The whole point of a small federal government is to force the smaller entities to sort these issues out without an omnipotent third party, the federal government, making decisions that are one-size-fits-all. If two states have a disagreement because one pollutes into a river shared by both, better to have those two states work it out than need to mandate rules that apply to all states where the circumstances may be very different.

There are many gray areas, and life is better working to solve those disputes at the lowest level, not escalating immediately to the highest level. That is the problem with a large federal govenrment...it's TOO EASY to attempt solutions at the highest level, which are bound to be unbalanced in application throughout the spectrum of grays in which the people live.

A bit of chaos and disorder promotes a competition rather than attempting to enforce centralized order which extinguishes competition. This is all about complex systems management.

Immigration, national defense, and a few other areas are all that should warrant federal authority, as they are truly nation-level issues. Environment, education, health care, and the vast majority of issues that affect people on a daily basis are better solved at much lower levels...thus they aren't written into the federal government charter, our Constitution.

"take that 15% DHS funding and funnel it directly into the private members"

Mod that comment up.

America (and others users globally benefiting from the Internet) will be much more secure with a distributed ecosystem with many independent groups each working toward assuring their own independent, autonomous security, rather than attempting to pass the buck to yet another outsourced committee operating as a puppet for the federal government. DHS is moving us toward dystopia with all of the federal intelligence and secret police agencies under one roof, rather than distributed to provide the necessary distrust and competition to keep the organizations healthy.

Federal backing for a clique of "trusted, private-vendor partners" isn't going to raise the bar any better than Darwin's principles will continue to prove out.

FTA, "Congress needs to act to improve our cyber defenses." Congress should focus on getting their job done, such as managing the federal budget, rather than trying to do the job of others.

We all need to act to improve our cyber defenses. Congress isn't going to secure your company's server, nor your home PC, nor your data in the cloud.

We need automated tools to catch obvious security errors in software much like grammer and spelling checks in Word processors.

The use of automated source code review tools should become more popular, especially as a well-linked resource from inside SourceForge and other sites that promote software development. Based on the number of security vulnerabilities so frequently found in software, there's got to be some signature-based checking that could catch the common mistakes, which could be made available by the likes of Google or others who have an interesting in raising the bar for their platforms.

Yes, you nailed it. Time to start buying more guns, it's going to be a wild downhill ride.

The UN and EU are delaying the inevitable. The intellectuals from the early 20th century got it wrong. We need fierce competition among nations.

It will benefit the human race if the EU breaks apart and we return to many smaller tribes where some win and others lose, rather than all suffering in malaise together.

This is nothing but the ant & grasshopper story played out with millions of people.

Climate change is simply a variable that we'll adapt with through technology. Getting pushed out of our comfort zone is a good thing. Without winter and droughts the human race would still be frolicking in jungles with spears and arrows wearing loin cloths. Winter and lack of water has made us stronger, and resulted in technology development.

Peak oil will come and go, just as peak wood did before coal and oil were discovered.

A global government, shared economy, is like California trying to manage forest fires. The more humans tinker with the system to remove the highs and lows, the bigger the inevitable crash that will come, just as California experienced the largest fires in history after years spent tweaking the system, resulting in keeping too much undergrowth, instead of allowing nature to take its course. Wars are no different than forest fires. It's OK to compete. Every species does this, humans are no different.

The much bigger issue is population growth. Through increased population resources are depleted at an increasing rate, potentially faster than technology advances will accommodate. Where technology is unable to solve the challenges presented through population growth, we're likely to experience huge losses through famine, disease, and war.

The best thing for earth is more war. Culling the herd isn't evil. With cheap energy our population will continue to sky rocket, while resources are finite. There's no sense to everybody holding hands singing Kumbaya; somebody has to win, and somebody has to lose. We see that now in Europe. The ants should not be forced to carry the grasshoppers. The UN and EU are delaying the inevitable. The intellectuals from the early 20th century got it wrong. We need fierce competition among nations. The tribes must remain at war to keep the population under control. There are winners and losers, there is no middle ground. Economics is just another approach to war, and the current method of pulling down the strong so the weak can rise up is foolish - we're not all safer as equals, we're better off with highs and lows, rich exploiting poor. America should dominate, our system has proven to be a winner. When we clash with competing interests, war is the natural flow of things. Peace is impossible so long as different tribes are squabbling over the same dirt. Why allow the poor nations to rise up as equals...just so we can compete with stronger opponents? Why wait until the poor attain nuclear, nano, bio, and space technologies that could enable their dominance over America? We're on top of the mountain. It's our right to beat down any who try to climb to the peak. If we don't, we'll simply get thrown off and somebody else will beat down others. We're at least trying to do the beating in a humane fashion...aren't we?

The article is just the tip of the iceberg... The military has used this material (ACell, made from pig bladders) successfully on multiple soldiers and recently on my retired Army spouse. The plastic surgery and wound care clinics at the NNMC in Bethesda are using this pixie dust with great results! It boosts the body's ability to heal and regenerate multiple tissue types, from skin to muscle, fat, etc. Good stuff. It'll become more widely available in civilian care as word gets out. The medical industry is surprisingly slow to spread new techniques and technologies as so many doctors operate independently, whereas in the military there's a top-down approach that sometimes works faster to deploy new methods -- generally during times of war such as the current tempo of 2007-2011.

Civilian health care is scary...so many independent contractors, very much a bet on organized chaos. You can find excellent health care in America, but you can also find less than best...it's a lot like picking up day-workers, auto-mechanics, or restaurants, in terms of quality/cost/risk - for every hero you find there's at least one putz you want to avoid next time. Definitely strive to be your own advocate or find a friend who can be your advocate and perform research to double-check what the doctors are doing. Recommend new technologies, get a second opinion, and you'll often find there are a lot more options available than you may hear from the first doctor you encounter at the local urgent care center or ER.

DVL is effectively the Crash Test Dummy for Linux.

FTA: "subterranean nuclear blasts were used as much as 169 times in the Soviet Union to accomplish fairly mundane tasks like creating underground storage spaces for gas or building canals"

In Soviet Russia, they built stuff with nuclear explosions.

What products are submitting keys upstream on change?

It's a shame the market didn't go down the DNSCurve (http://dnscurve.org/) road before DNSSEC. DNSSEC as it is currently implemented presents a significant challenge for DNS admins as their job just got more complicated while the tools are still barely capable. BIND with DNSSEC enabled for signing zones and updating your upstream TLD isn't set-it-and-forget-it so I don't see widespread adoption until the implementations are solved with easy point-and-click, set-it-once solutions.

Signing yourdomain.com requires you and .com to perform a transaction (registrar will perform on behalf of .com) that must recur at some interval for KSK and ZSK updates.

Deploying DNSSEC in response to cache poisoning is a lot like deploying TSA to protect the airports. Taking your shoes off and putting toothpaste in a little plastic baggie are kludges.