The Google and Bing bots do... who's publishing a crawl of the web that doesn't?

robots.text is a note to Google and Bing to stop. It doesn't stop a web browser, but you can't be found in the search engines.

FISA creates a "sealed record"... they'll have to reveal it eventually if they want to use it in other courts.

Regulations aren't law... they're Executive branch policies, under authority granted by a previous law. Mostly they set numbers on things that the law left to a range... and courts don't hold up most others.

There's no such thing as a secret law in the USA... it's either in Lexis or it never existed.

[Quote]NSA director Adm. Michael S. Rogers wants to require technology companies to create... But progress is nonexistent:[/Quote]

Nobody's helping him, so he's complaining to the media... nothing to see here, move along.

Yep, they don't understand "digital tear point"...

It's a way of sending a block to a lower-level person that gives them the headline and some of the story, enough to convince them to hand it to the high-level authorities that get the rest of the story by decrypting a second block that's only for them.

Breaking a key apart just means they have to get together and they they have everybody's secrets... that's not how it's supposed to be done.

The problem here is that when the SSL snoops get credit card data, they become the cracker that's supposed to be arrested. These warrentless wiretap losers don't last long, yet they always seem to be making more of them.

The problem here is that uncrackable-without-the-secret crypto poses a problem for the "give us everything!" police investigators... these are the guys who want warrentless wiretaps and other gifts from the tech industry.

There's no master key that can solve all crypto... what they really want is a password that causes the device to give up its locks.

That's a slogan rather than a company name. Additionally, Home Depot got sued by a smaller hardware store for that one. Google doesn't find the tobacco definition of that one anymore.

What I'm really saying is that Coca-Cola should only have to register Sprite at the trademark office, not at every domain suffix in the world. This .sucks TLD is just an extortion program.

Apple Records and Apple Computer went to trademark court and ended up settling. Apple Computer got the ability to just be called Apple as a result.

The problem is that IP addresses change too often, just like phone service before the existence of number portability. Somebody needed to spring up to map trademarks to IP addresses, and that's the domain name system.

The problem was, the invention of .com, .net and .org allows similarly named unrelated entities to start confusion.

The Internet was a USA invention, then we invited other nations to play too. Which is why .com, .net, .org, .gov and .mil all represent American sites.

You already have to provide identity information to run a server or exist on a shared server... your domain name must be in whois or you must have somebody stand in between for whois purposes, and you must provide billing info to a web hosting or server hosting company and/or your bandwidth provider.

What I'm saying is that that domain names are trademarks, and keeping a separate list for trademark owners and domain owners only leads to abuses such as .sucks which put companies like Coca-Cola in a position to have to pay up for an expensive domain, or risk a detractor group that wants to keep caffeine away from people they want to hold down owning a piece of Coca-Cola's web space.

You don't have to be a corporation to register a trademark. The point is, you shouldn't own a .com and have to worry about a competitor becoming the .sucks next to you.

We solve this with "country codes" in the phone system... so maybe .us can be presumed for American users, and the rest of the world still accessible by cTLD.