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@HardwareGeek That was a plea bargain. Clearly she was guilty of attempted murder. It wasn't a threat - it was attempted murder. A threat is saying to the victim, "If you do X, I'll do Y to punish you". That wasn't what happened here.
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@Arantor said in In other news today...:
@ixvedeusi said in In other news today...:
@Arantor Welcome to the internet, where the men are men, the women are men, and the hit-men are FBI agents.
I mean there’s that, but I used to think people were less dumb than seeing a domain like that and it never occurring to them that it might be anything less than legit
Except that she did, but she went ahead anyway:
On June 3 last year Ellis submitted a request via the aforementioned dot-com using the pseudonym "Jasmine Brown," according to court documents.
Ellis also entered her real email address, which still indicated it belonged to Zandra Ellis, not Jasmine Brown, along with her actual phone number and physical address.
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[The webmaster] also asked why her email address indicated her name was Zandra Ellis, not Jasmine Brown.
According to prosecutors, Ellis replied: "I didn't want my real name out just in case this isn't real or if it comes back to me or so I wouldn't go to jail for wanting something like this done. I just didn't want it to fall back on me."
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@Arantor said in In other news today...:
@DogsB I’m also hearing rumours that the owners think the draw are the brands (like ZP) rather than the person(s) behind them, and that they can replace people with AI.
More interestingly there is a rumour they’re going to try to make ZP with AI writing and voice work.
Surely getting rid of the one guy that anyone went there to see would propel them to the greatest heights of popularity
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@Zecc said in In other news today...:
Google
giving upkilling something which would have helped provide lock-in after everyone else pushes back? No wei!TFY
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@jinpa said in In other news today...:
@Arantor She got a relatively light sentence for attempted murder. Maybe the judge felt sorry for her.
If 1% of the population is literally mentally retarded, then there's another 1% that's almost.
Sounds a little low.
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Yay, Atlassian.
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
agreed to meet at a Waffle House
Of course.
Hey, I’d meet at a Waffle House.
Don’t really care what for, as long as I get waffles.
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@topspin Waffle House has a certain reputation, and it's not a good one. It's associated with people you probably don't want to associate with, like People Of Walmart, Florida Man, and this delightful young woman.
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@HardwareGeek what part of “as long as I get waffles” did you not understand?
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
@topspin Waffle House has a certain reputation, and it's not a good one. It's associated with people you probably don't want to associate with, like People Of Walmart, Florida Man, and this delightful young woman.
And presumably the FBI.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
@HardwareGeek what part of “as long as I get waffles” did you not understand?
Want to get waffles?
Sure!
Cool. Let me get something.
What are you hiding behind your back?
I'm just happy to see you. Waffles?
Cool!
He was seen again.
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At waffle house you always get dinner and a show, it has real value for money.
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@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
I’ll bet you 50 bucks this is bullshit.
For one, smart phones have no intersection with quantum computers.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
smart phones have no intersection with quantum computers.
Maybe as a web client to access the quantum computer, but otherwise, no.
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
@topspin said in In other news today...:
smart phones have no intersection with quantum computers.
Maybe as a web client to access the quantum computer, but otherwise, no.
Yeah, maybe. But the whole thing sounds like complete crackpottery.
The best response would be to say shut up and demonstrate. Nobody cares for your bullshit paper where you explain how quantum physics is wrong but you found a trivial method of factoring that should’ve been known to Pythagoras, that was overlooked for centuries. Factor something!
If what he claimed was true, he would be busy trying to become filthy rich before the NSA gets to him.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
I’ll bet you 50 bucks this is bullshit.
For one, smart phones have no intersection with quantum computers.If you you'll see that he's selling some kind of "post-quantum" encryption.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@topspin said in In other news today...:
@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
I’ll bet you 50 bucks this is bullshit.
For one, smart phones have no intersection with quantum computers.If you you'll see that he's selling some kind of "post-quantum" encryption.
That's not news today!
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@topspin said in In other news today...:
@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
I’ll bet you 50 bucks this is bullshit.
For one, smart phones have no intersection with quantum computers.If you you'll see that he's selling some kind of "post-quantum" encryption.
Reminds me of a German quack “Kryptochef” who unfortunately has, I think, no English translation because who’d bother to translate the ramblings of a mad man.
It was something about how a byte has 8 bits and 8 bits have 256 states, so … forgot some illogical bullshit in between … his “encryption” scheme of 256 whatever-it-was was “full bit” and unbreakable. Not quite time cube, but certainly getting there.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
who’d bother to translate the ramblings of a mad man.
translate.google.com
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
@topspin said in In other news today...:
who’d bother to translate the ramblings of a mad man.
translate.google.com
The domain still exist but the website doesn’t say anything other than “say w0t” anymore.
archive.org to the rescue, he’s even provided his own English translation, which can probably be no more wrong than the untranslated original.He’s been quite the meme, but you’d have to read far too much of his bullshit to recognize all the jokes of yesteryear that had been floating around:
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
Not quite time cube, but certainly getting there
Time Cube shall never be forgotten as peak fruit loopery.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
he’s even provided his own English translation, which can probably be no more wrong than the untranslated original.
It reads like it was machine translated, badly. I made it through 4 paragraphs, or so, and I think my eyes are bleeding.
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
@topspin said in In other news today...:
he’s even provided his own English translation, which can probably be no more wrong than the untranslated original.
