xkcd is awesome

[Wargus]

<sigh> Bob was cheating on Eve with Alice, so of course she HAD to crack the encryption. Bob is such a cheating bastard.

Was that so wrong? 

Other than it isn't funny?

[Default]

Humor is a harsh mistress - she'll take all you've got and ask for more.




I thought it was pretty hilarious, but then again, I have a Security+, so I knew the terminology. YMMV.

[ydejin]

<sigh> Bob was cheating on Eve with Alice, so of course she HAD to crack the encryption. Bob is such a cheating bastard.

Was that so wrong? 

Other than it isn't funny?

Alice, Bob, and Eve are all standard names used to describe cryptography problems.  In every security article or security textbook Eve is always portrayed as an evildoer trying to break Alice and Bob's communications.

[Bullwinkle]

<sigh> Bob was cheating on Eve with Alice, so of course she HAD to crack the encryption. Bob is such a cheating bastard.

Was that so wrong? 

Other than it isn't funny?

Alice, Bob, and Eve are all standard names used to describe cryptography problems.  In every security article or security textbook Eve is always portrayed as an evildoer trying to break Alice and Bob's communications.

I <3 this one.

I'm not 100% sure, but this may be the first xkcd that has me at a total loss. 

Spoiler for explanation from xkcd forums:

As a quick explanation, in discussions of cryptography and encodings, etc, Bob is the standard name of the party sending information, and Alice is the standard name of the party receiving information. If there's a passive listener on the line, eavesdropping on the call, we call her Eve (get it, Eavesdropping = Eve?). If Eve fiddles with the information, she's called Mallory, and if there's a trusted third party, he's called Trent. We just use names instead of letters or roles because it's easier to say "Bob's message is read by Eve" than "The outgoing message sent by the first party was intercepted and read by a passive third party listener who's not trusted".

[ydejin]

<sigh> Bob was cheating on Eve with Alice, so of course she HAD to crack the encryption. Bob is such a cheating bastard.

Was that so wrong?  

Other than it isn't funny?

Alice, Bob, and Eve are all standard names used to describe cryptography problems.  In every security article or security textbook Eve is always portrayed as an evildoer trying to break Alice and Bob's communications.

I <3 this one.

I'm not 100% sure, but this may be the first xkcd that has me at a total loss.  

Spoiler for explanation from xkcd forums:

As a quick explanation, in discussions of cryptography and encodings, etc, Bob is the standard name of the party sending information, and Alice is the standard name of the party receiving information. If there's a passive listener on the line, eavesdropping on the call, we call her Eve (get it, Eavesdropping = Eve?). If Eve fiddles with the information, she's called Mallory, and if there's a trusted third party, he's called Trent. We just use names instead of letters or roles because it's easier to say "Bob's message is read by Eve" than "The outgoing message sent by the first party was intercepted and read by a passive third party listener who's not trusted".

Sorry, missed the spoiler.

[coopasonic]

Alice is a bitch. Poor Eve.

[Wargus]

<sigh> Bob was cheating on Eve with Alice, so of course she HAD to crack the encryption. Bob is such a cheating bastard.

Was that so wrong? 

Other than it isn't funny?

Alice, Bob, and Eve are all standard names used to describe cryptography problems.  In every security article or security textbook Eve is always portrayed as an evildoer trying to break Alice and Bob's communications.

I get the terminology, I still don't think that one was funny.  Clever yes, funny no.  Its like any industry specific humor in that it is only really funny to those in the know.

xkcd is still awesome

[Bullwinkle]

This reminds me of one of my favorite Steve Martin bits:

 

"OK, I don't like to gear my material to the audience, but I'd like to make an exception, because I was told that there is a convention of plumbers in town this week—I understand about 30 of them came down to the show tonight—so before I came out, I worked up a joke especially for the plumbers. Those of you who aren't plumbers probably won't get this and won't think it's funny, but I think those of you who are plumbers will really enjoy this. This lawn supervisor was out on a sprinkler maintenance job, and he started working on a Findlay sprinkler head with a Langstrom seven-inch gangly wrench. Just then this little apprentice leaned over and said, 'You can't work on a Findlay sprinkler head with a Langstrom seven-inch wrench.' Well, this infuriated the supervisor, so he went and got Volume 14 of the Kinsley manual, and he reads to him and says, 'The Langstrom seven-inch wrench can be used with the Findlay sprocket.' Just then the little apprentice leaned over and says, 'It says sprocket, not socket!' [Worried pause.] "Were these plumbers supposed to be here this show?"

[Einsteinium]

Damn, this is me. I just played through Portal in December....

[Moliere]

Everybody is taking pot shots at Toyota.



Alt text: I suppose that's more accurately a hare dryer.

[Bullwinkle]

Well, it has Moose and Squirrel, so  

(2 Calvin & Hobbes references don't hurt)

[wonderpug]

I'm disappointed in myself that I had to look up what the knight one meant.

