The summary fails to mention that it didn't all go to plan:

I read "did not go as planned" as "ended in a spectacular fireball," but they haven't released any images or video of that.

Incidentally the BBC's headline was:

which sounded to me like he'd gone up in the thing.

Two things:

1) We're still not seeing what a user would actually see. We're seeing solid, background-occluding objects overlaid on a camera feed. I'd like them to put a small camera inside a headset, and show us what we'd actually see if we were using it.

2) If they ever need a new guy to do Grover's voice on Sesame Street, I know who to call.

It sure does.

Eww.

Because it never tells you when you accidentally a word, that's why.

That should be probably further, but anyway, c'mon, it could be a lot further from the truth. They could have claimed to have encrypted the documents using a slice of lemon wrapped around a hamster.

So the only thing wrong with that sentence is the word "public," isn't it? That doesn't sound very far from the truth.

(in fact the screenshot shows the text also says "RSA-2048")

Whadya mean, "decryption key"? It's the same key! That's the whole point of the story!

Are you sure she wasn't just using Twitter when you weren't looking?

What's wrong is the assumption that because there isn't a 50/50 balance that there must automatically be something dreadfully wrong with the way things are being done.

Men and women are different, and - on average, in general - have different leanings when it comes to subjects. No point railing against it; it's a fact of life.

Make sure men and women will be treated equally in a subject, and make sure they understand this. Then let them sort themselves out.

A 50/50 mix does not mean you've got things right and should not be your target.

Doesn't "zero day" only really apply to attacks, not vulnerabilities themselves?

After all, every vulnerability is a zero day vulnerability on the day it's discovered/disclosed (and actually it seems there's no indication of whether or not WordPress already knew about this one).

And this one was disclosed yesterday (and may have been discovered much earlier) so it's at least a one-day vulnerability now.

Or to look at it another way, it can, but the HP just puts (more) limits on what is possible.

IANAP, but there are other arrangements which are already impossible. The laws of physics see to it that there are no free quarks, for example, or that there are only certain orbitals electrons can occupy around atoms.

How does that square with the idea of two unit cubes, each of which has a surface area of 6, but put together have a surface area of only 10? Is it just that "information" doesn't add up that way?

So radio stations pay $0.0007? Or are you trying to say they pay $0?

I don't think either of those is true...

Arrghh, ye be takin' all the fun out of it, matey.

Does she, indeed?

Well, it's medium.com. You can't analyse it too much.

I think it comes down to this: why there is a big cold spot in the CMB? Because there's a big void. Mystery solved!

Except there's still the mystery of why there is such a big void in the first place.