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Comment Re:Everyone creates arbitrary lines (Score 1) 628

What's more cruel, caging chickens, or pricing food out of reach of the poor? While I acknowledge that it doesn't have to be a dichotomy, I would suggest that eliminating human starvation is a higher priority than deciding whether chickens are sad (but obviously not starving) and if so, how to remedy that.

Comment Wrong question (Score 1) 511

The legal argument isn't one of efficacy; it's one of Constitutionality. It doesn't matter whether the program could have prevented 9/11 -- a lot of arguably unconstitutional actions could also have prevented 9/11 -- but whether the program follows the letter and spirit of the Fourth Amendment and related law. Does the government have an inherent right to know about any and all communications simply because they occur? The answer should be an obvious "no."

Comment Re:I have some bad news and some good news (Score 1) 174

The amount of processing that it's worthwhile to perform really depends on the amount of data you have. If it's a dragnet attack, then a high degree of automation is worthwhile, but if it's a targeted attack, then human processing is much more likely.

About 7 years ago, after some suspicious symptoms, I discovered there was an outgoing connection to an IRC channel from my machine. I ran a network sniffer and discovered that every keystroke and mouse click were being sent, along with the name of the object that handled the click.

If the person or people who wrote the malware hadn't decided to change my email password, it could've been a long time before I noticed I was compromised. I never found the attack vector. In retrospect, it may have been my ex.

Comment Re:I have some bad news and some good news (Score 1) 174

Many keyloggers log mouse clicks too. Your technique would stifle an automated scrape, but likely human eyes are going to be looking at keylogged data at some point anyway, otherwise it's just noise. There's no algorithm for "separate out the password typing from all this other typing." So at best they have to order the characters you've helpfully provided. That means the number of possible permutations is just 9: k (length) of "password" (8) + 1, in case you positioned the cursor before the first letter. If you clicked between every character, it would still only be k^2, so a whopping 121 permutations for 11 characters. If anything, your technique would just draw more attention, I would be more likely to send you an email saying "nice try."

If I were into that sort of thing.

Comment Re: Should be legal, with caveat (Score 1) 961

You've posted basically the same post at least 3 times. We get it. Being immortal would suck, although I'm not sure how the laws of physics would apply to someone who would necessarily be existing outside of them to survive without energy.

That said, I think what most of us would be happy with is a self-determined lifespan, and that's basically what people mean when they say "forever." But you already knew that.

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