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6 Sep 2024 09:18:42 EDT (-0400)
  Re: That XKCD thing  
From: Jim Henderson
Date: 12 May 2009 22:05:48
Message: <4a0a2afc$1@news.povray.org>
On Tue, 12 May 2009 09:20:01 +0100, Invisible wrote:

> Jim Henderson wrote:
> 
>> And today's was quite good as well, but it helps if you've heard the
>> Car Talk radio programme (we listen to the podcast every week - think
>> of Tom & Ray as being the geekier cousins (who know more about how cars
>> work as a result of an engineering background) of the guys on Top
>> Gear).
> 
> I have no idea what you're talking about.

http://www.cartalk.com

> I also have no clue what "firefly" is all about - so the last half dozen
> strips made no sense at all.

http://tinyurl.com/8vu9n

and

http://tinyurl.com/3xp32

Both very good, highly recommended viewing.

>>> Heh. I keep wanting to encrypt by brain to stop the auditors from
>>> trying to steal it...
>> 
>> LOL, you would certainly want to use an anti-heuristic algorithm, just
>> to confuse them.
> 
> It's more that, loosely speaking, encryption is a way of protecting
> things from harm, and auditors are people who want to harm me. Thus,
> following that pretty vague logic, this suggestion kind-of makes sense.

That does make a certain amount of sense, yes.

> Almost all of my dreams involve me being persecuted in some way or
> other. So thinking about protection while I'm half asleep makes sense.

:-(

Jim


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