ford fans could root for the Ford-powered machines, and those who remember Alan Moffat (Canadian) could root for the Chrysler powered machines. His son, I believe, is a currently active race driver and Chrysler might resurrect the Charger and/or Valiant brands for the purpose. I'll remind you, Kat that the new account to send your ID to rhymes with (but is NOT) graceysingers@Proton.me. (I now suggest Debian 12.7 (upgraded yesterday) and Tor Browser or Tails 6.5 or later); Proton mail; email with real driver license attachment for ID and real person-to-person communication, real soon (not RSN). This is not a hint — this is a direction. Fail me now and I will write into the patents a prohibition or a punitive license clause, on using MY engine technology in any DeLorean-derived vehicle for the life of the patents. Fail Me This Time, Kat and you won't get my tech for the DeLorean Mark III. Get to work and communicate with ME, using human tech, via Switzerland. This is your last warning, Kat. Message to all Slashdot users, I am a longtime Slashdot user — over a decade on this particular account alone. I was active on Fidonet for years and used the old Silly Little Mail Reader (SLMR) on various echomail conferences. I was a founding member of a group called BRISBUG (Initially called BRIsbane Sixteen Bit User Group) and even got to select my single digit BRISBUG ID. Later I got into usenet news groups and amongst other things submitted a cobbled-together mish-mash of templates and preprocessor macros that allowed dimension checking for numerical calculations. One comment to that was that with templates the dimension-checking 'just falls out of the type system' in C++. That code _might_ have been a precursor to the Boost::Units (or similar) stuff. For the memory-impaired — the British lost a Mars mission to a SNAFU involving a units foul-up in some fuel issue. Some other stuff that I've researched extensively and thought about deeply actually turned up partly implemented in Boost, apparently independently, I don't mind — it was always going to be open sourced and as it turns out the Boost implementation allows me an easy entry into the Boost world — by simply extending what's there according to a logical corollary of the principles. I mentioned that one to a nephew at my brother's funeral, actually.
On Fidonet I often used a tagline very like: — C and C++ Programming, Analog and Digital design too.
I have sucessfully designed and constructed an IBM Compatible computer main board and power supply (Back in '88 and '89.) using the same CPU and numeric coprocessor that did navigation for the ISS back when it was first designed and built. My first computer was an Intel 80186-based Laptop (amongst the first of that form factor) which used SRAM, 5 D-cells, ROM plug-packs and a 16-line monochrome, character-based LCD screen. There was a patent on the power circuitry that made it possible to have a decent battery life. I actually persuaded the people who sold me the thing to part with the circuit diagrams, the technical manual and part of the operating system code (an OEM-customised MS-DOS.) I actually devised, by studying the data manual of the 80186, a method of actually doubling the capacity of the ROM modules by doing odd-based 16-bit repetitive ops on the 80186 CPU and changing the ROMs in the plug pack to the latest Intel parts and adding a little logic. I think I still have some Intel UV-EPROMS in their tube. (At the time they were export-restricted and Kevin Franks of Total Electronics made it clear that to export such a device at the time was _not_ on.) I never completed that work but later, when I was working for 'Computer Corp' Time Office abandoned R&D on the Dulmont Magnum without ever, to my knowledge, releasing a hard disk drive for it. Looking back, the hard disks of the day could only have resided in the expansion module, which had two half-height 5.25" floppies and half a MiB of DRAM. I actually offered to redesign the power supply for the expansion unit at one point (the expansion unit overheated and had a big, hot and heavy transformer driving a low-voltage switcher.) The Magnum was designed by Dulminson Electronics and later sold to Time Office Computers who renamed it the Kookaburra and recoloured it from the original dark green to a yucky cream colour.) I waited for the 16-line model (it could also drive an external 24/25-line 80-character composite monochrome monitor), and got a green one but from Time Office instead of the cream coloured one, (Tim MacNamara gave and got a few things related to the machine (more