My translation from the Diccionario de la Real Academia Española:
tornillo. Masculine noun. 1. Cylindrical or conical item, generally of metal, with a helical extrusion and a head suitable for screwing it in*. || 2. (Central America) A bush of the Sterculia family, which has red flowers and a capsule fruit which is twisted in the form of a helix, and is used in medicine.
Then follow a few compound phrases, none of which are sexual.
* This isn't circular, because the verb is enroscar, which certainly doesn't seem to be a cognate.
Why the asterisk after the first mention of Granma? Is there supposed to be a footnote explaining that it's named after the boat Fidel used to invade in '59 rather than someone's female ancestor?
There are a substantial number of highly intelligent people with BAs in science subjects. Many of them also have MAs. Oxbridge isn't rushing to rename its degrees in line with those other upstarts.
There is actually a case where identifying the purchaser of a phone helped to solve a crime: the Madrid 11-M bombings. That was what motivated the Spanish government to require registration of all prepaid phones.
"The logs don't say but we guess the attacks are a response to proposed legislation to make filesharing illegal in Spain."
If you asked your Iberian branch then you might get a better guess. Alternatively you could look at that screenshot you linked to. The first massive red arrow points to the text "TARGET www.juntaelectoralcentral.es || WHY http://goo.gl/f8XGp", and that goo.gl address redirects to an article about the Junta Electoral banning the M-15 camp in the Puerta del Sol.
@Colin Millar, the Bill of Rights 1689 is the basis for the privilege discussed in the article, as well as the basis from which the US Bill of Rights was derived.
Romanian and Spanish are more closely related than you might suspect. And there are quite a few Romanians living in Spain, so if they couldn't communicate clearly the Spanish police may well have been able to get a translator in sharpish.
I just had a look through COCA, and most of the references specifically say "Apple's app store" or "the iTunes app store" - which seems to me to imply that it's sufficiently generic to need qualification. Possible own goal there.
@Gall, I suspect there's an implicit "official". (And please don't start an argument about whether valencià is a different language to català).
@Jose Bernardo, I think Gall is using "of" in the sense of "spoken in" rather than "belonging to". And I wouldn't be surprised if there are villages in Extremadura with lots of Portuguese-speakers.
The idea isn't to use SHA-512/256 instead of SHA-512: it's to use it instead of SHA-256. So it's replacing one 256-bit hash with another 256-bit hash. Completely different scenario to replacing a 128-bit cipher with a 40-bit one.
If you *really* want to see "a good example of how badly a payment system can be designed if one puts one's mind to it" then check out http://www.payoffshore.com/techdocs/send-a-paym-requ-to-payl.html#base64xordataencoding
This is a card processing company which admits to their merchants that one of the options they support "is not secure". How insecure is it? It leaks the private key which is used to "sign" the response to the merchant - so a customer who knows how to break Vigenère can get stuff at the merchant's expense.
I've seen plenty of people on /. suggesting that the TSA is likely to see an increase in job applications from homosexuals. No idea what percentage were Americans, though.
Driving doesn't have to involve a herd of livestock. Taking the Authorised Version of the Bible (~1610) as evidence, one can equally drive a chariot.
2 Kings, chapter 9: "So Jehu rode in a chariot, and went to Jezreel; for Joram lay there. ... And the watchman told, saying, He came even unto them, and cometh not again: and the driving is like the driving of Jehu the son of Nimshi; for he driveth furiously."
'Sh' isn't actually an imported sound, it's just one which has largely been lost. It used to be the sound represented by the letter 'x', as it still is in the other Iberian languages.
Also, what you observe with Spanish isn't (in general) a creole. It's straightforward dialectal variation over a wide geographic area. There may be some special cases which are actually creoles of Spanish with some other language, but it takes more than a few vocab changes to qualify.
Leaving aside questions of how likely that is, if the glide ratio is that good then the camera's going to end up under a couple of hundred metres of Med. That would be a bit disappointing.
Viva can be the formal second person singular imperative, but in this kind of context it's far more likely to be the third person singular present subjunctive.
