I may not have first-hand experience with police overreach, but then I have first-hand experience with cryptography, and therefore I know that an analysis of a TrueCrypt-encrypted disk will determine the presence of the outer, encrypted container. The hidden container, on the other hand, is mathematically indistinguishable from encrypted empty space, and there is no way to determine if a hidden container is present unless you 1) have the secret second key (which we assume you don't), 2) can brute-force the key (which you can't), 3) can learn about it from side channel attacks (of which several are known, but for which countermeasures exist) or 4) exploit bugs in the TrueCrypt software (of which none are known).

They won't see a hardrive that reads full, because they will only have the password to the outer container, and the hidden container will hence not be protected... writes to the outer container will simply overwrite the contents of the inner container, making it impossible to tell that it was ever there.

Whoever the Truecrypt developers are, they're not idiots.

None of those points are relevant, except maybe "it's difficult to get right".

The first third of the thread, people are either not talking about hidden containers or don't know what a hidden container is, and instead go on about various steganographic methods of hiding the use of encryption. (E.g. "LUKS header, by design, is visible header."... that goes for TrueCrypt as well, and has nothing to do with hidden containers.)

In the middle third of the thread, they're discussing variations of "it's hard!" and "you can't protect the outer container" (though TrueCrypt does just that).

In the last third of the thread, random people are musing about their little pet-ideas and other off-topic tangents.

There are good arguments for not adding hidden containers to LUKS, most importantly the fact that nobody's stepping up to implement it, but no real arguments against hidden containers.

AFAIK, the TrueCrypt audit project has done no such thing. (Citations welcome.)

But this guy did: https://madiba.encs.concordia....

A microprocessor? Ha! In Denmark, we use PEN and PAPER, and it's still powerful enough!

Seriously, people. Pen and paper. Secure, secret voting doesn't need to be rocket science, please don't try to make it so.

First of all, that "32 % more" is based on finding an average of 4 errors in Wikipedia articles and only 3 errors on average in EB articles.

Secondly, note that this is per article. Since Wikipedia articles are generally much longer than EB articles, the number of errors compared to the volume of information is less in Wikipedia than in EB.

For more information, see this page on the reliability of Wikipedia.

Also note that this study was done in 2005, before the Seigenthaler biography incident, which led to a great increase in quality control on the English Wikipedia, including a much harsher attitude towards unsourced statements.

Though Wooden was actually paraphrasing an earlier quote:

Character is what you are in the dark.
- Dwight L. Moody

No, he's thinking of empathy.

empathy [em-puh-thee] noun.
the intellectual identification with or vicarious experiencing of the feelings, thoughts, or attitudes of another. (Dictionary.com Unabridged, my emphasis)

Empathy is more than just understanding another person's feelings; it's about intuitively sharing those feelings. The layman definition of psycopathy is a lack of empathy. (There is no medical definition of psycopathy; the medical terms are narcissistic and/or antisocial personality disorder.)

For an even better perspective: It's a reduction from what the US consumes in 2 years, to what the US consumes in 1 month. [1]

Whichever estimate holds, one should probably start considering alternatives.

That's not a Heisenbug; that's just a plain old unreproducible bug. A Heisenbug is a bug that disappears when you look for it, and reappears when you stop looking. The classic example is a bug that appear in the release build, but disappears in the debug build where optimizations are disabled.

Why would anyone be inspired by the mutiny on the Bounty? As far as I know, the story goes like this:

16 escaped to Tahiti. A year later, one was killed by a fellow mutineer, who was subsequently killed by an angry mob. Within another year, the Royal Navy arrived and arrested them; 4 drowned. After lengthy trials, 3 were executed, 4 acquitted and 3 pardoned.

The 9 remaining mutineers marooned themselves (along with a group of kidnapped natives) on the deserted Pitcairn island, with all of 4.6 km to spend their remaining life on. Within 4 years, 5 mutineers died in a violent clash; the remaining mutineers began drinking heavily, with one suicide and another two killed in the following years.

But yeah, one of 25 managed to escape the law and survive long enough to even name a town after himself (populated entirely by the natives he and the other mutineers had raped, and their offspring).

...

Okay, scratch that; I realize that compared to the Royal Navy anno 1789, Pitcairn starts to look mighty swell.

It's not either/or. A car can protect its occupants and other people on the road. I'm pretty sure people looking to buy a car don't actively disregard the Volvo V40, just because it has external airbags to protect pedestrians. Unless they're sociopaths.

Then again, Volvo apparently didn't think it'd make commercial sense to sell the V40 in the US...

Yes, there was a Danish study of this. A repeatedly refilled water bottle has a much higher level of bacteria etc. than tap water.

It's still cleaner than regular bottled water, though.

Turns out, all that bottled water sitting still at room temperature for months before purchase doesn't do anything for the water quality. Being a Danish study, all of the above assumes you have clean tap water, of course. YMMV.

And indeed, Golden Rice has all the problems associated with GMO crops, which is why Greenpeace protests it.

- A biological monoculture, increasing the risk that a single pest can cause immense damage to subsistence farmers throughout the region.

- The possibility of unknown pleiotropic effects ("side effects") caused by the mutation.

- Gene privatization, with Monsanto and others already asserting their patents, requiring farmers to obtain a license to grow their crops.

Besides, malnutrition in the third world is the result of widespread poverty, which has numerous causes, none of which is Greenpeace GMO protests. Blaming Greenpeace for that is absurd.