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Took me a while to figure out how he did that.
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I'm sure he "created" energy, didn't he? 
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Well, that seems to be the simplest solution: he's broken the laws of physics as we understand them.
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I stopped understanding them when the lecturer started talking about the quantum mass of a hole... 
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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Yep, I've known some pretty big 'holes' in my time and I'd stop listening if anyone tried to tell me about their quantum mass! 
"State acheived after eating too many chocolate-covered coconut bars - bountiful"
Chris C-B
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That's just a quasi particle called a hole, like a phonon. It's not a real particle, just mathematically indistinguishable from one.
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Wireless charging tech, anybody? (I.e transformers with an air-core, rather than a ferromagnetic one)
I find it far more interesting that one of the commentators indicates that Brazil now has in place a system in jails whereby prisoners can reduce their sentence by riding exercise bikes connected to generators. A concept that touches on one of the ones explored in one of the episodes in the Black Mirror[^] tv series. (S1E2)
I recommend it to those that are happy to look at a darkly satirical view on society and what may be logical conclusions for many of out preoccupations and the way that being part of society is changing generally into a soulless experience.
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Have you been watching too many Adam Curtis documentaries and gotten a bit more nihilistic? (I suspect Charlie Brooke has watch too many of them  )
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Nah, hadn't heard of Adam Curtis until you mentioned him just now. Though I do describe myself as a Nhilist and have done so since my early 20s. Perhaps I should consider whether or not I'd be better off watching his stuff.
Though now that I google and wiki him, I realize that I spend the overwhelming bulk of my free time thinking about just the kinds of things his works examine and explore. Sounds like some fun viewing.
Thanks for putting me on to him. (I think!)
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Well, I suspect you'd be a lot more knowledgeable about the stuff you have been thinking about, I sure did.
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Thanks again. 
That may just have been handy the other week when I was explaining the concept of Nihilism to a 7th Day Adventist.
Incredulous, his conclusion was "What do you mean we're all worthless? What do you mean no single one of us has any intrinsic worth? Well, we may as well all go kill ourselves then" - much hilarity ensued and the room was in stitches.
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I think that nihilism is just a progression of the hedonistic mindset that is all around in our civilization.
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enhzflep wrote: that Brazil now has in place a system in jails whereby prisoners can reduce their sentence by riding exercise bikes connected to generators.
I read somewhere a while back that this was introduced in the early 1900s maybe in the US. Critics called it inhumane treatment of the prisoners and then got rid of it. Now, jails have exercise bikes again and critics would say it was inhumane if the bikes weren't there. 
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Just arrived by email:
Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day.
Teach a man to phish, and if he gets caught he'll be eating that fish through a straw.
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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I told you to cancel that subscription to Angling monthly.
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Rumour has it that the private key has been compromised.
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Which private key? This is an open source product. The private key is generated each time by the end user by dragging the mouse randomly.
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Hi,
He probably means private key from the code signing certificate[^] used to sign the device driver.
Best Wishes,
-David Delaune
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TruCrypt is a very noisy program as far as the crumbs of its use it leaves on the system.
So those that think no one will know they are using will be disappointed.
Reading the article I’m not sure what the retirement of XP has to do with it all they have to do is, not support its use on XP either.
Perhaps there was a bug they were not able to fix that a full code review would possibly locate.
I have not dug into it deep enough to find out for myself.
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ledtech3 wrote: So those that think no one will know they are using will be disappointed.
There's a shortcut on the desktop that gives away the fact that it is installed.
I don't care that people can see the vault as long as I'm the only one who can access it
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Well you would need to do 2 things to "help" it be more secure. (unless ofcourse there is a hidden backdoor  )
1: Disable hybernation, reboot and "Secure delete" the hyberfile.sys file that keeps a memory snapshot.
2: after using TruCrypt reboot the system so that the information to decrypt it is not still in memory.
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I think the point they are making is that if you can compromise the OS, you can probably circumvent the decryption. Since XP is no longer supported, as new exploits are discovered, the OS won't be patched, and over time, the security of the system will be compromised.
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I guess it's just me; I tend to think of software, networks and security in terms of SECURE and UNSECURE.
My girlfriend? She's what I call INSECURE. 
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