Poll: Who Should Be Leader of HM Most Loyal Opposition? This poll is closed. |
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Jeremy Corbyn | 95 | 18.63% | |
Dennis Skinner | 53 | 10.39% | |
Angus Robertson | 20 | 3.92% | |
Tim Farron | 9 | 1.76% | |
Paul Ukips | 7 | 1.37% | |
Robot Lenin | 105 | 20.59% | |
Tony Blair | 28 | 5.49% | |
Pissflaps | 193 | 37.84% | |
Total: | 510 votes |
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was waiting for him to relate supervolcanoes to hitler edit:27 Mar 1871 The first international rugby match takes place, between Scotland and England. Scotland win.
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"And at the bottom of the supervolcano...is Hitler's lair!" e:f,b
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# ? Mar 27, 2017 13:54 |
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vodkat posted:considering the comments here it wasn't as bad as i thought it would be Well I was seeing this instead of some leery life-ruining-more-than-it-already-is bullshit From a distance the other one looks like the Sun complaining encryption is stopping them from getting nudes I don't need to type anything here
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# ? Mar 27, 2017 13:58 |
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-39399390The BBC posted:PM says Brexit will make UK 'more united'
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# ? Mar 27, 2017 14:01 |
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I think May is just going to skip NI on her Brexit tour unless she pops over tomorrow
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# ? Mar 27, 2017 14:05 |
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should i be concerned that my balls are a bit distended? Edit: lol holy poo poo I should not leave myself logged in. Natural 20 fucked around with this message at 15:59 on Mar 27, 2017 |
# ? Mar 27, 2017 14:08 |
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United in being totally hosed, it's true.
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# ? Mar 27, 2017 14:14 |
Yorkshire Tea posted:should i be concerned that my balls are a bit distended?
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# ? Mar 27, 2017 14:15 |
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vodkat posted:considering the comments here it wasn't as bad as i thought it would be
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# ? Mar 27, 2017 14:17 |
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New thread motto. https://twitter.com/juliamacfarlane/status/846352089349525506
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# ? Mar 27, 2017 14:28 |
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Guavanaut posted:VILE WhatsApp have repeatedly refused MI5 pleas to change mathematics. "All they'd have to do is change the numbers so they don't add up and we'd win at terror" said government spokesman Christian Goodbloke-Notfash. It would actually be trivial for Whatsapp to make it easy for intelligence agencies to break their encryption. It would also be entirely pointless, for all sorts of reasons.
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# ? Mar 27, 2017 14:30 |
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goddamnedtwisto posted:It would actually be trivial for Whatsapp to make it easy for intelligence agencies to break their encryption. It would also be entirely pointless, for all sorts of reasons. there was a former MoD person on radio 4 this morning saying that the intelligence community don't care about greater powers because they've got what they want and need and it would just allow Russia to break in
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# ? Mar 27, 2017 14:33 |
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Lord of the Llamas posted:New thread motto. Is this really true? Aren't comets/meteoroids/whatever actually fairly close? Astronomy chat ITT e: meteoroid not meteor I guess, either way it's like, few hundred/thousand kilometres away. Private Speech fucked around with this message at 14:38 on Mar 27, 2017 |
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Comets and meteorites are not stars.
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# ? Mar 27, 2017 14:37 |
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Dead Goon posted:Comets and meteorites are not stars. Yeah but, shooting stars are. (meteoroids that is) Plus I don't think most stars we can see are already dead, either. As per: quote:Are the stars we see already dead? Thoroughly unsatisfying tweet really.
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# ? Mar 27, 2017 14:42 |
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goddamnedtwisto posted:It would actually be trivial for Whatsapp to make it easy for intelligence agencies to break their encryption. It would also be entirely pointless, for all sorts of reasons. Where other parties include, for example, intelligence agencies which aren't the good ones (us)? Could they make it trivial for Russian intelligence agencies to break it but only for Russian users, French intelligence agencies for French users,
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# ? Mar 27, 2017 14:42 |
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Private Speech posted:Is this really true? Aren't comets/meteoroids/whatever actually fairly close? Nah I don't think it's really true. Stars can last billions of years and stars at the least those within our galaxy are only a few thousand or or tens of thousands of light years away.
