CompuHacker

There is a distinction between

- having a valid drivers license document during a police encounter

- having a malicious device making (maybe) license related claims on your behalf during a police encounter

edit: More specifically, and more to your point, there is a distinction between being licensed and being able to produce proof of licensing.

So far as I know, Apple can change arbitrary bits in the memory and file system of any online device they make. So, they can turn it off, change files, change the functioning of processes and apps, including removing any particular app. They can cause an iPhone to not display an image of or transmit the details of a drivers license, even if one is stored in the device, despite the effort of the user.

But the status of being licensed to drive is kept in one or several databases controlled by one or many states or agencies. Similarly, the status of having a credit card is kept in a database controlled by at least one credit card company. Licenses and payment accounts can be verified for everyday use with less than 100bits even without a physical or digital representation of the card face available.

If Apple can stop a device from transmitting or displaying license details, then I guess you'll... need either a physical copy or the license number.

Do you mean a contiguous, legal parcel of land or a more natural division, like valleys, mountaintops, coastlines, etc.?

Can you give us some other examples? Some 25% of my clicks are on an HN button on my bookmarks bar and it is tiring.

Apple will then have a list of all the people who have an iDevice but disabled iCloud in August, 2021.

GPU ETH mining beats cost of electricity by 400-800% at $0.09-0.12/kWh, even with various losses and a single card. (300W total system draw for $24/month and $100-200 USD output)

The Well There's Your Problem engineering disaster podcast did an episode on Vulcan, WV on Feb 17, 2021.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9o19EaposFE

It's alright, those NASA boys have got the Steely Glint in their eyes.

It shouldn't be, but it shouldn't be disallowed.

If every NSA employee has a perfect security posture, any adversary is going to have to take more extreme measures to get information. Better to let them have the occasional un-updated iPhone.

A petabyte of flash memory consumes several hundred watts and is susceptible to damage from particle radiation. A cube shape allows compounding damage.

Perhaps several Starships could be put in a medium Earth orbit, filled (or refilled over several missions) with a liquid for radiation shielding. The shape of the data storage array is decided such that one linear event cannot strike all of three redundant devices.

You could confine yourself to one or two rooms and open the rest of the house to communal occupation.

Windows 10 is in fact doing something when you click the Wi-Fi icon in the taskbar. That's the moment it chooses to actually poll for networks. This ties up your Wi-Fi card and dramatically increases ping for about two seconds, in short pulses.

This concept was described in Cryptonomicon (1999). I have seen no proof of concept for such an application as of yet, but it would indeed be simple.

I'm not sure this disease metaphor is appropriate. Lots of people have STDs, and lots of those people get married, and, as I understand it, many of those people have a lot of safe sex.

And frankly, I don't trust many of my own devices not to fuck me. (figuratively speaking)

Are you suggesting that Google would censor Google Search search results relating to Google's censorship of Google Search search results? If so, could you provide a source?

A quick search I imagined doing (I even imagined that I used a VPN) turned up 10,000,000 results, 49 of which were news articles from the last 15 years detailing what, but not how, Google Search search results were censored. When I imagined clicking "Next" to see the rest of these results, I imagined that I was presented with a No CAPTCHA, asking me to identify which colored block of visual noise most closely resembled hell itself.

Edit: Oh, and then I did the search for real, and got 4.95m results of similar composition.

What could happen if these 10KiB blobs landed on maliciously crafted data? What could happen if the difference between two blobs was a maliciously chosen value?

I had a similar confusion; apparently you can form long-running, multi-thousand user, searchable chat rooms.

You can attach a wire to an object in Earth orbit and use the magnetic field of the Earth to change that object's orbit over time, as well.

Promote both, rest easier.

Firefox 55 has all of those features! I just never updated.

Sure, these extensions and workarounds are dangerous and inconvenient, but I do love well behaved web browsers.

Oh, do explain a little more about why that doesn't work; wavelengths, total power, distances, etc.

Fads.

Not derogatory, this is what they were called at the time.

You could add a little texture to LRAD tones to make them copyright-able pieces. (... LRAD Orchestra? Copyright Beam? Litigation Laser? Chilling Effect Spray?)

I chose Silicon Graphics (08:00:69) and it's fascinating to see that anyone else did, for any reason. For reference, my ISP hands out 2-8 IPv4 addresses, expiry indefinite (unless I power down), to clients connected to the cable modem. So my stack looks like

[Motorola Surfboard]->[4p 1GbE Switch]->[Linksys E3000 (08:00:69::)]

Depending on the mood of the ISP, I can have several other networks running from the 4-port switch. If I spoof those MACs repeatedly, I can get an arbitrary (within range) block of public IPs, and there's some seriously weird behavior in allocating those IPs (change my MAC 48 times in a row, end up on the same IP I had just lost from a power outage?)

(due to supply constraints, laptop bag will be made with Nylon.)

Well, for one, ex post facto laws criminalize behavior retroactively.

The introduction to this article covers a lot of edge cases right off the bat.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ex_post_facto_law

At the very least the government won't hound you to mow the lawn.

I really wouldn't worry about it. Based on the 160 incoming bytes that I've read so far, and a few status bits I've skimmed over, I've determined that they are not in fact a real person. </s>

12V DC 0.5A was typical, stable from 5-30V depending on the exact model.