SRAM, I bought a HiTech C compiler from Clyde Smith-Stubbs of Hi-Tech Software (Known internationally as Avocet, I think.) I actually worked for him briefly. (Answering phones, taking bug reports and being prepared to fulfill orders, mostly, while the regulars were on holidays.) I was using Borland's Tools at the time, and Clyde asked me if he could run the Borland compiler against his in-house validation suite. Perfectly acceptable under Borland's rules, so I said yes, and just doing that captured a bug that had been lurking in the Hi-Tech library code for yonks. Something in the string handling routines, I can't remember which one. Clyde had somehow misread the standard and implemented a perfectly correct function to the wrong specification — he'd Hubbled it up. Happens to the best of us (especially to the best of us). Frankly, I was impressed. He initially couldn't see what he'd done wrong, but after a minute or so he concluded that Borland was right and his test suite and compiler were faulty. Hi-Tech C had/has a great reputation in the industry and, at least when I purchased it in 1985 (A$300 MS-DOS), for many microcontrollers it was the compiler of choice. Clyde for many years resisted implementing bit fields, saying they were only of use in interfacing with hardware. I prodded a few times for him to implement the complete ANSI/ISO spec and he eventually relented, commenting afterward that it was easier than he'd expected to get bit fields working. When I tried out the bit fields I detected a bug or two, but Clyde rapidly fixed it/them. At one point I called up about an upgrade and he invited me over to his (nice!) house to pick it up. Another time I was invited to a staff get-together at a tavern in The Gap, but Clyde was late and didn't realise that the other guy and I didn't know each other, so we'd been sitting at separate tables just killing time. What would be really nice would be if we could raise funds to persuade Microchip to coordinate the Open-Sourcing of all of the Hi-Tech/Avocet C compilers and associated tools and libraries.
The Glorious Glasgow Haskell Compiler, for example, can generate C code which should be faster and smaller with Hi-Tech C.
BTW, my compliments to the crew over at Stony Brook. Their Modula-2 compiler was an absolute _delight_ to use under OS/2.
I'd really like to get _all_ of the software and source code licenses that are available to any entity or group that are tailored to run under ArcaOS (If you own such code and _don't_ want to let _anyone_ see the code, that's fine — people should be allowed to keep secrets.) Otherwise, I can't be held responsible if human society crashes in a heap when the ATMs lead the charge in the coming apocalypse, to paraphrase Doctor Simon Cooper. This would include things like modifying financial code to do things like denying transfers to/from particular institutions under some conditions. (ArcaOS is used in _many_ ATMs and is the direct descendant of OS/2 Warp 3 which scared MicroStuffed so much that they withheld their permission for the use of the 32-bit Windoze code for OS/2. IBM effectively put OS/2 on life support and ArcaOS is headquartered in Virginia, USA. Obviously, it's not a million miles from Langley, who is, I believe, on the hook for certain misrepresentations made to the Canadians when I, an Ethical and basically law-abiding and previously pistol-shooting Australian, flew Air Canada to Vancouver from Sydney in 2013 without a computer but with a list of websites and passwords (one of which had one letter changed (the one with the return flight info)) Canadian customs claimed that they couldn't find my return flight in Air Canada's system and doubted that I was a real tourist (not their exact word). From what I have pieced together since, I can imagine the conversation:
PineGap1: Shit! Whatsisface has just spent five grand
on a one-way Air Canada ticket from Sydney
to Vancouver.
PineGap2: Check his bank accounts. What's he worth?
PineGap1: Just the usual, less a few grand. He does have
enough to do a lot of damage to D-Wave systems
though: you remember the Simmons woman in Australia
and her efforts to build a single-atom transistor?
Looks like it's happening/has happened.
Remember that he spent over 6 hours on Google
Streetview staring at the McDonalds across from
the D-Wave Systems Building in Burnaby, near
Vancouver?
PineGap2: You think he might extract the same sort of
info from D-Wave Systems employees at that
McDonalds as the data Google is getting by
buying one for 10M?
PineGap1: It's possible...
and for a tiny fraction of the budget.
