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Comment Public Key Encryption (Score 1) 170

What if Gravatar published a public key, and sites displaying Gravatars pointed their image links to encrypt(gravatar_id + random_salt)? It seems like this would solve the problem, since people viewing the page can't get access to the users' real Gravatar IDs. Sure, the forum sites would still see your Gravatar ID, but they already have your email address in the first place.

Comment Re:Radioactive waste? (Score 1) 262

We live in a world where we can create power without also creating poison. That's awesome! That is the Star Trek future we could be living right now.

For what it's worth, they used nuclear power in Star Trek. Solar power doesn't work when you're traveling to other stars.

Comment Re:And FTL, too (Score 1) 575

I'd like to see the experiment where they're entangled, one is dropped through a black hole's event horizon, and you observe the result on the other.

Wouldn't that be similar to accelerating one of the particles to near the speed of light? Particle accelerators are much more common than black holes around here.

Comment Re:database (Score 2, Interesting) 329

Ah, yes, I had to do the "fix your database" thing yesterday. Based on the complexity of the guide, I'm guessing a lot of users will just wipe and reinstall everything, rather than attempt to go through that ridiculous manual process.

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