That's why I get paid $1,600 to $2,000 a day (8 hours) plus expenses; to answer questions like that.  If solving a more serious issue over a longer period of time, the charge can be more with contract.

Bottom Line:  I've been keeping my mouth shut; waiting to see how ZEN was going to pull this off.  I have yet to be convinced.

I thought you were full of crap, too, but after reading your explanation above I see you are just using obscure terminology. The more generally accepted terminology is "common mode current" for what you are calling "longitudinal current" and "normal-" or "differential-mode current for "metallic current."

BTW, I'm none too pleased with the direction ZEN is taking these days, too, so thanks for speaking up.

I am as today officially out of Horizen (Horrific-Zen) I don't support projects that do not support their community.
Just turn off my 2 secure nodes and pointing my rigs to Ravencoin and Monero, selling all my zen and disconnecting from this blog.
Moreover, if all GPU miners turn off their secure nodes it will show the community discontent.

farewell!

Spectre and Meltdown are CPU design flaws having to do with the lack of security in out-of-order instructions.  There is no "chip within a chip".  Any article that would write that... has no fundamental understanding of the problem.  Spectre and Meltdown can affect any CPU with out-of-order instruction processing, unless the OS takes specific measures to prevent it.  That includes Intel, AMD, ARM, and many other smaller players.  So you are saying the NSA infiltrated all of these companies and specifically told the computer scientists who developed out-of-order instruction processing back in the 1990s... for the express reason to "drop in on you?"  That's a long, long game... and that's not what happened.

It was simply a design flaw that was found to be exploitable.



Ok... if you say so.



From your description, this is called direct current.  Alternating current by definition reverses polarity and thus direction periodically.



I'm pretty sure you know that if you have two opposing currents they cancel each other out based on the combined amplitudes right?



Lol... yes I'm aware.  My wife worked at a lawyer's office where they still had a manual switchboard.  I was fascinated by this.  I'm aware of what tip and ring are.  I got a degree in electrical engineering.


I'm not wrong.  Signals are useless without something to modulate them and demodulate them.  Tell me... what device do you have in your computer right now that can modulate a usable signal across a DC current (that only flows in one direction mind you)... back to your AC/DC converter (power supply), and then re-transmit that signal on an AC current where it can be demodulated by those covert NSA folks you worry about?



You kind of just proved my point.  Signal modulation and demodulation require a device that can do so.  You need a modem to do so.  There is no magic device that can do that from your computer unless it is specifically built to do so.



I'm glad, because honestly, I think you are confused.  I'm sure you are great at your job though, but just remember... signal processing doesn't just magically happen.



I challenge you to describe how any type of signal would be able to run in the opposite direction against a DC current, survive a transformation into AC current... none of which is possible... and somehow do this without a modulator in the first place.  That's not naivety... that's science.

I promise you... the NSA has much easier ways to spy on you.

It's a community project... so feel free to contribute if you can.

Listen dude, you're acting like you know something you don't know a DAMN thing about.

Alternating current DOES reverse direction periodically; changes direction over time; changes rapidly in magnitude over time.  It most certainly does.

The point is there are TWO (2) different types of alternating current.  THEY BOTH ALTERNATE but in different ways.

Power Influence is best known or described as longitudinal current when it's radiated from the power lines into linear and non-linear devices.  The current on the power lines (longitudinal current) alternates at a rate of 60 cycles per second.  There are also harmonics of 60 hertz flowing on the power line.  Those harmonics can be both even and odd harmonics.  However, most of the even harmonics are cancelled out due to non-linear devices.  Which means the odd harmonics are more prevalent on the power lines and in the magnetic fields radiated from the power line.

One cycle (1 hertz) longitudinal will flow the SAME DIRECTION on the two conductors (Tip and Ring) from the Central Office out to the customer AND THEN BACK from the customer two the Central office.  That OUT to the customer from the office and then back to the office from the customer was ONE HERTZ (1 cycle).

One cycle (1 hertz) metallic will flow in opposite directions on both conductors and NOT to ground like the power company longitudinal currents do.  For example:  One cycle (1 hertz) metallic will flow from the negative side of the battery in the Central Office onto the Ring OUT TO the customer; through the customers equipment and back to the central office on the Tip THEN ALTERNATE back on the Tip OUT TO the customer; through their equipment and back on the Ring to the negative side of the battery in the office.  THAT WAS ONE CYCLE (1 hertz) METALLIC.

Dial tone alternates at 440 Hz or 440 cycles per second.  Meaning, it flows on the ring out to the customer and back to the office on the tip; THEN ALTERNATES back onto the tip to the customer and back to the office on the ring 440 times; for a total of 440 cycles (440 hertz).

That was ONLY an example.

You're TRYING to ACT like you know something you don't know a DAMN THING about.  The thing is... very few people [Even in electronics] are aware of two different types of longitudinal current; unless they understand how power influence radiated from the power line is induced into other components and can convert into a metallic current that we call NOISE.  That NOISE (Metallic Current) can affect TRANSMISSION.  This is why it's so important to have a METAL SHIELD around conductors to have Power Influence (Longitudinal Current) flowing 180 degrees out of phase from the power lines on the shield so they cancel each other out and reduce the NOISE (Metallic Currents) on every tip and ring and in other components.

Again, THIS IS ONLY AN EXAMPLE OF MANY THINGS involving TRANSMISSION of alternating currents.  Whether those currents flow longitudinally or metallically.

Just STOP acting like you know something you don't know a damn thing about.

Here's a photo FROM A MANUAL I WROTE to illustrate:  THIS MANUAL has been used by AT&T since 1997.

So, you're telling me the components in a computer do not use signals between components to tell it what to do?  You know what binary code is right?  Binary code is transmitted within components in a computer in the form of voltage for a "1" and no voltage for a "0."  Frequencies represent PACKAGES of "1's" and "0's" in ADSL.

CAN'T DC CURRENT BE SWITCHED ON FOR A DAMN ONE (1) AND OFF FOR A DAMN ZERO (0)?

YES, IT CAN.  It's called PULSATING DC.

Again, JUST STOP MAKING A DAMN FOOL OF YOURSELF.

As for explaining the other stuff to you, that will cost you and the ZEN TEAM SOME DAMN MONEY.