That's a good point, even though I'm not a fan of how you chose to deliver it.

At least he finally let go of the fake trophy that replaced the one he stole, so I guess it could have been worse.

"What do you mean, 'I quit!'?"

Incidentally, that also happens to be a highly accurate description of Trump's testicles.

Tell that too Google. And Microsoft. And OpenAI. And X. And...

Um. If you use the file encrypted with a weak keyphrase a the key for a second round, how would you decrypt the result unless you keep the first-stage encrypted file around, thus defeating the purpose?

I didn't really need additional evidence that business is increasingly divorcing itself from actual consumer needs, but here it is anyway.

Jeg tror på det... Lige så snart PAC-3'ne er leveret til døren i Ukraine, og ikke før.

"Gilette - Follow The Road, Don't Cross It™"

Does he love his wife? I can't recall a single sign of actual affection. A wife is just one more thing to check off the "list of things to have", along with a house, a job and a son to carry on... Well, I don't think Vernon knows what exactly. Probably some ill-defined set of Proper British Traditions. To be fair Petunia is using him in the exact same way for for precisely the same reason. And the money, of course.

Ah yes, the printing press: Likely the most cumulatively subversive memetic infection vector ever conceived.

Define 'mind-control'. Trans-cranial magnetic stimulation has been perfectly capable of changing people's broad moods since 1985 and is being actively used to treat depression right now. The underlying technology is only going to get more precise, especially as more research on spintronics is done for other purposes. Sure, right now our understanding of how what goes on in a given brain translates to 'thoughts' is insufficient to change those thoughts in any reliable way, but there's little doubt that when we do, the technology to make it happen will almost certainly be around.