I remember when I was a kid they predicted a cure for diabetes at about 5 years. This was 30 years ago, at least. As the years roll by I hate to sound like a conspiracy theorist but I don't believe they are looking for a cure. But are instead looking for other ways to treat it. There simply is no long term profits in a cure, but treatments are a different story. They can come up with new treatments every day.

This maybe just a continuation of this cycle. Now they have one more drug they can get you on. Just another treatment.

I am Lord Apathy, not Lord of Apathy. You are confusing me with my brother.

It's not just nice, it should be a requirement. I recently read where cops might start wearing camera's on their uniforms. I don't think it should be might, but required. Another thing that should be required is for police officers guns to start having cameras on them. When the weapon is drawn the camera starts recording so there is no doubt where the weapons was pointed when fired. The data from both these cameras ether be stored on an encrypted ssd card or preferably uploaded over the 3g/lte network in real time.

Then it should be made public via some service like youtube to anyone on the internet. I can understand a vice officer or a detectives being excluded from this but never a uniformed cop. There is never a reason for video from a unformed cameras to not be made public available. If these video's where available like this there would be no question like Michal Brown.

Who watches the watchers? We should.

I don't believe you understand the full situation. The system is broken as designed. It really donsn't matter which one you vote for, the result is the same. Go back and look at the last 100 years of presidents. Don't look at thier highlights and what the press tells you. Look very deeply and you will see that basically same, with a few minor differences like Nixion and Clinton. The only reason they where held accountable is they where caught with their hands in the cookie jar, or with the smoking cigar, so to say.

If Rommmy would have been elected it would have been the same thing. Slightly different in some ways, probably, but pretty much the same. I doubt that when the Founding Fathers envisioned this land they had a two party system in mind.

You want to reform the system, you can't do it inside the system, you will have to do it outside the system. The only way for that to happen is for the states to call for a constitutional convention. That is where the states and only the states get together and change the constitution. Since it is a state affair the current federal system can't do anything about it but sit back and watch. If enough of the states say "enough of this shit" and pass the appropriate amendments to the consitution there isn't a damn thing the federal government can do about it.

I believe what he meant to say, don't hold me to this though, is "The more we move towards a cashless society, the more we should be using cash."

How cute. I used to be this way, believe in the system. They only talk about change and doing what is right around election time. Once they get all the votes its back to business as usual. Look at O'bama. Promised change but what we got was pretty much more of the same and then some.

The system isn't gong to change till elected official can be held legally accountable for the laws they sponsor and vote on. If a elected official could be fined, lose his office, or even be jailed for sponsoring a bill that is later found to be unconstitutional then things would change. When ever the government does something unconstitutional against a citizen, someone should held accountable.

Damn straight. Once I let a insurance company set up auto drafts from my bank account with the checking account numbers so I could get a discount. They naturally decided that I wasn't paying them enough and extracted 4 times the amount the next time. Took a letter from a lawyer to get my money back, and 3 months.

Never again. I will not use CurrentC for anything. If I can't swipe a card and run it as credit I take my business else where. I also will not use apple pay, but that is because I don't own a iphone.

Then your wasting even more space by keeping both binary and ascii logfiles on the same system. One of the key reasons that someone put forth to have them in the first place. Binary logfiles are smaller than ascii. Which is a case I'm not really sure of any way. But now you have both the binary AND the ascii files now thus completely negating one reason to have them in the first place.

I want even bother to talk about having two systems in place anyway. Just skip the whole thing and do away with the one that nobody really wants in the first place.

A completely unnecessary step.

An one that might be impossible if the server has promptly stuck its thumb up its ass and won't boot. Then add that you are a junior system admin that doesnt' know how to do that. But you know enough to boot the system with a rescue disk so you can mount the drive and then ftp the log files some place where you can mail them to your boss at 2 am. Who might just reach through the network and strangle you because you took down his porn server anyway.

Not everything speaks binary log files, but just about everything speaks ascii. Log files are in ascii on purpose. So you can read them with the minimal tools and not have to fight the system to get to them.

Just because you can do something, doesn't mean you should. That applies to binary log files.

Exactly. Text log files allow you to pull them off the damaged system and examine them on another system. Many times the system that you have to examine them on won't be a linux system. The other day I had to examine a log file that my co worker sent to me on my phone.

If it had been a binary log file, I would have had to get off the toilet, get dress, and find a compatible system to decode the log files on. Maybe even spin up a VM to do it in.

I was able to tell her the boot params to boot up the box with out leaving my seat. Fuck binary log files.

Oh horse shit! Binary logs are the biggest crock of shit to blow out someones ass since Windows ME. Pure text log files can be parsed with the same system tools that come with all linux distributions. I'm talking grep, awk, and sed. An you really adventurous, perl.

All the excuses that I've seen for keeping this foul system are bullshit!

This is what I came in here to say. They guy who designed the chip is still alive. Just shoot him a email, phone call, or smoke signals and just ask him.

I'm going to go out on a limb here and say there is probably a logical reason behind the arrangement and not some conspiracy or something.

Just call it truecrypt and be done with it. The original authors abandoned the project, they don't get to vote on it any more.

Fuck'em