PineGap2: Yeah, he'd be an ideal sort of guy to send:
A natural genius without a formal education in
the discipline but a love of physics.
I remember seeing photos of his Indooroopilly
apartment. The guy accumulates lots of
relevant books and in particular he has a copy
of Jefferson Hane Weaver's three-volume set
of Physics books.
PineGap1: Which parts has he read?
PineGap2: Ah... various bits. It says here that there are
lots of prints on the pages of the original papers
relevant to the transistor. Hey, that's exactly
what Simmons is doing, only smaller. There's
Plenty of Room at the Bottom. The guy's a Feynman
enthusiast too. Unsurprising.
PineGap1: Watch him closely. Burn his time. See if we can make
him miss his plane. I'll refer it up the chain for
some guidance.
PineGap2: That won't help for long; his ticket is good.
PineGap1: Won't matter if we can get him admitted to hospital.
If he flies we can pull the old fake medical emergency
over Hawaii and see if we can get him on the ground and
charge him with practising medicine without a license;
he's only got a Bachelor of Medical Science degree.
If he does show up at Vancouver I'd bet that as Canada's
largest trading partner we could get them to call it a
National Security thing, 'disappear' his return flight info,
have Canada deny him access and send him back on the next plane. To add insult to injury, we'll later 'find' his return booking and use the money he's already paid for Air Canada's return flight and have a little party for the group. We'll put a
cutie next to him right up the back and see in real time if they actually get it on back there.
PineGap2: But he's paid for a particular seat.
PineGap1: Remember, we haven't 'found' that booking yet,
you've got to be a bit devious. ... And I reckon that's pretty much the way it went down, and she was
really cute, with 2 or 3 hairs strategically placed. Love to see her
again, but I have _no_ idea if she's a technologist or a hooker or
what, nor who she really works for.
Lie in bed chatting 'til 3am and then decide (if I ever see her again).
(Hey, I think I just remembered her name!)
Anyhow, the potential meeting place and time is 11:11pm at the local Labor Club, if I get some concrete indication that I'm going to meet someone there that I want to see, like Felicity Gates, once co-head of Citi Infrastructure Investments. She and I go way back, but somehow she seemed to expect me to
get a 'better' car than my first one — a cream-coloured Datsun 1300 Ute. Just how I was supposed to afford that on my budget was never explained.
Met a _stunner_ there the other day! A gorgeous blonde, apparently with remote control of one's emotions. I found myself smiling almost uncontrollably. At one point I asked whether she and the one next to her were attached. She said "No." I said "Good." She didn't follow me out to the smoking area, though, so she couldn't have been _that_ interested, or _that_ person. The plan would have been to lie in bed side-by-side chatting until 3:00am, and then decide what to do, but she was gone from the club when I came back in. In SF terms she'd be Special Cirmstances with a built-in Tasp.
Current plan is that my personal wealth at the end of any financial year will never exceed A$25M, plus some number of Emergency Services Vehicles: in particular Ambulances (Parking off-street for several near here;) Fire Engines (with Parking in a proposed underground (and getting deeper) type of facility that I've thought about a lot — great for dense areas like Japan, or possibly asteroids;) some Mitsubishi All-Weather capable Helicopters, actually military grade, and of a type that those Australian SAS guys, way back when, should have been using instead of BlackHawks if they were going to fly so close to the trees with their tail rotors and expect to live.
Anyhow, the helicopters are to be fitted out as search and rescue choppers with superlative remote sensing and comms gear starting at Six units; the smallest perfect number. One would be a liability, not an asset. It is actually possible to land a plurality of helicopters within a hundred meters of my front door, and as I mentioned before, it is possible to park some ambulances near here off the road. An actual heliport is possible, but I expect that movements would be severely limited except in emergencies.
As I said in the watchhouse cell the first time I was arrested: HyperExponential Damages. Justice delayed is justice denied, and I have been demonstrably denied and delayed for 28 fscking years, that's the second perfect number of non-fscking years. The damages bill should block out the sky, at least temporarily.
