It’s a standard movie cliché: A hacker pounds away on his keyboard for 30 seconds to break a military-grade encryption scheme. Nevermind that in real life it would take 8.4 million CPU years to factorize a 1024-bit number in software.
From xkcd: A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language.
This comic proves that hell is just like life on Earth, only worse.
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Growing up, we all knew that the cartoon characters were a little nuts. To me, Wile E. Coyote seemed to be the textbook definition of obsessive-compulsive. There’s no doubt he was the Road Runner’s psychopathic stalker.
Now Joey DeVilla has analyzed our favorite cartoon characters and provided a psychological analysis of each.
Here is a funny comic about psychics (warning: adult language).
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President Obama and Vice President Biden sat down for a beer at the White House with a top African-American professor and the police officer who arrested him earlier this month. After the meeting, Obama said in a statement he was thankful to Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Sgt. James Crowley for joining him for “a friendly, thoughtful conversation.” (CNN)
However, the meeting could have turned out another way:
From xkcd: A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language
From xkcd: A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language.
Trivia: Do you know what movie they are referencing with the quote in the last frame?
From xkcd: A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language.
