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Talk:John Robison (physicist)

message: Added material and removed the 'stub' designation.  --GwydionM 21:41, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Robison was definitely NOT a "Historian of Freemasonry".  He did not write a history of the Freemasonry.  Yes, he wrote a lot about Freemasonry, in terms of discussing his Illuminati conspiracy theories, but that is not the same thing at all. Blueboar (talk) 17:34, 30 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Categorization 

message: Can any historian here provide the actual day & date that "Proof of conspiracy" was published on in 1797? Thanks.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.39.159.74 (talk) 11:11, 28 November 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  On What day was "Proof of Conspiracy" published?
Talk:Pal Mickey

message: My Pal Mickey never gave information on parade start times or on short lines. Then again I went to WDW in June, so maybe there never were short lines to report on. It did give a tip on when the fireworks were about to start, though. 204.69.40.7 21:43, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I can assure you he does both.  As far as parade start times, it's relative to the current time "The parade will be starting in 30 minutes."  As far as short lines, he has to be headed toward that part of the park.   For instance he only tells me about short lines for Space Mountain when I'm headed toward Tomorrowland, and Winnie the Pooh when near Fantasyland.  Arwen4014 22:38, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: In regards to the notation that the article does not cite sources - It's literally impossible to do so as there is no formal specifications page published by the Disney company. Those of us who are Pal Mickey aficionados are able to provide the information on Pal as a result of four years of use and discussion. There used to be a community/message board dedicated to Pal Mickey but it's owner has since closed the site. I plan on putting the information back onto the web in a cohesive form but have not yet had the time to do so. Even then, referencing a page like the one I plan to write or the defunct message board is based on personal knowledge. Pal has had very minimal technical specifications published and only small amounts of repetitive marketing press given. The expert advice of people who've contributed to this article (myself included) is honestly the best and only resource short of getting one of the Imagineers to confirm what we've said. With Disney non-disclosures and teams of lawyers though, you'll never get that. I suggest Wikipedia take this into account and accept the personal knowledge as the best and only source of information out there and not flag it for non-existent source references.
:Unfortunately, that's not the way Wiki works. We can't "accept your word for it" as using verified sources is the backbone of Wikipedia. Matthew Glennon(Talk)  —Preceding undated comment was added at 19:07, 3 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Flagged for no sources? There aren't any sources 

message: I have a V1 and V2 Pal Mickey.  The housing colors are Black (V1) and Yellow (V2) this is the first time I've ever heard of white housings on V1. 
Arwen4014 19:51, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Technical Information
Talk:New York-class battleship

message: Tried to clean up the page somehwhat.  Fixed some consistency errors, such as numbering and capital letters.  Hypeer 21:44, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: untitled

message: I felt that the article was good enough to remove the cleanup tag.  We're allowed to make bold decisions, right?  Hypeer 15:43, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cleanup Tag 

message: While the article mentions 5 dual gun turrets, it's not quite clear how they are distributed. From the text and images I guess 2 superfiring turrets in the front, 2 (also superfiring?) in the back and one "amidship" - what exactly does that mean? Can someone with access to good sources clarify this a bit? Of course, something like :Image:HMS_Dreadnought_%281911%29_profile_drawing.png would be really excellent.--Stephan Schulz (talk) 12:31, 29 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Your are correct. The front two and rear two turrets are superfiring. The amidships turret is rear-facing and originally was aft of the rear cage mast. This turret is in-between the boiler rooms and the engine room. After the modernization in the 1930s the rear cage mast was removed and the new tripod was placed aft of the midships turret for weight concerns. I have not been able to find a free image, but I have a few that show the layout but they are copyrighted. Hope this helps, -MBK004 16:35, 29 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, it's reasonably clear now.  I'll put a sentence into the article - please check it it agrees with your source. --Stephan Schulz (talk) 19:47, 29 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Found an image that reasonably shows what you're looking for: :Image:USS Texas-5.jpg -MBK004 04:48, 2 December 2007 (UTC)

