"Criminal" means that what is done does not comply with the law and is not sanctioned by a ruling body.
I agree, but I'd add "legitimate" to the second condition. Congress does not have the authority to authorize generalized surveillance as it is specifically prohibited by the 4th amendment. Since nothing else authorizes the NSA to eavesdrop, they are commiting crimes just as surely as if I were to eavesdrop on your email.
The three branches of government are above the law by definition and necessity.
Absolutely false.
The executive branch is tasked with enforcing the law. It can only do so by means of potentially-lethal force, which is otherwise illegal
That potentially lethal force is legal because it is authorized by the Constitution which has been ratified by the people. Similarly, NSA eavesdropping is not legal because it is specifically prohibited by the very same Constitution.
There will not be any accountability for the NSA's actions
Of course not, because there is no longer any rule of law in the US.
GTA? Cops and robbers - pacman with a car and guns.
You say that like it's a bad thing. Pacman is still one of the best games ever. This is like saying "Nine Inch Nails? It's just Bach with a sampler and clinical depression". That's actually high praise.
You seem to assume that there are no criminals at all part of "the NSA".
The NSA itself is comprised of criminals. From the agent who accesses data he has no legitimate right to, to James Clapper who lies about it to Congress. The NSA is a criminal organization.
When one party is 99% evil, and the other party is 98% evil, the "spoiler effect" doesn't matter much. The only vote that actually matters is a protest vote.
I think you have the economics confused. Tenured professors are bad teachers because they focus on research more than teaching. They focus on research more than teaching because that's what gets grants and prestige. If you are a prestigious research university, you will have plenty of students regardless of how good the instruction is.
Tenured faculty should be a source of profit, not a cost.
I assume this was expensive because TeX4ht wasn't up to the task. Was TeX4ht used as a starting point for the conversion tool? Is someone now maintaining an updated TeX4ht? Is the converter available in CTAN?
Surely you didn't spend all this money having people manually convert one structural markup language to another, instead of investing in tools to do it automatically, right?
Do you have any actual evidence that I committed a crime? No? Then leave me the fuck alone. Is "being white" probable cause? No! So leave me the fuck alone. How is this hard to understand?
You only say that because you are not the subject of profiling. If you were regularly harassed for no reason other than the color of your skin, or your country of origin, you'd understand why profiling is a horrible crime. It's directly contrary to the presumption of innocense on which any actual justice system must be founded.
The TSA had two choices. Treat them all alike and respect their Constitutional rights, or treat them all alike and ignore their Constitutional rights. The TSA chose the latter, and everyone involved with it deserves prosecution for deprivation of rights under color of law.
Merely being "wrong" isn't sufficient to be a delusion. The sticking detail is "superior evidence to the contrary."
The problem with religion is that there isn't a lot of evidence one way or the other about the core questions of religion
The delusion isn't that "there is life after death". The delusion is that any living being knows what comes after death. The delusion is that revelation is a valid form of evidence. The delusion is that the beliefs you were indoctrinated with as a child are correct, simply because you were indoctrinated that way.
religion will not go away so long as those questions are essentially unanswerable with any degree of solid proof.
The delusion is that those questions are answerable.
Contempt of Congress is enforcable by the House Seargent-at-Arms. The House could arrest James Clapper, bring him to the House, try him, and imprison him for lying before Congress. That is entirely within their powers.
No need to compromise anything. They just need a single CA to be complicit with a court order to produce a certificate that signs an NSA-provided key for a specific site.
That's what's meant by "compromise".
Self-signed keys are not more secure. If a site goes from a self-signed cert to a signed cert with a different key, most browsers do not display any warning.
If you remove the CAs from your list of trusted certificates, it would display a warning.
Although you can install anti-MITM tools that produce a warning when the key changes, those tools would detect such a government MITM whether you're using a CA-signed cert or a self-signed cert
Unless the NSA is forcing the CAs to compromise every single certificate they offer. They may not be, but it would be foolish to assume that they aren't.
What reason do you have to believe that they haven't compromised the CAs? All it would take is one NSL, which the CAs could never appeal, or tell anyone about. Why would they not do that? Do you know of an alternative method that would be more effective?
Cracking doesn't mean brute force. If you compromise the key, the encryption is just as surely cracked. Chances are what they really mean here is that they've compromised the certificate authorities that are trusted by default by most web browsers. Turns out self signed certificates really are more secure.
GPG and SSH are probably safe as you generate your own keys on the local machine.
Oh, I should also add that everything that happens in your brain is a "simple chemical process". That includes recognition, and cognition, for that matter.
A protein recognizes its binding partners like a lock recognizes its key, or like your computer recognizes your password. Is the language a bit anthropomorphic? Yes. But everyone in biology knows what is meant. Your pedantry is useless and annoying.
It's not just Paypal they have to worry about. Look at what normal financial institutions did to Wikileaks. Mastercard stopped procesing payments, and Julian Assange's swiss bank account was frozen. If you challenge the powers that be, you will be retaliated against.
What should be news here is that the judge is able to fix cases by refusing to allow a defense. That shouldn't just be news, it should land the judge in prison for years. But that's business as usual in the American injustice system.
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"Criminal" means that what is done does not comply with the law and is not sanctioned by a ruling body.
I agree, but I'd add "legitimate" to the second condition. Congress does not have the authority to authorize generalized surveillance as it is specifically prohibited by the 4th amendment. Since nothing else authorizes the NSA to eavesdrop, they are commiting crimes just as surely as if I were to eavesdrop on your email.
