Actually, the *old* police state, just catching up with technology. I can't imagine a more awful place to live, where your every move is subject to surveillance and unlawful searches. What's worse is that New Yorkers actually vote these fascists in office.

Guess you get to lie in the bed you make after all. No sympathies here.

No explosions. No strippers. No guns.

Not that I don't like my GTA fix. But I also thoroughly enjoyed the Myst series as well. Just making an observation.

Watch this video of DARPA's Big Dog. Pay attention around the 0:33 mark where the guy walks over and kicks the hell out of the robot, which makes a nice recovery.

Raise your hand if, for an instant, you thought to yourself "Damn, that was fucked up, kicking it like that."

(Raises hand)

...but isn't man's disruption of the natural processes that keep the population in check a direct contributor to the world overpopulation problem? From a strictly scientific point of view, drastically altering the mortality rate of the world's population by decreasing it (and increasing the birth/death ration) can't be a good thing. Many of these people have lived generations in their current environment, so why does a first world country believe they have the right to disrupt nature in such a drastic way?

So a first world country solves the woodstove problem, thereby decreasing mortality rates. Are they prepared to then step in and deal with inadequate water supplies, increases in loss of arable lands, higher rates of infant mortality, and other side effects of overpopulation?

That will set you back to the tune of about $223,500 (enter some fake info for the details). Or it looks like you can lease 30 tuners for about $5,000/month.

Think I'll be sticking with my Moxi.

It's my understanding that voting is compulsory in AU. When you vote, must you mark your ballot?

Given that not everyone is interested in voting, would it not make sense to simply mark the ballot the easiest way possible (i.e., from the top)?

IANAL, but I believe this is the Supreme Court decision that later case law was established upon that basically permits any LEO to lie (not in court though). So basically case law carves out an exemption specifically for law enforcement.

Also, this article demonstrates how easy it is to get ensnared by the feds on a lying charge. Scary stuff.

On the other hand the US Supreme Court has ruled that the government is not constitutionally required to tell the truth.

Right on! This is why dealing with the feds is so dangerous: They can lie to you with impunity, and your answers to their lies are still admissible in court.

Lying itself can't be a crime

Actually, 18 USC section 1001 does, in fact, make lying to a federal official a crime. Feds often use this law to convict people in lieu of having any evidence that a crime was committed. If you're questioned about an alleged crime, and it later turns out that you didn't commit the crime but you earlier statements don't sync up with later statements, there's a good chance you'll see jail time.

This is why you never talk to law enforcement officers without competent legal representation present. And especially the Feds.

Bruce Schneier himself advises avoiding elliptic-curve, as being intellectually tainted by the spooks. [theguardian.com]

I didn't see any such recommendation in the linked article. However, there is a comment in this article in which he does make such a statement. Schneier seems to have reversed himself on advocating the use of elliptic-curve ciphers.

Holy shit! That is just plain crazy. That must be some strong velcro holding the back of his suit together...

...from behind a car stopped in traffic. I never saw him, and and he never looked my way. I was traveling about 30 mph, and later reconstruction of the incident by the county sheriff's office (used in my defense during the civil court case) showed that there was probably less than 2 seconds between when he stepped out and when I hit him. I seriously doubt this app would have helped him or anyone else in a similar situation.

BTW, he was issued a ticket in the hospital for "failure to yield right of way to motor vehicle." Never knew there was such a law, and it certainly helped in my defense. (Needless to say, the insurance company paid anyway because it was cheaper than going to court.)

...and this is what I found:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5301896/what-are-the-differences-between-openid-and-myopenid

So my question: If myOpenID is "one of many providers," why does this rate an article of its own? Or am I missing the significance of the event?

I apologize for the personal attack. Not sure why I did that. Guess I let my emotions get the better of me.

Still, fuck RBLs. Sadly, many who should know better do not weight RBLs, and instead outright reject any mail that scores a hit. These operators are slowly destroying the email infrastructure by not only fragmenting and marginalizing the smaller email providers (including individuals who choose to responsibly run their own SMTP service), but by implicitly forcing individuals to seek mail services through corporate providers (think "do no evil"). I have gotten to the point where I simply tell subscribers to the lists I admin that they will have to use another ISP if they want to subscribe because their email provider blindly defers to one or more RBLs, most of which are dodgy to begin with (think pay to play, or let's ban entire subnets because we aren't technologically adept enough to filter on just one IP address).

At this point he can then run the mail through a series of weighted RBLs.

Fuck you and your RBLs. RBLs are a draconian solution that do immeasurable damage to those of us who (1) aren't spammers, and (2) choose to run our own mailservers on business-class IPs. I can't tell you how many times various IPs I use for outbound mail (I run several mailing lists) end up on an RBL for absolutely no fucking reason.

Oh, because someone in the same /24 block sent spam? Really? That's a good reason to block an entire /24 subnet?

RBLs are a solution in search of a problem. Some of them are nothing more than moneymakers for the people that run them: In order to get off their list, they blackmail you into paying money.

Want to do the world a favor? Don't use RBLs. You'll just end up finding yourself blacklisted at some point anyway.