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  1. After it fails, if you are lucky, your country's soft Socialism is rejected — as happened in Scandinavia, even if Sanders' fans don't know it.

    If you aren't lucky, it is replaced by the hard Communism...

  2. Re:They siezed the site on Police Decrypt 258,000 Messages After Breaking Pricey IronChat Crypto App (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Mail — and all your other means of communications, except those under blanket ones you mentioned — are still subject to interception by government. And, probably, should be.

    Though two dedicated people could use some of the means you describe, it can not be done commercially....

  3. Re:Divine Wrath! on Wildfire Devastates California Town of Paradise (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Hilarious, thinking your "rules of debate" will save you from climate change

    Climate change? I never said anything about "climate change". All I care for is Divine Wrath — and though His ways are unknowable, not following rules of debate is likely to bring some...

  4. Re:Not just Climate change, tax cuts on Wildfire Devastates California Town of Paradise (apnews.com) · · Score: 0

    More unsubstantiated claims...

  5. Re:Divine Wrath! on Wildfire Devastates California Town of Paradise (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    I see, you still haven't learned the rules of debate. Let me give you a quick refresher of one fundamental rule: Whoever makes a claim is responsible for providing evidence. Like this.

    Now, you've seen my request for evidence, and even found time to reply. Yet, your reply did not provide the evidence requested — probably, because you don't have any... Ergo, your claims are unsubstantiated — and likely false.

  6. Re:Not just Climate change, tax cuts on Wildfire Devastates California Town of Paradise (apnews.com) · · Score: 0, Troll

    Because, as every Illiberal knows, forest-management is simply a pre-text for allowing logging companies to cut trees down. For profit (spit!).

  7. Re:Divine Wrath! on Wildfire Devastates California Town of Paradise (apnews.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    So many phantastical claims, not a single citation... Tsk-tsk-tsk...

  8. Divine Wrath! on Wildfire Devastates California Town of Paradise (apnews.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    About a year ago, California governor channeled his inner Westboro-church pastor and warned Trump of "Divine Wrath":

    How funny is it, then, that it is his own State — which hates Trump by an overwhelming majority — that's suffering the most of this wrath?

  9. Re:They siezed the site on Police Decrypt 258,000 Messages After Breaking Pricey IronChat Crypto App (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Or any myriad of less drastic things that would be an improvement over letting a middleman handle keys for you.

    Such as? Remember, we are talking here about strangers seeking to communicate securely without ever meeting each other in person...

  10. Re:They siezed the site on Police Decrypt 258,000 Messages After Breaking Pricey IronChat Crypto App (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    The key should be exchanged via an entirely different and unrelated channel of communications.

    The "different and unrelated"... such as?

  11. Re:They siezed the site on Police Decrypt 258,000 Messages After Breaking Pricey IronChat Crypto App (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    The server should only see encrypted messages, and only the intended receiver should have the decryption keys.

    That still requires the correspondents to have exchanged the public keys somehow. I bet, the site was signing the users' public keys with their own so that device would trust them. There is no way to do this — enable PGP-communications between strangers — otherwise.

    Even if the site didn't act as the "man-in-the-middle" itself — and you may well be right in that they did — by taking control of their servers police got into position to alter the public keys presented by users and signing them with the keys known to devices. From then on they could monitor communications...

    The police secretly got help from the NSA

    No shame in that...

  12. (Just in case, you aren't sarcastic...)

    The best way to do this is with universal love.

    Please, cite one instance in the humanity's history, where this approach worked.

    No need to accept people for any specific reason, other than that they're imperfect humans

    Some people are further from perfection than others.

    For example, I'm sure, you'll agree, that some people need to be incarcerated — or, maybe, even killed — for the things they've done. Which means, people's actions could trigger adversarial reaction from the rest. And though you may find some of that reaction unjustifiable, not all of it is, even for someone preaching the admirable concept of universal love (and I'm not being sarcastic here in expressing the admiration).

    Now, is my reaction to the deliberately harmful and inaccurate accusations unjustifiable? I don't think so. Imagine someone coming to your dwelling as a guest and accusing you (or some members of your family) of being "evil". Would you not wonder, why he came in the first place? Would you not ask them to consider leaving, huh? Maybe, depending on your passions, even demand they leave?..

  13. what happened to the constitutional guarantee of a trial?

    IANAL, but I doubt, enemy combatants are covered by that guarantee — certainly not if they are outside of the US proper. And what crime would you accuse them of?

    Why is that not an option?

