They might not use an NSL, but I wouldn't count on it. The other blunt instrument the government has at it's disposal is the
Authorized use of Military force, which doesn't even mention surveilance or data and is about military force, but which the government has cited in its warrantless wiretapping when sued by the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A...">ACLU. Kind of a stretch, but the government has long tried to get away with whatever they want and let the courts rule on it later.

So I have no problem beliving the US goverment wouldn't try some crazy interpretation of a statute never inteded to give them the power to do that, but which they'd hope the courts would take years to rule on.

Presumably, the apps on the phone have access to the encrypted data on the phone, right? So there's a simple solution. The user is happily using their iWhatever. The government sends a Nation Security letter to Apple forcing them to put a backdoor into the phone of the target, such that this app can read whatever data it wants on the phone. So when the user boots up his/her phone, and enters the password, the rougue app should be able to read all the data on the phone.

Can anyone tell me why this WOULDN'T work?

Their old trading platform TradElect was based on Microsoft's .NET Framework, and was developed by Microsoft and Accenture

You missed the real problem. The last word in that sentence. Accenture. I don't love Microsoft, but I don't think they're the big problem here. Accenture is a WELL KNOWN bad company that produces shit. They make Microsoft look good. Everyone I've ever know that's worked with them has a bad story to report. The same isn't true of Microsoft. So don't blame MS for the failures of a shitty outsourcing firm.

Are you aware that you're helping to reinforce one of the points two comments up?

I don't agree. Being critical of his work on a technical basis is VERY different from personal attacks. I found poettering's post to be good, and I agreed with that he has to say. I've also had shitty problems with the sound on Linux before, which I _think_ might be attributable to pulseaudio. I can't be sure, but I have no trouble beliving pulseaudio might be shit. I don't take a stand on systemd yet, but my instincts are that it's the wrong approach. But I'd never get personal with the man, after all, it's just software.

And somehow, writing software that a group of people deem as bad means that you should be met with horrible physical tortures?

Umm.. what? Where did that come from? Nobody suggested physical violence. Nobody even got personal. Please stick to what people actually said rather than pulling stuff out of nowhere.

Why, exactly, would warmer weather make food production harder?

Because climate change isn't just warmer weather, it's a shift in the weather patterns. Our current infrastructure is everything from the choice of crops we grow to the location of the farmland and is all dependent on the current climate. If that shifts, that makes food production harder. The belt of wheat production has already shifted northward. Weather is hugely influential to what plants grow where. Changing the weather changes what will grow as well as the pests that also affect yield. Climate change isn't simply about getting warmer, that's why the language has shifted to climate change, not global warming.

I don't agree with your assessment of why SUVs became popular, and I also don't agree they get 30-40 MPG. My small sub-compact gets that. The SUV craze was driven by status symbol. They're big, make people feel powerful, are insanely expensive. All reasons to drive consumer demand because people make decisions on emotion as well as economics.

Having had plenty of sex without having children, and having known people who've had abortions, I beg to differ. The problem is solvable if you choose to solve it. If you don't choose to solve a problem, no problem is solvable.

Hiking, working out, having sex.

That was the exact quote. The post I was responding to inserted the word procreative.

You're right, all those things could be done. I'm not sure if 60% is really achievable with just insulation, but perhaps. I'd probably disagree about 30+ year old home insulation achieving that much. Homes in the 70s and 80s were relatively well insulated compared to homes made in the 30s through 50s. Often there wasn't any insulation put in the walls on those homes.

The point is though that achieving this isn't just a simple matter of replacing a few appliances. Furnaces are much more efficient now than they were 30 years ago, but replacing a furnace is a few grand at least. That's a significant investment, and one people only generally do when they have to replace the furnace anyway.

Why exactly do you think germans or frensh or british or italian or spanish or norwegian or finnish or swedish

You made the mistake of including Italy in your list. It depends on what you consider "standard of living", but for the most part Italy is a far poorer country than the US is, and people have far less disposable income. This is from personal experience, and from reading articles comparing the economies.

