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Stierlitz

101 karma · joined January 4, 2020

I mod down every post I don't agree with because I am too intellectually challenged to forward an opposing argument. I only ever come here to have my own prejudices confirmed.
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Stierlitz··on The Baltic states are reconfiguring their electric grids
>> Nothing to do with frequency. Why even mention it and try to associate with Russia?

> Russia is an enormous threat to Western civilization, haven't you heard? /s

Merely yet more anti-russian neocon propaganda, who are nostalgic for the cold war. It's the $insert_one_of: Chinese, Russian, North Korean, Iranian hackers who took down the electric grid, hacked hospitals etc.

Stierlitz··on A layman's guide to understanding the Cloud
At the risk of being rendered totally invisible, I would have to point out that you still have to hire-on techies to develop and maintain your apps in the “cloud”. Not to mention the latency issues you would experience. That's when you're required to re-install your local hardware to be run in a hybrid/cloud solution. And having your “cloud” provider install edge/devices. Finally you should ask yourself just how much money you are going to save by moving to the “cloud”.
Stierlitz··on Linux Malware “Drovorub” developed by Russian exposed by NSA and FBI
¿Do they seriously expect us to believe this neocon cyber BS?
Stierlitz··on Browser Extensions I Can't Live Without
All very well, but each new extension adds to "waiting on extension". I tried moving the cache and chrome profile to tmpfs to speed things up. Could some developer embed such functionality into the executables?
Stierlitz··on Popcorn Computer’s Pocket P.C. Open Sourced
'numpad0: “Confusing name but not related to Microsoft’s obsolete Pocket PC platform”

I suspect such retrospective revisionist reports are designed to precisely do that, render confusion. For instance, according to wikipedia, Windows NT was never designed with the Internet in mind. Whatever that's supposed to mean.

Stierlitz··on Popcorn Computer’s Pocket P.C. Open Sourced
According to Wikipedia, Palm copied the “Pocket PC” from the PDA, who knew. Or was it Microsoft first named the “Pocket PC” the “Palm PC”. So as to render confusion in the public mind and steal market share. That's probably when Palm became “a newer entrant into the Pocket PC market”

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

Stierlitz··on The Psychedelic Inspiration for Hypercard (2018)
“Why Hypercard Had to Die .. The Apple of Steve Jobs needed HyperCard-like products like the Monsanto Company needs a $100 home genetic-engineering set.”

http://www.loper-os.org/?p=568

Stierlitz··on CalREDIE under-reporting all California Covid-19 cases for past “few weeks”
Would these unexplained glitches have anything to do with Trump requiring less reported Covad cases?
Stierlitz··on Why I still use an old PowerPC Mac
To the downvoter: what was wrong with that post?

- quote - @nordsieck

>> George R.R. Martin uses Wordstar 4.0 on DOS to write the Game of Thrones novels

> A much better modern alternative is the Alphasmart Neo 2.

* It was designed for elementary school children so it's decently rugged. * It runs a long time (months) on 2 AA batteries. * To get the text off the device, it impersonates a USB keyboard, making it compatible with basically every computer. - unquote -

Stierlitz··on Garmin received decryptor for WastedLocker ransomware
This would never have happened, if only they used a proper Operating System from a respectable software company.
Stierlitz··on Refactoring the FreeBSD Kernel with Checked C [pdf]
@MuffinFlavored: “I thought static analysis/fuzzing/unit tests were supposed to catch these kinds of things?”

How dare you criticise MICROS~1

Stierlitz··on Reverse-engineering the adder inside the Intel 8086
> multiple offset/segment combinations could address the same physical memory address.

Would this have anything to do with memory exploits on the entire x86 range of processors?

Stierlitz··on CEOs Mark Zuckerberg, Tim Cook, Jeff Bezos,Sundar Pichai Testify Before House
Is there an edited version with the best bits? I really don't want to have to wade through five hours and twenty minutes of it. What video conferncing solution did they use. Not Zoom, cause the Chinese could be bugging it. Lastly, who is this dude?

https://i.ibb.co/BZN1qZr/white-black.png

Stierlitz··on Secret UFO files? In Canada the truth is out there – online and searchable
Why would these highly technically advanced space aliens travel here in their space ships, only to buzz secret US air bases?

If the US airforce now has access to such technology then why are they still using ignited distillate of petroleum to power their aircraft.

