For someone whose work depends on him being in the public eye, not being in the public eye is the equivalent of no longer existing.

I will admit to not fully understanding your post at the time - there had been a little bit of a pub-crawl earlier that night...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cm09d4z65Bg

The US nuclear secret is "00000000".

From the patent linked to from article:
"""
[0047] Escrow keys are known to have advantages in some contexts. They can provide a backup functionality. If a cryptographic key is lost, then data encrypted under that key is also lost. However, encryption keys are generally the output of random number generators. Therefore, if the ECRNG is used to generate the encryption key K, then it may be possible that the escrow key e can be used to recover the encryption key K. Escrow keys can provide other functionality, such as for use in a wiretap. In this case, trusted law enforcement agents may need to decrypt encrypted traffic of criminals, and to do this they may want to be able to use an escrow key to recover an encryption key.
"""

The ads are more relevant to his interests than ever before!

Well, I just bought a RAID of 24 SSDs with 5 TB usable. All for only $50k.

Being /. I am surprised you haven't had this yet:

That was dumb. You could have bought some cheap drives at NewEgg, run them in a GNU/Linux RAID with lots of RAM for caching, set it up as an iSCSI target with optional NFS for cool GNU/Linux users (and CIFS for Windoze lusers!!1`1). A few good gig E ports to bind together and you would have saved $48K.

I could admin it for you if you open up telnet for me.
Mail l337h4x0r@aol.com if interested.

My vote goes to SpiderOak for zero-knowledge, dedupe'd backups.

I doubt it, it's probably blocking a public thoroughfare, and quite likely a breach of the peace. "Public" doesn't mean "anyone can do anything here".

However, it's time for someone to resurrect Mark Thomas. The kinds of stunts he used to pull were always fun. (This included deliberately dressing up and loitering suspiciously (including obligatory newspapers with cut-out slivers to peek through), but always hanging around on groups of only 3, no more.)

And to be less snarky, dishes are directional (otherwise they'd be useless as dishes), and the base station antennae are broadcast (otherwise they'd be useless as base stations).

50% of my grandparents have died from cancer.

Sounds like those dishes reduce cancer rates by 80%.

"[S]ent on a trajectory that took it only 45 kilometers (28 miles) from the dusty surface"

What is the range of a BFG?

I don't know what every single person was doing, but some (myself included) did have budget spreadsheets open that we were sent. At least on my own iPad those were being actively edited.

I've often sat in meeting with mine and used SSH or VNC to devices I manage.

Only a few weeks ago I was in a meeting. There were 2 laptops and 6 iPads in the room. I think that was the first time I saw 3x more tablets in a meeting of that size (or at least that I remember noticing)

There are logic anti-patterns two which are closely related, and quite often ovelap:
correlation implies causation
what happened after this is because of this ("post hoc ergo propter hoc")

Both are insidious. Humans are supersicious and overactive pattern-matchers. There's presently no survival disadvantage to that trait. If anything, strength through incorrect groupthink can still have a positive survival benefit (a community of fools will find things easier than a lone member of the outgroup).

The particular complaint at the time was over the erection of a base station in the vicinity of a primary school. So the existence of a base station in the vicinity of the Nokia R&D site was the perfect counterpoint.

Don't worry, I appreciated the humour of your post, I just didn't want there to be any ambiguities in my tale.