@DavidFreitag No. There is no close enough. West coast is a wasteland of idiocy and tree huggers. If it weren't for the fact that I have an uncle in Oregon, the entire seaboard could sink and it would be a vast improvement for the US. We could even admit Guam, PR and the VI as states and keep the same flag.
> "We are the Borg. Lower your shields and surrender your ships. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Your culture will adapt to service us. Resistance is futile." (Star Trek: First Contact)
@Iszi That isn't caring about distinctions. Once they are borg, they don't care. They only care for the parts that are slightly different in a species, and once that species is assimilated, they are all borg. And any distinctions from then are "irrelevant".
@Iszi Distinction is a noun. Distinctiveness is an adverb. They can't be the same thing.
@JohnP Distinctive: having or giving style or distinction - i.e.: If the Collective wishes to incorporate the distinctiveness of others into itself, then it follows that they also wish to assimilate their distinctions.
@JohnP The grammar debate completely misses the point regardless. @kalina said the Borg won't assimilate her because she offers no biological or technological improvements. But the mission statement says nothing about improvements - only distinctiveness.
@JohnP The statement's purpose was to point out that @kalina would be assimilated - not to clearly define all the requirements for one to be a target of assimilation.
@Iszi you have 15.9k rep in Infosec, you'd think you'd be a little more precise then. Words are the origin of thought, without words, there is no thought.
Back to my original statement then. In fact, it is irrelevance which can make you even more likely to be assimilated. Among a large enough group, the Borg don't care about you - they just care to assimilate everyone.
@TildalWave Here's an interesting thought: What portion of the female population, at any given time, is either (A) Pregnant OR (B) Primary caregiver/guardian of a non-adult?
@Iszi the sign says women parking. It should say parent/disabled or just parent. Yes places do have parking spots just for parents. These are a thing that exist. Why are you still arguing this fail point?
who decided to split it based on parent/expecting?
@DavidFreitag Here's the deal. We're waiting for the French to surrender to each other, iszi can't argue his way out of a paper bag, simon is treading flagbait, and kalina wins the intertubes for the day.
@JohnP actually it is coming to mean that, as MS roll out corrections and the vast majority of people just accept the programs suggestions, they become the defacto correct answers
@TildalWave phhbt , MS Word is the worst word processor on the planet , apart from all the other word processors that anyone else tries to make
Technically, the server does not prove its identity by showing its public key, but by showing its public key and using its private key (to compute a signature).
But the server never shows its private key, only its public key, so fixing the "show the private key" into "show the public key" is a marked improvement.
@Simon the revised sentence is less wrong, but still not quite right: the public key is shown, but not to prove the server's identity. The private key is used to prove the server's identity, but it isn't shown.
