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Seer of the tapes! Knower of the episodes!

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Part of my job is to review security footage for reported incidents.

If there is a long-lasting visual cue that the event has or has not happened yet (e.g. a window is either broken or not), then a binary search is very useful.

If the event lasts only a moment and leaves no visual cue (e.g. an assault), then binary search is practically useless.

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I thought the joke was about old binaries.

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Strips cut through forested areas like this are generally called fire breaks. I don’t know if there’s a more specific term for those beneath power lines.

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As its name suggests, LogoFAIL involves logos, specifically those of the hardware seller that are displayed on the device screen early in the boot process, while the UEFI is still running. Image parsers in UEFIs from all three major IBVs are riddled with roughly a dozen critical vulnerabilities that have gone unnoticed until now. By replacing the legitimate logo images with identical-looking ones that have been specially crafted to exploit these bugs, LogoFAIL makes it possible to execute malicious code at the most sensitive stage of the boot process, which is known as DXE, short for Driver Execution Environment.

So, does disabling the boot logo prevent the attack, or would it only make the attack obvious?

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Usually you can, though the setting might be listed under something like “show diagnostic during boot”.

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Spirits of good fortune, not ghosts.

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Which is a real thing in canon. Bajor’s application was put in jeopardy when they briefly reinstated a caste system, which violated Federation equality rules.

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Flee*

He will flee the country.

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The actor who played Garak is on record saying that he played the character as bi, with a crush on Bashir.

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I have a friend who’s an artist and has sometimes taken a view which I don’t agree with very well. He’ll hold up a flower and say “look how beautiful it is,” and I’ll agree.

Then he says “I as an artist can see how beautiful this is but you as a scientist take this all apart and it becomes a dull thing,” and I think that he’s kind of nutty. First of all, the beauty that he sees is available to other people and to me too, I believe. Although I may not be quite as refined aesthetically as he is … I can appreciate the beauty of a flower.

At the same time, I see much more about the flower than he sees. I could imagine the cells in there, the complicated actions inside, which also have a beauty. I mean it’s not just beauty at this dimension, at one centimeter; there’s also beauty at smaller dimensions, the inner structure, also the processes.

The fact that the colors in the flower evolved in order to attract insects to pollinate it is interesting; it means that insects can see the color. It adds a question: does this aesthetic sense also exist in the lower forms? Why is it aesthetic? All kinds of interesting questions which the science knowledge only adds to the excitement, the mystery and the awe of a flower. It only adds. I don’t understand how it subtracts.

-Richard Feynman

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“No offense, Lieutenant. You’re different, of course.”

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So that’s what caused WW3.

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Objection! That’s a picture of Doctor Ogawa, chief medical officer of the Enterprise in an alternate quantum reality.

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https://startrek.website/pictrs/image/6f84d05c-c505-472d-a03b-3b462afed9ff.jpeg

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Technically, that’s a space elevator.

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Greetings

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“How’s your 10-key?”

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“Laddie, every woman has her own charm. You just have to know where to look for it.”

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Be honest, would you prefer an android slave that was programmed by a paragon of virtue, or one that was programmed by that unprincipled, evil-minded, lecherous kulak Harry Mudd?

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The neutral look is easiest. Odo uses it because it’s the best he can do. The Founders use it because they’re lazy.

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His scene with Worf where he reveals that he’s Alexander from the future is one if the greatest scenes in ALL Trek.

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Who’s the artist? I want this on my wall.

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Ugh, Vulcans!

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    Based on what?

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    Despite seeing both the DS9 and Seinfeld episodes dozens of times, it wasn’t til now that I realized it was the same actress.

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