You can be stopped and searched anywhere within x number (I forget how many) miles of any US border.

Just try to not get stopped while traveling down near Mexico. There are road blocks, checkpoints, etc. where they can and will search your stuff, question you, etc. All without any suspicion of anything. Search Youtube for videos of confrontation between US citizens and the police in these areas.

I don't see why electronic equipment would be any different.

Actually that's not the "right" way to do it. There is too much of a chance that it won't kill you. Also, consider the poor people that have to clean up after you and consider the aftermath your family would have to be looking at.

There are painless, humane and 100% guaranteed ways to do it. I won't post the best method but there is a description on Wikipedia and I'm sure a simple search for assisted suicide will provide enough information.

Not that I in any way recommend this person kill themselves. Often it can be worth the suffering just for the benefit of your family and sometimes they have medical breakthroughs regarding whatever you are suffering from. With that said, I can see where suicide may be a viable option when all you experience is constant pain.

That's not true at all. It is well known that FedEx and UPS can and will search packages on a whim. There are no laws protecting anyone there because these are commercial companies and they have full legal access to your stuff. In fact, that's how many packages of contraband are seized. Most often it's through one of the commercial carriers because it's easy for law enforcement to do their searches due to the fact they can search anything they want without a warrant. Of course the shipping companies cooperate because they don't want the government coming down on them too.

The US mail is the one protected by laws and can't be searched unless there is probable cause.

Nah, probably not. Robbing, beating, killing, etc.don't get you prison time. After all, violent criminals are hard to take care of and mess up the commercially-run prison's profits.

Now if he had an illegally obtained Britney Spears song on his iPod or maybe some banned plant material in his pocket then yeah, probably 10-30 years in the State Penn.

The scary thing about zero-tolerance and the like is how easy it would be for someone to frame someone else. It would be relatively easy for someone to hack into a computer (or router; anything with the same IP), post a bunch of idle threats, and then leave no trace. I mean there are probably bugs in WoW (or insert <software> here) itself that will either let someone into your computer or let them post as you.

Then the owner is screwed for life. I mean it might be impossible to prove that you were framed.

It's just crazy.

Prior to 9/11 I was traveling every week. Around 8 to 10 flights a month. After 9/11 things just went to hell. About a year later I said "screw this" and stopped flying almost completely. I have only flown once or twice in the last 7 years, enough to know that things are worse now than ever.

Trust me, I knew the system and I got sick of all the crap. I think most people who don't mind are resigned to the fact that it's just the way it is. These are the same sheeple that buy tready shit and follow the media like it's God's word. I mean all you have to do is submit, right? You only have to worry if you have done something wrong and your papers are in order. Fuck that. You shouldn't be treated the way you are just because someone in power decided it's best for you. Stand up for yourself, make a change you morons!

Maybe for old versions of TrueCrypt but it doesn't seem to work on anything else. For example, loop-aes, dm-crypt, and the latest TrueCrypt. I tested it on all kinds of encrypted sample data and it didn't detect any of it. I imagine this proggy ain't much better.

The easiest way to defeat TCHunt is to use a volume size that isn't a multiple of 512 (easy to do when not using TrueCrypt). Not that it matters much because like I said, it can't accurately detect anything based on the data either.

This is just a bunch of advertisement bullshit. Nobody that takes security seriously uses TrueCrypt anyway because the author(s) are unknown and the whole code base has not been publicly analyzed. I won't even install it outside of a throwaway vm because of that.

If there are patterns visible in your encrypted data then that means your encryption is weak. If that's the case then you're screwed because they can probably break the encryption too. Good encryption is indistinguishable from random data, period.

Hmmm, I think this would be an interesting way to finally get real ZFS support in a Linux-like system.

Unfortunately FreeBSD is much more limited in terms of modern software technologies like virtualization, hardware drivers, etc. Linux is way ahead there so I guess this is still not that great. Interesting though.

Meh, it is a spectrum disorder. Probably a large percentage of the entire population is on there somewhere.

Funny, people with AS are the ones more likely to not want other people to have it because they feel they are special and want it to stay that way. It is an aspie trait. Also if anyone is going to correctly self diagnose it would probably be someone with AS.

Personally, if I could get rid of it I would. Although there are benefits, they do not outweigh the drawbacks... not by a long shot. I want to be happy and live in the real world with the fake, stupid, normal people. I am tired of being a mutant, I want the cure. Put me in the Matrix... ignorance is bliss.

Self examination is not a bad thing. Whatever it is called, if you have problems then at least it is something else to look into which might lead you to a path that can help.

I'm not jumping to any conclusions but I'm not adverse to trying things out to see if it makes a difference. I certainly don't like the way things have been all my life and as I get older it is becoming increasingly difficult to deal with.

As far as doctors, most of them are idiots. So far I have had no success in finding one that can help me. Usually the stuff they do know I already know myself. They're not bringing much of anything to the table. For me when it comes to doctors all they end up being good for is getting tests and drugs I can't get on my own. I'm not anti-doctor, it's just that in my experience all of them so far have no idea what to do with an atypical individual such as myself.

I would be willing to try the weed route but unfortunately it's not legal here and I have too much to lose. Besides, I wouldn't know where to get it anyway (no social contacts, hmmm).

I was just reading that caffeine can increase cortisol levels. Interesting. Currently I don't take in any caffeine at all. This is mostly due to health issues like my anxiety and my families history of heart disease. Maybe I should start drinking coffee (blech).

Many people in the spectrum have problems with anxiety and such yet this seems to indicate they would have low levels of at least this particular stress hormone. How does that figure in to the anxiety problems?

What would happen if injected with cortisol in the morning? More anxiety or less?

I'm in the spectrum and my entire life I have never liked mornings. It's not about staying up late or not sleeping, I just feel like crap in the morning. Could that be related to the cortisol? I have problems with anxiety too.

Anyone know if there are there drugs/herbs, whatever that might help with this cortisol issue?

Uh... Think about what you just said. The debt the US owes could be exactly the sanction used against them. Fix your fucking government or we don't pay.

The debt doesn't hurt the US at all. They still have the money. It's China that's in a bad position.

Ya. In fact that was the original plan by the founding fathers. The whole state versus federal government was suppose to provide a layer of separation for states while still allowing things to get done at a country-wide level. However, over the years the states have lost almost all of their power and the government has become more and more centralized... and more corrupt at the same time. Power corrupts and we have been focusing more and more of it on a smaller and smaller number of people.

We are currently very far from the original plan. It's that kind of crap that destroys countries from the inside out.

Fighting anxiety when it's for a specific reason sounds so easy. Man, I wish I had anxiety like that. Try fighting Generalized Anxiety. You can't tell what is causing it so there is nothing to fight. I know other anxiety disorders must be terrible but imagine the same thing except with no source. It feels like your body hates you. Torture for the mind. Horrible...

Personally I wouldn't mind them giving real-time traffic like VoIP priority (SIP, Skype, etc). I don't think anything else deserves that treatment though. ...and WTF are they talking about, limiting newgroup traffic... They already have a bandwidth cap on it that is like 10 times slower than your connection when using the COX (highwinds) servers. How much more do they want to limit it?!

The most annoying thing to me is COX's monthly bandwidth limits. They give you a 10 Mbps connection with a 40 GB allowance. You can blow that out in just a couple hours and it's suppose to be for the whole month!

Please Verizon, hurry up with the FiOS already! My choices right now are either COX with extreme restrictions or expensive and slow DSL.