All of the real bad guys already practice signals discipline. This only catches the lazy and the petty criminals.

What my prior statement implies is that there is no compelling reason to violate the constitution with these devices.

Never STFU. Ideally, people should be calling shit out on both sides of the fence, but I would rather people be calling shit out on only one side of the fence than no sides of the fence. STFU is NOT useful here.

OpenSSL is the swiss army knife of encryption technologies.

It can encrypt data with whatever cipher floats your boat. It can do hashing with whatever algorithm floats your boat. It can do SSL negotiations, it can examine, manipulate, and create X.509 certificates and containers like PKCS etc. Hell, it has all of the tools necessary to build an entire PKI up to and including creating Root Certificate Authorities, managing Certificate Revocation Lists, etc.

There may be vulnerabilities in it, but Oh My God can it do a whole hell of a lot. OpenSSL is up there with the Linux Kernel and GCC for usefulness and importance. As a security guy and as a privacy freak, I have been using OpenSSL code since before it was called OpenSSL. It was SSLeay prior to being OpenSSL.

That is a personal citation, but the facts are irrefutable.

At first, I laughed and thought your post was funny, witty, and a good reference. On second reading, it was disturbingly insightful. Good catch.

I am unsure if you have ever seen footage from a military drone in Afghanistan. I have, and I can guarantee you that there is zero chance of a bullet being fired at one and it getting hit. The missiles and such are fired from a mile or more away usually. The targets have absolutely no idea at all what is about to hit them. One second, the target is driving around thinking about how to murder people in the next village and the next second, they are pieces of meat. Occasionally, a missile will not hit close enough and the target can try to escape, but they have absolutely no idea which direction is safe to move as they have no idea where the original explosion came from. The second missile ALWAYS gets them.

You are NOT going to be hitting military drones with gunfire. Perhaps law enforcement drones will be different, but in theory, they will only have cameras on them so they have even less need to get close... and a mile away is NOT close.

Mmmmm. A very nice option indeed. I would go with some high quality marijuana instead of a cigar, but you definitely have the right idea there.

Lovely has no advantage over willing except when raiding foreign villages and raping and pillaging.

An enthusiastic, willing woman with a good attitude beats all the loveliness in the world. I always tell women that they do not need makeup and such to be pretty, a smile works MUCH better than any makeup to make them beautiful.

As a man, if all she is wearing is a smile, all the better. :)

You need to shift your perspective. Nothing but contempt? Colleges are turning into trade factories, and that's a problem. There are HUGE societal benefits to the intellectual exploration that comes with college. We need to expand who has access to that! Universal college is a laudable goal.

In saying "6-figure debt makes it the point", you've made a mistake. Debt is a problem, and we need to address it. But the fact that college is too expensive doesn't mean you need to turn college into merely a stepping stone to a job. That's misguided.

Clarity please. Does the submitter mean competition? Legal challenges to the product? Logistical challenges with the products?

While your screed against capitalism has some interesting talking points embedded in it, I would like to point out that there is no "market fighting it out" concerning network communications in America. In a few markets, there may be more than one provider but they are NOT competitors. Capitalism is definitely not a word that is associated with communications in America.

Close. Very close. The information on the phone might very well be valuable... but to who? Are you at a protest and taking pictures of an officer beating the shit out of an innocent bystander? That information is indeed valuable in the sense that the government (at all levels) wants to destroy it. This is not going to end well.

Do you know what would be as good of a solution and not give the government the ability to make our phones useless lumps of material? An IMEI blacklist. Gee. Why didn't they just implement that? Because they wanted to be able to stop the use of the phone as a recording device. They can already silence you but they did not have the ability, until now, to stop the phone from being a recording device.

No. We really do not. First, what kind of Orwellian nightmare will be introduced by the government monitoring our mileage? If you think they will merely be checking the odometer, you are outrageously naive.

A gas tax is a good enough substitute for the amount of wear and tear a vehicle puts on the infrastructure. Heavier vehicles do more damage than lighter vehicles. Heavier vehicles use more gas to go the same distance as lighter vehicle. No problem.

Okay, I just have to break everyone's heart here...

The price of gas in Kuwait is 65 fils per liter.

How does that compare? 1,000 fils make 1 Kuwaiti Dinar. 1 Kuwaiti Dinar is worth 3 dollars and 67 cents at current exchange rates (real, not theoretical).

So one dinar buys roughly 15 liters of fuel. That is almost 4 gallons of fuel for $3.67. Ah yes. Less than a dollar a gallon. :)

That is the interesting thing about the Rift. You can have 3 monitors side by side by side in virtual space. You could surround yourself in an entire sphere of giant monitor. You do not have to walk down the hallway to another virtual office to access another virtual monitor. Just because someone else likes it that way, that does not mean it has to be that way for you.