WPA uses portions from WEP, but AFAIK its not terribly vulnerable because it was designed better. There are "weaknesses" but as I recall current attacks on WPA basically boil down to bruteforce.

Because this would be a really stupid way to do an attack.

Whose lives are probably miserable at this point.

Id be much more inclined to play the lottery if the pot were between 50k and 1m, as it would have a far lesser chance of ruining my life.

Its been a long time since the "CD" in CSMACD has been relevant (or the "MA"!)

The OSI model puts TCP at layer 4 (session), not layer 3 (addressing, AKA IP). In any case you're making the massive leap to assume that TCP would be used for low latency audio; its entirely possible that it uses UDP, because in real-time audio retransmitted packets get there far to late to be of use. Or that they use RJ45 for the physical layer but dont use ethernet / IP at all.

Gold is a worse conductor than copper and silver. Its only benefit is that it does not corrode. Silver is superior to copper in just about every way.

The ultimate conductor (if you wanted to pretend that errors come from resistance, rather than RFI) would be gold-coated-silver, I believe.

The problem is that in their haste to jump on the "ridicule the dumb product" bandwagon, a lot of people are exposing their ignorance of how networking works.

Someone down below seems to think that switches do retransmits. The way I was raised, if I dont know what Im talking about I keep my mouth shut.

Sounds like you shouldnt be using rj45.

Theres no such thing as an ethernet re-transmit, and switches dont do them. There are TCP retransmits, which would be done by the endpoint, assuming it were using TCP; the problem is retransmits take (if memory serves) 2x timeout period to be sent, which is useless in the context of audio. Hence, UDP is used, which doesnt do retransmits; you just hear a blip in the audio stream.

Obviously this depends on what you're doing. If you're on pandora.com, I believe they stream the music into a buffer by TCP, so that any retransmits happen well before your playback reaches that part of the buffer.

There is some very very slight logic to the ethernet cable, in that silver IS the best conductor, and technically noise COULD possibly have an impact on playback. The reality however is that there are a million other things which will cause noise before the type of metal, its purity, or anything else like that has an impact; and in reality a normal 10ft ethernet cable is going to have 0.00001% errors under normal circumstances. for 99.9999% of the time you would be unable to tell a difference between the two.

Uranium is (AFAIK) pretty common, and it doesnt take much of the stuff to generate a very large amount of power.

Meanwhile, solar uses some pretty exotic materials itself which requires mining, and the manufacturing isnt super clean either from what I've heard.

All energy forms have their problems. Nuclears is that everyone has an irrational phobia around it.

How long did it take for the death toll from Bangqiao dam to get tallied, or the devastated landscape to recover?

Im not sure exactly what the aftermath of a dam that size breaking is, but Im quite certain its more concrete than some hypothetical cancer risk statistics like we have for Fukushima, Have we even passed 100 predicted deaths for that accident, compared to the ~25,000 dead from the tsunami?

The fearmongering here is insane. Nuclear has one of the lowest deaths-to-GWh produced with the possible exception of solar (unless people are falling off roofs installing them), and yet its treated like the most dangerous.

How many people have died so far from nuclear incidents, in the last 50 years?

Now look at Bangqiao Dam, ~200,000 deaths from that one accident, trumping all past and predicted future deaths from all incidents (including Chernobyl) by a factor of 3 or more. Heres the million dollar question: why does noone EVER mention safety when a renewable like hydro is brought up? Why does it get a pass, and nuclear is the bogey man?

General consensus for folks with actual drug addictions seems to be that it stops being "life prioritized as you want" and more "how do I feed this uncontrollable addiction and feel OK". Not sure if you've ever dealt with someone who has alcohol issues, but its not about "having fun". It ends up being feeding a growing problem and generally ruining your life (losing your job, your license, going to jail).

I am well aware of the whole "drugs are fine and enjoyable" meme, but applying that to opioids is ridiculous. Someone in the throes of heroin addictive isnt living a life thats "normal" in any sense of the word except perhaps that its predictable.

I get the feeling you didnt read the articles on his testimony. The picture painted is that the guy had a good job in IT making solid money, got hooked on painkillers, and ended up spending thousands of dollars a week just trying to avoid withdrawal because his habit spiralled out of control. I dont think you will hear him wanting to go back to it.

Before long, Duch was using 30 bags a day. When he stopped using, he'd get sick within a few hours. "Sweating, vomiting, diarrhea—extreme flu-like symptoms," he explained.....

Despite those difficulties, Duch got clean in 2009. But in 2012, he relapsed—again starting with prescription pain-killers, again finding them too insufficient and too expensive, and turning to heroin. He was spending $200 to $300 a day on the drug. He burned through his own salary, then his savings. He shoplifted from a Target, but got caught. And then he went to Silk Road.

Yea, a guy who got clean on his own and then quickly relapsed and went from IT consulting to shoplifting at target-- clearly he has it all under control.

Paperwork signed at a dealership can never be air-tight. Look up Contracts of adhesion.

Thats pretty strange logic; you can be sufficiently addicted to heroin to jump through whatever hoops you need to to get a fix. That doesnt mean that heroin doesnt impair your ability to live a normal life.

Maybe you have other, more valid objections to the war on drugs but thats a pretty strange one. One of the key witnesses was a guy who ended up ruining his life by getting hooked on heroin and became a dealer on silk road. If you're looking for evidence that drugs dont ruin your life this isnt it.