The first I heard of Michelle Simmons and SQC was when I saw her Boyer Lecture on the ABC. I was disappointed that subsequent lectures in the series weren't televised, but I read the texts. Perhaps the fact that I saw the first one meant that the rest were not broadcast at all. (Seriously.)
I put a call in to an aide of hers, seeking a face-to-face with her at which I plan, amongst other things, to warn her of a certain pitfall she may face. We'll see if she replies at all.
Get the picture, Kat?
1) You can't follow simple security-related directions promptly.
2) The account I refered you to is temporarily disabled, but still accumulates emails. I think I can retrieve the login credentials for that account given time and a decent operating system to install on Big Box. A Debian 12.7 50GB Blu Ray disk set including source might be just the ticket. (Seriously.) I _had_ been using Ubuntu 24.04 but it is duplicitous and buggy. There is mention of a 24.04.4 version but there don't seem to be any .iso images for it — what you call 24.04.4 seems to be defined by things like where you live and perhaps in what time zone you reside. Shuttleworth, you're a tricky bugger and you seem to be in the King's pocket.
3) The alternate account, of which I have informed both you and Kathy, received _no_ response from you in the form that I expect.
4) I am forced to make a public appeal for funds to satisfy your
unrealistic implied demands and reveal even more of my plans, but I'm a pretty straight shooter, figuratively and literally, so I don't have to remember a lot of lies. I can be economical with the truth, though, and I know the meaning of "mu". Do you?
5) As a result of this appeal, Putin will undoubtedly notice it and my previous posts under the Tesseractic account here, including a recent one which predicts a move by Putin west into Finland, probably using tanks (they got lots). If that is indeed Putin's plan he might just send a single ICBM to Canberra, missing the centre of town but hitting the Belconnen area and wiping me out. The world will breath a sigh of relief that the centre of Canberra was largely untouched and the flagpole on the top of Parliament House sustained only minor damage from a blast so far away. (What a relief!:^)E
(How many Americans could find Canberra on a map anyhow?)
6) Perhaps ET will be forced to disable the ICBM on the way, above the atmosphere and after the boost phase. I actually saw signs that _might_ have been evidence of coil guns in space back in 2013, after being rejected by Canada. If they _were_ like coil guns, there were at least two of them and they fired at different times, minutes apart, and in two different directions into the atmosphere to make the projectiles visible.
(During Gulf War X there was an incident where the map behind the official briefing area was completely missing the continent of Australia! The Aussie contingent used that as an excuse to hold their own press briefings elsewhere. I'd love to shake hands with whoever dreamed that one up!)
Oh, I forgot to mention, my main reason for getting to access
to a particular nvme device is that and that alone holds the
login credentials for another Proton email account that is key to
getting my decades-old Internal Combustion Engine stuff into the
hands of Kat DeLorean to use in her Mark III DeLorean — the
successors to Kat's first DNG vehicles for the 'icing on the cake'.
Quoting from a recent email to the Simons Foundation at Columbia:
> Hello Simons person,
>
> You've heard of DVD Jon and the first 'Illegal number'?
>
> I may eventually be known as BD Grae.
>
> I have a copy of a Blu-Ray disk that is supposed to
> be of 'Peril', A.K.A. 'Death in French Garden'. This movie
> was France's reply to 'Death in an English Garden' and I
> have never been able to run it and get the English subtitles
> to work on my PCs. It is one of my favorite movies; I had
> previously obtained a VHS copy that was NTSC format and
> I tried to play it on a VCR that was supposed to be compatible
> with PAL and NTSC, supposedly compatible with PAL TVs.
> I could hear the music but the picture wouldn't sync.
>
> They say that you get what you pay for.
>
> In my experience you pay for what you get, and
> you don't necessarily get what you pay for.
>
> This is not why you should fund me.
>
> I believe that my most recent attempts at an integer factoring code in
> C++ have been stolen by GCHQ and/or NSA, despite being clearly
> marked as only for Australia, Canada and New Zealand.
>
> How was it stolen?
