Actually a google search indicates that Innovatio IP Ventures, LLC is being used by Cisco Systems, Inc. and Motorola Solutions, Inc. Papers were filed back in May.

Considering that the key for a one time pad must be as long or longer then the data to be encrypted I don't see how that helps. Can anyone really memorize several GB worth of random values?

And I'm not sure what you mean by revealing it would be meaningless. Once the key is known revealing the plain text is a simple matter for a one time pad.

"I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve."

They'll just package it with the backdoor mandate the NSA wants. It'll pass under some title like "The Citizen Privacy, Security and Safety Act" because how could someone possibly oppose those?

Come on now. Everyone know if you eat zombie flesh you become a zombie. Before you know it we'll be up to our necks in zombie lion, zombie tiger and zombie bears. However, zombie birds will probably be the worst considering the distances they can cover.

Pet peeve of mine.

This is a Clip
This is a Magazine

The clip is used to feed rounds into the magazine. The magazine may either be fixed like on an M1 Garand or Removable like on an M-16.

In the long run we're all dead?
Then why even try in the first place? Could it be that there is some worth in doing something despite the fact it may amount to nothing in the big picture of things?

I actually had a situation similar to #2 but both classes were during the same semester. I simply went to both professors and asked if it would be a problem to reuse my paper and neither had a problem with it. Got an 'A' on both papers too.

Now a classmate of mine did something similar but didn't first check with the professors. He didn't get in trouble but was asked to rewrite one of the papers.

Do keep in mind that the NSA is one of the largest employers of Ph.D. Mathematicians in the US. They wrote the book on SELinux and are generally considered to be 5 years ahead of the next leader in the private sector.

Who ever put the NSA together did a good job, at least in the sense of it accomplishing its mission.

I guess Ray Person (Generation Kill) was right, "It's lack of pussy fucks countries up."

As a legislature becomes more isolated from it's constituency it begin to more closely resemble an oligarchy.

As long as the courts are allowed to reinterpret a laws meaning these kind of things are inevitable.

Removing explicit Limited Liability protection that the government provides to all corporations from lenders and plaintiffs would be a good start. With owners suddenly being personally liable for the actions of their company they'd really start to care about what they did.

Because it's not about catching crooks, it's about maintain an image of potency. I can also see this being used as a stepping stone to a revival of REALID to "curb fake IDs" and "protect us from terrorists" all while doing neither.

Install a CIWS on every utility pole and transformer. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phalanx_CIWS