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What did pepper write in his holiday card to salt? Seasons Greetings

Why did the blind man fall down the well? Because he couldn't see that well.

There is the potential to break common encryption schemes in use today, but not all schemes are susceptible to this attack. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_computing#Potential

It's like saying "Anyone can rob a bank", but it takes an incredible amount of skill to rob the bank, get what you came for, and then get away with it. Considering the cyber kill chain, the good thing for security is they only have to catch the attacker at anyone point in the campaign to be...

What did the cemetary worker say when he realized he buried the body in the wrong place? I've made a grave mistake.

Most interviewers will pick up on if you are socially awkward within the first 10 minutes. I agree with the recommendation to join Toastmasters or some other small group where you interact with multiple people. Good luck.

Knock knock...who’s there? Dishes...dishes who? Dishes Sean Connery.

Windows 8.1 was released in October 2013, it is likely the factory image included updates to the OS from late 2014.

That one’s a stretch.

The new state in Windows 8 was kernel hibernation, but the system still fully powers off. My guess is you closed the lid before it completed the shutdown process, and was in a standard sleep state.

Sounds like this is a good candidate for the Astronomy and Cosmology FAQ (which is actually hidden in the Astronomy forum). Even when these questions are repetative, I always enjoy reading interesting and fresh perspectives like the one from @kimbyd.

That depends on if you are selling a solution to a problem someone is willing to pay for. There’s a rule-of-thumb that says if you aren't profitable after doing something for a year, it’s just a hobby.

Heres one from just last month, unfortunately locked. : ) https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/can-someone-please-identify-what-i-saw-lights-in-the-night-sky.921748/ I really like this sequence: Is it really big? > Yes > Are your retinas burning? > Yes > Sun

From the OP paper:

Correct me if I’m wrong, but my understanding of this is a new model for inertia using Unruh radiation: My question is this: If Unruh radiation is dynamically equivalent to Hawking radiation, is its effect significant enough to affect the inertial mass of gravitationally bound objects?