Stierlitz··on How the Russians penetrated Illinois election computers
Total Cyber BS ..
Stierlitz··on Drug cartel ‘narco-antennas’ make life dangerous for Mexico’s repairmen
@elboru ..

Exactly, it's a pretend war on drugs, while the people at the top make millions. Moving the war on drugs overseas only serves to distract from the US home grown drug industry. And there's no problem in injecting these narco-dollars back into the economy.

Stierlitz··on I Know What You Download on BitTorrent
“Executive Office Of The President"

Haaaarrr!

Stierlitz··on I Know What You Download on BitTorrent
“MommyBlowsBest.18.10.31.Marie.Mccray.Story.Time.XXX.SD.MP4-KLEENEX”

Haaaarrrr

Stierlitz··on Dude, You Broke the Future (2017)
> .. Can it be done in a way that doesn't imply the death of the subject?

The key word is replacement. Can this replacement vote or inherit property? What happens if there is a clerical error and they make two replacements. Which one is the real you?

Stierlitz··on Dude, You Broke the Future (2017)
@ALittleLight: “.. One was the idea that the author could rule out the singularity ..”

Your consciousness uploaded and then downloaded into a synthetic human like body isn't ever going to be you. As the man said “transhumanism is a warmed-over Christian heresy”.

Stierlitz··on The magnetic universe begins to come into view
“These force fields — the same entities that emanate from fridge magnets”

Not a lot of people know that :]

Stierlitz··on Iran cyberattack on Israel’s water supply could have sickened hundreds – report
Yet more neocon waffle. I wonder who the US intends to provoke a war with in the near future, China, Iran or Russia. I wonder is there an election coming up. A small war would be good for ratings. Just who in their right mind connects control equipment directly to the Internet. (you are cancelled)
Stierlitz··on Estonian Electronic Identity Card: Security Flaws in Key Management
> n this paper, we describe several security flaws found in the ID card manufacturing process ..

Like accidentally on purpose,secure up to a point, but weak enough to allow the spooks to generate their own IDs. I mean if the cards were unhackable how would a spy do his job :]

Stierlitz··on Freud and Faith (2007)
“If one attempts to assign to religion its place in man’s evolution, it seems not so much to be a lasting acquisition, as a parallel to the neurosis which the civilized individual must pass through on his way from childhood to maturity”
Stierlitz··on Dmitry Rogozin on SpaceX Crew Dragon Launch
Didn't anyone else notice that Elon Musk never met with President Donald J. Trump at the launch site.
Stierlitz··on The Mystery of Charles Dickens
> Was Dickens’s fiction shaped by the nastiness he never consciously acknowledged?

No, as a writer he would be very aware of where his inspiration came from and would be good at creating imaginary characters for dramatic effect. Without the villain the hero could never overcome adversity and achieve redemption. Is this yet another example of judging a historical text by current standards. Will Dickens have to be rewritten to remove the bad bits. What'll be left. I can remember that scene in Oliver Twist where he asked for more soup. Completely unlikely to occur in real life. I mean they actually got soup before eating.

Stierlitz··on Zero-day in Sign in with Apple
“I found I could request JWTs for any Email ID from Apple and when the signature of these tokens was verified using Apple’s public key, they showed as valid.”

What are they teaching them in computer school these days. How can you write a security function and not test it for these kind of bugs. Unless all there accidental backdoors have a more nefarious purpose <shoosh>

Stierlitz··on What Do You Do with a Stolen van Gogh?
"What do you do with a stolen van Gogh? This thief knows"

https://artdaily.com/news/124021/What-do-you-do-with-a-stole...

Stierlitz··on Two capacitor paradox
@surewhynat

Why did someone mod you down dead?

- quote - It's an exponential function on the W=CV^2

let's say initially:

C = 1

V = 16

W = 1 * 16^2

  = 256
When the Voltage is split between the two capacitors, the voltage drops in half from 16 to 8, but because there are two capacitors you count them twice:

W = CV^2 + CV^2

C = 1

V = 8

W = (1 * 8^2) + (1 * 8^2)

  = 128
Where did half the energy go? People are saying it's loss in magnetic radiation during the transfer. But on paper it still seems counter intuitive, so it's called a, "paradox," instead of just how an exponential function works. Something in the universe makes the energy levels exponentially higher as voltage increases. More electric pressure (V) = exponentially more energy. Cool! - unquote -
Stierlitz··on Two capacitor paradox
My brain hurts, is there a simpler version?
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