Posts by Claptrap314

Re: "compared crypto's electricity usage to that of video games"

Oh, it's time to go over this again?

Coin is stock? In a company with no sales, assets, or employees, and a board that anyone can join; where the board members compete to issue themselves stock according to rules which can be changed at any time by a majority of the currently issue rate of the stock? Just TRY to get that approved.

I'm just getting started.

When I read the details of the Etherium VM, I (being a mathematician with a decade in software microprocessor validation and an expert in integer programming) yelled at the air for half an hour. The VM more-or-less led programmers into the bug that triggered the Etherium Fork. And anyone with a background in security, validation, or integer programming would have known this. These instruments are being created by people with callous disregard for the basics.

Moreover, the explicit goal of these instruments is to undermine the sovereignty of the nation states. While I very much want fiat to be replaced with something like a gold standard, I'm not stupid enough to think that if coin ever actually threatened fiat that the entire force of government would come down on it.

But the CAP theorem puts a hard limit on what a (purely theoretical) perfect coin can do. The incumbent system has spent centuries fiddling around to fix C. Coin must be strongly CP, which means that A is in the air. And no one is going to wait an hour to settle average purchases.

Re: Photoelectric effect

Not so much. Alfred Nobel's famous antipathy towards mathematicians means that there is no Nobel prize for mathematics, and at the time, relativity was considered "too mathematical" for the physics prize. So...while the award was for the photoelectric effect, it was because of relativity...

Re: I can't remember

Are people's phones being stolen more or p0wned more?

The thief I'm worried about never touches the phone in the first place..

Re: In the opposite direction

Okay, not "scientifically special", "statistically special". Apparently, not so much.

Re: Buhahahahahaha!

It's turtles all the way down.

What? The transparent aluminum wasn't enough?

Re: Disagree

I'm not complaining about that. I'm complaining about being singled out as if my government is doing it any differently than any other similarly-situated government would.

Re: Gödel, Escher, Bach...

X***

*** If the record player is high fidelity enough

I think it should be reasonably easy to train these systems to ignore commands in the input until majic token "X" next appears, where "X" is 20 random characters generated separately for each input.

There are at least two problems. The first is that this secret has to be stashed somewhere. That somewhere has to be documented. That document has to be public.

But if you DO go this way, please, PLEASE DO NOT PUT YOUR **** MASTER KEY IN THE LOG FILE!

Or do--the actual level of security is roughly the same.

The second problem is one of coordination. The reply mentioned K8s, which is a bad example, because if you ARE using containers, then you provide the shared secret when the container comes up. In a heterogeneous environment NOT managed centrally, however, this is a big problem.

(Not as big as the problem of defaulting your firewall to allow all, mind you...)

Re: Thank goodness for sanity

I think we can pretty much guarantee that the major embassies have already deployed quantum-resistant systems.

The interesting thing about crypto is that the demand for commercial applications so exceeds that of government that we can expect commercial to be permanently ahead in terms of research. But for development, the ROI terms are different enough that we can expect what they are using to be better in certain categories.

Re: Irony

I, for one, don't expect these "AI"s to have the same rights as humans for a long time.

Re: "the paper's reviewers hailed the research as the most accurate to date"

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Re: Not just Google

They used to. You can thank AlGore for the change. (Part of the "Reinventing Government" initiative.) And if you did not see this coming (and steering $100m's to lawyers), you were naive.

You summer's child.

Here are some additional options:

1) the option mentioned (pay $10m/year in lawyer's fee as a cost of doing business). Even if it "only" drags things out for 3-5 years, that is a huge win.

2) bribe lobby politicians to modify the act sufficiently to restart or throw out the case.

3) conduct public influence campaigns to convince Europeans that these prosecutions are a waste.

I'm sure that the real sharps know others.

I cannot upvote this enough. This does exactly 0 for security.

Re: I keep saying this...

I don't believe in inherent wealth of any form. And I have long advocated for reigning in Google. But that does not mean that there is not a price to pay.

Suppose we were to break Apple into two companies, "Physical", selling Macs & iPhones & the like; and "Virtual", operating the iStore & the like. I argue that such a breakup destroys very little wealth--the main difference would be that instead of SVPs or the C-Suite arguing over how to account costs, these negotiated contracts.

But what happens if you break Google up into "Search", "Ads", and "YouTube"? If you let the data flow freely, not much at all. But if actually want to weaken Google's power, you have to stop the data flow. That will destroy wealth--not just for the Google shareholder, but for the economy as a whole. As creepy as the suggested likes on YouTube are, for the vast majority of people, those recommendations *are* useful. Likewise, the tie between search & ads. Ignore the hyper-targetting garbage, I'm talking about adwords. There is real wealth being created by connecting customers who are looking for a term to companies selling things related to it.

****, I'm for straight-up outlawing cross-site tracking and aggregating entirely. I don't owe Google a business model.

Re: How do you stop?

Meh. It's just a bunch of math to work out a bit of physics. Yes, "pointing" is a matter of position, and position is going to have to be defined very precisely. But ultimately, not particularly challenging to achieve. Remember, this is not about searching for exoplanets, it is about photographing ones that we are highly certain are there.

Re: "The bank ultimately had to bring IBM on board to fix the problems."

Which backs to scratch, for starters...

Google's monopoly delayed ChatGPT? That's a big 'ol check on the "good" side, then...

Re: Sysadmin still necessary

I agree that the sysadmin probably needs more competence, but...

1) That sysadmin is NOT going to be buying hardware. Or wiring it.

2) That sysadmin is now going to have the tools to get 4 or 5 nines of reliability with very little effort. (Of course, you actually need a team on call to deliver 4 nines).