text: Found yet another image: :Image:USS Texas-6.jpg -MBK004 21:11, 2 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Gun layout 

message: "The New York class battleship was the fifth series of two super-dreadnought battleships of the United States Navy" The New Yorks were the first to depart from the 12" guns of previous American dreadnoughts - thus, they were the first super-dreadnoughts, not the fifth series of them, although they were the fifth two-ship battleship class in a row.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.51.66.32 (talk) 17:38, 8 July 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: "Super-dreadnought" is an overstatement. They had the gun size, but the propulsion (VTE) and armor suite pretty much disqualify them. The Nevadas, with triple turrets, turbines, all or nothing armor, and oil fuel, were the giant leap forward characteristic of super-dreadnoughts. Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 01:19, 9 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fifth Series? 

message: Hey all, I found two images of New York here. Best, Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 07:20, 7 September 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: More. Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 08:03, 7 September 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  A couple images
Talk:A Man Called Hawk

message: Accurate, well-written article. -- James26 21:52, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Also during the series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Sisko refers to his close friend Dax as "Old Man", a possible reference to Moses Gunn's character in A Man Called Hawk.
It's clearly established within the show that Sisko calls Jadzia Dax because Dax's former host was Curzon Dax, an old man in the time Sisko knew him.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.138.39.53 (talk) 07:31, 14 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: I removed this paragraph:
:Also during the series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Sisko refers to his close friend Dax as "Old Man", a possible reference to Moses Gunn's character in A Man Called Hawk.
It's clearly established within the show that Sisko calls Jadzia Dax because Dax's former host was Curzon Dax, an old man in the time Sisko knew him.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.138.39.53 (talk) 07:31, 14 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Old Man

message: I changed two paragraph titles:
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{ "Plot" --> "Cast" }
This paragraph gives the information I had been seeking, in vain, in the next, which until now (but I have now changed its title, too), was titled "Characters", 
 
the name of the actor who played the mysterious old wise man, father figure friend, 
 
but says nothing about plot, so "Plot" was just wrong.
 
 
In my edit-description I was wrong in saying it talked of old wise man "(and of another minor character)", I thought it did, but sadly nobody else so far is mentioned, NO other supporting character at all. 
 
I much hope this changes; that someone is going to write about the more important of the other figures and give their actors'/actresses' names.
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{ "Characters" --> "Hawk's character description" }
There is NO other person than Hawk even mentioned here, so "Characters" as title was very misleading. 
Hopefully someone finds a better title than mine, and hopefully someone really writes a chapter about some of the other actors' and actresses' roles! 2A02:3035:C12:8662:1:0:57EC:2BEB (talk) 06:56, 11 April 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Paragraph titles; Lack of information about other roles than the main character's
Talk:10th Marine Regiment

message: As a historian and former member of the Regiment, I started this page on Feb, 27, 2006. I will expand its history as I get it from USMC Historical Branch. SimonATL 21:55, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Page Creation 

message: Article reassessed and graded as start class.  Added WWII Task Force   --dashiellx (talk) 16:22, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  WikiProject Military history/Assessment/Tag & Assess 2008 
Talk:American Taliban

message: Given the recent comments by Republican representative Pete Sessions, I suggest that this article be redirected to Republican Party. JCDenton2052 (talk) 23:11, 11 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: No. -- Veggy (talk) 03:01, 13 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: What an eloquent argument. JCDenton2052 (talk) 04:57, 17 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Redirect to Republican Party
Talk:Piter De Vries

message: The article says that computers are forbidden universe-wide. This is not true, since the Human empire doesn`t contain the whole universe, but only a small part of our galaxy. So computers can be only forbidden in the empire, not outside of it!Maxvorstadt (talk) 17:52, 3 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Universe-wide? 

