I know the FBI has been asking for something remedial-level easy, like a master key, for ssl since at least the 90s. Do you have a citation or anything? Speaking of remedial-level.. the DoJ still hasn't shown it has *anything* in the way of file evidence for its megaupload case. My wager is on the agents unplugging everything pell-mell before bothering to ask "what's a storage cloud". Ever since they suspended the 4th for certain cases, there are always, um, "very eager" agents on the scene whenever a seizure is in play.

"Skunkworks" is just as diluted and meaningless and expression as "genius" is anymore. For-profit universities of today do not turn out engineers capable of designing an SR71 with sliderules and graph paper. Greed has made our population so stupid, I doubt we could pool enough brains to design an SR71 *with computer modelling today.

Epistemology tells me that if there is, in fact, an 'IQ gene' it undoubtedly serves as the Pirate gene as well.

Let's say the numbers are clean indicators, which I seriously doubt.

I'm not shocked only 1 in 5 people in a country in the midst of a depression bought an American CD last year, I'm shocked 1 in 5 people in a severely short economy DID buy an American CD last year.

Take a look at their usage breakdown. The poorest countries use P2P the most. Who's the braniac counting 'lost sales' here? Can he sue his educators?

If the US government wants more sales in Spain, we should send them more money. RIAA doesn't use the barter system.

Personally I'm not willing to separate communication over a computer network from face to face communication when it comes to freedom of expression or for that matter accountability for fraud, libel, sedition, civil offenses etc. The domain's owner pays a fee to use that identity for his puposes, and the only purpose of computer networking is communication. It *should be cut and dry, the government should have no special powers to censor Internet communications any more than they should be permitted to pepper spray passive demonstrators. This domain was seized without even contacting the owner and witheld for a full year. No offenses were committed and no due process was given. IMO they did conspire to violate US 1st and 4th amendment rights.

Sounds like a clear case of conspiring to violate the civil rights of a citizen.

That will never fly here for the same reason that the American Top Gear will never come close to the spirit of the original. This is a BBC thing: sponsors don't pay for the show... people do. Without worry of offending sponsors or friends of sponsors or potential future sponsors, Clarkson can pretty much express any personal opinion he wants. We have a word for that here in TVland: "terrorism".

Mac : PC = Democrats : Republicans
Functionally, they don't even pretend to be made of different parts anymore.