User: The Real Andrew

Re:Reverse Hacking?

On: FBI Does A Cracker-Jack Job

However, we're going to piss off a lot of countries if we continue to assert that the FBI can do whatever it wants outside of the US.

Yeah, everyone knows that the job of the CIA

Re:Potential Problem

On: Drilling For Oil With Megawatt Lasers

Conventional drilling also places a pipe as the bit moves forward, cementing the drill hole. With this system the hole must be "burned" and then a pipe forced down. This process will negate any speed gains in the actual drilling

As I understand the article they won't be using pipes, the fused rock itself will be acting as the pipe. This is where the speed saving will come in, they won't be wasting time stopping and shoving new bits of steel down the hole.

Andrew

Re:Rampant anti-government delusional paranoia

On: Distributed Network for Reverse-Tracerouting

You said: I may be able to fire my security firm, but I don't have any influence over yours - and I can always vote against my congressman

You might be able to fire him, but I am a South African living in London, UK. What am I supposed to do when your goverment, I am guessing USA, decideds that they are the "Law of the Internet"? Do I get a vote on who sits in the Whitehouse, who makes the laws and who applies the law?

When will people realise that the USA/"country of choice" is not the Internet, the whole world is, even the horrible little countries you are not allowed to export encryption to. Andrew