DonGateley

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by DonGateley 8y ago
P.S. I am awfully glad that in those 51 years I was never again put in a polygraph situation such as an investigation. I just know I'd fuck it up.
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by DonGateley 8y ago
In 1967, as a soon to be graduate from a university in what is today called computer science, I applied to the NSA and nothing about that interview was nice. I failed the polygraph on two consecutive days and that's all she wrote. What
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by DonGateley 9y ago
Actually I did think of the desirability of exactly this somewhere around 1984 or thereabouts. It didn't go further than a wish though because the only access to the Unix system that I'd installed for use by the group I managed wa
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by DonGateley 9y ago
If you believe your argument then you must find scientific study and discovery an exercise in making one dumber. I'm afraid I find your argument to be a defense of ignorance.
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by DonGateley 10y ago
Perhaps he was simply clued to some seriously bad consequence of proving his ownership of the Satoshi hoard.
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by DonGateley 10y ago
One thing I think we can count on is that now that there has been a retreat we will never hear another word about this from FBI or NSA. And probably from Apple.
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What ISIS Really Wants(theatlantic.com)
2 points by DonGateley 11y ago|1 comments
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by DonGateley 11y ago
Nonetheless interesting. I had not heard of him or his website and just spent a couple of hours there. Thanks to the O.P. for the heads up.
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by DonGateley 11y ago
I'd bet it depends on the kind of ant and the kind of termite. I'm in Northern Ca and haven't seen trace of a termite since I stopped killing the ant colonies.
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by DonGateley 11y ago
I think they are just as attracted to the termites themselves. They love the eggs.
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by DonGateley 11y ago
I ceased killing invasive ants with borax, a substance taken back to the hive to destroy it, when during one such defense I saw them divert from the track I was poisoning to attack newly hatched termites that were emerging from under an app
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by DonGateley 11y ago
There is no question in my mind but that Don Herbert propelled me into engineering. My fascination with the show started in 1951 when I was 7 and came to an end with my entrance into E.E. at the University of Illinois in 1962 strictly beca
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by DonGateley 11y ago
As could be expected this has poked a hornets nest of opposition because of its implications regarding backward compatibility of extensions we use. Many of us are hoping for a fork based on the current release that will continue to evolve
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by DonGateley 11y ago
That is correct. From the point of view of the infalling object, however, nothing changes as he crosses it except his position in space. I say who gives a shit about the point of view of the infalling object. :-)
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by DonGateley 11y ago
An amplitude is not a complex number. It is the real number one gets taking the root of the sum of the squares of the real and imaginary part of a complex number. In QM they will be between 0 and 1 and are probabilities.
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by DonGateley 11y ago
Sorry man, but that's not even close to what happened.
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by DonGateley 11y ago
I was the one on the other side of that bet (not under this name.) It was multiprocessing. I said OS/2 would be there first and he said NT would. I'm not sure who won but we were pissed off at each other enough by the end of it,
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by DonGateley 11y ago
He'd mop the floor with them. Systems, languages, environments, etc., etc., were trivial then compared to today. I worked back then in a few "labs" that looked a lot like that.
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by DonGateley 11y ago
The importance of his answer and the care with which he framed it comes at the very end of the clip. Without specifying a context he cannot answer the question. Leading up to that one is made to understand that without limiting the questi
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by DonGateley 11y ago
Good god that was uninteresting.
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by DonGateley 11y ago
What stands in the way of deployment of this for general usage? Invention, disclosure, coding or what?
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by DonGateley 11y ago
That's great. I've followed her blog for a long time for her physics and her humor about it but never had a clue she was a YouTube personality and performer as well. A whole new Bee dimension (or 11) is revealed! She recently sh
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by DonGateley 11y ago
> "Satoshi Nakamoto" is almost certainly an alias, and maybe even an alias for a group of people. Which would make it all the more appropriate.
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by DonGateley 11y ago
There is no "Nakamoto Signature" entry on Wikipedia yet. Perhaps one with a tractable explanation would help get it going as a readily recognizable stand alone notion.
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by DonGateley 11y ago
Caution that Lumo's site crashes Firefox. Could be due to the 25 or so trackers he employs or one of his plethora of bizarre adds or maybe the Ajax math typesetter he uses for notation.
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by DonGateley 11y ago
Luboš Motl, arch conservative, thinks it's essentially correct and is exactly what the founders tried to convey in the first place. As always, of course, Lumo gets it and almost no one else does. :-) http://motls.blogspot.
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by DonGateley 11y ago
Has any of this purloined information appeared anywhere or is there any evidence yet of it being used?
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by DonGateley 11y ago
Sounds like using a club where a needle is appropriate.
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by DonGateley 11y ago
Indeed! I've asked this a couple of places and got no answer. If it is functionally equivalent to dragging the address to a bookmark-bar folder called Pocket I become very suspicious of motives.
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by DonGateley 11y ago
Thanks for the correction. It's improved considerably from when I was considering it.

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