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Unseen wrote:

As long as deterministic physical laws are in control, is anything above the quantum scale ever totally, truly, and demonstrably random? Also, I’ll toss in Benford’s Law, a law applying to many sets of naturally occurring numbers. The law states that in many naturally occurring collections of numbers, the leading digit is likely to…

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When possible software random number generators often employ a “seed” input to help keep the result as random as possible. Sometimes the seed is something like a voltage noise measurement (good) or the current time and date (not as good).

When I first meet somebody who may concern myself at some point I immediately categorize everything about them that I can including skin color. It’s what we do, compare, make assumptions, life is short.

Gender, age, height, weight, hair color, length, texture. General attractiveness, attire and visible health conditions. I also get a read on…[Read more]

PopeBeanie wrote:

Unseen wrote:

Anything that moves in contravention of the physical laws is almost certainly an atmospheric or optical effect.

I’m especially attuned to the possibilities of deception wrt radar, and so on, since I was an Electronic Warfare Systems (EWS) technician when in the Air Force, back in the beginning days of stealth t…

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Unseen wrote:

Cybercurrency is impossible to track, so the government would need a new way to assess and collect taxes.

I have read that it is trackable and wallet servers may be seized, denying owners access to their funds. I see $BTC was dropping in value a little last night….maybe because this is news to some.

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Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:

Let’s follow this story from El Salvador about its adoption of bitcoin as legal tender. That should make for a stable economy!

Yeah. Every time Mr. Musk tweets with a #BTC; the GNP of El Salvador may halve or double.

We have a Berkey water filter and a free flowing spring well. Also a private pond full of fish and a veggie garden. About 50 lbs. of beans and rice. An SKS and a brick of ammo. That’s is as ready for the zombies as we will ever be.

Awe, that is just too bad, guess the crypto isn’t so secure after all !!!

Justice Dept. Recovers Most of Colonial Pipeline Ransom – The New York Times (nytimes.com)

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/07/us/politics/justice-department-colonial-pipeline-ransom.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur

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Unseen wrote:

While the block chain makes it easier for unidentified terrorists to hold systems for ransom, does it also provide security options we never had before as well? And I still think that if some hackers are holding my region’s water or sewage system, or some major hospital’s internal network for ransom, there is no real choice but to…

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Redundancy and reserve supplies are the easy answers. But these companies are cash cow cheap asses. Private infrastructure monopolies should be required to be secure. Russians and Chinese cyber assholes are not that clever, this shouldn’t be that hard to make secure. We make it easy for them. Also, lay on the sanctions. Assume Putin is behind it,…[Read more]

1)Mandatory reporting of attacks

2)Laws against paying ransom

Bitcoin has finally found a practical use, LOL. Note that the attack on the pipeline was against their billing system. They shut their own pipeline so they could still be paid by their customers. If they are not allowed to pay ransom they will have to make their systems robust.

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jakelafort wrote:

Michael17, Make a concrete prediction. Lets see if we can generate a wager. As a professional horse player i am always seeking overlays. I could really use a 1 to gazillion that is paying even money.

That ain’t gonna happen. They never learn.

Unseen wrote:

Maybe let Michael stew in his juices for a while and talk realistically about UFOs?

The real evidence of all extraterrestrial visits is kept in a box with the bones of ‘Big Foot’. It is a small box. Well, it is infinitesimally small actually. We also keep all the actual evidence of religious prophecy in there as well.

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jakelafort wrote:

And another positive indicator of our species and the direction of civilization has spoken…go get em Michael7

Exactly. From under the overpasses to high offices the utterings of nonsense enter into the ears and percolate inside broken machinery only to be re-vomited again.