message: Can we update the image to the 2020 version? Since the original content is 30 years old? Triosdeity (talk) 10:29, 10 October 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  image
Talk:Adaptive chosen-ciphertext attack

message: "Unlike ad-hoc schemes such as the padding used in PKCS #1 v1, OAEP is provably secure under the random oracle model."
I was under the impression that the original proof was proven to be wrong in papers from Crypto 2001 - anyone knows more about that?--80.171.158.198 22:02, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The original definition and proof were not strong enough. But a better proof has been published. See Optimal Asymmetric Encryption Padding for details. 67.84.116.166 13:35, 7 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: OAEP

message: Here is a heuristic example:
If you encrypt a message m with RSA PKCS#1 v1.5 then the system is not plaintext aware. If you concatenate the encryption with a secure hash of the message then the encryption becomes plaintext aware, but is not longer semantically secure, because an attacker
can simply try to guess the message, hash it and compare the result with the hash. So for getting security against chosen-ciphertext attacks you need a little bit more than just plaintext awareness. 85.2.38.165 17:59, 7 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Actually, I'm not that sure anymore. The paper "Relations among notions of security for public-key encryption schemes" by M. Bellare, A. Desai, D. Pointcheval and P. Rogaway  indeed proofs that plaintext awareness implies security against chosen-ciphertext attacks. However, the definition of plaintext awareness in this paper seems to imply semantic security, wheras the informal wikipedia definition does not. 85.2.38.165 18:41, 7 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Plaintext awareness is not sufficient for security against chosen-ciphertext attacks 

message: As I understand it, Bleichenbacher's makes uses of a severely limited chosen ciphertext oracle that does not return the full plaintext but rather a single bit indicating whether the raw RSA plaintext is properly PKCS #1 v1.5 formatted.   So, his attack does not require the full CCA2 oracle: it can success with less information, making it a stronger attack.  
A critique of the CCA2 security definition is that ciphertext-decrypting oracle's limitation on not decrypting the challenge ciphertext is artificial.  The critique suggests that CCA2 security is not really needed to avoid a practical attack.
Bleichenbacher's practical attack can be described without the ciphertext limitation above: one can submit the challenge cipherext to the oracle, which returns a bit about the challenge plaintext.  It is realistic to suppose that the challenge ciphertext was already correctly PKCS#1 v1.5 formatteed, so this bit would always return 1, so the oracle reveals nothing new.  
So, Bleichenbacher's attack does not overcome the critique above regarding CCA2.  The article, as written, could be construed to support of the necessity of CCA2 to overcome a practical attack.  I propose amending the article slightly to avoid giving this impression.  DRLB (talk) 18:39, 2 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bleichenbacher's attack stronger than adaptive chosen ciphertext attack
Talk:Coat of arms of Sweden

message: The two coats of arms have in this article previously been called the Greater Coat of Arms of the Realm and the Lesser Coat of Arms of the Realm in English. These names are, however, largely invented and doesn't match official Swedish terminology in English. Both the Royal Court and Swedish National Bank call them the greater national coat of arms and the lesser national coat of arms. Note also the usage of lower case, which is consistent with modern Swedish writing rules). I have therefore changed the text accordingly. Thomas Blomberg 22:05, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

message: Would it be right to call the Personal Command Flag, the banner of arms of Sweden? 202.89.153.228 07:12, 2 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes of course, it is obviously a banner of arms of Sweden. It should however not be used in any other way than as a command flag for His Majesty the King. E.G. 16:07, 22 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Personal Command Flag 

message: How come the article says the charge in the Vasa arms is wheat? It looks like a vase, and google translates the blazon it cites as vase? Tinynanorobots (talk) 21:52, 18 April 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Heraldic sources, including Neubecker and Nevéus, agree that the charge borne by the heirs of Gustav Vasa is indeed intended to be a sheaf or garb of wheat, borne as canting arms representing the Vasa dynasty.  Perhaps a little information from the Vasa Museum (see The Vasa Dynasty) can shed some further light on the subject. Wilhelm Meis (☎ Diskuss | ✍ Beiträge) 03:38, 19 April 2012 (UTC)
replies: text:  I have read Neubecker, and he indicated that the charge was subject to variance. This article cites the Riksdag, which appears to say it is a vase. This is misleading, for now, I am going to remove the parenthetical. 71.194.44.209 (talk) 15:25, 7 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  wheat or vase 

