Really. What sort of job do you have that didn't involve showing ID in order to submit the required federal tax forms as you were hired? What sort of paycheck are you getting that doesn't involve you using an ID in order to open a bank account or cash a check? Please be specific about the people who are working full time, so hard, that not once in their entire life can they be bothered to get a form of ID. And, out of curiosity, how on earth did they find time to go register to vote, or find time TO vote? You're saying that these are people who will have their routine trips to the polling place, year after year throughout their entire lives, thwarted because they couldn't take five minutes to stop once for a free ID?

So, you're asserting that there are no elections that turn on a matter of just a handful of votes? You're actually going to say that the many local and state elections (which do things like put congressional and senate representatives into power) don't sometimes get decided by only dozens of votes? And then you're going to assert that papers like the Washington Post, who have reported on elections as recently as 2012 where in just one local review there were instances of local voters fraudulently voting twice ... that, what, the Washington Post is lying? Is that because you think the WP is part of some vast, racists, right-wing conspiracy, and manufactured the records that were produced by the election officials, showing the felony-offense fraud?

Your anxious need to trot out the ad hominem shows how much you're aware that you're BS-ing, so I don't really need to go on. You know you're looking to defend fraudulent practices that primarily favor the one party whose activists have been caught red-handed generating tens of thousands of bogus voter registrations. And you're complaining about the person who suggests it's a good ID to make fraud harder to commit. Your opening comments about how difficult it is for full time workers to stop and get an ID that the already have to have was hilarious, though, so thanks for the entertainment.

Which part? The part where left-leaning activist groups generate enormous numbers of bogus voter registrations? Among others, ACORN did just that (getting busted doing it was why they re-organized and changed their name so nobody would keep bringing it up ... and you're probably hoping nobody will remember actual criminal prosecution for those actions). Or are you saying that the coordinated efforts to talk out-of-state college students into double-voting haven't, despite extensive reporting of exactly that, occurred?

Or you could look to no less a bastion of right-wing win nuttery than the Washington Post, which reported on a review showing thousands of people registered to vote in multiple states, and in one local review, caught over 150 people crossing state boundaries just in the DC area to vote more than once on the same day.

One of the county election supervisors who took time to review information in that instance found an example of where someone had been crossing state lines and voting more than once on the same day in local and national elections for over a decade. He said that in a dozen cases he'd reviewed, the purposefulness of the election fraud was plain, and the actions were class 6 felonies.

In cases where congressional seats or governorships can turn on a mere handful of votes, it's no "pile of bull" to point out that people are deliberately, systematically taking advantage of weak ID requirements and a weak registration system in order to fraudulently corrupt elections.

He probably understands that making it the primary logging method and thus requiring the use of the special tools for the least troubleshooting is a massive architectural mistake which is totally unnecessary and made for only arrogant reasons.

Sadly, he's not in a position to do that here, even if he wants to.

Or perhaps you reveal yourself as a dbag when you call people who care about an issue trolls.

Depression is so misunderstood because people with depression insist that they have an invisible disease they can't magically get over, and drug companies pander to this by hooking people on Xanax and Zoloft. In developed countries--outside of third-world United States--we routinely treat anxiety and depression with great success: drugs might handle the most serious symptoms up-front, but cognitive therapies provide the long-term changes. Essentially, a licensed psychiatrist talks to you a bunch, and trains you to GET OVER IT.

More specifically, a great deal of mood-driven and mind-driven mental disorders are caused or controllable by mental behaviors. You can improve on ADHD by training your executive functioning system to employ better self-monitoring, initiation, and inhibition, which gives you firm control over your attention system (this also makes normal people smarter); on the other hand, developing a habit of procrastination and distraction by immersing yourself in TV, video games, and Facebook will create ADHD-like behavior, which you can train out in the same way. Anxiety and depression, similarly, require training your self-monitoring and initiation systems to recognize negative thought behaviors (neurosis) and adjust them by limiting mood decay; we have also observed individuals falling into depression from high-stress, leading to anxiety, leading to depression. These major mental disorders can stem from internal issues or external pressures; in either case, the patient can only manage them by self-driven mental behavior management.