>
> I believe that Mark Shuttleworth's Ubuntu 24.04 LTS read through the
> unused blocks on my Linux installation via 'updates' to the nvme firmware
> to get at the underlying and previous installation of Ubuntu 24.04 LTS on
> the same device and pieced together enough code so that they could fix
> the remaining bugs in my code, turning it into a general integer factoring
> code that would have a time complexity that is polynomial in the number
> of bits required to represent the number to be factored.
>
> There is now something called Ubuntu 24.04.4 somewhere, but I cannot
> find an iso of it. I attempted to reinstall Ubuntu 24.04 on my 'Big Box' — with a
> 64-core AMD CPU, 0.5TiB ECC DRAM, 4TB NVME, and 5TB of hard disks.
>
> I had been running Linux entirely on the first 2TB nvme device.
> After backing up my code to a USB memory stick I tried to reinstall Ubuntu
> 24.04 on _another_ device in Big Box, to repair the nvme I had previously
> installed 24.04 on. After apparently successfully installing Ubuntu 24.04, the
> boot _failed_. I do not know how to get it to work properly. I've tried installing
> it on a hard disc instead of the nvme, to no avail.
>
> Perhaps if I can get a Ubuntu 24.04.4 .iso it would work, maybe not.
>
> Anyhow, although the Tails stick on which my code was stored seems to have
> had its passphrase changed I think I have some other, unencrypted code, that
> shows the flavor of the thing.
>
> I want funding to travel to/from the USA to work with Bjarne Strostrup on
> getting contracts working with C++ in such a way that the Australian-developed
> Open Source kernel seL4 could be used to replace the Mach kernel in GNU/hurd
> and the system could be gradually verified, including all the other daemons.
>
> Oh, and I'd also like funding to release the late Mary L. Boas's books from their
> publishers — All editions of her Mathematical Methods in the Physical Sciences.
>
> You can guess what I'd like to do with them.
>
> There's also a High Frequency Artificial Ventilation project that was supervised by a Simon Manley (retired) but I think the Catholic church might be shamed into supporting that one.
>
>
> Regards, Graeme C.
> — > I used to be a perfectionist; now I am much better — I can compromise.
> Sent with Proton Mail secure email.
Note that I, personally, have _not_ factored any particularly large numbers but I have definitely been working on it. (just before my YAMAHA R6 kicked me off on MAY 1 THIS YEAR and the insurance company and their insistence on cv-Check are still _wasting_my_time_. The bike had an apparent 'malfunction' of its traction control system. I think the April factoring code is near perfect, modulo a few stupid bugs. I wanted ASD to put some fresh eyes on the problem but it seems that GCHQ and NSA got hold of it instead and ASD probably got nothing; Rachel Noble has probably been told 'no contact' from the very top. I said I had a dispute with the monarch, and this is only part of it. There are unpublished letters to various editors in various countries, for example. Well, Last night I met and spoke with a certain Australian Senator and gave him a memory stick to get to Rachel Noble in person. I gave one of his aides a genuine ASD 75th Anniversary Cryptographic Challenge 50c coin for the Senator to keep as a souvenir. I also spoke to the staff running the sausage thing — they don't seem to know how to caramelise onions, but they otherwise seem sound.
I have one crypto wallet — set up in the course of my foray into Foreign Exchange trading — don't invest any significant money with Profitrop, they'll manipulate you into thinking that you're such a great investor and their advice is so good, over a period of months, that you might feel confident enough in your abilities that you invest much more. I put in US$250 in Bitcoin and traded it up to around $1,250, it seemed, taking out a couple of payments so that it ended up costing me US$154. Further withdrawls were denied to me because of 'technical problems', but I got a pretty good intro to forex trading over a period of months and I saw how they get their victims — they artificially manipulate the buy prices on certain trades in order to turn losing trades into seemingly profitable trades and thus inflate your Ego.
Nail 'em to the wall, for all I care.
Anyhow, the Crypto Wallet is for real, and has been active but
hardly used since around the start of 2023. The bank account to
which it is attached is with the National Australia Bank and the
account number is beautiful. I have another account with the ANZ
bank which has been receiving my 'fixed' income since around 1997.
