Comment Re:Oh my, are we waiting? (Score 1) 58
what is godot game engine and why should I care?
Comment Re: US senators ae shiteaters who swallow (Score 1) 129
The US military has never had a limit on sonic booms it makes, especially if you live near a base.
Comment Re:And yet . . . (Score 1) 51
When Musk proposed the data center he said the turbines would be temporary. Over a year later and all he's done is add more turbines while not making a single attempt to get a permit. He does this because the surrounding community is mostly poor black people who already have a high incidence of asthma and other health issues.
So no, the articles are not incorrect. He's running unpermitted gas tubines.
Comment Re:More pandering to Epstein class billionaires (Score 1) 129
It goes along with gotta have a fart nozzle on your car and annoy everyone around you.
Comment Re:Let me guess (Score 1) 50
Nope:
Be sure to drink your Ovaltine.
Comment And yet . . . (Score 3, Informative) 51
He can't use electricity to power his datacenter in Tennessee, instead runing unpermitted gas turbines 24/7 simply because it's next to poor people.
Comment Re:Backfire (Score 1) 111
Processionals are literally paid to tell you to use their products. Why would you listen to anything they say?
Agreed. When building a home or bridge, no need to listen to the professionals. All they're doing is getting paid to tell you to use their products.
Let me guess, you don't brush your teeth because professionals tell you it's a good way to prevent cavities because all they're doing is telling you to use their products.
Comment Re:How Adorable (Score 3, Insightful) 51
Naw, we still have to hand the entire design to China and tell them, "just don't trigger this bit in the silicon, it will disable the check. DON'T DO IT!"
Comment Is this how Rust security works? (Score 1, Funny) 3
Just curious if this is how Rust does security. Can anyone confirm?
Comment Re:Correction (Score 1) 96
Double correction: It eventually will lead to labor shortages. This year. Or next year. Or eventually. There is no reversing course unless we literally move back into the dinosaur stone ages.
Submission + - Alan Turing developed a portable voice encryption device (popularmechanics.com)
smooth wombat writes: Alan Turing, one of the more famous people who worked at Bletchley Park to decipher the German Enigma coding machine, was also working on a separate project. His private papers, known as the Bayley papers for his assistant Donald Bayley who held onto the papers until his death in 2020, reveal Turning had produced a working model of a portable voice encryption device. He even demonstrated it by using a Winston Churchill speech recording.
“Weighing just 39 kg, including its power pack,” Copeland summarizes, “Delilah would be at home in a truck, a trench, or a large backpack.”
Turing’s work at Bletchley Park actually informed the Delilah experimentation he was doing at Hanslope Park, and not just because he used Red Forms, the Army-issue sheets Hanslope staffers were meant to use to alert Bletchley staffers to enemy signals, as his personal scrap paper for Delilah experiments. He drew inspiration from one of the German cipher machines they had decoded at Bletchley; not the famed Enigma machine, but rather the SZ42. While the former relied on Morse Code, the latter utilized a 5-bit telegraph code, which Copeland notes “was a forerunner of ASCII and Unicode and is still used by some ham radio operators.”
The SZ42 produced an obscuring key of telegraph characters, with an identical key produced to both the sender and receiver. If it could be done for text, Turing reasoned it could be done for sound as well.
This is the part of the story where one might say “Well, I’ve never heard of Alan Turing’s voice encoder, so the experiments must have failed.” But remarkably, they didn’t. Turing and Bayley actually did create their Delilah, and even demonstrated it using a recording of a Winston Churchill speech, “successfully encrypting, transmitting, and decrypting it.”
Instead, the reason Delilah fell to the wayside of history isn’t because it was a failure, but rather because it simply wasn’t needed anymore. By the time Turing had built and demonstrated his device, the war was over. What good was a portable voice encryptor if you had no major enemies trying to intercept your calls, the government reasoned. So funding for the project stopped, and Turing’s two-year experiment ended with a whimper. Turing’s time as an electrical engineer at Hanslope Park became a footnote in his story, if even that.
“Weighing just 39 kg, including its power pack,” Copeland summarizes, “Delilah would be at home in a truck, a trench, or a large backpack.”
Turing’s work at Bletchley Park actually informed the Delilah experimentation he was doing at Hanslope Park, and not just because he used Red Forms, the Army-issue sheets Hanslope staffers were meant to use to alert Bletchley staffers to enemy signals, as his personal scrap paper for Delilah experiments. He drew inspiration from one of the German cipher machines they had decoded at Bletchley; not the famed Enigma machine, but rather the SZ42. While the former relied on Morse Code, the latter utilized a 5-bit telegraph code, which Copeland notes “was a forerunner of ASCII and Unicode and is still used by some ham radio operators.”
The SZ42 produced an obscuring key of telegraph characters, with an identical key produced to both the sender and receiver. If it could be done for text, Turing reasoned it could be done for sound as well.
This is the part of the story where one might say “Well, I’ve never heard of Alan Turing’s voice encoder, so the experiments must have failed.” But remarkably, they didn’t. Turing and Bayley actually did create their Delilah, and even demonstrated it using a recording of a Winston Churchill speech, “successfully encrypting, transmitting, and decrypting it.”
Instead, the reason Delilah fell to the wayside of history isn’t because it was a failure, but rather because it simply wasn’t needed anymore. By the time Turing had built and demonstrated his device, the war was over. What good was a portable voice encryptor if you had no major enemies trying to intercept your calls, the government reasoned. So funding for the project stopped, and Turing’s two-year experiment ended with a whimper. Turing’s time as an electrical engineer at Hanslope Park became a footnote in his story, if even that.
Comment Re:What Line of Work Is He In? (Score 0) 79
since 2023, helping Harrell communicate naturally, control a computer, and return to full-time work
Exactly what job does he hold that he can perform under these conditions?
Apparently a support person for AOL. Fox six weeks my dad has lost access to his email because their system screwed up something, and for six weeks all I've heard from them is reading from a script. No help, no escalation, no nothing.
With their IPO coming up, I'm about ready to go to the media and lay out how incompetent they are. Let the investors know what a shit show they're getting involved with.
Yes, AOL mail still exists. He was moved over from his ISP's email to them a while back. It's simple and does all that he needs at his age.
Comment Re:Why Didn't Anthropic Sue? (Score 1) 58
F the Trump administration getting in the way of a private company.
Comment Well duh! (Score 1) 65
The company jumped into AI with its Llama family of models
Of course they'd have issues. Everyone knows llamas can be pains in the asses. Should have gone with alpacas.
Comment Re:Any Evidence? (Score 3, Interesting) 110
Also, what would Russia and Iran be spending them on?
Have to pay your troops. Or in Russia's case, bribe people to enlist then pay out when they're killed the next week.
Also have to pay the companies making your guns, drones, and ammunition. Or, in Russia's case, paying people to put out fires at their oil refineries which keep going up in flames.
