Quantum Etc., Etc., Etc. Q-Day!

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Why every VPN should use post-quantum encryption
tomsguide.com | June 18, 2024 | Olivia Powell

And why every bleeding week IMAO gets bleeding hacked. We’re don’t have a post-quantum encryption keeper!

At the moment, a virtual private network (VPN) is a great way to protect your data from hackers. It offers sophisticated encryption that will keep your data hidden from third parties, including cyber criminals, government bodies, and advertisers.

However, not even all the best VPNs offer protection that’s future-proofed. You may not be aware of them yet, but there are already highly sophisticated quantum computers that use quantum physics to render their computations significantly more efficient than those performed by classical computers. Because of their superior processing power, these quantum computers have the ability to break encryption methods used to protect most of the data on the internet, including the algorithms used by a lot of VPNs.

There’s no need to panic just yet, as quantum computers are currently only being used for research purposes, meaning they can only be found in universities, science labs, and supercomputer centers. But once they become more widely available and powerful enough to break encryption, there will be catastrophic consequences for cyber security across the globe. This day is referred to as Q-day and experts predict it’s likely to happen in the next five years.

Wait. So today could be Q-Day? Or is it virtual Q-Day?

“Entanglement” and Q-Tips . . . sounds like we’re reverting to barber-ism.

 

 

Bond Girlathon Wednesday : Results for 6/11/2025 New Matches for 6/25/2025

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Summertime and the voting is easy.

Results

Lois ChilesNo PreferenceCatherina Murino
86481
Olga KurylenkoNo PreferenceCorinne Cleary
66245

New Matches for 6/25/2025

Match 1

Emily Bolton (Manuela) vs Gemma Arterton (Strawberry Fields)

ContestantRecordTotal Scores
Emily Bolton1 – 2 – 0161 – 13 – 241
Manuela

Actress:Emily Bolton
Nationality:Aruban
Bond Movie:Moonraker (1979)

Synopsis:

Manuela was an agent working for station VH. She tailed Bond after he left the airport in Reo, and by the time he got to his hotel, she was making him a vodka Martini at the mini bar in his suite. Manuela helped Bond find one of Hugo Drax’s warehouses, but she proved to be a burden as she was almost killed by assassin Jaws.

Emily Bolton

VS

ContestantRecordTotal Scores
Gemma Arterton3 – 0 – 0460 – 3 – 194
Strawberry Fields

Actress:Gemma Arterton
Nationality:English
Bond Movie:Quantum of Solace (2008)

Synopsis:

Strawberry Fields was an MI6 office worker in Bolivia at the British consulate. She was tasked with ensuring that James Bond flew back home, but she ultimately failed. She spent the night with Bond and went with him to Dominic Greene’s fundraiser, helping him escape by tripping one of Green’s henchmen. Greene got his revenge by leaving her dead on Bond’s bed, covered in oil from head to toe, in a throwback to Jill Masterson from Goldfinger.

Gemma Arterton

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Match 2

Leila Shenna (Private Jet Hostess) vs Berenice Marlohe (Severine)

ContestantRecordTotal Scores
Leila Shenna0 – 3 – 069 – 15 – 439
Private Jet Hostess

Actress:Leila Shenna
Nationality:Moroccan
Bond Movie:Moonraker (1979)

Synopsis:

James Bond was aboard a private jet, enjoying his “last leg” of the mission with the hostess. Bond stated “I don’t think I’m ever going to fly with anyone else”, to which the hostess responded “You’re so right, Mr Bond” as she pulled a gun on him. Bond was then thrown out of the plane without a parachute, and was left to steal another mans, mid air. The fate of the hostess was unknown.

Leila Shenna

VS

ContestantRecordTotal Score
Berenice Marlohe0 – 3 – 0110 – 5 – 509
Sévérine

Actress:Bérénice Marlohe
Nationality:French
Bond Movie:Skyfall (2012)

Synopsis:

Sévérine was a captive of Raoul Silva’s, who had taken her out of the Macau sex trade at a young age. Bond met Sévérine at a casino and convinced her that he could kill Silva and let her go free if she helped him out. After killing her bodyguards, Bond managed to escape the casino and travelled with Sévérine to Silva’s private Island. The pair were caught, and for her betrayal, Silva placed a glass of Scotch on Sévérine’s head and asked Bond to shoot it off. Bond purposefully missed, but Silva shot her in the head anyway, killing her and knocking off the Scotch. Bond coldly commented that it was a waste of good Scotch.

Berenice Marlohe

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McFlintlock!

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MRS. MCFLINTLOCK: How long was G.W.B. gonna let that chee-chalker push him around?

JOE BIDEN: That chee-chalker has a sawed-off shotgun. And . . . well, anyway.

DJT {to Mullahs}: Well, that’s not important right now. Important thing is that you don’t draw that hog leg, or this’ll be worse than D.O.G.E. City on Saturday night.

NANCY PELOSI: But MAGA.

NETANYAHU: You get on back on the wagon. I’ll tend to you later. Now for this Iranian wipipo-sniper.

PUTIN: Now, no harm has been done. And young Ben here is one of the nicest boys in the territory. So just put down that shotgun . . .

IRAN: I’ll teach him to fool with my . . .

DJT: Now, we’ll all calm down.

EUROPE: Boss, he’s just a little excited.

DJT: I know, I know. I’m gonna use good judgment. I haven’t lost my temper in 40 years. But pilgrim, you’ve caused a lot of trouble this morning, might’ve got somebody killed, and somebody oughta belt you in the mouth. But I won’t. I won’t. The hell I won’t!

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INDIAN: [Unintelligible] Great party, but no whiskey. We go home.

MRS. MCFLINTLOCK: You and your friends.

DJT: Well, we at least saved your hat.

MSM: Where is everybody? Oh, for heaven’s sake.

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WTHeck?

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Sometimes I have to read a headline twice.

This Is the Reason People Keep Putting Jalapeños in Rosé and Sauvignon Blanc
Taste of Home | 5/16/25 | Mandy Naglich

Because the wine has made them drunk and/or blind?

Or because some trend told them to?

“Next, let’s put whipped cream in there.”

“How about Japanese sweet potatoes in your whiskey?”

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Wait: THAT’s the Name of Michelle’s Podcast?

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Michelle Obama on being ‘glad’ she didn’t have a son: ‘He would’ve been a Barack Obama’
The Hill | 6/19/25 | Judy Kurtz

Michelle Obama says she’s “so glad” she never had a son — because he would’ve been a kiddie clone of her husband.

“You should’ve threw a boy in the mix,” radio host Angie Martinez told Obama in an episode of the former first lady’s “IMO” podcast released Wednesday.

You just know she wanted to throw an “A” in there before the “O.”

Way to go, Frnak!

Let’s just hope no one gets the two sites confused.

 

Work Americans

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I’ve started a new party: the Work Americans party.

Democrats and even more stupid people are always saying we ought to import illegal immigrants, because they are “doing what work Americans won’t do.”

To which the answer is:

“Work Americans will.”

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Notice how it doesn’t sound at all like “Woke Americans”?

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Oh, and to distinguish it (it’s already pretty distinguished) from the National Socialist Democratic Workers Party (NSDAP), we will just call it Work Americans, and I won’t wear a funny moustache or uniform. Honestly!

But, to belong, you’ve gotta prove that you have worked in the U.S. at some point in your life.

Now all this thinking is getting me tired. Let’s dissolve the Party and go back to work.