I trust the ANZ account more than the NAB account. (Google for
"Fees for no service.") But I don't think the NAB is going to
screw me on this. I haven't lodged a tax return since the nineties
but I checked with them recently and we're AOK. Australia's punitive
tobacco excise is keeping me poor, and given the Cannabis laws in
the ACT I think it is prudent to have a relatively brief flirtation with
some good quality weed. Preferably 7 different high-quality grades in 20g labelled and numbered pouches with gradually escalating levels of both THC and CBD in appropriate proportions, preferably from Portugal and brought in via Port Augusta and flown here to the ACT and delivered to me securely.
That would be 140g which is within the limit for posession in the ACT.
I suspect that a brief flirtation with this stuff would cure me of my psychological addiction to tobacco. My desire to remain clean for driving and other purposes should then allow me to give it up, perhaps except for 'holidays' of at least two weeks.
Incidentally, I remember taking my dad's old Bob Newhart record and playing the Sir Walter Raleigh Tobacco piece to my Lyons primary school class. Damn Queensland Health for getting me addicted to the stuff! RIP Bob Newhart.
On Slashdot, I'll try to only put the wallet ID at the bottom of an article, as it is here. If in any doubt, use the Tor browser or Tails, because the HTML of this page, including the wallet address, can be rewritten by a MITM attack by your own country or another that the traffic traverses, regardless of the 'S' in HTTPS. China's routers seem to think, sometimes, that they are the key to the optimal route for whatever traffic interests the Chinese government at the time. Evidence? I need look no farther than my 'too big' 4MB email to Bjarne Stroustrup recently that had apparently been in China at one point.
Pay me enough and I might give some hints about how I plan
to solve the problems implied by my mid-80's engine drawings.
Please make my (perhaps) soon-to-be-formed R&D company an
instant unicorn in Euros.
Tentative scale of planned achievements for possible funding levels:
A$18,200 exactly gets me some serious lawyers and security for a special job, as well as no obligation to submit a tax return this financial year, and continuation of the status quo. Not so great, but not really bad either.
+A$33,333 gets me mobile on four wheels, and the possibility of an income on which to fall back and possibly an escape from the unethical Medicos and their servants (the nurses, ambos, police, etcetera) These bastards pretend not to understand such a simple concept as bioavailability and what it means for dosage in oral vs. intramuscular cases. In addition they sometimes force the victim to wait around a couple of hours for their overdose to take effect and _then_ try to get them to sign stuff. (Scary.)
+A$55,555 gets me some lawyers to accelerate the transfer of the ownership of my home from my trust to my self, saving the Planet time and perhaps placating Kat DeLorean, who seems to think it is so fscking important that I own my own home and have Solar panels on it. Until recently I paid $17 a month to get Carbon Positive Australia to offset my emissions, their last debit attempt failed — I am that close to broke — and I had to suspend that recurring expense.
+A$55,555 gets me some degree of physical security for my home and would lessen the need for nearby and mostly anonymous well-wishers to keep an eye and/or ear out for me.
+A$99,999 gets me a Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV with a stainless towbar and a stainless bike trailer capable of carrying either two Moto Trials bikes and my R6 or perhaps two KTM Freerides and an R6 or an R7.
+A$300M would allow me to go it alone somewhere (else) in the world and get someone to make a few differently-sized prototypes to empirically determine scaling laws after extensive numerical simulation. Not an ideal choice, but I'd have the dosh to buy a nice BMW 7-series or three, painted up real nice.
+A$1B lets me develop the thing, perhaps in Europe somewhere and collaborate with the Japanese via OS engines as well as KTM and Husqvarna. There might be a few more BMW 7-series machines with prototype engines. Access to the Japanese parts database may be very useful, and Kat's kids ("It's all about the kids.") could benefit greatly from the choice as well.
YAMAHA — takes the lead — I've owned quite a few and they're great.
