WhatsApp urges upgrade.

2019-05-13 Thread jim bell
WhatsApp urges users to upgrade after discovering spyware vulnerability https://finance.yahoo.com/news/whatsapp-urges-users-upgrade-discovering-013753870.html

WIRED: A Cisco Router Bug Has Massive Global Implications

2019-05-13 Thread jim bell
WIRED: A Cisco Router Bug Has Massive Global Implications. https://www.wired.com/story/cisco-router-bug-secure-boot-trust-anchor

Re: OFFTOPIC: physics question

2019-05-13 Thread Steve Kinney
On 5/13/19 2:12 PM, \0xDynamite wrote: >> On 5/12/19 9:59 PM, \0xDynamite wrote: >>> Sorry for this little diversion, >>> If light travels at a. different speed for different colors in order >>> to account for the rainbow of a prism, how fast is the. speed of light >>> then? >> >> The speed of

Re: OFFTOPIC: physics question

2019-05-13 Thread Steven Schear
Although most students who covered classical physics understand the high-level concepts it turns out the details, when you get down to the quantum level, where the photon-electron interactions are occuring, are much trickier. Feynman et al got a Nobel prize for their explanation of Quantum

Re: OFFTOPIC: physics question

2019-05-13 Thread Peter Fairbrother
On 13/05/2019 19:59, \0xDynamite wrote: If light travels at a. different speed for different colors in order to account for the rainbow of a prism, how fast is the. speed of light then? Is there real physics to optics? How can light know what direction to bend after it leaves the lens? The

Re: Moar Snowden Dox: JTRIG HumInt

2019-05-13 Thread rooty
Reminds me of a suspect or 2 on this site Original Message On May 13, 2019, 8:42 AM, Razer wrote: > "One of the many pressing stories that remains to be told from the Snowden > archive is how western intelligence agencies are attempting to manipulate and > control online

Re: OFFTOPIC: physics question - light is weird

2019-05-13 Thread coderman
... > The speed of light in gases is slightly slower: It is about 0.05% lower in > air at sea level. > > The speed of light in typical glass is about 2/3's of 'c'. > > In typical glass, the speed of light varies a bit with wavelength. > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prism > > For many decades,

Re: OFFTOPIC: physics question

2019-05-13 Thread jim bell
The speed of light in a vacuum is fixed, and is called 'c', about 299,272 kilometers per second.The speed of light (including radio waves, and all other frequencies) in a vacuum does not vary with wavelength.One way that astronomers know this to be true is displayed by the flash of a

Re: OFFTOPIC: physics question

2019-05-13 Thread \0xDynamite
>> If light travels at a. different speed for different colors in order >> to account for the rainbow of a prism, how fast is the. speed of light >> then? Is there real physics to optics? How can light know what >> direction to bend after it leaves the lens? > > The speed of light in glass is

Re: OFFTOPIC: physics question

2019-05-13 Thread Peter Fairbrother
On 13/05/2019 02:59, \0xDynamite wrote: Sorry for this little diversion, but it has occurred to me that physics has a bit of a logical contradiction and I think highly of the group's rational faculties here to help me sort this out. If light travels at a. different speed for different colors in

Re: OFFTOPIC: physics question

2019-05-13 Thread \0xDynamite
> On 5/12/19 9:59 PM, \0xDynamite wrote: >> Sorry for this little diversion, >> If light travels at a. different speed for different colors in order >> to account for the rainbow of a prism, how fast is the. speed of light >> then? > > The speed of light is a physical constant. The frequency (or

Re: OFFTOPIC: physics question

2019-05-13 Thread Steve Kinney
On 5/12/19 9:59 PM, \0xDynamite wrote: > Sorry for this little diversion, but it has occurred to me that > physics has a bit of a logical contradiction and I think highly of the > group's rational faculties here to help me sort this out. > > If light travels at a. different speed for different

Moar Snowden Dox: JTRIG HumInt

2019-05-13 Thread Razer
"One of the many pressing stories that remains to be told from the Snowden archive is how western intelligence agencies are attempting to manipulate and control online discourse with extreme tactics of deception and reputation-destruction. It’s time to tell a chunk of that story, complete with

Sweden: Preliminary investigation in the Assange case to be reopened

2019-05-13 Thread John Young
Swedish Prosecution Authority 13-05-2019 Preliminary investigation in the Assange case to be reopened. Deputy Director of Public Prosecution Eva-Marie Persson has today decided to reopen the Assange case that was previously discontinued.