How about NSA's Type I ciphers? They are classified TOP SECRET. Would you say they are "weak" or "badly designed?" Do you think NSA keeps them secret because they believe in security through obscurity?
Surely they keep them secret because they don't want other people/countries using them.
Or do they provide a closed implementation for everyone to use?
Weird signature.
Try this: 1^0 = 1; 2^0 = 1; 1^0 = 2^0; 1 = 2;
I can misuse math too!
Or, for those of you who aren't comfortable doing XOR in your heads, here is a similar one with plus:
1 + 7 = 1; 9 + 6 = 1; 1 + 7 = 9 + 6; 8 = 5; 1 = 0.
Sorry, mcelrath, I'm honestly curious.
Is there a joke here that I am missing?
now [Linux is] used in probably a billion devices around the globe
I hope you aren't talking about Android here. Android should no more count towards "Linux" marketshare than OS X should count towards "BSD Unix" marketshare. It's in there all right, but all the parts that make it what people want to use are put on top by somebody else.
Unlike traditional Linux on the desktop, which is all Torvalds' work?
I am sure that Mitt Romney will be happy to explain how he would never use his power to invalidate a decision of judiciary and prevent the Marshal's Service from going about their normal duties.
And like all lying politicians, the second he's elected he'll go back on his word and do what he wants anyway, just like every president has done. What's your point?
The point is that he would take advantage of the situation to make himself look better than Obama, in the lead-up to the election. What you said was implied by the original poster, but beside the point.
The real message here is that it's getting old to have submissions in the form of a question, "Ask Slashdot" excepted. Who's the real troll here?
No.
See, it doesn't always work.
Yes, they _blatantly_ named it Panguite in honor of the Linux operating system... Are you retarded?
On a side note, can anybody clean up this gibberish?
Panguite (IMA 2010-057), (Ti4+,Sc,Al,Mg,Zr,Ca)1.8O3, is a new titania, occurring as fine-grained crystals with Ti-rich davisite in an ultra-refractory inclusion within an amoeboid olivine inclusion from the Allende CV3 carbonaceous chondrite.
I feel like I suddenly don't understand english?
I am not a geologist, but...
Panguite [discovery ID?], [chemical composition etc.], is a new [titanium mineral] occurring as fine-grained crystals with [titanium]-rich [other mineral also discovered in the same meteorite] in a [high melting-point] [section] within an [irregularly shaped] [other mineral] [section] from the [meteorite].
Does anybody who actually knows what they're talking about want to chime in?
And, for people who still had trouble with the above:
Panguite is a new [mineral], occurring [with other minerals] [in a meteorite].
if we were getting charged double just for being American damned straight we'd be throwing some giant shitfits, why aren't you?
We are. I think maybe there just aren't enough of us for the international gaming giants* to give a shit.
* I mean the development companies, of course, not the superstar gamers.
U men i can haz Wasp Factory?
Get back in your attic, Frank.
and are a pest.
And I stopped reading here. Calling something a "pest" is an opinion. While they may annoy you, cockroaches fill a biological niches, just like anything else that annoys you (from virii to noxious bacteria to your mother-in-law). They have a purpose, whether or not you choose to recognize it. Calling something a pest is akin to saying "I like purple!" It is devoid of actual meaning or constructive argument. Please reconstruct your argument and try again.
I read that as shorthand for "and are a type of animal that we deliberately slaughter en masse because they annoy us and get in our way, and most people are fine with that, to the extent that there is a respected and legal profession specialising in that exact activity."
The word "pest" can be used casually to mean "something I don't like", but it also means a member of a broad and ill-defined class of animals and plants, e.g. "A pest is an animal which is detrimental to humans".
GP was using it in that sense, which definitely includes cockroaches, and your objections are beside the point.
...is that it will attract the Eddorians.
Don't worry, in another 4 billion years, surely we will have met the Arisians. Right?
if by locked down, you mean on by default, but you can still turn off, you begin to have a point.
I'm not sure why hardware won't work on other systems since it on'y there to tell windows it's a certified piece of hardware. If the OS doesn't care about it, then it won't matter.
I'm pretty sure the idea is that the motherboard will refuse to boot into any unsigned bootloader / OS.
Genetics explains why you look like your father, and if you don't, why you should.
