The last time somebody seriously tried this (1861) about 500K Americans were dead back when the population was around 31M total. Most of them in the area that was in favor of the idea. Today the result would much likely be worse. Don't be a dead idiot. Even if you did win, you'll lose so much financially and otherwise you'll likely wish you'd died instead *and* the likely result in terms of rights will be you will have less.

That will block out all the crazies. In this case it needs to be a little bigger than the traditional one. More seriously, I'm guessing that putting your router in an aluminum foil dunce cap above your booth would be sufficient to allow the clients below to connect. Put another router underneath for decoration. You'll have to experiment with how to make it look good but I'm thinking that you could take a cone or hemisphere made with standard lightweight tradeshow construction and cover it with aluminum foil from the grocery store and save yourself the cost of the copper.

They're like fire extinguisher salesman who rave about the dangers of fire. They sell FUD. There's I'm sure some truth to this, but let's not accept whole the idea that what's good for McAfee is good for the nation.

If they prove true to form, in the low part of the cycle resulting from shoveling too much of the same tripe for too long, I'm guessing they'll focus on having the MPAA after all their customers.

So if I read your post then I'd know that the western agencies (CIA, FBI or maybe the John Birch society, hmm?) invented the whole idea of the KGB inventing the whole idea of nuclear winter that was fed to Carl Sagan because everybody knows that famous physicists with PHDs are likely dupes of communist agencies?

C'mon Communist infiltrators? Really? I can see sophmoric but you seem to think the Lulzsec people are stupid or something. This is cointel PR bs like we saw in the 60s. Your clue, if you decide to accept it, is that the TFA didn't refer to the current foreign intelligence organizations but rather to the great boogie man of the cold war, the KGB.

You're a troll. By any definition that covers the Democratic party most of the Republican's qualify as well. If you support social security then you're a socialist along with a large number of very popular and successful gov't programs that have been in existence for longer than you've been alive. The Republican majority house, senate and president passed the Medicare drug benefit. If that isn't socialist then what is? The current trouble with our government is obviously agency capture by various industry groups for anyone who is paying attention. This is particularly true of banking. Both democrats and republicans are kowtowing to the bankers. And Ron Paul is still a racist.

Fascinating that you didn't seem to notice that this came from Bernie Sanders who's the only self described democratic socialist in the national legislature. Unlike Ron Paul there's no indication at all that Bernie Sanders is a racist (http://www.realchange.org/ronpaul.htm).

Mod parent up. I'm not sure this is what we should do but it's an idea which deserves consideration. The end game to the current situation is no sales tax collected on durable goods(i.e. not gas or food) in any jurisdiction.

Except that's not why California is going after them. They have a serious revenue problem. Ever heard of prop 13 (assessments and taxes are essentially fixed and tax measures require a super majority) and the crash in property values? That's lead to a huge shortfall. The governor is working overtime to find ways to raise taxes that the Republican's will go along with. This is one. It's not great in my book but it's better than issuing bonds to fund current expenses which is what Schwarzenegger did not too many years ago.

Utter twaddle that lets you predictably and boringly rant about fruits and nuts. What part of the *city (and country)* of San Francisco do you not understand? California has very different politics from San Francisco. It's unique. Even there, I suspect this is a trial balloon that's going to get shot right down. People in San Francisco like their pets and they vote.

I'm not sure how the Google stuff works. The SecurID tag is simple a clock wired up to a random number generator. It has a seed that is secret that is shared with the Authentication server (ACE server). As long as the clocks are sync'd then the token/tag will show the same number as generated on the server. Each SecurID token has that seed and also a serial number. Based on some stuff I heard recently through the grapevine, I'd guess that somebody has figured out how to map from the SecurID serial number to the key seed. If the system is properly designed this isn't any such mapping but fatal shortcomings in cryptographic software are nothing new. If you have SecurID in your enterprise then you probably want to grab your salesguy by the throat and tell him they need to fix this *now* at RSA's expense. This may well be the worst IT security breach of the 21st century so far.

I don't remember seeing any real spam on Slashdot in forever. This ought to be down modded into oblivion

What sort of revisionist BS are you spouting? Political attacks are *exactly* the core of the 1st amendment. American's having been slinging dirt deserved and otherwise since the days of Thomas Jefferson who was on the receiving end of quite a bit of it. The relevant bit of text from the constitution reads "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press..." From Wikipedia: Originally, the First Amendment applied only to laws enacted by the Congress. However, starting with Gitlow v. New York, 268 U.S. 652 (1925), the Supreme Court has held that the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment applies the First Amendment to each state, including any local government. Note the words *no law*? Copyright and ownership do not apply.

That's a great questions. I've seen a fair number of comments lately and a few topics that seem completely overrun by loud overbearing folks whose beliefs make me wonder if they're professional astroturfers.