That's because you have nothing to hide now .

Just wait until something that is important to you evolves (through a slippery slope) into something that those in control politically disagree with. Then, you'll either fall in step and give up your "thoughtcrime" or you'll become a Winston Smith and have to continue your thoughts underground.

Where's the tag!?

Don't be ridiculous, everybody knows "guns don't kill people, mosquitoes do".

I've got a great idea-- how about all of those in favor of strong central (federal) government move to states that grant that authority to the fed as a part of the 10th amendment. Those of us who want to remain "weak" and keep our income tax dollars in our own wallets can move to states that recognize the importance of check and balance as granted in the 10th amendment.

Those who want Creation taught as Science move to like-minded states (or just private schools). Those who want real science, move to the other states.

Those who want abortion, move to state ___. Those who don't, move to state ___.

Those who want ___, move to X; those who don't, move to Y.
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Are you starting to see the beauty of a collection of independent states yet? Notice how if we allowed the Constitution to work like the framers intended, most of these stupid squabbles could be resolved by selling one's home and moving. If it's not important enough to you to change your address, then shut your mouth or petition your state.

"libertarians" believe in private property, yes. But to argue that all libertarians want all roads private is just as stupid as making all citizens pay for all roads with federal tax dollars. The primary notion is decentralization. If a community wants to collect local tax revenues (via property, sales, or income tax) to pay for local roads, that's OK by a libertarian. A libertarian wants the LIBERTY to choose whether or not to live in such a location. In some places, it makes economic sense to do so, because free roads (and parking) may provide a boom to local economy.

But a libertarian also wants the freedom (liberty) to choose to live on the end of a long private road with no trespassers or passersby. It's the freedom of choice.

I'm also curious how many libertarians would want to live in large megalopolis cities like LA or NY.

OK. Now that I have your attention, instead of "children" think of other small, computationally weak things ... like handhelds. ECC excels in lower computational cost over RSA. That is yet another reason, as everyone's day planner has a web browser which requires DNS. Want your iPhone's battery to drain less fast? Use ECC instead of RSA for your public key crypto of choice.

For that matter, DNSSEC should consider allowing ECC public keys. Then we would at least be debating the merits of the application of crypto in the protocols, not the crypto algorithms themselves (slashdot really isn't the place to debate that anyway).

OK, so I'll either by insightful or a troll here (at least I'm aware of that).

It's more obvious than that (why blackberries fail more often than iPhones) ...

Blackberries are the Windows PCs of the handheld market. Sure, they're more "enterprise" than Macs (iPhones), but all of the same criticisms apply. It's typically the same customer base, too, who have come to expect high percentages of failures in products.

Mark me as a flaming troll if you want, but it's true.