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Comment Let Musashi speak on this one. (Score 1) 1191

"If we look at the world we see arts for sale. Men use equipment to sell their own selves. As if with the nut and the flower, the nut has become less than the flower. In this kind of Way of strategy, both those teaching and those learning the way are concerned with coloring and showing off their technique, trying to hasten the bloom of the flower. They speak of "This Dojo" and "That Dojo". They are looking for profit. Someone once said "Immature strategy is the cause of grief". That was a true saying. "

--Miyamoto Musashi.

We should learn from the past instead of inventing The Next Fail.

Submission + - RSA devs - Do NOT USE RSA as it may have been backdoored by the NSA (bbc.co.uk) 2

An anonymous reader writes: RSA, the internet security firm, has warned customers not to use one of its own encryption algorithms after fears it can be unlocked by the US National Security Agency (NSA).
In an advisory note to its developer customers, RSA said that a default algorithm in one of its toolkits could contain a "back door" that would allow the NSA to decrypt encrypted data.
It "strongly recommends" switching to other random number generators.
RSA is reviewing all its products.

- Source (bbc.co.uk)

Submission + - The Future Will Be Modular: Tinkertoy-Like Blocks Will Build Bridges, Planes

cartechboy writes: Does that sketchy bridge on your commute to work freak you out? How about that budget airplane seat your boss puts you in once a month? If you're nervous about that, then you'll probably freak out about this: Future airplanes, bridges, boats, even spacecraft may be built from modular blocks that snap together like Tinkertoys. While the idea seems strange, the parts are claimed to be up to 10 times stiffer than existing ultralight materials and the construction work will be done by tiny robots crawling along the structure as it's built. It would even be possible to disassemble one structure, say, a bridge, and repurpose it into a new building. Imagine taking apart one wing of your office building and turning it into a boat--just be sure to bring your life jacket.

Comment It's only hypocritical as much (Score 1) 171

as greed is hypocritical; you have to be a known practitioner of altruism for your self-interest to arouse suspicions of hypocrisy.

He just wants to take away pew-pews of others, so that only he has the pew-pews. What is hypocritical in that ? The man is a perfect definition of asshole.

Ahh, posting while drunk is heavenly. /. math: 129 of 126 loaded

Comment Idiot. (Score 1) 171

You cannot police 300 m. people (US) with tanks, battleships and fighter planes.

The military is ineffective in the use against the civilians, and if it even happens, it is already too late to return to Republic.

Again, I repeat - it is impossible, logistically, for even a 10 Trillion army to wage war against 300 m. Armed Citizens.

You will understand it, later in life. When you learn about what assymetric warfare is.

And again, I repeat, it is impossible to supress people via SWAT teams even, when they can expect bullets to rain down on them when they break and enter.

Comment Where does "public" start ? (Score 1) 171

It is perfectly technologically feasible to just listen to conversations within your house via a laser-window snooping method; it is perfectly feasible to track what you type on your (unshielded) keyboard via proper snooping mechanisms (free radio waves belong to aether, right ?).

Technology will not protect you from this asshattery; such things would never be accepted in Japan, because there, the WHOLE SOCIETY, ATOMICALLY does not condone such unpoliteness; and YOUR arguments reduce to technological barriers.

I know that I'll get some snide reply, considering who I am reaplying to, but still, this is free aether, after all.

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