while YOURE being “employed” and making “money” IM reading yaoi. get on my level

The Archbishop of Canterbury is secretly messaging people on tumblr. Seems totally legit 🤔🤣

This is the funniest scam I’ve ever seen

Today's number is 4 8565078965 7397829309 8418946942 8613770744 2087351357 9240196520 7366869851 3401047237 4469687974 3992611751 0973777701 0274475280 4905883138 4037549709 9879096539 5522701171 2157025974 6669932402 2683459661 9606034851 7424977358 4685188556 7457025712 5474999648 2194184655 7100841190 8625971694 7970799152 0048667099 7592359606 1320725973 7979936188 6063169144 7358830024 5336972781 8139147979 5551339994 9394882899 8469178361 0018259789 0103160196 1835034344 8956870538 4520853804 5842415654 8248893338 0474758711 2833959896 8522325446 0840897111 9771276941 2079586244 0547161321 0050064598 2017696177 1809478113 6220027234 4827224932 3259547234 6880029277 7649790614 8129840428 3457201463 4896854716 9082354737 8356619721 8622496943 1622716663 9390554302 4156473292 4855248991 2257394665 4862714048 2117138124 3882177176 0298412552 4464744505 5834628144 8833563190 2725319590 4392838737 6407391689 1257924055 0156208897 8716337599 9107887084 9081590975 4801928576 8451988596 3053238234 9055809203 2999603234 4711407760 1984716353 1161713078 5760848622 3637028357 0104961259 5681846785 9653331007 7017991614 6744725492 7283348691 6000647585 9174627812 1269007351 8309241530 1063028932 9566584366 2000800476 7789679843 8209079761 9859493646 3093805863 3672146969 5975027968 7712057249 9666698056 1453382074 1203159337 7030994915 2746918356 5937621022 2006812679 8273445760 9380203044 7912277498 0917955938 3871210005 8876668925 8448700470 7725524970 6044465212 7130404321 1826101035 9118647666 2963858495 0874484973 7347686142 0880529443

(this number was submitted by @19521chaos)

This 1,401-digit number is known as the first illegal prime.

When DVDs first launched in 1996, Hollywood was worried about piracy. So to protect against this, commercial DVDs came with an encryption system called CSS (Content Scramble System).

A licensed DVD player was given a secret cryptographic key called a player key. However, the encryption algorithm they used was extremely weak. For example, they used a 40-bit key size (this is like using a knotted rope to protect a bank vault), and there were issues with how the keys were distributed.

A 15-year old in Norway named Jon Johansen, better known as DVD Jon, is often credited as the one who broke the system. He wanted to watch the Matrix on his Linux computer. But Hollywood hadn't built a DVD player for Linux.

Jon and the other members of a group called the Masters of Reverse Engineering obtained a copy of a Windows DVD player called Jiang DVD and reverse-engineered it. They discovered a CSS player key inside the software. Because every legitimate DVD player needed such a key in order to play protected DVDs, extracting one gave them a foothold into the entire CSS system.

The group used this information to write a program called DeCSS, which could decrypt CSS-protected DVDs. It was released in 1999.

Hollywood's response was immediate. The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) sued everyone over this. This included the original hackers, but also the websites that hosted the code.

In the court case Universal City Studios, Inc v. Corley, Judge Lewis Kaplan ruled that DeCC was both expressive speech and functional code, and that the DMCA's anti-circumvention provisions could constitutionally restrict its distribution.

This made computer scientists worried. What about the math behind computer programs?

In protest, the website Gallery of CSS Descramblers was created that showcased different versions of the code, such as in the original C, in pure lambda calculus, on a T-shirt, as a circuit implementation in Verilog, and even as a haiku.

However, the ultimate flex came from a mathematician known as Phil Carmody. He realized that any computer file is really just a giant binary number. So he took a gzip-compressed representation of the DeCSS source code, interpreted its bytes as an integer, and searched for a representation that was also prime.

And eventually, he found one.

The result was a 1,401-digit prime number whose hexadecimal representation can be interpreted as a gzip file containing DeCSS source code.

The mathematics itself doesn't know or care that the number represents a program. It's simply a prime. But under a different interpretation, those exact same bits are executable code capable of circumventing DVD encryption.

And this trapped the court in a paradox. Prime numbers are not inventions, so this raised an interesting question. Can the US government ban a prime number?

Eventually the legal controversy fizzled out, and the broader legal issues around circumvention information remained much more complicated.

So this number stands as a testament to a specific moment in history when the US government tried to ban a part of the number line.

ublock origin is not enough i need advertisers to feel physical pain

“the best revenge is living well” no. old man disguise and attack with blade hidden in cane

God the 11 year old girls you put on this earth to climb trees and play with plastic animals are buying foundation at the drug store

for a second i thought you meant foundation like, a building foundation. not makeup

God the 11 year old girls you put on this earth are building something great and terrible on the edge of town

The best variety of cryptid sighting is very region-locked mythical creature that's never reported as a "cryptid" reported in a place it shouldn't be

"Y'all, I saw a green-skinned creature with a bowl of water in its head" Okay you saw a kappa, what was a kappa doing in Alabama

Every time I think about the entry level job paradox my head feels like it’s gonna explode.

Whenever I think about all the people that didn’t hire me to be a busser because I didn’t have any restaurant experience even though it’s the lowest ranking job in the restaurant I feel a dangerous urge to strangle a hiring manager.

Some internships ask for experience. Internships. You know. The places you’re supposed to get experience? Those things? I wanna eat a door.

Quite frankly I don’t know how anyone gets into any industry. Any of them. Office workers must just spawn like minecraft mobs or something.

Not enough people talking about how well broccoli holds a sauce

comfort check

this is your reminder to get comfortable! go do what you need to do!

this is so shit bro

im incredibly conflicted by the phrase ‘the question is not who will let me but who will stop me’ because on one hand its so fucking raw and powerful but on the other hand it’s derived from ayn rand but on yet another hand the first and primary time ive ever seen it was on a picture of a lawnmower flying through the sky which is the perfect level of absurd and nonsensical that would piss ayn rand off

reblog to piss off ayn rands ghost

surely this is a sign that there’s nothing in particular wrong with the atmosphere right now

goo goo dolls if they were in dune: and i don’t want the worm to see me

in regards to the USA hockey leagues policy update effectively barring all transgender athletes from playing hockey at any level I hope heated rivalry doubles the fuck down n every background hockey player in season two is trans. fuck the leagues queer ppl deserve to be in sports.

Hear hear! From your keyboard to Jacob’s ear.

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bringing this back around to include a petition for anyone willing to sign. this started off kinda light hearted but really this is so important. to clarify this is not an nhl policy. this is regarding any usa league down to the recreational ones played in shitty hometown rinks. this is a USA policy that would ban Trans players from leagues that are strictly for fun. don't let them get away with this bullshit. make your voice heard.

“Remember, nothing tastes as good as skinny feels 😇”