How about I just declare my decision to oppose you at every turn for the rest of my life, and when you escalate, re-escalate in response, for the rest of my life, and we just leave it at that?

Secrets coming out all over these days... good luck, you'll need it.

" they’ve had their most personal conversations—gossip, medical conditions, love lives—exposed."

This boggled my mind. I know that some people use their work email to explain their medical conditions to HR, but wow....

Basic rule of email: It's not private.
Basic rule of corporate email: Don't put anything in it you don't want the management team to read.

If you're discussing something about your love life in this day and age, why on earth would you use corporate email to do it??? Use your personal phone, or fire up webmail.

And yeah; personally confidential documents shouldn't be stored on the intranet or in "the cloud" of a business; that's where *business* data is supposed to be stored.

When can we get that? I'm bored now - speaking as an intelligent (biological) machine (my predilection for posting on /. not withstanding...)

Evolution doesn't kill anything. Sometimes the environment kills things, sometimes they reach the full expression of their complexity without being killed. Evolution is when the environment kills and diversity is reduced, and the herd now again consists of those whose nature is capable of full expression in the environment.

Ever heard of Gnosticism? They preached that this world was inherently evil, and that when humanity went extinct, we'd all be resurrected in a much nicer world, and therefore, breeding was an evil act.

Not too many Gnostics around. See how that works?

At least with mythology, if it's wrong enough, it kills its adherents, so it's subject to evolutionary pressure.

This may as well have been pulled out of a cereal box.

I see it does have side effects though.... ;)

What you're speaking of is not a federated republic; the United *States* would have to change its name, as making substance intake a federal issue removes significant power of statehood.

Of course, the DEA and Congress are already at the state level, which means they're already mandating all substances at a federal level -- they just (wisely) aren't enforcing these mandates when individual states choose to ignore them.

I can think of just one: LEOs see a bunch of people lurching around and groaning "braains!" after ingesting some new chemical compound.

The truth is that policy should belong to the FDA, but LEOs are first responders, and should have some say in correlations. Most of this should be data fed back to the FDA to help them make their decisions, but there are some remote possibilities where this process may take longer than quat is required to prevent actual harm to society.

Stretching the argument I know, but it's still a reason.

Only if someone elects to get excited.

Sure, every TV commercial showing someone using Pay Wave - tap, (beep/flash), done. In addition, it's advertised as being faster than just swiping. Having to type in a PIN isn't faster. The US is supposed to move to Chip and PIN next year for CC - I think debit cards usually need a PIN already (not sure, I would *never* use a debit card). Often no signature/PIN is required for common purchases (like food) if under $50 - both CC and debit.

The VISA Pay Wave doesn't have user challenge/response, it's simply a wireless magstripe. It's just a gimmick and really no faster than swiping the card. Skimming at a POS terminal - other than at a gas station or older ATM - is pretty rare (and/or ballsy) and I've personally never heard/read about it anywhere. I live in the US, so your mileage may vary elsewhere...

You cling desperately to your stupid "I'm thinking of a number" straw man because you know that I'm right. Everything that hasn't been confirmed not to be a threat is a threat. You secure your turf, survey it regularly, and build a wall in the hopes it will be good enough to deal with the threat of the unknown.

You know this, of course. Children could figure this out. You're taking this position because you seek to work against the interest of your neighbour and you don't want the task to become more difficult.

You're selfish, and it's as plain as day for all to see.

Now you're just being stupid.

Dictionary: Adj: Secret: kept from the knowledge of any but the initiated or privileged

If you have a secret that you share with just a few and keep the rest of us in the dark, that is a conspiracy, and conspiracies are a threat to peoples freedom.

Is it a number? Is it a plan to seize control over the water supply? I don't know, but you've expended extraordinary effort to keep me from knowing what it is, which means I can't assure myself that I'm secure and further implies to me that if I knew what you were doing I'd be motivated to put a stop to it.

Your secrets keep me from having access to concrete facts, and that is the reason that they represent a threat.

Now, fuck off, coward.

how can you possibly not link to an a/v demo or review of this, in the thread OR in the review???

I went looking on youtube and found a metric crapton of copies of the MS demo. I don't want to watch the publisher's demo, of course it's going to be flawless. (and quite possibly rigged) They've successfully flooded the actual honest review demos into oblivion on youtube. Anyone got a link to a review with A/V test?

Great illustration.

On my desktop, over the LAN, with caching forcibly disabled, HTTP took 5.3 seconds and was 9% slower than HTTPS.

On my mobile, over WiFi, again, with caching forcibly disabled, HTTP took 6.8 seconds and HTTPS took 10.8 seconds, 33% slower, AND instead of consumed 2 MB of data because caching couldn't be used.

On my mobile, over the cellular network, HTTP took 18 seconds, and HTTPS took 30 seconds, 69% slower, AND consumed 2 MB of data.

So, considering that mobile is huge and growing, THIS IS A DUMB IDEA.