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Yeah, I known what you were saying, but you originally said 2 couples, not 2 people. Two couples is a different ball game.
Yeah, I known what you were saying, but you originally said 2 couples, not 2 people. Two couples is a different ball game.
And certainly the stuff that two consenting couples film, and then voluntarily put up on the Internet is not bad.
What am I talkin' about? I'm talkin' about sex, boy, what the hell you talkin' about? I'm talkin' about l'amour! I'm talkin' that me and Dot are swingers, as in "to swing." I'm talkin' about wife swappin'. I'm talkin' about what they call nowadays open marriage. I'm talk...
OpenPGP as implemented in Pretty Good Privacy (PGP), Gnu Privacy Guard (GPG), and possibly other applications is a private-key/public-key encryption method. You encrypt with the public key, which cannot decrypt what it encrypts. Thus, the whole world can have copies of your public key. You decrypt only with your private key, which does not encrypt. Thus, you try to keep your private key truly private.
However, there is another consideration. You have a pass phrase that is used to encrypt your private key for storage on your computer. That is, your private key exists on your computer only in an encrypted form that cannot be used without first decrypting it with your pass phrase. My pass phrase has well over 30 characters (over 240 bits), including blank spaces and special characters. It exists only in my head plus on a piece of paper in a very secure and remote location in case I drop dead.
I use PGP. To decrypt a file, I must enter my pass phrase, which PGP then uses to decrypt my private key. PGP then uses the decrypted private key to decrypt the file.
Sure, this is how individual file encryption works but with partition or whole disk encryption (which is what the article is talking about), there is a symmetric key that is encrypted to either a passphrase or a asymmetric key on a hardware token and the disk is encrypted to this symmetric key. When the computer boots, it prompts the user for either the passphrase or token which it uses to decrypt the symmetric key located in the boot sector. It then puts the symmetric key into memory and uses that key to decrypt blocks of the disk as they are read.
The decrypted key is in a cache and can be reused so that I do not have to keep typing my pass phrase. The cache is automatically purged after a user-set interval of time. I can also manually purge the cache, which I always do when I am through decrypting. Purging the cache should be standard procedure for anyone concerned about keeping encrypted data secure.
In this case it doesn't cache the decrypted key, it caches the passphrase. When it need to access the key again it will load it from disk and decrypt it with the passphrase. If you always purge the cache after decryption, why not just turn the caching feature off?
marijuana use in the absence of other substances impairs driving very little
Yeah, my stoner roommate used to say shit like that too. Of course, he also claimed it helped him study, but unless one considers watching the Cartoon Network all day "studying" then I never saw any evidence of it. And, while I never was a full-time stoner myself, I did smoke enough to know that I sure as shit wouldn't have felt comfortable driving on it (or doing anything else that required concentration).
Of course, I'm sure the stoner brigade can produce a plethora of studies claiming that weed is a fucking miracle cure-all with no downsides whatsoever, written by the same kind of biased researchers that produce studies showing that burning shit-tons of coal is great for the environment.
So your "gut feeling" is more relevant than peer-reviewed studies because you "feel" that the researchers are biased? Please refute the data with data, not emotional reactions to the "stoner brigade". For example, here is a study on driving under the influence of Cannabis that cites several other studies, if you have a problem with the data please point out the problem instead of resorting to logical fallacies.
While on the subject, does anyone have the source for this quote? "Driving within three hours of smoking pot is associated with a near doubling of the risk of fatal crashes"
Role of Cannabis in Motor Vehicle Crashes, Michael N. Bates and Tony A. Blakely 1999
The conclusion certainly isn't from that paper, I read the study and its conclusion was that Cannabis may decrease the risk of fatal accidents.
"There is no evidence that consumption of cannabis alone increases the risk of culpability for traffic crash fatalities or injuries for which hospitalization occurs, and may reduce those risks."
It has what plants want?
Nope, it has what plants crave
Similar to you, I was able to find a better job in the same industry (generically, tech support) with a better environment (read: less stress), better pay, better hours, mildly better benefits, closer to home, against rush hour traffic, and quite flexible with regards to home life. The company my wife works for was gobbled up by a slightly larger competitor, receives better pay, has better hours, and better benefits now because of it despite being the same job in the same building.
Whether or not that has anything to do with our leadership in government at any level is up for serious debate.
And that's a major issue that the politicians face - when people are doing better they believe (rightly or wrongly) that it is because of their hard work but when they are worse off they blame the government for their woes. I think the government does not have as much of an effect on the fortunes of individual citizens as the people or the government believe.
Mormons have no paid clergy. No one in the Mormon church is making a living of it's members unlike most other religions
Normal members that perform duties for the church (Bishop, Stake Leaders, etc.) don't get paid but people higher in the hierarchy (like the church president) do draw a salary from the church.
It's not a "No True Scotsman" fallacy if your argument is that "Mormon scripture and belief do not support the boinking of 12 year olds, and no longer support the idea of multiple wives"
Why, isn't God infallible? Why would he suddenly change his mind about what was a central tenet of the church? Unless it wasn't actually a revelation from God that made them stop the practice (not that Mormons would compromise their religious beliefs because of political pressure).
And why pick on Mormons, who've never, as far as I can tell, been known to blow up people they disagree with?
I guess Mark Hofmann didn't get the memo.
But Linus (Mr. Torvalds to you) isn't American. Therefore, it is just one of those quaint European customs, really.
Except that he IS an American, he lives in the United States and obtained US citizenship in 2010.
If Bush went on the soft-show circuit instead of meeting with foreign heads of state, ppl. like *you* and your ilk would jump on the internet post-haste and complain it about.
Yes, *you would*, and you _know it_.
Oh, you mean like Bush's 2004 appearance on Dr. Phil? That kind of "soft-show"? That kind of waste of time? Maybe instead of campaigning Obama should be reading books with schoolchildren while the WTC burns.
Extremely very few people have a solar charging system. For practically all people, the cost of their electric bill would increase more than they were spending on gasoline. Also a car can be had for about 16k, whereas the hybrids cannot. For almost all people, it just costs more.
I never understood why they couldn't hitch up a trailer carrying a gasoline generator. BAMF, instant hybrid that could travel interstate.
Actually, Toyota did this years ago with the RAV4-EV
http://www.evnut.com/rav_longranger.htm
I think it is fantastic, it immediately addresses the concerns people raise about long range trips. You can just do the normal charge cycle for daily commute/errands/etc. and hook up the trailer when travelling long distances. I think they ended the program because of the negative perception of having to pull/back up a trailer for people who are not familiar with pulling one, but it is certainly a great idea what deserves more attention. If a fully electric vehicle with a trailer like this were available on the market today I would immediately buy it. It's silly to haul all the weight of an engine as in a hybrid if you are not using it. Perhaps the aftermarket will come up with a solution like this for current electric vehicles.
This one day will stop, once the general public understands what is going on.
Have you met the "general public"? You seem to have a much higher opinion of them than they deserve. As long as there is bread and circuses the public is NEVER going to understand what is going on. These banks own the politicians and regulators - they are never going to be punished.
"It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God but to create him." -Arthur C. Clarke