The three branches of government are above the law by definition and necessity.
Absolutely false.
The executive branch is tasked with enforcing the law. It can only do so by means of potentially-lethal force, which is otherwise illegal
That potentially lethal force is legal because it is authorized by the Constitution which has been ratified by the people. Similarly, NSA eavesdropping is not legal because it is specifically prohibited by the very same Constitution.
There will not be any accountability for the NSA's actions
Of course not, because there is no longer any rule of law in the US.
GTA? Cops and robbers - pacman with a car and guns.
You say that like it's a bad thing. Pacman is still one of the best games ever. This is like saying "Nine Inch Nails? It's just Bach with a sampler and clinical depression". That's actually high praise.
Secret rulings by secret courts never were never legitimate in the first place.
You seem to assume that there are no criminals at all part of "the NSA".
The NSA itself is comprised of criminals. From the agent who accesses data he has no legitimate right to, to James Clapper who lies about it to Congress. The NSA is a criminal organization.
When one party is 99% evil, and the other party is 98% evil, the "spoiler effect" doesn't matter much. The only vote that actually matters is a protest vote.
But the hospital needs them consecutive
Why?
I think you have the economics confused. Tenured professors are bad teachers because they focus on research more than teaching. They focus on research more than teaching because that's what gets grants and prestige. If you are a prestigious research university, you will have plenty of students regardless of how good the instruction is.
Tenured faculty should be a source of profit, not a cost.
I assume this was expensive because TeX4ht wasn't up to the task. Was TeX4ht used as a starting point for the conversion tool? Is someone now maintaining an updated TeX4ht? Is the converter available in CTAN?
Surely you didn't spend all this money having people manually convert one structural markup language to another, instead of investing in tools to do it automatically, right?
Do you have any actual evidence that I committed a crime? No? Then leave me the fuck alone. Is "being white" probable cause? No! So leave me the fuck alone. How is this hard to understand?
You only say that because you are not the subject of profiling. If you were regularly harassed for no reason other than the color of your skin, or your country of origin, you'd understand why profiling is a horrible crime. It's directly contrary to the presumption of innocense on which any actual justice system must be founded.
The TSA had two choices. Treat them all alike and respect their Constitutional rights, or treat them all alike and ignore their Constitutional rights. The TSA chose the latter, and everyone involved with it deserves prosecution for deprivation of rights under color of law.
Merely being "wrong" isn't sufficient to be a delusion. The sticking detail is "superior evidence to the contrary."
The problem with religion is that there isn't a lot of evidence one way or the other about the core questions of religion
The delusion isn't that "there is life after death". The delusion is that any living being knows what comes after death. The delusion is that revelation is a valid form of evidence. The delusion is that the beliefs you were indoctrinated with as a child are correct, simply because you were indoctrinated that way.
religion will not go away so long as those questions are essentially unanswerable with any degree of solid proof.
The delusion is that those questions are answerable.
Contempt of Congress is enforcable by the House Seargent-at-Arms. The House could arrest James Clapper, bring him to the House, try him, and imprison him for lying before Congress. That is entirely within their powers.
Contempt of Congress is
In a technical context, the word compromise is usually limited to cases of coercion or attack.
NSLs are a coercive attack.
No need to compromise anything. They just need a single CA to be complicit with a court order to produce a certificate that signs an NSA-provided key for a specific site.
That's what's meant by "compromise".
Self-signed keys are not more secure. If a site goes from a self-signed cert to a signed cert with a different key, most browsers do not display any warning.
If you remove the CAs from your list of trusted certificates, it would display a warning.
Although you can install anti-MITM tools that produce a warning when the key changes, those tools would detect such a government MITM whether you're using a CA-signed cert or a self-signed cert
Unless the NSA is forcing the CAs to compromise every single certificate they offer. They may not be, but it would be foolish to assume that they aren't.
What reason do you have to believe that they haven't compromised the CAs? All it would take is one NSL, which the CAs could never appeal, or tell anyone about. Why would they not do that? Do you know of an alternative method that would be more effective?
Cracking doesn't mean brute force. If you compromise the key, the encryption is just as surely cracked. Chances are what they really mean here is that they've compromised the certificate authorities that are trusted by default by most web browsers. Turns out self signed certificates really are more secure.
GPG and SSH are probably safe as you generate your own keys on the local machine.
The postage rates should be based on the size and weight of the package, the origin and destination, and nothing else.
Oh, I should also add that everything that happens in your brain is a "simple chemical process". That includes recognition, and cognition, for that matter.
A protein recognizes its binding partners like a lock recognizes its key, or like your computer recognizes your password. Is the language a bit anthropomorphic? Yes. But everyone in biology knows what is meant. Your pedantry is useless and annoying.
Breakthroughs are for sciences with hard walls to break.
The protein folding problem has long been one of those hard walls. It was first identified as a problem 50 years ago.
If there's no encoding, isn't it just a dec?
It's not just Paypal they have to worry about. Look at what normal financial institutions did to Wikileaks. Mastercard stopped procesing payments, and Julian Assange's swiss bank account was frozen. If you challenge the powers that be, you will be retaliated against.
What should be news here is that the judge is able to fix cases by refusing to allow a defense. That shouldn't just be news, it should land the judge in prison for years. But that's business as usual in the American injustice system.