Socialism is an economic system.

What you are talking about is the amoral sociopathic tendancies of politicians and tycoons. You can have sociopaths in any economic system, and our brand of government supported corporatism has its share, probably a generous share.

Fortunately for American, In the early 1900s the labor movement (damn commies, wobblies and all that) made some real strides -- 40 hour work week, minimum wage, overtime pay, child labor laws, etc. etc. All the things that took us from being the China of the 1800s labor wise, to being an industrial heavyweight, a burgeoning economic power, and a vision of middle class prosperity to the rest of the world in the post war years, were built on these improving work conditions. America really should have been a lot more thankful to those damn commies -- they helped make capitalism work, at least for a time. Now that they've lost any sway, and most workers want to avoid unions, and everyone supports globalization to the max, we'll soon be back into the age of robber barons.

I'm trying to understand PFS having not heard of it before -- If I understand correctly, it is a system wherein a unique public/private key pair is generated on demand using a long term key. Or to put it more simply -- a system that gives every session a new and unique set of encryption keys, thus making compromise of the private key hugely less of a bonanza. If that's the case, that sounds like a great system.

Reading your linked article demonstrates that some sites already do this ... how do I make sure I'm taking advantage of it?

Concerning your sig, I think you have the wrong Superpower.

But whatever, soon Nixon's healthcare plan (AKA obamacare) will be in full swing and with everything digitized and flying around the net, the NSA will have it too. I imagine Nixon hard on just bursting through his coffin by now. Thanks Obama.

Yeah, but for the scanners we wasted money on, that was revenue and probably a lot of profit for the manufacturers. You do realize that the entire sole purpose of the Federal government, is to subsidize a select few friendly mega-corps at our expense (monetary expense, freedom expense). Napolitano did that job perfectly.

The Feds probably paid for the backdoor.

Add to that that the whole problem with gangs will be never ending so long as there is this prohibition on some drugs. Take out the profit and most gangs would dissipate. Worked for Portugal.

http://vimeo.com/32110912

Legalization eliminates the need to go full on KGB, Stasi, Pol Pot, or what have you, and besides, bringing in military solutions will not solve anything. It will just exacerbate the arms race and make the violence worse. Plus, every encroachment on civil liberties we're experiencing, has its roots in the drug war. Prohibition is destroying America.

Ummm ... second link in TFS. This one here:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-23233573

Look at the caption under the "Post Office" picture. It reads:

The Post Office previously said it had "absolute confidence" in its branch accounting

also this from the body:

"The review underlines our cause for confidence in the overall system."

I suggest you try ctrl-f or cmd-f (looks like a clover on a mac keyboard) before doing the citation rant.

Tuttle or Buttle?

Why worry about bugs? The government will give you a refund!

That is exactly what they want me to think. If I succumb, they definitely win.

Might also want to point this article out when they says they have nothing to hide and don't care:

http://www.salon.com/writer/radley_balko/ then click on the link to his article: âoeWhy did you shoot me? I was reading a bookâ: The new warrior cop is out of control
(for some reason, salon put a " in the URL which makes linking to the article directly really hard).

Sending in the SWAT team to break up home poker games for example.

More ominous, using the SWAT team to conduct warrantless searches of businesses and every customer on the property as part of "administrative searches" related to the business license. You literally can be totally innocent and get shot to death just by being in a business somebody in government has hard-on for.

People need to know that the 4th Amendment matters, and even the innocent can die from its abuse.

That's exactly why I've been thinking about BSD. But then, didn't the NSA also fund Theo, and isn't his supposed to be the securest flavor?