message: How is the "Royal Family" section relevant to the article subject? Those are personal arms, not governmental arms. I will remove it unless someone can explain convincingly or move it to an article of its own. --SergeWoodzing (talk) 18:42, 20 August 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: Whaat?
Talk:Glascock Prize

message: I have a list of all the Glascock participants and winners until 1974, I will add them as I have time JKillah 22:09, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

message: Where in the citation given (http://home.mtholyoke.edu/lits/library/arch/col/rg14/rg14rr.shtml) are we told that this is the "oldest intercollegiate poetry competition in the United States"?  Don't get me wrong, i realize there aren't many intercollegiate poetry competitions in the first place, but I don't see a comprehensive listing of them. :-)  -Rjyanco 12:49, 3 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Oldest...
Talk:Alexander Gerschenkron

message: ...though alluded to its relation along a northwest-to-southeast axis within Europe, with the United Kingdom at the most advanced extreme and the Balkan countries at the least developed extreme - the more certain conditions were likely to occur during growth - consumption would be squeezed in favor of investment in countries starting from farther behind, there was likely to be a greater reliance on banks and other means of directing investment, among other conditions.
Do "certain conditions" increase with being at the UK extreme, or the Balkan extreme?  What are these "certain conditions?"  What does it mean to say "among other conditions?"
:MSTCrow 22:22, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: The publication list I added is based on the US Library of Congress collection. --SueHay 02:25, 29 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Publications
Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Usability/Main Page

message: This Main Page Redesign Project is over!  Thank you everyone for your hard work and support. --Go for it! 17:46, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Thank you for your participation!

message: This goes by the honor system: if you worked hard, take it! If not, there's always something else to do...--HereToHelp 01:05, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Congrats, everyone—barnstars all around! 

message: I just thought i'd say my 2 pence, but Wikipedia now looks a lot like Uncyclopedia. If Wikipedia changed their front page to the current design first, then that would be fine, as it would just be another case of Uncyclopedia being parodic, but this isn't the case. You'd think that Wikipedia would be trying to distance itself from Uncyclopedia, no?
:Um... They are being "parodic"[sic]. We had a working draft here first, then they changed their front page. Possibly so that they could claim wikipedia is influenced by them when it's the other wayt around. Wikipedia has a larger audience so it takes longer to reach consensus over issues. -Kode 18:01, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Uncyclopedia changed their front page more than a full month before 1 Wikipedia did . --The_stuart 18:07, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: And? Swiftness in copying the draft design from this page doesn't change their lack of creativity. :] --CBDunkerson 18:22, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Firstly, this is an explanation that was posted at Uncyclopedia.  Secondly, three weeks is not "more than a full month."  —David Levy 18:33, 25 March 2006 (UTC)

text: sounds like you're competing with uncyclopedia. take it easy, guys :) Unixer 09:14, 29 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Looks alot like Uncyclopedia 

message: Hi all,
I'm rather afraid that I thought I had a solution to this issue, but when I implemented it I broke the main page :-( I am rather sorry that I did that. However, it is possible to convert from tables to divs and apply styles. Given that HTML should be about structuring information, and not really about layout, I would like to see a lot more div tags and a lot less table tags!
Our current solution is actually quite hard to skin. For instance, I wanted to include, in my own css file, line-spacing changes. However, these changes break the main page for me. If the main page had the infoboxes in div tags, then it would be a lot simpler to implement this change. 
A trial is currently at User:Ta bu shi da yu/MainPage2, there are significant problems with my markup, however. If anyone could help, I'd much appreciate this! - Ta bu shi da yu 02:20, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Switching from tables to css?
Category talk:Mass media in the United States by city

