Posts by BenWilson
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Hard News: Not good enough, Eden Park, in reply to Russell Brown,
Her brother put his arm around her, but no one else in the crowd around her stood up for her.
That's a sad indictment on the crowd, really. It doesn't take much to say "Hey you, stop hassling her, or I'll go get security". Even one person saying something usually makes a big difference.
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Hard News: The United States of Surveillance?, in reply to David Hood,
The general way things are considered “safe” against spying is by being open to scrutiny- for example the code used is open to inspection otherwise trust will not get built.
Or you have in-house expertise who verify it all, and keep the details as secret as possible because they don't want others using it, or figuring out how to crack it. Practically, only big governments have the resources to do this, and until but recently, only people sanctioned by governments were really allowed to. And even if you were technically allowed to, you had to be pretty ballsy to be doing it without official approval. Cryptography was treated like weapon development until the mid 90s. With good reason - superior cryptography made a big difference in WW2. But since PGP, everyone who wanted it has pretty much had cryptography that's as good as it gets.
Well, personally I used a one-time-pad, just in case it turns out that P=NP. LOL. Not. I don't even use secure passwords most of the time. Got no secrets worth keeping. Since Facebook, I realized very few people do.
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Hard News: Not good enough, Eden Park, in reply to Chris Waugh,
I dunno, I’ve come across some pretty bloody useless tools in my time.
You're not looking at them through the right PRISM
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Josh Kronfeld and Graham Mourie agree homophobic utterances aren't OK.
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Capture: Autumn lite, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
Drinks sounds good. I expect on Thursday I'll need one (first exam).
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Capture: Autumn lite, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
Is that a composition of a number of images using software?
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Capture: Autumn lite, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
Go figure eh ? :)
He's a man of many talents, that's for sure. I'd like to see that setup next time you're down in the Big Smoke.
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Up Front: It's Complicated, in reply to "chris",
Which sounds suspiciously like underage couples being allowed to… experiment, without being criminalised.
So long as the parents don't push for prosecution. Which isn't everyone being treated equally under the law, not everyone has the same parents. But it's good to hear that good sense surrounds these laws in human form, at least here, now.
= derail
I'm tired of the thread too :-). Over and out.
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He gives details on the Photosoc Facebook page, but I'll let him have a chance to tell the tale if he wants.
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This amazing shot taken by Yufeng Hou in the UoA Photographic society, copied here with his permission.
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