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One can only hope the matter will be tested in court, then.

Odd threads all over mumsnet about some big news about to be broken on Dispatches tonight 9pm. We shall wait with baited breath.... I just checked back with the search option. Fifteen years ago I described him on FG as a turd, with reasons. Eight years ago I did it again. I'm scarcely likely to cha...

theia wrote: ↑Sat Sep 16, 2023 2:10 am Are the two newest contestants “plants”?

If one is called Basil and the other is Rose, that might be a clue?

Do they really snog in furtive corners after the lights are out and hold hands by the swimming pool, or have I got the wrong idea?

This is a new variation on car-crash TV? Presumably it is the one combination that won't have a celebrity version.

I went back and did a bit more. This version generates exactly 2048-bit RSA keys in roughly half a second. The exact bit-length appears to be a standard requirement whether you're going for 1024, 2048 or 4096. It took a little juggling to make that happen when multiplying two primes together to make...

The definition of antisemitism that initiated the thread has roared into prominence again in newspaper coverage of what professors in UK universities are allowed or not allowed to say. https://www.theguardian.com/education/2023/sep/13/antisemitism-definition-used-by-uk-universities-leading-to-unreas...

Dear Chat-GPT, I face a dichotomy. I communicate by email. Conventionally a valediction is mandatory. The form has varied recently, with fashion lately dictating "Kind regards", "Best wishes". I am horrified by their shallow insincerity. I was instructed in my youth to end perso...

Biofertilizers are natural solutions that make it possible to obtain a better balance in the soil (by optimizing and regulating its functioning), with the aim of improving crops sustainably. However, they do not have the capacity to completely replace the use of fertilizers derived from mineral che...

I went onto YouTube this morning. On a quest. My hairstyle had been criticized in a cafe yesterday yet again, but this time I'm doing something about it. Somewhere on YouTube I'm going to find the right look, that was my notion. Chuck Negron. What a hairstyle. All my life I've been looking for that....

A TfL spokesperson added: [...] "The rest of the advertising campaign for Workspace was deemed compliant and four different creatives will be running on our network." https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-66778007 What in high heaven is "four different creatives will be runnin...

As for the intelligence aspect, I offer the conclusion of a discussion I had a couple of weeks ago about the contrast between the liturgical and the folk tradition in the history of English music. The voice is that of Chat-GPT4. I'd be surprised if anyone fails to be impressed - I think it's entirel...

I have, I think, engaged enough with conversational AI to have reached a provisional conclusion. There is clearly a difference between intelligent and self-aware. This year's conversational AI is, in my opinion, intelligent. It is clearly not self-aware though. The designers have a choice in that re...

Britain’s climate ambitions have suffered a blow after no new offshore windfarms were secured in the government’s latest clean energy auction despite there being the potential for 5 gigawatts of projects – enough to power 8m homes a year. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/sep/08/what-wen...

The damage from last night's earthquake is major, particularly in the walled town. There are collapsed buildings. It's worse though far less populated nearer the epicentre in the mountains to the south. It's distressing news from a very friendly part of the world. Ighil, a mountainous area with smal...

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that was messy

I have no idea how these things happen - I'd been looking up something about Ronnie Barker and ended with Futtocks End on my screen. Does it still work, I asked myself, this is beyond half a century now. I'm at 22:47 and I had to pause and walk away for fear of something coming loose if I didn't. Th...

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I shall wash my mouth out after sending this, but it needs posting. The latest version of OS/2 has just been released by its non-IBM inheritor ArcaOS. Version 5.1 now recognizes UEFI and runs on 64 bit Intel architecture as well as 32. But not, as far as I'm aware, 16. https://www.theregister.com/20...

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I have no idea what these words are meant to indicate. One in five children regularly miss school, figures show https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-66701748 The inside article fares no better. The only other clue is a completely unrelated statement, "More than one in five children in England are freq...

LarsMac wrote: ↑Sun Sep 03, 2023 10:04 am In nephews' case, one (Daughter) was born at 11:44 PM February 28, the other (Son) at 12:08 AM March 1.

There you are then. Four times less likely than both parents and their newborn twins to all share the same birthday.

On a similar vein, How often do twins have different birthdays? My nephew's twins were born not only in different days, but different months (Same, year, in case you were wondering). That is tricky. There are two things going on. One is the overlap from one month to another during a normal twin del...

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That, if I may say so, is a singularly inappropriate and insecure username. I'm horrified.

