NO! The first story was 'anonymous sources', who failed to provide any evidence or samples of the alleged hardware. Multiple credible sources have spoken up to refute the claims that they used tainted hardware or even found any such hack despite inspections.

THIS time, the only source on record is a 'security' company that seems to be staffed/directed entirely by ex CIA and Mossad operatives. They obfuscate their claim by refusing to name the actual company, and again fail to deliver any evidence.

You'd think that if Supermicro were shipping these hardware-hacked boards in bulk, as suggested by the original article, that some shred of evidence would be forthcoming.

Underrated post! May sound stupid but I got halfway through the summary confused before I realized they meant CO2, not Carbon.

Exactly. Every interpretation is just a way for dumb monkeys to try to visualize something that inherently can't be conceptualized in terms of our experience. All of them are consistent with the maths, therefore all of them are as 'correct' as each other.

Schrodinger's cat was just an illustration, using the Copenhagen interpretation, that quantum maths can't be extended to the macro world, and that somewhere in the transition from quantum to macro, there must be an increasing level of certainty embedded in the quantum states.

In terms of the Copenhagen interpretation, what constitutes a 'measurement', or at what scale does superposition give way to definite position, is something that even now is being tested experimentally.

Just about every piece of English language text coming out of Shenzhen is Times New Roman, which is an awful font to read. If we sneak in Times Newer Roman instead, maybe I'll finally be able to read those little instruction books that come with my stinky Chinese e-gadgets.

As for essay-writing... Bookman or similar fonts are much easier to read, and give the documents a professional look that doesn't scream "I barely know how to use Word".

Try typing random URLs ending in /.. and see how long it takes the internet police to be called on you.

You mean the pain is still there and causes autonomic responses even though the paraplegic can't consciously feel it?

You have to badge out where I work, too. First our office, then the entrance to the elevator hall, -- arguably you could crowd-surf through one or more of these -- but then the main turnstile which allows only 1 person per swipe. Admittedly these are banks but it's been like this everywhere I've worked in the last 15+ years.

You 'merkins have been corrupting the English language for decades, and this habit of shortening a word to its otherwise widely-used prefix annoys me on a regular basis.

What is a 'semi' ? I had to look that one up.

iBlacklist was the only reason I ever jailbroked(?), but my provider now has their own service (of course it's paid, like a dollar a month), that has a huge list of known cold-callers that it blocks for me, as well as allowing to block no-caller-ID, create my own blacklist or whitelist.

Blocking no-caller-id is a godsend, as my family has been on the receiving end of repeated nuisance calls in the past, and it has the added benefit of blocking calls from work by anyone who can't figure out how to attach their ID to the call :D

The rest of us have Rupert Murdoch telling us what to think.

I've had two separate iPhone 6 plus phones where the screen just goes unresponsive to touch, and the fix is just to lock and unlock it again.

This is at room temperature, no need for cold weather.

Jaywalking is illegal in Honolulu, and usually carries a fine of $150

Fucking HPD only enforce it when they've got nothing else to do. I got ticketed for crossing on red at night when there was no traffic in sight. And for some goddamned reason my ticket was $300, which would normally be for a repeat offender (I'm not). I only realized when I got the demand in the mail and I was overseas so couldn't contest it.

Fuck Honolulu PD.

What? ETC hard fork was done because the guys who wrote the DAO did so badly enough that someone was able to tell the DAO to credit him with ETH, in a way the DAO contract writers had not forseen and arguably didn't want.

This was not a shortcoming of Ethereum, but a bunch of people learning the hard way that "smart" autonomous contracts need to be thoroughly proven before implementation.

That's quite pertinent. One of the main plaudits given to Gibson is he always seemed ahead of his time, and had such massive influence on SF to follow. Of course everything he did in the earlier books has been "done to death" because everyone copied him. Although that might make his earlier works seem dated somewhat, it says a lot for the quality of his vision.

Oh god. I love much of Neal Stephenson's work but in Seveneves the nerdsplaining gets seriously out of hand.

Gibson's "The Peripheral" is probably my least favourite work of his. I liked the concept of The Jackpot but otherwise I found it quite forgettable.

Neuromancer, on the other hand.... in fact everything up to Virtual Light I found superb. I don't have a favourite.