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Comment Re:What "quantum age"? (Score 1) 63

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Falgassert.com%2Fpost%2F250... addresses the case of 21.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Farxiv.org%2Fpdf%2F1903.007... seems to be the paper about 35, although it says that noise meant that "the algorithm fails to factor N = 35" (and didn't do a great job for 21 either).

Comment Re:So estheticians had a problem (Score 1) 56

Almost all US healthcare spending is by the government. And the US government spends more per person on health care than any other country spends government+private. By a lot.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.statista.com%2Fstati...

A large majority of that government spending is direct spending on Medicare and Medicaid, not subsidies for insurance. So when you complain that the US "doesn't even have a functioning healthcare system", the most obvious reason is because our governments have broken the system.

Comment Re:Targeting the people who have aged out of it (Score 2) 11

Isn't that why they make phones with 256+ GB storage? "The cloud" (aka "someone else's computer") might be convenient in various ways, but it's inherently slower than what is already on your phone, and it doesn't work so well from the top of a mountain[1], the bottom of a parking garage, or other places with lousy mobile coverage.

[1]- I was surprised that Mount Fuji had mobile good coverage all the way up, but I guess Japanese people also want to Snapchat/SNS from there.

Comment Re: If an attacker has physical access to my DIMM (Score 1) 92

... if you trust pseudonymous Internet randos over the US intelligence community and DoD, at least.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nextgov.com%2Fmodern...
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnbc.com%2F2022%2F12%2F0...

These clouds have multiple layers of security, several of which reduce the likelihood that someone will install an interposer in a server undetected. (Or, in the case of the Wiretap photo, job up a logic analyzer to a compromised server.) Cloud vendors are also likely to have moved quicker to DDR5, which isn't vulnerable to either of these attacks.

Comment Re: If an attacker has physical access to my DIMMS (Score 1) 92

That's a dumb take. The US has been writing cloud computing contracts for TOP SECRET content for years, to say nothing of public web sites. Australia and New Zealand have specific infosec guidance (their Information Security Manuals) that not only recommend particular controls when using cloud vendors, but that encourage use of cloud vendors, CDNs, and similar services to improve availability of government-provided information and services.

Everyone should have contingency plans and fallback capabilities, but there are lots of places that cloud services make sense.

Comment Re:Uhhh (Score 1) 224

What ECI do you or your employer put in your payroll system?

This is atrocious behavior by the landlords, but they want access to pay records, not the employer's IT system. Most employers have outsourced all the payroll handling for decades now, so the payroll systems cannot touch information that is proprietary or export-controlled or whatever else.

Comment Re:link to the patent is missing (Score 1) 72

"I honestly beleave it iz better tew know nothing than two know what ainâ(TM)t so." - Josh Billings (which may have been the genesis of the modern quote that is incorrectly attributed to Mark Twain, "It ainâ(TM)t what you donâ(TM)t know that gets you into trouble. Itâ(TM)s what you know for sure that just ainâ(TM)t so.")

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