Bullshit. I bought a house without a credit history, without a cosigner, with lower interest rate than anyone else I know. I merely had to prove my identity, my steady income, my steady bill-paying history, and have a 20% down payment documented in a bank account.

While my loan broker had a smaller choice of banks to choose from, the ones available were falling over themselves to offer me a 15-year loan. (This is no fault of the banks, but a no-credit 30 year loan according to Fannie Mae's post-bubble rules would've been unfeasible. I didn't want a 30-year anyways.)

It's DefCon weekend.

Welcome to law enforcement procedures. Of course you're allowed to have an opinion. But, say, your legally allowable opinion on your neighbor's yard maintenance might be a motive for why your neighbor is dead, for example. And 12 hour interviews are completely allowed. You just need to know your rights and how to use them; for instance, explicitly saying you invoke your right to remain silent until you have a lawyer present.

Now, is it reasonable for the FBI to suspect Jacob Appelbaum is involved in the wikileak and put him in the box for 3 hours? THAT's another question...

There, fixed it for you.

No, I'm not kidding. Remember brewing is the alcohol-creation step before distillation.

The fact that this is freeze-distilled still makes it beer: unlike normal (boiling) distillation, you keep the wash, not the distillate. (How they avoid making it taste like ass is another question.)

And sometimes, it's about Politics in Health.

China isn't the first nation to grapple with HIV in blood transfusions. The United States' blood transfusion industry lobbied in the 1980s to suppress the issue over concerns about their reputation and revenue, and succeeded to some degree.

In this case, China's communist government is probably being lobbied, too -- and as an easily corrupted system with great powers, we see instances like this.

Fortunately, there are also top-level politicians trying to turn it it around.

Certificates are public information. Oh, did you really mean, private key?

Nope. Bulk ciphers are what encrypt traffic between two endpoints. Did you really mean certs provide key exchange?

Wow, you like, have no idea what root trust provides, do you? If your private key is secured properly, it provides reasonable proof that the entity at the server end is related to the domain owner.

Yup, there's problems with the human-level implementation. Like, oh, govenments "leaning" on CAs to provide them with an intermediate certficate. Or, yes, private key security.

You're paranoid about (and it's possibly Proper Paranoia®) that any site may have weak private key security, especially against, erm, "hackers". Fine, the mom'n'pop websites should probably leave their SSL handling to a professional webhost since they're just as like have bungled the security if they did it on their own. Generally, though, you can reasonably trust private key security with organizations that are likely to have professional network security staff.

I'm well assured every time someone in my organization (a network appliance manufacturer) needs to help a customer with an SSL/TLS related issue and the customer meticulously coughs up all the information needed except the private key.

Since when did Slashdot turn into a competitor of CNN and Fox News?

May 26th will now be known as "Face-Palm Day".

Or "May Fool's Day".

Just one day after Towel Day, too.

Step 1.5: Install HttpFox (Firefox on any OS) or HttpWatch (IE or FF on Windows).

For HTTP traffic, both will supplement WireShark by giving you a clear browser-level picture of what data your browser is sending and receiving.

For HTTPS (or other SSL/TLS tunneled protocol spoken by your browser), it's also the practical way to get a cleartext version of the communication.

This is an ancient Israeli wish for bitter revenge against invaders. Here is more context (in alternate translation):

8 People of Babylon, you will be destroyed.
The people who pay you back for what you did to us will be happy.
9 They will grab your babies and throw them against the rocks.

Given that we don't have much information about extrasolar planets yet, making up such definitions is bad science in general, not just bad astronomy.

We aught to survey another system by probe before determining whether our local definitions apply to other systems. Especially, for example, rules for small objects determined by politics.