Are you able to verify all of the distribution yourself? Are you able to vet the contributors? Are they able to vet each other? Is Tor really safe?

It all comes down to a matter of degree but in the end... Trust No One

wow, it's 2014, and we're still hatin' on gentoo ricers?

Clearly the person who wrote the RFC understood that answering a heartbeat request with a size different than its payload was a potential problem since the behavior was specified.

The person who wrote the RFC also wrote the buggy code, so it may not be quite so clear.

Ike was a fuckin' pinko, right up there with Teddy Roosevelt.

My understanding is that the governments in Beijing and Taipei agree that there is only one China, which includes the territory effectively governed by Beijing and the territory effectively governed by Taipei. The point of disagreement is which of them is the lawful government of the whole thing.

The average person shouldn't need to buy some complicated piece of software or hire a witchdoctor to determine their financial obligations to the state. The system is a pitiful mess, and vested interests are working hard to keep it that way. When you appoint me emperor, you can bet I'll fix that up right good.

Just who is the devil here?

Hate to be playing devil's advocate but a common tactic to shield assets from the taxman has been to transfer them to children.

While this may be a good tool to combat such tactics, it does have unintended consequences in harming those who can least afford it.

It's a well known fact that the IRS doesn't have the resources to resolve debts against the rich armed with a loaded legal and financial warchest. So they go after those who are least able to resist. This isn't a fair law at all.

What right does any government have to do this? What right does any "climatologist" have to do this? These are the new priests? Believe us for we speak the true gospel?

The fuck I trust any of the above to fix anything nor do they have to right to start fucking with the atmosphere, oceans, etc.

please note, the technical problems are on the ISS and have noting to do with any Space X equipment.

what's next? researchers use beads to do arithmetic?

Maybe it's not the best for inner city roads, but on long highway stretches it would be awfully nice to be able to see the road far ahead. Especially on road with hills and curves, headlights do a fairly bad job of lighting up that reflective paint (other than what's immediately ahead) because often your car is not oriented so as to illuminate it.

That is what "education" is. Were the (insert nationality) kids able to read 50? 75? 100 years ago? Without doubt, those who went through the school system could. Yet at every opporunity since, the so called educators felt compelled to try something different. Why? Because a) life would be boring if they did not and b) it is the only way to increase their ranks and funding (ie, no crisis, less funding).

You can apply the same to math and the varoius sciences as well.

movement with real impact ... shut down before it accomplished anything

I think I spy an oxymoron.

shocking.. you mean she is not an NSA plant? I thought for sure that Rice was still on Obama's payroll alone with Cheney.

Would we be seeing this same faux "privacy" outrage if it were Hillary Clinton or some other person from Obama's national security team? Has not the surveillance state expanded exponentially under the current administration? Doubtful. And what exactly was Rice's "central role in creating the surveillance state"? That she, at the President's direction, authorized NSA to spy on foreign diplomats? WTF do you think intel agencies are there for? Considering her not very good relations with Darth Vader..er Dick Cheney, the man behind a lot of the worst stuff of the Bush admin. I think it grossly unfair to paint her as having a central role.

It really will be hilarious to juxtapose the silence as Obama admin security and foreign policy officials end up in similar positions over the next few years. Afterall, Kos and others have said 'not a big deal' to all the nsa stuff - but only if you have a D after your name.