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# ? Mar 27, 2017 14:44 |
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What if it was possible for WhatsApp to break the encryption on behalf of the police if there was a genuine reason for seeing a specific person's recent conversation, as there arguably is now. Is it technically feasible to design it so it works that way? (I have no idea).
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# ? Mar 27, 2017 14:47 |
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Private Speech posted:Yeah but, shooting stars are. (meteoroids that is) Meteoroids are meteoroids, shooting stars are what stupid people call meteoroids.
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# ? Mar 27, 2017 14:49 |
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Paxman posted:What if it was possible for WhatsApp to break the encryption on behalf of the police if there was a genuine reason for seeing a specific person's recent conversation, as there arguably is now. Is it technically feasible to design it so it works that way? (I have no idea). That's not how encryption works. If encryption can be broken by anyone, it can be broken by anyone else.
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# ? Mar 27, 2017 14:49 |
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Dead Goon posted:Meteoroids are meteoroids, shooting stars are what stupid people call meteoroids. They are also the things people wish upon. Either way the stars aren't dead, either.
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# ? Mar 27, 2017 14:50 |
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Paxman posted:What if it was possible for WhatsApp to break the encryption on behalf of the police if there was a genuine reason for seeing a specific person's recent conversation, as there arguably is now. Is it technically feasible to design it so it works that way? (I have no idea). That's not true end-to-end encryption though, and shouldn't be sold as such. It also makes the system as a whole more vulnerable to hacking, in addition to all the normal motives of greed, politics, espionage, revenge, etc. that could cause someone with access to it to skip around the warrant bit. Unless we authenticate all judges by RFID in their wigs or something, it's impossible to make a system that can tell the difference between a legal request and someone deciding to abuse the system.
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# ? Mar 27, 2017 15:00 |
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Paxman posted:What if it was possible for WhatsApp to break the encryption on behalf of the police if there was a genuine reason for seeing a specific person's recent conversation, as there arguably is now. Is it technically feasible to design it so it works that way? (I have no idea). Think of encryption as a key to open your front door. Now imagine that the police has a special key that can open anyone's door. Can you see what would happen when (not if) someone else figures out how to make such a key?
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# ? Mar 27, 2017 15:04 |
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Don't Lol me posted:TBF, they don't do any other front page nowadays. Aren't 29% of ppl under 34
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# ? Mar 27, 2017 15:08 |
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I'm very concerned about the possibility of children exchanging hashtags through the whats apps.
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# ? Mar 27, 2017 15:15 |
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Breath Ray posted:Aren't 29% of ppl under 34 Something like 44% according to wikipedia's summary of the 2011 census. If you exclude people under 15 (who aren't buying papers) then under 34 makes 32% of the remaining population?
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# ? Mar 27, 2017 15:16 |
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Incy posted:Something like 44% according to wikipedia's summary of the 2011 census. If you exclude people under 15 (who aren't buying papers) then under 34 makes 32% of the remaining population? Thanks for the research That's quite a lot for an ageing society! Brexit will push up the average age though.
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# ? Mar 27, 2017 15:30 |
Breath Ray posted:Thanks for the research That's quite a lot for an ageing society
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# ? Mar 27, 2017 15:43 |
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jBrereton posted:We're not really an aging society, look to Europe for that. Well yeah we keep sending them all our pensioners
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# ? Mar 27, 2017 15:50 |
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Someone made a documentary about us! The Internet Warriors: Meet The Trolls In Their Homes it's about right-wing crazies, but still e: it's really kinda sad to watch, I'd like to think the forums are better than that Private Speech fucked around with this message at 16:11 on Mar 27, 2017 |
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Lord of the Llamas posted:Nah I don't think it's really true. Stars can last billions of years and stars at the least those within our galaxy are only a few thousand or or tens of thousands of light years away. It would be amusingly likely to be true of intelligent signals though (if we ever received any), given that civilisations last a few millenia at best, and based on our own experience only stay radio active for a couple of centuries.
