Posts by Paul Campbell
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sure – to return to the thread topic – do you think that the NZ cricket team would perform better if we threatened to chop off their balls?
At the very least Darwin might kick in making for better teams in future generations …
(as a side effect the very least the number of incidents on international flights might decrease)
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Scrotum, testicles it’s easy to remember the difference:
“Scrotum, scrotum, it’s my wrinkly, crinkly bag of skin
Scrotum, scrotum, it’s the thing I keep my testes in”(possibly NSFW depending on your W)
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(back to the crypto sub-thread) - now in a wonderful piece of cluelessness a Sony marketing guy retweets the PS3 master key ... oops ... some lawyer type is probably having words with him as "you sunk my battleship" may actually describe their current law suit
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more likely it's "I tried to do the decryption, but I downloaded mp3s to avoid paying for the CDs and for some strange reason it didn't work ...." .... "um, OK, let's render him over to the goons at the RIAA .... they're not bound by that stupid constitution thing ...."
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to be fair no one memorises the 4k+-bit crypto key that's the basis of a crypto system - done right it's not even online anywhere, it's in a secure multilocked room not able to be entered by fewer than N trusted people at a time - signed certs/keys come out in some 1-way physical media (burned on a CD) - so you can't beat it out of them - Sony screwed up their implementation and are now faced with the choice of trashing all the existing PS/3s
Of course the terrorists don't care - they can use 1-way pads distributed by the world's music industry (the LSBs of CDs) ....
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(puts on crypto hat) beside your heavy-crypto math is only as good as how obscure your master keys are (as Sony has recently found ....) - great if you can hide them and never let them out of your sight - and nothing like practical quantum crypto comes along and makes you choose new technologies
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Not just the competition - we were promised FTTH at the last election - I know that the Nat's represent the farmers and all that but what about some better internet for the cities (outside of downtown Auckland and Wellington)
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OK – things just got a little weird – seems Key has been spotted wearing a “Power Band” – a woo woo adjusts-your-body’s-energy-through-a-hologram scam. The Aussies have already declared them bogus and required them to withdraw claims advertising any health benefits.
Maybe Key has decided he needs to pull the far-ultra-hippie vote from the Greens
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469,000 of them are fish and chip shops
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You have to think there's someone NP analyst who's been agonising over "do you think they will win?" for months now