This is true.

I mean, the "cybercrime" investigators that work for the FBI are not stupid and they're not incompetent. If you're running a large, well-known drug-selling site, they probably will put resources into finding you. On top of that, the deck is really stacked against you -- as a criminal, you need to avoid making any mistakes, while the investigator only need to wait for you to make a mistake. They're patient. (And "investigator" is not just people working for the police -- it's also anyone who might both have reason to dislike you and also motivation to reveal your identity to the police.) So, it may well be possible to hide indefinitely from prosecution, but it's not easy.

Here, you don't have to search for a clinic that provides free vaccines, either. It's a local government department.

All local services change if you move states. You certainly don't see the same GP after you move, no?

Everywhere I've lived in the US, vaccinations are provided gratis by the local health department.

People with insurance usually go to a doctor and get their vaccinations through them, but the health department will also do it for free. (That's the same health department that will run free STD tests.) Often, the real battle is communicating to people that these resources are available, fighting the stigma associated with getting free services from the government, and the practical issues of getting a working person over to a busy government office.

As many childhood vaccinations are practically mandatory in the US, as they're required for attending elementary school (which is also mandatory), it makes sense that they're freely available.

As a result, I think, of Obamacare, all childhood vaccines and most adult vaccines (including flu) are free to anyone with insurance.

It depends. You can get anyone to read a script on a recorded television show, but that's usually not the point. You can't really do an interesting interview with someone who is a good communicator but isn't familiar with the subject matter.

It depends. All of those are supported by theory. They're only "speculative" in that they are permitted by theory but have not been observed and, as a result, it's an interesting question as to whether or not they exist. (If they don't or can't exist, can that information be used to improve our theory?) So, depending on the context and what you say about them, they are potentially interesting lines of discussion, because they offer insight into what (some) physicists are still looking in to.

Demonstrating that people should be using wireless keyboard protocols that don't suck.

Well, a droud utilizes a wire that actually goes into the brain. The tasp, on the other hand, works externally and remotely. So this is somewhere in between the two.

1. That's pretty common simply because getting anything approved for encryption above the SBU level is difficult and expensive. (It also requires, in essence, review by and the approval of NSA.) So tons of encryption products are made only up to the SBU level.

2. Even with end-to-end encryption, it's unlikely that they would approve classified data transiting the Internet.

The "A" stands for "Advanced". I think they were more interested in a research network than a tactical (battlefield) network. I think it's still true that "one organization controls all the infrastructure between two points on the Internet" was *not* the model of the Internet they were envisioning at the time.

The issuer generally doesn't have a copy of your private key. You make a public-private keypair, put the public key into a certificate request, send the request to a CA, and the CA generates a signed certificate from it that includes the public key. The private key is not seen by the CA at any point.

You of course *could* have the CA generate both parts and then send you both the public and private key, but that's not nearly as good a solution and is much less common. Most of the CAs I've seen that provide "easy to use" interfaces generate the keypair in the Web browser so that the private key doesn't have to be transmitted.

"It is not within the technical capabilities of [Company X] to fulfill this request."

They do say which commercially-available strains they use.

That's only true if you propagate yeast (internally) for many generations. You can also buy yeast, which a lot of brewers do because it saves them the trouble of doing careful quality control on a microbial culture.

It's also possible to acquire other brewers' yeasts unless they filter or sterilize their beer. Yeast labs do this on a regular basis and then sell it to other breweries (and to homebrewers). The yeast from The Alchemist, for example, is available from a couple of different companies now.

Only a handful of yeast strains are so interesting that their being "proprietary" is economically valuable. A lot of those have been cloned and are commercially available. Some are mixed microbial cultures (like with lambics), which are very challenging to copy because they're sensitive to their particular environment.

Really, the answer is that brewers don't worry about others stealing their secrets too much, because the market is big, it's pretty easy to make interesting beer recipes, and there are so many process variables that's it's very hard to make exact clones even if you have another person's secrets.

Many crafter brewers will simply give you their recipes -- or at least, the important details -- if you e-mail them and ask.

PtY is not difficult to reverse-engineer. It's expensive to make, though, and the ratio of beer nerds to homebrewers is high enough that making it yourself doesn't really put a dent in their market.

No. You're completely imaging--synthesizing--that Windows is "my platform" because Secure Boot was mentioned. The whole argument of signing kernels, root compromising the kernel with modifying the disk, etc. is just as true in Windows as in Linux. You just change the jargon. It's absolutely the same system.

Incidentally, by the nature of my work, I have all kinds of different operating systems. Most serious work gets done on Linux, or, occasionally, OS X, because I can't stand MinGW / Cygwin and command-line is faster. I also don't have a Windows system that actually supports UEFI Secure Boot.