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Not shovelling coal. Licking coal with his tongue to make it clean.

With massively grown cost of RAM and SDD, the maths is just more complex. Say $200 for CPU and $300 for RAM and SSD, $500 might have been a good purchase. Now you might have to pay $200 + $900 for the same computer, but a $500 CPU and $600 for RAM and SSD might be a better purchase. Spend more...

"elliptic curves and RSA, both of which will be broken" What does that actually mean exactly? If I can crack an n-bit RSA key today at a cost of C(n), how large an RSA key (likely much more than n bits) could I crack using a quantum computer at the same cost C(n)?

A nasty ex-boyfriend takes nude pictures of you and publishes them. You know nothing about it. Then these pictures reach your workplace. There are quickly rumours that you are a pervert publishing nude photos of herself, and that makes you obviously a pedophile who cannot be trusted and damages...

The device shouldn’t ever needed. If you want to watch porn or buy cigarettes or alcohol then the device should help you to prove that you’re old enough for this. If politicians were capable of critical thinking. You visit a porn site, the porn site cant give you porn without prove that you are...

I wonder how much the charge limit does for the life of your batteries, and how much it does for the mental health of some Mac or iPhone users.

In MacOS your screen has a number of pixels and a number of points. If you have a 2K monitor, it likely has 1920 x 1080 pixels and 1920 points. If you have a 4k monitor, you have 3840 x 2160 pixels and MacOS picks 1920 x 1080 points. The font size is the same number of points. So characters in...

Tell her to go to a graveyard, and she’ll be smarter than most of the corpses six foot under.

Maybe they should ask Hugh Laurie aka House MD to do the job. Because he’s got more brains than the whole bunch of them between them and he would at least try to do a good job, listen to people who know how to do it, and try not to kill anyone.

Porn = consenting adult. Child porn = consenting child, if that was legally possible. “Consent” from a child doesn’t count legally. CSAM = child who is sexually abused, plus taking sexual pictures against their will or without their knowledge and proving the crime of sexual abuse. So CSAM is a...

It’s quite possible that the plaintiffs only care about getting their money back and not about any jail time.

So a penniless person should be allowed to cause as much damage as they want, without paying any of it? (Now in some countries, for very minor crimes a judge can for example give you a choice to go to jail for four weeks, or to pay four weeks of salary. You are given a choice. Musk could...

There is one thing that these guys lack completely: A sense of humour. Someone like Trump and his motivation is totally outside their experience and imagination. Yes, your plan would be a lot better. "There is war because Trump hates us" or "there is war because Trump wants our oil" is within...

The last time the USA overthrew the democratically elected Iranian government it was done in order to get cheap oil. And the Mullahs were the only group united enough to throw the aggressors and thieves out. Then the USA supported Iraq to attack Iran. Didn’t quite work out, but made the...

An interesting fact: If you buy a Mac, then upgrade the OS to a newer version for free, then sell the Mac, US copyright law doesn’t give you a license to sell it with the new OS version, only with the original one. However, Apple’s T’s and C’s explicitly allow it.

If I buy an iPhone, then replacing it with an Android phone six months later costs me money. If I buy an Android phone, then replacing it with another Android phone six months later also costs me money.

Denying me a warranty repair for what people see as”unfair” reasons will cost the company because fewer people will buy their products if they think that could happen to them as well.

I always think the real Mussolini must be turning in his grave when people talk about "Mango Mussolini".

You'd have to add up construction of a new plant divided by lifetime, continued maintenance per year, and cost of the energy source (coal delivered to the plant vs. solar light).

Just to make sure: A CSAM picture of a 14 year old child is still CSAM 10 years later, when the victim is an adult. So "date of birth" can prove that something is CSAM, but not that it isn't.