2012-11-22, 11:32 | Link #9002 |
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http://news.sky.com/story/1014603/ch...per-in-90-days
Chinese General Contractor, Broad Sustainable Building, is running a project to build the world's highest building (just higher than Burj Khalifa) in 90 days. By 'build', they mean on-site construction. |
2012-11-22, 16:02 | Link #9004 | |
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2012-11-22, 20:09 | Link #9005 | |
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2012-11-23, 02:40 | Link #9006 |
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A male model for women fashion?? Scratch it, this is better. A 71-years old grandfather become models for woman clothes...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/gall...on-in-pictures |
2012-11-23, 07:15 | Link #9009 |
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Maine TV news co-anchors quit on the air
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories...11-21-17-31-57
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2012-11-23, 10:04 | Link #9010 | |
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UK government's official job site advertises fake 007 position
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2012-11-23, 12:37 | Link #9012 |
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Code Found on Pigeon Baffles British Cryptographers
"Britain’s code-breakers acknowledged on Friday that an encrypted handwritten message from World War II, found on the leg of a long-dead carrier pigeon in a household chimney in southern England, has thwarted all their efforts to decode it since it was sent to them last month." Of course, there's always the conspiracy theorist in the crowd. This one says they did decode the message, but it suggested something dicey about relations between the British Army and the French Resistance that the Brits do not want to release. "Mr. Martin said he was skeptical of the idea that GCHQ had been unable to crack the code. “I think there’s something about that message that is either sensitive or does not reflect well” on British special forces operating behind enemy lines in wartime France, he said in a telephone interview. 'I’m convinced that it’s an important message and a secret message.' " Uh-huh.
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2012-11-23, 15:00 | Link #9014 |
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The article discusses technical reasons why the message is difficult to decipher such as the possible use of a "one-time pad" where the key was known only to the sender and recipient.
There were a lot of really smart people working at Bletchley Park in those days. I'm not surprised they could devise codes that can withstand modern decryption methods. While browsing that site I came across this unusual item, the "Alan Turing" edition of Monopoly. Apparently the spaces on the board recount events in Turing's life. I wonder if it includes the British Government's prosecution of him for being homosexual which led to his death, perhaps by his own hand, soon thereafter.
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2012-11-23, 15:16 | Link #9015 |
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Yeah. I'm just not seeing the conspiracy.
Even the one time pad can be broken (if it's generated improperly, which isn't that rare - random numbers are harder than you'd think), but it takes a larger sample than one lousy paper message carried by a pigeon. (And, uh, maybe a clear text. Not sure.) |
2012-11-23, 16:33 | Link #9016 |
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Restaurant settles over 'carcass removal' listing
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories...11-23-16-00-52 I am not laughing at this one but some might.
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2012-11-23, 23:31 | Link #9017 | |
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Japan manga "geeks" seek love at masked match-making
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