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Re: too much of a salesman
Who buys a netbook to run 1080p video?
Re: Mexican deathmatch
Unfortunately, if the guinea pigs are Spanish, you'll have to leave out most of the chilli.
Re: Interesting...
They did say that the shipping was based on routes favoured by the Romans. Maybe the database doesn't have a sea link from Colchester?
Re: A lot of people have short memories
I think it's quite clear that most of the people who voted aren't familiar with MST3k.
Future War
Tyrannosaurs with self-destruct devices. And they make more sense than most of the rest of the film.
Where's London
There was a pretty good one only this month: ask CNN where London is.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/9058348/CNN-sorry-over-graphic-blunder-that-uprooted-London-to-Norfolk.html
Except...
With the exception of all the countries that were in the UN before 1971. Oh, wait, that does include the US after all...
Are you sure you aren't mixing up Jesus and Voltaire?
He does have a reputation for running over people's toes with his wheelchair when he's annoyed with them.
No
My translation from the Diccionario de la Real Academia Española:
tornillo. Masculine noun. 1. Cylindrical or conical item, generally of metal, with a helical extrusion and a head suitable for screwing it in*. || 2. (Central America) A bush of the Sterculia family, which has red flowers and a capsule fruit which is twisted in the form of a helix, and is used in medicine.
Then follow a few compound phrases, none of which are sexual.
* This isn't circular, because the verb is enroscar, which certainly doesn't seem to be a cognate.
Granma* ?
Why the asterisk after the first mention of Granma? Is there supposed to be a footnote explaining that it's named after the boat Fidel used to invade in '59 rather than someone's female ancestor?
You can already buy cheap wine in 1-litre Tetrapak containers where I live. This "new" technology seems like a step backwards.
Anything is better than Tenacious D, and Wayne's World is actually good so it's far better than Tenacious D.
It's called Muphry's Law.
I still can't hear Scotland the Brave or the can-can without imagining little falsetto voices saying "Oh no!" and "Yippee!"
I think it was done better in Wayne's World.
Isn't the point that the halon floods out the oxygen in the room? You don't need to poison someone if you stop them respiring.
Eleven!
BA doesn't necessarily mean what you think
There are a substantial number of highly intelligent people with BAs in science subjects. Many of them also have MAs. Oxbridge isn't rushing to rename its degrees in line with those other upstarts.
Re: title schmitle
There is actually a case where identifying the purchaser of a phone helped to solve a crime: the Madrid 11-M bombings. That was what motivated the Spanish government to require registration of all prepaid phones.
Motive
"The logs don't say but we guess the attacks are a response to proposed legislation to make filesharing illegal in Spain."
If you asked your Iberian branch then you might get a better guess. Alternatively you could look at that screenshot you linked to. The first massive red arrow points to the text "TARGET www.juntaelectoralcentral.es || WHY http://goo.gl/f8XGp", and that goo.gl address redirects to an article about the Junta Electoral banning the M-15 camp in the Puerta del Sol.
Bill of Rights
@Colin Millar, the Bill of Rights 1689 is the basis for the privilege discussed in the article, as well as the basis from which the US Bill of Rights was derived.
Elsewhere
Elsewhere includes international competitions, so if you're really good then you'd better pay attention to changes to SOWPODS.
What are they eating?
I just didn't get it at all. Do motorheads typically vomit solid, crunchy, triangles?
Linguistic considerations
Romanian and Spanish are more closely related than you might suspect. And there are quite a few Romanians living in Spain, so if they couldn't communicate clearly the Spanish police may well have been able to get a translator in sharpish.
Lemming
Surely the BDA does some regulation? Otherwise how do you explain Lemming of the BDA?
COCA
I just had a look through COCA, and most of the references specifically say "Apple's app store" or "the iTunes app store" - which seems to me to imply that it's sufficiently generic to need qualification. Possible own goal there.
Languages of Spain
@Gall, I suspect there's an implicit "official". (And please don't start an argument about whether valencià is a different language to català).
