@#11 ... notice none of you have commented on anything related to the article ...

Why I did not comment on the article ...

It is a FoxNews article.

A shown liar in a Court of Law.

OK, no deflection attempt here, but what else yer got?

@#10 ... So what? ...

So, you also seem to recognize that current alias' apparent passing of analpore miasma onto comments?

@#7 ... They've had one for years. ...

Decades.

Why does Sec Kennedy come to mind when I hear that song?

... the US Government is expected to eliminate the the dietary guideline that adults not consume more than two alcohol drinks per day when new guidelines are released in the coming weeks. ...

@#8 ... What is my current alias deflecting? ...

From your #6

... Do you clowns even know who Vought and Miller are? ...

How do either of those affect the NYC Mayoral Race?

As I said, deflecting.

@#4 ... Taco ---- fails again. ...

imo, too soon to tell.

Also, imo, the answer will be known months from now.

Will the United States have been sucked into a Middle-East War?

I hope not.

But, who knows.

@#25 ... Thanks for showing your hand Lamp ...

I do not disagree.

Yup, I showed my opinion in #24.

I also note that your current trolling alias has posted nothing to contradict the opinion I expressed in #24.

Reinforcing the opinion I expressed in #24?

@#9 ... I mean, a FoxNews Weekend host is now the Sec of Defense.

A weekend host no less.

He couldn't even make it to weekdays on FoxNews.

And now he is the Sec of Defense. ...

Two songs that come to mind when I see Sec Hegseth on TV, fresh out of his Pentagon make-up room ...

VP Vance was wrong, so very wrong, in his appellation of Sen Padilla.

Of course, that leads me to ask, why does VP Vance seem to want to actively reduce the gravitas of the Office of the Vice President of the United States?

@#22

Thanks for that reply.

Yeah, I have to say, I was aware of those reports, but I just wanted to see if the Bluewaffles alias was just trolling or trying to contribute.

It's #21 reply seems to confirm my view that it just trolls here on this most august site.

@#21

So your current alias seems to admit it has nothing.

Quelle surprise.

@#4 ... imo, closing the Strait of Hormuz is an action of last resort for Iran.

What do I base that opinion upon?

Absolutely nothing. ...

... and it looks like my opinion was wrong.

More from the article ...

... Iran's parliament endorsed a measure to close the Strait of Hormuz, a critical global transit chokepoint, in response to overnight U.S. airstrikes on Iranian nuclear sites, Iranian state media reported Sunday.

Iran's state-owned broadcaster Press TV reported that the legislature had reached a consensus to close the strait. The final decision rests with Iran's Supreme National Security Council and Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, it said.

The channel, which separates Iran and Oman, is a vital gateway for petroleum shipments from Persian Gulf countries.

The strait connects the Persian Gulf to the open ocean and is one of the world's most critical oil chokepoints. About 30 percent of global seaborne oil shipments pass through the narrow passage, a vulnerability that has become a growing concern amid spiraling regional tensions. ...

@#8 ... 31 of the key people protecting the United States were @FoxNews employees less than a year ago. ...

As boaz said in #1...

... If this doesnt scare you, I dont know what will. ...

I mean, a FoxNews Weekend host is now the Sec of Defense.

A weekend host no less.

He couldn't even make it to weekdays on FoxNews.

And now he is the Sec of Defense.

... Using this assumption, he developed a mathematical model in which particles and forces interact within a three-dimensional temporal framework. The important insight is that when this model is applied to fundamental particles, it can reproduce some of their known properties, particularly their masses. ...

Pace yourself.

:)

@#9 ... A lot of times math like this goes beyond my pay grade but it's still fun to try to understand. ...

You and me both.

More from the article ...

... Researchers from MIT and Scripps have unveiled a promising new HIV vaccine approach that generates a powerful immune response with just one dose. By combining two immune-boosting adjuvants alum and SMNP the vaccine lingers in lymph nodes for nearly a month, encouraging the body to produce a vast array of antibodies.

This one-shot strategy could revolutionize how we fight not just HIV, but many infectious diseases.

It mimics the natural infection process and opens the door to broadly neutralizing antibody responses, a holy grail in vaccine design. And best of all, it's built on components already known to medicine. ...

@#6 ... I'll have to take your word on that one. ...

I'm not proffering anything, so no reason to take my word on anything on this thread.

All I am saying is that if it seems to be easier to factor prime numbers, then that will have an effect upon the security algorithms that crypto-security seems to rely on.

Nothing more, nothing less.

@#3 ... Two Supertankers U-Turn in Strait of Hormuz After US Strikes ...

imo, closing the Strait of Hormuz is an action of last resort for Iran.

What do I base that opinion upon?

Absolutely nothing.

But, if such an action by Iran seems to be a most feared action, then why waste it so early in the war with the US?

Or maybe Iran might do a "shock and awe" moment in the war with the US?

I wish I knew.

@$4 ... "Large prime numbers are used prominently in other cryptosystems too ...

Yeah, security systems seem to rely on prime numbers not being able to be factored.

Does this change that?

I wish I knew. I've not yet delved into the paper.

But it has certainly gained my attention.

@#3

... and that matters... why?

Maybe this ...

Yet more from the cited article ...

... It's big news " so much so that Ono was named as a runner up for the 2025 Cozzarelli Prize in the physical sciences, which recognizes teams "whose PNAS articles have made outstanding contributions to their field." So it behooves us to ask, really: what's the big deal? ...

"Large prime numbers are used prominently in other cryptosystems too," Weiss, who was not involved in the new research, added.

The basic idea behind all these systems is the same, though: it relies on the fact that finding primes is a very difficult task. After all these years, finding some kind of new insight into them would require a really innovative perspective -" something nobody had tried before.

Luckily, that's exactly what Ono and his colleagues had. ...

@#2

More from the cited article ...

... It's a testament to just how peculiar and pesky the primes are. Finding any kind of sense or pattern to these numbers has, for centuries, been mathematics' white whale: cropping up seemingly randomly in the number line, they evade prediction and categorization, forming a natural blockade against progress in myriad open problems.

At least, until recently. Last year, a trio of mathematicians found what seemed to be a kind of order in the primes -- and it came from somewhere completely unexpected.

"This paper connects two fundamental areas of number theory: prime numbers and partitions," said Ken Ono, Marvin Rosenblum Professor of Mathematics at the University of Virginia and one of the authors behind the new discovery, in a recent statement.

"Although prime numbers have been studied for centuries, many of their most basic properties remain elusive," he said. "What we proved gives infinitely many new ways to detect prime numbers without having to check divisibility, which is one of the reasons primes are so difficult to detect." ...

@#1 ... you've gotta admit it's pretty elementary. ...

No, what you've gotta admit is that we have learned a lot since then.

OK, moving on ...

More from the cited article ...

... In the third century BCE, a clever Greek chap by the name of Eratosthenes came up with a novel new piece of mathematics: a "sieve", by which one could painstakingly trawl through every integer in order and discard any with more than two factors, leaving only the primes behind.

It was smart for the time -- but objectively, you've gotta admit it's pretty elementary. No offence to Eratosthenes, but that's probably exactly the method a schoolchild would use to find and list the primes, too. But here's the thing: more than two millennia later, it's still one of the best methods we have for the task. ...