@AviD @TildalWave @ManishEarth I'm not sure trying to exclude the association bonuses is worthwhile, unless we find that half or more of our users with non-trivial rep didn't have it. Because by that token you might as well exclude bounties as well.
@AviD Oh I saw on scifi where someone, basically, asked the question we had about telepaths in the Cinematic universe. I also saw where you commented on it.
@CodesInChaos we're actually aiming for different things - you are trying to remove the bonus from all users who have it, I am trying to remove users who only have the bonus.
S.H.I.E.L.D is a group of members involved in saving Earth. All of those characters are fictional characters from Marvel comics. Mutants from the X-Men books are also fictional characters from Marvel comics. So why aren't any mutants from the X-Men series also members of S.H.I.E.L.D?
@AviD In last week's episode of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. there were a couple of times where the line "There is no proof that telepaths exist" or "Telepaths don't exist" was stated.
@AviD And given the rather incestuous relationship the Avengers have had with the X-Men and the relationship that the Avengers have with S.H.I.E.L.D....yeah.
so guys, if someone was recording all your encrypted GPG communiques... isn't it pretty much a given that in our lifetimes that data will be decrypted? due to technology advancements
@deed02392 Nah, the algorithms used in GPG cannot be bruteforced even with technology advancements unless there are mathematical breakthroughs. (@ThomasPornin I'm right in this right?)
@TerryChia Yep that's correct, assuming you use 2048 bit rsa vs long-term attacks. However we have no proof that public key crypto even exists so a mathematical breakthrough is quite possible.
@lynks oh, it's okay - I deliberately know nothing about football. Marvel is just an accident, through rarely getting to a cinema, and preferring New Scientist to comics as a kid
@RoryAlsop I really dug the X-Men comics in the early-mid 90s. Madilyn, however, is really into it through no involvement of my own so I'm finding myself catching back up.
"brute-force attacks against 256-bit keys will be infeasible until computers are built from something other than matter and occupy something other than space."
So beyond 128 bits, we're basically just protecting against mathematical breakthroughs that might reduce the keyspace you actually have to search through
In order to perform calculations in other universes we first have to confirm that such things actually exist. As near as I can tell it's still armchair speculation.
@deed02392 all quantum computers do is work with probabilities. Possible probabilities in this universe are effectively finite (but very large), but the definition of universe means that whether or not others exist is unknowable within ours - information cannot pass
@deed02392 yeah thats a good way to look at it, there are 2-3 people here who will be able to give much better answers than me, pornin, gilles and codes come to mind.
@deed02392 When I hear people like Tyson saying things like, "if the multiverse theory is true" then I feel pretty justified in holding off on judgement.
S.H.I.E.L.D is a group of members involved in saving Earth. All of those characters are fictional characters from Marvel comics. Mutants from the X-Men books are also fictional characters from Marvel comics. So why aren't any mutants from the X-Men series also members of S.H.I.E.L.D?
