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Comment Re:Bias (Score 1) 1013

I don't want the government to tell me what I can and can't do, but it should at least make sure I am able to get the correct information to make that choice. I've met people who still think that smoking doesn't cause cancer, and I agree that they should be allowed to smoke because at this point in time they have enough information to make their own decisions. Companies are allowed to use advertising to distort the truth which makes it difficult to make your own decisions. The tobacco companies were allowed to advertise that cigarettes were not harmful: http://devilintheflesh.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/36-chesterfield-cigarettes-are-good-for-you-ad1.jpg The media used be so corrupt that it would have been cheap to place an article on the health benefits of cigarettes in a popular newspaper. Without access to good information, does the "personal responsibility" approach expect every citizen to conduct their own 50 year study before they start smoking?

Comment Re:Is that a DOS vector? (Score 2) 111

I may be making bad assumptions here, my TCP and UDP knowledge is pretty rusty. It seems like if the algorithm wasn't smart enough to keep track of the full connection state, you could spoof a protocol appropriate TCP or UDP packet from the remote IP and port to avoid a block. Alternately, you might be able to avoid detection by using a common port like 53 for your UDP VPN and spoofing valid DNS response packets. If that caused problems for your VPN client, you could set a flag on them that causes them to be dropped or allows you to drop them before they confuse the client such as the fragment bit or the evil bit.

Comment All taxes do that to some degree (Score 4, Insightful) 555

It's not stealing, you have a choice not to take part in this system. All taxes are going to benefit some more than others.

You're welcome to move to Somalia where there is no government to take your money or trample on your freedoms. Just don't expect to have the benefits of a stable currency to trade with, a government to enforce contracts, large scale water purification to give you cheap arsenic free drinking water, or even a public police force to keep people from trying to take your property.

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