He was asking, from the bench, for the plaintiff's response to an amicus brief. The doesn't mean that he supported what the brief said.

And that wouldn't be needed, as over here if a pedestrian has a green man, then any relevant traffic will have a red light. It must be a crazy American thing to give 2 conflicting streams a green light at the same time.

No, he can't watch Dr Who on the iPlayer because his IP is showing up as Irish, and Ireland (aka Eire, aka Republic of Ireland) is not in the UK (not since 1922). iPlayer is for UK residents only.

Oh FFS! Virgin Birth != Immaculate Conception.

I've seen this in numerous places over the last few years. Virgin Birth means there was no sexual intercourse involved in the conception.

Immaculate Conception refers to a particular doctrine of the Catholic Church, which meant that Mary, Jesus' mother, was shielded from original sin when she was conceived, and she was conceived the old fashioned way, with no announcements by any angels.

The algorithm in question won first prize at the Irish Young Scientist's Exhibition, which is an annual contest in which secondary school students (12-18 years old) exhibit science projects. Last year, the same student came second with another crypto project, and represented Ireland at the Intel Science Competition in the US. The part about the judges not being able to understand the project is true. The judges had to get in a crypto expert to validate the project.

I don't know any details about the algorithm itself, cos I never got a chance to attend. Bugger....

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