That is asinine. Why would the handle be reused in the exact memory space, and why would the original process still have access to it?

Except with TPM, the owner is untrusted, and thus a potential attacker. If you have a TPM computer, and YOU want to trust it, you have to get the key out of the hardware.

Exactly, although I echo the sentiment the presentation could have been better.

Everywhere we turn there are people who think they are smart telling us what to do and what to think, because they know what is best for us. They're the experts with years of training, and we know nothing. Do not question the high priests, do not pay attention to the man behind the curtain.

This is just following the general trend of late, culminating in "this time, it's different, trust us". We think we're smarter, we're better, we have more tools, we have more knowledge, we have more insight, and that things are somehow fundamentally different, and that today we can fix all the problems that our predecessors have been unable to fix in centuries past. In the end, the more we "fix", the more we break.

As a lay person, I know we cannot predict what the weather will be like next week, and all I see around me is global climate hysteria. I don't see science, I don't see deliberation, I don't see openness, I don't see debate. I see politics and dogma. Enough of this "you're not smart enough to understand so just trust me" nonsense. Enough of this "science by consensus". It doesn't exist, and it's not scientific anyways even if it did.

Show everyone the science, open up the process, accept opposing data (heck, accept ALL legitimate data to begin with), interpretations and views, so we can all see why it is that we need to undertake a complete reorganization of economy, society and personal life, at a cost of trillions of dollars and undoubtedly much resulting misery and suffering.

It was global cooling and visions of frozen wastelands and a new ice age. Where did that go? Then it was the ozone hole that would fry anyone not wearing SPF1000 sunblock. Where did that go? Then it was global warming and sea level rise that would make disaster movies seem like documentaries. Where did that go? Now we have the amorphous all-encompassing "climate change".

But THIS TIME, it's different. Really. This time, we're smarter, and we have better science, and we've learned, and we know better, we know for sure. Trust us.

Well, sorry. You're gonna have to do better than that.

Oh, what a cop out!

Most of us don't care about the care and feeding of ponies because.... most of us don't have ponies to care for and feed.

On the other hand, most of us do have computers.

Most of us also have cars, and even though most of us do not have mechanical engineering degrees, we know the basics of maintaining them, either ourselves or having someone else do it, because we know negligence can be very expensive. Using public resources to bail out computer user mistakes due to ignorance and negligence will clearly not solve the problem. Like any handholding or subsidizing, it only makes the problem worse in the long run.

That's blowback.

The internet was not made to provide for your income. It does not owe you anything. It is up to you to figure out how to use the internet to make money, and if the majority (or large portion) of the internet has vetoed ads, the message seems pretty clear.

There is plenty of professional-quality content available today, some of it surviving just fine without an ad in sight, amongst a sea of ad-supported content. If I were you, I would not ask how ad-supported content will survive without ads, but how non-ad-supported content thrives. How can one make money, even without an apparent revenue stream.

Most of the professional-quality ad-free content is basically a giant ad itself. An ad for the services, expertise, knowledge, skills and product of the writer who produced it.

That's just one way. You're looking for the easy way out, because "that's how it's always been and I cannot imagine any other way". But you're wrong.

You're begging the question though, aren't you? Saying that since no one wants to explore other planets, NASA should, because it's important. If it's so important, how come no one wants to do it?

NASA is a gigantic bureaucracy. After decades of operation that's cost taxpayers trillions of (inflation adjusted) dollars, we still don't have a manned reusable LEO vehicle that can operate for less than 10s of millions between launches, and can't launch more than once every few months. In fact, as far as practical benefits go, all we have to show for it are some fake moon rocks.

The last thing we should be doing is pinning our hopes on a committee-driven organization like NASA.

I did not mean to imply a political slant. Democrats, Republicans, they're both fundamentally the same: government run by big banks and business, and citizens cowed and bribed with their own money. They have some disagreement as to the content and purpose of the bribes, and which particular industries are their secondary favored (besides the obvious like banks, military- and medical-industrial complexes).

I was more commenting on the idea that somehow Obama will clean house, when he never had the intention to.

What is money? On an island where gold is useless, gold would not be money, so no matter how much of you had, it would still be worthless.

Money is not an arbitrary measure of value, nor is it selected arbitrarily. Whatever money is, it must retain the value imputed to it when goods and services are bought and sold.

Which begs the question: how valuable is a fiat currency, aka cotton paper with black and green ink all over it?

Goldman Sachsonites are in every public office that has to do with finances and economics (including treasury and FED). If you think Obama has the "audacity" to get rid of them all, or has even an inkling of an interest to do so, you're certainly ready for "change you can believe in".

More ISK is lost in the destruction of a ship than insurance pays out. Hence, it is a money drain, not inflationary.

Uhm, how do oil companies have a hold on the auto industry?

You'd also have to drive mostly EV miles, like they did for the MPG calculation.

That's not how the calculation works.

I'd just like to know why all these fancy hybrid and electric cars have to look so goddamn ugly.

It's blackmail, pure and simple. When faced with need to raise taxes, because they've run out of all other options (fees/borrowing/bonds) they always bring out the "oh, we'll have to cut police and emergency services, and increase class sizes, blah blah blah" line, and everyone caves. Instead of cutting the mountains of red tape and the bureaucracies that live off them, the byzantine permits, licenses, registrations that so graciously allow us to do things that we already can.

Everyone wins, except the guy footing the bill, taxpayers, YOU.