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Don't know who Grumpy Old Scribe is, but he seems to have fixated on a closed system . . . to which I mean he wrote a story for himself . . . which feeds his (her?) own version of the complaint needing a remedy. Along, alas, with some logic that, well, isn't logical.*
On the other hand - much of it is a nice writing style - so you post wasn't wasted.
* Gratuitous - beam me up, Scotty . . .
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"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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*cough*bullshit*cough*
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Yes, but "quantum bullshit". It's both 'bull' and '$h1t' at the same time.
TTFN - Kent
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Multiple CAs have misissued over 1.2 million TLS certs with weak 63-bit serial numbers, instead of the standard of 64 bits. 63 bits ought to be enough for everyone
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That's a bit too much to believe...
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010 ----- You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010 ----- When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Except even using 64-bits, half the certificates would have zero for the top bit. So how do you tell the difference between a random number without the top bit set and a random number with the top bit forced to 0?
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Easy! Use the bottom bit as a boolean flag to indicate which condition it is!
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...and don't forget another bit for parity - so we're down to 61 bits already?
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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But is it 20 degrees cooler, inside?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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They need these on the ducts and enclosures for heating/cooling system in my daughter's apartment.
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Hope this isn't another evil scheme by the "Lord of the rings"
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Well, clearly the last ring you gave her didn't work!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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According to new research from data protection specialist Veritas Technologies, employees are losing two hours a day searching for data, and data management challenges are costing businesses as much as $2 million a year. Have you checked the SharePoint? How about Slack? And your Inbox?
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I guess if you consider pointless youtube videos, and reading facebook friend posts "data". I buy that.
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I was thinking something along the same kind of lines, today.
I'm back at a major petrochemical company (that shell remain nameless) for a quickie contract, and the new coffee machines that they've acquired (globally, because that's how they do things) take forever and a day!
If they got machines that took ten seconds less to spew out brown mud, it would quite literally save them millions.
I'll have to include a clause in my next contract with them that puts me in charge of coffee-machine purchasing, and gives me a percentage of the savings, as commission.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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"And by searching, we mean trying to figure out how to out snark Sharkey."
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Ah, that’s more like two minutes.
TTFN - Kent
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The Australian arm of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp called for an enforced break-up of Alphabet Inc’s Google Inc, acknowledging the measure would involve global coordination but calling it necessary to preserve advertising and the news media. Into two companies: Go, and Ogle
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Murdoch is so right. If news media goes away, then we won't have someone to tell us how we're supposed to feel about huge non-issues. Or how some government policy that may benefit 99.999% of its constituents turns into a sob story because they found the .001 person that the law would not benefit which should lead to a riotous outrage. I say we split Google into one company that handles the searches and one that handles the search results.
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I used to think Murdoch was bad, until I saw the total abominations committed by companies like google and facebook.
The damage that those two companies have done to the Internet is beyond description.
IMO, breaking them up should involve wrecking crews.
Wrecking crews with bad-tempered foremen.
Bad-tempered foremen who like solutions that include excessive High-Explosives.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Pots and kettles spring to mind.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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Our state of arousal—being fearful, agitated, or calm—can significantly affect our ability to make optimal decisions, judgments, and actions in real-world dynamic environments. So can the lash, but I don't want to try that one either
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