message: For historical reference, it should be noted that this category name is the result of discussion at Wikipedia:Categories for deletion/Log/2006 February 19. The articles listed in this category are generally assumed to be created with some correspenence to Designated Market Areas as defined by Nielsen Media Research. This may become relevant in the future as editors discuss whether the listed articles cover a city, a metropolitan region, or some other regional entity. For instance, future editors may want to consider that "Media in a Dallas and "Media in Fort Worth" articles would cover much of the same media market. MPS 22:26, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Designated Market Area
Talk:Space (Jimmy Cauty album)

message: I don't recall who came up with the duration estimates for the tracks. It was either someone on the KLF mailing list in the early '90s, or a private contributor to Lazlo Nibble's discography, maybe Lazlo himself. In any case, those durations were copied over to Discogs, and then to this Wikipedia article. No one ever checked them out, I guess, because when I attempted to use them in a hand-generated cue sheet for a rip of my copy of the CD, I found that tracks weren't starting in the right places at all.
I then went to a bit of trouble to craft a cue sheet with better start points for each track, using both trial-and-error and visual examination with a wave editor. If you add them up, the result is 38:20 instead of the 38:22 duration in the disc's table of contents. That's because I used shntool to trim digital silence (zeroes) from both ends of the original audio before doing this, so the durations don't include that non-musical content. When I was done, I found that the original estimates of the durations for 5 of the first 6 tracks were off by amounts ranging from 10 to 23 seconds!
I've gone ahead and adjusted the durations in this article to correspond with my cue sheet, and I added a note that they're still just unofficial approximations. —mjb (talk) 06:42, 1 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Durations 

message: Shouldn't this be called Space (Space album)? AllMusic note that this is the only release by Space, and "J. Cauty" only gets the obligatory credit in tiny writing on the record label.--kingboyk (talk) 22:45, 7 March 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: or Space (eponymous album)? --kingboyk (talk) 23:24, 7 March 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Title
Talk:Buckling spring

message: Why is it nice? Midgley 22:30, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Have you ever had the priviledge to work on one of them? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Anripol (talk • contribs) 12:19, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  "privilege" (note the spelling) is overstating it. Nonetheless, they are a joy to work on. But noisy, when you're really getting into it, which can piss off other people around you.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 116.228.6.74 (talk) 04:22, 9 October 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Why is it nice?

message: Why are buckling springs now so uncommon, besides price? Even very high-end keyboards don't use buckling springs. The patent has expired, so it seems like most high-end keyboards should be using them. What's the deal? Do most people just not like them? Herorev (talk) 03:13, 11 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I realize it's a bit late to answer this, but: It's the noise. Even if you could make the keys around them silent, the springs themselves would still sound, well, springy. IBM produced several Modem M variants with rubber dome switches instead of buckling springs, for places where BSs would be too loud and distracting. Nothing feels like a BS, though, or is as responsive. As with many things in life, it's a tradeoff. – AndyFielding (talk) 05:23, 27 October 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why disuse? 

message: Link in External links looks like an ad?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 179.159.56.242 (talk) 16:36, 7 July 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Link External links
Talk:Thank You (Duran Duran album)

message: Really embarassing. enjoyer -- talk 02:26, 22 May 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  This vandalism stood for 5 years!
Talk:Pop Trash

message: a
Is Cerys Matthews the female vocalist on "Mars and Venus"? matturn 07:00, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Nope, backing vocals on that track were by Sally Boyden, who's recorded and toured with Duran Duran many times.  — Catherine\talk 07:41, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

message: Is there a good reference that links the song Playing with uranium to the 'Radioactive Boy Scout', David Hahn? The Seventh Taylor (talk) 23:16, 20 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nuclear Boy Scout