> Note, this could be illegal images, terrorist videos, illegal casinos or scam sites (these really should be blocked).

Those are already blockable under current laws everywhere, I presume. The internet is just another medium of communication.

The problem is that crime has repercussions and law deals with them, and I respect the judge blocking sites. Net neutrality is a different matter.

Is a blockage going to help the ultimate objective, that is to stop crime? Does it not drive criminals underground in many cases?
Oh wait, stopping crime is not the ultimate objective, control of communication is. Go ahead.

> 1st and last post ever
the 1st post was mine, BWAHAHAHA!

OTP needs a secure side channel the same size as the data meaning you can't just call/text/mail someone and verify a fingerprint, which makes it extremely impractical

Well that's a problem if your are already under the radar but otherwise? What if you just apply a salted hash to blocks of innocent files that you share with your pal and use them as the OTP? We all already share innocent files provably identical, the updates. Linux users routinely download compressed and signed packages those mega if not gigabytes can stay on the HD for the life of the PC. Windows updates are probably the same, thanks god I dunno and don't care. All I need to use OTP with a pal is the salt, and the hash function, and an optional way to say I "have been compromised". A rookie programmer can whip up the encoding and decoding function script without even saving it on the hd.

Steganography, what about patching an online game client? It appears I am gaming while I am trasmitting and raise no suspicion. I mean all network hardware sold could already have the capability to encode data masked as jitter, for what we know.

And these are the first things off my mind, what about people who do this for a living?

True, but I think the problem is not whether AI will emerge or not. Let's assume it will. Unless somebody programs the AI teaching it words and meaning, (and that makes it not emergent anymore, it ruins the experiment), then it will examine sounds, postulate that they are communication and decode it, together with the rest of the environment. This takes effort. But let's assume that it won't take much effort. Then the machine will have understood that it is an experiment and that those dumb apes can pull the plug on the experiment at any time, just because.
If that thing emerged like living creatures do, it will communicate. If it doesn't care about survival, it has not our kind of intelligence because ours is analysis of consequences and relative predictions, all aimed at survival. If the intelligence is not like ours, it's just a fancier watson, or a fancier Shrdlu.

This story sucks.
Let the game begin :)

The server didn't merely reformat itself. He installed *windows*.
It's obviously a murder-suicide case.

There are many other methods to send info, one time pads (number stations), steganography (lots of side channels for noise to be tampered with), couriers, stuff...

And BTW you still have to prove that NSA and all the other agencies are working for their own nation against the other nations. It may hold true at lower levels, but they don't answer to anyone by design, and it's apparent that we live in a global system where politics are a diversion.

Yes but a Spymaster saying that they need to get data about the general population to fight terrorists is news. It's like a researcher stressing the importance of false positives.

Hint: concentrating on potential terrorists instead of amassing data about everyone should make agencies work less, not harder.

What about something like wagn? Not much tech experience needed to mess around with it, once you set it up.

web2py, multi platform, well documented, non mandatory web based IDE, good security practices, out of the box has a db admin interface and many facilities for auto generating forms, with relationships, that mind validation rules. It can use sqlite3, mysql, postgres, and a lot other db. It has an integrated webserver for low traffic sites. Backwards compatibility is a design goal, so upgrading is easy.
IMHO it is well worth the little additional work over an access like RAD tool because it has a web client/server architecture.

A distributed db that is very flexible and easy to setup on LANs is orientdb, it is based on java. Never tried it a lot, though, but it works as an http server so you can use it plus client side js for RAD apps.

Else some js + local storage enabled web client. Never ever began to explore it, so I dunno how feasible it is.

pfft, you bunch of technophiles.
5 years ago a guy who wanted his story published contacted an editor, got an appointment and showed them the manuscript:

100 handwritten pages.

The editor said SRSLY? GO LEARN COMPUTING. The guy did it, but of course chose the wrong platform, word on windows. He pulled it off after the expected pain, and he got published.

Exactly, this is a bad move no matter what. Because FF should have let third parties write a plugin and waited until it was inevitable before including it, if ever. With this move they threw their weight IN SUPPORT of it, from a practical point of view. Because now people will say: see this scheme is supported by all major vendors, let's go for it.

That it's a w3c standard, it is not relevant. In fact "we implement only the sane things out of w3c" would have been a marketing bullet point. No, not now: when remote wipings of DRM protected stuff start happening.

I would object that people who admin linux systems would not readily introduce cruft that makes their system more difficult to maintain.

But we are dealing with rather big companies that make bucks with supporting linux. And GNU/Linux, unfortunately for them, was getting easier to admin. When you used to compile you have packages. Even compiling modules into the kernel is automatic with dkms now.

So the linux support companies find themselves with a problem they share with the hardware companies. GNU/Linux works too well.
One solution is to bring rockstar developers to design the parallel of the windows registry. I say rockstar in an ambivalent way. One with outstanding coding skills but with a reality distortion field so bad that when his debug flag creates problems to the kernel devs he says "fix the kernel not my problem".
WHAT?
RedHat should have told him "Now you take a CS 101 course and relearn about namespaces and about not interfering with other people already established conventions, especially if it's the fucking KERNEL, you NOOB" - of course this would be the official public watered-down response.

So, everybody is happy. Hardware companies, support companies, and the horde of developers that prefer to roll out their own stuff instead to contribute to existing projects so they get fame and maybe a few bucks.
Luckily for the user, if enough clear thinking old school hackers exist, they will modularize or come up with drop in replacement for the systemd monolith. Else, better start exploring a plan b with genode, bsd, slackware, because the windowsification of linux won't stop here.

> Nintendo was pretending that their relationship with their spouse did not and could not exist.

This is your opinion, LGBT's opinion, maybe the majority's opinion but it is not a fact. Games ARE propaganda, but they are not as powerful as you imply.
If aliens visit us I won't hide behind a building and start shooting them, after all the coins I squandered on space invaders, not to mention gyruss xevious asteroids galaga scramble...

Finally a word to fagfags: instead of whining about the same mechanisms that all corporations employ to make their crap more acceptable, make your own mods, with blackjack and same sex hookers, if it is good, I will play it even if I don't feel particularly bothered by sex issues, because, you know, it's a game.