@Jose Bernardo, I think Gall is using "of" in the sense of "spoken in" rather than "belonging to". And I wouldn't be surprised if there are villages in Extremadura with lots of Portuguese-speakers.
Oxford Ring
There was a ring of moles recruited from Oxford too. It's just that they didn't have as much impact as the Cambridge one.
You got one of the gender mistakes
In addition to this gender reassignment, the saint after whom the convent is named has been feminised. He should be Santo Domingo el Real.
By a factor of 3.2
The idea isn't to use SHA-512/256 instead of SHA-512: it's to use it instead of SHA-256. So it's replacing one 256-bit hash with another 256-bit hash. Completely different scenario to replacing a 128-bit cipher with a 40-bit one.
Badly designed payment systems
If you *really* want to see "a good example of how badly a payment system can be designed if one puts one's mind to it" then check out http://www.payoffshore.com/techdocs/send-a-paym-requ-to-payl.html#base64xordataencoding
This is a card processing company which admits to their merchants that one of the options they support "is not secure". How insecure is it? It leaks the private key which is used to "sign" the response to the merchant - so a customer who knows how to break Vigenère can get stuff at the merchant's expense.
Wild?
They may be bores at times, but they're certainly not wild. Just watch their trip across Bolivia: they winge almost as much as Karl Pilkington.
Mexican restaurants in UK?
Name three places in the UK where you can get pollo con mole poblano and I might believe that there are lots of Mexican outlets there.
DES isn't a hash
DES isn't a hashing algorithm. If they were using it to protect passwords, then that's an even worse idea than using MD5.
Nope
Anonymous fixed the vote for Assange, who won it. Time decided that the 10th-place finisher in the popular vote was who people *really* wanted to win.
Amnesty?
Isn't arresting someone who's handing something in during an amnesty rather missing the point?
Slashdotters
I've seen plenty of people on /. suggesting that the TSA is likely to see an increase in job applications from homosexuals. No idea what percentage were Americans, though.
Driving
Driving doesn't have to involve a herd of livestock. Taking the Authorised Version of the Bible (~1610) as evidence, one can equally drive a chariot.
2 Kings, chapter 9: "So Jehu rode in a chariot, and went to Jezreel; for Joram lay there. ... And the watchman told, saying, He came even unto them, and cometh not again: and the driving is like the driving of Jehu the son of Nimshi; for he driveth furiously."
Corrections
'Sh' isn't actually an imported sound, it's just one which has largely been lost. It used to be the sound represented by the letter 'x', as it still is in the other Iberian languages.
Also, what you observe with Spanish isn't (in general) a creole. It's straightforward dialectal variation over a wide geographic area. There may be some special cases which are actually creoles of Spanish with some other language, but it takes more than a few vocab changes to qualify.
Resacas
Si es verdad que celebraron con champán no deben de tener resaca.
Although I hope, Lester, that when you said "champagne" you were abusing the term in the Spanish way and really mean cava.
Hope not
Leaving aside questions of how likely that is, if the glide ratio is that good then the camera's going to end up under a couple of hundred metres of Med. That would be a bit disappointing.
Why planes?
This has puzzled me for a while too. I think partly it's a question of capitalising on the fact that many people are already nervous about flying.
Dealing with bureaucrats
IIRC it was a friendly local who arranged permission from AENA for the flight.
No
"Semana de pena" means "week of sadness". However, what the article says is "esta semana de Peña Negra" - "this week from Black Rock".
Nice spin
The aim is really to encourage Brits to move to Ávila, is it? Did your publicist not dare put "because we can" are the reason?
Grammar Falangist
Viva can be the formal second person singular imperative, but in this kind of context it's far more likely to be the third person singular present subjunctive.
PARIS
If you followed the PARIS trials you'd already know that there's an Iberian branch...
No, it's true
I have talked to a Hastings policeman who is quite sure that he has the right to confiscate cameras if he believes they contain evidence.
Self-reported death
> no healthy human has reported dying from this.
Well, no, people tend not to report their own deaths.
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