>In the long run, if you strike out at others without cause, it will likely happen to you.

George Bush seems to be living a very nice and comfortable life. Kim Jong * have all lead comfortable lives of great power, with the older two dying of old age.

I think the point was that either udev could be forked or an older version of it could be kept kicking around for servers, and that network-manager wouldn't be needed at all. Device and network client configuration can be done via conf files with minimal effort (especially in context of a managed deployment via Puppet or the like). I agree, by and large. I'd argue that we could even do without udev, if it didn't take more effort to live without than to live with it.

I've used the site longer and reserve the right to use Doctor Who references where I'm suspicious of technical details, especially as relate to timing vulnerabilities. This is allowed, as per The Hacker's Dictionary. Bonus points for finding the Doctor Who references included.

That was pretty much my interpretation as well. Which would be great for ad-hoc encrypted tunnels - the source and destination can have keys that are valid only until the tunnel's authentication expires (typically hourly) and where the encryption is based on the identity the other side is known by. Ad-hoc tunnels need to generate keys quickly and efficiently, but also don't need to be super-secure. In fact, they can't be.

If RIBE isn't useful in ad-hoc, then you'd end up having to ask when it would be useful.

Anything that depends on a third party, including PGP/GPG with keyservers, is vulnerable to some form of compromise, SSL/TLS certificates all have a third party signer and Kerberos depends on all kinds of behind-the-scenes work being secure. However, although they're imperfect, they're considered adequate for what they do. Well, except for SSL, perhaps.

RIBE presumably therefore also has a niche where it's good. Rapid key turnover is what's wanted for conversation-based protocols with timeouts. That makes RIBE sound promissing for IPSec ad-hoc and SSL, as it makes store and crunch by attackers less likely to work. But is that the right niche?

Do you want high-risk open-heart surgery, with a fifteen-per-cent risk of dying during the operation, or would you rather continue as you are, with a fifty-per-cent chance you will be dead in two years?

Open-heart surgery, please. You can actually feel your heartbeat, and thinking there's a problem means every irregularity, real or imagined, is going to give you a start. This gets especially fun when you're trying to sleep because that, after all, involves heartbeat slowing down.

When it hurts to get out of bed and you can't go and do what you want when you want?

Isn't this true for most people most of the time?

Er, No. Science is Natural Philosophy.

If you think philosophy (literally, the love of knowledge) is any less exacting or evidence-based than science, then you have another thing coming....

Heh, this is a bit like that moment when you explain null vs empty/zero values to a junior programmer. :-)

You seem to be falling victim to the misapprehension that lacking belief is the same as nihilism. But nihilism actually requires a degree of belief in order to be fully achieved. It's the active rejection of religion and morality. In other words, you kind of have to believe that there is nothing. (Absence of evidence vs evidence of absence, and all that....)

Failure to believe in anything is a workable modus vivendi that doesn't imply the explicit rejection of morality. It simply posits that there are no articles of dogma, while accepting that the best available evidence is thus and so... until new evidence arises.

Failure to believe doesn't lead inevitably to despair. It may give rise to constitutional skepticism, but that in itself doesn't have to become unhealthy or drown one in nullity. I experience wonder, poetry, rapture when I hear good music and see good art. I embrace absurdity and humour. I love food, many flavours and smells. I also experience a constant sense of novelty because I have very little certainty about how each day will turn out. The mere possibility of alternatives is often enough to keep boredom and depression away.

Nihilism rejects purpose, meaning and ultimately, hope. It's a nearly impossible condition for most human beings. Failure to believe can likewise be quite upsetting, because it humbles you utterly if you really allow yourself to experience it. I expect it's part of the release that the Buddha talked about. But there's a perverse intensity to the joy that you feel when you're laughing in the face of the void.

FWIW, most Moon landing conspiracy theories claim that Soviets were in on the scam, either because they were bribed (a common theme claims food shipments were the bribe, thereby "explaining" why the USSR didn't have any more devastating famines),

>Causing pain to others is bad because the response I get is likely to cause me discomfort.

Politicians and CEOs and lawyers and cops do it all the time and it seems to work out quite well for them.

Actually it's more like 7 billion (I think 6.9?) people on Earth, and he's saying that 1.5 billion Android phones are sold every day. I had no idea, but that's pretty impressive.

Yep. A much better argument would be to encourage people to have clear expectations for old age, and to make options to check out much easier. I would welcome the ability to choose my exit day while I still have the faculties to do so. The US's lousy options are deplorable. Old folks have few options in most states to pull their own plug when they determine the time is right.

In my Grandmother's case she knew it was time a few weeks before she died, but ended up in a lot of misery and humiliating circumstances for her final days due to a lack of legal options. Little has made me angrier at the religious set than listening to my grandmother beg God to let he die, and there being no legal avenue for any of her family to grant that wish thanks to those selfish bastards keeping euthanasia illegal.

>Money requires relationships.

No, it just requires a job. It's not that hard to get a crappy-to-mediocre-paying job without any personal relationships. Or, you can be like corporate executives or lawyers and just be really good at lying to people, so you have relationships but they're not actually genuine.

>So you can name dozens of people who don't live by caring about others. There are what? almost 8 billion people on the planet?

The dozens of people I can name are actually running the planet. It doesn't look like this system of yours is working all that well.

Of course we won't arrest you for drunk driving or domestic assault Mr. FBI, just like you won't arrest us for violating civil rights or using this highfalutin' cell phone spy gizmo.

You're not going to be around that long for the long-term good of society to matter much to you.