Schneier on Security

Clive Robinson • April 23, 2011 11:23 AM

@ John Hardin,

"Dangit. _Lenin's_ birthday"

Well as the squid in question is also known as "The Red Devil" I guess it' quite appropriate.

@ Petréa Mitchell,

"You want to cut down on the squid, set up marine reserves so those other stocks have a chance to recover"

For many fish stocks it is sadly now to late for them to recover, especialy as some of them actually predated the squid eggs and very small young, which used to be a major contributer to keeping the Humboldt under control.

Apart from man and each other the only other preditor of the adult squid is wales that use them as not just food but their equivalent of drinking water.

I guess we had all beter get used to eating squid in large quantites (maybe we should get the Pope to declare squid as the only salt water "fish" for fridays). As the squid are eating all the other fish stocks in that region.

Maybe some one will discover how to get viable fuel from them or vulcanize them or some such, and thus make the Humbodt and endangered species within a generation (one can but hope).

Clive Robinson • April 23, 2011 12:00 PM

Did anybody else notice that,

First the bit about squid, then a bit about "vegtable carving" then at the end,

"... and the Little Green Cyclo food truck will be on-site all day with delectable Vietnamese food"

Makes me wonder if they are "re-cycling", anybody know any good Vietnamese recipes involving squid and vegtables?

@ John Hardin,

It might be some "communist founding fathers" birthday but here in England (the birth place of communism) April 23rd is our patron Saint's day and as with a number of countries it's St George.

But as Shakespeare so eloquently put it,

'Follow your spirit; and upon this charge, Cry " God " for Harry! England and Saint George!!!'

[Often incorrectly muddeled up with 'Cry "Havoc!" and let slip the dogs of War!'

Clive Robinson • December 13, 2011 6:44 PM

OFF Topic:

An interesting article from New Scientist,

http://www.newscientist.com/mobile/article/...

Hidden in it is how certain forms of encryption may (and it's an iffy may) enable such things as credit ratings to be achived on raw data without actually seeing the raw data.

So for instance the fact that you eat out once a week at a restaurant can be seen but not which restaurant. An example they give is you purchasing a book, the method of purchase of the book is shown but the title of the book is not as it might adversly effect your credit rating (ie a book on Alzhimers)