Sure, that's extreme. But if you're unaware of the risks, you feel sick, and you believe it's helping you.

I mean, people aren't killing themselves in masses with it, but it happens every now and then. Easily imaginable that one in a few million people will have enough tendency to take more pills and is unaware of the overdose danger.

That's not how it works...

In modern protocols, you don't encrypt at all with RSA. You use a key exchange, and if you use RSA, you only use it as a signature algorithm to initiate the key exchange.

If you happen to want to encrypt with RSA, which you usually shouldn't, you first use a padding algorithm (the modern variant of that is called RSA-OAEP) with which you prepare and then encrypt a random key. That key you then use for symmetric encryption.

Clearly yes. (Ok, not everyone, but large parts of the IT and software development community.)

There's a long history of people trying to build software that detects bad software. It's known as Antivirus software. It doesn't work very well, because you're up against fundamental truths of computational theory (the halting problem).

Most hydrogen fueling stations receive it from the next steam reformer, which will make it from fossil gas.

While China is still very reliant on fossil-fuels, and particularly dirty coal, they're at the same time working on dominating the post-fossil age at astonishing speed. After they already dominate solar and batteries, they're working on doing the same for a number of other future green industries. They are already dominating future technologies like Green Methanol that most people in Europe or the US have never heard of.

So it's completely impossible that such malicious extensions still exist.

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Is this a parody?

* XHTML 1.0 and 1.1 are officially deprecated by the W3C.

* XHTML5 exists as a variant of HTML5. However, it's very clear that it's absolutely not a priority for the HTML5 working groups, and there's a statement that future features will not necessarily be supported by the XHTML5 variant.

* XHTML5 does not have a DTD, so one of the main advantages of XHTML - that you can validate its correctness with pure XML functionality - isn't there.

* If you do a 'view source' in Firefox on a completely valid XHTML 1.0/1.1 page, it'll redline the XML declaration like it's something wrong. Not sure if this is intended or possibly even a bug, but it certainly gives me a 'browser tells me this is not supposed to be there' feeling.

It pretty much seems to me XHTML has been abandoned by the web community. My personal conclusion has been that whenever I touch any of my old online things still written in XHTML, I'll convert them to HTML5.

At the time, a colleague of mine (we were both working for the German IT news magazine Golem) found a web page by a government-associated university that was offline with a message that it's been taken down due to a security issue.

Putting a few hints together, we figured out that Ilias was hosted therer, and that this was how the attack on the government initially started.

We weren't able to figure out which vulnerability was used, but had some ideas what it might've been. (Older versions had a default password for the admin account.)

One wonders: there's an Open Source software that's widely used by universities, even by government-associated universities. It's been the cause of a high-profile attack on a government before. One wonders why that doesn't trigger sufficient funding for regular, high-quality security audits of that software.

Article from 2018: https://www.golem.de/news/government-hack-hack-on-german-gov...

I think it's largely uncontroversial that the math in string theory could be useful in other areas. But if that's your argument for the legitimacy of string theory then the question arises what string theory is and if it is still part of physics. Because physics has, of course, the goal of describing the real world, and, my understanding is, string theory failed to do that, despite what many people have hoped.

If string theory is "just a way of developing math that can be useful in totally unrelated areas", it's, well, part of mathematics. But I don't think that's how the field sees itself.

I'm always surprised what kind of antifeatures people in Apple land are willing to accept and still use those things...

Plants only filter out very small amounts of CO2 from the air over relatively long timeframes. That's why crop-based biofuels require such enormous amounts of space.

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This study was possible due to a "natural experiment" where one country gave people from a very specific birth date the vaccine (so people born right before and right after that date were very similar, except for the vaccine).

It's not clear why this is the case. It might be that the virus the vaccine supresses plays a role in dementia development, or it might be that the vaccine causes an immune response that has other indirect positive impacts.