That's not entirely true. If an SSL handshake negotiates an RSA symmetric key, then anyone holding the server's private key can decrypt the captured stream after the fact. To achieve Perfect Forward Secrecy (the inability for a stream to be decrypted some time in the future), you must use an ephemeral DH key negotiation.
The question should be whether or not increased firearms ownership causes more deaths in general.
I don't understand how correlating firearm ownership with other types of deaths is significant at all.
I agree that socioeconomic factors are a far, far bigger factor in violent crime in general. I was merely pointing out the flawed logic of using homicide statistics to support the "more guns == less crime" argument.
Your rhetoric is flawed because it only includes gun crimes, not total gun deaths, and the idiotic cartoon associates drunk driving deaths to gun deaths, which is not correct because nearly every drunk driving death is an accident and he doesn't include accidental gun deaths.
To put it in perspective, the US has the highest per-capita gun ownership in the world, and is #11 as far as gun deaths. I certainly wouldn't want to move to any of the countries beating us in that race.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_firearm-related_death_rate
It's often hard to know when a death is a murder, but it's pretty easy to tell if a death is from a bullet. Lots of murders go unreported and lots of gang deaths get reported as self defense. Just because it's legal to start a fight with someone and kill them once you start to get your ass kicked doesn't mean that the violence rate is any better.
I don't know which is sadder, the fact that you actually believe Gore said anything to that effect or that 5 people modded you up.
Not taking on ANY credit is not smart and can actually hurt your credit score more than a few late payments. Cell phone and utility bills don't positively affect your credit score at all, but they can negatively affect it if you are late on payments. Only loans and revolving credit help you out.
I have a house that has a fixed-rate 30 year loan and a tenant living in it paying off the entire principal + interest. That house is LITERALLY making me money just sitting there appreciating and I'll have it paid off far before the 30 years is up. If you can do it responsibly, going into debt now can make you a lot more money than saving up for everything. Judging from your other posts, you flatly believe that home loans are ripoffs, but I can mathematically prove that my decision to go into debt to buy the house works out better for me financially, plus I have extra money to live a better life right now.
There are a lot of reasons why going into debt is not a bad thing. You just have to weigh the interest rate against the investment potential.
To each his own, I'm not going to knock you for not going into debt, but don't act like it's the "smart" thing to do.
What good is reading tech news if you don't post comments on slashdot to show everybody how awesome you are for being interested in tech news! People can't survive a week without slashdot, that's just being unreasonable. People need validation! And up-mods! Imagine the look on your workmates' face when they see that you posted a comment in response to a scientific article! If there weren't a comment site for tech news, nobody would bother reading it! What's the fun of reading tech news if no one knows you're interested in it!
ALL we should do is make sure that if little Sally WANTS to try out for a job she can without discrimination that is it, THAT IS ALL we should do. Instead we try to set quotas and if there isn't "X" number of this or that gender (this only seems to apply to women and certain minorities, nobody complains there is not enough white people playing basketball or males becoming nurses) everyone acts shocked!
I applaud the sentiment. It's nice to think that the world operates to those ideals, but the reality is they don't. I've never heard of a talented, white basketball player complaining that he didn't go pro because he wasn't black.
On the other hand, one of my closest friends told me this weekend that he received a resume from a Harvard grad, and that he wasn't going to even interview him because the guy was black. He was afraid that having a black employee would negatively affect the perception of his company to potential customers. Here we are, in 2013, and a fucking Harvard grad is not getting an interview because of his skin color!
We shouldn't need quotas, but until EVERYONE gets past their preconceptions there isn't much else we can do.
Yeah, bed bugs are a big problem for hotels, and I've dealt with the nightmare of eradicating them after bringing them back home with me. In this case, I think the hotel's response was fair. They offered to put him up in a different hotel AND pay him $40 for his trouble, and he declined that.
He had potentially exaggerated what had happened by labeling it an "infestation", when there is no way he could have known it was. In fact, he could have inadvertently brought them into the hotel on his own luggage or clothing.
I'm not sure he should get sued, but the reviewer is definitely a dick.
And Germany plans to shut down on all those nights that when there are no wind? Give me a break.
Man, if only we had people smart enough to figure out how to store extra energy for the times when the sun isn't shining, or the wind isn't blowing.
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It's not rocket science to figure out how to power a town using just the power available from a non 100% duty-cycle power source. Generate extra while you can and store it in capacitors.
Hell, the UK has a bunch of storage reservoirs waiting just to dump through turbines to handle the extra load from tea kettles fired up during breaks in the World Cup.
You forgot to mention that MS also coerced most of the major ISPs to add at least 2 ActiveX controls onto the front page of their web sites, making them unusable on anything but IE on Windows. Additionally, they abused their desktop market share by giving away a free web page designer that generated broken HTML that would only render properly in IE's broken rendering engine.
Netscape WAS the better browser (until 6, which was an epic fuck up). Unfortunately it became impossible to use because too many sites required IE.
It will take a LOT for me to forgive them for nearly forcing the web to be a Windows-only world.
Why is it that every time there's a new idea presented on Slashdot, the slightest connection to existing technology makes it completely worthless?
For some people, it's easier to tear down another person's idea or accomplishment than to accomplish something great themselves. It's really like saying, "I could've done that... but I didn't... 'cause it's dumb."
It isn't programmer negligence in this case, it's the underlying Android implementation. The default constructor is supposed to seed the generator with secure entropy. Conversely, setSeed() is considered insecure and not recommended.
See SecureRandom
Configure your browser/MUA/etc to only use ciphers that use ephemeral Diffie-Hellman for key exchange. The encryption key is then not associated with the private key of the server.
With blacks making up 61% of the convictions of homicides from 2003 to 2011.
FTFY. I hope you understand how the number of "perpetrators" and "convictions" are only related by the amount of money the defendant has to spend on lawyers.
Old Navy cargo shorts are the worst! The normal side pockets are too small to hold anything without the risk of them falling out. My phone and keys are always ending up on the ground unless I put them in the lower "cargo" pockets, and those are just a pain, and without buttoning them down stuff falls out of them too!
This restaurant was advertising breakfast any time. So I ordered french toast in the renaissance. - Steven Wright, comedian
