Posts by W.S.Gosset

Re: "If I understand well a computer has beaten a human in a computer simulation"

As I understand it, last year was the simulator, this year was the actual plane.

Re: End game?

You're muddling the remora with the shark.

Very different motivations, very different causality/dependency.

I have a hammer which is functionally equivalent.

Re: Great show. - Aside

Worked vs Napoleon, too.

Re: Great show.

>Unless one side has an overwhelming advantage over the other, all wars are attrition

A historical observation underlining that:

Civil wars have by far the highest casualty rates.

Re: Great show.

>Not true.

It IS true.

Eg Russia vs Germany, late WWII. Quite literally exhausted German defence by soaking it up with dead men. Then simply marching over them.

Eg Otto Skorzeny tells the story of a horror episode where the Russians just kept marching into a sighted-in artillery chokepoint. Each unit utterly marmalised. He'd been commanding the defence, after a few days noticed the guns got patchy, drove up to find the CO (leutnant) nissed as a pewt and having a mental breakdown. Outrage! Sent him to the lockup and took over the unit himself. To discover for himself the horror.

As he put it, by the end of the day, each fresh unit was "wading through strawberry jam" up to their knees. The jam was their predecessors. Whom they'd watched march into the chokepoint. And joined them.

That night, Skorzeny released the leutnant, apologised, turned the unit back over to him.

But the Germans soon ran out of shells, and had to retreat.

Russia in WWII actually managed to exceed the most extreme stupidities of WWI. By a long way. And routinely.

Swarming is a valid tactic. And extremely effective. All you need is to disregard the humans as people

Cooking Tips

Venison is wild, so high-quality meat, so well-done = leather. Otherwise: cook like beef. Issue: no fat, and humans need fat to digest red meat (you can & will starve to death on an all-lean-meat diet; eg that French cavalry troop in Crimean War cut off by winter, starved to death eating 1.5kg/day of horse meat). So ladle in the butter.

Tastes like really good beef.

Venison heart: slice to inch squares, flash fry @ high temp in pool of butter 1-2mins. The flesh actually pops when you bite it.

Pheasant: do the exact opposite of what all the cookbooks tell you, and you get a better result but with only 1-2mins human effort. No basting etc. Tripped across this in a 19C cookbook, recipe called Old-Fashioned English Hunters Style or somesuch.

Prep takes "all" the time: smear it with butter & sprinkle on whatever herbs you like. The end. I eventually settled on a coat of paprika then sprinkle thyme, sage, bit of tarragon. Oh, and a bay leaf in the neck & in the cavity.

Plop bird on tray on its back.

Prep is now complete.

Oven @ bread temp (eg 220⁰C): bird in for 15mins. Bird out, chuck on stovetop, oven dropped to (target) 100⁰ & door open to cool: 15mins. Oven @ 100⁰C: 15mins. Bird out, chuck on bench, The End.

Do your veg now, it'll be rested when you're done.

Carving= 2 breasts, and the legs: 3 serves: just split the carcass and separate the legs. 5-10 seconds.

Crispish skin & juicy flesh every time with no effort.

They leave the liver in the cavity. That's the cook's reward. Eat it as soon as cool enough: delicious.

Tastes like meaty chicken, solid chicken.

Re: Mesh

Venison is materially cheaper than Tesco's beef.

And an order of magnitude better quality (nutrition) than any beef you can buy normally in Britain or Europe.

Likewise, pheasants are cheap as chips. And so nutrition-dense that 1 tiny bird will feed an active man well for 3 days.

Pop along to Hampshire Farmers Markets. Look for the gamekeepers with tweedy flatcaps standing behind a scruffy ream of sad-looking polystyrene boxes. IIRC from when I lived in England (left ~10yrs ago), matching like-for-like re which cut/mince you're looking at, the venison was 10-20% cheaper than Tesco's cheapest ultra-budget grade beef.

And pheasant was £3 each, or 5 for £10. That £10 would give you 2 weeks GOOD eating.

Re: Mesh

>Variable pricing is ultimately the goal to control the behaviour of energy dependent masses.

No.

I mean, they're happy to score that too, don't get me wrong.

But no, the original, primary, and still overriding purpose and point of smart meters is Demand Management. Dialling down retail supply intra-day to cope with the inability of upstream suppliers to supply sufficient electricity. That can happen in micro by a retailer (eg EDF) failing to spin up generators in time (mismatch b/w intraday forecast demand vs actual demand) or increasingly a flatout inability of the upstream generators to create enough electricity.

Talk to any electricity trader/operator on the short-term desk ("profit! less forecast failure carnage risk!"), or just read any of the government/quango whole-market documents ("hide the Net Zero consequences as long as possible!" Or as Australia's then-new regulator announced on starting: "people will just have to get used to Demand Management going forwards. It's the future!").

Surreally, that's almost exactly right in Australia!

Almost EXACTLY that wording is being trumpeted right now (for the last week and still gathering volume daily) in all the media by the government and by the "eSafety" regulator.

Urgent need to wipe ALL reports of events from the internet to stop "right-wing conspiracy theories based on internet misinformation", and the reason --both legal-basis and media declarations-- is "to stop the spread of child abuse" (and also prevent children and helpless minorities from deciding to stab strangers).

So: well done. You were almost spot on for the current Australian situation.

Something you missed was the legal letters sent to all social media platforms requiring them under stiff & cumulating penalties to prevent anyone in the world from seeing what's happening in Australia --a GLOBAL ban-- and that they are not allowed to allow ANY current-event information which is not issued by the government or pre-approved media.

I really wish I was making this up.

Re: Boring is good.

Samsung a800 for me.

