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@Vixen said in In other news today...:
@Boner said in In other news today...:
I'm willing to bet good money that they'll do a model with a nipple.
They'll have to work on the skin though. The current model looks like sewn together from an old nutsack.
"Want to unlock my phone? Well limber up your tongue because my phone only unlocks to someone that can make it come, so I hope your cunnilinguous skills are top notch"
Does it always take half an hour to unlock? Then I should hope I get some acoustic feedback. Unh, baby, lick those fuckin' pixels, stick it up my tight headphone jack … gentle with that retina! I love it when you suck on my fingerprint sensor! My circuits explode with delight!
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@LaoC said in In other news today...:
My circuits explode with delight!
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@LaoC said in In other news today...:
@Vixen said in In other news today...:
Glad you recognized my oblique reference ;)
Oblique? NAY! CLASSIC!
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@PleegWat said in In other news today...:
@DogsB In NL nowadays they often don't even try to pursue. I believe it's because of potential bad PR when it goes badly wrong, but it may even be for liability reasons.
This is a video of a brazillian cop in a motorcycle chasing someone:
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
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@PJH That headline... My first thought "only 3? Are they sure it wasn't 4?"
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@LaoC said in In other news today...:
Does it always take half an hour to unlock?
Bro, ten seconds flat!
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
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@JBert said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
NB: Onebox does not contain a picture of the perp.
The man might be a dweeb, but does that mugshot matter?
Ah, a Kirk fan.
Or an alien. Either works.
The undocumented guest worker thread is .
Please make sure he's documented. Or Iowa will deport him to CA and Gavin will let him go.
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@Vixen said in In other news today...:
@LaoC said in In other news today...:
Glad you recognized my oblique reference ;)
Oblique? NAY! CLASSIC!
"Let me know when the bishop begins to make his move", said Tom, obliquely.
(I hope that doesn't go against anybody's bias.)
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@da-Doctah said in In other news today...:
@Vixen said in In other news today...:
@LaoC said in In other news today...:
Glad you recognized my oblique reference ;)
Oblique? NAY! CLASSIC!
"Let me know when the bishop begins to make his move", said Tom, obliquely.
(I hope that doesn't go against anybody's bias.)
I feel kinda wooshy about this one.
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@LaoC said in In other news today...:
I feel kinda wooshy about this one.
In chess, bishops move on the diagonal. Fabric for garments is normally cut in line with the weave of the fabric (with the grain); when it is cut diagonally, it is cut "on the bias."
Also, the bad pun thread is .
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
In chess, bishops move on the diagonal.
Also, a diagonal (line) is also known as an "oblique" (line).
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@da-Doctah said in In other news today...:
@Vixen said in In other news today...:
@LaoC said in In other news today...:
Glad you recognized my oblique reference ;)
Oblique? NAY! CLASSIC!
"Let me know when the bishop begins to make his move", said Tom, obliquely.
(I hope that doesn't go against anybody's bias.)
@LaoC said in In other news today...:
I feel kinda wooshy about this one.
I think you were going a little too fast for him, Mr. Swifty.
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@djls45 said in In other news today...:
@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
In chess, bishops move on the diagonal.
Also, a diagonal (line) is also known as an "oblique" (line).
That was the only part I did understand, but it looked like a quote I didn't know. And that bias thing was new to me, too.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in In other news today...:
@topspin said in In other news today...:
@Benjamin-Hall yeah, my boss calls it "conservation of difficulty under transformation" whenever we try a new approach that trades one set of problems for another. In our case, numerical stability is often one that you lose when gaining theoretical performance.
Conservation of annoyance is more pithy
I wonder what symmetry is linked to that conservation law...
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Ars has found proof that video gamers aren't disordered after all, rejoice!
(Raise your hand if you're surprised)
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@LaoC said in In other news today...:
@djls45 said in In other news today...:
@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
In chess, bishops move on the diagonal.
Also, a diagonal (line) is also known as an "oblique" (line).
That was the only part I did understand, but it looked like a quote I didn't know. And that bias thing was new to me, too.
Is it possible that you were unfamiliar with the tradition of the "Tom Swifty"?
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@kazitor said in In other news today...:
"I joke with people and say it's the Air Force's oldest IT system. But it's the age that provides that security,” Rossi said in an October interview. "You can't hack something that doesn't have an IP address. It's a very unique system — it is old and it is very good."
Hacking is not particularly dependent on there being an IP-address last I checked.
“I have guys in here who have circuits, diodes, and resisters memorized,” he said. “They use a TO [technical order] to make sure they’re right, but these guys have been doing it for so long, when the parts come in, they can tell you what’s wrong just based on a fault code or something. That level of expertise is very hard to replace. It’s not sexy work. It’s soldering irons and micro-miniature microscopes.”
That is kind of the purpose of fault codes.
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@Carnage said in In other news today...:
Hacking is not particularly dependent on there being an IP-address last I checked.
No, but if there's no network access, you need physical access.
