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  • I’m sure they’re smarter than me but my novice cryptographer brain doesn’t understand this.

    Isn’t the string of numbers representing each pixel rather limited Aren’t all those sections of the image that have lava lamps limited to values somewhere in the reddish/blueish spectrum? Isn’t the gray background very non-random?

    Apparently the camera is accessible in the lobby. They say people walking in front of the camera adds randomness. If I go there and hold a photo in front of the camera which I know the values of, doesn’t that compromise everything?

    To be fair their site says they take the lava lamp output and combine it with entropy from two servers and probably do a lot of other stuff before actually getting random numbers. But I don’t get how the lava lamps photo setup is even close to being random

    tried and failed to add image, so here a link: https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/ssl/lava-lamp-encryption/







  • “Gastroenterologists who X-rayed Lotito’s stomach said he was capable of consuming 2 pounds per day, according to his Guinness World Records entry.”

    I often read things and think about them and realize that it’s so absurd I can’t believe anyone tried to pass it off as true, and this is one of them.

    Gastroenterologist: “Oh yeah, that stomach can consume metal, I know because…” Because what? You’ve been trained to identify stomachs that can digest metal using X-rays? What day of gastroenterologist school was that?

    Go Google abdominal X-ray. You can’t even tell where the stomach is, it’s just a cloudy area.

    "Oh yeah, that cloudy area there can definitely digest metal, I can tell just by looking at it. I’d say it can digest, say, a pound and a half easily. Probably two pounds. Probably not two and a half though, I can tell just by looking at it that two pounds would be too much. "









  • Ok I think I get where you’re coming from. It’s membership in the nation group that makes it genocide. But that would make almost all war genocide. We could think that but it kinda takes away all meaning. If all war is genocide then no war is genocide.

    It also ignores the second part of the definition, “with the aim of destroying that nation or group.” That is a basic Google/dictionary definition and it’s not bad but the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide defined it as “…acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such.”

    First, there has to be intent. Second, “as such” means destroying the group so much that it is no longer a group.

    US law isn’t applicable but it is a little more clear.

    USC 1091 defines genocide as “…specific intent to destroy, in whole or in substantial part, a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group as such.”

    USC 1093 defines the term “substantial part” to mean: “a part of a group of such numerical significance that the destruction or loss of that part would cause the destruction of the group as a viable entity within the nation of which such group is a part.”

    I believe they’re both saying “destroy the group so hard it is no longer a viable group.”

    If nation group is the gauge, the question is: During WWII, did the US intend to destroy Germans so thoroughly that there was no longer a Germany? Did the US intend to destroy Iraqis so thoroughly that there ceased to be an entity called Iraq?

    No to both of those.




  • The goal in Iraq was to change the people in power. We didn’t target Ba’athists, we targeted those in power who happened to be Ba’athists. And if you recall, we did that in like 3 weeks and thought we were done. We didn’t go around rounding up Ba’athists trying to eradicate them. We got them out of power and said “mission accomplished!”

    Then it turns out a lot of people, Ba’athist and non-Ba’athist, didn’t like us being there and it became a huge messy “us vs everybody.”