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May 9 Paul F commented on Your Dog Sucks.

I'm with you!

May 7 Paul F commented on The Quantum Internet Exists....

This isn't a "Big Deal" to the internet as a whole, and it's a fairly substantial improvement to an already existing technology. As @2 points out, there are off the shelf solutions today. This development is neat because it allows networks of computers to perform secure key exchanges in a more more affordable and practical way.

All this still only applies to internal LANs or relatively short distances outside your building.

The Holy Grail for cryptography is something as secure as a one way pad, but magically being able to already have the key pads in both peer locations without exposing them during transport. The key length is the same as the message length, so you need to somehow securely exchange your entire message length's worth of perfectly random key data. Quantum key exchange can do this. If only it were possible to do this across the world..

May 2 Paul F commented on Sound Check.

Smells like a developer with an eye on the property and a friend in city hall?

Apr 10 Paul F commented on "Sport Balls Replaced With Cats".

And why not? After all, The Queen used hedgehogs as croquet balls, struck with flamingos as mallets.

Apr 10 Paul F commented on Bad News for Microsoft.

@13, that's the way most all software is, especially operating systems. If you want to zoom out a bit further, all releases since Windows XP are incremental versions of Windows NT. Otherwise none of your existing software would continue to work (or very well). Windows NT 4.0 was an incremental version of Windows NT with an adaption of the Windows 95 shell (or "skin", as you put it).

The most user-visible change is, of course, the shell. As far as letting me just do my fucking work and staying out of the way, I think Windows 7 came the closest.

Apr 10 Paul F commented on Bad News for Microsoft.

The report details that people don't use these devices to _replace_ their desktop, but to supplement them. I can't blame people for wanting their laptops and desktops to act like them. Personally, I find the Windows 8 user experience like trying to cook in my kitchen with giant obstacles in front of all the appliances.

Now as for the local economy, everybody comes out better in the long run if the mono-cultural ecosystem Microsoft currently holds can be diversified. So more people get Android, iOS, MacOS or even Linux devices. It's good for diversity.

Mar 7 Paul F commented on Scrap the Cap!.

I would personally be affected by this in a large way, and I never thought the cap was a great idea. I support eliminating the cap entirely, not just raising it.

Feb 15 Paul F commented on You May Now Kiss the Bride and the Other Bride and the Other Bride and the Other Groom.

@1: Actually, marriage is about love AND all that you mention. To me, this is one big reason why modern marriage is flawed. It just doesn't work for the majority of people. If you didn't love somebody, why would you want to be so legally and financially intertwined? And when you no longer love somebody, now you are legally pitted against your former partner to undo all that, making the entire process a nightmare.

Now, for those crazy enough to still want to do it, I think the state should have some mechanism available for any number of consenting adults (regardless of gender, of course) to enter into some legal benefits parallel to what we currently have with marriage, and otherwise be out of the marriage business altogether.

Jan 25 Paul F commented on Yeah, Yeah—People Are Awesome.

@1, @3: circus arts are full of stunts risking paralysis and death, and are dominated by female athletes. As for daredevil stunts, I think there are cultural reasons those seem to be male dominated.

The trick with the hoop was quite impressive.