Most countries that regulate guns also regulate sales of ammonium nitrate fertilizers which is by far the next most popular tool for mass murder.

The US does not regulate ammonium nitrate particularly well which is why that factory in Texas was located next to two schools and the likely perpetrator could not even be prosecuted for the murders despite having made two pipe bombs.

Very few firearms deaths are caused by career criminals. The vast majority are suicides and accidental shootings. Making guns illegal would practically eliminate those causes of death. Only criminals would have guns to leave round the house for the kids to use.

The UK does not have idiotic mandatory sentences for low level drug possession or peddling. But carry a firearm during a crime and you get ten years almost automatically. Fire the gun and its fifteen. Anyone involved in the crime kills someone and its a whole life sentence.

Its just a hobby, you folk don't have the right to cause 50,000 deaths a year for your hobby. Moreover I don't think the general public is impressed by the NRA attempting to save their hobby at all costs by attempting to persuade the politicians to ban video games instead.

The purpose of the 2nd amendment was to stop the federal government outlawing slavery by making it illegal for the states to organize slave patrols.

The people who wrote it did not believe in freedom. They were slave owners.

Actually its only 99.995%

And the issue is not the 99.995% of owners who don't commit murder, its the 0.005% who do.

And given that the total number of firearms deaths is three times the number of murders, the number of 'responsible' owners is far smaller. There is a child under 5 killed with a firearm every week in the US.

Any gun that is accessible enough to be used in 'self-defense' within 1 minute 20 seconds is going to be accessible to a child.

Schools are only gun free to the extent that there are no guns brought in from outside.

Europe has roughly the same population as the US and the murder rate is actually identical - if you exclude firearms deaths. The number of Americans murdered with knives etc. is pretty much the same as the number of Europeans.

The higher US murder rate is entirely due to the NRA and the politicians who are to weak in the spine to stand up to them.

The UK gun murder rate is essentially zero because it is almost impossible for a criminal to get a gun.

We need a war on guns. Make drugs legal and guns illegal. Shut down the manufacturers and the death merchants. It won't take every gun off the street but it will eliminate most of them within a few years.

Its only a matter of time before this happens.

Every time we have yet another NRA sponsored massacre we have the gun nuts round to say the answer is more nuts with guns.

You are worse than pedophiles in my view.

Where were these slef styles defenders of liberty when Bush was setting up the gulag in Gitmo and using torture? They were cheering him on. If there ever was a fascist takeover of the US, the NRA would be there in their jackboots and pillowcases rounding up opponents to help the new regime.

Take the guns away, every damn one.

I thought he was you actually.

In the future everyone will be Satoshi Nakamoto for 15 minutes.

Oh and there is an eight:

The claim to be rated by the better business bureau has been shown to be false. KlearGear makes several such claims that have been shown to be false for the purpose of gaining business. That meets the legal definition of fraud. In addition to creating the possibility of criminal sanctions, fraud voids a contract.

The Bill of rights is also enforceable on state governments.

KlearGear is attempting to enforce a purported contract term, guess what regulates contracts, oh yes, its the courts. And guess what the courts are part of, oh yes they are part of the government.

One of the sources of the Bill of Rights was precisely a concern about the government 'privatizing' censorship. That is how the British libel laws came into being, the purposes were to reduce the number of duels by providing an alternative dispute resolution process and to enable the rich and powerful to suppress their critics. It is no coincidence that in the 20th century the UK libel laws were used by a long series of corrupt bastards to suppress legitimate criticism, from John Major, the adulterer suing the New Statesman over an allegation of adultery, to Robert Maxwell the guy who stole almost a billion dollars worth of pension funds, to Jeffrey Archer and John Aitken who went to jail for perjury after making fraudulent libel claims.

The breach led to the contract being voided. KlearGear never delivered and Paypal refunded the money. So there was no exchange on either side.

The buyers might have had a claim for non-performance but the idea that the seller could enforce their one sided terms is ridiculous.

