Everyone thought Thomas Jefferson was a cook when he opposed Judicial Review. Who appoints supreme court Justices? The Executive branch. Sure, congress may give a candidate the final blessing, but let's be honest, senators get DoSed (lobbied) into picking a particular justice. Here's some more insight on why our Supreme Court system sucks

This very same situation happened to me. I was walking down the sidewalk listening to my iPod when a cop pulled up next to me and asked for identification. I asked the cop if he suspected me of a crime, or if I was being detained. He didn't answer, so I ignored him. He got out his car and demanded ID, I repeated if I was being detained or suspected of a crime, he told me my constitutional rights were bullshit and starting cussing at me. I just walked away. I guess the officer knew he was in the wrong becuase he didn't try to make an arrest.

I was about to post this same suggestion. Instead I will highlight why their reaction was unreasonable:

1. The banned members may have been a profitable source of ad-revenue.
2. The website has very limited control over how their content is recieved.
3. The information may have already been recieved prior to moderation.
4. The information is easily accessible from other sources.
5. The blowback creates negative PR and may have the opposite effect (increased awareness of ad block).

Passwords get dirty and using the same password over a long period of time may leave you vulnerable to new exploits. The goal of aging passwords is to allow updates in password policy to propagate amongst a user base. If your user base is accessing non-secure sources with that password, it is also important to expire that password in order to limit the opportunity of exploit. For example, if you connect to your gmail account (before it defaulted to ssl) with your password over a public network and somebody MTM's your password, but does not act on it before your password expires, they are out of luck. Without aging the password, that opportunity exists as long as the same password is in place. Considering you may access multiple non-secure sources over a longer period of time the situation begins to look worse. Also, passwords are often shared to improve productivity (like instant access to a resource). They are convenient because they are easy to share and since they are shared so often, they should be changed often to re-establish and update trusted resources. Think of credit card expiration dates. If they were shorter, how would that effect their value when stolen, sold, and exploited? Cards about to expire are really not ideal targets for exploit. It's similar to that. I think the real issue with aging passwords is that the policies are often too aggressive for their limited scope of use. Aging passwords by time is a bad method since that time period may be arbitrary. Passwords should age based on activity and usage, not time.

Learn a memorization format if you are inconvenienced. For example, static salt + variable + static salt2. A password in this format may look like &*!,Mz_-hunter2))JZ5781 . In this case you memorize &*!,Mz_- as Salt 1 and ))JZ5781 as Salt 2. hunter2 is the variable. When your password expires, you just change the variable so a new password may look like &*!,Mz_-Variable2))JZ5781. I find explaining this to users relieves the discomfort of password changing. Some people even get creative by changing the order of salt and variables. Try it out.

Yes, I agree. Most testing I've seen on browser benchmarks make no effort in providing consistent configurations. I know its hard to control the configurations, but at least *try*. The most configurable browsers (opera and firefox) are modest in their stock deployments, catering more towards security and control rather than speed and optimizations. Chrome barley provides any options, so I presume its optimized by default.

I think if these tests were redone with optimized settings in Opera, it would show Opera slightly ahead of Chrome. For example, on page load, Opera is set to draw in one second intervals during load, by default. Obviously for simple sites that load under a second, Opera will preform poorly. Another example is memory usage. They called Opera memory hungry but that is ridiculous. Opera allows you to set the maximum memory limit and is capable of caching to memory. Any unused memory is allocated to cache. You can greatly adjust Opera's memory usage by disabling page caching (set to 1000 by default), lowering maximum memory usage, removing history (set to 5000 pages by default), removing tab thumbnails; however, while Opera's caching may hurt memory usage, it is amazing in the long run. The equvilent to having a local proxy in your browser. Anyways, the bottom line is Opera's default settings are NOT optimal and modifying securtiy, history, memory, caching, DNS prefetching, and the UI can improve its overall preformance. I cannot say the same for chrome where the only optimizations that can be made is DNS prefetching and some security stuff.

A bit off topic, but in the event that internet legislation leads to revolution...
I've been thinking of new democratic and legislative structures for a post-revolution America. An exercise in thought, nothing more. Anyways, I was thinking that one of the biggest issues with our current government is the Iron Triangle. Essentially, we have a centralized government that is actively being DoS'ed by lobbyists and anyone else who can buy a lobbyist. The interest of those individual groups often come at the expense of the majority.

What if we structured our government like the Internet by providing functionality at the end point and only using congress to pass data?

Essentially, people would be responsible for writing laws in some sort of wiki type collaboration. These laws would have "release cycles" that go to an elected body of "experts" (congress) only after the legislation passed a public review process. Congress would ONLY have the ability to veto proposed legislation. The president would serve more as a mediator in the event the public wanted to force legislation after congress has already vetoed it. If the majority has a mandate and Congress has a minority veto, then the president can be used to override the Congressional veto, but only in those circumstances.

Lobbyists would essentially be spammers. They cannot effectively bribe anymore due to decentralization of legislation. Anyways, I'm still developing the idea, feedback would be much appreciated, sorry I'm offtopic!

Crunchyroll.com has a 6 episode anime called "Time of Eve" detailing a student's struggle to regain his confidence playing the piano after he lost a music competition to a robot. I highly recommend it especially if you are an Asimov fan.

*some time in the near furture*

Due to ACTA, everyone now listens to CC music, watches youtube, and uses only GPL software. Copyright is considered a very large liability by companies and people. All of Microsoft's servers have been shut down due to ACTA accusations made by GPL developers. Microsoft uses thepiratebay (which is still online) to distribute copies of the new Windows 10. These copies are infected with a malicious software that downloads bootleg Disney movies and reports the end-user to Disney for affliate revenue. The malicious software developer also sues the end-user directly for copyright infridgment. Meanwhile, the RIAA and MPAA are the single source of all remaining pirated musics and movies since they need pirates to survive. They eventually all go to jail for downloading illegal copies of "The Little Mermaid". NewYorkCountryLawyer is now in the Supreme Court trying to overturn ACTA; however, the Supreme Court judges have been replaced by drones provided by the airfoce. NewYorkCountryLawyer uses a legal loop-hole in the constition that allows a EULA to trump every US law ever made. Guns are no longer needed, becuase you can just throw a EULA into someones face demanding they kill themselves. The world finally achieves universal peace.

Too late already done.

I can see this working on Terrorism because it is using technology to become smaller and more mobile than the terrorists. In essence, an attempt to out "guerrilla" the enemy. This is most likely the future of warfare because the benefits are huge, some of which are:

- Increased security forces in the home land
- Reduced causalities in war
- Mobility and Intel difficult for humans

You have to look at these drones as you would dropping bombs. They are essentially providing the same service but at a much smaller and detailed level, which is better than bombing in the case of terrorism. The notion that having drones will disconnect the emotional attachment of killing can be made for bomber pilots as well. The difference being one is in an office instead of a cockpit.

Linus uses a PowerPC G5 with Fedora. He has stated this several times.

It does fly sometimes. I was charged with going 90 in a 65. My GPS unit indicated that my speed at the time was 74 not the reported 90 (I was clocked from the sky). I presented my case in court which, technically, incriminated me for speeding. The judge accepted my data and my fine was reduced from $368.00 to a mere $128.00. Only committing part of a crime can make a difference in court.

I forgot to mention, to really feel the speed of the new Vega engine, you should set Opera to draw instantly. By default, its set to draw after 1 second. To change this, hit ALT + P, Advanced Tab, Select Browsing on the list off to the left. The first combo box under the Loading text label contains the "Draw Instantly" value. Select it and save. There should be a noticeable increase in perceived page load.