This case illustrates why it's so important to have something like the recently-shut down TrueCrypt project out there. If prosecutors can't prove the existence of an encrypted volume, they can't keep you in jail for not giving up the keys for something which might not exist.

So when can we expect to see the diversity reports on players in the NFL and NBA? How about gender diversity as it relates to employment in the healthcare industry?

Yeah . . . no thanks. I don't need anyone negotiating my salary on my behalf. I don't need some deadweight lazy incompetent being promoted ahead of me just because they've been at the company forever. And as a manager, I sure don't need to lose the important ability to fire a worker who just isn't working out. If I don't like my job or my employer, I will simply leave and find a new one. This is technology, not bureaucracy . . . please don't try to ruin it for the rest of us.

How racist could he really be? Sterling was about to be awarded his second Lifetime Achievement Award by the NAACP. You can't make this shit up.

Sorry Jack . . . CA is an all-party consent state, and therefore the recording itself was illegally obtained. What that bitch did absolutely violated CA law and the real question people should be asking right now is why she isn't in jail yet. You think that wouldn't happen if one of us upstanding citizens decided to record some CA legislature, for example, accepting a bribe? We'd be in the clink faster than Ballmer can throw a chair.

Yes . . . that's my exact point. The hypocrisy on display is shocking. Apparently it's OK to label these fringe, statistically anomalous mass shootings a "white male" problem (conveniently leaving out incidents like Ft. Hood x2, VA Tech, the DC Navy Yard, etc.) and to shit all over the 2nd Amendment, but it's just plain racist if you point out that drug-related handgun crimes -- which make up the vast majority of gun crime in the US and which, if were eliminated, would put levels of US gun violence on par with or better than most countries which have *outlawed* guns -- are perpetrated almost exclusively by a single demographic group UPON OTHERS also belonging to the same group (I'll leave that one for you folks playing at home).

Good to see the PC police out in full force. Wonder why these folks don't focus their energies on the dozens shot in inner cities around the country EVERY NIGHT rather than trying to score political points by pointing out "Look! an angry white guy did it!" every time a mass shooting happens (and by that, I mean the statistically insignificant one or two times a year it happens)? It's an election year, bitches.

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.