That would be strange.

Heavy power usage at off peak times is one of the best signs somebody is running a grow-op in their basement. I wonder if your heavy power usage at night will bring a friendly visit by black clad ATF members with sledgehammers and automatic weapons?

For the very paranoid:

cat /dev/random to your hard disk before creating an encrypted partition.

Of course it is about revenue; that is why you see local cops from towns many miles away chasing out of state cars on the freeway. Its all a scam.

My solution is to see all ticket revenue donated dollar for dollar to the UN. Then they can write all the tickets they want without any revenue generation conflict of interest.

Any DRM system is only as good as the weakest link in the chain. BD+ doesn't have to be broken, only one link in the chain and the whole thing falls apart. You just need a little HDCP stripper box between the legal blue ray player, and whatever you are using to copy. And there is now no physical way to invalidate the keys in the HDCP stripper box. They box could identify itself with an infinite number of working keys generated each time it is powered up. As mentioned in an earlier thread, the unencrypted raw stream can then be recompressed/encoded into any desired format. (Including BD+ and AACS free Bluray) As mentioned earlier, any good HW engineering student armed with the specs and an FGPA could make one.

The only way to stop this would be to start over with a new master key, which would brick every existing HDCP encumbered piece of hardware out there.

I can't imagine how any sane individual with even a trivial background in zoology could believe the literal story of Noah's Ark - how viable breeding populations of millions of species, many of which depend on rare and unique habitats for survival were collected from all over the world by Noah and his family, even the most remote places. (Hint: Inaccessible Island lives up to its name, even today) They somehow kept them alive for 40 days on a boat with bronze age technology. (Some of the reptiles I keep require special UVB lighting - I wonder where Noah found that?) They were then released and hopped, crawled and wiggled their way back to their homelands leaving no descendent's on the way, and somehow their environment wasn't destroyed by being submerged all that time. For example, the kangaroos all hopped back to Australia leaving no trace en route, and somehow found eucalyptus trees to chew on, (what did they eat during the return journey?) even though the whole continent had been underwater, and their food source should have been wiped out.

And what of all the freshwater fish? They should have been wiped out too when the salty seas flooded their lakes and rivers. Or did Noah's boat also include super size aquarium facilities as well?

I wonder who got the sh*t job of scouring the planet for the 15000 species of butterfly or the 8800 species of ant they eventually took on board Noah’s Ark. But at least we got that magical rainbow for all their trouble. - Azura Skye

Eywa has heard you!!!

No true scotsman would do such a thing...

http://www.logicalfallacies.info/presumption/no-true-scotsman/

You cease being labeled the American Taliban when you cease trying to impose your religious views on the rest of us. Simple no?

Except in the most developed and industrialized countries such as Japan and Sweden, the birth rate has fallen so far, they worry they may actually go extinct in a couple of centuries.

> We should not be glorifying having 19 children when every new child strains our resources.

That's where the wars come in... Population control!

In school I used to play board games such as Squad Leader, Axis & Allies, etcetera and of course somebody always ended up playing the bad guys.

Bet $1Billion you will get an F, then don't show up for the exam. For that kind of sum I won't bother repeating the year - in fact, I won't bother even going back to school.

Dad? Is that you?