You say that it's "optional", but it's not. If you view it as a scam investment like Tulip Bulbs that can bankrupt people you warn people away from it in some vain attempt to save them before they are ruined by it. It's not optional because when friends and family are dupt into it, and loose their shirt it's going to hurt you even if you didn't personally invest one penny in it.

No, it's not security though obscurity, it's security though not being on the internet, not needing the internet, and not wanting the internet. The older tech prevents someone from even being able to hook it up to the internet even if they wanted to. The internet is one big security hole, and if you don't need it then anything that prevents you from having it is a plus for security.

The machine margin is probably fairly exact, but measuring humans gets a bit fuzzy. What is the margin of error on that 97.53 percent for humans. If it's 3% then I'm going to doubt the claim.

IPv6 is the re-engineer the network solution.

I know they can be a bit cost prohibited, but psudo RNG's always look like you're just waiting for them to eventually become broken. Are the real RNG's out there so cost prohibitive?

Worst case scenario is every plane in the air falls to the ground like a rock. That is were the half million number gets a large bump from. It's unlikely you'd hit the entire US with an EMP at the highest point in the day for air travel, but that would be the worst case initial conditions. People who make worst case scenarios out of what is most likely to happen shouldn't be writing up worst case scenarios.

TFA is kinda small on any details, but what do you expect from Fox News. How exactly does 2 Billion "protect" everyone from an EMP weapon? Have we found something as good a what we currently use, but won't break? Old Vacuum tubes are a nice protection against a system that could go down, but you never want it to go down. You can't really use the good vacuum tubes ether so you're stuck in 1940's tech for a lot of stuff. How exactly does this 2 Billion stop the pace makers from breaking, the planes from falling, and every hospital patient from dying in those few initial hours. That money might help for long term protection by setting up a process to recover from such an event, but I don't really see anything that says it will protect us from the massive initial death toll.

At this point I view eugenics as nearly always bad. With most "improvement" we'll most likely reduce our diversity, and that's pretty bad. Then there is what we view as good for us, and what is good for us is sometimes two different things. There does seem to be a form of what I'll say is epieuginics coming about were instead of tampering with the DNA in a way that removes diversity that it just turns off the currently undesired gene, but could later be turned back on in a future generation. What I've read of it being used for treating down syndrome looks promising, but we'll have to wait, and see.

Not to sound like too much of a conspiracy nut, but Heartbleed did look like a deliberate exploit to some people, and still does to others. If it had been, and had been put there by someone at OpenSSL they are the last ones you actually want to inform until you have already patched it yourself. From the timeline that's what Google did, and then tapped the shoulders of their closes friends so they could ether patch it or disable the heartbeat feature as CloudFlare did. I agree that OpenSSL should have been informed first, but what do you do when you suspect the proper channels are the ones who put it there in the first place.

Typo from a lack of coffee first thing on a Sunday Morning. With a pretty stressful weekend too.

The problem with saying "unless 'a clear national security or law enforcement need' exists" is that it actually compromises national security. What is more important. That you can easily hack in and skill data from the KGB, or some mafia site; or that every last American Citizen can be hacked by the KGB, or mafia? Keeping a bug like heartbleed a secret is something only an idiot or black hat would do. If the NSA knew of heartbleed early, and kept it a secret they are arrogant idiots. They ether wanted criminals to have free rain to steal anything they wanted, or they believed that criminals are too stupid to have found this bug.

When I see a null self initialize into something there will be proof. Until then it is a git semantic proof that is easily exposed as shenanigans with language.

The point of the difficulty is to control the creating of bitcoins. The part your complaining about specifically is about what happens when there are no more coins to mine. They're saying that the fee wont be enough to keep people in. Really, but bother to read their counter argument before you spout off about it.

Really, what is the difficulty of mining when all coins are mined? You still need the miners, but if transaction fees don't actually make enough of an incentive then you end up with fewer and fewer miners. I'd say RTFA but you're a 'coiner reading and comprehending a counter argument isn't in you, and highlights the main flaw.

That's scurvy not measles. Measles is a German disease. American's are Immune.