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Great performance indeed! He looks pretty much like Larian's Swen Vincke, though. Maybe his way of relaxing after a long day of working hard on producing Baldur's Gate 3? ;)
 
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We lost another good one today.

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Reports: David Crosby, rock star and CSNY co-founder, dies

David Crosby, the brash rock musician who evolved from a baby-faced harmony singer with the Byrds to a mustachioed hippie superstar and an ongoing troubadour in Crosby, Stills, Nash & (sometimes) Young, has died at 81, several media outlets reported Thursday.
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Indeed, that's another legend lost to us. I still recall the fervor his liver transplant caused back in the day, personally I think Collins overstepped, yet I guess his heart was in the right place. In any case, RIP to a true master of his craft.
 
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Couchpotato said:
Johnson & Johnson tried to use bankruptcy to stop cancer lawsuits.
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Johnson & Johnson can't invoke bankruptcy to stop cancer lawsuits, court says

Johnson & Johnson faces 38,000 lawsuits that allege its baby powder causes cancer.
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It's really bad if they have known about asbestos contamination for a long time but kept it a secret. It doesn't take much exposure to cause mesothelioma (cancer in the linings of the lung, or the abdominal cavity). There are cases where the only known exposure to asbestos was many years ago playing with the cloths belonging to daddy (who worked in a shipyard). Still there is of course a lower limit, I don't know if there's enough of it in baby powder.

The tumour develops slowly, takes around 40 years to develop.

In older houses (like mine, built in 1960) you often find asbestos cement (aka eternit) in for instance ventilation canals (channels?). In general, it's not particularly dangerous, and it's not much reason to remove it (which BTW should be done by specialists using protective gear. Yes, it's expensive). But, and this is important! - you should definitely not bore holes in it, sawing it and things like that!
 
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bkrueger said:
In fact Schneier and all relevant experts conclude that there is no reason to panic, because the paper promises more than it can hold.
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You must have missed the smiley. You didn't seriously think I'd post an article without at least reading the conclusion? :D

Schneier (and others) has it right though, while this paper has apparently holes in it, it's another sign that efforts and potential breakthrough are made, meaning those algorithms may well be retiring soon and we'll need other ones. I don't know much about quantum computing but I understand those attacks are valid for elliptic curves as well (a "newer" alternative in public-key cryptography).

The NIST made a new call for proposals 6 years ago to stimulate the research in that direction, and this summer they've chosen a few algorithms that they will standardize. I suppose we'll still see RSA for a while since it's widely used (EC alternatives have been used for a while too, but again, it's not quantum-resistant either). It's been around since 1977, so half a century, while its symmetric counterpart - the DES - was already replaced long ago by the AES. I'm impressed that RSA lasted so long, to be honest, kudos to its creators.
 
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