Re: "look forward to further attempts to push the envelope."
I saw that and immediately thought "surely that should be 'fly the envelope'" ?
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Personally I think leaving the EU will present the UK with enormous challenges, but I also happen to think that this country has, at it's core, a real tough center. When the chips are down are when Brits are at their best. Make life too easy and we end up with what we have today, an apathetic bunch of ill-bred TV addicts that just want to get pissed and think that doing *anything* is too much like hard work.
I vote leave, simply because it's the only voice we have. So many unpopular (or even illegal) policies have been shoved down our throats in recent years no matter what the general public thinks/wants.
It's time to bloody their* noses and let them know we aren't beaten and downtrodden masses, yet. If we vote to stay then we haven't even made a stand (we could still all lose our freedoms to the mega-corps anyway even if we vote leave, but it might make them think twice and maybe back off a bit).
Another thing that's been pretty obvious, is the absolute fucking desperation of the vote remain rhetoric (which isn't to say the Brexit campaigners are fighting without a few low blows too) but the sheer scale and perniciousness of the remain campaign tactics would probably make me vote to leave anyway just on principle - I hate people *telling* me what to do, rather than convincing me.
The cut'n'paste fear tactics are getting so blatant even the x-factor crowd seem to be sensing something is a bit fishy.
Vote leave: It might not make a difference in the long run, but if you don't it's probably the last most important thing you will ever get to vote on otherwise. In the end, once the mega-corps take over with their TTIP frog-boiling tactics, you will be lucky if you get to choose which brand of toothpaste to buy.
*Mega-corps/IMF/Rothschilds/1%'s etc. (whoever holds all the debt anyhow)
"And then I see SOME (ok, a few) of the H1b hires. Solid talent, solid skills. Just wish we had more American candidates like them. . "
For years I thought about getting a job in the US, just needed to convince my wife (who isn't overly fond of the stereotyped American personae).
Since the introduction of all the security theater at the airports I haven't even wanted to go there for a holiday, let alone to work (I even had plans for a West-East bike trip prepared).
There are still lots of things I would like to see and do in America, but the negative side of things keeps me from making any solid plans in that direction and I don't see that changing any time soon :(
"<snip> make withdrawals "on numerous occasions that totalled $4,653,333.02" between July 2014 and April 2015."
"Although fraud cops began an investigation into the matter in 2012, it wasn't until March this year that an arrest warrant was issued"
So, the cops knew that she had access to this money two years before she did? I'm confused.
Is this like "How do you do?"
Which should never be answered with anything related to your health, either good or bad.
Eg.
Q-How do you do?
A-Fine thanks.
Bzzzt wrong!
Q-How do you do?
A-How do you do.
Q-No, How do *you* do?
A-No, How do you *do*.
etc.
...profitzzz.
"7) 640k ought to be enough for anybody"
When I think about it, I think it should.
Observe, now that we have loads more memory to play with there is a lot of inefficient programming.
MS Word on Win3.1 for WG runs faster on a 486-DX than MS Word does on Win7 on a Core-i7-920 with 16GB RAM.
Now, if he had said "640k *is* enough for anybody" - then that clearly isn't the case :)
From what I read, the wavelength is so long that it is smaller than the smallest 'unit' of conservation of momentum.
So if it takes 10 sillybits to move mass the smallest amount possible (let's call it a moviebit), and this drive generates only 5 sillybits - apparently the Universe is obliged to still move the object one moviebit (even though the EM drive has only paid for 1/2 a moviebit*)
*It's nice to know the Universe doesn't deal in small change :)
One of the questions being asked is if they will still get the same output from *even less* energy :)
Apparently this theory is holding up due to its prediction that if the shape of the drive is different, the thrust would be generated in the opposite direction - I recall reading that this would explain some of the results being observed!
FREE ENERGY! Woot.
Back in '98 I and two colleagues were building new desktops with FreeBSD (over the wire from Sun hosting servers :)
Each time one of us started the build process, one of the others' borked. Turns out all three machines were shipped with NIC's that had identical MAC addresses.
What are the odds of that eh?
Once in a blue moon I come across a post I wish I could upvote a thousand times.
You have introduced me to the reverse of this concept.
All this stuff going on behind closed doors - no oversight - secret courts, secret orders, public treated as the enemy - no accountability - numerous abuses of power etc. ad nauseam and your response to the freedom of every person you know being jeopardized amounts to:
"Yeah, but it makes us safer dunnit"
You Sir, are an ignorant twat and a prime example of why we are in this fucking mess.
Considering all the timings of Phorm etc. I always wondered if it played any part in Snowden's subsequent actions.
This is the reason why whistleblowers are supposed to be protected by law, so that others are encouraged to do the same (no idea if Snowden was even aware of Phorm btw).
However, any action to suppress whistleblowers is, by default, authoritarian and totally insidious - it should be killed with fire - stamped on, and then consigned to the abyssal depths of the Atlantic.
Ah, I think I see your disconnect here.
In reality, the encrypted message does not 'contain' the decoy message as such. You are creating a fake translation matrix that you apply to your encrypted message to make it look like the decoy message when it's processed.
Does that help?
Actually, thinking about it, couldn't this process be used to fake evidence if someone refuses to reveal their passwords? It might be limited to creating incriminating evidence rather then magically conjuring up actual useful data (which is still hidden by the encryption) - but who is going to argue that the prosecution has 'incorrectly' decrypted the file? The only way to prove that their information was fake would be to produce the *real* key, and hence reveal the real data.
Oh dear.
That was me.
When I saw the first Harry Potter film and I saw his living conditions, I thought "lucky bastard - he's got a door - and a LIGHT!'
Although to be fair, his door was lockable from the outside, so I can't really grumble. But then again, he was living there rent free - my Mum was charging me £120 month!