For example, in the US, everyone has driers, and few people hang their clothes outside. In Italy, few people have driers, and most people hang laundry outside. It's fine, I've done it, but it's an inconvenience in the winter, and takes a lot of time. If Italians could afford the dryer and the energy to feed the dryer, and the space in their homes, they'd do it.

A typical american could use 1/3rd or down to 1/4th of the energy he uses and the whole country could cut down to 1/10th and no one would realize any difference.
You only have to invest in devices that use less power

I don't know about you, but I and my neighbors use the majority of energy to heat our homes. Cutting energy down to 1/3 of what it is now would essentially be impossible, and isn't as simple as just investing in a new TV or washing machine. It gets cold in much of the US during the winter. Cutting energy use as drastically as you're suggesting would mean living in much smaller houses. That's not really "not realizing any difference".

Having procreative sex is one of the most carbon expensive things we can do.
Someone mentions sex, and you think they mean having babies? WTF? I think we solved that baby making problem part of sex quite a long time ago.

We need to stop thinking of this like a disaster that's suddenly going to happen. There's no magic date where the climate is going to be "destroyed". What's going to happen is the climate is going to change, and much of our way of life and infra-structure is going to suffer because of that. We can't "destroy" the climate, we can only make it harder on ourselves and have to do a lot of work to adapt. But there's not exactly an armageddon that's going to unfold. Food production is going to be harder, and the places to grow crops are going to shift.

The article itself is a little silly. Climate scientists don't debate whether global warming is real, and human caused. But they DO debate like hell about what's going to happen, how much carbon is "too much", etc. So to make any decisions about "30 more years" or making some silly prediction about everyone living like Americans in just 20 years is incredibly stupid, and counter-productive. Those issues are FAR from settled, unlike the clarity that the article presents.

As far as wants and needs, that'll be settled like it always has, through cost. It's already happening. The SUV craze of the 90s through the 2000s is already on the wane. Gas is more expensive and is going to remain so for a while, and that gas-guzzling Suburban is not only expensive to fuel, it makes you look like a bit of a pig now. People in European countries aren't somehow more altruistic, and care about others more than the US (and therefore drive smaller cars), it's just that gasoline is quite expensive, and the streets are smaller. So the giant car thing is totally impractical. Eventually Americans are going to start driving smaller cars just like they do in much of Europe.

Warn the people in charge of the project, not the general public.

This is exactly what was done.

“An independent researcher has reported a vulnerability in Bugzilla which allows the manipulation of some database fields at the user creation procedure on Bugzilla, including the ‘login_name’ field,” said Sid Stamm, principal security and privacy engineer at Mozilla, which developed the tool and has licensed it for use under the Mozilla public license.

“This flaw allows an attacker to bypass email verification when they create an account, which may allow that account holder to assume some privileges, depending on how a particular Bugzilla instance is managed,” Stamm said. “There have been no reports from users that sensitive data has been compromised and we have no other reason to believe the vulnerability has been exploited. We expect the fixes to be released on Monday.”

Oh, and I'd also like to submit the idea that people such as yourself, who think that the solution to every problem is making a law are just as destructive as the people who think that the free market is going to control everything.

Because without some form of regulation, some dickhead is going to start selling grades. Just like without regulation, you would end up being poisoned by the food you eat.

Ok, so AFAIK states have never had regulations about cheating in school. Schools themselves handle this. So by your statement, we should have rampant for-profit cheating going on RIGHT NOW. But yet I've never heard of that.

How can you explain this lack of teachers selling grades on a mass scale?

You've mistaken a franchise for the business. The NFL is the real business, the franchises are just individual owners. You think the NFL doesn't operate like a single business? Of course they do. They have contract negotiation, It's even far more integrated as a single business than a Mcdonalds. The NFL requires mutiple teams to even exist. You don't need multiple mcdonalds restaurants to operate. It's the NFL that would pressure the Redskins to change their name.

Oh, and BTW The Redskins play in RFK Stadium, a stadium constructed with Federal dollars. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R...

Check and mate.