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Comment Re:Are non-China users safe? (Score 2) 100

No. Any root CA (or anyone holding an intermediate CA cert with a trust chain back to a root) can sign a certificate for any domain at all.

Even worse, there is no way to know which certs you need and which you can get rid of. This question has remained open on Super User without a good answer for over half a year:
http://superuser.com/questions...

Comment Re:Good. +1 for Google. (Score 1) 176

If a CA clearly can't be trusted, then it has absolutely no business being trusted.

The issue is, though, why wait for the CA to go before deciding not to trust it? Why should all users in the world have Chinese, American, Iranian, Russian, and other potentially-rogue CAs trusted by their browser?

This Stack Exchange (SuperUser) question about how to know which certs to leave in and which to remove has gone without a decent answer for months:
http://superuser.com/questions...

Comment Re:Explains a lot. (Score 2) 42

My daughter and I were watching it live as well. I have no idea how much it costs, but I believe that they have to drain the LOx tank if the vehicle sits off countdown timer on the pad. That seems pretty expensive to me! I'm not even sure that they can reuse the cryogenics, it might be vented to atmosphere.

I just asked here, if you are interested:
http://space.stackexchange.com...

Comment Re:Dupe? (Score 4, Interesting) 76

Thanks, Bert. I agree with you on all accounts.

I've been on both ends of the assault rifle, and my children have been through one rocket damaging our home and dozens more landing nearby. The more we "advance" technology the more we enable any particular human to hurt more and more people around them. I long for the day when we forget how to forge rifles and pack blackpowder. Let the warriors (and I say this as a reserve soldier) fight with their fists. There is no way for either side to "leave the civilians out of it" when we are fighting with weapons with a ranges measured in kilometers. If you can't look the other side in the eye, don't pull the trigger / don't throw the punch / don't push the button.

And don't be afraid to call someone a false cleric if they are using holy texts / mythology / out-of-context quotes in order to convince you to hurt somebody.

Comment Re:Dupe? (Score 5, Insightful) 76

Is it kosher then? Or does reality temporarily take precedence over mythology when someone is wounded?

Bert

Nice veiled insult. Saving a human life is considered, as per our mythology, more important than any other commandment. We drive ambulances on the sabbath and use pig implants when that is needed to save a life. There is no "temporary" about that, it is our custom.

Some religions value the afterlife more than human life. Some religions value vague interpretations of scripture more than human life. Some politicians value religion more than human life. Jews believe in human life first, all else second.

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