The crux of the problem is very simple: Americans whine ... not do. There has not been a significant political movement since the Civil Rights movement of Martin Luther and others.

Americans whine about security and get it. At the end of George Orwell 1984 Winston says: "I love Big Brother" and Americans do as it is a figure to whom they can whine too and cheer simultaneously.\

If Americans stopped whining about places they never go, like their own inner cities, foreign countries, and the overflowing Psych wards triaged by imminent self-harm, these problems and dangers would not exist in the first place.

A real solution is education and health care, but oddly their children is the one thing they never whine about, until they are in a foreign country coming back with PTSD from picking up body parts from the shots they fired.

Mental health and poverty are completely managable, and they are the source of almost all the actual events that occur inside this country they fear to walk in. Stop buying guns and volunteer at a hospital stressed beyond it's maximum.

In seattle there is a large homeless population. Almost all are mentally ill. They get a bottle and a refill, and a at-a-glance diagnosis with cash-strapped on-going care. Maybe that is something to whine about when you smear them across the hood when they wander the streets at random, shootup schools, and sprint the white-house front lawn.

Terrorism ? you must be joking. Flight 97: stop whining on your phone and tackle some underfed psycho with nothing more than a F**ing box cutter. 200+ people can't handle a few guys ? that's what ace bandages are for retards.

Less guns more meds. Maybe the rest of the world would breath a sigh of releif too for once.

This is beaten to death over and over again. Standard procedure for secure authentication outside of ssh is to use keepassx or bitkeeper. Fully random secure seed generated 32 char passwords. cut and paste done. And the standard security systems a.k.a consisitent use of GNUPg worked as it was quickly detected as a forgery. This article blew my mind in that someone actually used gnupg. Password security is so old the guy beating it do death doesn't stink anymore. When somebody starts talking about host authentication in ssh and the management thereof the world might try caring again beyond something more interesting than forgetting to get milk on the way home last night. For people who have no clue use firefox/chrome password manager and call it a day. Problem solved *years ago* by using ancient technology. I am not going to use a fraternity secret handshake to protect my data when I have cutting edge crypto and through a oddysey of trials I strained my will to live long enough to put the doritos down and have a program do it all for me. If this B.S is a big deal then don't be a 16 bit CPU brain, the ass clown who gave us Y2K, and give me a 64 char password feild. Done Deal. B.T.W slashdot your 20 char limit sucks.

I quite well know that when you split a system by domains you end up over-specialized and in engineering these days that more often than not ends up being shims not improvements. If my recall of "Mac OSX Internals" is correct then they promote the scheduling of a process based on whether it has window focus. Although nifty in a few lines the scheduler is quite terrible possibly because of this crutch and more like it. At mixed work-loads OSX is simply terrible, and as a programmer mixed workloads is what I do. I would rather run a system that looks at the workload, not the user to schedule effectively. Running filesystems like zfs, btrfs on a desktop is *nice*. Slicing up a problem because you have failed to solve it correctly is not a solution to the problem.