    I don't know. But, as the already-cited case of Somali pirates shows, it is not — and not only in the case of the blood-thirsty AmeriKKKan goon$, but for the gentle Canadians and enlightened Europeans as well...

    Why don't you stop blaming America for a second, and direct your query to the Canadian, Spanish, and French governments? Whatever they tell you about trying pirates will apply to trying the Guantanamo inmates as well. And as long as are contacting all these nice, benevolent non-American governments, be sure to ask India, why their Navy never bothered to look for survivors of its "battle" with "pirates" 10 years ago.

  14. What's with this false dilemma idiocy?

    It is a trilemma, and it is very real:

    1. Kill them.
    2. Let them go.
    3. Detain them

    Bush chose the third. Obama — in his Nobel Peace Prize winner's mercy — the first. Would you pick the second? Let the guys, who've just engaged you in a firefight, go?

    You can't find a better alternative to the suspected teriirst?

    No, I can't. Nobody has so far — Somali pirates are let go, because there is no fourth choice...

    (Further anonymous replies will be ignored.)

  15. None of the abductees held at Quantanamo Bay have been convicted of a crime.

    That's completely irrelevant. The alternative to their ending up in Guantanamo was death, and any other country (except, maybe, Israel) would've shot them on the spot — and you wouldn't have cared... Indeed, you didn't care when we were doing just that with a certain Nobel Peace Prize laureate at the helm.

  16. is still valid for others to associate with

    They can call us evil and great Satan and whatever — but if they do it while in America and/or on an American web-forum, they are hypocrites.

  17. you would boot them out of here if you could for their saying that they hate us

    No. Quit projecting your own inclinations on others. What I said is precisely what I meant: whoever thinks America is evil, ought to pack up and leave to whatever place he believes is less evil.

    His not doing it betrays height of hypocrisy.

    That guy, appears to be a dutch Muslim

    I doubt strongly, he considers his new homeland much better than the US — considering Netherlands being a staunch ally of ours, the staunchest outside the British Commonwealth, perhaps. But that's irrelevant...

  18. Re:Never liked Hyper-Threading... on Intel CPUs Impacted by New PortSmash Side-Channel Vulnerability (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    adding the functionality cost very little in terms of additional die space for the performance boost you would get

    What "performance boost"?..

  19. They have the right to speak his mind.

    So do I, don't I?

    you would understand what the bill of rights is all about

    You don't, it seems...

  20. What RIGHT do you have to think that you can limit him here just because we differ with him?

    Anyone convinced, US is evil, ought to not live here, nor communicate with us — except, maybe, by delivering an ultimatum and/or accepting our surrender. It is my right to demand, that such people act in accordance with their own words.

    Do I really need to explain this to someone publicly lamenting the diminishing of honour "these days"?

  21. Never liked Hyper-Threading... on Intel CPUs Impacted by New PortSmash Side-Channel Vulnerability (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    PortSmash impacts Intel CPUs which support the company's Hyper-Threading (HT) technology, Intel's proprietary implementation of SMT.

    Never liked Hyper-Threading. It always seemed like a fishy hack — and now my irrational fears have been "substantiated" by Finnish and Cuban academics...

  22. I consider US spies committing crimes in other countries evil.

    The US spies in question were busy exposing Iranian lies. They were working for America. If, as is evident now, you consider us evil, GTFO...

  23. Google was used to expose evil.

    If you consider USA evil — more evil than Iran and China — then you are in a wrong place. Learn Chinese and Farsi and fuck off to that part of the world, both physical and virtual...

  24. If you don't praise yourself... on NASA's Dawn Spacecraft Is Dead (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    "Today, we celebrate the end of our Dawn mission -- its incredible technical achievements, the vital science it gave us and the entire team who enabled the spacecraft to make these discoveries," Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator of NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington, D.C., said in a statement

    There was a saying in USSR, that loosely translates as: "If you don't praise yourself in the morning, all day you'll feel like having been spat on..."

  25. Re:What about "hate speech"? on US Declines in Internet Freedom Rankings (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    That being said, you don't have to enable anyone else's speech. That is freedom, as well.

    Absolutely, yes. Which means — must mean — that the abolition of "net neutrality" rules is a good thing, improving freedom. If Verizon can be compelled — by government — to treat Netflix, Russia Today, and Yahoo! the same, then GoDaddy can be compelled to continue hosting Gab.com too.

    But the report's authors, TFA, and the majority of /. disagree — counting the demise of the neutrality rules as diminishing US' rating...