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I read something today along the lines of 'the Americans have enough nuclear weapons to destroy the entire world!' It's a commonly asserted statement, but one rarely sourced. I couldn't help but wondering if it came from the same anti-Nuclear Weapon hysteria that spawned other gems such as 'nuclear winter'. So, I did a few calculations... assuming ( Read more... ) -
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So, some enterprising people got the indices from several NSA journals released under the American Freedom Of Information Act. It's interesting stuff, looking at some of these titles. There are a few that raise eyebrows. Sometimes what isn't there (because it's been redacted) is very interesting. For example: The Shootdown of KAL 007: A View from ( Read more... ) -
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Yowch. I spent all afternoon yesterday and morning today writing an x86 instruction decoder; it's about 2000 lines and was oh so very tedious. The virtualization engine works on a divide and conquer strategy- breaking down the source program into fragments of linear control flow (i.e., no branching) before passing them through the rewrite engine ( Read more... ) -
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So, I finally have the chance to work on something I've wanted to do for years: Single-process virtualisation ( Read more... ) -
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During one of the inspections, an imager on the extension boom turned up evidence of whitish streaks on the shuttle's panels and nose cap - and mission managers determined that the streaks were actually bird droppings deposited before flight. After the landing, Discovery astronaut Mike Fossum reported that the droppings were still there. "They made ( Read more... ) -
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It's Rag Day. This month I will be reading two new ones: Journal of Democracy and Journal of Palestine Studies. Making their usual return will be The National Interest and my ol favorite, Foreign Affairs (this one's a symposium on India. Oooo. It's like a thriller, what will they do? How will they renegotiate their position in light of American non ( Read more... ) -
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Today's been kind of boring, so I've just been cleaning up my office a little. I have a lot of really cool and crazy books here: My personal favorite 'US Army Corps of Engineers Manual EM 1110-345-418: Design of Structures to Resist The Effects of Atomic Weapons'.
I'm taking that one home with me.
In other news, Orbiter is very neat. It's a ( Read more... ) -
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ironic, adj. incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs; e.g., the U2 iPod being manafactured in a sweatshop.