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  • I suspect explosions from battery chemistry would be too slow compared to what was seen with these pagers, and power derived from an explosive compound that would be this deadly with such a small footprint wouldn’t be good for a pager (and probably not effectively rechargeable at least). Not to say if they wanted to hide things, they could install a smaller battery with the rest of the volume made up by some form of plastic explosive. I just don’t think there’s a battery chemistry in use right now that will both generate a suitable amount of power and also go from stable to boom in the speeds we saw with this attack.

    I find it far more likely they had a small amount of plastic explosive (perhaps hidden as part of the battery).

    But who knows in reality? Well except Mossad :P





  • I started playing with rust last week (just converting a couple of C# projects so far), and I’m going to say that once you understand that mutexes/rwlocks are wrappers around the actual data, it (to me at least) feels better.

    Don’t get me wrong, it’s an absolute headache for anyone that’s acquired intermediate or better skill in one of the Cx languages. The paradigm shift is still hitting me hard. But this was one of the differences I actually think is an improvement in probably most use cases.






  • Now I’ll upset some people here, I’m sure but…

    Here in the UK, you can see how decent an area is using this method.

    Go to the nearest Tesco Extra. If they have the coin traps on the trolleys, probably a dodgy area. If they don’t, not so dodgy area.

    In both cases, you’re going to find the trolleys are generally not left lying around. Read into it what you will.

    I only use Tesco extra as an example because from my experience other supermarkets either have the coin traps, or don’t. It seems only Tesco (correct me if I’m wrong) vary the behaviour by area.



  • I mean for advert breaks, there are projects to do this to recorded tv automatically (with varying degrees of success depending on the config and the channel).

    That is, you record the TV from either a TV receiver card, or streamed live channels to disk, then run this process on the mkv/mp4/ts, and it will either create a set of chapters marking the ads (so you can skip them), or it will just remove them entirely.

    I don’t think it would transfer to “live” TV quite so readily though. Because it does scan the whole program to find things like logos etc to help work out where the adverts are. But, I mean a lot of the work has been done.

    For removing all product logos. I mean, I bet we’re not far from the processing power to make it possible. But, probably a fair bit of effort needed.

    I can imagine the “AI” chips being neutered for these kind of tasks, like the “low hash rate” Nividia cards.






  • Nah my local expensive hipster craft beer place usually has 6 on tap. One will usually be a UK style ipa, 2-3 others will be a mix of USA/oceana style pale ales. One local brewery and one non pale ale (blonde, Porter, stout etc)

    But you really can’t tell until you try them.