SUZUKI — a lesser share — My brother reckoned that the RG was quicker than Yamaha's RZ but I've never owned one. OTOH, there was that old Wankel-powered bike.
MAZDA — persisted with the Wankel in the RX series until the RX8. — Wankels can really guzzle the fuel and the flying car that was designed to use them (not from Mazda) would suffer badly
from their inefficiency because it costs fuel and power to keep the extra fuel up in the air.
Unfortunately the combustion chamber of a Wankel has a very high surface area to volume ratio which would tend to limit its efficiency as well. I drove my brother's RX3 on precisely one occasion, and I think I scared him a little by hanging the tail out on a single corner on Settlement Rd.
How about we plan for a Yazda Skycar?
NISSAN — my first car was a Datsun 1300 Ute, and it worked well right
up until I forgot to put the radiator cap back on and cooked
the engine. (Untreated ADHD.) The motor was a licensed British
design and the replacement crankshaft was under $100 at the
time and it was in stock.:-)E Unfortunately I messed up.:-(E — The Nissan GTR is an impressive achievement but I don't
think I've ever even seen one.
SUBARU — the Brumby looks good, and an upsized and modernised one capable of carrying two Moto Trials bikes would be near ideal, as long as the airconditioning is reliable and long-lived too. I'd like it to be able to carry an R6 with the tailgate down, but I forsee problems getting it on and off safely.
MITSUBISHI — I want an Outlander PHEV.
KTM
HUSQVARNA
That's eight or nine and I'm very tired.
Let's just post it and watch it fall into a black hole.
There is _a_lot_ of _circumstantial_ evidence against Honda in relation to this thing, but I am unwilling to point the finger at them. I was blown away when I had a brief ride on a friend's CB1100R. The main reason that I won't include Honda in the initial group is that they never
persisted with their Trials bikes — I think that was an old TL250 in one of the Bourne movies. The shot of the bike jumping up a high wall
with many previous tyre marks on it seemed to be achieved by bouncing the rear wheel off the (unseen) kerb and _then_ onto the wall. In any case, the TL250 didn't quite cut it
as a Trials bike. Honda can buy their way in at a price to be negotiated, later. Part of that price would probably be a return of the CB1100R to modern design rules with ABS.
The 'evidence' against Honda could all be explained as a false flag operation designed to get me to make an accusation and then be
dragged through the courts. The real offender may be someone else entirely, like the party who sabotaged the old British Leyland
plant that was making the Marina in Australia. Steel was being added to their gearboxes, and analysis showed that it came from nowhere in
the plant.
My father told me of his suspicions, though.
+A$3B should allow development and simulation of more variants, and this time from Boston, Massachussetts, where I'd buy a suitable house and perhaps attend MIT to get engineering degrees in both mechanical and computer/electronics/integrated circuits, all the way to double dome. (This assumes successful treatment of my ADHD, or I'd be likely to flunk out.
I'd really like to get around Boston Harbor in a Zodiac, like in the book of that name. (I'll see if Entonox is appropriate.)
+A$5B should allow extensive characterization of the limits of performance of the power plants, including the Pulse Wave Superchargers and compression ignition variants, and an all-mechanical injection system, the injector for which is still somewhat up-in-the-air. Simulation and materials are key. If you can't simulate it, you don't understand it. (Who said that?)
+A$5B should allow extensive characterisation of the wear-rates and longevity of some promising variants.
For a sense of perspective, I'm told that General Motors Holden used to spend about A$1B on development of each new model of car, and we're trying to catch up on _over_a_century_ of piston engine research and development.
This is all stuff that started with an idea from the mid-to-late 70s, my second real invention. In the early days I was overly preoccupied with symmetry, but an article about a Fiat front wheel drive system with unequal driveshaft lengths and yet equal torsional stiffnesses cured me of that. There was also a motorcycle magazine discussing strength and stiffness of various frame tube geometries as well as handling and steering geometries.
And I haven't yet mentioned the carbon-neutral fuels to run them on,
which would be usable in conventional piston engine vehicles as well...
Anyhow, here's the wallet ID.
