When the Independent on Sunday described him as “winsome”, he canceled an interview with the paper, sending a postcard with the joyous missive: “Winsome, lose some.”
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MD5. Hashes. Just what is that all about?
This article is to explore the subject a little and highlight some of the recent discoveries and issues. If you know all about MD5, hash collisions, SHA-1, … then this isn’t for you! I’m writing this for someone who is technically aware, possibly heard of something called MD5 but has no real idea what it is, why it’s used nor why they should care. I’m going to avoid the detailed maths and programming, so jump on in, there’s nothing to be scared of here…
Folders are dead. I came to this conclusion a little while ago, although I didn’t realise it at the time. Then in the current issue of The Economist they write about it here. And suddenly it all made sense. They’re right.
Look again at that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every “superstar,” every “supreme leader,” every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there–on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
The Lancet bravely takes on the job of showing what a load of nonsense is the belief that homeopathy “works” in any provable way. The published study (of which the link above is to the summary abstract) uses conventional scientific methods to show that there is no clinical effect from homeopathic treatments, and that the effects are fully consistent with placebo effects. The late, great Douglas Adams hits the proverbial nail on the head:
Nicely put… The reaction of “World Leaders” to the death of King Fahd of Saudi Arabia has been just as craven and abject as might have been expected. The recent terrorist attacks in London make one, yet again, wonder how on earth religious beliefs bring people to do such things. Polly Toynbee, writing in the Guardian a few days ago, captures it well:
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Carl Sagan, after he saw an image of the Earth [planetary.org] taken by Voyager wrote:
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