In the article they talk about how engineer the target to select the chosen ciphertext via a crafted email that thunderbird auto-decrypts to display the message preview popup.

ugh, about 15 years ago we visited Universal and rode the Back to the Future ride. I was stuck in the back seat, right side, and smacked my head hard on the wall of the car every time the car jerked to the left. Barely made it to the end, got out, got sick and collapsed in the aisle. Spent the rest of the day with a raging headache, but kept it to myself and played the "I'm fine!" game so as not to ruin my wife's vacation. Probably had a concussion on top of motion sickness.

bah, let's say 5 million emails would have arrived during that time period. From my unfortunate 6.5 year history at a major email provider, I can tell you that %98 of the email is normally blocked as junk at the perimeter using RBLs, another %50 of what makes it through is junk blocked by anti-virus and anti-spam engines leaving around %1 of real "valuable" email.

Of that, about %50 is commercial email that literally no one will miss (except the people sending it).

What remains is 25k emails, the vast majority of which are forwards from friends and relatives (forward this four leaf clover for luck!) and other garbage. All in all, after an 8 hour outage, the number of real emails that were missed was probably on the order of around 100.

I'll settle for the President using his war powers to drone strike these bastards. And a gift card. (no, not a victim myself, just someone who hates hates hates spammers and scammers)

The last two shops I've been at have tuition reimbursement programs, but they only apply to 2 or 4 year accredited colleges and universities. This leads to a weird situation where they could pay $10500 over 3 years to help pay for a diploma mill MBA but can't approve $3500 to pay for industry coursework from vmware/emc/redhat/etc that actually interests me.

quit being a bunch of dumbasses, but good luck with that. --One Rich Asshole Called Larry Ellison

my little world being one of the people who is paying for all this. Clearly, my point is invalid, and the politicians can't possibly be using these furlough notices for their own political gain. No politicain has ever done that, lied for gain, that would be inexcusable.

again, bullshit. There's no way that a %0.05 cut in the budget to a level of just over a year ago is going to cause all the misery that the press is reporting on this. They're reporting EVERYTHING is going to collapse.

everything from school lunches to aircraft carrier maintenance, beef inspections to border patrol

these reports are all bullshit

since when have Libertarians applauded corporate bailouts? Since never. The Libertarians didn't start the various bailout programs, the liberal republicans, and liberal democrats did.

oh bullshit. Stop regurgitating the party line. Though, you're probably getting paid to do so.

The level of cuts are miniscule, so minor as to be meaningless. The whole story is propaganda to try and shore up Obama's numbers and lay the blame for the entirety of the failed economy on someone else. That's right, let's blame the minority in the legislature, not the leader. There's no way the tiny level of spending cuts are going to impact every single person working for the government. It's complete bullshit and you know it.

paying more in taxation directly affects your freedom. period. it restricts access to goods and services.

If you feed anyone a special diet they can lose weight. Also note, their diet included "certain Chinese herbal medicines." So sure it worked, it worked just fine. And the media that covered it fell for that hook line and sinker. Including slashdot.

Now if these results came out of a real double blind study with controls and whatnot (like more than one patient?) this would be an interesting story. Now, it'll just generate diet spam.

and like an idiot, I forgot the fourth rule.

RULE IV: BE SURE OF YOUR TARGET and what's beyond.