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What's wrong with public-key encryption a la PGP? Assuming your keys use A LOT of bits I don't think a brute force attack will succeed in any reasonable time. You should be able to…

every time one of his theories gets shot down, he just moves on to the next one So ... when faced with facts that contradict his theories, he modifies his theories so as to be cons…

(1) Create low-cost Italian tourism agency (2) Get pill approved in Italy while U.S. bureaucrats fight over who has jurisdiction to approve (3) Profit!

We live in a world with finite resources 150 years ago, i.e., back when I was born, we were worried about that finite resource called whale oil. It was indispensable for lighting l…

So I shouldn't count on being able to import networkx or (heh-heh) ffnet any time soon?

I (really) am a boy born on a Tuesday. And I have one sibling, a sister. Anyhow, this looks the same as this problem: Given a standard deck of cards. (a) "I have two cards and one …

I follow him until he talks about electrons transiting from the 5d to the 6s orbital, absorbing some blue light thereby resulting in me seeing the color gold. So far, so good. But …

Long about 2005-6 one of my investment newsletters urged those who could to "sell your house and rent", on the theory the median home price could not indefinitely remain out of rea…

The post I'm responding to is not criticizing the bailout, it is criticizing Goldman for enforcing it's contracts with AIG. I'm OK with Goldman "enforcing its contracts". The probl…

I use Python a lot and have never gotten tired of installing libraries, except when upgrading Python versions. So what I really need is a version-upgrade tool that asks what I want…

"I'm not a member of an organized political party. I'm a Democrat." -- Will Rogers

Hell, I would settle for a FAQ entry with the appropriate pointer.

To paraphrase, if you need to square a number of the form N5, for some N, the answer will always be (N x (N+1))25 35 squared is (3 x 4)25 or 1225 85 squared is (8 x 9)25 or 7225 11…

If you haven't seen it, I recommend Steve's movie L.A. Story . It's a comedy, a bit quirky but genuinely funny. Non-spoiler: early in the movie look for Steve driving on a freeway,…

Maybe there are enough people to make a subscription model worth doing, but I doubt that alone will be enough. I think they also need a transaction model for those of us willing to…

I suspect here in the USA we'll have many new entrepreneurs created by the layoffs that will come when marginal companies find they can no longer afford good - but not great - empl…

OK, so at 22 miles the balloon bursts because the helium expands as air pressure drops. I get that. Now suppose the guy sends up TWO balloons, one filled and the other only half-fi…

Hamlet makes the mistake of killing Polonius I'm not sure I agree that was a mistake. Unexpected, maybe. Only real problem is that Shakespeare, master of pithy phrases, missed a go…

Fiction: stranger than truth.

So ... don't create passwords with '@' in them?

Has anybody been able to use the extension as described in the video? When I click on the install link I get taken to a blank page. I use NoScript, but specifically allowed the sit…

and then choose the best partner that exceeds it Meaning, choose the next candidate who is better than the previous ones.

FTA top of p.7: Jones: We have 25 or so years invested in the work. Why should I make the data available to you, when your aim is to try and find something wrong with it. Is there …

Of course it wasn't really Kevin Costner. It was Ray Kinsella, the character he played in Field of Dreams . Oddly enough, "Ray Kinsella is full of shit" is a title I would have cli…

It may true that quantitative demand is limited, or at least marginal demand decreases with rising output and compensation. But quite the converse is true for quality of goods. Pil…