I think you mean communism, where you must be a dumb cog in a dumb machine in order to ensure that nobody gets ahead and takes wealth/power.

Capitalism is the exact opposite, if you're a dumb cog in a dumb machine then you're going to get rewarded just the same.

Just look at China - this is why they cannot and do not innovate under the Chinese Communist Party. If you aren't a dumb cog, you're a national security threat.

It's not dumb propaganda; it's extremely well thought out with tactics developed over many years. It exploits human trust, lack of expertise, and desire to be part of a group who share opinions.

Australia: Bans citizens from returning or leaving after the start of a global pandemic.

Belarus: Bans citizens from returning or leaving after the political opposition was kidnapped from a flight.

One of these is not like the others.

Unfortunately many posts here saying that quantum computers aren't ever going to be capable enough to break cryptography, we have nothing to worry about, and they are being modded +5.

The research and capabilities out there are advancing at a similar pace to that of the transistor: from a large clunky piece of silicon composing one transistor, to the billions of transistors on something the size of a dime, all in the matter of 50 years.

Encryption isn't only valuable instantaneously, the data needs to often be protected for years. Quantum computers aren't a "problem that don't yet exist and may never exist." If a capable quantum computer were to come online in 2035 that can break encryption, that doesn't only affect encryption used from 2035 onward, it affects all data *before 2035* that is *still valuable on that day*. Furthermore, it has taken on average 15 years for the industry to migrate to new technologies, how many Windows XP and Windows 2000 boxes are still out there? That means if capable quantum computers appear in 15 years, then data between now and then is all compromised.

In 2020 alone:
Coherent electrical control of a single high-spin nucleus in silicon: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2057-7
Electron teleportation in silicon: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/06/200619115707.htm
Scalable spin-photon entanglement: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41534-019-0236-x ... and more

Please don't spread ignorance.

What's even more funny is how accounts like yours, UID below 1 million, don't make posts for their entire lifespan, then begin to post at the end of 2019 with anti-American sentiment.

Look at these comments!

The Putin Propaganda Posse is in full force today. I would recommend everyone make themselves aware of the common methods employed by online actors.

https://cryptome.org/2012/07/gent-forum-spies.htm

"Enigmas have no solution. Drawing upon the overall umbrella of events surrounding the crime and the multitude of players and events, paint the entire affair as too complex to solve. This causes those otherwise following the matter to begin to lose interest more quickly without having to address the actual issues."

https://cryptome.org/2012/07/gent-forum-spies.htm

<quote><p></p><p>Ohh Ahh, IP address, you can hire servers all over the planet, install the software you want and run them by remote control, completely legal and ohh ahh, their Russian, Chinese, American, Australia what ever. </p><p> .</p></quote>

They did prove it in court, and many Russians were indicted; there was also video evidence from Dutch Intelligence of them perpetrating the hack, so it went well beyond "Ohh Ahh, IP address."

Stop the whataboutism, deflection, and weak propaganda techniques.

For anyone interested, a good guide for identifying "Forum Spies":

https://cryptome.org/2012/07/gent-forum-spies.htm

The only difference is that NK and Iran are led by insane dictators who wish to destroy their neighbors, but what about...?

<quote><p>... that no good healthy red-blooded American news media have given any coverage at all to wild ideas that a vast (and highly profitable) new industry might have some downsides for ordinary people.</p><p>Because of course that could never happen.</p></quote>

The "downsides for ordinary people" might exist, but they are not the consequences that the Russian Propaganda Machine is pushing.

We used to prank call Terry Davis sometimes, he used to have some good insights and he could carry on a conversation for a while until he would suddenly "switch gears" and hang up the phone. One time, we even had him and Richard Stallman speak to eachother for a moment.

And he thought Linus Torvalds was a noob because he never wrote his own compiler.

Probably happened in response to the expulsion of 60 diplomats

on whether P=NP or P!=NP?

Now that customers will have to register their MAC address with Comcast does that mean they will have a legitimate argument when saying 'illegal downloading/content/etc' was coming from your MAC address?

The 'MAC addresses aren't reliable identification' argument will be somewhat negated once customers are directly associated with their box's address, right?

the url that traffic is directed to?