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There was a trick to that one, it only had three letters in it

Claude-2 is a very competent conversation AI. It has drafted this template for any concerned parent wanting a precise statement from their school head. Here is a draft letter to send to schools regarding RAAC inspections and remediation: Dear [Headteacher/Principal], I am writing to inquire about th...

There's a dithering lack of action on the part of local councils which was quite definitely going to end with the scale of catastrophic failure last seen at the Aberfan disaster in 1966. Someone at the Department of Education issued new advice today, one week before the opening of the new school yea...

Ex-Tory MP threatens to sue Cambridge University over slavery research Student says he has been pressured to remove a reference to Antoinette Sandbach, a descendant of a slave merchant The former Tory MP Antoinette Sandbach has threatened the University of Cambridge with legal action after a histor...

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Complete misunderstanding in the middle of that

So, what else I know about RSA key exchange. There's hardware encryption built into the great majority of hardware, from phones to Raspberry Pi to laptops and such. It's invariably an implementation of AES. It's lots faster than RSA, like perhaps 10 times faster. In practice, every bulk data transfe...

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A five is not to be sneezed at, it could have been worse

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I idly coded a bit yesterday around RSA key generation - not the encrypt or decrypt phases, I don't know how to chop raw text into blocks yet. The other thing I don't know is why identical blocks don't result in identically encrypted output. The code here is at least short. #!/usr/bin/python # Shows...

I have decided to move my farm into an indoor garden. for this i haved to purchased seeds online from good online store and thank you for well descriptive reply Garg, I am delighted that you have returned. You seem to be a reasonable person. We welcome you to the site despite your product placement...

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Why Scotland is lagging far behind England on solar power developments

https://www.scotsman.com/news/environme ... ts-4269606

Umm...

I'm not sure I can bring myself to comment.

Oh dear oh dear... ‘We can do one big celebration’: Ohio couple shares birthday with new twins Scierra Blair and her fiance, Jose Ervin Jr, were born a year apart on 18 August, and newborn twins were born on their joint birthday https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/aug/27/ohio-couple-shared-birt...

Russia’s investigative committee has confirmed that the Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin was killed in a plane crash. The committee said on Sunday that after forensic testing, all 10 bodies recovered at the site of the crash had been identified, and their identities “conform to the manifest”. https://...

This, presumably true, is an observational gem. Whoever the political fool is who deliberately stirred up the ban in China is guilty of plain incompetence, for not organizing adequate diligence checks beforehand. As China bans all seafood from Japan after the discharge of 1m tonnes of radioactive wa...

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The fact that Prigozhin had two Embraer executive jets flying at the same time almost within view of each other prior to the crash is presumably a coincidence, though not one that could conceivably have been arranged by Russian intelligence. And that piece of "Prigozhin had" disinformatio...

I wonder. Have we now seen enough of 2023 to be fully convinced that it's a replay of 1915 in terms of who gained which half mile and who lost another10,000 enlisted foot-soldiers? We have seen this Western divide-and-rule strategy time and again. This is Iran-Iraq being replayed, this is the CIA gu...

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If I might indulge? These are from the last couple of weeks. The first captures the final set in the magnificent professional career of Dave Cousins of The Strawbs. Back at the start of the year he was quoted saying "After 55 years of performing with Strawbs, and multiple recent health issues, ...

As an aside it is perhaps a toss-up, now that we appear to have reached full time in both their careers, to evaluate whether Prigozhin or Simon Mann was the ghastlier example of humanity at its worst, but I think the Russian won hands down on practical effectiveness. I just thought I'd throw that in...

Killing 10 people by shooting down their plane is not usually considered to be an acceptable solution when the leader of a civilised country has been annoyed by one of the passengers. I would not disagree with that at all. Any extrajudicial killing by any nation state is deplorable, whether it invo...

Perhaps he annoyed someone. And some from British lawmaker Alicia Kearns, chair of parliament’s foreign affairs committee: The speed at which the Russian Govt has confirmed Yevgeny Prigozhin was on a plane that crashed on a flight from Moscow to St Petersburg should tell us everything we need to kno...

I haven't ever seen this before. And I have no idea how I just saw it either. Kate Bush rather passed me by at the time which puzzles me even more.

Quarter of music industry workers have had no work in EU since Brexit https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/aug/22/music-industry-workers-no-work-in-eu-since-brexit What cobblers. A quarter of *British* music industry workers have had no work in EU since Brexit. There's clearly at least one com...

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