A clause that prevents reporting the failure to perform is certainly not going to be valid, not even in Texas.

The contract clause is unenforceable for multiple reasons. The first amendment has a bearing on one of them.

First there is no contract, The goods were never delivered, KlearGear failed to perform its obligation, there was never an exchange of a consideration. Therefore no contract.

Second, the original agreement was with the husband, the comments were made by the wife.

Third, the contract terms were added after the original agreement as is demonstrated by the Way Back Machine archives

Fourth, even if there had been a contract it would be a contract of adhesion. The seller defines the terms and the buyer has a weak negotiating position. In such cases civilized jurisdictions (i.e. not necessarily a corrupt jurisdiction) generally strike out clauses that are surprising or contrary to normal practice absent clear proof that the buyer was aware the term existed. A line of text in a fifty page contract in 6pt type is not normally enforceable.

Fifth, the term in question was unconscionable which means that it offends the basic principles of commerce and/or society. Constitutional precedent and in particular the first amendment is frequently used to establish that a clause is 'unconscionable'. Kleargear is not 'violating' the first amendment but the courts are not going to enforce a contract term whose purpose is to take away constitutionally protected rights.

Sixth, even if all the above were not so, the claim for $3,500 is a liquidated damages clause and thus invalid. As a matter of public policy, corporations are not allowed to set fines.

Seventh, the amount was clearly in dispute. Thus the reporting to Experian was in breach of the fair credit reporting act.

I am sure that there are weaker claims out there, but I can't think of one offhand.

Not an IETF list.

It is not even meant to be a proposal.

The point of the document is that I took all the points that had been made five or more times already and put them into one document so that we can move the discussion on to the next stage. Otherwise every time we get a new person joining the group we have to go through the same thing all over. And the third or fourth time round it becomes 'we already know that', 'NOO you are trying to censor me, NSA plant!'.

It isn't meant to become an IETF draft, they would make me take out all the fun parts. Like pointing out the abject incompetence of an organization that lets a 29 year old contractor with a pole dancer for a girl friend have access to that material six months after joining. Why do Alexander and Clapper still have jobs? And spying on US citizens and then trading the raw SIGINT with foreign powers that are certain to share it with my commercial competitors? What were these idiots thinking?

There is work going on in IETF and in fact we started before his Bruce-ship made his call to arms. I doubt the PRISM-PROOF branding will stick. But it is powerful mind share as this story proves. We have botched deployment of almost all the security protocols developed in IETF except for TLS and that succeeded before it went in. This is a chance to hit the reset button and fix the mindbogglingly stupid deployment gaps. Like having no standard way to discover recipient keys and having two different message formats (OpenPGP and S/MIME) forcing people to choose between two key endorsement schemes rather than allow them to pick the one suited to their needs.

Yes, I do think there was interference in the past efforts but I suspect it was subtler than most imagine and not coming from the NIST folk. Rather, I think the interference came from folk who would encourage both sides in technical disputes to dig in and refuse to compromise, folk who participate with no visible means of financial support and seem to have limitless time to write drafts but are not very technical.

Hmmm I replace my hard drives when I start to see RAID errors. I don't plan to run SSD raid as the on board fault tolerance should be ok.

Would be nice to have hard data on expected failures so that I know whether to plan for a three or a six year lifespan. I generally replace my main machine on a six year cycle as I have a lot of expensive software. Looking to upgrade this year when the higher performance intel chips launch.

1tb is quite a lot. Probably more than I need in solid state. The price is also quite a bit more than the $0.05/gig for Hard drives. But it's getting a lot narrower. And RAID 1 doubles that cost anyway...

Was about to make a witty reply till i realized i stopped readin slashdot round about the time i got married.

Umm, i am wearing one right now. Sleeping in it just would not occur to me. Plus you have to take it off to charge it. So as a privacy thing, well the only reason it would get you in trouble would be wearing it during sex so you could get the fuel points. Not a security issue that worries me at all. Now the implants.. They might be an issue.