Comment Re: Hope it won't happen in USA, again ! (Score 1) 158
Saddam Hussein was a Ba'athist revolutionary, which is to say he advocated a mixture of Arab Nationalism and socialism. National socialism IS Nazism.
Saddam Hussein was a Ba'athist revolutionary, which is to say he advocated a mixture of Arab Nationalism and socialism. National socialism IS Nazism.
However, the inane aspect about it is that while Republicans blamed Obama for what happened in Benghazi, fact remains that their position on Libya/Qadaffi was no different from the Democrats.
Some think using force is the solution to every problem and some believe democracy is the solution to every problem.
The disaster of the Arab spring is what you get when you combine the two ideas.
Would only that the Muslim world advance to the 18th century—never mind the 21st!—that would be a huge improvement.
To kill 650'000 shitheads. Mission accomplished. Wish they had killed more though.
While it's true that Sadam's military was full of essentially modern day Nazis, we weren't attacked by Nazis on 9/11. We went after the wrong bunch.
Saudi Arabia would have been a better target but the Bushes were too busy holding hands with the King.
And for anyone who doesn't remember, this was the film that Obama blamed the Benghazi attacks on. Despite later admitting that, no, oops, that wasn't what caused the attacks at all.
"Oops"?
The attack happened on Sept 11th just before the 2012 election.
You don't really think it was an accident that they blamed some film-maker and threw him in jail to deflect responsibility from themselves, do you?
It looks to me like these drives write a large amount of data as a spiral of multiple tracks so that the platter must rotate many times to complete the write.
That's fine for streaming data sequentially to the disk for long term storage.
Random writes must be dog-slow, though.
What you're saying then is that there is nothing more popular than code written in a bad, mongrel version of C.
I am far from being an expert on encryption, but the danger is not that PGP will be broken; it's that there are weaknesses in the entire "ecosystem" that allow for side-channel attacks. That's part of what that NSA paper, linked to in the article, is discussing. If there is something that can be exploited in the user's operating system or in the hardware, then that becomes the weak link in the chain.
Then, there is the whole issue that you touch on: namely, the caveat of encryption's efficacy "if used right." The same is true of condoms and even oral contraceptives. Sadly, human beings are very bad at scrupulously adhering to the injunction to "use as directed."
Seriously! Is an alarm going to go off if I'm checking out the cleavage of the young lady behind the counter? I'll take my pervert money elsewhere!
That isn't specifically true at all. It's all about whether you can reproduce, and have a surviving child more than it is about dying.
But there's an advantage to having parents and the parents of parents continuing to live on.
While older adults might not be able to reproduce, the help and assistance of older non-reproducing adults can factor into their descendent's ability to reproduce.
I work in immunology and the coevolution of host and virus to the point where it is harmless would be a Good Thing (TM).
Perhaps good in the long run, but coevolution implies the evolution of the host, too, and that requires an increase, at least temporarily, in the number of dead humans (that pesky selection part of evolution).
The people running the polls where I voted all seemed like nice people, but I doubt there was even one of them who can program a VCR.
Alas, WW2 doesn't seem to have been about religion, and it's still the largest war in human history (and if it were split into two separate wars, they'd be the two largest wars in history).
You're just using too narrow a conception of religion, IMO.
Fascism, National Socialism, and Communism all have their true-believers. And some of them are so certain their faith is the correct one that they're willing to kill for it.
Must it be a car? How about a motorcycle? HUGE modding community; Long history. Also, helmets like the Skully AR-1.
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