(Bitcoin only, please — BTC)
3NKphrBLKowheXRWsF5dbsP7Gn9FzQjmQB
174724564
submission
Tesseractic writes:
I think I've recently written some really good code, but I'm psychologically addicted to smoking. Can anyone find a 70's era poster, or replica thereof that says "You're not a smoker. You're just the sucker on the end." Most of the poster consisted of a horizontal cigarette, with some lips and perhaps part if a face at one side, and the other end with a curl of smoke from the other end. Originals, or some reproduction preferred. (It's costing me A$700/fortnight.) If it can't be found, by all means make one up. Also sought is the FULL LENGTH of the session with Yul Brunner(sp?), "Just Don't Smoke," So I can get it to Wikileaks and the Wayback Machine, and remind myself.
174573670
submission
Tesseractic writes:
Is there any such thing as Debian GNU/hurd/seL4 or similar?
If so, I want in on it.
If not, I want to start a project to develop it.
I am NOT currently a debian developer, but I will join if it gets developer support.
The seL4 bit implies use of the seL4 microkernel instead of the Mach microkernel. seL4 is mathematically verifiable by running an automatic proof generator and (a) checker. There are several variants, including several of the Raspberry Pis in addition to at least one other single board computer that is verified down to the metal. I think there's an amd64 version. seL4 is Open Source, of course, or I wouldn't suggest it. The USA used it for some weapon systems. There are some hard real-time versions, which makes it especially useful for that, and which makes using it as a controller of things like stepper motors and servo motors and other devices much less problematic in what passes for the real world in this vicinity. Be warned that the specification language is likely to be unfamiliar to you, so it requires a different, but in my opinion valuable, skill set. Anyone interested? Ask questions in the comments and I'll try and answer them. Someone call Stallman for me. I have some advice for him and I'd like it if he would participate. There's also a related concept called TrustWorthy which you can google. Basically, the _owner_ can trust the device.
156769949
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Tesseractic writes:
Simon Sharwood, of The Register (Biting the hand that feeds IT) writes to tell us of a new image format that is lossless, gives much faster encodes, faster decodes and roughly comparable compression compared to what's in use today.
https://www.theregister.com/20...
https://qoiformat.org/
Notably, the specification for the QOI format fits on a single (2-column) page:
https://qoiformat.org/qoi-spec...
There is an active GitHub project for QOI:
https://github.com/phoboslab/q...
155327733
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Tesseractic writes:
Chen Ly over at New Scientist reports on a Nature article on ion drives:
https://www.nature.com/article...
Dmytro Rafalskyi at ThrustMe, a space technology company based in France, and his colleagues have developed an electric propulsion system that uses iodine. They operated a small satellite and performed successful manoeuvres using the drive.
154433649
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Tesseractic writes:
Lauren Fuge of Cosmos Magazine writes to inform us of NASA's publication of a (paywalled) article in Nature:
https://www.nature.com/article...
NASA wants to start a conversation about how to responsibly report science which is relevant to the potential discovery of life elsewhere in the cosmos. Sounds overly bureaucratic to me, but what do I know?
144947050
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Tesseractic writes:
Sydney university student Pablo Bonilla, 21, had his first academic paper published overnight and it might just change the shape of computing forever.
As a second-year physics student at the University of Sydney, Mr Bonilla was given some coding exercises as extra homework and what he returned with has helped to solve one of the most common problems in quantum computing.
His code spiked the interest of researchers at Yale and Duke in the United States and the multi-billion-dollar tech giant Amazon plans to use it in the quantum computer it is trying to build for its cloud platform Amazon Web Services. ...
Assistant professor Shruti Puri of Yale's quantum research program said the new code solved a problem that had persisted for 20 years.
"What amazes me about this new code is its sheer elegance," she said.
"Its remarkable error-correcting properties are coming from a simple modification to a code that has been studied extensively for almost two decades." ...
Co-author of the paper, the University of Sydney's Ben Brown, said the brilliance of Pablo Bonilla's code was in its simplicity.