Small-business owners of course face a lot of stress. It's no surprise they become depressed and suicidal.

It's not that it's physically impossible. It's that it already cost a lot of money to star-wire it, now you want everything to be looped, or to be in some sort of mesh topology. That means a lot of new trenches, a lot of new fiber, a lot of new repeaters and routers and money.

Heck, in the South we could really amp it up just making them do chain gang duty with no bug repellant in the middle of the summer.

Hell, in the South, you could let them have the bug repellent. A chain gang in mid-summer is enough punishment for any crime.

As if sniviling sycophants actually get anywhere in life.

You still assert that inputting an encryption key into a process is massively complex. It's not like they're performing mathematical key scheduling by hand; they have to enter a fucking password, or provide a key file from a USB drive kept with the back-ups.

This is the bar you set: someone is going to be too stupid to insert USB dongle with key. Restoring back-ups with Amanda is no trivial task; it's not rocket surgery, but it's not "turn the computer on and smile". There will be instructions, tape ordering, direction of which data to restore where, etc. Bacula is a better package at least, but same deal: there's not a one-button DR. The only people who have one-button DR have pre-built warm sites ready to go at all times.

Ah, okay. It has actual weaknesses. I had for a long time only heard of protocol weaknesses: RC4 implemented without HMAC, with the key and IV scheduled a certain way, appending a nonce instead of hashing it, has many weaknesses; such statements are ridiculous, because everything implemented poorly has weaknesses (this is why we have key exchange protocols, and VPNs which generate a random RSA key per session and are thus completely insecure). It looks like RSA has some key recovery weaknesses you can't mitigate by a proper protocol.

No, I live in a country that's based around whiners and morons being whiners and morons. This kind of shit is where that comes from; unlike in the UK, where someone puts "Ramadan" next to a stack of bacon, and a Muslim goes, "Oh, that's funny," and nobody gets their panties in a twist. Here someone says fucking "eenie meenie minie moe" and gets sued for $3.5M.

You mean, thanks to the USA embargo, where force and threat of force to keep the smaller nation down harmed the smaller nation, and stunted its growth?

What, you somehow believe that the USA is the ONLY country that could possibly have traded with Cuba over the last half century? Let me give you a hint: everyone in the world except the USA could still trade with Cuba.

Yes, they could still sell their tobacco. And run their resort hotels and casinos. And their 14-year-old hookers....

I am GM of a nuclear power plan and my bonus is based on the total production of my power plant. My engineering tells me I have to take an outage to fix a pump but if I do that I am going to mix my goal

Somehow I have a hard time believing that the GM of a nuclear power plant can't spell "plant" and "miss".

I also can't think of a nuclear power plant design that has a single pump that requires the plant to shut down to repair. All the ones I know of have backup pumps that allow repairs to offline units without having to shutdown....

1941? 1944? I see it has escaped you that the discussion was of events circa 1953 , and that I am correct. I suggest that you go back and reread the thread starting with PopeRatzo's message. Other than having written about events in the wrong decade and on the wrong topic your post was a triumph.

Even my guest network is password protected. Its for my guests not for everybody. If I wanted it for everybody, there wouldn't be a password on it, and people wouldn't need a windows feature to shared with their contacts.

Many of my neighbors also have guest networks... none of them are wide open.

This feature is probably the worst/dumbest thing I've seen in Windows 10 so far. Actually no... the inability to disable bing searching the web when you use the search in the start menu is the dumbest hting I've seen in windows 10... if that shit isn't fixed by release nobody should upgrade. NOBODY.

(And the sad thing is I actually over all like windows 10... but its just stuffed with bloat I don't want. At least most of it I can shut off... live tiles, cortana, using microsoft accounts, etc... but its becoming more and more work to set the settings up right.

I'm looking forward to a windows 10 de-crapifier powertool shortly after release... hell I'm tempted to write one.

I think it would better drive home the point if elected officials have to file an "FOIA" with the citizens for *their* data and plead their case, humbly, with hat in hand.

Strat