Matchbox-sized: I carried it in my jeans' fob pocket. 5-7 days' battery life. Human-centric software&hardware design&integration.

A very nice feature was user-created addressbook Groups, to which you could assign different ringtones. So you could assess urgency/importance of call as soon as it rang. Expecting a major call? Shift the Contact into Override group so you're alerted immediately. Or have all Groups set to Silent overnight except Family. Etc

Put it this way:

If the objective of CDBCs was Currency, they'd use a Coin.

They've used Contracts.

So the objective is not Currency.

The EU one is built on Ethereum so you know straight away that that "regulation" is a lie. It's programmable from the outset.

The draft regs are clearly intended to mislead people.

Also note that every presentation I've seen (same for each of the EU, UK, & US teams, incidentally) has said almost nothing about currency aspects; instead going on at great length and excitement about its programmability. This is explained via detailed examples showing the level of control/permissions over money, transactions, savings, & hence people you get as a result.

Re: A tyrant's dream

Also mentioned as a capability+objective/intended-outcome in presentations by the EU, UK, & US teams.

Re: No No No

^programmers^people

Re: Some light relief

> no evidence

Suggest you read this, above: #c_4798054

I did look at one group of those at the time. 3-simultaneous and the 1 final. Trump's actual cases.

The first 3: judge announced "New rule: all declared witnesses must have submitted affidavits -- no affidavits, therefore no evidence, therefore no case -- The End." So for the next&final 1, they submitted affidavits, judge announced "New rule: if you submit affidavits the witnesses can't testify -- no witnesses, therefore no evidence, therefore no case -- The End." Surreal but that's the way US "law" can be gamed in practice/practise.

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> Why do you keep saying tech.report?

Because tech.report. Hence I used the term "tech.report".

Remember, I was pointing out to people some of the actual context, for why emotions are validly running pretty hot over there. The tech.report is NOT a he-said/she-said (unlike the tangential replies here), and has some IT-specific info professionally meaningful to commentards.

Thus: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.gand.240678/gov.uscourts.gand.240678.1681.0.pdf

His informal run thru it, when unsealed 2yrs later: https://freedom-to-tinker.com/2023/06/14/security-analysis-of-the-dominion-imagecast-x/

Sorry, I thought I'd posted that initially.

Solid credentials: Prof. J.Alex Halderman, who is responsible for some major security work on which you rely daily eg https, plus related stuff like the free LetsEncrypt certificate service. Here's his wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Alex_Halderman; and here he is a few times right here on ElReg: https://search.theregister.com/?q=halderman. Non-trivial competence and authoritativeness. Re Bias: he's anti-Trump, as you'll see from the ElReg articles etc.

Re: Some background

Alert readers would have noticed that I didn't change the topic, but rather Easterly did.

Likewise, alert readers would remember I was merely providing relevant context re the level of emotions over there.

>geolocation data

Worth noting that this can be less useful/accurate than you might expect.

For example, as I discovered tracing & discovering an Australian govt standard medical data breach, at least some of Salesforce's main email servers (*.mta.salesforce.com):

* identify themselves as being in San Francisco CA ("/C=US/ST=California/L=San Francisco/O=salesforce.com"),

* are set to San Francisco CA time,

* but geolocate as being in Francisco, Indiana

Re: Some light relief

"odd"... Mate, you haven't seen "odd" until you've paid close attention to a US case's actual day-to-day Process. "Surreal" and "insane" and "lunaticly decoupled from anything remotely connected to law let alone justice" are more the mot juste. Example I saw just yesterday, a climate scientist suing someone for defamation for referencing "flaws" in his work, has successfully prevented defence witness testimony for years now, on the basis that the witnesses know something about the topic. Ex post, that will just look like he was in the right, since no evidence tendered in defence.

In this case, the tech.report was sealed by a Court 2 years before. Everyone knew what was in it, but it could not be used in evidence. It was only unsealed by a superior Court some months after the Dominion-vs-Fox case was successfully won due to no evidence tendered in defence.

Re: Some background

Alert readers may note some discrepancies between the tech.report and Easterly's declarations.

Re: sooo,,,

Minor correction:

>simian DNA in a lot of them

A/ bacterial DNA, not simian. E.coli, IIRC. Vaccines are farmed, not manufactured, and the shots via un-regulated Process 2 (ie, all non-trial ones) contained chopped up bits of the growth DNA, 30%+ by volume (for Pfizer; Moderna is lower). Equivalent to eating a serving of mashed potato but it's one-third soil+manure, all mixed thru homogeneously. Confirmed widely, including by Canada's regulator. 100 billion+ fragments of plasmid DNA per dose, 7% of which will be integrated into cells' own DNA as a viable replicating mutant, per empirical testing. (~20% integrate but most aren't viable.) Every mRNA recipient is now a chimera.

If you're British you don't need to worry about it, though. The Brit regulator has stated that it hasn't tested for it, that it will never test the Covid vaccines for it, and that in fact they've never tested ANY vaccine EVER for any non-payload constituents. So you can relax.

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B/ All of them, not some.

Re: Explosion proofing

Motorbike armour inserts!

Just occurred to me. That'd be ideal for this sort of shock.

The soft, thin, top-rated ones are materials-science marvels of shock-dispersion. A startling demo of their effectiveness is to drop a ball of it, and it just lands pat -- not even the slightest suggestion of bounce.

I can vouch for its intended effectiveness, too. I was sold by the demo, hit the deck about 12mths later on fresh oil at Donnington doing over 80mph, and didn't really notice: not even any soreness, let alone bruises.

Either buy a slab or save money by contacting the mfr asking for rubbish offcuts.