If we can fix the NFL, maybe there's hope that we can get the drawing of congressional district boundaries out of the hands of politicians...

Nah...

Don't you know- corporations are people! People have citizenship, therefore, corporations have citizenship.

conditions at the time of the incident would prove or disprove it in about 5 minutes.

Dumb question from someone who knows little about football: wouldn't both teams be playing with the same balls, and thus both have equal benefit from the alleged deflation?

No, I said Ted Cruz and I meant it.

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We are stupid and will die on this rock before we figure out how to get off it.

Tell Ted Cruz they need "nuculur" engines to make a rocket to find Jesus. It will get funded immediately...

If you store the data encrypted and something happens to you, the files are worthless to someone else, maybe a family member, who might enjoy/benefit from their availability. Have you put the encryption key in your will / living will, or already given it to people close to you so they will be able to access your stuff when you're gone or incapacitated? Or are the files only for your own eyes?

hijackers, malware, viruses, NSA eavesdropping...

who don't deny science.

The rest can consult a homeopath when they get sick.

you don't have to read it if it annoys you.

political in nature. Science denial, a willingness to kill in the name of religion, etc. Can it address that type of problem?

You've never heard of the citizen's united supreme court decision? Corporations are people and money is free speech. Corporations can give as much as they want to any politician or party they choose.

Spying and security problems at corporations are directly related. If data was kept encrypted until it is used, including the data I voluntarily give corporations, they'd have fewer hackers stealing credit card data type security breaches and it would be harder for industrial espionage to take place. It would also be harder for governments, foreign and domestic, to intercept communications.

The problem now is that no one can trust any encryption because you can't be sure the NSA hasn't already put back doors into it. If someone comes along and claims they have encryption that the NSA can't bust, how are they going to prove it?

corporations that control the government. They are the ones paying real money to prevent and remedy security breaches. It seems it would be in their best interests to have strong encryption to prevent a lot of expensive problems, yet they seem unusually quiet on the subject.

The terrorists will always find a way to communicate in secret. Eliminating secure encryption will simply raise the cost of secure communication for them. Meanwhile the rest of us will be left with our asses showing.

the US had a near monopoly on stupid public officials.

Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

Why not use a real random number generator (such as avalanche noise in a semiconductor junction) to generate a key instead of a pseudorandom number generated by software that can be back-doored?