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  1. S/MIME is worse on Fake PGP Keys For Crypto Developers Found · · Score: 1

    you have to trust big authorities. You DO trust many by default. Everyone can issue wrong certifcates and you will not notice it, you are not required to review new certificates for them to work.

    And you CAN revote wrong PGP key. There is an option so sign them with "I DO NOT trust". Just do it. Do it from your right key, get other people, which verified you, to do the same.

  2. Re:Outlook as parent with daughters on Getting Misogyny, Racism and Homophobia Out of Gaming · · Score: 1

    most games promote violence against men, too. For many its the primary objective. And sexists concepts ... is a weasel word often abused by "look i am a victim!" persons. You need to specify it further to be able to discuss it seriously.

  3. bottom line on Inside NSA's Efforts To Hunt Sysadmins · · Score: 1

    - seperate normal surfing from your admin job
    - encrypt everything
    - consider to bounce connections via another server. Bonus if the final connection is via an intranet
    - consider using a vpn-service, which routes many people over one ip
    - avoid facebook and webmail (are they talking about specific webmails?)

    for the selector stuff: install a cookie-killer like self-destructing-cookies (firefox) or tab-cookies (chromium).

  4. Where is the NSA recruiting? on Inside NSA's Efforts To Hunt Sysadmins · · Score: 1

    > are ROFL-easy [...] And pointing out for the lulz [...]

  5. Re:Ridiculous. on Time Dilation Drug Could Let Heinous Criminals Serve 1,000 Year Sentences · · Score: 1

    And i do not really get it. Of course, the imagination is bad. But its worse being tortured and then live with your physical and psychological scars than being tortured and then killed. The second one is a short period of time, which does not alter anything.

  6. Re: Ridiculous. on Time Dilation Drug Could Let Heinous Criminals Serve 1,000 Year Sentences · · Score: 1

    > vengeance
    no good argument at all. And you may get people, who think he's a hero. Or you start a vicious circle of violence, especially terrorists* are not reasonable and start acting out of anger.

    * i mean the original definition of terrorist, someone who does insane things to cause terror without much reasoning behind it, not the terror law's definition, which covers a lot more (guilty) people.

  7. Re: Ridiculous. on Time Dilation Drug Could Let Heinous Criminals Serve 1,000 Year Sentences · · Score: 1

    But you may regret it.

  8. Re: Ridiculous. on Time Dilation Drug Could Let Heinous Criminals Serve 1,000 Year Sentences · · Score: 1

    And that's strange. If they are dead, who cares if they had a nice feeling as their last feeling? Is this a religious thing? Do people think they carry their last feeling to heaven?

  9. Re: Ridiculous. on Time Dilation Drug Could Let Heinous Criminals Serve 1,000 Year Sentences · · Score: 1

    Maybe some factor is, how humane its to the person, who needs to do it. Shooting is very effective, but you need several people, so that no one of them feeld guilty. Hanging needs a hangman, too.

    At first thought, it may be an idea, to let the people do it, who demanded the death penalty. Let the family of the victim kill him (under controlled circumstances of course). But its neither fair to his family, nor to them.
    His family may want a execution with less angry feelings in there, and them may enjoy killing him, but may regret it later. Anger does not last forever, and afterwards they are murderers, too.

    And yeah, why death penalty at all?

  10. Re:Prison is more than punishment on Time Dilation Drug Could Let Heinous Criminals Serve 1,000 Year Sentences · · Score: 1

    So, you just want to heeeeaaaar a theeeeraaaapiiiist taaaaalkiiiin slooooooooooooooowlyyyyyyyyyyy?

  11. Re: Ridiculous. on Time Dilation Drug Could Let Heinous Criminals Serve 1,000 Year Sentences · · Score: 0

    But there are still a lot of drugs used by smarter people for their suicide. And there is research how to kill in a humane way, especially for animals. And its known, that even some sedatives are killing you, as if you're falling asleep. Of course, you need a drug with low failure rate, but there are different ways.

    On the other hand ... just abolish death penalty. Most humane states already did, why not the USA?

  12. Re:They make the punishment easier for the prisone on Time Dilation Drug Could Let Heinous Criminals Serve 1,000 Year Sentences · · Score: 1

    But if you are so "dumbed down", do you really experience to hear static, and does it annoy you? Or are you just in a state where you do not really sense anything.

  13. Re:Prison is more than punishment on Time Dilation Drug Could Let Heinous Criminals Serve 1,000 Year Sentences · · Score: 1

    who pays the therapists for a thousand years?

  14. Re:Prison is more than punishment on Time Dilation Drug Could Let Heinous Criminals Serve 1,000 Year Sentences · · Score: 1

    He's not dead, who can eternally sleep and with strange aeons, even death may die. Fthagn!

  15. Re: Ridiculous. on Time Dilation Drug Could Let Heinous Criminals Serve 1,000 Year Sentences · · Score: 1

    Yeah, why. And america still has the death penality.

  16. Re: Ridiculous. on Time Dilation Drug Could Let Heinous Criminals Serve 1,000 Year Sentences · · Score: 3, Interesting

    the problem is the lethal injection. There are ways to kill someone without any pain (see assisted suicide), but the death penalty is executed with some very painful medicine. Why?

  17. Re:Ridiculous. on Time Dilation Drug Could Let Heinous Criminals Serve 1,000 Year Sentences · · Score: 1

    so, if there is death in the end, what does the torture before helps? Afterwards the person is dead, whats the advantage of giving him pain before?

  18. They make the punishment easier for the prisoners on Time Dilation Drug Could Let Heinous Criminals Serve 1,000 Year Sentences · · Score: 1

    Lets assume, the drug prolongs a 2 year sentence to 40 years.
    Now you have two options:
    - slow thinking. You get the gift of not really being able to comprehend whats going on anymore, its kind of relaxing (reports of several uses of medications. People are thinking slower and they like it and do not want to change it)
    - thinking at the same speed as usual, while the reality passes much faster. You will not sense the reality as normal. If you experience any pain, it will last much shorter, if you are able to sense it as you're used to.

    The other question, about american sentences in general: Why are the people (and the state) thinking about punishment as revenge (even to the extent of death penalty!), instead of just imprisoning someone, to protect the rest of the population?

  19. A big lie on Officials: NSA's PRISM Targets Email Addresses, Not Keywords · · Score: 1

    Snowden even published the keyword list. To lazy to search for it know, but it was a big honor for the CCC, when it found itself on the list ;).

  20. Re:Just for a browser? on Google To Replace GTK+ With Its Own Aura In Chrome · · Score: 1

    > vanishingly small number of people
    Seems like someone underestimates the gimp users.

  21. First time accepted submitter on School Tricks Pupils Into Installing a Root CA · · Score: 1

    Wayne? Why does slashdot always mention this?

  22. Re:Honestly, it seems justified. on Girl's Facebook Post Costs Her Dad $80,000 · · Score: 1

    Even if this is illegal, they should have kept silent. Then they must prove, that she learned about it by her father talking about it. And thats rather hard to prove.

  23. Re:What? on Girl's Facebook Post Costs Her Dad $80,000 · · Score: 1

    There are some laws, for example for doctors and lawyers. But there should be no contract, where you can be forced not to speak with your family about something.

  24. Re:What? on Girl's Facebook Post Costs Her Dad $80,000 · · Score: 1

    did you?

  25. Re:What? on Girl's Facebook Post Costs Her Dad $80,000 · · Score: 1

    is it legal to forbid someone to speak about something with his relatives?