Computer chips sending out radio (electromagnetic?) waves.

Google tempest

Or a nice shiny sheet of aluminum foil.

Thanksokbye.

Nothing new. Wireless connected hard disk drives have been around for a while:

Er, mg stands for milligrams :-)

Regards, Nick Maclaren.

I think you slipped a decimal point or two. 1 tsp of salt is a little over 5 grams.

I keep thinking he can't get any nuttier, and then he proves me wrong.

That's pretty light salt they have where you live. Do you drill out each grain individually? ;)

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

As others have pointed out, it's more like 1/100 of a teaspoon. As for its purpose, presumably he is using it to add a little entropy to a one-way function. :-)

If my cardiologist had his way, that's exactly what I would be doing. I'm on a low sodium diet, which means I take my hard disks without any added salt.

Sigh. Yet another of my arithmetic errors and sanity check failures. An overdose of 1000 times too much salt would be fatal to the hard disk if taken internally. I just hate it when that happens. Must be all the RF and electrosmog around me.

Back to the salt mines...

Jeff Liebermann wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:

(a) The idiom refers a single crystals of salt, which are tiny, less then

(b) Even accepting your usage, you're out by a factor of 1000.

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Are you sure about that ? I heard they recommend 2,000 mg or less per day o f salt. Seems like a hell of alot. Even this unrefined sea salt I got I dou bt I use that much anyway.

Actually, some believe the anti-clumping agent in table salt is the real pr oblem, not so much the salt itsaelf.

But that grain of salt thing could means two different thiings. Salt used t o be used as money, so it might mean they give you a sack of it, not that y ou eat it right then and there. Another thing is that salt was not always g round finely, and was more like rock salt. I grain might just mean a grain like, not the unit of measure, one little piece of it.

I ownder if there is a compdium of these trite old sayings and their meaani ngs. Not sure I want to know what "three sheets to the wind" means after fi nding out what "saved by the bell" means.

Actually, the electronic design is far more advanced; they are spying on your _every_ thought, piggie-backing them onto WWVH for transmission to the New Scotland Yard.

There are probably cheaper ways of implementing a random-number generator - this is Skybuck, after all.

On Fri, 19 Sep 2014 22:41:59 -0700 (PDT), Bill Sloman Gave us:

No randomness to knowing when you are going to make another stupid post.

An unfed troll gathers no podium ...Jim Thompson

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Otherwise, please maintain radio silence until you receive further instruct ions.

Hmmm sounds like you dont believe me...

I am typing with one hand right now.

Because my other hand is dirty right now, and it's not what you thinking...

It's because I was eating "borrelnoots". "Cocktail snacks".

Anyway... I have video to prove mysterious activity.

You want me to upload it to youtube ?

I may do so anyway...

Bye, Skybuck.

There is a secret group to discuss this. alt.cows.moo.moo.moo Just change all instances of computers to cows and waves to tastes to confuse THEM. If you have questions, you can receive more guidance from the church of moo

Otherwise, please maintain radio silence until you receive further instructions.

True, but (at times) he IS entertaining.

The only thing that a video can absolutely prove, is that a camera was running....