Before you try to gain physical access, just remember that this system is guarded by the U.S. Air force
Good Luck
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
@Carnage said in In other news today...:
Hacking is not particularly dependent on there being an IP-address last I checked.
No, but if there's no network access, you need physical access.
Before you try to gain physical access, just remember that this system is guarded by the U.S. Air force
Good Luck
It's also a government target, which means the assailants are also government with deep pockets and with resources strategically placed.
Not having an IP address makes you fairly safe from drive by hacks or script kittens, but that isn't enough when protecting military information flows.
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
Before you try to gain physical access, just remember that this system is guarded by the U.S. Air force
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
@Carnage said in In other news today...:
Hacking is not particularly dependent on there being an IP-address last I checked.
No, but if there's no network access, you need physical access.
Before you try to gain physical access, just remember that this system is guarded by the U.S. Air force
Good Luck
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@AyGeePlus That article clearly has problems. Missile silos are located miles away from their respective launch control centers, so it makes zero sense that missile doors got left open while the launch control center received a food delivery. Also, missile silos are never staffed, they are sealed up and controlled remotely, because a missile launch completely destroys the silo and they launch so quickly there's no time to evacuate personnel first.
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What are the two rules of arguing about the news? 1) headlines are liars 2) no really headlines are liars.
It's the blast doors to the launch control center that they're talking about. "missile doors" appears only in the headline, probably because editors are liars who write lying headlines for clicks. Still not great security, though. If you can get to the launch control center you can control the launches, which is the problem kernel.
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@AyGeePlus said in In other news today...:
If you can get to the launch control center you can control the launches
Eh, headline issues aside, I'm leaning towards no on this one. I've seen the inside of a launch control center before. They're right to reprimand the officers in this case, but they'd need to make several huge FUBAR's beyond leaving the door open before there was any actual security issue here. The only threat in this case was that a raccoon sneaks in and starts digging through the control center trash can.
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@mott555 The air force is technically correct that this is just a hole in one layer of security, and there are lots of layers on purpose.
However, I posted this article to refute 'physical access is impossible because Air Force'.
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@AyGeePlus said in In other news today...:
to refute 'physical access is impossible because Air Force'.
I never said impossible
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@AyGeePlus said in In other news today...:
'physical access is impossible because Air Force'.
I won't argue against the exact wording of this, but it's so close to impossible that it might as well be. You're more likely to get struck by lightning while winning the PowerBall, inheriting all of Apple's shares, and having a Windows 10 update succeed, than successfully breaking into a U.S. nuclear weapons facility and triggering a missile launch even if you had extensive insider knowledge of the programs and protocols.
The Air Force even hired security contractors and gave them full sets of blueprints/schematics on the facilities, and told them "Find a way to break in so we can secure it better." Every single attempt failed, even with insider knowledge. They always hit the rather short timer for "Air Force patrol shows up and shoots you dead first."
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@AyGeePlus said in In other news today...:
The air force is technically correct that this is just a hole in one layer of security, and there are lots of layers on purpose.
But if you can't fault someone for leaving a hole in one layer because there are more layers, who do you fault for holes in two layers? Or three?
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@PleegWat Those guys did get fired? So them?
I'm mostly spooked by the admission 'oh yeah we do that fairly often and lie about it'.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
Quantum Supremacy is here, if Google is to be believed.
The publication embargo time for Nature is over, and it's now officially announced:
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@topspin They're cheating a little bit, surely. The task they picked is 'simulating a quantum circuit'.
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One way to keep kids off your lawn... is to no longer have a lawn.
Seriously, watch that video. Sadly I haven't found a YouTube version yet so you will have to endure The Daily Mail.EDIT: Worry no more, here's a YouTube link:
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@AyGeePlus that’s not cheating. It’s explicitly spelled out that the problem is artificial and created to show exactly this. They have now proved that there is at least one problem for which quantum computers are exponentially faster. It’s still open if there are others, but it sounds unlikely that this will remain the only one.
They don’t yet have enough qubits to meaningfully perform factorization, but that seems to be a matter of time only.
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@topspin This is just a degenerate case of 'a bowling ball dropped off my desk is a perfect simulator of a bowling ball dropped off my desk'.
It's technically supremacy, but not in any of the ways that might make it interesting or useful.
@topspin said in In other news today...:
It’s still open if there are others, but it sounds unlikely that this will remain the only one.
They don’t yet have enough qubits to meaningfully perform factorization, but that seems to be a matter of time only.In other words, nothing has changed from yesterday.
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@Boner Also no (visible) L plates, although a relatively minor offence.
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they let him take the test.
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@AyGeePlus said in In other news today...:
they let him take the test.
"Did you steal this vehicle" isn't covered.
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@JBert said in In other news today...:
Seriously, watch that video. Sadly I haven't found a YouTube version yet so you will have to endure The Daily Mail.
I couldn't, sadly. Attempting to load the page wasted four minutes of my time:
And before the video proper started playing:
Oops.