It reads like it was machine translated, badly. I made it through 4 paragraphs, or so, and I think my eyes are bleeding.
Fear not, it’s not the machine that’s introduced the madness.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
For one, smart phones have no intersection with quantum computers.
Not any smart phone I've ever observed, anyway.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
I’ll bet you 50 bucks this is bullshit.
For one, smart phones have no intersection with quantum computers.Has anyone actually done anything with quantum or is it all still theoretical and snake oil?
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
@topspin said in In other news today...:
@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
I’ll bet you 50 bucks this is bullshit.
For one, smart phones have no intersection with quantum computers.Has anyone actually done anything with quantum or is it all still theoretical and snake oil?
As far as factoring goes, the record still seems to be the same as from several years ago: 21=3*7
And that wasn't even the full, general Shor's algorithm, but something simpler.Maybe there's been newer results, but I've not read about any.
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That little startup in Redmond we all know and… well, we all know, is struggling to source sufficient GPUs for its pet projects. Bless ‘em, they’re trying.
There is no word as to whether Mr Ellison requires another yacht at this time.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
Has anyone actually done anything with quantum or is it all still theoretical and snake oil?
I heard there were some improvements in size that are getting practical for some chemistry simulations—where the process being simulated is similar quantum interactions that the quantum computer is using, so its more like running a controlled sample of the process than simulation—but nothing on the cryptography side.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
@topspin said in In other news today...:
@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
I’ll bet you 50 bucks this is bullshit.
For one, smart phones have no intersection with quantum computers.Has anyone actually done anything with quantum or is it all still theoretical and snake oil?
Done things? Most certainly. They are still in Quantum Coding 101 but they have 'hello world' working. So it is more than snake oil but it is far from hype fulfilling, so far.
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@Bulb said in In other news today...:
@DogsB said in In other news today...:
Has anyone actually done anything with quantum or is it all still theoretical and snake oil?
I heard there were some improvements in size that are getting practical for some chemistry simulations—where the process being simulated is similar quantum interactions that the quantum computer is using, so its more like running a controlled sample of the process than simulation—but nothing on the cryptography side.
Reminds me of that rant of (the) one Itanium user about the death of that platform, because his super-optimized simulation (but I think it was physics) code does not work in emulator. After some questions and puzzled emotes from other people, it turned out that his super-optimized handcrafted assembler code used side effects of pipelines affecting timing of different pipelines (or something similar, basically using some logical gates as a special communication channel).
Was it here or somewhere else?
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@Kamil-Podlesak said in In other news today...:
@Bulb said in In other news today...:
@DogsB said in In other news today...:
Has anyone actually done anything with quantum or is it all still theoretical and snake oil?
I heard there were some improvements in size that are getting practical for some chemistry simulations—where the process being simulated is similar quantum interactions that the quantum computer is using, so its more like running a controlled sample of the process than simulation—but nothing on the cryptography side.
Reminds me of that rant of (the) one Itanium user about the death of that platform, because hist super-optimized simulation (but I think it was physics) code does not work in emulator. After some questions from puzzled users, it turned out that his super-optimized handcrafted assembler code used side effects of pipelines affecting timing of different pipelines (or something similar, basically using some logical gates as a special communication channel).
Was it here or somewhere else?
I don't remember that much detail before. I do remember reading about the Itanic instruction set recently and thinking more and more "WTF were these guys smoking?" due to the number of weird cross-effects going on in ways that were going to be hell to issue code for.
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@Arantor said in In other news today...:
There is no word as to whether Mr Ellison requires another yacht at this time.
Those America's Cup yachts don't build themselves!
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I hate puffins as much as the next man but this is a bit much.
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@DogsB That's one way for
AmericaOracle to get the edge in the race.
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
@DogsB That's one way for
AmericaOracle to get the edge in the race.It can't be a coincidence that the letters in the word orca are the first 4 letters in Oracle
Although if the orcas go rogue then Larry really will need a new yacht.
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People keep telling me they're harmless but they keep doing this.
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@DogsB the writer's got a persecution complex.
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@DogsB I want to know if the bear is smarter than the average bear.
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@dkf it's a coin flip, really.
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
@DogsB I want to know if the bear is smarter than the average bear.
We'll put him in front of a compiler with an instructor. If he mauls the instructor, destroys the computer and flees into the woods. He's probably smarter than the average java developer at least.
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I’m trying to buy domains using Siri. I don’t think you need a study.
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@DogsB Geolocation will tell it you're Irish anyway.
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Jesus, this worked better in 1999.
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@DogsB
are we sure it wasn't just his own order he took?
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
Jesus, this worked better in 1999.
Signal, and Telegram, have accounts associated to phone numbers, and it makes sense for their use-case. Phone numbers are hard enough to come by in large quantities to keep bots off, and the primary goal was a more confidential SMS and phone call replacement, so it made sense that you feed it your phone directory and it finds whether the people have accounts have the app. You can't search either to get someone's phone number, you have to know the number to find the account.
Telegram has had public channels for a long time, and I don't think you can get the phone numbers of the people who post there from them, but Signal does not (or did not last I looked) have public channels anyway.
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- In rare circumstances, Apple Pay and other NFC features may become unavailable on iPhone 15 models after wireless charging in certain cars
You're charging it wrong.