20 years ago, I had a pair of the 7506's predecessor . . . the MDR-V6. I used them until one of the drivers died in the late 1990s. They were wonderfully accurate, and sounded just as good as my (now-discontinued) 7509s. Sony has been making great reference headphones for a long time, and it shows.

One person saying "no" can stop an entire city from getting new infrastructure.

Wrong. Ever heard of eminent domain?

Governments don't create cable monopolies.

They absolutely do just that when they subsidize the creation of the network infrastructure with our tax dollars, then allow a handful of huge conglomerates to profit off of that forced community investment while gouging the shit out of us and fight back any competition via litigation. Yeah, in the US, not only does the gov't create cable monopolies, it protects them.

Artificially-inflated bass crap. Do yourself a favor a get yourself a pair of real studio reference headphones like the venerable Sony MDR-7509s (for a lot less money too) if you want to hear what your music really sounds like. There's a reason that studios around the globe use these and not fuckin' Beats. Beats are a fashion accessory, not a critical listening device.

Nope -- I didn't miss it. 1982 was a long time ago, and RSA (the company) bears little resemblance today to RSA (the company) of 1982. In any case, was RSA (the company) involved in the development / imporvements / other iterative activities related to RSA (the crypto suite in question) or not, especially recently? Because if that's the case, my original point stands, as there's plenty of evidence that RSA (the company) has been complicit in NSA's efforts to backdoor and other undermine / weaken components which they (RSA the company) had developed.

Got it . . . easy for someone who doesn't work with crypto every day to get confused, especially as RSA the company has developed many security-related bits of infrastructure. In fact, as far as I can tell, there's no relationship between RSA (the company) and RSA (the crypto suite). My bad.

But why the hate for RSA? It's a well understood algorithm.

Maybe because RSA has proven time and again that they can't be trusted?

*If* that is true -- and I'm seeing conflicting information as to whether or not it is -- expect FL to close that loophole to prevent fascist states like MD from targeting FL motorists on interstate highways. FL probably permits database access to allow for CCW reciprocity checks in other Shall-Issue states, and its legislators definitely won't allow abuse of its data by rogue police units like MDTAP.

You won't be flagged in the database if you aren't already in trouble for something else.

Are you sure about that? With the contractually-enforced anti-transparency provisions baked into these agreements with various police agencies, how would you even know? By design, the gov't is FORBIDDEN from discussing any of it with us serfs.

Ahhh, so you're saying it's legal for MD to automatically scan license plates, cross-check them with FL's published list of CCW permit holders, and make a traffic stop *solely* based on that info? That's what happened here, and that's a clear violation of the 4th Amendment.

Reading comprehension not so good, eh? He left the gun in FL at home, locked up . . . MD cops stopped him, somehow knew of his FL permit (there is absolutely no legal way they could have, of course), and ordered him to give them them the gun. When he wouldn't (couldn't) comply, they proceeded to tear the car's contents apart on the side of the highway and terrorize his family. So just maybe, it's the "batshit-crazy" behavior of jack-booted fascist states like Maryland that is the problem here.

RTFA. The guy had no gun in the car (he'd left it locked up in FL), but the MD cops knew he had a CCW permit even though he was a FL resident . . . how is that possible?

The state refuses to stop spending more money each year than the last and is addicted to revenue like it's crack. According to Gallup, 67% percent of Marylanders think their state taxes are too high and 47% of them literally want to leave the state.

Link to the story that you mention from the Tampa newspaper. Maryland police forces have a history of this kind of thuggish behavior; even now, the MD State Police and the MD press (e.g., the Baltimore Sun) refuse to comment or even report on this story.

You are stating that the only reason someone would act the way this killer did was because they were mentally ill. You are dangerously assuming that every one of these violent people is unable to tell right from wrong. I would say that history is filled with examples of people who committed mind-blowing atrocities for political reasons, greed, lust, revenge -- you name it. These are people who knew that what they were doing was wrong and chose to do it anyway. To blame every extreme act of violence on "severe mental illness" is an oversimplification at best. The vast majority of criminals absolutely consciously choose to do what they do. Face it -- people generally have free will, and some choose to commit heinous crimes. Saying that *every* violent killer is unequivocally severely mentally ill because "there's no other reason they would do that" is just silly, and some might say that such a statement seeks to remove accountability and personal responsibility from the equation.