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LoveDeathRobotson New Windows 10 Secured-Core PCS Block Firmware-Level Attacks

Will sec-core also block Linux from booting?

LoveDeathRobotson 24-Hour Solar Energy: Molten Salt Makes It Possible

"The Crescent Dunes Solar Energy Project .. substantially missed its intended power production over its four-year lifespan by only achieving about 20% of its capacity on an annual basis"

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

LoveDeathRobotson Scientist Behind Navy's “UFO Patents” Filed One for a Compact Fusion Reactor

> If someone has such super technology, why patent it so people can easily steal the idea with a google search? Why not keep it secret and use it to fuel a giddy ride to the top of the power hierarchy?

UFOlogy is a form of religious cult?

LoveDeathRobotson Scientist Behind Navy's “UFO Patents” Filed One for a Compact Fusion Reactor

https://old.reddit.com/r/JoeRogan/comments/dfehjt/an_explana...

> The US Navy has made it abundantly clear that they have this technology .. When motionless, the craft point their gravitational waveguides DOWN, which causes them to hover.

OK then, tell us why they allowed two shuttles to explode rather than use this gravitational waveguide technology?

LoveDeathRobotson Re-writing the site of Norway's largest transport provider in Elm

> A language decision like this – beyond the merit of the language itself – might create a vendor lock-in that can stifle competition.

As distinct from the endlessly changing dot Carousel :]

LoveDeathRobotson NHS opens clinic to help child addicts of computer games

Do the parents bare any responsibility?

LoveDeathRobotson Oppenheimer and the Gita (2014)

> Don't see any relation between religious philosophy and housing issue.

Most of the historical social movements in the west came out of the Christian tradition, whilst the eastern tradition of Karma/Dharma would say leave it, it's the wheel of life or some such.

LoveDeathRobotson A Sociology of Steve Jobs (2011)

Steve Wozniak is who built the original Apple, the hardware and the software, Steve Jobs did manage to create the Apple image and sell himself as some kind of a tech guru in the process.

LoveDeathRobotson Oppenheimer and the Gita (2014)

Possible explains this https://www.teoalida.com/world/india/

LoveDeathRobotson The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: 40 years of parody and predictions

@mclightning: “I haven't been able to get into the whole hype about this book”

Then try and get hold of the original radio series, which the books are based on. “Why a fish for translation”: because it is ridiculous, which most fifties sci/fi is/was. Adams did write scripts for Doctor Who.

So, the babelfish takes the piss out of Sci-Fi and the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation takes the piss out of consumerism. And this quote takes the piss out of Politics:

‘The President .. His job is not to wield power but to draw attention away from it’. Take a look at that whole quote, does it remind you of anyone.

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7204835-the-president-in-pa...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_th...

LoveDeathRobotson NSA on the Future of National Cybersecurity

Incidents like the recent Checkm8 hack illustrate the dangerous of a monoculture. The designers need to really up their game. Something like, on first boot the device scrambles the microcode in the CPU. Then on each further boot encrypts memory access per process. That way each device would be unique and no individual hack could infect the entire population.

LoveDeathRobotson Men Are Waiting to Share Some Feelings (2018)

> I participated in men's work ..

I'm a little confused, who are the they you are referring to? People are hired on to perform tasks in return for remuneration and feelings should be reserved for outside the job. Getting emotionally involved with ones co-workers is a recipe for disaster. If you're ever invited to a workshop on diversity, don't go. James Damore and Professor Alessandro Strumia would know why.

LoveDeathRobotson OLPC’s $100 laptop was going to change the world (2018)

What really killed OLPC:

"Negroponte of $100 One Laptop Per Child Sued for Patent Infringement"

http://www.huliq.com/43721/negroponte-100-one-laptop-child-s...

"Intel: doing the dirty on OLPC"

https://web.archive.org/web/20130517082425/http://www.p2pnet...

Oct 2005: “Remember that a key part of our strategy is to create a situation where even if Nick rejects us for philosophical reasons there is a long and visible history of our attempts to work with them and then we have to ask to get a license for the "open source hardware" and we will make our own offering on the commercial side.” Craig Mundie

http://www.groklaw.net/articlebasic.php?story=20100114225709...

LoveDeathRobotson GhostNet

Have these targets ever given consideration to not keeping their secrets on a computer directly connected to the Internet?

LoveDeathRobotson Hacker Who Revealed Soccer Secrets Is Charged with 147 Crimes

Dec 2016: "The Man Behind Football Leaks"

https://www.spiegel.de/international/business/football-leaks...

LoveDeathRobotson First They Took Our Headphone Jack, Now They’re Taking Our Volume Buttons

tomsguide.com not to be confused with tomshardware.com

LoveDeathRobotson How HBO’s Chernobyl reminds me of working in tech

Brilliant piece of writing, some choice quotes:

“I’ve watched many tech managers research their positions by reading blog posts, books, advice columns, and so on — instead of simply listening to their team and putting effort into dealing with their problems.”

“On some level, everyone in tech knows that the system and its founding stories are inadequate .. But they also believe that there are similarly-managed tech startups succeeding all around them, and so they refuse to conclude that the problem is with the overall system.”