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# ? Mar 27, 2017 16:02 |
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Guavanaut posted:Trivial in a way that doesn't make it easier for other parties to break their encryption? In theory, yes. In practice, not without massive, massive problems. Paxman posted:What if it was possible for WhatsApp to break the encryption on behalf of the police if there was a genuine reason for seeing a specific person's recent conversation, as there arguably is now. Is it technically feasible to design it so it works that way? (I have no idea). Yes, but not without completely redesigning the way the service works and both completely breaking their security model and incurring gigantic infrastructure costs, because at that point they're just running an email service with slightly peculiar addressing.
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# ? Mar 27, 2017 16:06 |
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Renaissance Robot posted:It would be amusingly likely to be true of intelligent signals though (if we ever received any), given that civilisations last a few millenia at best, and based on our own experience only stay radio active for a couple of centuries. I'm fairly certain once the bombs drop we'll be radioactive for quite a bit longer. Actually - if we were to nuke ourselves tomorrow, what sort of scale would it be detectable at to alien observers? Would they have to be specifically watching us, or would it be much more obvious? Strom Cuzewon fucked around with this message at 16:31 on Mar 27, 2017 |
# ? Mar 27, 2017 16:28 |
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baka kaba posted:Well yeah we keep sending them all our pensioners And taking all their young people!
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# ? Mar 27, 2017 16:32 |
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Private Speech posted:Someone made a documentary about us! Explains why Pissflaps is so angry all the time though, the amount of time and effort he has to spend on getting those visas for his wife.
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# ? Mar 27, 2017 16:42 |
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Strom Cuzewon posted:Actually - if we were to nuke ourselves tomorrow, what sort of scale would it be detectable at to alien observers? Would they have to be specifically watching us, or would it be much more obvious? If you had sensitive enough radio equipment and were in the local neighborhood you'd probably pick up a few clicks though, and you could probably pick up the gamma rays from a long way away if you happened to be watching, or the atmospheric changes could be observed as we do with exoplanets.
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# ? Mar 27, 2017 16:46 |
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Encryption ban is gonna be fun. Don't use maths citizens! You may inadvertently help isis when loving around with long division!Private Speech posted:Is this really true? Aren't comets/meteoroids/whatever actually fairly close? It's one of those QI style "facts" that isn't really quite there at all. On a really clear night in a dark area when you look around you will be able to see a few thousand stars with your naked eyes. Out of those thousands, perhaps one or two might well be dead. Betelgeuse, the bright red star on orion's shoulder is about due to blow any time (within the next hundred thousand years maybe) and its about 6 or 700 light years away. Others are further away and even dodgier. It's all playing the odds, but any stars you see naked eye are within a few thousand light years, so almost all of them are probably still there, because they aren't that far away relatively, and that doesn't give a long timespan for them to have died compared with life expectancy. If you start loving around with binoculars or a small telescope, suddenly you see a fuckton more, and you knock up your odds a lot. Any comets or meteors you can look at are going to be within our own system with a light distance measured in a few hours max. That poo poo's almost definitely still there. Now if you are lucky enough to be super dark on a really good night, you can see other nearby galaxies with your naked (sexy) eyes as bright splotches. When you look at one of those, given that the brightest stars in them shine the shortest, and the distances involved, you can be certain to be looking at some dead stars- andromeda is about 2 million light years ago/away and its populated with billions of massive, shortlived stars.
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# ? Mar 27, 2017 16:49 |
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ookiimarukochan posted:Explains why Pissflaps is so angry all the time though, the amount of time and effort he has to spend on getting those visas for his wife. Reminds me of that guy who went to the US to be with his wife but doesn't like Mexicans and supports Trump and Brexit. Or that one American who complained here about "people not following the right routes" after having gone through a ton of hassle to live in the UK with his British wife (yeah I know he's not the only one in that position who posts in this thread).
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# ? Mar 27, 2017 17:02 |
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https://twitter.com/ditzkoff/status...%3D3130%23pti22
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Private Speech posted:Reminds me of that guy who went to the US to be with his wife but doesn't like Mexicans and supports Trump and Brexit. Or that one American who complained here about "people not following the right routes" after having gone through a ton of hassle to live in the UK with his British wife (yeah I know he's not the only one in that position who posts in this thread). to be fair if you support trump and hate mexicans it's quite a good time to have moved to the US.
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