He's not dead, either. He just finally realized he had no fucking clue how to end the series and tell a coherent story and needed a way out.

His wife hatched the whole "I have an incurable disease and am going to die soon" plot to boost book sales. She then got Sanderson to finish the series for a song and kept the rights.

As best I can guess, she had her husband lobotomized -- seemingly sometime around book 5 -- and keeps him around as a pool boy.

So shouldnt' they be able to trace the transfers to the destination accounts? And continue doing so until the money is withdrawn?

Hell, even in places like Kazakhstan they don't have pallet loads of $100 bills waiting around for people to withdraw millions in cash. And you don't really walk into a bank ANYWHERE in the world and pull out millions in cash from a newly opened account without tons of ID, paperwork, being on cameras, access to large armored trucks, etc.

I'm familiar with the concept of mules and blinds, but for a scheme so sophisticated it sounds suspicious to use low level mules to pull out millions in cash. Multiple points of failure/discovery.

How the hell do they get the actual money OUT?

You forgot
Ruth Bader Ginsburg: Is that the 1947 Rothschild? Be a nice boy and top me off here Tony.

And? Medical exemptions are not some sham to provide an "out" to the religious and personal exemption crowd. From the article:

"For kindergartners that year, Mississippi approved just 17 medical exemptions, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said. Neighboring Arkansas, which had about 3,100 fewer kindergarten students than Mississippi that year, recorded 24 medical exemptions."

This strikes me as honestly kids who might seriously have a condition that makes certain vaccinations dangerous. I mean 17 out of 45,000+ is a damn small number.

That's just among NJ politicians.

Wrong section. Article VI says: ...but no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.

Yeah, I supose that's true. But not only does it not make me feel any better about how secure it isn't actually, but it makes it absolutely impossible to actually select a password that can be remembered. See my response above http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=6909609&cid=48991127

Well, not exactly. The GW2 client remembers the password for you, thus I don't have any reasons to remember a random collection of 4 words. Except when you are forced to reinstall it, or install it on another machine, you suddenly need the password again.

The result is that I now have an email I sent to myself, in a folder, which very clearly states "GW2 password is 'aaa bbb ccc ddd'". It's in a Gmail [apps] account at least (so as per the article it's reasonably secure), but it's really no different than writing my password on a post-it on my monitor from an *actual* security standpoint.

Thus in trying to "improve" security, they force me to have a very infrequently used password that there's absolutely no chance I will ever remember, so I have to store it in an alternate location. Either that or pretty much every time I [re]install the client I have to "forget password", at which point either they're relying on absolutely nothing more than my email account's security, or they randomly require that I send in some kind of identification and wait 24+hrs like my wife had to a month ago.

FAIL.

I signed up for a Citi credit card about a year ago, then found out after the fact that not only do they allow short basic passwords, but they MANDATE them. You cannot have any special character at *all* in your password. I called them on this and they told me that they had just made the change in order to "improve security". Even better, the change happened as I was initially setting up my account, so the first form I filled out let me put in a proper password because it hadn't been crippled yet, then the actual login page kicked me out after that saying my password was invalid. I had to call them up and fight through getting my password reset, then hope that the password I created through the form that still didn't check their new rules would actually let me log in.

There's got to be a way to report these outright failures to some kind of regulatory body, and force them to fix these things. I'm just worried that there might not *be* a regulatory body for this....

On the other extreme, I found myself having to "generate a password" for Guild Wars 2, who take http://xkcd.com/936/ as gospel and created a 4-word passphrase for me. Compound this with the fact that they kick out "any password used by you or anybody else *ever*" as a password change, which makes it absolutely clear that they store all passwords in plaintext, and I'm not really impressed with those jokers either.

The problem is mass surveillance and data mining.

There hasn't been an administration in this country for the past 63 years that I would have any level of trust with that kind of information.

LK

The ACLU doesn't work to ban guns but they don't oppose the idea, either.

If you read the above link, they even take the unprecedented step of saying that in essence, the ACLU thinks that the SCOTUS is wrong and that the Constitution doesn't say what the SCOTUS says that it says.

LK

I'm not sure if you're trolling or serious.

Would you mind clarifying?

LK

The ACLU's motivation was stopping mass surveillance and not the preservation of Americans' second amendment rights.

Sure, the ACLU may have been the source of this information but it will be the NRA, SAF, CCRKBA, JPFO and similar groups that actually use it.

LK

Fair point but I'm talking about a real "tail, horns and cloven hoof" demon.

LK

LightWorks is, and they have a free (as in beer) version. Not FOSS, but a professional NLE tool on Linux.