"the weakest link is actually the sysadmin, who isn't enforcing appropriate password complexity, length, age, etc..."
Who the hell do you think a sysadmin is? Stablishing policies is way beyond his duties. He can *counsel* about how technical means can help to acomplish a policy but he is not the one to build the policy in first place, much less to enforce anyone on his own.
Why these trade rules aren't being used to enforce environmental agreements and not IP ones is somewhat beyond me.
Because other than a few attention whores who will do whatever they can to get people to look at them, no one actually gives a fuck about the environment. Kind of like yourself.
But other posters will point out, "you can't put a price on your health"
Seems to me this is quite probably the larger reason over regulation that prices don't behave like an efficient market. Regulatory burden may mean an upward pressure on costs, but in a competition/choice driven market, there's downward pressure on prices, which encourages participants to find more efficient ways to provide goods or services within the regulatory framework.
But consumers don't treat health care like they treat electronics or restaurants.
people will cough up to $3200 for a simple abdominal X-Ray that takes, literally, 45 seconds of device time. The same X-Ray costs (I'm told) around $800 in Japan, and less in France or the UK. But in France and the UK, you turn up for your appointment, fill out no extra paperwork, but wait for maybe 90 to 120 minutes to go under the device, because it is utilised at 90% to 100% of the time.
So unless your time is worth over $1000 an hour (and you can't find a way to gain utility out of waiting time), the French and the English have come up with a more efficient system.
Seems
Do I have to manually ask them to send me or so? It seems so. I am not aware of any automated method to get their public key.
This is the purpose of X.509 and LDAP. It requires trusting a central authority (or several), but if you're willing to do this, it works.
PGP's "Web of Trust" is another solution to this problem, in which your client can make decisions such as "Five of my friends trust this public key, so I will too".
"All criminal cases in the UK are Regina V. Defendant."
Even in times of Henry V?
Life is a healthy respect for mother nature laced with greed.