[disarm]

been a while since i've posted one of these, but today is too awesome not to share...


Using a ring to bind someone you covet into your dark and twisted world? Wow, just got the subtext there. Also, the apparently eager Beyonce would've made one badass Nazgul.

[Graham]

That strip reminded me of this past Monday's Big Bang Theory with the One Ring.

Edit: Oops...got that changed.

[Isgrimnur]

Big Band Theory

Yeah, I loved the Glenn Miller skit, although the Duke ellington bit was good as well.

[disarm]

At one point, by force of childhood habit, the doctor accidentally removed three or four organs

[Moliere]

Getting the joke on an XKCD comic always makes me feel smarter.



Alt text: 100 years later, this story remains terrifying--not because it's the local network block, but because the killer is still on IPv4.

[Bullwinkle]

At one point, by force of childhood habit, the doctor accidentally removed three or four organs

And then this just happened on Fringe.

[Caine]

Getting the joke on an XKCD comic always makes me feel smarter.



Alt text: 100 years later, this story remains terrifying--not because it's the local network block, but because the killer is still on IPv4.

the alt text on this one is perfect. Surprised he didn't go with 127 instead.

[disarm]

Of course, because their cautionary tale was reported in a print newspaper, no one read it

[disarm]

not the usual xkcd strip, but still awesome in its own way...



Mr. Rogers projected an air of genuine, unwavering, almost saintly pure-hearted decency.  But when you look deeper, at the person behind the image...that's exactly what you find there too.  He's exactly what he appears to be.

[Purge]

I'm disappointed in myself that I had to look up what the knight one meant.

I'm disappointed that you didn't share.

[wonderpug]

I'm disappointed in myself that I had to look up what the knight one meant.

I'm disappointed that you didn't share.

[Purge]

I'm disappointed in myself that I had to look up what the knight one meant.

I'm disappointed that you didn't share.

I too am disappointed in you that you needed to look it up.
I take solace by pointing out that I did not actually ASK you to share it, so I am not missing anything.

[Moliere]

 

[disarm]

pure genius

[Moliere]

"a poster of some bearded dude with swords"? My first thought was Highlander, but everyone in that movie is mostly clean shaven.

Maybe


or


Hopefully not

[disarm]

And what about all the people who won't be able to join the community because they're terrible at making helpful and constructive co-- ...oh...

[Moliere]

And what about all the people who won't be able to join the community because they're terrible at making helpful and constructive co-- ...oh...

Is this a warning to the programmer of CeeKay?

[disarm]

as someone who looks forward to reading the latest xkcd three times a week, this is a bit of a bummer...

[Moliere]

Guest artist: Bill Amend (FoxTrot)



Alt text: Guest comic by Bill Amend of FoxTrot, an inspiration to all us nerdy-physics-majors-turned-cartoonists, of which there are an oddly large number.

[Caine]

that makes me sad on two levels, knowing that xkcd is slowing and that foxtrot isn't regular daily. 

[disarm]

today's strip brilliantly combined two of my favorite comic strips...awesome bit of work by Amend

[Moliere]

What is "Sudo" in the second panel referring to? Sudoku?

[farley2k]

sudo basically means "do as a super user" in Unix/Linux.  Super users can do everything and anything on a Unix/Linux system.  Kind of like every user in Windows  So it would be a command that could not be resisted.  You put it before the command like "sudo del file"

It has actually been used before by XKCD in a way that pretty much explains what it means to use the awesome power of "sudo"

[Moliere]

sudo basically means "do as a super user" in Unix/Linux.  Super users can do everything and anything on a Unix/Linux system.  Kind of like every user in Windows  So it would be a command that could not be resisted.  You put it before the command like "sudo del file"

Thanks! Apparently I am only geeky enough to understand the bottom three jokes.

[The Grue]

sudo basically means "do as a super user" in Unix/Linux.  Super users can do everything and anything on a Unix/Linux system.  Kind of like every user in Windows  So it would be a command that could not be resisted.  You put it before the command like "sudo del file"

Thanks! Apparently I am only geeky enough to understand the bottom three jokes.

I was geeky enough to understand all 4!!!!!  Oh wait....that isn't a good thing.

[disarm]

sudo basically means "do as a super user" in Unix/Linux.  Super users can do everything and anything on a Unix/Linux system.  Kind of like every user in Windows  So it would be a command that could not be resisted.  You put it before the command like "sudo del file"

Thanks! Apparently I am only geeky enough to understand the bottom three jokes.

i only understood today's 'sudo' reference because of the previous xkcd strip...learned what it meant when it showed up the first time, so i thought it was pretty cool to see Amend reference it today

[Moliere]

'Grandpa, what was it like in the Before time?' 'It was hell. People went around saying glass was a slow-flowing liquid. You folks these days don't know how good you have it.'

[CeeKay]